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2016-04
Episodes
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast #1: Countdown - DC's New 52
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Mild-mannered reporters by day, Greg Phillips and Nick Duke share an intense love of comic books that has made them the Hard-Traveling Fanboys. And if there’s anything that fanboys love, it’s debating what book is better than another book or which character is “cooler.” Enter Countdown, a monthly edition of their weekly podcast where Greg and Nick will give a top five list and debate the merits therein.
In this edition, the Fanboys discuss some of the gems of DC's controversial New 52 initiative.
Friday Apr 29, 2016
Friday Apr 29, 2016
The generations meet as Star Trek: Generations arrives in The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular’s Star Trek film vault series. Glenn & Scott break down The Next Generation‘s
arrival on the big screen, including all the ways and all the times the
torch was passed, how Captain Picard is like Tom Bombadil, what it
means to have a TV production staff making a movie, aging, regret, the
pull of duty, the dual symbolism of the Nexus, James T. Kirk:
Existentialist, Data & Picard’s feels, symbolic sacrifices,
normality, and what we leave behind. You don’t have to wait until
Tuesday for this episode of The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular!
Find Glenn’s article on the wider Star Trek franchise in 1994 here.
If you have any questions or suggested topics for a future Star Trek mailbag episode of the Spectacular, contact Glenn or comment on the PTBN Facebook page!
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
Rank & File: Top Ten On-Screen Comic Book Characters
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
In the latest installment of Rank & File, Jordan brings in a panel of 3 terrific guests to talk about comic book characters! Ben Morse, Greg Phillips and Todd Weber are this months panel and they have each created their list of the 10 Best On-Screen Comic Book performances-including movies, television and even animated entries. The guys talk Smallville and it's success as it relates to Seinfeld, iPad pros, and of course some pro wrestling as well. Does our list match yours? Can anything top Heath Ledger's Joker? And did Greg find a way to rank Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern multiple times? Tune in and find out!
Monday Apr 25, 2016
Imaginary Stories #5: Lee and Kirby's Fantastic Four
Monday Apr 25, 2016
Monday Apr 25, 2016
Kelly and Johnny explore one of the seminal books of the Silver Age of Comics - Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's groundbreaking Fantastic Four!
The boys take an in-depth look at:
-The genesis of the title
-The most memorable stories from the duo's 102 issue run
-The importance of the Fantastic Four in starting a comic book revolution
Face Front, True Believers, it's time for a new Imaginary Stories!
Friday Apr 15, 2016
The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 15: Goy Vey
Friday Apr 15, 2016
Friday Apr 15, 2016
It’s time for a quick Campaign 2016 update on The Glenn Butler Podcast
Hour Spectacular, as Glenn & Scott welcome Steve Wille back to the
podcast to examine how some of the candidates are campaigning among Jews
in the lead-up to the New York primary. Candidates are rolling out
matzah, quizzing Yeshiva students, listing their favorite figures from the Tanakh,
bragging about their grandkids, and much more — and the ol’ Spectacular
is ON IT. By the end of the show Scott hardly has any face left to
palm. So get a bagel, try to parlay it into some votes, and enjoy a
policy-light and sarcasm-heavy discussion!
Friday Apr 15, 2016
Friday Apr 15, 2016
It’s the end of an era, as Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
comes under the watchful eye of The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour
Spectacular. Glenn & Scott examine the final voyage of the collected
Original Series cast, including its story’s parallels to the end of the
Cold War, the celebration of Star Trek‘s 25th anniversary from
the perspective of its 50th, the crew’s abruptly increased
space-racism, the return of Nicholas Meyer, things and supplies, logic
as the beginning of wisdom, and more adventures in budgetary
restrictions. There’s also no small amount of debate as to what exactly
one should call Spock’s violation of Valeris. (Warning: discussion of
rape and torture from 38:31 to 53:40.)
Friday Apr 08, 2016
Friday Apr 08, 2016
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is the latest entry into the
Star Trek film vault series, as The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour
Spectacular investigates one of the most derided entries in the
franchise. Glenn & Scott welcome special guest Erik Amundsen for an
in-depth discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of Star Trek V,
the character dynamics, William Shatner’s turn in the director’s chair,
how the film also reflects Shatner’s interests as an artist, the film’s
place in the development of the Star Trek franchise, the meaning of
Uhura’s nude fan dance, Doctor McCoy’s stance on euthanasia, and whether
The Final Frontier deserves the reputation it’s accrued. The
three also consider two very important questions: what does God need
with a starship, and why is Captain Kirk climbing a mountain?
We need our pain, but sometimes the words aren’t important, what’s important is that you have a good time singing.
Find Erik’s published fiction at Jabberwocky, Apex Magazine, Lackington’s, and twice at Clarkesworld.