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Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast #3: The Rundown - May 2016

SPOILERS AHOY!
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 with that intense love comes an appetite for the latest news from the comic book world. Each month, in The Rundown, the Fanboys will run down their top news and notes from the comic book world.
If you'd like to avoid SPOILERS for CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, skip from 19:00 to 50:30! You've been warned!

The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 18: Where Was Your Evolved Sensibility – Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact tries to add The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular’s distinctiveness to its own, as the Star Trek vintage vault series continues. Glenn & Scott discuss genre drift as First Contact lurches from horror film to action thriller to something more akin to a Star Trek
story, and as the Borg lurch from zombies to vampires to insects. They
also discuss the meaning of the Borg (and how that changes now that they
have a queen), why Captain Picard invites the whole collective to the
gun show, the bizarre eroticism of the Borg Queen, the beginning of the Star Trek future, and the beginning of the end of a Star Trek series. Now with the intense discussions of starship design you’ve all been asking for!
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!

Place to Be Nation's Conversation: Comics! with Stephanie Holly

Place to Be Nation’s Conversation: Comics is a new comics interview show featuring host Todd Weber and guests from the wide spectrum of the comics industry, from pros to retailers to bloggers, podcasters and fans. This debut episode features Todd talking all kind of topics with his longtime friend and comic artist on the rise Stephanie Holly. Their conversation touches on all sorts of comics talk and even gets into some wrestling discussion!

Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast #2: Off the Page - Batman 89

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 their love of comics isn't limited to the page, as they are fans of when their favorite characters come to life on screen. In this episode, the guys discuss and watch a classic comic film, "Batman" from 1989! So get your popcorn ready, tune in and enjoy!

The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 17: What’s So Civil About War Anyway?

Captain America: Civil War is here, and Glenn & company are
ON IT. The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular convenes its panel of
Glenn, Scott, and special guest Tim Capel to take sides in this evitable
conflict and break down Marvel’s latest marvel, including a spoiler-laden
look at the causes and uses of the movie’s central conflict, how Our
Heroes are used, the ways that Civil War changes the landscape of the
MCU, and the Stan Lee solo movie we all really want to see. Scott gets
bogged down in the physics of Ant-Man, while Tim provides the crucial
perspective of someone who actually knows something about comics.

Lucha Undead: "Game of Thrones" with Devon Hales

Devon Hales joins us this week to talk about Game of Thrones.  We discuss the books, the show and how George R.R. Martin is an eccentric fella.

Hard-Traveling Fanboys Podcast #1: Countdown - DC's New 52

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.

The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 16: To Live Forever – Star Trek: Generations

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!

Rank & File: Top Ten On-Screen Comic Book Characters

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!

Imaginary Stories #5: Lee and Kirby's Fantastic Four

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!

The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 15: Goy Vey

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!

The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 14: Don’t Let it End This Way – Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

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.)

The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 13: What Does God Need with a Starship? – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

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.

The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, Episode 12: There Be Whales Here – Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

The Star Trek film vault continues with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
in the latest Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular, when Glenn &
Scott welcome Andy Halleen back to the show for a laid-back discussion
of one of the most aesthetically and financially successful entries in
the series. The three discuss The Voyage Home‘s shift into
comedy, the ongoing transformation of William Shatner, colorful
metaphors, orbital mechanics, the whale prime directive, and how each of
the movie’s characters are used & developed. Also, Scott does his
impression of whale song, because of course he does.
We won’t eschew you on the latest episode of The Glenn Butler Podcast Hour Spectacular!

Lucha Undead: "Punk-cast" with Dylan Hales

Guest @DylanWaco (Wrestling Culture on Place to Be Nation) talks to us this week about punk, the anarchy movement and politics.