Deadpool has a heart. And if you stab him in it, he won’t die. He’ll just keep on loving you.

Previous Episodes

• May 1, 2024

  2024 Shortlist Book Club Part 1

  Witch King, Starter Villain, and Translation State.

• April 29, 2024

  Game Show: Mind Meld 8

  Lex is the New Glenn.

• April 26, 2024

  Defocused 373: Road House (2024)

  Dan and Joe discuss the slick and polished cheeseball action movie, and its director who boycotted the movie to try and get a theatrical release. Also Limp Bizkit.

• April 20, 2024

  Doctor Who 2024 Anticipation

  It’s back, and on Disney+!

• April 15, 2024

  Marvel Feuding Families III

  There’s no filter at the bottom of the barrel.

• April 13, 2024

  "Dead Again"

  These… are for you!

• April 7, 2024

  Random Pursuit XXXIV

  I don’t care where the sock was.

• April 3, 2024

  Book Club: Fragile Threads of Power

  Plus, what are we reading? And the shortlist reading begins!!

• March 25, 2024

  Godfather Part III

  Just when we thought we were out… well, you know the rest.

• March 22, 2024

  Defocused 372

  Dan has an idea for the Super Oscars, and Joe has an idea to reconsider awards, which mostly revolves around taking away Birdman’s Oscar.

• March 16, 2024

  2000s album draft

  The more emo we pick, the more powerful we become.

• March 14, 2024

  Dune: Part 2

  I’m grabbing a worm and getting out of here.

• February 29, 2024

  Defocused 371: The Creator

  Joe and Dan love the look of ‘The Creator’ but have some quibbles about the story.

• February 27, 2024

  Back to the Future Part III

  We finish in the old west!

• February 24, 2024

  Back to the Future Part II

  A Crisis on Infinite Biffs.

• February 15, 2024

  Antony Johnston's Dog Sitter Detective series

  Antony Johnston sits down to discuss his series of canine cozy crime novels with Dan Moren.

• February 10, 2024

  Back to the Future

  Great Scott! Gotta go back in time to 1985 and 1955!

• February 5, 2024

  Lions, Towers & Shields 92: An American in Paris

  We recap the 1951 film, “An American in Paris”.

• February 3, 2024

  Inestimable II (Game Show)

  “What percentage of Tony dies with each round?”

• January 29, 2024

  "Oppenheimer"

  We discuss Jason’s favorite movie of last year.

• January 29, 2024

  Agents of SMOOCH: "Paging Mr. Darcy" Writer Interview

  Get a sneak peek and extra content for Annette’s interview with Reina Hardy, writer of the upcoming “Paging Mr. Darcy” movie on the Hallmark channel.

• January 28, 2024

  "Ghosts"

  UK and US versions alike!

• January 27, 2024

  You Think You Know Me III

  It’s not Thanos snapping fingers.

• January 26, 2024

  Defocused 370: Asteroid City

  Dan and Joe talk about this turducken of twee.

• January 20, 2024

  Random Pursuit XXXIII

  The literal Family Edition!

• January 18, 2024

  "The Abyss"

  We finally did it.

• January 9, 2024

  Random Pursuit XXXII

  I’m so sorry.

• January 7, 2024

  Random Pursuit XXXI

  A Kathy Campbell co-host cornucopia!

• January 4, 2024

  "Foundation" (TV series)

  Loosely based on some stories and books, but with a whole lot of richness and a truly epic feel. (Before the spoiler horn, we talk about why you should watch it.) Also: 15 minutes of technical difficulties!

• January 3, 2024

  "Godzilla Minus One"

  Yes, there are feelings. Yes, Godzilla smashes stuff. Both things can happen in one movie!

• January 2, 2024

  "The Boy and the Heron"

  A lot of bird poop.

• December 14, 2023

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"

  It’s Kilmas again!

• December 12, 2023

  Defocused 369: Dumb & Dumber

  Dan has fond memories of ‘Dumb & Dumber’ and Joe does not.

• November 27, 2023

  Marvel Feuding Families 1

  Lesser Avengers may assemble, but Mr. Big Dude reigns supreme!

• November 24, 2023

  Christmas Trivia 2023

  A Christmas potpourri of g-men and crooners!

• November 21, 2023

  Toy Draft

  Your parents were right — TV jingles work, and they last forever.

• November 18, 2023

  The Marvels

  Higher, Further, Faster… Funner?

• November 17, 2023

  Defocused 368: The Killer

  Dan and Joe can’t figure out why David Fincher went ahead with this made-for-TV movie.

• November 15, 2023

  "Soylent Green"

  Don’t take the Soylent Factory Tour.

• November 12, 2023

  Agents of S.M.O.O.C.H: The Long Kiss Goodnight

  The Long Kiss Goodnight is the forgotten holiday action movie that is a little smoochy. Turn on the holiday lights, make the hot chocolate, and cozy up. But put the kids to bed first.

• November 12, 2023

  (Less) Random Pursuit XXX - Doctor Who 60th Anniversary

  We celebrate 60 years of Doctor Who after 30 episodes of Random Pursuit! (There are still THREE editions!)

• November 10, 2023

  Lions, Towers & Shields: The Barbara Stanwyck of Five-Year-Olds

  Surprise! The LTS crew made a bootleg while discussing Night of the Hunter (1955). It’s a lot. You’re welcome.

• November 8, 2023

  "Howard the Duck"

  Happy Thanksgiving, rocket surgeons!

• November 2, 2023

  Careers - 2

  Nathaniel sucks! Almost as much as the Park Bench…

• October 27, 2023

  Dan Moren's new book 'All Souls Lost'

  Incomparable panelist Dan Moren talks to Antony Johnston about his new novel ‘All Souls Lost’

• October 26, 2023

  Agents of S.M.O.O.C.H: Ocean's 8

  Remember when we watched Miss Congeniality and this made us want to watch Ocean’s 8? We did it. And you’re getting a sneak preview.

• October 23, 2023

  "The Exorcist" (1973)

  It’s really about the horrors of the medical system.

• October 22, 2023

  Agents of S.M.O.O.C.H: Radcliffe Hall

  We really want you to read the Gothic Romance Radcliffe Hall with us before Halloween: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/radcliffe-hall/ So go read and come join us early for our surprise Halloween episode.

  Note: The noise was not cat-related. Nick dropped his phone and then everyone jumped. No cats were harmed.

• October 22, 2023

  Star Trek pitch session

  Featuring Star Trek: Spaceball and other great ideas.

• October 5, 2023

  "Night of the Living Dead" (1968)

  I’m the boss of up here, and you can be boss of down there.

• October 1, 2023

  Hugo Short Fiction + Book Rankings

  Book Club talks about some interesting shorter fiction and ranks the novels of the year!

• September 22, 2023

  Defocused 367: Renfield

  A love of storytelling, and a discussion of Dan’s “concussion syndrome”

• September 11, 2023

  "Superman Returns"

  You will believe a man can fly… a seaplane.

• September 9, 2023

  Random Pursuit XXIX

  The annual Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter-backer reward episode!

• September 7, 2023

  Book Club: Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Spare Man

  It was okay!

• August 28, 2023

  "Strange New Worlds" Season 2

  Musicals and animated crossovers and Gorn! Oh my!

• August 21, 2023

  "Superman II"

  We liked it better than the last one! But we do still have some issues.

• August 20, 2023

  Game Show: Mind Meld VI

  My mind to your mind… my thoughts to your (reference acknowledged)

• August 20, 2023

  "Justice League Unlimited"

  The animated DC supergroup.

• August 18, 2023

  Defocused 366: Barbie

  We talk about the Barbie movie and the general vibe of the summer of film.

• August 16, 2023

  "Superman" (1978)

  You will believe a reporter can be buried alive.

• August 13, 2023

  Unjustly Maligned movies draft

  Back from the dead to defend our terrible, very bad, no good taste

• August 9, 2023

  "Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3"

  The dog days are over, the dog days are done.

• August 2, 2023

  Book Club: Nona the Ninth, Kaiju Preservation Society

  Two Hugo nominees are in the spotlight. Plus: What are we reading?

• July 31, 2023

  "Barbie"

  Life in plastic, it’s fantastic. Let’s go Barbie.

• July 30, 2023

  Agents of S.M.O.O.C.H: Miss Congeniality

  In which the Agents discuss Miss Congeniality PLUS a bootleg-only discussion about Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous. We watched it so you don’t have to.

• July 29, 2023

  Lions, Towers & Shields: Sunset Boulevard

  Our panelists spend much time connecting dotted lines among people and places, while also covering Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 film.

• July 29, 2023

  Agents of S.M.O.O.C.H: Pretty Woman

  In which the Agents discuss the Pretty Woman musical and movie.

• July 28, 2023

  Agents of S.M.O.O.C.H: Queen Charlotte

  In which the Agents discuss the 2023 Netflix series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

• July 15, 2023

  Inconceivable! 34

  Live from the murder basement.

• July 14, 2023

  Defocused 365: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

  Joe doesn’t know much about D&D and explains it slowly to Dan. Also there is a lot of discussion of really trashy fast food and chain restaurants.

• July 10, 2023

  "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"

  Can Indiana Jones bear to live in a world with… astronauts?

• July 8, 2023

  "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"

  Part one! (Part two next year.)

• July 2, 2023

  "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" revisited

  Venice: famous for its basements.

• June 26, 2023

  Mind Meld V

  We both ended up in Pittsburgh.

• June 24, 2023

  Low Definition XXV

  It’s time for an Indy-an Summer!

• June 23, 2023

  "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" revisited

  Not one word about that refrigerator, nerds.

• June 11, 2023

  "Barry"

  Lex and Brian and Brian discuss Bill Hader’s HBO series, “Barry,” which just concluded.

• June 10, 2023

  Ted Lasso Series Recap

  Ted Lasso In An Exciting Adventure With Some Footballers. Spoiler alert: One of us thinks Mae is a Slitheen. We take a look at all three seasons together, highlights and lowlights.

• June 7, 2023

  Defocused 364

  No movie. WWDC, and Visions of the future.

• June 1, 2023

  "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" revisited

  Jason and a group of monsters discuss what is clearly a bad movie.

• May 25, 2023

  Mind Meld May 2023

  Tony Sindelar is again joined by a group of panelists who are all trying to guess what the other ones are thinking.

• May 24, 2023

  Ampersand Book Club

  “Legends & Lattes” & “Nettle & Bone” are in the book club spotlight.

• May 21, 2023

  D&D: Honor Among Thieves

  Ugh, Paladins.

• May 15, 2023

  Max Headroom

  Are we living 20 minutes into the future right now?

• May 7, 2023

  UK Triv XI

  We learned a lot!

  Host Antony with Saskia, Shelly, Erika, and Steven.

• May 5, 2023

  Star Trek: Picard Season 3

  We get all emotional and then we get analytical. Plus we convene the council of Starship Design.

• April 30, 2023

  The Mandalorian Season 3

  Sometimes a show isn’t bigger than the sum of its parts.

• April 24, 2023

  Book Club: "Mountain in the Sea" and "Spear"

  The awards book club begins!

• April 20, 2023

  Defocused 363: The Menu

  Dan ate a prestigious restaurant before we recorded.

• April 17, 2023

  Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

  Lions, Towers & Shields 75 will begin our summer season. But you, dear members, get a sneak peak. Find out just how much Shelly, Erika and Annette judge movies by the prominence of cats. We also discuss the problematic bits in our subject film.

• April 16, 2023

  RoboCop (1987)

  Bootleg! Who is on it? What is it about? Where did it come from?

  Antony, Erika, Moisés, and Steve talk satirical SF and ultraviolence.

• April 15, 2023

  Friendly Competition 9

  Tony bends the rules and breaks Jason. But Silent Carl will replace us all someday.

• April 8, 2023

  Poker Face (TV Series)

  We review and recap the first season of the Peacock TV series, Poker Face.

  Bootleg listeners get to hear how much we all love Zoom.

• April 1, 2023

  Old Movie Club: 1957 Legal Dramas

  “12 Angry Men” and “Witness for the Prosecution.”

  Bootleg listeners get to hear Randy’s stories!

• March 26, 2023

  Mind Meld: CerealButItsSpelledLikeTheCereal.com

  A constellation by any other name.

• March 22, 2023

  The Last of Us (TV Series)

  Love as a fungus.

• March 19, 2023

  Time Travel Movie Draft

  “Sorry, I’ll be back!”

• March 12, 2023

  Book Club: "Sea of Tranquility"

  Plus, what are we reading?

• February 28, 2023

  Gameshow 200!

  Believe it or not, your friends at the Incomparable have played 200 gameshows.

  Host Kathy Campbell brings back the magic of our 100th episode with a whole lotta chaos. Scorekeeper: Annette Wierstra Players: Shelly Brisbin, Antony Johnston, Moises Chuillan & Jean MacDonald.

• February 19, 2023

  Rainbow Goth Girl

  It may be Sunday, but it’s always Wednesday. Guest host Tiffany Arment talks the Netflix TV show’s first season with Kathy Campbell, Glenn Fleishman, and Brian Hamilton. There’s a surprising amount of Star Wars and child-rearing discussion plus some spoilers for 1990s movies.

• February 15, 2023

  Wakanda Forever

  Lots of tears, geopolitical complexity, and a… boat battle?

• February 12, 2023

  Disney Princess Draft

  We gave them just two rules: Are they Disney? Are they Princess?

• February 9, 2023

  Defocused 362: The Lost City

  Dan and Joe talk about D.

• February 3, 2023

  Buffy Season 7

  What’s with that amulet?

• February 2, 2023

  Book Club: "Babel"

  Spoilers abound. Empire and silver and magic and death.

  Next book: “Sea of Tranquiltiy” by Emily St. John Mandel.

  What are we reading?

  Aleen:

  • The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
  • Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths
  • A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers

  Erika: * “Cold Relations” by Mary Robinette Kowal * “How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub” by P Djèlí Clark * Scarlett Bernard series by Melissa F Olson Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances by Ailette de Bodard

  Glenn:

  • Dr. No by Percival Everett

  Deb:

  • The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

  Scott:

  • Pompeii by Robert Harris
  • Hopeland by Ian McDonald

  Dan:

  • The Puzzler by A.J. Jacobs

  Jason:

  • Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
  • The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (they)
• January 22, 2023

  Inconceivable! 33

  We’re all the odds one out.

• January 20, 2023

  "Sky High"

  It’s like The Breakfast Club for superheroes.

• January 18, 2023

  Low Definition XXIV

  Oops! All Goo

• January 12, 2023

  Defocused 351: Glass Onion

  A Knive’s Out Podcast.

• January 9, 2023

  Total Pursuit Kill

  Four TPK DMs, one TPK editor/player, one clueless host. All we can say is sonova lich, we shoulda rolled better.

• January 9, 2023

  The Peripheral

  Jackpot, Schmackpot.

• December 23, 2022

  Green Knight

  Moises and company meet around our round table.

• December 18, 2022

  Random Pursuit XXVII

  A record-setting episode!

• December 16, 2022

  Book Club: The Scholomance series

  Don’t get in the elevator.

• December 12, 2022

  Kilmas: Red Planet (2000)

  I hate this planet!

• December 11, 2022

  Random Pursuit XXVI

  So much specific knowledge! Also, baseball.

• December 9, 2022

  Game Show - Careers 1955

  New game show, who dis?

• December 8, 2022

  Defocused 360: Reindeer Games

  Don’t play no reindeer games with me.

• December 4, 2022

  Random Pursuit XXV

  If you’re not sweepin’ you’re weepin’.

• December 3, 2022

  Game Show - Christmas Trivia

  Less random, more Christmas, still trivia!

• December 1, 2022

  "Andor"

  Recorded live around John Siracusa’s card table.

• November 27, 2022

  "The Poseidon Adventure"

  At midnight on New Year’s Eve, the S. S. Poseidon, enroute from New York to Athens, met with disaster and was lost. A handful of podcasters follow the challenges faced by a handful of Oscar winners and other assorted stars from the 1970s to celebrate that 50th anniversary of this classic disaster flick. This is their story.

  Host Jean MacDonald with panelists Steve Lutz, John Chidgey, Annette Wierstra, and Shelly Brisbin.

• November 26, 2022

  Lions, Towers & Shields 66 "Remember the Night"

  Fighting for the holidays

• November 20, 2022

  "GoodFellas"

  All of Phil’s favorite movies come from 1990.

• November 15, 2022

  Defocused 359

  No movie this time. Just having some Arby’s fun.

• November 14, 2022

  "Ms. Marvel" and "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law"

  It’s an MCU D+ two-fer.

• November 6, 2022

  "Weird"

  Eat it! And other hits. We discuss the faux biopic of Al Yankovic, “Weird.”

• November 1, 2022

  Rings of Power/House of the Dragon

  Two shows, so many opinions.

• October 20, 2022

  The Thing (1982)

  Old Spooky Club goes to the antarctic!

• October 19, 2022

  Chinatown

  Forget it, Jake, it’s albacore.

• October 13, 2022

  David's Detective Draft

  Everyone gets Magnum.

• October 8, 2022

  Mind Meld episode 1

  Rodent or Donut?

• October 4, 2022

  Defocused 358: Everything Everywhere All at Once

  Joe worried about Dan having ideal conditions to finally watch the movie.

• October 2, 2022

  Antony's Book Club

  So many books for us to recommend! But it’s not a draft.

• September 25, 2022

  The Sandman

  Discussing Netflix’s adaptation.

• September 21, 2022

  Thor: Love & Thunder

  It’s-a me! Zeus!

• September 18, 2022

  Would You Like to Bite an Egg?

  Join us in the pre-taping of several Pants in the Boot episodes with the most panelists across the most timezones ever as we go through our warm-up exercise, all about eggs. Yes, it’s a Pants in the Bootlegg. With Sarah Bickerton, Shelly Brisbin, Erika Ensign, Saskia Koehler, Jean MacDonald, Julia Skott, and Annette Wierstra—and your top egghead, Glenn Fleishman.

• September 17, 2022

  Mind Meld (test show)

  A Tony Sindelar / Game Show experiment.

• September 11, 2022

  It's the Pope! (UK Triv X)

  And you won’t believe who he’s brought with him. Host Antony Johnston with Shelly Brisbin, Erika Ensign, Lex Friedman, and David J Loehr.

• September 9, 2022

  Time Bandits

  Mum, Dad, it’s evil, don’t touch it!

• September 8, 2022

  Defocused 357: Top Gun: Maverick

  You’ll never believe this, but these men are not good at expressing their feelings.

• September 2, 2022

  Time After Time (1979)

  Jason’s “Time After Time” tours of San Francisco will be available in spring of 2023.

• August 22, 2022

  Timecop

  No time travel movies really make sense, if you think about them long enough.

• August 19, 2022

  ...All At Once (panel 2)

  Oh, so very many alternate realities.

• August 19, 2022

  Everything Everywhere... (panel 1)

  So many realities.

• August 19, 2022

  Defocused 356: Prey

  A brief summary of all Predator movies, and then Prey, which was fine.

• August 16, 2022

  Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

  Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!

• August 10, 2022

  Random Pursuit XXIV

  …in which something unprecedented happens…

• August 7, 2022

  Random Pursuit XXIII

  So many astronauts

• July 28, 2022

  Defocused 355

  No movie this week.

• July 20, 2022

  Game Show: Star Wars Feuding Families III

  No, it’s not Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes.

• July 13, 2022

  Peak TV Draft

  Cicero and company pick some of the best TV of recent years.

• July 11, 2022

  Star Trek three season wrap-up

  Two we didn’t like so much, but then we were happy with the third one!

• July 6, 2022

  Defocused 354: Sonic the Hedgehog 2

  This definitely was a sequel.

• July 3, 2022

  Obi-Wan Kenobi

  Hello there.

• June 30, 2022

  Chip & Dale & Who Framed Roger Rabbit

  It’s time to talk toontowns, past and present: we discuss the 1988 movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a thinly veiled tribute to the movie Chinatown, and the just-released Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers 2022, a fully unveiled tribute to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

• June 26, 2022

  "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness"

  Cut in half by a shield, what a way to go.

• June 26, 2022

  "Halo" season 1

  Jason doesn’t care about your video-game continuity.

• June 25, 2022

  Random Pursuit XXII

  A special edition celebrating Uncanny Magazine! (Note: They Year 9 Kickstarter isn’t live yet, but it will be when this episode drops in the main Game Show feed.)

• June 24, 2022

  Low Definition XXIII

  Rumbledythumpdethumpdethump, rumbledethumpdethump.

• June 22, 2022

  Awards book club, part 3

  Project Hail Mary, Light from Uncommon Stars, and She Who Will Become The Sun.

• June 19, 2022

  Game Show: Eat or be Eaten #1

  Answering questions about food, cooking and drinks.

• June 5, 2022

  Cartoons for Adults

  Sometimes your parents are full of crap.

• May 25, 2022

  Defocused 353: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

  Who can belive we covered another movie released in 2022? Not us.

• May 24, 2022

  Moon Knight

  Come, let us discuss Murder Batman.

• May 16, 2022

  2022 Awards Book Club, Part 2

  “The Galaxy and the Ground Within,” “Master of Djinn”, “Unbroken,” and What Are We Reading?

• May 14, 2022

  "Just Imagine" (1930) and "Flash Gordon" (1980)

  It’s not brain science, it’s three guys on a rocket ship to Mars. Not the bore worms!

• May 13, 2022

  Our Flag Means Death

  Avast, ye scurvy dogs. This podcast is now flying a pirate flag.

• May 6, 2022

  Severance

  Someone’s earned a Waffle Party!

• May 5, 2022

  Defocused 352: The Batman

  You’ll never believe this but he’s The Batman.

• April 27, 2022

  Game Show: Danconceivable 2!

  Dan’t be scared, Tony Sindanlar will be sure you’re danned if you do and danned if you don’t.

• April 24, 2022

  "Turning Red"

  That red panda! So cute!

• April 23, 2022

  The Batman

  What, another Batman movie?

• April 19, 2022

  Defocused 351

  No movie this week, but Dan gives a brief, but unenthusiastic nod to ‘The Batman’ and Joe heartily endorses ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ - No spoilers.

• April 17, 2022

  Book Club: Machinehood and Plague Birds

  Awards shortlist season has begun! Plus: What Have We Read Recently That We Are Now Recommending?

• April 17, 2022

  Friendly Competition 8: Praise Jason!

  Who got a trivia contest in our game show podcast?

• April 13, 2022

  Defocused 350: Cliffhanger

  Die Hard on a mountain. Another Carolco masterpiece.

• April 9, 2022

  Game Show: You Think You Know Me

  Every Game Show is an Intervention.

• April 4, 2022

  Q and Eh?

  Polish off your French.

• March 29, 2022

  Old Movie Club overthrows the U.S. government

  “Suddenly” and “Seven Days in May.”

• March 28, 2022

  Daniel Craig's Bond... and what's next?

  The Craig era is over. What’s next for 007?

• March 20, 2022

  SMOOCH Valentine Catastrophe Part 1

  Join our Agents on this bootleg version of our Romantic RPG adventures.

• March 20, 2022

  Geography Bee

  Where in the world are we?

• March 16, 2022

  The Incomparable Film Festival 2022

  So many movies! And Steven makes a draft power move.

• March 13, 2022

  Inestimable! The Amount of Peas in a Thing

  There’s a game in here somewhere.

• March 9, 2022

  Defocused 349: Free Guy

  Ryan Reynolds is heavily featured.

• March 5, 2022

  Station Eleven

  Discussing the HBO miniseries, which is a miniseries, so there won’t be a second season. Or a Station Twelve. Right?

• March 3, 2022

  Defocused 348: Gone Girl

  Gone Girl. That’s the tweet.

• February 23, 2022

  Defocused 347: Panic Room

  Panic! Room.

• February 13, 2022

  The Book of Boba Fett

  The show’s a mess, but maybe you enjoy the mess!

• February 9, 2022

  Book Club: Witness for the Dead and Desolation Called Peace

  Books! We like ‘em.

• February 6, 2022

  We Love Our Listeners (test game)

  Glenn reckoned he had an idea for a new Game Show about numbers, ranges, and amounts. Pulling from the ranks of Incomparable members they tried it out. Also, Tony Sindelar showed up (hello, nerd!) to be drafted as scorekeeper and spreadsheet concierge. We laughed, we cried, Glenn caused consternations about grape sizes.

• February 6, 2022

  Little Nightmares II

  Video Game club tackles “Little Nightmares II.”

• February 6, 2022

  Random Pursuit XXI

  Just a bunch of venerable booze outfits.

• February 3, 2022

  "The Expanse" wrap-up

  First the TV show, then the books! With fair warning in between.

• February 2, 2022

  Speed Racer

  A centaur, only for cars.

• January 30, 2022

  Random Pursuit XX

  The past was terrible. We’ve come so far.

• January 29, 2022

  2010s book draft (episode 600 part two)

  The Machine Was a Vampire!

• January 29, 2022

  Inconceivable!: A Living Version of the Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage'

  The maps are the best part!

• January 26, 2022

  Defocused 346: Fight Club

  Some people seem to take this seriously, like Joe’s RA.

• January 24, 2022

  2010s book draft (episode 600 part one)

  The panelists from episode 1 return to pick their favorite books from the first decade of The Incomparable—the 2010s.

• January 20, 2022

  Defocused 345: Ghostbusters: Afterlife

  Dan and Joe are joined by Seth Worley and Ryan Polly from The Writers Room Game Show to talk about a very WRGS movie.

• January 19, 2022

  Hawkeye

  Bro! Is Marvel series, bro!

• January 18, 2022

  Are You The Spy? (VI)

  “That was the right combination of everything, except winning.”

  Quinn’s not sorry about anything.

• January 15, 2022

  Podcast Draft

  Lex Friedman leads a draft of favorite podcasts.

• January 13, 2022

  Defocused: Ghostbusters (2016)

  Well, there’s a lot to say just about The Discourse on this one.

• January 10, 2022

  "Spider-Man: No Way Home"

  Is it Spiders-Men or Spider-Mans or Spider-Mens?

• January 6, 2022

  Defocused: The Matrix Resurrections

  These rebels would be foiled by a captcha.

• December 30, 2021

  UK Triv IX

  Glenn’s in this one, so be warned.

• December 30, 2021

  "The Harder They Fall"

  Netflix’s revisionist western, with guest host Cicero Holmes, Shareef Jackson, and Nathan Alderman.

• December 29, 2021

  Low Definition: Tech Edition

  It’s fun when spreadsheets fail.

• December 26, 2021

  "The Wheel of Time" season 1

  TomBombadilification!

• December 16, 2021

  Defocused 342: Moonstruck

  Christmas adjacent.

• December 15, 2021

  "The Beatles: Get Back"

  Oh thank goodness, Billy Preston’s finally here.

• December 14, 2021

  "Kiki's Delivery Service" (Historical Bootleg)

  Recorded May 1, 2014.

• December 10, 2021

  Kilmas: "The Saint"

  What’s under that sweater?

• December 8, 2021

  Defocused 341

  No movie this week. Air filters, bidet’s, and Christmas trees.

• December 3, 2021

  "Eternals"

  Get ready for weird.

• November 26, 2021

  7 or C? Thanksgiving 2021

  Seven cubic centimeters of holiday fun!

• November 20, 2021

  Friendly Competition 7: Needlessly Complicated

  Please welcome Silent Carl.

• November 18, 2021

  Defocused 340: A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

  It’s a good thing 3D never went out of fashion.

• November 17, 2021

  Last Action Hero

  Happy Fsgiving to all who celebrate!

• November 11, 2021

  Defocused 339: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

  We mostly talk about bad fast-food menus.

• November 9, 2021

  Dune (2021)

  The movie all acupuncturists are raving about.

• November 7, 2021

  Freaks and Geeks

  You know what happened to the guy who listened to the bootleg? HE DIED.

• November 7, 2021

  Inconceivable!: Potted-Dolk Man

  Dan is mean.

• October 28, 2021

  Defocused 338: Dune

  We talk about the 2021 version of Dune and compare adaptations.

• October 27, 2021

  Old Frankenstein Club

  “Abbott and Costello Meet” … “Young Frankenstein”

• October 23, 2021

  "Ted Lasso" season 2

  A second panel, this one for the Mothership, discusses season 2 of “Ted Lasso.”

• October 20, 2021

  Defocused 337: Freaky

  Deween, Hallowfocused. Stuff.

• October 13, 2021

  Defocused 336: The Lego Batman Movie

  Batman should be fun!

• October 13, 2021

  Hugo Book Club Part 3

  Two novels, many many short stories, rankings, and What Are We Reading?

• October 10, 2021

  Game Show - Ghost Court

  We’re all out of order! And some of us are dead!

• September 29, 2021

  Return of the Prodigal Showrunners!

  RTD and JMS return to their old haunts. What does this mean? The Streaming Wars have made us very confused. Also, a technical breakdown for the ages.

  In Stereo, where available.

• September 27, 2021

  Old Movie Club: Rear Window/The Conversation

  We’re listening!

• September 22, 2021

  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

  Before the show, we say bad words. Moises reboots his Mac. Then we talk about the latest Marvel movie!

• September 15, 2021

  Defocused 335

  Naval promotions, cinema, shooting Alexa LF and dropping it on film to scan it again for the ulimate cinematic mode, and Nolan News.

• September 13, 2021

  Hook

  Kathy is proud of Jason for his restraint.

• August 29, 2021

  Ready Player One

  A CEO gets his wings!

• August 25, 2021

  Defocused 334: The Suicide Squad

  The other one.

• August 21, 2021

  Minority Report

  If we post a podcast before it’s released, is it a pre-podcast?

• August 19, 2021

  Defocused 333: Birds of Prey

  We have some editing notes.

• August 17, 2021

  "War of the Worlds" (2005)

  Run, Tom Cruise! Scream, Dakota Fanning!

• August 14, 2021

  "A.I. Artificial Intelligence"

  2000 years later…

• August 5, 2021

  Defocused 332: Suicide Squad

  Not to be confused with “The Suicide Squad”.

• August 3, 2021

  "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park"

  Clever Girl. Not-so-clever sequel.

• July 28, 2021

  Defocused 331: Hot Rod

  Shifting gears back to silly, and light after ‘The Lighthouse’

• July 28, 2021

  Loki

  So many variants, and an infinite amount of time.

• July 23, 2021

  Defocused 330: The Lighthouse

  Fond of me lobster.

• July 20, 2021

  Are You The Spy? (V)

  We’re back and better(??) than ever. Quinn only makes one mistake with the rules, but it is a brand new mistake, because we like to keep things interesting around here.

• July 17, 2021

  Black Widow

  It’s a brand extension! It’s an action movie! It’s a delayed-by-pandemic hit! It’s on your TV! We say goodbye to ScarJo and hello to Black Widow 2.0 and the rest of the family.

• July 15, 2021

  Defocused 329: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

  And soda fountains.

• July 1, 2021

  Defocused 328: The Punisher

  Tampa!

• June 27, 2021

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  Boo bee boo boo boo.

• June 26, 2021

  Attack the Block

  Mayhem and Probs would allow it!

• June 23, 2021

  2021 Awards Book Club, part 2

  The Midnight Bargain, Murderbot V: Network Effect, Mexican Gothic, and What Are We Reading? (Erika’s reading a lot.)

• June 17, 2021

  Defocused 327

  No movie this week. Coffee! Espresso! Corndog problem-solving!

• June 13, 2021

  Friendly Competition 6

  Will you listen if we reveal that there’s no 20 Questions round this time?

• June 1, 2021

  Muppet Movie Pitches

  Muppet movies we’d like to see.

• May 30, 2021

  Trivial Retreat 2

  We can’t remember how this works, but it’s certainly trivial.

• May 26, 2021

  Defocused 326: Next

  We talk about the very bad Nicolas Cage movie “Next” for 57 minutes, and then we have an aftershow where we talk about the “recipes” section of the Wonder Bread website.

• May 23, 2021

  "Invincible" (season 1)

  Contains pre-spoiler horn for those interested in hearing why you should watch.

• May 13, 2021

  Defocused 325: Source Code

  Loops!

• May 10, 2021

  Megamind

  No you can’t!

• May 8, 2021

  Novel Shortlists Book Club, Part 1

  “The City We Became”, “Black Sun”, and “Piranesi.” Plus: What are we reading?

• May 6, 2021

  Defocused 324: Tenet

  It’s safe to say that this wasn’t Christopher Nolan’s best work.

• April 29, 2021

  Defocused 323: Palm Springs

  Like Groundhog Day but with more stuff.

• April 26, 2021

  Low Definition XXII

  Who wants a rounded dowel?

• April 25, 2021

  The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

  They’re just a couple of guys.

• April 17, 2021

  "Cloverfield"

  Fun, intense movie, but why is it a franchise?

• April 14, 2021

  Defocused 322: Paycheck

  There is some colorful (blue) language in this episode.

• April 14, 2021

  Auteur Superhero Mad Libs Pitch Session

  It’s the highest of concepts.

• April 8, 2021

  Defocused 321

  No movie this week. Talking about stuff and things - and food. Always food.

• April 2, 2021

  Miyazaki Club Finale

  One more look back on the films of Hayao Miyazaki.

• March 30, 2021

  Helene Wecker and "The Hidden Palace"

  A lot of stuff happened between the publication of “The Golem and the Jinni” and the forthcoming release of “The Hidden Palace.” We take a journey through building a book with Helene Wecker.

  (Fair warning: there are some very minor spoilers in this podcast. We think you can handle it, but if you are entirely spoiler averse, look away!)

  Pre-order The Hidden Palace on Amazon or via a local independent bookstore.

• March 25, 2021

  "Star Trek VI"

  One Klingon to read the rules, another to carry the box.

• March 24, 2021

  Defocused 320: Jumper

  At least it’s only an hour and a half.

• March 17, 2021

  Defocused 319: Detective Pikachu

  Maybe there are some issues with the writing.

• March 17, 2021

  Rocket Surgery: "Kill and Kill Again"

  They don’t kill again. Hot Dog!

• March 15, 2021

  "Chariots of Fire" and "Amadeus"

  We watch Best Pictures from the 80s! Also at the end we do some 2020 favorite films nonsense, if you’re into that sort of thing.

• March 10, 2021

  "WandaVision" season wrap-up

  What are podcasts, but conversations persevering?

• March 8, 2021

  Saga of Rereading Epics: Magnificat & Wrap-up

  This epic-length (see what I did there?) bootleg includes our episode about Magnificat as well as our series wrap-up episode.

• March 6, 2021

  Game Show: UK Triv VIII

  How many twos can our North Americans roll while trying to answer questions from an original 1983 British edition of Trivial Pursuit? Two many.

• March 5, 2021

  Shakespeare Club: Taming of the Shrew

  Billy Shakes, we have some script notes.

• March 4, 2021

  Defocused 318

  The blazers weren’t the only things that were unstructured.

• February 26, 2021

  Porco Rosso

  A flyin’ pig!

• February 25, 2021

  Defocused 317: Sonic the Hedgehog

  TEETH, TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

• February 19, 2021

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" season 6

  And also there was a musical.

• February 18, 2021

  Defocused 316: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

  Dining on ashes.

• February 15, 2021

  "The Expanse" season 5

  Marco Inaros is very bad.

• February 15, 2021

  Friendly Competition 5: None of This Is Helping Me

  More Sarahs than you can shake a stick at.

• February 11, 2021

  Defocused 315: Sneakers

  We’re joined by Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Todd Vaziri!

• February 3, 2021

  Defocused 314: Kuffs

  Dan saw this movie a long time ago and wanted an excuse to watch it again. Joe was not very happy about it.

• January 30, 2021

  Inconceivable!: Almost Finnish

  They’re not umlauts!

• January 28, 2021

  Defocused 313: Face/Off

  Dan ate some candy, and Joe says he doesn’t really have a sweet tooth. The movie is also discussed.

• January 26, 2021

  Bad Best Picture Draft

  Priests! Irishness!

• January 20, 2021

  Defocused 312: Broken Arrow

  Nuclear bomb things and boxing.

• January 18, 2021

  Letterkenny

  Pitter patter, let’s get at ‘er.

• January 17, 2021

  Lions, Towers, and Shields: The Fountainhead

  A perfect spherical cow.

• January 16, 2021

  The Incomparable: Discovery Season 3

  They built the sets again!

• January 14, 2021

  Vulcan Hello: Discovery Season 3

  This season has everything.

• January 11, 2021

  Defocused 311: Cutthroat Island

  The film that killed Carolco Pictures. We can see why. Remember that our Carolco-inspired shirts are only on sale for a few more days.

• January 11, 2021

  The Space Between Worlds

  Book club! We don’t remember the book! Oh well! We tried!

• January 8, 2021

  Pixar's "Soul"

  The great bug zapper in the sky comes for us all, eventually.

• January 4, 2021

  Ponyo

  Oh no! My elixirs!

• January 1, 2021

  The 2020 Clip Show

  It’s better to listen to the real show, which has been edited and has more clips and sounds vastly superior, but some people also want to listen to the recording session where Jason says fun stuff like “clip goes here,” so here you go.

• December 31, 2020

  Game Show: Trust Me, I'm a Superhero

  Wolves wolves wolves! (re-posted)

• December 30, 2020

  Defocused 310: Street People

  A.K.A. Gli esecutori, The Executors, or The Sicilian Cross. There is a tenuous connection between this very bad movie and our new Defocused shirts on sale January 4th.

• December 26, 2020

  The Mandalorian, season 2

  It’s Grogu!

• December 23, 2020

  Defocused 309

  Food, including watergate salad, and then drafting the food for the “gift guide”

• December 10, 2020

  Defocused 308: National Treasure: Book of Secrets

  Of course they have to capture the president to prove their family never did anything to the president.

• November 30, 2020

  Total Party Kill has exited the bootleg!

  You can find TPK in a new members-only feed, at https://www.theincomparable.com/tpk-bootleg. We’re splitting it off from the regular Bootleg feed you’re listening to now. No more TPK here, all the TPK there!

• November 29, 2020

  Friendly Competition 4: I Heard It Wrong

  Why the long pause? (NOTE: This bootleg recording contains some adult content.)

• November 27, 2020

  T-Day Game Show Extravaganza

  A special holiday* Action Castle and 7 or C with Tony Sindelar and a bunch of surprise emergency guests!

  • Not valid in the UK or Canada
• November 25, 2020

  Defocused 307: National Treasure

  Sure, why not?

• November 24, 2020

  "Top Secret!" (Kilmas)

  We’re going skeet surfing. Bring your picture of Cher.

• November 20, 2020

  Lovecraft Country

  So much blood.

• November 17, 2020

  Defocused 306: Gone In 60 Seconds

  This is extremely 2000. After the show is over we read through the list of other movies from 2000 that we can’t believe were from 2000 if you really want some wikipedia reading in your life.

• November 16, 2020

  "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (Kilmas)

  I want to go to dog heaven!

• November 15, 2020

  "Willow" (Kilmas)

  Magic! Disappearing pigs! The greatest swordsman that ever lived! But Jason doesn’t like Brownies.

• November 12, 2020

  Defocused 305: Con Air

  Joe has never seen this movie before. Dan has seen this movie a lot.

• November 6, 2020

  Defocused 303

  No movie, just pensive election coverage that no one really needs and will be out of date by the time anyone listens. We’re releasing this as 303 and we’re releasing ‘Alien: Covenant’ next week.

• November 1, 2020

  Game Show: Bedecked

  Eunuch Underling?

• October 27, 2020

  What We Do In the Shadows

  Bat!

• October 25, 2020

  Random Pursuit XIX

  May the cards be ever in your favour. Unless you’re…[spoilers!]

• October 24, 2020

  Saga of Rereading Epics: Diamond Mask

  More Milieu goodness, (at least partially) from the perspective of a girl!

• October 24, 2020

  Random Pursuit XVIII

  Another genre-only edition! With lots of body parts.

• October 24, 2020

  Random Pursuit XVII

  The very first genre-edition only episode of Random Pursuit! It’s only too bad this wasn’t Random Pursuit 18. You’ll see why.

• October 22, 2020

  Defocused 304: Alien: Covenant

  We finally did it. Now they have to stop making them, right?

• October 15, 2020

  Defocused 302: Prometheus

  Maybe the writing isn’t so good on this one.

• October 11, 2020

  Ted Lasso

  Roast me, amigo!

• October 10, 2020

  One Season Wonders draft

  Erika’s heard of five of them.

• October 5, 2020

  Defocused 301

  No movie this time. Just catching up.

• October 4, 2020

  Random Pursuit XVI

  The Mounties edition!

• October 4, 2020

  Friendly Competition 3: Hell of a Rabbit Hole

  The friendly competition was inside us all the whole time. (NOTE: This bootleg recording contains some adult language.)

• September 29, 2020

  Sports Corner with the Dog and Pony Show II

  Two matchups: one contentious, the other not so much.

• September 28, 2020

  Shakespeare Club: Henry V

  It’s a lot of like the Star Wars prequels, when you think about it.

• September 27, 2020

  "Aliens"

  Pull out and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

• September 16, 2020

  Saga of Rereading Epics: Jack the Bodiless

  We have officially reached the Galactic Milieu!

• September 13, 2020

  Muppet Draft

  A surprisingly straightforward draft of great Muppets.

• September 11, 2020

  Old Movie Club: "Some Like it Hot" and "Midnight"

  Billy Wilder is back in the spotlight. And it’s Erika versus Phil.

• September 4, 2020

  Defocused 300: 300

  What a toxic waste dump.

• August 26, 2020

  Defocused 299: Batman & Robin

  The Scooby-Doo sound library.

• August 25, 2020

  Sports Corner with the Dog and Pony Show

  Welcome to our new bonus podcast about…sports?!

• August 23, 2020

  10th Anniversary YouTube hangout

  Just shootin’ the breeze.

• August 22, 2020

  10th Anniversary Episode: Bootleg Edition

  Ten years in, the cracks start to show.

• August 19, 2020

  Defocused 298: Batman Forever

  Dan is not having any of these shenanigans.

• August 19, 2020

  Terminator 2

  We’re back!

• August 13, 2020

  Defocused 297: Batman Returns

  What you put in your toilet I put on my mantel.

• August 12, 2020

  Star Trek Character Draft

  These are all very good and not at all dumb ideas.

• August 11, 2020

  Bootleg 1

  Recorded August 11, 2010.

• August 6, 2020

  Defocused 296: Batman

  There are some disagreements about Batman.

• July 31, 2020

  Defocused 295: Alita: Battle Angel

  There’s a lot going on here.

• July 26, 2020

  "Palm Springs"

  Oh, are we doing time loop movies again?

• July 24, 2020

  "Castle of Cagliostro" bootleg after the bootleg

  Jason regrets stopping the live stream when he did.

• July 24, 2020

  Castle of Cagliostro

  Cartoon rules apply.

• July 23, 2020

  Defocused 294: The Iron Giant

  Joe says Dan hates The Iron Giant and Dan says Joe hates dogs. Technical call issues abound, but that’s why this is an unedited bootleg.

• July 22, 2020

  Hugo Nominees

  Three more lauded books! And Erika and Jason read lots of stories!

• July 19, 2020

  Game Show: Action Castle IV

  A horse is here. Your horse. A horse.

• July 16, 2020

  Action Castle IV - Members Play-Through

  Tony (with Helper Jason) run members through Action Castle IV. Featuring Eric Scott, Will Wagner, Andrew Pontious, tmtrains, Steve VanDevender, Stephen Duncan, David Schaub, Charles Albrecht, Nicholas Riley, Jason Johnson, David Hovis, Lemon, Alex Mace, Brian Warren, Listener Grace, Empty Jay, Marlene Wilson, Listener Steev, Catrina V, Duncan, and Trish Matson.

• July 15, 2020

  Defocused 293: Super 8

  An extensive discussion of J.J. Abrams, and tippy toes.

• July 9, 2020

  Defocused 292: Paddington 2

  Mid-Atlantic pink.

• July 5, 2020

  Devs

  Includes 30 pre-spoiler horn minutes of us debating if you should watch it.

• July 2, 2020

  Defocused 291: Paddington

  We also talked for a long time about junk food before the movie.

• July 1, 2020

  Comic Book Reading List

  It’s not a draft, it’s a collaboration. Also Lisa cheated.

• June 30, 2020

  Game Night: Trust Me, I'm a Doctor

  Five doctors take their turns proposing unorthodox cures in this special TuesDAY Game Night!

• June 27, 2020

  Saga of Rereading Epics: The Metaconcert

  Here’s a much more recent bootleg. Lisa and Erika recorded this a mere two days ago. Please enjoy this discussion of terrible parent-child relationships, uncomfortable gender essentialism, and dark agonizing murder. So cheery for our times… At least we still love Uncle Rogi.

• June 27, 2020

  Saga of Rereading Epics: The Surveillance

  Erika and Lisa recorded this back in March, just as the pandemic was getting underway in North America. Oh what a different time it was. No wonder the shambolic state of the world made Erika forget to post this bootleg until now…

• June 27, 2020

  Friendly Competition 2: No Rounding

  The show where friends must compete and the judges are arbitrary is back!

• June 21, 2020

  Contact

  It takes a long time to get to the aliens.

• June 17, 2020

  Defocused 290: Six Year Anniversary Episode

  We go through each year of podcast episodes and pick our favorites.

• June 13, 2020

  Friendly Competition (Inaugural Edition)

  Lex Friedman’s new game show is here. Answer quickly!

• June 12, 2020

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" season 5

  Washington’s all smooshy! And he might be Jefferson.

• June 11, 2020

  Defocused 289: Speed 2: Cruise Control

  June de Bont continues with the deeply flawed sequel to his first hit movie.

• June 4, 2020

  Defocused 288: Twister

  Seth Worley’s “favorite” movie, so naturally Seth Worley is on.

• June 3, 2020

  Westworld Season 3 wrap-up

  It’s slightly cleaner Blade Runner!

• June 1, 2020

  Game Show Test Episode: Trivial Retreat

  As members of The Incomparable, sometimes you get to hear us test game shows with formats that aren’t working quite right. We played a new game! This is the raw result! It’s kind of messy but we think there’s something there. Let Jason know if you have any ideas.

• May 31, 2020

  Random Pursuit XV

  In this “Commonwealth Edition”, Erika battles ghosts and asks (mostly) American-centric questions of four Brits and one Canadian.

• May 31, 2020

  Rocket Surgery: The Emoji Movie

  Jeremy Burge, the midwife of emojis and Wikipedia citation, joins us as we watch “The Emoji Movie.”

• May 27, 2020

  Defocused 287: Speed

  The start of June de Bont.

• May 21, 2020

  Defocused 286: The Adventures of Tintin

  Seth Worley joins us once again to talk about a Spielberg movie.

• May 20, 2020

  Wall-E

  Danger: Rogue robots.

• May 16, 2020

  Danconceivable!

  Lex Friedman hosts a celebration of Dan and Dans, in game show form.

• May 13, 2020

  Old Movie Club - Philip Marlowe

  “The Big Sleep” and “The Long Goodbye.”

• May 8, 2020

  The Aleph Extraction

  Dan talks about his book! No spoilers.

• May 6, 2020

  Defocused 285: Red Planet

  Just like that Krusty the Clown doll with the evil/good switch.

• May 4, 2020

  Nebula Novels

  Six books enter, six books leave, because we don’t burn books.

• April 29, 2020

  Defocused 284: The Saint

  Dan defends his position.

• April 23, 2020

  Defocused 283: Timecop

  Dan wishes he could travel back in time and stop Peter Hyams.

• April 19, 2020

  Inconceivable!: Fundamentally and Architecturally Unsound

  All the great umlaut cities.

• April 19, 2020

  TV Theme Song Draft II

  James and Liz may be punking us all.

• April 15, 2020

  Defocused 282: Running Scared

  This 1986 movie starring Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal might not have lived up to expectations.

• April 13, 2020

  "Knives Out"

  If you listen to this before watching the movie, you are a monster!

• April 13, 2020

  Inconceivable!: Thinking Sounds, With Dan Moren

  Wait…the lion is Hamlet?

• April 11, 2020

  "The Magicians" season 5

  There’s always another quest.

• April 8, 2020

  Defocused 281: Outland

  Sean Connery is a space cop.

• April 6, 2020

  Are You The Spy? (III)

  Enough panelists wanted to suffer for me to schedule two of these in a row! This episode covers Batman villains, reality television shows, fictional jobs, and Broadway musicals.

• April 6, 2020

  Are You The Spy? (II)

  This episodes tests players’ abilities to bluff about board games, Incomparable podcasts, Star Wars characters, and breakfast foods.

• April 5, 2020

  90s Album Draft

  Here we are now, entertain us.

• April 4, 2020

  Pants in the Bootleg (Series 4)

  Pants in the Boot Series 4 covers meals: how we divide the day up into meals in the US, Canada, and UK, what we might eat at each of them, and we crack the code on tea, afternoon tea, and high tea. Also, a paean to diners.

• April 3, 2020

  Defocused 280: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

  Seth Worley returns as our guest to discuss our mutual disappointment in this Indiana Jones installment, and maybe it’s a good thing James Mangold will take this over.

• March 28, 2020

  Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Wrap-Up

  A bunch of friends talk Trek while eating bunnicorn pizza.

• March 27, 2020

  Apollo 13

  Houston, we have a podcast.

• March 25, 2020

  Defocused 279: Stargate

  The movie, not the TV shows.

• March 21, 2020

  Defocused 278: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

  We know people mostly want to listen to this bootleg for the Skype issues.

• March 10, 2020

  Defocused 277

  We ate hot dogs.

• March 9, 2020

  What should Star Wars do next?

  In which John Siracusa keeps mentioning “Star Trek” and “Battlestar Galactica.”

• March 4, 2020

  Doctor Who series 12

  I’m the Master, and thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

• March 2, 2020

  High Fidelity (2000)

  We’re no longer The Incomparable. We were briefly Kathleen Turner Overdrive. Now we’re Sonic F—-ing Death Monkey.

• February 25, 2020

  Defocused 276: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

  At this point you really know what to expect.

• February 17, 2020

  Counterpart, Season 2

  Is it us, or is it our others?

• February 11, 2020

  Defocused 275: Knives Out

  Steve Yedlin’s 11 herbs and spices.

• February 11, 2020

  The Good Place (season 4) panel 2

  This is the Bad Place!

• February 11, 2020

  The Good Place (season 4)

  Janet is God. Or is Michael God? Wait, nobody wants to be God?!

• February 9, 2020

  Low Definition XXI

  In which we learn a lot about Steve. And ourselves.

• February 6, 2020

  Defocused 274

  Film vs. Digital vs. Food (as usual).

• February 3, 2020

  House of X / Powers of X

  Make more mutants! Kill no humans! Love this land!

• February 3, 2020

  Are You The Spy? (I)

  Accusations are hurled. Spies are uncovered. Hijinks are ensued.

• January 30, 2020

  Defocused 273

  No movie. Mostly food.

• January 29, 2020

  The Expanse season 4

  It’s not a legitimate salvage, it’s a zeppelin!

• January 27, 2020

  500

  Episode D.

• January 25, 2020

  Random Pursuit XIV

  Two Random Pursuit sessions in one day? Is Erika so foolish? Spoiler: the answer is yes. Now write her a book report about a question of your (random) choosing.

• January 25, 2020

  Random Pursuit XIII

  There’s a bunch of pre-show chatter here ‘cause we were troubleshooting. But the game is worth waiting for. David gets lots of underwear questions.

• January 23, 2020

  Defocused 272: Hustlers

  Pretty sure The Financial Crisis was bad.

• January 21, 2020

  Are You The Spy?

  I wasn’t going to upload this at all, but then I figured, why not? This is the trial episode of Are You The Spy?, a new gameshow coming to The Incomparable soonish. Please enjoy the awkwardness of us figuring it out for the first time!

• January 19, 2020

  UK Triv VII

  Fair warning — this one gets DARK. Also weird. But mostly dark.

• January 16, 2020

  Defocused 271: Dolemite Is My Name

  Eddie Murphy appears as a real-life comedian who had to promote himself because no one else would - which is pretty meta when you realize Netflix didn’t really promote this movie at all.

• January 13, 2020

  "The Mandalorian"

  This episode is longer than 35 minutes.

• January 9, 2020

  "For All Mankind" season 1

  Spaaaace!

• January 7, 2020

  Defocused 270: Tremors

  Let’s have some fun.

• January 6, 2020

  Watchmen (2019)

  Who listens to the podcast people? You do.

• January 4, 2020

  Random Pursuit XII

  Eventually points are scored. I swear.

• January 3, 2020

  2019 Clip Show

  You should listen to the regular episode and not this one. No, really.

• December 24, 2019

  "The Rise of Skywalker" panel three

  Not too long, not too short. Just right.

• December 23, 2019

  "The Rise of Skywalker" panel two

  Striking from a hidden base (the accents give away that it’s in the UK), this team of rebel podcasters will also discuss “Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker.”

• December 21, 2019

  "The Rise of Skywalker" panel one

  Three hours, people.

• December 21, 2019

  Inconceivable!: Short Circut

  But have they been to space?

• December 18, 2019

  Defocused 269: Hudson Hawk

  Dan tricked Joe into watching this one.

• December 16, 2019

  Parsely: Kringle Krisis!

  Get Santa. Go Reindeer.

• December 11, 2019

  Book Club: To Be Taught, If Fortunate

  Becky Chambers has a new novella about learning and science and exploring planets and we liked it.

• December 10, 2019

  Defocused 268: Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

  Seth Worley is back and he really wants to rewrite this entire movie.

• December 9, 2019

  Elf (2003)

  I’m singing! I’m in a bootleg recording, and I’m singing!

• December 4, 2019

  Defocused 267: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

  Returning guest Seth Worley is on to talk about one of his childhood favorites.

• December 2, 2019

  What Disney should do with Star Wars

  MacLunkey Despecialized!

• November 25, 2019

  Lawrence of Arabia

  An epic.

• November 21, 2019

  Saga of Rereading Epics: The Adversary

  Lisa and Erika reach the end of Julian May’s Saga of Pliocine Exile. The proper podcast launch will follow in the new year, but you get to listen now! Then we’ll continue on into the Galactic Milieu, where wonders await!

• November 21, 2019

  This is How You Lose the Time War

  Book club returns!

• November 20, 2019

  Defocused 266

  No movie. Bread. At an hour and 20 minutes Dan does mention a slight spoiler for The Mandalorian episode 1, so stop listening or skip it for five minutes.

• November 13, 2019

  Defocused 265: The Man Who Knew Too Little

  Bill Murray as Bill Murray.

• November 9, 2019

  Sequel or Not Draft

  Look, it’s complicated. But the rules will become apparent quickly.

• November 7, 2019

  Defocused 264

  No movie this time, just catching up, and of course a conversation about food and salsa viscosity.

• November 7, 2019

  Low Definition XX

  Parental gobble discretion gobble advised gobble.

• November 5, 2019

  The Amazing Spider-Man/Amazing Spider-Man 2

  Andrew Garfield is not the problem here.

• October 25, 2019

  Ginger Snaps

  Creeping werewolfism!

• October 23, 2019

  Defocused 263: Mission: Impossible - Fallout

  The Dark Knight of Mission: Impossible movies.

• October 23, 2019

  Edge of Tomorrow (Live. Die. Repeat.)

  From the Alpha to the Omega. Those are aliens.

• October 17, 2019

  Batman (1966)

  Na na na na na na na na… Batman!

• October 15, 2019

  Defocused 262: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

  Pepe Silvia and the Syndicate Gang.

• October 15, 2019

  Game Show: Fiasco...in Space!

  Space Station 119 is the place to be.

• October 9, 2019

  Defocused 261: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

  Maybe Joe likes it.

• October 3, 2019

  "Sneakers" (1992)

  My voice is my passport. Verify me.

• September 30, 2019

  Defocused 260: Mission: Impossible III

  Now we enter uncharted territory.

• September 29, 2019

  The Dark Crystal (1982)

  Touch the puppet. (No spoilers for the new Netflix show! This is just about the movie.)

• September 25, 2019

  Defocused 259: Mission: Impossible 2

  🐦 🏍 🏃 🦠

• September 18, 2019

  Defocused 258: Mission: Impossible

  Your bootleg, should you choose to accept it.

• September 18, 2019

  X-Men Draft

  To me, my X-Men!

• September 15, 2019

  Saturday Morning Draft

  It’s what you think it is, and more.

• September 11, 2019

  Saga of Rereading Epics: The Nonborn King

  Lisa and Erika are getting close to the point where they’ll start thinking of properly launching this new podcast. But as they’re not there yet, you lucky, special Incomparable members are still the only “cool kids” who get to hear this for a lil while yet.

• September 11, 2019

  Parsley: SpoOooOoooky Manor

  You’re standing before a SpoOOOOoooOoOOOoky Manor.

• September 10, 2019

  Defocused 257: Venom

  If Upton Sinclair had a leather jacket.

• September 4, 2019

  Defocused 256

  No movie this week. We talk about Joe’s trip to Spain and Portugal, hot dogs, and the importance of camera backpacks.

• September 4, 2019

  The Wind Rises

  Miyazaki club returns. This is not rainbows and fairies, that’s for sure.

• August 28, 2019

  Buffy Season 4

  And try not to bleed on my couch, I just had it steam cleaned.

• August 26, 2019

  Spider-Man 3

  Bernard has buried fourteen Greens Goblin.

• August 20, 2019

  Saga of Rereading Epics: The Golden Torc

  Erika and Lisa are on to the second book in the series. Content warning for assault—physical, sexual, emotional, mental. All the assaults. :(

• August 14, 2019

  Defocused 255: A Quiet Place

  We talk about a suspenseful, thrilling monster movie about a family trying to hold together - also Pepe Silvia.

• August 13, 2019

  Spider-Man 2 (2004)

  My large, spider-powered son! #countthecoats

• August 12, 2019

  Defocused 254: The Predator

  It’s definitely a Shane Black movie.

• August 11, 2019

  Spider-Man (2002)

  No, it is you who are out, Gobby. Out of your MIND!

• August 10, 2019

  Random Pursuit XI - Ghost Points

  Ghost points flying left and right! Also some real points.

• August 8, 2019

  Chernobyl

  There is no graphite on the ground, comrade.

• August 7, 2019

  Defocused 253: Predators

  Adrian Brody falls out of the sky and does a Batman voice with some other people in Predator Fan Fiction.

• July 31, 2019

  TV Talk Machine 227.0: The lost episode

  Not sure who wants to listen to Jason talk to nobody, but if you’d like to, this is it! We recorded this last week, by which we mean, we didn’t record Tim so it’s just Jason talking and reacting to nothingness.

  Enjoy?

• July 31, 2019

  Hugo Awards 2019

  Listen to four people struggle to remember books they liked!

• July 31, 2019

  Defocused 252: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

  How is predalien babby formed?

• July 28, 2019

  Federation Feud II!

  Have you heard the proverb that poll questions from listeners are a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold… on The Incomparable Game Show.

• July 25, 2019

  Defocused 251

  More trailers! • Terminator: Dark Fate Followup • Cats Followup • Top Gun: Maverick • Gemini Man • Picard If you would like to suggest a title, go to The Incomparable Member Slack’s #defocused channel.

• July 25, 2019

  Veronica Mars

  Mostly season 1. No Hulu talk.

• July 21, 2019

  Random Pursuit X

  The X is for ten. Get your minds out of the gutter.

• July 17, 2019

  Defocused 250

  We talked about current trailers, and behind the scenes featurette: • Terminator: Dark Fate • Hobbes & Shaw • King’s Man • Knives Out • Cats • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

• July 17, 2019

  Saga of Rereading Epics: The Many-Colored Land

  Lisa and Erika still haven’t launched their new podcast, but they have reviewed the first book in the series!

• July 12, 2019

  Defocused 249: John Carter

  We have some notes.

• July 10, 2019

  Rocket Surgery: Alice in Wonderland (2010)

  It’s the Fudderwacken Jabberwocky!

• July 9, 2019

  Spider-Man: Far From Home

  Zut alors! It is ze Night Monkey!

• June 28, 2019

  Defocused 248: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

  I’ve buried 14 Spiders-Men.

• June 22, 2019

  UK Trivia VI

  Recorded June 22, 2019.

• June 19, 2019

  Defocused 247: Universal Soldier

  This movie is exactly what you think it is.

• June 17, 2019

  The Dark Knight Rises

  This is a ridiculous movie, and… I like it?

• June 13, 2019

  Defocused 246

  No movie this week, just spicy tacos.

• June 10, 2019

  Old Movie Club - Jaws

  Shark spoils otherwise enjoyable beach romp movie.

• June 9, 2019

  Saga of Rereading Epics: Intro Ep

  What’s this? A new bookish podcast from Erika and Lisa? It won’t officially launch for Quite a While, but YOU, dear member, get to listen right away!

• May 30, 2019

  Defocused 245

  No movie. Hawaii and routers galore. If you’re listening to the bootleg, please feel free to suggest titles in #defocused

• May 30, 2019

  Game of Thrones season 8

  What is dead may never die! And this show is now super dead.

• May 29, 2019

  The Dark Knight

  We revisit the second entry in Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy, even though it is very very long.

• May 23, 2019

  TV Endings Draft

  Guy stages a coup, but Jason has the final edit. In this bootleg, though, Guy can do what he wants.

• May 21, 2019

  Defocused 244: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

  Dan didn’t know what “Star Trek Bad” was so Joe showed him.

• May 18, 2019

  Inconceivable!: Don't Be a Jason!

  Our game of nerdery and nonsense is back, with fictional character epitaphs, compound words, and award-winning books and movies.

• May 16, 2019

  Defocused 243: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

  Joe made Dan watch a Star Track.

• May 15, 2019

  The Magicians, Season 4

  Moises irons his laundry. Mikah readies a donkey.

• May 8, 2019

  Defocused 242: Doom

  Well. We talked about it.

• May 8, 2019

  Nebula novel nominees

  Stick that in your polar bear, kids!

• May 4, 2019

  Avengers: Endgame

  This episode is coming out in a few hours but some members like to hear the unedited chatter and who are we to refuse?

• May 3, 2019

  Rebel Avengers: Endgame Panel

  Join stand-in host Chip Sudderth and a cast of thousands as they discuss Avengers: Endgame.

• May 1, 2019

  Federation Feud!

  This is where the listeners get in our heads by answering strangely to our stupid questions. Star Trek edition!

• April 30, 2019

  Defocused 241: The Blues Brothers

  Dan is excited about ‘The Blues Brothers’ and Joe is mostly fine with it.

• April 27, 2019

  Star Trek: Discovery season 2

  Shouty Spock, meet Beardy Spock.

• April 24, 2019

  Defocused 240: Be Cool

  Well this was a mistake. Remember when I used to be John Travolta? I used to talk into my disco shoe.

• April 18, 2019

  Defocused 239: Out of Sight

  Another Elmore Leonard novel turned into a movie, but definitely different from the other two. When you’re here, you’re family.

• April 15, 2019

  Incredibles 2

  For a movie we all pretty much enjoyed, we managed to detail every single thing that’s wrong with it… and without John Siracusa’s help!

• April 12, 2019

  Star Wars Episode IX Trailer, and Disney+

  I wasn’t going to post this as a bootleg because it’s this weekend’s episode, but we ran long (big surprise) and I have to play D&D in the morning (tough life) so I’ll post the edit later this weekend. But you, dear member, can hear this mess of overtalking right now here in your favorite feed, the Bootleg.

• April 12, 2019

  Defocused 238: Jackie Brown

  Continuing with movies based on Elmore Leonard novels.

• April 5, 2019

  Defocused 237

  No movie this week, just Joe’s trip to Mexico City.

• April 3, 2019

  Paper Girls

  Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang’s comic series “Paper Girls.” We read volumes 1 and 2 of the trades. So should you.

• April 2, 2019

  Rocket Surgery: "Star Raiders" (complete session)

  It’s not a real movie.

• April 1, 2019

  After we finished improvising "Star Raiders"...

  We tacked this on to the end of episode 453 on April 1, for posterity’s sake, but here it is in bootleg form. The reveal!

• March 30, 2019

  Random Trivia: Ghost Reunion Edition

  Sing along with us!

• March 26, 2019

  Defocused 236: Get Shorty

  Coffee mugs, soup, and mobsters in 90s LA. This is a lively one.

• March 21, 2019

  Defocused 235

  No movie this week. Keep an eye out for the member special with Mikah Sargent in the First Class feed. It’ll show up shortly.

• March 20, 2019

  Travelers season 3

  Welcome to the 21st. Protocol Omega!

• March 15, 2019

  Low Definition XIX

  More fake definitions for real words!

• March 13, 2019

  Defocused 234: Die Another Day

  Pie Another Day.

• March 12, 2019

  "Captain Marvel"

  Marvel’s Marvelist movie yet.

• March 9, 2019

  Inconceivable!: The Meta-Gaming is Delicious

  We return to our game of nonsense and nerdery with time travel, multiple identities, and spyence-fiction.

• March 8, 2019

  Defocused 233: The World is Not Enough

  I hope everyone likes bread.

• March 3, 2019

  Spider-Verse comics and alternate spiders

  Why aren’t there as many alternate Batmans, Tony?

• February 27, 2019

  Defocused 232: Tomorrow Never Dies

  In a strange turn of events, Joe likes this one and Dan hates this one.

• February 20, 2019

  Defocused 231: GoldenEye

  Only 90s kids will remember… Also we talked about how Dan doesn’t play card games.

• February 13, 2019

  Defocused 230: The Shadow

  Well … we have some notes.

• February 9, 2019

  Pattern Recognition

  The book club reads William Gibson.

• February 7, 2019

  Defocused 229: The Phantom

  The 1996 box office bomb. Also there’s a milk poster.

• February 7, 2019

  Howl's Moving Castle

  A sampler of Miyazaki’s greatest hits.

• February 1, 2019

  Defocused 228

  No topic, but a lot of Apple gripes.

• January 27, 2019

  UK Trivia January 2019

  Antony Johnston brings back the North Americans for another round of UK Trivia.

• January 25, 2019

  Defocused 227: Solo: A Star Wars Story

  Title for the “aftershow” is: ‘Sanity (Grape Leaves)’

• January 16, 2019

  Defocused 226: Annihilation

  One of us generally liked it, and one of us didn’t like it at all

• January 14, 2019

  Old Movie Club: Musicals

  “Gold Diggers of 1933” and “A Hard Day’s Night”

• January 14, 2019

  Inconceivable!: Out-Lutzed

  The game of nerdery and nonsense returns with more than you ever wanted to know about a small piece of leather.

• January 10, 2019

  Batman Begins

  Guy looks deep into the eyes of Michael Caine. This is a big and kind of unruly panel, so there’s a lot of overtalking and it’s kind of a mess and also Don Melton swears—have you met Don? The edited version will be much clearer and cleaner, but that’s not why you’re here, is it. We see you, Bootleg listeners.

• January 9, 2019

  Defocused 225: Super Troopers 2

  The first disappointment of 2019!

• January 8, 2019

  Cowboy Bebop

  3, 2, 1, let’s jam.

• January 2, 2019

  Defocused 224

  No topic! Happy New Year!

• December 30, 2018

  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

  We’re going to release this episode in a few hours but if you want to listen to the unedited thing where we make mistakes, here it is!

• December 22, 2018

  Our 2018 Favorites

  Full Disclosure: this is the other half of the clip show, probably.

• December 19, 2018

  The 2018 Clip Show

  Jason plays audio files while his friends listen silently.

  Warning: May Contain Skeletor.

• December 17, 2018

  Books to TV pitch draft

  Thanks to Listener Ian for suggesting this one.

• December 16, 2018

  Doctor Who Series 11 wrap-up

  So many podcasters! Only 10 episodes! Roll on 2020!

• December 12, 2018

  Defocused 223: Dune

  Dunecember continues with ‘Dune, Where’s My Kwisatz Haderach?’

• December 11, 2018

  Star Trek IV

  It’s like Christmas but with whales!

• December 11, 2018

  A Very Fiasco Christmas

  Not everyone is as pole-savvy as you, Tony.

• December 10, 2018

  Defocused 222: Dude, Where's My Car?

  Dudecember continues … sorry.

• December 6, 2018

  Planet of the Apes (1968)

  Escape to the conquest of the lawgiver beneath the cave underneath the Planet of the Apes

• December 5, 2018

  Defocused 221: The Big Lebowski

  Dudecember continues with The Dude. Dan mostly looks at maps and google results. Joe likes oat milk.

• December 4, 2018

  Low Definition XVIII

  That’s what she said!

• November 28, 2018

  Defocused 220: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

  Welcome to DUDEcember. (Sorry.)

• November 23, 2018

  Defocused 219

  NoTopicVember. Dan made some Black Friday purchases, and tried to get a bouncy house.

• November 19, 2018

  Game Show 100

  This time we took all the disasters of all past game shows and combined them into a single, gigantic disaster! Celebrate!

• November 15, 2018

  Thanksgiving Draft

  “You like garbage!”

• November 14, 2018

  Defocused 218

  Inspired by The Incomparable Film Score Draft and Do By Friday’s recent make-a-playlist episode, Dan and Joe draft their favorite film scores, and songs, from the films that have been covered on Defocused up to this point. Dan also learns how drafts work.

• November 12, 2018

  Board Game Draft II

  21 more board games enter the draft list!

• November 7, 2018

  Defocused 217

  NoTopicVember! Ice cubes, craft services, seating arrangements, social pressures of networking, laundry, sheets on top of sheets, shoes, phone colors, and RED Hydrogen One — oh my!

• November 7, 2018

  2010: The Year We Make Contact

  My God, it’s full of Starbucks!

• November 3, 2018

  Rocket Surgery: The Black Hole

  ESP, but for robots.

• October 31, 2018

  Defocused 216: Addams Family Values

  The physics of severed hands.

• October 25, 2018

  Film Score Draft

  Who the heck is John Williams?

• October 24, 2018

  Defocused 215: Weekend at Bernie's

  Well… Foxtober took an unexpected turn.

• October 18, 2018

  Defocused 214: AvP: Alien vs. Predator

  Exploring another of Fox’s brands, Predator, but we already talked about the first and second one, so let’s talk about this mess.

• October 17, 2018

  Buffy season 3

  Well, gosh!

• October 15, 2018

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  Something weird is happening at Clavius. (Is it all getting gentrified?)

• October 10, 2018

  Defocused 213: Logan

  FOXtober continues with another Fox franchise kept alive through science and money.

• October 5, 2018

  "Lady Astronaut" novels

  By Mary Robinette Kowal!

• October 3, 2018

  Defocused 212: Alien: Resurrection

  Welcome to FOXtober. There’s nothing more scary than a brrrrraaaaaand being reanimated when it’s purchased by another company. Let’s examine the franchises that are coming along on this spooky ride. 👻

• September 25, 2018

  Defocused 211: Ready Player One

  We end Steven Septemberg with his latest blockbuster film based on the book based on references to things he and his contemporaries did 30+ years ago.

• September 20, 2018

  Beer Episode II!

  We’re drunk.

• September 18, 2018

  Defocused 210: Minority Report

  Steven Septemberg continues with ‘Minority Report’.

• September 16, 2018

  Dark City

  He can tune!

• September 15, 2018

  Random Pursuit 8

  In which Trivial Pursuit becomes an inadvertent team sport? From booming babies to questions for babies plus wars and treks of stars (but sadly, no globetrotting), here’s more Random Pursuit comin’ atcha.

• September 13, 2018

  Defocused 209: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

  For Steven Septemberg, Dan picked E.T., another Spielberg movie Joe had not watched all of before.

• September 9, 2018

  Random Pursuit 7

  So many very direct, very specific children’s questions. Where are you? What are you doing?

  WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW, Junior Trivia?

• September 5, 2018

  Rocket Surgery: Equilibrium

  Oh no! Sean Bean! Not again!

• August 30, 2018

  The Expanse Season 3

  Protomolecules! Intrigue! Space spies! Alien holograms with hats!

• August 29, 2018

  Action Castle III

  A new Parsely adventure full of technical difficulties! But that’s what is so great about being an Incomparable member, right?

• August 24, 2018

  Princess Mononoke

  The Summer of Marvel is over! And do you like it when we keep talking after the show is over? Hoo boy, do we have a bootleg for you.

• August 22, 2018

  Summer of Marvel finale

  It’s over! But before we go, a look back and a look forward…

• August 21, 2018

  Defocused 208: Jaws

  Starting off the month of Steven Septemberg.

• August 14, 2018

  Defocused 207: Flight

  Denzel WAUGUSTshington concludes with the critically acclaimed ‘Flight’.

• August 13, 2018

  Guardians of the Galaxy revisited

  Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and Vol. Thanos Purple Edition.

• August 9, 2018

  Doctor Strange

  Dormammu! I come to bargain.

• August 7, 2018

  Defocused 206: Man On Fire

  Dan and Joe love Dezel’s performance, but maybe don’t love everything that’s happening with this camera — and we do mean EVERYTHING.

• August 4, 2018

  Thor: Ragnarok

  Zany fun with Thor and friends.

• August 2, 2018

  Defocused 205: Training Day

  Raw recording of our discussion of ‘Training Day’ and some bootleg material about “everyday carry” peanut butter.

• July 31, 2018

  Ant-Man(x2) and The Wasp

  Let’s get small!

• July 27, 2018

  Defocused 204: Crimson Tide

  Everyone’s favorite red submarine movie … (checks notes)

  ‘Crimson Tide’

  Welcome to (checks notes again)

  Denzel WAUGUSTshington

• July 23, 2018

  Low Definition XVII

  Oh yeah, baby! Recorded July 22.

• July 19, 2018

  Defocused 203: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

  Seth Worley joins us again to discuss the flamming mountain of things that went wrong with this film.

• July 16, 2018

  Avengers revisited

  Yes, we consider Civil War an Avengers movie.

• July 12, 2018

  Defocused 202: Jurassic Park III

  Returning guest Seth Worley sums up his thoughts on the first two Jurassic Park films before we dive into Jurassic Park III.

• July 11, 2018

  Captain America and Winter Soldier

  On your left…

• July 9, 2018

  Defocused 201: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

  Mistakes were made.

• June 29, 2018

  Game Show: Mind Trap!

  That’s not how trees work!

• June 28, 2018

  Defocused 200: Jurassic Park

  JULYssic Park

• June 24, 2018

  Inconceivable!: Welcome to Nature Facts

  Our game of nerdery and nonsense is never gonna let you down.

• June 21, 2018

  Game Show: Fiasco 2!

  Penguin Eggs!

• June 21, 2018

  Hugo Awards 2018

  We read more books!

• June 19, 2018

  Defocused 199: The Big Short

  The end of ChrisJUNE Bale.

• June 18, 2018

  Game Show: Fiasco!

  Boomtown! A fiasco hosted by Tony Sindelar.

• June 17, 2018

  UK Trivia: 15th anniversary of the 20th Anniversary Edition edition

  Eat it, Bernie Taupin!

• June 13, 2018

  Defocused 198: Terminator Salvation

  ChrisJUNE Bale continues with a movie that’s mostly famous for him yelling at the DP.

• June 12, 2018

  Thor and Thor: The Dark World

  I can’t think while I’m wearing pants.

• June 6, 2018

  Defocused 197: Equilibrium

  ChrisJUNE Bale continues with a very … derivative movie.

• May 29, 2018

  Hulk and Incredible Hulk

  The Summer of Marvel rolls on and hulks out. Tony challenges Jason to make an impossible choice. Also, presenting “Credible Hulk” and “Waiting for the Hulk.”

• May 22, 2018

  Defocused 196: American Psycho

  First episode of ChrisJUNE Bale.

• May 22, 2018

  Game Show: Feuding Families '18 #2

  More stupid guesses about stupid answers to stupid questions! This time, with a distinctive hat.

• May 21, 2018

  Iron Man and Iron Man 2

  The SUMMER OF MARVEL begins! How ironic, Tony!

• May 17, 2018

  Defocused 195: Avatar

  Continuing James CaMAYron with this … thing.

• May 16, 2018

  Casablanca

  Old Movie Club!

• May 14, 2018

  Game Show: Feuding Families '18

  Your poll responses, our stupid guesses.

• May 9, 2018

  Defocused 194

  No movie. Thanks a lot, James CaMAYron.

• May 7, 2018

  Nebula Award Novels

  The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Jade City, Autonomous, Spoonbenders, The Stone Sky, Amberlough, Six Wakes.

• May 4, 2018

  Defocused 193: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

  James CaMAYron continues.

• April 28, 2018

  1980s Album Draft

  In the pay of Big Ultravox.

• April 28, 2018

  The Magicians season 3

  A rabbit has a message for you.

• April 25, 2018

  Defocused 192: The Terminator

  It’s the start of James CaMAYron.

• April 19, 2018

  Defocused 191: Bad Boys II

  The conclusion of Michael Baypril.

• April 18, 2018

  Childhood Canon, panel 2

  Your Childhood Nerd Canon: panelists talk about the formative nerd media works they can point to as shaping their tastes for life. This one’s got Dan, David, Kathy, Quinn, Shannon, Lisa, and Chip.

• April 15, 2018

  Childhood Canon, panel 1

  Your Childhood Nerd Canon: panelists talk about the formative nerd media works they can point to as shaping their tastes for life. This one’s got Jean, John M., Liz, Joe, Tony, and Jason.

• April 13, 2018

  Counterpart

  The TV show! You know, from STARZ! Maybe you haven’t heard of it.

  (This is this weekend’s episode in case you want to wait for the edited version.)

• April 10, 2018

  Defocused 190: Bad Boys

  For the month of Michael Baypril.

• April 8, 2018

  Simpsons Quote Draft

  What? It’s a perfectly cromulent topic.

• April 8, 2018

  Game Show: You Think You Know Me

  The bootleg edition of the Game Show podcast premiering a hosted play through of Ami Baio’s You Think You Know Me. Warning: death!

• April 7, 2018

  Inconceivable!: Team Smug

  The latest—surprisingly acrimonious—game of nerdery and nonsense.

• April 3, 2018

  Defocused 188: Back to the Future Part III

  Seth Worley returns to talk about the final movie in the series, and reflect on the series as a whole. After the show Dan and Joe talk to Seth about what his directing future holds.

• April 1, 2018

  400

  The episode 400 bootleg. Unrevealed until now.

• March 29, 2018

  Defocused 189

  Dan and Joe talk about nonsense. This is the episode that will be published after the ‘Back to the Future Part III’ episode. It was recorded before that one. It’s just like time travel.

• March 28, 2018

  Harlan Ellison

  Six short stories.

• March 21, 2018

  Defocused 187: Back to the Future Part II

  The Elisabeth Shue is on the other Claudia Foote.

• March 14, 2018

  Defocused 186: Back to the Future

  We’re happy to have Seth Worley returning to discuss one of his favorite movies. It’s been influential in how he thinks of film. That’s the power of love.

• March 11, 2018

  The Prisoner

  It’s a great show, but that ending…

• March 10, 2018

  Low Definition XVI: The Yaks Have It

  When fardings battle badlings, it’s a farding butter battle….

• March 10, 2018

  Ursula Le Guin book club

  “Left Hand of Darkness” and “A Wizard of Earthsea.”

• March 7, 2018

  Black Panther

  Wakanda Forever!

  (Not the one in Illinois.)

• March 6, 2018

  Defocused 185: Donnie Darko

  Dan asked to watch ‘Donnie Darko’ but was a little underwhelmed.

• March 1, 2018

  The Incredibles

  That’s a hobo suit, darling.

• February 20, 2018

  Game Show: Action Castle - Z Ward

  A return to the text adventure! Z-Ward takes place in a mental institution where your sister was several months ago. She seems to be in trouble…but is it all in her head?

• February 20, 2018

  Defocused 184: Zodiac

  “More like Mark Mumble-O”

• February 18, 2018

  Random Trivia live in L.A.

  Live from Gallifrey One, it’s more random trivia! Keep the kids away, this one has a few bad words. This is also the same episode that drops Wednesday in the game show feed, but you can hear it early here, members!

• February 13, 2018

  Star Trek: Discovery Season One

  We wrap up the first season of Star Trek Discovery! Disco never dies!

• February 12, 2018

  Defocused 183: Nightcrawler

  Not the blue guy. Welcome to Gyllenbruary.

• February 9, 2018

  The Good Place, Season 2

  Or is is the Bad Place?!

• February 3, 2018

  Rocket Surgery: "The Cosmic Man"

  The boy has given me much pleasure.

• February 1, 2018

  Defocused 182: 22 Jump Street

  We recommend seeing the movie before listening. It’s worthy of your time.

• January 24, 2018

  Midnighter

  Comic Book Club talks DC’s “Midnighter” (vol. 1 and 2) and “Midnighter and Apollo.”

• January 23, 2018

  Defocused 181: 21 Jump Street

  Dan and Joe discuss a lot of jokes from this movie. Also Halloween … for reasons.

• January 21, 2018

  UK Trivia III

  More UK trivia to confuse North Americans.

• January 18, 2018

  Travelers

  Welcome to the 21st.

• January 16, 2018

  Defocused 180: Logan Lucky

  Channing Tatum and John Denver again this week, but this time it’s a Steven Soderbergh heist movie.

• January 14, 2018

  Random Pursuit 5

  The Random Pursuit library has grown! The 20th Anniversary Edition may not actually be the worst. Who knew?

• January 9, 2018

  Defocused 179: Kingsman: The Golden Circle

  We discussed the first Kingsman movie with Mikah Sargent, and he makes a triumphant return to discuss the Kingsman sequel.

• January 2, 2018

  Defocused 178

  No movie topic this week, just catching up on what we did over the holidays.

• January 1, 2018

  2017 Year in Review and Clip Show

  Look, this episode is already very long and was already released in edited form. But if you ever want to revisit it as it was recorded, with no editing, some missing clips, a running gag involving Dan’s novel, and more, well… here it is.

• December 28, 2017

  Spirited Away

  Miyazaki Club returns.

• December 20, 2017

  Star Wars: The Last Jedi (panel three)

  The increasingly inaccurately named UK rebel edition!

• December 20, 2017

  Star Wars: The Last Jedi (panel two)

  Chip leads a panel of Doctor Who fans to talk about Star Wars!

• December 18, 2017

  Defocused 176: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  Dan and Joe like many things about the film, but they have some notes.

• December 15, 2017

  Star Wars: The Last Jedi (panel one)

  May the porgs be with you.

• December 12, 2017

  Low Definition XV

  A man riding a pig visits your house at night and if you’ve been bad he steals your shoes.

• December 11, 2017

  Defocused 177: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

  Dreaming of a Shane Black Christmas. This is recorded as episode 177, episode 176 will record later.

• December 9, 2017

  Doctor Who Story Draft

  28 Doctor Who Stories from seven people who love the show. Obvious choices! Not-obvious choices! All Doctors represented but one!

• December 6, 2017

  Defocused 175: Bad Santa

  We discuss the crass, but acclaimed, movie from 2003. Also sandwiches.

• December 4, 2017

  TV Theme Song Draft

  Look, this is an Incomparable Draft. Ten people are going to be talking over each other. And singing. Out of sync. It’s kind of our thing.

• December 4, 2017

  Defocused 174: Trading Places

  Dan tries to avoid saying “problematic”.

• December 2, 2017

  Holiday Traditions

  Many guests, many holiday traditions from around the world.

• December 1, 2017

  It's A Wonderful (Terrible?) Life

  The case for and against this holiday classic. David Loehr plays the villain.

• November 27, 2017

  Defocused 173: Gremlins

  So much casual murder.

• November 21, 2017

  Defocused 172

  Non-movie episode about Dan’s trip to LA.

• November 20, 2017

  Buffy Season 2

  That’s my favorite shirt! That’s my only shirt!

• November 19, 2017

  Inconceivable!: Stop Talking About X-Men

  More geeky trivia, this time leavened with swearing about scorekeeping!

• November 16, 2017

  Defocused 171

  No movie this week. Dan’s sick, but still using a jib. Dan and Joe talk about iPhones and Portrait Mode, followed by Animoji.

• November 11, 2017

  What Remains of Edith Finch / Tacoma

  Video game club! Spooky houses and space stations!

• November 11, 2017

  Victorian Parlour Games the Second

  We’re back with more perplexing parlour games! You may buy an egg by the end!

• November 8, 2017

  Defocused 170: Men in Black

  In an unusual twist, we talk about the news of Kevin Spacey being replaced with Christopher Plummer on a movie that’s finished filming, when it’s supposed to debut in about a month and a half. Then we say a lot of complimentary things about 1996’s ‘Men in Black’. If you have any title suggestions, send them to @DefocusedShow, or post them in the #defocused Slack channel.

• November 4, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "Once upon a Time"

  Steven and Erika have made it to the penultimate episode of The Prisoner. Once upon a time, Erika enjoyed this show…

  Be seeing you!

• November 2, 2017

  Defocused 169: Wild Wild West

  Last week we talked about ‘Blade Runner 2049’. You can always listen to that one again. If not, there’s this monstrosity.

• November 2, 2017

  Labyrinth

  SMELL BAD.

• October 30, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "The Girl Who Was Death"

  Erika and Steven DISAGREE. Like, a lot. Mostly because Erika doesn’t like fun.

  Be seeing you!

• October 29, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "Living in Harmony"

  Steven and Erika go on for quite a while about this unique episode of a unique series. Welcome to the old west — a place Erika doesn’t generally like to find herself, but The Prisoner breaks all the rules!

  Be seeing you!

• October 28, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling"

  Erika and Steven dig into what’s almost an AU episode of The Prisoner. It doesn’t really fit the continuity of the show, but does that matter? Not when it’s an episode this interesting.

  Be seeing you!

• October 27, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "A Change of Mind"

  Steven and Erika watch another episode of The Prisoner. There was no change of mind for Erika since the last time she watched this one. Sadly.

  Be seeing you!

• October 27, 2017

  Defocused 168: Blade Runner 2049

  We talk about the movie that’s in theaters right now, and we do heartily encourage you to watch it first.

• October 25, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "It's Your Funeral"

  Erika and Steven discuss multiple theories about multiple number 2s. And Erika disagrees with received fan wisdom (to no one’s surprise). She also gets to use the word “oleaginous”, which is always a good time.

  Be seeing you!

• October 23, 2017

  A Fall Reading List

  notallbooks

• October 21, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "Hammer into Anvil"

  Steven and Erika enjoy seeing our hero succeed at something for a change. And to do it so deviously? Lovely. Lovely enough to forgive the lack of cosplay options.

  And Steven was right; “It’s Your Funeral” is the next ep.

  Be seeing you!

• October 20, 2017

  Old Movie Club: Postwar Intrigue!

  “The Third Man” and “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.”

• October 19, 2017

  Defocused 167: Alien 3

  We continue our tradition of talking about an Alien franchise movie every year. Unfortunately it’s Alien Superscript Three. We’re all out of good Alien franchise movies.

• October 19, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "Checkmate"

  Erika and Steven discuss one of the more straightforward episodes of The Prisoner. Straightforwardly.

  Be seeing you!

• October 16, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "Dance of the Dead"

  Steven and Erika try (and largely fail) to make sense of “Dance of the Dead”, but we have many reasons why this episode should be earlier and later than “Many Happy Returns” (not to mention many other eps).

  At least there are lovely costumes to look at!

  Be seeing you!

• October 15, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "Many Happy Returns"

  Erika and Steven return to The Village to talk about one of their favorite episodes of the whole series. Does it accomplish anything? Does that even matter?

  We also uncover “the flapjack agenda”. We’re going way down the rabbit hole on this one.

  Be seeing you!

• October 15, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "The General"

  Steven and Erika get very specific about “The General”. Down with scary computers and rote learning! Up with drapes and top hats and sunglasses!

  Be seeing you!

• October 13, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "The Schizoid Man"

  Erika and Steven are pretty sure who they are, but not entirely sure how and why everything in this episode happens as it does. Ready for some headcanon? Because we have some to spare. Just like with number 6’s, two headcanons are better than one?

  Be seeing you!

• October 12, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "Free For All"

  Steven and Erika provide a PSA on the importance of checking your microphone input fully and thoroughly before recording. Just because you’re hearing your voices through headphones that are plugged into the mic, it doesn’t mean that mic is the one picking up the voices.

  But we stayed on brand (lazy) and didn’t re-record — just switched to the proper mic as soon as the problem became apparent. It required slightly less laziness to piece those bits together and make them usable, but as fancy professional podcasters, this didn’t take a terribly unreasonable effort.

  Please feel free to call an election for alternative podcast hosts if you’d like. We here In The Village are all about fostering democratic choice. Just be careful about whom you choose to run against us. Some candidates have ideas of their own and are distressingly hard to control.

  Be seeing you!

• October 10, 2017

  Defocused 166: Blade Runner

  Joe sent Dan mail. The ‘Final Cut’ version of ‘Blade Runner’ is discussed. Neither of us has seen ‘Blade Runner 2049’ yet so we don’t compare the movies.

• October 7, 2017

  In The Village (The Prisoner): "A. B. and C."

  Erika and Steven have decided to give members a sneak peek at our future episodes of In The Village. We’re pre-recording them, so why make members wait? Well now we won’t! Please enjoy!

  Erika and Steven finally talk about one of the most important aspects of the entire show: the font. Also, about the deep insight we get into the mind of our hero — without actually learning anything beyond how formidable an opponent he can be.

  And Erika remembers her segment in which she determines the outfit she’d most like to cosplay from this episode. Lots of party dresses to choose from in this one, but her selection may surprise you. It sure did Steven!

  Be seeing you!

• October 2, 2017

  You May Very Well Be At Risk!

  A game from Glenn!

• September 30, 2017

  Random Pursuit IV

  12 different Trivial Pursuit Games, five contestants, one winner.

• September 29, 2017

  TNG 30

  “Encounter at Farpoint” and “All Good Things…” as Star Trek: TNG turns 30.

• September 21, 2017

  Roald Dahl

  Jason was really afraid of clouds, because the Cloud Men lived there. Also, you might find a golden ticket!

• September 20, 2017

  Defocused 165

  No movie this week. Some nonsense, and some nonsense about spending money on Apple things.

• September 18, 2017

  Low Definition XIV

  Rodeo Baby, astride his boustrophedon and pitchfork in hand, rides off into the sunset.

• September 17, 2017

  Random Pursuit 3

  More trivia, selected randomly!

• September 17, 2017

  Inconceivable! 17

  The latest edition of our nerdy panel quiz show.

• September 16, 2017

  Clone Wars/Rebels

  Discussing the Star Wars animated series, Clone Wars and Rebels!

• September 15, 2017

  Disney Draft

  Animated features from Disney! Drafted!

• September 14, 2017

  Defocused 164: The Matrix Revolutions

  Dan and Joe are back after a break to finish the trilogy off.

• September 6, 2017

  Star Wars Episode IX Director Draft

  Silly and serious! A fatal combination.

• September 2, 2017

  Game of Thrones Season 7 Wrap

  This is this weekend’s episode but you get it a day early! Plus Monty has some theories in the after-show.

• August 30, 2017

  Game Show: Victorian Parlour Games

  A collection of ladies and gentlemen play games in our podcast parlour.

• August 29, 2017

  Whisper of the Heart

  Miyazaki club? Anime club? Ghibli Club!

• August 28, 2017

  The Dark Tower (book series)

  Seven books, 4000 pages, four readers.

• August 21, 2017

  Defocused 163: The Matrix Reloaded

  Maybe don’t undo your whole movie with some bad dialog at the end?

• August 15, 2017

  Defocused 162: The Matrix

  If you ever wanted to hear two guys who were teens when the movie came out discuss it 18 years later, now’s your chance. It’s also on Netflix, if you want to revisit it for yourself without taking out your 4:3 VHS copy.

• August 15, 2017

  Defocused 161

  Joe is going on a vacation so we’re banking episodes. For some reason we talked about text editors and to-do list apps. But these are not good opinions about these things, or advice. Yikes.

• August 8, 2017

  Defocused 160

  No movie this week. We discussed Dan’s Ohio trip, Netflix and Disney, and UHD HDR Apple TV.

• August 2, 2017

  Defocused 159: Kingsman: The Secret Service

  Special guest Mikah Sargent joins Dan and Joe to discuss how warm it is, Mikah’s food feels, and ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’.

• July 31, 2017

  The Tick

  Spoon!

• July 25, 2017

  Defocused 158: Drive

  With Special Guest Merlin Mann.

• July 25, 2017

  Inconceivable! 16

  Your semi-regular game of nerdery, nonsense, and, of course, puns.

• July 21, 2017

  Text Adventure: Space Station

  If you liked how terrible we were at Jungle Adventure, well, get ready for new heights of terrible.

• July 17, 2017

  Defocused 157: Baby Driver

  Discussion of Edgar Wright’s latest film.

• July 13, 2017

  Low Definition XIII

  Do not duffifie.

• July 12, 2017

  Defocused 156: Her

  Dan and Joe discuss 2014’s ‘Her’. “What if Samantha was a hot dog?”

• July 11, 2017

  "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin"

  Hold us, thrill us, kiss us, kill us. No, really, kill us. We watch two bad Batman movies and then we… chill?

• July 10, 2017

  Spider Man: Homecoming

  The trouble with stories for boys, MJ vs. “MJ”, Michael Keaton charmes Guy with his smile, and much more. Fun movie!

• July 6, 2017

  Defocused 155

  No movie episode. Discussion of recent travels and then Dan let’s RED camera know what he really thinks about their holographic smartphone nonsense.

• July 5, 2017

  Doctor Who Series 10 Wrap-up

  Does whatever a cyber can!

• June 28, 2017

  Defocused 154: Mortal Kombat

  Techno beats.

• June 22, 2017

  Defocused 153

  No movie. Topics include Dan ranting about tourists when he was a tourist in San Diego, and the recent, and abrupt change to who’s directing the Han Solo movie.

• June 20, 2017

  Book Club: Hugo & Nebula Novels

  We read eight books! Well, Scott read eight books. The rest of us read most of eight books.

• June 17, 2017

  Random Pursuit II

  More random! More trivial!

• June 16, 2017

  Random Pursuit

  So much trivia.

• June 14, 2017

  Defocused 152: My Cousin Vinny

  Dan and Joe are very tired because they haven’t had much sleep with all the screeching owls, and steam whistles, and freight trains.

• June 5, 2017

  Defocused 151

  No movie this week. Dan and Joe discuss a couple things from Apple’s WWDC event, Dan’s love of San Jose food, and Dan’s photographic catalog of San Jose restrooms.

• June 4, 2017

  Wonder Woman

  Jason’s off covering Apple stuff so Erika fills in with a panel devoted to “Wonder Woman.”

• May 31, 2017

  Game Show: Glenning!

  Tales! Of! Glenn!

• May 30, 2017

  Defocused 150: Animal House

  Dan said Joe should watch ‘Animal House’ even though all signs pointed to this being a bad idea. It’s not clear if fans, or critics, will be able to listen to this episode.

• May 30, 2017

  Life is Strange

  Square Enix’s video game “Life is Strange” is our topic.

• May 26, 2017

  TV Hall of Fame Draft

  “This show really is my everything.”

• May 22, 2017

  Defocused 149: Caddyshack

  Follow up from last week about palomas, and Scott Conant, and then Kenny Loggins.

  Pool. Pond.

• May 19, 2017

  Game Show: Low Definition XII

  Or, Dr. Tiff and the Electric Catfish.

  [If you downloaded this file in the first 12 hours of availability, delete and re-download for a much better quality version. It’s a bonus bonus!]

• May 19, 2017

  Star Trek: Discovery trailer

  Breaking down 90 seconds of new Star Trek goodness. Is it proper Doctor Who?

• May 18, 2017

  Rocket Surgery: Dungeons and Dragons

  Featuring sleepy Steve Lutz as Snails!

• May 16, 2017

  Defocused 148: My Blue Heaven

  Dan really likes this movie. Joe found out it was a movie.

• May 11, 2017

  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

  In case you can’t wait a day and a half.

• May 4, 2017

  The Godfather II

  We tried, but the session lasted slightly shorter than the film’s run time. Slightly.

  Topics covered: The Godfather II, Cuba and politics, GoodFellas, 1974 film award nominations, IMDB trivia and goofs, and many more.

• May 3, 2017

  Defocused 147

  No movie this week, but there was a listener Q&A.

  Here are some of the titles suggested by listeners during the live broadcast:

  • Add Verberations To My Things
  • See Dan Jump
  • Social Network Gameshow
  • What’s So Bad About Your Life
  • Make Podcast Go
  • Hard Puck of Meat
  • #notallhomemadehamburgers
  • Oblong Meat Puck
  • Sad Depressing Meat Pucks
  • A Controversial Sandwich
  • You Don’t Know Enough People Who Let You Down In Your Life
  • Expert Flop Flipper Dan Sturm
  • Big Questions That Require Thought
  • Spend Our Hard Earned Cash to be Disappointed Again
  • I Like Looking at Michael Fassbender
  • Nice And Square And Delicious
  • Depressing Little Manifestation of Loneliness
  • All Waffles are Good Waffles
  • Baker, Florist, Something
  • I Managed to Stay Awake, It Was a Good Movie
  • Sometimes I Save Files to Dropbox
  • Not Elated About Elara
  • A-E-I-O-U and sometimes Y
  • What About Their iPad Pro Support?
  • Match Made In Confusion
  • A Lot of Chefs in the Fire
  • Scorsese’s World War Z
  • Beat this Button to Death
  • We Berated Everyone’s Hamburgers
  • That Griddles this Burger
  • Put the Burger In Between Two Round Waffles
  • Or Else It Gets the World War Z Again
• April 29, 2017

  Inconceivable! 15

  Underscore in underscore con underscore cievable.

• April 27, 2017

  Humans (Channel Four, AMC)

  Season two of those wacky Synths!

• April 26, 2017

  The Magicians (SyFy)

  (Don’t poop in the wellspring.)

• April 24, 2017

  Defocused 146: Inglorious Basterds

  The raw recording of Dan and Joe discussing ‘Inglorious Basterds’ with special guests Merlin Mann and Todd Vaziri.

• April 23, 2017

  Game Night: Feuding Families III

  Feuding families try to guess the survey responses of Incomparable listeners!

• April 22, 2017

  Legion (FX)

  This episode should be posted shortly, but if you miss the bootleg you’ll miss us talking about “Shaft” and more.

• April 17, 2017

  Defocused 145: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

  This probably would have been a good place to leave the series.

• April 13, 2017

  Defocused 144: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

  Screaming and chasing and more screaming and more chasing.

• April 5, 2017

  Defocused 143: Raiders of the Lost Ark

  Special guest Seth Worley was on to talk about nerdy Indiana Jones stuff with Dan and Joe.

• April 2, 2017

  Game Show: UK Trivia II

  More UK trivia, more trouble for Americans!

• April 1, 2017

  Old Movie Club: Breaking Away and American Graffiti

  Coming of age movies from the 1970s.

• March 30, 2017

  Star Trek Episode Draft

  The Die Is Cast! Unless it’s not.

• March 29, 2017

  Book Club: N.K. Jemisin

  “The Fifth Season”, “The Obelisk Gate”, and the Inheritance Trilogy.

• March 28, 2017

  Defocused 142: Turner & Hooch

  ‘Turner & Hooch’ is not a great movie so we talk about a lot of other stuff including a general overview of Pierce Brosnan Bond movies.

• March 24, 2017

  The Good Place

  Holy fork!

• March 20, 2017

  Defocused 141

  No movie topic this week. Crackers, slit scan, and Netflix’s “skip intro” button were discussed.

• March 17, 2017

  Low Definition XI

  The lesser of two weevils.

• March 16, 2017

  Defocused 140: Hellboy

  This movie doesn’t make any sense so don’t expect to much from us.

• March 16, 2017

  American Gods and Anansi Boys

  Neil Gaiman book club!

• March 9, 2017

  "The Rocketeer"

  Jet packs, Timothy Dalton, Jennifer Connelly, and a whole lot more.

• March 8, 2017

  Defocused 139: L.A Confidential

  Another ray of suuuunnnnn — no wait, wrong movie. Little darker.

• March 1, 2017

  Defocused 138: La La Land

  Another day of sun.

• February 25, 2017

  Unbreakable

  Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, M. Night Shyamalan, and a green poncho.

• February 22, 2017

  Defocused 137: Hail, Caesar!

  Would that it t’were so simple.

• February 20, 2017

  Rocket Surgery: The Wizard of Mars

  This movie has more in common with “Frankenstein Island” than “The Wizard of Oz.”

• February 15, 2017

  Defocused 136

  No specific movie was covered in this episode. Pies were discussed.

• February 12, 2017

  Action Castle II

  There is a sign here. Make wish.

• February 9, 2017

  Laputa: Castle in the Sky

  Yay! More Miyazaki!

• February 8, 2017

  Defocused 135: Spaceballs

  We discussed then, just now.

• February 7, 2017

  Fahrenheit 451 and 1984

  You seen one dystopia, you seen ‘em all.

• February 2, 2017

  Defocused 134: Dredd

  Dr. McCoy is Batman.

• January 29, 2017

  V for Vendetta

  Alan Moore’s graphic novel and the Wachowski’s film version. Mostly the latter, if we’re being honest.

• January 27, 2017

  Defocused 133: Judge Dredd

  Armand Assante is so wet, and unblinking.

• January 26, 2017

  Black Mirror

  13 episodes, and they all end with a scream.

• January 23, 2017

  Low Definition X

  Low Definition X, recorded January 20, 2016.

• January 19, 2017

  Defocused 132: Kickboxer

  For some reason, we thought it would be fun to go from ‘Bloodsport’ to ‘Kickboxer’. We regret this decision.

• January 16, 2017

  Comic Book Movie Pitches

  A whole lot of movies we imagine based on comic books.

• January 11, 2017

  Defocused 131: Bloodsport

  Dan and Joe briefly discuss the Defocused shirts, and logo, inspired by Cannon films, which inspired the selection of a Cannon film for this week, which … Well. Here’s ‘Bloodsport’. It qualifies as a Cannon film.

• January 3, 2017

  Defocused 130: The Running Man

  Raw recording of Dan and Joe talking about 1987’s movie about 2017.

• December 20, 2016

  Rogue One Rebel Panel

  Antony Johnston leads a ragtag group of Europe-based rebels into action to talk “Rogue One.”

• December 18, 2016

  Rogue One: Bootleg Edition

  This one was recorded the night before it was released so we didn’t release a bootleg edition, but by popular demand, here it is. You’ll hear a lot more overtalking and interruption, but you will get to hear us make dumb jokes before we got started and also there’s a bunch of cut stuff about the novelization version and some other ancillary media.

• December 17, 2016

  Defocused 127: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

  Dan and Joe discuss ‘Rogue One’. Spoilers right from the start.

• December 7, 2016

  Defocused 128: Die Hard 2

  This episode will be released after the ‘Rogue One’ episode is recorded, which is why the episode number won’t make sense chronologically in the Bootleg feed, but will in the Defocused feed. Also we talked about ‘Die Hard 2’ so … Happy Holidays.

• December 5, 2016

  Westworld Season 1

  Spoilers for the entirety of season 1 of HBO’s “Westworld.”

• December 4, 2016

  E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

  Turn on your heart light, let it shine wherever you go; let it make a happy glow for all the world to see.

• November 30, 2016

  Defocused 126: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

  Dan and Joe return to the Home Alone franchise and watch the same movie, but set in New York.

• November 28, 2016

  Star Wars Travesty Draft

  Bad things from Star Wars.

• November 25, 2016

  Defocused 125: Scrooged

  Dan and Joe discuss Scrooged, and new potatoes, to kick off their Christmas-themed December episodes.

• November 25, 2016

  Defocused 124: Spies Like Us

  Dan, Joe, and Anže Tomic discuss this 1980s film, and vans.

• November 22, 2016

  Arrival

  Spoilers! For a movie in theaters! Also Jason thinks John Siracusa is kind of a monster, but we think the feeling is mutual.

• November 18, 2016

  Tim Burton's Batman films

  “Batman” (1989) and “Batman Returns” (1992).

  Turns out Jason doesn’t like Tim Burton very much!

• November 16, 2016

  Defocused 123

  No movie this week. Just stuff and things. There is a brief mention of Doctor Strange with a spoiler warning called out in advance of it.

• November 10, 2016

  The Twilight Zone

  Discussing the classic Rod Serling anthology series.

• November 9, 2016

  Defocused 122: The Nice Guys

  Raw recording of Dan and Joe discussing ‘The Nice Guys’.

• November 3, 2016

  Defocused 121: Dazed and Confused

  Dazed and Confused is briefly mentioned.

• October 26, 2016

  Defocused 120

  Raw recording of Dan and Joe talking about stuff and things. Things and stuff.

• October 24, 2016

  Marvel Unlimited Draft

  Things you can read on Marvel Unlimited. It’s called “unlimited,” so take ‘em at their word and read a bunch of stuff!

• October 20, 2016

  The Godfather

  John Siracusa, John Gruber, Joe Rosensteel, and David Loehr join Jason to discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather.”

• October 20, 2016

  Defocused 119: The Thing

  Raw recording of Dan and Joe discussing John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’.

• October 13, 2016

  The Right Stuff

  1982’s “The Right Stuff” gets the Old Movie Club treatment.

• October 13, 2016

  Low Definition: Spooky Edition

  October surprise!

• October 12, 2016

  Defocused 118: Predator 2

  Welcome to the jungle we got fun and games We got everything you want honey, we know the names We are the people that can find whatever you may need If you got the money honey we got your disease In the jungle, welcome to the jungle Watch it bring you to your sha na na na na knees knees I wanna watch you bleed

• October 8, 2016

  The Beer Episode

  Recorded Oct. 4 but unreleased for days!

• October 4, 2016

  Defocused 117: Predator

  Raw recording of ‘Predator’ episode.

• September 27, 2016

  Defocused 116: Aliens

  Start of October seasonal programming. Check out Defocused 69 for the episode on Alien, (Also there was a recent Incomparable episode on Alien).

• September 21, 2016

  Defocused 115: Top Gun

  Highway to the breath away.

• September 17, 2016

  Alien

  At long last, Antony gets his wish. We talk 1979’s “Alien.”

• September 15, 2016

  Defocused 114

  No movie this week. iPhone 7 thoughts, donuts, and cereal.

• September 7, 2016

  Defocused 113: Demolition Man

  You can take this podcast, and you can shovel it.

• September 1, 2016

  Video Game Club: Inside

  Talking about the Xbox One/PS4/PC game “Inside” by the people who brought you “Limbo”.

• August 31, 2016

  Game Show: Family Feud (With Your Answers)

  You are the survey!

• August 30, 2016

  Defocused 112: The Net

  Ordering pizza on the internet! Backdoors!

• August 30, 2016

  Star Trek: First Contact

  For the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. Jason wants to give this movie a hug.

• August 27, 2016

  Low Definition VII

  Brought to you by the British Hat Council.

• August 26, 2016

  The Sparrow

  A bunch of very bad things happen to a Jesuit priest in this book.

• August 25, 2016

  Defocused 111: Cobra

  Ugh.

• August 21, 2016

  "Alien" didn't happen

  That time Monty, Steve, Antony, and Jason talked about “Alien” but realized they needed to reschedule the episode.

• August 20, 2016

  Preacher Season 1

  James and Moze look back on the first season

• August 19, 2016

  Old Movie Club: Billy Wilder

  “Sunset Boulevard” and “Stalag 17”.

• August 19, 2016

  The Incomparable 200

  Recorded June 2014 in person in a small room in San Francisco, it’s a classic Incomparable bootleg from episode 200! Jason, John, Dan, and Ren tell Nerd Stories.

• August 15, 2016

  Defocused 110: Beverly Hills Cop II

  ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’

• August 13, 2016

  The Incomparable 100

  Not all Bootlegs are new! This is a classic, recorded July 24, 2012 for the celebration of our hundredth episode and re-exported from the original source recordings.

  Wow, a hundred episodes, that’s a lot.

• August 10, 2016

  Defocused 109: Beverly Hills Cop

  ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ and horrible, horrible, horrible junk food.

• August 8, 2016

  Game Night: UK Trivia

  Antony Johnston bombards a panel of North Americans with trivia from the UK. Recorded August 7, 2016.

• August 2, 2016

  Defocused 108

  No movie this week. Just stuff and things. Things and stuff.

• July 27, 2016

  Defocused: Star Trek Beyond

  Rounding out the last three weeks of Star Trek, we have this week’s Star Trek Beyond. Spoilers, obvi.

• July 26, 2016

  Star Trek Beyond

  Jason, Scott, David and Erika talk “Star Trek Beyond.”

• July 21, 2016

  Ghostbusters (2016)

  Four women do all the heavy lifting; Jason sits there and answers the phones.

• July 17, 2016

  Comic Book Club: Astro City

  The comic book series “Astro City.”

• July 16, 2016

  Low Definition 6

  The Brits sure do have some interesting ideas about what words mean.

• July 14, 2016

  Defocused: Star Trek into Darkness

  Dan and Joe discuss the not-so-great Star Trek into Darkness. This will be published the week before Star Trek Beyond is released.

• July 13, 2016

  Defocused: Star Trek

  Dan and Joe discuss the 2009 ‘Star Trek’ movie. This will be edited as Defocused 105 for this week.

• July 11, 2016

  Rocket Surgery: Frankenstein Island

  One of Jason’s favorite bad movies is in the spotlight.

• July 8, 2016

  TV season wrap part 2

  2015-16 TV season wrap, plus Game of Thrones season 6. (This will probably be this weekend’s episode, so if you wait less than 24 hours you may not need a bootleg version!)

• July 7, 2016

  Spaceship Draft

  We picked a lot of spaceships. In draft form!

• June 30, 2016

  Rocket Surgery: Johnny Mnemonic

  A bad movie from the mid-90s. Jason and Monty get fed up at the end and start swearing.

• June 23, 2016

  Anime 103

  Prof. Siracusa has us watch two short Anime films.

• June 23, 2016

  Flashcast: Flashpoint Special

  Your Flashcast pals talk about the animated Flashpoint movie.

• June 22, 2016

  Low Definition 5: Extended Edition

  This was just released today in much-edited form, but if you want the whole megillah (look it up!), before Erika Ensign took her expert editing shears to it, here it is! There’s even a missing/abandoned round!

  Originally recorded May 12, 2016.

• June 11, 2016

  Rocket Surgery: Cool Cat Saves the Kids

  We watch “Cool Cat Saves the Kids.” It is brilliantly awful. (There’s a little swearing at the end.)

• June 11, 2016

  Trivial Pursuit, International Edition

  Two players each from the USA, Canada, and the UK play the 1982 Genus Edition of Trivial Pursuit.

• June 8, 2016

  Superhero TV Wrap

  Talking superhero TV shows from the past year. With Moze, Lisa, Monty, Dan, and Tony.

• June 3, 2016

  Game Night: Trivial Pursuit 3

  Dumb questions with dumb answers from the 1980s. For the next edition of Game Show.

• June 1, 2016

  X-Men

  Merlin, Lisa, Monty, Helene, and Jason discuss the unique appeal of the X-Men, with favorite characters, stories, and places where new or returning readers should start.

• May 26, 2016

  "Toy Story 2"

  Pixar Club continues with a discussion of the 1999 sequel to “Toy Story.” Have a hankie handy.

• May 16, 2016

  Nebula Awards 2016

  Seven novels, no waiting.

• May 10, 2016

  Low Definition 4

  We hope Glenn’s kids aren’t listening.

• May 8, 2016

  "Captain America: Civil War"

  A discussion of “Captain America: Civil War” the weekend the movie came out.

• April 18, 2016

  Old Movie Club: "His Girl Friday" and "The Thing"

  Two films from Howard Hawks.