"Dead Again"

These… are for you!

Random Pursuit XXXIV

I don’t care where the sock was.

Book Club: Fragile Threads of Power

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

Godfather Part III

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

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.

2000s album draft

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

Dune: Part 2

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

Defocused 371: The Creator

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

Back to the Future Part III

We finish in the old west!

Back to the Future Part II

A Crisis on Infinite Biffs.

Antony Johnston's Dog Sitter Detective series

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

Back to the Future

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

Lions, Towers & Shields 92: An American in Paris

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

Inestimable II (Game Show)

“What percentage of Tony dies with each round?”

"Oppenheimer"

We discuss Jason’s favorite movie of last year.

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.

"Ghosts"

UK and US versions alike!

You Think You Know Me III

It’s not Thanos snapping fingers.

Defocused 370: Asteroid City

Dan and Joe talk about this turducken of twee.

Random Pursuit XXXIII

The literal Family Edition!

"The Abyss"

We finally did it.

Random Pursuit XXXII

I’m so sorry.

Random Pursuit XXXI

A Kathy Campbell co-host cornucopia!

"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!

"Godzilla Minus One"

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

"The Boy and the Heron"

A lot of bird poop.

"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"

It’s Kilmas again!

Defocused 369: Dumb & Dumber

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

Marvel Feuding Families 1

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

Christmas Trivia 2023

A Christmas potpourri of g-men and crooners!

Toy Draft

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

The Marvels

Higher, Further, Faster… Funner?

Defocused 368: The Killer

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

"Soylent Green"

Don’t take the Soylent Factory Tour.

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.

(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!)

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.

"Howard the Duck"

Happy Thanksgiving, rocket surgeons!

Careers - 2

Nathaniel sucks! Almost as much as the Park Bench…

Dan Moren's new book 'All Souls Lost'

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

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.

"The Exorcist" (1973)

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

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.

Star Trek pitch session

Featuring Star Trek: Spaceball and other great ideas.

"Night of the Living Dead" (1968)

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

Hugo Short Fiction + Book Rankings

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

Defocused 367: Renfield

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

"Superman Returns"

You will believe a man can fly… a seaplane.

Random Pursuit XXIX

The annual Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter-backer reward episode!

Book Club: Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Spare Man

It was okay!

"Strange New Worlds" Season 2

Musicals and animated crossovers and Gorn! Oh my!

"Superman II"

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

Game Show: Mind Meld VI

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

"Justice League Unlimited"

The animated DC supergroup.

Defocused 366: Barbie

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

"Superman" (1978)

You will believe a reporter can be buried alive.

Unjustly Maligned movies draft

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

"Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3"

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

Book Club: Nona the Ninth, Kaiju Preservation Society

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

"Barbie"

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Inconceivable! 34

Live from the murder basement.

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.

"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"

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

"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"

Part one! (Part two next year.)

"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" revisited

Venice: famous for its basements.

Mind Meld V

We both ended up in Pittsburgh.

Low Definition XXV

It’s time for an Indy-an Summer!

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

Not one word about that refrigerator, nerds.

"Barry"

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

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.

Defocused 364

No movie. WWDC, and Visions of the future.

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" revisited

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

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.

Ampersand Book Club

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

D&D: Honor Among Thieves

Ugh, Paladins.

Max Headroom

Are we living 20 minutes into the future right now?

UK Triv XI

We learned a lot!

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

Star Trek: Picard Season 3

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

The Mandalorian Season 3

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

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

The awards book club begins!

Defocused 363: The Menu

Dan ate a prestigious restaurant before we recorded.

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.

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.

Friendly Competition 9

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

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.

Old Movie Club: 1957 Legal Dramas

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

Bootleg listeners get to hear Randy’s stories!

Mind Meld: CerealButItsSpelledLikeTheCereal.com

A constellation by any other name.

The Last of Us (TV Series)

Love as a fungus.

Time Travel Movie Draft

“Sorry, I’ll be back!”

Book Club: "Sea of Tranquility"

Plus, what are we reading?

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.

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.

Wakanda Forever

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

Disney Princess Draft

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

Defocused 362: The Lost City

Dan and Joe talk about D.

Buffy Season 7

What’s with that amulet?

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)

Inconceivable! 33

We’re all the odds one out.

"Sky High"

It’s like The Breakfast Club for superheroes.

Low Definition XXIV

Oops! All Goo

Defocused 351: Glass Onion

A Knive’s Out Podcast.

Total Pursuit Kill

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

The Peripheral

Jackpot, Schmackpot.

Green Knight

Moises and company meet around our round table.

Random Pursuit XXVII

A record-setting episode!

Book Club: The Scholomance series

Don’t get in the elevator.

Kilmas: Red Planet (2000)

I hate this planet!

Random Pursuit XXVI

So much specific knowledge! Also, baseball.

Game Show - Careers 1955

New game show, who dis?

Defocused 360: Reindeer Games

Don’t play no reindeer games with me.

Random Pursuit XXV

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

Game Show - Christmas Trivia

Less random, more Christmas, still trivia!

"Andor"

Recorded live around John Siracusa’s card table.

"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.

Lions, Towers & Shields 66 "Remember the Night"

Fighting for the holidays

"GoodFellas"

All of Phil’s favorite movies come from 1990.

Defocused 359

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

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

It’s an MCU D+ two-fer.

"Weird"

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

Rings of Power/House of the Dragon

Two shows, so many opinions.

The Thing (1982)

Old Spooky Club goes to the antarctic!

Chinatown

Forget it, Jake, it’s albacore.

David's Detective Draft

Everyone gets Magnum.

Mind Meld episode 1

Rodent or Donut?

Defocused 358: Everything Everywhere All at Once

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

Antony's Book Club

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

The Sandman

Discussing Netflix’s adaptation.

Thor: Love & Thunder

It’s-a me! Zeus!

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.

Mind Meld (test show)

A Tony Sindelar / Game Show experiment.

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.

Time Bandits

Mum, Dad, it’s evil, don’t touch it!

Defocused 357: Top Gun: Maverick

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

Time After Time (1979)

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

Timecop

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

...All At Once (panel 2)

Oh, so very many alternate realities.

Everything Everywhere... (panel 1)

So many realities.

Defocused 356: Prey

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

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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

Random Pursuit XXIV

…in which something unprecedented happens…

Random Pursuit XXIII

So many astronauts

Defocused 355

No movie this week.

Game Show: Star Wars Feuding Families III

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

Peak TV Draft

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

Star Trek three season wrap-up

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

Defocused 354: Sonic the Hedgehog 2

This definitely was a sequel.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Hello there.

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.

"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness"

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

"Halo" season 1

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

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.)

Low Definition XXIII

Rumbledythumpdethumpdethump, rumbledethumpdethump.

Awards book club, part 3

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

Game Show: Eat or be Eaten #1

Answering questions about food, cooking and drinks.

Cartoons for Adults

Sometimes your parents are full of crap.

Defocused 353: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

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

Moon Knight

Come, let us discuss Murder Batman.

2022 Awards Book Club, Part 2

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

"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!

Our Flag Means Death

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

Severance

Someone’s earned a Waffle Party!

Defocused 352: The Batman

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

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.

"Turning Red"

That red panda! So cute!

The Batman

What, another Batman movie?

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.

Book Club: Machinehood and Plague Birds

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

Friendly Competition 8: Praise Jason!

Who got a trivia contest in our game show podcast?

Defocused 350: Cliffhanger

Die Hard on a mountain. Another Carolco masterpiece.

Game Show: You Think You Know Me

Every Game Show is an Intervention.

Q and Eh?

Polish off your French.

Old Movie Club overthrows the U.S. government

“Suddenly” and “Seven Days in May.”

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

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

SMOOCH Valentine Catastrophe Part 1

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

Geography Bee

Where in the world are we?

The Incomparable Film Festival 2022

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

Inestimable! The Amount of Peas in a Thing

There’s a game in here somewhere.

Defocused 349: Free Guy

Ryan Reynolds is heavily featured.

Station Eleven

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

Defocused 348: Gone Girl

Gone Girl. That’s the tweet.

Defocused 347: Panic Room

Panic! Room.

The Book of Boba Fett

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

Book Club: Witness for the Dead and Desolation Called Peace

Books! We like ‘em.

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.

Little Nightmares II

Video Game club tackles “Little Nightmares II.”

Random Pursuit XXI

Just a bunch of venerable booze outfits.

"The Expanse" wrap-up

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

Speed Racer

A centaur, only for cars.

Random Pursuit XX

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

2010s book draft (episode 600 part two)

The Machine Was a Vampire!

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

The maps are the best part!

Defocused 346: Fight Club

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

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.

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.

Hawkeye

Bro! Is Marvel series, bro!

Are You The Spy? (VI)

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

Quinn’s not sorry about anything.

Podcast Draft

Lex Friedman leads a draft of favorite podcasts.

Defocused: Ghostbusters (2016)

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

"Spider-Man: No Way Home"

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

Defocused: The Matrix Resurrections

These rebels would be foiled by a captcha.

UK Triv IX

Glenn’s in this one, so be warned.

"The Harder They Fall"

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

Low Definition: Tech Edition

It’s fun when spreadsheets fail.

"The Wheel of Time" season 1

TomBombadilification!

Defocused 342: Moonstruck

Christmas adjacent.

"The Beatles: Get Back"

Oh thank goodness, Billy Preston’s finally here.

"Kiki's Delivery Service" (Historical Bootleg)

Recorded May 1, 2014.

Kilmas: "The Saint"

What’s under that sweater?

Defocused 341

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

"Eternals"

Get ready for weird.

7 or C? Thanksgiving 2021

Seven cubic centimeters of holiday fun!

Friendly Competition 7: Needlessly Complicated

Please welcome Silent Carl.

Defocused 340: A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

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

Last Action Hero

Happy Fsgiving to all who celebrate!

Defocused 339: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

We mostly talk about bad fast-food menus.

Dune (2021)

The movie all acupuncturists are raving about.

Freaks and Geeks

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

Inconceivable!: Potted-Dolk Man

Dan is mean.

Defocused 338: Dune

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

Old Frankenstein Club

“Abbott and Costello Meet” … “Young Frankenstein”

"Ted Lasso" season 2

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

Defocused 337: Freaky

Deween, Hallowfocused. Stuff.

Defocused 336: The Lego Batman Movie

Batman should be fun!

Hugo Book Club Part 3

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

Game Show - Ghost Court

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

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.

Old Movie Club: Rear Window/The Conversation

We’re listening!

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!

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.

Hook

Kathy is proud of Jason for his restraint.

Ready Player One

A CEO gets his wings!

Defocused 334: The Suicide Squad

The other one.

Minority Report

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

Defocused 333: Birds of Prey

We have some editing notes.

"War of the Worlds" (2005)

Run, Tom Cruise! Scream, Dakota Fanning!

"A.I. Artificial Intelligence"

2000 years later…

Defocused 332: Suicide Squad

Not to be confused with “The Suicide Squad”.

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

Clever Girl. Not-so-clever sequel.

Defocused 331: Hot Rod

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

Loki

So many variants, and an infinite amount of time.

Defocused 330: The Lighthouse

Fond of me lobster.

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.

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.

Defocused 329: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

And soda fountains.

Defocused 328: The Punisher

Tampa!

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Boo bee boo boo boo.

Attack the Block

Mayhem and Probs would allow it!

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.)

Defocused 327

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

Friendly Competition 6

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

Muppet Movie Pitches

Muppet movies we’d like to see.

Trivial Retreat 2

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

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.

"Invincible" (season 1)

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

Defocused 325: Source Code

Loops!

Megamind

No you can’t!

Novel Shortlists Book Club, Part 1

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

Defocused 324: Tenet

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

Defocused 323: Palm Springs

Like Groundhog Day but with more stuff.

Low Definition XXII

Who wants a rounded dowel?

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

They’re just a couple of guys.

"Cloverfield"

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

Defocused 322: Paycheck

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

Auteur Superhero Mad Libs Pitch Session

It’s the highest of concepts.

Defocused 321

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

Miyazaki Club Finale

One more look back on the films of Hayao Miyazaki.

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.

"Star Trek VI"

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

Defocused 320: Jumper

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

Defocused 319: Detective Pikachu

Maybe there are some issues with the writing.

Rocket Surgery: "Kill and Kill Again"

They don’t kill again. Hot Dog!

"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.

"WandaVision" season wrap-up

What are podcasts, but conversations persevering?

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.

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.

Shakespeare Club: Taming of the Shrew

Billy Shakes, we have some script notes.

Defocused 318

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

Porco Rosso

A flyin’ pig!

Defocused 317: Sonic the Hedgehog

TEETH, TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" season 6

And also there was a musical.

Defocused 316: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Dining on ashes.

"The Expanse" season 5

Marco Inaros is very bad.

Friendly Competition 5: None of This Is Helping Me

More Sarahs than you can shake a stick at.

Defocused 315: Sneakers

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

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.

Inconceivable!: Almost Finnish

They’re not umlauts!

Defocused 313: Face/Off

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

Bad Best Picture Draft

Priests! Irishness!

Defocused 312: Broken Arrow

Nuclear bomb things and boxing.

Letterkenny

Pitter patter, let’s get at ‘er.

Lions, Towers, and Shields: The Fountainhead

A perfect spherical cow.

The Incomparable: Discovery Season 3

They built the sets again!

Vulcan Hello: Discovery Season 3

This season has everything.

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.

The Space Between Worlds

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

Pixar's "Soul"

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

Ponyo

Oh no! My elixirs!

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.

Game Show: Trust Me, I'm a Superhero

Wolves wolves wolves! (re-posted)

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.

The Mandalorian, season 2

It’s Grogu!

Defocused 309

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

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.

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!

Friendly Competition 4: I Heard It Wrong

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

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

Defocused 307: National Treasure

Sure, why not?

"Top Secret!" (Kilmas)

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

Lovecraft Country

So much blood.

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.

"The Island of Doctor Moreau" (Kilmas)

I want to go to dog heaven!

"Willow" (Kilmas)

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

Defocused 305: Con Air

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

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.

Game Show: Bedecked

Eunuch Underling?

What We Do In the Shadows

Bat!

Random Pursuit XIX

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

Saga of Rereading Epics: Diamond Mask

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

Random Pursuit XVIII

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

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.

Defocused 304: Alien: Covenant

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

Defocused 302: Prometheus

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

Ted Lasso

Roast me, amigo!

One Season Wonders draft

Erika’s heard of five of them.

Defocused 301

No movie this time. Just catching up.

Random Pursuit XVI

The Mounties edition!

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.)

Sports Corner with the Dog and Pony Show II

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

Shakespeare Club: Henry V

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

"Aliens"

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

Saga of Rereading Epics: Jack the Bodiless

We have officially reached the Galactic Milieu!

Muppet Draft

A surprisingly straightforward draft of great Muppets.

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

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

Defocused 300: 300

What a toxic waste dump.

Defocused 299: Batman & Robin

The Scooby-Doo sound library.

Sports Corner with the Dog and Pony Show

Welcome to our new bonus podcast about…sports?!

10th Anniversary YouTube hangout

Just shootin’ the breeze.

10th Anniversary Episode: Bootleg Edition

Ten years in, the cracks start to show.

Defocused 298: Batman Forever

Dan is not having any of these shenanigans.

Terminator 2

We’re back!

Defocused 297: Batman Returns

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

Star Trek Character Draft

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

Bootleg 1

Recorded August 11, 2010.

Defocused 296: Batman

There are some disagreements about Batman.

Defocused 295: Alita: Battle Angel

There’s a lot going on here.

"Palm Springs"

Oh, are we doing time loop movies again?

"Castle of Cagliostro" bootleg after the bootleg

Jason regrets stopping the live stream when he did.

Castle of Cagliostro

Cartoon rules apply.

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.

Hugo Nominees

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

Game Show: Action Castle IV

A horse is here. Your horse. A horse.

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.

Defocused 293: Super 8

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

Defocused 292: Paddington 2

Mid-Atlantic pink.

Devs

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

Defocused 291: Paddington

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

Comic Book Reading List

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

Game Night: Trust Me, I'm a Doctor

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

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.

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…

Friendly Competition 2: No Rounding

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

Contact

It takes a long time to get to the aliens.

Defocused 290: Six Year Anniversary Episode

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

Friendly Competition (Inaugural Edition)

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

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" season 5

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

Defocused 289: Speed 2: Cruise Control

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

Defocused 288: Twister

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

Westworld Season 3 wrap-up

It’s slightly cleaner Blade Runner!

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.

Random Pursuit XV

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

Rocket Surgery: The Emoji Movie

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

Defocused 287: Speed

The start of June de Bont.

Defocused 286: The Adventures of Tintin

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

Wall-E

Danger: Rogue robots.

Danconceivable!

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

Old Movie Club - Philip Marlowe

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

The Aleph Extraction

Dan talks about his book! No spoilers.

Defocused 285: Red Planet

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

Nebula Novels

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

Defocused 284: The Saint

Dan defends his position.

Defocused 283: Timecop

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

Inconceivable!: Fundamentally and Architecturally Unsound

All the great umlaut cities.

TV Theme Song Draft II

James and Liz may be punking us all.

Defocused 282: Running Scared

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

"Knives Out"

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

Inconceivable!: Thinking Sounds, With Dan Moren

Wait…the lion is Hamlet?

"The Magicians" season 5

There’s always another quest.

Defocused 281: Outland

Sean Connery is a space cop.

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.

Are You The Spy? (II)

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

90s Album Draft

Here we are now, entertain us.

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.

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.

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Wrap-Up

A bunch of friends talk Trek while eating bunnicorn pizza.

Apollo 13

Houston, we have a podcast.

Defocused 279: Stargate

The movie, not the TV shows.

Defocused 278: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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

Defocused 277

We ate hot dogs.

What should Star Wars do next?

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

Doctor Who series 12

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

High Fidelity (2000)

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

Defocused 276: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

At this point you really know what to expect.

Counterpart, Season 2

Is it us, or is it our others?

Defocused 275: Knives Out

Steve Yedlin’s 11 herbs and spices.

The Good Place (season 4) panel 2

This is the Bad Place!

The Good Place (season 4)

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

Low Definition XXI

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

Defocused 274

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

House of X / Powers of X

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

Are You The Spy? (I)

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

Defocused 273

No movie. Mostly food.

The Expanse season 4

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

500

Episode D.

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.

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.

Defocused 272: Hustlers

Pretty sure The Financial Crisis was bad.

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!

UK Triv VII

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

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.

"The Mandalorian"

This episode is longer than 35 minutes.

"For All Mankind" season 1

Spaaaace!

Defocused 270: Tremors

Let’s have some fun.

Watchmen (2019)

Who listens to the podcast people? You do.

Random Pursuit XII

Eventually points are scored. I swear.

2019 Clip Show

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

"The Rise of Skywalker" panel three

Not too long, not too short. Just right.

"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.”

"The Rise of Skywalker" panel one

Three hours, people.

Inconceivable!: Short Circut

But have they been to space?

Defocused 269: Hudson Hawk

Dan tricked Joe into watching this one.

Parsely: Kringle Krisis!

Get Santa. Go Reindeer.

Book Club: To Be Taught, If Fortunate

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

Defocused 268: Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

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

Elf (2003)

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

Defocused 267: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

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

What Disney should do with Star Wars

MacLunkey Despecialized!

Lawrence of Arabia

An epic.

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!

This is How You Lose the Time War

Book club returns!

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.

Defocused 265: The Man Who Knew Too Little

Bill Murray as Bill Murray.

Sequel or Not Draft

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

Defocused 264

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

Low Definition XX

Parental gobble discretion gobble advised gobble.

The Amazing Spider-Man/Amazing Spider-Man 2

Andrew Garfield is not the problem here.

Ginger Snaps

Creeping werewolfism!

Defocused 263: Mission: Impossible - Fallout

The Dark Knight of Mission: Impossible movies.

Edge of Tomorrow (Live. Die. Repeat.)

From the Alpha to the Omega. Those are aliens.

Batman (1966)

Na na na na na na na na… Batman!

Defocused 262: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Pepe Silvia and the Syndicate Gang.

Game Show: Fiasco...in Space!

Space Station 119 is the place to be.

Defocused 261: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Maybe Joe likes it.

"Sneakers" (1992)

My voice is my passport. Verify me.

Defocused 260: Mission: Impossible III

Now we enter uncharted territory.

The Dark Crystal (1982)

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

Defocused 259: Mission: Impossible 2

🐦 🏍 🏃 🦠

Defocused 258: Mission: Impossible

Your bootleg, should you choose to accept it.

X-Men Draft

To me, my X-Men!

Saturday Morning Draft

It’s what you think it is, and more.

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.

Parsley: SpoOooOoooky Manor

You’re standing before a SpoOOOOoooOoOOOoky Manor.

Defocused 257: Venom

If Upton Sinclair had a leather jacket.

Defocused 256

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

The Wind Rises

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

Buffy Season 4

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

Spider-Man 3

Bernard has buried fourteen Greens Goblin.

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. :(

Defocused 255: A Quiet Place

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

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

My large, spider-powered son! #countthecoats

Defocused 254: The Predator

It’s definitely a Shane Black movie.

Spider-Man (2002)

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

Random Pursuit XI - Ghost Points

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

Chernobyl

There is no graphite on the ground, comrade.

Defocused 253: Predators

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

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?

Hugo Awards 2019

Listen to four people struggle to remember books they liked!

Defocused 252: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

How is predalien babby formed?

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.

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.

Veronica Mars

Mostly season 1. No Hulu talk.

Random Pursuit X

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

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

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!

Defocused 249: John Carter

We have some notes.

Rocket Surgery: Alice in Wonderland (2010)

It’s the Fudderwacken Jabberwocky!

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Zut alors! It is ze Night Monkey!

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

I’ve buried 14 Spiders-Men.

UK Trivia VI

Recorded June 22, 2019.

Defocused 247: Universal Soldier

This movie is exactly what you think it is.

The Dark Knight Rises

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

Defocused 246

No movie this week, just spicy tacos.

Old Movie Club - Jaws

Shark spoils otherwise enjoyable beach romp movie.

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!

Defocused 245

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

Game of Thrones season 8

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

The Dark Knight

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

TV Endings Draft

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

Defocused 244: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

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

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.

Defocused 243: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Joe made Dan watch a Star Track.

The Magicians, Season 4

Moises irons his laundry. Mikah readies a donkey.

Defocused 242: Doom

Well. We talked about it.

Nebula novel nominees

Stick that in your polar bear, kids!

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?

Rebel Avengers: Endgame Panel

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

Federation Feud!

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

Defocused 241: The Blues Brothers

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

Star Trek: Discovery season 2

Shouty Spock, meet Beardy Spock.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Defocused 238: Jackie Brown

Continuing with movies based on Elmore Leonard novels.

Defocused 237

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

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.

Rocket Surgery: "Star Raiders" (complete session)

It’s not a real movie.

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!

Random Trivia: Ghost Reunion Edition

Sing along with us!

Defocused 236: Get Shorty

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

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.

Travelers season 3

Welcome to the 21st. Protocol Omega!

Low Definition XIX

More fake definitions for real words!

Defocused 234: Die Another Day

Pie Another Day.

"Captain Marvel"

Marvel’s Marvelist movie yet.

Inconceivable!: The Meta-Gaming is Delicious

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

Defocused 233: The World is Not Enough

I hope everyone likes bread.

Spider-Verse comics and alternate spiders

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

Defocused 232: Tomorrow Never Dies

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

Defocused 231: GoldenEye

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

Defocused 230: The Shadow

Well … we have some notes.

Pattern Recognition

The book club reads William Gibson.

Defocused 229: The Phantom

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

Howl's Moving Castle

A sampler of Miyazaki’s greatest hits.

Defocused 228

No topic, but a lot of Apple gripes.

UK Trivia January 2019

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

Defocused 227: Solo: A Star Wars Story

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

Defocused 226: Annihilation

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

Old Movie Club: Musicals

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

Inconceivable!: Out-Lutzed

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

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.

Defocused 225: Super Troopers 2

The first disappointment of 2019!

Cowboy Bebop

3, 2, 1, let’s jam.

Defocused 224

No topic! Happy New Year!

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!

Our 2018 Favorites

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

The 2018 Clip Show

Jason plays audio files while his friends listen silently.

Warning: May Contain Skeletor.

Books to TV pitch draft

Thanks to Listener Ian for suggesting this one.

Doctor Who Series 11 wrap-up

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

Defocused 223: Dune

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

Star Trek IV

It’s like Christmas but with whales!

A Very Fiasco Christmas

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

Defocused 222: Dude, Where's My Car?

Dudecember continues … sorry.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

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

Defocused 221: The Big Lebowski

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

Low Definition XVIII

That’s what she said!

Defocused 220: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Welcome to DUDEcember. (Sorry.)

Defocused 219

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

Game Show 100

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

Thanksgiving Draft

“You like garbage!”

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.

Board Game Draft II

21 more board games enter the draft list!

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!

2010: The Year We Make Contact

My God, it’s full of Starbucks!

Rocket Surgery: The Black Hole

ESP, but for robots.

Defocused 216: Addams Family Values

The physics of severed hands.

Film Score Draft

Who the heck is John Williams?

Defocused 215: Weekend at Bernie's

Well… Foxtober took an unexpected turn.

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.

Buffy season 3

Well, gosh!

2001: A Space Odyssey

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

Defocused 213: Logan

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

"Lady Astronaut" novels

By Mary Robinette Kowal!

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. 👻

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.

Beer Episode II!

We’re drunk.

Defocused 210: Minority Report

Steven Septemberg continues with ‘Minority Report’.

Dark City

He can tune!

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.

Defocused 209: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

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

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?

Rocket Surgery: Equilibrium

Oh no! Sean Bean! Not again!

The Expanse Season 3

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

Action Castle III

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

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.

Summer of Marvel finale

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

Defocused 208: Jaws

Starting off the month of Steven Septemberg.

Defocused 207: Flight

Denzel WAUGUSTshington concludes with the critically acclaimed ‘Flight’.

Guardians of the Galaxy revisited

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

Doctor Strange

Dormammu! I come to bargain.

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.

Thor: Ragnarok

Zany fun with Thor and friends.

Defocused 205: Training Day

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

Ant-Man(x2) and The Wasp

Let’s get small!

Defocused 204: Crimson Tide

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

‘Crimson Tide’

Welcome to (checks notes again)

Denzel WAUGUSTshington

Low Definition XVII

Oh yeah, baby! Recorded July 22.

Defocused 203: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

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

Avengers revisited

Yes, we consider Civil War an Avengers movie.

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.

Captain America and Winter Soldier

On your left…

Defocused 201: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Mistakes were made.

Game Show: Mind Trap!

That’s not how trees work!

Defocused 200: Jurassic Park

JULYssic Park

Inconceivable!: Welcome to Nature Facts

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

Game Show: Fiasco 2!

Penguin Eggs!

Hugo Awards 2018

We read more books!

Defocused 199: The Big Short

The end of ChrisJUNE Bale.

Game Show: Fiasco!

Boomtown! A fiasco hosted by Tony Sindelar.

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

Eat it, Bernie Taupin!

Defocused 198: Terminator Salvation

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

Thor and Thor: The Dark World

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

Defocused 197: Equilibrium

ChrisJUNE Bale continues with a very … derivative movie.

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.”

Defocused 196: American Psycho

First episode of ChrisJUNE Bale.

Game Show: Feuding Families '18 #2

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

Iron Man and Iron Man 2

The SUMMER OF MARVEL begins! How ironic, Tony!

Defocused 195: Avatar

Continuing James CaMAYron with this … thing.

Casablanca

Old Movie Club!

Game Show: Feuding Families '18

Your poll responses, our stupid guesses.

Defocused 194

No movie. Thanks a lot, James CaMAYron.

Nebula Award Novels

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

Defocused 193: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

James CaMAYron continues.

1980s Album Draft

In the pay of Big Ultravox.

The Magicians season 3

A rabbit has a message for you.

Defocused 192: The Terminator

It’s the start of James CaMAYron.

Defocused 191: Bad Boys II

The conclusion of Michael Baypril.

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.

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.

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.)

Defocused 190: Bad Boys

For the month of Michael Baypril.

Simpsons Quote Draft

What? It’s a perfectly cromulent topic.

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!

Inconceivable!: Team Smug

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

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.

400

The episode 400 bootleg. Unrevealed until now.

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.

Harlan Ellison

Six short stories.

Defocused 187: Back to the Future Part II

The Elisabeth Shue is on the other Claudia Foote.

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.

The Prisoner

It’s a great show, but that ending…

Low Definition XVI: The Yaks Have It

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

Ursula Le Guin book club

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

Black Panther

Wakanda Forever!

(Not the one in Illinois.)

Defocused 185: Donnie Darko

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

The Incredibles

That’s a hobo suit, darling.

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?

Defocused 184: Zodiac

“More like Mark Mumble-O”

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!

Star Trek: Discovery Season One

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

Defocused 183: Nightcrawler

Not the blue guy. Welcome to Gyllenbruary.

The Good Place, Season 2

Or is is the Bad Place?!

Rocket Surgery: "The Cosmic Man"

The boy has given me much pleasure.

Defocused 182: 22 Jump Street

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

Midnighter

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

Defocused 181: 21 Jump Street

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

UK Trivia III

More UK trivia to confuse North Americans.

Travelers

Welcome to the 21st.

Defocused 180: Logan Lucky

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

Random Pursuit 5

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

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.

Defocused 178

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

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.

Spirited Away

Miyazaki Club returns.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (panel three)

The increasingly inaccurately named UK rebel edition!

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (panel two)

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

Defocused 176: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (panel one)

May the porgs be with you.

Low Definition XV

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

Defocused 177: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

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

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!

Defocused 175: Bad Santa

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

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.

Defocused 174: Trading Places

Dan tries to avoid saying “problematic”.

Holiday Traditions

Many guests, many holiday traditions from around the world.

It's A Wonderful (Terrible?) Life

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

Defocused 173: Gremlins

So much casual murder.

Defocused 172

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

Buffy Season 2

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

Inconceivable!: Stop Talking About X-Men

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

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.

What Remains of Edith Finch / Tacoma

Video game club! Spooky houses and space stations!

Victorian Parlour Games the Second

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

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.

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!

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.

Labyrinth

SMELL BAD.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.

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!

A Fall Reading List

notallbooks

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!

Old Movie Club: Postwar Intrigue!

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

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.

In The Village (The Prisoner): "Checkmate"

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

Be seeing you!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.

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!

You May Very Well Be At Risk!

A game from Glenn!

Random Pursuit IV

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

TNG 30

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

Roald Dahl

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

Defocused 165

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

Low Definition XIV

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

Random Pursuit 3

More trivia, selected randomly!

Inconceivable! 17

The latest edition of our nerdy panel quiz show.

Clone Wars/Rebels

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

Disney Draft

Animated features from Disney! Drafted!

Defocused 164: The Matrix Revolutions

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

Star Wars Episode IX Director Draft

Silly and serious! A fatal combination.

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.

Game Show: Victorian Parlour Games

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

Whisper of the Heart

Miyazaki club? Anime club? Ghibli Club!

The Dark Tower (book series)

Seven books, 4000 pages, four readers.

Defocused 163: The Matrix Reloaded

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

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.

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.

Defocused 160

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

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’.

The Tick

Spoon!

Defocused 158: Drive

With Special Guest Merlin Mann.

Inconceivable! 16

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

Text Adventure: Space Station

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

Defocused 157: Baby Driver

Discussion of Edgar Wright’s latest film.

Low Definition XIII

Do not duffifie.

Defocused 156: Her

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

"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?

Spider Man: Homecoming

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

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.

Doctor Who Series 10 Wrap-up

Does whatever a cyber can!

Defocused 154: Mortal Kombat

Techno beats.

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.

Book Club: Hugo & Nebula Novels

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

Random Pursuit II

More random! More trivial!

Random Pursuit

So much trivia.

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.

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.

Wonder Woman

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

Game Show: Glenning!

Tales! Of! Glenn!

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.

Life is Strange

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

TV Hall of Fame Draft

“This show really is my everything.”

Defocused 149: Caddyshack

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

Pool. Pond.

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!]

Star Trek: Discovery trailer

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

Rocket Surgery: Dungeons and Dragons

Featuring sleepy Steve Lutz as Snails!

Defocused 148: My Blue Heaven

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

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

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

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.

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

Inconceivable! 15

Underscore in underscore con underscore cievable.

Humans (Channel Four, AMC)

Season two of those wacky Synths!

The Magicians (SyFy)

(Don’t poop in the wellspring.)

Defocused 146: Inglorious Basterds

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

Game Night: Feuding Families III

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

Legion (FX)

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

Defocused 145: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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

Defocused 144: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Screaming and chasing and more screaming and more chasing.

Defocused 143: Raiders of the Lost Ark

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

Game Show: UK Trivia II

More UK trivia, more trouble for Americans!

Old Movie Club: Breaking Away and American Graffiti

Coming of age movies from the 1970s.

Star Trek Episode Draft

The Die Is Cast! Unless it’s not.

Book Club: N.K. Jemisin

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

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.

The Good Place

Holy fork!

Defocused 141

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

Low Definition XI

The lesser of two weevils.

Defocused 140: Hellboy

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

American Gods and Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman book club!

"The Rocketeer"

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

Defocused 139: L.A Confidential

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

Defocused 138: La La Land

Another day of sun.

Unbreakable

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

Defocused 137: Hail, Caesar!

Would that it t’were so simple.

Rocket Surgery: The Wizard of Mars

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

Defocused 136

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

Action Castle II

There is a sign here. Make wish.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Yay! More Miyazaki!

Defocused 135: Spaceballs

We discussed then, just now.

Fahrenheit 451 and 1984

You seen one dystopia, you seen ‘em all.

Defocused 134: Dredd

Dr. McCoy is Batman.

V for Vendetta

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

Defocused 133: Judge Dredd

Armand Assante is so wet, and unblinking.

Black Mirror

13 episodes, and they all end with a scream.

Low Definition X

Low Definition X, recorded January 20, 2016.

Defocused 132: Kickboxer

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

Comic Book Movie Pitches

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

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.

Defocused 130: The Running Man

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

Rogue One Rebel Panel

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

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.

Defocused 127: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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

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.

Westworld Season 1

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

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.

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.

Star Wars Travesty Draft

Bad things from Star Wars.

Defocused 125: Scrooged

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

Defocused 124: Spies Like Us

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

Arrival

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

Tim Burton's Batman films

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

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

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.

The Twilight Zone

Discussing the classic Rod Serling anthology series.

Defocused 122: The Nice Guys

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

Defocused 121: Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused is briefly mentioned.

Defocused 120

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

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!

The Godfather

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

Defocused 119: The Thing

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

The Right Stuff

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

Low Definition: Spooky Edition

October surprise!

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

The Beer Episode

Recorded Oct. 4 but unreleased for days!

Defocused 117: Predator

Raw recording of ‘Predator’ episode.

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).

Defocused 115: Top Gun

Highway to the breath away.

Alien

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

Defocused 114

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

Defocused 113: Demolition Man

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

Video Game Club: Inside

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

Game Show: Family Feud (With Your Answers)

You are the survey!

Defocused 112: The Net

Ordering pizza on the internet! Backdoors!

Star Trek: First Contact

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

Low Definition VII

Brought to you by the British Hat Council.

The Sparrow

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

Defocused 111: Cobra

Ugh.

"Alien" didn't happen

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

Preacher Season 1

James and Moze look back on the first season

Old Movie Club: Billy Wilder

“Sunset Boulevard” and “Stalag 17”.

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.

Defocused 110: Beverly Hills Cop II

‘Beverly Hills Cop II’

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.

Defocused 109: Beverly Hills Cop

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

Game Night: UK Trivia

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

Defocused 108

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

Defocused: Star Trek Beyond

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

Star Trek Beyond

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

Ghostbusters (2016)

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

Comic Book Club: Astro City

The comic book series “Astro City.”

Low Definition 6

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

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.

Defocused: Star Trek

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

Rocket Surgery: Frankenstein Island

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

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!)

Spaceship Draft

We picked a lot of spaceships. In draft form!

Rocket Surgery: Johnny Mnemonic

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

Anime 103

Prof. Siracusa has us watch two short Anime films.

Flashcast: Flashpoint Special

Your Flashcast pals talk about the animated Flashpoint movie.

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.

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.)

Trivial Pursuit, International Edition

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

Superhero TV Wrap

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

Game Night: Trivial Pursuit 3

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

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.

"Toy Story 2"

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

Nebula Awards 2016

Seven novels, no waiting.

Low Definition 4

We hope Glenn’s kids aren’t listening.

"Captain America: Civil War"

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

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

Two films from Howard Hawks.