This week, in our newest miniseries, we talk about The Muppets! Of course, we're starting off with The Muppet Movie, a movie with a weird amount of meta layers and a ton of offbeat comedy charm that feels genuinely ahead of its time. And it has songs! Really actually good ones! and like, a shitload of cameos too. Did you know...
2022-05-20 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's episode, Nicky and Wyatt have a chill discussion about a myriad of topics, including but not limited to: Barnes and Noble, Nicky's recent basketball escapade, The Dragon Prince, Vinland Saga, the Amphibia finale and some pointless but nonetheless interesting musings about some pending Final Fantasy announcement...
2022-05-16 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Friend of the show, graphic novelist and occasional podcast host Joey Weiser joins us once again to discuss one of the weirdest movies in Gamera's catalogue. In this episode we talk about clip shows, superhero space women, and Nicky uses their huge, horrif...
2022-05-13 02:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Nicky, Cody and Wyatt are joined by friend of the show and lifelong Evangelion fan (as well as creative force behind OK KO and AJ's Infinite Summer) Toby Jones to talk about the ending to end all endings: Evangelion's ending! The End of Evangelion is a ...
2022-05-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we have a very special, fun-filled Shit Shooters for you all in the form of a discussion via Friend Trifecta! That's right, we got our friend Cody joining Nicky and Wyatt in the pursuit of shooting the shit out of some shit, and shit shoot we shall. We talk about Mark Wahlberg, we talk about how we all met, we menti...
2022-05-02 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hazel from Youtube Videos joins us for yet another instance of Gamera-themed monster discussion. We have tons of... fun. discussing this wee...
Nicky, Cody and Wyatt are back this week to dive into what is possibly the most controversial set of anime episodes ever aired on television. These episodes are all at once mysterious, harrowing, messy, spectacular, and life-affirming and we all take some time to talk about our past and present feelings on the matter. Evangel...
2022-04-22 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Our shit shooters are back to talk about what they've been up to lately! Unfortunately, that includes a Covid diagnosis for our dear Wyatt (Send our boy a "Get Well Soon, Wyatt!" in the chat by the way), BUT there's still cool shit to talk about. We talk about the recent announcement of Kingdom Hearts IV as well as Wyatt's fi...
2022-04-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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I can't believe I have to say this, but uh. I'm gonna have to issue a content warning here for Elephant Dissections.
That's right, we're talking about Daiei's twisted attempt at celebrating the Expo '70 held in Osaka. It's Gamera vs Jiger! We talk about weird pig dogs, insane k...
Our dear friend and fellow Evangelion fan Cody joins us from this point onward to talk through our revisiting of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
This time we talk about the section of the show that a lot of fans regard (or used to regard?) as the weakest pa...
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Your favorite April Fools at Explode When Defeated are joined by Steve Yurko to talk about the Power Rangers' first foray onto the silver screen. We talk about our personal histories with the series as well as this m...
2022-03-31 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
For this miniseries, we decided to go back and dive into something we had already been intimately familiar with before. Up to this point, basically all of our series have featured one or both of us taking a look at something with fresh eyes, but here we wanted to take a look at something we both felt was sacred, and because o...
2022-03-25 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Nicky and Wyatt talk about recent developments in Toei animation and Shonen Jump movies, Wyatt's great big huge Pixar watch-through, and a whole bunch of shit Nicky watched on HBO Max (Righteous Gemstones, Winning Time, and Smiling Friends). Then, they have a nice spoiler-lite but still kinda spoilery discussion of Turning Re...
2022-03-21 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Alex Horab joins us once again for perhaps the most infamous movie in the Gamera series to all those well-versed in schlock, and the ensuing conversation is one filled with a lot of enthusiasm for the deeply goof...
2022-03-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In our final (for now) installment of our Weird Hollywood IP Dystopia But Also About Human And A Cartoon Movies podcast, we talk about Space Jam: A New Legacy. This movie really just uh, appeared, and then went away like a fart in the wind last year... and BOY did people complain about it being a jumbled, cynical mess. We tal...
2022-03-11 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Shooting Shit Session, we actually have a really nice and involved conversation about a handful of topics! What a world! This time we pay tribute to a mutual favorite, Dr. Stone, in the ending of its publication, as well as dig in talking about Triangle Strategy, Grapple Dog, and the game everyone is talking ab...
2022-03-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week on Demolition Daiei, we're going to the beach, hijacking a submarine, using our lassos and getting abducted by aliens! Gamera vs Viras is a weird, wild, and uh... lengthy endeavor and we're here to discuss our findings. As we wade deeper into the ocean that is our turtley fri...
This week we're talking about Warner Bros' 2003 box-office bomb Looney Tunes: Back in Action, starring Brendan Fraser and Steve Martin! As things were looking pretty bleak for our hosts, they made a most interesting discovery that Joe Dante, director of such classics as Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace and Smal...
2022-02-25 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we ramble for a while about that Street Fighter 6 announcement that literally just happened, the Nintendo Direct that we willed into existence last episode, Suikoden 2, the Playstation 5 video game console and Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel. We also talk about game preservation and stuff. I dunno, we're just having fun...
2022-02-21 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Our pal Buster nobly joins us on short notice to talk about the third and most batty of Gamera installments, Gamera vs Gyaos! We talk with Buster about their relationship with tokusatsu as a whole,...
2022-02-17 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In this, the second episode of our miniseries Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! the podcast falls right off a cliff... But not without holding up a "HELP ME" sign first!
Here we talk about the 1996 meme classic, the Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes crossover hit Space Jam. Is it genuinely funny and/or good? (no) Do we have insigh...
2022-02-11 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This time on Shit Shooters...
- A talk about the behind-the-scenes shitshow this week and how we're re-recording those two Demolition Daiei episodes.
- Nicky gets excited about anime again with a special little show called Ranking of Kings
- Wyatt talks about Wander over Yonder and then Kid Cosmic, which leads in...
In defiance of the technical difficulties and inner turmoil that plagued Demolition Daiei this week, Wyatt decided to pull together an episode from out of thin air with friend of the show Kash and talk about... the Tiny Toons Adventures movie! While it has...
2022-02-06 01:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs any of our Shit Shooters listeners will know, I (Nicky) had to switch laptops recently due to a drive failure on my old machine. Unfortunately, what became clear to us this week was that my side of the upcoming Gamera vs Gyaos and Gamera vs Guiron episodes remains on those drives, with no ...
2022-02-02 19:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons and welcome to our newest miniseries here at Explode When Defeated! We present to you Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!, a sort of examination at our current dystopia in film, particularly regarding the trend of movies acting as giant commercials for monolithic IP holders. Fun stuff! We begin by looking at Who Framed Roger...
2022-01-28 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Shit Shooters is back! Regular this time! This week, we talk about Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard (ugh), become pseudo-sourpusses about the new Super Sentai show Donbrothers, lay praise on the new Fraggle Rock, show kindness to Dragon Quest VI, and ramble on for a while about one of our favorite things, Yoshihiro Togash...
2022-01-24 23:29:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Wyatt and Nicky dive into the deadly jungle that is talking about Gamera's first sequel: 1966's GAMERA VS BARUGON. With a different director in tow, Daiei decided to change up the vibe and lean closer to their contemporaries. Listen and find out how we felt about that and more in this episode of DEMOLITION DAIEI. Maybe the pr...
2022-01-20 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA combination of scheduling mishaps and a dying computer has resulted in me losing a bonus podcast that I didn't have the time to re-record for this weekend, so there's no friday release this week. This should be fine though because there's a whole 3 hour Game of the Year podcast for 2021 that we released back on Monday. If y...
2022-01-14 13:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Shit Shooters is BACK!
To ring in the new year, Nicky and Wyatt are here to talk to you all about the video games they played this year, and how they'd rank them and all that good stuff. Get ready for a long one because they played a lot of fucking video games and they've got opinions on most of em! The format is chan...
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Have no fear, season two is here!
Explode When Defeated is back with a vengeance and we're talking about that most turtley of friends to children, the all-important, all-powerful Gamera! We talk about his first movie, GAMERA, THE GIANT MONSTER from 1965 an...
2022-01-06 22:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
