Auralnauts Podcast

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There is no theme for today's episode other than appreciating a completely awesome movie, which is 1991's "Stone Cold" starring Brian Bosworth and Lance Henriksen. What's it got plenty of? Action, boobs and beefcakes. What does it has exactly zero of? Redeemable characters, logical motivations or happy endings.

Welcome back to AMP! Getting the podcast back on track, starting with a classic "How has it Aged" featuring friend of the show Dirk Marshall, the expert in movies about futures that have now come in gone in our reality. Today we hit a sweet motorcycle jump into the year 2020, where a post apocalyptic Texas is protected by shirtless beefcakes.

Before there was Jedi Party, Turbo and Ozone were out there settling all their grievances through the power of dance. Guest Lydia Bugg watches Breakin' for the first time and now has several street names to show for it.

From the makers of Spider-Man: Homecoming and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew comes...CLOWN, a body horror nightmare about a loving father's gruesome transformation into a demonic childrens' entertainer. Suggested by today's guest, Marvel Comics senior editor Jordan D. White!

New series coming at you, Tubi Tuesday. Tubi has become the modern day cable movie channel, suggesting only the raddest movies that no one would ever think to watch. First up is 2011's Priest with Paul Bettany. Since this is an Equilibrium clone, we bring in top Kurt Wimmer expert Robert Brockway to judge Priest's Wimmness.

In 2020, Anthony Ricks is tasked by a despotic U.S. President with entering Los Angeles - now an autonomous island prison - and recovering a doomsday device stolen by maniacal gang leader Ironhead. If that sounds familiar, it's because it's the literally plot of Escape from LA with three keyword replacements. Alex Damon from Star Wars Explained will hopefully help explain how this happened.

In the wonderful land of 1993, true martial artists still held hope that one day their skills would be put to the test against a variety of gimmicky opponents. The protagonists of Shootfighter get more than they bargained for when some of those gimmicks include ripping out human hearts with their bare hands.

Get ready for the grim and gritty apocalyptic world of 2019! It's Steel Frontier, the little known Road Warrior "inspired" film that boldly asks "what if everyone in the apocalypse agreed to be cowboys again?" Featuring our friend Dirk Marshall from the VH-US podcast

For today's "How has it Aged", we're traveling back to the past to talk about a movie that also travels back to the past. To do this, we bring in the one man most qualified to speak on it, because he named his daughter after it. It's Timecop with father of Timecop, Seanbaby.

Special guest and author Dennard Dayle joins Zak to talk about Sinners in a way that you will either appreciate or become totally upset with. Probably similar to how people felt about Sinners itself.

Enter the world of KRULL, where Prince Krull must obtain the sacred Krull in order to defeat the evil Krull and rescue princess Krull. Special guest Robert Brockay and Zak agree: Krull rules.

Pablo Hidalgo is the official lore advisor for all of Star Wars, but those who visit his socials for Star Wars knowledge usually end up walking away with Transformers knowledge instead. His lore expertise extends beyond just one universe, and he puts it on full display to discuss 1986's Transformers the Movie. As an additional bonus, the film takes place in the year 2005 for qualification as a "How has it aged".

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In the year 2000, a financially ruined America has been reduced to a Christo-facist dictatorship. The only thing keeping the people in line is the annual cross country Death Race. Guest Merritt K and Zak discuss how much more awesome dictatorships are when they remember to give the people deadly spectacle.

This was originally going to be a "How has it Aged" episode about "Freejack", the 1992 sci-fi thriller that takes place in 2001, but Zak and guest Seanbaby talked their way into watching "The Big Hit" instead.

The year is 2007. The big one has turned LA into a gang infested karate fueled wasteland, but somehow in a kid friendly way. VH US podcast host Dirk Marshall joins Zak to see how well Double Dragon predicted the future.

We originally wanted to do a full Nosferatu episode, but then Skeleton Crew ended and we felt like we needed to talk about that too. If you don't think these two work as a companion piece, just picture Count Orlok chilling in one of those pleasure planet hot springs from Skeleton Crew and tell us it doesn't make sense.

The year is 2013, the FUTURE...of 1996. Does the second adventure of Snake Plissken hold up to the reality of our 2013, and more importantly, does Escape from LA hold up to Zak's prediction that the movie has aged well as an effective satire?

The boys try to get drunk on nostalgia with another bottle of legacy sequel, but they may have developed a tolerance. This time the flavor is Beetlejuice.

The boys take their "How has it Aged" premise and try to apply it to a bulletproof movie in a foolhardy attempt to be funny. But everyone just ends up having a good time instead, because Escape from New York is an amazing movie.

For our second attempt at a Deadpool/Wolverine podcast, we're going through all the walls. Fourth wall, fifth wall, Wal-ter Hill. It'll make sense soon.

The boys break their vow of silence about Star Wars to talk about The Acolyte. In fact, Zak breaks his vow so hard he runs out of breath.

The return of "How has it Aged" featuring Demolition Man. Technically this doesn't meet our qualifications of taking place in a future that has come and gone, but the film does an amazing job of still feeling dated despite it.

Some people have called Furiosa an unnecessary prequel. What better place to discuss it than on a podcast, the most unnecessary form of media in existence?

Another installment of "How has it Aged", where we look at an old movie taking place in a future that has already come and gone in real life. We never got a true hover board and it's all been kind of downhill from there, honestly.

Welcome to our new reoccurring series How Has it Aged. We take a look at sci-fi films that tried to tackle predicting the future and we see how close they got. With the release of Furiosa looming, we thought we'd go back and rewatch all three Mel Gibson Mad Max films and see how they've aged. We're in for a stinky, greasy and raggedy time.

We try to have an entertaining discussion about Alex Garland's "Civil War", but it's such a dour film that we had no choice but to call in Zack Snyder's "Rebel Moon - Part 2: The Scargiver" as a comedy lifeline.

As we reach the zenith of the reboot sequel age, we reboot the sequel to our podcast in order to talk about all the Ghostbusters.

Welcome to the FUTURE, where it's just the 80s but with rolling lunch boxes that might kill you if the lead singer of KISS has anything to say about it. Does that make no sense? Well, good thing we do an entire podcast about it.

Seanbaby returns to the podcast to help Zak unlock the answers behind what makes Dolph Lundgren possibly THE most Japanese person to ever exist.

Vulture writer and pro wrestling expert Anne Clark joins Zak to try and figure out what part of "No Holds Barred" took its Rotten Tomato score from zero to ten percent.

Dive into the futuristic hellscape of 1999, where violence runs rampant in schools and the government is powerless to do anything about it. What a random, irrelevant topic! I promise it actually is more fun that it sounds.

If Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan can get away with making Heart of Dragon, surely talking about it is fair game, right? 1-900-Hotdog's Robert Brockway joins Zak to find out.

Craven slams back into the podcast like one of Jack Elam's mystery needles. Oh no, we've laced the episode description with a callback from the episode itself. You better start listening now in order to prevent a reference paradox.

We're joined this episode by 1-900-Hotdog's Seanbaby to discuss whether or not a classic comedy has aged well or not. What does aging well mean? It could mean several different things. Do characters use gay slurs to indicate dissatisfaction? Does a killer incapacitate his victims by cutting a phone line? Is a floppy disk the focal point of an entire plot? I don't know, but at this point you could have been halfway through this episode.

Like the Jason Voorhees of podcasts, the Auralnaut's Podcast has been resurrecting once again. What does Jason have to do with The Running Man? Absolutely nothing. There just isn't an appropriate metaphor to be found in the sci-fi dystopian world of Ben Richards, because once he kills something, it stays dead. Join Zak and his guest comedian Liz Miele as they decide if The Running Man holds up by today's standards.

Are you in the market for opinions about Matrix: Resurrections? Do you also happen to enjoy the opinions of The Auralnauts? Well have we got the deal of the century for you! Step on inside episode 24 of our podcast for plenty of both.

The boys are back to talk about the new Matrix trailer. Only time will tell if their wild theories and aggressive cynicism amount to anything.

It's been over a year since our last episode, but we're back and we've got some solid updates on upcoming projects. We've also got some hot pop culture takes, because if there's one thing this pandemic has been missing, it's our thoughts on Marvel's cinematic universe.

Listen everyone. We're not going to sit here and pretend that we know everything and that what we believe is the end all be all of the truth. But one thing is undeniable: no one scrutinizes Star Wars films the way we do, so sometimes we see things no one else does. Enjoy!

Craven and Zak return with some updates, recaps, and some really unflattering opinions on Rise of Skywalker. However you feel about it, you won't be able to deny that the boys have pretty good sinus infection voices.

The regular Auralnauts podcast returns with Episode 19, where we talk about some upcoming projects right before Zak forces Craven to watch Event Horizon. This is a real time commentary episode, so either cue up this Paul WS Anderson classic or just enjoy the parts before and after the commentary.

The boys are back and desperate to talk to each other about Alita. They bit their tongues and saved it all for the podcast. As a special bonus, Craven talks about his demoralizing time at the Alita Live Experience.

It's been a while, and there is actually an unreleased podcast prior to this one. Join us as we catch up, summarize the unreleased podcast, talk about Solo and update you on some projects we've been working on.

Craven and Zak finally deliver their thoughts on The Last Jedi. They end up spending some time talking about the rest of the franchise to make points about the movie, but it should all make sense in the end.

Tis the season to talk about a new Star Wars movie coming to theaters soon. We also delve into the latest Ready Player One trailer and gush about Guillermo del Toro's house.

Welcome to Auralnauts spooky story theater. We up the ante this year with some classic radio style story telling, fully produced with some of our favorite characters. Turn out the lights and hold your loved ones close.

This episode, Craven and Zak retract some discoveries they made on Mortal Kombat: The Album, discuss JJ Abrams and get into the details of some potential branding partnerships.

This episode Craven and Zak deliver on their promise to go deep into Mortal Kombat: The Album by The Immortals. Their whole lives have culminated in this moment.