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BIRD PROTOCOL
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A podcast where producer/musician PALMREADER and filmmaker/musician Otis Morris talk about the things that they love and why they love them. Movies, music, video games, television shows... All that good stuff! ALWAYS INITIATE THE PROTOCOL!Follow us on Instagram:@palmreadr@otismorrisdudeYou can also reach us for business inquiries at [email protected].
Episodes
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Episode 186: The 2025 Lazy Bird Report
Ayo! We’re back to FINALLY close out our year-in-review series after a brief battle with a stomach flu, some horrible weather, and food court Chinese food! This is the 2025 Lazy Bird Report! So kick back, crack a cold one, and join your favourite Bird Boys as we take a lazy look back on our...
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Episode 185: The 2025 Bird Report (Part Three)
What’s good, homies! It’s time for one last (official) look back on 2025 with the final instalment of the Bird Report! In this episode, we look back on some of the TV shows released in 2025 and share our favourites and honourable mentions. Much like with movies and music, it was a damn good year...
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Episode 184: The 2025 Bird Report (Part Two)
Ayo! We’re back and continuing our quest to discuss our favourite releases of 2025! This week, we’re talking film… and what a BANGER year it was for movies! Join Otis and PALMREADER as they share their ten favourite movies from the past year (plus a whole bunch of honourable mentions). In this...
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Episode 183: The 2025 Bird Report (Part One)
What's good, homies?! Another year has come and gone... and what a year it was for music, movies, video games, and TV! We're back with another year-end summary of all of our personal favourites from 2025. This week, we're covering music and video games (kind of)! So, kick back, relax, and enjoy…
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Episode 182: Blink-182
What’s shakin’, homies?! It’s time for another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL. This week, we’re talking about the forefathers of modern pop-punk, Blink-182. You didn’t think we’d miss a chance at talking about one of the most seminal and important bands in our lives AND make a visual joke using the...
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Episode 181: Ford v Ferrari
What’s good, homies? It’s time for another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL, and this week, we’re taking you to go like hell at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. We’re hitting that sweet spot, 7,000 RPMS, where everything vanishes, and all that's left is a body moving through space and time. That’s right, we’re...
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Episode 180: A House Of Dynamite
A nuclear ICBM is headed toward Chicago. Nobody can figure out who fired it. Nuclear war is on our doorstep. Is this insanity? No, sir. This is BIRD PROTOCOL. This week, we’re chatting about the recently released (and fantastic) apocalyptic political thriller film from none other than the…
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Episode 179: The Exorcist
This week, we’re gonna need a young priest and an old priest as we delve into a Spooky Season certified classic, one of the most infamous and influential horror films of all time, and maybe the most culturally important possession movie… “The Exorcist”. This is one of our favourite movies from…
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Episode 178: The Curse Of The Spooky Birds
Ayo! It’s time for another Spooky Season offering from your favourite Bird Boys, and this week, well… we went to a haunted farm and got scared in real life! So, instead of talking about a specific movie, we decided to do another Spooky Bird episode on a variety of horror and horror-adjacent…
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Episode 177: Signs
What is good, homies! Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! We’re kicking off our annual Spooky Season selections with PALMREADER’s belated birthday pick from a very hit-or-miss filmmaker that, whether you like it or not, has been hugely influential to modern cinema. Plus, it’s one of the…
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Episode 176: Lazy Birds: High Voltage
What's good, homies! We're back with another Lazy Bird to share some updates on our lives and thoughts on what we've been listening to, playing, and watching. It's been a busy end to our summer as PALMREADER celebrated his birthday and Otis went to work at Comic Con again. We discuss his time at...
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Episode 175: Weapons
What's good, homies! We're back with another fresh review episode on one of the best movies of the year, Zach Cregger's genre-bending masterwork of a horror film, "Weapons". This movie rules. If you haven't seen it yet, we highly recommend you do before listening to this episode. Although we try...
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Episode 174: Eddington
The world was a strange place five years ago. It still is, but that’s beside the point. Some say it might be too soon to immortalize the insanity that was living through the pandemic and all the wild stuff we, as a society, were doing and dealing with. Not Ari Aster, though. He said, watch me...
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Episode 173: Lazy Birds: Rebirth
Yo! It’s time for another Lazy Bird episode, which means you’re in for some raw, unfiltered thoughts from your favourite Bird Boys. So, strap in because we’ve got some praises to sing and some nits to pick as we cover some of the things we’ve seen, listened to, and done together over the last...
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Episode 172: Reservoir Dogs
What’s good, homies?! We’re back with an episode about one of the most influential and important independent films of all time, which also features a man dancing while torturing a cop. That’s right, it’s time to revisit the genius of Quentin Tarantino and discuss his first film, “Reservoir Dogs”....
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Episode 171: 28 Years Later
Ayo! It’s time to go on a post-apocalyptic coming-of-age journey through a fever dream fairytale land filled with giant muscled freaks that love to hang dong, a traumatized bald orange man, a temple of bones, brain cancer, crazy cinematography, the mighty morphin’ power violence street team,...
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Episode 170: Ballerina & Some Of Our Favourite Badass Women In Film
Ayo! We’re back with another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL and, this time, we get to talk about some things we love… grenade fights, flamethrowers, John Wick, and Ana de Armas beating ass. That’s right, we’re here to discuss the recently released John Wick spinoff "From the World of John Wick:...
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Episode 169: DOOM: The Lazy Ages
What’s good, homies? Fresh off a recent move and a short break, the boys are back to ruminate on things. The world is scary and stupid, which means it’s time for another gripe fest with a half-Bizarro Bird, half-Lazy Bird, all DOOM-lovin’ episode. Join us as we discuss all the insanity going on…
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Episode 168: The Auteurs (Part One)
We’re back with another semi-casual themed episode for y’all to enjoy while PALMREADER wades through the waters of an exciting move and Otis plays “DOOM: The Dark Ages”! This is the first of our ongoing series on some of our favourite auteur filmmakers and auteur theory in cinema. From big names…
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Episode 167: Sinners
What’s good, homies?! This week, we’re talking about a recent release and a filmmaker who hasn’t missed yet. It’s our review of Ryan Coogler’s recent genre-bending vampire flick “Sinners” starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar...
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Episode 166: There Will Be Blood
This week, we’re talking one of the absolute best films of the last twenty years and Otis’ birthday pick, Paul Thomas Anderson’s exploration of greed, family, religion, madness, and the rot at the soul of America, “There Will Be Blood”! Yes, it is time for the Bird Boys to repeatedly shout “I...
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Episode 165: Lazy Birds Beyond The Thunderdome
After a two week break, the Bird Boys are back on Easter to share some of our thoughts, opinions, and reviews with another Lazy Bird episode! Also, Happy 4/20 to all the big time stoners out there! As usual, we kick it for a chat about what’s been going on in our lives, what we’ve been...
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Episode 164: BIRD PROTOCOL's Springtime Indie Rock Playlist
Ayo! It’s time for us to unveil another BIRD PROTOCOL playlist! This time, we took a trip down memory lane and curated a collection of indie rock rippers that range from the aughts to the present day. Indie rock is somewhat of an umbrella term and this playlist could have probably been double or...
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Episode 163: The French Connection
We’re back with part two of our Gene Hackman double feature with a movie that goes super hard and basically laid a new foundation for modern cinema… William Friedkin’s 1971 neo-noir action thriller “The French Connection” starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey! This critically...
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Episode 162: Unforgiven
What’s good, homies? Welcome to another pod! This week, we’re kicking off a two-part series to honour the late Gene Hackman with a revisionist Western masterpiece and an honest-to-goodness ripper of a film, Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Best Picture winner “Unforgiven”! “Unforgiven” is a critically…
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Episode 161: The Good, The Bird And The Lazy
Yo, yo! It’s time for another episode of Bird Protocol! This week, the Bird Boys sit down and chat about everything they’ve been watching, playing, and listening to as well as all the crazy and fun things going on in the world. It’s a new Lazy Bird episode for your head tops! We start the episode...
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Episode 160: Fargo
There have been some cold, snowy, and dark days lately and the world feels like it’s being run into the ground by criminal idiots. It’s the perfect time to watch something… but what? Great news! Otis has the answer! This week, we revisit a modern classic from the talented and influential…
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Episode 159: Mac Miller
Ayo! We’re back with the first official episode of 2025! We’re both tired as hell but this week we’re happy to be covering one of our favourite artists of all time - the late, great Mac Miller! In this episode, we do our best to cover his career from his breakout mixtape “K.I.D.S.” to the most...
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Episode 158: The 2024 Bird Report (Part Three)
What’s good, homies? It’s time to close out our year-end round-up with the final part of our three-part Bird Report for 2024. This time, we’re covering some of the excellent TV series we watched last year. As always, this isn't a definitive or objective “best-of” list. Instead, we’re just sharing...
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Episode 157: The 2024 Bird Report (Part Two)
Aye! We’re back with part two of our three-part Bird Report for 2024! This week, we're talking about our favourite movies and movie-going experiences of 2024. Once again, this is not an objective “best-of” list. Instead, our picks are based on what we’ve actually seen and personally enjoyed.…
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Episode 156: The 2024 Bird Report (Part One)
Welcome to 2025, my friends! How are we feeling? Ready for another exciting trip around the sun? The year is already off to a wild start. But, before we get into all that, it’s time for another installment of our yearly roundup - The Bird Report! Over the next few episodes, we’ll share some of…
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Episode 155: BIRD PROTOCOL's Unorthodox Holiday Season Playlist
Happy Holidays, everyone! We’re back with the last episode of 2024 and a new playlist for you to enjoy! That’s right, it’s time to welcome the holidays with a selection of unorthodox holiday songs curated by your favourite Bird Boys! From rap to pop punk to indie rock to hardcore to classic...
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Episode 154: The New Golden Age Of TV (Part Two)
Yo! Your favourite Bird Boys are back for the second part in our series on “The New Golden Age” of television! We’re picking up right where we left off with more selections of some of our favourite series from this period. We highly recommend you check out the first episode to give yourself some...
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Episode 153: The New Golden Age Of TV (Part One)
What's good, homies!? We've been lacking in TV talk over the last few months so we've decided to go all-out as we begin to close out the year! This is the New Golden Age of TV episode! "Huh? What is that?", you might ask. Fear not, your favourite Bird Boys are here to break it all down for you,...
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Episode 152: Gladiator II & Lazy Birds Beyond
There once was a fragile dream that was BIRD PROTOCOL and, much like the wayward son of a fallen Roman hero, we’re here to fulfill our destiny and bring the podcast back to the people. It is time for another Lazy Bird episode on some of the stuff we’ve been watching and listening to over the past...
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Episode 151: 5 Retro Video Games We Love Vol. 1
What’s good, homies?! We haven’t had a chance to really talk about video games in a while, so it’s time to dust off your old consoles and take a trip down memory lane with your favourite Bird Boys! This week, we decided to talk about five “retro” games that we each love. Now, everyone’s…
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Episode 150: Spooky Birds 2: Return Of The Beak
Well... Halloween is over, the frights have subdued, and it’s time for another Spooky Season recap episode. Join us this week as we cover some of the things we’ve been watching, listening to, and (not really) playing this past month. It’s another Spooky Bird episode for your head tops! To kick...
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Episode 149: The House Watch-Along
What’s good, homies?! It’s time for another Spooky Season watch-along episode! This week, we sat down and watched one of our favourite movies together - the Japanese psychedelic experimental horror comedy film “House” from director Nobuhiko Obayashi! This is a totally singular film that needs to…
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Episode 148: BIRD PROTOCOL's Heavy As Hell Halloween
The days are getting shorter, the vibe is getting spookier, and we feel like it’s the perfect time of year to unleash some demonic riffs and soul shattering breakdowns upon the masses. What do you think? That’s right, we’re back with another curated playlist of absolute bangers for y’all and our...
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Episode 147: 28 Days Later
We’re kicking off our official Spooky Season selections with a movie that we both agree is one of them ones. A modern classic. A stylish and terrifying movie that revived the zombie genre, has aged incredibly well, and influenced horror film and zombie media in so many ways. Ah, yes, it’s finally...
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Episode 146: Hellboy & Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Ayo! We’re still easing into Spooky Season with another horror-adjacent pick that’s fun, stylish, and visually appealing. This week, we’re talking about Guillermo del Toro’s “Hellboy” films! First, though, Otis shares a story about seeing karma unfold in real time and we discuss the lack of...
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Episode 145: Alien: Romulus & Our Favourite Movie Monsters
What’s good, homies?! Welcome to another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL! This week, we share our thoughts about “Alien: Romulus” and list some of our favourite movie monsters… but first, we talk about some of the biggest monsters of all: Landlords! Otis has some upsetting news about his apartment…
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Episode 144: Fury
Ayo! It’s time for PALMREADER’s (belated) birthday episode! This week, we are covering David Ayer’s excellent 2014 war film “Fury” starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Herman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Peña, and a selection of real WWII tanks. Originally recorded on PALMREADER’s birthday, we chose...
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Episode 143: I Still Know What You Did Last Lazy Bird
Alright, we’re back with another Lazy Bird to update you on all the happenings in our lives. We’ve had a hell of a couple of weeks filled with travel, concerts, and generally positive experiences! As usual, we rant and ramble our way through stories, reviews, and the labyrinth of our minds to…
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Episode 142: Summer Blockbusters
Your favourite Bird Boys are back with another themed episode on some of our most beloved summer blockbusters. Originally conceived as a Top 5 episode, this episode evolved quickly into each of us sharing five movies that we love and/or movies that we feel exemplify the idea of a summer...
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Episode 141: BIRD PROTOCOL's Hip-Hop Pool Party
What’s good, homies? Every few months, we release a themed playlist filled with bangers for everyone to enjoy. Since it is summer and the sun is shining, we’ve selected 16 certified rap heaters from the late 90s through the aughts to keep the vibes going, pump up the volume, and get you feeling...
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Episode 140: Lazy Birds XXL
Your favourite Bird Boys are coming in hot with another Lazy Bird episode to update you on everything going on in our lives and everything we’ve been listening to, watching, and playing. In this episode, we talk about driving in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, a MAJOR piece of news that dropped…
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Episode 139: War For The Planet Of The Apes
It’s time to revisit the final film of the first “Planet Of The Apes” reboot trilogy this week on BIRD PROTOCOL! You already know we had to give it up for our boy Caesar one last time. Directed once again by Matt Reeves, “War For The Planet Of The Apes” is the last chapter of Caesar’s story and…
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Episode 138: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
The Bird Boys are back at the dawn of a new age… it’s time to continue the saga of Caesar and his apes with Matt Reeves’ 2014 epic simian sci-fi action film “Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes”. Starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, this is…
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Episode 137: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
What’s good, homies?! “Apes Month” is in full swing and we’re finally hitting the first installment of Caesar's story with 2011’s “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes”. Directed by Rupert Wyatt and written by the writing team of Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, the film stars James Franco, Freida Pinto,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast where producer/musician PALMREADER and filmmaker/musician Otis Morris talk about the things that they love and why they love them. Movies, music, video games, television shows... All that good stuff! ALWAYS INITIATE THE PROTOCOL!Follow us on Instagram:@palmreadr@otismorrisdudeYou can also reach us for business inquiries at [email protected].
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Cemetery Sound
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A podcast where producer/musician PALMREADER and filmmaker/musician Otis Morris talk about the things that they love and why they love them. Movies, music, video games, television shows... All that good stuff! ALWAYS INITIATE THE PROTOCOL!Follow us on Instagram:@palmreadr@otismorrisdudeYou can also...
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