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Two Idiots and a Dog
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Two Idiots discuss movies and media in an effort to make a better life for their dog.Meet the Dog:Kaiju is the brains of the operation.Best guess she is a Black Mouth Cur mix, she came in to Zolgar's life when his mother found her on the street. Zolgar agreed to keep her temporarily.Kaiju promptly declared that Zolgar belonged to her and he was powerless to argue.We tried to have Kaiju on the podcast, but she kept eating the microphones.She's also not very opinionated about movies.Meet the Idiots:Grimm is a giant nerd and professional dork whose passions include fiction, gaming, and unchecked chaotic world building. Since he has OpinionsTM on most media, this seemed a good fit.Zolgar is a media junky who grew up on a diet of scifi movies and fantasy novels, which may explain why he never really grew up. He has an unhealthy love of terrible sci-fi and creature feature films, which he loves inflicting upon Grimm. Shark movies especially hold a special place in his heart.
Episodes
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Idiots Unleashed: Best and Most Badass Non-Force Users of Star Wars
Join the Idiots as they discuss ten of the greatest non-Force users in Star Wars. From Grand Admirals and Moffs to Mandos and Bounty Hunters, we look at some of the most impressive Star Wars characters without use of the Force, those who can look a Jedi in the eyes and say "bring it on, bitch." -...
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Idiots Unleashed: Idiot Movie Pitches
You asked for it, and we delivered. Six ideas for movies straight out of the Idiots' heads! This idea originally came up during the big Hollywood writer's strike, we joked about pitching our own ideas to Hollywood. (We would never actually scab like that though, and the folks on our Discord…
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Idiots Unleashed: Media properties that need video game adaptations
Join the Idiots at they discuss some media properties they feel are under represented in the video game market. There are tons of amazing games out there, and tons of amazing media properties. Even tons of amazing games based on amazing media properties... But there are some media properties that...
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Idiots Unleashed: The Game Awards
Join the Idiots, a little late to the party as usual, as they discuss the Game Awards, which much to Zolgar's chagrin don't include tabletop games. We're back! Finally. The Idiots managed to both get sick at the same time and it took longer than expected for them to recover, but don't worry…
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Idiots Unleashed: The Fandom Is Wrong
Join the Idiots as they discuss the toxicity and general bullheadedness of a certain subset of media fans. We've all been there. We've been excited about a piece of media, or we've been pissed off at a piece of media, or anywhere in between. We've probably said some things that maybe shouldn't…
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Serial Idiocy: Trigun Stampede
Join the Idiots as they discuss the remake/reboot/reimagining of the 1998 anime icon, Trigun. We were a little hesitant about Trigun Stampede when we first heard about it. Grimm especially had some 'old bun yells at clouds' moments with the design choices and the animation style. But we decided…
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Idiots Unleashed: Storytelling in Video Games
Join the Idiots as they discuss the age old question: Are video games art? Since the dawn of time, or at least the dawn of video games, people have denied that they are art, dismissed them as a medium for telling deep and meaningful stories. Somehow, despite many examples to the contrary that are...
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Idiots Unleashed: Beyond Dungeons and Dragons
Join the Idiots as they discuss one of their favorite topics: tabletop RPGs, specifically the myriad of options that aren't Dungeons and Dragons. The Idiots each have more than two decades experience with tabletop roleplaying games, having both run and played a wide variety of games. While their...
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Idiots Unleashed: It's Always Been Political
Join the Idiots as they answer the trending question "When did my favorite media franchise get political?" We've all heard the question or seen it on social media. When did Star Wars get so political, when did Star Trek get so political, when did comic books get so political. Feels like every…
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Idiots Unleashed: Antiheroes and Villains
Join the Idiots as they pretend to be smart and discuss the concepts of heroes, villains, antiheroes, antagonists and protagonists. We've all been there, talking about our favorite antiheroes and some uneducated turnip says their favorite antihero is Darth Vader or some shit. Well, Grimm is sick…
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Idiots Unleashed: The One Person Army
Join the Idiots as they discuss one of the most common tropes in pop-culture and media, the One Person Army. It never fails. Thousands of enemies, hopeless odds, the fate of the world or something of equally dire importance hangs in the balance. Entire armies fail, and then one person rises up…
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Idiots Unleashed: Star Trek Tech
Join the Idiots as they discuss some of the technologies of Star Trek, and the (oft terrifying) real world ramifications thereof. We love Star Trek, we love the bright shiny virtually utopian future it shows us, where humans have matured as a species to the point where we exist as a singular...
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Idiots on Film: Sisu
Join the Idiots as they discuss the best 2022 Finnish film about a gold miner killing Nazis that they have seen this year, Sisu! Released in 2022, and finding its way to American cinemas in 2023, Sisu is a bloody, violent one-man-army type action movie featuring a lot of brutal Nazi kills. In...
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Idiots Unleashed: The Terminator Franchise with Cody
Join the Idiots and special guest Cody from Robots Don't Age as they discuss the Terminator franchise in a long overdue episode. Released in 1984, with an excellent cast, the original Terminator was an awesome story of (wo)man vs. machine, with a simple and effective formula. It could be argued...
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Idiots on Film: Renfield
Join the Idiots as they discuss the 2023 film destined to become a Cult Classic, Renfield. Released in 2023 and starring Nicholas Cage, Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina and an exceptionally talented supporting cast, including none other than Sonic the Hedgehog, I mean Ben Schwartz. Renfield is a modern...
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Idiots Unleashed: Post Apocalypse media tropes and reality
Join the Idiots as they embark on a dangerous journey, just the two of them, across desolate, raider infested, radioactive wastelands, where there biggest concern is finding more gasoline... and discussing why every single part of that concept is bullshit. The Lone Wanderer roaming the wasteland....
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Idiots on Film: Bunraku
Join the Idiots as they discuss the strange, stylistic action movie named after puppet theater, Bunraku. Released in 2010, starring Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore, Gackt, and the legendary Ron Perlman, this hyper stylistic action film has largely been forgotten. It's strange, and...
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Idiots Unleashed: Steampunk in Pop-Culture at Wild Wild West Con 11
Join the Idiots and a few new friends as they discuss steampunk in pop-culture at Tucson's own Steampunk Convention! Steampunk touches and influences a lot of media, but at the same time, how much in mainstream is truly steampunk, as opposed to just having elements of it? That's what we're here…
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Idiots Unleashed: Worst Media Adaptations
Join the Idiots as they discuss some of the worst adaptations of media to ever grace our screens. We've all had it happen. They announce a movie based on a property we love, we go to the theater, get our soda and popcorn and settle in to watch our favorite thing up on the silver screen. We know...
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Idiots Unleashed: Best Animal Companions
Join the Idiots as they discuss some of their favorite four (or more) legged companions from media. Dogmeat, Jonesy, Appa, so many movies, games, tv shows, etc. have animal companions in them, and they're all good boys and girls, but the Idiots have their favorites. When you're done, go give the...
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Idiots on Film: The Lost Boys
Join the Idiots as they discuss the 1987 Vampire film The Lost Boys with all the professionalism you have come to expect. Released in 1987 and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Dianne Wiest, Corey Feldman, Alex Winter, and a handful of other people no one had really heard of back in the 80s, this...
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Idiots Unleashed: Star Wars Prequels vs. Sequels
Join the Idiots as they discuss six oft hated entries in to the Star Wars franchise. A Long Long Time Ago in a Desert Far Far Away (in California, so not actually that far), a guy named George started filming a silly space opera that was in no small part social commentary on the war in Vietnam....
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Idiots Unleashed: Separating the Art from the Artist.
Join the Idiots as they discuss this popular saying, and why it just doesn't work. We've all heard it, especially from people as they consume the works of a known bigot or similar "I separate the art from the artist", but as any decent artist will tell you: That's impossible. Creators pour...
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Idiots Unleashed: Sci-Fi or Fantasy, where's the line?
Join the Idiots as they discuss the line between Science Fiction and Fantasy, or whether there even is one at all. We've all been there "What's your favorite sci-fi movie?" "Probably 2001: A Space Odyssey, yours?" "Star Wars." "Dude, that's fantasy in space!" and then a fist fight ensues. What,...
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Idiots Unleashed: Origin Stories
Join the Idiots as they discuss the plight of Origin Story movies, a potential factor in Marvel Fatigue. You go in to the latest superhero blockbuster, and either it's an ensemble film with 20 characters you need to watch two dozen other films to know the full story, or it's the origin story of a...
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Idiots on Film: The Adam Project
The Idiots discuss the family action film starring Ryan Reynolds and Mini-Ryan Reynolds, The Adam Project. Released in 2022 on Netflix, and starring Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobel, and Zoe Saldana, along with Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, and bunch of other great supporting cast members, The Adam...
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Idiots Unleashed: The impact of media and creators
Join the Idiots in a discussion of media creators and personalities who have a great impact on their lives. For so many of us, certain pieces of media are a major part of our lives, sometimes even to the point of saving our life. One such piece for Grimm was Batman: The Animated Series, so in…
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Idiots on Film: Gunpowder Milkshake
The Idiots discuss the oddly named, female fronted action romp that is Gunpowder Milkshake. Released in 2021, this feels almost like Netflix's attempt to launch their own John Wick type film series. The stylistic choices and over the top action sequences make this film sit nicely alongside other...
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Idiots on Film: Mad Max Fury Road
The Idiots discuss the post apocalyptic cinematic masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road Released in 2015, this film relaunched the franchise that formed our very concept of 'post apocalypse' in media. Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, and Hugh Keays-Bryne, along with an excellent...
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Zolgar's Comic Chat: Coywolf and Monster
Join Zolgar as he chats about two indie titles! Coywolf from Comic Cartel and Monster by Ryan Quackenbush. One is a supernatural superhero book based on pre-colonial American legends, the other is an alternate take on Frankenstein, meant to be accompanied by a piece of classical music. Both are...
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Zolgar's Comic Chat: Apex, Cybernetic Samurai Owl
What would you get if you crossed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mega-Man, and Weapon-X? Apex: Cybernetic Samurai Owl A short review of the first arc of a fun indie action comic written by Kenny Aitken and illustrated by Brian Balando. A great superhero romp that doesn't demand a lot of your time,...
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Idiots Unleashed: Cyberpunk, it's not a How To Manual
The Idiots discuss cyberpunk (the genre), and it's relation to the current world we live in. Can someone please tell the people in charge that Cyberpunk is NOT A HOW TO MANUAL!? A dystopic society where people work multiple jobs and do whatever they can on the side just to make enough money to…
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Idiots Unleashed: Our Favorite Media Adaptations
The Idiots have a chat about some of their favorite media adaptations over the years. "The movie is never as good as the book" they say, and that's often true, but that doesn't mean that there aren't some great films based on books, or video games based on comics, or other media adaptations that...
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Idiots Unleashed: Toxic Tropes
The Idiots discuss some of the most toxic tropes to permeate entertainment media. A quick word of warning: We touch on some very serious and very politically charged topics in this episode. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled goofiness next week. We touched on some of them back in our queer...
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Idiots On Film: Old Guard
The Idiots discuss the Netflix comic book movie The Old Guard. Released in 2020, and starring Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, and Matthias Schoenaerts, The Old Guard is based off the 2017 Image comic of the same name and follows a group of immortal soldiers and an organization that wants to capture...
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Idiots Unleashed: Gatekeeping
The Idiots discuss gatekeeping, the issues with it, and the issues it causes in communities. We've all heard of it, most of us have seen it happen, some of us have participated in it (intentionally or not), and some of us have been victims of it. The act of keeping people out of a community or...
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Idiots on Film: Mortal Kombat (2021)
The Idiots engage in MORTAL KOMBAT!! as they discuss this 2021 adaptation of the popular fighting game franchise. Released on HBO Max, with a cast of relative unknowns (Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Joe Taslim, and Mehcad Brooks make up the primary cast) and based off a video game,...
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Zolgar's Comic Chat: Siege Town
Zolgar reviews the action/horror indie comic Siege Town from Witching Hour Comics. Siege Town is written by Benjamin Ruffet, illustrated by Andrey Portilla, with colors by Cristian Ramirez. A brutal, bloody fight for survival from a team I'd love to see more from. This comic was received free for...
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Idiots Unleashed: RWBY Weapons
We threatened to do it back in the first episode of Unleashed (Stupid Weapons in Media), this week we did it. We're talking about the weapons of RWBY. Originally releasing in 2013, RWBY (pronounced 'Ruby') is an anime-inspired American animated series, featuring stylistic art and a lot of focus…
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Bonus Idiocy! The Sandman Dream of 1000 Cats/Calliope
Netflix surprised us with Episode 11 of The Sandman, so of course the Idiots had to talk about it! Spoiler warning: If you have not watched episode 11 or read issues 17 and 18, there are spoilers contained herein. Lots of spoilers. There's several little side stories within The Sandman, some hint...
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Zolgar's Comic Chat: Mirka Andolfo's Unnatural
This week, Zolgar talks about the dark erotic supernatural mystery series Unnatural, written and illustrated by Mirka Andolfo and published by Image Comics. Unnatural is one of those books that is kind of all over the place, but it works so well. It's a solid, well written story that is sexy...
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Serial Idiocy: The Sandman
The Idiots decided to shake things up something fierce and discuss Sandman, both the Netflix series and to a lesser extent the comic. Spoiler warning: We give our general, spoiler free impressions of the show in the first 39 minutes. After 40 minutes, we go into full on spoiler discussion. We do...
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Zolgar's Comic Chat: The Sandman, Volume 2
Zolgar returns to the works of the mad genius, Neil Gaiman, for Sandman Volume 2: The Doll's House. I wasn't originally that taken in by The Sandman when I read Volume 1, so I decided it was only fair that I give it a real chance. Does the series hook it's claws into me with the next 8 issues, or...
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Idiots Unleashed: The Clone Wars
The Idiots decide to return to the universe of Star Wars to talk about just how screwed up the Clone Wars is. Two slave armies killing each other to further the aims of one man, literal children not only fighting in the war but put in command positions, and so much more. This horrific event shook...
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Zolgar's Comic Chat: Beastars
Murder? Interspecies romance? Tensions between herbivores and carnivores? Zolgar talks about Zootopia... no that's wrong. *checks notes* Beastars, Volume 1. Released in 2016, a mere 6 months after the kid-friendly Disney animated racism analogy, comes a darker more mature manga set in a similar...
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Idiots on Film: Free Guy
The Idiots discuss Ryan Reynolds adventure in a video game landscape, Free Guy. Released in 2021, starring Deadpool, Rey's mother, Blackbeard, that guy from Stranger Things (no, the other one), and a bunch of people you've probably seen before but don't know their names, along with a special…
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Zolgar's Comic Chat: Villain's United
Zolgar finally reads something written by the legendary troll herself, Gail Simone. DC's Countdown to Infinite Crisis: Villains United, written by Gail Simone and illustrated by Dale Eaglesham and Val Semeiks, is a 6 issue mini series focused a small group of b and c-list characters from the DC...
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Idiots Unleashed: Cartoons are for kids.
The Idiots talk about the common misconception that animation is 'kids stuff'. Join us as we talk about adult animation, "adult" animation, ostensibly kids shows that cover a range of deep and important topics one would not normally expect from a kids show... and the simple, undeniable fact that...
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Idiots on Film: Godzilla (2014)
Grimm and Zolgar tackle Godzilla, the start of Legendary's Monsterverse franchise. Released in 2014, Godzilla stars Aaron-Taylor Johson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, and Ken Wantanabe... and I guess some big old CGI monsters. Does it break the tradition of American Kaiju films of more being...
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Zolgar's Comic Chat: Hex11
This week Zolgar talks about the semi mage-punk indie comic, Hex11. From creators Lisa K. Weber and Kelly Sue Milano comes a blending of magic and cyberpunk in a way you've probably not seen it before, telling a story of adventure with world-altering stakes. Join me as I dive into this story of...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Two Idiots discuss movies and media in an effort to make a better life for their dog.Meet the Dog:Kaiju is the brains of the operation.Best guess she is a Black Mouth Cur mix, she came in to Zolgar's life when his mother found her on the street. Zolgar agreed to keep her temporarily.Kaiju promptly declared that Zolgar belonged to her and he was powerless to argue.We tried to have Kaiju on the podcast, but she kept eating the microphones.She's also not very opinionated about movies.Meet the Idiots:Grimm is a giant nerd and professional dork whose passions include fiction, gaming, and unchecked chaotic world building. Since he has OpinionsTM on most media, this seemed a good fit.Zolgar is a media junky who grew up on a diet of scifi movies and fantasy novels, which may explain why he never really grew up. He has an unhealthy love of terrible sci-fi and creature feature films, which he loves inflicting upon Grimm. Shark movies especially hold a special place in his heart.
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