Do I Dare To Eat A Peach

You'd think that an episode about the valuation of brands, talked about by an MBA, and reading the explanation from the list in question would at least be accurate. Unless you've listened to our show before.

So back when we were having the IndieGoGo campaign, one of the perks was that we would serenade you, or your wife, or your dog, or your whatever, during the podcast. We did three of them last week, but we had so many that it would take forever to just sprinkle in a few here and there. So, instead, we're doing ALL of them in one big musical show! Did someone say Tony?! I think someone did!*   *Not in reference to this.

Dan and Rob discuss sports while watching the World Cup game between Mexico and Croatia.

It's not all ghosts and goblins. OR IS IT????

We each made a list of five, and we found that there were so many awesome spaceships out there that we didn't overlap at all. We did overlap franchises (we both had stuff from Star Wars and we both had stuff from Star Trek), but we also had a lot of weird stuff. And we didn't have Serenity, and we go into a long explanation of why. But Browncoats: solidarity.

We're 63 episodes into this podcast, and as you can imagine, we've made our share of mistakes. In this episode, we'd like to correct them the best we can, and apologize for our stupidity, oafishness, ignorance, fatuity, ineptitude, stolidity, asininity, and our overuse of the thesaurus.

So, we recorded this when people were still talking about New Years Resolutions, but Rob was supposed to post this and he has the brain of a duck. Dan was supposed to muscle Rob into doing it, but Dan was busy living in Germany and eating Turkish food. Anyway, here's the show! It even stays close to being an hour long! There's no intro and outro music because I'm lazy!

This week we decided that we've done plenty of podcasts about past TV shows, so we wanted to be hip with the crazy fresh kids. This is the show you don't want to miss, because nobody does it quite like the way we do it. And Rob forgets Psych.

Taken from the pages of TIME magazine, this list is long and we don't even get halfway through it. It's not even a countdown list where we can argue over who is better than who. But! We do that anyway. I mean, we're not machines.

All I can say is that I'm extra glad I have an intern, or I would have face-planted into my pumpkin pie much earlier than I did. (As it was, it was just my shoulder that hit the pie.) We take a Sweet 16 of superheros and pit them all against the same scenario, and see how they fare. Fair? I don't know know which. And we introduce my talented and lovely intern Kelsy. And then I fall asleep, and Kelsy and Dan have a pleasant conversation.

So, you know how we always talk about Samantha Lyon as though she was a real person? It turns out she is! And she's Skyping with us today, and we're even using a topic she chose. Pretty cool, eh? This being a guy who has done this for about thirty movies, but only about 15 good movies, we figured there would be a lot of crossover. And there was. But how much? Look inside yourself and see.

Holidays are not all sitting on the cemetery wall, clapping at the cars as they go by. No, some of the time they're more festive, and people are less likely to get out of their cars and yell at you and tell you what terrible children you are. Holidays! Am I right, folks!? In this list there was not a lot of crossover, but I was surprised at what crossover there actually was. Any way, throw another yule log on the fire, make smores, Set fire to witches. And kick back in your nicest easy chair for some holiday bickering--the reason for the season.

Today we're shaking things up: we got read of the dead weight (Dan) and brought aboard someone much better (Erin Bowman). I'll let her introduce her on the podcast, but suffice it to say that she and I share both the same agent AND editor. That makes us not just twins, but Siamese twins, right? I don't know biology. We're talking about Harry Potter again, but whereas last time we looked at the big picture (movies vs books) now we'll be looking at the individual characters who are often overshadowed. Why not have a listen?

It could very easily say "The top thirty best books you should have read in high school." We did an episode, nearly a year ago, about the worst books we were forced to read. We thought it was time to do the opposite, and we grabbed high school English teacher (and Dan's former roommate) Brian Ellingsford to join us. His nickname is "The Lovebasket", but we never explained why in the show. Too bad, because we shared some awesome stories about tamales.

So remember how last week we joked about having an episode completely devoted to bears? Well, of course we wouldn't do that! We're a literary and erudite podcast! But then our special guest fell through, so guess what you're getting!?!!? This podcast that Dan and Rob can argue voraciously about any dumb thing that comes at them.