A Little Fire Burning
In this triumphant return episode Christian and Max take a look at their last year of podcasting, speculate on the encroaching possibility of a digitally reanimated Orson Welles, Italian Colonel Sanders, and say “i’d watch that” a whole lot to ideas that will never get made.
In this episode we talk about ways to make the Olympics more metal, the foibles of Matt Damon, Graham Linehan, and Aaron Lewis, and dive into the acerbic political discourse of the UK.
In this episode we speculate about what happens when these billionaires have to be neighbors on Mars, the first dog in space coming back for revenge, the emotional impact on ghosts having to watch us poop, and Biden and Obama’s enduring friendship in the face of an international crisis.
In this episode we talk about the weird implications of the Cat in the Hat, reptiles, and chart America’s racist history through animated cat musical numbers. Max pontificates on why dogs don’t need toilet paper, and Christian details the joys and horrors of having your parents visit you as a full grown adult.
Where’s My Burrito? is rebranding as the official sponsor of both the country of Madagascar and Bacardi Rum. Madagascar really loved the work we’ve been doing lately and reached out to us to hype up its lemur population, gender neutral rectangular clothing, and their nation’s love of the proud sport of motorcross. Listen to find out more about what Madagascar has to offer!
In this episode, we talk about British hypocrisy, the carnage of skyscraper construction, Native American Terminators, and Max debuts a new segment. “Max Comes at Carpenter”
In this episode we dive into the True Crime saga of Joe Kenda, the behind the scenes dramatics of school plays, talk about the Brendan Fraser Masterpiece, The Mummy before pitching a Mad Men movie where Betty Francis takes matters into her own chainsaw hands, Grindhouse style.
In this episode we talk about child mortality rates in the not that long agos before pitching a Zack Snyder adaptation of the Bible.
In this boozy animal-themed episode we talk about why camels aren’t the default option for animal transportation, the murderous proclivities of horses, and cure Christian’s arachnophobia by delving into the altruistic sacrifices of the noble spider.
We celebrate Episode 100 by deep diving into Nazi craftsmanship, calling Van Gogh a dang nerd, exploring the motivational racism of Men of Honor, and looking to the past to chart our path towards a hellish virtual Cyberpunk future.
In this episode Christian calls Max Lady Macbeth and refuses to elaborate, we speculate on specks, have a revelation that the Bible is just a confessional of God the Serial Killer, and tell the fascinating true life tale of why the hell calzones exist despite being unnecessary and unliked by most people. We also complain about the MCU because we like to alienate our core audience as much as possible.
(Sorry for spotty audio in the first 10 min)
UH OH! Christian is getting all UH OH! over here.
Superman’s Super Stalking gets out of control and he unethically wages a war on Christmas…
Our Irish friend, Seamus stops by and drops Irish conspiracy theories…
Christian pitches the next genius evolution in the Groundhog’s day genre…
but real talk? this episode is really just about all the UH OH’s
Election Day, a Nebulous Nimbus with the face of Raul Julia, a Palpatine version of Ben Franklin...
you know...harbingers for the impending apocalypse.
Recorded for your listening pleasure.
We trade scatological personal sagas, pitch a less confusing UN, and talk about the election nightmare we’ve been stuck in for what feels like 20 dang years now.
God can’t pay his phone bill and tries to reconcile with his oldest friend, Nicolas Cage reluctantly gives in to destiny and becomes a cage maker, Professor X has to defend his curriculum to a concerned parent, and we have a nice rap sesh about formative childhood fears.
We give Lindsey Graham the Snape-ian redemption arc he needs but doesn’t deserve, check in with God and interview the problematic bee that stung Christian, and lie in wait for the Chekov’s Gun of 2020: Murder Hornets.
Christian and Max take a journey into their pasts and chart the formative global traumas, peaking with their exposure to the apex televisual predator Nancy Grace, that made them the terrified adults they are today. They also pitch some supernatural television shows, Max says “Trans Rights!” and Christian aims to unsolve every mystery in America.
Tom Cruise finally flings himself into the sun and merges with it, becoming the terrifying ultra-star we always knew he could be. Meanwhile Tom Foolery, election-rigger extraordinaire, steps into the spotlight to give the Trump campaign one more nudge toward victory, ants unify the United States and China into the new superpower “Chinerica” and James Cameron discovers 9/11 a few days after everyone else. Joe Biden is ants. Everything is ants. Go ants.
Christian reveals his evil plan to cultivate the ultimate assassins, which basically involves training babies to commit crimes because they’re “sponges”. Max poses more time travel questions, and finds purpose in heckling Christ on the cross.
Christian explains his love of skeletons, we dig into the very real history of rollercoasters and firefighting, and attempt to tamp down the actual Randall Flagg of our times, Tony Robbins.