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Shit Shooters 54: Living in Fear

On THIS week's shit shooters, Nicky lives in fear of something that threatens their very way of life. Wyatt talks about Xenogears, Nicky talks about Black Clover and we all have a fun discussion on discourse, nostalgia, bad movies and other things. It's a conversation! You paid at least one dollar to listen to it. There's two hours of it. Enjoy! 

See you later this week with our episode on Blazing Saddles! And then a Discuss All Monsters after that! Always stuff on the way.

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Episode 48: Godzilla vs Biollante (1989) feat. Johnny2Cellos

Our pal Johnny joins us to talk about the cult-classic combination mad scientist movie and espionage thriller Godzilla vs Biollante on this week's SHIN Discuss All Monsters. We have a great conversation digging into the movie's story as well as its lavish, innovative, economic bubble-era special effects. Also the horrible mummy that composed music for all the Dragon Quest games composed for this movie. It sounds fucking nuts!

Enjoy the episode and join us next time as we dig into Daicon...

We Love Mel Brooks Episode 1: The Producers (1968)

Welcome to the first of hopefully many Director's Spotlight miniseries! This go-around we're talking about the king of boundary-pushing comedy, the guy who made that western comedy everyone says can't be made today, Mel Brooks! If you're a listener of our shows, this choice of director will probably seem extremely natural. He's an extremely influential writer whose brand of razor-sharp, cartoonish humor has helped shape not only our senses of humor but also that of many artists we r...

Shit Shooters Episode 53: Despair, Confusion, Anger... Pikmin 4!?

This week on Shit Shooters, we go over some of the current events. Some old lady died and then a Nintendo Direct happened that sent Wyatt spiraling into oblivion. Some Tokyo Game Show news also happened. Anyways, Wyatt has another Netflix Roundup for us covering shows like Dogs in Space, Bee and Puppycat and Battle-Kitty and Nicky talks about Final Fantasy XII as some sort of JRPG valhalla and also Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross. 

It's a show! It's a discussion of sorts, ...

Episode 47: Godzilla (1984)

THE FINAL SEASON BEGINS HERE. 

We're back and roaring out the gates with our first episode of SHIN Discuss All Monsters, our show on every OTHER Toho-associated kaiju film we can think of. First, we're diving into the Heisei era and there's no better way to begin than with the first Heisei Godzilla film. Does this new take on our favorite lizard live up to the original from 1954? Does it give us a radical new take? Or does it have a weird amount of worship for Prime Ministers and a...

ONE MORE FINAL Rebuild of Congratulations: 3.0 + 1.0 Thrice Upon A Time (2021)

Here we are at the end of everything.

That "everything" is Evangelion, and we've reached the end of it. In this final episode we will be discussing the final word on all things Evangelion, Hideaki Anno and Studio Khara's long-awaited Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time. We dig into the movie, our interpretation of its events and themes and naturually, our feelings on the Rebuild of Evangeion/Shin Evangelion project as a whole. We encourage you to take a seat, grab something to d...

Shit Shooters Episode 52: Brutal Carnage

This week, Wyatt and I are fuckin tired, we recorded a big episode on the final Evangelion movie with Hazel, so look out for that on Friday. In the meantime though, hang out with us for one single hour as we deliver our briefest Shit Shooters to date, discussing topics such as... Eragon, Lost Ollie, Kamen Rider Geats, Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, The Wheel of Time, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. 

We had fun hanging out but we're gon...

An Explode When Defeated Update (Gratitude, A Question for Patrons, and Season 3 art reveal!)

Hey! It's Nicky, I just wanted to touch base with you guys. It's been too long since I've actually sat down to write out a post, usually this only happens when I gotta fold my hat in my hands and ask you all to forgive us for delaying an episode or something lol. 

This time, I want to approach you all with immense gratitude in my heart for the massive increase in patronage this past month. Explode When Defeated nearly doubled this month in patronage, which I'm obviously going to ch...

Rebuild of Congratulations 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo (2012)

Nicky, Wyatt and Hazel return to you with a variety of takes and opinions on just what the fuck Khara decided to do with the third Evangelion rebuild film. This is the most any of our podcasts have contained differences of opinion and for that reason alone it's an interesting listen. We heeded the call of the movie's title and knew that we could (not) Redo this one... so we didn't. We just had a normal conversation like human beings. It's a good one! 

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Shit Shooters Episode 51: Russian Ogre

Nicky and Wyatt have a conversation about extremely real yetis, some tokusatsu, Wyatt's recent reading habits, Nicky's completed Live A Live playthrough, The Diofield Chronicle, Final Fantasy Origin: Stranger of Paradise, and Dragon Ball Super: Broly and Super Hero (and pretty much Super as a whole). It's a great convo and you're sure to get more with our Evangelion...

Episode 46: Gamera The Brave (2006)

Here we are, at the end of our short, sweet second season of DISCUSS ALL MONSTERS. We've explored Daiei's kaiju output, and that all comes to a beautiful, crystallized conclusion here in Ryuta Tasaki's Gamera The Brave. We dig into the specific mood and humor of this film and how it wraps the series up at the end of its life. We also discuss some of our thoughts overall on this season and some of our favorite things we've covered this year. 

We're going to take a short break to pre...

Rebuild of Congratulations 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance (2009)

Your favorite trio is finally back to talk about those Evangelion rebuilds some more! This time we're on that 2.0 shit, that parachuting into the main character type of thing. We talk about Evangeion 2.22, what it does vastly different compared to the source material, including some especially inspired musical choices and a certain bespectacled heroine that appears. We also talk about The Devil and Pizza Hut so there's that too. We had an absolute blast talking through this one and all the th...

Shit Shooters Episode 50: The Fiftieth One

We've done fifty of these?! Well, we didn't do anything particularly special so prepare yourselves for a conversation about a bunch of topics like video game power-ups, the bullshit going on at HBO, Fantasy Novels (in particular the Wheel of Time), the hit new JRPGs Xenoblade 3 and Live A Live, and a short manga update spurred on by the success of One Piece Film Red. It's a fun episode and we hope you enjoy listening to it!

Tune in this Friday for our Evangelion 2.22 podcast with Hazel...

Episode 45: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) feat. Toby Jones

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Monster-Discussing Veteran Toby Jones makes another appearance on our show to talk about the third and most offbeat of the heisei-era Gamera films, 1999's Revenge of Iris. We get into its fascinating take on things as a follow-up to Gamera 2, as well as a general discussion of what made this trilogy so damn good and why it'll stand the test of time. This episode is PACKED with th...

Robots in Disgust Episode 4: Transformers Age of Extinction

Wyatt and Cody return to talk about Marky Mark, his transforming Funky Bunch, and the guy from Fraser in their continuing exploration through the muck and mire that is Michael Bay's Transformers series. This is the fourth one! It has dinosaurs in it, and runs for nearly three fucking hours. May god have mercy on their souls.

Shit Shooters Episode 49: Impressions Aren't Acting

We're back in the paint shooting off 3's, and the basketballs are takes on Transformers, DS JRPGs, Reality Television, Steakhouses, Fantasy Novels, and a whole fuckin dumb bunch of movies Nicky watched over the course of 7 days. Somehow, this is a podcast.

Thanks for getting us past our set patron goals! We're gonna try and think of some more!! We really appreciate the support!

Send any questions comments or concerns in the comment box and we might address it in the show!

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Episode 44: Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)

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Nicky and Wyatt take some time to discuss the hugely impressive and awe-inspiring sequel to the first heisei Gamera, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion. The same crew that brought us the first movie return to do things bigger and badder and we examine how it achieves that status, because let there be no doubt. They totally fucking bring it.

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Rebuild of Congratulations 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone (2007)

Our dear friend Hazel joins us for an entire miniseries of Evangelion mayhem! We're finally digging into the Rebuild of Evangelion project and we're all pretty much fresh to the whole thing, so no spoilers! Please! Lmao. 

In this first episode, we talk all about Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone. We go over some personal history, the very stark promotional moves Khara made prior to its release, the idea of r...

Shit Shooters Episode 48: LIVE! From a Rotting Corpse

On this week's Shit Shooters we talk about a very special holiday, our hometowns, 1980s Gamer, the movie MAD GOD, Nicky surprisingly getting into The Boys, Wyatt giving the fuck up on Nintendo DS RPGs, the best new Shonen Jump manga, the worst new Shonen Jump manga, fucking uhhhh that Roboco figure, Beast Wars season 2, and the act of Being Invoked. 

It's a regular episode! If you find anything cool or exciting about this one in particular keep it to yourself. Only Real Ones Know.<...

Episode 43: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995) feat. MinovskyArticle

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Minovsky returns to the show to join us in a joyous discussion of one of the most perfect movies to grace our podcast in some time. We're talking of course about Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, the first in the Heisei Gamera Trilogy (which might be the most celebrated string of films in the entire genre!) This movie is an absolute thrill ride, and I think you can probably fee...

Movin' Right Along Episode 4: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

This week, we're celebrating Christmas in July! 

To close out this batch of Muppet podcasts, we're talking about The Muppet Christmas Carol, pretty much the best version of A Christmas Carol you can get your hands on. It's got great casting, good music, classic muppet comedy and a whole lot of heart and we're here to talk about how good it is! We have a more open-ended discussion of the original story itself, some of the changes to The Muppets as we knew it in the wake of Jim Henso...

Shit Shooters Episode 47: Infinite Space for the Nintendo DS

On this week's episode, we take a question about Evangelion and weed, talk about the Final Fantasy VII news and then... well. Wyatt talks about Infinite Space. He takes us on an epic journey of trying to understand and reason with the Hellraiser Punishment Cube of a video game Infinite Space for the Nintendo DS.

And then we talk about Mario and close on a small rumination on creativity and finding the spark. 

Send us questions in the comments for any future episodes, and tu...

Episode 42: Daimajin Strikes Again (1966)

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On THIS episode of Demolition Daiei, we put some emphasis on the "snow" part with Daimajin Strikes Again, the third in a 1966 trilogy of period piece kaiju films. We've got pits of sulfuric acid, we've got an kids on a frontier adventure, and we've got a giant pissed off statue down to lay waste to the whole situation. We're here to discuss the ins and outs of this story and just how successful it was at mixing two genres important to Japanese cinema. 2022-06-23 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Movin' Right Along Episode 3: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

It's all about New York on this week's episode of our Muppets miniseries! We talk about The Muppets Take Manhattan, the Frank Oz-directed follow-up to the hilarious caper just a few years prior. We talk about the magic of New York City as well as the breezy hangout pacing of this film and the minor differences in style compared to the last two movies in this fun-filled discussion of a Muppets classic! Peoples is peoples!

Join us in another couple weeks for the final episode in this smal...

Shit Shooters Episode 46: Far From God's Light

This week's Shit Shooters is pretty unique! We took the time to do a fairly in-depth overview of all the Summer Games Fest junk that's been floating in our atmosphere as of late. Things like Sonic Frontiers, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Resident Evil 4 (and a larger discussion of remakes including The Last of Us Part I), Street Fighter VI, Final Fantasy XVI and much much more. 

However we ALSO found time to talk about some topics that were on our mind lately. Like the PS2 cult JRPG ...

Episode 41: Return of Daimajin (1966)

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On THIS episode of Demolition Daiei, we put some emphasis on the "water" part with Return of Daimajin, the second in a 1966 trilogy of period piece kaiju films. We've got samurai, we've got an old island, and we've got a giant pissed off statue down to lay waste to the whole situation. We're here to discuss the ins and outs of this story and just how successful it was at mixing two genres important to Japanese cinema.

Join us next time for DAIMAJI...

Movin' Right Along Episode 2: The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

Your favorite pair of filthy hotel rodents are back to talk some more Muppets! This time we're talking about the Jim Henson-directed follow-up to The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper! We've got identical twins, journalism, stolen jewels, interspecies lust, and absolutely no fourth wall! This might just be the most we've ever laughed just describing the events of a movie, so please enjoy this extremely fun discussion we had. We'll see you in a couple more weeks with THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHAT...

Light Warriors Episode 2: A Realm Reborn

It only took ten whole months but your warriors of light are BACK and they're ready to talk through Final Fantasy XIV's base game A Realm Reborn, and all of the sights and wonders that come along with that. Nicky and Wayne talk through just about everything that comes to mind. From the experience of jumping into an MMO, to the ups and downs of ARR's main story quest, to some of our favorite Scions, light discussion of some interesting political undertones to the worldbuilding, and finally tho...

Shit Shooters Episode 45: Get Your Kicks Where You Can Get 'Em

We've got a really fun episode of the ol' off topic show for you guys this week. We start off by answering a patron question, and then roll right into our discussion of a handful of topics such as Super Sentai (particularly Lupinranger vs Patranger), Pikmin and its place in Nintendo's pantheon, The Owl House, internet outrage, and Square's insane Playstation opus Vagrant Story. We just plain ol fuckin hang out this week. It's a fun discussion and we hope you enjoy listening to us ramble and p...

Episode 40: Daimajin (1966)

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On THIS episode of Demolition Daiei, we put some emphasis on the "demolition" part with Daimajin, the first in a 1966 trilogy of period piece kaiju films. We've got samurai, we've got an old soothsayin' lady, and we've got a giant pissed off statue down to lay waste to the whole situation. We're here to discuss the ins and outs of this story and just how successful it was at mixing two genres important to Japanese cinema.

Join us next time for RET...