Gobbledygeek

436 - The Americans: Season 1 (feat. Wesley Mead)

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Deception is as American as apple pie. Elizabeth and Philip Jennings are well aware of this--they’re Russian spies under deep cover as a suburban co...

435 - Who’s With Me? (feat. Austin Allan James)

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We've all been isolated, to some degree, for the last year. Austin Allan James' debut feature Who's With Me?, available for free on YouTube, perfectly...

434 - The Shorter Stick Up Arlo’s [Bleep]

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is a freestyle episode, so you better believe Paul and Arlo talk about all manner of goofy shit, but--there’s also kind of a topic too? Look, w...

433 - FCF: Extremity

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re all about lending a hand here at Gobbledygeek, so for this month’s Four-Color Flashback, we’re slicing and dicing our way through Daniel W...

432 - Two Crucifixes in the Logo

11 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When we’re not contracting coronavirus, we’re contracting people to work on our houses. And sometimes those people, too, can be a plague. Paul and...

431 - WandaVision (feat. Michael Holland)

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. After two long years in the Marvel Cinematic Universe desert, since Avengers: Endgame and its pos...

430 - FCF: American Vampire

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s more American than ruthless bastards sucking dry the poor, hardworking souls that make this country what it is--all in the name of progress? ...

429 - Geek Challenge: Wolf vs. The Insider

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of the late Christopher Plummer, Paul and Arlo host a Geek Challenge with two films featuring one of Canada’s greatest. First, Paul has Arl...

428 - FCF: Prince of Cats

27 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Two hosts, unalike in dignity, in fair Gobbledygeek, where we set our podcast. For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo pull out a boomb...

427 - Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself (feat. Wesley Mead)

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I am a podcast. This week, Paul and Arlo are joined by Wesley Mead to unravel the mystery of Derek DelGaudio's stage show In & Of Itself, now availabl...

426 - Geek Challenge: Hawk the Slayer vs. The Adventures of Robin Hood

07 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ah, merry old England. A land of many fine tales as well as some pretty crummy ones. This week, Paul and Arlo explore both sides of English mythmaking...

425 - evermore (feat. Joe Lewis)

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

‘Tis the damn season. Last summer, we convened the Three Heathens--Paul, Arlo, and A/V writer-director Joseph Lewis--to discuss Taylor Swift’s fir...

424 - Who’s Your Daddy

24 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

First comes a podcast, then comes 423 more podcasts, then comes a baby who is doomed to think having a podcast host for a dad is normal. On the Gobble...

423 - Geek Challenge: Thunderheart vs. Dead Man

27 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Because our mascot is a turkey, and because we generally frown upon genocide, Paul and Arlo are spending Thanksgiving weekend discussing films with ti...

422 - FCF: Sandman Mystery Theatre - Book One (feat. Vickie Willis Navarra)

22 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For the penultimate Gobbledygeek of the year, Paul and Arlo return to an institution they dropped like a bad habit at the start of the pandemic: the F...

421 - Drop the Boom On This F#@%ed-Up World

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’re still here. The world spins on, at least for a time. In the aftermath of Election Day 2020, there are many variables. Will that loser leave th...

420 - Gobbledyween: Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (feat. Joe Lewis)

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, kiddies. Are you ready for your deadtime story? Gobbledyween 2020 comes to a close as A/V writer-director Joseph Lewis joins Paul and Arlo in t...

419 - Gobbledyween: Fire Walk with Me (feat. Katie L. Wright)

24 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we want all our garmonbozia. Gobbledyween 2020 emerges from the Black Lodge as Brett Easton Hell Yes host Katie L. Wright joins Paul and Ar...

418 - Gobbledyween: Tremors (feat. Jason Tabrys)

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Perfection, NV, pop. 14, is adding three more country bumpkins to its census: Paul, Arlo, and Jason Tabrys, writer for Uproxx and Den of Geek, who is ...

417 - Gobbledyween: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (feat. Greg Sahadachny)

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Leaves are on the ground. Blood is on the screen. It’s time for Gobbledyween.   Take a break from the horror of the real world to join Paul and Arl...

416 - Zorro, the Gay Blade vs. The Double Life of Veronique

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re seeing double--do not adjust your set. Paul and Arlo, podcasting’s own dynamic duo, have done a Geek Challenge involving dos doppelgange...

Episode 415 - A Butter Tree Grows in Utero

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For all you kids at home with a copy of Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary Deluxe Second Edition taking pride of place on your bookshelf-...

414 - Batman and the Heat Death of the Universe

12 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For another freewheeling freestyle extravaganza, Paul and Arlo cast their minds to everything from billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne to the inevitable e...

413 - Action Park: Everything is Legal in New Jersey

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Hamilton taught us, everything is legal in New Jersey. So we shouldn’t be surprised that it was once home to Action Park, the most dangerous amus...

412 - folklore (feat. Joseph Lewis)

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Paul and Arlo are doin' good, they're on some new shit: actually talking at length about music! A/V director and founding Gobbler Joseph Lewis joins t...

411 - Biennial Torture Session (feat. Chance Mazzia)

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

He wasn't going to get away that easy. Just in time for his biennial torture session, Chance Mazzia has been roped into another episode of Gobbledygee...

410 - Geek Challenge: Puppet Master vs. Seed of Chucky

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

They’ll tear you a new puppet hole, bitch! The worlds of Charles Band and Don Mancini collide in a pre-Gobbledyween Geek Challenge. Paul sends Arlo ...

409 - Hamilton (feat. Sarah Kosheff)

25 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

2020 may be an absolute shitshow, but thanks to Disney+, we can all be in the living room where it happens: the filmed performance of Hamilton, record...

408 - The Last of Us Part II (feat. Kenn Edwards)

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A deadly virus rages across the world. The U.S. is in shambles. Despite the imminent threat, humans have started to turn on one another. And in other ...

407 - Chucky at the Blockbuster Museum

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The beauty of Gobbledygeek freestyle episodes is that Paul and Arlo will hop on the microphone and start yammering about something or other, then next...

406 - Jimmy Cliff and the Apocalypse

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The world is, yet again, a much different place than when we last recorded an episode of Gobbledygeek. In the month since the police killing of George...

405 - Moonshadow and Slyfox

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ah, youth. A time of joy and comfort, of excitement and adventure. Also pain and fear and anxiety and awkwardness and all that fun stuff. Spinning out...

404 - Monty Wezzo’s Flying Quarantine

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rule, Wezzo! Wezzo, rule the podcast! Gobbledygeek’s senior British correspondent, Wesley “Wezzo” Mead, returns after a truly mind-boggling 22-m...

403 - Normal People Like Peanut Butter

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another week, another reckoning with the apocalypse. As the country gears up to reopen, Paul and Arlo discuss how their home states of Alabama and Ohi...

402 - West Side Story

09 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When you’re a geek, you’re a geek til ya die, from the stupid reviews to the heaviest sighs. And so, tonight, tonight, the geeks are out tonight--...

401 - Texed

24 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’re all responding to quarantine (semi- or otherwise) in different ways. Paul seems to be practicing some sort of immersion therapy, living out th...

Bonus - Feels Like the First Time

18 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Once upon a time, three idiots did a podcast. Their names were Paul Smith, Arlo “AJ” Wiley, and Joseph “Will Penley” Lewis. And no, we’re no...

400 - Feels Like the 400th Time (feat. Joseph Lewis)

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A global pandemic. Britain leaving the European Union. Donald Trump being elected president. FX canceling Terriers after one goddamn season. It has be...

399 - Disclaimer: Not a Criminal Act

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

FIRST THING’S FIRST: Paul obliquely confesses a past sin during this episode, it’s kind of a super tense moment, but Arlo has cleared off-mic that...

398 - Freegobble: Of Mouse Print and Madness

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We start with frozen dairy dessert. We end with a world on the brink of madness. Between that gulf lies...nothing, everything. Paul chides Arlo for be...

397 - FCF: Black Hammer

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Don’t you just hate it when you’re a superhero who saves the world and then gets zapped to a shitty little farm town in another dimension that you...

396 - FCF Bonus: HBO’s Watchmen (feat. Greg Sahadachny)

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

No one, especially not Alan Moore, ever really wanted a Watchmen sequel. Which is exactly why handing the reins to Damon Lindelof, who has a history o...

395 - FCF: Watchmen (feat. Greg Sahadachny)

02 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After a year of pointedly discussing no superhero stories, Paul and Arlo revive Four-Color Flashback for a new decade with the big kahuna of all super...

394 - Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (feat. Eric Sipple)

19 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The geeks speak! Gobbledygeek has been resurrected via cloning or Force magic or some shit, and to kick off season 11, Broken Magic author and The Del...

393 - Twisted Christmas: Anna and the Apocalypse

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

‘Twas the season 10 finale of Gobbledygeek, when all through the podcast, Zombies were shuffling, Scottish dancers aghast. John McPhail’s Anna and...

392 - FCF: Daytripper

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It took Brás de Oliva Domingos so long to find out, and he found out. What, if anything, he found out is the central question of Fábio Moon and Gabr...

391 - FCF: The Private Eye

28 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Cloud burst, and for forty days and forty nights, all of our secrets rained down. In the not terribly distant future world of Brian K. Vaughan, Ma...

390 - Freegobble: Return to InfoPrison

30 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ever have a job so shitty, it haunts you years (or even decades) down the line? Paul and Arlo have, and it’s called Gobbledygeek! Hey-o! In all seri...

389 - Gobbledyween / FCF: My Favorite Thing is Monsters (feat. Eric Sipple)

28 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Our favorite thing is Gobbledyween, so to close out this year’s frightening festivities, Paul and Arlo are breaking from the norm to discuss Emil Fe...

388 - Gobbledyween: Society (feat. Greg Sahadachny)

20 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme: the rich have always sucked off the poor, and podcasting icon Greg Sahadachny has always joined Gobbledywee...

387 - Gobbledyween: Near Dark (feat. Joseph Lewis)

12 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It finally happened. After three long years of behind-the-scenes turmoil, Near Dark has made its way to Gobbledyween. A/V writer-director Joseph Lewis...

386 - Gobbledyween: The Cabin in the Woods

06 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Leaves are on the ground, blood is on the screen. It’s time once again for Gobbledyween, that most beloved of Gobbledygeek institutions--and one tha...

385 - Four-Color Flashback: Green River Killer

01 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For another installment of this year’s non-superhero Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo look at the story of a real-life hero in Green River Killer...

384 - Four-Color Flashback: Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (feat. Eric Sipple)

01 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For the latest installment of this year’s spandex-free Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo tackle a big one: Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s...

383 - Salty Spiders

22 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Amazon is burning and all anyone cares about is Spider-Man. Yay! Welcome to another exciting episode of Gobbledygeek! After nixing a fash-bashing ...

382 - Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (feat. Kenn Edwards and Joe Lewis)

08 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A long time ago in an industry far, far away...the end was nigh for Hollywood’s good ol’ days. Charles Manson had arrived, Family in tow, to disru...

381 - Four-Color Flashback: Hip Hop Family Tree

27 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Paul and Arlo are in the place to be, rapping about Ed Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree. For the latest Four-Color Flashback installment, our nerdy whit...

380 - Portion Sizes

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Paul cannot get his fridge under control because these damn restaurants keep serving him so much damn food. He and Arlo discuss the uniquely American ...

379 - Spider-Man: Far From Home (feat. Cade Onder)

14 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Pack your unnamed dead uncle's bags, grab your favorite designer sunglasses (that can also level whole cities), and fly on over for a discussion of Sp...

378 - The Dog Ate My Sleep

07 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re tired. So tired. That’s what you want to hear when you’re about to fire up a podcast, right? You are reading this, aren’t you? Buried am...

377 - Four-Color Flashback: The Nameless City Trilogy

03 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For the next installment of this year’s superhero-free Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo leave the realm of autobiography, semi- or otherwise, for...

376 - Four-Color Flashback: American Born Chinese (feat. Johny Ho)

02 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For the next installment of this year’s non-superheroic Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo are joined by their pal Johny Ho to discuss Gene Luen Ya...

375 - “300ccs of Thorazine”

26 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How does one go from lamenting the untimely demise of Tom King’s Batman to discussing the power structures that dictate what one finds culturally ac...

374 - “The Paranoia Is Coming From Inside the House!”

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

To paraphrase Olivia Newton-John, “Let’s get political--political!” Paul and Arlo discuss politics only occasionally, but this week, they unload...

373 - “Watered-Down Dr. Pepper”

13 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to another Freestyle episode of Gobbledygeek, wherein you can either choose to hear Paul yell at clouds or Arlo have an existential crisis abo...

372 - Avengers: Endgame - It’s Been a Long, Long Time (feat. Eric Sipple)

01 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

All good things must come to an end. And while the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not one of those things--there’s another one of these bad boys comin...

371 - Four-Color Flashback: Persepolis

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For the next black-and-white non-fiction graphic novel of Four-Color Flashback 2k19, Paul and Arlo head East to discuss Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis...

370 - Us: Down the Rabbit Hole

08 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s 11:11, better grab your gardening shears and press play on this week’s Gobbledygeek, a discussion of writer-director Jordan Peele’s Us. Thi...

369 - Four-Color Flashback: Blankets

22 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Marks on paper, sheets of snow, first loves crowned with halos. These are some of the images that make up Craig Thompson’s 2003 illustrated novel Bl...

368 - Captain Marvel: Hello Flerken

17 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It only took ‘em 21 movies, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally debuted a solo female superhero with Captain Marvel. Acclaimed indie filmm...

367 - Dentophobia

09 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In which our daring duo defies devilish dentists. In all sincerity, here’s a big fat content warning: if, like Paul and Arlo, you are one of the 5-1...

366 - How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (feat. Eric Sipple)

02 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Paul and Arlo return to the land of Berk one last time for a discussion of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Joining them is their fellow dr...

365 - Four-Color Flashback: March

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of Black History Month, Paul and Arlo are discussing John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell’s March for their second Four-Color Flashbac...

364 - Bedknobs and Broomsticks / Chicago: We Both Reached for the Broom

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week finds Paul and Arlo being a coupla ding-dong daddies as another musical Geek Challenge is summoned from a mail-order spellbook. First, Paul ...

363 - Four-Color Flashback: Understanding Comics

25 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For Four-Color Flashback 2019, Paul and Arlo are venturing beyond the realm of superheroes and into the wide world of comics many Americans never visi...

362 - 23% Different

18 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back, babies! Gobbledygeek returns for its 10th season--though not its 10th anniversary, get your math right--with our hosts doing the bare mi...

361 - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (feat. Nate Curtiss)

15 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Paul and Arlo swing into the Gobbledygeek season 9 finale with a discussion of the latest (and possibly greatest?) Spider-Man movie, Into the Spider-V...

360, “The Vision (feat. Jed Waters Keith)”

09 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This year's superheroic Four-Color Flashback comes to a close as the Visions of Virginia move into their house at 616 Hickory Branch Lane, Arlington, ...

359, “Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters”

19 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ollie, draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight to that killer’s heart. For the penultimate Four-Color Flashback of the year, and the final...

358, “The Brunette Wore Mauve”

11 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jazz hands, everyone! It's time for a new episode of the new era of Gobbledygeek, which is either painfully self-indulgent or--well, there is no other...

Episode 357, “Gobbledygeek 2: The New Batch”

02 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Everybody loves reboots, preboots, remakes, prequels, sequels, midquels, all the different -quels and -boots. The latest long-running franchise to get...

Episode 356, “Gobbledyween: Creepshow (feat. Greg Sahadachny)”

26 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gobbledyween returns! Again! Greg Sahadachny, once and future host of The Debatable Podcast, returns! Again! To close out our truncated season of horr...

Episode 355, “Gobbledyween: The Witch (feat. Matt Jackson)”

06 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Leaves are on the ground, blood is on the silver screen. It's time for Gobbledyween. Paul and Arlo's beloved horror movie festival returns for the fir...

Episode 354, “Daredevil: Born Again (feat. Chance Mazzia)”

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sight-impaired Jesus freak Matt Murdock finds himself in the crosshairs of rotund businessman Wilson Fisk in that most celebrated of Daredevil stories...

Episode 353, “Kingdom Come”

24 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What if Superman was one of us? Just a slob like one of us? Just a stranger baling hay, trying to till his own farm? That’s part of the appeal of Al...

Episode 352, “Thor Visionaries - Walter Simonson, Vol. 1 (feat. Matthew Jackson)”

24 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Far beyond the fields we know, SyfyWire.com contributing editor Matthew Jackson joins Paul and Arlo for another installment of this year’s superhero...

Episode 351, “The X-Files: Season 10 & 11 (feat. Wesley Mead)”

22 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Unleash your bees, fire up your oil rigs, and prepare to get injected with the alien plague one last time--Wesley “Wezzo” Mead joins Paul and Arlo...

Episode 350, “DC: The New Frontier (feat. Eric Sipple)”

26 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For this month’s superheroic Four-Color Flashback installment, Paul and Arlo set out for lands unknown with the late, great Darwyn Cooke’s DC: The...

349, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - That is One Big Pile of $@&% (feat. Jason Tabrys)”

06 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Have you tried New Koko? Here’s your chance! Comedy congressman Jason Tabrys returns to Gobbledygeek to help Paul and Arlo make sense of Jurassic Wo...

Episode 348, “Spider-Man: Origin of the Hobgoblin (feat. Jed Waters Keith)”

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Paul and Arlo continue to swing through this year’s superheroic Four-Color Flashback to discuss Spider-Man: Origin of the Hobgoblin, joined by Freak...

Episode 347, “Incredibles 2: Infancy War”

20 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After 14 long years, the Incredibles are back. The superhero film landscape has changed drastically in that time--but, blissfully, Brad Bird and his r...

Episode 346, “Mary Poppins / The Lure: Cartoon Penguins Eat Polish Mermaids, Don’t They?”

15 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Even with a spoonful of sugar, Paul finds this week’s Geek Challenge hard to stomach. You see, he has invited Arlo to watch Robert Stevenson’s del...

Bonus, “The Wiley Wedding Aural Experience (feat. Various)”

10 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone loves aural after a wedding. An aural document of said wedding, that is! That's right, Arlo and Amber tied the knot, and Paul was on hand to ...

345, “The X-Files: Season 9 (feat. Wesley Mead)”

20 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The truth is out there, or so we’ve been told. As Paul, Arlo, and special British guest Wesley “Wezzo” Mead reach The X-Files season 9 and find ...

344, “Wonder Woman by George Perez, Vol. I (feat. Heather Wiley)”

11 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the winding, physics-defying halls of Mount Olympus, the idea for the noble Amazon race was hatched among the gods. In the presumably plain, ordina...

343, “Avengers: Infinity War - Oh Snap!”

07 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A feat even more miraculous than Paul and Arlo agreeing on the same movie? Successfully juggling a cast of dozens in an interplanetary epic that shake...

342, “Captain America and The Falcon: Secret Empire (feat. Ensley F. Guffey)”

28 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An American feels betrayed by his government, which has revealed itself to be nothing but a bureaucratic system designed to conceal criminal activity....

341, “A Quiet Place - STFU (feat. Nate Curtiss)”

23 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shh. Keep it down or you’ll miss the latest episode of Gobbledygeek, wherein Paul and Arlo are joined by their pal Nate Curtiss for a discussion of ...

341, “A Quiet Place - STFU (feat. Nate Curtiss)”

23 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Shh. Keep it down or you’ll miss the latest episode of Gobbledygeek, wherein Paul and Arlo are joined by their pal Nate Curtiss for a discussion of ...

340, “Batman: A Death in the Family (feat. Kenn Edwards)”

13 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For the (belated) inaugural installment of Four-Color Flashback 2018, wherein Paul and Arlo will be discussing a different classic superhero story eac...