Mike joins Rob Kelly and Chris Franklin’s Superman Movie Minute for the final five minutes of 1981’s Superman II, as Christoper Reeve’s nerdy Clark Kent has an epic showdown with a Canadian bully in one of the greatest moments in cinema.
Check it out because you’ve never seen garbage eating garbage before!
Mike returns again to Ryan Daly‘s Cheers Cast, to dig into the thirteenth episode of Cheers‘ season two, “Battle of the Exes.”
Carla’s dirtbag ex-husband Nick is getting remarried, and he’s invited her to the ceremony. Currently single, Carla is worried that showing up alone will only allow Nick to rub his happiness in her face. So, Carla convinces Sam to pose as her boyfriend in a desperate move to make her ex jealous.
We are thrilled to announce that Radio vs. the Martians! has endorsed Whole Washington‘s 2020 ballot initiative campaign to create a statewide single-payer Medicare for All healthcare system in our state.
We’ve never overtly endorsed a candidate or campaign before — though you can probably guess our leanings — so we wanted to make our first endorsement an important one. Thousands of people die every year because of a lack of healthcare and we should have joined the rest of the world on this issue decades ago.
As fans of science fiction and fantasy, we love good stories. What sort of story do we want to live in?
Do we want to live in a dystopia where people are chained to jobs they hate to keep their insurance? Where people are buried in debt because they or a loved one gets really sick?
We don’t have to wait for skittish politicians to give us permission to change our story. We endorse Whole Washington, because we can choose a not-for-profit single payer system that covers everyone. We can live up to the ideal that healthcare is a fundamental human right. We just have to want it.
It’s That Time Again! So Tug down your on shirts and put your party shoes on!
Join Mike and Casey for our fourth annual Holiday Season gathering!
We’ll be at the Poodle Dog restaurant in Fife, in their Rainier Room for good food, good conversation, general cheer, and nerdity.
Where: Poodle Dog Restaurant in the “Rainier Room”
1522 54th Ave E, Fife, WA 98424
When: Saturday, December 14th, 2019 from 5:00pm to 9:30pm..or whenever!
Mike pops back into Siskoid’s Gimme That Star Trek podcast to join a giant cast of podcasters to contribute the second installment for the gargantuan task of reviewing each and every episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation.
Mike shares his thoughts on an episode from the fourth season, “First Contact,” where the U.S.S. Enterprise’s mission to make, well…first contact, with an alien species who are about to achieve faster-than-light travel for the first time, goes horribly wrong. And now, Captain Picard must deescalate a crisis, when the planet’s paranoid security minister mistakes the Enterprise crew for hostile invaders.
Put away those razors, because things are about to get pretty hairy! Casey drops by Siskoid’s Gimme That Star Trek podcast to talk about the beards of Trek!
From Commander William Riker of the Next Generation to Mr. Spock’s mirror universe counterpart in the original series, beards have been fashion statements, signifying evil twins and even a sign that a television series is about to get a whole lot better!
Mike makes his first appearance on Rob Kelly‘s nostalgia-driven Mountain Comics podcast! We pour over one of the comic books of Rob’s youth, vacationing as a child in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
This episode, we delve into ancient tombs and battle demi-goddesses and ape monsters with Robert E. Howard’s famous Cimmerian hero in November 1984’s Conan the Barbarian #164 from Marvel Comics.
We explore Conan’s unique brutish morality, the comic’s impressive art by Gary Kwapisz, and reminisce about how these comics often pushed the envelope of what you could get away with in a Code-approved comic book of the time!
Avengers Assemble!
In honor of the release of Avengers: Endgame, Mike is back on the temporarily-out-of-retirement View from the Gutters podcast, to participate in their first ever, Avengers Fantasy Draft!
Mike joins Tobiah Panshin, Joe Preti, and Brant Gillihan-Eddy to draft our own five-member Avengers line-ups.
Check it out and let them know which drafted Avengers team you think is the best (hint: it’s Mike’s!)
Mike returns again to Ryan Daly‘s Cheers Cast, to dig into the seventeenth episode of Cheers‘ first season, “Diane’s Perfect Date.”
When Sam and Diane agree to set each other up on blind dates, Diane takes it seriously, and Sam doesn’t — because he’s outsmarted himself into thinking that Diane is setting him up with her. Only realizing his mistake at the last minute, Sam sets her up with a complete stranger at the bar…who might actually be a deranged killer just released from prison. Mike and Ryan dig into one of Cheers’ trademark farcical episodes, and why it holds up so well.
Mike returns to Ryan Daly‘s Cheers Cast, to dive into the fourteenth episode of Cheers‘ first season, “Let Me Count the Ways.”
When Diane learns that her family cat has died, she’s devastated. But the rest of the gang can’t be pulled away from the night’s Celtics game to show her the slightest bit of sympathy. Mike and Ryan dig one of the show’s first attempts to balance comedy with sincere drama, marvel at how wonderfully underrated Shelley Long’s performances are, and wonder if we’re on the other side of a cultural shift where it concerns the loss of a pet.
In our latest episode, a trip to a computer museum prompts a mind-breaking discussion about the mechanics of time travel in the Back to the Future movies.
When we return to a present that we’ve created by altering the past, are we killing our alternate selves and inserting ourselves into their lives? Was the elderly Biff Tannen’s master plan with the sports almanac actually pretty stupid? And is Biff in the new timeline George McFly’s “Reek”? What about how time travel works in Looper, Star Trek, Lost or in Marvel Comics?
All this and Mike tries to explain the chronology of the X-Men character Cable to Casey. Deep breaths, everyone!
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It’s Back! So Tug down your on shirts and put your party shoes on!
Join Mike and Casey for our third annual Holiday Season gathering!
We’ll be at the Poodle Dog restaurant in Fife, in their Board Room for good food, good conversation, general cheer, and nerdity.
Where: Poodle Dog Restaurant in the “Board Room”
1522 54th Ave E, Fife, WA 98424
When: Saturday, December 15th, 2018 from 5:00pm to 9:30pm..or whenever!
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Pop the cork on a nice bottle of kanar and bring plenty of yamok sauce, because Mike makes an appearance on Michel “Siskoid” Albert‘s Gimme That Star Trek podcast, to talk about his favorite Trek alien species: the Cardassians!
From their first appearance in the fourth season of Star Trek: the Next Generation to their ongoing role as one of the chief antagonists of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, we dive into the characters and stories that made the Cardassians the most interesting and nuanced villains the franchise ever had.
Mike make an appearance on the pilot episode of Ryan Daly‘s podcast tribute to the classic 1980s sitcom, Cheers Cast!
We look at the 1982 pilot of the show, set in a downtown Boston bar, that would become a television juggernaut. Mike sits down with Ryan and fellow guests Rob Kelly and Omar Uddin to dig in and talk about a piece of TV history.
Does the show hold up? Does it hit the ground running in the pilot? Is it really funny? Not to be a total spoiler, but yes, yes and yes.
On our current episode schedule, we produce two full panel episodes of Radio vs. the Martians! every year. Casey moderates one of these discussions, and Mike moderates the other.
In April, Mike moderated a talk about the manga epic, Akira. Later this year, Casey will do the same for another topic to be announced soon!
For our first panel episode of 2019, Mike will be moderating again. And we’re letting our supporters on Patreon choose what we’re going to talk about!
Our patrons will be able to choose from:
SPIDER-MAN – Marvel’s classic web-slinging superhero in all of his incarnations, including comic books, animation and six feature films! Angst, superheroics and plenty of quips!
FRIDAY THE 13TH – The iconic 1980s slasher film series about Jason Voorhees, everyone’s favorite machete-wielding maniac, terrorizing the residents of Crystal Lake, Manhattan and even outer space! Novelty deaths, boobs and plenty of blood!
HARRY POTTER – J.K. Rowling’s extremely popular fantasy series about a British boy wizard who discovers his destiny at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and in battling a long-thought dead evil wizard who murdered his parents.
JOE DANTE – The director of such cinematic classics as Gremlins (and its sequel, Gremlins 2: the New Batch), The ‘Burbs, Matinee, Explorers, Innerspace, and the Howling!
THE LORD OF THE RINGS – J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novels about hobbits, wizards, rangers and an evil magical ring — and the movies that they inspired!
PREACHER – The 1990s DC/Vertigo comic book series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon about a West Texas preacher, his assassin ex-girlfriend, and an Irish vampire on a literal roadtrip to find God hiding on Earth. Full of graphic violence, blasphemy and dark humor.
JOHN WOO – The legendary Hong Kong action director famous for his extremely fluid and over-the-top visual style, who brought us the Killer, Hard Boiled, Face/Off, Hard Target and Broken Arrow. Expect plenty of people wielding two guns at once, doves, and explosions!
It’s not too late to become one of our Patreon patrons and get in on this action! Join us! Even just a buck a month makes you eligible to vote!