As promised here's a little Spring 2024 movie and tv roundup. Basically everything Bill watched while he couldn't record for three months. Consider this our Beautiful Cinema catch up episode. We discuss Baby Reindeer, Fallout, Godzilla Minus One, and Civil War. Have thoughts about any of
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Sometimes the madness really hits. This episode's Mountains of Madness explores what it's like to be a digital hoarder when it feels like the infrastructure of the internet is crumbling a bit more each day. Also, Adobe's awful practices have led creatives (and the
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It's the first episode of Season 4. Don't worry, you haven't missed a thing. Feel like the end of days for anyone else? No? Just us? Well, anyway that's got us feeling a little nostalgic for simpler times. Like 2016. Bill found
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The DeadEndRoad Show celebrates 100 episodes the only way we know how: by getting really confused and then really sad. We've brought back Dating is Dead, and we already wish we didn't. We found the new way to post personal ads online, and calling them unhinged
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It's episode 99, which we have decided is the arbitrary penultimate episode of the season. What does that mean? Not much, it turns out. Ian really needed to explain how Love is Blind works though. Our big story is an update and conclusion to last episode's
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We've got some more publishing industry drama on deck this week, where we dare to ask the question: what the hell happened at the Hugo Awards? TL;DR: stop asking questions it's all fine, and if it wasn't fine, yes it was. Suspicious votes,
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New year, new reasons to realize the internet was a mistake. In Dead Letters, this dude keeps emailing me his book. So I decided to finally take Levar Burton's advice. I took a look. Mountains of Madness has us discuss the doomed virtual reality dreams of Facebook/Meta,
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This is the back half of our final recording session of the year, which is now our final episode of 2023. We discuss David Fincher's The Killer, Oppenheimer, and Sam Esmail's Leave the World Behind in that order. Apologies for the weird breathy audio in certain
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We've got a publishing industry-focused episode this week, as we take a look at the YA author who tanked their career over Goodreads sock-puppet accounts and attempted to cover for it in the goofiest manner possible. But before that, can anyone help explain this strange email? It'
We are in fact alive and back with another helping of watching the internet crumble all around us. Ian's down in the dumps and I don't think this week's topics will help him out much. Our main story concerns the tragic passing of hockey
We’ve got a particularly mad Mountains of Madness for you this week, as we talk about a brave landlord protecting his tenants from turning into zombies from that scary emergency alert that came and went. Then we get into why Google search is so awful now, straight from Google’
It’s spooky season, and that means our Horror Harvest is back again to bring you the scares and movie takes you’ve come to know. Which are worse for your health? This time we’ve got Evil Dead (2013), and it’s hard not to compare it to the
We’ve got some bookish stories for you in this one. First up, what the hell is going on with these scammy ebook apps on the Google Play Store? Our SEO/AI-driven hellscape continues unabated. Then we discuss the Seattle Kraken BookTok incident. When fandom becomes harassment in an arena
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) circulated a list of songs to all of its radio stations that were suggested to not be broadcast. Some of the picks make sense, others absolutely do not. We go through the list, a time capsule of the thought
In our first Book Club episode we discuss Paul Tremblay’s The Pallbearers Club, the pseudo-memoir novel filled with New England dread, medical anxiety, vampire orbs, and 80s punk. What did we think of the unique formatting and hyper-focused interiority of the narration? Give it a listen to find out.
Here with a solo pod, because I have some stuff I want to talk about. Like the new Ari Aster movie, Beau is Afraid, and how it’s a 3 hour long nightmare for the paranoid among us. Specifically me. Later I’ve got an anime check in, as a
