The Empire or Jedi Podcast

The Empire or Jedi Podcast


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#333 – Spotlight On: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
June 07, 2017

Michael Althouse may have addressed one of his cinematic blunders in the previous episode by finally watching The Road Warrior, but the future is not set. Michael Althouse still has one more wrong to right: watching Terminator 2: Judgment Day for the f...

#332 – Spotlight On: The Road Warrior
June 07, 2017

The time has come, yet again, to remind one of our own of his cinematic shame. I’m speaking, of course, of Michael Althouse: Host of Take of Your Pants and Podcast. He may have a scary knowledge of all things Blink 182,

#331 – My Sweet (Star) Lord
May 13, 2017

After weeks of shrugable content emitting from Hollywood we were finally treated to a blockbuster that is fun, exciting, and hopefully a sign of things to come in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. As good as James Gunn’s latest entry in the Marv...

The Monster Squadcast #021 – Chekov’s Flying V
May 01, 2017

With sentient dolls and spiders now out of the way, we arrive at what is perhaps the most frightening bugaboo of all: The Devil. So far the bugaboos we’ve dealt with have been relatively low level, not really affecting the squadcaster in question; but ...

The Monster Squadcast #020 – Terror-antula
April 26, 2017

Arachnophobia is a very common bugaboo and one that I have suffered from all of my life. You would think that for The Monster Squadcast’s Month of Bugaboo’s that I would have chosen Arachnophobia as my bugaboo pick,

The Monster Squadcast #019 – Whoa oh aahhh! It’s Magic!!!
April 19, 2017

The month of April is here, and with it comes a series of bugaboos for our intrepid group of monster squadcasters, films that will test their resolve and reveal their most terrible fears. First up: Nick Goathoof and his ironic fear of sentient toys (ir...

#330 – Empire or (The Last) Jedi
April 18, 2017

The wait is finally over; the Episode VIII theatrical trailer is finally here! And thank God it begins with Mark Hamill telling us to breathe; otherwise I think the collective fan community would have caused a great disturbance in the force with the sh...

Empire or Jidaigeki #3 – Kwaidan
April 17, 2017

Blood has been spilt. Our bodies are heavy. Mike and I have lived through violence during our time of Jidaigeki exploration. After such tangible horror, we pause for a moment around a flickering camp fire to experience horrors of a more surreal nature....

#329 – Spotlight On: Ghost in the Shell (2017)
April 13, 2017

Hot off the heels of 1995’s Ghost in the Shell, Goathoof and Mike opt for a change of pace with 2017’s Ghost in the Shell. Set in Neo-Who Knows Maybe Tokyo, the first(?) human brain with a full robo-body unravels a shadowy conspiracy and learns about h...

The Monster Squadcast #018 – Anything Goes in France
April 03, 2017

Now that Spring Break is behind us, and we have successfully rid Lake Victoria of all of its prehistoric piranhas, it’s time for the Squad to get back to school – veterinary school, to be exact, IN PARIS! Two of us in the Squad were excited by this pro...