We're from Berkeley. We are cats. We make records. Now we have a Podcats. Because of course we do. What do we yap about? Anything we want to. Who is we? We is me, your host, Eric Din.
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A more-or-less weekly podcast dedicated to all things geeky in pop culture and entertainment. We talk about everything from film and television to books, comics, video games, and more.
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Overtime Radio, with host Zain Shahzad, is an informative podcast that brings the most experienced people in different fields to discuss their work, lifestyle, and effect on today's world. From fighters to authors, the guests consistently bring forth interesting stories and experiences that will provide the listener with different perspectives on today's world.
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Songs herein - COVENTRY by Eric Roy Dinwiddie REMEMBER a Greg Kihn original, as performed by The FAVES APOLLO 11 by Russ & Bella Ellis & Fam Read our mewsletter for more on all of this and more. And please support moveon.org or your favorite Blue-Wave-causing orgs, fervently. Thank you.By Eric Din
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Musics herein: https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/track/pogo-dancing-in-my-sleep (all of it) https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/track/baby-baby-baby-baby-baby-baby-baby-i-love-you (all 23 babies!) https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-see-it-now (the not backwards version!) https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/track/i-quit-gone-fishen-2 (volcano upgrade!) Oh! And, …
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515 - That Was Then: The Incredibles (feat. Eric Sipple)
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In an age where Deadpool & Wolverine is set to smash box office records, it can be hard to remember what things were like in the first wave of superhero blockbusters. Costumes were primarily made of black leather, nu-metal montages were all the rage, and yet–there was a willingness and desire to be experimental that is often lacking today. That's t…
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Hail and well met! This week, Paul and Arlo raise their overpriced goblets to Lance Oppenheim’s HBO docuseries Ren Faire. The three-episode series concerns the nation’s largest Renaissance faire, the Texas Renaissance Festival, and the power-hungry Oompa Loompas looking to take over the chocolate factory from their perverted Willy Wonka. The boys a…
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513 - The Tortured Parents Department
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The stork just made a special delivery, and it’s a new episode of Gobbledygeek! Bat-Turkey also welcomes a new addition to the family: Alexandra Jade Wiley, who came into this world on April 28, 2024. Arlo’s second daughter has arrived at a pivotal time, a time in which Paul has become consumed by Taylor Swift’s life-altering new album The Tortured…
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Here be things: https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/album/i-changed-my-mind-epBy Eric Din
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For the first time this season, Paul and Arlo have lost the plot. That’s right, the beloved Gobbledygeek freestyle episode has returned, new and improved for 2024, including such scintillating subjects as: Back pain! Stomach bugs! Car crashes! Country mouse Arlo took a trip to New York City, taking a bite out of the Big Apple for the very first tim…
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511 - That Was Then: Gunga Din (feat. Michael Holland)
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You’re a better podcaster than us, Michael Holland. That’s right, the City of Angels’ very own boy wonder is back to take Paul and Arlo to film school. The That Was Then classic gracing our screens this time is George Stevens’ 1939 adventure film Gunga Din, starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The gang discusses the film’…
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Din's records may be found here: https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/By Eric Din
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Some items mentioned herein: https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/album/on-top-of-the-world https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/track/island-life https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/track/laws-and-sausage-refried https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/track/barf https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/album/caterwaul-solo-acoustic-set-at-down-home-music…
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510 - FCF: Uzumaki (feat. Eric Sipple)
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Around and around we go, where we’ll stop–only Arlo knows! For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Gobbledygeek’s enfant terrible has chosen Junji Ito’s 1998-99 horror manga Uzumaki. Will Paul ever forgive him? On hand to find out is The Deli Counter of Justice co-conspirator Eric Sipple, who will be appearing on FCF episodes for infinity. The gang …
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Links we likes: https://thepsycoticpineapple.bandcamp.com/album/cant-escape-from-the-rock https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/album/on-top-of-the-world https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/album/street-party https://front.moveon.org https://swingleft.orgBy Eric Din
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509 - FCF: Weavers (feat. Eric Sipple)
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Oh, what a tangled web we Weavers! For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo trap Eric Sipple in their web once more, this time to discuss Simon Spurrier & Dylan Burnett’s Lovecraftian mob story Weavers. Despite being big fans of Spurrier’s (author of past FCF favorites Six-Gun Gorilla and The Spire), Paul and Arlo aren't quite sure what…
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As they say, don’t drink and podcast, but here Paul and Arlo are talking about 2004’s Sideways for another round of That Was Then. Alexander Payne’s acclaimed dramedy follows alcoholic wine connoisseur Miles as he takes his bonehead best buddy Jack on a road trip through Santa Barbara the week before Jack’s due to get hitched. It is the Fox Searchl…
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507 - That Was Then: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
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We’re speeding away at breakneck speed with another installment of our That Was Then series. This time Paul and Arlo are witnesses to The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a 1974 subway heist thriller that is exactly what it says on the tin. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! But our boys do struggle to find much to say, choosing to highlight…
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506 - That Was Then: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (feat. Michael Holland)
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For the next installment in our That Was Then series, Paul and Arlo cast their minds back to 1964–a year that predates both of them, though the era’s Beatlemania might as well be Arlo’s spiritual birthplace. This time, they’re popping paisley parasols for Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a sung-through opera told in the style of a Hollywo…
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Who ya gonna call? Gobbledygeek! For the first installment of our That Was Then series, taking a look back at movies celebrating anniversaries in 2024, Paul and Arlo take residence at Spook Central for 1984’s Ghostbusters. Turning a frightful 40 this year, Ivan Reitman’s classic comedy began as a high-concept riff on the “slobs v. snobs” template m…
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504 - FCF: Superman for All Seasons (feat. Eric Sipple)
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Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the Gobbledygeek season 15 premiere! Breaking from vaguely defined tradition, Paul and Arlo are kicking off the season with a Four-Color Flashback, and their pal Eric Sipple is on hand to help turn the pages. Arlo has chosen to subject Paul and Eric to the classic Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale collab Superm…
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Linksus, Maximus: https://berkeleycatrecords.substack.com/ https://berkeleycatrecords.com/By Eric Din
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Relevant relevancies: https://berkeleycatrecords.com/category/nonuffya-bizznis/ https://theuptones.bandcamp.com/track/step-down-live-rheem-theater-1986 https://berkeleycatrecords.substack.com/ Merry Merrities, From all at BCRBy Eric Din
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503 - Twisted Christmas: Black Christmas vs. A Christmas Story
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You’ll slash your eye out, Kidder! To close out our truncated season, it’s a Twisted Christmas double feature, as Paul and Arlo explore both of Canadian auteur Bob Clark’s yuletide classics: 1974’s proto-slasher Black Christmas and the 1983 staple A Christmas Story. The boys separately find each of these movies to be deeply annoying…but who couldn’…
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What is there for a young, mixed-race woman to do in feudal Japan? Reject all traces of her femininity, assume the masculine identity of a ronin, and seek revenge on any of the four white men in the whole country who could potentially be her father. Is Mizu a demonic half-breed, an enlightened warrior, or something else altogether? Created by Micha…
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We’re crash-landing back into regular podcasting with the Max original animated series Scavengers Reign. Created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, the seeds of Scavengers Reign were planted in an Adult Swim short before blossoming into a brilliant sci-fi series teeming with surrealist detours and bits of body horror. Paul and Arlo rave about …
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500 - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (feat. Eric Sipple)
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500 episodes! Can you believe it? What incredibly special way will we choose to commemorate this event??? By, well, just having a regular episode discussing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with our good friend Eric Sipple. At one point this past summer, we weren’t sure another episode was ever going to happen, so this seems like a fitting celeb…
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Pertinent links, thither: https://berkeleycatrecords.com/safe-to-cry-now-by-piero-amadeo-infante/ https://berkeleycatrecords.com/category/eric-din/ https://berkeleycatrecords.com/disco-pussy/By Eric Din
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Links! We have links. Here are links: https://ericdin.bandcamp.com/album/charlotte-in-the-garden-of-the-new-futility https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/faves1/higher-and-higher-2 https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ericdin/caterwaul-2 https://berkeleycatrecords.substack.com/ https://swingleft.org/ https://moveon.org/ Wait, aren't those last two actual…
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ERIC DIN (and The UPTONES!) on Bandcamp THE UPTONES early recordings on Bandcamp DISCO PUSSY on Bandcamp Berkeley Cat Records World Hindquarters 1983 Lyric Video burning up the YouToobs and lastly but mostly, The BCR Mewsletter, to which we invite you to subscribe. It's free, and commercial-free. So is this PodCats. Bye now…
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Lyric video of 1983 CONTENT album for sale at Bandcamp Play 1983 single on Pandora Play 1983 single on Spotify Play it on Apple Play with kittens. Play guitar. Play with your food. Play, play, play! Artwork by Shannon WheelerBy Eric Din
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499 - Geek Challenge: Xanadu vs. Mulholland Drive
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You have to believe Gobbledygeek is magic. Or at the very least, that Paul and Arlo will revel in cinematic magic on the latest Geek Challenge. Robert Greenwald's infamous 1980 flop Xanadu is paired with David Lynch's acclaimed 2001 masterpiece Mulholland Drive for a fantastical discussion of filmic fantasy. The boys argue that Xanadu should not be…
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In brightest day, in blackest night, no listener shall escape the Four-Color Flashback’s might! In an unusual turn of events, Paul has selected a DC book–but, of course, it’s an unusual one. Published under DC’s Young Animal imprint, curated by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, Far Sector is a Green Lantern murder mystery written by N.K. Jemisin (i…
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Misinformed on Bandcamp Misinformed on Pandora Misinformed on Spotify Misinformed on Apple MusicBy Eric Din
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497 - Geek Challenge: Stick Season vs. Blood on the Tracks
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Are you feeling “Homesick”? Are you all “Tangled Up in Blue”? Dogged by a “Simple Twist of Fate” or, perhaps, sippin’ on gin and “Orange Juice”? Then boy, do we have the Geek Challenge for you! Dipping their toes in musical waters for the first time in a while, our boys are listening to one of each other’s favorite albums. Paul has challenged Arlo …
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For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo tackle a blindspot from one of their favorite writers. Gene Luen Yang, author of Gobbledyfaves like American Born Chinese and Avatar: The Last Airbender, tells the brutal story of the Boxer Rebellion in Boxers & Saints. The graphic novel duology delves into complex subjects like faith, spirituali…
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495 - HBO’s The Last of Us, Season One (feat. Dale & Ensley Guffey)
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Love can spread like a fungus throughout the soul, eradicating any shred of self-control. For a thorough depiction of that sentiment, we turn to HBO’s The Last of Us, a TV adaptation of the blockbuster video game series. Joining Paul and Arlo to talk everything mushroom are authors and pop culture enthusiasts Dale and Ensley Guffey, stopping by the…
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494 - Geek Challenge: Alice vs. Labyrinth
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You remind me of the pod…the pod with the geeks. Paul and Arlo fall down the rabbit hole of another Geek Challenge, this time pitting Jim Henson’s 1986 cult classic Labyrinth against Jan Švankmajer’s 1988 headtrip Alice. Henson’s film finds Jennifer Connelly dancing with David Bowie and a variety of Muppets as she attempts to rescue her baby brothe…
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Unreleased new mix of Island Life, some other musical previews, musings about the weather and climate, and more frogs.By Eric Din
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Time to rise, roar, and revolt as Paul and Arlo engage in some extreme piggybacking with S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR. This alt-history epic is the rare Indian film to make a splash in the Western world, and our boys approach it as only two ignorant white guys can: with almost no knowledge of Indian culture or film! Nevertheless, they are in love with the …
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492 - FCF: We Only Find Them When They’re Dead
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Got a hankerin’ for god meat? Well, pull out your giant lightsaber knife and feast on a new Four-Color Flashback! For the first FCF of 2023, Paul and Arlo set out at warp speed to seek enlightenment with Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo’s We Only Find Them When They’re Dead. The BOOM! Studios series, whose 15-issue run wrapped in December, is set hundred…
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We’re back, baby! After a longer than expected hiatus, Gobbledygeek has returned for season 14. That’s right, we’re up to 14 seasons of Paul and Arlo babbling on about any manner of nonsense–which they continue to do in this freestyle season premiere. 2023 has come in like a lion and is likely to go out like one, so we find our boys licking their w…
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490 - Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
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Is that a tree branch on your face, or are you just lying to me? An extra-long Gobbledygeek season finale takes root with a discussion of Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson’s new stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio. Paul and Arlo discuss the numerous ways del Toro has made Carlo Collodi’s immortal tale his own, chiefly by making it a study of mo…
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489 - Geek Challenge: White Christmas vs. Eyes Wide Shut
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Hang your stockings by the chimney, roast some chestnuts on that open fire, and prepare yourself for a very special Twisted Christmas installment. Our annual yuletide derangement has morphed into a Geek Challenge, featuring two obviously similar films: Paul has challenged Arlo to Michael Curtiz’s holly jolly classic White Christmas (1954), and in t…
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488 - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (feat. Kenn Edwards)
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Now that rock star biopics have peaked with Elvis, what else can the genre do but get Weird? Dare to be stupid with Paul, Arlo, and Alex Jonestown Massacre guitarist Kenn Edwards as they discuss Weird: The Al Yankovic story. Everyone’s favorite accordionist parodies Oscar bait bologna to tell a fact-free version of his own life story, starring obvi…
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Aho, podcast listeners! To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, Paul and Arlo check in on the latest season of Reservation Dogs, possibly the best show on TV. It would be hard to top Rez Dog’s freshman year, a revelatory season filled with joy, pain, and a whole bunch of shitasses. Yet that’s exactly what Sterlin Harjo and his collaborators ha…
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We Get Pod With A Little Help From Our Cats!
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Get With A Little Help From My Friends album by Dave Seabury, here: https://daveseabury.bandcamp.com/ Follow Dave's FaceFrizzle, here: https://www.facebook.com/dave.seabury Help support Raphael Warnock in the imminent oh-so-important runoff election, here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/wfg_ads_gs-a That's about it :) Thanks and cheers, everyone…
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486 - Interview with the Vampire (1994)
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Listen to Gobbledygeek and live forever. This week, in a stealth continuation of this year’s Gobbledyween, Paul and Arlo head on down to New Orleans for Neil Jordan’s 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice’s classic Interview with the Vampire. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Antonio Banderas are the most beautiful men anyone could have cast as immortals in the mi…
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We all get lost, every now and then. Most of us don’t get quite as lost as the three film students at the center of The Blair Witch Project, a massive hit in 1999 whose reputation among the average moviegoer has also taken a massive hit. If you ask Arlo, though, it’s one of the greatest horror films ever made–and he tells Paul exactly why, as they …
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484 - Midnight Mass (feat. Joe Lewis)
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Leaves are on the ground, blood is on the screen–it’s time for a (very late) Gobbledyween! Gobbledygeek’s annual horror-thon returns for an abbreviated run, kicking things off with Mike Flanagan’s 2021 Netflix miniseries Midnight Mass. What at first seems like a riff on ‘Salem’s Lot–a vampire ingratiates himself into a tiny coastal community–become…
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