Rob, Mike, and Matt tackle the spooky and bizarre hit movie - Late Night with the Devil. We each have our own take on whether this movie is a hidden gem or just another horror flick. There are spoilers for the movie, so check the movie out first before this podcast.And stay tuned to the end of this episode as Rob welcomes a special guest leading to…

A Truly Grand Tour! Vivid first person accounts and Brilliant nature writing: "A visit to Niagara Falls", by Fanny Trollope, from Domestic Manners of Americans, 1832 "The Approach to the Valley" and "The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley Was Formed," by John Muir, from The Yosemite. 1912 "The Grand Canyon" by Major John Wesley Powell, from …

Originally published in Harper’s Magazine, Christmas 1905, it is widely believed that "Eve's Diary, (with interpolated extracts from Adam's Diary)" is Mark Twain’s tribute to his late, beloved wife, Olivia Langdon Clemons. BONUS: this episode includes a selection of the tender recollections of Elizabeth Scholl of Ukiah from "Mendocino County Rememb…

Mike, Matt, and Rob finally got together to review what they deemed the Second Best movie starring pro-wrestling legend and actor "Rowdy" Roddy Piper - Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies. We discussed the elements that make up a typical Piper movie, which include one-liners, action sequences, and music. We analyzed the movie's dialogue, which was heavily ad…

Selections from the genius of Edward Lear: Limericks, A Book of Nonsense, 1846; The Pobble Who has No Toes, Laughable Lyrics, 1877; To Make An Amblongus Pie, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, 1871; “How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!” and Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865; Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found …

The Masters of Nonsense embark on a new cinematic adventure to determine pro wrestling legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper's SECOND best movie. Mike, Rob, and Matt reviewed different movies from his filmography to see where they rank in his acting career. If you're a fan of wrestling, cinema, or simply intrigued by hidden gems, this podcast episode is a mus…

The runaway success of Palworld has drawn controversy about whether it's a low-effort knockoff of existing games and if it was at least partially made using AI. Does Nintendo really have grounds to sue? Does AI pose a serious threat to artists, society at large, and worst of all, Taylor Swift? Let's get into it. Subscribe to us on youtube.com/utter…

Meet Kindred Spirits: Great fiction featuring Unusual allies, Surprising companions, and Unlikely friendships of wonderful fictional characters: from the novel The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim; Makes the Whole World Kin, a short story by O. Henry, and the poetry of archy & mehitiabel by Don Marquis. Read for you by Linda Pack…

Released in 2016, "Train to Busan" has solidified its place as one of the most celebrated zombie movies in the modern era. This thrilling film takes the genre to new heights, and we couldn't resist watching it, all thanks to a fantastic suggestion from one of our listeners.Our listener recommended "Train to Busan" and even placed it on their list o…

Trouble is brewing for many film franchises; audience turnout isn't what it used to be. Why have Marvel, DC, Disney, and Pixar, among others, released so many box office flops recently? We attempted to string together enough coherent sentences in order to answer that question on this year-in-review episode of Utterly Nonsense. Links to follow us on…

A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Being a Ghost Story for Christmas, by Mr. Charles Dickens Brought to life with music and special effects in an original, 1-hour Radio adaptation by R. Bobby, Michael Ducharme, and Linda Pack This production was designed and directed by Linda Pack, and recorded by Alicia Bales at the KZYX Studio in Philo. The sound was mixed by Pe…

Featuring works by Carl Sandburg and Willa Cather, and the true story of Helen Carpenter’s "Journey by Ox Cart to Potter Valley in 1856." Read for you by Linda Pack and Special Guest Kate Magruder. Special Thanks to Judy Mayhan for her recording of "Everything Must Change".By Linda Pack

A literary feast about our greatest love, Food! A veritable smorgasbord of stories by Carl Sandburg, Saki (H.H. Munro) and O. Henry accompanied by some tasty tidbits of culinary history.By Linda Pack

It's about time we discuss the state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the wake of Secret Invasion, the underwhelming reveal of Kang The Conqueror, and the looming of Loki Season 2, Phase 5 of the MCU has been... something. — Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PA6t2C4WVtk Check us out on utterlynonsense.com.…

The Resident Evil live action movie challenge is back on in a NEW episode of Surviving the Horror. 6 years since we powered through all 6 Resident Evil movies starring Milla Jovovich, we got back together to watch Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City. Was Johannas Roberts' take on the video game franchise the revival this series needed?…

This program features selections from Banned Books. Hear what many people, over centuries, have not wanted you to hear! Featured authors include: Nicholas Copernicus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain,George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, James Joyce This program is in honor of Banned Books Week, an annual event sponsored each September by the American Librar…

It's over at last, thank Grodd. That finale was... something. Yes, we're talking about The Flash, again, but for what will HOPEFULLY be the last time. In this retrospective episode, we discuss whether the long-running CW series had a distinct rise and decline, as many believe, or if in fact the elements which led to its supposed downfall were prese…

A tale from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction by one of the foremost creators of the classic mystery story, The Baroness Emma Orczy, and featuring The Old Man in the Corner, the first "armchair detective,” Intriguing, Entertaining, Ingenious!By Linda Pack

It's been a long time coming... The Flash (2023) FINALLY released after nearly a decade of development, only to fail spectacularly. Why did a once promising film that James Gunn described as "the greatest comic book movie ever made" bomb at the box office? We discuss it all on this week's milestone episode. Part ONE of TWO. Watch the video version …

Poems, memoirs, and short stories about Our Best Friends, featuring Rudyard Kipling’s "The Cat That Walked By Himself" and "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog", by O.Henry.By Linda Pack

A selected condensation of Virginia Woolf’s luminous, thought-provoking masterwork. Beautiful, compassionate, and truly human. Read for you by Linda Pack.By Linda Pack

In the 1970’s & 80’s, the spiritual, questing exodus of people seeking something other than the status quo created a unique constellation of talent and energy in Mendocino County. Lenny Laks, Bobby Markels, Antonia Lamb, Bonnie Sanger, Chester Anderson were among those artists in an extraordinary place, in an extraordinary time. This is some of the…

An unabashed appreciation of the joy of being literate! Featuring the first few chapters of the 1907 novel “Parnassus on Wheels” a delightful story of that caravan of culture, the rural American Travelling Bookstore. Read for you by Linda Pack and special guest Jamie Roberts.By Linda Pack

Published in the California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1941. (courtesy of The California Historical Society) The saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl who in 1862, when she was 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90's, she told her story…

James Gunn has revealed the first stage of his and Peter Saffran's plan for DC on film and television. We discuss our reactions, outlooks, and expectations. Find all the links on utterlynonsense.com.

A literary exploration of of sleep, wakefulness, and dreaming with works by Marcel Proust, Dorothy Parker, Shakespeare; along with the mesmerizing tale of Ceux and Alcyone by Ovid.By Linda Pack

It's our last podcast of 2022! We're talking recent trailers, Marvel stuff, and of course the entire mess that's been going on at WB/DC Films. WATCH this livestreamed episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t9zQJAZeCHw Check out all the links you'll ever need: http://utterlynonsense.com/links.html

Stories from around the world to Celebrate the Return of the Light! The Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Roman Saturnalia, Norse and Celtic Yule feasts, the Jewish holiday of Hannukah, an Inuit tale of Raven, the Soyal Festival of Southwest Native Americans, and more! Share in the fortune telling tradition of the ancient Persian festival of Ya…

Classical and Contemporary, Comforting, Funny, Epic, and Passionate Read for you by Linda Pack, Kate Magruder and Nichole Phillips Rakes with Special Thanks to Michael Ducharme for his expert and kind assistance. FEATURED POETS: Edgar Lee Masters (from Spoon River Anthology), Devereaux Baker, Robert Frost, Charlotte Mew, Patricia Karch, Edna St. Vi…

Two legends from our childhoods have recently joined the pantheon of icons who have passed on to the next life. Today we remember what they gave us and what their legacy means to us. utterlynonsense.com

THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER is from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 collection of classic Greek and Roman myths: A Wonder Book, telling the story of a kind old couple’s generosity rewarded by the gods. Read for you by Linda Pack.By Linda Pack

Join us for our sixth annual observance of All Hallow's Eve as we delve into another horror outing by Get Out director Jordan Peele, and of course the final installment of the Blumhouse-produced Halloween trilogy. Will it really be the end? Find out on this episode of the podcast! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! All links available on utterlynonsense.co…

Once again, a female-led MCU feature has stirred up controversy for being "the worst thing Marvel has created and yet another example of woke garbage holding up a middle finger to comic book fans!" Or was it an accurate meta-commentary on toxic fandoms, which successfully baited the exact reaction it predicted it would get? Maybe everyone's overthi…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a revolutionary short story, written in 1892, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which will leave you wondering: “Does the narrator go mad or is she set free?” Read for you by Linda PackBy Linda Pack

It's finally time for a healthy dose of space-faring sci-fi! This week, we delve into what we thought of The Orville's 3rd season, go on about a couple of Star Treks, and present some examples of how episodic television can keep things fresh without hitting the reset button. Explore the nonsense over at utterynonsense.com.…

A special episode: From Pooh Corner: featuring selections from Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, plus the world premiere of a previously unknown Pooh poem, and the tender story surrounding its creation. Read for you by Linda PackBy Linda Pack

The ongoing saga of bizarre events surrounding all things related to WB Discovery is once again the topic of this week's episode. At this point, we're starting to think we'll have to run the company ourselves... Find all our links on utterlynonsense.com.

For the Love of Reading is now a Podcast! Featuring selections from Novels, complete short stories, poetry and non-fiction, read for you by Linda Pack. The First Episode, A Special Program for Pooh Corner, will drop on September 8, with new episodes every month. From KZYX and Z, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting.…

Everyone's favorite media company is amidst a reckoning as finished films are shelved, multiple series are cancelled and/or ended, executives and staff are shown the door, and the ROCK takes over! Well, that last part was an exaggeration but here's a fact: we're talking about news again, in the usual nonsensical way which we're known for by tens of…

Did we love Thor: Love and Thunder or was it a blunder? Was the Ms. Marvel series a CW-level teen drama? What was all that comic-con Marvel business about? Once again, we talk all things Marvel on this episode. As a heads up, we had some technical issues with the audio recording, but rest assured we are currently at work finding a padded cell for J…

Warner Bros' new brawler game not named Warner Brawlers or Smash Warners has now unofficially but officially released as an "open beta." We had a chance to play it early, so now we can tell you, per the usual, our deepest thoughts, feelings, opinions, and expel copious amounts of hot gas in the form of rants no one wanted to hear. Also, we talk bri…

As we predicted a year ago, the 2nd season of the CW's Superman series unfortunately fell back on the network's staple tropes. In other news, the new Star Wars series "Obi-Wan Kenobi" was a series. Our thoughts, reactions, and tangential rants, as always, on this week's episode. Visit utterlynonsense.com for more. Note: Paulie Walnuts actor Tony Si…

That's right, back to talking about DC again. Will we ever cover anything that isn't Marvel or DC? Maybe at some point, we'll just have to wait and see. Not today though, because this episode we have a spoilers discussion about the latest season of Young Justice and whether the move to streaming-only has affected its quality.Find all our links at u…

Spoiler! It's yet another Marvel review. The cycle repeats: we give our reactions, thoughts, theories, predictions, asides, struggle to not shout over each other, and go on unrelated rants about The Flash. Could there be another universe where we ever stay on topic? Find out on this episode! Check out all links at utterlynonsense.com.…

This week it's yet another episode about a Marvel series on Disney Plus, but this time the series is a bit more dissociated from the MCU continuity than the rest. Was the Oscar Isaac-led solo outing a potential new trendsetter for future Marvel projects? Listen now and find out!All links available on utterlynonsense.com.…

Was Morbius really that bad? It's the newest entry in Sony's Spider-less Cinematic Universe; it's not Venom, it's Morbius! This week, we discuss Jared Leto's latest role as a comic book character gone batty, and whether this film is actually as much of a dud as critic ratings have portrayed.Find all our links at utterlynonsense.com.…

This episode we talk about the new superhero film from Warner Bros. Surprise, it's about Batman! Again. Was it the best one yet, or another entry in an endless stream of comic book movies that we'll forget about by the time they move onto the next reboot in 5 years? Find out on this week's podcast. Check us out on utterlynonsense.com.…

Capes, mercenaries, and bounty hunters... the mission this week is to get up to speed on what we've been watching since the end of last year, and as is standard practice, to discuss our reactions, predictions, and of course go on plenty of rants. utterlynonsense.com

With the release of Sora in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and the game now considered to be a completed project by Nintendo, it was time for us to take a long, nostalgic look back on the series and our respective experiences playing through each iteration, including what we thought of all the DLC fighters as well as who we wished could have made it in…

This year, there will be carnage when Halloween kills Utterly Nonsense! Evil comes home again as we review the sequel to the latest reboot of the Michael Myers saga, in addition to the second installment of Sony's Venom film series. Were our predictions from 3 years ago accurate, and have our opinions changed since then? Find out on this episode of…