Which Pop Culture Works Could Become Operas?

Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we're proud to present another episode of Mediasplode!

What's a Mediasplode? It's a monthly special edition show in which we talk about what we are enjoying in media outside of the realm of comic books. It's like our All Media Year End Round-Up but in a shorter, monthly format.

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SPOILERS BELOW!

Running Time: 01:06:23

This month, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick are joined by their original Pick of the Week co-host Ron Richards to discuss...

What We've Been Enjoying:
00:03:15  - Josh loved Downey Wrote That on Peacock but didn't really love Smoke on AppleTV+
00:15:25 - Conor (and Ron) loved the latest season of Only Murders in the Building on Hulu and salutes the end of WTF with Marc Maron
00:22:04 - Ron (and Conor) are loving The Lowdown on Hulu and he got to the theaters to see Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein

Year-End Mailbag!:
00:30:52  - Patrick K. from North Carolina asks if any movies we saw as kids shocked us that we were allowed to see?
00:34:02 - Dan C. from New Jersey wants to know what IP could be translated to opera?
00:37:27 -  Woulter L. asks a great question about the impact of removing the Beatles or another media creator from the timeline and what the impact would be
00:43:22  - Pete wants to know if we listen to college radio?
00:50:55 - Zak H. from Milwaukee is looking for (hypothetical) book recommendations about the mafia (which doesn't exist).
00:53:11 - Doug M. wants to know more movies that are "bad" but also "good"?
00:58:28 - Stephen H. from Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom wants to know if anyone in our families shame us for our interests?
01:01:02 - Jacob asks a fantastic question about G.I. Joe vs. Predator that breaks our brains.

Music:
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• Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss Blade (1998) on Cradle to the Grave.
• Listen to Josh discuss Fargo on Movie of the Year: 1996.
• Listen to Conor discuss Swingers on Movie of the Year: 1996.
• Watch Ron talk about pinball technology on the Daily Tech News Show.
• Listen to Conor discuss Ghostbusters on Movie of the Year: 1984.
• Listen to Conor, Josh, and Ron discuss The Crow (1994) on Cradle to the Grave.
• Listen to Josh discuss Jaws 4: The Revenge (1987) on Cradle to the Grave.
• Listen to Josh discuss Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) on Cradle to the Grave.
• Watch Josh and Conor talk about how to start a podcast on OpenWater.

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