SlurpToast

I Like Getting Touched in a Special Way

After a bonus week off so Bruce could get his kids graduated, the boys are back, playing catch up and discussing stuff.

What stuff you may ask?

How about:

• garage bands
• bland MMA fighters
• Hulu's Modok
• revisiting stuff we loved from our youth, specifically Real Genius and Fletch
• The Negro League Museum
• home repair
• Stephe's battles with a gopher
• Moon Knight
• The Eternals
• Kyle Kinane
• Stephe's daughter tap dancing to RATM
• Jim Thompson

All this and more on the latest episode of SlurpToast

Remastering Elvis in the Age of Hot Topic

The podcast turns 21 and welcomes its newest sponsor, King Fu.

Then the boys talk about a whole slew of topics including:

• Elvis impersonators
• MMA
• Cheaters
• Recasting Smokey & the Bandit for the new weed culture
• Stephe's misadventures with dial up porn
• Umpire Angel Hernandez
• Greg Rucka's Lazarus
• Invinicible
• The Marvel Superhero RPG
• Adult Swim

And we end things with another look at what's on Stephe's desk (spoiler alert - its a toy).

It's a lot, but it's well worth your time.

Never Go Full Marple aka She Sits a Mean Dick

Recorded April 28, 2021

Postponed due to Covid vaccines and called on account of inclement weather, we hit episode 20 with no script and, as usual, almost no clue what we are going to talk about.

It doesn't slow down things as we rush headlong into discussions about

• Covid vaccines
• Falcon and the Winter Soldier
• The future of the Netflix MCU
• Shang-Chi
• Sports radio
• Letterbox'd
• Nobody
• Ong Bak
• Action movies in general
• Stephe's discovery of the Brokenwood Mysteries on Acorn
• Mare of Easttown and its similarity to Broadchurch
• The Nevers (aka Steampunk X-Men)

And to wrap things up, we play our first ever game of "What's on Stephe's Desk?"  The answers may surprise you.

And we got it all in before the Central Texas weather took Bruce down again.

...Because of the Ball Gag

Recorded April 8, 2021

Episode 19 is in the books and coming at you in that SlurpToast style to which you've become accustomed.

We start out with some work chat and then segue into what are becoming regular segments for us:  baseball and Moon Knight.

After that we touch on whole range of topics including, but not limited to:

• Batman (specifically how he lost his money)
• The Metal Men
• Bruce's colonoscopy
• Invincible (the animated series on Prime)
• King Kong (76) aka Rape Ape
• Kong v. Godzilla
• Why comics are still sold as single issues
• Falcon and the Winter Soldier
• The upcoming Loki series

We try to end the show on a classy note with Stephe discussing the book he is currently reading, Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It.  You're welcome for the plug James Geary.

It Translates to the Infected Sandwich

Has it been two weeks already?

We've got a full slate this week.

The topics we discuss include:

• The Snyder Cut
• Falcon and the Winter Soldier
• Moon Knight
• Jim Lee in charge of DC creative
• Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Fate
• Chumbawumba
• Covid-19 vaccines
• Fantastic Four Sex Jokes
• Marvel Lucha Libre Pops
• Funko Soda
• Spring Training
• Godzilla v. Kong

And our main topic is a discussion of how long television shows should go one.  Stephe's recent first time binge of Community leads us into a discussion of why shows go on long after they are vital, shows that have stayed too long, shows that stayed strong until the end and what the differences can be.

We got really into it so this one goes a little long.

Secret Age of Infinite Rebirth Crises...Wars

aka You're About to Find Out What Your Dick's Biggest Fear Is

After a technical glitch, the boys jump into the comic book conversation in earnest this week.

The specific focus (if there is such a thing on SlurpToast) is the repeated and frequent continuity reboots of the big two.  Stemming from a conversation Stephe had on another show about DC's Infinite Frontier, the topics tonight include:

• Spawn
• Moon Knight (duh)
• Black Hammer
• Batman
• The Flash
• Squadron Supreme
• The Snyder Cut
• WandaVision
• And, the tax benefits of being Batman

It makes sense.  It really does.

Stephe also asked me to put a link to the WWE History I am currently reading.  The book is titled We Promised You a Great Main Event:  An Unauthorized WWE History and it's a snarky delight.

Little Dick Energy and World Series Balls

Bruce has finally dug out of the Texas Snowpacalypse and the boys are ready to record again.

In addition to stories of braving the cold and new hot water heaters, they discuss:

• Gina Carano and what her exit from Disney+ means to our fan casting of her as Big Barda
• Keanu as Kraven
• JLaw as Sue Storm
• Stephe's continued struggles with Extreme Yoga on Instagram
• Karate and MMA
• Funko
• The Snyder Cut
• Matt Stairs
• Situational middle relievers
• Justin Verlander's sloppy seconds

Lots of stuff covered with only a few awkward silences.

And a big shout out to David at Radiant Plumbing for getting Bruce and his family hot water again so quickly.

Why Are There So Many Damned Pouches?

Our little podcast hits 15 and celebrates it's audio Quincenera.

Sadly there were no nachos or tequila.

There was, however, Jefferson's Reserve bourbon.

There was also entertaining, free form discussion about a large variety of topics including:

• Stephe making salesmen cry
• The short squeeze
• Cobra Kai
• John Grisham
• George RR Martin
• The Big Game
• Major League Baseball
• The chances of SDCC 2021 actually taking place
• WandaVision
• Other possible Marvel properties that would be a good fit for Disney+

As you can see, it was all over the place.

It wasn't a trainwreck, but it was certainly disjoined.

Just the way we like it.

Hot Droid on Droid Action

Episode 14 drops on the fourth anniversary of us deciding to do a podcast.

Today we discuss, among other things:

• No tequila received from Teremana
• The possible Batman:  The Animated Series reboot/sequel
• Ethan Hawke's casting in Moon Knight
• That somehow segues into a short discussion of Scott Steiner
• Tonight's booze of choice, Desert Door Texas Sotol
• Point Break

Then we get into tonight's main topic, NBC's Must See TV and the various awful shows they used to plug the holes between their home run hitters over the years.  We play name the star and/or plot of several shows and riff on several others.

Finally, we discuss why Generation X will likely never produce a president.

All brought to you by our new sponsor, Tequila Plancha.

Holla if you hear us!

Here is a link to the article we refer to in the Must See TV segment.

 

Podcasting While Rome Burns or Else the Terrorists Win

Baker's dozen episode tonight, recording while the fallout of Sedition Day plays out in real time.

On this episode we talked about:

• The Mandolorian
• Warrior
• Kung Fu
• Tanya Roberts
• Our burgeoning fame in New Zealand
• Stephe's use of his stroke as a cudgel

The episode was originally going to be our first Book Club, but we got a bit sidetracked.  We eventually brought the conversation back around to discuss Jack Kirby's Fourth World in general and Tom King's amazing Mister Miracle series in specific.  If you're a Kirby fan, you're gonna like our deep cuts.