Boars, Gore, and Swords

No Way Out. Kino Loy’s finally ready to make a move, he just forgot one important skill tree. Luthean takes time to shake down a tweedy redhead, while Mon Mothma considers allowing her daughter to throw herself under the bus. Ivan & Red hate nepotism, but when Nightcrawler scribe Dan Gilroy is brought in by his brother Tony, exceptions will be made. Star Wars is good again?

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Direct download: 2022-12-20_BGaS_Episode_492_WYSBW_Andor_1x10.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:45am EDT

Nobody's Listening! Andy Serkis still thinks working within the system will save him, but that’s some Gollum as thinking he needs to move past. Vel returns home to live her Hall & Oatesiest Rich Girl life for a bit.

Ivan & Red hate nepotism, but when Nightcrawler scribe Dan Gilroy is brought in by his brother Tony, exceptions will be made. Star Wars is good again?

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Direct download: 2022-12-13_BGaS_Episode_491_WYSBW_Andor_1x09.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:30am EDT

Narkina 5. Despite being JUST A TOURIST, Andor’s been Shanghai’d to a prison on the Interstellar water planet. Ivan & Red hate nepotism, but when Nightcrawler scribe Dan Gilroy is brought in by his brother Tony, exceptions will be made. Star Wars is good again?

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Direct download: 2022-12-05_BGaS_Episode_490_WYSBW_Andor_1x08.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

The Eye & The Announcement. When it comes down to it not everyone on this Heist crew is what they seem. Ivan & Red hate nepotism, but when Nightcrawler scribe Dan Gilroy is brought in by his brother Tony, exceptions will be made. Star Wars is good again?

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Direct download: 2022-11-22_BGaS_Episode_489_WYSBW_Andor_1x06_1x07.mp3
Category:Andor -- posted at: 5:27pm EDT

Aldhani & The Axe Forgets. The only thing I love more than hanging out in Space Scotland is having a Space Heist. Ivan & Red hate nepotism, but when Nightcrawler scribe Dan Gilroy is brought in by his brother Tony, exceptions will be made. Star Wars is good again?

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Direct download: 2022-11-16_BGaS_Episode_489_WYSBW_Andor_1x04_1x05.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:03pm EDT

That Would Be Me & Reckoning. The lads finish this first movie now that the Star Wars are good again. When Tony Gilroy, the screenwriter behind four Bourne movies, decided to write a prequel to a prequel in the Star Wars universe, Ivan & Red were pulled back into the Star Wars Television Universe for one last rodeo! 

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Direct download: 2022-11-08_BGaS_Episode_488_WYSBW_Andor_1x02_1x03.mp3
Category:Andor -- posted at: 6:31am EDT

Kassa. When Tony Gilroy, the screenwriter behind four Bourne movies, decided to write a prequel to a prequel in the Star Wars universe, Ivan & Red were pulled back into the Star Wars Television Universe for one last rodeo!

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Direct download: 2022-11-02_BGaS_Episode_487_WYSBW_Andor.mp3
Category:wysbw -- posted at: 6:30am EDT

The Black Queen. Just when you thought Rhaenyra was out, THEY PULLED HER BACK IN. Sure there’s dragon fights, but more importantly DID YOU SEE THAT WARHAMMER TABLE??? Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon. 

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Direct download: 2022-10-24_BGaS_Episode_486_HOTD_1x10.mp3
Category:hotd -- posted at: 10:16pm EDT

The Green Council. No, the OTHER Aegon!!! Otto Hightower makes a play he’s been planning for decades, and frankly after hearing his oratory skills the lads are on his side. Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon. 

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Direct download: 2022-10-17_BGaS_Episode_485_HOTD_1x09.mp3
Category:hotd -- posted at: 10:49pm EDT

The Lord of The Tides. In which we do The Time Warp Again, hopefully for the final time. Six years have passed and King Viserys (not the baby Viserys) has one last chance to turn this Game of Thrones into one big happy family. I’m rooting for him! Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon. 

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Direct download: 2022-10-10_BGaS_Episode_484_HOTD_1x08.mp3
Category:hotd -- posted at: 6:29pm EDT

Driftmark. In an episode where King Viserys loses no further visible limbs, Aemond trades an eye for a Dragon, Jack shows the first stirs of rebellion, and Aegon just wants a door that locks from the inside. Also Rhaenyra reconnects with her Uncle *shudder*. Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon. 

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Direct download: 2022-10-03_BGaS_Episode_483_HOTD_1x07.mp3
Category:hotd -- posted at: 6:10pm EDT

The Princess and the Queen. Time to head Back to The slightly more Futuristic (but still distant) past. Did they recast all of the women in House of The Dragon or are all of the men in new relationships and they just have a 

‘type’? Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon. 

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Direct download: 2022-09-26_BGaS_Episode_482_HOTD_1x06.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:59pm EDT

We Light the Way. The Throne Games get serious as we meet Daemon’s wife and a royal match runs into issues with some concerned parties. Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon. 

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Direct download: 2022-09-19_BGaS_Episode_481_HOTD_1x05.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:19pm EDT

King of the Narrow Sea. With the war on the Stepstones over, it’s time for brothers to reunite and for everyone to have some good ‘ol family fun. Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon. 

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Direct download: 2022-09-12_BGaS_HoTD_1x04.mp3
Category:house of the dragon -- posted at: 5:26pm EDT

Second of His Name. With this many time jumps near Belfast, Rhaenyra’s mount should be a DeLorean. Get out the Old Bay, this could be our last crab feast for a while. Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon. 

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Direct download: 2022-09-05_BGaS_Episode_479_HOTD_1x03.mp3
Category:hotd -- posted at: 2:37pm EDT

The Rogue Prince AKA Episode 2. We’ve got a seafood special on the Stepstones: Sailors (this ad is for hungry Crabs who appreciate fine dining). Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon. 

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Direct download: 2022-08-29_BGaS_Episode_478_HOTD_1x02.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:34pm EDT

The Heirs of the Dragon. Back in the Dragon Saddle again. Ivan & Red return to Westeros to talk HBO’s (first ever?) spinoff show, The House of The Dragon.

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Direct download: 2022-08-22_BGaS_Episode_477_HOTD_1x01.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:56pm EDT

This is Doesn’t Sound Like Anything to Me, our Westworld recap podcast! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or via rss. Please leave us a review! It has a huge impact when the podcast season starts and it would be extremely helpful to throw some text and stars our way.

Futureworld, excuse me, Westworld is back and we’re getting down to the business of replacing politicians with candidates that can actually get the job done.. Ivan has his jazz cigarettes, Red’s got some bootlegger Rum, and they’re headed into Delos’s Golden Age.

Theme performed by Dan Preston, composed by Lucas Tuttle.

Logo by Nicole Peterson. 

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Direct download: 2022-07-04_BGaS_Episode_479_WYSBW_DSLATM_4x02.mp3
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Direct download: 2022-06-28_BGaS_Episode_478_WYSBW_DSLATM_4x01.mp3
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This is Doesn’t Sound Like Anything to Me, our Westworld recap podcast! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or via rss. Please leave us a review! It has a huge impact when the podcast season starts and it would be extremely helpful to throw some text and stars our way.

Over two years after Season 3, it’s hard to remember what happened in 2020, who can think of one single thing that happened that year? Not Ivan & Red. So they’re back to discuss who’s alive, who’s dead, who’s brain pearl is inside who’s head, and who’s got an appropriate 3-2-1 backup implemented (3 hosts, 2 guns, 1 off planet server).

Theme performed by Dan Preston, composed by Lucas Tuttle.

Logo by Nicole Peterson. 

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Direct download: 2022-06-23_BGaS_Episode_477_WYSBW_DSLATM_4x00.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:14pm EDT

Despite the fact that she knew her mom would catch her, Tonight Show writer Alexandria Love snuck out her window at 30 Rockefeller Plaza to yell at Ivan & Red about the latest great MCU pilot from Disney+, Ms. Marvel.

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Direct download: 2022-06-16_BGaS_Episode_476_WYSBW_Ms_Marvel.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 6:37am EDT

It’s the first sci-fi show to be sponsored by Werther's Original and turning your iPad notifications all the way up, it’s Prime Video’s Night Sky with J.K. Simmons & Sissy Spacek. Ivan & Red chuck a rock in The Mystery Hole for the second time on Prime Video in 2022 (See: Outer Range).

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Direct download: 2022-06-08_BGaS_Episode_475_WYSBW_Night_Sky.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

If a single producer green lights an infinite number of Star Wars series, eventually one of them will be Shakespeare’s Richard III. We’re not there yet but one of the lads likes this one. Ivan & Red tune into Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, which features performances by Ol’ Ben Kenobi and a child actor that both harken back to the prequels.

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Direct download: 2022-06-01_BGaS_Episode_474_WYSBW_Obi_Wan_Kenobi.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Why did Josh Brolin and Imogen Boots go from being top film actors to agreeing to be on a streaming sci-fi show? We do not know but we're glad they are here. Ivan & Red leap into The Hole to escape some terrifying country brothers and are compelled by what they find on the other side.

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Direct download: 2022-05-18_BGaS_Episode_473_WYSBW_Outer_Range.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

A TV show is on the air right now with Julia Roberts, Betty Gilpin, Shea Whigham, Dan Stevens, Hamish Linklater, and yet nobody’s watching it! Despite the title, Gaslit is real and it’s on Starz? *checks notes* Starz. Huh. Ivan & Red cover the part of the screen with Sean Penn in a fat suit and dive in.

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Direct download: 2022-05-11_BGaS_Episode_472_WYSBW_Gaslit.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Paramount+ has hitched its Warthog to one of the most quintessential post 9/11 video game franchises of our time in its 90 Million Dollar show: Halo. Ivan & Red spent an hour with a Spartan’s groin humping rhythmically in their face so you don’t have to.

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Direct download: 2022-05-05_BGaS_Episode_471_WYSBW_Halo.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Just because a show breaks up the long running partnership of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, doesn’t mean two lads in a bunker can’t strengthen their friendship over the resulting prestige television episode. Ivan & Red load a roll of grainy, oversaturated film into the camera and  HBO Max project, Winning Time.

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Direct download: 2022-04-28_BGaS_Episode_470_WYSBW_Winning_Time.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Robert Pattinson heads his first effort in the Batverse, and I for one welcome Batman! At The Disco. My Chemical Batman. Taking Bat Sunday. Dashbat Confessional. Bat New. He looks emo is what I’m saying. Ivan & Red slowly, menacingly, unhurriedly tromp into the studio to talk Matt Reeves’ The Batman.

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Direct download: 2022-04-21_BGaS_Episode_469_WYSBW_THE_Batman.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Spider-Man has truly reached its Boho Days and gone all in on cross rights nostalgia that dates back a whole two decades. Ivan & Red pull on discarded Goblin masks and dive in to find out if they exist in the multiverse where Spider-Man: No Way Home is a good movie.

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Direct download: 2022-04-13_BGaS_Episode_468_WYSBW_Spider_Man_NWH.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

With a cast featuring Hodor, Hizdahr zo Loraq, and a despicable character murdered unexpectedly, is it Game of Thrones or a David Jenkins (People of Earth) comedy? Ivan & Red talk good jokes, competent management, A-List celebrity Rory Kinnear, pirates, and Edward Row Boat Hands.

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Direct download: 2022-04-06_BGaS_Episode_467_WYSBW_OFMD.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

I did not have Ben Stiller directing a sci-fi psychological thriller on my 2022 bingo cards, but with a cast featuring Adam Scott AND Patricia Arquette, I’ve got my lucky stamper at the ready. It’s not clear if Apple TV+ is a real streaming network, but it looks like they might have a second good show! Ivan & Red talk work/life balance, Braun design, and talk the coolest Rick who ever Ricken’d.

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Direct download: 2022-03-16_BGaS_Episode_466_WYSBW_Severance.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Steven Soderbergh looked at the bloated, over-indulgent run times on modern movies and made a perfect 89 minute thriller starring Zoë Kravitz in the techno thriller, KIMI. Ivan & Red talk casting comics, tight cabling, unfilmable software, and the absolute worst man to have as your Dentist. Remember: Every Good Podcast Starts with A Good Listener: BGaS 6.0.

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Direct download: 2022-03-09_BGaS_Episode_465_WYSBW_Kimi.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

After an ill-fated heist, the lads found a machine that can play HI-8 and dove in. Ivan & Red talk about a surprisingly funny and well made show that should not have been made without the consent of Pamela Anderson, Hulu’s Pam & Tommy.

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Direct download: 2022-03-02_BGaS_Episode_464_WYSBW_Pam_and_Tommy.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

GOWNS, DARLING!!! Julian Fellowes has made his way across the pond and he’s bringing his trade mark Downton Abbey combo of classism and gowns to 19th century New York City in HBO Max’s The Gilded Age. Ivan & Red the minimum number of guests necessary for the show to go on, extremely minor heists, and the need for caution when googling “inflation calculator”.

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Direct download: 2022-02-23_BGaS_Episode_463_WYSBW_Gilded_Age.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Whodunnit?! The only thing we know for sure is it was someone in the LA COMEDY SCENE. Ivan & Red talk Apple TV’s The Afterparty, one of a myriad of murder mystery shows created to capitalize on the Success of Knives Out.

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Direct download: 2022-02-16_BGaS_Episode_462_WYSBW_Afterparty.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

This is the podcast where Ivan & Red will kill whoever they need to in the name of justice. That’s right, it’s HBO Max’s Peacemaker, the John Cena vehicle created as a spinoff of The Suicide Squad (2021) (Not to be confused with Suicide Squad (2016)). Let Eagly wrap his noble arms around you.

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Direct download: 2022-02-09_BGaS_Episode_461_WYSBW_Peacemaker.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

After sharing her Season 2 pitch document with Ivan & Red, Showrunner Eliza Clark talks the end of Season 1 before going into the detailed pitch document for season 2 and beyond. They talk planned storylines, new characters, and the vision for Y that could have been.

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Direct download: 2022-02-02_BGaS_Episode_460_Eliza_Clark_S2.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Slap on your N95 Tusken Raider mask and head to the desert, it’s time to talk the second Disney+ show about a guy in Mandalorian armor.  Ivan & Red head to the desert to hang out with Pig Boys, Ming-Na Wen, and NOBODY ELSE. PARKOUR!!

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Direct download: 2022-01-26_BGaS_Episode_459_WYSBW_Boba_Fett.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Grab ten shopping carts full of your favorite snacks and barricade the doors, it’s time for Ivan & Red to head in their high rise podcast studio to talk HBO Max’s Station Eleven. The lads are determined to have a good time, because survival is insufficient.

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Direct download: 2022-01-19_BGaS_Episode_458_WYSBW_YTLM_Station_Eleven.mp3
Category:tv -- posted at: 8:30am EDT

Fill your pants, and join 355, Dr. Mann, & Yorick in Marrisville, Ohio. The town seems nice, they certainly don’t have any guns, a good idea in the apocalypse, right? Ivan & Red dive back into Y: The Last Man, the Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra comic book series published by Vertigo from 2002 through 2008. They get to the end of Cycles, the second arc in Y, which corresponds to the end of the first season of the TV Show.

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Direct download: 2022-01-12_BGaS_Episode_457_WYSBW_YTLM_Comics_7-10.mp3
Category:comics -- posted at: 8:16am EDT

Grab your black trench coat and wrap around sun glasses, where we’re going you don’t need batteries because you are one. Ivan & Red plug back into the final? chapter of The Matrix and talk about one of the more formative franchises of both of their lives.

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Direct download: 2022-01-04_BGaS_Episode_45_WYSBW_Matrix_Resurrections.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:07pm EDT