Geek Roulette

Your hosts John and Mike discuss the conclusion of the comic book series, The Walking Dead. We examine the impact the comic, as well as the show, has had on popular culture and revisit the things we loved and disliked about the series.

This episode your hosts Mike and John discuss the latest Marvel MCU offering, Spider-Man: Far From Home. They discuss what is an overall good action film with some things that do hinder it. They also discuss how the future of the MCU might be more difficult in the shadows of what has come before it. The arbitrary list is where Mike and John discuss their dream version of The Sinister Six!

This episode has no main topic! Join us as your hosts bounce from random topics! Did you ever want to know more about the Wiggles then you do now? How about Youtube channels dedicated to Mouse Traps? And Mike and John also recast The Three Amigos for a modern day!

Mike and John take a break from the world of geekiness and discuss why the HBO series Barry is such a great series and why other networks and programs should take notice of what it does right. Our hosts discuss why it's great that a show can surprise you, especially when it's not part of a formula or trope. And for our Arbitrary Lists, our host discuss their favorite fictional vigilantes, killers, and psychos.

Mike and John review the Netflix animated anthology series, Love, Death, and Robots. Our hosts discuss the parallels of this series with the movie Heavy Metal as well is it's feel being like Liquid Television.

John and Mike take a trip down memory lane and talk about how they got into comics and their history with them. They also talk about what comics are great for those who are looking to get into comics.

Mike and John discuss the origins of board games and how it has led to the booming trend of table top gaming over the past. We discuss our favorite games as well as what makes a game good. And we talk the games that frustrate us and what makes a game bad.

Mike and John talk and review Avengers Endgame! We talk about the great emotional moments and the epic geek out moments. We also talk about what didn't work in the movie. Our Arbitrary Lists discuss the top and bottom 3 Avengers.

Mike and John discuss what it has been like to be a gamer from the early days of the NES to the present day. Our hosts look at this from the individual perspectives of a hardcore gamer and a casual gamer. They take a look at how gaming has evolved over the years as they have matured into adults.

Mike and John talk about the evolution of cartoons on prime time television. From the dawn of the Flintstones, to the reign of the Simpsons, to the current offerings on TV, John and Mike discuss the history of adult-oriented cartoons. And for our arbitrary lists segment? We list our top three and bottom three cartoon sidekicks.

Mike and John take a look at each of the Star Wars Trilogies and discuss how they each hold up. We discuss the upcoming Episode IX and the huge, if not unreachable, expectations for the last chapter of the current trilogy. And in our Arbitrary Lists segment, we talk about our favorite and most hated obscure background characters.

This episode, Mike and John discuss the difficult subject of Toxic Fandom. We talk about how some aspects of nerd and geek culture have turned against itself. We discuss why some fans feel entitled to the point where they think they should be the authority of the things they love as well as why some feel they are the "Gatekeepers" and they decide who is and isn't a fan. And we discuss why this is negative and harmful to everything in general.

Mike and John discuss their favorite and last favorite Marvel movies in the Arbitrary Lists segment. Then they move on and give both a spoiler-free and a spoiler filled review of Captain Marvel.

The Burning Bridges Podcast reboots into the Geek Roulette podcast! Your host Mike welcomes on his friend John as a permanent co-host of the podcast! And this episode we discuss reboots in general. How much has the "Reboot Culture" affected movies and television in general? What are our favorite and most hated reboots? Spin the wheel and give it a listen!

This episode your host Mike and his friend John discuss the four Batman movies from 1989 to 1998. We talk about the impact they had on Batman the character himself, as well as how the movies really don't make a lot of sense.

Mike's back! And he discusses the passing of Stan Lee and the great impact he left, not only in comics, but also on the world and other literature.

This episode, I discuss the 1976 movie Logan's Run with my friend John, fresh after viewing the movie. It was John's first time! We talk about this my fascination with this movie. We discuss the Academy Award winning "Visual Effects". The weirdly under-explained plot. The very sexualized 70's aesthetics. The very mundane real world outside of the dome. And what was the super computer's end game? Join us as we look at such a weird and interesting movie.

Your host Mike guests on another podcast! I join Steven on this recording of supplemental material for his Pod Like A Hole Podcast. We discuss my favorite album from Nine Inch Nails, The Fragile.

This episode, your host laments the loss of a recorded podcast episode and uses that to reflect on the growth and changes of how we have consumed our media. Mike talks about the history of music, TV, Movies, books and the ways we used to consume them. Is physical copies better the the digital age? Does the digital age make it easier to find what we want at the sacrifice of ownership? Mike dives into these topics on this long overdue podcast.

Mike is joined by Kevin as we discuss wrestling in the 80's, 90's and today. Join us as we discuss WWF, WCW, ECW and briefly the lame AWA.