A more-or-less weekly podcast dedicated to all things geeky in pop culture and entertainment. We talk about everything from film and television to books, comics, video games, and more.
Gobbledygeek
Claim This Podcastby Paul Smith and Arlo J. Wiley
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A more-or-less weekly podcast dedicated to all things geeky in pop culture and entertainment. We talk about everything from film and television to books, comics, video games, and more.
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1/1/2011
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Recent Episodes
December 16, 2025
536 - Interview with the Vampire (feat. Eric Sipple)
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Shall we begin like David Copperfield? "I am born…I grew up?" Or shall we begin about 120 years after Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire took place, with AMC's brilliant TV adaptation shifting the story from Louis de Pointe du Lac as a wealthy white plantation owner in the 1790s to one where Louis is a Black man in the 1910s working the red light district to keep his family fed? That's one of the many brilliant changes Rolin Jones and his writers have made to Rice's beloved book, and Paul, Arlo, and Eric couldn't be happier. The gang discusses why these changes fit so well in a series driven by its characters' perceptions of reality; the beautiful work by a cast including Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Bailey Bass, Delainey Hayles, and Assad Zaman; and why, yes, this Interview is just better than the book.</span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">NEXT: it's been a while since we've had a <strong>Four-Color Flashback</strong>, eh? Let's take back the night with J. Michael Straczynski and Gary Frank's Midnight Nation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><br /> <br /></strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong>BREAKDOWN</strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">00:00:26 - Intro / Banter</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">00:07:55 - Interview with the Vampire</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">02:15:00 - Outro / Next</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><br /> <br /></strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong>LINKS</strong></span></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><a href= "https://ericsipple.com/the-writers-who-invented-modern-television/"> "The Writers Who Invented Modern Television"</a> by Eric Sipple, A Beautiful Rain of Frogs</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><a href= "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qPhgnNG5vm4">Exploring the Complexity of Interview with the Vampire - A Video Essay</a> by Seriesable</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><a href= "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BsE0ksEsnjc">The Radical Rebirth of Interview with the Vampire - A Video Essay</a> by Seriesable</span></p> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><br /> <br /></strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong>MUSIC</strong></span></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">"Devil Inside" by INXS, Kick (1987)</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">"Need You Tonight" by INXS, Kick (1987)</span></p> </li> </ul>
November 17, 2025
535 - VAL-halla: The Doors / Tombstone (feat. Eric Sipple)
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It is time once more to enter the gates of <strong>VAL-halla</strong>, our retrospective series on the late Hollywood icon Val Kilmer. Paul, Arlo, and Eric set their sights on what are possibly Kilmer's two best performances. First, in Oliver Stone's psychedelic biopic The Doors, Val embodies the Lizard King himself, Mr. Mojo Rising, Jim Morrison; and then, in George P. Cosmatos'--or is that Kurt Russell's?--glossy Western Tombstone, Kilmer brings new life to Doc Holliday. The gang discusses Val's generational run in the '90s; why The Doors works when most rock biopics don't; and debate the merits of '90s Westerns. Plus, a brief sojourn into the world of Alien: Earth.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">NEXT: because journalism matters, we're doing an episode all about AMC's Interview with the Vampire. Molloy hive rise up.</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">BREAKDOWN</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">00:00:39 - Intro</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">00:21:00 - The Doors</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">01:11:27 - Tombstone</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">02:00:16 - Outro / Next</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">LINKS</span></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><a href= "https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/09/val-kilmer-jim-morrison-the-doors-biopic-movie-film"> Val Kilmer was electric as Jim Morrison in heroically ridiculous biopic The Doors</a> by Luke Goodsell, The Guardian</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><a href= "https://owenstrachan.substack.com/p/the-death-of-val-kilmer-and-the-power"> The Death of Val Kilmer and the Power of Doc Holliday</a> by Owen Strachan, To Reenchant the World</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><a href= "https://ericsipple.com/choose-your-2025-wisely/">Choose Your Weapons (2025) Wisely</a> by Eric Sipple, A Beautiful Rain of Frogs</span></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MUSIC</span></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">"The Movie" by Jim Morrison & The Doors, An American Prayer (1978)</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"A Feast of Friends" by Jim Morrison & The Doors, An American Prayer (1978)</span></p> </li> </ul>
November 11, 2025
534 - Superman (feat. Eric Sipple)
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's James Gunn's Superman, here to launch the writer-director-studio-head's brand new (?) DC Universe. It moves faster than a speeding bullet despite having more plot than the last five Marvel movies put together–and some of those plot points hold up better to the green-K gaze of our hosts than others. Paul, Arlo, and Eric break down everything about this new big screen Man of Steel, including a perfect cast, major deviations from Superman's origin, Gunn's unabashedly political script, fuckboi Jimmy Olsen, and so much more. Maybe the film doesn't leap tall expectations in a single bound, but a movie like this has much more up (up and away) its Super-sleeve than any billionaire skinhead would expect. Plus, the gang dives deep into the sewers for a read-through of IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles saga.</span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 10pt;"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">NEXT: it's time once again to enter the gates of <strong>VAL-halla</strong>, as the gang discusses two of Val Kilmer's most iconic performances, namely as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's 1991 psych-biopic The Doors and Doc Holliday in 1994's neo-Western Tombstone.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><br /> <br /></strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">BREAKDOWN</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">00:00:28 - Intro / Banter</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">00:13:15 - Superman</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">02:19:35 - Outro / Next</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><br /> <br /></strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MUSIC</span></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">"Superman" by R.E.M., Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)</span></p> </li> <li dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">"Punkrocker" by Teddybears feat. Iggy Pop, Superman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2025)</span></p> </li> </ul>
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