Has it been a week already?! Well the boys are in the galley cooking up a brand new, steaming edition of The Podwits Podcast! Dion regroups with J. Marcus on what he missed last week and adds his two-cents regarding spy music themes and Disney only using the David Tennant years in rerun. That leads to a […]
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Nostalgic Television
Posted: 25th April 2015 by Podwits Administrator in Cartoons, Celebrities, Doctor Who, Film, News, Podcast, Science Fiction, Technology, Television, Watching the DoctorTags: Atari: Game Over, Batman Vs Superman, Car 54 Where Are You?, David Arnold, David Hasselhoff, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Frankenstein, Frankie Avalon, George Reeves, I Love Lucy, Irwin Allen, James Bond, Knight Rider, Lalo Schifrin, Lost in Space, Mad Max, Mad Max Fury Road, Matt Smith, MeTV, O.J. Simpson, Peter Lorre, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Basehart, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Steve McQueen, Ted Turner, The Adventures of Superman, The Fantastic Four, The Hateful 8, the terminator, The Towering Inferno, Universal Monsters, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
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Channel Surfing Via the Aerial
Posted: 4th April 2015 by Podwits Administrator in Beer, Celebrities, Comic Books, Doctor Who, Ernest Borgnine, Film, News, Podcast, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Adam West, Alien Nation, AMC, Batman (1966), Batman 66, Big Finish, Bruce Willis, Burt Reynolds, Burt Ward, Clown Shoes Tramp Stamp, Die Hard, Dish TV, Doctor Who, E!, Ernest Borgnine, From Russia with Love, George Miller, History Channel, Jeff Bridges, Kojak, Leonard Nimoy, Mad Max, Mad Max Fury Road, Out of This World, Powers, Ryan Gosling, Sean Connery, Small Wonder, Star Trek: The Original Series, Superman, SyFy Channel, The Homesman, The Rolling Stones, The Twilight Zone, TLC, Tommy Lee Jones, TRU TV, TV Land, Younger
The Wits’ of Pod are back again for another exciting, riveting and enthralling episode of The Podwits Podcast! Brian Zino, J. Marcus and Dion Baia take a trip down memory lane with cable vs. the old school antenna, before they disseminate the new look and presentation of Television networks and if their names truly still reflect […]
Happy Pi Day 3.14159265359…… UGH!
Posted: 14th March 2015 by Podwits Administrator in Celebrities, Ernest Borgnine, Film, History, Literature, News, Obituaries, Podcast, Science Fiction, Technology, TelevisionTags: Chris Evans, Chris Pratt, Discworld, Doctor Who, Ernest Borgnine, Freaks, Grammys, Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass, James Bond, Leonard Nimoy, Marvin Gaye, Michael Keaton, Mickey Rooney, Muddy Waters, Pi, Robert Downey Jr, Sir Terry Pratchett, SuperFuzz, Terrence Hill, The Black Hole
The boys are all back together for an ALL-NEW, right-off-the-assembly-line-edition of the one, the original, Podwits Podcast! They chat this week about their various jet-setting, before getting into topics that hit closer to home, like the loss of fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett, the recent passing of Leonard Nimoy and Star Trek producer Harve Bennett, and we embrace or even […]
New Podcast: The Lads Taking the Piss
Posted: 1st November 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Beer, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comic Books, Ernest Borgnine, Film, Film Review, News, Podcast, Science Fiction, Television, Up on The Soap BoxTags: #PodwitsBeer, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Aquaman, Batman, Captain Marvel, Coney Island, Cyborg, DC Comics, Delorean DMC-12, Dr. Strange, Green Lantern, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guinness Blonde Lager, Hasbro, Joe Spinello, Justice League, Lego, Lego Batman, Marvel, Marvel Agents of Shield, Michael Keaton, Nick Fury, Operation Board Game, Parker Brothers, Phase 3, Shazam, Spiderman, Star Wars, Stationwagon, Suicide Squad, Superman, Terminator, The Avengers, The Black Panther, Tim Burton, Warner Bros., Wonder Woman
Well what else can be said about this week’s all new installment of The Podwits Podcast except that it is EPIC… We hear how J. Marcus and Dion first met Brian on the Coney Island boardwalk; Beer connoisseur Brian lambasts Guinness’ new Blonde Lager and praises this week’s choice drink; Dion vents about the news that Operation […]
Check out Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers!
Posted: 17th October 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Anime, Art, Books, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comic Books, Cyber Mailbag, Ernest Borgnine, Film, Film Review, History, Literature, News, Podcast, Science Fiction, Technology, Television, Uncategorized, Up on The Soap BoxTags: Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers
Please pay a visit to our latest Podwits venture, Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers! Dion Baia and J. Blake of the Podwits fame highlight films from their youth that would have typically been rented for a weekend sleepover by you and your friends. A new movie may be thrown into the mix to spice it up, but cult […]
Ooh… That Sounds Sexy!
Posted: 27th September 2014 by J. Marcus in Film, Podcast, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: Gene Roddenberry, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jaws, John Williams, Star Trek, Weekend At Bernie's, William Shatner
Strap yourselves in for another breathtaking episode of The Podwits Podcast! Dion and J. explore the Final Frontier in search of the truths behind one of the most popular television shows ever made — all the while, J. breaks all sorts of land/speed records by taking almost an hour to explain one of the most devastating things […]
Adequate, at best?
Posted: 20th September 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Beer, Books, Celebrities, Electronics, Ernest Borgnine, Film, History, News, Podcast, Science Fiction, Software Review, Technology, TelevisionTags: #PodwitsBeer, Avatar, Douglas Trumbull, Elementary, James Cameron, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Steven Moffat, Unlocking Sherlock
The ‘Wits of Pod are all over the place this week! Brian lays out his new exercise regiment, utilizing The Couch-to-5K ® Running Plan, before they dash into the highly recommended documentary about the BBC series Sherlock entitled Unlocking Sherlock. Then the lads get into a spirited discussion about VFX pioneer and filmmaker Douglas Trumbull‘s new […]
Deep Thoughts, by J. Marcus
Posted: 30th August 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Comic Books, Doctor Who, Film, Film Review, History, News, Podcast, Science Fiction, Television, Watching the DoctorTags: 12th Doctor, Batman, Batman Begins, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christian Bale, Christopher Eccleston, Colin Baker, David Tennant, Doctor Who, Martin Freeman, Matt Smith, Michael Keaton, Peter Capaldi, Roger Corman, Sherlock, Steven Moffatt, The Adventures of Tintin, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Tim Burton, World War Z
J. Marcus gives Dion his immediate reactions to the appearance of the 12th Doctor in last week’s Doctor Who Season Debut, not mincing words or pulling punches. Has watching it a half a dozen times on the DVR and seeing it in the cinema changed his mind? Then the back-end of the ‘cast is filled […]
A Case of an Mammalian Brain Surge
Posted: 9th August 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Audio Review, Cartoons, Celebrities, Comic Books, Ernest Borgnine, Film, Film Review, History, News, Podcast, Science Fiction, Technology, TelevisionTags: DC Comics, Dr. Who, Geoff Johns, Guardians of the Galaxy, Indiana Jones, Kyle Smith, Marvel, Michael Bay, New York Post, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The New 52, The Raid 2, The Raid: Redemption, The Transformers
The wits of Pod have the band back together and it feels so good… Brian praises Guardians of the Galaxy ; Dion casts his doubts about the new reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that hits theaters this weekend; and J.- well he does his best not to evoke that name which is not to be mentioned… […]
Looking for Blood in All the Wrong Places
Posted: 19th July 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film Review, Podcast, Science Fiction, TelevisionTags: American Werewolf in London, Anthony Perkins, Bill Cosby, Cinefantastique, Disney, Doctor Who, Elliott Gould, G.I.Joe, G.I.Joe the Movie, Harrison Ellenshaw, henry wertham, Horror, John Barry, John Campbell, John Landis, mary whitehouse, Maximilian Schell, Pete Seeger, Peter Ellenshaw, Pyramids of Mars, Richard Matheson, Secret of Nimh, SNL, Star Wars, The Black Hole, The Devil and Max, The Horror of Fang Rock, The Last Man on Earth, The Neverending Story, The Thing, The Transformers, The Transformers the Movie, Tom Baker, Vincent Price, Westworld, Who Goes There?
In this very, very, very special episode of The Podwits Podcast the boys talk about seeing ‘horror’ in their youth, and more specifically, horrifying images in places that you wouldn’t normally expect to see it- like in Disney movies or on the BBC via PBS in America… (and what the heck was up with Disney’s dark side […]