The Lunch Hour Geek Out
The further adventures of two former work colleagues who chose to continue their lunchtime discussions on movies, games, and TV in podcast form. We discuss our nerd obsessions, and what we have been watching, playing, reading, or listening to! Join us for rants, raves, and banter every time we get a spare hour or two.
Episodes
63 episodes
MMR 4: Terminator Timelines Throwdown
Since 2003. post Terminator 2, The Terminator franchise has been rebooted 4 times up until 2019. That's more than one reboot per 5 years! Why? And which of these reboots was the best? From the pretty good Terminator 3, to the undervalued Salvat...
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1:25:50
MMR 3: The Moscars
Welcome to the only awards show that matters this year - the first Moscars ceremony ever! Listen as we award the categories and films that truly made 2024 an exceptional year in film!! Your favourite film of 2024 didn't get a look in at the awa...
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1:19:26
MMR 2: First Person Shooter Weigh In
In our new episode, we look at classic first-person shooter video games and compare and contrast their good and bad points to determine whose picks will be the best. We go from Halo and Timesplitters 2 to Call of Duty, Bioshock and Titanfall. W...
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1:17:46
Introducing Media Mega Rumble!
Hello. We have a new podcast that you may be interested in (if our five or so subs are still about). The Media Mega Rumble is our new venture, the concept is to let films, TV, video games, characters, whathaveyou step into the ring and battle i...
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1:16:31
Tarantino vs Anderson vs Predator
It's time for the fight of our lives. We have done the research, prepared ourselves, and postponed the recording of this five times. Now, it's finally here! Who is the best modern auteur between Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson? ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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2:15:24
We STILL Know What We Did Last Summer
There was a plan—a plan to do a new topic episode that spanned 18 films. Predictably, we ran out of time, so instead, here is a round-up of what we have been watching, playing, or reading. It includes the existential dread reflected in The Boys...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:56:25
Serving the Public Trust...
Robocop! Who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Well, he's the topic of our latest episode. We dig into everything from the seminal 1987 classic to the two flawed '90s sequels and the remake. The satire, the violence, the behind-the-sce...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:56:26
Found It!
On a brand-new episode, we are no longer horsing around as we discuss the much-loved and much-derided sub-genre of Found Footage. From The Blair Witch Project to Cloverfield to the recent Late Night with the Devil, no stone is left unturned, an...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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2:04:22
Podcast...of the Dead
In our new episode, we shamble into and barricade ourselves in the studio for an intense and scary examination of George A. Romero's zombie apocalypse films, from the seminal Night of the Living Dead to the dire Diary of the Dead and the classi...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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2:23:55
Apocalypse Now-ish
We are back! And we have decided to re-introduce the main topics! On this new episode, we decided to talk about one of our combined favorite films - Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now. We go through its troubled production ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:54:51
The Last Supper
After a long break, we are back! We harken back to one of our most popular episodes where we talked about dinner and discuss our ideal series of courses and what media will accompany them. Through the silliness we get to cover Renfield, It's al...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:48:07
Toilet God
In a brand spanking, new geek out we introduce a new section of the podcast! In "The Supposed Classic" we revisit 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula and 2014's first season of True Detective. In addition, John finally plays Elden Ring and we review C...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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2:02:49
Predahontas
We are back! And it's time for opinions and banter! This week we talk all about the recently announced slate for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Batgirl debacle over at DC. After this, we review Prey, Bullet Train, Netflix's Resi...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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1:38:49
The King and Why
After a series of tangents about DLC, puppets, gas bills, and governmental foolishness, we have a bumper crop of reviews. We get jiggy with Elvis, depressed with Pleasure, We Own This City, and the new Arcade Fire album. Plus Stranger Things se...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:42:32
Tractorsaurus Dominion
On a stomping new show on the podcast that refuses to stay extinct, we navigate evolution, logic, and terror to review Jurassic World Dominion. We also review French arthouse triumph Petite Maman, new horror movie The Black Phone, arcade throwb...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:32:47
RRR U OK?
After battling Covid-19 and a week of British celebrations, your hosts are back to smash through reality with a packed episode of reviews. In this episode, we review season 3 of The Boys and Love, Death and Robots, season 1 of Obi-Wan Kenobi, s...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:44:07
Darkest Timeline Fun
This week after a brief apology from one of our hosts, we head back into the darkest of all timelines to talk about Black Mirror season 6, This is Spinal Tap 2, Daredevil returning to screens, and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Then we ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:42:09
Multiverse of Sadness
Foiled again by time management and MCU "discourse" we instead turn our attention to multiverses of a different sort this week with reviews of Everything Everywhere All At Once, Licorice Pizza, old school point and click masterpiece Norco, docu...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:49:33
Procrastination Tube
On this week's dastardly yet "fine" new episode we talk all about the recent Netflix debacle, the possibility of a Streets of Rage movie, the resurrection of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio and of course the announcement of The Batman 2. Then in o...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:49:36
Psychedelic Nostalgia Hug
This week we have reviews of Ghostwire Tokyo, Apollo 10 1/2, Scream (5?), Moon Knight, Doctor Sleep, the original Dark Souls, and James saw Sparks live in Belfast! We also talk about the possibility of a remake of The Crow, Kathryn Big...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:48:04
So Very Emo
We are back! In our new episode in our new ongoing format, we talk all about the essential news and reviews that you need to hear! Capcom's Exoprimal, and CD Projekt Red's new Witcher game are discussed as well as the forthcoming Disne...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:45:48
LHGO Endgame
On the final episode of season 3 of LHGO, we go through all of the things we have been doing over the last few months. Including reviews of *deep breath...Titane, The Kingsman, The Power of the Dog, The After Party, Resident Evil: Welcome to Ra...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:59:18
Historical Outrage
This week we have a topic that has been very important for one of us for a long time....we rake Hollywood over the coals for its inaccurate portrayal of historical events! From Brian De Palma's The Untouchables to U-571 and Braveheart to the mo...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:50:41