This week, in our newest miniseries, we talk about The Muppets! Of course, we're starting off with The Muppet Movie, a movie with a weird amount of meta layers and a ton of offbeat comedy charm that feels genuinely ahead of its time. And it has so...
2022-05-20 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's episode, Nicky and Wyatt have a chill discussion about a myriad of topics, including but not limited to: Barnes and Noble, Nicky's recent basketball escapade, The Dragon Prince, Vinland Saga, the Amphibia finale and some pointless b...
2022-05-16 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Friend of the show, graphic novelist and occasional podcast host Joey Weiser joins us once again to discuss one of the weirdest movies in Gamera's catalogue. In this episode we...
2022-05-13 02:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Nicky, Cody and Wyatt are joined by friend of the show and lifelong Evangelion fan (as well as creative force behind OK KO and AJ's Infinite Summer) Toby Jones to talk about...
2022-05-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we have a very special, fun-filled Shit Shooters for you all in the form of a discussion via Friend Trifecta! That's right, we got our friend Cody joining Nicky and Wyatt in the pursuit of shooting the shit out of some shit, and shit sho...
2022-05-02 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hazel from Youtube Videos joins us for yet another instance ...
Nicky, Cody and Wyatt are back this week to dive into what is possibly the most controversial set of anime episodes ever aired on television. These episodes are all at once mysterious, harrowing, messy, spectacular, and life-affirming and we all t...
2022-04-22 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Our shit shooters are back to talk about what they've been up to lately! Unfortunately, that includes a Covid diagnosis for our dear Wyatt (Send our boy a "Get Well Soon, Wyatt!" in the chat by the way), BUT there's still cool shit to talk about. ...
2022-04-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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I can't believe I have to say this, but uh. I'm gonna have to issue a content warning here for Elephant Dissections.
That's right, we're talking about Daiei's twisted attempt at celebrating the Expo...
Our dear friend and fellow Evangelion fan Cody joins us from this point onward to talk through our revisiting of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
This time we talk about the sect...
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Your favorite April Fools at Explode When Defeated are joined by Steve Yurko to talk about the Power Rangers' first foray onto the silve...
2022-03-31 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
For this miniseries, we decided to go back and dive into something we had already been intimately familiar with before. Up to this point, basically all of our series have featured one or both of us taking a look at something with fresh eyes, but h...
2022-03-25 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Nicky and Wyatt talk about recent developments in Toei animation and Shonen Jump movies, Wyatt's great big huge Pixar watch-through, and a whole bunch of shit Nicky watched on HBO Max (Righteous Gemstones, Winning Time, and Smiling Friends). Then,...
2022-03-21 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Alex Horab joins us once again for perhaps the most infamous movie in the Gamera series to all those well-versed in schlock, and the...
2022-03-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In our final (for now) installment of our Weird Hollywood IP Dystopia But Also About Human And A Cartoon Movies podcast, we talk about Space Jam: A New Legacy. This movie really just uh, appeared, and then went away like a fart in the wind last ye...
2022-03-11 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Shooting Shit Session, we actually have a really nice and involved conversation about a handful of topics! What a world! This time we pay tribute to a mutual favorite, Dr. Stone, in the ending of its publication, as well as dig in t...
2022-03-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week on Demolition Daiei, we're going to the beach, hijacking a submarine, using our lassos and getting abducted by aliens! Gamera vs Viras is a weird, wild, and uh... lengthy endeavor and we're here t...
This week we're talking about Warner Bros' 2003 box-office bomb Looney Tunes: Back in Action, starring Brendan Fraser and Steve Martin! As things were looking pretty bleak for our hosts, they made a most interesting discovery that Joe Dante, direc...
2022-02-25 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we ramble for a while about that Street Fighter 6 announcement that literally just happened, the Nintendo Direct that we willed into existence last episode, Suikoden 2, the Playstation 5 video game console and Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel...
2022-02-21 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Our pal Buster nobly joins us on short notice to talk about the third and most batty of Gamera installments, Gamera vs Gyaos 2022-02-17 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In this, the second episode of our miniseries Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! the podcast falls right off a cliff... But not without holding up a "HELP ME" sign first!
Here we talk about the 1996 meme classic, the Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes cr...
2022-02-11 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This time on Shit Shooters...
- A talk about the behind-the-scenes shitshow this week and how we're re-recording those two Demolition Daiei episodes.
- Nicky gets excited about anime again with a special little show called Ranking of Kin...
In defiance of the technical difficulties and inner turmoil that plagued Demolition Daiei this week, Wyatt decided to pull together an episode from out of thin air with friend of the show 2022-02-06 01:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post
As any of our Shit Shooters listeners will know, I (Nicky) had to switch laptops recently due to a drive failure on my old machine. Unfortunately, what became clear to us this week was that my side of the upcoming Gamera vs Gyaos ...
2022-02-02 19:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons and welcome to our newest miniseries here at Explode When Defeated! We present to you Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!, a sort of examination at our current dystopia in film, particularly regarding the trend of movies acting as giant commercia...
2022-01-28 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Shit Shooters is back! Regular this time! This week, we talk about Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard (ugh), become pseudo-sourpusses about the new Super Sentai show Donbrothers, lay praise on the new Fraggle Rock, show kindness to Dragon Quest ...
2022-01-24 23:29:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Wyatt and Nicky dive into the deadly jungle that is talking about Gamera's first sequel: 1966's GAMERA VS BARUGON. With a different director in tow, Daiei decided to change up the vibe and lean closer to their contemporaries. Listen and find out h...
2022-01-20 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA combination of scheduling mishaps and a dying computer has resulted in me losing a bonus podcast that I didn't have the time to re-record for this weekend, so there's no friday release this week. This should be fine though because there's a whol...
2022-01-14 13:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Shit Shooters is BACK!
To ring in the new year, Nicky and Wyatt are here to talk to you all about the video games they played this year, and how they'd rank them and all that good stuff. Get ready for a long one because they played a lot o...
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Have no fear, season two is here!
Explode When Defeated is back with a vengeance and we're talking about that most turtley of friends to children, the all-important, all-powerf...
2022-01-06 22:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post