The Flickcast
The Flickcast
Ullrich Media
Stuff Nerds Love
533. The Dial of Density
It's time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 533: The Dial of Density. On the show this week Chris and Joe get into some more good trouble and discuss a few new and recurring topics. Some of these topics include Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Bear Season 2, Superman casting news, Silo and a whole lot more.  The episode is a bit long this week so no picks this time around. Look for those to return next week. Until then, feel free to watch shows both Chris and Joe really enjoy. These include, of course, The Bear Season 2 and Silo. If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Disney / Marvel
Jul 5, 2023
1 hr 15 min
532. Skrulls Gotta Skrull
Yes! It's time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 532: Skrulls Gotta Skrull. On the show this week Chris and Joe get into some more good trouble and discuss a few new and recurring topics. Some of these topics include Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Secret Invasion, The Bear Season 2, seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark in a theater and more. Yes, there's even a bit more. Picks this week include Chris' pick of The Bear Season 2 (shocking!) and Joe's pick of the podcast Don't Ask Tig, featuring comic and super cool person Tig Notario. Enjoy! If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Disney / Marvel
Jun 28, 2023
1 hr 5 min
531. Top Men
And, we're back. Apologies for the downtime but we've been moving to a new home and it took longer than expected. But now, back to the show. With that in mind it's time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 531: Top Men. On the show this week Chris and Joe once again get into some good trouble. This time around said trouble includes discussion about Avatar: The Way of Water, Fast X and a whole lot more. Yes, there's even a bit more. This week the boys also get back to the movies that were important to them during their formative years. The chosen one this week is, you guessed it, Raiders of the Lost Ark. A classic to be sure. Enjoy! If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Disney / Lucasfilm
Jun 21, 2023
1 hr 20 min
530. Such Is Life
It's time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 530: Such Is Life. On the show this week Chris and Joe once again get into some good trouble. This time around said trouble includes an in-depth discussion of John Wick 4, potential storylines for John Wick 5 (which you know is coming), how much Chris loves the series Silo and a whole lot more. Yes, there's even a bit more. Picks this week include Chris' pick of, you guessed it, the Apple TV+ series Silo and Joe's pick of the series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which just concluded its run on Amazon Prime. Of course, that means all episodes are available for you. Enjoy! If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Lionsgate
May 31, 2023
56 min
529. Tomorrow Never Knows
It's time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 529: Tomorrow Never Knows. On the show this week Chris and Joe get into all kinds of good trouble and discuss several new topics. Some of these include the new Apple TV+ show Silo, the new trailer for Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, the TV series From and the usual more. They also get back to the films of their formative years with a discussion of the works of John Carpenter, and the classic Escape From New York in particular. It's a heck of a show. Picks this week include Chris' pick of the Chess YouTube channel Coffee Chess and Joe's pick of the 1966 Beatles album Revolver. If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Avco Embassy / Studio Canal / Fox
May 24, 2023
1 hr 15 min
528. Rewind: American Podcast
This week we're revisiting one of the most popular recent episodes of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This one is called American Podcast. Enjoy! Here's the description from when the episode originally came out way back in January: This week on the show the boys dive deep into several new and recurring topics. Some of these include Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, the Golden Globes, History of the World Part 2, Season 2 of The Bear, the upcoming Alien series, the stupidity of Wizards of the Coast, The Last of Us and a whole lot more. They're also debuting a new segment of the show about the movies and TV programs of their formative years. We'd probably call it: "The things that made us." But that's already taken. But yeah, it's like that. Kicking things off is George Lucas' second film: American Graffiti. It's a fine choice and the boys get pretty deep into it. Enjoy. And, of course, there's also the usual more. Picks this week include Chris' pick of all the great stuff from Dapper Notes and Joe's pick of the action figures from Diamond Select Toys. If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Lucasfilm/Disney
May 17, 2023
1 hr 19 min
527. The Forever And Beautiful Sky
It's time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 527: The Forever and Beautiful Sky. On the show this week the boys get into some new and recurring topics. Some of these include quite a bit about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, the current WGA strike, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and a bit more. Not a lot more, just a bit. They're trying to make the shows not quite as long. Picks this week include Chris' pick of the 1983 Walter Tevis novel The Queen's Gambit (on which the Netflix mini-series is based) and Joe's pick of the 1985 four-issue comic mini-series Rocket Raccoon. If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Disney / Marvel
May 10, 2023
53 min
526. The Flickcast GPT
It's a new week and a brand new episode. That's right, finally. The boys are back (or are they AI?). Either way it's time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 526: The Flickcast GPT. On the show this week the boys, of course, get into several new and recurring topics. Some of these include the finale of Star Trek: Picard, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Artificial Intelligence, upcoming Marvel movies and what director would (or wouldn't) be a good fit, trailers and potential casting news and, yes a whole bunch more. The boys have been silent too long. Now they're back . . . and talking a lot. So yeah, it's a long episode. Enjoy! Picks this week include Chris' pick of the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing called, you guess it, The Thing and Joe's pick of the Kurt Russell/John Carpenter classic Escape from New York. Yeah, we go a bit Kurt Russell/John Carpenter heavy with this week's picks. You got a problem with that? If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Universal
May 3, 2023
1 hr 12 min
525. The Next Next Generation
It's a new week and a brand new episode. That's right, it's time for the further adventures of The Flickcast. The podcast about stuff nerds love. This week it's Episode 525: The Next Next Generation. On the show this week the boys, of course, get into several new and recurring topics. Some of these include the most recent episodes of Star Trek: Picard, the latest episodes of The Mandalorian and quite a bit about John Wick and the entire franchise. Look for further discussion of the new movie, John Wick 4, and more on a later episode. Picks this week include Chris' pick of the organic instant coffee from the folks at Mount Hagen and Joe's pick of the Maximillian action figure from Disney's The Black Hole, made by Diamond Select toys. If you like the show, please give it a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, or your app of choice. Every rating and review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a Patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Plus, our newest Discord Channel is now live. Click the link for an invite and be sure to check it out.   Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License Image: Paramount+ / CBS
Mar 29, 2023
1 hr 8 min
524. Still the ‘Best’ of 2022
Chris and Joe are off this week so it's rerun time here at The Flickcast. If you don't know what a rerun is, ask your parents. Until then, here's episode 523: Still the "Best" of 2022. --- It's the time of year (aka the end) and this week the boys look back at 2022 to bring you some of their favorites for the "Best' of the year. Helping Chris and Joe accomplish this herculean task is, once again, special guest "Professional Geek" Rick Marshall.  As usual, we don't want to spoil the fun, so no hints on what's on the list this time. But don't worry, there's a ton of great stuff nerds love you may or may not be familiar with. Who knows, you just might find some new things to love. Of course, it's also a big episode. So yeah, you may need to get comfortable for this one. Trust us, it's worth it.  If you like the show, please consider rating or reviewing it on Apple Podcasts, or your podcast app of choice. Every rating or review helps. And if you're really feeling it, consider becoming a patron and supporting the show on Patreon. That would be super cool.  Thanks for listening! As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter, Instagram or, yes, even Facebook. Or shoot us an email. We don't mind.     Opening music by GoodB Music under Creative Commons License End music by Kevin MacLeod under Creative Commons License
Mar 22, 2023
1 hr 36 min
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