The Greatest Pod

Jan 29 2025 100 ep. 90 mins 104
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Ed Greer, Ron Swallow, and Producer Bill discuss and debate what makes something great.

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The Greatest Pasts

Jan 29 2025 100 mins  
“The Greatest Pasts” features the whole crew talking about period pieces from our iconoclastic perspectives. We don’t go gaga when you put a few period cars in the shot and have everybody say “gee whiz”, it takes more than that to get us feeling like we’re in the past. We discuss our favorite examples in this banger of an ep. *This is the last one where Ed’s audio i

The Greatest Futures in Pop Culture

Jan 15 2025 90 mins  
“The Greatest Futures” is mostly Ed and Ron trying to not talk about the dystopia we currently live in and failing BUT we do touch on some of the greatest futures in pop culture. From Star Trek to Total Recall we examine how fictional futures dramatize the concerns of the present. We discuss how we’d fare in certain futures like being blood boys in Mad Max, or what virtual

The Greatest Cops in Fiction Part Two

Dec 30 2024 95 mins  
“The Greatest Cops In Fiction Part Two” is us continuing to build our portfolio of powerhouse porcine patrolmen.This one features some great pulls by the gang and more specific examples of what we consider exemplary cops in fiction. Our personal philosophy is that there’s a difference between action fantasy heroes with badges versus actual police people in good stories.This e

The Greatest Cops in Fiction Part One

Dec 20 2024 50 mins  
Tis the season…to discuss crime and punishment in movies! “The Greatest Cops In Fiction Part One” is us dissecting the concept of law enforcement in this dystopian future we call the present. We talk about how cops are depicted in movies and TV and we try to get our heads around the sly thrill of watching various levels of copaganda since we were kids. We discuss several of y

The Greatest Thanksgiving Special

Nov 30 2024 84 mins  
“The Greatest Thanksgiving Special” is Ed, Bill, and the returning Ron Swallow talking about pieces of pop culture we are thankful to have experienced at particular times in our lives. These are some of the art and the culture around said art that would form us into the weirdos you know and love. Ed talks Mack Bolan novels, Ron talks rollerblading and skate videos, while Bill r

The Greatest Space Characters

Nov 20 2024 85 mins  
We had an impromptu convo about “The Greatest Space Characters” and it ended up NOT being “sTaR wArS vS. sTaR tReK” and more about why there will be rednecks in space and why can’t the Green Lanterns finally be truly cool. Ed and Producer Bill get into a debate about whether most science fiction aliens are “human plus” or “human minus”. We pitch some amazing “fi

The Greatest Recasting in Pop Culture Movies

Oct 31 2024 100 mins  
With Ron Swallow away on his honeymoon, Ed and Producer Bill discuss “The Greatest Recastings in Pop Culture Movies”. We do all the hits, Bats, Supes, Spidey, Bond and many others that aren’t as obvious. The debates come fast and furious, and the discussions get deep as we interrogate what it means to do a serial character “correctly.” Can someone be, say, the best recast

The Greatest Cats in Pop Culture

Oct 09 2024 78 mins  
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The Greatest Goths in Pop Culture

Sep 28 2024 95 mins  
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The Greatest Mentors in Pop Culture

Sep 05 2024 117 mins  
In this super sized episode Ed, Ron, and Producer Bill discuss and debate “The Greatest Mentors In Pop Culture.” We interrogate the different expressions of the mentor. Some are father or mother figures, some started out as replacement parents and became trusty butlers. Some are space wizards you meet for a week, or alien holograms or long dead uncles. DIfferent mentors make di