FanService w/ Kat & Penda

Kat and Penda go over films and television that we thought were going to be the bees’ knees and ended up being a one-way trip to Letdown City.

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Kat and Penda get all academic and discuss Art vs Artist, if knowing what we know now about our favorite creators taints the properties we once enjoyed, or if it makes no nevermind

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Kat and Penda choose violence and choose their Mt Rushmore of Worst Anime. Grab some pocky and enjoy the hatefest.

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Kat and Penda put on their fangirl finery and present The Boys recap – what we liked, what we didn’t, and what we hope to see next season.

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

It’s Halloween and Kat and Penda wanted to stake out the best and worst Vampires (and their films) we could come up with. Be warned, this is also full of some of Kat’s corniest puns. It’s a nightmare for your senses!

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

We're continuing our continuation of our conversation of Toxic Couples - you know, our beloved matchups who really had no business being together. We even surprised ourselves.

If you missed part one - scoot on back and check it out.

No Social lubrication or What Are You Wearing, but we've got the New News .

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

We had so much fun with toxic personalities we wanted to continue the conversation with Toxic Couples - you know, our beloved matchups who really had no business being together. We even surprised ourselves.

Also Social lubrication and What Are You Wearing. This episode is split into two parts, so no New News - but fear not, it will be back in Part 2.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

We wanted to dish on our favorite toxic people in fandom – these are characters on TV and in movies that we over time come to love and hold up as #goals but in reality they’re pretty not great people. Shows like The Office, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Boys, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Monk have beloved characters with some seriously toxic personality flaws. We also throw in a sleeper you won’t see coming.  We each do out top 5 worst men and women – maybe we trash your favorite. Feel free to @ us.

We also discuss some upcoming tv and movies we don’t want you yo miss: S3 of Prime Video’s THE BOYS (Penda has seen the entire series already)Season 4 of Justic League and Season 1 of both Obi-wan and Ms Marve. Also a brief review of Jurassic World: Dominion

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Penda regales Kat with tales of Southeastern Michigan's largest comic convention, Motor City Comic-Con. Penda offers a convention-floor account of life in the Aisle B, selling books, gawking at awesome cosplay, making new friends, and seeing celebrities.  

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Settle in folks because this is a long one. We show some much-needed love to the aspects of movies that are often neglected, those unsung heroes - Score and Cinematography. There are way too many to mention, but I'll bet yours is included. But if not - did we miss it? Let us know!

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

In January (we're a little behind in posting), Kat was in a mood, so it’s an Episode Potluck! Rants include books and movies broken up into multiple installments -  The Hobbit, Harry Potter, streaming networks, Penda cleans out her To Watch Queue (Peacemaker).

The Book of Boba Fett, and How I met Your Father and previews of Amazon Prime's Bug Out.

We also preview stuff we're going to talk about, but we already dropped that episode as Ep 18. (lol)

So much more, but this was all I felt like typing up.

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

This week we’re all about adaptations with special gest Tech Guy (also known as Tech Guy) – Game of Thrones (2011-2019), the Batman (2022), The Dresden Files (2007, 1 season), The Stand (1994 – not the garbage remake, TV), The Dark Tower (2017), The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003), Star Wars (Knights of the Old Republic) (2003, Video Game), Iron Man (2008), Batman the Animated Series (1992-1995, TV), The Walking Dead (2010-2022, TV), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003, TV), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), AND Opinions about all of Batman Adaptations!

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Life got in the way and suddenly it’s MAY but we have so much back material we just had to tell you all about it!

This week it’s Penda’s Trip to SXSW and her harrowing experience getting into the premier of Ti West’s X, as well as all of the fantastic lunacy of film

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

It’s a month late (totally my fault) but it’s our Black History month Episode where we talk about excellence in Black TV and Movies, and the Black Experience.

Also Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Welcome to Season 2, everyone! WE MADE IT! What better way to kick off the new year than watching unsolved murders and mysteries (okay, even the solved ones) so we wanted to give a shout out to our favorite true crime people!

Kat’s Shout-outs:

We've been wanting to play around with this since the Before Times - Is DIE HARD (1988) really a Christmas movie? I think we all know the answer, but we're gonna talk about it anyway. 

Penda has a birthday, Kat wore a shirt in anticipation of the biggest Marvel film to date, and we tie up a few loose ends before the holidays.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

An off-week episode while we play a little catch up before the holidays

Kat and Penda talk have very strong feelings about DUNE and ETERNALS, like fortified wine, strong.

Kat and Penda slowly recover from their chocolate comas to snark about reboots – so. many. reboots. - why Netflix might just be the streaming G.O.A.T and hey, I remembered to actually add a link in the show notes about all of the Supermen in one awesome club:

Kat and Penda Discuss anti-hero fatigue – do we need all of the loveable scamps? Plus Kat has lots of thoughts about Game of Thrones. We also talk Netflilx's Midnight Mass, Nioantic's Ingress, and hair.

Also, Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Kat and Penda settle into their favorite easy chairs and reminisce about that time before VDRs and DVRs and next day streaming with Appointment TV and the shows they still rush home to tune into. Next Kat discusses IN DEPTH about the Fast and the Furious Franchise and how she still loves it 9 fricking movies in.

Also, Social lubrication, What Are You Wearing, and the New News.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Kat and Penda talk IN DEPTH about the MCU’s Phase IV arc of Grief. From Avengers End Game, through the real-life death of Chadwick Boseman, Marvel has allowed it’s characters to really dive into the loss of loved ones and colleagues with shows like Wandavision and Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings. We talk about how that allows the fans to grieve and what it means for Phase V.

We also might be a little inebriated on red wine and grapefruit vodka. Holla!

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Just a single topic today, but we had a lot to say about it.  While we're fans of the Hogwarts experience, we have THOUGHTS about how the school really doesn't prepare anyone - like anyone - for life outside of the school. And where do they get those instructors?

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

In case you haven’t heard HBO’s Lovecraft Country will not be manifesting a Season2 which is a total bummer, so this week, we’re discussing I thought I’d remind folks of Black sci-fi tv shows and series you may have missed, and some you may want to champion as they move into potential options for visual media.

Then week we’re discussing what we would consider our personal Mount Rushmore of Anime. Finally New News and something new - what are we wearing Thanks to Blerd.com for helping Penda compile Black Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror!

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

Shoutout to our sole listener in Germany. Herzlich willkommen by uns and danke schoen! (Google Translate wouldn't steer us wrong, right?

While we often don’t like to yuck other people’s yum, we’re going to discuss a topic that will likely anger our 4 listeners, even in Germany, but we wouldn’t be our authentic selves if we didn't bring it up. We’re going to discuss some of the problematic aspects of the Caped Crusader and maybe with some tears and a little togetherness, we can find a way to come together over this difficult topic. Kat gets her geek on with Drizzt Do'urden of the Forgotten Realms, Penda discusses Crunchy Roll vs Funimation (as if there’s a choice anymore). Then it’s on to New News with nerve damage and Hulu and the Streamers.

No little silly thing like facts and details and truth are going to stop us from enjoying and talking about the stuff that we like. You can shove you’re gatekeeping! We are proud superficial fans!

We're back (we had life to deal with)!  

Don't sleep on Amazon Prime - no we aren't sponsored (WE WISH) but we still wanted to talk about some favorite shows and some series and movies you may have missed. Then we let our guts hang out talking about tired horror tropes - they've had respectable run but it's time to send them to the makers. Got something to add? Did we miss something? Let us know!

Also, Social Lubrication and New-New Thing

This is a long one but we promise it’s worth it! Today we discuss our favorite Anime. Origin stories are everything, and I think you'll learn a lot about your hosts by the anime the love and love to hate. Got something to add? Did we miss something? Let us know!

• First
• Last
• Best
• Worst
• No-Fly List
• Wish List
• Wish Less

Also, Social Lubrication, One New Thing, and Lookit - an Outro!

Kat and Penda talk about TV shows that have a hard time saying goodbye and the ones that stick the landing.  There's a lively discussion about the pros and cons of toxic fandom. Also, Drinkie-drinkie with adult sippie cups and One New Thing.