The Rank Bank

Hey all, it's been a year, we miss you. We're back with special guest (although basically just the third member at this point) Jon Koppel as we discuss the best in music, sports, television and movies for the year 2023. We'll try to see you a little more often in 24.

Hey, it's been a while since we've "Banked" but we couldn't miss the opportunity to rank the best movies, TV, music, comedy, etc. of the past year with show favorite, Jon Koppel.

Since the world was treated to a new Batman movie, we've decided to treat you to a ranking of all the live action Batman movies, and to help us, we've brought in first time guest, musical comedian Jay Simpson and returning guest, our favorite Rotten Tomato critic, Dan Scully.

In an episode that can only be described as shining, shimmering, splendid, we've decided to rank the best songs from Disney movies (and one ride). Special thanks to Ross Weisman and Jon Trainor for agreeing to be our guest.

In an episode that's been eons in the making, we're ranking the planets of our Solar System. To help us out, we've brought in three of our favorite Philly comedians Tom Cox, Silas P., and Cassandra Dee!

We took the ten most popular boys' names and ten most popular girls' names of 2021 (according to Nameberry) and ranked them from most terrible to least terrible, and to help us we brought in the host of the Proper Ebonics podcast Alan Massenburg and future host of the Always Angry podcast Liam Collier.

Instead of a conventional ranking, today we're joined by Jon Koppel and the 3 of us tell our favorites for the year in multiple categories (i.e. movie, TV show, albums). 

Dave doesn't like Wes Anderson movies. Dan does. That means ranking his movies can only lead to wacky misadventures. To help us, we've brought in some old friends, comedian Josh Machiz and Wes Anderson superfan Emma McIvor. 

Merry Christmas, everyone! To ring in the holiday, we're ranking the best Christmas songs out there, and to help us we brought in comedian Jay Yoder, host of Get in the Garage podcast Jeffrey May, and comedian and host of Their Stories podcast Megan Goetz. Also, order her new album, One Last Rad Thing!

In our Halloween episode (when we recorded it), we've brought in Philly's Phunniest winner Joe Murdock and comedian Dan D'Aprile to help us rank all zombie media. That includes books, video games, TV shows, and movies... but more realistically we just talk movies. Still a great time, though.

Holy fucking shit, what a way to start off the season. In this episode we bring in Philly comics Erik Terrell, Rachel Rowan, and Marc Staudenmaier to rank the seven words you can't say on television (Carlin edition). Invite the whole family to listen to this one, including impressionable young children and deeply religious grandparents. 

Dan and Dave talk about the upcoming season and make some updates on previous episodes, including their thoughts the MCU Phase 4 villains and the Cleveland Guardians. 

Since he just dropped a new book and also that little thing where he's the biggest director in the world right now, we've decided to rank the cinematic releases of Quentin Tarantino, and joining us for this ride are Philly comics Jesse Draham and Joshua Machiz.

You read that title right! Our good friend Kirk Griffiths (Proper Ebonics Podcast) suggested ranking the letters of the alphabet and the three of us did just that. From A to Z, this episode is a good time!

We're sure this list has been done before, but we're really making it our own. We're ranking the top 20 cover songs of all time, and we brought some of our Wasted Robot friends, George Brudermann (Feel Feelings) and Luke Roberge (Get in the Garage) to help us out.

While we're in the midst of the NBA playoffs, we've decided to rank the guys that couldn't get it done on this stage, and we've brought in comedian and champion of our hearts, Keane Cobb, to help us out.

In this episode, we rank the best sitcoms of the 1990s, and we brought in a lineup that will brighten your day, your week, your month, or even your year, host of the Launching Pod and Talking Sit, Silas P., and former Philly's Phunniest winner, Chip Chantry.

Crank this one up to 11, we're ranking the recent inductees into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and to help us, we've brought in host of Get in the Garage Mike Thresher and comedian and children's book author Eric Todd!

We're going back to our roots with sports based rankings, this time by doing the top ten logos across all four of the big sports, and we brought in comedian and avid sports fan Chris Dolan and graphic artist and ex-comedian Greg Lynn.

I'm not a smart man, but I know a great actor when I see one. In this episode we are joined by Jon Koppel of Peaks fame to countdown the best movies starring Tom Hanks.

Cue the techno music, we're ranking the characters of Mortal Kombat! And to make this a flawless victory of an episode, we've brought in Philly comedian Alejandro Morales to help us out. 

In a shocking twist, we've decided to rank the movie series that gave us our biggest cinematic shocking twist, STAR WARS! And to get some great insight, we reached out and said "Help us, Philly comedian Will Gardiner. You're our only hope".

This week we're ranking the best candy bars out there, and since everyone loves candy so much, we've brought in 3 guests for this one. We brought our friend Meg Goetz who brought in her friend Melissa Lawson and Dan brought in his friend and potential future podcaster, Liam.

This week we're ranking the best Batman villains, but since we just did three episodes about movies and we're tired of them, we're ranking the best ones never to appear in one of his movies, and we got comedian David Piccolomini and our Batman expert Em McIvor to help us out.

This is the big one, ranking the top ten best picture winners of the 21st century. And to take on such a monumental challenge, we've brought in the hosts of the I Like To Movie Movie podcast, Dan Scully and Garrett Smith.

In this episode we take a look at the past decade of Oscar winners of the main acting awards and even though the Academy got most of them wrong, we ranked them anyway. And to help us, we brought in some guests with actual acting and producing talent, Tim Chivalette (M. Night Shyamalan's Glass) and Kyra Knox (Small Business Spotlight for the 76ers!!!).

Dueling opinions and dueling ukuleles abound as we bring in guests Jillian Markowitz and Fenris to rank the past decade of the Oscar winners for best original song.

Dan and I do a quick update of Season 1 where we update our Pixar rankings with Soul and our MCU Villains rankings with the baddies of WandaVision. Also, a quick preview of some of the things to come in Season 2

Once again we're joined by Seamus Millar and Ross Weisman to finish up our ranking of all of the Pixar movies. Thank you for listening and we'll be back with season 2 in a few months.

Part one of our season finale, the first half of our rankings of all of the Pixar movies, and to help us out, we've got a friend in comic Seamus Millar and host of the Kidflix podcast, Ross Weisman.

Tonight we really tap into our inner man-child and rank the best shows that were produced for Adult Swim, and we brought in fellow nerds Ramon Bender (High Note Humor) and Darin Martinez (Passive Aggressive Hour, author of "Moosedumps") to help us out.

For no extremely transparent reason, this week we're ranking game show hosts, and to help us out we've brought in actual Jeopardy contestant Jon Greenstein and host of game shows (Game the Gamer, Comedy With a Curve, Iron Comic) Noah Houlihan.

After the MCU Villains episode made our hosts fanboy out over him, we've decided to countdown the best movies starring Paul Rudd, and to help us, we've brought in Rotten Tomato certified movie critic  and host of the "I Like To Movie Movie" podcast Dan Scully! 

John Kensil and Ben Fidler return to finish our ranking of the top 15 funny page comics, and if the top spots turned out any differently than they did, then good grief would I have hated to see how I reacted.

Nostalgia alert! We are joined by comedian John Kensil and artist Ben Fidler as we rank the top fifteen comics of the funny pages. 

What was originally planned to be a ranking of the late night talk show hosts, it eventually became ranking anyone who's ever said anything funny on TV ever, and we're joined by wonderful Philly comics Natalie Levant and Andrew Fox.

Comedian and host of the Peaks podcast Jon Koppel once again joins us to finish up our rankings of the top cities in the United States. Are these three Philadelphia comedians going to throw any surprises your way at number one? Only one way to find out.

This week we're joined by host of the Peaks Podcast (also on the Wasted Robot Network) Jon Koppel as they rank the top 15 cities in the United States. Pretty much just a list of places we've gotten drunk.

Once again we are joined by host of the Mostly Nitpicking Podcast Matt Kelly and Philly Comedian Andrew Thomas as we round out the top ten villains in all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  The best of the best if you ignore the Netflix shows and all the Jokers out there.

This week we're joined by host of the Mostly Nitpicking Podcast Matt Kelly and Philly comedian Andrew Thomas as they rank (almost) all the villains of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  And despite someone's best efforts, that does not include Tilda Swinton. 

To celebrate the fact that it's holiday season... basically, we've decided to rank the holidays! To help us do this we are joined by hilarious comic and incumbent administrator of the Philly Comedy Network, LeMaire Lee.

We are back with Nicole Yates and Jake Mattera to finish off our power rankings of children's cereals. Hopefully the audio quality doesn't turn you off from these guests, because theeeey're great!

We bring in L.A. comedian Nicole Yates (DidjaEat?) and Jake Mattera, as we rank all the major children's cereals and some more because we play fast and loose with the rules of what constitutes a kid's cereal. Fun times ahead, though.

We're joined by comedian Alyssa Truszkowski of the Real Chills Podcast and WNBA superfan Steve Miller-Miller as we power rank the unique names of the Women's National Basketball Association.

Once again we're joined by Rachel Fogletto and Brandon Jackson as we power through the top half of the team names in the NBA.

We're joined by comedians Rachel Fogletto and Brandon Jackson as we rank the bottom half of the team names of the NBA, although this time with the new wrinkle of which team is the sexiest also.

We are joined once again by Sylis P. and LaTice as we count down the top 16 team names in the NFL. We butt heads over many of these, but don't worry, not a single concussion was had.

Philadelphia comics Sylis P. and LaTice join us as we discuss the bottom half of the team names in the NFL. WARNING: There are a lot of outdated TV references in this episode.

Philadelphia comedians Chris Dolan and Kirk Griffiths are back as we focus on the best of the best team names for the National Hockey League.