After Lunch 125 | After Dinner Lounge – The New Dragon Excitement

Michael, Rob, Pax, and Christian wrap up their Lounge conversation with what they’ve been watching and thinking about. Topics include The Sandman TV series, the resurgence of the murder mystery genre, the US healthcare system, and Mortality vs the Relentless March of Pop Culture. Download or listen to the episode here.

After Lunch 124 | After Dinner Lounge – Pokémon Cards and Barbie Dreamhouses

Michael, Rob, and Pax welcome Christian Nielsen to the Lounge to talk about what they’ve all been listening to and reading. Among many other things, subjects include James Patterson and Brian Sitts’ The Shadow novel, comics artist Art Adams, a 1970s Fantastic Four radio show narrated by Stan Lee and featuring [REDACTED] as the Human Torch,…

AfterLunch 98: Big Screens Little Sentences

Michael, Rob, and Evan welcome Christian Nielsen (Pop Culture Retrofit) and new guest Siskoid (The Fire and Water Podcast Network) to guess movie titles based on one-sentence descriptions of the plot. It’s kind of hard, fairly chaotic, and completely fun. Download or listen to the episode here.

AfterLunch 92: Comics Trivia

Rob, Pax, Evan, and Christian Nielsen form teams and test their superhero knowledge as Michael asks them questions from a card game he got in his Christmas stocking. There is triumph and there is defeat, but mostly there’s a lot of laughter. Download or listen to the episode here.

AfterLUNCH 18: Christmas TV Episodes

Christian Nielsen and new guest Karen Flieger join Rob and Michael to talk about their favorite Christmas episodes of TV shows. In discussions of The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, Friends, and Justice League, the Clampetts learn about the politics of gift-giving, the Stephens’ help an orphan boy discover the spirit of the season, Ross tries to teach…

AfterLUNCH 7: Pandemic Palliates

Download or listen to the episode here A palliate is something that reduces or eases the symptoms of something horrible. In this special episode of AfterLUNCH, Rob Graham talks to AfterLUNCH guests and listeners to learn what has brought them joy or relief during the uncertainty and isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tune in and…

AfterLUNCH 3: Police Cop Super Squad

Download or listen to the episode here Adam Pope pitched the idea and Michael May dug it, so they invited Chris Bailey, Rob Graham, Evan Hanson, and Christian Nielsen to help create teams of fictional police characters. Each team has a leader, a detective, a ballistics expert, a wild card, a scientist, an undercover expert,…

Fourth Chair Army Invasion 20: A Tribute to Nerd Lunch

Fourth Chair Army Invasion 14: I Can’t Quit You

Christian Nielsen and Kay join Michael May to talk about a phenomenon that’s plagued nerds since the beginning of time (or at least, nerd time). Why do we latch on to some series or characters so hard that we feel compelled to watch or read even iterations that don’t look that appealing to us? Looking…

Nerd Lunch Podcast 329: Nerd Lunch 9

(Vector illustration credit: http://www.Vecteezy.com) For this episode we are joined by first time Fourth Chair Retromash as well as Fourth Chair vets Christian Nielsen and Shawn Robare to draft ourselves a heist team. We are each given 9 positions to fill and we pop culture fantasy draft ourselves a team to steal the Classic Film…