League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast

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A regular comic book and pop culture podcast that also promotes events in the Boston area! With over ten years under our belt, we... still don't know what we're talking about.

  1. May 28

    League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast Episode #544 - Sell It Now Special Edition Marvel Unlimited 2026 Doctor Doom Unboxing!

    In this freeform edition of League Podcast, Matt Dursin and Clay N. Ferno hang out in the "I Think This Is Great" studio to talk shop about the overwhelming task of downsizing a comic book collection. Clay opens up about the mental block of cataloging decades of books, while Matt offers up practical advice from his own experience selling on platforms like Mercari and eBay. The guys also treat viewers to a live unboxing of the Marvel Unlimited Annual Plus member kit. They sort through a treasure trove of Doctor Doom and Fantastic Four-themed collectibles—including an exclusive Jessica Drew Spider-Woman variant action figure, a Retro NASA-inspired Future Foundation patch, and a slightly dinged copy of One World Under Doom #1. Plus, they share their thoughts on the MCU's recent big-screen offerings and marvel at the return of digital comic codes.

    22 min
  2. League Podcast Episode #543 Video Variant - The Nice Guys

    May 20

    League Podcast Episode #543 Video Variant - The Nice Guys

    Set in 1970s Los Angeles, The Nice Guys is Shane Black's criminally underrated neo-noir comedy that somehow never got the blockbuster love it deserved. Clay and Dursin break down the buddy dynamic between Crowe's bruiser Jackson Healy and Gosling's gloriously incompetent Holland March — including the falls, the screams, the toilet gun standoff, and every moment Gosling commits so hard to physical comedy that it borders on performance art. They also get into why the film's satirical jabs at the porn industry, the Detroit auto lobby, and Nixon-era corruption still land fifty years later.Beyond the slapstick and the sleaze, the guys dive deep into the film's cult status and why a proper sequel to this masterpiece remains one of Hollywood's biggest missed opportunities. They look back at the incredible breakout performance of Angourie Rice as Holly, the sharp-as-a-tack script that perfectly blends dark detective tropes with laugh-out-loud absurdity, and how Shane Black managed to capture lightning in a bottle by pairing an old-school tough guy with a master of modern comedic timing. Clay has questions. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in a swimming pool with Richard Nixon.

    1h 21m
  3. League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast Episode #543 - The League Vs. The Nice Guys (2016)

    May 14

    League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast Episode #543 - The League Vs. The Nice Guys (2016)

    The League returns to take on The Nice Guys with Russell Crowe and our crush, Ryan Gosling, and a young lady. A porno young lady. Dursin swears he watched it.

    1h 20m
  4. League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast Episode #542 - The League Vs. Star Trek: First Contact

    May 1

    League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast Episode #542 - The League Vs. Star Trek: First Contact

    The League goes Trekking Through Trek again as they tackle Star Trek: First Contact. The crew of the Enterprise D must travel back in time to battle the Borg for the fate of humanity. They also have to convince a drunken bufoon to fly a spaceship so aliens will spot him, and Captain Picard has to stave off obsession. All that, plus Data gets some!

    1h 59m
  5. Leaguepodcast #541 - King Kong (1976) Video Variant

    Apr 30

    Leaguepodcast #541 - King Kong (1976) Video Variant

    The Gents go back to covering big monsters and take on the 1976 version of King Kong, starring Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, the lovely Jessica Lange, and a guy in an ape suit. The mechanical ape was only in the movie about 15 seconds. When Dino De Laurentiis set out to remake the 1933 classic, he promised the world a towering mechanical marvel. What audiences got instead was Rick Baker sweating in a gorilla suit — and honestly, it works better than it has any right to. The 1976 Kong ditches dinosaurs for oil company executives, drops Kong's origin into a corporate expedition, and somehow makes Charles Grodin the most compelling villain of the decade. Jeff Bridges is effortlessly cool as a stowaway primatologist, and Jessica Lange, in her film debut, turns a thinly written role into something genuinely charming. The Gents dig into the film's production chaos, the $1.7 million mechanical Kong that appeared on screen for about as long as it takes to read this sentence, and whether the movie holds up as the lovably sincere blockbuster misfire it truly is. Big monsters, corporate greed, and the Twin Towers standing in for the Empire State Building — it's a lot. Come for the ape suit, stay for the Grodin.

    1h 49m
  6. League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast Episode #541 - The League Vs. King Kong (1976)

    Apr 17

    League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast Episode #541 - The League Vs. King Kong (1976)

    The Gents go back to covering big monsters and take on the 1976 version of King Kong, starring Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, the lovely Jessica Lange, and a guy in an ape suit. The mechanical ape was only in the movie about 15 seconds.

    1h 49m
  7. The League Vs. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Video Variant

    Mar 25

    The League Vs. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Video Variant

    Matt Dursin, John Hunt, and Clay N. Ferno (aka Skimpy Ratnütz) dive deep into Philip Kaufman’s paranoid sci-fi horror masterpiece, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). In this episode of the League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast, the team breaks down why this $350K production still resonates in 2026, from Donald Sutherland’s iconic "pod scream" to the unsettling, industrial soundscape of San Francisco. We explore the legendary cameos by Kevin McCarthy, Robert Duvall, and Jerry Garcia, while dissecting the "Tony Robbins energy" of Leonard Nimoy and the frantic conspiracy rants of Jeff Goldblum. Whether you’re a fan of the 1956 original or modern spiritual successors like Apple TV+’s Pluribus, this episode covers the themes of conformity and cinematic paranoia that make this film a unanimous B+ League recommendation.

    1h 17m
  8. League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast Episode #540 - The League Vs. Tapeheads

    Mar 25

    League of Ordinary Gentlemen Podcast Episode #540 - The League Vs. Tapeheads

    The League travels back to a different time to take on the Mike Nesmith-produced, 80’s classic Tapeheads. Musician cameos, videos, and maybe Menudo. This one had it all.

    1h 21m
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A regular comic book and pop culture podcast that also promotes events in the Boston area! With over ten years under our belt, we... still don't know what we're talking about.

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