42 episodes
Prodigious Saps Chad Smalley & Brendan Jones
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Chad Smalley and Brendan Jones (friends for more than 30 years) reflect on movies, TV, music and comics… with a special focus on their shared love of Superman.
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Where's My Spider?
Prodigious Saps No. 42: "Where's my Spider?"
(Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k9heUvea93Q)
In this episode: the phenomenal failure of MADAME WEB... will Sony ever get their shit together?
ALSO:
FANTASTIC FOUR casting and plot speculation
Excitement for DEADPOOL 3
James Gunn's visual esthetic for SUPERMAN
00:00:00 — Preview
00:00:30 — It’s bad
00:02:30 — Madame Web in the comics
00:03:00 — Madame Web origin in movie
00:04:41 — The problem at SONY
00:15:11 — Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies
00:16:00 — What went wrong with SPIDER-MAN 3
00:18:09 — What went wrong with AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2
00:20:16 — SONY's lack of quality control
00:22:33 — FANTASTIC FOUR casting
00:23:21 — Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing
00:24:29 — Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch
00:24:59 — Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman
00:25:40 — Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic
00:27:45 — Revisiting 2005's Fantastic Four movie
00:30:49 — Theories about FF villains
00:31:51 — Theories about new FF continuity
00:36:52 — Galactus
00:38:38 — MCU "Cosmic" stuff
00:40:12 — Savage Land
00:41:41 — Deadpool 3
00:43:15 — Similarity between Deadpool 2 and The Suicide Squad
00:43:51 — James Gunn's visual esthetic for the DCU?
Prodigious Saps: profusive nerdery from Chad Smalley of Blaggards and Brendan Jones of Tesla City Stories.
https://linktr.ee/prodigioussaps
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Blaggards
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SlapperCast: a weekly podcast/road diary from Blaggards:
https://linktr.ee/slappercast
Tesla City Stories
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Breakfast of the Gods
https://www.indyplanet.com/breakfast-of-the-gods
Campbell & Jones Meet the Monsters
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Elsewords
An extended version of this episode is available on our Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/ProdigiousSaps
This is a very Superman-heavy episode of P-Saps... so much news has been dropping about James Gunn's upcoming SUPERMAN (previously titled SUPERMAN: LEGACY) that it's hard to keep up with, and we couldn't be more excited.
Lots of other stuff to talk about as well..
SUPERGIRL casting news
SUPERMAN casting and plot speculation
Why a Superman "Elseworlds" story set during WWII is probably not a good idea
What TED LASSO might have in common with James Gunn's Superman
STOP MAKING SENSE Collector's 4K Blu-Ray announcement
RIP Carl Weathers and Marty Krofft
THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP (Netflix documentary)
Brendan Recommendans: POOR THINGS and MONSIEUR SPADE
Prodigious Saps: profusive nerdery from Chad Smalley of Blaggards and Brendan Jones of Tesla City Stories.
https://linktr.ee/prodigioussaps
Join us on PATREON:
https://www.patreon.com/ProdigiousSaps
RELATED LINKS:
Blaggards
https://blaggards.com/
SlapperCast: a weekly podcast/road diary from Blaggards:
https://linktr.ee/slappercast
Tesla City Stories
https://www.teslacitystories.com
Breakfast of the Gods
https://www.indyplanet.com/breakfast-of-the-gods
Campbell & Jones Meet the Monsters
https://meetthemonsters.podbean.com/ -
I Want a Wookiee Pal
Prodigious Saps No. 40: "I Want a Wookiee Pal"
Star Wars Fandom: the First Generation
FINALLY, as long promised, today we're joined by our friend Jerry Chrisman to talk STAR WARS... our memories of seeing it for the first time, the seismic impact it had on us and the world around us, and what it was like growing up while the Original Trilogy was unfolding. We also talk a bit about the Special Editions and Prequels.
Just to give a little bit of context... Brendan and Jerry went to high school together, were in the band Zsu-Zsu's Petals together (which is when I met them both), and they now run Tesla City Stories together. The three of us have known each other for a very long time (30+ plus years), so the chemistry here is pretty damn special. Jerry is also a graphic designer, multimedia artist and web developer... as well as an extremely talented keyboardist and composer. And like Brendan and I, he is also a huge nerd.
There will be more of this in the pipeline very soon, as there's still TONS more to talk about. We still have to get to the sequels and the Disney Plus era of Star Wars.
What about y'all? What was your first Star Wars experience?
Prodigious Saps: profusive nerdery from Chad Smalley of Blaggards and Brendan Jones of Tesla City Stories.
https://linktr.ee/prodigioussaps
RELATED LINKS:
Blaggards
https://blaggards.com/
SlapperCast: a weekly podcast/road diary from Blaggards:
https://linktr.ee/slappercast
Tesla City Stories
https://www.teslacitystories.com
Breakfast of the Gods
https://www.indyplanet.com/breakfast-of-the-gods
Campbell & Jones Meet the Monsters
https://meetthemonsters.podbean.com/ -
Less Soap Opera, More Giant Monsters, Please
This week on P-Saps:
Marvel's ECHO series and the reaffirmed Netflix Daredevil canon
Elvis Presley was a cosplay nerd
Fantastic Four casting
...and lots of other wacky crap.
00:00:00 — Intro
00:00:19 — Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
00:01:27 — Elvis Presley & Captain Marvel Jr.
00:03:36 — Marvel's ECHO
00:17:20 — Netflix Daredevil is officially canon
00:22:04 — 3 examples of PERFECT casting in MCU
00:23:11 — Hopes for Daredevil: Born Again
00:28:25 — Paste Pot Pete
00:29:41 — Tomb of Dracula
00:31:58 — Fantastic Four Casting?
00:34:40 — Rebel Moon vs Star Wars
00:37:57 — Ghost Busters: Frozen Empire
00:39:49 — Brendan Recommendans
00:44:13 — Next episode: Old School STAR WARS memories
Prodigious Saps: profusive nerdery from Chad Smalley of Blaggards and Brendan Jones of Tesla City Stories.
https://linktr.ee/prodigioussaps
RELATED LINKS:
Blaggards
https://blaggards.com/
SlapperCast: a weekly podcast/road diary from Blaggards:
https://linktr.ee/slappercast
Tesla City Stories
https://www.teslacitystories.com
Breakfast of the Gods
https://www.indyplanet.com/breakfast-of-the-gods
Campbell & Jones Meet the Monsters
https://meetthemonsters.podbean.com/ -
AQUABRO
Brendan's disappointment in Aquaman II prompts a discussion of why it's often a problem when studios wind up "bending the character around the actor". Also look back at the failed DCEU and the incoming DCU. Also: the Doctor Who Christmas Special, Slow Horses Season 3, Batman... and more!
Our Patreon has an uncut version of this episode containing 20 minutes of extra material, including Netflix's "Cunk on Earth", season 2 of Marvel's "What If?", and the recent news about Marvel embracing Netflix's Daredevil continuity: https://www.patreon.com/posts/prodigious-saps-96203780
00:00:26 — AQUAMAN 2 and Why the DCEU failed
00:18:51 — Solo: A Star Wars Story
00:22:23 — Doctor Who
00:33:51 — Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor
00:35:19 — Batman
00:41:12 — Superman (David Corenswet geeking out to Star Wars)
00:43:28 — SLOW HORSES Season 3
00:45:58 — Jack Lowden is the new Harrison Ford
00:48:59 — SuperFriends
Prodigious Saps: profusive nerdery from Chad Smalley of Blaggards and Brendan Jones of Tesla City Stories.
https://linktr.ee/prodigioussaps
RELATED LINKS:
Blaggards
https://blaggards.com/
SlapperCast: a weekly podcast/road diary from Blaggards:
https://linktr.ee/slappercast
Tesla City Stories
https://www.teslacitystories.com
Breakfast of the Gods
https://www.indyplanet.com/breakfast-of-the-gods
Campbell & Jones Meet the Monsters
https://meetthemonsters.podbean.com/ -
Maybe He Just Never Puts on Pants
In this one we talk about the 60th Anniversary DOCTOR WHO specials featuring the return of David Tennant and show runner Russell T. Davies, and the introduction of Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor.
ALSO: SUPERMAN: LEGACY casting news, GODZILLA: MINUS ONE, AQUAMAN, and BLUE BEETLE.
Available on Patreon NOW: our review of Ncuti Gatwa's first full episode as the Doctor, the Christmas special "The Church on Ruby Road":
https://www.patreon.com/posts/prodigious-saps-96203780
00:00:00 — Intro
00:00:51 — SUPERMAN: LEGACY casting
00:03:28 — "MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios"
00:04:32 — BLUE EYE SAMURAI
00:05:04 — GODZILLA MINUS ONE and MONARCH
00:15:46 — More on SUPERMAN: LEGACY
00:19:44 — AQUAMAN (1st movie)
00:28:22 — BLUE BEETLE
00:36:16 — DOCTOR WHO (David Tennant Specials)
Prodigious Saps: profusive nerdery from Chad Smalley of Blaggards and Brendan Jones of Tesla City Stories.
https://linktr.ee/prodigioussaps
RELATED LINKS:
Blaggards
https://blaggards.com/
SlapperCast: a weekly podcast/road diary from Blaggards:
https://linktr.ee/slappercast
Tesla City Stories
https://www.teslacitystories.com
Breakfast of the Gods
https://www.indyplanet.com/breakfast-of-the-gods
Campbell & Jones Meet the Monsters
https://meetthemonsters.podbean.com/
Customer Reviews
A good older nerd perspective.
I fell upon these guys on accident, by seeing a tick tock they did on Quark. My interest was peaked because of this duo’s banter, and I dove in.