This week, in our newest miniseries, we talk about The Muppets! Of course, we're starting off with The Muppet Movie, a movie with a weird amount of meta layers and a ton of offbeat comedy charm tha...
2022-05-20 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's episode, Nicky and Wyatt have a chill discussion about a myriad of topics, including but not limited to: Barnes and Noble, Nicky's recent basketball escapade, The Dragon Prince, Vinl...
2022-05-16 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Friend of the show, graphic novelist and occasional podcast host Joey Weiser joins us once again to discuss one of the weirdes...
2022-05-13 02:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Nicky, Cody and Wyatt are joined by friend of the show and lifelong Evangelion fan (as well as creative force behind OK KO and AJ's Infinite Summer) 2022-05-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we have a very special, fun-filled Shit Shooters for you all in the form of a discussion via Friend Trifecta! That's right, we got our friend Cody joining Nicky and Wyatt in the pursuit o...
2022-05-02 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hazel from You...
Nicky, Cody and Wyatt are back this week to dive into what is possibly the most controversial set of anime episodes ever aired on television. These episodes are all at once mysterious, harrowing, m...
2022-04-22 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Our shit shooters are back to talk about what they've been up to lately! Unfortunately, that includes a Covid diagnosis for our dear Wyatt (Send our boy a "Get Well Soon, Wyatt!" in the chat by the...
2022-04-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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I can't believe I have to say this, but uh. I'm gonna have to issue a content warning here for Elephant Dissections.
That's right, we're talking abo...
Our dear friend and fellow Evangelion fan Cody joins us from this point onward to talk through our revisiting of Neon Genesis Ev...
2022-04-08 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Your favorite April Fools at Explode When Defeated are joined by Steve Yurko to talk a...
2022-03-31 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
For this miniseries, we decided to go back and dive into something we had already been intimately familiar with before. Up to this point, basically all of our series have featured one or both of us...
2022-03-25 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Nicky and Wyatt talk about recent developments in Toei animation and Shonen Jump movies, Wyatt's great big huge Pixar watch-through, and a whole bunch of shit Nicky watched on HBO Max (Righteous Ge...
2022-03-21 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Alex Horab joins us once again for perhaps the most infamous movie in the Gamera s...
2022-03-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In our final (for now) installment of our Weird Hollywood IP Dystopia But Also About Human And A Cartoon Movies podcast, we talk about Space Jam: A New Legacy. This movie really just uh, appeared, ...
2022-03-11 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Shooting Shit Session, we actually have a really nice and involved conversation about a handful of topics! What a world! This time we pay tribute to a mutual favorite, Dr. Stone, in ...
2022-03-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week on Demolition Daiei, we're going to the beach, hijacking a submarine, using our lassos and getting abducted by aliens! Gamera vs Viras is a weird,...
This week we're talking about Warner Bros' 2003 box-office bomb Looney Tunes: Back in Action, starring Brendan Fraser and Steve Martin! As things were looking pretty bleak for our hosts, they made ...
2022-02-25 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we ramble for a while about that Street Fighter 6 announcement that literally just happened, the Nintendo Direct that we willed into existence last episode, Suikoden 2, the Playstat...
2022-02-21 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Our pal Buster nobly joins us on short notice to talk about the third and most batty...
2022-02-17 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In this, the second episode of our miniseries Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! the podcast falls right off a cliff... But not without holding up a "HELP ME" sign first!
Here we talk about the 199...
2022-02-11 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This time on Shit Shooters...
- A talk about the behind-the-scenes shitshow this week and how we're re-recording those two Demolition Daiei episodes.
- Nicky gets excited about anime agai...
In defiance of the technical difficulties and inner turmoil that plagued Demolition Daiei this week, Wyatt decided to pull together an episode from out of thin air with friend of the show 2022-02-06 01:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post
As any of our Shit Shooters listeners will know, I (Nicky) had to switch laptops recently due to a drive failure on my old machine. Unfortunately, what became clear to us this week was that my side...
2022-02-02 19:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons and welcome to our newest miniseries here at Explode When Defeated! We present to you Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!, a sort of examination at our current dystopia in film, particularly regar...
2022-01-28 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Shit Shooters is back! Regular this time! This week, we talk about Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard (ugh), become pseudo-sourpusses about the new Super Sentai show Donbrothers, lay praise on th...
2022-01-24 23:29:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Wyatt and Nicky dive into the deadly jungle that is talking about Gamera's first sequel: 1966's GAMERA VS BARUGON. With a different director in tow, Daiei decided to change up the vibe and lean clo...
2022-01-20 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA combination of scheduling mishaps and a dying computer has resulted in me losing a bonus podcast that I didn't have the time to re-record for this weekend, so there's no friday release this week....
2022-01-14 13:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Shit Shooters is BACK!
To ring in the new year, Nicky and Wyatt are here to talk to you all about the video games they played this year, and how they'd rank them and all that good stuff. Ge...
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Have no fear, season two is here!
Explode When Defeated is back with a vengeance and we're talking about that most turtley of ...
2022-01-06 22:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post