The Pint: A Pop Culture Podcast (John Amenta & Lloyd Green/The Pint Insiders)

The Pint crosses thru 1979's The Black Hole to start it's 7th year!

2024, we are in you.

It's Your 317th Pint.

Invitee: Chris Beaudette

Film: Escape From New York

Chris Beaudette, multi instrumentalist and vocalist in many, many bands joins us to talk all about 1981's Escape From New York. Who is Chris' celeb man crush? Can his girlfriend Kyera name all the bands he is in? Do we actually talk about the film in this episode? Answers to all this and more on Episode 88 of The Pint!! Do you like our outro tune? That is one of Chris' bands, the mighty Entierro!

We reviewed Aliens.

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Lou joins Ganache for an episode all about video gaming. From what Lou has been playing during quarantine, to sales figures and what is coming out this year, we talk all about pixels. This an ep that would make Duke Nukem happy, and it should make you happy too. Listen In, it's your 134th Pint!

Sir Jon and our buddy and stand up comedian Eric Barakat get the WESU show up to Warp factor 10, chatting with the author of Treknology, Ethan Siegel. What is Treknology? It is a book Ethan, a scientist himself, wrote relating the science and technology we all know from Star Trek to what we actually have here now. So set phasers to listen and get ready to learn a thing or ten about warp drives, communicators and even more!

Ganache sneak attacks Sir Jon with random events in pop culturedom that they had not discussed prior. From a true Hollywood hero turning 70 to Superman and his goddamned mustache through attempted murder over a card game, you know you are in for a fun and full Pint! And don't forget Jesse Ventura, he is in here too somewhere

Scary Larry's Pint O' Horrors is back, and we discuss the next film that you guys voted on, the early 80's sleaze classic Maniac. Hear Sir Jon do a new impression which creeps everyone out, listen in as we discuss hooker etiquette, find out what type of guys generally wear tank tops and hear us discuss this piece of horror film history! And keep listening because when the next edition of Pint O' Horrors comes around we will be talking all about 1980's Prom Night!

Ack! Ack!

Ack! Ack!!! Ack!!!

It's Your 314th Ack! 

The Stewarts, Rob and Amanda, join John to discuss the 109th entry into the Halloween series of films. Is this movie too goofy, or is it just going for a different vibe? We discuss whether or not the tone of this film lines up with the 1978 original, and laugh quite a bit as we navigate this one. Oh and don't forget....

Make Evil Great Again!

250.

Thank you for helping us get this far.

Robocop turns 35 and we are here to party like it's the not too distant future! Join us and our boy Murphy for the retelling of his murder, resurrection and his new gig with the Detroit P.D.

It's Your 246th Pint!

Doug Paszkiewicz, creator of the truly twisted comic Arsenic Lullaby joins us for his 3rd appearence on the WESU radio show. We discuss his work process, his feelings on the comic industry and much more. What classic comic character has he been dying to work on? What current juggernaut blockbuster film truly let him down? C'mon, you know that last one is Endgame! Listen In to this special encore of our 99th radio episode!

Triple T meets Triple W

Can Will Smith's maligned western garner better favor all these years later from The Pint? Does it deserve a second chance? 

Listen In and enjoy!

Chris Verrilli, a modern day Champion of Beer visits The 215 and talks all about his latest annual Connecticut show, The Elm City Brew Festival. No dear listeners there is no talk of Moon Knight, no discussion of who has the better power set or what the latest TV show to stink up the airwaves is. This episode is all about the ales, the pilsners, the sours and even the Corona Premiere? This here Pint be all about the beer! Back to exploring more familiar avenues of greater geekdom next week!

Dem Boyz are joined by Pint Six Pack member and creator of entertainment blog Arguing With Myself, Chris Frodel. The results of Russell Crowe's divorce auction are discussed, as well as the bizarre circumstances happening in Stan Lee's life right now. Wind River and A Quiet Place are reviewed and The Jo(h)ns ponder what a possible romantic relationship between them would be like. Yuck. Listen In!

Happy Day! We have a ton of episodes in the can and room on our server at the end of the month! Bonus episode for you! G.I. Gary comes to the 100 Proof Book Project to discuss a story arc from early 80's Marvel G.I. Joe. Eskimos, evil scientists and harpoon guns are all part of the 8 issues we cover. Listen In! Second Pint this week, please consume responsibly!

Scary Larry takes John to camp.

Weird stuff happens.

The Pint returns from a hiatus and end up on a desert planet in the middle of nowhere.

It's good to be back. Thank you all for your love and support in the hardest of times.

It's Your 313th Pint, Enjoy!!

Another week, another TTT! Butler from Forgotten Entertainment and Keith from GeekTime Network join us to figure out if Star Trek V deserves it's Trash reputation. These guys love Trek, so this one gets deep into how their fandom effects their feelings towards the actual film. Listen In!

Forgotten February ends with us looking back 25 years ago and discussing our favorite films of 1998. Shane and Andrew of Recent Activity help us delve through the movies released that year and determine what makes the grade.

It's Your 280th Pint!!!!

2022- 35 years later 4 guys wax on about this classic

It's Your 236th Pint

Tommy Lee Jones and an 80s movie supercar team up to fight crime!

Or 100% none of that happens.

S.F.A. 80s returns with Black Moon Rising!

The 25th Radio episode released as a podcast! Listen In as we discuss a ton of stuff with Ahoy Comics Editor In Chief Tom Peyer. From his days writing books such as Hourman and The Authority, through his editing gigs at Vertigo and more, this guy has been present in some important moments in the history of comics. Now he is in charge of a whole new publisher with a great group of of creators on rad projects, Ahoy! Please check this show out, but more importantly, start digging into The Pint approved selection of books that the folks at Ahoy are putting out, they are flat out fun storytelling at it's best.

We drag Forgotten Cinema back to 1300 with us to fulfill the most dangerous of quests... Reviewing a movie for our old buddy Stew!!!

Grab your boomstick and switch your dating apps over to gay, it's your latest Pint!

Happy Halloween 2022!!

Let's get shunty with it!!!!

Scary Larry gets in on the Black History Month fun with a film based on a Clive Barker short story originally set in Liverpool...1992's Candyman!

Don't say that last part 5 times, we ask nicely!

Scary Larry's House Of Horrors Season 4 starts soon!!

Joe from The Horror Show returns to countdown our favorite Man Vs. Animal movies! Attacking ants, bedeviled bears and much more can be found right here,on your 209th Pint! Stay tune for a very special announcement regarding the show's immediate future at the end! 

The Pint talk about their Free Comic Book Day adventures and review a few titles from the event. The latest classics being shown in theaters via Fathom Events are discussed as well as the newest book from one of Jon's favorite authors. We discuss our favorite Chewbacca moments in reflection of the recent loss of Peter Mayhew and much more. 85 is alive! Road to 90!

The Pint took a month off and something came from space and started making folks blood turn to powder.

We are back and we are on it!

Year 8 starts next month.

350.

Speed 2.

He's baaaaaaaaaaack

Coming at you, 400.

The Mikes of Forgotten Cinema quickly bored of retired life and jumped at the call to takeover The Pint for a new block of episodes, this time focusing on forgotten sequels.

We start with 2010's Predators, starring raspy voiced Adrien Brody and....Topher Grace?

If it bleeds, we can kill it, or something like that.

Part 1 in a 6 Part Mini-Series!

The Jo(h)ns and The Manster cover their Top 5 Heroes of Independent Comics! Jon insists on making his list a Top 6, Manster only seems to read books from one company in particular and Ganache lays out some serious The Walking Dead spoilers! Be warned! Also after we sign off, stay tuned for a SPOILER filled quick little review of Avengers:Infinity War. It's time for another Pint!

The 100 Proof Book Project is under quarantine! Lady G steps in to discuss the first 6 issues of 2016's Black Widow, from creators Chris Samnee and Mark Waid. What will a complete and total non comic reader think about a story arc of a character she knows next to nothing about? well, that's exactly why you should listen, because I promise an answer to that and more questions. Listen In and enjoy your 127th Pint!

It's that time of year. That time when some podcasters feel the need to talk about Die Hard right around Xmas.

This year those podcasters are us. 

Listen In And Die Hard!

The Manster and John start Anniversary April off on a depressing note.

Big Brother IS watching you, so you may as well listen to us.

You might be unpersoned, but worth it.

Part 2 of our coverage of CT HorrorFest, recorded live on September 15th!

This time we talk to

- An actor/producer who has a Shot for Shot remake of a classic horror film out now

- A podcaster who has sold 2 scripts to Hollywood that are being made soon

- A local actress/comedian

- A local businessman who is a convention staple

All this, and Sir Jon and Six Packer Chris Frodel talk Hereditary, the sitcom Titus and things that bounce.

It's a brand new Pint!

Let's rob a bank and have an amnesiac help us do it!

We head to Canada, I mean Kansas for this low budget modern noir.

It's Your 359th Pint

Season 3 of Scary Larry's House Of Horrors rolls on as we discuss The Prowler from 1981. Also Larry doesn't know what a Dear John letter is and none of us are quite sure what sundries are. 

It's Your 263rd Pint

Sal from the great geek clothing company Robber Barons Ink chooses his film for the PMI and it is an odd little Tom Hanks vehicle, The 'Burbs. Why was Bubbles the chimp on set? How many pizzas do you order for a handful of friends? What is going on in the house next door to YOU?

All this and more on your 219th Pint.

Scary Larry leads the guys on a journey to a California town that has a cannery problem. Oh, did I forget to mention the lustful and murderous fish monsters?

You will never say salmon the same way.....

Humanoids From The Deep!!!!

Charley B. ain't having it.

The streets of NYC need a cleaning and he is up for the job!

Jainchill is in no way, shape or form a real last name.

Chris from Arguing With Myself is back this week to discuss the entire slate of films made from DC Comics. From Dad Bod Superman to Heather Locklear getting it on with vegetation, we leave no adaptation unturned. Sir Jon reiterates his crush on Gal Gadot is still alive, John does the worst Shaq impression on Earth and Chris channels Marlon Brando in eerie fashion. An extra full Pint for you this week, Listen In!

Old school style episode! We jump around a few topics, from comics we are enjoying, to upcoming Fathom Events and more. 156 is here and ready for your consumption, so consume!

Invitee: Lloyd Green

Movie: The Thing

Dem Boyz attack the 1982 Horror classic, The Thing, chosen by The Manster himself, to kick off the ongoing subseries here on The Pint. From Kurt Russell's beard through thermite and beyond nasty tentacles, we deep dive into what makes this box office flop work as a modern cult classic. Listen In and stay tuned for more great movie discussions.

S.F.A. 80s heads to the Phillipines via Japan and gets all ninja up in  your ears.

You know it's going to be a fun ep when the film covered is from The Cannon Group.

Listen In!

Recorded what seems like months ago, an episode of stuff that is so October of 2017! Lloyd gets promoted, Jon reviews what may be the worst film he has ever seen, John and Lloyd discuss Blade Runner 2049 and Victor Crowley. The real reasons behind Anakin's turn to the dark side are discussed as is our trip to a game con and tattoo con on the same day. A full Pint, please enjoy responsibly!

Maggie and Ashleigh of the incredible Rock Candy Podcast join us to discuss our favorite fake bands in pop culture. The Manster makes his triumphant return after some real world strife and John DID have the covid that he was waiting on results for in this ep.

First ep of 2022, first ep of year 5 and your 223rd Pint overall.

May 31st 2024 we joined forces with SWO productions and raised $1290 during our segment to help say f#ck off to cancer.

This is the audio of that segment. Unedited and fun as heck.

Your 338th Pint is extra special.

Celebrate Memorial Day with a Pint Movie Invitational this year! Stew from The Ghosts Of The Stratosphere Podcast returns and chooses 2003's Lost In Translation to discuss. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson bond in Tokyo and we delve into this fake relationship way too hard. From the treatment of the Japanese people to what was said at the end, we cover it! Listen In!!!

Laura is called in to add some feminine perspective to this episode where we discuss, well....vagina teeth. Or at least a film about them. Scary Larry truly finds one worthy of the body horror tag, and we all have a pretty good, if slightly uncomfortable chat.

The Manster fills in for Sir Jon and discusses with Ganache a whole bunch of comic show casting news, and react to some new trailers released in the last few weeks. After that things get festive as Dem Boyz discuss some favorite contemporary Christmas songs, and read off the picks of friends of The Pint. Just in time for the giving season, we got you a 69. 69th Pint that is. Listen In!

Invitee: Chad "Dizzle" Davis

Film: Everybody Wants Some!!

Podcaster Chad Davis hits the Invitational with a relatively obscure film from Writer/Director Richard Linklater. A no name cast featuring in a film with a threadbare plot, this may end in disaster. Or maybe not. Listen In as we discuss this slice of life film following some bro's as they spend 3 days doing bro stuff. The Road To 90 continues through Pint Invitational Month!

Season 3 of Scary Larry's House Of Horrors begins here!

Larry brings a "melt"movie, a genre we had no clue existed.

People melt in this one, so it fits.

All Horror October continues!!!

Fellow WESU DJ and CT native Billy Johnstone sits down with the boys. Billy fulfilled his childhood dream of becoming an actor on Broadway and has since choreographed, directed and taught in the theater world. An unusually inspiring episode of The Pint, as Billy takes us through his journey to the stage. Another of our WESU shows rebroadcast in podcast form, Listen In!

2023 starts here, Van Dammeuary Week 1!

The Muscles From Brussels Vs. Wrong Silver!!

Time travel at it's most nonsensical!!!

The Pint hits 300 in July!!!!

Lost Episode! Recorded in the heat of Covid ravaged 2020, sometime in the summer. Listen In as we play some Pick Your Poison and generally gross each other out. 

Next week The Pint goes 200.

Week 1 of All Horror October!!

We Triple T the f#ck out of our 3rd film in the Halloween franchise

It's Your 259th Pint!!!

Happy New Year 2021. Join us and Andrew from The Nomcast as we travel back 30 years to discuss our Top 5 Films Of 1991! Is Number 1 an obvious choice across the board? Maybe, but the journey is most of the fun. Thanks for hanging in with us through the last several years, let's start this one with a bang!

Stand Up Comedian and good friend of the show Andrew Morgan stops by for a particularly tangential episode. Burt Reynolds passing is discussed along with She-Ra, Candyman, Unsolved Mysteries and more. We may never finish a thought but we sure get to the next one in a damn hurry, and have some laughs along the way. It's your 60th Pint! Thank you to everyone that has listened, been on, or just supported in any way in this last year and a half. You all rock!

Pint O' Horrors is dead

Long live House Of Horrors

Scary Larry has an old friend, his name is Victor Crowley. Let's go out to his house in the woods and say hi, ok?

We end the summer on a real dream of an episode.

Yeah, I know, that was lame.

It's Your 255th Pint, Enjoy!!

Batman: The Animated Series. Back Issue Magazine. The X Files. The Orville. The distaste for pubic hair in Japan. Only four of these things are similar, but they all have one thing in common, we discuss them all. It's your 24th episode of Pint O' Comics. Listen In!

Sir Jon! John! A good old fashioned two man Pint! Daredevil Season 3 review! Deadwood movie news! Mandy review! Exclamation points! Listen In! Your 67th Pint!

We discuss a horror film with it's origins firmly planted in The Pint's home of Connecticut.

Time to discuss She Came From The Woods!

Episode 300 is right around the corner..

Stew and John discuss the latest Eli Roth film and it's inventive kills, amongst other things.

Happy Thanksgiving 2023, please fill your bellies and be safe.

The Pint Loves Ya!

The TTT train is back, and our buddy from Forgotten Entertainment Mike Field returns to the show to see what it's all about. The film that we are tasked with determining if it truly is trash is none other than Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. Mike is a fan, but what will the hosts think, and can Mike sway them if it's negative. You know how to find out! Listen In, it's your 154th Pint.

Old friend and movie buff Nukilwa sits down to chat with the boys. Topics include outdoor activities learned about from Mark Twain books, how to avoid getting kidnapped and the shaming of Uncle Larry, that one relative we all have that gets drunk at a holiday and says or does something crazy. We also discuss upcoming horror films based around a Polaroid camera and an Olympic swimming pool. And you wonder why Hollywood remakes everything. An Olympic swimming pool. Listen in.

Sex The Animal, providers of the new Pint opening radio theme come on the show to talk music and much more. Beam And Icculus laugh along with Jon and John as we discuss Richard Marx hairdos, throwing up through screen doors, songs named after Greek pastries and tons more. A bonus to this bonus radio episode is three tracks off of their debut album, best described as organic electro space jazz from the inside of an ant's mind's eye. You know, that category. Listen In!

The boys need a week off, so here is another episode of the radio version of The Pint. Professor Bill Foster adds much needed class to the show, as he sits down to talk. A local comic book historian, Bill and the Jo(h)ns discuss everything from the importance of reading to the subject of race in comics, and the real world. John remembers a book from his childhood fondly featuring a hero of color, and Sir Jon discusses the comedian that helped open his eyes to equality as a youth. And just when it sounds like it is getting too serious, we talk Magnum condoms for a bit. Listen In!

Scary Lar-MAY starts now! Halloween in the Spring, as we close out Pint O' Horrors Season 2, all month long!

First stop, New Zealand. There seems to be a BLACK METAL problem.

John welcomes three of our good buddies to discuss their fandom of Professional Wrestling! Stew from SWO Productions, Sal from Robber Barons Ink and our very own Lou highlight what they love about those greasy giants fighting it out in the squared circle! Listen In!!

Stew covers for The Manster this week, just in time to help John review the long delayed Black Widow film. Where does this one fall in the MCU rankings? Was getting back to the movie theater a good experience?

Answers inside!

Listen In, 2 weeks til 200!!!

Michael Kelleher. Art restorer. The Indiana Jones of The 4 Color. A man who enjoys a quiet car ride. Mike joins the boys on WESU for a too short hour of laughs and a trip down literary and history. We discuss his important contributions to helping bring forgotten works back to life and to the people and much more. It's a WESU Classic with Mike Kelleher!

G.I. Gary drops in to join us in our Fall/Winter Movie Preview. From animated bulls to Osiris Children, we tell you what looks good and what looks Geostorm, oh sorry, I meant horrible. Is Gary a Brony? Is Sir Jon thinking too much about Janet Reno? Why did John skip the trailer for LEGO Ninjago? None of these answers here, but we do have a round of Movie Challenge! Listen In!

Mike Butler, Mike Field or John Amenta

Which one is the Russian spy?

Who is the tax evader?

Who could be the one who makes tiger sounds when he does his karate?

Join us for The Osterman Weekend

If this episode was a Jeopardy category, it would be Potpourri. The boys jump topics from unconvincing lesbian performances on TV to sex scenes on TV and movies.No, I don't see a pattern. Along the way John does a bad Michael Caine impression whilst calling him Michael Keaton more than once, and it seems that no one remembers that it was Robert Preston in The Last Starfighter and The Music Man. Oh and Sir Jon may have a crush on Denzel. Listen In!

Laura sits in for a newly cohabitating Manster and picks 2007's Sci Fi film Sunshine to discuss.

Have you ever felt addicted to the sun? If so, well this is the movie for you!

And what or who exactly does Laura refer to as "tiny and twinkie"?

Listen In!

We head to Mexico circa 1995 and marvel over how hot Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek were. And still are.

It's Your 343rd Pint.

Enjoy Responsibly.

David Powell of the incredible podcast We Watched A Thing, AND noted Australian joins John to discuss the lastest action fest from another Australian of note, Chris Hemsworth!

That's right, it's time for Extraction 2

There is alot of Australia going on in this one!!!

The Pint Movie Invitational Series: Part 4

Invitee: Rich Smith

Movie: Blade

Artist, podcaster and brand new dad Rich Smith joins Dem Boyz on the Invitational to talk Wesley Snipes! Oh, and Stephen Dorff too! That's right, it is time to get down on 1998's Blade. What Steven Spielberg film did it knock out of the top box office slot? How old is Traci Lords? And who the hell is Storm Noble? Stay tuned and Listen In to see what we thought about this surprisingly successful early superhero film about a z list Marvel character. On our road to 80, this is your 72nd Pint.

Sir Jon and Ganache, along with our trusty intern Shiva talk to Kurtis Spieler, local filmmaker specializing in Horror. We discuss his first two feature films and his upcoming third, as well as a whole slew of other subjects, from his feelings on the latest Halloween film and collector culture. Oh, and who the hell is Shiva? Listen In and find out!

CT HorrorFest was good enough to let John moderate a panel featuring castmembers of 1997's Sci Fi classic Starship Troopers.

Here's the proof.

This episode, much like America and the guy Tom Cruise played in that movie was born on the 4th of July! Sir Jon and John are back in the saddle and discussing such American classics as Trancers, Ben and Jerry's, Peter Weller and so much more. Did you love Robocop but not the remake so much? Do you remember adjusting the tracking on your VCR? Do you want to hear John's Jared Leto Joker laugh? Well this is the show for you! Listen In.

Forgotten February enters the back half, and we have Pat from Yet Another MCU Podcast on. It's a 100 Proof, so we are putting the COMICS back in Pint O' COMICS! 2015's Star Wars series from Marvel is focused on, but we also discuss our feelings on the franchise as a whole. Pint 176 is ready, so get to listening!

We are really proud to have done this, and thankful to our friends that watched, and donated.

The 190th Pint is the unedited audio from the show, please enjoy and forever remember...#FUCKCANCER