46 | After Dinner Lounge – Spooky Laughs

The Lounge has extra pumpkins and coffins in it this month as Rob, Michael, Evan, and Pax talk about Marvel’s Mr Hyde, Midnight Marvel, DC vs. Vampires, and the Protestant Reformation and sola scriptura.

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463 | After Dinner Lounge – SD

Pax, Rob, Michael, and Evan are back in the Lounge talking about what Human Torch’s power smells like, Anya Taylor-Joy in Lucky, fictional role models, Coyote vs Acme, and algorithms.

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460 | The Star Trek Awardies

We put the call out for Star Trek fans to nominate their favorite people, places, and things in 18 categories from all the Star Trek TV shows. The people have answered, so now Michael, Rob, Delaney, Evan, and Pax are discussing and voting on the top nominees. It's time to organize your office pool and make your own predictions as we determine the winners and bestow upon them the prestigious and much coveted After Lunch Awardie.

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458 | After Dinner Lounge – Zodiac Stardust

Evan, Pax, Rob, and Michael chat about who’s been a Kyle Chandler fan the longest, reading long books, Ride or Die, and the results of our Summer Movie Wager.

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453 | After Dinner Lounge – Duck Milk

Michael, Evan, Pax and Rob gather again in the lounge to discuss novelty ties, Icelandic pop music, Rooster (some more), Punisher movies, and our favorite comfort meals and TV episodes.

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451 | After Dinner Lounge – Bonbons and Soap Operas

Rob, Michael, Evan, and Pax talk about Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Rooster, Marion by Leah Rowan, murder mystery plays, and so much more.

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448 | After Dinner Lounge – eBaby

Pax, Rob, Michael, and Evan talk about infant clowns, Hitchcock movies, The Odyssey, The Other Bennet Sister, and the insane magic of love. And Jacob Bean-Watson stops by to talk about some movies and update us on his meeting Steve Guttenberg and Ally Sheedy.

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447 | The Cast List 2

Michael and Rob welcome Delaney Graham, Doug Frye, Evan Hanson, Jody Collins, Kay, Michael DiGiovanni, and Robert Zerbe for another round of the Cast List card game, where contestants have to come up with the names of actors based on a list of movies they've been in.

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446 | After Dinner Lounge – Seven Years of Krypto’s Life

Evan, Pax, Rob, and Michael talk about becoming cats, British TV, Supergirl comics, contractor caution, and secret identities.

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443 | After Dinner Lounge – She’s Got the Bugonia Real Bad

Michael, Evan, Pax, and Rob talk about beans, Disclosure Day, Mandalorian and Grogu, Masters of the Universe, Supergirl, opera, Spider-Noir, touring Hawaiʻi, and the 007: First Light video game.

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442 | The Avengers of Anthropomorphic Animals

Michael and Rob are joined by Evan Hanson and Shawn Robare to assemble a team of their favorite anthropomorphic animal characters... and then try to craft a story around them. 

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441 | After Dinner Lounge – Saucer Party

Rob, Michael, Evan, and Pax talk about Supergirl by Sophie Campbell, the TV show After Life, artificial intelligence, and Wrestle Heist by Kyle Starks. And our friend Jacob Bean-Watson stops by to chat about meeting celebrities and the difference between Action and Adventure.

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437 | After Dinner Lounge – Tell Me About the Creamy Part

Pax, Rob, Michael, and Evan return to the lounge to talk about hitchhiking, Mortal Kombat II, The Devil Wears Prada 2, giving money to people on the street, music videos, Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, Rob’s Disney cruise, Hacks, and Beethoven’s 6th.

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435 | After Dinner Lounge – Roy al Ghul

Evan is back in the lounge! Joining Pax, Rob, and Michael to talk about Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, an identity crossroads, Kevin Smith writing Green Arrow, King Sorrow by Joe Hill, and ever so much more.

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338 | After Dinner Lounge – Introducians

After a loungeless December, Michael, Pax, and Rob are back to talk about lots of things including the TV series Rome, stand-up comedy albums, Transformers One, Red One, Wicked, and another superhero TikTok game.

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306 | After Dinner Lounge – Relax Your Eyes

After a quick conversation with Evan about ancient history, Michael, Rob, and Pax discuss Jedi gloves, Tomb Raider, Star Trek video games, salsa, Masterpiece by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev, DC's Dark Knights of Steel event, a Ghostbusters oral history, Starter Villain by John Scalzi, Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak, Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Ensign Flandry by Poul Anderson, The Space Between by Corinna Bechko and Danny Luckert, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, when to quit a book or TV series, and more.

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299 | After Dinner Lounge – Like a Vergence

Michael, Rob, Pax, and Evan talk about snakes, TV shows and documentaries about politicians, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, sequel novels to Star Trek TOS episodes, Classic Nerd Lunch, Furiosa, Brats, the Beverly Hills Cop movies, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, The Boys, Cobra Kai, X-Men cartoons, Ripley, space cat novels, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? and other stuff by Agatha Christie, The Acolyte, and much much more.

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268 | Top 10 Years Later: 2014

Michael, Pax, Evan, and Noel reconvene the Top 10 Years Later panel to look back at their favorite movies from 2014. And, in some cases, re-evaluate if those films are still favorites.

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264 | After Dinner Lounge – I'm Not the Dinner Guest I Thought I Was

Michael, Rob, Pax, and Evan talk about important topics like backing into parking spaces, automatic windshield wipers and headlights, imaginary friends, The Holdovers, The Artful Dodger, jazz, Three Musketeers movies, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition by David Nirenberg, Moriarty: The Devil's Game, making time to write, and podcasts about JFK and Jack the Ripper.

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258 | After Dinner Lounge – Ken Burns' Hercules

Michael, Rob, Pax, and Evan wrap up this month's Lounge with talk about Red Dead Redemption 2, revisiting Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Gran Turismo, Meg 2, the Scream movies, more Elvis flicks, The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story, Season 2 of Reacher, Lupin, The Gilded Age, retirement plans, old technology, finishing the Philip Marlowe novels, Middlegame by Seanan McGuire, Star Trek: Memory Prime by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Christmas heist movies, Noelle, The Mean One, Poor Things, manufactured backstories in movie series, May December, Knock at the Cabin, Apostle, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and the Legendary MonsterVerse, Echo, Columbo villains, Hercules movies, the DC Cinematic Universe, and adaptations of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

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