These week we take "winging it" to a whole new level with a page-by-page review of the DC/KFC crossover Crisis on Infinite Colonels. Plus Sean reviews the seminal one-song stoner metal album "Dopesmoker" and awkward dates fill the dancehall at Degrassi Junior High.
Comic Review: Crisis on Infinite Colonels
Blow Your Speakers: Sleep - Dopesmoker
Keep off deGRASSi - Season 3, Episode 5 - "Loves Me, Love Me Not"
Episode 025 - The Summer without a Summer
Two-hundred years ago the world experience the Long Winter. What caused this and how are the effects still being felt today? Plus its the 45th anniversary of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality, and Degrassi unwraps a Christmas episode.
Mysteries of the Mysterious: The Year Without a Summer
Blow Your Speakers: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Degrassi Junior High: Season 3 Episode 4 - Season's Greetings
Episode 024 - Nothing Worse Than Wilted Dill
No one can escape Pokemon Go, not even these Smogville Podcasters. We jump on that bandwagon, then explore various mysteries of Green River, Utah. Dragged Into Sunlight blows some eardrums and the bell rings again at Degrassi Junior High.
Smogville News: the pickler union is on strike.
Blow Your Speakers: Cult Leader and Dragged Into Sunlight
Degrassi Junior High: Season 3 Episode 3, "A Big Girl Now"
Episode 023 - Garfunkel Junior High
Bryton's soda addiction hits rock bottom but that doesn't stop the champions from discussing a James Bondian mystery and dusting off their bike locks for season three of Degrassi Junior High.
Episode 022 - Low and Wet
The champions are back and solving more mysteries. This time they reveal George RR Martin's writing process and figure out who stole the hard drives of the long-forgotten animated film Foodfight! They also go deep into Utah's shadowy soda-pop culture and blow your speakers with Def Leppard.
Episode 021 - Mind Your Own Business, Ref!
It's a No Words Barred Smogville Snackdown as the champions discuss champions of a different sort: professional wrestlers. Sean gives Blizzard of Ozz a gold belt and Bryton tags in Spike from Degrassi.
Episode 020 - Worldicus Championicus Podcasticus
Podcast film school with a breakdown of Sam Fuller's trippy Shock Corridor, which takes us on a trip to the National Film Registry. Then the speakers blow out with the epic doom metal of Candlemass. Watch out for nymphos and don't forget to get your tickets to the horse show.
Episode 019 - Fat Monsters
Wake up Gremple! There's a man on the wing of the plane and Shatner is going to stop him. This week there's talk of Twilight Zone, the mysterious race of Gremlins, and take a trip to Middle Earth with Blind Guardian. #wakeupgremple
Episode 018 - The Hum
The fellas dish the dirt on where they were last week, rant about Dengar, solve the mystery of the Taos Hum, talk Norwegian Black Metal and Megadeth's Rust in Peace, and finally catch up on all the letters.
Episode 017 - Might Solve a Mystery
The boys finally meet the mayor of Smogville, which inspires them to solve a mystery (or rewrite history), specifically the mysterious Dyatlov Pass Incident. Followed by another Heavy Metal Album Review, which naturally leads to a discussion about the history of Ska music.
Episode 016 - Heavy Metal Pig Hunt
It's tough times in Smogville, but what else is new? Sean introduces a new segment with a discussion of the heavy metal album "Battle Hymns" by Manowar. Bryton gives a little great Salt Lake history lesson before heading into the season 2 finale of Degrassi Junior High, then it all wraps up with some Travolta talk.
Episode 015 - The Principle Principal
Smogville has a snuff problem and we have the solution! Today the Champions discuss encounters with certain unsavory groups and get back to our most popular segment, Keep Off Degrassi.
Episode 014 - Old Guys
After weeks of teasing it, the Champions finally go full Andy Rooney with talk of the old days, the really old days, and the new days. Plus talk of Deerhunter, Frightened Rabbit, the San Diego Padres, and the greatest meal Sean has ever had.
Episode 013 - Cool Guys
Cool guy stuff. You know like long hair, driving without a license, surviving a bear attack, going to meet your favorite historian, being a vegetarian, stuff like that. Cool guy stuff.
Episode 012 - Houston, We Have a Sickness
Bryton takes us through his recent trip outside of Smogville, with talk of the Utah Jazz and an unlikely nu-metal band, with side trips to talk about guitarists and rock n' roll in general. Watch out for the Highwayman!
Episode 011 - Batman v. Superman Re-Preview Part II Redux
The champions re-review Batman v. Superman, this time after seeing the movie! What did they think?
Episode 010 - Transmission
Examining the strange case of Kyle Odom, and our biggest fear: not being able to trust one's own mind.
Episode 009 - Corn Meal Police
Trouble in Smogville? Dark times for the boys, but that doesn't stop them from talking Secret Wars, Degrassi, Gladiator, and the usual GI Joe and UFO business.
Episode 008 - Batman v. Superman (p)Review
Bryton unleashes the beast with a fiery rant against a recent social media trend, then the Champions get sidetracked into a G.I. Joe conversation. Finally, a review of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, based on what they think will happen in the movie, which neither of them have seen.
Episode 007 - Daniel Bryan and the No Regerts Vampire Slayers
Yes! Yes! Yes! The champions visit a car show to meet WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan and check out some wicked airbrush jobs. The Ferris Wheel gets a surprising spectral visitor, and listener generated topics include tattoos and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.