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The Case for Johnny Gargano Winning the Royal Rumble

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photo credit: WWE.com Let's start here: by my measurements of what makes a wrestler great, Johnny Gargano is the best goddamn professional wrestler in the world today. He's insanely athletic, creative, versatile, his mic work--while not particularly special--is real and authentic, and he's far and away the best in-ring storyteller since Shawn Michaels. At this point, his call-up to the main roster seems almost inevitably penciled in for early 2019 and the odds seem pretty decent for him being a token NXT entrant in the Royal Rumble. But if WWE is willing to do something different and risky (narrator: they aren't), I believe there's a huge opportunity to be had in Johnny Gargano going the distance and winning the whole damn thing. The main reason I'd like to see this happen is very simple: as I mentioned before, NXT usually gets at least one token entrant in the Royal Rumble each year. I dunno about you, but I'm a big fan of a wrestling show letting a t...

Jes-Us Birthday-mas!

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Hosts:  Stephen,   Danielle,  &  D-rock The Vundacast triumvirate has gathered one Christmas Day to discuss and react to  the trailer for the upcoming  Jordan Peele film  US . They also contemplate about  Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017) and get into some metaphysical thoughts all while being super duper X-mas-y! Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Throw us  some Ko-fi money  to support our efforts! This holiday season spread the word of Vundacast and  check out the hosts Force Awakens Wedding Proposal with the great band the  Magic City Hippies. Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook

Rebel Order Episode 4: All Conjecture

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty Our humble hosts hang out in the conjecture cave and speculate about  leaks, rumors, and reactions from set visits. Links we Mentioned: Nerdwriter 1 Kintsugi Explanation Email the show:  rebelorderpod@gmail.com Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Throw us  some Ko-fi money  to support our efforts!  Check out the hosts Force Awakens Wedding Proposal with the great band the  Magic City Hippies. Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Tweet the Show:  @RebelOrderPod  or  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook visit our home  Vundablog.com

Predator (1987) with BBG Frank

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Blockbusterguy Frank with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty Stephen exposes Frank to the classic 80's action/sci-fi film Predator and have a bloody good time letting the machismo and special effects wizardry blow apartheid minds like so much squibbed jungle. Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Throw us  some Ko-fi money  to support our efforts!  Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook

Rebel Order Episode 3 - Revenge of the 3

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty On episode 3 we start talk about news related to Star Wars till the 17 minute mark or so then a new edition of Hollywood Holocrons  remembering Gloria Katz . From 25 minute mark till the end of the show we enter the Conjecture Cave and discuss how large we think the time jump will be from the TLJ to Episode 9. Click to Dani's mood board Thread Click to the Organa Digest Podcast  Email the show:  rebelorderpod@gmail.com Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Throw us  some Ko-fi money  to support our efforts!  Check out the hosts Force Awakens Wedding Proposal with the great band the  Magic City Hippies. Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Tweet the Show:  @RebelOrderPod , or  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ...

Horror Shows of 2018

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty Our dynamic duo jumps all over the dial talking some horror genre tv series of 2018. Dani reviews  American Horror Story: Apocalypse , Stephen plugs his addiction to Shudder's The Last Drive In. We recommend the master story telling of  Netflix's the Haunting of Hill House , and  Hulu's Castle Rock . Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Throw us  some Ko-fi money  to support our efforts! This holiday season spread the word of Vundacast and  check out the hosts Force Awakens Wedding Proposal with the great band the  Magic City Hippies. Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook visit our home  Vundablog.com ...

BBG's Church of Godzilla from Florida Supercon 2018

Hosts:  Blockbusterguy Frank  ,  Stephen  & Doms, with  @Orobasart Recorded Live from  Florida Supercon 2018  in Ft Lauderdale, Fl in room 124-125 on  July Thursday the 12h, 2018 @ 5:45pm Blockbuster Guy Frank puts his atomic breath towards entertaining you by leading a panel on that that International Sensation Godzilla and his vast film catalog! Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Throw us  some Ko-fi money  to support our efforts!  Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook

Future Man Season 1 Review

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Hosts:  Stephen &  Danielle Our humble hosts roll around geeking out in the Vunda-mobile and review season 1 of Hulu's Future Man . Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Throw us  some Ko-fi money  to support our efforts!  Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook visit our home  Vundablog.com

In Defense of Rob Zombie's Halloween

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I know, okay? I know how everybody feels about remakes. Especially horror movie remakes. But it seems like there is no more unfairly maligned horror movie remake than Rob Zombie's Halloween. It's understandable. Halloween is a classic, groundbreaking film. It was the first horror movie I ever saw and one of the first R-rated movies I ever saw. I remember how much I loved the fact that it relied more on atmosphere and tension than blood and gore. I remember how much I loved the perfectly creepy soundtrack. I remember buying a Halloween mask and breathing heavily into it like Michael Myers for weeks. But what Rob Zombie did with this source material deserves a hell of a lot more respect than it gets and on this, the day that lends the movie its name, I'd like to lay out all the reasons why...

Sunday Florida Supercon 2018 Rant about Anything Nerdy Panel

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle  with Doms,  Blockbusterguy Frank  and special guest  @Orobasart Recorded Live from  Florida Supercon 2018  in Ft Lauderdale, Fl in room 305 on  July Sunday the 14h, 2018 @ 7:00pm Our last recorded panel from Florida Supercon 2018. Our successful format "Rant About Anything Nerdy" does it's wonders, we meet some of the audience we built over the convention, surprises abound, lots of plugs, and promotion. Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Throw us  some Ko-fi money  to support our efforts!  Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook visit our home  Vundablog.com

Rebel Order Episode 2

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty The 2nd episode features zeroh attacking clones but has a new segment called Hollywood Holocrons looking at the late great Gary Kurtz and a rundown of the Star Wars news in the atmosphere and from bothan spies like  Makingstarwars.net . Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Throw us  some Ko-fi money  to support our efforts!  Check out the hosts Force Awakens Wedding Proposal with the great band the  Magic City Hippies. Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook visit our home  Vundablog.com

FSC 2018 Horror Movie Valhala Panel

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Hosts:  Stephen ,  Danielle , and super-special guest  Andres with:  Orobasart,  and  Blockbuster Guy Frank Recorded Live from  Florida Supercon 2018  in Ft Lauderdale, Fl in room 305 on  July Friday the 13th, 2018 @ 11:15pm Friday the 13th 2018 we got horrific at Florida Supercon Stephen and Danielle brought in special guest Andres one half of the Meza-bros. The three horror hounds chose 6 films to decree their horror movie recommendations to a bloody good audience. Danielle's Devilish 6  The Witch (2015) The Thing (1982) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Hereditary (2018) The Conjuring (2013) The Ring (2002) HONORABLE MENTION: Suspiria (1977) Andres's Awe-trocious 6 Habit (1995) Evil Dead (1981) Pulse (2001) Perfect Blue (1997) Cemetery Man (1994) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Stephen's Sinister 6 From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Night of the Living Dead (1990) A...

80's Commentary Track for Friday the 13th Pt. 7 The NEW BLOOD aka Jason VS (Carrie) Tina Shepard

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty Danielle and Stephen journey back to Camp Crystal Lake for the 1st time on the podcast. The two lay down a commentary track, till Jason impales their heart with a new ship Jason Voorhees and Tina Shepard(a psychokinetic teen aka the stand in for Carrie). We laugh and find  some   sweet   JasonTina fan fiction  at the end. Support Clean Hands Documentary on kickstarter  ends soon act now! Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM visit our home  Vundablog.com Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun!

DCFU the Good, the Bad, & the Bizarro Awards Show Panel from #Supercon 2018

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Hosts:  Stephen,  Mr. J,  Danielle ,  Blockbuster Guy Frank , Doms, and  Orobasart  Recorded Live from  Florida Supercon 2018  in Ft Lauderdale, Fl in room 315 on July 14th, 2018 @ 7:45pm Our unique awards show where we give and award for the best performance the GOOD, the worst performance the BAD, and the most "entertaining" the BIZARRO. We talk a lot of bat based universe stuff Affleck and Leto rack up awards and this panel has a super special guest appearance by our Supercon spirit animal Drunk Jack Sparrow Crossplay trying to derail us. We loved this crowd and would love to do the DCFU live to them every month. Support Clean Hands Documentary on kickstarter  ends soon act now! Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM visit our home  Vundablog.com Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher...

DCFU Retired Man's New Favorite App

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Hosts:  Stephen  & Mr. J The DC Universe App is out and Stephen and Mr. J peruse it's opening entree of content. Our dynamic duo also do a commentary track as they watch 1979's Legend of the Superheroes ! We enjoy the late 70's shenanigans and critique our beloved DC for not having Steel. Support Clean Hands Documentary on kickstarter  ends soon act now! Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Support Smash.Miami  and see how you can help and have fun! Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com

The Hottest Sex that Isn't Sex in Movies and TV (SHIPPING!) from #FloridaSupercon2018

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Host:  Danielle  with  Stephen    & Doms Recorded Live from  Florida Supercon 2018  in Ft Lauderdale, Fl in room 305 on July 14th, 2018 @ 11:15pm  It was late on a summers eve Saturday night in Ft Lauderdale when all of a sudden Danielle started talking about shipping in film and television at her Supercon panel. Nerddoms penetrated in this podcast are Star Wars(of course), Devilman Crybaby, the Vampire Diaries, the 100, Whoopi Goldberg's classic film Ghost, Star Trek, and even more subtextual and textual nerdy romance abounds in this episode of the Vundacast until it devolved into horny chaos. Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com

#FloridaSupercon '18 The Neverland of Lost Video Games

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Hosts:  Blockbuster Guy Frank and Doms Recorded Live from  Florida Supercon 2018  in Ft Lauderdale, Fl in room 305 from 7:30pm-8:30pm right next to the "Senpai I'm your Idol" which was in room 304 Blockbuster guy Frank and Doms unlock a new achievement by creating an amazing hours worth of content all about the games that were announced but never came home to us. They lead what was our 3rd panel at Florida Supercon 2018 and do not fail like the games they explained. Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM

Rebel Order Episode 1

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty Recorded a month ago...but Stephen was too far away with life to give the eating it was due to now. Our 1st glorious episode of the new Star Wars-centric show on the Vundacast lead by our own co-hortress Danielle. This episode is introducing the concept of the Rebel Order and the Episode 9 official cast announcement. Check out the hosts Force Awakens Wedding Proposal with the great band the  Magic City Hippies. Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM

BlockBuster guy Frank's Florida Supercon 2018 Cosplay Photo Collection

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Here is all of the con still photography we have from our fantastic time at Florida Supercon 2018 . Thank you to everyone who took a moment to support our panels, or to let us photograph and chat with you. We were blown away by everyone's creativity, skill, and passion. For more photos and updates watch our twitter and Ig . We are still working on our video coverage so stay tuned. - Blockbuster Guy Frank and my Ig

D-rock's Vundablast Ep. 2 WWE Summerslam 2018

Host:  D-rock  Our peoples champ D-Rock reviews the highs and lows of WWE Network's Summer Slam 2018 in his solo review format he's dubbed the Vundablast. Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com

D-rock's Vundablast Ep. 1 NXT Takeover Brooklyn 2018

Host:  D-rock  The peoples champ D-Rock runs wild all over NXT Takeover Brooklyn 2018 and introduces us to the Vundablast format. Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com

#Supercon Vundacast Wrestling Spectacular

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Recorded live on July 13th 2018 5:15pm-6:15pm in Room 317 Hosts:  Stephen,   Blockbusterguy Frank,   & Mr. J, lead a wrestling appreciation panel. This was the 5th of our ten panels  @FLORIDASUPERCON. Your humble hosts had a great time and shared a lot of cool stories and jokes. We would love to get emails and tweets from all the interesting characters we interacted with and make sure to let#supercon know you enjoyed us and want us back. On Instagram follow  @Vundablog ,  @BusterguyFrank , and the  @MidnighHounds Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM We are working on more panel highlight videos and all of our cosplay coverage please be patient with us.  We will have a table at  OUTcon   on August 4th at the M...

GO GO! VUNDACAST Power Rangers Panel with the Lavender Ranger!

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Recorded live on July 13th 2018 12:30pm-1:30pm in Room 315 Hosts:  Stephen,   Blockbusterguy Frank,  Mr. J, and special guest  The Lavender Ranger from  Henshingrid  join us for a morphi-nomical Power Rangers appreciation panel This was the 4th of our ten panels  @FLORIDASUPERCON. Your humble hosts had a great time and shared a lot of cool stories and jokes. We would love to get emails and tweets from all the interesting characters we interacted with and make sure to let#supercon know you enjoyed us and want us back. Go Go Support Lavender Rangers Patreon for awesome art and fun comics !!! On Instagram follow  @Vundablog ,  @BusterguyFrank , and the  @MidnighHounds Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM We will have a...

Un-BEE-lievably Grateful

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty Lots of announcements, thank yous, plugs, and jokes in this episode. A bit of behind the scenes for the last episode on our feed. #Supercon was rocked like a hurricane and this is the pre-lude of the aftermath and a BIG HUGE THANK you to Florida Supercon for giving us a chance to shine, time, and support. We appreciate everyone involved on all sides more than words can say.  Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM We will have a table at OUTcon   on August 4th at the Miami Airport Convention Center.  We will be running a raffle with proceeds to go to Pridelines . 

Rant About Anything Nerdy @ FLORIDA SUPERCON Thursday Edition

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Recorded live on July 12th 2018 2:30pm-3:30pm in the Floridian D room Here's some panel footage we captured while entertaining set to our theme song. Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle  with Doms,  Blockbusterguy Frank and special guest  @Orobasart 1 of 10 epic panels recorded at Supercon by your humble hosts. We did our best to make this panel a sample of our diversity or nerd-ity, ability to improvise, and showcase our passion. We had a cool random video edited that will eventually get vimeod and put on our website. We would love to get emails and tweets from all the interesting characters we interacted with. On Instagram follow  @Vundablog ,  @BusterguyFrank , and the  @MidnighHounds Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM We will h...

Now This is Podcasting...Dressed Down

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Andres Recorded before the Vundacast appearances at Florida #Supercon. Stephen and Andres talk Stars: Trek and Wars. Celebrity feuds: Troy Duffy and Harvey Weinstein. We celebrate horror films and Ghostbusters as usual, and debate the tenants of Disney's film machinations plus so many movie references and video game references your brain might hurt. This is the series finale of A wHole Lot of and the debut of Now this Is Podcasting and the best part is that they are the same show. Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM Support  the Omnipians and our podcast artist Nicholas Malara and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com

Post-Supercon 2018 Daze of Future Past

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Good day Universe, 10 panels were conquered.  We had a blast meeting, connecting,  making airhorn mouth noises, entertaining, and Saying Jack Sparrow repeatedly at the DCFU Panel at Florida Supercon 2018 . We have some video, photos, and many podcasts for you in the extremely near future. Let Supercon know you dug us and want us back, and rate us 5 stars on their app and on whatever podcast app or rating system your nerddom holds dear. To brighten your day today, I leave you a memory from our Vunda-past. One of the most fulfilling fucks in Stephen's adult life. The time he played Let Us Fuck! On an episode of Jay and Silent Bob 152. The Rare Moment both me and Kev were equally unshaven! When world's collide. And also for you! A sampling of things to come hot off Supercon sizzle we snagged an advance screening of the Good Exorcist . Another film made for 7,000 under tremendous adversity but it seems with great skill and style by the demonically gifted  J...

DCFU Pre-FloridaSupercon 2018 & Atari2600 Chatter

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Hosts:  Stephen  & Mr. J July 12th -15th our show will be at Florida Supercon 2018 doing live podcast panels. This is our preview Mr. J get's very silly, and Stephen does his best to stay on track. Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com

Monday the film...Review

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty On this special episode Stephen and Danielle have watched the film  Monday  by  Alejandro Montoya Marin  while on it's festival tour. Made for $7,000 while filming Robert Rodriguez's Rebel without a Crew series on elRey and go90.com They review it, and do there best to keep the podcast from being eschew.  Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com Download the Florida Supercon app and get your tickets so you can catch all of our dozen powerful panels.

The Hate U Give OFFICIAL TRAILER

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Anyone who knows me probably knows that I've been trying to tell literally anyone who will listen about the sheer brilliance of Angie Thomas's award-winning 2017 young adult novel "The Hate U Give" about a young black girl who is the only witness to the shooting of her lifelong best friend--who is unarmed--by the police and the whirlwind of events that follows. I have never read a book or really consumed any piece of art that so deftly and uncompromisingly runs the gauntlet of all that encompasses the experience of being black in America. From mass incarceration to an uncle who is police officer to "passing" at a predominantly white private high school to having a white boyfriend who evolves from reluctant ally to willing accomplice and another white best friend who falls off because "you talk about race too much" to absent fathers in jail to present fathers doing their best despite a checkered past to protests turned riots to being pressured ...

Hail Hereditary

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty Our hosts experiment with youtube livestreaming their review. They briefly discuss protesting the horrors and cruelty inflicted by the worst president ever Trump. However, this episode is devoted to gushing all over the enthralling A24 horror film Hereditary .  Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Download the FloridaSupercon App to check out all are upcoming panels on July 12-15th Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com

Happy 25th and 20th Anniversary "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents" by Octavia E. Butler (and Happy 71st Birthday Octavia!)

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(c) Patti Perret/The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens Today, in celebration of Octavia E. Butler's birthday, I would like to talk about Earthseed. 2018 marks the 25th and 20th anniversary, respectively, of Octavia E. Butler's landmark duology, Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) and not a moment too soon. The Earthseed Cycle, named for the fictional (but all too real) religion that forms the core of the story, is perhaps the most relevant work of fiction to the social and political landscape of 2018. The dystopian future that Butler extrapolates here is so realistic as to almost feel prophetic. At the very least, the Earthseed Cycle, set almost entirely between the years 2024 and 2035, is a cautionary tale of a future that does not seem very far off from being realized--indeed, in many ways, it feels a little too close for comfort. Which is even more staggering when you consider the words of best-selling, award-winning au...

*A wHOLE lot of... Micro-hard Marvel Scum

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Andres In this podcast, Andres and Stephen reunite on the Sunday of E3 to talk topics like:  Cyberpunk 2077, Gears "Pop", "Modern Dark Age" aesthetics, etc. Andres rebels against Captain Phasma, Andres marvels at the glory of Thanos, as Stephen tries to avenge Justice League and provide cover for the Last Jedi. Tweet the Show:  @AwHOLElotofpod  or  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com *First episode with updated art featuring Rusty and Morty  the new Chiwi Bros , A wHOLE lot of... co-hosts Andres and Diego the Meza Bros and Stephen in human form, no longer represented by a Scrappy-Doo version of his deceased dog Tara. Art as always by the gifted  Nicholas Malara

Solo A Review Story

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Hosts:  Stephen  &  Danielle with  the Midnight Hounds: Xena, Duke, Rusty and Morty The #Reylo power couple Stephen and Danielle force bond over how much they appreciated the story of the new Solo films. They analyze the story and battle back against wave of internet fear mongering and nit picking. They also salivate at the concepts that could be behind future Star Wars films. Tweet the Show:  @Vundablog  or  @Vundacast Subscribe on  iTunes ,  GooglePlay , Or  Stitcher Join us on Facebook Catch us Mondays on  our Internet Radio home the Radioactive Underground RADIATE.FM and most importantly visit our home  Vundablog.com