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Meanwhile… take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon.  This week Grim, Marke & Johnny Heck honor the “Kingpin” of actors Vincent D’Onofrio, the strange career of Meat Loaf and flail miserably trying to convey from one point to another in this most beautifully broken episode…  To start things off, we look back on the first and only animated reality show Drawn Together and how it fits in the evolving world of cartoons for adults. From Beavis & Butthead to Big Mouth, we probe the crevasses of animated TV greatness. Also, you can win the entire season ofDrawn Together on DVD! Speaking of conveying and characters that were drawn together, we callback one of the all-time great comedies, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Was that segue a bit of a stretch or are we celebrating the 30t

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. It's all Frights and Delights over here today, as Grim and Marke get you into a blueberry marshmallow mood for this special time of year. That's right, go out and buy your seasonal monster cereals while you can find them, cause it's time for our 3rd Annual Franken Berry Season Special! This year we dig up a long dead General Mills werewolf zombie, then we get under Marke's skin by making him watch the upcoming SyFy Network's The Sandman (premiering October 14th) starring Haylie Duff and Tobin Bell, produced by The Pop Culture Poppa himself Stan Lee and written & directed by Peter Sullivan, who joins us to wax philosophic about Halloween's new Golden Age and what it's like to work with giants in the field. Plus: a recently unearthed radio

Meanwhile…Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we’re going straight to the wild wild west to celebrate the first comic book hero (or “dime novel” hero if you want to be a dick about it): cowboys and the emergence of the American Western hero in pop-culture. When did it start, where did it go & how does it still influence the pop culture that we celebrate today? To help us hop-a-long this old western train of thought is director, Timothy Woodward Jr (Traded, Weaponized) to discuss the release of his latest old west hero pic Hickok (Available NOW on Amazon & UltraHD) staring Luke Hemsworth. James Butler Hickok, better known as “Wild Bill” Hickok, was a real life folk hero of the American Old West. Best known as a gambler & gunfighter, something happened to W

Meanwhile…Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This morning we hit you with an inter-dimensional one-two punch from the press pits of the SDCC '17 killing floor, all while trying to describe a runaway hit show that's equal parts Back to the Future, Hitchhikers Guide, Futurama, Black Mirror, Community, Einstein, Archie Bunker, and Kierkegaard. Spoiler: we fail spectacularly, but the whole world still caught the Season 3 premiere last weekend, We are of course talking about Adult Swim’s amazing show, Rick and Morty (Sunday’s 11:30P ET on Adult Swim)! So fresh they're still warm, we also have exclusive(ish) interviews from San Diego Comic-Con 2017 with Co-Creator/Executive Producer Dan Harmon, Co-Creator/Executive Producer/Voice Actor Justin Roiland, Writer/Producer/Voice Actor Ry

Meanwhile…Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, Grim, Marke, Johnny Heck, and special guest Slick McFavorite (with the Open Your Toys podcast) join forces to give you a few insider tips on navigating the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con.  Butts to nuts... It's time for our yearly prime-time crossover special SDCC Alternative Show. The only SDCC Preview show that dives into the subcultures of SDCC (AKA "the REAL Comic-Con") and the hell out of Hall H! This special team-up episode is packed with two interviews, including our longtime friend Cas Anvar (The Expanse, The Strain, Nobility) and the Lehrer Boys (Highly Gifted). Cas chats about his double duty on two hit shows- The Expanse and The Strain. Meanwhile, Instagram sensations The Lehrer Boys give us a look at their new anim

Meanwhile…Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon.  This week Grim, Marke. & Heck devote the whole show to a little old theme we call That One Guy!, which honors those actors from your favorite movies & TV shows growing up, whose name you can’t quite think of but you know who we mean… uh, you know…THAT ONE GUY!  We revisit the pioneer of this format, returning That One Guy favorite Michael Ironside (Total Recall, Top Gun, V:The Final Battle). He first came came onto the pop culture radar as Ham Tyler on the ground breaking mega hit mini-series V, then continuing on opposite Schwarzenegger in Total Recall & Jester to Tom Cruise's Maverick in Top Gun. But as his tough exterior suggests, being Michael Ironside is never easy & danger seems to always be lurking around the

Meanwhile on Saturday Morning Cereal…Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we look back at that time when glasses weren't yet hip, when comic conventions were still "dorky," when nerd revenge was still cooling on the windowsill... Back before Freaks and Geeks, and WAY before The Big Bang Theory was even in a hot dense state, there was Head of Class, a little hit show on ABC in the 80's that helped redefine the geek as not just a bespectacled awkward brainiac, but more nuanced and yes, actually good looking. To help us along in our constant quest for pop-culture relevance is guest Khrystyne Haje who played “the prettiest girl in the IHP (Individual Honors Program)” Simone Foster. We talk to her all about the show, going from geek to chic, and even her work with the USO a

Meanwhile on Saturday Morning Cereal…Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we unleash a Star Wars Celebration 2017 preview with the hosts of Podcast 66 and Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures composer Michael Kramer! After a trip across the pond last year, Star Wars Celebration is back stateside in sunny Orlando, Florida. From The Last Jedi footage to a Carrie Fisher tribute to a trench of panels, booths, signings, and sneak peeks commemorating all things Star Wars, we decided to check in with our pals at Podcast 66 to see what they're geeked out about. The Saturday Morning Cereal gang also had a chance to verbally tickle the ivories with composer Michael Kramer of Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures on Disney XD. It's a Star Wars Celebration celebration!

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we talk all about the new way of making movies, from the sequels and re-boots of the big studios to the mini- and micro-budget crowdfunded straight-to-streaming gems that every artist can now attempt. It ain't easy entertaining all of us, but some people just can't stop themselves from trying, not even when the big studios say "No thank you, please. Seriously." For a couple examples, we chat with longtime Hollywood veteran Scott Frazelle about his brand new horror feature Moggy Creatures and how he's trying to find the time and budget to make it himself, plus our old friend director Bradley Weatherholt, whose own independent documentary The Prequels Strike Back has just been released. Want to know how to make a movie when your name

Meanwhile on Saturday Morning Cereal...Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we look to that moment when you're talking with your buddy about that episode of that show or that scene in that movie and you're all excited and your heart starts pounding and then you...can’t remember the name of that one guy who's in it! So begins the “That One Guy” dance (cue the music). We at SMC now make right what once went wrong by putting a name to that face - or. in this case, to that voice. Today, Phil LaMarr (Pulp Fiction, MadTV) is “That One Guy”, the one behind some of animation’s best loved characters including superheroes Green Lantern & Black Vulcan, Star Wars’ Kit Fisto & Bail Organa, Futurama’s Hermes, Mr. T’s Woody, King of The Hill’s Booda Sack, Transformers’ Jazz &

Meanwhile, on The Saturday Morning Cereal Show... Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, with heavy hearts, we talk all about the illustrious career and infectious personality of Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica, Cowboys and Engines, Star Trek Prelude to Axanar) whom the world lost just this week on February 7, 2017. Richard Hatch gave everything of himself to the sci-fi and pop-culture world that we all gather to celebrate at comic conventions. Fittingly, it was at those comic-cons where we got to know Richard best. For those of you that have had the chance to meet Richard Hatch in person at his always busy autograph table or at the many panels that he would host (sometimes all by himself), then you would know that Richard, never short on words, always listened,

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, recorded on the eve of Inauguration Day 2017, we talk about the Presidential election of “a coward”, “weak”, “arrogant”, “narcissistic, self-centered, feckless and vain” man. No, it’s not who you think… This week we talk all about, Gaius frakkin’ Baltar with the man himself James Callis (Battlestar Galactica, Bridget Jones Diary, The Hollow).  With a keen eye for political relevance Grim Shea, Marke. & Johnny Heck look for today’s answers in the sci-fi allegory of our times, Battlestar Galactica and more specifically, in one of the shows primary characters, Gaius Baltar, with the hopes of finding purpose in the wake of what many perceive as a “world” ending event.  This has all happened before and it will happen again. So s

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This Saturday morning we bring our very first hostful episode wherein Grim Shea, Marke., and our good friend Johnny Heck come to bury 2016, not to praise it. Why no guests this time? Why, because we are good hosts that only want to bring joy into the world -- and since 2016 was generally craptacular with just a scant few fine moments, we decided to get on with the stages of grief and put it all behind us. We chat with bitter wistfulness about some of the movies, television, conventions, personalities, and pop culture that helped make 2016 into, well, an entire 365 days. Join us in remembering, and then begin forgetting! Stay Connected mattypradio.com Listen Now For Free to any of our past episodes  NSFW Follow us @MattyPradio @StayClassy

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. We're back with a brand new That One Guy episode! And, as if that weren't enough, writer/director Miles Doleac joins us to talk all about the star of his movie The Hollow, the immaculate Mr. William Sadler who's IMDB credits runs as long as a 1990’s Steven Seagal ponytail. You know, he’s that one guy from Shawshank Redemption, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Machete Kills, Roswell, The Green Mile, Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Hell, this is “That One Guy” who fought both Steven Seagal’s squint in Hard to Kill and John McClain’s receding hairline in Die Hard 2 Die Harder. Is it actually possible to make the argument that William Sadler’s Colonel Stuart was a better foil to John McClain than the late great Alan Rickman’s Hans Gruber? Marke is sur

Meanwhile on Saturday Morning Cereal...Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we talk Star Trek, Comikaze, Nobility…oooh myyy! Helping us through this maze of pop-culture milestones & to celebrate Star Trek’s 50th & San Lee’s Los Angeles Comic-con (Comikaze) are our returning guests, Chekov himself Walter Koenig (Star Trek, Babylon 5, Nobility) & self professed “Trekkie” EJ De la Pena (creator of Nobility). We ask Walter: what’s it like to be a part of the genre defining & most successful sci-fi franchises of all time? We ask EJ: when and where will we be able to watch Nobility? We ask the Universe: why did Stan Lee change the name of “Comikaze" to "Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic-Con?" And we ask the wayward Trekkies: just who do they Vulcan think they are

Meanwhile on Saturday Morning Cereal...Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. The Delight to your Fright: a new Saturday Morning Cereal tradition!    This week Grim and Mark muse on the change of seasons, the big colorful super hero movies giving way to the dark horror movies, the falling of the leaves giving rise to - yep, you guessed it - Frankenberry Season! So while you set back your clocks and return to school and don't get another Avenger flick until at least next spring, you do get all the Booberries you can pick and a wave of new scary movies to fill the dark nights. One excellent example is The Neighbor, starring Bill Engvall (Blue Collar Comedy Tour, The Bill Engvall Show) and written/directed by Marcus Dunstan (Saw IV, Saw V, The Collector). Grim talks to both of the

Meanwhile on Saturday Morning Cereal...Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we celebrate the Jericho Decennial, the 10year anniversary of a legendary TV show & talk about the legend of the peanuts campaign that SAVED JERICHO. Before The Walking Dead, Jericho was the 1st show of the new post-apocalyptic TV era. Desperate & alone but never without hope Jericho forever changed TV and in the process, social media campaigns, streaming TV, graphic novel adaptations & then it all ended...NUTS! The story continues, with a plethora of special guests to tell the story. Star of the new movie Evil Gene, Richard Speight Jr. (Deputy Bill from Jericho, Justified, Supernatural) chats with guest interviewer Holy Hobbits about his memories of the show & significance o

Meanwhile on Saturday Morning Cereal...Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we finally get to talk The Simpsons, the longest TV sitcom in TV history, with the voice that started it all, Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart Simpson) who joins our very own Grim Shea for an exclusive conversation about her very first art expo (Chuck Jones Gallery, SDCC) and yesss…we talk a little bit about “Bart” so don’t have a cow man! Has it been 28 years already? Has there ever been a time in your life where The Simpsons didn’t exist? Will there ever be a time where The Simpsons won’t? Was it Bart or the TMNT that first said “Cowabunga”? Or was it “Caramba”? We really aren’t sure, so to help us with these pressing Simpsons questions, we needed to bring in the experts and are proud to i

Meanwhile on Saturday Morning Cereal...Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we try to figure out what it takes to film the longest single take fight scene in movie history. Why do we care? Because we're talking about Beta Test (Avail now on Amazon), a movie which currently holds the record for the longest single take fight scene in movie history! That's no small feat, so we celebrate that and other all time greatest movie fist-a-cuffs with guests who have lived through a few of those epic movie fights, including Yuji Okumoto (Karate Kid Part II's "Chozen", Better Off Dead, Beta Test) & Linden Ashby (Mortal Kombat's "Johnny Cage", Wyatt Earp, MTV's Teen Wolf, Beta Test) and writer and director Nicholas Gyeney (Beta Test, The Penitent Man) to tell us how it all we

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world, and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. Oh yeah, it's that time of year again: San Diego Comic Con 2016 is here! Whether you're here in town or wish you could be, this show is for you! Grim, Mark, and guest host Slick McFavorite from the Open Your Toys podcast keep the SDCC tradition going by talking about what can be found in the Gaslamp and, more importantly, what might be getting under your radar this year. That's right, it's time for the annual SDCC Alternative Spectacular! This year we once again offer up alternatives to plunking down in the Hall H line for 36 hours just to maybe see that one big panel, including such gems as the Nancy Cartright art exhibit at the Chuck Jones gallery, or some small alternative press from Devastator, or even the alternative "big panel" from ma