DAC Episode 45: At Long Last Podcast

Sometimes a podcast faces many challenges on the way from being a couple of voices in separate room to becoming a beautiful audio butterfly. For example, an issue with a sound card can turn an entire hour of up-to-the-minute talk about today's greatest entertainment into a pile of sonic mush. Is that what happened to us? Why yes. Yes indeed. On today's podcast we sort of recap the previous, junked podcast, then move into talk of the CW's superhero slate and Westworld and all the other things we love so much.

Also: what happened to episode 44? We'll never tell.

DAC Episode 43: Podcast of Interest

Adam finally finishes his catch-up watch of Person of Interest and has many opinions. So does Aidan! Also facts. But is that all? No! The first six episodes of Luke Cage are also discussed. Adam likes the series' evocation of Harlem. Aidan likes the music. Plus: Agents of SHIELD, French-Canadian films and the persistence of video rental stores.

DAC Episode 42: Goodbye to Summer

That's right, it's the episode of DAC where Adam and Aidan finally relinquish their copies of 500 Days of Summer, tearfully bidding them farewell as they consign their pile of Steelbook Blu-rays with interactive menus and special features to the flames. Time to become men and find a movie with autumn in the title.

Ah okay you got us. We don't own a single copy of the flick that earned Marc Webb a shot at a Spider-man movie. We're basically mopping up the dregs of the season here, with diversions into Rose City Comic Con and Adam's thoughts on season three of Person of Interest. Let the mellow flag of fall fly.

DAC Episode 41: Killjoys' End

Welcome to this sentence. It's the sentence that comes before this one. Do you feel welcome yet? That sentence gets farther away with every word you read. Wave goodbye to it in the same way that Adam and Aidan wave goodbye to season two of Killjoys, which we deem the rootingest, tootingest piece of televised pulp sci-fi since the late lamented days of Farscape and Firefly.  But never fear, it's coming back for another season. We also discuss Stranger Things, retro aesthetics and Vangelis. Enjoy.

DAC Episode 40: A Nice Round Number

On this week's episode of Destroy All (not just some) Culture, Aidan and Adam visit the strange phenomenon of Vagenda of Manocide (aka. the worst Game of Thrones name ever), noodle a bit over Person of Interest season two, and go all in on the penultimate episode of Killjoys. Killjoys: it's what's for penultamation.*

Penultamation (n.) - The moment just after you've finished cleaning everything in the house but just before you decide to put off looking behind the fridge for another six months.

DAC Episode 39: Should I Get a New Console?

On this week's episode, Adam and Aidan do not talk about gaming consoles. They don't focus on the increasing paucity of new games for the Playstation 3 and how Aidan doesn't want to spend a ton of money on a PS4, so what about the Xbox One? But the newest version of that is coming out any day, if it's not already here, and should our lives be spent chasing new forms of entertainment that will provide, at best, a few days of enjoyment before frustration sets in and the multiple anxieties of the world percolate once more in your brain? And wow, new graphics cards for a PC are expensive as hell, aren't they? Why not just buy a new computer? Whatever. We talk about Killjoys (fun!), I Love Dick (arty!), The Tragically Hip (Canadian!) and Ben Edlund's new television pilot for The Tick (spoon!).

DAC Episode 38: The Unstructured Jacket

Anyone who knows me (Aidan) knows one immutable fact about me: I like sports jackets (Adam likes fezzes, which is more interesting). Over the years I've owned many a sports jacket, from a professorial corduroy to a snazzy light wool number with a subtle pinstripe. Over the last couple of years, my sports jacket guy (yes, I have one of those) has been trying to get me into unstructured jackets, touting their lightness and stylish look, but I always feel as if I'm trying on a lightly tailored tarp. Give me a lining, at least.

This is all to say that this week's episode of Destroy All Culture is also stylishly unstructured, with Adam and I ranging all over our personal pop culture map. I'm pretty sure we talked about Killjoys as well.

DAC Episode 37: Squad Goals

Hey hey it's the 'Cide Squad
People say they're 'ciding around
But they're too busy wearing hot pants
To make a coherent film

Yes, it's the Suicide Squad episode of Destroy All Culture! join Adam and Aidan as they come up with alternate titles for the film (the best one is probably "Butts: The Movie"). We take David Ayer's celluloid gangbang apart and try to figure out what the hell everyone was thinking. Also, Killjoys was good.

DAC Episode 36(B): The Episode After The Lost Episode

In what will certainly become a legend, the episode you are about to listen to is a replacement for a lost episode - surely the most important one we've ever recorded. We talked about movie trailers, mostly. Something happened to the file, though, so here you are with episode 36b. Adam leads a spoiler-free discussion of the new Star Trek movie, plus there's talk of Killjoys, Legend of Korra and more.

DAC Episode 35: Shared Commitments to the Busting of Ghosts

Here is the episode of wild claims and high stakes. Adam boldly states that the new Ghostbusters stands as tall as the original movie. Aidan goes out on a limb and says that he enjoyed it too. Will the insanity ever end? No, of course not. Also: Killjoys, Person of Interest and German poetry.

DAC Episode 34: Air Shenanigans

Ladies and gentleladies, the following is an experimental podcast in which the hosts (Adam/Aidan and Aidan/Adam) attempt to talk about pop culture while one host attempts to navigate online check-in for a cross-country flight. Everything goes well. Discussed: Killjoys, Dark Matter, Hail Caesar! and Swiss Army Man. And travel guitars.

DAC Episode 33: Let Us Compare Mythologies

Finally! After months of waiting, Adam and Aidan are thrilled to bits to see the return of... Killjoys? Yes, Killjoys. We love that plucky show described in this episode as "a science fiction-themed role play room in a Montreal bondage club". We hold it up against Dark Matter, Killjoy's sister show, and end up proposing a basic taxonomy of modern SF entertainments . We also spend some time chewing on the Extended Ultimate Edition of Batman v Superman, which is a superior version of the film in every way to the theatrical cut. But never fear, it's still a miserable fucking movie. Enjoy!

DAC Episode 32: The Randoms

Sometimes an unstructured conversation makes for the best kind of conversation. And sometimes not. I leave it to you, listener person, to decide where this episode falls. Art! Critical reception! Wynonna Earp! All those things.

DAC Episode 31: Still Not Talking About Game of Thrones

Hey, it's Destroy All Culture, hosted by Adam P. Knave and, as always, Aidan Morgan. In this episode we don't talk about Game of Thrones, because screw that show. Let's talk about Preacher instead.

DAC Episode 30: The Zoo In Here

"Bonjour. This is podcast. Aidan and Adam have encoded their voices into information for your listening edification. Finally, the in-depth discussion of Zootopia you've possibly been waiting for! Adam is horrified by the naked cruelty of this week's sponsor! Plus sundry discussions of the horrors of motion smoothing and many other things. Once listened to you will have more information than before."

- a robot, probably

This episode is sponsored by CatGlue, the only glue proven to work on cats. "CatGlue - Glue Your Cat."

DAC Episode 29: Fight the Wire

Fight the wire? Are Aidan and Adam aligning themselves in battle against David Simon's classic Baltimore-set series? Of course not. No, in this episode we discuss Person of Interest, drag shows, and Adam's dangerous encounter with a wire brush. Let's just say that he fought the wire and the wire won.

DAC Episode 28: Finales

The end of another television season is upon us, and now all we can do is suffer through a summer of reruns. Wait, it's the 21st century, a magical land where midseason replacements, quarter-season finales and streaming series fall upon us like tears... in the rain. Time to podcast.

DAC Episode 27: Serval War

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Many, many things are discussed. Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier's 21st century take on the video nasty. Nicholas Ray's desolate and great In a Lonely Place. The story-spoiling decisions of the PR Department responsible for DC's Legends of Tomorrow. And during the last half, Captain America: Serval War, a gripping tale of intrigue and raising exotic cats. Steve Rogers retires from the Avengers and decides to live a life in peace with his feline friends... until the Winter Soldier comes to assassinate Steve's favourite serval, Bootsy.

DAC Episode 26: How to Write a Novel

That's right! If you want to know how to write a novel, listen to the latest episode of Destroy All Culture and discover that writing it is only half the battle. Aidan and Adam discuss the fine points of drafts, proofs, the inevitable typos and what distinguishes good from bad editors (note: if you happen to be Adam's editor, you're the all-time best). Plus, which best-selling writer of erotica writes up to seven drafts of each of her bodice-ripping flesh-baring tomes? Find out here! Because we mention it.

All that and a bit of discussion on last week's superheroic television shows and a couple of (non-spoilery) early thoughts on Captain America: Civil War.

DAC Episode 25: 25 Great Years

Come and celebrate what Aidan and Adam mistakenly believe to be the 25th anniversary of Destroy All Culture. How is it that two intelligent adults forgot the distinction between podcasts (one hour long) and years (one year long) but seem to have fine-grained opinions on what makes an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. work? Movies, television, Beyonce and more.