DAC Episode 126: All The Good Stuff

Welcome to your friend and ours, Destroy All Culture. Today your friend would like to tell you about the Doctor Who New Years Special and why it was such a great capstone for a new season with a new Doctor. But that’s not all! Your friend is particularly keen on getting into the first three episodes of Young Justice. Plus there’s discussion on morality and liberalism in The Good Place. Yowzah! Listen below or find your friend on iTunes or your podcatcher of choice.

DAC Episode 125: Dead Networks and Bird Boxes

Welcome to Destroy All Culture Episode 125, your only source of Destroy All Culture. Adam and Aidan start off with fond memories of platforms past, including a brief primer on how to pronounce Xanga, followed by a patient and exacting autopsy of Bird Box. The rest of the episode is spent being very excited about the all the cool stuff coming up in 2019. Join us! Listen below or find us on iTunes or podcatcher of your choice.

DAC Episode 124: The 124th One

Welcome to Destroy All Culture Episode 124, the only 124th episode of Destroy All Culture in existence! Comes with its own Certificate of Authenticity. Listen with care, either in the embedded player or on your podcatcher of choice.

DAC Episode 123: No cake at the Cake concert

Welcome! Adam went to the Cake concert. Where, as it turned out, you can’t get cake. Also, Cake is old now. And Adam is old. We’re all old! This is the podcast where we talk about DC’s Elseworlds crossover, as well as the hilarious insanity of Legends of Tomorrow’s mid-season finale. Plus a long and embarrassingly fannish discussion of Into the Spiderverse. Listen below, or find us on your iTunes of choice.

DAC Episode 122: The End of Marvel Netflix and so on

Good afternoon. In today’s episode of Destroy All Culture, Adam and Aidan dissect the inherent weirdness of IP in the days of Netflix and Disney and the streamageddon. Is it, in some strange way, an outgrowth of how rights work in the comics trenches? Is it? Well, no. But we sure like talking about rights. And speaking of rights, Aidan watched Venom

DAC Episode 121: Happy 2019!

After at least five years of wading through 2018, the next year has finally arrived. Although not on the latest Destroy All Culture, where we’re still barreling through December. But we’re talking about time travel ‘tainment, so maybe it feels like this is being broadcast (podcast?) to you from the present? I dunno. Legends of Tomorrow, Timeless, Doctor Who and Grey’s Anatomy. Okay, not Grey’s Anatomy. But Aidan does fill Adam in on the continuity errors and astonishing laziness of A Christmas Prince 2.

DAC Episode 120: Between here and there

It’s that strange interregnum between Christmas and New Year’s, and what is there to do? Listlessly plunk chunks of turkey on ghost-white slices of Wonder Bread and groan in overstuffed agony? Flip through that book your family got you and silently confirm that you will never actually read it? Inspect your new iPad Pro for curvature and experience a pang of disappointment that it’s factory-default perfect? Here at Destroy All Culture, we recommend you set aside your holiday woes and listen to an episode of Destroy All Culture. Available on iTunes or click on the play button below. Enjoy!

DAC Episode 119: A Psychically Weird Week

Hey all. It’s psychically weird time for everyone, but on this episode of Destroy All Culture, Adam and Aidan are mulling over the results of the midterm elections (remember those?). On the other side of politics, though, there’s plenty of pop culture things to talk about. For example, there was Adam Sandler’s strange stand-up special, which Adam saw and Aidan did not; there’s discussion of the structure of The Good Place’s comedy; and we go over the historically themed “Demons of the Punjab” episode of Doctor Who. Plus more! Find us on iTunes or listen below, why dontcha.

DAC Episode 118: The Agony of the Peak

Sometimes, here on Destroy All Culture, we double down on an idea or a theme and really explore its ramifications. And sometimes we talk about the stuff we watched. And when our engines are really singing, we get to do both. Is this one of those episodes? I dunno, but we put it on the internet for your enterainment. We speculate whether Riverdale’s third season will go down the supernatural or Scoobie-doo path, discuss Supergirl’s treatment of fascism, and generally chew on the usual run of CW shows. Enjoy! Listen below or find us on iTunes or your podcaster of choice.

DAC 117: Back with the Arrowverse

Welcome back to Destroy All Culture. It’s the episode where we welcome back the onslaught of CW DC etceteras. We also go on about Daredevil, blissfully unaware that it’s headed for the chopping block along with the rest of the Marvel Netflix canon. And - as a bonus - we discuss some of the more uncertain comic moments in the third season of The Good Place. Enjoy! Listen below or find us on iTunes.

DAC Episode 116: Too Late To Stop This Train Now

As I write, we approach the midseason break in all our favourite shows, but in the ur-time of Destroy All Culture, it’s the beginning of television’s fall season. Adam fills Aidan in on the glorious nerdbait of the latest season of Flash; Supernatural is doing its supernatural thing (still!); Riverdale is back, more shirtless and homoerotic than ever; and Aidan, for his sins, reports back on the first episode of Titans. So there you go!

Hey, that was fun to describe. Maybe it would be even more fun to listen to! Try it out below or find us on iTunes.

DAC Episode 115: Once in a Generation

Bad news, listeners: Aidan watched God Friended Me. He tries to explain it to Adam. Woe be upon us all. But then, riding in a horse of good content, Adam gets into the third season of The Good Place, wondering whether the returns on the format are increasing or diminishing. And hey, a new season of Doctor Who? And it looks pretty great? Which sparks a lengthy discussion about the legacy of Davies-era Who and the most Doctor-ish moments from each actor’s run. Cool, right? Listen below or find us on iTunes!

DAC Episode 114: What Comes Next

What happens when two people who love Killjoys have no more Killjoys to watch? They process their grief by talking a bit more about Killjoys. Then Wynonna Earp. And then! They get into season three of The Good Place, but mostly you should listen to this one for Aidan’s artful mispronunciations of popular streaming media services.

Also discussed: the upcoming Hulu-based Veronica Mars miniseries; the reboot of the Adam favourite Reboot; season two of Iron Fist (“It’s fistacular!” Adam is not heard to say); Doctor Who; The Gifted; the ‘90s-era Flash show; all them upcoming Joker films and who would even give a shit; and more! Moooore.

DAC Episode 113: No More Joy To Kill (for a while)

Friends! (that’s you, reader) Another season of Killjoys came to an end, and Adam and Aidan are here to discuss it. Doesn’t that sound like a good time? Because it was a really good episode - full of twists, turns, great lines, and an ending that sets up season five nicely.

DAC Episode 112: The Return

The return? Return of what? Mostly it’s the return of our discussion of 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, because for some reason Aidan wants to convince Adam that the film has more in common with ‘90s erotic thrillers than Victorian horror. Or maybe Victorian horror was the DTV erotic thriller of its day? Anyway, we be talking about it.

After a bit of Dracula chat, we move on to a discussion of Killjoys and how people always seem to die as the season approaches its end game. Meanwhile, Adam starts in on season two of Iron Fist and does his very best to maintain interest. Then conversation veers toward the topic of lunch.

DAC Episode 111: Making it Work (Takes a little longer)

Greetings! This is Destroy All Culture, your pop culture podcast of choice. On today’s favourite podcast of yours, Adam and Aidan talk about Killjoys episode 4.07, “O Mother Where Art Thou?” As often happens, untangling the character work on Killjoys leads to a discussion on the creativity and craft of writing.

Around the 27 minute mark we get into an episode of Wynonna Earp (3.07, “I Fall to Pieces”) that Adam enjoyed and Aidan decidedly did not. At 41:00 we move into a discussion of phone technology, but at 1:00 we launch into the weirdness of Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which is really an appreciation of Tom Waits’ acting career. “If your Renfield is scarier than Dracula, you have a problem,” says Adam, which are words to live by, especially if you’re adapting Dracula. The episode ends with Adam’s Greatest Tom Waits Story Ever, which is indeed great.

DAC Episode 110

Post hoc ergo podcast hoc, as Latin speakers like to say. In this episode, things get fiery as Adam literally talks about forest fires in the Pacific Northwest. But don’t worry, we move on pretty quickly to Wynonna Earp (a Christmas episode aired in August? In this economy?), the upcoming DC/CW season, the good old Killjoys, and some critical reflections (nice!) on Hereditary. And that leads to Adam talking about his favourite horror movies, which I guarantee you haven’t seen.

DAC Episode 109: Hey, Have You Heard of 'Payoff'?

Hey friends. Today on Destroy All Culture Adam and Aidan talk about some of their favourite pop culture properties (Killjoys, 12 Monkeys, Voltron), they talk about Chekhov's gun and the people who, somehow, have never heard of this basic dramatic principle. Then Adam confesses to having watched Now You See Me 2 and we shake our heads at the fact that it isn't called Now You Don't. Hey, why dontcha listen? 

DAC Episode 108: Stake Logistics

Why, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, did the students of Sunnydale High never break into the woodworking shop to whip off a bushel of stakes? It just seemed like they had stakes whenever they were required, but nobody ever produced a lathe or a giant pencil sharpener to lay bare the hidden process behind the Scoobie's stake supply chain management. And that's just the first ten minutes of this generous hour of pop culture talk. Adam's been watching 12 Monkeys, Aidan's catching up Wynonna Earp, and of course, both of them have watching Killjoys. Lotsa talk 'n' speckuhlashun going on.

DAC Episode 107: Mission Immortal

What is this podcast? Why, it's the fallout from our discussion of the whole durn Mission: Impossible franchise (with the exception of the second one, which was terrible). What's changed since the first installment? Well, Tom Cruise is an infant, but the format is basically the same: betrayals, reversals, masks, sleight of hand, absurd action sequences and the ever-encroaching spectre of Death itself coming for Cruise. Okay, enjoy!