DAC Episode 209: all that Disney hype
/Adam and Aidan ruminate on Disney’s long game. All Marvel, all Star Wars, almost no original IP. Plus, they rank the Marvel and Star Wars announcements based on their levels of excitement. Exciting! Listen below or find us on your iTunes of choice.
DAC Episode 208: Zoom calls and deck halls
/Hey folks, here you go, it’s a podcast, it’s a fragment out of the recent past, it’s a crystallized moment from late 2020, it’s a time capsule, it’s two guys talking about Star Trek. Also, a discussion on how to produce a weekly radio play in the age of physical distancing. And as a bonus, Adam is on a Supernatural rewatch. Listen below or find us on iTunes.
DAC Episode 207: Mando and Tano and Grogu, oh hi
/Adam doesn’t watch himself any Mandalorian, but Aidan does. And Aidan rambles on about the Ahsoka Tano episode, saying a whole lot of pretty obvious stuff, which Adam graciously entertains. Geez Aidan.
Anyway, after Aidan gets that out of his system, they talk about Star Trek: Discovery, Billie Piper’s panic-inducing series I Hate Suzie, and - and! - Hulu’s melancholy holiday delight, Happiest Season.
DAC Episode 206: Old Man Sam Blues
/Supernatural is over, we watched the finale, and we have opinions. We’re dying, people. Tell us it’s okay.
But! After we wrangle out a discussion on the finale, we rank our personal top five favourite episodes of Supernatural around 45 minutes in. Listen below or find us on iTunes.
DAC Episode 205: New Opening, New Clothing
/In this week’s Destroy All Culture: Adam returns clothing, Aidan commiserates. Adam tries to navigate Apple TV; Aidan commiserates. Other topics: fighting God (and winning!) in Supernatural; the joys of Ted Lasso; the weirdness of watching William Burroughs trying to shove a very stoned Terry Southern into an orgone box; and a bit of talk about Star Trek: Discovery and the unwholesome appetites of Baby Yoda on The Mandalorian. Listen below or find us on iTunes!
DAC Episode 204: It's a Whole New Intro
/Here it is! The new intro. Just listen.
Anyway, welcome to Destroy All Culture, where we talk about Muppet memes, the episode of Supernatural with the infamous Castiel/Dean scene and the first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery. In the back half, Aidan gets spooky and discusses the finale of Helstrom, BBC’s Ghostwatch and the saddest horror film in the world, Lake Mungo. Listen below or find us on the iTunes of your choice.
The Golden Girls-Fawlty Towers Expanded Universe Rabbit Hole episode
/Seriously. We talk much too long about Fawlty Towers remakes (at least three) and Golden Girls spinoff series. Plus: a middling final season Supernatural episode leads into a talk about what constitutes a decent episode of Supernatural; a quick talk about late season one Star Trek: Discovery; and finally, Aidan compares the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit with the Walter Tevis novel, which he read before it was cool, and finds the series compelling but wanting.
DAC Episode 202: Sorkin blow-out discount bulk special
/INT DAY Destroy All Culture headquarters. ADAM and AIDAN are walking down an endless hallway.
ADAM: Hey, it’s episode 202 of Destroy All Culture.
AIDAN: What happened to -
ADAM: Don’t ask.
AIDAN: - to ep 201?
ADAM: I said don’t ask.
AIDAN: I’m asking anyway.
ADAM: The boys in the back messed up.
AIDAN: Figures.
ADAM: How’s that?
AIDAN: I figure.
ADAM: Can’t argue with that.
AIDAN: What’s up with episode 202?
ADAM: Sorkin, that’s what’s up. The West Wing reunion, the Trial of the Chicago 7 -
AIDAN: DONNA!
ADAM: Where?
AIDAN: Sorry, it was a pony.
ADAM: [20 minute monologue about everything that’s wrong with America]
AIDAN: Okay, but listen to the episode below. Or find us on iTunes!
DAC Episode 200: bicentennial blow-out
/Welcome to the 200th episode of Destroy All Culture! When you get to the 200th instalment of anything (podcast, hot tub payment, obscure sex act), it’s time to reflect, look back and evaluate. We at Destroy All Culture are having none of that. Instead we carry on as usual. This time we discuss season 2 of The Boys, the enduring joys of Halt and Catch Fire, and all kinds of everything. Listen below or find us on your iTunes of choice.
DAC Episode 199: required pandemic viewing
/Here in DACland, we’ve officially reached the comfort viewing stage of the pandemic. Sure, we talk about mid-season Lovecraft Country and The Boys, but things get going when we discuss the kind of shows we like to watch as summer closes and the world stumbles into another wave of infections. Aidan discusses the wholesomeness of The Junior Baking Show and the Grand Guignol ending of Breaking Bad. Adam talks about the Whitney Cummings-Bill Lawrence that runs from Whitney to Undateable to Ground Floor. And Young Justice, which does not appear to be related to Bill Lawrence in any way, but we’re researching the matter.
DAC Episode 198: the weird thing going forward with the digital future stuff
/Welcome to episode 198 of Destroy All Culture, where Adam and Aidan are weirdly obsessed with the future. What if Mulan were set in space in the 22nd century? How do Bill and Ted navigate the future, and why did they do it better than Nolan’s Tenet? Why does the far-future scenario of Raised By Wolves feel like it could be set in medieval Europe? And so on. Also, a discussion of The Boys’ white supremacy problem and a chat about the first three episodes of Lovecraft Country. Listen below or find us on your iTunes of choice.
DAC Episode 197: Music Faced
/In which Adam and Aidan discuss the ultimate generation-defining pop culture moment of 2020: Watching Bill and Ted Face the Music (which was excellent), then checking Twitter for other people’s reactions only to find out that Chadwick Boseman had died. Which was not excellent.
DAC Episode 196: Even luckier 196
/Content warning: Justice League trailer discussion. Aidan can’t stop talking about the sex scene from the Watchmen movie.
DAC Episode 195: Lucky 195
/THE DCpocalypse/Fandome is upon us, and Adam and Aidan are gonna talk about it. They’re gonna! You can’t stop them! Unless you drive to their heavily guarded compound in the Carpathian mountains, sneak past the robot janitors, dodge the dogs and steal the shark coochie boards. If you take their shark coochie, Adam and Aidan will be too hungry to continue podcasting.
Anyway, give us a listen as we also discuss the finale of Stargirl, the Kyoshi novels, the end of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Wynonna Earp. Listen below or hunt us down on your iTunes of choice.
DAC Episode 194: Cats, renos, media
/Do you sometimes wish the co-hosts of your favourite podcast (this one) would stop going on about genre entertainment and go on about home renos gone wrong? Because that’s how we start this one out. But don’t worry, we get to the genre media fairly quickly. Doom Patrol finale! Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Wynonna Earp! Star Trek: Lower Decks (is better than Star Trek: Picard)! Plus Aidan revisits season one of Twin Peaks, Adam recommends Netflix’s new Transformers series and Aidan goes on a rant about the mean-spirited reaction to The Last of Us Part II. Give us a listen below or find us on your iTunes of choice.
DAC Episode 193: What the heck is a SMOF
/Welcome to episode 193 of Destroy All Culture, in which Adam explains to Aidan what a SMOF is. Aidan is mildly horrified. The discussion moves from there to an explanation of the economics of conventions and the fraught relationship between hotels and cons. Plus Doom Patrol and the new season of Wynonna Earp.
DAC Episode 192: Nexusesses
/Hello. This is an episode of Destroy All Culture. Today we’re discussing the nexus between Constantine and Keanu Reeves; the nexus between time loop episodes and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D; and the nexus between deaths on genre television and Stargirl. So many nexuses! Listen below or follow us on iTunes.
DAC Episode 191
/This week on Destroy All Culture: Doom Patrol, Stargirl, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and banter for days. Listen below or find us on iTunes.
DAC Episode 189: Doomier and weirder
/On today’s docket: Doom Patrol, Stargirl, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and all the other bits and pieces you love. Listen below or find us away on the iTunes.