Today we are discussing the iconic 1979 sci-fi masterpiece “Alien” and we are joined by game master Bryon Kershaw of “Spirits and Monsters of Old Seattle” (https://www.spiritsandmonsters.com/) — an actual play RPG podcast that takes place in a supernatural 1800s Seattle, WA. Here we will be talking about the unique atmospheric horror, the cinematic…

Click HERE to send us a text message! Enjoying a gift from the Library, Doctor Jensen and Julian take a vacation to the town of Crescent Bay. Of course, where our investigators go, the supernatural is rarely far behind. What terrors await them in the dark and snowy nights? You can find exclusive Spirits and Monsters of Old Seattle merchandise at ou…

Today we’re discussing the final season finale of the critically acclaimed and audience-obsessed Netflix series, “You” (2018-2025). Starring Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg, lover of literature, women, and murder, “You” is a romantic crime drama that has occupied the rarefied worlds of New York society, Los Angeles elites, Silicon Valley technocrats, …

Today we’re discussing a film that has been widely requested by listeners, “Godzilla Minus One” (2023, dir. Takashi Yamazaki). A Godzilla movie that is also a historical drama, “Godzilla Minus One” follows a Japanese kamikaze soldier (Ryûnosuke Kamiki) plagued by survivor’s guilt and attempting to rebuild a life in the rubble of World War 2 Japan. …

Today we’re discussing the PlayStation video game-turned-film from the team that brought you the Annabelle series, “Until Dawn” (2025, dir. David F. Sandberg). Utilizing time loops and folkloric horror tropes, “Until Dawn” follows a group of five friends on a road trip to find one friend’s missing sister. When a storm traps them in the spooky Welco…

Click HERE to send us a text message! After a stressful and emotional mystery, our investigators get into the spirit of the holiday season! Sofie steps away. Julian waxes poetic. Doctor Jensen gets the greatest gift of all - to see his enemies driven before him. You can find exclusive Spirits and Monsters of Old Seattle merchandise at our store! ht…

Today we are discussing the new 6-episode season of “Black Mirror” (Netflix series, Season 7). Charlie Brooker’s masterpiece anthology of dystopian technology returns with episodes “Common People,” “Bete Noire,” “Hotel Reverie,” “Plaything,” “Eulogy,” and “USS Callister: Into Infinity.” We’re sharing episode-by-episode takeaways— which are easy wat…

Today we are discussing the recently released horror-musical extravaganza, “Sinners” (2025). Written and directed by the acclaimed Ryan Coogler and starring not one but two Michael B Jordans as twins (Smoke & Stack) returning to their Mississippi hometown after years of working in Chicago with Al Capone. This is 1932 in the Mississippi Delta and th…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the 2025 buddy comedy made in the vein of classic comedies like “Friday” — namely, “One of Them Days” (now streaming on Netflix). Starring Keke Palmer and SZA as best friends who must scrounge together rent money by the end of the day as well as make it to a life-changing interview for one…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the wildly successful and influential, “A Minecraft Movie” (2025). Based on the best-selling game of all time and starring cultural icons Jack Black and Jason Mamoa, this movie has connected to adolescent audiences in a fashion that is both TikTok viral and unquestionably sincere. Here we …

Click HERE to send us a text message! Our investigations come face-to-face with the terrifying Brook Horse, and need to try a desperate plan to survive. But will summoning up a second vaesen save them or doom them...? Guest Starring Mark Meer, voice actor for Commander Shepard from Mass Effect and the Keeper of Arcane Lore on Graveyards of Arkham! …

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the Netflix top-watched limited series, “Adolescence” (2025). Following the fallout of a shocking adolescent crime, audiences are taken through police procedures, educational institutions, and telling family dynamics that generate a pressure cooker around early adolescence. A brilliant exa…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES On today’s special mini episode we’re discussing the Marvel video game, “Marvel Rivals” — a free-to-player shooter game that is available on all platforms. We talk characters, mechanics, and whether the Hulk can be killed, and by whom. Spend a few minutes with us and the Overwatch-style video game that seems to …

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the Apple TV series and cultural phenomenon, “Severance” (2022-2025). Directed by Ben Stiller and having just completed its second season run, “Severance” is a mind-bendy TV thriller that follows a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and pe…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re presenting you with another Midday Mini! Here, we discuss the quixotic quest of tech millionaire Bryan Johnson, a man obsessed with reversing his biological age. Founder of Braintree and Blueprint, this former Mormon is heading a health-obsessed cult that champions untested methods of extending human…

Click HERE to send us a text message! Everything is coming together at last, and the scope of what's happening at Baldwin Farm comes into focus. Listen to our friends from the Rainbow Dice Club and find them on their social links are https://linktr.ee/rainbowdiceclub A huge shoutout to the amazing Autumn Orange for letting us use the songs "Nightfa…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the Disney live-action remake of the first Disney full-length feature, “Snow White” (2025). Directed by Marc Webb and starring Rachel Zegler alongside Gal Gadot, this modern “Snow White” contains original music, plot updates, and the compelling battle of philosophies between our stalwart p…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the 2024 Oscar-nominated biopic, “A Complete Unknown.” In it, Bob Dylan is played by Timothee Chalamet as we chart the early rise of Dylan’s career in 1960s New York. An extraordinary time capsule of Cold War highlights, social justice movements, and the American folk music scene, “A Compl…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing prestige television series, “The White Lotus” (season 3, 2025). Created, written, and directed by the incomparable Mike White, “White Lotus” is on its third season, with its third collection of luxury vacationers, who have more than a third of life-shattering drama. Taking place in the Tha…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the new sci-fi satire from famed “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho, “Mickey 17” (2025). Based on the 2022 book, “Mickey7,” this film imagines a future where human printing and consciousness-uploading technology has created a class of worker known as “expendable” — someone who can die and be…

Click HERE to send us a text message! Our investigators wander the mists, and we come face-to-face with the terrifying Brook Horse. Doctor Jensen gets dunked on. Sofie/Aryn cusses out the Gamemaster (again). Julian horses around. A huge shoutout to the amazing Autumn Orange for letting us use the songs "Nightfall" and "Ravenous" during this arc! Yo…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the new romantic spy thriller, “Black Bag” (2025). Directed by industry legend Steven Soderbergh, written by industry legend David Koepp, and starring industry legends Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, this story of married high-level British spies set at odds is brilliant, exciting, …

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the latest addition to the Marvel Captain America franchise, “Captain America: Brave New World” (2025). Sam Wilson, played by Anthony Mackie, has now fully accepted the mantle of Captain America and is out fighting for us in the middle of an international incident. We have a new president,…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the Oscar-winning animated film, “Flow” (2025). Directed by young Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis, this multinational movie brought together animators from Latvia, Belgium, and France, was completed entirely in the free-to-use 3D modeling software Blender, and shipped only a few days be…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re presenting you with another Midday Mini! Please enjoy a super-short, super-fun conversation about “Hot Frosty” — a Hallmark-style Netflix movie with great things to teach you about being a pillar of your community. This movie stars Lacey Chabert, Dustin Milligan, Chrishell Stausse, Jo Lo Truglio, and…

Click HERE to send us a text message! What is the number ONE rule of RPGs? Don't split the party. What happens? They split the party. Doctor Jensen frightens a priest. Sofie gets loonie. Julian makes some new friends and meets a fan. A huge shoutout to the amazing Autumn Orange for letting us use the songs "Nightfall" and "Ravenous" during this arc…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the latest release by horror film auteur, Osgood Perkins, namely “The Monkey” (2025). Starring Theo James as twin brothers haunted by a malicious toy monkey and based on a Stephen King short story of the same name, “The Monkey” tells a tale spanning two generations of fatherless boys. With…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re sharing a Midday Mini! That means a super-short, super-fun discussion of our key takeaways from the romance-themed thriller, “Companion” (2025). This film stars Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillen, and Rupert Friend. It was written and directed by Drew Hancock, whose p…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the Oscar Best Picture nominee, “The Brutalist” (2024). Written and directed by Brady Corbet and starring Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” narrativizes the disorienting and hostile experience of a Jewish immigrant escaping the cataclysm of World War II. In some ways friendly and hospitable, b…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re talking about Oscar Best Picture nominee, “Nickel Boys” (2024). Adapted from the 2019 Colson Whitehead novel of the same name and based on the experiences of students at the real-life Dozier School for Boys in Florida, this film shows us the Jim Crow era South literally through the eyes of our protag…

Click HERE to send us a text message! Poison, panic and corpses are all piling up at Baldwin Farm! Sofie keels over dead. Doctor Jensen makes a friend. Julian has had it with these mother-f'in bodies on these mother-f'in mysteries! A huge shoutout to the amazing Autumn Orange for letting us use the songs "Nightfall" and "Ravenous" during this arc! …

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today, the next stop on our tour of Oscar Best Picture nominees is, “Dune: Part Two” (2024). This is the second adaptation of the classic midcentury sci-fi series by Frank Herbert and it takes us right back to the barren desert of Arrakis, where we left our heroes in “Dune: Part One” in 2021. Expanding the world…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing our next Oscar Best Picture nominee, “Wicked” (2024). Adapted from the Broadway blockbuster of the same name, which was adapted from the Gregory Maguire book of the same name, which owes its inspiration to the Wonderful Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum — a 20th-century American politica…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the papal thriller and Oscar Best Picture nominee, “Conclave” (2024). Starring Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, and Isabella Rossellini, and based on a Robert Harris novel of the same name, “Conclave” is a political thriller that takes viewers inside the secret, sacred world of …

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re beginning our review series of OSCAR’s Best Picture Nominees, starting with “Emilia Perez” (2024), the most academy-nominated film this year. With 13 nomination nods including Best Picture, “Emilia Perez” follows the stories of four remarkable Mexican women — one a literal cartel boss (Karla Sofia Ga…

Click HERE to send us a text message! The investigators meet the farmhouse's mysterious occupant -- Eier Mansson. Sofie does some dope spy stuff. Julian inspires panic. Doctor Jensen is threatened with an intervention. A huge shoutout to the amazing Autumn Orange for letting us use the songs "Nightfall" and "Ravenous" during this arc! You can liste…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re reviewing the much-anticipated Las Vegas morality tale, “The Last Showgirl” (2025). Directed by Gia Coppola and written by “Good Place” screenwriter Kate Gersten, “The Last Showgirl” stars Pamela Anderson as a professional dancer whose long-running show on the Las Vegas Strip abruptly closes and leav…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing the transgressive romantic thriller, “Babygirl” (2024). Written and directed by Halina Reijn and starring Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl” follows an aspirational female CEO — who absolutely “has it all” — whose unexpected affair with a male intern (played by Harris Dickinson) sparks an inner exp…

Click HERE to send us a text message! On our first (and dear Gods probably only) episode of Sidetracks and Meanderings of Old Seattle, we host a full cast Q&A! This is a bit late and was supposed to come out after episode 28, but if there is ANYTHING you wanna know about our show, we probably cover it in this self-indulgent spectacular! This episod…

WELCOME TO SEASON 2 of MIDDAY MOVIES Today we’re discussing Robert Eggers’ vampire thriller, “Nosferatu” (2024). Released over Christmas and with a knockout cast containing Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgard, and Willem Dafoe, this version of Nosferatu is an Eggers passion project more than a decade in the making. Here we discuss the pr…

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WELCOME TO THE REMASTER SERIES, where we take the first 20 episodes of your favorite podcast, MIDDAY MUSINGS, and update them with improved audio and material. We talk about the Hunger Games (original and prequel) as well as classic and evolving holiday traditions. Follow us to show your support for the show. We want to know what you think about ou…

Click HERE to send us a text message! A mysterious letter draws Sofie to Baldwin Farm. Doctor Jensen worries its a trap. Julian critiques a fencepost. Sofie doesn't know whether to hope for the best or the worst outcome. A huge shoutout to the amazing Autumn Orange for letting us use the songs "Nightfall" and "Ravenous" during this arc! You can lis…

WELCOME TO THE REMASTER SERIES, where we take the first 20 episodes of your favorite podcast, MIDDAY MUSINGS, and update them with improved audio and material. We talk about the Cronenbergs, cats, dogs, pets and how pet insurance has developed over time. Follow us to get the latest and greatest podcasts as soon as we make them. We want to know what…

WELCOME TO THE REMASTER SERIES, where we take the first 20 episodes of your favorite podcast, MIDDAY MUSINGS, and update them with improved audio and material. We chat about generations, imperialism and druids. Follow us to get new episodes as soon as they release. We want to know what you think about our podcast! Let us know in this brief survey ⁠…

WELCOME TO THE REMASTER SERIES, where we take the first 20 episodes of your favorite podcast, MIDDAY MUSINGS, and update them with improved audio and material. We talk about how it’s midnight at 2pm now, news watching habits and how to live a long life. We want to know what you think about our podcast! Let us know in this brief survey ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

WELCOME TO THE REMASTER SERIES, where we take the first 20 episodes of your favorite podcast, MIDDAY MUSINGS, and update them with improved audio and material. We talk about religion, how both Laura and Ryan Gosling were raised Mormon, and some good and bad things you can do to get serotonin. We want to know what you think about our podcast! Let us…

WELCOME TO THE REMASTER SERIES, where we take the first 20 episodes of your favorite podcast, MIDDAY MUSINGS, and update them with improved audio and material. We talk about relationships and different types of humor, including why close friends disagree with our taste in TV. We want to know what you think about our podcast! Let us know in this bri…

WELCOME TO THE REMASTER SERIES, where we take the first 20 episodes of your favorite podcast, MIDDAY MUSINGS, and update them with improved audio and material. We discuss the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise (Disney, 2003-2017), the importance of bed rest and the cultural consequences of American Calvinism. We want to know what you think about …

Click HERE to send us a text message! We are back with the second half of our Halloween Interlude! As the spirits flow, tensions bubble up to the surface between members of the team. How will Hamish react to seeing cracks forming amongst our investigators as mysterious rituals are performed at the Library? Sofie shoots her shot. Julian and Doctor J…