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The award nominated film podcast that does a bit of everything. One of Esquire's 38 Best Comedy Podcasts Around. Hosted by John Rain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
John Rain hosts Smersh Pod, a comedy show with 397 episodes published.
This week we’ll be heading to Argo City to have a drink or two with Peter o Toole, and to find out if Superman’s cousin can save the day while he’s out. Yes, it’s Supergirl Joining me to be bathed in soft focus and light
This week we’ll be looking at an X that only lives to suck energy, spew hate and pump out bad waves, no not the popular edge lord website, it’s merely an old science fiction film! Yes, it’s X: The Unknown And joining me
This week we’ll be looking for Perfection as we sit down and watch a film that really grabbed our attention, and made the ground move beneath our feet. Yes, it’s Tremors. Joining me to get our big worms out for the
Dan Thomas and I are fans of Big Stevie Spielberg. We went to see this film. We weren't keen. We vent here. WE SPOIL IT. SO IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN SWITCH OFF!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week we’ll be stepping into the dark shadows of Gotham City in order to find out just what puts such a smile on the face of the citizens. Is it all that free money? Or something more sinister... Yes, it’s BATMA
This week we’ll be defying convention and going out of our way to look for the beauty hidden inside a person, while also proving they have guts, seeing the world through their eyes, and admiring their balls. Yes, it’s In
This week we’ll packing our dressing up kit and make up box as we head to Mother Russia in order to stop a despot giving cold fusion the cold shoulder. Yes, it’s The Saint. Joining me to find out just how simple Simon re
This week we’ll be heading to the island and going ape! In order to find out just what happens when capitalism gets in the way of innocent love between a giant and a tiny lady. Yes it’s King Kong Joining me to wake
This week we’ll be putting on the finest MOR known to man, brushing up on our white-guy karate, and taking out the trash in order to prove that a small town of nice murderers is better than one mean one. Yes, it’s
This week we’ll be seeing red as we head back to the past in order to go to space and find out if a Mars a day keeps the sequels away. Yes, it’s John Carter And joining me to give us some right arm action is Jack Bernhar
This week we’ll be curtain twitching like there’s no tomorrow as we check out who’s just moved in next door, and sort of knock about for aimlessly for ninety minutes without really much happening - with hilarious consequ
This week we’ll be heading to glorious Summerisle; a secluded paradise of rolling fields, welcoming harbours, and a thriving swinging culture that’s known to be fairly committed to making the ultimate sacrifice for its g
This week we’ll be returning to Ye Olde Europe to find out who would Minder if Dracula killed their brother. Yes, it’s Scars of Dracula. And joining me to go batty for lashes, is Ashley Blaker. Hosted on Acast. See
The tagline reads: "It's been more than 200 years... The beginning has just started". Whatever that means, it's time for the Monday Night Movie Club to get together and head into deep space to try and get blood from a cl
This week we’ll be getting seriously committed in order to solve a puzzle. Just what refreshes the parts you cannot reach? Who makes a suit that’s simply to die for? And who is playing with himself far too much? Yes, it’
To celebrate the birthday of Steven Seagal, John takes Dan and Dean for a choo-choo ride and discovers a whole casey of trouble. A Monday Night Movie Club episode from Feb 20, 2023. Subscribe to the Patreon here an
This week in a bit of Boon for the show, we’ll test-driving a new hog - but not just any hog, this ride is possessed by a bit of a speed demon. It eats protocol droids for breakfast, it doesn’t run on gas, and goes 0-60
In a very special episode I'm joined by Martin Fitzgerald to catch up on JFK again, and talk about his new book " The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination ", an incr
This week we’ll be indulging in the time old cliche of travelling the far east in order to find ourselves, connect with new exciting people, and take so much drugs we turn appear in other people’s televisions into a comp
Welcome to another Star Wars special. This week we’ll be heading to a galaxy, far, far away in order to find out just how a good many things that we’ve never ever thought about came to be! Yes, it’s SOLO: A STAR WARS STO
John Carter
Substack author · Multimedia & Powered Solutions
1 appearance on this show
Ashley Blaker
Jewish comedian
5 appearances on this show
Dan Thomas
Director of Torchbearer Center in Fraser, Colorado · Kingstone High School
33 appearances on this show
Dean Burnett
neuroscientist and bestselling author of The Idiot Brain and The Happy Brain
19 appearances on this show
Tom Crowley
Former Greenport High School Teacher · ABC
20 appearances on this show
Mitch Benn
comedian
1 appearance on this show
Andrew O'Neill
1 appearance on this show
Tom Burgess
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4 appearances on this show
Toby Hadoke
1 appearance on this show
John Thomson
4 appearances on this show
Steve Hall
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2 appearances on this show
Jason King
Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel · University of Southern Cal
1 appearance on this show
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