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Ed Greer, Ron Swallow, and Producer Bill discuss and debate what makes something great.
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Sep 5, 2024
Sep 5, 2024
1 hr 57 min
In this super sized episode Ed, Ron, and Producer Bill discuss and debate “The Greatest Mentors In Pop Culture.” We interrogate the different expressions of the mentor. Some are father or mother figures, some started out as replacement parents and became trusty butlers. Some are space wizards you meet for a week, or alien holograms or long dead uncles. DIfferent mentors make different heroes so in essence we are tracing the in world origins of the greatest pop culture protagonists.
Aug 20, 2024
Aug 20, 2024
1 hr 12 min
“Is ‘The Boys’ The Greatest Superhero Show?” You might think, “Well obviously that’s madness…right?” I’d say surely we’ve seen something about superheroes that was more hopeful. Maybe funnier? Maybe more life affirming? But better? I don’t know man. The show manages to do pretty decent super action on a budget and the characters are pretty damn cool. Their mission to kill/neutralize “superheroes” is at direct odds with every other show or movie on the subject. It’s almost the only story in pop culture media that shows superpowers as something that doesn't automatically make anything better. Yes, it’s got edgelord tendencies and sometimes seeks to shock as it satirizes but the fact that the average superhero story doesn’t spend ANY time thinking about the physical and mental collateral damage superheroes would leave in their wake is pretty embarrassing. That it is one of the only things in the entire genre that seems interested in interrogating the idea that manufactured corporate demigods on cereal boxes might cause fundamental and detrimental changes to the average person’s psyche is shocking. So yeah, we think it’s the best. Listen to more reasons why by pressing play.
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Aug 3, 2024
Aug 3, 2024
1 hr 49 min
You can’t trust Producer Bill and Ed Greer to do the “boring” thing of just dryly recapping this monumental San Diego Comic Con, Of course we talk Fantastic Four news, Robert Downey Jr., Mcfeel, and the Russos coming back…and some stuff from DC too. All of that’s great but we think it’s prime time to think about the comic book movie as an organism. It seems to have evolved to survive in a post spoiler world where the biggest movies have to organize their stories like a stream of billion dollar breadcrumbs. And if we are following a trail of mixed metaphors we seem to have doubled back on the path that worked after a brief period of trying to make “fetch” happen. Listen to this for the thinking person’s unpacking of ComicCon and stay till the end for some truly unexpected predictions for next year.
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Buy Ron’s album here:
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Jul 25, 2024
Jul 25, 2024
1 hr 35 min
“The Greatest Batman Analogues” started as a companion to our “Greatest Superman Analogues” episode but it quickly grew into a conversation about how powerful and impactful a Batman could or should be. Many Twitter dorks including us have tried to put real world morality on this particular comic book character given our frankly natural suspicion and disdain for billionaires. It isn’t actually clear that the original creators of Batman wanted his wealth to be a key part of his badassery in any way besides gadgets and free time. Almost all of the original comic book men of action were rich. Zorro, The Phantom, The Green Hornet, hell The Scarlet Pimpernel! But those guys aren’t Batman.In interrogating what exactly constitutes a Batman analogue maybe we can recontextualize the character. Maybe we can find out what areas his “sons” can investigate to carve out their own place in the pantheon of awesome “regular humans” who fight alongside the super gods.
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https://www.youtube.com/@ronswallow
Buy Ron’s album here:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-wings-of-a-dragon/1687418796
Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024
1 hr 56 min
“The Greatest Lone Wolf Characters” are iconoclastic powerhouses who don’t always get it done with their fists. Wolves don’t even have fists. From Wolverine to John Wick. From the Punisher to Ron mentioning some of his favorite fantasy characters like Allanon we hit it all. In this episode we explore the concept of the outsider hero and why they seem so important to the American myth. Some of the characters left off our list will shock you, the others will enthrall. Either way get ready for well reasoned takes by smart people, you know that thing that seems to have disappeared years ago? It’s back, babay. Press play already!
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https://www.youtube.com/@ronswallow
Buy Ron’s album here:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-wings-of-a-dragon/1687418796
Jul 7, 2024
Jul 7, 2024
1 hr 14 min
This is a classic Nerd Goat episode with Grant Pardee going deep on Ultimate Spider-man but also just talking about how great the web head is in general. The fun part about these old episodes is we now want to go back and check in with all of our buddies to see where they are at on their character choices and who knows we might just do that.
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Watch REBOOT IT, our YouTube Show where we update your favorite franchises alongside Fandom Producer Billy Business here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/REBOOTITSHOW
https://www.youtube.com/@ronswallow
Buy Ron’s album here:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-wings-of-a-dragon/1687418796
Jun 30, 2024
Jun 30, 2024
1 hr 4 min
“The Greatest X-Men Adaptation” is obviously X-Men ‘97 and we spend this action packed and hilarious hour breaking down why. It’s pretty light on spoilers but it’s probably best if you’ve seen about half the episodes. We discuss the show’s themes, pacing, writing, art style, and how it depicts our favorite outcasts. Enjoy. We’re BACK BABAY!!!!
For bonus and some truly WILD speculation we just couldn’t put on the free feed, listen to Part 2 on the Greatest Pod Patreon (link below). There we talk about the last five eps & finale, what we think will happen next season, and how this hit show might influence the live action MCU.
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Support our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/TheGreatestPod to get exclusive pods on subjects we can't tackle here and also physical art prints.
Watch REBOOT IT, our YouTube Show where we update your favorite franchises alongside Fandom Producer Billy Business here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/REBOOTITSHOW
https://www.youtube.com/@ronswallow
Buy Ron’s album here:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-wings-of-a-dragon/1687418796
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
1 hr 4 min
This is another Nerd Goat Classic while Ed is on the road with Brian Posehn. We have the hilarious and now famous like he deserves to be Brian Simpson on to talk about Grand Admiral Thrawn. This is before the show came out but maybe we will have him on again to talk about this amazing character. We talk about this characters struggles, how they moved up in a society where that's hard and how their genius and actions moved them to the top of a xenophobic Empire in the Star Wars universe to be their most secret of weapons.
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https://www.youtube.com/@ronswallow
Buy Ron’s album here:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-wings-of-a-dragon/1687418796
Jun 20, 2024
Jun 20, 2024
1 hr 48 min
The boys are back in town!!!! We return with an ep about taste, culture, and social engineering disguised as a jolly talk about “The Greatest Comedy Movies”. As always these are the ones that impact us and there are some glaring omissions cuz we do these off the top of the dome but once you hit play you’ll get a dose of our signature analysis and feel right at home amongst friends because you are!! Welcome back folks!! Also Ed is sad he didn’t bring up Boomerang. That movie is funny as shit.
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Please leave a 5 star review on your podcast app, it really helps! Subscribe and like our videos on YouTube and Please share our stuff.
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Watch REBOOT IT, our YouTube Show where we update your favorite franchises alongside Fandom Producer Billy Business here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/REBOOTITSHOW
https://www.youtube.com/@ronswallow
Buy Ron’s album here:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-wings-of-a-dragon/1687418796
Jun 11, 2024
Jun 11, 2024
1 hr 27 min
This is a classic Nerd Goat episode where the screenwriter from X-men First Class (Among many of the movies he has written) talks about Magneto a character that he may have arguably had the most influence on in pop culture. From his roots as in a concentration camp to the decisions he makes as an older man and mutant. We explore the depths of one of the most powerful and interesting mutants in all of Marvel.
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Please leave a 5 star review on your podcast app, it really helps! Subscribe and like our videos on YouTube and Please share our stuff.
Support our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/TheGreatestPod to get exclusive pods on subjects we can't tackle here and also physical art prints.
Watch REBOOT IT, our YouTube Show where we update your favorite franchises alongside Fandom Producer Billy Business here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/REBOOTITSHOW
https://www.youtube.com/@ronswallow
Buy Ron’s album here:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-wings-of-a-dragon/1687418796