We are rapidly approaching the one year anniversary of Spider-Man: No Way Home, so it’s only logical to devote the 101st episode to lots of Spider-Man talk! A friend from all the way back to fifth grade, Lena Sheldon, joins the episode this week for her first ever appearance! And she brings all of her expertise on everyone’s favorite web-crawler/wall-slinger, Peter Parker/Miles Morales/Gwen Stacy/etc. We discuss the best Spider-Man portrayals we’ve ever seen on screen (movies, television, theme parks, and more included. Not comics. Sorry, Ditko.) and spend some time reminiscing on our favorites. With great podcasts come great responsibilities.
Paradigms as a Second Language by Dave Wheelroute is available now! It is a collection of short stories and personal essays that will delight readers of all sensibilities. It includes a short story about Gosling, too! All proceeds Dave Wheelroute receives will go to the Worcester County Food Bank and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, in equal measure!
Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has taken us to new heights – and to new streaming services. After movies like Black Widow, Shang-Chi, Eternals, and Spider-Man: No Way Home and series like WandaVision, Loki, and Hawkeye gave us a hint as to where we’re going after Avengers: Endgame, it made complete sense to follow up on an idea from longtime guest, Ryan Foley! Making his eleventh appearance on the podcast (wowza!), Ryan joins for a LIVE! And IN PERSON podcast! We count down our top five most anticipated MCU projects, as of January 26, 2022. You know. Long before we knew about Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars. But we work with what we got! Love to all and Ryan!
Paradigms as a Second Language by Dave Wheelroute is available now! It is a collection of short stories and personal essays that will delight readers of all sensibilities. It includes a short story about Gosling, too! All proceeds Dave Wheelroute receives will go to the Worcester County Food Bank and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, in equal measure!
Attraction Quotes Week rolls on as Hector Servin joins again (on a Tuesday!) to venture to the other side of the Orlando pond where the dinosaurs, wizards, superheroes, and Simpsons play together at Universal Orlando! We’ve combined Universal Studios with Islands of Adventure to go through the attraction quotes that populate the secondary central Florida theme park resort that is well on its way to equal footing with the Disney majesty. As always, Hector is a doll. His sound effects populate the Universal discussion well because when you’re there, if you’re not in a family or starring on The Tonight Show, you’re probably in a book. Miss it lots!
Paradigms as a Second Language by Dave Wheelroute is available now! It is a collection of short stories and personal essays that will delight readers of all sensibilities. It includes a short story about Gosling, too! All proceeds Dave Wheelroute receives will go to the Worcester County Food Bank and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, in equal measure!
Street Fighter. Tekken. Marvel vs. Capcom. Mortal Kombat. Super Smash Brothers. The history of fighting video games is a rich and expansive one. As such, there have been myriad characters for users to select and do battle with against their friends. To celebrate the genre, I’ve brought in two of my friends to break down the top five fighting video game characters! Returning to the podcast is Lach and making his first appearance is Harry! They are two of the loveliest, best people you’ll ever meet, but they’re also pretty skilled at some of those aforementioned games. This was recorded on October 20, 2019, but it was so fun that I saved! For almost a whole year! Isn’t that just so sweet?
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Dave Wheelroute also started a podcast, Anatomy of a Trading Card! It tells the story of Brian Downing’s 1977 Topps baseball card.
Paradigms as a Second Language by Dave Wheelroute is available now! It is a collection of short stories and personal essays that will delight readers of all sensibilities. It includes a short story about Gosling, too! All proceeds Dave Wheelroute receives will go to the Worcester County Food Bank and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, in equal measure!
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Making his fourth appearance on the podcast is the hilarious kindred spirit of mine known as Ryan Foley! Ryan might be the biggest Marvel fan I know, which makes this topic perfect for his talents. We count down our five favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, as of the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home! It is an uproariously special time of reflection on the Infinity Saga. We also talk a little about the tug-of-war between Sony and Disney over the rights to Tom Holland’s version of Spider-Man. Do it up!
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Spoilers for all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies (from Iron Man to Captain Marvel) before Avengers: Endgame are included in this episode! Discussion of trailers for Endgame is also included! Be warned!
Welcome to the biggest behemoth of an episode you ever did see from Goodbye Mello Brick Road – months in the making. In the most ambitious project and crossover to date, join Dave Mello as he traverses the globe to speak with twenty-three different beloved friends and family members. In this five-hour marathon of fun conversations and Marvel obsessions, over thirty characters are mentioned as Dave has assembled his own team of Avengers to rank the five best Marvel characters!
In terms of time stamps, you can jump around and listen to any list that may pique your interest. Dave welcomes new friends of the podcast and old as he interviews:
Ryan Foley (7:13), Allison Folse (36:01), Jenn Nicol (48:02)
Tim Gomez (1:05:53), Tyler Clardy (1:16:19), Humad Shah (1:44:18)
Wowza, that’s a ton of people! But it makes for a very near and dear episode to my heart and a great way to get excited for Endgame, which debuts in just two days! It’s finally here!
Additionally, don’t forget to check out Nicole Mello’s books, Venus, The Modern Prometheus, and Phantasmagoria, which are available on Amazon!
And don’t forget about Zev Behar’s movie reviews for Captain Marvel and Dumbo on The Mickey Mindset!
These Marvel films have been a special way to navigate early adulthood and late stage adolescence and teenage years and it really feels like we’ve grown with the characters as they age and develop on screen. It really is like a bond. As such, I’ve been writing a number of MCU Retrospective articles over on my notepad, Saoirse Ronan Deserves an Oscar. Feel free to check them out for more Endgame adjacent content!
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Lastly, here are some more spoilers. If you don’t want to know who picked which characters before you listen to the episode, then stop reading now!
I turned everyone’s selections into an aggregate list of the thirty characters selected by each person. If a character was ranked number one on someone’s list, I gave that character five points. If they were ranked second, they got four points. And so on. The cumulative totals are listed below for those interested!
Peter Parker/Spider-Man (59 points)
Steve Rogers/Captain America (54 points)
Tony Stark/Iron Man (41 points)
Thor (32 points)
Bruce Banner/Hulk (25 points)
Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel (24 points)
Shuri (14 points)
Scott Lang/Ant-Man (12 points)
T’Challa/Black Panther (12 points)
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (9 points)
Rocket Raccoon (8 points)
Nick Fury (7 points)
Thanos (7 points)
Drax (5 points)
Gamora (5 points)
Matt Murdock/Daredevil (5 points)
Okoye (4 points)
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (4 points)
Wolverine/Logan (4 points)
Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (3 points)
Charles Xavier/Professor X (3 points)
Clint Barton/Hawkeye (3 points)
Doctor Doom/Victor Von Doom (3 points)
Peter Quill/Star-Lord (3 points)
Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl (3 points)
Goose (2 points)
Magneto (2 points)
Peggy Carter (2 points)
Adrian Toomes/The Vulture (2 points)
Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange (1 point)
Thank you everyone for doing this and reading this and listening to this! I appreciate it more than you know! Happy Marvel Week!
In the second annual Year in Review episode, I take it solo to deliver my five favorite movies, television shows, albums, books, and podcasts of the year! Full write-ups can be found on the digital diary, Saoirse Ronan Deserves an Oscar.
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This week, Dave saw Black Panther so he tasked someone he knew who loved it just as much as he did, Nicole Mello (who now becomes the first ever recurring guest on the podcast), to discuss the five best moments from the film. Wakanda Forever!
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After a week’s hiatus, Dave returns to the podcast with a stunning episode that features the host of Three Angry Nerds, Kurtis Smejkal, joining to count down the five best movie sequels ever made, in their humble opinions. From boxing movies to space epics, you’ll definitely want to listen to this episode to see if your favorite movie sequel made the cut.
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