Gather Around Me

Ben Pobjie and Cam Smith help you make sense of the world.

Episode 421: Totally Wicked 12/16/2024

Episode 421: Totally Wicked They tried to hide it from us but we found out about Wicked. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/34466905

Episode 420: Got A Bad Feeling About This 05/11/2024

Episode 420: Got A Bad Feeling About This This episode we're talking about the first Omen, but not The First Omen. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/31239712

Episode 419: Madame Bees 02/24/2024

Episode 419: Madame Bees This week we are talking about the two hottest creepy crawly flicks of 2024: The Beekeeper and Madame Web. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/30089978

Episode 418: Talkin' 'bout those Night Swims 01/13/2024

Episode 418: Talkin' 'bout those Night Swims Vox populi, vox dei. The people demanded an indepth recap of haunted pool movie Night Swim and who are we to deny them? /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/29469988

Episode 417: Anachronistic Video Calling Technology 08/28/2023

Episode 417: Anachronistic Video Calling Technology Folks, it's probably fair to say that nobody has been clamouring for an unpacking of the first three Insidious movies, including comparisons with turn-of-the-millennium Australian techno-thriller The Bank and yet that is precisely what you are listening to. It's a funny old world. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/27868788

Episode 416: Mission Insomnibird 07/24/2023

Episode 416: Mission Insomnibird We have a chat about that hot cinema property Mission Impossible 2 - as well as another impossible mission, successfully holding the Commonwealth Games. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/27547029

Episode 415: Later Or Sooner We All Stop Lating 07/17/2023

Episode 415: Later Or Sooner We All Stop Lating Not with a bang but with a podcast we finish our journey into the Queensland hinterland courtesty of Libby's synopsisizing skills. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/27483744

Episode 414: Sooner Or Later We All Stop Podding 07/09/2023

Episode 414: Sooner Or Later We All Stop Podding It's episode 414 in a series of 1000 pods from your friends at Gather Around Me Inc. In this episode, we return to a series that I think we abandoned pre-Covid thanks to listener (and reader) Libby. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/27410769

Episode 413: Gacy House 90210 12/11/2022

Episode 413: Gacy House 90210 This week we're talking about a very bad movie. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/25287891

Episode 412: Halloween Ends Tonight 11/07/2022

Episode 412: Halloween Ends Tonight This week we are talking in great detail, scene-by-scene- about the film Halloween Ends. This approach to film reviewing seems to come as a surprise to some! /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/24926781

Episode 411: Murder Dolls Need Souls 10/15/2022

Episode 411: Murder Dolls Need Souls This week we're talking about 2021's Baby Oopsie, a film which surprised and delighted us in equal measure. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/24695568

Episode 410: Everygam, Gammywhere, All At GAM 09/26/2022

Episode 410: Everygam, Gammywhere, All At GAM Cam tricked Ben into seeing Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Continued discussion of the ever-expanding RCU. Ben wants to be like Jordan Peterson but not politically, just completely off chops on benzos and steak. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/24490245

Episode 409: Mate Against Mate, Escape Against Escape 07/18/2022

Episode 409: Mate Against Mate, Escape Against Escape In this, episode four hundred and nine out of one thousand, we discuss the State of Origin (2022) and Escape Room (2017) but not Escape Room (2019). /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/23774072

Episode 408: Beep Boop Beep 07/03/2022

Episode 408: Beep Boop Beep This week your friends BenTron 3.0 and Cambot 6000 take over the pod for some AI shenanigans. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/23616923

Episode 407: An Election Is A Long Time In Politics 05/26/2022

Episode 407: An Election Is A Long Time In Politics It's your pals Cam and Ben with Episode 407 in a series of 1000 podchats about affairs of state and culture and such. This week we recorded the Monday after the election for fresh takes on the ascendant Albanese government and the Rebel Wilson vehicle Senior Year. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/23235911

Episode 406: The One Poll That Counts 05/15/2022

Episode 406: The One Poll That Counts This week we have some grievances to share. Plus a spoiler alert for Dr Strange and The Northman. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/23113838

Episode 405: Bayme95 05/02/2022

Episode 405: Bayme95 We discuss the election campaign and the film Ambulance (spoiler alert: both of them are careening out of control through the streets of LA). We have absolutely no proof that Michael Bay is not doing Dogme95 films on the side. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/22976063

Episode 404: A Week Is A Long Time In A Week Is A Long Time In A Week 04/20/2022

Episode 404: A Week Is A Long Time In A Week Is A Long Time In A Week Is A Long Time In Politics. A day can happen in a year and a year can happen in a month. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/22853069

Episode 403: The Bellingcatman 04/11/2022

Episode 403: The Bellingcatman This week Ben & Cam discuss (with spoilers) the films The Batman, Morbius and RRR. Cam is not impressed with The Batman's refusal to do even the most simple geolocation. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/22751573

Episode 402: Content Warning: Racist Prime Ministers 04/05/2022

Episode 402: Content Warning: Racist Prime Ministers Folks, huge content warning on this one: the Prime Minister is racist. And Ben saw Morbius. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/22684445

Episode 401: Oscars So Fight 03/28/2022

Episode 401: Oscars So Fight Gather Around Me is back with our hot takes on the Academy Awards, Mark Latham, etc. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/22591373

Episode 400: Paul On The Road To Cowes 12/06/2021

Episode 400: Paul On The Road To Cowes A very special episode for Ep 400! Not really! Cam reads Ben some terrible stuff. At one point he says it's Friday afternoon, but actually this was recorded on a Monday. Says it all. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/21390542

Episode 399: Halloween Kills 11/19/2021

Episode 399: Halloween Kills This week Ben and Cam went to see Halloween Kills, a film about the aftermath of a movie about podcasters. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/21218414

Episode 393: A Missing Episode 11/13/2021

Episode 393: A Missing Episode Apparently this episode never went online? Anyway - enjoy these hot earthquake takes! /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/21150194

Episode 398: Stupid Ghosts 11/13/2021

Episode 398: Stupid Ghosts This week we talk about a real idiot of a ghost. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/21150185

Episode 397: A Little Bloke In The Telly 10/28/2021

Episode 397: A Little Bloke In The Telly This week we take a road trip out to Engadine to discuss the works of George Orwell. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/20967704

Episode 396: We Got Shooters 10/21/2021

Episode 396: We Got Shooters This week we talk about shooting ranges, Olympic and otherwise. Plus would Ben be a good liar? /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/20890445

Episode 395: Some Ideas For Matthew Guy 10/14/2021

Episode 395: Some Ideas For Matthew Guy We've been asked by the Victorian Liberal Party to brainstorm some ideas and we are not ones to leave our state in the lurch! /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/20813675

Episode 394: Thirty Odd Poste Of Grunt 10/07/2021

Episode 394: Thirty Odd Poste Of Grunt Sometimes you get the Zodiac Killer's name slightly wrong but then you repeat that mistake for 20 minutes. Anyway, in this ep we discuss the only news that matters: the revelation of the real identity of the Zodiac Killer. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/20739344

Episode 393: Sportsball 09/30/2021

Episode 393: Sportsball This week we talk about Sportsball, earthquakes and other silly things. /episode/index/show/gatheraroundme/id/20656448

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