After Lunch

Michael May, Rob Graham, and Friends discuss TV, movies, comics, games, and anything else they happen to think of.

407 | This Christmas (2007) 12/22/2025

407 | This Christmas (2007) Merry Christmas, everyone! Preston A Whitmore II's This Christmas may not be a super popular holiday movie, but Michael thinks it's underrated and under-discussed, so he's invited William Bruce West and David May to watch and talk about it. The movie stars Loretta Devine, Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba, Regina King, Keith D Robinson, Mekhi Phifer, and others as members of a family coming together for the holidays after a few years apart and everyone has secrets. Shhh! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39488120

406 | The Christmas Special Multiverse 12/15/2025

406 | The Christmas Special Multiverse Michael and Rob welcome Sue London and Michael DiGiovanni to come help build a cinematic multiverse out of our favorite Christmas specials. We've assigned each other a couple of specials each to crossover, then once we've revealed our mashups, we work together to create an Avengers-style feature combining all eight of the original ideas. It's nice, it's occasionally naughty, but most of all it's fun. Merry Christmas! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39404005

405 | Shower of Stars: A Christmas Carol (1954) 12/08/2025

405 | Shower of Stars: A Christmas Carol (1954) In the first part of a sort of crossover with the podcast, Mike Westfall joins Michael and Rob to talk about an unusual version of A Christmas Carol. From CBS's 1954 anthology variety show, Shower of Stars, it features Fredric March as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Marley, and bunch of questionable songs. And be sure to tune in next Sunday to for Part Two in which Michael and Rob will join Mike to discuss another musical Christmas Carol, 2004's A Christmas Carol: The Musical starring Kelsey Grammer, Jason Alexander, Jane Krakowski, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jesse L Martin, and Geraldine Chaplin. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39309275

404 | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 12/01/2025

404 | The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Michael and Rob invite Jody Collins and Jacob Bean-Watson over to put up the Christmas decorations and talk about the Ernst Lubitsch classic, The Shop Around the Corner. The movie stars Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan. And it was of course the inspiration for You've Got Mail. We talk about all of those people and the other characters, as well as the remakes and just how much of a Christmas movie it even is. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39206430

403 | After Midnight – Hellboy & Nocturnals 11/28/2025

403 | After Midnight – Hellboy & Nocturnals Michael and Jess talk about lots of horror stuff including A Ghost Story for Christmas, Lost Boys, Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics, and Dan Brereton's Nocturnals. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39142715

402 | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) 11/24/2025

402 | Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) Our Sherlock Holmes panel reconvenes as Pax, Jacob, Michael, and Rob talk about the Spielberg-produced '80s favorite (and self-admittedly non-canonical), Young Sherlock Holmes. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39136005

401 | After Dinner Lounge – Take Your Bologna and Shut Up! 11/21/2025

401 | After Dinner Lounge – Take Your Bologna and Shut Up! Michael, Pax, and Rob talk about lots of stuff including Silver Age Wonder Girl, Man-Wolf, Hell House by Richard Matheson, three Shirley Jackson novels, podcast apps, and Predator: Badlands. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39054470

400 | Unfinished Business 11/17/2025

400 | Unfinished Business To celebrate the 400th episode of After Lunch (give or take), Michael welcomes back the original Nerd Lunch crew - CT, Jeeg, and Pax - to wrap up some unfinished business from the Nerd Lunch days. In June 2019, Jeeg led the gang, including Michael in the Fourth Chair, in an Overs/Unders exercise to predict what might happen in the proposed Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum. Of course, we never got that movie. Or... we didn't until Deadpool & Wolverine came out last year. It's finally time to tally up the scores and see who is the Best Channing Tatum Gambit Movie Predictor of All Time. And stay tuned to the end for a rerun of the original episode in which we made our predictions. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/39047320

399 | The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943) 11/10/2025

399 | The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943) Michael, Rob, and Pax continue their occasional look at pulp and superhero serials with The Adventures of Smilin' Jack. It's one of Michael's favorites, but will Rob and Pax feel the same way? Starring Tom Brown, Keye Luke, and Rose Hobart. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38963690

398 | Spaceships Sweet 16 11/03/2025

398 | Spaceships Sweet 16 Michael and Rob are joined by Ben Graham and new guest Nick Casbarro to talk about Nick's novel, , and then to determine the greatest spaceship of all time. And of course we determine that the only way we know how: by listing 16 of our favorites, putting them into tournament brackets, and voting on them until only one remains. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38875165

397 | Halloween Spook-a-Lympics 10/31/2025

397 | Halloween Spook-a-Lympics Michael and Rob are joined by Joanna from Bloody Popcorn and Shawn Robare to create teams of horror-themed athletes and terrifying events for them to compete in. Who will win the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals? The Hex Pistols? Scare-istocracy? The Grisly Grahams? The Hellboy Hooies? Pick your favorite team and root them on! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38855605

396 | After Dinner Lounge – Do You Think They’re Cool Hip People? 10/27/2025

396 | After Dinner Lounge – Do You Think They’re Cool Hip People? Rob, Michael, and Pax finish up this month's Lounge talking about The Oracle Year by Charles Soule, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Superman comics, Batman: Resurrection by John Jackson Miller, Zach Cregger's Weapons, KPop Demon Hunters, and more! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38780255

395 | Predator (1987) 10/23/2025

395 | Predator (1987) Michael, Rob, and Pax continue their occasional series covering the Predator movies by talking about the original film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, and the introduction of one of the coolest-looking monsters in cinema history. And stay tuned after our conversation for a special rerun of Pax's by Paul Monette. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38639895

394 | After Dinner Lounge – Caw! 10/20/2025

394 | After Dinner Lounge – Caw! It's Lounging Time again as Rob, Michael, and Pax talk about whatever's on their mind, including French Silk pie, Wonder Woman's daughter, and different ways to use the Pop Culture Eraser. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38631760

393 | After Midnight – Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars & 30 Days of Night 10/17/2025

393 | After Midnight – Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars & 30 Days of Night Michael and Jess talk about Halloween and other spooky things, including the comics Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars and 30 Days of Night. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38556065

392 | Murder by Decree (1979) 10/13/2025

392 | Murder by Decree (1979) Rob, Pax, Jacob, and Michael reconvene our Sherlock Holmes panel to talk about lots of Holmes stuff, including Murder by Decree starring Christopher Plummer and James Mason as Holmes and Watson on the trail of Jack the Ripper. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38550820

391 | Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) 10/06/2025

391 | Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) Michael, Rob, and Pax go back into the Fast and Furious timeline to watch Better Luck Tomorrow, an early Justin Lin film that both he and actor Sung Kang have retroactively declared to be the first appearance of Han from the Fast and Furious series. It's a crime movie, it's a high school movie... it's a Fast and Furious movie? We talk about how well it works in all three of those categories. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38466565

390 | Who Would Win? with Tyler Mane 10/03/2025

390 | Who Would Win? with Tyler Mane Michael, Rob, and Pax welcome very special guest, Tyler Mane (X-Men, Rob Zombie's Halloween) to resurrect an old topic from After Lunch's early days. We each nominate fighters, locations, and complications and discuss Who Would Win? Of course Sabretooth vs Michael Myers comes up, but there are many more epic battles to talk about and argue over. Be sure to check out Tyler's new graphic novel, , co-written with Christopher Priest. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38436315

389 | Fixing Kolchak: The Night Stalker 09/29/2025

389 | Fixing Kolchak: The Night Stalker Kolchak: The Night Stalker started as a couple of TV movies, but when it became a TV series it struggled and only lasted 20 episodes, finally becoming a cult classic thanks to late night reruns. Michael, Rob, and guests DeAndre and Sophie discuss how they would tweak the series to be even better than it was. And also about what they love and wouldn't want to change. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38377840

388 | After Midnight – Heathentown & Plunge 09/26/2025

388 | After Midnight – Heathentown & Plunge This is the part of the show where Michael and Jess talk about horror, including this month the graphic novels Heathentown by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman and Plunge by Joe Hill and Stuart Immonen. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38299545

387 | Sherlock Holmes (1922) 09/22/2025

387 | Sherlock Holmes (1922) For this month's Sherlock Holmes movie, Michael, Rob, Pax, and Jacob go way back to the silent era for Sherlock Holmes starring John Barrymore as Holmes, Roland Young as Watson, and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty. It's also William Powell's first movie and features Reginald Denny in a small, but important role. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38292330

386 | After Dinner Lounge – Bedazzling His Hobbit Hole 09/15/2025

386 | After Dinner Lounge – Bedazzling His Hobbit Hole Finishing this month's Lounge, Pax, Rob, and Michael talk about the novel that inspired Gymkata, amusement parks vs theme parks, cozy video games, work spaces, the new Ultimate Spider-Man, and meeting Oscar Goldman. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38208465

385 | After Dinner Lounge – So, the Dog It Was That Died! 09/08/2025

385 | After Dinner Lounge – So, the Dog It Was That Died! In this month's Lounge (last month's Lounge, actually, but Summer travelling slowed us down a bit and we're behind), Pax, Rob, and Michael dig deeper into the Superman and Fantastic Four movies than we were able to last time, plus Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Gymkata, and Fantastic Four podcasts, Appaloosa by Robert B Parker, Bono’s memoirs, and more. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/38115605

384 | You’ve Got the Rights 09/01/2025

384 | You’ve Got the Rights Returning to a classic Nerd Lunch topic, Michael, Rob, Becky Tyler, and Ben Graham each pick a single element from a movie or TV show that we want the rights to. And we of course explain what we would do if we had those rights. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37933550

383 | After Midnight – Grizzlyshark / West of Sundown 08/25/2025

383 | After Midnight – Grizzlyshark / West of Sundown Michael and Jess talk about horrific things they've been watching and reading, including the comedically bloody Grizzlyshark comics and the vampire Western graphic novel West of Sundown. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37854290

382 | The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1940) 08/18/2025

382 | The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1940) Michael, Rob, and Pax grab their gas guns and hop back into the buzzing car to watch The Green Hornet Strikes Again. Even though it was released in the same year as the serial it's a sequel to, there's a new actor playing Green Hornet (Warren Hull this time, instead of Gordon Jones). But Keye Luke is back as Kato, Anne Nagel as the awesome Case, and perhaps less excitingly, Wade Boteler as the bumbling stereotype Michael Axford. We didn't all love the first Green Hornet serial, so let's see how this one compares. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37847530

381 | Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002) 08/11/2025

381 | Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002) Jacob, Michael, Rob, and Pax talk about the TV movie Sherlock, aka Sherlock: Case of Evil starring James D'Arcy as the sexiest Holmes at the beginning of his detective career. Vincent D'Onofrio plays Moriarty, Richard E Grant is Mycroft, and Gabrielle Anwar shows up with some crucial information. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37727075

380 | After Dinner Lounge – Spill That Tea, Girl 08/04/2025

380 | After Dinner Lounge – Spill That Tea, Girl Michael, Pax, and Rob finish this 50th Lounge episode talking about celebrities who represent us, Interior Chinatown, X-Men/Star Trek crossovers, Jurassic World Rebirth, the Beastie Boys Book audiobook, and Stinker Lets Loose! by Mike Sacks (aka James Taylor Johnson). /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37657755

379 | After Dinner Lounge – This is What Victory Smells Like 07/28/2025

379 | After Dinner Lounge – This is What Victory Smells Like On this 50th Lounge episode, Michael, Pax, Rob - and introducing PJ Holley! - talk about history podcasts, unproduced Superman movies, Sharks Of The Corn, Indiana Jones, The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, and how to invade an ensemble TV show. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37573810

378 | Infinity Con Tallahassee Panel – It’s Alive! Creating Monsters (feat. Carlin Trammel, Christopher Burdett, and Mark Maddox) 07/23/2025

378 | Infinity Con Tallahassee Panel – It’s Alive! Creating Monsters (feat. Carlin Trammel, Christopher Burdett, and Mark Maddox) Carlin Trammel brings a special episode presenting a recent panel he moderated at , talking with monster makers Christopher Burdett and Mark Maddox about their approaches to crafting compelling creatures in art. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37501030

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