After Lunch

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

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

377 | Prey (2022) 07/21/2025

377 | Prey (2022) Michael, Rob, and Pax start a new series of episodes in which we'll sporadically visit all of the Predator and Alien movies. In chronological order. So first up is Dan Trachtenberg's Prey, starring Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, and Coco as Sarii the Wonder Dog. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37457615

376 | After Midnight – The World of Charles Addams / Gyo, Volume 1 07/18/2025

376 | After Midnight – The World of Charles Addams / Gyo, Volume 1 Michael and Jess talk about some horror movies they've been watching, then a classic collection of Charles Addams comics and Junji Ito's Gyo, Volume 1. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37394080

375 | Give That Person Some Work 07/14/2025

375 | Give That Person Some Work Returning to the classic Nerd Lunch topic, Michael and Rob are joined by guests Dan Taylor () and Ron Ankeny to talk about actors we'd like to see in something again. First we play casting agents, each bringing an actor who hasn't had enough work lately for our tastes. We discuss each one and the kinds of roles they play, or that we would like to see them play. Then we enter the Writers Room and create an idea for a movie to showcase them all. It's a great time and we created (we think) a great movie. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37384055

374 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) 07/11/2025

374 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) Our Sherlock Holmes panel Pax, Jacob, Michael, and Rob talk about Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's second outing as Holmes and Watson. They'd appeared together in The Hound of the Baskervilles earlier that same year, but this one's an original story (loosely based on a play by William Gillette). It's still a Victorian adventure before the series changed studios and went modern with the next film. It also stars Ida Lupino as Holmes' client and George Zucco as Moriarty. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37371150

373 | After Dinner Lounge – Hey, It's Cool Pax! 07/07/2025

373 | After Dinner Lounge – Hey, It's Cool Pax! Rob, Michael, and Pax finish up this month's Lounge talking about retirement, the After Lunch lounge schedule, Guy Ritchie's Fountain of Youth, the fall of the Jedi, the Lilo and Stitch remake, and our experiences as young nerds. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37299560

372 | After Midnight – Dark Horse Book of the Dead / Something is Killing the Children 07/02/2025

372 | After Midnight – Dark Horse Book of the Dead / Something is Killing the Children Michael and Jess talk about the comics anthology The Dark Horse Book of the Dead and Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera. Among other horrory things. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37204795

371 | After Dinner Lounge – Whatcha Been Loungin’? 06/30/2025

371 | After Dinner Lounge – Whatcha Been Loungin’? Rob, Michael, and Pax sit around talking about Ballerina, You Rang: An Addams Family Podcast, more Final Reckoning, Star Trek: Open a Channel - A Woman's Trek by Nana Visitor, Pride and Prejudice, Redshirts by John Scalzi, and whatever else comes up. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37204770

370 | Creating Cinematic Universes 2 06/23/2025

370 | Creating Cinematic Universes 2 Following up on a topic from Nerd Lunch Episode 181 (which was also the first appearance of Wolverine), Michael, Rob, Pax, and David May create more cinematic universes around movies (but not just movies) that don't already have them. Tune in and check out our ideas for series built on WarGames, Capcom, Anchorman, and The Last Voyage of the Demeter. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37100135

369 | Furious 7 (2015) 06/16/2025

369 | Furious 7 (2015) Michael, Rob, and Pax cover Paul Walker's emotional, final ride with his Fast and Furious family in Furious 7. The movie also features Jason Statham back as Deckard Shaw after his brief appearance in the previous one, a couple of other cameos from earlier films, and the introductions of Kurt Russell and Nathalie Emmanuel to the series. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/37018605

368 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 06/09/2025

368 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Michael and Rob watch the latest (and last?) Mission: Impossible movie starring the whole gang from the last movie plus Angela Bassett, Tramell Tillman, Hannah Waddingham, Katy O'Brian, and Nick Offerman. Spoilers abound of course, but considering that the movie is generally getting positive reviews, it seems right to provide an additional warning that neither of us loved the film. We loved some things about it and talked freely about those, but there are also many, many things that frustrated us, and we talked freely about those as well. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36903615

367 | Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) 06/02/2025

367 | Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) Our James Bond project is complete, now let our Sherlock Holmes project begin. Rob and Michael are joined by Pax and Jacob Bean-Watson in order to explore the Great Detective as portrayed on Film and TV. We're not taking a methodical approach, but just taking turns picking whatever adaptation strikes our fancies. Rob is up first and chose the 1976 TV movie, Sherlock Holmes in New York starring Roger Moore as Holmes, Patrick Macnee as Watson, John Huston as Moriarty, and Charlotte Rampling as Irene Adler. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36802360

366 | After Dinner Lounge – God Meets the Wolf-Man 05/30/2025

366 | After Dinner Lounge – God Meets the Wolf-Man Pax, Rob, and Michael continue this month's lounge talking about Cobra Kai, A Stitch in Time by Andrew J Robinson, Golden Age Wonder Woman, All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai, pop culture Mount Rushmores, and the Agatha Christie mini-series Towards Zero. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36764850

365 | After Dinner Lounge – How Could We Make This Podcast Better? 05/26/2025

365 | After Dinner Lounge – How Could We Make This Podcast Better? Pax, Rob, and Michael talk about autograph collecting, Thunderbolts*, podcast wives, the podcast Heist with Michael Caine, the Goldie Vance graphic novels by Hope Larson and Brittney Williams, and more Sherlock Holmes. And Michael's son David stops by to talk about the One Piece manga and other things. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36709850

364 | The James Bond Draft 05/19/2025

364 | The James Bond Draft To celebrate the conclusion of our massive James Bond project, our panelists Michael, Rob, and Karen welcome fellow Bond fans Becky Tyler, Jacob Bean-Watson, and Jody Collins for a fun game, reviewing our favorite elements of the series. We draft our favorite Bond actors, villains, gadgets, and features from a dozen other categories to create our own inter-era Bond mash-up films. We laughed, we gasped, and we hurt each other's feelings in this super fun episode about everyone's favorite super spy. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36610075

363 | Fast & Furious 6 (2013) 05/16/2025

363 | Fast & Furious 6 (2013) Michael, Rob, and Pax get back in the cars to talk about the return of the Fast and Furious family as they try to rescue an amnesic Letty from the machinations of supervillain Owen Shaw (Luke Evans). /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36526430

362 | No Time to Die (2021) 05/12/2025

362 | No Time to Die (2021) Michael, Rob, and Karen finish (for now) their James Bond movie project with the final Daniel Craig and the final Eon Productions entry in the series. It's No Time to Die, also starring Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, and the usual cast of allies. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36524825

361 | After Midnight – Fangs / Rachel Rising: The Shadow of Death 05/09/2025

361 | After Midnight – Fangs / Rachel Rising: The Shadow of Death Michael and Jess talk about the comics Fangs by Sarah Andersen and Rachel Rising: The Shadow of Death by Terry Moore. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36505010

360 | After Dinner Lounge – It Was a Good Friday 05/05/2025

360 | After Dinner Lounge – It Was a Good Friday Michael, Pax, and Rob finish this month's Lounge talking about an Irene Adler novel, Kraven the Hunter (2024), Anora (2024), Black Doves (2024), Young Guns autographs, and the scariest things to crawl on you and/or haunt your house. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36420335

359 | After Dinner Lounge – I’m Not Okay With This 05/02/2025

359 | After Dinner Lounge – I’m Not Okay With This In the first half of this month's Lounge, Michael, Pax, and Rob are visited by Noel Thingvall. Topics include pets, death, Kraven the Hunter comics, Sherlock Holmes stories, Kamen Rider, X-Men comics, old Nerd Lunch episodes, Peter Dinklage as Hercule Poirot, and Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36406505

358 | The Original Atomic Geeks Episode – Monkey, Robot, or Michael Caine 04/28/2025

358 | The Original Atomic Geeks Episode – Monkey, Robot, or Michael Caine Following up on our C2E2 conversation about things that could be improved by monkeys, robots, or Michael Caine, please enjoy this special rerun of the first time that topic appeared on the Atomic Geeks podcast. With special thanks to Carlin Trammel for the idea and Christian Nielsen for the audio and permission. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36321800

357 | C2E2 Special – Monkey, Robot, Michael Caine 04/25/2025

357 | C2E2 Special – Monkey, Robot, Michael Caine You don't put Christian Nielsen, Michael DiGiovanni, Carlin Trammel, Shawn Robare, William Bruce West, Rob Graham, Michael May, Jeeg, and Paxton Holley in a room together and not record a podcast. While at C2E2, the group (minus Jeff Somogyi who sadly was not feeling well that evening) gathered in Christian and DiGio's hotel room to revive the classic Atomic Geeks topic: "Monkey, Robot, Michael Caine." Each person suggests a movie, TV show, event, etc. and discuss what would best improve it: a monkey, a robot, or... well, you'll see. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36239380

356 | Podcast Pals C2E2 Meetup Diary 04/21/2025

356 | Podcast Pals C2E2 Meetup Diary In 2015, the . Ten years later, it's time to get together again with even more friends. The group this time included Carlin Trammel, William Bruce West, Jeeg, Paxton Holley, Jeff Somogyi, Shawn Robare, Michael May, Rob Graham, Christian Nielsen, and Michael DiGiovanni. In this audio diary, we learn about how the trip came together, check in with the attendees at various points of the weekend, and tease a very special podcast episode that we recorded there and will be Coming Soon. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36232470

355 | Recasting Silverado 04/14/2025

355 | Recasting Silverado Michael and Rob invite Michael DiGiovanni, Christian Nielsen, and Paxton Holley to help cast an imaginary remake of Silverado. Each of our five casting directors have scoured Hollywood for the perfect actors to update the roles of Emmett, Paden, Mal, Jake, Rae, and Cobb, plus other characters we wanted to think about. We've brought our top candidates to the conference room to make final decisions, but also to discuss possible tweaks to the script and even suggest a director. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36028570

354 | Spectre (2015) 04/07/2025

354 | Spectre (2015) Michael, Rob, and Karen discuss the penultimate Craig Bond film, Sam Mendes's Spectre, co-starring Léa Seydoux, Christoph Waltz, Andrew Scott, and Dave Bautista. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/36021565

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