After Lunch

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

446 | After Dinner Lounge – Seven Years of Krypto’s Life 07/20/2026

446 | After Dinner Lounge – Seven Years of Krypto’s Life Evan, Pax, Rob, and Michael talk about becoming cats, British TV, Supergirl comics, contractor caution, and secret identities. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/42139800

445 | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) 07/13/2026

445 | Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) After Lunch Irregulars Michael, Rob, Pax, and Jacob follow Sherlock Holmes into the 1940s for the first of Universal's B-movie takes on the character, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror. The movie has Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson, teaming up with Evelyn Ankers and Reginald Denny to investigate a Nazi propaganda radio program that's demoralizing Britain. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/42044395

444 | After Midnight – Pet Sematary 07/10/2026

444 | After Midnight – Pet Sematary Continuing their year of Stephen King novels, Michael and Jess dig deep into the Pet Sematary. We talk mostly about the book itself, but also a little about the '89 movie, its sequel Pet Sematary Two, the 2019 remake, and the 2023 prequel Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41969780

443 | After Dinner Lounge – She’s Got the Bugonia Real Bad 07/06/2026

443 | After Dinner Lounge – She’s Got the Bugonia Real Bad Michael, Evan, Pax, and Rob talk about beans, Disclosure Day, Mandalorian and Grogu, Masters of the Universe, Supergirl, opera, Spider-Noir, touring Hawaiʻi, and the 007: First Light video game. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41967340

442 | The Avengers of Anthropomorphic Animals 06/29/2026

442 | The Avengers of Anthropomorphic Animals Michael and Rob are joined by Evan Hanson and Shawn Robare to assemble a team of their favorite anthropomorphic animal characters... and then try to craft a story around them. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41850285

441 | After Dinner Lounge – Saucer Party 06/22/2026

441 | After Dinner Lounge – Saucer Party Rob, Michael, Evan, and Pax talk about Supergirl by Sophie Campbell, the TV show After Life, artificial intelligence, and Wrestle Heist by Kyle Starks. And our friend Jacob Bean-Watson stops by to chat about meeting celebrities and the difference between Action and Adventure. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41712285

440 | Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) 06/15/2026

440 | Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) Our Predator series continues as Pax, Rob, and Michael talk about the 2025 animated anthology (but not really an anthology) feature, Predator: Killer of Killers. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41578980

439 | After Midnight – Cycle of the Werewolf 06/08/2026

439 | After Midnight – Cycle of the Werewolf Michael and Jess continue their year-long exploration of Stephen King with the 1983 novella, Cycle of the Werewolf, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. We talk about favorite characters, scariest moments, and of course the 1985 movie adaptation, Silver Bullet. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41485930

438 | Swashbuckling 16 with Chris Schweizer 06/01/2026

438 | Swashbuckling 16 with Chris Schweizer Michael and Rob welcome the amazing Chris Schweizer who's currently serializing his new swashbuckling fantasy comic . We talk about the comic and its inspirations, but also our favorite swashbucklers in that time-honored tradition of putting them into brackets and voting on them. We hope you enjoy the tournament, but please do also check out because you'll enjoy that even more. And once you're hooked on the comic, visit for cool behind-the-scenes updates on the story's creation. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41474455

437 | After Dinner Lounge – Tell Me About the Creamy Part 05/25/2026

437 | After Dinner Lounge – Tell Me About the Creamy Part Pax, Rob, Michael, and Evan return to the lounge to talk about hitchhiking, Mortal Kombat II, The Devil Wears Prada 2, giving money to people on the street, music videos, Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, Rob’s Disney cruise, Hacks, and Beethoven’s 6th. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41404580

436 | The Great Mouse Detective (1986) 05/18/2026

436 | The Great Mouse Detective (1986) The After Lunch Irregulars (Jacob, Michael, Rob, and Pax) reconvene for a double episode, starting with an in-depth, spoiler-filled discussion of Guy Ritchie's Young Sherlock. If you're not ready for those spoilers yet though, skip ahead an hour to hear us talk about Disney's Holmes homage, The Great Mouse Detective! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41319675

435 | After Dinner Lounge – Roy al Ghul 05/11/2026

435 | After Dinner Lounge – Roy al Ghul Evan is back in the lounge! Joining Pax, Rob, and Michael to talk about Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, an identity crossroads, Kevin Smith writing Green Arrow, King Sorrow by Joe Hill, and ever so much more. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41134190

434 | A Tribute to William Bruce West 05/04/2026

434 | A Tribute to William Bruce West Our dear friend and frequent podcast guest William Bruce West passed away on April 12. We miss him dearly. Part of the grieving process has been to talk about our friend and share memories of him, so the podcast community that Will was such an important part of has put together this tribute episode. There are personal reminiscences, but also many, many clips of Will's appearances on various shows through the years. After Lunch is so pleased to present this episode, but we can't leave unrecognized that it was entirely produced - from initial concept to final edit - by Adam Pope, Will's regular podcasting partner these last few years. Thank you so much, Adam. And Godspeed, Will. Rest in Peace /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41128150

433 | The Cast List Card Game 04/27/2026

433 | The Cast List Card Game It's Game Night! We've formed two teams of movie fans: Jaime Hood, Joanna from Bloody Popcorn, Noel Thingvall, and Rob Graham on one team; Becky Tyler, Pax Holley, Jacob Bean-Watson, and Ben Graham on the other. We're playing a card game in which Michael acts as host, giving each team a list of movies to see if they can name an actor who has been in all those movies. Some of them are easy, some of them are quite hard. Play along and see how many you get! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/41013325

432 | I Read Movies: Predator 2 04/24/2026

432 | I Read Movies: Predator 2 We talked about the movie Predator 2 earlier this week and the novelization by Simon Hawke came up a few times. To dig deeper into that, Pax is graciously allowing us to re-run the episode of I Read Movies where he explored the book and compared it to the movie. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40998425

431 | Predator 2 (1990) 04/20/2026

431 | Predator 2 (1990) Pax, Michael, and Rob continue their exploration of the Predator movies with Stephen Hopkins's Predator 2. Set 10 years after the first movie - and during another heatwave - a group of Predators come to Los Angeles to hunt drug gangs and maybe a maverick cop or four. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40923005

430 | After Midnight – The Long Walk 04/17/2026

430 | After Midnight – The Long Walk Jess and Michael talk about a novel by some guy named Richard Bachman. (*whisper* It's really Stephen King!) We're walking long this episode, but do we know why? /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40864945

429 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) 04/13/2026

429 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) Having officially dubbed ourselves the After Lunch Irregulars, Pax, Jacob, Michael, and Rob talk about another Sherlock Holmes movie. This one is Herbert Ross's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, written by Nicholas Meyer, starring Nicol Williamson as Holmes, Robert Duvall as Watson, and Alan Arkin as Sigmund Freud. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40813395

428 | After Midnight – The Shining 04/10/2026

428 | After Midnight – The Shining As Jess and Michael continue to explore Stephen King novels this year, they discuss one of their favorite of his books, The Shining. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40740375

427 | After Dinner Lounge – Labradouchedle 04/06/2026

427 | After Dinner Lounge – Labradouchedle Michael, Pax, and Rob finish this month's lounge talking about chocolate, Groundhog Day theories, writing, The Bride!, a new job, and Dark Horse Indiana Jones comics. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40733965

426 | Large Spaceships Sweet 16 04/03/2026

426 | Large Spaceships Sweet 16 Expanding on our Spaceships Sweet 16 from Episode 398, we've temporarily narrowed the focus to the biggest vessels. Michael and Rob welcome sci-fi comics writer and fan extraordinaire to help determine the greatest Large Spaceship of All Time. Future episodes will concentrate on Medium and Small ships, leading to the Ultimate match up where we'll pit our Final Fours from each size category against each other. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40661580

425 | After Dinner Lounge – 1-900-Ghostface 03/30/2026

425 | After Dinner Lounge – 1-900-Ghostface Michael, Pax, and Rob are back in the lounge a little early this month talking about Silver Age Etta Candy, Scream 7, Tom Selleck’s memoir, how Les Misérables plays in 2026 Minneapolis, The Will of the Many by James Islington, and Tom Selleck movies. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40654550

424 | Dragonfly Ripple 1: Flash Gordon / Monty Python and the Holy Grail 03/23/2026

424 | Dragonfly Ripple 1: Flash Gordon / Monty Python and the Holy Grail In the first of many episodes rerunning Carlin Trammel and Michael May's old Dragonfly Ripple podcast that they hosted with their kids, here's the show's debut in which Carlin shares Flash Gordon (1980) with his daughter Annaliese and Michael shares Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) with his son David. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40582780

423 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) 03/16/2026

423 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) Michael, Rob, and Pax take a detour from the main Fast and Furious series to explore the ridiculous roads, spectacular cybernetics, and inspiring islands of David Leitch's Hobbs & Shaw, starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, and Vanessa Kirby. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40489090

422 | Hands of a Murderer (1990) 03/09/2026

422 | Hands of a Murderer (1990) Rob, Pax, Jacob, and Michael are back on Baker Street, this time with Edward "The Equalizer" Woodward and John "Higgins" Hillerman as Holmes and Watson in the 1990 TV movie, Hands of a Murderer. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40353340

421 | After Dinner Lounge – Super Spicy 03/02/2026

421 | After Dinner Lounge – Super Spicy Rob, Michael, and Pax wrap up this month's lounge with talk about new Dresden Files, what makes something a “classic,” movies that make us cry, High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane, Wuthering Heights (2026), and judging art “objectively.” /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40265855

420 | After Midnight – 'Salem's Lot 02/27/2026

420 | After Midnight – 'Salem's Lot Michael and Jess take a trip to 'Salem's Lot to talk about what works and what doesn't in Stephen King's legendary second novel. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40235925

419 | After Dinner Lounge – Oops! All Comics! 02/23/2026

419 | After Dinner Lounge – Oops! All Comics! Rob, Michael, and Pax re-enter the Lounge to talk about the Wonder Man TV show, Black Canary: Best of the Best, Dungeon Crawler Carl, eternity, death, and Rocky IV. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40186165

418 | Top 10 Years Later: 2016 02/16/2026

418 | Top 10 Years Later: 2016 As is annual tradition around this time of year, Michael, Pax, and Noel Thingvall look back at the movies of 10 years ago and talk about their favorite (and also least-favorite) films of 2016. /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40115265

417 | Jetpack Tiger - How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Commentary Track 02/13/2026

417 | Jetpack Tiger - How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Commentary Track Jetpack Tiger returns! Carlin and Dashiell Trammel watched last year's live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon and you recorded themselves doing it. So queue up the movie, sync with this episode, and enjoy the Jetpack Tiger How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Commentary Track! /episode/index/show/nerdlunch/id/40052940

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