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Fuel Your Fandom

Kevin Saint

Everything is Fandom, and Fandom is Everything! Find your passion and share it with the world!

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Episode 215: Trilogy of Fail Volume 1 — Film Flops

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2025/03/07

Send us a text Today begins a triptych of episodes Saint and Jim are affectionately referring to as the "Trilogy of Fail." Because — lets face it — while nobody in entertainment ever sets OUT to make a turkey, sometimes it happens anyway. And since more than a few movies have fallen flat on their celluloid faces lately, they're gonna start with movies that underperformed. Movies can flop for any number of reasons. Maybe the director bailed mid-project, perhaps the studio meddled with the scri...

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Episode #214: Brewster's Millions Revisited

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2025/02/28

Send us a text It may not have been a "Goonies" or "Ghostbusters"-level cultural touchstone of the time, but the Richard Pryor/John Candy flick "Brewster's Millions" is still a beloved '80s movie many of us remember with serious fondness. The plot was the sort of Reagan-era contrivance that could only have flown in the "Greed is good" decade: Pryor's character finds himself in possession of a $30 million windfall from a recently deceased relative. And if he can spend it all in 30 days with no...

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Episode #213: You Can Quote Me On That

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2025/02/21

Send us a text "We're gonna need a bigger boat." "There's no place like home." "Inconceivable!" The classic movie, TV or video game quote serves a very important purpose: it's a clearly defined, self-contained, and universally understood reference to a well-written piece of entertainment that can apply to any number of life situations. When well-placed, a sharp line can act as a timeless (and timely) conversational lubricant that acts like a pop-culture parfait of sorts — it's layered, easily...

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Episode #212: Season Seven Kick-Off and Zombie...

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2025/02/14

Send us a text The Fuel Your Fandom podcast returns! Season seven launches with a round-up of all the news that's fit to nerd, the obligatory "This is not a political podcast" vitriol in reference to, well — *gestures broadly at literally everything*, and an "Old Men Bitchin' About Their Health" segment that's actually got some GOOD news for a change. Then — on to the walking dead. If you're a geek in 2025, you've got a zombie survival plan. What are you gonna wear? Eat? Are you more of a blu...

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Episode #211: Goodie Grab Bag Season Six Wrap-Up

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2024/12/27

Send us a textSaint and Jim are saying "so long" to season six with a bit of an odds-n'-ends episode. Reason being, sometimes they toss out possible topics that are intriguing, but not necessarily beefy enough to carry much of a look. F'rinstance, when exactly did the "Terminator" franchise jump the shark? Why were we all irrationally afraid of quicksand as kids? And what's more intimidating: hiking across Death Valley, or taking a casual sail through the Bermuda Triangle? No topic too big — ...

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Episode #210: Rocket To the Krypton

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2024/12/20

Send us a textNow that Jame's Gunn's new Big Blue Boy Scout trailer has hit the interwebs, Saint and Jim thought it might be time to dig a little into The Supe You Think Of When You Think Of Supes — mostly 'cuz it's right there in his name. Not a bird, not a plane, but Kal-El himself. He's been depicted on-screen countless times, dating all the way back to '50s serials right up to yesterday. But who's YOUR Clark? Are you a Cavill person? Soft spot in your heart for Reeve? Or are you holding o...

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Episode #209: Saint's Better Half Makes A Comeback!

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2024/12/13

Send us a textEveryone needs a day off from time to time, whether that's due to fun activities, it unplanned family events requiring your attention. In this particular case, Ol' Jim needed the week off, so Saint recruited his lovely better half to step into the co-host chair to discuss the nature of fandom, how it can start, and what it even means. Plus news and memes galore! Fun times for all. Unless maybe if you drive a cybertruck. Then probably not.

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Episode #208: Disney Goes HARD

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2024/12/06

Send us a textNo matter what your feelings are on Disney, there’s no denying it: the Mouse House is a complete entertainment juggernaut. Movies, TV, video games…you name it, they do it, and well. But there’s one aspect of their entertainment empire that — despite being absolutely amazing — often gets overlooked. And that’s the music. Disney films have been responsible for some of the catchiest, ear-wormiest, toe-tappin’est tunes in cinema history. And even a couple of grizzled, cynical old-ti...

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Episode #207: I've Got Ads That Jingle Jangle Jingle

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2024/11/29

Send us a textAdvertising. Even just saying the word makes people roll their eyes, since the culture has managed to find ways to cram ads into every bloody crevice in the universe now. We even pay extra just to skip them a lot of the time. But it wasn't always that way, was it? Back in the last golden age of advertising (in the '80s and '90s, which was basically the last best time for everything pop-cultural), ads were actually a form of entertainment in and of themselves. In this edition of ...

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Episode #206: Comfort Media

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2024/11/22

Send us a textOkay, so — total disclosure: Saint and Jim are still doing a little bit of a mood whiplash tour; flailing somewhere in the middle of blinding rage, crushing sorrow and pants-filling terror. But getting back to something that passes for normal (here during the calm before the storm period of the proceedings) seemed like a good idea. So they sincerely hope you're as consoled by hearing this episode on binge-able comfort media as they were in recording it. Things are probably gonna...

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Episode #205: Candy Crushes and Crashes

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2024/11/01

Send us a textHot on the heels of Saint and Jim's controversial food takes last week, this edition of FYF digs through the Trick or Treat bag, and throws back to the halcyon haunts of history's Halloweens — before our boys' pancreases declared mutiny on their glucose levels. The topic? Candy. Which sugary nuggets from your repurposed pillowcases were trash, and which were treasure? Are you more of a sucker for Snickers, or bonkers for a Butterfinger? Are two Twix better than one KitKat? Will ...

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Episode #204: I'm Not Eating That

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2024/10/25

Send us a textThere are a lot of weird quirks inherent to being human. Everyone has different fashion sense, different thought processes, and a different worldview. But one of the biggest things that truly makes us all individual? Our palates. One person's yum is another's yuck when it comes to all things food. On this edition of FYF, Saint and Jim break down controversial food opinions, e.g. — Does cilantro taste like soap to you? What are your feelings on tomatoes? Does pineapple belong on ...

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Episode #203: Playing With Your Food

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2024/10/18

Send us a textA bit of trivia: did you know that the largest toy distributor in the world is way better known for selling billions of burgers? The humble McDonald's Happy Meal has been a staple of American kids' diets for decades. But as much as everyone loves McNuggets and fries, the real appeal of those brightly-colored little boxes has always been the plaything inside. Whether you preferred Barbies, Hot Wheels or Beanie Babies, there was always something cool in there to help fill up our t...

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Episode #202: Celebrating Celluloid Sects

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2024/10/04

Send us a textWhat's the first film you think of when you see the words "Cult Movie"? Chances are, it's either some perennial classic full of fishnets, gold lamé shorts and rolls of toilet paper being lobbed at the screen, or a pulpy grindhouse thriller that's hardly ever seen the light of day — because it's only ever screened in seedy cinemas at midnight. Or, maybe it's even a deeply personal picture you and a small group of friends got together to watch over and over in college. That's real...

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Episode #201: Robot Rock

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2024/09/27

Send us a textThe world still isn't sure what to do with (or ABOUT) AI. On the one hand, you have breathless tech bros sinking trillions into "innovations" they swear will revolutionize the world, even as the coffers drain and the oceans boil from the power consumption. On the other, you have everyday folks wondering when the droids are gonna take our jobs, and if so, will we be able to get a little UBI for the trouble. And on yet a third hand, we have like seven or eight fingers. So nobody's...

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Episode #200: The Nerd News Nexus (Odometer Rollover...

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2024/09/20

Send us a textWow. Episode #200 already?!? What else is there to say but "Thank You"? You the listener have helped the humble Fuel Your Fandom podcast reach this major milestone, and the gratitude on our side is truly massive. For their part, Saint and Jim kicked around a whole lot of ideas on possible ways to commemorate this benchmark...and then promptly chucked 'em all right straight out the window since SO MUCH HAPPENED THIS WEEK, and we had to get to it all. So earhole up for the triumph...

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Episode #199: Hypothetical Holdings of the...

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2024/09/13

Send us a text"Billionaire." Even saying the word in 2024 prompts eye rolls, rants, and memes about guillotines. And when it comes to the real-world wealthy, it's possible that reaction isn't entirely unwarranted. But what about the filthy rich of fiction? Are they just as worthy of envy and ire, or are their considerable resources just as much detriments as they are literal assets? In this edition of FYF, Saint and Jim do a deep dive (like Scrooge McDuck into a vault of cash) into the financ...

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Episode #198: A Perplexing Panoply of Parasociality

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2024/09/06

Send us a textRelationships are funny things. They can take a lot of forms, too. Family, romantic, friendship...even emnity counts. But the rise of the internet, celebrity culture and social media has give rise to a bizarre variant: the parasocial relationship. Loosely defined, a parasocial relationship is any one-sided situation wherein one individual invests time and emotion in the other, while party two is completely unaware of the first person's existence. Sometimes, these relationships a...

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Episode #197: Obligatory "Deadpool & Wolverine"...

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2024/08/30

A month has passed. The spoiler moratorium is up. The movie made more than $1.2 billion. And listeners of this podcast have no doubt seen it twice already, just like Saint and Jim each have. So, it's time to talk about it. And if you somehow HAVEN'T seen it yet? Then you are hereby instructed to neither read, nor listen further — because the boys are gonna break it down. The action! The Easter eggs! The cameos! The story! The parts where there could've been more story! The parts that weren't ...

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Episode #196: Measuring Monocultures With John Champion

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2024/08/23

Sometimes, Saint and Jim talk about light, fluffy stuff like their favorite burgers, or whether or not the Hulk could beat up Superman. Other times, they get taken with the intricacies of a particularly hard-to-pin-down subject. This would be an episode of the second kind. “Monoculture” — at least in popular fiction — is a term often used to describe a given race, species, or group within the story. Specifically, one that exhibits a limited, universally common cultural trait their creators us...

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