Laser Time

What happens when your favorite show gets canceled, or your favorite performer dies? Well, it turns out the medium of video games can offer you one last, and typically lost, appearance! We went and dug up some of our favorite characters and actors whose final performance is lost inside forgotten games

Some of your most beloved, adorable, indelible comic, movie, and video game stars have been quietly kneecapped by forgettable suits? Oh yes, never underestimate old people when it comes to making money by doing very little, because we're digging into the sordid history of pop cultures most litigated superstars!

The world's having a bit of a rough go right now, so feel free to take solace where ever you can. A great place to hide from the darkness is in your favorite music, which is exactly what we're doing in this Laser Time audio extravaganza! Come with us on a auditory journey back to not-so-long-ago when making peppy tunes about our upcoming apocalypse didn't seem silly in the slightest, as we explore some the happiest jams celebrating The End of All Things!

Mount up, original bingers! We've got a got another fantabulous quizdown this week, and its guaranteed to activate something in the back of any TV obsessed brain. There's a little something at the end of every TV show that's slowly dying out in the streaming age, but before it does, we're gonna celebrate some of television's earwormiest jingles, with a mighty dollop of TV trivia. Enjoy! Support us at Patreon.com/LaserTime

Computer... Generated... Imagery. IT'S TERRIBLE. Except when it isn't? Which is kind of a miracle given production schedules, budgets, and a... general respect for animation. Obviously, CG can be easily taken for granted, but its ubiquity has become commonplace enough to where most people don't even notice some of our favorite heroes, characters, backgrounds and even suits, are essentially a big budget cartoon.

Introducing the newest Audioboom original podcast, Truth vs Hollywood. Join Film lovers David Chen and Joanna Robinson as they do a deep dive into well known films and discuss how similar they are to the actual story.  Truth vs Hollywood premieres 6/12. Subscribe to Truth vs Hollywood on Apple Podcasts

Laser Time's favorite parodist, Dan Amrich of Palette-Swap Ninja, has a new superhero-inspired project to chat about called Hero Falls, so we're using that as a springboard to talk about the history of the song parody! It's a musical journey through the ages as we explore the beautiful offspring of comedy and music in a time before Weird Al, and baybay, you're invited!

As a television institution that's kept chugging along for almost half a century now, Saturday Night Live has little choice but to be a reflection of our own abnormalities. So with SNL recently tapping out of socially distance sketch comedy for the season, Dave Rudden and Tony Wilson join Laser Time for a look back at some of the other weirdest moments in Saturday Night Live history! For those who want more, be sure to follow the the gang over to our Patreon for another annual edition of the SNL Awards

Since we're all stuck at home and mostly away from work, let's have a little chat at the emotional turmoil that can erupt when we're all trapped in the same room, with the same people, with little to no hope of intervention. Whether your budget's low or you're just hungry for an Emmy, a lot can be revealed when our favorite TV shows cut themselves off from the outside world. 

No, we're NOT talking about acts of animal cruelty, although we should warn the faint of heart, we will be talking about how entertainment uses the death of innocent animals to either tug on our hearts strings and/or the first line of suspense. It's a hack practice that has almost-but-not-entirely fallen out of fashion, but get ready to relive some of the most traumatic moments of your pop culture upbringing

Even though we are practically overwhelmed with adaptions of our favorite books, comics, and games these days, getting the Hollywood treatment remains a massive accomplishment. Which is why it's strange that sometimes, whether good or bad, your favorite thing will get made into a film that just falls into obscurity. Or maybe Netflix just made a new series out of it that overshadows in entirely! In this episode we're talking about some of the weirdest films that couldn't be saved by all the preexisting awareness in the world.

Movies, TV, video games, comics, sports and more. While not the most important things in the world right now, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench into how all of that is produced and/or distributed. In this special episode, we're going through a relatively recent list of Coronavirus-related disruptions to our entertainment consumption, and just how much of what we enjoy could be permanently changed as a result

Modern media distribution has brought us untold accessibility… but has it come at the cost of discoverability? Streaming, digital rentals, and On Demand tend to favor the shiny, the new, the recently licensed exclusive or remake (and so do most of us TBH) so we figured there must be something genuinely special about having a favorite movie that came out before you did. How’d you see it, why did it connect with you, and why does it still work?! We’ll tell you ours, if you’ll tell us yours!

Children of the 80s had VHS. Kids of the 90s grew up with the internet. So how is it possible for any movie, TV show, or video game to completely disappear in a digital era? Turns out the missing media phenomena isn't exclusive to old timey film nitrates or video tapes, as you'll find out in Laser Time's exploration of Lost Media old and new!

Since we almost never mention anything they've done on the show, it's high time Laser Time get an introduction to two of the most prolific creators in modern media! Special guest, TL Foster join Chris and Sarah in order to help fill in our undeniable White Boy Blindspot with a prolonged discussion on the work of Shonda Rhimes and Tyler Perry!

A classic sci-fi locale, an unknown variable, a mythic heavenly body or the foretold destruction of us all?! Whether your kidnapping Godzilla or peddling a dubious doomsday prophecy, Planet X means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Join us for this space-soaked episode of Laser Time as we set out to explore a whole new world

In times of political unrest, it's nice to be able to laugh at grotesque caricatures of our elected officials... or at least it used to be? As we look back on our favorite/worst politicians throughout popculture history in a fun little listening party, it can't be denied our political fiction has gotten a lot less absurd. Either way, brace thyself for hilariously awful mayors, chancellors, councilmen, presidents and more!

As one of the most dangerous and unpredictable forces in our natural world, lightning is not to be trifled with. Unless you're making a movie! Then lightning can raise the dead, transfer souls, cause machines to malfunction, grant sentience, bestow temporary abilities, and even all-out superpowers. Let's look back to a simpler time when a just single bolt could renergize the flimsiest premise

So Uncle Mickey unlocked the vault and unleashed EVERYTHING onto the Disney+ streaming service? Obviously not, but most of us were too blinded by The Mandalorian to care in those first few weeks. Certain titles are missing there because of momentarily tangled rights, but other omissions are more baffling, and others... well, there's dozens of wholly-owned pieces of Disney entertainment the company would rather stay dead and buried. But in this weird Patreon preview/make good, we're grabbing our shovels and digging up the stuff Disney+ will most likely NEVER let you see...

It's that time again! We've watched all the Oscar Nominees for Best Picture so you don't have to! More so than other years, there's certainly not a lot to hate about this years Academy Awards winner's circle, but there's still plenty to complain about. Joker, Parasite, Jojo, and... uh, Ford? And more!