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Hellboy in Hell from 2021-06-30T00:00
Mike Mignola debuted his most iconic character, Hellboy, in 1993. Since then, Hellboy has punched his way through battles with Nazis, vampires, ghosts, floating heads, Lovecraftian cosmic horrors, ...
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Mid-Year Catch Up from 2021-06-16T00:00
It's not all about the podcast, folks, which is why this week Matt and Tony are taking some time to talk about the stuff they watch, read, and what-have-you when they aren't cramming for a new epis...
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Superstore from 2021-06-02T00:00
It's easy to take a cursory look at the NBC sitcom Superstore and unfavorably compare it to The Office or Parks and Recreation. That's exactly what Matt and Tony did when the show premiered in late...
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Fiona Apple/When the Pawn... from 2021-05-19T00:00
Second albums are notoriously difficult to make. Expectations from critics and audiences alike can force an artist into a corner: not enough change and you risk repeating yourself; too much change ...
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Best Picture Nominees of 1949 from 2021-04-21T00:00
Welcome to our second annual Oscar episode! In honor of this weekend's Oscar ceremony, Matt and Tony picked a random year to see if any of that year's Best Picture nominees were blindspots. The res...
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The Muppet Show from 2021-04-07T00:00
It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to convince Tony of The Muppet Show's greatness on WDWM tonight! With the news that Disney+ had added The Muppet Show to its ca...
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Devil in a Blue Dress from 2021-03-24T00:00
Every week or so another film critic Matt and Tony follows on Twitter mentions how Devil in a Blue Dress - written and directed by Carl Franklin from the novel written by Walter Mosley - is an over...
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MF Doom/Madvillainy from 2021-03-10T00:00
He's known by many names: Zev Love X, Viktor Vaughn, King Geedorah, and more, but most people know him as MF Doom. Amidst the calamity of 2020, MF Doom, whose real name is Daniel Dumile, passed awa...
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Usagi Yojimbo from 2021-02-24T00:00
Who'd have thought that a comic about a samurai rabbit would have much staying power, but after 35 plus years, over 300 issues, a new show coming to Netflix, and a few appearances alongside the Ten...
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Schitt's Creek from 2021-01-27T00:00
Schitt's Creek just finished up its 6th and final season in 2020. Co-created by and starring Eugene and Dan Levy, the show premiered in 2015 to decent reviews but a small viewership. It wasn't unti...
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Episode 50! from 2021-01-13T00:00
50 episodes and two years later seems like a good time to look back on the first 49 episodes and to talk about the beginnings of the show, where we've been, and where we hope to go. Join Tony and M...
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What DIDN'T We Miss? 2020 Edition from 2020-12-30T00:00
Happy New Year WDWM-ers! No need to relitigate the trash that was 2020, it's time to move on and discuss all of the pop culture, both new and old, that brought Matt&Tony comfort this year. They hit...
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Vintage TV Holiday Specials from 2020-12-16T00:00
Whether it's Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Muppet Family Christmas, or any other number of annual holiday classics, everyone has their favorite Christmas special. Tony and Matt look to see if the...
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Kentucky Route Zero from 2020-12-02T00:00
Seven years, five acts, and one podcast later, Matt and Tony finally explore the sad, dreamy world of Cardboard Computer's critically acclaimed Kentucky Route Zero. The game, which has rolled out e...
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The Fifth Season from 2020-11-17T00:00
Welcome to The Stillness, a world where an apocalypse is a generational event. Where individuals with the ability to shape and control the elemental forces of the earth are exploited, oppressed, an...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark with Sara Faith Alterman from 2020-11-04T00:00
Sara Faith Alterman grew up with strict restrictions on what she could and could not watch. She discusses this in her moving new memoir, Let's Never Talk About This Again, which explores the contra...
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Halloween ('78) from 2020-10-21T00:00
Once again WDWM goes bump in the night for another horror-themed episode, this time diving into 1978's Halloween. Joing Matt and Tony this week is Halloween first-timer Brian Kaminske. Brian isn't ...
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Ganja&Hess / Eraserhead from 2020-10-07T00:00
Horror month is back! Author, archivist, historian, and lifelong horror fan, Janaya Kizzie, introduces Matt to Bill Gunn's lost masterpiece, Ganja&Hess. Funded in part due to the interest in blaxpl...
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Esports with Jeff Ferrara of the Game Sharks Podcast from 2020-09-23T00:00
Jeff Ferrara from the Game Sharks Podcast returns! Jeff can often be found hunched over a computer or staring at his phone watching some form of competitive video gaming, much to his older brother ...
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Marvel Comics Roundup from 2020-09-09T00:00
Marvel Comics released some of their most recent popular and critically acclaimed comics from their paywall and made them available for everyone to enjoy during the pandemic. They included but were...
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Sunny Day Real Estate's 'Diary' with Chris Revill of Let's Chat! from 2020-08-12T00:00
Matt checked out Sunny Day Real Estate's influencial 1994 debut album, 'Diary', way back in the late '90s and decided that it was not for him. 20 plus years later, an older, and hopefully wiser, Ma...
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'What's Up, Doc?' with Brian Masefield and Christina Walsh of Old Roommates from 2020-07-29T00:00
"What's Up, Doc?", Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 screwball classic, may be an atypical Barbra Streisand movie, but it was Matt's introduction to the singer, actress, and filmmaker. While maybe not the p...
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Jurassic Park w/ Chris Knott of Blue Album Battle from 2020-07-15T00:00
Jurassic Park is one of the most popular and influential big-budget, special-effects driven action movies of all time, and returning guest Chris Knott, of We'z Talkin' Weez' 2 Thee and the Blue Alb...
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Local Music&Podcasts with Bill Bartholomew from 2020-07-01T00:00
Bill Bartholomew is the host of Bartholomewtown, a daily podcast with a mix of on-the-street reporting and interviews with Rhode Island politcians, buisness owners, and activists. Bill has played i...
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Sam and Max Hit the Road from 2020-06-17T00:00
Tony has been vaguely threatening Matt with the prospect of doing an episode on a classic PC point-and-click adventure game for months, and at long last he's followed through on that threat. This w...
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Succession from 2020-05-20T00:00
There's a lot of TV. Like a lot. And for one reason or another, Matt and Tony just hadn't got around to Succession... until now. The story of a disgustingly wealthy family of disgusting people bein...
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Neuromancer from 2020-04-22T00:00
When William Gibson's debut novel, Neuromancer, came out in 1984 most people didn't have computers in their home, never mind a conception for the what the hell cyberspace was. But Gibson wasn't jus...
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Bitch Planet from 2020-04-08T00:00
Black Widow is finally getting her own solo movie in the MCU, and Wonder Woman's much anticipated sequel is coming soon. With female representation in comics and movies in mind, Matt and Tony decid...
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BONUS EPISODE: Life During Quarantine from 2020-03-23T00:00
Hey WDWMers, we'll be back with our regularly scheduled episode (DOOM '93) on Wednesday, but we wanted to share this special bonus episode. Over the weekend, Matt and Tony hosted an Instagram live...
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The Beatles with Steve Carroll and JP Camara, Part 2 from 2020-03-11T00:00
It's Part Two of this special double episode where Steve Carroll and JP Camara, hosts of the wonderful podcast You Can Do It, Do It, join WDWM to discuss their mutual blindspot - The Beatles. For ...
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The Beatles with Steve Carroll and JP Camara, Part 1 from 2020-03-04T00:00
Matt and Tony have some pretty glaring blindspots, which is why they started What Did We Miss?, but this week's guests have a doozy. Steve Carroll and JP Camara, hosts of the wonderful podcast You ...
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Best Albums of the 2010s from 2020-02-19T00:00
For whatever reason, Tony's finger has always been miles away from the pulse when it comes to music. After every music critic shared their "Best of the decade" lists it became woefully apparent tha...
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Best Picture Nominees of 1973 from 2020-02-05T00:00
Hooray for Hollywood? For better or worse, the Academy Awards are a good indicator of what critics and audiences have been talking about all year. So in honor of this weekend's ceremony, Matt and T...
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Jackie Chan/Police Story from 2020-01-22T00:30
Jackie Chan is a daring, one-of-a-kind performer with more than two decades of stunts and success on his resume prior to finally breaking in the States, yet Matt and Tony were really only familiar ...
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What DIDN'T We Miss? 2019 Edition from 2020-01-08T00:00
Happy (belated) New Year WDWM-ers! Before we dive right into blindspots in 2020, Matt and Tony took a minute to look back at their 2019 in pop culture. They hit on all of the movie, music, TV, book...
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Santa Claus the Movie from 2019-12-25T00:00
It's Christmas, and what better way to spend the day than podcasting about jolly old St. Nick. Matt and Tony revisit 1985's Santa Claus: The Movie. Unlike previous topics, Matt and Tony have both s...
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BONUS EPISODE: Phish in Concert from 2019-12-18T00:00
Fans pointed out that WDWM's Phish episode was missing a key component of what makes them so passionate about the band: seeing Phish live. When Matt and Tony recorded the episode over the summer th...
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Archie Comics with Ayla Ahlquist from 2019-11-27T00:00
Despite recognizing the characters, Matt and Tony have never read a single Archie comic book. This week they fix that by sitting down with classic tales of teenage antics as drawn by Dan DeCarlo, t...
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Veronica Mars from 2019-11-13T00:00
Biker gangs, dead tech heiresses, and world-weary young gumshoes: Welcome to Veronica Mars. Veronica Mars has long held a reputation as a cult classic: Matt's long been a fan, but Tony missed it e...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari from 2019-10-30T00:00
100 years makes a world of difference, especially when it comes to film. But the more things change, the more they stay the same, and even in the century since its release you can still see and fee...
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle from 2019-10-23T00:00
For part three of our run of horror episodes, we take their first steps into the New England Gothic world of Shirley Jackson. Jackson, whose The Haunting of Hill House was adapted by Netflix last y...
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Tales From the Crypt from 2019-10-16T00:00
We're in week two of Horror Month, and our guest Jarret Blinkhorn is here to talks us through the HBO horror/comedy anthology, Tales From the Crypt. Based of the EC Comics that scandalized parents...
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Texas Chain Saw Massacre from 2019-10-09T00:00
This week's episode kicks off Horror Month at What Did We Miss? with four straight weeks of creepy, crawly episodes. Kicking things off is the 1974 slasher classic, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which ...
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Barney Miller with Ken Reid, Host of TV Guidance Counselor from 2019-10-02T00:00
Ken Reid is a standup comic from Boston, MA and the host of the podcast TV Guidance Counselor, where he welcomes a guest to flip through an old issue of TV Guide and talk about what would have been...
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Purple Rain with Jodie Vinson, Program Manager of What Cheer Writers Club from 2019-09-25T00:00
Jodie Vinson is a writer and editor, and is the Program Manager of What Cheer Writers Club in Providence, RI, which happens to be where we have the privilege of recording WDWM. When given the open ...
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The X-Files with Brian Raftery, author of Best. Movie. Year. Ever. from 2019-09-11T00:00
This week we're joined by Brian Raftery, film writer and author of the book Best. Movie. Year. Ever., which examines the films of 1999. At the time, Brian was just getting started as a writer for E...
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A Wizard of Earthsea from 2019-08-14T00:00
The guys have dabbled in the science fiction works of Ursula K. Le Guin, but this week they embark on their first adventure with her powerful and groundbreaking fantasy series, A Wizard of Earthsea...
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Phish w/ Chris Knott of We'z Talkin' Weez' 2 Thee from 2019-07-31T00:00
Matt and Tony both had opinions about Phish without having ever listened to Phish. They're not alone. Tons of people have an opinion about Phish and their music, usually based off of their percepti...
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The Venture Bros. from 2019-07-17T00:00
This week, the guys talk through the dense, reference-filled mythology of Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. For Tony this was a chance to revisit a longtime favorite, while Matt is realizing on his fi...
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Suburbia/Penelope Spheeris from 2019-07-03T00:00
This week, Matt and Tony explore the early, gritty works of director Penelope Spheeris, focusing specifically on her 1983 punk drama, Suburbia. They talk about her breakthrough punk documentary, Th...
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BONUS EPISODE: The Unreleased Fantastic Four Movie from 2019-06-26T00:00
It's a special bonus episode! Tony is joined by the hosts of The Chuck and Brad Podcast, Chuck Staton and Brad Rohrer, to follow up last week's Fantastic Four conversation with a deep dive into the...
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Silver Age Fantastic Four from 2019-06-19T00:00
It's clobberin' time! This week Matt schools Tony on vintage Fantastic Four as they discuss Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's dysfunctional super hero family. With more than five decades of stories, plenty...
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Pet Sematary from 2019-06-05T00:00
Sometimes READ is better. Tony and Matt used the remake of Pet Sematary as an excuse to return to the source: Stephen King's haunting 1983 novel. The guys go deep into what was scariest about the b...
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Metal Gear Solid from 2019-05-22T00:00
Tony dusts off his PlayStation because somebody's never played Metal Gear Solid. The guys take it back to 1998's critically-acclaimed slice of stealth espionage action, which is full of sneaking ar...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from 2019-05-08T00:00
It's hard to imagine a world without The Wizard of Oz, but before 1900 that's exactly what it was. This week, Matt and Tony follow the Yellow Brick Road back to L. Frank Baum's original novel to ex...
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MINI EPISODE: The Infinity Gauntlet from 2019-05-01T00:00
It's a special bonus mini episode! And it's full of spoilers!* Matt and Tony ride those sweet, sweet superhero coattails and use the release of Avengers: Endgame to finally read Marvel's 1991 event...
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