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Join us each week as the co-founders of WriterDie share in a weekly discussion guaranteed to entertain, inform, and speculate wildly. The hosts also share their picks for the Top 'O The Moment: the stuff that you should pay attention to. Because like them, you, too have good taste.
On this week's episode of the WriterDie podcast, Nate and Chris welcome in guest host Drew Stover to help wrap up the scene series.
- Beer of the Show:Bell's Brewery's Hopslam Ale
- 12 Angry Men - The Knife Scene
- The Wrestler - Randy "Ram" Robinson's Curtain Call Scene
- Moonlight - "Hello Stranger" Scene
- Batman v. Superman - Martha Scene
- Up - Opening Montage Scene
- Training Day - King Kong Scene
On this third entry into the WriterDie Scene Series, the guys break down some of the scenes that best tickle their funny bones.
- Beer of the Show:New Belgium's Dayblazer Easygoing Ale
- The Big Lebowski Malibu police station scene
- Three Amigos Look Up Here! scene
- Superbad dick drawing scene
- Little Miss Sunshine car horn scene
- Burn After Reading caught and shot scene
- Dr. Strangelove big board scene
- Mitchell and Webb Look brain surgeon scene
On this week's episode of the WriterDie podcast, the guys discuss what they believe makes some scenes particularly horrifying. Plus they make a case for the defense of M. Night Shyamalan.
- Beer of the Show:Magic Hat Brewing's #9
- It Follows "Tall Man" scene and opening scene
- The Fellowship of the Ring Bilbo Baggins jump scare
- Jurassic Park T-Rex breaks free
- The Descent initial sighting and Beth's death
- The Village porch scene
On the first episode of our four part series on some of our most appreciated cinema scenes, the guys break down the action scenes they believe to be most impressive.
Show Notes:
- Beer of the Show: Hops & Grain Brewing's new Haze County double IPA
- Oldboy hallway scene
- Inception hallway scene
- Kingsman: The Secret Service church scene
- Drive opening scene
- Dark Knight opening scene
- The Matrix Reloaded highway chase scene part 1 and part 2
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon scene
- Hanna subway scene
- Scott Pilgrim VS The World fight scene playlist
In this episode of the WriterDie podcast, Nate and Chris welcome in Heather Coffee as a guest host. The comedian chats with the guys about some of the 2017 moments that made them laugh the most.
Show Notes:
- Beer of the Show: Founders Brewing Co.'s Porter
- Funny Or Die's Zack Morris is Trash: The Time Zack Morris Made a Girl in a Wheelchair Feel Terrible
- Friends Joey and Rachel belong together Twitter thread
- SNL's Welcome to Hell skit
- SNL's Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney
- The End of the F**king World trailer
- Jim and Andy trailer
- Toast of London trailer
- Bon Iver Erotica Tumblr
On this episode of the WriterDie Podcast, the guys settle in for a discussion on some of the things they're most excited for in the coming year. Plus a little bit on the things they're least excited for.
Show Notes:
- "Beer of the Show": Patron suggestion - Smirnoff Ice
- The Decemberists' new music video for "Severed"
- Dashboard Confessional's new music video for "We Fight"
- Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer
- God of War trailer
- Last of Us Part 2 trailer
- Overwatch League
On the new year's first episode of the WriterDie Podcast, we each share three of our favorite things that came out this year.
Show Notes:
- Charly Bliss "DQ" music video
- Horizon Zero Dawn story trailer
- The Good Place season 1 trailer
- Beer of the Show:Salt Lake City's own Squatters Brewery
- Lone Pint Brewery's Yellow Rose IPA
- Flatsound's YouTube Page
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri Redband Trailer
The ol' gang has gathered to discuss ouf favorite adaptations.
- The Beer of The Show: Twisted X Brewing Co. Whoa-Mango
- A23 Films (Nate)
- Thor: Ragnarok (Chris)
- Pixel 2 XL (AMSB)
The WriterDie guys gather to discuss all things Halloween. If it goes bump in the night, in a film, in a song, or in a video game, we're talking about it.
- The Beer of The Show: OktoberFiesta from Freetail Brewing Co.
- The Rushmore Academy (Nate)
- CineFix's Top 5 Horror Movies of All Time (Chris)
- The World Series (AMSB)
- The Paintings Discussed
- Fuseli's "The Nightmare"
- Vigo The Carpathian
- Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son"
- Ruben's "Saturn Devouring His Son"
In this episode we discuss all things Austin, Texas. Consider it our love letter to where we live.
- The Beer of The Show: Real Ale AXIS IPA
- St. Elmo Brewing Co. and Soursop Food Truck (Nate)
- The Bully Show At Emo's (Chris)
- The Austin Celtic Festival (AMSB)
On a special episode of the WriterDie Podcast, the boys meet to talk about the elusive and sometimes unnecessary long take in films and television, as well as countlessly butchering the name of one of the most famous directors.
- The Beer of The Show: Brooklyn East IPA
- Bitcoin (Nate)
- Moses Sumney "Lonely World" (Chris)
- Piada Italian Street Food (AMSB)
The WriterDie guys gather to discuss the use of recurring actors/actresses among filmmakers.
- The Beer Of The Show: You May All Go To Helles And I Will Go To Texas
- Omeleto YouTube Channel (Nate)
- Netflix's American Vandal (Chris)
- Pixel Buds: Universal Translator (AMSB)
Here we are, another Top 'O The Top 'O The Moment for your digesting pleasure.
- The Beer Of The Show: Carlsberg Elephant
- MoviePass (Nate)
- Basketball (Chris)
- Breaks Of The Game
- The Ringer's Best/Worst Case Scenario
- Google & Song Exploder’s “Inside Music” VR/360 (AMSB)
- Tom Scott Toaster Snafu
On this week's edition of the WriterDie Music Series, the guys discuss the evolution and potential disappearance of the "One-Hit Wonder".
- Beer of the Show:Deschutes Brewing's Mirror Pond Pale Ale
- Flatsound's "Fan Letters" (Nate)
- Brand New's "Out of Mana" (Chris)
- Ex Hex's "Don't Wanna Lose" (AMSB)
On this episode of the WriterDie podcast, Nate, Chris, and AMSB discuss the impulse to deem art and artists as universally great.
- Infamous Brewing Co's Hijack cream ale
- Netflix's Atypical trailer (Chris)
- Foldio, a portable smartphone photo studio (Nate)
- Taylor Sheridan's Wind River trailer (AMSB)
On this conclusion to the two part WriterDie Goes to the Movies, the guys continue their breakdown of Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.
- Stone Brewing's Delicious IPA
- NASA's YouTube Live Stream (Nate)
- Trello App (Chris)
- Interview magazine (AMSB)
- Vox's video on Dunkirk's soundtrack
In this unprecedented first part of a two part WriterDie Goes to the Movies, the guys break down some of their thoughts on Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.
- Beer of the Show:Rahr & Sons Brewing Co.'s Dadgum IPA
- Dunkirk Trailer
- Noonee's Chairless Chair via Tech Insider (Nate)
- A Guide to Pictured Rocks Lakeshore - Ashwin Enjoys Nature (Chris)
- Low Poly Crafts (AMSB)
- Species in Pieces (AMSB)
This week, join the WriterDie guys as they discuss how tattoo culture has grown and society's view has changed along with it.
- Beer of the Show:Bell's Brewery's Oarsmen Ale
- Even Stevans' Give Stock Festival in Ogden (Nate)
- Women's Cricket World Cup Google Doodle (Chris)
- Oskar Fischingers 117th Birthday Google Doodle (Chris)
- Craig Ferguson's Sirius XM Show (AMSB)
- Nat and Friend's video on Lotte Reiniger's Google Doodle
On this week's episode, the WriterDie crew attempts to decipher what exactly it means to be a "Deceitful Protagonist".
- Beer of the Show: Elysian Brewing's Space Dust IPA
- Japan and the US face off in a giant robot battle (Nate)
- Megabots
- Google Maps takes you on a tour of Game of Throne's shooting locations (AMSB)
- Beautiful French animated film Kirikou and the Sorceress trailer (Chris)
- Austin Film Society's newly opened theater (Chris)
In this edition of WriterDie goes to the movies, Nate, Chris, and AMSB breakdown what they loved and didn't quite love about Edgar Wright's newest film, Baby Driver.
- Wine of the Show: Hundred Acre Winery's If You See Kay
- Baby Driver Trailer
- Rock Paper Shotgun's interview with PLAYERUNKNOWN (AMSB)
- New fangled sleep machine Dreem (Nate)
- Pitchfork's mid-year Overlooked Albums of 2017 (Chris)
- Noisey's 30 Best Overlooked Albums of 2017 so far
- The Ringer's Baby Driver Exit Survey
In this week's episode, Nate and Chris fill the notably void left by AMSB as he kayaked around Minnesota by welcoming in Mina Soto for a conversation on high school musical tastes. Mina is a singer-songwriter and host of the wonderful Artists Loving Artists podcast.
- Beers of the Show: Maui Brewing Company's Big Swell IPA and Coconut Hiwa
- Mina's Podcast, Artists Loving Artists
- Manchester Orchestra's "The Alien" video (Nate)
- Jack Johnson's set at the 2013 iTunes Music Festival (Mina)
- Vince Staples' "Big Fish" video (Chris)
- Manchester Orchestra interview on NPR
- From Autumn to Ashes - "Streamline"
- Goo Goo Dolls - "Name"
- Rob Zombie - "Living Dead Girl"
With AMSB out of town, we had to call on our friend Joey Campanello to come in, discuss character development, and help with hosting.
- Beer of the Show:New Belgium brewing's 1554
- Fleet Foxes - Crack Up - “I Am All That I Need/Arroyo Seco /Thumbprint Scar" (Chris)
- Fire Emblem (Joey)
- Garageband (Nate)
- RoughKast's Youtube Channel
- Regular Rough Cast on Youtube
- Kong Skull Island trailer
- Vinylfluid's review of Fleet Foxes' newest album Crack-Up
Franchises that should have stopped while they were ahead? We discuss a few on this week's episode of the WriterDie Show.
- Beer of the Show: Victory Brewing's Golden Monkey
- Blank on Blank (Nate)
- Thomas Middleditch on First We Feast's Hot Ones (Chris)
- Libby App (AMSB)
- Even Stevens Sandwiches
This week the WriterDie guys welcome in their very first guest Heather Coffee to talk about political correctness in comedy.
- Beers of the show: Karbach Brewing's Love Street & Lemon and Ginger Radler
- Thundershirt (Nate)
- Batman Beyond trailer
- From Huffington Post writer Tyler Kingkade "Chris Rock Stopped Playing Colleges Because They’re ‘Too Conservative’"
- Maria Bamford's Netflix show Lady Dynamite
On this week's episode, the guys breakdown the newest installment of the Alien saga, Alien: Covenant. How many chest bursters is Nate going to give it?
- Beer of the Show: Twisted X's Cow Creek
- Utah's own Even Stevens sandwiches (Utah's own Nate)
- Get yourself to P. Terry's for their new Cookie Butter shake (Chris)
- Australia's Next Top Model (Chris)
- Gametime App (AMSB)
- Alien: Covenant trailer
On this week's episode, the guys kick-off their new music series of podcasts by talking about whether or not pop country has ruined the genre.
- Beer of the Show: Deschutes Brewery's Swivelhead Red
- Nodepression.com's Easy Ed on "The Death of Country Music: Natural Cause or Homicide"
- Mark My Word blog - "The Death of Country Music"
- Allison Crutchfield's "I Don't Ever Want to Leave California" music video (Chris)
- Waxahatchee's "La Loose" music video (Chris)
- Lorde's "Green Light" music video (AMSB)
- Conor Oberst's "Barbary Coast" music video (Nate)
- Bo Burnham's "Country Song (Pandering)" video
- Chris Stapleton's "Either Way"
In this week's episode, the WriterDie guys break down some of the benefits and drawbacks of the ambiguous moving ending.
- Beer of the Show: Founders brewery's Dirty Bastard
- Selected writing: Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Brendan Caldwell with "Call of Duty is Unlikely to Get WWII Right"
On a very special episode of WriterDie, the guys discuss their thoughts on the depiction of war on film. Is it good? Is it bad? Is it disrespectful? Lean with me.
- Beer of the Show:Abita Brewing's Andygator
- Robinhood Investment App (Chris)
- Hot Luck Festival (Nate)
- Twitch Streamer Lirik's "The Leanbois" (AMSB)
In this week's episode, the WriterDie guys break down some of their toppest top of the moments from the last month.
- Stone Brewing's Ripper
- celtx.com (Nate)
- Sweet Spirt - The Power (Chris)
- Explaining Google Earth's 3D Imagery (AMSB)
- Salado's own Barrow Brewery Evil Catfish IPA
- The Great British Baking Show (Chris)
- Feedly (AMSB)
- Kurt Vonnegut's The Shapes of Stories (Nate)
- Portland's Tender Loving Empire
Quality Control: Be forewarned that our wonderful mic picked up some erroneous thumping severely impacting the audio quality of this week's episode.
On this week's episode, the WriterDie guys discuss the evolution of cover art primarily in film while touching on album covers and video game covers.
- Bell's Brewery's Two Hearted Ale
- Sweet Ritual Vegan Ice Cream (Nate)
- Drew Sturzen and Tom Jung on Wikipedia
- Father John Misty reveals his new album Pure Comedy
- The Cave Singer's Welcome Joy album cover art
In this week's episode the WriterDie guys go to the movies to see and subsequently break down the new Wolverine feature, Logan.
- Brazos Valley Brewery's 7 Spanish Angels
- Shut Up and Take My Money (Nate)
- Via 313's Prosciutto Pizza - The Cadillac (Chris)
- The SXSWEDU conference (AMSB)
- Andrew Smith Lewis
- Logan Trailer
The WriterDie guys recap some of their favorite Top of the Moment moments from the past month's episodes and Chris does some "quick" math...
- Freetail Brewing Company's Bat Outta Helles
- Tom Scott's Things You Might Not Know(AMSB)
- Abandoned California City
- Jeremy Wade and River Monsters(Chris)
- Inspiredtattoportraits Instagram (Nate)
- Tiny Hazard on Vinyl Fluid
- Big Baby D.R.A.M. - "Cute" Music Video
On this week's episode, the WriterDie guys discuss the impact of narration on film while they sip on some Naked Nuns...
- Adelbert's Brewery's Naked Nun
- Terrace House Trailer (Aloha State) (Nate)
- Austin Flea (Chris)
- Humble Goods
- Kuhdoo Soap
- Zen Soap
- The Saharan desert blues/Tuareg band Tinariwen
- Chaghaybou
- Silicon Valley Season 4 Trailer
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part I - The Tale of the Three Brothers
- Deep Ellum's Neato Bandito
- Thinkgeek.com's Spider Man Samurai (Nate)
- Santa Clarita Diet Trailer (Chris)
- Movie's With Mikey
- At World's End Video
- Every Frame A Painting's "Edgar Wright: How to Do Visual Comedy"
- Nerdwriter1's "Scott Pilgram: Make Your Transitions Count"
- Chris buys a shirt from show favorite IHSQUARED!
- Check out the Devestator from Wasatch Brewery
- D.R.A.M. Tiny Desk Concert (Chris)
- Manualslib: The Ultimate Manual Library (Nate)
- Is Las Meninas the world's greatest painting? - Nerdwriter
- Ballast Point - Beers
- Green Butts Cigarette Filters (Nate)
- Arcade Fire feat. Mavis Staples - "I Give You Power" (Chris)
- The Roamans Blog | Instagram (AMSB)
- "Chekhov’s Gun: the movie trope that’ll ruin everything once you know about it" by Leon Hurley of Gamesradar
- Enzo Amore
- Tiny Hazard - "Sesame" (Chris)
- Young Thug - "Wyclef Jean" Music Video (Chris)
- Google Voice relaunch via arstechnica.com (AMSB)
- Amazon Goodwill shipping (AMSB)
- Peaceful Cuisine (AMSB)
- IHSQUARED - Isaac Hastings Instagram (Nate)
- Coeio Mushroom Death Suit (Nate)
- Trump and Dump Bot (Nate)
- During the show we were enjoying Ugly Pug a Schwarzbier from Rahr & Sons brewing.
- You can read Kelly Conaboy's article from The Outline here.
- Chris' picks for the WriterDie Oscar Pool
- Best Picture: La La Land
- Best Actor: Denzel Washington for Fences
- Best Actress: Emma Stone for La La Land
- Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali for Moonlight
- Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis for Fences
- Best Director: Damian Chazelle for La La Land
- AMSB's picks for the WriterDie Oscar Pool
- Best Picture: Hell or High Water
- Best Actor: Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea
- Best Actress: Emma Stone for La La Land
- Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges for Hell or High Water
- Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams for Manchester by the Sea
- Best Director: Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
- Nate's picks for the WriterDie Oscar Pool
- Best Picture: Moonlight
- Best Actor: Ryan Gosling for La La Land
- Best Actress: Natalie Portman for Jackie
- Best Supporting Actor: Michael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals
- Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis for Fences
- Best Director: Barry Jenkins for Moonlight
- Power Rangers Trailer
- James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff in Power Ranger Fan Film
- LCD Soundsystem - "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" Lyrics and Song
- Johnathan Rice - "We're All Stuck Out in the Desert" Lyrics and Video
- From Autumn to Ashes - "No Trivia" Lyrics and Song
- Will Butler - "What I Want" Lyrics and Video
- Joe Pug - "Hymn 101" Lyrics and Video
- Brand New - "In A Jar" Lyrics and Song
- Right Away, Great Captain - "I Am A Vampire" Lyrics and Song
- What's Your Plan, Anna Kendrick? via The Ringer
- Open Mike Eagle - "Check to Check" Lyrics and Video
- Death Cab for Cutie - "Debate Exposes Doubt" Lyrics and Song
- The National - "Pink Rabbits" Lyrics and Live at 89.3 The Current
- Laura Marling
- "Ghosts" Lyrics and Video
- "The Beast" Lyrics and Song
- The Decemberists - "Summersong" Lyrics and Song
- Bright Eyes - "Amy in the White Coat" Lyrics and Song
- Menomena - "Tithe" Lyrics and Song
- Atlas Coffee Club (Nate)
- New VW Bug (Nate)
- Fan-O-Rama: Futurama Fan Film (Nate)
- MeUndies (Chris)
- Academy Visual Effects Short List 2016 (Chris)
- Survivor Cambodia: Second Chance (Chris)
- Pocket Casts (AMSB)
- Darkest Night Podcast (AMSB)
- Daily Tech News Show (AMSB)
The WriterDie guys talk about the impending slow death of Late Night Television, plus everything we're looking forward to in 2017.
- During the show we were enjoying Rabbit Hole Brewing's Rapture.
- Is Conan O’Brien Moving to a Weekly Schedule?
- Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) co-wrote Michelle Branch’s new album. Yes, that Michelle Branch. The album is due out in April 2017.
- The album Chris is most excited for this year is Sky Ferreira's Masochism. Listen to some of Sky's last album, Night Time, My Time, below.
- "I Blame Myself" Music Video
- "Heavy Metal Heart" Live at Outside Lands 2015
- Dunkirk Trailer (Enough Said)
- Check out the trailer for the new NBC show Powerless.
- The Detectorists Season 2 (Chris)
- Kick Drum Burgers (Chris)
- La La Land (Chris)
- Joy (AMSB)
- Discord (AMSB)
- Google Home (AMSB)
- Emmanuel Lubezki's Instagram (Nate)
- what3words.com (Nate)
- eero (Nate)
Are physical formats of media worth it? The WriterDie lads discuss.
- Lil Yachty - "1 Night"
- Ariana Grande Vinyl
- John Waters - “We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
- Zimbabwe's Literacy Rate
- Rock Paper Shotgun (AMSB)
- The Crown (AMSB)
- New Twitch Announcements (AMSB)
- SMODcast (Nate)
- Amazon Prime (Nate)
- Homestarry Dimmable Starry Lights (Nate)
- Lovesick/Scrotal Recall (Chris)
- Star Wars: Rogue One (Chris)
- Spotify's "Your Top Songs of 2016" Playlist
- Walker Lukens - "Every Night"
- Kevin Gates - "Hard For"
- Hamilton Soundtrack - "Washington On Your Side"
- Chance the Rapper feat. 2 Chainz and Lil' Wayne - "No Problem"
- Hamilton Soundtrack - "Election of 1800"
- Schoolboy Q - "There He Go"
- Jimi Tents feat. Jay IDK & Dave East - "All of It (Remix)"
- Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - "Check to Check"
- Sky Ferreira - "Heavy Metal Heart"
- Doomtree - "Spill Me Up"
WriterDie co-founders all discuss some of their favorite life-defining works of art. Weezer, Bright Eyes, Final Fantasy and astronauts; it's all here.
- Green Plate Foods Naturally Smart Cookies (Nate)
- pixlr.com (Nate)
- The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat (Nate)
- The Good Place (Chris)
- David Ehrlich’s 25 Best Films of the Year (Chris)
- 2016
- 2015
- Chance The Dropout (Chris)
- Stephen Fry in America (AMSB)
- Amazon Go (AMSB)
- The Day of Infamy (AMSB)
The WriterDie folks talk all about video game movies. Are they worth it? Have there been ANY good ones? Will "Assassin's Creed" be terrible? Probably.
- Assassins Creed
- Pitchfork’s Top Music Videos of the Year (Chris)
- 3% (Chris)
- Final Fantasy XV (Chris)
- Song Exploder (AMSB)
- Knights of Sidonia (AMSB)
- Quick, Draw! (AMSB)
- Lyrics to Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana Fortuna” (Nate)
- Wes Anderson's H&M Commercial (Nate)
- Indie Video Game "The Keeper" (Nate)
In the inaugural episode of the WriterDie podcast, the crew covers Dennis Villenueve's 'Arrival'
In this episode we hit our Top 3 of the Week, talk Mr. Robot versus Halt and Catch Fire, and bang our hands on the table.
In the inaugural episode of The WriterDie Podcast, Chris and AMSB introduce themselves, get hyped for the upcoming surefire masterpiece from Christopher Nolan, talk about something only they care about (baseball), and slam fist upon table with satisfying aural results.
Show Notes:
- Announcement/Teaser Trailer for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk
- Open Mike Eagle - "Check 2 Check"
- Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
- Lera Lynn - "Little Ruby" Live from Resistor Studio
- ESPN Will Air a Drone Racing Series