Thinking Outside The Long Box

Facebook LIVE episode!! Just like all of our live episodes, we do our best to engage some of our listeners/watchers to interact with us during the show! We want to hear everything about what is going on in your lives, and what you have been up to! Talk to us about whatever subjects you want, and we'll discuss whatever you bring to the table! Hopefully you'll join us for a live episode in the future!  SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube!Support the podcast on Patreon!Credit - Doyle Daniels, Juan Muro, Gabe Llanas, Tim Huskey

It's been a long time since anybody has called the Ghostbusters! It's been five years since the last version of the Ghostbusters hit the big screen, and by most accounts was a disappointment. It's been since 1984, and 1989 since the first two were released, which is where this new sequel/reboot gets most of its backstory from. We are of course talking about Ghostbusters Afterlife! "When a single mother and her two children move to a new town, they soon discover they have a connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind." This latest installment almost completely ignores the the previous installment completely , and relies on the rich history from the original two movies! With a new group of Ghostbusters suddenly thrust into the job of ghostbusting, we got a great new team that can grow into their Ghostbusting roles! Of course, like any other baton passing, we get a little retro ghostbusting thrown in, to pass the torch! You definitely need to go catch a show of thi

Sometimes comic con's bear out some very fruitful content for us. Denver Fan Expo 2021 was a little slower than normal because it was a "special edition" and not a full blown comic con, BUT like always, we have gotten some awesome content! That brings us to today's special interview. We've spoken about many of the projects that Michael Rooker has been involved with, and this interview was truly a privilege for us!  "Michael Rooker (born April 6, 1955) is an American actor known for his roles as Henry in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out (1988), Terry Cruger in Sea of Love (1989), Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder (1990), Bill Broussard in JFK (1991), Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger (1993), Jared Svenning in Mallrats (1995), Detective Howard Cheney in The Bone Collector (1999), Grant Grant in Slither (2006), Merle Dixon in AMC's The Walking Dead (2010–2013), Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), its sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), and the animated series W

It's hard to have the same magic as you remembered when you first saw our pop culture classic for today!! I mean the mystique, and the excitement for seeing dinosaurs for the first time on the screen that actually looked great! It was the first time that people thought that dinosaurs could actually be real. And we have Jurassic Park to thank for that! "In Steven Spielberg's massive blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park's mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt." Jurassic Park was a monumental achievement. Watching Grant & Sattler fighting dinosaurs through a whole park, and not be cheesy was an absolutely giant accomplishment. This film had HUG

One of the least appreciated Avengers got his own TV show on Disney +! With all the other high profile TV shows that started streaming before it, and the litany of shows that are debuting in the future, we aren't quite sure what everyone was going to think of Hawkeye!"The Hawkeye series picks up on plot threads set up by Avengers: Endgame, which saw Clint Barton lose his wife and children in the snap and adopt the persona of murderous vigilante, Ronin." Clint has FINALLY gotten what we think he wants, is a life of peace and quiet, to spend with his family. They're on a vacation and are out and about just living the family life when Clint is brought back into the fold because of Kate Bishop. Kate pretty much always seems like she's up to no good, and seems to have a mom who pretends to care, but doesn't seem to be there enough for her daughter. Kate accidentally picks up the Ronin outfit during a job she is doing, and all hell breaks loose at the mere through about the return of Ronin. Now Clint has to try and

Back to the grind with another interview from James Powell!! We spoke to James while we were at Denver Fan Expo. Fan Expo 2021 was a little light on content, but it was a good time none the less, and it was great, the time that we were able to speak with James about his content! "I’ve always been interested in stories. When I was a kid, I’d spend entire days reading Edgar Rice Burroughs novels in my mom’s oversize and incredibly uncomfortable living room chair. When I wasn’t reading, I’d use my Star Wars and G.I. Joe action figures to act out my imagination, or I’d create my own comics on notebook paper." Listen to James tell us about how he got into the comic book industry, and his love for comic books in general. Also, he tells about why he chose the genre that he generally sticks to. Gabe and James talk a lot about House of Fear! SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.

Juan is an idiot, and forgot to bring the stuff that he needed in order to go live for this episode! So, we decided to just sit down and chat like the good ole days! As always, you can see where our top lists are for TV shows and music and see if anything has changed! In the future, make sure that you check out our live episodes, where we try and let our listeners decide what our conversation is! You bring us the topics, and we'll talk about them, or you can just jump into our conversations, and tell us that we're being grumpy old men! SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube!Support the podcast on Patreon!Credit - Doyle Daniels, Juan Muro, Gabe Llanas, Tim Huskey

Now that Fan Expo Denver is behind us, we are here to offer an awesome interview! We interviewed an amazing local artist, who graduated from Colorado State University, and has been in the illustration industry for almost thirty years! We spoke with the amazing artist, Monte Moore!  Monte has worked for almost all of the big boys in the comic book industry, including DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, & IDW Publishing. Not only is he famous for working in the comic book industry, but he's also been commissioned by many top tier companies, including Disney, The Marine Corps, Paramount, Topps, and the company that we spoke the most about during this interview, Lucasfilm LTD. Monte has a deal with Lucasfilms in order to create art for The Mandalorian. Listen to how that deal came together, and how he has created the prints compared to what is going on, on the small screen. It's a very interesting story, especially if you're a fan of The Mandalorian! Check out Maverick Arts Studio for all of his art, and to p

Alright everyone, it's time to go outside of the normal MCU, but still within it of course! The Marvel Cinematic Universe is starting to get bigger and bigger, and is starting to explore the outer most parts of the universe. What that means for the universe at large is still just theories, but were' excited to be talking about Eternals!! "The Eternals, a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers who have secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years, reunite to battle the evil Deviants." This is the story of the "team," the Eternals. A family who is on Earth, in order to make sure that the Deviants don't come back, and destroy their homes. Well, of course, that is exactly what is happening now. But now, the Deviants seem to be even more powerful, with the ability to steal powers from the people trying to stop them. So, it's time to get the family back together to come up with a plan to stop them! After major information is found out about their own existence, they must decide whether they actually want

Not only is our topic today a pop culture classic, but so is the original movie that this spawned from. Tron and Tron Legacy both deserve a spot on anybody's list of pop culture classics. While they may not be the "best" movies in the genre, they represent something that is not seem too much in mainstream movies anymore, and that is art. Both movies take the time to not only try and be entertaining and tell a good story, but they also do they're best to be appealing to the eyes, with some awesome graphics!"Sam (Garrett Hedlund), the son of famous video-game developer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), has been haunted for a long time by his father's mysterious disappearance. A strange signal draws Sam to Flynn's Arcade, and he is pulled into the same cyberworld in which his father, its creator, has been trapped for 20 years. With fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), Kevin and Sam seek to escape from a universe that, while magnificent, is far more advanced and dangerous than Kevin had ever imagined." This sequel t

We're going into a genre that we generally don't talk about, but that I think we all think very kindly of!! We're talking about anime today!! Although the ending of the first season makes it so that there almost has to be a second season, and it feels like you have to know at least a little bit about the established world of the video games, the art and the music in this series are absolutely fantastic! We're talking about the Netflix series, Arcane!"A pair of estranged sisters find themselves on opposing sides of a violent feud between rival kingdoms in Arcane, Netflix's new animated series which serves as a prequel to the hugely popular online battle arena video game League of Legends." This is essentially a story filled with a lot of parables when it comes to classism. It's the tale of two different "worlds." One group of people who live on the surface, and one group of people who live below the surface, who don't conform to the rules of what they would call "normal society." What happens when the villain

LIVE episode time!! You know the routine by this point!! It's that time of the week where we air our LIVE episode!! During the live episodes we do our best to try and involve our listeners into the conversations. It's a freeform conversation where we talk about what we've been doing since the last time we all got together, and we try and catch up with what you all have been doing as well!! We hope to have you all get involved in the future, and give us some fun topics to talk about!!  SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube!Support the podcast on Patreon!Credit - Doyle Daniels, Juan Muro, Gabe Llanas, Tim Huskey

There have been MANY different Halloween's that have been haunted by the ghost/physical being of Michael Myers. Michael also has one of the highest body counts, when to comes to slasher villains!! So, it makes sense that eventually we would make our rounds to a Halloween movie, and what better time to jump in, than right now, in the middle of a trilogy set of films, in the latest adventures of Michael Myers!"The nightmare isn't over as unstoppable killer Michael Myers escapes from Laurie Strode's trap to continue his ritual bloodbath. Injured and taken to the hospital, Laurie fights through the pain as she inspires residents of Haddonfield, Ill., to rise up against Myers. Taking matters into their own hands, the Strode women and other survivors form a vigilante mob to hunt down Michael and end his reign of terror once and for all." The movie starts off immediately after the ending of the first in this trilogy. Everyone of the heroes thinks that they've trapped Michael in a burning home, with the heroes on the

We're going all the way back to 1997 for today's episode!! It's pop culture classic time, and we're going back to a star studded film! This film apparently was such a big deal when it came out, and stirred a lot of controversy in some religious circles! We're not here to judge whether the good or bad press was warranted, only to speak about the movie itself! We are of course talking about the Charlize Theron, Al Pacino, & Keeanu Reeves film, The Devil's Advocate!"Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) accepts a high-powered position at a New York law firm headed by legal shark John Milton (Al Pacino). As Kevin moves up in the firm's ranks, his wife, Mary Ann (Charlize Theron), has several frightening, mystical experiences that begin to warp her sense of reality. With the stakes getting higher with each case, Kevin quickly learns that his mentor is planning a far greater evil than simply winning without scruples." This is the story of a crazy good/lucky lawyer, who is moving up in the world

Season one of Locke and Key came with much excitement and hype, and for the most part, I think that we all thought it lived up to most of those expectations! Here we are at season 2, leaving off pretty much where the first season ended, and trying to find out where the Locke's are now, and what new keys are there out there floating around!"Locke & Key is a 2020 American supernatural horror drama streaming television series developed by Carlton Cuse, Meredith Averill, and Aron Eli Coleite, based on the comic-book series of the same name by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez. It premiered on Netflix on February 7, 2020. The series stars Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, Jackson Robert Scott, Laysla De Oliveira, Petrice Jones, and Griffin Gluck. In March 2020, Netflix announced that the series had been renewed for a second season which premiered on October 22, 2021. In December 2020, ahead of the second season premiere, the series was renewed for a third season." The Locke kids think that they've rid t

It's that time of the week when we get together and do a LIVE episode!! WHAT!! That's right! For this LIVE episode, we get to speak to our brother Tim, about his future (now past) time at Rhode Island Comic Con!! Doyle tries to give him some advice on what he should wear, and how he should act, in order to make those sales during the comic con!!! So, hopefully you'll jump onto the next LIVE episode, in order to give us all some advice, on our future events! SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Android |  Spotify | Pandora | RSS Tell us what you think!Leave us a voicemail at 970-573-6148Send us feedback and/or MP3's to outsidethelongbox@gmail.comFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube!Support the podcast on Patreon!Credit - Doyle Daniels, Juan Muro, Gabe Llanas, Tim Huskey

There had been a ton of chatter about this show before we thought it was a good idea to give it a watch! BUT, with very little information to go off of, I also had no idea what the heck to expect while watching the series. I didn't even really know what the crux of the show was, until the back half of the whole series, because the show is powerful at making you believe that other things are going on!! We are of course speaking about the Netflix series, Midnight Mass! "Midnight Mass is an American supernatural horror streaming television miniseries created and directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel, Hamish Linklater, Samantha Sloyan, Rahul Kohli and Henry Thomas. The plot centers on an isolated island community that experiences supernatural events after the arrival of a mysterious priest. It was released on Netflix on September 24, 2021, and received positive reviews." After the small town priest disappears, and a younger priest appears, supposedly with the information as to what is g

It's pop culture classic time ya'll!!! We've got to go to 1996 for today's pop culture classic!! Fifteen years later, there are four sequels out right now, with another sequel hitting theaters in 2022! Not only does Scream have a special place in slasher film history, but it has spawned its own spoof movies, in the Scary Movie franchise!! Though Scream may not have spawned the original slasher film franchise, we feel like maybe it revitalized a genre for many people, especially with the stacked cast! "Wes Craven re-invented and revitalized the slasher-horror genre with this modern horror classic, which manages to be funny, clever and scary, as a fright-masked knife maniac stalks high-school students in middle-class suburbia. Craven is happy to provide both tension and self-parody as the body count mounts - but the victims aren't always the ones you'd expect." If you're living under some kind of rock, and you haven't seen any of the films in the Scream franchise, now is the time to go back and at least watch t

We made a very fun return to what is now referred to as, Fan Expo Denver! We've been with this comic con in Denver, since it's inception, either just as fans, but mostly as press! What started as Denver Comic Con, then Denver Pop Culture Con, has now flourished in Fan Expo Denver! And we attended their "special edition" which occurred over Halloween weekend! While we were there, we were able to speak with actor, Barbara Dunkelman! Among some awesome accomplishments, Barbara is the Creative Director for the production company Rooster Teeth. Rooster Teeth is responsible for productions like Red vs Blue, Camp Camp, and RWBY. For today's interview with Barbara, we of course focused mostly on the anime, RWBY, in which she is the voice for Yang Xiao Long. RWBY is a very popular English anime, and so popular in fact, that it has been translated from English to Japanese!! "RWBY (pronounced "Ruby") is an American anime-influenced adult computer-animated web series created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth. It is set in t

This movie that we're talking about today, seems to be MANY years in the making! Almost thirty years in the making for a decent reboot to be made, but almost fifty five years in the making, for a movie that most fans of the original novel were hoping to be made! Of course, this is only the first of a two part movie, but most fans seem to be pretty excited about this newest adaptation of the Dune series!  "A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, "Dune" tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people." The original Dune novel hit the book shelves in 1965, written by author Frank Herbert. It's such a vast world, with a lot of depth to it, that most fans of the novel, were definitely not fans of the original movie that came out in 1984! So, you could of course expect some trepidation from fans when the 2021 film was announced