Dangersplosion!

Brent and Corey welcome back artist/animator Adam Dix (from our Hereditary episode) to celebrate his new show, The Cuphead Show!, dropping on Netflix on Friday! We also discuss his current work on The Great North, whether or not you could use a broken lamp as a cattle prod, the kill-the-dog trope, and Anish Kapoor being devoured as the result of a frivolous lawsuit. Get cozy in your dumpster, cause we're gonna be here a while! 

Brent and Corey chat with Corey's iO chum Darkus Beasley about the 1979 classic Alien. We also discuss Koko the gorilla's obsession with nipples, baby cupboard emergency slides, and swap car accident stories. Settle into your favorite Lite-Brite pod next to the leaky chains room and join us! 

Brent and Corey welcome Head Cannon's first repeat guest and Drew Barrymore doppelganger, Nicole Bruce, to break down 1996's meta whodunit slasher, Scream. We discuss COVID 99, creepy visits from The Baron, and the time an intruder crawled in through Corey's bedroom window. Make yourself some stovetop popcorn and settle on in! 

Brent and Corey celebrate the release of 2021's Death to Metal with actor Charlie Lind and the director of the film, The Peter Jackson of Iowa himself, Tim Connery. We discuss waterboarding with blood, Hollywood nepotism, movies as pancakes, and, of course, all about the movie! Turn away from your sinful life of low rise jeans and pizza buffets and bathe in the redeeming light of Head Cannon! 

Brent and Corey speak with their old chum JT Robinson about the 1999 Japanese film Audition, Japan's Love Hotels, and battles between prostitutes on dinosaurs and robot Benjamin Franklin, all while wearing our new Ed Gein Yeezys. I promise it's a good time, cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye. 

Brent and Corey chat with friend and playwright Emily Goodson about 2020's Freaky, Keanu Reeves's dog wife and dog children, the development of our Public Bathroom Review app, and whether we came from our fathers' left, right, or center ball. Pop your earbuds into your ears (or the ears of whoever's body you're inhabiting) and let's go! 

Brent and Corey chat with actor Jeremy London (Mallrats, The Babysitter, Party of Five, 7th Heaven) about his extensive career, usurping drama teachers, London's Most Wanted Pepper Jelly, and There's a Big Rock Coming At Us! The Movie. Lower yourself down the dumbwaiter and join us in the vault! 

Brent and Corey chat with fellow ComedySportz Indianapolis alums Mookie Harris and Kelsey VanVoorst about stand-up compared to improv comedy, eating tacos on a witch's tree stump, the Sexorcist, and LSD as a 70's college requirement in this episode all about 2013's The Conjuring. Possess this episode now! 

Brent and Corey chat with Corey's fellow Second City alum Julia Williams about seeing movies with deaf people, accidentally pulling into the Pentagon, the combination library/Long John Silvers, and taking multiple poops on the scraps of the Exxon Valdez. I claim no negative energy from this podcast! 

Brent and Corey chat with legendary Hollywood actor Doug Jones about being Chris Elliott's body double, the necessity of firing a mime bank manager, wrestling Jim Carrey in a teddy, and his work on projects like Mystery Men, Hocus Pocus, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and so much more! Don't be a hot, sweaty ass wrangler; check out this episode! 

Brent and Corey chat with our good friend Mike Jeffers about 1981's An American Werewolf in London, poppin' seltzies in a bathtub full of Orbeez, getting our balloons stolen by naked Americans, and crushin' on 80-year-olds. Don't ask us for food; we don't have any! 

Brent and Corey dive into debauchery and depravity with friend and Twitter darling Anthony Pederson (aka Octopus/Caveman) about 2018's Mandy, sex shops, jerk-off booths, prison experiences, the death penalty, and our crusade to end discrimination in pornography. Strap in, amigos! It's gonna be a long three days! 

Brent and Corey reconnect with longtime friend Nicole Bruce to discuss 1985's Fright Night. We talk about Brent's toilet issues, Hollywood from Mannequin (and unfortunately Kristy Swanson), Indianapolis' own Sammy Terry, and Nicole's incredible, amazing 31 Days of Halloween, where she changes her face into an entirely new person everyday. Check her out on Instagram @ nicolethebruce! 

Brent and Corey wander into an isolated world of danger and intrigue with Chicago-based improvisor Claire Saskowski as we cover 2010's Shutter Island. Join us as we struggle to discern reality from fiction, and chat about our good friends Leo DiCaprio, Jean Claude Von Damme, and Eddie Von Halen. In the immortal words of Gwen Stefani: We ain't no hollow back girl!

Brent and Corey hang out with Chicago-based comedian Meaghan Pelissier to talk about 2011's The Cabin in the Woods. We discuss the monsters, the lore, and the behind-the-scenes of the movie, as well as aggressive winking and that time Corey stepped on TJ Miller's foot. So grab a random trinket from your basement and join us! 

Brent, Corey, and guest Ryan Ruckman went off on a tangent talking about, like, 30 movies that had nothing to do with Candyman, so it got cut from the episode! BUT it was too good to leave on the cutting room floor, so in this special bonus material we talk about Dune, Cool World, Insomnia, One Hour Photo, Dreamcatcher, What Dreams May Come, Death to Smoochy, Dr. T and the Women, Popeye, True Detective, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Failure to Launch, Starship Troopers, RoboCop, and many others.

Brent and Corey catch-up with the gem of the Indianapolis theatre scene, Ryan Ruckman! Just in time for the release of Nia DaCosta's new Candyman movie, we revisit the original, 1992's Candyman. In our most musical episode yet, we discuss Ryan's time with Defiance Comedy's boy band BroZone, the real crime that inspired Candyman, how many buttcracks Klingons have, and Corey gets off on a tangent about how much he loooOOOOOoooooOOOOoooves Kendrick Lamar. Say "Head Cannon" five times in the mirror! 

Brent and Corey talk with their fellow former ComedySportz Indianapolis alum and sommelier extraordinaire Ella Raymont about wine, fake Shemps, and Sam Raimi's 1981 horror classic The Evil Dead. Grab a quick protein and let's go! 

Brent and Corey catch up with a friend from ComedySportz Indianapolis, Daryl Hollonquest, for a raucous conversation about 2003's ridiculous Freddy vs Jason. We also discuss the connections of famous ComedySportz alum like Dan Harmon and Derek Mears, and Corey's experience with Southern Indiana redneck cornfield parties! It's like a big ol' poop in the mouth! 

Brent and Corey speak with their good friend JR Mcintire about 1993's The Good Son in a wide-ranging conversation about everything from what shows we like and are watching now to what kinds of devious things we did as kids! Listen to this episode; don't eff with us!

Brent and Corey discuss 2018's Hereditary with good friend and animator Adam Dix, who has worked with Disney, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network on shows like Sofia the First, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DC Super Hero Girls, Boss Baby, and Netflix's upcoming The Cuphead Show!, among others. We dive deep into the most disturbing movie we've covered on the show so far, and somehow end up talking about Wes Anderson for a while. 

Brent and Corey speak with Tasia, a writer and expert on all things Gaimon, Lovecraft, and King, to compare the 1990 miniseries Stephen King's It with 2017's It and 2019's It Chapter Two! We also discuss the inventor of chicken nuggets and U.S. government cheese caves. 

Brent and Corey catch up with Corey's former Second City Conservatory classmate Alexandra and her fiancé Gus to discuss 2014's It Follows. We ask: Who is the last person you would want "It" to appear as? How could the curse be used for good? and How the heck do you get your leg back in that position?

Brent and Corey are joined by their dear friend Aubrey to discuss 2021's Army of the Dead. How does it stack up against Zack Snyder's other movies? How does it stack up against other zombie movies? Find out right here!

Brent and Corey discuss Sleepaway Camp with guest James Capps. Is it a representative trans narrative? Is it a hot, problematic mess? Can it be both at the same time? Either way, everyone wins when the camp pedophile falls into the 120 gallon soup pot!

Brent and Corey dive deep into Thailand's folklore and the mythical creature krasue with the 2019 Thai film Inhuman Kiss. Let your head detach from your body, bringing all your organs and entrails with it, and join us on this journey!

Brent and Corey, along with our special guest Jordan Owens, discuss the movie Annihilation. Is it a metaphor for self-destruction, or cancer, or a Lovecraftian tale, or maybe a Dark Tower adaptation? Possibly all of the above? Explore all this and more in the second episode of Head Cannon!

Check our brand new podcast endeavor, where your hosts Brent Owens and Corey Jefferson cover 15 of the earliest horror movies ever made, spanning 1896-1913, and including titles like Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and the Damnation of Faust.

Wherein we talk with dear friends and Defiance Comedy members Matt Kramer, Molly North, and Zack Joyce about how NFTs are like the Hatfields and McCoys, Tupac's hologram as a JEOPARDY! host, destroying a possessed demon couch, and so much Quantum Leap talk. Music by Raja Kumari, Madlib, and President Tightrhymes

Wherein we talk with writer/actors Emily Goodson, Charlie Lind, and Luke McConnell about their upcoming movies and off-Broadway shows, the tradition of naming your stepdad, tattoos of wolves, suns, and hummingbird skulls, and ironically f*ing Billy Mitchell. Music by Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats, Blackthought, and Junglepussy

Wherein we talk with our old friends JR Mcintire and David Britton!

Wherein we chat with a couple of our oldest friends, chef and owner of d'Vines Sasha Divine, and competitive foot-bagger, frisbee golfer and construction company vice president Jordan Owens about the Candy for Monks program, the most dangerous toys, eating geriatric salmon, and getting lost in Death Valley. Music by Th1rt3en, Menahan Street Band, Blu and Oh No, and Trademarc.

Wherein we talk with our first guest Adam Nahas!

Wherein Brent and I test out a pilot episode with no guest.

Wherein we talk with writer Chris Brecheen about being a writer, GameStop stock manipulation, buying lube from Amazon, and the most badass thing anyone has ever said on Dangersplosion! Music by Little Simz, Moon Hooch, Noveliss, and Melt Yourself Down http://www.chrisbrecheen.com/

In which we speak with actor and writer Todd McGinnis about his newly released book, Buzz Aldrin punching everyone in the mouth, the origin of the name Dangersplosion!, and how Brent is an ayahuasca shaman. All music (except a BroZone song) by MF DOOM (as King Geedorah, Madvillain, Viktor Vaughn, and Danger Doom). RIP to one of the greatest emcees ever.

Wherein we speak with actress/model Michaela Duerson about holiday cooking tips, black people winter solstice magic, Black Lives Matter, and, believe it or not, Kids in the Hall and Survivor come up YET AGAIN! Music by Machinedrum feat. Freddie Gibbs, BroZone, Handsome Boy Modeling School, and Talib Kweli

Wherein we talk with Mike Jeffers and JR McIntire in our holiday episode about Christmas movies, anthropomorphic tattoos, getting bought out by Boston Rob, and buying cigarette from ol' Skype McCloud down at the 7-Eleven. Music by President Tightrhymes, SCRAM, Daughterman, Princess Gassafras and President Tightrhymes https://scram-band.bandcamp.com/album/ep-2 https://daughterman.bandcamp.com/releases

Wherein we speak with Aubrie (AKA That Pesky Prostitute of Twitter) about her experience as a sex worker, paying David Hasselhoff to break up with your girlfriend, why the Detroit airport is all in Japanese, and Brent's job teaching adult math in an olde timey saloon! Music by Junglepussy feat. Gangsta Boo, 7 Days of Funk, Quasimoto, Angry Blackmen

Wherein we speak with actress, improvisor, scientist, and cake decorator Tracy Rowland about her experience on Schitt's Creek, murder mysteries and escape rooms, Grandma's Fibonacci foot, and the fact that THIS IS INAPPROPRIATE! Music by Tune-Yards, Deap Lips, BroZone, and Misled Children & Clutchy Hopkins.

Wherein we talk with Anthony Pedersen (Octopus/Caveman) about late onset pegging fetish divorce, whether or not Stevie Wonder can see, head, leg, and dick transplants, and his bid for future Governer of California! Music by DJ Quik & Problem feat. AMG, President Tightrhymes, Beastie Boys, Chumbawamba, and Lou Bega.

Wherein we speak with public speaking aficionado Jon Colby about bigfoot Myspace Tom killing JFK, getting your meatlog caught in the wood chipper, ordering pepper jelly from Jeremy London, and an in-depth dive into the benefits and detriments of improvisational comedy training on everyday life! Music by Blu and Oh No, Rapsody, President Tightrhymes, and Kendrick Lamar.

Wherein we talk with healthcare professional and anti-racist Kendra Will about the current reality of COVID, addressing racism as a white person, if Brent's thing is infected or not, and life, the universe, and everything. Music by Sa-Roc, President Tightrhymes, and Fuktronik. Links: https://thematrixredpilled.wordpress.com/ https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/ https://www.indysurj.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/WomenReshapingIndiana/

Wherein we talk with our good friend David Britton about his upcoming comedy album The History of the Universe, his podcast Do You Know What Time It Is?, his website StoriesAboutWizards.com, the shocker assassin, and so much more! Music by DJ Shadow feat. Danny Brown, Madvillain feat. Quasimoto, Dizzee Rascal feat. Ghetts & Kano, and Princess Gassafras & President Tightrhymes

Wherein we return for a part 2 with Walker Rhea and Adam Nahas, as well as our friend Colin Garvey, to talk about the FBI corpse farm, future democracy and ethical A.I., tea-bagging the space/time continuum, and being lured into St. Louis' Union Station for some Three-card Monte. Music by Run the Jewels, Thundercat, Mulatu Asatka and Black Jesus Experience, and Rico Nasty.

Wherein we talk with our dear friends Walker Rhea and Adam Nahas (The Original Dangerspolosion! Benefactor) about farmers market racists and Flatman's origin story and we teach you CPR and foreshadow the Coming of the Garvey! Music by Duckwrth & Shaboozey, Injury Reserve, and Chika.

Wherein Brent and Corey are back! We discuss our quarantine media ingestion, sex in the future, zit beards, bulbous ginger root hands, and whiskey bottle fellatio. Music by Run the Jewels, Denzel Curry, Girlz on Top, Kendrick Lamar. https://thematrixredpilled.wordpress.com/

Wherein we talk with Raechel Karas and Meghan Flood about Kate Winslet's brother, Mate, keeping Ellen in the cellar, getting a goddamned director, and an exclusive reveal about their comedy group Fat & Funny. Music by Young M.A, President Tightrhymes, Young M.A, and Talib Kweli & Styles P!

Wherein we talk with actress Adriana Leonard about working with Eddie Murphy and Danny Trejo, almost doing accidental porn, winning the Oscar for Best Oscar, looking badass really fast, and subpar trumpet playing. Music by El-P, Joey Bada$$, President Tightrhymes, and Company Flow!

Wherein we meet Dangersplosion's new co-host Nick Coppola and talk about jumping on the Cumberbatch-wagon, the ballad of "Tubby" Bacon, tripping balls across the West with Lewis and Clark, and treating him like a normal grandpa. Music by Jidenna, President Tightrhymes, Step Brothers, and Quasimoto! Check out President Tightrhymes' new mixtape here: https://soundcloud.com/presidenttightrhymes/sets/exploratory-committee-mixtape

Wherein we interview Claire Wilcher and Chad Woodward about quitting their jobs at ComedySportz Indianapolis, paying people to convince future generations of Santa's existence, why Claire's driving around the country in an RV for the next few months, how Brent got his dirty tattoo, and all manner of centipede, human and otherwise. Music by Organized Konfusion, Immortal Technique, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and The Beatles/Lorde! Follow Claire's adventure here: www.CSzWorldTour.com