THUNDER GRUNT

The Thunder Grunt Podcast is no more. It is once again Bonus Disc as it was as far back as 2014. Writers/Blockbusters, Shrimp Night!, OKStupid, A Mound of Thunder, They Know! and Whose Roll Is It Anyway? all have new homes and new feeds. Links to all shows can be found here: https://linktr.ee/otherbobcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thanks for coming over to the new W/B feed with us! All episodes ONLY available there! Links: - Writers/Blockbusters New Home Page - W/B on Apple Podcasts - W/B on Spotify - W/B on Google Podcasts - W/B on Stitcher

Thanks for coming over to the new W/B feed with us! All episodes ONLY available there! Links: - Writers/Blockbusters New Home Page - W/B on Apple Podcasts - W/B on Spotify - W/B on Google Podcasts - W/B on Stitcher

Thanks for coming over to the new feed with us! Links: - Writers/Blockbusters New Home Page - W/B on Apple Podcasts - W/B on Spotify - W/B on Google Podcasts - W/B on Stitcher

Thanks for coming over to the new feed with us! Links: - Writers/Blockbusters New Home Page - W/B on Apple Podcasts - W/B on Spotify - W/B on Google Podcasts - W/B on Stitcher

***BIG NEWS*** Writers/Blockbusters has become it's own show! The new dedicated podcast feed is already live and you can search and follow it on your favorite podcast app! Make sure to do that before it leaves Thunder Grunt for good! Thank you! ***BIG NEWS*** Jamie, Jimmy and Bob sit in their respective basements and discuss the script to Zach Cregger's horror head-scratcher...Barbarian! Make sure to follow Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast on where ever you listen to podcasts, LINKS RIGHT HERE!

***BIG NEWS*** Writers/Blockbusters has become it's own show! The new dedicated podcast feed is already live and you can search and follow it on your favorite podcast app! Make sure to do that before it leaves Thunder Grunt for good! Thank you! ***BIG NEWS*** Jamie, Jimmy and Bob will be right here...breaking down the script for the 40th Anniversary of the beloved Steven Spielberg classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Make sure to follow Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast on where ever you listen to podcasts, LINKS RIGHT HERE!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob each fail to solve the Lament Configuration but decide to have the ultimate experience in pleasure and pain anyway...breaking down the script to Hellraiser (2022), now streaming on HULU!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob have no sights to show you, it's an audio podcast, but they do breakdown Clive Barker's beloved script to 1987's HELLRAISER. 

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob, with their normal human fingers, discuss the wholly original script to Everything Everywhere All At Once written by DANIELS. 

Bob has a delightful chat with the two indelible hosts of Baltimore's longest running cult movie screening event, Mondo Baltimore! Ros and Michael have been the "faces" of Mondo for around four years now, including the online-version during the covid years. Even though Bob has been a member for over a decade, he asks them to point out all that is great about Mondo and why you should go (if you get the chance.) Also, everyone makes a list of their "Top 5 Movies Where Someone Gets Frozen." Watch this episode with FULL VIDEO on YouTube! Mondo Baltimore's Official Website!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob answer the call by breaking down the script to Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone.

Bob is joined once again by the great, wonderful, talented mad scientist Johannes Grenzfurthner! They discuss local history, religious truth and the making of Johannes's newest film RAZZENNEST, which was has been accepted to Fantastic Fest 2022!  Read up on Johannes via Wikipedia! Check out the trailer to RAZZENNEST! MONOCHROM his official production company website! Fantastic Fest's official RAZZENNEST announcement!  

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob say a collective YUP to Jordan Peele's newest script. 

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob tempt fate as they discuss the script to Robert Eggers newest film The Northman.

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob never stop to think if they "should" as they breakdown the script for the 1993 original Steven Spielberg masterpiece, Jurassic Park.

WHOSE ROLL IS IT ANYWAY? is a troupe of Baltimore performers that play Dungeons & Dragons where the characters and even the Dungeon Master are at the mercy of a live audience. Monsters, spells, magical items, and more are submitted by crowd members during the game! In a last-ditch effort to make their squat-house legit, our antiheroes out-smoke their undead roommates, carve out a remodeling montage, and brawl so hard they found a new holiday.  Watch this episode with FULL VIDEO COVERAGE on YOUTUBE!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob ask each other if they are happy as they breakdown the newest Marvel script to Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness.  

WHOSE ROLL IS IT ANYWAY? is a troupe of Baltimore performers that play Dungeons & Dragons where the characters and even the Dungeon Master are at the mercy of a live audience. Monsters, spells, magical items, and more are submitted by crowd members during the game! This week tired of life on the road, our dysfunctional family squats in the double-haunted ruins outside of Bluntsberg and adopt a slime boy name Goognocchio. Watch this episode with FULL VIDEO COVERAGE on YOUTUBE!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob don't reveal if they are secretly robots while discussing the Dan O'Bannon penned script for Ridley Scott's ALIEN. 

 Bob once again uses Shrimp Night! to expose his forgotten internet-radio failures, this time focusing on two "podcasts that never were" with two of his best friends, Huey Hesson and Mike Stettes! Backrow Bastards was a DVD commentary podcast hosted by Bob and Mike, around five unreleased episodes existed (they think.) The Chet Program Program with Wet and Chet was Bob and Huey's attempt to try and make a whole show off a very weird name, it lasted one episode, which was released to the public and then promptly abandoned! The guys walk down their personal memory lane of posting content on the internet since the 2000s, celebrating the few things that worked and cracking up over the litany of things that absolutely did not. Listen to Disco Spy by Hestus (a song made by Huey and Mike) HERE! 

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob aren't careful what they wish for as they dig through the script to the global box office juggernaut that is Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home.

WHOSE ROLL IS IT ANYWAY? is a troupe of Baltimore performers that play Dungeons & Dragons where the characters and even the Dungeon Master are at the mercy of a live audience. Monsters, spells, magical items, and more are submitted by crowd members during the game! This week after eleven hard months in magical interdimensional prison, a gaggle of newly freed bean-smuggling convicts start a ruckus crime spree hoping to rescue their Cleric from life without parole! Watch this episode on YouTube with FULL VIDEO COVERAGE!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob don't have a bad feeling about this episode because joining in on the script talk is Star Wars super fan, filmmaker Eduardo Sánchez, director on such projects as The Blair Witch Project, Lovely Molly, V/H/S/2, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Lucifer, Supernatural, Yellow Jackets and the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! Check out Ed on the official Star Wars YouTube channel HERE!

Bob has a grand old time laughing it up with his good buddy Brandon Hardesty! Brandon is a super talented writer and actor who snowballed to fame in the early days of YouTube. His videos led to appearances on Jimmy Kimmel and David Letterman, acting in movies with the likes of William H. Macy, Nick Swardson and The Scorpion King and portraying the live-action version of Eric Cartman on South Park! Somehow years later he ended up in one of Bob's short films, and thus their friendship was forged in fire! Oh also they talk about their Top 10 Favorite Parenting Movies. Check out Brandon's original Youtube Channel HERE! Watch Brandon in Bob's short Timecrowave HERE! Enjoy Brandon's Essay videos on THE BACK FOCUS!

The Jamie, The Jimmy and The Bob become vengeance (not really) when discussing the script for The Batman. 

Once again Bob wields the nebulous format of SHRIMP NIGHT! to placate his "podcasting midlife crisis."  Years ago Sarah Gorman, Becky Hackerman, Mike Walls and Bob were the co-hosts of a horror movie podcast that only lasted a handful of episodes. The podcast was called NOW SLAYING, it ended pretty quick. Becky and Sarah join Bob to discuss memories, why it stopped so abruptly and to relive the old glory days by reviewing the water-logged, found-footage horror film THE DEEP HOUSE! Check out Becky's band INFINITE PIZZA on BANDCAMP and FACEBOOK! Watch this episode with video HERE!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob take a break from listening to their Shitty Beatles albums so they can discuss the script to the 1992 classic Wayne's World for the film's 30th anniversary.

Bob yaks it up with his friend, filmmaker, YouTuber, live-streamer, Misfits historian...Jeff Frumess! Since Jeff has so kindly had Bob on his YouTube channel several times, Bob returns the favor to Jeff with the longest Shrimp Night episode ever! The boys talk about balding, the technical aspects of podcast streaming and run down their top 10 favorite comedy directors of all time! Watch this episode on YouTube with video HERE! Subscribe to the FRUMESS YouTube channel HERE! All of Bob's appearances on the FRUMESS Channel are compiled HERE!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob cook up their gleeful breakdown of the grief-stricken script to the Nic Cage tour de force that is PIG. 

Bob has the honor of catching up with an old buddy, a filmmaker whose been pounding out Low Budget Pictures for more than 30 years, the director of such films as SEXSQUATCH, THE WEIRDSIES and MULVA: ZOMBIE ASS KICKER!...Chris Seaver! The guys do a deep dive on their favorite films of the 2000's, Chris absolutely nails the assignment and Bob gets overly excited that they both adore the masterpiece known as HOT ROD! Watch this episode with video on YouTube! Check out Seaver's YouTube Channel IT CREPT FROM THE 80S WARLOCK HOME VIDEO on Facebook Chris Seaver's Instagram!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob find out there are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a podcast. They follow most of those rules as they stab through the Kevin Williamson script to Wes Craven's classic SCREAM.

Bob decides to use the amorphous premise of SHRIMP NIGHT! to begin to revisit what the hell happened to his long defunct podcasts. First on the list: The gents from A MOUND OF THUNDER! Bob, Huey, Rex and John gather for some closure on the 15 episode run of their rage filled show that started because of a mistake and ended because of several mistakes! The guys also find time to give one last comic book movie review by complaining about Marvel's THE ETERNALS! All episodes of A MOUND OF THUNDER are available on the Thunder Grunt Podcast feed, here's a direct link! Watch this episode with video HERE!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob deconstruct the self-aware deconstructions of the meta script to The Matrix Resurrections.

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob look each other in the eyes and say "Go get 'em Tiger" as they discuss script lessons learned from the Sam Raimi classic Spider-Man 2.

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob munch on Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan's script for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

Bob has a long overdue chat with Jim McDonough, the super talented filmmaker responsible for incredible short films such as Manicorn, Tiny Clones, Darling Pet Monkey and many more! Jim gives a verbal sneak peak at turning Manicorn into a feature film, but first the guys walk each other through the ups and downs of early filmmaking life, how they let go of giving power to "view counts" and Jim is kind enough to read a list of negative reviews posted under his movies by all the well-adjusted people on the internet!  You can watch all of Jim's movie on his YouTube channel RIGHT HERE!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob never mention how "slime" is a portmanteau of "sludge" and "grime" as they walk through their breakdown of the script to the original 1984 classic...Ghostbusters.

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob say his name several times but thankfully no where near a mirror as they discuss the script to Nia DaCosta's Candyman.

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob look directly into a ZOOM window and say "Candyman" way more than five times while discussing the script to the 1992 horror classic. 

Bob has a chat with a writer he considers one of the most enthusiastic and positive forces in modern film criticism, Nick Clement! A contributor to both Variety and We Are Cult, his writing can also be found on the limited edition Arrow Films releases of both True Romance and Legend. Prior to this recording Bob asked Nick if he would like to discuss 1990s action films, listen up for Bob's actual shock as Nick details the fact that he actually worked under the likes of Jerry Bruckheimer, Tony Scott and Michael Bay during the productions of some of their biggest movies! Nick's articles in VARIETY! Nick's articles for WE ARE CULT! Purchase ARROW FILMS TRUE ROMANCE limited edition Blu-ray! Purchase ARROW FILMS LEGEND limited edition Blu-ray!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob know the stakes are high as they discuss Jame Gunn's newest script for The Suicide Squad.

Bob has a long overdue chat with his good friend John Walker! John is one of the creative powerhouses behind the Movie Schmovie Podcast, a talented musician and an analytical mastermind of media! Outside of using this time to just catch up between friends as the world continues to burn, the guys decide to talk about the one subject no one cares to discuss ever again: STAR WARS!  Movie Schmovie Podcast! FYIz Podcast! Follow John on Twitter! Listen to John's music on Bandcamp!

Bob has a long overdue chat with Johannes Grenzfurthner, an Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer and lecturer...which it states clearly on his wikipedia page! They cover a wide range of topics from Sub-cultures to Starship Troopers to his newest film Masking Threshold! Read (or edit!) the Johannes Wikipedia page! Follow Johannes on Twitter! Visit the official Monochrom website! Rent Traceroute on Vimeo!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob become the task masters of their own show as they discuss Marvel's newest film, Black Widow.

Bob has a blast chatting with his super talented friend, cinematographer, musician, filmmaker, singer and dog mom...Sophia Cacciola! They discuss a plethora of film ideas, Sophia checks IMDB to conform the facts and Bob gets overly giddy when Blanche the dog or Face/Off is mentioned!  Watch this episode with video on YouTube! Launch Over Official Website! Launch Over YouTube Channel! Check out Fat Fleshy Fingers! Blanche The Dog's Instagram!

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob bend and snap their way through the classic comedy script for Legally Blonde to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Bob has a chat with his good friend, talented filmmaker, musician, writer and PHANTASM super-fan Michael J. Epstein! They talk about the horrors of making people watch something you made, lamenting the film tastes of others and Michael's myriad of upcoming projects!   Launch Over - Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola's Official Website! The Launch Over YouTube Channel! Check out Fat Fleshy Fingers!

Bob has a chat with filmmaker Austin Allan James, director of the feature film Who's With Me?, a movie about isolation made BEFORE 2020! The two talk about influences, single location movies and their mutual love for the one and only David Wain! Watch Who's With Me? for free on YouTube here! Follow the film's instagram page!

Bob has a blast chatting with an independent filmmaker he very much admires, Joe Badon, director of the features The God Inside My Ear and Sister Tempest. They talk about what exactly counts as a "weird movie" while also outpouring their love for Tim and Eric, Ken Russell and the music of Ray Lynch. They also talk about Joe's two upcoming short films The Blood of the Dinosaurs and The Wheel of Heaven (WHICH HE IS CURRENTLY FUNDING THROUGH KICKSTARTER! BOB DONATED YOU SHOULD TOO.) The Wheel of Heaven KICKSTARTER! The Blood of the Dinosaurs Trailer Joe's Website

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob are cursed with too many questions while breaking down the script to The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.