Pilot or Pass
This is a show where two unqualified television enthusiasts start a club where they talk about the first episode of a different show every week.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 51
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Episode 31: Ep 31 The Knight Before Christmas and The Night Before
Try having a conversation about these two shows. They are purposefully confusing. But enjoyable when you want to mix people up. Enjoy these two shows, one wholesome and one not so much this holiday s…
00:50:53 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
Episode 30: Ep 30 Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel - Is this teen heart throb?
Teenage vampire slayers are nothing new in the world of Popular culture, but they seemed pretty novel to people in the early 2000s! These popular Joss Whedon shows were big and are still referred to …
00:50:33 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
Episode 29: Ep 29 Bones and CSI - When did we start watching mom shows?
When crimes happen, or cannibals are on the loose, this podcast isn't going to help you or give you any sort of insight into the criminal mind. Or the investigators mind. Instead it will provide colo…
00:53:56 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Episode 28: Ep 28 We are the Champions & Highscore
Which docu-series is about stranger subcultures? I guess it depends who you ask. I think its the cheese one but my Priest disagrees with me.
Hosted by Robbie Sweeney & Benjamin Bate
Edited by Benjam…
00:50:45 |
Tue 01 Dec 2020
Episode 27: Ep 27 Kengan Ashura & Blood of Zeus (Warning High Testosterone Levels this Week)
This week we tried to do an anime week but instead watched one anime about muscular men pinching each other and the other was an American adult animation on Netflix loosely based on greek Mythology. …
00:43:08 |
Tue 24 Nov 2020
EP 26 - Middle Man & Teenage Bounty Hunters
When trouble strikes, the Middle Man is there to save you from comic book evil. When your friends creepy father is hitting on you at bible camp, maybe there is a bounty on his head for skipping bail,…
00:41:33 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Ep 25 - The Haunting of Bly Manor & October Faction - More Halloween Please!
Two weeks after Halloween we are still on a spooky kick. The Haunting of Bly Manor is the 2020 sequel series to The Haunting of Hill House, and we discuss if it's trying to live up to that legacy, an…
00:43:46 |
Tue 10 Nov 2020
Ep 24 - Good Morning Veronica and Ratched
Are you feeling stressed or crazy in these uncertain times? If you are looking for a mental health hospital don't check into the one Ratched is working at. Trust us.
In this episode we entered into …
00:42:41 |
Wed 04 Nov 2020
Ep 23 - Glow and WWE Slam City (yes the show promoting kids toys) Featuring Adam Salzer from RWN
This week we watch a series that is designed specifically to sell a line of toys, and an incredible show about wrestling that is based off the real lives of people from the 80s. You can decide which …
00:44:47 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Ep 22 - The Great British Bake Off and The American Barbecue Showdown
This week its a clean competition between Great Britain and American cultural delights. We pitted these cuisines against each other and determined that no matter what we were the winner. If only beca…
00:41:35 |
Mon 26 Oct 2020
Ep 21 - Julie and the Phantoms & JEM
in this truely outragious episode Ben and Robbie get a little musical and watch some shows about girl bands with memebers that are a little more, supernatural.
Hosted by Robbie Sweeney & Benjamin Ba…
00:46:06 |
Tue 20 Oct 2020
Ep 20 - Seinfeld and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
You may have had to answer some awkward questions if you watched these shows with your children. We aren't apologizing for that, Robbie had to do the same thing when Ben started asking questions befo…
00:42:44 |
Mon 12 Oct 2020
Ep 19 Extinct or Alive and Mysteries of the Deep - There is a whole world of nature documentaries out there just waiting to be discovered
Lets delve into the mysteries of our own world and this week we are going to look at two documentary series. Extinct or Alive with Forest Galate, and Mysteries of the Deep with Jeremy Wade. Is this a…
00:52:57 |
Thu 01 Oct 2020
Ep 18 - Cobra Kai and The Dark Crystal, Age of Resistance - it's 80's week baby!
Holler back to the days of our prebirth. Robbie and Ben watch two shows based on movies that came out before we were born. Both shows like the society that warranted their creation are stuck in the p…
00:54:49 |
Thu 24 Sep 2020
Ep 17 The Untamed & Legend of the White Snake - This episode doesn't come with subtitles
China has a huge amount of television and folk lore that most people barely even touch upon in their lives. So this week we watched two shows from China, one of which is another retelling of a classi…
00:50:53 |
Thu 17 Sep 2020
Ep 16 Lovecraft Country & The Order - It's time to get supernatural
With fall right around the corner, we felt it was time to remind everyone that the evil in books isn't real and that the evil regular people perpetrate everyday is. Have fun with these two!
Hosted b…
00:41:54 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Ep 15 Guns Akimbo - Streaming Movies?
This we we decided to switch it up and watch Guns Akimbo staring Daniel Radcliffe. A gory film invoking comics, and action movies of the 80s and early 2000s. Premiering at film festivals this movie e…
00:33:55 |
Thu 03 Sep 2020
Ep 14 Marvel's Runaways and Umbrella Academy
Do you have enough trauma to be in either of these shows? I'm not sure I do but my all black wardrobe begs to differ. This week we watched Marvel's Runaways and the Umbrella Academy.
Hosted by Robbi…
00:37:49 |
Thu 27 Aug 2020
Ep 13 Warrior Nun & Cursed - Women with Swords
Let me tell you a tale of two different fantasy shows. One set in the modern day but with magic Catholic Lightsabers, and the other a retelling of Arthurian Myth. There are wolves, demons, faeries, a…
00:45:22 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Ep 12 Star Trek and The Orville - boldly going on routine missions
Let's leave this planet behind and go into SPACE. Robbie leads us somewhere new and we talk about the philosophy of Startrek's episode "the man trap" and the qualities of a parody show that make it s…
00:41:40 |
Thu 13 Aug 2020
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