The Franchisees

Three cheers for perhaps the most hastily put together sequel we've had the pleasure of covering on this show! Wayne and Garth are back and this time they're planning a giant concert in their hometow…

Coming at you pralines and dick style  from the post-apocalyptic ruins of the once fair city of John Tory-less Toronto: it's party time, it's excellent, schwing, I fear change, did you ever find Bugs…

SMOOTH! It's a late-nite episode: The Franchisees After Dark. Alex, Ben, and special guest Katie are coming straight from the movie theatre to your ears! We left our studio to check out the newly rel…

We're back and we've brought some friends along with us! An XXL movie deserves an XXL episode so joining the pod are two very special, highly distinguished guests: Mary Jane and Jesse. The four of us…

Onto our next new franchise: Magic Mike! Whoever said "you can't make a movie about male strippers AND the Great Recession" obviously never met our personal hero (and friend of the pod) Steven Soderb…

We're back with a bumper episode between franchises! Our two biggest heroes Bruce Willis and Kevin Smith return to deliver an impressively unfunny big studio comedy, Cop Out. In this episode we explo…

"Yippee Ki-Yay Mother Russia"

John McClane is BACK for the LAST time ever! And this time it's personal because his sidekick is little John McClane Jr. aka Jai Courtney aka Captain Boomerang aka Jai Bo…

aka Die Hard 4.0 aka Live Más or Die Hard

The Franchisees are back with the long gap sequel Live Free or Die Hard! This one features the scariest terrorist of all: the world wide web! Can working clas…

Hot town, summer in the city! Christmas? That's old news buddy. It's 2023: new year, new you, new podcast episode. Are you hurting from a hedonistic New Year's Eve celebration? Let the soothing voice…

Season's Greetings everyone! We're back with yet another Christmas movie, Die Hard 2. There's no debating it this time, it's a cold hard fact: Die Hard 2 is a Christmas movie and a pre-9/11 airport c…

'Tis the season - a new season of The Franchisees that is! Now that we've run the gauntlet of Paranormal Activity sequels we can start fresh with a whole new franchise. Thank the lord! In this episod…

Here's a spooky treat for you, a little bumper episode in between franchises (or yet another entry in the "Paranorma" franchise, depending on how you look at it). This week we watched Laika's 2012 st…

We did it... it's over... it's done. Or as Jesus himself once put it, "IT IS FINISHED!" Next of Kin aka Amish Activity. Did they save the best for last? I think you know the answer but you'll have to…

What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss? Well... we called it (it being that the Ghost Dimension would be awesome) and uh, we lost. In this episode we talk about the (intended) finale of the Par…

Finally, the Paranormal Activity franchise does something a little different! In what is arguably our goofiest episode yet, we talk about The Marked Ones, our distaste for magic, and all the celebrit…

What's there to say about Paranormal Activity 4? Well... not much really, which is why we mostly talk about friends of the pod Jordan Peterson and Daniel Plainview. We also talk about Xbox Kinect, th…

Right off the bat in PA 3 it looks like we're finally gonna get that hot sex tape this franchise has been teasing... unless of course something... paranormal were to occur! Join us as we discuss the …

Paranormal Activity 2! It's bigger! It's better! Or is it? It's not. Hear us discuss the first of many Paranormal Activity sequels (or in the case of this film, prequel). Will our beloved Micah and K…

Welcome to The Franchisees! We're starting off with the Paranormal Activity franchise. Take a trip with us back to the late 2000s and get ready to be terrified by ghosts, ghoulies, and obnoxious boyf…