The Secret Origins of Mint Condition: Comics, Movies, TV, Sports, Gaming and more

In this week’s episode, we welcome special guest and friend of the show, Jack Adrien. We cover Jack’s entire secret origin: what got him into pop culture, who his favorite childhood heroes were, whe…

In this week's episode, we are talking all things Wally West with returning special guest Keith Tarnowski. We get into why Wally is such a great character, what separates him from Barry Allen, why Ba…

The 2021 New Years Special In this week’s episode, we wrap up 2021 and welcome 2022 by answering questions and comments from our Facebook page. We then end the show with our Best Top 5 of 2021, but o…

In this week’s episode, we celebrate and talk about all things Christmas. We are joined by special guest Karen Louie (James’ wife) who gives some extra holiday cheer. Topics covered are: Christmas me…

In this week’s episode, we talk about Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Please note we talk all about this movie, so there are many SPOILERS AHEAD.

:13 James introduces the topic of Shang-…

In this week's episode, we are joined by special guest Keith Tarnowski. He reveals his “Secret Mint Origin," how he got into to comics and how he met Joe. He also talks about working at the store and…

In this sports edition, we talk about the upcoming MLB CBA negotiations and imminent work stoppage, the home stretch of the NFL season, NY football teams, and give updates on hockey, NY basketball, a…

In this week’s episode, we talk about the recent news of the Babylon 5 reboot and all things Babylon 5, what we think about the reboot, how we started watching B5, what the show meant to us, and what…

In this week’s episode, we are celebrating Thanksgiving. We talk about what Thanksgiving was like for us growing up as well as what it means to us before launching into reading comments from follower…

In this week’s episode, our friend John Whittemore joins us to talk about all things pop culture. He talks about how he got into pop culture, the importance of Star Wars and Star Trek (especially Dr.…

In this special episode, we talk about a difficult and serious topic in the NHL: the sexual abuse scandal in the Blackhawks organization reaching back to 2010. I want to warn the audience that while …

In this week’s episode, we talk about the current state of the comic book industry. We cover topics that include: the price of comics, trade paperbacks and omnibuses, telling a good story, artists de…

This week, we pick up where we left off at the end of our Star Trek episode. With crewman Chris having returned from his travels in the Delta Quadrant, the USS Mint Condition is ready to continue its…

In this week’s special sports edition, we look at the upcoming World Series, the continued disappointment in the NY football teams (especially the Jets), who or what is at fault when a team or player…

In this week’s episode, we continue celebrating Halloween with our special guest, Patrick Louie, and talking about our Top 5 favorite horror, sci-fi, monster or Halloween movies and TV.

SPOILERS!

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In this week's episode, we are kicking off our Halloween celebration with our guest, Patrick Louie. Patrick shares his own Mint Condition secret origin with listeners, talks about his time working in…

Star Trek: The Frequently Discovered Country 

In this episode, with Chris on an away mission it is up the remaining crew of the U.S.S Mint Condition to boldly go where every science fiction and pop  …

In this week’s episode, we welcome special guest Josh Bernhard, who visits and discusses his secret origin with Mint, how his love of writing led him to working in the world of television and film, a…

Secret Origins Sports Edition “Fail Mary”

In this pre-October Sports Edition episode, we once again cover the disaster that is New York sports with the possible exception of The Yankees. Even that ai…

The Secret Origins of Mint Condition Episode 4 Top 10 (part 2)

In this episode we continue with our top 10 lists of comic books and comic book story lines, culminating in our number 1 picks. Again we…