The Mainstream with Jesse and Brian
Welcome to The Mainstream, the pop culture podcast no one has been waiting for! Join music and pop culture nerds Jesse Noonan and Brian McMenaman as they journey through the week's events in entertainment and try to have a little fun along the way. Will they succeed? Only one way to find out!
Episodes
March Badness continues as Jesse and Brian continue counting down the best movie villains of all time! Who will come out victorious? Who, I ask you, WHO????
- An intro where Brian gets to speak a lot
- Which Disney character is hotter than the Beast's human form? (Answer: most)
- Should you fill out your March Madness bracket based on dad vibes?
- Talking about the Joker for at least ten minutes, I'm so sorry
- Our most hyped ma...
The Mainstream is back with the movie villain bracket to end all movie villain brackets! Jesse and Brian embark on a scientific journey to find the baddest baddie in movie history, complete with controversial seeding, tough first round matchups, and heated arguments. On this episode:
- Jesse's Rotten Tomatoes philosophy
- Please send all hate mail to @brianmc9891 on Twitter
- Baron Zemo: just a little guy (who is also a terrorist)
- Pl...
Hey remember Kang the Conqueror? The villain the MCU spent all of phase 4 building up to? Probably meant to be the villain of the Multiverse Saga? Remember how he was defeated by ants? Microscopic ants, no less! One of the most powerful villains in the MCU, defeated by one of the smallest animals on the planet. I'll give you a moment to laugh hysterically.
Better? Good, cause we're talking about a movie that's better...
Updates and recaps and trailers, oh my! Yes this episode is long, but the recording session for it was an hour longer. Think of the good jokes and goofs and bits that had to be cut in order to bring this down to a reasonable length. R.I.P. bits. We hardly knew ye. On this episode:
- Creating the world's most Key West business
- Update: someone save Cleatus the NFL Robot from Fox
- Update: EA will make profitable games soon, we pro...
I didn't plan on this show becoming a weekly rant about live services and debating on whether or not WB Games deserves to still exist. I also didn't plan on the neighbors having a party that ruins our audio. I did plan on releasing two episodes this week and the fact that we actually managed to is kind of impressive. I should get something nice for myself. Like a pint of ice cream. Or a Maserati. On this episode:
- Steve Ro...
A bonus episode of our Grammy predictions, recorded around the time they came out in November! My only regret is that I had to cut out the part about Scrat from Ice Age being responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Yes, I'm aware that I said the 2016 Grammys instead of the 2016 Oscars. I apologize. Though, to be fair, the 2016 Grammys also said the wrong name for their biggest award, as album of the year clearly should have gone to E•MO•TION by Carly Rae Jepsen. On this episode:
- Debating on whether or not Red One was written while drunk
- Our pop culture podcast's very first Star Wars conversation
- Ryan Gosling, cantina owner
- Having a $...
Welcome to The Mainstream, a music podcast that talks about video games for an hour. In our defense, the Switch 2 was announced and that occupied a lot of our collective brainspace. On this episode:
- The world's first Limewire-exclusive podcast
- Please stop making Live Service games
- Oh no, maybe Sony sucks a little
- WB Games sucks a lot, no surprise there
- HULU FUBO VENU SUE BRO
- Sling sucks and it's ESPN's fault
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