Fast becoming more beard than man, Kyle Olson is an award-winning writer, producer, and host who has been podcasting since these shows were still casting onto pods. He co-hosted The Marvel Movie Minute for over three hundred episodes with his fellow true believer and partner in pods, Rob Kubasko. He's created several shows, the most notable of which are his audio drama series, The Swashbuckling Ladies Debate Society, his storytelling show, The Story Well, and he's a co-host on Craft and Chaos. He served as co-host on Sitting in the Dark in it's scariest early days.
He still has a lot to learn.
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Nick Fury’s not dead, Maria Hill’s been hiding under a helmet, and the guy who invented the Winter Soldier is standing in the back of the bank vault getting paid in “special thanks.” Minutes 86–90 are all reveals — plus one genuinely infuriating comics-industry story and a surprise field trip to a Cleveland cemetery.
The shieldiest Cap in MCU history, the four words that break Steve Rogers (“Who the hell is Bucky?”), and a listener-fueled brawl over what actually counts as a cameo. Minutes 81–85 of Captain America: The Winter Soldier — buckle up for one totally routine prisoner transport.
Hydra lays out its entire evil plan, a Penske truck does the franchise’s dirty work (again), and the Winter Soldier arrives to permanently redefine “road rage.” Plus: the best argument for how vibranium actually works ever made — courtesy of Dungeons & Dragons. And Sam Wilson brings a knife to a machine-gun fight. We need to talk about Sam’s knife.
Three hosts walk into a Cold War bunker. A Swiss Nazi monologues from inside a TV. Somewhere, in the future, Tony Stark is having a very bad day and doesn’t know it yet.
Steve and Natasha stage the most consequential fake make-out in MCU history, then borrow a pickup truck to investigate a defunct army base where the SHIELD logo is just casually etched into a basement wall. Plus: the hosts cannot agree on who Natasha Romanoff should actually be kissing.
The humor you love and the humor that comes out of you are, it turns out, almost never the same thing. Plus: a script ends up somewhere it has no business being, Pete discovers a word is calling from inside the manuscript, and Romance Novel or Death Metal Band returns to humble us all.
Alexander Pierce is having a terrible Tuesday. He’s just murdered his best government contact, his secret world-domination plan is humming along nicely, and now he has to stand in his own office and have a passive-aggressive standoff with the most morally uncomplicated man alive.
This week on Marvel Movie Minute, Nick Fury is dead — probably — and everyone who loved him is handling it. Meanwhile, Alexander Pierce would like five minutes of Steve’s time, which is definitely not suspicious at all.
Kyle saw a play that broke the rules. Pete wrote one in a weekend that made his wife cry. Kyle wrote one where a celebrity chef invites a comeuppance. Also: squirrel suits, The Lego Movie, and a listener asks whether posting about your creative process counts as art, therapy, or mild fraud.
This week, Nick Fury — director of SHIELD, the world’s most powerful intelligence organization — attempts to covertly warn Captain America of a massive conspiracy by turning off the lights, displaying a phone with the words “EARS EVERYWHERE” in approximately 96-point font, and then speaking out loud, twice, using his own name, six feet from the agents who are actively monitoring him. It is, to put it charitably, a choice.