Take 10 on Small Screen Trek
May 30, 2021
Kyle and Rob are back to talk Trek. This time, our list is stand alone episodes of Star Trek that meant something to us. No two-parters or movies are allowed. Make it so!
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, and his storytelling show, The Story Well. He’s also a co-host on the horror film podcast, Sitting in the Dark.
He still has a lot to learn.
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Kyle and Rob are back to talk Trek. This time, our list is stand alone episodes of Star Trek that meant something to us. No two-parters or movies are allowed. Make it so!
Here’s some helpful tips how to deal with party problems so your friends don’t fall like Tony. We find out why Natalie is missing while our hero goes to the bathroom. In. The. Suit. Pepper tries but she’s still a bad friend. Kyle also has a brilliant drunk Tony impression.
What’s the connection between 1940’s radio hosts and Tony’s final birthday party? And what’s the deal with Rhodey’s car? We also pay our respects to Adam Michael Goldstein, known as DJ AM, who makes a big impact in this minute.
We pour up a course in mixology as we purvey a perfectly innocent conversation between two adults. That is if you overlook the Swiss watches, dirty martinis and masterful mind games being played on our hero. What is Natalie Rushman’s job again?
Hammer has a plan for Pentagon domination and using Tony’s frontward as a bathroom while Ivan has plans for the latter. We then head back to Tony’s bedroom and his conch is literally just right out in the open. All conchs are welcome!
Let’s begin with a really nerdy dive into the world of encryption, operating systems and have a call back to season two of the Marvel Movie Minute! Why? Ivan, our physicist turned hacker shows up poor Justin and his lacking knowledge of technology. Also, no attempt has been made to change Ivan’s appearance though we have to ask who’s his stylist?
Team Tardis is making a run for the border to get to the wedding on time. We’ve got the Doctor going full MacGyver, a shoutout to Babylon 5 and we hope Big Finish is listening, all in thirteen minutes.
It’s rash time, everybody. We don’t want to talk about blood poisoning. But we do it. For the kids. Everything is breaking this week: Tony, the arc reactor, their friendship, the works. Meanwhile, back in Queens, it’s Hammer time. We head into Justin’s factory littered with Space-X employees and Ivan’s new digs.
Don Cheadle is epic being epic! They’re rolling tanks up the PCH! PIVOT! As exciting as Tony getting chewed out may be, watching Tony take the emotional hit is a highlight of this sequence. CGI wonder-work in the palladium core and no, it probably shouldn’t be smoking.
Christiane Amanpour has a corner on the “twos.” There is, in no way, instruction on extending the float time of checks in this episode. Rhodey has access codes. Pepper is getting interviewed. Tony is in the car. Jarvis is in exposition mode. And thank goodness, too, because how else would we know how corrupt we all are?