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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We discuss the mother of all cinematic montage sequences because lots of time and names are passing by on screen. Come along for the ride of production companies, cool cast members and even cooler directors. We’re looking at you Favreau! P.S. We love you. How could talking about names be entertaining? Oh just you listen! By the way, what is up with that submarine?
We call back to a certain 1980’s mail-in for blueprints promotion as we mourn the passing of a character. Wait, it’s only the third minute you say? Things move fast when you’re building the blocks for one of your story’s main villains who cries to Sto-vo-kor! That’s right, Star Trek references ahead. Set phasers to stunning storytelling! Oh, and some retconning that questions the legacy of Tony Stark. Or does it? Our first big Iron Man 2 argument happens in minute three!
We confess our love for some movies featuring Russians and Val Kilmer. Why? You’ll understand because there’s a connection between one of them and this minute. But wait, we’ve got our first brand new character introduced in Iron Man 2. Not human, but it’s ok. There’s discussion of press conference cameras and we introduce everyone’s favorite antagonist family: the Vanko’s! If you love Yevgeni Lazarev and/or Mickey Rourke then this minute’s for you.
We begin minute one with a tour of the good and the bad of sequels with the number 2 in them. Then the real discussion begins with Paramount, Jon Favreau and the state of Marvel Studios all the way back in 2010. We dive into some deep motion graphic history of company logos and go back to the first Iron Man movie and add in some Russian landmarks for good measure. Bonus: we’ve got a Yugo, our first, mind-blowing edition of Meanwhile in MCU and a “boyd” sighting!
The only water in the forest is the river, which means it’s time to say goodbye to the Ponds. From crazy pepperpots to a monument that comes to visit you, we talk about the exit of the Williamses and is that a hit of regeneration energy in the wind?
Remember the Alamo… Drafthouse. Galaxy Quest 2 update? At this rate, we’re never going to see F9. Dr. Brain coming to Apple TV+. The WandaVision time hole.
We’re gearing up for the public release of Marvel Movie Minute season 3 and our minute-by-minute take on ‘Iron Man 2’. To get you ready, we offer this backgrounder complete with a comic book curriculum so that you can get your arms around the lore that served as seed to the film.
From a little Dickens to the death of the Doctor, it’s time to talk about Series 6. Stetsons are cool, good men go to war, a girl waits and we argue about what the worst episode of the season was.
The day has arrived! In case you’re just tuning in, this is technically minute zero of Iron Man 2. We figured many of you might be joining us for the first time so we’ve created this episode to begin as we embark on the minute by minute dissection of Tony Stark’s second outing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Obsessive movie trivia? Check. Weird comparisons? Check. Unbelievably strange pop culture references? Check! Let’s begin!
That hair. That chin. That bowtie. That FEZ! It’s time to talk about Matt Smith, the 11th Doctor and the start of the reign of Moffat. From the smashing of a garden shed, through a garden of one headed statues right up the rebooting of the universe, we’ll talk about it all.