The Last Kingdom with Matt Boren
November 3, 2025
What do Vikings, soap operas, and existential audio dramas have in common? According to Matt Boren: more than you think—and Mandy’s still recovering from the beheadings.
What do Vikings, soap operas, and existential audio dramas have in common? According to Matt Boren: more than you think—and Mandy’s still recovering from the beheadings.
What do Vikings, soap operas, and existential audio dramas have in common? According to Matt Boren: more than you think—and Mandy’s still recovering from the beheadings.
Mandy Kaplan finally reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula and discovers a shocking truth: there’s almost no Dracula IN Dracula. Joined by Lester Ryan Clark—a high school teacher who annually reads this book and somehow convinced teenagers to care about Victorian epistolary novels—they dissect why the world’s most famous vampire is barely in his own story, and how that might be the best marketing strategy ever devised.
What happens when Cannon Films decides to make the next Star Wars? Mandy, Krissy, and Nathan find out the hard way in their hilarious breakdown of Masters of the Universe.
Actress and writer Kelly Vrooman joins Mandy to explore why Bluey—an Australian children’s show about a family of animated dogs—has become a worldwide phenomenon that makes adults weep and parents actually want to play with their kids. Turns out weaponized wholesomeness animated “on the ones” is exactly the antidote our garbage-fire world needs.