A Little Snack

If the late-summer doldrums have got you down, intensify your depression and listen to the latest episode of 'A Little Snack!' Enjoy! Discussed: Monolith and Bear Trap catch everyone up on the latest baby news, Apple News!, new iPad Pro, '3D touch' and what it might mean for the olds, the movies Paul Rudd was good in, a very learned Word of the Week, Netflix's 'Wet Hot American Summer' and a slow person's understanding of the show's "central joke", thoughts on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert', the prospect of a Trump presidency brings out the alarmist in Bear Trap and the fatalist in Monolith, why 'Downton Abbey' is so enjoyable, a moving and memorably maternal Monolith Moment, 'Black Mirror', and a shout-out to 'A Little Snack's' sister podcast, 'Never Heard of It'. Its praises are sung. And a bunch of other listen-y stuff.
Show #104

They did it again. Enjoy, folks! Discussed: A Bear Trap-flavored episode of the Never Heard of It podcast and why it (and the whole podcast, really) is worth checking out, the rolling Trump terror-show, Bear Trap's Nostradamus-level prediction comes true, what happens after election day 2016 regardless of the outcome, how the GOP can move away from being, as David Brooks puts it, an "all-white party", the odds of the House impeaching Hillary in Jan 2017, Apple News and the possible update of the famed Mac "tower", Apple-made chips, Apple-made cars, self-driving cars, Monolith's contacts in government, Stranger Things and why it's good (Monolith) and why it's great (Bear Trap), a new and excellent Word of the Week with an atypical outcome, a note about our esteemed Little Snack filmmaking members, Monolith revisits The Fly, a brief word about Suicide Squad, a Monolith Moment about a classic film from the 80s returning briefly to the theaters, and many many other things. (Runtime: it's a long one.)
Show #106

They did one last week, and here they've gone and done another one this week. Either you're being spoiled or punished, it's not clear which. Okay, yes, it's obvious you're being punished. Now here's a detailed rundown of how this week's punishment will be administered. Discussed: Last week's sup-par Word of the Week segment, season one of Netflix's 'House of Cards' and expectations for tomorrow's release of season two [SPOILERS!], the most recent manifestations of Stephen King's two big problems (graphomania and foot-in-mouth disease) are described, why the Olympics just aren't as interesting this go-round, Schwarzenegger's 'Escape Plan' and what happens at the end of that movie [SPOILERS!], Richard Curtis's 'About Time', a Word of the Week that could (should?) be the title of this podcast, a long overdue Apple News segment, and a sweet Monolith Moment that features an undertone of existential dread, and then a bunch of discursive chatting here and there. You know, like a podcast. Enjoy! Show #92

The 'Lith and the Trap felt bad about their extended hiatus so, to make up for it, they've recorded a podcast that probably three of you will be interested in. Okay, two. But for those two listeners, super-sized show# 90 is going to be so awesome as Little Snack welcomes honest-to-God video game industry insider Paul Z to the podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about the current state of video games. Discussed: An inside account of the tragedy and triumph of "Superman Returns" (the game), XBox One versus PS4, "franchise fatigue", "Assassin's Creed", Sony's elite "Ice" team and which upcoming PS4 title will benefit from their ninja ways, Paul's favorite game of 2013 and of the last five years, the different stages of a pissing contest, a lightning round rundown of notable titles from the last few years including GTA 5, some big titles to look for in 2014, mobile gaming as a possible threat to Sony and Microsoft, long-term trends, and then Bear Trap takes a moment to spread some misinformation.
Show# 90

In the pre-show discussion, or the "topic roundup" as Monolith always calls it, was not going well. Bear Trap was sure number 97 was going to be a bum episode: lots of ums and ahs and dead air and stone-faced listeners reaching for the pause button. But Monolith disagreed. He thought the chattin' would, like Ian Malcolm says about life in 'Jurassic Park", "find a way". As it turned out, Monolith was right. Click the play button on this episode of A Little Snack and feast your earholes on a wide-ranging talky-talk about many a thing some listeners may find diverting. Some may still reach for those pause buttons. Enjoy, friends! Discussed: Hollywood's creative bankruptcy, China's new primacy in studio decision-making, the recently announced reboots of 'The Flintstones' and 'Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' and what these errors mean for the film industry, Stephen Colbert's move to CBS, Craig Ferguson's next move and the reasons behind it, the art of beatbox and its best practitioner, Pharrell and Cee-Lo's versions of "Happy" and how that part of the business works (hint: the podcasters have no idea), a discussion on comedy referencing Louis CK, Jim Gaffigan, Steven Wright, Mitch Hedberg, and Ellen Degeneres, whose material only "technically" qualifies as comedy, the correctOR becomes the correctED in a lovely bit of turnabout, a triply surprising Word of the Week segment which Monolith crushes, a crazy thing happens to Monolith on the subject of Star Wars in the Monolith Moment thanks to Bear Trap, and a discussion of episode 5 of Game of Thrones to close out the episode.
Show #97