This time on Random Pursuit, we learn who’s a loss leader, whose gut is death, and who you should toss your questions to.

In a rare timely episode, John and Jason discuss a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman that Apple is designing a series of robots, including a “robot” that sits on a table and moves its display around ...

Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Keith David, and a lack of bozos… It can only be 2000’s “Pitch Black,” one of the finer entries in the always-popular “Alien” homage movie genre. We enthuse about elevated ...

This episode has many omissions, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate. Jacob Haller tries to make sense of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979).

The ghosts of Pearl Harbor hang over this episode, which doesn’t really have a villain, except for that mobster who’s not really necessary for the plot, and that Admiral who’s just a stickler for the ...

Jason Snell created The Incomparable podcast in 2010 and operates the Incomparable podcast network. He also writes at Six Colors.

Just in time for Halloween week, Old Spooky Club returns for 1985’s “Fright Night.” It’s an entirely ’80s comedy-horror movie with zero cynicism and only a single layer of meta. Chris Sarandon is the ...

It’s the return of Careers, a fun and popular board game from the 1950s! Will anyone choose to become a uranium prospector? Who will get wrecked at sea? And how many opportunities are too many ...

Another Candlekeep mystery begins with—you guessed it—more book problems for Frittat’ha, Hermioneigh, Naiasa, N’iss, and Paulie.

Erika Ensign lives in Alberta and does a lot of podcasts, including some here at The Incomparable. She also consults on podcasting as a part of Castria.

We move into the eighth inning of our baseball season. This time, Dan and Lex follow a coulda-been-a-contender pitcher in 2002’s The Rookie. Hot topics include Disney movie formulas, offscreen plot ...

Dan’s a freelance writer, podcaster, and author of several books, including the forthcoming supernatural detective novel All Souls Lost, as well as the many installments of the Galactic Cold War ...