Fandomonious
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Fandomonious: A podcast where we gather to discuss pop culture; past, present, and speculative future!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Fandomonious turns horror, Marvel, comedy sequels, and movie year catch ups into relaxed fan talk with loose comic energy.
Fandomonious: A Pop Culture Podcast belongs in TV & Film as a loose, talky hangout for screen fans. The show moves through pop culture news, horror season games, franchise updates, and year end catch up without sanding off the room's casual feel.
You want movie-night banter that can derail from Marvel Zombies to Vanilla Coke without apologizing.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Easy banter, familiar chemistry, and pop-culture chatter that makes the loose drift feel like part of the charm.
Fandomonious settles into easy Friday the 13th banter, with Adam Petagene and Ian moving from sports ball to the Super Bowl, then on to Marvel talk, Spider-Man Noir, and the He-Man trailer.
Holiday banter settles into a nostalgic, conversational look at sports disappointment and the fading of familiar pop-culture stores.
This holiday-timed Fandomonious conversation starts in New Year’s exhaustion and a sour sports result, then eases into mall nostalgia and the slow disappearance of familiar pop-culture stores.
A loose Disney-memory hangout with enough chatter to feel lived-in.
Episode 175 is a loose, conversational hangout that begins with the hosts sounding run down before settling into a Disney-properties riff and a memory-based ranking game.
A loose spooky-season hangout built around Marvel Zombies, New Asgard, and easy banter.
Fandomonious settles into spooky season with a loose, familiar opening before it gets to Marvel Zombies. It works best when the hosts are trading banter, plot beats, and small offhand details that make the conversation feel lived in rather than packaged.
Loose Superman talk, Evil Dead detours, and a lived-in pop-culture hangout.
Fandom chat does most of the work here, opening with the chewing warning, the cleaning spree, and a jar of dirt before settling into Superman. The episode keeps drifting through ordinary-life bits, but that looseness feels part of the hangout rather than a mistake.
Junk-food gripes and sequel trivia turn a rambling hangout into an easy listen.
The episode opens with junk-food complaints and quickly settles into an easy, entertaining stretch of sequel memories and pop-culture recall. Smarties, an overpriced Coke, and the rising cost of eating like shit give the hosts a simple entry point, then the talk wanders through…
A loose year-end movie chat that feels like a real catch-up.
Fandomonious settles into a loose year-end catch-up, with holiday chatter, Smarties mishaps, and a few technical snags setting the tone for a run through 2024 titles. The best part is how plainspoken it stays.
A loose Christmas chat where Grinch talk, kid-name practice, and holiday logistics all end up in the same room.
This holiday chat stays with two familiar voices as they work through pop culture, December chaos, and a fair amount of Grinch talk. Its charm comes from the rough edges: the intro veers off course, the banter circles back on itself, and the movie talk sits alongside kid-name…
NPR critics Linda Holmes, Glenn Weldon, Stephen Thompson and Aisha Harris argue about this week's release.
Fandemonious opens with Vanilla Coke and a quick gas-station detour.
Fandemonious centers this episode on Bloody Axe Wound, a short horror-comedy that one host calls difficult to describe but built on a clever idea.
Fandemonious starts with Sprite, Coke with no ice from McDonald’s, then slides into a years-long search for a retro t-shirt design that still has not been found.
Adam and Ian open with KPop Demon Hunters as the pop-culture topic they felt they could not ignore, even while saying they are not the K-pop demographic.
Fandomonious episode 174, "I Don't Play Fortnite," opens with Fortnite, Ghost Face skins, and one host admitting they quit after dying in about eight seconds.
Fandomonious: A Pop Culture Podcast episode 176 spends a long stretch on Adam’s new 3D printer, including a Calibration Cat test, an axolotl failure, a mouse folk D&D miniature, and a Captain America helmet file that finally printed after settings changes.
Adam and Ian open Fandomonious with microphone jokes, then move into pop-culture news that includes Roberta Flack, Michelle Trachtenberg at age 39, and Gene Hackman’s death investigation.
Fandomonious covers Thunderbolts with a spoiler warning, then spends much of the episode on Yelena, Valentina de Fontaine, Bob, and the movie's mental-health focus.
Adam and Ian open Fandomonious: A Pop Culture Podcast with a Smarties gag, then move into King of the Hill revival news and a Welcome to Derry teaser poster.
Fandemonious spends much of this episode on Alien: Earth, where the hosts compare the series’ cyborg, synthetic, and hybrid definitions and keep returning to the idea that the show is about bodies, identity, and control.
Fandemonious: A Pop Culture Podcast episode 154, "AVP and ADD," mixes Halloween chatter with franchise news, Ohio-weather complaints, and family costume stories.
Fandomonious marks the 50th anniversary of Jaws by opening with the June 20, 1975 release date and a long pop-culture catch-up.
The hosts start out talking Marvel news and whatever else is floating around.
Adam and Ian record a Friday the 13th episode of Fandomonious covering the Super Bowl (Seattle Seahawks defensive win with few good commercials), Marvel news including the Spider-Man: Brand New Day set photos and Sadie Sink casting speculation, the Spider-Man Noir trailer and the Ben Reilly confusion, Masters of the Universe trailer reaction with Jared Leto as Skeletor, and extended debate about Caleb McLaughlin as Miles Morales and fan casting culture in the MCU/DCU.
Hosts Adam and Ian catch up after the holidays, sharing personal stories before diving into pop culture topics like Five Nights at Freddy's 2, local GameStop closures, and the ethical dangers of AI misuse on social media.
Adam and Ian come in sounding a little rough around the edges.
Fandomonious Episode 173 centers on Adam and Ian building personal top-five slasher franchise lists, with both hosts saying the ranking is about favorites rather than objective quality.
They kick off spooky season with a bit of christening and plenty of joking around.
A chewing warning kicks off the episode.
Orlok tells her: I am an appetite, nothing more—and getting you won't satisfy me, it's just the next goal.
Smarties, Coke, and a rant about overpriced fast food set the tone right away.
Fandomonious: A Pop Culture Podcast episode 158, "2024 Year End Review," turns into a long movie rundown with Nosferatu, Alien Romulus, Late Night with the Devil, and The Substance among the titles named.
Adam and Ian kick things off by stumbling through their own intro and joking that the show has already gone off the rails.
Two friends catch up after a month-long hiatus caused by illness.
Fandomonious hosts Adam and Ian discuss pop culture including extended debate about What We Do in the Shadows series vs movie, personal TV rotation habits (The Office, Parks & Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Atlanta), and then transition to sports frustration about Bengals missed penalty calls.
Fandomonious episode 153 covers Late Night with the Devil as a 1977 Halloween talk-show story centered on Jack Delroy, played by David Dastmalchian, and his show Night Owls.
Adam starts with the gear.
The hosts introduce a B-sides episode where they discuss their decision to scrap a previous recording due to discomfort with the subject matter.
Hosts Adam and Ian engage in lighthearted banter about pop culture, including a joke about Billy Joe Armstrong sleeping through September.
The hosts return from a break, discuss a COVID exposure, a bachelor party trip, and promote a Nintendo Switch accessories sponsor.
The hosts celebrate their 100th episode of a pop culture podcast, reminiscing about their journey and introducing themselves.