Fast jokes, bad movies, stranger prophecies.
Lemme Listen Podcasts is a home feed for ensemble shows that turn pop culture into fast, argumentative comedy. Recent episodes swing from hostile reviews of Sucker Punch, Frozen, and The Notebook to in-universe Star Trek-style chaos around Deep Space Nine-adjacent adventures.
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Lemme Listen Podcasts is an umbrella feed with a strong comic fingerprint: fast talk, sharp irritation, and ensemble bits that keep mutating after they should have ended. Recent episodes show two main modes. Late Seating is the film-review side, with Steve Shives and Jason Harding taking a movie's reputation and testing it with very little mercy. The tone can be affectionate when the film earns it. It can also become a running indictment. Sucker Punch is treated as hollow style, bad music choices, and fantasy sequences that drain the stakes from the story. Frozen becomes an argument about Disney inevitability, sequel gravity, and the machinery around a children's classic. The Notebook gets challenged for its romantic fantasy, its treatment of class, and its strangely sanitized vision of 1940 South Carolina. The Cabin in the Woods brings out a more admiring strain, with horror tropes, sacrifice jokes, and genre references bouncing around the room. Ensign's Log is the serialized improv counterpart. It builds comedy from fake logs, station gossip, Starfleet work problems, Bajoran prophecy, changeling suspicion, and the emotional aftermath of absurd incidents. A runabout name can derail the scene. A temple library can turn into a dispute over whether the Three Fools should be rebranded as adventurers. A brig episode can make a temporary death into a legal, ethical, and friendship problem all at once. The show is at its best when a tiny practical question becomes the whole point: who gets blamed, who needs a key, who is secretly a changeling, who has to clean up the mess, and whether any of this makes sense. It is noisy in the best way. The jokes are quick, but the structure is sturdier than the looseness suggests. Listeners get film criticism, sci-fi roleplay, recurring character business, and a lot of comic pressure applied to the dumbest possible detail until it cracks open.
Made for: For listeners who like irreverent panel comedy, hostile-but-specific film reviews, and serialized sci-fi bits with running continuity. It especially fits people who enjoy Star Trek-adjacent improv and pop-culture arguments that do not sand off the edges.
What sets it apart: The feed mixes two compatible engines: movie criticism that pounces on weak logic, and in-universe sci-fi comedy that treats every absurd premise as a workplace problem. Its signature move is turning throwaway details into full comic investigations.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sharp movie arguments and committed Star Trek roleplay turn screen culture into a lively source of criticism, character comedy, and escalating trouble.
Lemme Listen Podcasts moves between pointed movie criticism and an ongoing Star Trek comedy, giving its feed two distinct ways to play with screen culture.
Sucker Punch gets roasted; Starfleet funeral paperwork gets debated. Your taste for chaos decides where to start.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Bajoran prophecy trip that keeps collapsing into name jokes, grudges, and practical nonsense.
The Ensign's Log sends Splunk, Secret Ensign Johnson, and Secret Lieutenant Amanda Cartwright to a Bajoran temple in Korat province, where prophecy talk keeps colliding with ship-name nonsense, old grudges, and a running argument over whether the Chimichanga should stay the…
A furious, funny teardown of a movie that keeps handing them more to mock.
Jason Harding and Steve Shives take a hard run at Sucker Punch, turning it into a brisk case study in style outrunning sense. The episode stays sharp, angry, and funny, with jokes that hit because the movie keeps giving them fresh targets.
A temporary death turns a brig dispute into latinum apologies and O'Brien's bottle-born prophecy.
A brig arrest turns into a loose, increasingly odd tour of station gossip. Secret Ensign Johnson and Secret Lieutenant Amanda Cartwright insist Jason's temporary death is not enough reason to keep them locked up, especially when they are sharing one cell while empty ones sit…
A comet problem gives way to bathroom paranoia when a changeling might be hiding in plain sight.
An approaching comet gives Lieutenant Commander Splunk a practical assignment: meet O'Brien and help adjust the Defiant's phasers before the object reaches the wormhole.
A Valentine's Day romance gets pulled apart through Sam Shepard, poetry, New York, and a frictionless 1940 South Carolina.
Late Seating meets a Valentine's Day romance with visible impatience, as Jason Harding and Steve Shives frame the film as a pileup of contrivance, sentimental fantasy, and historical avoidance.
A Bajoran boarding scare turns into a service-tube argument over funeral honors, vacation distance, and time travel.
The Ensign's Log plays a Bajoran boarding scare as cramped service-tube farce, with Lieutenant Commander Sparrow and Garrison Shevick hiding out, armed, while Sparrow still tries to record a podcast.
A grimy station stop turns purple symptoms and a bounty-hunter thread into messy sci-fi farce.
Stranded in the Gamma Quadrant, the crew of Ensign's Log turns a stop at Space Station Fiddle Levitt into a grubby little run of illness, drinks, and bounty-hunter trouble.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Lieutenant Commander Sparrow and his engineer Garrison Shevick hide in service tunnels on a space station, awaiting a boarding by Bajoran separatists.
Lieutenant Commander Splunk and Secret Ensign Johnson are stranded on the rundown Space Station Fiddle Levitt in the Gamma Quadrant.
The hosts review the classic Disney animated film The Black Cauldron, discussing its reputation as a mistake in Disney's filmography and comparing it to other Disney movies from the era.
Dane reports three remains beneath a Bajoran temple, dating back about 100,000 years.
Splunk, Secret Ensign Johnson, and Secret Lieutenant Amanda Cartwright head to Bajor for a temple in the Korat province.
Jason Harding and Steve Shives spend the episode tearing into *Sucker Punch*.
Secret Ensign Johnson and Secret Lieutenant Amanda Cartwright are in the brig after Jason's temporary death, and they are not taking the arrest quietly.
The hosts Jason Harding and Steve Shives review the cult classic horror movie 'Cabin in the Woods' on their podcast Late Seating.
Two co-hosts humorously discuss their business on Deep Space Nine, referencing changelings and their recent success after returning from the Gamma Quadrant.
The hosts of Late Seating discuss and review the Disney animated film Frozen, exploring its reputation as a children's classic and sharing trivia about its connection to Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen.
The Ensign's Log episode 'Ensign's Log 195 -Servivce interupted' puts Lieutenant Commander Splunk, Secret Ensign Johnson, and Secret Acting Lieutenant Amanda Cartwright in a comic Starfleet workday built around a comet and a wormhole.
Jason Harding and Steve Shives open Late Seating's Valentine's Day review with the notebook gag and the claim that The Notebook is "fucking super short" and "not good." They run through the cast and crew, naming Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gina Rowlands, Sam Shepard, Joan Allen, James Marsden, Nick Cassavetes, Jeremy Levin, Jan Sardi, and Nicholas Sparks.
An alleged Bajoran prophecy calls three people fools and predicts death, tears, and praise, but its final word is only “maybe.” Splunk, Secret Ensign Johnson, and Amanda Cartwright map “snakes and bats and apes” onto Star Trek species and their own histories.
Lieutenant Commander Splunk and Ensign Johnson discuss why Ananda is locked in the closet of their new runabout while searching for Spot and Bernarda in the Gamma Quadrant.
The hosts review the classic Disney animated film The Black Cauldron, discussing its reputation as a mistake in Disney's filmography and comparing it to other Disney movies from the era.
Two characters discuss the subdued atmosphere at Poncho's bar on Deep Space Nine after Kai Wynn's arrival, reflecting on how Bajoran civilians temporarily abandon leisure activities for religious observance.