Genre riffs with lore, grudges, and jokes.
The gist
The Sci-Fi Wise Guys follows Chris and Anthony as they review science fiction and science fiction-adjacent movies, shows, and shorts. The pace is casual and tangent-friendly, with Star Trek lore, straight-to-stream oddities, horror-in-space picks, and running jokes all sharing the same table.
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About The Sci-Fi Wise Guys
The Sci-Fi Wise Guys is a comedy commentary show where Chris and Anthony work through science fiction, fantasy, horror, animation, and other genre-adjacent screen stories. It is loose by design. The episodes open with bits, mock grievances, personal updates, and small running jokes before settling into the movie or television episode at hand. Once the discussion starts, the show moves quickly between recap, reaction, and riff. Star Trek: Lower Decks gives them room to talk about Orions, Binars, Klingons, cave missions, and callbacks to older Trek stories. Jason X gives them bad plot logic, cryogenic pods, space horror, and the question of how anyone should dispose of an unkillable villain. Xenogenesis gives them storyboards, ledges, robots, and a chance to notice low-budget craft alongside the joke. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes show the same pattern: nostalgia, franchise weirdness, and side trails that are allowed to stay in the room. The show likes lore, but it is not stiff about lore. It likes bad media, but it does not treat badness as the only point. Chris and Anthony can praise a strong two-part episode, question a character choice, admire a physical performance, and then derail themselves into a story about sleeveless shirts or barbecue. That looseness is the texture. Reviews often feel like a recorded hangout between people who know the material well enough to be impatient with it. The comedy is conversational rather than polished into monologues. The recurring sign-off, suggestion requests, and seasonal mini-themes give the catalog a homemade rhythm. Listeners should expect jokes, digressions, blunt opinions, and plenty of science fiction reference points. The show is best for genre fans who enjoy commentary that can be observant and unserious in the same minute. It is not a clean-room critical essay. It is two hosts making meaning, complaints, and dumb jokes out of moving pictures and people talking.
Made for: Best for sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and animation fans who like casual review podcasts with deep references and low-formality banter. It especially suits listeners who enjoy Star Trek tangents, franchise oddities, and affectionately harsh reads of pulpy movies.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its hangout-review rhythm: Chris and Anthony can analyze story structure or production tricks, then let a personal tangent become part of the joke. It feels less like prepared criticism and more like genre fans thinking out loud in real time.
In their own words
An insight/comedy podcast where two unqualified friends break down and riff on straight-to-stream sci-fi and fantasy films. Join the Sci-Fi Wise Guys as they aim for art but land in comedy.
Why you'd press play
Chris and Anthony turn a starship cave debate into the argument you wish your group chat had.
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- your Star Trek lore served with Binars slander and cave-story detours
- bad-movie logic tested until machetes, cryogenic pods, and missing railings become serious civic questions
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Episodes
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We'll Always Have Tom Paris (Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Episodes 9-10)
Hidden gem["The Sci-Fi Wise Guys spend most of the episode on Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4's finale pair, The Inner Fight and Old Friends, New Planets, while Chris says his son arrived 15 days early after a preeclampsia scare.", "Anthony argues that Mariner's self-destructive streak now reads like an older-sibling defense pattern, especially in the way she treats Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford.", "The hosts call episode 10 the show's highest-rated installment so far, citing an 8.8 on air, and connect Nick Locarno's return to Tom Paris, Cito, Wil Wheaton, and Robert Duncan McNeil.", "They finish by treating the two-parter as a near-series finale and by predicting that Tendi's Orion storyline will need more than one episode."]
Nov 9, 2023·48m·3 clips - 2
Proof of Concept (Xenogenesis)
Hidden gemThe Sci-Fi Wise Guys review James Cameron's 1978 short Xenogenesis, a 12-minute Canadian-American science fiction film made for $20,000 and now usually found in low-quality uploads.
Nov 6, 2023·31m·2 clips - 3
Discount Super Shredder (Jason X)
Hidden gemAnthony opens The Sci-Fi Wise Guys' Horror in Space Month finale by apologizing to Chris Voorhees for making him watch the 2001 film Jason X, directed by Jim Isaac and starring Kane Hodder, Lisa Ryder, and Chuck Campbell.
Oct 31, 2023·47m·3 clips - 4
Planet Hell (Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 8)
Hidden gemAnthony and Chris review Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 episode 8, 'Caves,' and call it a 'bounce back' after their episode 7 reaction.
Oct 26, 2023·34m·2 clips - 5
Urban Rock (Doom)
Oct 23, 2023·38m - 6
Cult of Split Personality (Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 7)
Oct 19, 2023·23m - 7
Bad Choices (Alien)
Oct 16, 2023·45m - 8
Ferangcuterie Board (Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 6)
Oct 11, 2023·36m - 9
Technobabble Xtreme (Planet of the Vampires)
Oct 10, 2023·32m - 10
Anarchy Party (Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 5)
Oct 4, 2023·39m - 11
Hellgate ...in SPACE!! (Event Horizon)
Oct 2, 2023·46m - 12
Gimme that Stink! (Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 4)
Hidden gem["The Sci-Fi Wise Guys review Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 4, 'Something Borrowed, Something Green,' and center the conversation on Tendi's Orion wedding story.", "Christopher says the IMDb 7.8 rating is wrong and calls the episode 'an 11,' while Anthony treats it as the season's funniest Lower Decks entry so far.", "Most of the discussion turns on Orion wedding kidnappings, the 'hump dungeon,' and the reveal that Tendi is tied to a family crime syndicate.", "They also break down the B-story about Boimler and Rutherford using the holodeck to solve arguments by pretending to be the same person."]
Sep 27, 2023·34m·2 clips - 13
Hybrid Theory (Wyrmwood: Apocalypse)
Sep 25, 2023·36m - 14
Galactic Drop Bear (Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 3)
Sep 20, 2023·30m - 15
El Transportador (El Camino)
Sep 18, 2023·31m - 16
Dropping a Deuce (Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Episodes 1&2)
Sep 13, 2023·44m - 17
Regular or Menthol? (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Sep 11, 2023·54m - 18
Across the Turtleverse (Turtles Forever)
Two friends comically review and riff on straight-to-stream sci-fi and fantasy films, currently discussing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Sep 5, 2023·43m - 19
Turtles Gone Wild (Ninja Turtles Cartoons)
Aug 29, 2023·48m - 20
Turtles 2: Judgment Day (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie)
Aug 21, 2023·37m - 21
Gotham's Least Weird Visitors (Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Aug 15, 2023·40m - 22
Introducing Paul Rudd (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes: Mutant Mayhem)
Two friends banter about their sleeveless shirt habits before diving into comedic commentary on sci-fi and fantasy films.
Aug 8, 2023·52m - 23
Nobody Loves Baby Spice (Corona House Part 2)
Aug 1, 2023·1h 2m - 24
Unintelligible Badussy (Corona House Part 1)
Jul 24, 2023·33m - 25
Duck Noises (FP 4EVZ)
Jul 10, 2023·1h 19m - 26
Happy Zombie Eve! (Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead)
Jul 3, 2023·41m - 27
Papers, Please (Biopunk)
Jun 26, 2023·21m - 28
LIVE! 3-Year Podiversary Celebration and Award Ceremony
Jun 19, 2023·1h 20m - 29
Super Sentai: Now and Forever (Power Rangers: Once and Always)
Jun 12, 2023·41m - 30
Ghostbussin' (Lockwood & Co. Pilot)
Jun 6, 2023·47m - 31
LIVE! Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
May 29, 2023·1h 1m - 32
Airships! (Floaters)
May 22, 2023·19m - 33
This Little Light of Mine (Brightburn)
May 15, 2023·36m - 34
Adopting Isn't For Everyone (Agent Revelation)
May 8, 2023·50m - 35
Mean Mugs and Shoulder Shrugs (Zombie Ninjas vs Black Ops)
May 1, 2023·38m - 36
SPEAKING MAGIC WORDS (DragonLance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight)
Apr 24, 2023·46m - 37
Pelor in the Streets, Raven Queen in the Sheets (Dungeons & Dragons: Book of Vile Darkness)
Apr 17, 2023·42m - 38
Every Dragon Has Its Day (Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God)
Apr 10, 2023·35m - 39
Long Live Snails, Death to Snails! (Dungeons & Dragons)
Apr 3, 2023·47m - 40
Who Hunts the Hunter? (BackSpace Returns)
Two unqualified friends comically break down and riff on straight-to-stream sci-fi and fantasy films.
Mar 27, 2023·32m - 41
One Door Down (BackSpace)
Mar 20, 2023·19m - 42
Down the Rabbit Hole (Alice in Borderland)
Mar 13, 2023·35m - 43
Have You Tried Forcing an Unexpected Reboot? (Monsters of Man)
Two friends banter and introduce their podcast's third season, discussing format changes and their break.
Mar 6, 2023·48m - 44
The Science Fiction Remnant ft. The Sci-Fi Wise Guys: Reign of Fire
Feb 20, 2023·3h 1m - 45
The BlokeBusters Podcast ft. The Sci-Fi Wise Guys: Good Omens or "To The World!"
Feb 13, 2023·1h 47m - 46
Episode 154: Crappy Jobs Still Exist (The Last of Us)
Jan 30, 2023·44m - 47
Episode 153: Long Live the New Flesh! (Videodrome)
Jan 23, 2023·38m - 48
Episode 152: Sad Max Chapter 2 (Warriors of the Apocalypse 2009)
Jan 16, 2023·45m - 49
Episode 151: Government Sanctioned Murder (Officer Downe)
Jan 10, 2023·48m - 50
Episode 150: This Got Funded? (Kingdom of Gladiators: The Tournament)
Jan 2, 2023·41m