Movie reviews with the rails removed.
Welcome to the Poddy is a chaotic comedy-review show where movies rarely stay contained inside the review. A film can lead to Adelaide gigs, NBA trades, office Slack nightmares, true crime sentencing, Hollywood politics, or whatever rant grabs the wheel next.
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Welcome to the Poddy is a comedic movie-review show with the brakes cut. The episodes usually have a film or streaming title on the label, but the show’s real shape is a rapid monologue that keeps veering into whatever else is alive in the room. Reviews of One Battle After Another, Highest 2 Lowest, The Studio, Woman of the Hour, Bad Thoughts, Longlegs, Hercules, and Fly Me to the Moon anchor the feed. The movie is the spine. The detours are the bloodstream. Clay McMath’s comedy world keeps spilling into the reviews, from Adelaide rooms and Port Adelaide nights to Melbourne festival stories, Fringe promotion, merch plugs, audience messages, and the endless work of getting people into seats. That gives the show a lived-in touring-comic texture rather than a sealed studio-review feel. One minute it is weighing Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, ransom plots, and reputation. The next it is talking about a kid’s birthday party in the rain, a workplace Slack meltdown, or whether a streaming comedy actually earned its rating. Sports drift in naturally, too. Knicks optimism, Luka trade shock, FS1 allegations, and broader celebrity noise all sit beside film talk without needing a formal segment break. The show can get dark. True crime stories, serial killers, prison, racism, immigration politics, scandal, and the uglier corners of entertainment culture all appear in the sampled episodes. The comedy is blunt, impatient, and often intentionally crass, but the editorial hook is simple: every review becomes a stress test for the host’s instincts about taste, morality, attention, and everyday aggravation. It does not aim for critic-school elegance. It aims for momentum. Ratings still matter, and the show likes having a number to throw down, whether a movie lands as underwhelming, surprisingly original, or better replaced by a documentary. The fun comes from hearing how that number gets dragged through a dozen side doors before it settles. Welcome to the Poddy is for people who prefer movie criticism with jokes, personal chaos, stand-up grit, and no patience for sterile recap culture.
Made for: For comedy fans who like film talk messy, opinionated, and personal. It especially suits listeners who enjoy stand-up energy, pop-culture arguments, sports tangents, and blunt reactions more than formal criticism.
What sets it apart: The show uses each movie as a launchpad for a full comic spiral: rating, recap, life story, cultural rant, gig update, and back again. Its edge comes from the collision between movie criticism and working-comedian diary.
Comedian, Clay McMath, reviews movies - paired with snacks - and relates to them (no matter what the film) through real-life stories and experiences.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Clay McMath turns decisive movie criticism into loose comic storytelling, using personal det anecdotes and sharp ratings to make every verdict distinctly his.
Clay McMath treats a movie review as the start of an argument, then lets personal experience and comic instinct decide where it goes. Welcome to the Poddy moves through plot, performances and blunt numerical ratings, with Clay testing what works against his own encounters with…
A movie review detours through Clay McMath's awkward Tinder date before you get the three-out-of-ten verdict.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A blunt film review turns an AI actress and immigration politics into a funny, uneasy cultural argument.
Claytron's review of One Battle After Another starts with Tilly Norwood, framed as an AI actress, and quickly turns her into a useful joke about threat, control, actors feeling replaced, and the strange convenience of a performer without human politics.
A loose film rant turns a ransom dilemma into a sharp test of loyalty, reputation, and cold math.
Claytron turns a simple movie setup into a messier moral test: if a kidnapped child is revealed to be the driver's kid, should Denzel's character pay the ransom and jeopardize the deal in front of him, or protect the business and accept looking heartless once the internet starts…
A profane return folds The Studio into cameo talk, audience stats and loose movie-chat detours.
Welcome to the Poddy returns after a few weeks away in full loose-reset mode, moving through sponsor plugs, merch, live shows, audience messages and male-heavy podcast analytics before settling back into reviews.
A blunt 6/10 review of Woman of the Hour turns into an angry, profane detour through crime, punishment, and prison economics.
The host lands on a 6/10 for Woman of the Hour, framing Anna Kendrick's true-crime drama thriller around Rodney Alcala and the film's attention to a woman being objectified during an audition.
The rainy birthday story works best when Kenny's mystery nemesis turns party stress into a comic engine.
A birthday party at the rotunda gives the episode a sturdy comic setup: a host trying to do the responsible dad work while rain arrives after six dry months and Kenny's primary nemesis appears among the presents.
A Ferris Bueller dispute spirals into film-set deaths, legal trouble, and the host's unstable certainty.
A casual Ferris Bueller dispute becomes a grim little detour through celebrity driving stories, legal fallout, and deaths connected to film productions.
A loose movie takedown finds its best spark in one painfully quiet Tinder date.
This single episode frames a bad movie pairing through the slow collapse of an awkward date story. It stays with a first meeting at a bar in Adelaide after a Tinder match, where conversation keeps falling into the same dead end: "I don't really know." From there, the story gets…
Three friends recap Daredevil, Fallout, and new releases scene by scene, in Spanish.
Slasher talk with sharp teeth.
Comedian Clay McMath and his co-host review the movie 'No Hard Feelings', starring Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman.
Comedian Clay McMath reviews two films: the rom-com 'Anyone But You' starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, and the Netflix kids' short 'Erax'.
Australian comedian Claytron reviews Paul Thomas Anderson's film 'One Battle After Another,' starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn, and finds it uncomfortably mirrors real ICE raid news coverage.
Clay Mcmath, stand-up comedian and host of Welcome to the Poddy from Adelaide, Australia, returns after a hiatus to review Highest 2 Lowest, the Spike Lee and Denzel Washington Apple TV crime thriller, alongside updates on his comedy career.
Clay Tronagate returns after a month away from Welcome to the Party, saying comedy dates, parenting, part-time work, a gym routine, and a broken car kept him off the mic.
["Welcome to the Poddy reviews Netflix\u2019s `Woman of the Hour`, and Clay McMath gives it a `6 out of 10` while calling the 90-minute runtime its strongest feature.", "McMath says Anna Kendrick directs and stars as Cheryl, an actor trying to make it in Hollywood who lands `The Dating Game` after an audition scene reduces her to her body.", "He describes Rodney Alcala as a smooth fake photographer who names Hugh Hefner, Bert Reynolds, and David Hasselhoff while the film moves toward the game-show setup.", "The review also brings in Diddy, Cassie, baby oil, police dismissal, and a court summary that leaves the Alcala story feeling larger than the movie\u2019s audition subplot."]
Clay McMath opens Welcome to the Party with the New York Knicks’ first Eastern Conference Finals appearance since 2000 and immediately drags the bracket into a Y2K tangent.
Comedian Clay McMath kicks off his podcast with a high-energy intro, then recounts his experience performing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Comedian Clay McMath promotes his fringe shows and introduces his podcast where he reviews movies paired with snacks, relating them to his own life.
The host humorously reviews movies while relating them to his own life experiences, paired with snack recommendations.
Comedian Clay McMath promotes his podcast, merchandise, and sponsor Opus Clip while introducing a movie review episode released on Christmas.
A comedian reviews movies paired with snacks, relating them to his real-life experiences.
Comedian Clay McMath interviews a fellow comedian about touring, cruise ships, and performing at fringe festivals, with a focus on movie-related humor.
The host humorously promotes Bung Bung Coffee and Leica Pet Food while setting up his movie review show.
The hosts banter and joke about an exclusive episode, a Lemon Lady t-shirt sale, and their co-host dynamics.