The Goatcheese Podcast

One of my best friends, Steven, joins me this week to talk about why we love movies. We talk about our early movie watching experiences at both the movie theater and at home and how different those experiences were in the early ‘90s, Disney’s insistence of scarring children with the death of parental figures in their movies, and movies so bad that they’re good. We also delve into remakes and sequels, “flavor of the week” celebritie...

On this week's episode, my friend William and I talk all about action movies. We discuss the rules of action films, delve into specific sub genres such as action comedies and action horror, and compare the movies of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. We also talk about the intricacies of movies like The Raid, John Wick and The Terminator franchise, dig into action movies and action stars from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s such...

This week, my cousin-in-law Chris joins me to talk all about Batman. We discuss the different iterations of Batman media including the animated TV series, the Gotham TV show, and the Burton, Schumacher, and Nolan movies. We also rank our favorite Batman movies, list off our favorite villains from the Rogue’s Gallery (not surprisingly, the Joker makes both of our lists), and we talk about our favorite portrayals including Kevin Conr...

On this week's episode, I discuss urban legends with my cousin-in-law, Eddie. We talk about how we both got introduced to urban legends at an early age and share a few stories told to us by family, friends, and classmates. We delve into the importance of storytelling and how certain stories get passed down from generation to generation, especially as cautionary tales. We also dig deep into some classic legends such as "The...

On this week's episode, my cousin Marco and I talk in depth about music in movies. We delve into the importance of how music (composed and/or licensed) plays an essential role during a movie as well as HOW it’s used using Halloween, Interstellar and Dune as specific examples, we compare the use of music in Sinners and Elvis in terms of period piece movies, we share our favorite movie composers (and it Marco’s case, his favorite com...

On this week's episode, my friend Anastasia and I talk all about comfort movies and TV shows. We define what comfort movies/shows mean to us specifically and talk about the shift where the kid movies we grew up watching as entertainment turned into something much more. We also discuss how the familiarity of certain media helps provide the much needed “escape” that we all need, we offer examples of our personal comfort movies/shows ...

This week, my cousin Tati and I decide to “poke the bear” and share some of our unpopular opinions. We offer our viewpoints on cancel culture, social media and influencers, and reality TV. We also discuss celebrities that we DO NOT find attractive (sorry Bad Bunny and Sydney Sweeney, you both made the list), the last best decade for music, our society’s over reliance on phones, whether alcohol consumption is necessary to have a goo...

This week, my fiancée Jen and I talk all about the movies of 1994. We discuss how different the movie theater experience was back then compared to now, as well as our reliance of using Moviefone and newspaper listings for movie times. We delve into some great movies, some not so good movies and those “so bad they’re good” movies (as well as some that just didn’t hold up well) - among the movies were discuss are: Blank Check, True L...

This week, my best friend Joseph and I talk all about our favorite zombie movies. We go into our introductions to the zombie genre, define what specifically makes a movie a ZOMBIE movie, highlight examples of zombie media outside the movie spectrum, we compare fast moving zombies to slow ones, discuss what it is about zombie movies that we like so much, and we end things by listing off our top ten favorite zombie movies which inclu...

On this week's jam-packed super sized episode, my godson Isaiah and I talk all about the Scream film series. As we go through all six films, one by one, we reminisce about our first time watching the original, as well as discuss each film’s opening sequence and how effect they are. We also how relatable certain characters are and which ones are our favorites, which character deaths hit us the hardest, how great some of the casting ...

This week, I talk with a really good friend of mine, musician Johnny Ono, about why we love music. We reminisce about the start of our friendship back in middle school and how we reconnected last year, our individual introduction to music as little kids, and then how we both got into listening to and appreciating music as preteens. We also discuss my music playlist making routine, our first concerts and the importance of live shows...

This week, my sister Elbi-Lorena and I talk about female representation in entertainment. We discuss The Substance and its take on how women in Hollywood are perceived, as well as society’s expectations for women and how social media plays a (negative) role. We also talk about the double standard that exists between male and female celebrities, current beauty trends compared to those from the ‘90s, my HUGE dislike for The Kardashia...

On the Season 3 premiere, my cousin Amy and I talk about growing up in the '90s. We reminisce about growing up in our respective neighborhoods (and its correlation to our musical tastes), the lost art of recording on a VCR, the death of Selena, how I self censored music to play in the car with my mom, watching Dumb and Dumber together, the “goofy/goffy” spelling debate we once had, the time Amy got her foot caught in the gate at he...

Spoilers abound on this bonus episode where I discuss the movies of 2024 with my girlfriend, Jen, along with one of my best friends, Eden.

We rank our top ten favorite movies of the year along with our bottom five worst movies, and we also delve into a bunch of others that didn’t make either list; included in our discussion: A Complete Unknown, Joker 2, The Substance, Love Lies Bleeding, Sing Sing, Wicked, I Watched The TV Glow, W...

On this week's episode, I've got one of my best friends, Steven, and my cousin-in-law, Chris here to talk with me all about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We recall some of our childhood memories and reminisce about all the toys we had as well as some other Ninja Turtle memorabilia. We also look back at the movies from the 90’s, detailing our collective love over the original and why it holds up to this day. We discuss t...