Streaming Without A Paddle
Streaming Without A Paddle is a streaming service original motion picture or series review show hosted by industry veterans ... Producer / Creative Andrew Baird and Actor / Writer Ted Welch. Each week Andrew and Ted comb the streaming services looking for and watching original content from providers like Hulu, Apple TV, Netflix, HBO, Paramount, and others to bring their listeners not only an honest review of what they've watched but a review that is generationally divided between the two host.
Episodes
This week on the show Andrew and Ted sit down and discuss the Netflix original drama / action / sci-fi juggernaut Alan Ritchson ... "WAR MACHINE". What was supposed to be the final test of US Army Ranger School turns into a mission to stop the alien ai controlled transformer esk machines in their bid to take over earth. Sit back and enjoy as Andrew and Ted break down the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful.
This week Andrew and Ted set out on their own journey as the explored the Disney / Hulu Sci-Fi Drama "In The Blink Of An Eye", starring Rashida Jones (Claire), Kate McKinnon (Coakley), and Jorge Vargas (Thorn). Connected by an acorn, the three represent three different periods of human development as we look at this progression from the neanderthal period (beginning of man) to the future where science has developed advanc...
This week on the show Andrew and Ted put another check mark by an Academy Award "Best Picture" nomination by discussing the Jesse Plemons / Emma Stone Sci-Fi / Thriller "Bugonia". Teddy (Jesse Plemons) believes aliens are on our planet and wants to negotiate their leaving us alone. But to do so he must kidnap one and get them to take him to their mothership so he can cut a deal. So he kidnaps the CEO of pharmac...
This week Andrew and Ted take a glimpse into the afterlife with Apple TV's "Eternity", starring Miles Teller (Larry), Elizabeth Olsen (Joan), and Callum Turner (Luke). Larry passes leaving his wife, Joan, of 60 something years behind to deal with her terminal cancer. Larry enters the train station, "junction", of the afterlife alone to make decisions. As Larry is heading off to his chosen eternity destinati...
This week Andrew and Ted discuss the HBO Max presentation of the Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson / Emily Blunt sports drama "The Smashing Machine". This bio pic follows a 4 year span of MMA fighter Mark Kerr's struggles as he works to become the best MMA fighter and his addiction to pain medications. Tune into find out what Andrew and Ted thought.
This week Andrew and Ted talk BIG GUNS! That's right! Momoa and Bautista starring in the BIG BUDGET Prime Video original "The Wrecking Crew". Estranged half brothers James (Bautista) and Jonny (Momoa) are reunited after several decades as they team up to find who killed their private investigator dad. With plenty of bad blood, don't sue us Taylor for using that phrase, between the two of them it takes, as the ki...
This week Andrew and Ted step back to discuss a November release "Frankenstein", starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac with supporting roles from Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, and Felix Kammerer. Directed and written adaptation by Guillermo del Toro of the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley.
This week Andrew and Ted discuss the Matt Damon / Ben Affleck starring action / thriller "The Rip". Crooked cops of a Miami drug unit are suspected of killing their squad leader. To find out who might be the bad apple(s) they use a tip they received on their crime stopper tip line to flush those responsible out. Co-starring Sasha Calle, Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeun, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Kyle Chandler tune into the ...
This week on THE show Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix original Rom/Com "People We Meet on Vacation" starring Emily Bader (Poppy) and Tom Blyth (Alex). Poppy and Alex meet on share ride from college back to their shared hometown during a break. Subsequently they become platonic best friends that end up making a pack that now matter where life takes them they will meet once a year for a week long vacation. After nine ye...
A boyfriend (Russ) and girlfriend (Anna) decide to adopt a dog, MERV. But things change after they breakup and end up sharing custody of MERV (a dog). MERV develops separation depression so Russ decides to take MERV to a dog resort on the beach. When Anna gets wind of this she surprises them at the resort. During the week long MERV therapy vacation Russ (Charlie Cox) and Anna (Zooey Deschenel) end up discovering that their feelin...
This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss the Netflix South Korean original thriller film "The Great Flood". Antarctica is hit by an asteroid causing the glaciers to instantly melt raising the ocean levels quickly along with sending tsunami outward. An-na, an AI researcher, is awaken by her son as the water levels have hit their apartment on the 3rd floor of their 30 floor complex. An-na receives a call from her boss ...
On this episode of "Streaming Without A Paddle" Andrew and Ted sit down and discuss their Top 5 reviewed Series and their Top 5 reviewed Movies of 2025.
On this week's show Andrew and Ted discuss what they thought of the third installment of the Knives Out franchise, "Wake Up Dead Man". Daniel Craig is back as that southern private detective Benoit Blanc, hired by the local police chief (Mila Kunis), to solve what they feel is the unsolvable murder of Monsenyor Jefferson (Josh Brolin) the local priest. With suspects ranging from characters played by Thomas Haden Churc...
This week Andrew and Ted discuss Prime Video's original holiday feature presentation starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloë Grace Moretz, Denis Leary, Felicity Jones, and Dominic Sessa. Claire (Pfeiffer) and Nick (Leary) are hosting a family Christmas for their two daughters and son. Leading up to the event Claire has been hinting to her children that all she wants for Christmas is to be nominated, by them, as mother of the year on ...
This week Andrew and Ted kick of the holiday season with a review of Netflix's original Christmas "themed" romantic comedy starring Alicia Silverstone (Kate) and Oliver Hudson (Everett). Kate and Everett a separated husband and wife are reluctantly looking forward to moving on with their lives after they've come to the conclusion that their post children in the house life goals are no longer the same. However, Ch...
This week Andrew and Ted sit down to discuss the Mark Wahlberg sequel to the 2023 Apple original feature "Family Plan" ... "Family Plan 2". The entire "family" cast returns now knowing their father, Dan Morgan (Wahlberg), past life was as a robber and son of Europe's most notorious criminal mind. Only this time the family ends up in Europe on a Christmas work-cation where Dan (Wahlberg) meets his h...
This week on Streaming Without a Paddle Andrew and Ted discuss the Danish born Netflix Original romantic drama "Mango". Lærke is trying to work her way up the corporate ladder in the hotel hospitality industry when her employer sends her to Spain to purchase a struggling mango plantation so that they may build a new hotel on it. When she gets there she finds that the executor of the plantation is an attractive single man,...
This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle", Andrew and Ted jump on board a big ole' yellow "Lost Bus" being driven by Mr. Texas Cool himself, Matthew McConaughey. Based upon the 2018 Northern California forest fire known as the "Camp Fire" the real life story follows bus driver Kevin McKay (McConaughey) as he has been tasked to go to Ponderosa Elementary and rescue 22 children a teacher (portrayed b...
This week on "Streaming Without A Paddle" Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix original "Ballad of a Small Player" from "Conclave" director Edward Berger and starring Colin Farrell. Billed as a black comedy psychological thriller, Brendan Reilly (Farrell) assumes the fictitious identity of "Lord Doyle" in the gambling capital of the world Macau after embezzling nearly 1 million pounds from a cl...
This week on the show Andrew and Ted discuss the Netflix original feature "House of Dynamite", starring Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Idris Elba, and strongly featuring Anthony Ramos, Tracy Letts, and Jared Harris. This Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) directed thriller counts down the departmental actions of the US Government as they have 20 minutes to make decisions before a suspected nuclear warhead, ...
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