The Weekly Substandard Expanded Universe
A Division of the Subbeacon Expanded Universe
About the show
Weekly podcast in tribute to The Subbeacon podcast, formerly known as the Substandard podcast, full of garbage opinions, star war arguments, and pioneers of the podcast genre Dudes Counting. Described as "mediocre terrible" by Flagg Taylor.
Episodes
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Episode 139: Encanto Fest
February 10th, 2022 | 1 hr 32 mins
encanto, lin-manuel miranda
This episode has two signature features. The first is the longest quiz ever produced by a human podcast. The second is Shannon Last's EXTENSIVE thoughts on the movie Encanto.
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Episode 138: Jumbo Jim
January 27th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins
denver broncos, grilling, jim swift, minnesota
Chris and Thomas are joined by (now) frequent guest Jim Swift! They chat about grilling, take a sports quiz, and Chris' experience meeting working man America for the first time.
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Episode 137: Ryan, What Is This? (S04E37)
January 17th, 2022 | 14 mins 12 secs
airplanes, civil war, scandinavia
Ben and Ryan are back with another episode of Ryan, What Is This? Is this the episode where Ryan finally scores a point? Listen and find out!
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Episode 136: Christmas in September
December 28th, 2021 | 1 hr 20 mins
christmas, dubai, hallmark, holiday in the wild, kristin davis, lifetime, netflix, rob lowe
The boys gathered around the microphones to celebrate Christmas with a game, apartment hunting in Dubai, hated actors and lady actors, Holiday in the Wild, Rob Lowe, and more!
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Episode 135: Did That Make Money?
December 20th, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
brian cox, eternals, jeremy strong, kieran culkin, logan roy, succession
The Beatles are reunited when Ben joins the boys to chat about Swedish Christmas traditions, Chinese Christmas restaurants, Succession, and to play a quizgame!
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Episode 134: The Last Duel
December 10th, 2021 | 1 hr 20 mins
kylo ren, matt damon, ridley scott, skiing, star wars, the last duel
Two episodes in a week? Yes, we do believe in miracles here at the Standard Podcast. Some miracles happen while you are flat skiing and others when you are getting raped by a beast of a horse. That (and much more) on this week's episode.
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Episode 133: No Sequel Required
December 6th, 2021 | 1 hr 8 mins
between two ferns, bradley cooper, hangover, joel osteen, rockettes, zach the greek
The lads get together to chat about a bunch of movies they have recently watched (including the Hangover and Stillwater) as well as escape rooms, self-checkout (who would have guessed), and shoplifters!
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Episode 132: The Haunted Carwash
November 18th, 2021 | 1 hr 17 mins
denis villeneuve, dune, timothee chalamet
Ryan has picked out Halloween costumes for his kids. Chris went to a car wash. Thomas went drinking with a Dame? Dane? We also chat about the new season of Succession and DUNE.
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Episode 131: No Time To Podcast
November 2nd, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
ana de armas, daniel craig, james bond, newcastle united, no time to die, roman abramovich, saudi arabia
On this episode, Ryan and Thomas chat with Ben Parker (again), Matt Robarts, and Jason Cooper about the latest instalment in the Bond Universe. There is disagreement. We also get more rankings than we have ever had in a single episode. And who is going to be the next Bond?
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Episode 130: Ben Parker
October 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 10 mins
bridges, brown, counting, dirty work, ferrari, horses, philadelphia
We invite a Russian expert on the show to chat about cars, Seinfeld, and the Ivy League.
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Episode 129: DUMP MATTHEWS BAND DUMPS ON CHICAGO
October 2nd, 2021 | 1 hr 8 mins
bigfoot, cats, geeks, politics
In this episode the boys answer the question "Is Matthew Perry Dead? And if so did he die in a fiery car crash?" Press play for the answer. In other minutes the boys learn how to glue their dickholes closed. For sex.
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Episode 128: Drive to Survive
September 24th, 2021 | 53 mins 54 secs
drive to survive, formula one, ted lasso, williams
With Thomas gone, Chris and Ryan take the opportunity to talk about their favourite sport: Formula One. Ryan also has some vivid dreams and Chris can't quite figure out how Hulu works.
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Episode 127: Primer
September 10th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
all of the carruths, electrolux, frigidaire, lg, little league world series, primer, shane carruth
Thomas wants to be the next host of Jeopardy. Chris is (again) buying appliances. Ryan is moving into the Kinney Palace. And we have all watched Primer, the masterpiece from the genius Shane Carruth. (this is not like a PBS Masterpiece garbage. I actually mean it is a masterpiece.)
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Episode 126: The New York Athletic Club
August 26th, 2021 | 1 hr 55 secs
buc-ee's, florida, new york city, the suicide squad
The gang's back together! We chat about Chris and Ryan's holiday trips throughout the US. Thomas wonders whether Chris is actually white trash. Ryan questions his brother's choices and chats about his appeareance on the Subbeacon Podcast. If you want all the juicy behind-the-curtain stuff, we've got it. Chris and Ryan have also seen The Suicide Squad.
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Episode 125: PCU
August 19th, 2021 | 1 hr 23 mins
jeremy piven, jessica walter, pcu
The show is down two hosts because they have escaped on vacation. Matt, friend (and frequent guest) of the show, have dug up a movie from the 1990s that provides a great look at today's social media (and college) culture! Come for the jokes about the Olympics, stay for the discussion on causeheads and merkins.
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Episode 124: The Poop Knife
July 28th, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
abduction, imdb, john singleton, taylor lautner
We can't even describe how excited we are to be able to use "poop" in the episode title two weeks in a row. Almost as happy as America's Mayor in drag. Or Kanye living at the Mercedes Benz Stadium. We also chat about other things on the show. Like the movie Abduction and Ryan's new gig as a booker and manager.