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Deep beneath the murky depths, a mysterious episode of Baconsale is bubbling to the surface. Joel, Kent, and Zack have explored every ocean, sea, lake, and river to find the strangest and creepiest fictional aquatic creatures around. We’ll share horrifying historical accounts of seafarers from centuries ago and tell spooky stories of sea monsters from across the globe. We’ll also offer some frightening facts about the Kraken, Gill-man, and Cthulhu itself. Then we’ll end the episode by letting you know if any of the sea creature features we’ve watched are worth diving into.   Get over your fear of plesiosaurs and use your opposable thumbs to press play.

Our What Would Baconsale Do episodes have always gotten a little dark in parts, but on this episode, we’re fully embracing the macabre. This time, all of our hypothetical questions are Halloween-themed, including the unsettling scenarios submitted by you, the listener. Joel, Kent, and Zack will take turns giving their answers and try not to be too frightened as they decide which host will haunt them, where would be the spookiest place to spend the night, what dreadful candy they should eat, and which horror movie icon should be their boss. We invite you to play along, but watch out for jump scare sound effects, insights into our psyches, and some mild bullying as we navigate our fear of the unknown.   Press play for a short Batman sidetrack.

Konnichiwa, listener! ¿Cómo estás? Well, we are doing très bien because we’re going to show our chilling cultured side on this episode of Baconsale. Joel and Kent have each brought 10 foreign horror (forror) films they’re ready to share with you. Five of them we’ll recommend, and five of them we’ll tell you to avoid. Although the reasons why we don’t recommend certain movies varies. WARNING: Kent has some pretty dark and disturbing choices, but he’ll do his best to keep things family friendly/Americanized. Along the way, we’ll learn new pronunciations of movie titles from Zack, discover Kent’s love for Korea, and try to protect Joel’s soul.   Both Admiral Botox and Mackers want you press play.

October has arrived, so Baconsale is kicking things off with a macabre game of M.A.S.H. Joel, Kent, and Zack are each going to be building an epic spook alley. The haunting hand of fate will decide what each of our rooms will look like, which creatures or characters will inhabit those spaces, and what music will be playing. We’ll also finish things off with a frightening grand finale from heck! It’s then up to you to decide which haunted house you’d dare to enter. Listen as contact levels are decided, so many lemons are picked, and OSHA regulations are completely ignored.   Press play and then let us know if you’d rather visit Joel-o-ween, Fright Club, or The Mall.

Imagine this: you’re sitting comfortably on your couch, snug as a bug in a rug, when you start to feel a slight tickle on your arm. You lift the blanket to find a creepy-crawly pest resting on you. How would you react? That’s the question we’re asking on this episode of Baconsale. Joel, Kent, and Zack have created a list of 24 bugs (including ants, spiders, moths, flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, grasshoppers, bees, and ladybugs) and we’re going to tier them according to how much they would cause us to freak out. We’ll also share some fun facts about each insect, arachnid, crustacean, and myriapod as we do our best to pronounce their scientific names correctly and not enforce certain gender stereotypes.   Did you just get an itchy feeling on your scalp? Instead of going for your blowtorch, you’d better just press play, beetle buddy.

We’re back (A Dinosaur's Story) to finish what we started and finally determine… who some of these animated characters are. After all, these should now be the better-known villains of the non-Disney bunch, right? And then, after we can clearly picture these individual antagonists, we’ll do our best to argue who would win in a fight to the death. This will, of course, lead to a number of random side conversations, including a whole discussion about healthcare plans and a couple conspiracy theories. We may agree a lot at the beginning, but then we become sentient and corporeal, and the dark magic starts to take over and as we enter the sinister sixteen, evil eight, fearsome four, and final match-up.   Which non-Disney villain will come out victorious? Press play to find out.   Visit Baconsale.com to download the advanced version of this bracket.

Why should Disney villains have all the fun? On this episode of Baconsale, we’re turning the spotlight on evil, animated antagonists from other film studios such as DreamWorks (Lord Farquaad, Tai Lung), Illumination (Vector, Bowser), Fox (Soto, Hexxus), and even some Don Bluth productions (Rasputin, Sharptooth). You may not remember some of these characters, but that’s okay because we didn’t either. However, we’ll remind you of which movie they’re from, what they look like, and what their crimes are. We’ve also randomized the match-ups so there are a lot of wild card battles in this first round of the tournament. And watch out for decades-old spoilers as we don’t pull any punches.   Press play to find out why Plankton is Batman.   And visit Baconsale.com to download our official non-Disney villain bracket.

On this episode of Baconsale, we are the danger, because we’re entering the Gilliverse (Vince Gilligan’s Island?) and discussing Breaking Bad, El Camino, and Better Call Saul. We’ll begin by Gliding Over All with a spoiler-free history of each show. We’ll then use our Gray Matter to analyze characters such as Saul Goodman, Jesse Pinkman, Kim Wexler, Mike Ehrmantraut, Gus Fring, and the Cancer Man himself: Walter White/Heisenberg. Once we’re given the Green Light, we’ll take the Gloves Off and go Full Measure into spoiler territory and all the Chicanery that happens in these shows. We’ll talk about the Plan and Execution of a few specific episodes, chat about the jaw-dropping moments when certain characters Face Off, and debate if the End Times of each story was Something Beautiful or just Dead Freight.   It was Quite a Ride to watch these all again. Press play to enter the Crawl Space and be the one who knocks.

It’s Sunrise on the Reaping of fall movies for Baconsale. Joel, Kent, and Zack have searched the Wildwood of the web and Hope to help you know which films are going Open World before the end of the year. We’ve used some Practical Magic 2 choose five films we want to avoid, and five (Minus Zero) that belong in Primetime. We’ll do our best to not act like an Ebenezer or make it sound like Doomsday in the theaters, but The Social Reckoning may happen and we may be taken over by some sort of Resident Evil at times.   Don’t Look Back in Anger at your Other Mommy. Be a Digger and press play.

Listener, when you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room and talk about movies that are 20 years old. It's for fun. And on this episode of Baconsale, we’ve got a jar of dirt! Wait, no, we’re showcasing the 2006 films that left us shaken and stirred in a series of cinematic categories. We’ll be discussing the films that were a great success, as well as those that were nothing more than an inconvenient truth. We’re all in this together, but Kent is a bit of a downer and he fights our pursuit of happyness, Joel has declared open season on animated films and his feet aren’t happy, and Zack is ready to shake and bake and he gets a little hostel with some our choices.   Ka-chow! Press play to hear the last stand in our film lookback this season.

Somehow Joel, Kent & Zack were hired as temps at a parole board hearing. However, this is a symbolic cinematic prison for filmmakers who have been put in director’s jail for one reason or another. Therefore, on this episode of Baconsale, we’ll be examining the filmography of once-popular directors like Tom Hooper, Cameron Crowe, Patty Jenkins, Joss Whedon, J.J. Abrams, Nancy Meyers, and Terry Gilliam. After reviewing their cases, we’ll decide if they deserve to stay in director’s jail, should be allowed out on probation, or should be released to make movies freely again. Should someone’s reputation be ruined because of one garbage (grabage?) movie? Can a movie be iconic but not good? Does the age of a director matter? Listen to find out.   Press play to get stamp happy!

Baconsale has already ranked popular pizza chains and frozen pizzas on previous episodes and now we’re topping it all off with, well, pizza toppings. We’ve compiled a list of 24 popular meats and veggies and, after quickly picking our preferred crust type and sauce, Joel, Kent, and Zack will rank everything from anchovies to tomatoes. Along the way, there may be some Little Sleazer's slander and multiple comparisons to the taste of dirt, but we hope you enjoy as we pile on the praise for the toppings we love and present the official pizza of our podcast.   Don’t be a jerk to bread, BOOK IT to that play button!

Believe it or not, it’s been three years since the last time Baconsale played Concert, iPod, Erase. So, we decided to dedicate another episode to contemplating which artists we’d like to see in concert, which songs we’d want to hear on repeat, and which albums we would erase from existence. Zack is having fun with themes, Kent is doing his best impression of Cher, and Joel is still paying for his past actions with this game. We invite you to play along with us as we stress about scenarios that will never happen.   Press play to learn why The Beagles would be such a good idea.

Your friendly neighborhood Wall-Crawler is swinging back into theaters again with Spider-Man: Brand New Day. But will Tom Holland’s fourth Spidey flick be a leap forward in the evolution of his story, or is Peter Parker’s plot too caught up in the tangled web of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? That’s what we’re going to talk about on this BaconBit. Joel and Kent have seen the movie and are ready to give their spoiler-free, post-embargo reviews. And Zack is going to stick around, even after we start discussing specific plot points and characters, because spoilers for this film are kind of a grey area.   Press play to hear a bunch of PlayStation 4 references.

I'll tell you what we want, what we really, really want. We really want to talk about songs that are, No Diggity, turning 30 years old this year. And so, on this episode of Baconsale, we’re looking back to a time when Joel and Kent were merely Freshmen, and Zack was still dependent on his Mother Mother. We’ll be bringing up music that made us think we could Change the World and tunes that made us feel Blue. And while it may feel like we’re being Ironic with some of our choices, we’ll do our best to not Sink to the Bottom of the barrel Too Much with our picks, nor will we Sell Out as we avoid the Macarena.   Don’t practice Santeria, just press play.   Where Do You Go to find the songs we discussed on this episode? Visit Baconsale.com for the official Spotify playlist.