app03 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:40:18 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Beer With Geeks - Episodes Tagged with “Movie Podcast” https://www.beerwithgeeks.com/tags/movie%20podcast Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:00:00 -0400 A couple of guys, a couple of beers, and a whole lot of pop culture nostalgia. en-us episodic A couple of guys, a couple of beers, and a whole lot of pop culture nostalgia. Thought Bubble Audio A couple of guys, a couple of beers, and a whole lot of pop culture nostalgia. no Thought Bubble Audio beerwithgeeks@gmail.com 567: Magic Jungle Potion https://www.beerwithgeeks.com/567 ad5e4e35-fea5-40ba-a8a2-9d9e6b064a66 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:00:00 -0400 Thought Bubble Audio full Thought Bubble Audio A rogues-gallery tally, a Breaking Bad analogy, and one very unresolved genre argument. 35:09 no <p>Tim and Frank take on a deceptively simple question: <strong>is Spider-Man actually a street-level superhero?</strong> What starts as a debate about subgenres turns into a much bigger conversation — about tone, stakes, and whether the label helps or hurts a character when your hero is literally swinging above the street.</p> <p><strong>Beers of the Week</strong><br> Sam Adams Porch Rocker Lemon Radler (Frank)<br> Stormalong Legendary Dry Hard Cider — Millis, MA (Tim)</p> <p><strong>In this episode</strong></p> <ul> <li>Sam Adams Porch Rocker returns — the annual visit, and this year it's slightly less tart (in a good way)</li> <li>Sam Adams's new can design — Sam covering his own letters with a raised mug (or is that Paul Revere? or Thomas Jefferson?)</li> <li>Stormalong dry cider, heirloom + bittersweet apples, and the cracking-tentacles Kraken can</li> <li>H.P. Lovecraft geography detour: Providence vs. Newport, the racism asterisk, where Arkham actually came from</li> <li>The main question: is Spider-Man a street-level superhero at all?</li> <li>Defining street-level: it's about the tone and the stakes, not the powers — Daredevil pounds the tar, Batman is technically anything but blue-collar</li> <li>Peter Parker's sci-fi problem: his origin is basically Fantastic Four, the web shooters make him genius-tier, and Frank once asked his dad to build a pair</li> <li>Kraven the Hunter's magic jungle potion goes golfing</li> <li>A live tally of Spider-Man's rogues gallery — chameleon, vulture, Doc Ock, Sandman, Lizard, Electro, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Kraven, Scorpion, Morbius, Venom — and where each one lands on street / middle / cosmic</li> <li>The verdict: 5 street, 6 in-between, 1 cosmic — Spider-Man's distribution skews low-end, but he's genuinely hard to pin down</li> <li>"Spider-Man is a street-level hero the same way Breaking Bad is a show about a chemistry teacher." — the Breaking Bad Test</li> <li>Why pigeonholing hurts long-lived characters, and why the supporting cast is really what makes a hero viable</li> <li>Reading from <em>Superman: The Never-Ending Battle</em> by Roger Stern — Clark Kent finally becomes Superman across an entire beautiful page of prose</li> </ul> <p>Find us at beerwithgeeks.com — like, subscribe, leave a rating, and tell a friend. </p> Spider-Man, superheroes, street level, Marvel, MCU, comic book podcast, Breaking Bad, Batman, Daredevil, Kraven, Kingpin, Spider-Man rogues gallery, No Way Home, Spider-Man 4, Brand New Day, Superman, Roger Stern Tim and Frank take on a deceptively simple question: is Spider-Man actually a street-level superhero? What starts as a debate about subgenres turns into a much bigger conversation — about tone, stakes, and whether the label helps or hurts a character when your hero is literally swinging above the street.

Beers of the Week
Sam Adams Porch Rocker Lemon Radler (Frank)
Stormalong Legendary Dry Hard Cider — Millis, MA (Tim)

In this episode

  • Sam Adams Porch Rocker returns — the annual visit, and this year it's slightly less tart (in a good way)
  • Sam Adams's new can design — Sam covering his own letters with a raised mug (or is that Paul Revere? or Thomas Jefferson?)
  • Stormalong dry cider, heirloom + bittersweet apples, and the cracking-tentacles Kraken can
  • H.P. Lovecraft geography detour: Providence vs. Newport, the racism asterisk, where Arkham actually came from
  • The main question: is Spider-Man a street-level superhero at all?
  • Defining street-level: it's about the tone and the stakes, not the powers — Daredevil pounds the tar, Batman is technically anything but blue-collar
  • Peter Parker's sci-fi problem: his origin is basically Fantastic Four, the web shooters make him genius-tier, and Frank once asked his dad to build a pair
  • Kraven the Hunter's magic jungle potion goes golfing
  • A live tally of Spider-Man's rogues gallery — chameleon, vulture, Doc Ock, Sandman, Lizard, Electro, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Kraven, Scorpion, Morbius, Venom — and where each one lands on street / middle / cosmic
  • The verdict: 5 street, 6 in-between, 1 cosmic — Spider-Man's distribution skews low-end, but he's genuinely hard to pin down
  • "Spider-Man is a street-level hero the same way Breaking Bad is a show about a chemistry teacher." — the Breaking Bad Test
  • Why pigeonholing hurts long-lived characters, and why the supporting cast is really what makes a hero viable
  • Reading from Superman: The Never-Ending Battle by Roger Stern — Clark Kent finally becomes Superman across an entire beautiful page of prose

Find us at beerwithgeeks.com — like, subscribe, leave a rating, and tell a friend.

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]]> Tim and Frank take on a deceptively simple question: is Spider-Man actually a street-level superhero? What starts as a debate about subgenres turns into a much bigger conversation — about tone, stakes, and whether the label helps or hurts a character when your hero is literally swinging above the street.

Beers of the Week
Sam Adams Porch Rocker Lemon Radler (Frank)
Stormalong Legendary Dry Hard Cider — Millis, MA (Tim)

In this episode

  • Sam Adams Porch Rocker returns — the annual visit, and this year it's slightly less tart (in a good way)
  • Sam Adams's new can design — Sam covering his own letters with a raised mug (or is that Paul Revere? or Thomas Jefferson?)
  • Stormalong dry cider, heirloom + bittersweet apples, and the cracking-tentacles Kraken can
  • H.P. Lovecraft geography detour: Providence vs. Newport, the racism asterisk, where Arkham actually came from
  • The main question: is Spider-Man a street-level superhero at all?
  • Defining street-level: it's about the tone and the stakes, not the powers — Daredevil pounds the tar, Batman is technically anything but blue-collar
  • Peter Parker's sci-fi problem: his origin is basically Fantastic Four, the web shooters make him genius-tier, and Frank once asked his dad to build a pair
  • Kraven the Hunter's magic jungle potion goes golfing
  • A live tally of Spider-Man's rogues gallery — chameleon, vulture, Doc Ock, Sandman, Lizard, Electro, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Kraven, Scorpion, Morbius, Venom — and where each one lands on street / middle / cosmic
  • The verdict: 5 street, 6 in-between, 1 cosmic — Spider-Man's distribution skews low-end, but he's genuinely hard to pin down
  • "Spider-Man is a street-level hero the same way Breaking Bad is a show about a chemistry teacher." — the Breaking Bad Test
  • Why pigeonholing hurts long-lived characters, and why the supporting cast is really what makes a hero viable
  • Reading from Superman: The Never-Ending Battle by Roger Stern — Clark Kent finally becomes Superman across an entire beautiful page of prose

Find us at beerwithgeeks.com — like, subscribe, leave a rating, and tell a friend.

Support Beer With Geeks

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