Arlo J. Wiley

I co-host the extremely awesome podcast GOBBLEDYGEEK: http://gobbledygeekbtr.wordpress.com

The Avatar Returns

Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 17

The Avatar Returns episode 17 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. It’s the midseason climax as the invasion of the Fire Nation finally begins! But before that happens, your hosts debate the merits of the comedic palette cleanser that is chapter 309, “Nightmares

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 270, "Grendel: Part 1 - Devil by the Deed"

Art from ‘Grendel Omnibus: Volume One – Hunter Rose’ by Matt Wagner and Rich Rankin. Gobbledygeek episode 270, “Grendel: Part 1 – Devil by the Deed,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Spring has sprung, which means it’s time for another Four-Color Flashback! In years

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 269, "The Air Up There"

Gobbledygeek episode 269, “The Air Up There,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. When the apocalypse happens, wouldn’t you want to wake up in an underground bunker, shackled to a wall and pricked with a makeshift IV by none other than American screen

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Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 16

The Avatar Returns episode 16 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Back from another mini-hiatus, The Avatar Returns finds AJ dying. Again. But before he expires this time, we manage to squeeze in a discussion of the Fire Nation’s Imperialist Japan fetish as

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 268, "The Sandman: Overture (feat. Eric Sipple)"

Gobbledygeek episode 268, “The Sandman: Overture (feat. Eric Sipple),” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Later this month, Paul and AJ will begin a new Four-Color Flashback series exploring Matt Wagner’s Grendel. Before they do, though, they’re making a return trip to

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Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 15

The Avatar Returns episode 15 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Another episode of The Avatar Returns is here to teach you a lesson…ON YOUR FACE! The boys fight over who gets to be Dock, Xu, and Bushi as they critique chapter 303,

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 267, "Falling...in Love (feat. Eric Sipple)"

Gobbledygeek episode 267, “Falling…in Love (feat. Eric Sipple),” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Paul and AJ take one final plunge into Hitchcock Month for a look at 1945’s Spellbound, in which Ingrid Bergman falls in love with Gregory Peck on the

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Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 14

The Avatar Returns episode 14 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. There seems to have been some confusion among the ranks of hosts this week. To clarify, we are only discussing two chapters this time around, not three. Okay, Eric? Only two. But thanks

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Listen to Our 'Deadpool' Bonus Episode, "Rated R for Reynolds & Ring Pops"

The Deadpool bonus episode of Gobbledygeek is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. How many walls does a podcast have? Can we break them? Because movies have four, and Deadpool takes a wrecking ball to the fourth one. In the midst of Hitchcock Month, Paul

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 266, "Nazis and Nightcaps (feat. Ensley F. Guffey)"

Gobbledygeek episode 266, “Nazis and Nightcaps,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. For the penultimate installment of Hitchcock Month, Paul and AJ continue their tour of Hitch’s limited-setting films with a look at 1944’s Lifeboat, wherein a group including Tallulah Bankhead’s

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Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 13

The Avatar Returns episode 13 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. The Earth Kingdom has fallen. Avatar: The Last Airbender Book Two comes to its Earth Kingdom-shattering conclusion. In chapter 219, “The Guru,” Aang zips right through chakra training to master his Avatar State,

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 265, "Now the Fun Begins (feat. Joseph Lewis)"

Gobbledygeek episode 265, “Now the Fun Begins (feat. Joseph Lewis),” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Three men. One room. Now the fun begins. (Feel free to interpret that any way you wish.) Hitchcock Month continues, as A/V writer-director Joseph Lewis drops by

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Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 12

The Avatar Returns episode 12 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Yeah, let’s break some rules! We radically shift the format of the show this week [Editor’s note: no, we actually don’t at all] as we reach the penultimate episode of

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 264, "Two Is the Magic Number (feat. Aja Romano)"

Gobbledygeek episode 264, “Two Is the Magic Number (feat. Aja Romano),” is available for listening or download right here or on iTunes here. In years past, Paul and AJ have devoted month-long chunks of the show to Quentin Tarantino, modern film’s remix master; and Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s animation

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Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 11

The Avatar Returns episode 11 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. This week gets off to a weird start as AJ raises an existential question which, among other things, reveals Eric’s secret desire to totally mess up some random 16-year old kid’s

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 263, "Wezzo of Tomorrow (feat. Wesley Mead)"

Gobbledygeek episode 263 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. As 2016 begins, it is more apparent than ever that Americans are badly in need of enlightenment. Paul and AJ have chosen the form of the Enlightener, and he is none other than everyone’s

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Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 10

The Avatar Returns episode 10 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. The Avatar Returns returns! We’re back, having survived our various chemically altered holiday adventures. And due to some odd digital episode numbering, we end up with a bonus chapter this week which

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Listen to the 'Gobbledygeek' Season 7 Premiere, "The Somewhat Disgruntled Four (feat. Ensley F. Guffey & Joseph Lewis)"

Gobbledygeek episode 262, “The Somewhat Disgruntled Four (feat. Ensley F. Guffey & Joseph Lewis),” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. Don your dead general’s coat and strap on those snowshoes; for the Gobbledygeek season 7 premiere, we’re taking the last stage to

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Listen to the 'Gobbledygeek' Season Finale, "The Ford Awakens (feat. Eric Sipple, Kenn Edwards & Andrew Allen)"

Gobbledygeek episode 261, “The Ford Awakens (feat. Eric Sipple, Kenn Edwards & Andrew Allen),” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. For the season finale of Gobbledygeek, Paul and AJ turn to a little-seen, rarely discussed art film: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens.

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Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 9

The Avatar Returns episode 9 is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. A rare celestial event on The Avatar Returns this week as all three hosts agree on all three chapters. In what could conceivably be dubbed the Zuko Cycle, chapters 207-209, “Zuko Alone,” “The

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 260, "Bone: Vol. IX - Crown of Horns"

Gobbledygeek episode 260, “Bone: Vol. IX – Crown of Horns,” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. When the world was new, and dreams had not yet receded from the waking day…Paul and AJ had begun reading Jeff Smith’s cartoonish magnum opus Bone. Well,

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'Gobbledygeek' Episode 259, "I Peed on the Corpse (feat. Kenn Edwards)"

Gobbledygeek episode 259, “I Peed on the Corpse (feat. Kenn Edwards),” is available for listening or download right here and on iTunes here. The lost and lonely are looking for a place to belong. Powerful men are looking to keep their darkest secrets hidden. Robert Downey, Jr. isn’t looking

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 258, "A Wretched Podcast of Scum and Villainy (feat. Kenn Edwards & Andrew Allen)"

Gobbledygeek episode 258, “A Wretched Podcast of Scum and Villainy (feat. Kenn Edwards & Andrew Allen),” is available for listening or download right here, and on iTunes here. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a filmmaker named George Lucas accidentally created a pop culture empire. Over

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Listen to 'The Avatar Returns' Episode 8

The Avatar Returns episode 8 is available for listening or download right here, and on iTunes here. Man, rednecks ruin everything! This week, Avatar: The Last Airbender goes all Deliverance on us, and at least two of our hosts ain’t down for that. Chapter 204 takes us to “The

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Listen to 'Gobbledygeek' Episode 257, "Five Bucks to See the Dancing Freak"

Gobbledygeek episode 257, “Five Bucks to See the Dancing Freak,” is available for listening or download right here, and on iTunes here. Why talk about a mega-blockbuster sure to be seen by every casual movie fan on the planet when you can talk about a Sam Raimi deep cut from