Hombre Potato
By Casey & Karen
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Podcast Description
Casey likes 80s action movies, asians and Sam Raimi. Karen likes musicals, 1930s romantic comedies and Kevin Smith. Both have an almost unhealthy love for film and TV. In Hombre Potato, we discuss what we've been watching, what we want to watch and whatever else seems to catch our attention.
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ExplicitEpisode 30: Hombre Potato's Precious Little Life - 8/27/10 | It's the end of the summer movie season, and we've uppercuted it crazy-style in Hombre Potato's Precious Little Life! Karen does weird yoga stuff while discussing the subtleties of Mad Men, and Casey has a spine-crushing good time talking about more True Blood (for less than 20 minutes). The main event is our wrap-up of movies in theaters with the boobtacular gorefest (or was it a goretacular boobfest? Oh, semantics!) that's Piranha 3D, the worn-out old men who comprise The Expendables, and the KO Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World delivered to our brains. | 8/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 29: The Summer Season Sanctimony - 8/9/10 | Casey and Karen are back! We took a long summer hiatus and did so many exciting things that we’ve accumulated over two dozen movies and TV shows to dump on you tonight! And dump we shall. We go through our whole docket of summer movies, including in-depth reviews of The Last Airbender, Inception, Toy Story 3, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. On the TV end, Karen watches Deadwood and Casey watches Being Human. FINALLY. Other discussion points that demand exclamation include (but are not excluded to): Doctor Who post-mortem! Karen’s Andrew Garfield marathon! Casey reads a picture book! Zombies!!! | 8/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 28: A Simple Potato Story - 5/28/10 | Casey is back from his vacation to China, and Karen is back from...Midtown Manhattan with a grip of movies and TV in Hombre Potato 28: A Simple Potato Story. The newest installment of Ridiculous Asian Movies (with Casey), and the first installment of Movies seen in Asia (with Casey), brings Japanese coming-of-age dramedies, Chinese retellings of Coen Brothers films and a little arthouse flick called Iron Man 2. On the TV end, Karen and Casey go in-depth on (how much we loved) the season finales of Supernatural and Community and (how much we still love) the current season of Doctor Who. We also bid farewell to shows that have aired series finales, shedding a tear for 24 while flipping the bird at Lost. | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 27: Big Spuddy - 4/22/10 | Never fear, brave listeners, Karen is here to s**t on everything you love in Episode 27: Big Spuddy. Doctor Who, Kick-Ass, Supernatural - nothing is safe. But Party Down gets an A and Casey's back with a random assortment of movies to review. | 4/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 26: The Eleventh Hombre - 4/12/10 | Doctor Who is back! And it's FANTASTIC! Karen and Casey (role reversal!) bring you Episode 26: The Eleventh Hombre. This week, we gush like we've never gushed before over the new new Who and Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon. In between these book ends of awesome, we discuss men who hate women, men who love men, men who love women loving women, and Casey's hate for horsefaces. | 4/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 25: The Spuds of Time - 3/24/10 | Welcome one and all to Hombre Potato Episode 25: The Spuds of Time. The regular gang (...of two people) get all sorts of relevant as Casey finally gets off his ass and watches Doctor Who: The End of Time, Karen gets on her ass and delves into the TV catalog of Andrew Buchan, and we both admire Timothy Olyphant's ass in Justified and Deadwood. Cuz he's dreamy. Also on the docket are discussions of She's Out of Your League, The Vicious Kind, Good Hair, and 24's most recent insanity. With visual aids! | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 24: Hells Bells & Buckets of Blood - 3/10/10 | Jolly good show! Hip-hip! Shepard’s Pie! Welcome young gents and lasses to Episode 24 of HP: Hells, Bells and Buckets of Blood! This week, Casey and Karen wage a cultural war against every English-speaking civilization that we can. We still love you, America, England and Ireland! France should keep its pop culture out of my subtitles, though. You’ve been warned. We also discuss revisiting movies we remembered liking, horror movie remakes, what should’ve won the screenplay Oscars, Chuck’s incessant retconning, the intricacies of Venture Bros. season 2, and random British shows. Because when do we not watch random British shows? | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 23: Drop Dead Fred - 2/25/10 | Do you like tangents and derailed conversations? Of course you do! Oh, you don’t? Welllll, suck it. This week, Casey and Karen (and Fred!) produce the longest back-to-back conversations that have nothing to do with the topic on-hand, and then get to talking about Karen’s podcast addiction, the proper way to use crazy people in film, American vs. British slang, the size of Jordana Brewster’s head, rubber hand fights, and Shutter Island. | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 22: From Idaho With Love - 2/15/10 | Not even Central California and the Snowpocalypse can stop the primal force that is Hombre Potato Episode 22: From Idaho with Love. This week, we discuss movies starring guys with shaved domes, the highs and lows of The Last Airbender trailers, manliness in all its homoerotic forms and mix in a little mockery of legitimate movie podcasts. Our hatred burns with the fire of a thousand suns, Chen!!! | 2/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 21: The Re-Spud - 1/28/10 | Hey, internet! We're back after a long winter/holiday/laziness break with our (first) official reboot! And by mean reboot, we mean that we did an episode. Except, ya know, darker and grittier and focusing more on our teen angst than our college lives working at the Bugle. This week, Casey and Karen discuss the copulation of gelatinous blobs, ethnic variations of Jason Schwartzman, hating Zack Braff, British things (of course), and our website www.hombrepotato.com. Shameless promotion! | 1/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 19: The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse - 11/26/09 | Welcome to Episode 19: Hombre Potato and (Karen fill in the title, haha). In honor of Turkey Day, listen to Casey and Karen gorge on everything you should and shouldn’t be watching so that you don’t have to deal with the after effects of tryptophan. Or glittery vampires. This week, we go epic crazy-style with The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the final episode of Supernatural for 2009, Dexter’s insane Thanksgiving, loads of British stuff, Joseph Gordon-Levitt wall-somersaulting like a ninja (assassin?), and Mark Sheppard being in everything known to mankind. Let’s do this! | 11/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 18: The Phantom Boob Grab - 11/17/09 | Speaking of expecting more about teenage boys and rape, Episode 18: Hombre Potato and the Phantom Boob Grab is here for your listening pleasure! Or whatever pleasure you need on these lonely winter nights. This time 'round, Karen and Casey talk about Netflix Instant Queue, Stephen Moffatt, fanwanking Deb's death on Dexter, Horatio Crane, and lots and lots of surprise sex. Cuz who doesn't like surprise sex? | 11/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 17: The Holy Sarsgaard Creepy Trinity - 10/31/09 | Welcome to Ep. 17: The Holy Sarsgaard Creepy Trinity! Now that Hombre Potato can see R-rated movies, it can also have cute/creepy trysts with older women that define its passage into adulthood. This week, Casey and Karen discuss the killer combo of Jean Reno and DDR, Peter Sarsgaard having his way with girls in the 1960's, hating on Jennifer Carpenter, and the phenomenon of Matthew Bomer Fallout. He's just too pretty. Either that, or we're all just too ugly. | 10/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 16: Potato Gnome - 9/29/09 | Hombre Potato Episode 16: Potato Gnome (aka the cutest misunderstanding of our podcast name yet)! Casey and Karen tackle every sort of media you can wave a stick at, coherently! This week, Casey reveals his undying love for half-tucks, Karen talks about her Legen-wait for it-dary trip to California and all of the shows she's seen at the New York Musical Festival, and we talk about the latest and greatest TV, including Community, Dexter, and How I Met Your Mother. We also return to discussions of Party Down and The Middleman as Casey catches up with Karen's voracious TV appetite. Dirty! | 10/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 15: That's Why We Added the 'Tater - 9/29/09 | Welcome to Episode 15: That's Why We Added 'Tater, where Casey and Karen ignore film once again and talk about some more new fall TV. Casey finds his new True Blood while describing Survivor in brutal detail and bitches about that stupid kangaroo in FlashForward; Karen talks up time travel in Being Erica and how not off the hook Off The Hook is. Then, with their powers combined, passionately dissect the season premiere of Dexter and further nerdgasm over The Venture Bros. | 9/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 14: Bam Said the Hombre - 9/26/09 | Episode 14: Bam, Said The Hombre finds Casey and Karen back from their slew of mini-breaks for our first episode during the new Fall TV season. And boy did we watch the hell out of some TV. TV isn’t gonna be able to walk right for a couple of days after what we did to it. This week, we see the second installment of “Ridiculous Asian Movies! By Casey,” discuss the optimal ways to clean oneself…of poop, determine where Vampire Diaries falls on the True Blood-Twilight crazy-vampire spectrum, continue to gush about Supernatural, and validate Karen’s undying love for The Venture Bros. because (Spoiler Alert!) Casey loves it too now. | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitMinisode #1! Sympathy for the Potato - 9/13/09 | Hombre Potato brings you its very first Minisode, “Sympathy for the Potato,” in which Casey and Karen discuss the season five premiere of Supernatural. What do Holly Hunter, Meatsuits, and Fangirls have in common? Not a whole lot, but that’s why we love this show so damn much. We also talk seriously about the nature of Revelations and how demons came to be, and Karen sings (and hilarity ensues). | 9/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 13: Katamari Potato - 9/10/09 | Hombre Potato Episode 13: Katamari Potato has us rolling back (get it?? cuz you roll the ball in the game to pick stuff up…yeah) from our break. Casey gushes about the uber-nerdgasm he had all over Seattle thanks to the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX!), plus games he got to play including God of War III, Uncharted 2, WET, Borderlands, Brutal Legend, The Saboteur, and Shank. Karen listens to Casey’s nerdgasm because she’s a good friend. :-D We also discuss 10 Things I Hate About You, Project Runway, True Blood, Samurai Jack, Breakfast With Scot (Gay Ben Shenkman!), Passing Strange, and our ever-growing fan-person love for Doctor Who season 5. Casey’s out of town next week, so there’ll be no regular show, BUT stay tuned for our first minisode this weekend (potentially)! A little show called Supernatural that we are both fond of is coming back Thursday, September 10, 9pm on the CW. And we wanna talk about it. So go watch it. For now, we depart. Royal Rainbow! Bwwwaaaaaa! | 9/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 12: Inglorious Hombres, Peelin' Natzis - 8/28/09 | Episode 12: Inglourious Hombres Peelin’ Natzis finds us promising a low-key episode, and delivering (with Natzi killing to boot!). This week, Casey gushes about the immersive experience of killing aliens in Dead Space, Karen talks about shows from the NY Fringe Festival and poop, and we talk about fat people some more. Because we love them. Then Karen slightly ruins sausage for Casey (Homosexuality!). Finally, we talk about ridiculous Asian movies with handicappable badasses and head explosions, and a little arthouse film no one’s heard of called Inglourious Basterds. | 8/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 11: I Love You, Hombre - 8/19/09 | Episode 11: I Love You, Hombre promises lots of bromance, even though Karen and I aren’t bros (in the typical sense cuz, ya know, Karen’s a girl. not a guy.). This week! Karen and Casey pontificate on the existential merits of the Inbetweeners along with our usual TV staples and thoughts on the upcoming season of Dexter, and then we move into movies where we discuss poor strategy for surviving a mutant-infested post-apocalyptic world, the false promise of naked Zooey Deschanel, I Love You, Man proves that Jason Segel needs to cut his hair, insanity only Miyazaki could produce, and the entire human race is comprised of evil, evil douchebags who want to kill alien babies (= District 9). I get it! | 8/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 10: GI Potato - 8/13/09 | Episode 10: GI Potato is the codename for American's daring, highly trained movie and TV-viewing force of two. Their purpose is to defend human freedom against dumbasses determined to rule the world and make us all watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine. A real American Hombre, GI Potato! This week, Casey and Karen produce their most epic, spine-tingling episode yet, with Channing Tatum Channing Tatum! We discuss the newest season of America’s Best Dance Crew, the summer finale of Burn Notice, and Casey does his homework by beginning The Middleman. We proceed to explode full-force into our SIX movies this week, including recommendations for Timecrimes and K-20: Legend of the Mask, how Food, Inc. changed Karen’s life (and may turn her into a hippie), how Cold Souls didn’t change Karen’s life (and may turn her into a hippie), how Casey surprises everyone with his review of (500) Days of Summer, and Casey and Karen love G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and think you should, too. Yo Potato! | 8/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 9: The Man with the Golden Spud - 8/05/09 | Hombre Potato Episode 9: The Man with the Golden Spud, complete with thrills, chills, and butt probing. Casey talks about little green men and the relationship between cake and fat people in what video games he has been playing, Karen continues the fat people topic into TV when she talks about More to Love (Spoiler Alert: You won't love it, even though they give you more of it) and how Drop Dead Diva continues to surprise and impress. We then move to vampires as Karen tries to get Casey to watch Twilight (fail) and Casey discusses the new Park Chan-wook film, Thirst, where vampires are cool AND express their emotions without being pussfaces. Finally, Who Watches the Watchmen? Karen does, that’s who. Then we discuss it. Yup. | 8/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 8: The Ectoplasmic Tuberosum Investigation - 7/29/09 | Welcome to Hombre Potato 8: The Ectoplasmic Tuberosum Investigation! Because Latin automatically classes up the joint. In this week’s adventures, Casey and Karen discuss their usual assortment of TV (Drop Dead Diva, True Blood, Burn Notice), along with appreciation for Britain’s love of full frontal nudity in Desperate Romantics and a change of heart regarding It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Casey also gets in his 10 minutes of video game time as he continues to mow down Nazi proxies in Valkyria Chronicles, Karen discusses the many facets of Across the Universe, and Karen and Casey share their thoughts on the British political satire In The Loop and why Malcolm Tucker is now their hero. | 7/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 7: Hombre Children of Potato Earth - 7/22/09 | It's Hombre Potato Episode 7: Hombre Children of Potato Earth! Casey discusses logistics of the parasitic creature in Splinter, Karen hopes that none of her exes listen to her discuss 500 Days of Summer, they briefly discuss gay Nazi-killers in Valkeria Chronicles and mention tv they've been watching before proceeding to blow their load all over Stephen Moffatt's future reign on Doctor Who and the Torchwood miniseries Children of Earth. Which you should watch. Right now. To those who are not: why do you hate happiness? DVD July 28th. Buy it. | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 6: Hombre Potato and the Half-Spud Prince - 7/16/09 | Our most epic episode yet has arrived! In Episode 6: Hombre Potato and the Half-Spud Prince, Casey and Karen talk about pet rats and kung fu in Comix Zone, impressions of Warehouse 13 and Drop Dead Diva (could those BE any more different? No. They couldn’t), why the Harper’s Island finale blew chunks, and Casey watches bad reality TV. We also discuss what films we watched recently, including the debate of whether Shia LeBouf is a douchebag in his movies, real life, or all the time, boring documentaries, Spanish zombies, Casey’s impressions of Bruno and why he doesn’t want to be raped, and Karen’s fangirl musings on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with tips on how to seduce her (Read: be British, suck ice cream off your fingers). | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 5: The Dream Potato - 7/08/09 | Episode 5: The Dream Potato, Casey and Karen discuss modern adaptations of Shakespeare (10 Things I Hate About You on ABC Family and From Dusk Til Dawn), classic interpretations of Shakespeare (Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park), and people who have probably made out with Shakespeare - or would have if they were in that episode of Doctor Who (Captain Jack of Torchwood). And yes, we're kidding about From Dusk Til Dawn being Shakespeare. | 7/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 4: A New Hombre - 7/01/09 | Episode 4: A New Hombre, Casey and Karen talk about True Blood in almost painful detail, Casey’s first impressions of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, whether Virtuality is any good, The many layers of creepy and awkward that is P.S., and The Warriors (come out to plllllllaaaaayyyyyy). Casey also gushes over The Hurt Locker and Karen further embraces Asians (or does she?) at the NY Asian Film Festival. No Transformers 2 because we don’t hate ourselves THAT much. | 7/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 3: Hombre Potato With A Vengeance - 6/25/09 | Episode 3, Hombre Potato With A Vengeance(!!), Casey and Karen talk about the Muppet Show and the slightly frightening possibility of its reboot, the good (The Inbetweeners), the bad (Merlin), and the wtf (Robin Hood) of British TV, Burn Notice, loving southern gentlemen vampires more than female nudity in the True Blood season premiere, impressions of The Last Airbender trailer, Casey’s review of The Hangover, Karen’s review of Franklin, Karen embraces Asians and Gaysians at the New York Asian Film Festival!, and Brick gets compared to Spring Awakening. | 6/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 2: The Reckoning - 6/16/09 | In Hombre Potato Episode 2: The Reckoning, Casey and Karen cover the past week in USA programming, the oddities of British slang and dialects courtesy of The Inbetweeners, the Rob Thomas-palooza that is Party Down, how Troll 2 taught us that you can’t p**s on hospitality, Confetti, the merits of drunk-watching Transformers, and Moon starring Sam Rockwell (who we love). Plus, Casey thinks fire is cool in Far Cry 2 and Karen plays a video game too! | 6/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 1 - 6/09/09 | In the first episode of Hombre Potato, Casey and Karen get their bearings in the wild world of podcasting and use IMDB a lot to confirm character actors’ names as they talk about Burn Notice, Royal Pains, who the villain will be the villain in Spider-Man 4 Drag Me To Hell, Clerks, Up, The Brothers Bloom, and Killshot. We also talk about how no one is safe from The Tony Awards (especially Bret Michaels), and inFamous on PS3, starring Christian Bale’s Batman voice as a bald courier. | 6/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
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