Three episodes in, we’re officially on a streak! Just in time for your Labor Day travels and leisure, episode 3 of The Amusement Park Podcast is now available.

This week, we respond to DC Universe’s launch announcements, review The Happytime Murders, check if Chris has canceled MoviePass yet and share what we enjoyed from the past week.

You can listen or download below:

Our website is almost ready to roll. Right now, you can listen to episodes and podcast subscription links there. Hopefully, we’ll get our blog up and rolling this week with summer being (unofficially?) over. That’s the plan.

And you can find us on the following podcast platforms:

• Apple Podcasts
• Stitcher
• Google Play
• Spotify
• Overcast

Enjoy your Labor Day weekend! Thank you for listening.

Chris Cox and I had so much fun recording The Amusement Park Podcast last week that we decided to do it again this week. OK, that was kind of the idea.

Next week, we may have a proper website for the podcast where episodes will be archived, while Chris and I will chime in on the pop culture stories that interest us (maybe as something of a preview or response to that week’s show). We’re workin’ on it!

For our second episode, we lament the time we wasted on Sharknado 6, wonder if the majority of moviegoers care who directs a film, and share what we enjoyed from the past week.

You can listen or download below:

And you can find us on the following podcast platforms:

• Apple Podcasts
• Google Play
• Spotify
• Overcast

Thanks for checking in!

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While trying to push myself back into blogging, I’ve sometimes thought about whether or not I should start a podcast instead. A growing number of people seem more interested in listening to something than reading. (I might be leaning that way, as well.)

I don’t feel as confident in production and so forth to do with audio what I think I can do with words. But maybe I’ll get there someday if I put some work into it.

In the meantime, my buddy Chris Cox have talked about doing a podcast off and on for a couple years now. Chris and I used to talk every week on the radio in Louisiana. Presumably, we were supposed to talk baseball, but often veered into pop culture by the end of the segment.

After Chris left radio, I was surprised and flattered when he mentioned wanting to do a podcast someday. Of all the people he worked with and spoke to on the radio, I’m the one he wanted to chat with? But we always had fun and could riff on a variety of topics.

Naturally, life got in the way and circumstances kept us from following through. I wasn’t sure we’d ever do a podcast (and I’m guessing Chris thought the same thing). Maybe this was the 2018 equivalent of “We should start a band, man!”

But as I’ve been thinking more about finding (or reviving) a more personal outlet and looked at podcasting as a possibility, it felt like time to take the plunge when Chris brought it up again recently. Let’s do this!

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