About Rob

Writer and video editor braving the soft, glittery underbelly of Los Angeles. Rob enjoys films of all shapes and sizes, absurdity, and describes his Thunderbolts comic book collection "curated" (ugh, we know). You can find him shrieking at the black hole of existence at @HeroesAreBoring

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This is Serious Business #65: Shut Up and Take My Money!

Rob takes up the hosting mantle as the team dives into Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake, Snowpiercer, Elder Scrolls Online, Valve’s The International, modern marketing, and more! It’s a metric ton of wallet-damaging fun!

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This is Serious Business #64: Dinosaur Armies & the Age of Ultron

Marcus outlines his perfect dinosaur army as he joins Jeff, Christin, and Rob to delve into 47 Ronin and a full roundup of SDCC news.

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This is Serious Business #62: Jaeger Bomb

An iron 3 panel takes on nerd news, then is pleasantly surprised with Pacific Rim. Rob hits the hard liquor.

Featuring: Michelle, JONROB

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This is Serious Business #61: Mythical Mayhem

This week we dive into movies that critics hate but we dig, plus an in depth discussion of the sword & sandals genre. It’s one mythical episode of TiSB!

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This is Serious Business #60: Rebooting Robots

The G1 panel reunites to discuss the new series Beware the Batman, then it’s trailer time with Escape Plan, followed by the Terminator reboot news.

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This is Serious Business #59: She Blinded me with Science

We welcome guest panelist Alex (check out her Youtube channel, BiteScized) to discuss life according to data, and the science of dreaming.

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This is Serious Business #58: Blue Steel

The plucky panel takes a looksee at new trailers for 300: Rise of an Empire and the Hobbit, then has at it over Man of Steel. Spoilers abound.

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This is Serious Business #56: Summer Screen Time

Hannibal, Community, Arrested Development, Doctor Who news and more. Plus the panel shares some summer movie memories.

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This is Serious Business #55: Dynamic Duoing

Rob and Christin hold down the fort through Man of Steel, Europa Report, Amazon’s new Kindle Worlds, and more!

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This is Serious Business #53: Old Sports

An iron 3 panel takes on IdrA’s release from EG, trailers for Ender’s Game and the World’s End, the Great Gatsby, and script analysis services in Hollywood.

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This is Serious Business #52: Iron Mania

The G1 panel breaks down Iron Man 3. Feelings are had.

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This is Serious Business #51: The Great Debate

The panel talks “the future”, which X-Men movies suck and rock, and what makes for a good comic book movie.

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This is Serious Business #50: Blockbusting

The panel tackles the cancellation of Futurama and the many upcoming Summer Blockbusters.

Featuring: Jon, Rob, Michelle, Christin (and later Jeff and Marcus)

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This is Serious Business #49: Everyone’s a Critic

After some unfortunate technical difficulties, the gang dives into nerd news, then discusses the merits of film criticism.

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Movies & TV

Our Mad Men Future: What We’ve Always Wanted

So now we stand, eager for more heartbreak at the precipice of the penultimate season. Don’s fidelity. Peggy’s career. Pete’s hairline. SO MANY QUESTIONS.

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This is Serious Business #47: Season 2 Electric Boogaloo

We kick off our second year with the latest trailer for Star Trek: Into Darkness, Nerd News, separating art and artists, and more.

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This is Serious Business: Punishment Edition

The fallout from our Nerd Trivia battle comes to fruition, as Christin, Rob, Jon, and Michelle are forced to dramatically reenact a sequence from Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever and discuss the movie. Meanwhile, Jeff is forced to read from 50 Shades of Grey and quote Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin.

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This is Serious Business: One Year Anniversary Trivia Bash

All 9 regular podcast contributes assemble to battle it out for honor and glory (and nerd superiority). Drinks are involved and hijinks ensue.

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