Salt Circle Podcast

Ben and Hank complete their discussion of Turn A Gundam, reaching the end of the series.  For this episode of Salt Circle they talk about episodes 34 through 50. Also, shoutout to The Great Gundam Project on the Abnormal Mapping network, which is what turned Hank onto this show: https://www.abnormalmapping.com/ggp Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Merry Christmas! Ben and Hank give running commentary as they watch through The Princess Switch starring Vanessa Hudgens. Press play on your copy of the movie at 1:56 to sync up. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank watched The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) and Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977). Happy Holidays. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank continue their discussion of Turn A Gundam and get to the heart of the series.  For this episode of Salt Circle they talk about episodes 17 through 33. (16 was a clip show episode.) Also, shoutout to The Great Gundam Project on the Abnormal Mapping network, which is what turned Hank onto this show: https://www.abnormalmapping.com/ggp Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank finally talk about 2021's Venom: Let There Be Carnage, but first they talk about a bunch of Carnage comics and the Carnage episodes of the 90's Spider-Man cartoon. Discussed this episode: Carnage [Amazing Spider-Man 361-363] Maximum Carnage [Part 1: Spider-Man Unlimited #1, Part 2: Web of Spider-Man #101, Part 3: The Amazing Spider-Man #378, Part 4: Spider-Man #35, Part 5: The Spectacular Spider-Man #201, Part 6: Web of Spider-Man #102, Part 7: The Amazing Spider-Man #379, Part 8: Spider-Man #36, Part 9: The Spectacular Spider-Man #202, Part 10: Web of Spider-Man #103, Part 11: The Amazing Spider-Man #380, Part 12: Spider-Man #37, Part 13: The Spectacular Spider-Man #203, Part 14: Spider-Man Unlimited #2] Venom - Carnage Unleashed 1-4 Planet of the Symbiotes [Amazing Spider-Man Super Special #1, Spider-Man Super Special #1, Venom Super Special #1, Spectacular Spider-Man Super Special #1, Web of Spider-Man Super Special #1] Venom on Trial 1-3 Peter Parker: Spider-Man 10,13 Gwenom vs Carnage 1-3

Ben and Hank watch the final 4 episodes of Ultra Q, 25 through 28: The Devil Child, Blazing Victory, The Disappearance of Flight 206, and Open Up! Ultra Q doesn't quite end on a bang, but this is a good set of episodes to go out on: Trains, two clowns, a walrus and more. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Ben and Hank did a deep dive into all things Beowulf. They talked about the Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley translations of the original text, the Santiago García and David Rubín Beowulf comic, the Gareth Hinds comic, the DC Comics Beowulf Dragon Slayer comic, the 1999 Beowulf movie starring Christopher Lambert, the 2005 Beowulf movie Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler along with the documentary Wrath of Gods about what a nightmare making that movie was, and the 2007 animated Robert Zemeckis movie written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avery. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank watch episodes 21 through 24 of Ultra Q: Space Directive M774, Metamorphosis, Fury of the South Sea, and The Idol of Goga. This week the episode with a child is the best of the bunch and perhaps Ultra Q at its finest. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Well, Hank bailed on this show on episode 2 so this is only going to be about first impressions on the live action Cowboy Bebop remake. Ben had made it through episode 4 when this was recorded so that's how much of the show gets touched on.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank watch episodes 17 through 20 of Ultra Q: The 1/8 Project, The Rainbow's Egg, Challenge from the Year 2020, The Undersea Humanoid Ragon. After all this time we finally learn what stretches Ultra Q's sense of believability and get an episode that was all a dream. And then we get an episode with a Looney Tunes joke ending, but that's fine, that's just reality.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Ben and Hank rewatched Cowboy Bebop along with the 2001 movie ahead of the release of the Netflix live-action adaptation.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank watch episodes 13 through 16 of Ultra Q: Garadama, Tokyo Ice Age, Kanegon's Cocoon, Garamon Strikes Back. In which Ultra Q starts reusing its own monsters.  Also, Children continue to be a problem.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Hank watched through all of Turn A Gundam and was really impressed and so he convinced Ben to watch through it over the course of 3 podcast episodes.  For this episode of Salt Circle they talk about episodes 1 through 15.  Also, shoutout to The Great Gundam Project on the Abnormal Mapping network, which is what turned Hank onto this show: https://www.abnormalmapping.com/ggp Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank watch episodes 9 through 12 of Ultra Q: Baron Spider, The Underground Super Express Goes West, Balloonga, and I Saw a Bird. Children were a mistake. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

This was going to be a Salt Screen commentary, but Ben's audio was lost to the wind so instead here's a 25 min podcast of Ben and Hank talking about how much Horror Express (1972) rules. Happy Halloween! Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

As is tradition, Ben and Hank once again did a Halloween movie swap this year both picked movies they had not yet seen. Ben picked James Wan's Malignant (2021) and Hank chose Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987). Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ben and Hank watch episodes 5 through 8 of Ultra Q: Peguila Is Here!, Grow Up! Little Turtle, S.O.S. Mount Fuji, and Terror of the Sweet Honey. "We were not prepared" Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Ben and Hank read 4 books by horror mangaka Junji Ito: Uzumaki, Hellstar Remina, Frankenstein and Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Ultra Q is a tokusatsu science fiction show from 1966 created by Tsuburaya Productions. Originally conceived as a show in the model of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits but retooled to focus more on giant monsters. Toho was heavily invested in Tsuburaya Productions and so a lot of props from Godzilla and other tokusatsu movies wound up reused for the show. Ultra Q ran for 28 episodes and was very successful but the production was further retooled and became the first Ultraman series. For this season of Grain of Salt Ben and Hank are going to dig into this show 4 episodes at a time. This week they cover episodes 1-4: Defeat Gomess!, Goro and Goroh, The Gift From Space, and Mammoth Flower. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j

Tis' the season for Horror, so for the rest of the month it's gong to be horror and monsters for Salt Circle, starting with four Vincent Price classics.  The week Ben and Hank watched House on Haunted Hill (1959), House of Usher (1960), House of Wax (1953), and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971). Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/