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Where were you in 62?Well, that is where Spencer and Dave are traveling back to and indulging in the tail end of the 50s era party, before the radical era of the 60s got dark and real with the Vietnam war and all the other changes happening then. Great Americano rock n' roll and classic hot rods to boot with George Lucas' American Graffiti from 1973.With both of us growing up with Modesto California as our closet major city (The place this film takes place/ George Lucas' hometown) this movie has always had a major impact to the area. Even if the 50s popularity has slowly faded out in the last 15 years or so. This movie takes place in one night, somewhere in summer, right before the new semester and college starts up and 4 young lads need to find out who they are, where they will go, or if Modesto will suck them back in like a vortex and eat them alive. But in the meantime, each one will go out on their own adventure in the night. Whether that be cruising the streets of Modesto, picking up chick, g

Spencer and Dave are finishing off Oliver Stone's Vietnam War Trilogy of films. First it was Platoon where we saw the action from the American soldiers in Vietnam. Next, we watched Born on the Fourth of July all about the soldiers coming back to the USA and living in a changed world. Now, the third film from 1993, Heaven and Earth is all about what it was like from the Vietnam side of the war.The real-life story of Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le), a girl growing up in a peaceful for the moment Vietnamese village, farming rice and living life as a Buddhist. But then the French come and ravish the village before there is a calm before the war. Next, it's the Viet Cong and then the Americans to the point that she has been tortured and abused by all sides, and she and her mom leave towards the city of Saigon. Here she takes up whatever jobs she can to get by before she meets an American (Tommy Lee Jones), who is a little too determent to be with her and at first seems like the right caring person to get her out of Vi

Spencer and Cameron are talking all about the stuck out in space, cabin fever style horror story of Mouthwashing from 2024. An indie title on Steam where it plays out more like an interactive movie, similar to games like Soma where one really gets to interact with characters and watch the story unfold into dark and humorous madness.It's the story about a space trucking, freight team, delivering cargo across the galaxy and at about halfway into their journey, they crash into a meteor and are left stranded in space with the captain just barely alive. So, the four remaining crew members take it to themselves to pass the time and figure a way out of there.The game goes back in fourth, Tarantino style, from before the crash and after the incident and weaves together the plot with twists and turns abound. Characters at first feel like they are leaning one way then the more you know they start to change your perspective.It's more of an experience than a standard game, but what we liked about it is how this i

Do you enjoy the hang out with friends after watching a movie, playing a video game, or reading a comic then discussing nothing but the good times of the experience?Well, join the Old Man Orange, Via VHS, and Silent Evil Podcast crew for the party fueled discussions of classic films, retro games, and comic book shenanigans. Have some laughs, learn some facts, and know what is best in life!Podcasting multimedia fun for over 10 years, with a 1000 plus episodes of reviews, discussions, interviews, and laughing it up with friends. Here’s just a few of the greats we’ve talked about over the years.Old Man Orange Podcast is all about enjoying the good times of studying and indulging the multi-media offerings of storytelling throughout time. Deep diving vintage cinema, reliving the nostalgia of gaming, finding unproduced movie scripts of what could have been, and discovering new comic books to read. If you like survival horror games from the past and present, then take a listen to the Silent Evil Podcast as Spencer a

Spencer and Ryan are back to talk about the new graphic novel of Absolute Batman Volume 2 by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Frank Martin, and Clayton Cowles. The alternative new DCU world of the classic characters, where Bruce Wayne is a blue collar worker and is good friends with his general Batman Prime enemies, like Penguin, Two Face, Croc, and Riddler.This story starts off with an interesting new take on a monstrous Mr. Freeze plot then dives into the bread and butter of Batman taking on Bane in a whole new bad way. This Bane shows up early in the Bat career and totally wreaks havoc on Batman and all his friends. With Bane being the power muscle for a terrorist ring around the world and trying to get Batman to take the venom and become his new heir.It's a totally interesting take on the Dark Knight and there are layers upon layers of story and details intwined throughout that really takes at least a second read to fully digest.Beyond that we also go into just some other comic books we have been reading

Spencer and Cameron are going back to 2002 and looking at what was the last big hurrah in the classic Resident Evil style of gameplay and story before Resident Evil 4 shook up the formula, Zero. When RE games were exclusive for Nintendo and everything just felt right. The GameCube controller almost felt dialed in perfectly for RE controls and the glory days of pre-rendered backgrounds, tank controls, and camera angles were at a pinnacle.But not everyone was game for this style by this point. RE0 really comes out at the tail end of the golden age Survival Horror gaming boom. And if you loved these types of games, Zero was an instant favorite. But if you have had enough of the puzzles, gameplay, and horror, this one would be more of the same. And a lot of people were looking for something different. I just remember X-Play (For my old man gamer reference) just hated the living daylights out of these games until RE4 changed up the arena. At least there was always Game Pro magazine (2nd old man gamer reference) th

Spencer and Cameron are talking all about good ole Resident Evil Code Veronica on the latest Silent Evil Podcast. Coming out originally on Sega Dreamcast in 2000 and looking as realistic as possible for the time. With the full 3d environments and cutscenes making it feel like the full movie experience. The game later came out PS2 and GameCube with the Code Veronica X version. HD Remaster on PS3 and Xbox 360 too. Generally, just adding in more cutscenes and expanding on Wesker's whole reason for being in the game. You can play any of the iterations, though the Dreamcast version will always have a special place in my upbringing.This game always felt just huge! And gameplay wise it is the longest of the Resident Evil games at this point. Originally this was supposed to carry the number of 3 but Sony got their panties in a bunch and claimed they wanted the number on their console. Silly rabbit. Well, Sega like usual, always got the short end of the stick but they still got first dibbs on literally one of the

Spencer and Dave are continuing the Vietnam War Trilogy from film maker Oliver Stone, with the 2nd movie, Born on the Fourth of July from 1989. Starring Tom Cruise in what might be his mightiest performance ever, at least for the drama department with other actors including Willem Dafoe, Kyra Sedgwick, and Tom Berenger just to name a few. It's an award-winning movie that literally deserves it as you are going through the real life, true story experience of Ron Kovic, who Tom Cruise plays and whose book the movie is based off of. The movie also contains one of the greatest, if maybe the only, wheelchair battles in history with Tom Cruise and Willem Dafoe duking it out. The story follows Ron Kovic, a fiercely patriotic young man who eagerly enlists to fight in the Vietnam War, believing deeply in American ideals of honor and sacrifice. Severely wounded in combat and paralyzed from the chest down, Ron returns home to a country that seems unwilling to acknowledge either his suffering or the war’s moral cost.

Spencer and Dave are starting up Oliver Stone's Vietnam War Trilogy, with the first film, Platoon from 1986. An all star cast with Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Forest Whitaker, John McGinley, and Johnny Depp to name just a few of the young buck actors. The movie holds up like no other and is really the start of the modern war film look and feel. Once you start up this film, it's hard to press pause. Platoon's plot follows Chris Taylor, a young American volunteer who arrives in Vietnam and is quickly stripped of his idealism as he’s thrown into the brutal reality of jungle warfare. Serving in an infantry platoon, Chris finds himself caught between two opposing sergeants: the compassionate, weary Elias and the ruthless, hardened Barnes, whose moral clash mirrors the larger conflict tearing the platoon apart. As ambushes, patrols, and civilian encounters grow more violent and chaotic, the men become increasingly divided, and Chris is forced to confront the psychological tol

Spencer and Cameron are talking all about Fatal Frame 5, Maiden of Black Water. Also known as Project Zero outside of the USA. The game that originally came out on the Nintendo WiiU in 2014 and by now, has been re-released on everything else. Yet sadly, something is lost by not having that WiiU gamepad with the double screen action. But no worries, the game is still an excellent thrill ride into ghost battling horror as we played through on the Switch 2 and PC versions.FF5 is all about 3 girls living in an antique store with a guy (sounds like the setup for a Tenchi Muyo spinoff) that all have this connection to the suicide mountain spot known as, Mt. Hikami in Japan. And of course they will all keep making the journey into the mountains, fighting ghosts, and searching for what each character has lost. It gets a bit complicated but always interesting.We break down our whole gameplay experience and not only go through the story and characters but the gameplay mechanics, world building, controls, variations, an

Spencer and Dave go back to 1994 to re-watch the excellent Oliver Stone directed with Quentin Tarantino on script flick, Natural Born Killers. Now Tarantino isn't a big fan of his adaptation, though most of his material is still there and the film itself uses a lot of very Tarantino like choices. Elements that definitely come with later pictures like Kill Bill. So, we take a look at the original script and compare and contrast the differences and see what the better choice in the long run was. Because Oliver Stone is also one of the top film makers out there. The two of them together are like a powerhouse that maybe is just too much to contain. What is your take on this???Natural Born Killers with it's all-star cast of Woody Harelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, and the always amazing, Rodney Dangerfield just to name a few of the cast. The story of two mentally and physically disturbed derelicts getting together over love and going on a 3-week killing spree just t

Spencer and Cameron start off the new year of survival horror gaming with the continuation of The Evil Within. This time in part 2, Sebastion continues his struggle with alcohol, loses his job, and seems like he's lost his mind from the incident. But Kidman finds him in his endless search for truth and tells him that guess what, your daughters not dead and we need you to go back in the Stem Machine at Mobius for another Matrix like adventure of horror. This game really takes The Evil Within and dials the whole experience into an almost pure perfect journey. Keeping that excellent blend of the best of Resident Evil and Silent Hill in full effect. Everything is firing on all cylinders with the controls, upgrade system, monsters and villains, graphics and storytelling. Gone are the goofy one hit kill sections and for the brief moments there are, you got a save right beforehand. And you even get to take out that jabroni chainsaw guy from the start of the first one too. So much good times here. So, we just wen

Spencer and Dave go through the 2021 DCU Animated movie Injustice after playing through both the games and discussing the differences between the stories told. Spencer and Ryan podcasted about this film when it initially came out but it's surprising how much can be forgotten in just a few years since last watch, beyond the expected, Superman and Batman feuding and fighting with each other. This movie really sums up the story best and delivers the good exceptionally well. It pulls from both the game and comic series tie in yet does its own variation that might be the ultimate take of this story of a Superman turning tyrant. Well worth the watch and hopefully there will be some more Injustice content in the future too. Join us as we break it all down in this spoiler-filled discussion! Then get sidetracked as usual with other movies, games, comics, and life stories. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more deep dives into fascinating films.

Spencer and Ryan are going with their annual Movie Countdown of the Year Podcast episode. Going through the best movies we watched in 2025. And after a good few years of film struggle, 2025 put out a lot of heavy hitters making it a bit challenging to piece together the flicks we thought stood out the most. But there is nothing wrong with having too many good movies to check out. Except time of course.Join us as we break it all down in this spoiler-filled discussion! Then get sidetracked as usual with other movies, games, comics, and life stories. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more deep dives into fascinating films.

Well, it's way past Christmas but Wes and Spencer had a Xmas and Chanukah Special Rewind Review episode on the Via VHS Podcast featuring Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights and Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas for good old time sake. As the busy season was upon us, the episode just didn't make the timeframe for the December release. Going along with our Dead Parents Christmas Marathon. (Cause somehow, someway, every movie we picked in that block had one or both of the parents die in the story, as tragic as that sounds. Just happened that way.) But now, here is the episode, on an Old Man Orange Presents the Via VHS Podcast. Better late than never.Join us as we break it all down in this spoiler-filled discussion! Then get sidetracked as usual with other movies, games, comics, and life stories. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more deep dives into fascinating films.

Spencer and Cameron are taking a look back at all the different games that they played over the past year of 2025 on the Silent Evil Podcast. 18 Games in total that span from retro classic, indie survival horror, and modern day games. Spanning the wide variety of horror game genres. We talk about each one and what stood out most to us. Then give a ranking system to each of the games that we played and see which ones stole the thunder best. Then we look into 2026 and what games we are looking most forward to playing on the podcast from the past to the new releases coming out very soon. Nothing but good time scares in store this year. Hoping you all will join us for the fun and throw out any games you'd love to see us delve into on the pod review and discussion. The games we played in 2025. 1. Dino Crisis 2. Crow Country 3. Resident Evil 5 4. Dino Crisis 2 5. Alone in the Dark New Nightmare 6. Conscript 7. RE Revelations 1 8. RE Revelations 2 9. Post Tramua 10. Parasite Eve 11. Soma 12. Parasite Eve 2 13.

Spencer and Dave are finishing off the Injustice games so far, with number 2. Hopefully a third one will make its way soon but till then, we relieve the epic story from the Mortal Kombat folks at NetherRealm studios. This time, it all takes place in the Regime, alternative world. Except, oddly, Green Arrow decides to stay here from the real world (or another, another dimension) and is somehow already married to Black Canary and apparently can actually have kids here. Best not to ask how or why. Just go with it.But beyond that, more chaos is coming as Braniac, who was the one that destroyed Krypton in this universe, is now coming to Earth to claim Superman's sister, Kara. Supes being locked up by Batman after what went down in the first game, now need to put their differences aside and team up for the greater good. Sadly, it doesn't seem like it will last long.The story is fun enough and generally is just giving reasons for everyone to throw some punches at each other. The roster is also completely shu

Spencer and Cameron are back to finish off the year of survival good times with one of the best modern day experiences out there. The Evil Within from 2014 and put together by the legendary Shinji Mikami after he left Capcom. The dude who practically made the survival horror genre what it is with Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, Onimusha, and even Devil May Cry with an alternative action horror themed experience. The Evil Within feels like his magnum opus. Bringing together all the elements from his past and making something fresh and original too. A grand fusion of Resident Evil gameplay and Silent Hill world design. All about a cop named Sabastion who just happens to stumble into a hospital mass murder and is thrown in, pretty much Matrix style to a madman's mind. It's definitely a wild roller coaster ride of carnival thrills, and never knowing exactly what is going to come next. Excellent monsters in an every changing level of different environments each chapter. The game does have a few rough spots and

Spencer and Dave are going back to 2013 to play the storyline of Injustice Gods Among Us. The DC Comics fighting game created by Ed Boon and his Mortal Kombat team of NetherRealm studios over at WB Games. The gameplay is changed up a bit if you are used to MK 9, the game that came right before Injustice. More of a Marvel vs Capcom 3 fighting style with a lot of new experiments added in.Overall, it's an excellent fighting game with a superb roster built in. The storyline gets all the heroes fighting each other and gives the single player something great to take part in with the chapter driven system. With an else world bad Superman taking full control of crime with an iron fist rule after the Joker fools him into blowing up Metropolis and killing Lois Lane and their kid. Every superhero falls in line with Supes, except the ole mischievous Batman who listens to no man but himself and continues the fight by bringing in heroes from the standard DC World.The story takes some dark turns, and the evil Superman h

Spencer and Ryan are on the big 700th episode of Old Man Orange Podcast and they are doing what they have always done. Talking Batman and having laughs. This time with a Christmas theme for the winter season with Batman - Santa Claus - Silent Night.A comic book tale that has way more Justice League going on than it needs to for only 4 issues. But it's a tale of Batman and Santa Claus (Who Batman mentions was one of his masters in his training days) fighting off a cursed Krampus and a bunch of Norse monsters from the Phantom Zone. Sounds like a good concept on paper that actually starts off decent but then ends up an interesting mix of too many choices jammed into one short book. Though that's not saying that there aren't moments throughout. Beyond that we get into some other funny Batman tales and Christmas movies and stories of the children riding their fat bikes in Holland to boot. Good times are had in just a classic hangout for the holidays.Join us as we break it all down in this spoiler-fille