Paperkeg

Remember the good times, like The Color of Money, The Firm, and Mission: Impossible?

Your dear friends are back in 2019 for the monthly retrospective following the filmography of Tom Cruise. Find us in Apple Podcasts and wherever podcasts are available.

Dear friend Chuck Forsman designed us a special edition shirt. 

What’s that you say, a limited edition of our original shirt designed by ctcher as well?

Two hundred episodes, my gosh.

We’re recording #200 at the end of April and we want you to be a part of the process, beb. We want you to choose the book club that we talk about on that very episode.

Just imagine it: Jonesy stumbling over the synopsis for the book you chose. Backpeddling once he hears the other hosts’s opinions. Conforming. Dale wiping his dirt all over it, getting upset that the other two don’t love it as much as he does. Throwing his hands up in the air, getting all ornery. Slim keeping his thoughts to himself until Dale and Jonesy are done gushing all over each other that way he can crush dreams out in the open. Trying to wrap up the episode early so he can get to bed/watch WWE all night long.

PAPERKEG MEETUP 4

Imagine it in your head, for just a moment. That time before last call, the cold concrete, those last 3 beers and shots you shouldn't have had, that inappropriate comment Jonesy made, and that time before the Paperkeg toast.

I'm talking about a Paperkeg Meetup!

Saturday, March 28th at Coco's in Philadelphia could go down as the greatest night in our lives, if we can be frank. Drinks, food, friendship, kissing I mean what ha ha oh god.

Paperkeg was started because we thought we could do better than everyone else. I'm not sure if we can party better than everyone else, but we sure as heck are gonna try. Clear your schedules for Saturday and come on by Coco's on 112 South 8th Street, between Chestnut and Sansom Streets for a drink or 5. Maybe we'll make it to a karaoke bar at 1am. Maybe we'll just walk and never stop. Maybe we'll talk about Fear Agent until 5am. Who can stop me I mean us??

Dale will be there, no doubt. Guy is counting the hours until he ditches his kids at home possibly with a babysitter or some such. More than likely will just microwave them some chicken nuggets while the car is rolling down his driveway in neutral, that way he can just jump into the car and be on his way before they even realize. Fatherhood. Jonesy will be there, by gawd. Guy is going to try hard to pull himself away from Titanfall for one minute which means one hour which could mean 12 days for all he knows. Hopefully he'll be there on time for the host toast. Probably going to hold court in the corner of the bar making some chair his thrown all regal like. Sponsored by Hanes the whole time. Hopefully we all make it coherently until at least some other people show up. Should we all just take the train there at this point? How will I even be able to fit my Fear Agent omnis onto the train I mean yeesh. Thinking out loud.  Slim will be there. Probably going on about his job in New York and cackling about something or other Xperia Instagram smart band Flyers Halo James battery life. That's all that guy is. Good looking, too.

Paperkeg Meetup Vol. 3 Announcement

When we started Paperkeg a little over 3 years ago, we wanted to keep it simple. Do our best to deliver the highest quality podcast on a weekly basis. That was it. Then you guys started in. Waving the temptation of beer in front of our faces. Promising to spend time with us if we put something together.

Three years later, and here we are. Organizing our THIRD annual Paperkeg Meetup and at this point it's Paperkeg canon. Not some thing we felt forced to do and then no one shows up. We have had confirmed Canadiens drive down for this thing. 

July 19th, 2014 this year. That's the date to mark on your calendars. Paperkeg and friends of Paperkeg will converge on Philadelphia's Barcade for another year of merriment. Another year for Slim's iron stomach to undergo the punishment that only unlimited Long Island Iced Teas can dish out. 

We three hosts will be there, you better believe we'll be there. Hoping we can do another toast, just the three of us, before the festivities get started. The arcade of Barcade will be there. And you. Hopefully you. We need you to come out and say hi. Introduce yourself if we have only met on twitter, or one of your amazing emails to the show. You guys make this thing what it is. We have to do it before Jonesy can't. You may have heard. Driving back up from the "(urban) swamps of Georgia" he projectile vomited all over his truck dashboard, and then his leg swelled up and frankly no one knows what it is but his Virginian ER doctor said he was "pretty sure it wasn't Malaria." His leg is so hideous and swelled that former host Mark Farrington would literally describe his leg as "schwolt." We have to do it before Dale can't. Dale is run so ragged nowadays he will probably be sleeping standing up at Barcade. In front of the Golden Axe 2 machine, most like. He's always had those black as night circles under his eyes, but nowadays they really mean something. Mean he's so far out of touch with what it means to be physically fit and energetic that he's liable to make a grave mistake with the real glassware he started bringing downstairs with him. Glassware. Hard liquor. Walls. Tile floor. Wrists. Carotid arteries. Drunkenness. We have to do it before Slim can't. Slim is mired in a console war of his very own, and pressures might start rising any day now. Guy is a father. A father who drinks caramel vodka and apple cider while sitting at his dining room table thinking about all of the Xbox Ones he doesn't have. Because too many people in his life tell him no. Where would we be now if someone told the Wright Brothers "no"? Where would we be now if someone told Tom Cruise "no"? Where would we be now if someone told the guy who produced the Spawn movie soundtrack "no"? Exactly.

Enough already. Here is the link to the public event on Facebook. Reply if you're so inclined. Also, give Paperkeg a 'like' even. July 19th, guys. You and us. 

#118 PAPERKEG NIGHTS™ ANNOUNCEMENT = CROSSED

After the sun coommmmmesss doowwwnnnnnnn...

Guys. Gals. It's time to get wild. Let our primal sides bubble to the surface. I mean, we're all human. And we three humans are going to be reading CROSSED in the latest installment of Paperkeg Nights™. Paperkeg Nights™, if you do not know, is one of our themed shows that features all adult material. While what we read is definitely adult, we'll keep the foul language off the air as per usual. Innuendo, on the other hand....

"Imagine, for a moment, the worst crimes against humanity. Picture the cruelest affronts to decency. Conjure your darkest nightmares... and then realize it could all be so much worse. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed. Garth Ennis has pulled out all the stops to write the most depraved and twisted book of his career, one that also may be his most poignant human drama! Crossed is Ennis' horrifically visceral exploration of the pure evil that humans are truly capable of indulging and collected here are all ten heart-stopping chapters. This gut-wrenching vision is brought to vivid (and more than a little disturbing) life by his partner in crime Jacen Burrows."

WHAT ARE WE EVEN....

One (or more) of the hosts MAY have been quoted as saying they were "literally revolted" while trying to read this gem. We are recording this Sunday night around 10pm EST time. Maybe get your letters in? Maybe you've read CROSSED? Maybe there are other 'adult oriented' comics you've read and want to recommend for another Nightsssss themed episode?

Sunday night, folks. No earlier. Dale had his stupid birthday and now he's 33 and it feels no different. He's still exhausted constantly. He's still feeling so beaten down he could be in that REM video. Slim is running multiple 5K's that day, impressing everyone with his Nike app. Fifty hundred Nike fuels to him and his, good for him. But after the sun comes down.. he still has to be around to record this sucker. Will he even get through it? He'll be on no train ride on Sunday to afford him the time he needs minutes before showtime to get through the questionable material in question. Will Jonesy be able to get through CROSSED before puking his beer and diet colas up through his mouth? That's probably the exact panel he'll be reading IN the book as he physically does it. Meta. Or did he just read SHED "Rucka Style" in preparation for this show?

The deadline for emails is SUNDAY NIGHT, bebs, so please write in, eh? Check the Twitter for a link to the LIVE Google Hangout.

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108 | Born Again

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Three friends gather together to talk about the books they read that week. Later in the show the book club is Daredevil: Born Again.

(01:30) - Jonesy does intros

(05:14) - George Perez goes BOOM!

(07:00) - Jonesy does news

(09:45) - Atomic Robo Kickstarter

(11:50) - Comic chatter: Indestructible Hulk #9-10, Ghosted #1, and Justice League #22

(27:10) - Lightning Round™: Hawkeye #12, Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #1, and Batman '66 #2

(29:00) - Daredevil: Born Again

The cat is out of the meetup bag.

Saturday, July 27th we will be gathering at Barcade in Philadelphia to have ice cold beers and share red hot high 5s. 

We did something similar last year and it was a fantastic evening filled with Canadians, cake, and Yards Brawler. Join us, won't you?

At the very least, two hosts will be present and a host of significant others. Will Beth Corto, Just Dave, Mrs. Beef, The Titus's's's, or even Echo Rift attend? What about the rumored dead Mark Farrington?

Details are included in this fancy little Facebook event, and even this handy downloadable PDF for you to print and attach to telephone booths.

Huge thanks to Michael Santi, @ctcher himself for putting together these teaser images and the final image as well. He absolutely outdid himself. Little known fact, Don Garvey designed the main PK circle logo. Guy is a real treat!