Coolest Alive

In this special Christmas gift episode of Coolest Alive, I invite you all into my world like we’re brand-new best friends kicking it on the couch. I’m spilling everything: all my phantoms, obsessions, favorite movies, comics, albums, books, games, and hidden gems that have shaped who I am. This isn’t just a list; it’s me handing you the keys to my soul, sharing the stuff that lights me up so we can rebuild that beautiful monoculture we lost, the one where we all vibe on the same wavelengths, turn each other onto new fire, and go “oh, you love THAT too? Yup, did we just become best friends?” Whether you’re already riding the same wave or ready to dive in because I swear this changes everything, this episode is about coming together through the art, stories, and sounds that make life worth living. Grab a drink, get comfy, and let’s bond over the greatest shit ever made, my gift to you, so we can all be on the exact same page in 2026 and beyond. Welcome to the family, coolest ones alive.

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is a heartfelt recommendation of Jesse's "favorite pastime": playing pen-and-paper RPGs with his friends & brothers! Specifically, what he thinks may be the greatest & most versatile fictional world of all-time, RIFTS. (Highly Recommended!)

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is a classic sci-fi recommendation, "Logan's Run". It's still awesome!

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is a very serious recommendation for one of Jesse's most favorite series of all time, "GIRLS" by the brilliant Luna Brothers.

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is an enthusiastic recommendation of the hilarious stop-motion animated comedy film "Fantastic Mr. Fox" directed by Wes Anderson and based on the work of the great Roald Dahl.

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is a rousing recommendation of the heavy metal album "Let's Rumble" by Love/Hate.

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is a heartfelt recommendation of Jesse's "favorite stand-up" comedian of all-time, Eddie Izzard, and pointing you to begin your journey with the. Special "CIRCLE".

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is a gnarly genre recommendation of the most bizarre & cool evolution of the "Godzilla" film franchise, the standalone, "SHIN GODZILLA".

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is a very serious recommendation for not just a great place to begin reading Daredevil for the rest of your life, but a great place to begin reading comic books in general, "Daredevil: Guardian Devil" by Kevin Smith, Joe Quesada & Jimmy Palmiotti.

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is an enthusiastic recommendation of the hilarious animated comedy film "STORKS" produced by Netflix.

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is a rousing recommendation of the heavy metal comedy album "Bad News".

Grab your floaties and a harpoon, because we’re ranking the 13 most badass shark movies ever made. We start with the undisputed king, Spielberg’s 1975 masterpiece JAWS, then dive headfirst into the glorious trash and treasure that followed: The Meg, Deep Blue Sea, 47 Meters Down, The Shallows, and a bunch more you forgot existed. We argue over which one has the best kill, the dumbest science, and the most iconic one-liner. Warning: you’ll never go back in the water again… or you’ll immediately book a cage-diving trip. Same thing.

It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is a simple but great instant classic, "Burning Bright," featuring a girl trapped in a house during a hurricane, protecting her highly autistic brother and herself from a LION that has not "been fed in weeks." Yikes. It's AWESOME!

It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is the excellent Lion-Attack film, "Prey", because apparently a lot of films have been called that. This one feels "real", has a great cast, and genuinely made me care about our heroes.

It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is the "Jaws" of crocodile movies, "BLACK WATER" featuring a barely seen croc that only makes him scarier & based loosely on a true story.

Boar TEETH: Mutha-Truckin' BOAR! (Filmed in gorgeous Australian Outback w/ Practical EFFECTS!) It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is an instant practical horror classic, "BOAR" featuring a giant wild pig stalking Australia's beautiful green pastures.

It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is the absolute classic, "LAKE PLACID" featuring a giant gator stalking a...placid...lake.

In this raw, unfiltered three-hour-plus marathon straight from the heart—no script, no safety net, no second takes—Joe goes all-in on why he’s obsessed with the idea of a real monoculture, the shared cultural air we all used to breathe together that’s been deliberately shattered over the last decade, and how this show (with its 1.3 million warriors) is quietly becoming the seed of a brand-new one: a tribe that laughs at the same jokes, sees through the same lies, and marches toward the same horizon. Part love letter to the audience that’s turned his wildest dreams into inevitability, part victory lap now that every door in entertainment is swinging open, and part unapologetic blueprint of what’s coming next—from bigger stages and bolder projects all the way to the insane endgame of a full-blown amusement park—this special Thanksgiving episode is pure gratitude, zero brakes, and a promise that the best chapters are still ahead because you, the listeners, made the old rules irrelevant.

The iconic gold five-screw cart, the second quest secret, the save battery revolution – why the original Zelda NES release is still the most legendary cartridge Nintendo ever made, almost 40 years LATER!

Greg McLean’s sun-baked Aussie nightmare pits tourists against a monstrous saltwater croc in the outback – practical guts, smart CGI restraint, and tension that never lets up thank you to a killer script & direction from the same man!

Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver’s brutal 2001 graphic novel that built the metahuman Alcatraz, birthed Murmur, Double-Down & others, and dragged Wally West’s world into the dark for good & for BETTER!

Disney’s arcade-hopping love letter to 8-bit and 16-bit glory – packed with real cameos, zero condescension, and what we think must be the best depiction of what it actually feels like to live inside a game ever “rendered”.

 On the 22nd anniversary week of its release, we rip into Brody Dalle’s masterpiece “Coral Fang” – the divorce-fueled, major-label monster that turned The Distillers from cult heroes into legends!

This week on Coolest Alive, we’re celebrating one of the wildest, weirdest, most unexpectedly enduring franchises of the VHS era: CRITTERS! From the scrappy 1986 original that won over Siskel & Ebert, to the bonkers Easter-egg massacre of Critters 2, to Leonardo DiCaprio’s first film in Critters 3, to the deep-space madness of Critters 4, all the way through SyFy’s Critters Attack!, Shudder’s A New Binge, and the two fan-made shorts keeping the Krite flame alive — we’re covering the entire saga. Horror, comedy, sci-fi, practical effects wizardry, bounty hunters, ham-eating murderballs… It’s all here. If you love creature features, cult classics, or anything truly alive, this is one you DO NOT want to miss.

Listen, I caught Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway (many years ago now) but holy crap, it’s hands-down the greatest musical I’ve ever seen live, the way Howard Ashman’s lyrics and Alan Menken’s tunes explode with that doo-wop soul and razor-sharp wit, turning a cheesy B-movie into this wild, hilarious monster mash of temptation and chaos on stage. The puppetry for Audrey II is always straight-up ingenuity or genius, devouring the set with attitude, while the cast belts out “Suddenly Seymour” and “Feed Me” like they’re possessed, blending laughs, heart, and edge-of-your-seat spectacle that leaves you humming for days NO MATTER WHICH CAST PERFORMS IT! Catch a local production ASAP; it’s pure theatrical fire that demands to be experienced raw.