First, we want to congratulate the actors of SAG-AFTRA on getting their fair share, what they earned and are owed. Now that the Strike is over, I can now release this WBreakdown of The Flash (2023)! The guest and co-host for this episode is SAG-AFTRA actor and friend Paul Alan Dixon from off of Film Vets on YouTube! During the strike we broke down our name change from the AT&WB Podcast to the Warner Bender Podcast just as HBO Max goes to just Max and how it reminds a generation of Skinemax. We touch on the beginning of Zaslav Shark Shelfing completed films for tax write-offs some more, and happy 100 Years of storytelling and owning things to Warner Brothers and every human who helped bring stories of humanity to life!

On this incredibly special episode of The AT&WB Podcast, we say goodbye to the AT& portion of the podcast. AT&T has officially sold off it's stake in WB to the folks at Discovery Channel and David Zaslav, who Discovery discovered in 2006, is now steering the entire Warner Brothers boat. He's making drastic decisions which seem to compromise the artist for the sake of saving a few bucks. We go over everything from the cancelation of BATGIRL, to the erasure of INFINITY TRAIN and the dropped original content on HBO Max to Discovery's breakdown of demographics and the incredibly rich history of systemic racism in the first 100 years of Warner Brothers. Actor, creative director, friend and entertainment industry hound Brando Cutts joins me to WBreakdown the entirety of the buyout, the rumors of Henry Cavill's return, WB angering creatives such as Nolan and Legendary Entertainment, and I even find the perfect bat-shark repellant joke. We crunch every number from rotten tomato to every dollar SHAZAM made on DVD and Halle's Berry's CATWOMAN made in theaters! Check out Long Beach Shakespeare's radio dramas today: https://www.lbshakespeare.org/

It's our WBreakdown of Matt Reeves' THE BATMAN. I am joined by Grayson Leveque of the Gralaxy Productions YouTube Channel. We talk the similarities The Batman has with the Rebirth Batman. I delve deep in Morrison's run and we WBreakdown THE acting, THE directing, THE scope of the film, and THE psyche of THE Batman. Grayson also created the cover art for this weeks episode! We also reminisce about family member John Leveque, Grayson's uncle who recently passed away in November 2021. John Leveque was the Supervising Sound Editor on both BATMAN FOREVER and BATMAN AND ROBIN. We talk about the stories he used to tell about recording sounds of actual bats in actual batcaves and the result was harrowing. The lengths John went for great sound effects! All this and more on this THE AT&WBat Podcast!

The Flash (2014- ) On this episode of The AT&WB Podcast we WBreakdown the CW Network and DCWverse / Arrowverse series The Flash (2014- )! The Flash superfan and our resident Flash Forensic Scientist Grayson Leveque, gives us run through (pun intended) of seasons one through seven of the series. We go over every Big Bad from each season, as well as the legacy characters played by the actors John Wesley Shipp, Mark Hamill, Amanda Pays, and Alex Desert, as well as Shipp and Hamill's time on Batman: Brave and the Bold. We also go over the CW Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event that saw the melding of every DC Comics live-action TV series and movies. Earth-89, Earth-203 and all the other earths get a mention. And since I have seen the entire run of John Wesley Shipp's turn as Barry on the 1990s Flash series, I go into infinite detail about the scene where they had Tiny Toon Adventure plush characters, and so much more! And before you listen or after or simultaneously watch Grayson's Gralaxy Productions' super fun Lego short entitled "The Speed Limit" inside this link: https://youtu.be/GQpVne4j4Ec

On this very special episode of the AT&WB Podcast we break down the fourth Matrix movie, the Matrix Resurrections! In our second The Matt-rix episode Matt Vicari and Chris Bucca Taylor break down the multiple metaphors Lana planted within the new film. We examine the Trans narrative, the meta-narrative of Neo's journey and how Neo is Lana, and we even break down Trinity's narrative and what it means for women. As we jack-in even further into the Matrix, we also bring up the video games, as well as what each character in this film ultimately represents. It's a perfect bow on the Matrix franchise and one that needed to be told. Oh and most importantly we talk about the deep connection to Warner Brothers that is present in the narrative as well as the new Matrix character named Bugs who breaks Neo out of the Matrix. Bug Bunny being a trans icon and representative of the WB waking up the franchise kind of brings the Matrix meta-narrative neatly back to where it all originated.

On this very special episode of the podcast, I have on special co-host Jeremy Blum, who is a huge fan and lover of all things Steven Universe. We dive into the Steven Universe and I discover just how progressive and amazing this animated show truly is. Rebecca Sugar has created such an incredibly artistically rich narrative and, shall we say, universe to play in. From the characters being gems with their own identity, to what "fusing" represents, as well as the breakdown and rebuilding of the different types of typical family dynamics. Steven Universe breaks it all down and gives us something new, something fresh and emphasizes the importance of not being bullied to be something you don't want to be, but the true factor of being cool is to be your truest self, even if that self is weird and you turn your fingers into cat heads. Jeremy explores the trans-narrative laid out throughout the series, how the characters deal with grief and so much more. The is a Character WBreakdown episode as Steven from Steven Universe will be one of the many playable characters in WB's Multiversus video game, which pits WB's biggest stars together.

On this WBreakdown episode, we breakdown the definitive, perennial superhero, the one who started it all and will continue to set the boundaries for what a superhero can do. Benny Briseno is a huge Batman fan, he's a Batman-ologist, and his secret origin is entwined with the caped crusader. We both honor the human, the myth, the justice that is the dark knight as we crown who has the best bat lips. We go over every person to have played Batman, and we still don't know who played him in the WB Network TV 2002 series Birds of Prey, which we do bring up along with many other of the Batmen including Val, the Cloon, Bat-fleck, as well as a shoutout to Lewis Wilson and Robert Lowery, who were the Batmen of the 50s black and white TV serials. And we get real, as we further dive into the Snyder-verse, as we delve further into the feud between Ray Fisher and Walter Hamada and how Ray won with the ousting of toxic male avenger Joss Whedon from HBO. #AccountabilityOverEntertainment Join us as we talk about the greatest superhero of all time, star WB proprietary fighter in Multiversus: Batman (Special episodes currently behind the paywall will be released for free in 2022!)

Warner Bros. did it, they actually did it and announced that all 17 of their giant tentpole films will be released simultaneously on their own streamer HBO Max and in theaters starting with Wonder Woman 1984. Alex Newman joins Bucca Taylor as we delve into the nitty gritty of the transition from theatrical to the new digital delivery system. We also go in depth about Johnny Depp and Joss Whedon's relationships with Warner Bros. and how they both moved from Disney to Warner Bros. and then became quite toxic to the latter. VRV and the greater Otter Media digital empire that WB owns is mentioned, as is that final Game of Thrones season and speculation as to why it went down the way that it did. Also Ray Fisher's Accountability over Entertainment is a message that we fully support here. And finally the super special guests include non other than Bucca's cat Lana Leopard and Newman's cat Eevee, listen as the wreck havoc in the Podcast studio.

On this very Supernatural episode of the AT&WB Podcast and our resident Supernatural expert, lover and fan Alex Newman and I go over the Pilot episode of Supernatural and the WB Network / CW Network brand. We get our Nut on when talking David Nutter, as we as our Roth on with more talk about Peter Roth and how they both established said brand. We delve deep and talk how Joss Whedon would not have survived the Supernatural pilot, as well as a major spoiler for his show Angel. It's an all synergy and symmetry episode of the AT&WB Podcast all about the longest running WB Network / CW Network show Supernatural!

Get out your front burners and get ready for another NEWS episode of the AT&WB Podcast, there is a lot to get to since Alex was on paternity leave since before the DC FanDome hit us with a ton of info. In this episode we delve into how AT&T is shaving off WB's debt and the exit of television exec-extraordinaire Peter Roth who help usher in and define not on the WB TV brand, but also the branding for The WB Network which later morphed into the brand identity of The CW Network. WB Interactive's upcoming games get a mention, as well as the great covid shuffle of film release dates. The future of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter gets sorted out in more ways than one (trans rights are human rights), we go over the new Animaniacs as well as the news of new Tiny Toons and a long time Freakazoid dream of Chris' finally comes true, that's right they made Freakazoid officially part of the DC Comics Multiverse! It's Warner Synergy all over the place. All that and more and within that "more" is a quick go over on the leaked synopsis of Space Jam 2: A New Legacy on this episode of the AT&WB Podcast! If your ears love two people talking about a giant corporation's debt and the Looney Tunes playing basketball with the Animaniacs, then you've come to the right place!

When one Alex has a baby, another needs to fill in. I am joined by co-host Alex Newman who has probably seen more movies than you, although you probably have seen more giant tentpole studio films than he has. I give him a brief history on the DC FanDome and we discuss WINGS alums Tim Daly, who played Superman in the Animated Universe and Steven Weber who bookends this very special AT&WB episode.