{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F73990966-fb97-49fe-909e-d346eb0845e4","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Mini BOP - VENOM","description":"The nineties were a grand ole' time if you were a geeky kid. An era ruled by a wise and fair Macho King, all your favorite characters co-existed in ice cream form, and an invasion of bigger, badder, and extrem-ier anti-heroes hit comics like a flaming-hot meteor, and cooled off just as quickly. Over thirty years since his creation, VENOM has not only outlived the trends that birthed him, but thrived -- much to the chagrin of the same readers who were his first fans. In Eddie Brock's film debut (we don't talk about Spider-Man 3), Ruben Fleischer and co. have not only paid shockingly faithful tribute to the nerd world's #1 problematic fave, they've chucked the macho doom-and-gloom for an upbeat romp about a boy and his blob. So why all the hate? In this Mini BOP, Symbiotic Experts Mike and Jamie weigh in on fans' curious relationship with the character, the one-of-a-kind tone that sets it apart from a sub-genre aching for experimentation, where this ranks in the annals of Weird Tom Hardy Performances, and how Venom is 100% a queer romantic-comedy. CHANGE OUR MINDS.\n\nKNOCK KNOCK, LET THE DEVIL IN by clicking this link and downloading the episode! [http://archive.org/download/venomminibop/VenomMiniBOP.mp3]\n\n\n\nFind us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BoxOfficePulpPodcast/\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/BoxOfficePulp\niTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/box-office-pulp/id577338641\nStitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=37192&refid=stpr","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/914c7b35-ec8d-4aa2-b0a7-f8f1bbc1ee8d/so0lz9TFKk0aqYOqd3UqTplB.jpg"}