All articles by RonnieGardocki

 

Menom on Venom Episode 3: Venom: The Last Dance

The boys discuss the final ever until the next one Venom movie, The Last Dance. Yes, Venom dances, so really the title lives up to its promise. What else does Venom 3 have? More symbiotes, more MCU actors in non-MCU roles, a Maroon 5 song, a road trip that doesn’t really go anywhere and, of
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Deliver The Profile Episode 305: Manimal vs. Jack the Ripper (Seriously)

Not a dream! Not a hallucination! Not an imaginary story! Deliver The Profile’s victory lap culminates in revisiting two series from the show’s past: Manimal and Night Man. They’re back, and they’re together, in the Night Man episode “Manimal”. No description of the insanity that unfolds will do it justice so why don’t you click
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Deliver The Profile: Kino Korner: Road House

Ronnie and Jazz spend nearly two hours dissecting the one, the only Road House. The ONLY Road House. When fat and tough were indistinguishable, a bouncer’s natural enemy was a John Cassavetes staple, and Sam Elliott was a hard trodden 45 year old. Play us out, Jeff Healey Band!

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 303: Bailey Beer

Here it is, it’s finally here: the season finale of Criminal Minds: Evolution Part Deux. Who will live? Who will die? Whose fate will be called into question despite the fact that we know no principal cast member is going to die at this juncture? In “Save The Children”, the Gold Stars kidnap Prentiss and
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Deliver The Profile Episode 302: Bingo Royale

Ronnie and Jazz discuss the penultimate episode of Season 17, “Stars and Stripes”, the new Crow movie (which bombed so badly it’s already out of theatres by the time this description is being written), Glover and more. “Stars and Stripes” introduces new villains such as “pedophile mercenary” and “black girl who’s shot in the head
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Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie: “Toy Story”/”The Family Hour”

Chris: Well folks, here it is at last. After three years and something like fifty entries, we’ve come to the end of Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie. It’s not the actual end, because we’re going to have a wrap-up piece that’s more broadly about the whole show, and we’re gonna write other stuff
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Deliver The Profile Episode 301: Jillian and Rossi Sitting In A Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Scandalous! In one of the shortest podcasts in years, Ronnie and Jazz dissect “North Star”, episode 8 of this bullshit season 17. Rossi and Gideon’s ex-wife kiss! Something happens to Damien! We meet Voit’s lawyer, and he’s played by a Shield alum! You’ll find out why this podcast is under an hour because that’s about
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Deliver The Profile Episode 300: Piran-haha

It’s episode 300, something neither of the hosts recognized while recording, so prepare to be disappointed if you’re expecting fanfare. What do we have? Well, there’s a guy melting dudes in his basement. You know shit is real when the episode begins with a “Viewer discretion is advised” screen. What else happens? Oh yeah, convicted
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Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie: “Voice From The Past”/”I’ve Got You Under My Skin”

Ronnie: I believe this marks the last of long form storytelling from Lois & Clark, as the Leslie Luckaby ‘saga’ ends here. Oh, right, I should probably offer some context. Lois & Clark stopped spinning its wheels long enough to approach competence and it’s weird. Last time we left our heroes, they found out their
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Deliver The Profile Episode 299: Episode 420

JJ and Prentiss get high in “Message in a Bottle”, one of the dumbest hours this show has ever delivered us. Not since “Eyes Wide Shut” has marijuana been portrayed so poorly. But at least there’s other plot, such as Tyler running afoul of an ex-girlfriend and David Rossi cleaning a gun.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 298: The History of Quibi

Jazz is sick (again), explaining the delay in the DTP spigot. Fear not, though, the boys are back and ready to talk about “Conspiracy vs. Theory”, the halfway point of Season 17 of Criminal Minds. Psycho Pete returns, Voit joins some sort of Suicide Squad, Politico cares about Paget Brewster beating up Paul F. Tompkins,
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Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie: “Faster Than A Speeding Vixen”/”Shadow Of A Doubt”

Chris: Didn’t we already do this? I could have sworn… Last season, right? The VR one? Am I making this up? Am I having a stroke? I smell toast, do you smell toast? What year is it? Hello, hi, and welcome to what I hope is another edition of Lois & Clark & Chris &
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Deliver The Profile Episode 297: Dried Up, Tied and Dead to the World

Eyes are still being taken out in “Kingdom of the Blind”, episode 4 of the interminable slog that is Criminal Minds: Evolution: Season 2. This time the enucleator draws little tattoos on herself after committing the act, like Mr. Zsasz. Unlike Mr. Zsasz, nobody even approaching Alan Grant or Norm Breyfogle’s talent level is working
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Deliver The Profile Episode 296: Waifu Reid

Remember when Voit whispered something to Alvez and it pissed him off something fierce? Well, we find out what it is and it involves porn. Of the BAU. Rossi steamrolling Elle Greenaway while Reid wanks off in the corner. Presumably. There’s also a guy who kills people on moving day. As someone who’s moved multiple
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Deliver The Profile Episode 295: The Dope Show

They said it couldn’t be done. Yes, it’s TWO Criminal Minds recaps in one podcast! Ronnie and Jazz burned the midday oil for YOU, the listener, so YOU could be up to date on the comings and goings of the BAU in Season 17: Evolution 2: Electric Boogaloo. Sicarius the serial killer is in custody,
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Deliver The Profile Episode 294: Goobers for Gubler

Send in the clowns! Yes, Virginia, Criminal Minds did a fucking clown episode, and it’s spectacular. Or stupid. One of those. A clown is killing men and leaving the kids alone, reversing the Pennywise paradigm popularized in Stephen King’s child pornography book. What results is a cautionary tale about the death of the American Dream
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Deliver The Profile Episode 293: Good Grief

Gubler Month continues with “Alchemy”, a not very subtle episode that depicts different kinds of grief. One kind kills men in some ill-fated fertility experiment. The other involves dancing inside your own mind.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 292: Bud Cort

This week: child abduction! Sparkle Motion from Donnie Darko and Bud Cort take kids from carnivals and do…something to them. Not what you think, though! Also: Ann Cusack overcomes  a drinking problem and Morgan acts like a dick. “Mosley Lane”, everyone! Directed by the Gube himself.

 

Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie: “Lois & Clarks”/”…aka Superman”

Ronnie: Hello hello and welcome back to yet another Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie, a series of comical critique articles of a show barely anybody remembers for understandable reasons. Last time on The Clark, Tempus was elected president via mind control subterfuge and immediately started making Superman’s life hell. Last episode ended on
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Deliver The Profile Episode 291: Cradle 2 Tha Grave

In “Cradle to Grave”, some guy is forcing women to bear his child in a sexual dungeon. Just as important is Hotch training Morgan to take his job now that he’s too Reaper-spooked to do it effectively. Season 5, y’all.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 290: More Like The Food Replicator

In “The Replicator”, the Replicator finally stands revealed. Is it disappointing? You better BELIEVE IT.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 289: Hermanos

This week Hotch has to bail his shitbag brother out of trouble as he’s involved in some tainted wine scandal. Look, the only reason we’re doing “Brothers Hotchner” is it leads directly into the Season 8 finale that botches the Replicator overarching storyline. Get ready for a lot of eye bleeding.

 

Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie: “Sex, Lies and Videotape”/”Meet John Doe”

Chris: Alright you fucking millennials, turn off your Tiktoks, put down that vape pen, and close the Instawhatever update on this week’s newest gender pronouns. Uncle Chris is here to tell you a story about ancient history. How ancient, you ask? This story is about a time so long ago that not only does it
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Deliver The Profile Episode 288: Nursing A Grudge

The Replicator “saga” kicks into high gear with “Carbon Copy”, a case about a guy killing nurses and removing their eyelids…replicating the very signature of the blood painting guy from last episode. Zugs get zwanged, Scott Grimes shows up and Criminal Minds proves that the wrongly accused are just criminals that haven’t committed crimes yet.
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Deliver The Profile Episode 287: #notalljanitors

Leap into Season 8 with “Magnum Opus”, an episode about Reid grieving his fake phone girlfriend getting real murdered by Dawn from Buffy the best way he knows how: by solving a serial case that may or may not involve a vampire. All the team knows is somebody in San Francisco is killing people, draining
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Deliver The Profile Episode 286: Odo!

To Season 7 we go with “Self-Fulfilling Prophecy”, which is about a mass suicide at a military academy run by the guy who played Odo on Star Trek. There’s some bullying involved, but surprisingly no child molestation, so credit to Criminal Minds. This one is loose so buckle in!

 

Deliver The Profile: Kino Korner: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Bustin’ makes me feel vaguely depressed! Ronnie and Jazz suffer through the fifth Ghostbusters movie, which has like five jokes in it. Why is there a talking ghost girl, and why are the ramifications of that swept aside in favor of an undercooked lesbian coming of age subplot? Does Bill Murray actively want to die
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Deliver The Profile Episode 285: Courtney

Season 14 is over…for now. “Sick and Evil” is about haunted houses, a woman heavily invested in her Maine town’s “lore” (don’t CALL IT THAT), and Rossi still smarts from getting his ass kicked by the Chameleon. More slop from the CBS trough that your inteprid hosts have to pore through for the sake of
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Deliver The Profile Episode 284: Lookbook

In “Ashley”, misbegotten main character Ashley Seaver does NOT return. Instead it’s some missing child Season 14 bullshit. Ah, c’est la vie.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 283: The Twenty Seven Club

Season 14 rolls on with “Twenty Seven”, an episode about machete murders in DC that occur every 27 minutes. Is it stupid or is someone trying to make a dumbass point? Both! Meanwhile, Prentiss gets the least charismatic love interest ever. Good thing we cover these out of order so we already know this romance
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Deliver The Profile: Kino Korner: Madame Web

It’s time to stare at the sun, by which we mean return to watching Sony’s Spider-Man without Spider-Man movies.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 282: Another Evil Kid

I guess the episode title spoils the twist. Oops. Otherwise it’s a pretty typical Criminal Minds episode, which is to say it’s not good. And there’s a Garcia subplot. Why even live anymore.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 281: The Seed of Simmons

Season 14 slog continues on with “Rule 34″, which, yes, we get it. It’s terrible but we get it. Somebody is sending body parts in the mail to random women and if you guessed a predatory homosexual was behind it, congratulations. Also, one of Simmons’ 17 kids gets in trouble at school and who could
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Deliver The Profile Episode 280: Mummy Mommy

In Season 14’s “Starter Home” a young couple finds mummified bodies in their walls. This looks like a job for the BAU! Joe Mantegna and the gang unwrap a tedious tale of teen rebellion, arrested development, undelivered mail and more. Also, Joe Mantegna sees if his ex-wife’s daughter’s new boyfriend is a serial killer or
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Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie: “Twas the Night Before Mxymas”/”Lethal Weapon”

Ronnie: Welcome welcome welcome to the ONLY long-form criticism of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. You may have noticed these articles take longer and longer to get out; partially that’s my laziness, but it’s also due to the malaise of having reached Season 4, definitely in the running for one of the
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Deliver The Profile Episode 279: Nebraska

In “Safe Haven”, apparently you can drop off anybody under 18 at a hospital in Nebraska and they just have to deal with it. That plus Morgan has to deal with a nine year old who scammed her way across America. Criminal Minds was running on fumes even by Season 6, folks.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 278: With Apologies to Leonard Cohen

“The Longest Night” finishes off Tim Curry and starts off Season 6. Morgan gets angry! JJ becomes a hostage negotiator! More closeups of dirty teeth! It’s a scene, man.

 

Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie: “Ghosts”/”Stop the Presses”

Chris: Hello, hi and welcome back to another installment of Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie, a series that, much like the show it chronicles, started with a shaky premise and just got worse. Today’s entry cover the ninth and tenth episodes of the fourth and final season, which is another way of saying
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Deliver The Profile Episode 277: Crackspiration

The boys are back in 2024, ready to discuss Criminal Minds again. This time it’s “Our Darkest Hour”, aka the one about Tim Curry driving around in an RV and smoking crack. Will The Prince of Darkness, as he’s called, beguile our heroes or will he just kill some nobodies while Leonard Cohen songs play?
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Deliver The Profile Kino Korner: Angels in the Infield

Happy 2024!

 

Deliver The Profile Kino Korner: Angels in the Endzone

AKA The Christmas Eve Miracle.

 

Deliver The Profile Kino Korner: Angels in the Outfield

Because of a promise made in haste a year ago that somehow came to anything, for the next three episodes Ronnie and Jazz will be reviewing the saddest of all trilogies, the Angels in the Outfield series. This first one has FOUR Oscar winners, not that you could tell by their performances. Listen to the
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Deliver The Profile Episode 276: As-Mer (feat. Dr. Daniel Daughhetee)

Dr. Daniel Daughhetee joins the Five Timers Club as he and Ronnie dissect “Hamelin”, a Season 14 episode of Criminal Minds that reimagines the Pied Piper into something even dumber. JJ reconnects with her mom, the BAU is basically useless and the episode makes the case that the worst thing that can happen to a
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Lois & Clark & Chris & Ronnie: “Dead Lois Walking”/”Bob and Carol and Lois and Clark”

Ronnie: Previously on The Clark: Lois is going to jail for a crime she didn’t commit! Will it be realistic and gritty like Caged Heat or will it be a frothy bitch session like Orange is the New Black? Well, if you watch “Dead Lois Walking” you’ll find out. That’s a terrible idea; if there’s
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Deliver The Profile Episode 275: Where’s Wallace?

Where is Wallace indeed. He’s in “The Inspired”, the not very inspired second part of the Season 9 premiere.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 274: Twinsies

Part one of a really, really dumb two parter. 

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 273: Feeling Like A Black Duck

Two-Parter Madness continues (yes it’s another theme) with our take on “Memoriam”. Is Reid’s dad as fascinating as you’d think? No, of course not. Is he a child molester? Find out by listening to Deliver The Profile.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 272: Our Christmas Episode

In what may be the podcast’s shortest episode yet outside of those weird early installments, this one takes on “The Instincts”, part one of a boring two parter that’s mainly about Reid’s dreams. Child abduction too but mostly Reid’s dreams. Speaking of, REED Diamond is in “The Instincts” playing a concerned father. Remember The Shield?
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Deliver The Profile Episode 271: Seven Years of Sobriety

To celebrate Ronnie staying sober for seven years, the boys ‘treat’ themselves to a Season 1 episode, “Machismo”.

 

Deliver The Profile Episode 270: We’re Done With Season 12

“Seek and Destroy” is boring as shit, but at least it marks the end of our coverage of Season 12. It’s a home invasion one, everybody knows home invasion ones suck.