Episode 19: If You Podcast It, They Will Come (The Baseball Movie Episode)

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Spring is in the air, and that sound you hear is the crack of the bat in ballparks all across the country. So what better time to devote an entire episode of the Cult Spark Podcast to discussing the best and worst of baseball cinema? Special guest Kurt Larson (writer/director, Son of Ghostman, and host of the Stay Cool Geek podcast) drops by to help Bob and Stew list off the best baseball films ever made, debate whether Field of Dreams counts as a baseball movie at all and ponder why the game of baseball works so well as a dramatic storytelling device. Bob and Kurt also try to figure out how Stew can hate The Goonies yet love The Sandlot. Batter up!

Our podcasters this episode are Bob Taylor (Cult Spark) and Stewart Smith (Cult SparkCritical Mass), who are joined by special guest Kurt Larson (Son of GhostmanStay Cool Geek). To make sure you catch every episode, you can subscribe to The Cult Spark Podcast via iTunes or pick up our podcast feed at CultSpark.com.

Theme music: Octopussy (Juanitos) / CC BY 2.0

Author: Robert Brian Taylor

Robert Brian Taylor is a writer and journalist living in Pittsburgh, PA. Throughout his career, his work has appeared in an eclectic combination of newspapers, magazines, books and websites. He wrote the short film "Uninvited Guests," which screened at the Oaks Theater as part of the 2019 Pittsburgh 48 Hour Film Project. His fiction has been featured at Shotgun Honey, and his short-film script "Dig" was named an official selection of the 2017 Carnegie Screenwriters Script and Screen Festival. He is an editor and writer for Collider and contributes regularly to Mt. Lebanon Magazine. Taylor also often writes and podcasts about film and TV at his own site, Cult Spark. You can find him online at rbtwrites.com and on Twitter @robertbtaylor.