It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Venom With Garreth Hirons

Venom (2018) - Garreth Hirons joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Eddie Brock's bid to thwart the sale of a popular social media platform to a carnivorous alien life form in It's Good, Except It Sucks.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time we’re heading into the Multiverse for a look at Venom, released in 2018, and joining Tim for a chat about Eddie Brock’s bid to thwart the sale of a popular social media platform to a carnivorous alien life form is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about The Gooey Punisher, Venom’s Flying Circus and how alien-human hybrid entities should best describe their hobbies and interests on dating apps, and what does any of this have to do with what percentage of Hamburglar is currently owned by Sony? Get listening and find out!

You can follow Garreth on Twitter at @InvaderAce1.

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Further Listening

You can find Garreth on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Venom: Let There Be Carnage here, Avengers: Age Of Ultron here and Thor: Ragnarok here. Garreth also stood in as host to chat to Tim about The Defenders here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.

There’s more from the Spider-Verse with James Cooray Smith on Morbius here, Sophie Davies on Spider-Man 2 here and David Smith on Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse here. Eddie and Venom’s brief excursion into the Marvel Cinematic Universe broke through into Spider-Man: No Way Home with Gabby Hutchinson Crouch here.

Garreth has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Bigger The God, Food Fighters, Saboteur, The Triangle Of Terror, Sizzlin’ Bacon Monster Munch, and Fun At The Funeral Parlour here, The Yellow Album by The Simpsons, The Frankie Goes To Hollywood Computer Game, Nirvana spinoff band Sweet 75, Linc’s, Transformers Action Masters, The Way Of The Tiger and early eighties soft drink Quatro here, The Ghosts Of Oxford Street here and the Futurama Christmas Specials here.