Neal Hallstrom

Neal Hallstrom

Co-host and editor of MK Podquest and Crew Expendable, Sega enthusiast, proud Zune owner

Appears in 144 Episodes

Commentary: Mortal Kombat Conquest - The Essence

We're talking over Mortal Kombat: Conquest episode 5 "The Essence" this week. Qali shows up, we get our first Princess Kitana of the series, and the Kombat Krew gets s...

From The Archives - Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins

Check Out Corey's other Podcasts: Strat2: https://anchor.fm/strat2f1 They Made Another: https://anchor.fm/theymadeanother Hear Neal on: Get Rec'd: https://anchor....

MK Comics: Goro: Prince of Pain 1-3

In this episode we're talking all three issues of Goro: Prince of Pain, the mini-series that puts Goro face to face with the gods of Chaos and Order, a talking crow, a...

Commentary: Mortal Kombat Conquest - Immortal Kombat

In this episode a Monk krumbles, and we talk about it while it happens. Next episode we're talking Goro: Prince of Pain! Until Then: Visit our website at MKPODQU...

MK Comics: Blood & Thunder Issues 1-3

We're continuing (kontinuing?) our KONQUEST (conquest?) through the Malibu Comics Mortal Kombat series this episode with a discussion about the first three issues of t...

The Malibu Mortal Kombat Comics: Issue 0

It's KOMIC TIME! We're kicking off our journey through the Malibu Comics Mortal Kombat series with this EXTRA primer episode covering the story behind Malibu's Mortal ...

Commentary: Mortal Kombat Conquest - Cold Reality

This week the boys do a commentary track for Mortal Kombat: Conquestepisode 3 - Cold Reality The Kombatant of the week is SUB-ZERO Dust off your long boxes because n...

Raven: Return of the Black Dragon

This week we're FINALLY tackling the extremely entertaining TV Movie/series pilot Raven: Return of the Black Dragon starring Jeff Meek and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Next W...

Commentary: Mortal Kombat Conquest - Warrior Eternal Part II

Our second run through Mortal Kombat: Conquest kontinues with a Watch-Along Commentary for Episode 2, "Warrior Eternal Part II" Next week: RAVEN. Visit our websit...

Commentary: Mortal Kombat Conquest - Warrior Eternal Part I

This week we kick off our second run through Mortal Kombat: Conquest with a Watch-Along Commentary for Episode 1, "Warrior Eternal Part 1" It's good to be home. V...

Mythologies: Mortal Kombat X: Generations

On this episode we talk about the unreleased Mortal Kombat X: Generations webseries, which would have kontinued the story from Mortal Kombat: Legacy. We also discuss t...

MK Legacy II: Liu Kang Is Recruited | Liu Kang And Kung Lao Meet On The Battlefield

This week we watched the final two episodes of Mortal Kombat Legacy II AND provide watch-along commentary for both episodes! But don't worry if you can't watch along, ...

MK Legacy II: Scorpion and Sub-Zero Form A Truce | Scorpion And Sub-Zero Battle

Episodes 7 and 8 of Mortal Kombat Legacy II are a deep dive into an alternate origin story of everybody's favorite Mortal Kombat characters Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Some...

MK Legacy II: Kitana and Mileena Arrive | Johnny Cage Is Recruited

This week, Neal finally gets to talk about Casper Van Dien as Johnny Cage. Also, Kitana and Mileena are here. NEXT WEEK, SCORPION AND SUB-ZERO EPISODES! Until Then: ...

MK Legacy II: Kenshi's Origin Story | Kenshi Encounters Ermac

Happy New Year, MORTALS! We're BACK to discussing Mortal Kombat Legacy II! This week we talk about Kenshi and Ermac, and how bad Shao Kahn is at hiding his magical wea...

From the Archives: Mythologies Overload

Hey Mortals, we'll be back in the new year to kontinue our discussion of Mortal Kombat: Legacy II but until then please enjoy this supercut of our early 'Mythologies" ...

Seasons Beatings: A Mortal Kombat Conquest Holiday Story

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year MORTALS! In this BONUS episode, Neal has taken it upon himself to write a Christmas episode of Mortal Kombat: Conq...

MK Legacy II: Liu Kang and Kung Lao Reunite | The Fall of Liu Kang

We're kicking off Season 2 of Mortal Kombat: Legacy and immediately diagreeing about the quality of the show. We're kind of like Liu Kang and Kung Lao. One thing we bo...

Talkin' Taven: An MK Podquest Special Event

On September 6th, 2021, Ben Mekler called Neal out on Mortal Podkast, challenging him to defend the legacy of Taven. This is Neal's official response. Also, Corey and ...

From the Archives: MK Podquest Ponders the ORB

Our next new episode is delayed due to too much ORB PONDERING, but don't worry! If it's QUANTITY you're after, here's a BONUS supercut of the entire Warrior King saga,...

MK Legacy: Scorpion & Sub-Zero | Cyrax & Sektor

Season One of Mortal Kombat: Legacy finishes really strong with a fantastic two-parter about Scorpion and Sub-Zero (or IS IT?!) and a pretty impressive episode about e...

MK Legacy: Kitana & Mileena | Raiden

This week we experience whiplash (with a K) as we discuss Mortal Kombat: Legacy episodes 4-6 - Kitana & Mileena parts 1 and 2, and the Raiden one-shot. If you want a p...

MK Legacy: Jax, Sonya and Kano | Johnny Cage

After a slight delay and possibly some minor technical difficulties, we're fashionably late with our first foray into the world of Mortal Kombat: Legacy! This week we ...

Mortal Kombat Rebirth

THIS WEEK we discuss Kevin Tancharoen's Mortal Kombat: Rebirth  short film AND gear up for the next leg of our journey through Mortal Kombat media: Mortal Kombat Legac...

Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)

It's time to talk Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, the underwhelming follow-up to Scorpion's Revenge that we didn't love. While there's definitely some goo...

TMAO BONUS: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

A li'l Halloween treat for anyone who may have missed it courtesy of Corey's other podcast 'They Made Another One?!' Last year Corey and Liam had Neal on to talk about...

Threshold Throwdown! (Dragon with CGI Wings)

It's the THRESHOLD THROWDOWN! Corey and Neal decide the definitive all-stars of the Threshold Mortal Kombat universe (after like 15 minutes of talking about Irn Bru)! ...

Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020) Round 2

Round 2 of Scorpion's Revenge is here! It's the half of the movie where Scorpion gets bamboozled into getting fake revenge, but then bamboozles the bamboozlers and get...

Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020) Round 1

We enter a new chapter in Mortal Kombat media this week with part one of our discussion of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, the gritty rated-R reboot of MK: ...

MK Podquest Vs. Mortal Podkast Round 2

It's time for ROUND 2 of MK Podquest vs. Mortal Podkast! We're overwriting Ben Mekler's precious childhood memories with a rundown of episodes 7-11 of Mortal Kombat: C...

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