web01.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:08:33 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Normies Like Us - Episodes Tagged with “Starship Troopers” https://normieslikeus.fireside.fm/tags/starship%20troopers Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700 Each week our hosts do a deep dive on everything pop culture from niche to normie! We examine everything from movies, comics and video games as we try to figure out how it entered into the cultural zeitgeist! en-us episodic The Podcast that reminds you that It's Hip to be Square! Normies Like Us Each week our hosts do a deep dive on everything pop culture from niche to normie! We examine everything from movies, comics and video games as we try to figure out how it entered into the cultural zeitgeist! yes Podcast, Normies Like Us, Video Game Podcast, Comics Podcast, Movie Podcast, Movie Review, Video Game Review, Comics Review, Marvel Podcast, Star Wars Podcast, Pop Culture Podcast, New Podcast, Comedy Podcast, Nostalgia Podcast, Podcasters, Normies, Normies Like Us normieslikeus@gmail.com Episode 286: Starship Troopers and Helldivers II | Freedom Review | Normies Like Us Podcast https://normieslikeus.fireside.fm/286 f01d6e29-73cf-4831-977e-4275c31e04c8 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700 Normies Like Us full 7 Normies Like Us We cover all kinds of liberty and freedom when we talk Starship Troopers and Helldivers II on Normies Like Us! 1:52:13 yes Starship Troopers (1997)- based on the book by Robert Heinlen from 1959, follows Juan Johnny Rico in a futuristic fascistic society on Earth as they go to war with the Pseudo-Arachnids aka bugs. Notable for being the first work of science fiction to use “power armors” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarshipTroopers(film)?wprov=sfti1 The film, directed by Paul Verhooven (Robocop) acts as a propaganda piece following the rise of a soldier and his roughnecks. Cast: Casper VanDien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Clancy Brown, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ironside Wrap Up: Future for these franchises? Final Thoughts Plugs Clips: About This Episode: Helldivers 2/Starship Troopers: Episode 286- Together for Liberty. Together for managed Democracy. Together for Normies Like Us! On a very special episode, that certainly isn’t propaganda, we bring the glory of Democracy to the podcast as we hunt for Bugs and Oil. Your hosts are comparing the facistic freedom of the worlds of Helldivers 2 and Starship Troopers. And the only good bug is a dead bug on Normies Like Us! Click the link below. These listeners are doing their part. Are you? Insta: @NormiesLikeUs https://www.instagram.com/normieslikeus/ @jacob https://www.instagram.com/jacob/ @MikeHasInsta https://www.instagram.com/mikehasinsta/ https://letterboxd.com/BabblingBrooksy/ https://letterboxd.com/hobbes72/ https://letterboxd.com/mikejromans/ starship troopers, troopers, paul verhoeven, robocop, helldivers, helldivers 2, edward neumeier, starship troopers 3, maurader, super earth, the federation, federation, gary busey, bug hunt, arachnid, terminid, automatons, robert a heinlein, gundam, sci-fi, science fiction, video game, helldiver, liberty, freedom, democracy, steam, casper van dien, dina meyer, denise richards, jake busey, neil patrick harris, michael ironside, movie review, game review, new, 2024, normies like us podcast Starship Troopers (1997)- based on the book by Robert Heinlen from 1959, follows Juan Johnny Rico in a futuristic fascistic society on Earth as they go to war with the Pseudo-Arachnids aka bugs. Notable for being the first work of science fiction to use “power armors”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)?wprov=sfti1

The film, directed by Paul Verhooven (Robocop) acts as a propaganda piece following the rise of a soldier and his roughnecks.

Cast: Casper VanDien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Clancy Brown, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ironside

Wrap Up:
Future for these franchises?
Final Thoughts
Plugs

Clips:

About This Episode:
Helldivers 2/Starship Troopers: Episode 286- Together for Liberty. Together for managed Democracy. Together for Normies Like Us! On a very special episode, that certainly isn’t propaganda, we bring the glory of Democracy to the podcast as we hunt for Bugs and Oil. Your hosts are comparing the facistic freedom of the worlds of Helldivers 2 and Starship Troopers. And the only good bug is a dead bug on Normies Like Us!

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]]> Starship Troopers (1997)- based on the book by Robert Heinlen from 1959, follows Juan Johnny Rico in a futuristic fascistic society on Earth as they go to war with the Pseudo-Arachnids aka bugs. Notable for being the first work of science fiction to use “power armors”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)?wprov=sfti1

The film, directed by Paul Verhooven (Robocop) acts as a propaganda piece following the rise of a soldier and his roughnecks.

Cast: Casper VanDien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Clancy Brown, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Michael Ironside

Wrap Up:
Future for these franchises?
Final Thoughts
Plugs

Clips:

About This Episode:
Helldivers 2/Starship Troopers: Episode 286- Together for Liberty. Together for managed Democracy. Together for Normies Like Us! On a very special episode, that certainly isn’t propaganda, we bring the glory of Democracy to the podcast as we hunt for Bugs and Oil. Your hosts are comparing the facistic freedom of the worlds of Helldivers 2 and Starship Troopers. And the only good bug is a dead bug on Normies Like Us!

Click the link below. These listeners are doing their part. Are you?

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