Controlled Burnes: My 2025 in Music

Controlled Burnes returns after a rough couple of weeks at the Burnes’ household as host Andrew Burnes walks his Spotify Wrapped results and the 80+ albums he listened to in 2025 including some all-time greats, Taylor Swift’s divisive Life of a Showgirl, and the full discographies of famed artists including Bob Seger, LCD Soundsystem and…

Controlled Burnes: Ranking Star Wars Villainous Characters

On this week’s episode of Controlled Burnes, Reagan returns for a second Villainous discussion this time ranking each of the 12 current characters in Star Wars Villainous. The discussion includes lists from both Andrew and Reagan as well as a conversation about the pluses and negatives of each character as well as statistics detailing how…

Controlled Burnes: Why We Love Disney and Star Wars Villainous

On this week’s episode of Controlled Burnes, Andrew and Reagan discuss their love of the Disney and Star Wars themed board game Villainous, the story of how they were first introduced to the game, and the rabid fandom that has taken root in the Burnes household ever since. The discussion includes the pair’s favorite aspects…

Controlled Burnes: Top 15 Roller Coasters

On this week’s episode of Controlled Burnes, host Andrew Burnes welcomes a new guest to the podcast, his childhood friend Wesley Orr. Wesley is a roller coaster enthusiast with roughly 250 coaster credits. He has also been to every Six Flags in the continental US, along with a litany of other parks in the states.…

Controlled Burnes: Andor Season 1

On this week’s episode of Controlled Burnes, Andrew is rejoined by Reagan for their longest podcast yet, a nearly 5-hour examination of Andor Season 1. The pair watched the first season together back when it first released and loved it, but returned to it with fresh eyes again in 2025 prior to watching Season 2…

Controlled Burnes: Curating a PS2 Classic

On this week’s episode, Andrew keeps the freewheelin’ video game console discussions coming with a draft of two different versions of a potential PS2 classic, one designed to hit the widest mainstream appeal and another catered to his own specific favorite games on the console. So the second list is his de-facto favorite PS2 games…