This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is one I’ve been looking forward to for a very long time … because I’ve been trying to book Mark McKinney forever.

The once and future Kid in the Hall and I used to live a few blocks from each other, and we’d run into one another at the occasional thing, and when I launched SEMcast he was one of the first people I reached out to. He was totally up for it; he just had to shoot this pilot first.

The pilot turned out to be Superstore, which ran for six seasons on NBC. And then there was the Kids reunion series, and a bunch of other stuff, and yadda yadda yadda it’s nine and a half years later. But with Mark having two projects landing more or less at once — his new CTV series Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby and a role in the very messy horror comedy Scared Shitless, which has its Toronto premiere this Saturday at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival — we finally carved out an hour to talk.

And Mark picked a doozy: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, George Miller’s prequel to Fury Road that rolls back the clock on the apocalypse to show us what Charlize Theron’s formidable Imperator went through to become the greatest warrior the wasteland has ever known. (Max Rockatansky is more of a strategist, really.)

It’s a wide-ranging conversation about Miller’s directorial genius, the glory of the big screen, my own Lorenzo’s Oil boosterism and, yes, the gonzo pleasures of Hundreds of Beavers. Mark’s an omnivore, and yeah, this episode was worth the wait.

Surely at this point you know what to do: Subscribe to the show at Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or on your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web and get the Doof Warrior to blast it from his amp. They have podcasts in the wasteland, surely.

And then get caught up on Shiny Things! Last week I wrote up Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger and the new 4K releases of Born on the Fourth of July and Drag Me to Hell from Shout! Studios, and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and The Invasion from Arrow Video.

There’s a lot more to come, and if you feel like you’re missing out you can always subscribe. I mean, I would.