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Saturday Dec 11, 2021

Book of Boba Fett Trailer and Teaser Reaction and Review

Saturday Dec 11, 2021

I react and comment with no dead air.

Recorded on November 29, 2021

-The first trailer

-I’ll edit this?

-Reaction videos

-Spider

-Western motif

-The Godfather (spoiler alert for I and II)

-What I expect

-Teaser

-YouTube commercial

-He is Boba Fett

-What I’m not going to do

-Not completed excited but…

-My expectations

-The Mandalorian

-Crime, drama

-Outer rim

-The throne

-What I hope

-Sarlacc pit

-Boba’s identity

-Jango

-A mother figure?

-Human element

-All the Star Wars

-The only really bad Star Wars (aside from the Holiday Special)

-Plugs!

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Wednesday Nov 17, 2021

Dune Review (spoilers)

Wednesday Nov 17, 2021

The review is much shorter than the movie

Recorded October 21, 2021

-What I thought

-It’s length

-The trailer

-My history with Dune (the books and the David Lynch movie)

-My quick review of the Lynch movie

-I butcher the pronunciation of Denis Villeneuve

-Left me wanting more

-Some tastes (even though it was a long movie)

-Soundtrack, effects, acting, storyline

-What the Star Wars prequels could have been

-Father/son, mother/son

-Supernatural, politics, messiah

-The fighting

-Lynch and the Weirding Way (ugh)

-I yawned

-Part II needs to be released tomorrow

-Things get weirder

-I’ll leave you wanting more

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Monday Oct 11, 2021

That I Would Be Good (Alanis Morissette) Review

Monday Oct 11, 2021

What a destroyer from Alanis…I love it. Recorded on 9/21/21

Show notes:

-It’s a destroyer

-What music can do

-Jess Locke

-Alanis on tour

-Jagged Little Pill

-Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

-The live version

-Buzzing

-The flute

-Lyrics on the Internet

-I have the CD booklet

-Lyrics

-Self worth

-Societal pressure

-Internal and external validation

-Developing a solid foundation

-Doing nothing in a pandemic

-The Internet and “thumbs down”

-Shield of anonymity

-Our own worst critics

-Being sick as a kid

-Positive versus negative self talk

-Weight and societal pressure

-Marvel superhero physique

-Bankruptcy

-Baldness

-Reframing the aging argument

-Post Jagged Little Pill

-Alanis’ childhood career

-You Can’t Do That On Television

-Seeing Alanis live in 1996; Taylor Hawkins was on drums and Radiohead opened up

-Knowledge

-Losing any part of yourself

-After I stopped acting

-My life now

-Substance Abuse

-Trying not to beat yourself up

-Being overwhelmed

-Toxic positivity

-What not to say (if this worked, no one would be angry or sad)

-How to work with it

-Fearing of what someone thinks of you when you get angry

-Feeling feelings and safe spaces

-Validation

-Your feelings are always right

-Giving a person space

-Clinging, codependence, and boundaries

-Labels

-Another layer to the lyrics

-Relationships

-Learning from breakups

-Breakups and grief

-Co-dependence

-Music validates

-Music as a way to heal

-If music disappeared…

-A strong foundation

-Longevity

-Garbage and Cat Power opening

-Liz Phair

-I saw Garbage in 1995-96 at Roseland

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Saturday Sep 04, 2021

Only Lovers Left Alive Review (spoilers)

Saturday Sep 04, 2021

Recorded August 13, 2021

Spoilers are ahead.

Show notes:

-Better than The Dead Don’t Die

-Plausible

-Adam and Eve

-“Humanity” of the vampires

-One possible implausibility

-Eva

-Blood

-Implying

-Showing and not telling

-Gloves

-Knowledge and conversations

-Marlowe

-John Hurt

-Predicting

-Jeffrey Wright

-Time

-Similarities in Adam at howe and being locked down (get vaccinated, please)

-Back to Eva

-The ending

-Compulsion

-Possible unrealistic aspect

-Passing off their work

-The acting

-The pace

-Finally got a chance to see it

-Movies versus TV (I love them both)

-Get vaccinated, wear a mask, I hope for mask mandates, speak up

-Greatest good and least harm

-Get your knowledge from credible sources (New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Washington Post, BBC, etc.)

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Friday Aug 27, 2021

Kevin Can F**k Himself Review (spoilers)

Friday Aug 27, 2021

He certainly can.

Spoilers are ahead!

Recorded August 3, 2021

-Annie Murphy

-Just watched the season finale

-Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

-Allison and Kevin’s relationship

-The sitcom version

-Watching sitcoms growing up

-Sitcom tropes

-“It’s just Kevin”

Who’s married to a woman that you don’t normally see with a guy like that

-A prequel would be cool

-Kevin, his father, and Neil

-What the show did well

-Abuse by Kevin in both multi-cam and single cam

-Kevin and privilege

-I hope it gets renewed

-Serious moments in sitcoms

-Family Ties

-More sitcom tropes

-Taking a dramatic turn

-Single cam version of characters

-Subtext

-Pressure on Allison and Patty

-What did Neil really hear?

-Really good representation of despair and loneliness (even when you’re surrounded by people)

-Sam

-The traditional sitcoms, modern sitcoms, the evolution of sitcoms

-He really can

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Tuesday Aug 03, 2021

No Sudden Move Review (spoilers)

Tuesday Aug 03, 2021

I say “quote unquote” way too much. Spoilers are ahead.

Recorded July 25, 2021

Show notes:

-I have whiplash

-The title

-A lot of fun

-The true story behind the plot

-History

-Time period

-What I liked about this movie

-Don Cheadle

-A Cheadle Extravaganza

-The cast

-Matt Damon (The story so far - https://variety.com/2021/film/news/matt-damon-addresses-f-slur-1235032441/)

-George Clooney

-Brendan Fraser

-Levels

-Crime world and business world

-What drives people in regards to money

-Soderbergh on the fish eye lens

-A possible reminder to the viewer

-Insufferable Bastards podcast

-Plugs

-I’m fully vaccinated

-Get vaccinated — think of things you can do and if you want to be a hero . . .

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116.

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“Totally on purpose…bring you out of the space in which you have a 90 degree grid…a world in which things are that squared off…felt wrong to have images that were to have images that were that sort of square”

Friday Jun 18, 2021

Invincible Review (spoilers)

Friday Jun 18, 2021

Recorded May 31, 2021

I review Invincible (not the Muse song that I can’t get out of my head)

Show notes:

-Star Wars

-Superhero shows

-Watchmen, The Boys

-Back to Star Wars

-Why Invincible wasn’t tempted

-Human qualities

-Grayson

-The cast

-Steven Yeun

-JK Simmons can be terrifying

-What makes Omni-Man terrifying

-Omni-Man compared to Superman

-Omni-Man versus Invincible

-Omni-Man’s conflict and identity

-Why information and knowledge is so powerful

-Balance

-What may be keeping Invincible from turning evil (for now?)

-One of many problems with Omni-Man

-Next season

-Other superheroes

-Cecil

-Physical and mental capabilities

-Nazis

-Other planets and species

-Episodic shows versus a movie

-What movies and music can teach us

-Doom Patrol

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Friday May 21, 2021

John Lewis: Good Trouble Review

Friday May 21, 2021

I watch and comment on the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble

Recorded February 19, 2021

Notes:

-Real life superhero

-I will comment during the doc but this podcast won’t be the length of the doc

-What he’s been through

-That mugshot — https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/622844317162434560?lang=en

-Pre-COVID

-Elijah Cummings

-Organize, mobilize, legislate

-Being brutalized by cops for waiting on line to vote

-Knowing the risk

-The power of voting

-Pettus bridge and unlawful assembly

-Parading permit

-Troopers advancing with weapons

-Civil disobedience

-Bashed in the head

-Present day voter suppression

-Constant struggle

-“There’s so much more progress to be made”

-“My greatest fear…”

-Misinformation, hatred, and cruelty

-Comic Con story

-Equity

-Getting involved

-Ripple effects

-Good trouble

-Say something, do something, good trouble, necessary trouble

-2018 and the blue wave

-Change from then to now (so much more to do)

-Preaching to chickens

-Picking cotton

-Nashville and non-violence

-Non-violence as offense, not defense

-Starting locally to desegregate downtown Nashville

-Systems versus an individual

-Under a constant threat

-Training

-One big temper tantrum from people in power

-Fear and insecurity

-First Nashville sit-in

-Optics

-Doing everything you can

-AOC

-How racism morphs

-Barriers

-Voting requirements

-Senator Warnock

-Beto O’Rourke

-Election Day 2018 and 2020

-James Clyburn

-John Lewis Voting Rights Act

-Republicans want to suppress votes

-AOC and the speed of freedom

-Moving slow versus moving fast

-Results of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act

-Long wait times to vote

-HR1

-Opressors framing themselves as victims

-Freedom Singers

-How music lifts the spirit

-Thurogood Marshall

-John F. Kennedy and intentions

-We cannot be patient

-Democrats vs. Republicans

-Fast vs. Slow

-Wife and son

-Lawlessness and hypocrisy of the “law and order” Trump administration

-Viral videos

-Julian Bond and the danger of registering people to vote

-Rise into politics

-Becoming an “insider”

-Tense moments with Bonds

-Activism from the outside and inside

-Protest on the floor and the non-coverage of Fox “News”

-Stacey Abrams and the power of Lewis’ story

-The resistance to the right to vote

-The more who show up…

-President Obama

-Looking back 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020

-Paul Wyrech - he’s not from AIPAC, he’s from ALEC and he didn’t want everybody to vote

-Removing the filibuster

-This is not a time for despair

-The struggle

-2019 Edmund Pettis Bridge (Trump wasn’t there)

-Putting in the work

-Medal of Freedom

-A good start

-A giant

-There were post credits

-Inspiring

-Equity and progress (and justice)

-Plugs!

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#GoodTrouble

Saturday Apr 24, 2021

Election 2020

Saturday Apr 24, 2021

Taking you way back to November 13, 2020

Show notes - It’s been a week:

-Friday the 13th - Oooooooo

-Tears of joy and relief

-The weeks that were

-My early voting experience

-Strangers congregating even during a pandemic

-After I voted

-Volunteering for campaigns (phone banking, text-banking, postcards)

-Vote tripling

-James Carville’s prediction

-Election Day

-Couldn’t accept a red mirage

-Heightened anxiety and disrupted sleep

-Future tripping

-Waiting for the counting

-24 hour networks news

-Trump shenanigans

-My reaction to Biden/Harris winning on November 7th

-Profound relief

-Social media and celebrations

-Back to the red mirage

-People I knew

-Deferring to experts

-Why I was still freaking out

-Arizona, Georgia

-Trump turnout

-What’s bad about social media

-November 3-7 (Freaking out to feeling ecstatic)

-More Trump shenanigans and a “coup”

-Transition team

-Chaos

-Ignoring Trump

-Conceding

-Exhaustion

-Words, actions, behaviors, policy

-Family separation

-Accountability

-Biden wasn’t my first choice

-Normalcy and trust

-Supporting democracy

-Doomscrolling

-Kamala Harris

-COVID-19 and the environment

-Biden’s life story

-Dr. Jill Biden

-Difference between Biden in 2016 and Biden now

-The United States and the pandemic

-Biden and the pandemic

-Not being a dictator

-Trusted public figures

-Prevention

-Will mask wearing continue post-pandemic?

-Being sick sucks

-Dying sucks

-After effects of COVID-19

-High stakes

-The virus doesn’t care

-Getting information from credible sources (New York Times, BBC, NPR, USA Today, Washington Post, etc.)

-Don’t get your news from influencers

-Congratulations President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris

-Help is on the way (we just have to get through the rest of the year)

-Wear a mask, practice social distancing, wash your hands, don’t touch your face, listen to the experts (no rogues)

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