The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incredible [TS]

00:00:05 ◼   ► number 120 through [TS]

00:00:08 ◼   ► 2012 there well welcome back to being [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► comfortable podcast I'm your host Jason [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► snow [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► this is a special episode of the [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► uncomfortable where we're looking back [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► at 2012 but it's not a clip show it's [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► not a rerun [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► it's all new stuff plus a few clips from [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► the past because it's fun [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► we're going to tell you about stuff we [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► like this year some of our favorite [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► books and TV shows and movies and comics [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► and stuff like that [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► we're also going to talk about some of [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► our favorite moments from the podcast [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► from the last year so sit back and i [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► hope you enjoyed this look at 2012 as we [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► move into 2013 and joining me for this [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► episode are Dan Morgan Clem fleischmann [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► John siracusa serenity Caldwell Steve [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► Lutz Lisa Schmeisser and Scott McNulty [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► so let's get started we started this [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► year with the episode 73 of the [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► incomparable and we're going to finish [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► at roughly a hundred and twenty-one and [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► we make a lot of there's a lot of well [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► he do one a week had cast that's a lot [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► of yakin I was gonna I was gonna say we [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► make a lot of crap but yeah it's worse [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► when you have to edit them let me tell [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► us that this is all gold the supercut is [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► really going to be something so i asked [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► on on the internet i asked listeners [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► what their favorite to we still at the [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► scene if we do a few there got there [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► they're about to die as the world comes [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► to an end but into them from Australia [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► only likes me [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► yes before they went they they gave us [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► some feedback [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► Adam world said was the Empire Strikes [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► Back episode this year [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► no it wasn't sorry that episodes every [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► year James I guess we run it like a [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► christmas story 24 has day it's a [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► Christmas tradition it's beautiful thing [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► about podcast you can plan back anytime [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► he said he liked the jonathan coulton [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► episode and like listening to John on [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► miyazaki i was also on that episode but [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► he didn't like to listen to me like the [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► John part he'd like John's parts of the [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► miyazaki episode Rodney simba Massa rear [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► I think he said the TV draft and and [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► casting was that this year it doesn't [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► matter it [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► and whenever here you also not this year [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► but thank you [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► where is it possible we shall molanda [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► ourselves are so you're really good but [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► after battle yes but Rodney had the [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► right answer which is it doesn't matter [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► it wins every year anyway so Dylan geo [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► veneto says the con con and con- moment [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► from episode 84 the film festival which [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► actually was this year good which [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► actually wasn't in 2012 good stuff [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► german angel movies included he says [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► blending yeah man going science fiction [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► then into screwball then into cons but [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► not that con right Scott Scott starts [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► with Khan wear which games child and all [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► this i hit james bond movie always a [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► godfather is the godfather [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► oh sorry ok well there we go kon Kon Kon [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► it's it's really the con film festival [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► at this point haha oh wow well [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► Wow who are in terrible pain no that was [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► amazing times after snow somehow also [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► like wow but it was sitting right there [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► guys [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► yeah I thought of it too but I didn't [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► say strength and you can see it didn't [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► even see it while RR Michael Gartenberg [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► who was actually on the star trek to [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► episode said that he liked when in arco [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► took over the Avengers episode and then [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► several other people said don't don't [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► you mean the worst thing that happened [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► on the podcast this year that was not [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► one of our popular moments in many [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► places no no that was that that episode [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► that that's that's in some ways my least [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► favorite episode that we've done mostly [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► because i felt like it kind of got out [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► of hand out of hand and not everybody [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► you know it became more of us trying to [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► like debate with Andy rather than talk [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► about what we were talking about and [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► it's you know oh well live and learn [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► when the avengers 2 comes out we'll do [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► another oh man oh yeah we're we're right [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► it prevented our plan white christmas [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► episode at any rate so yes it's got that [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► going for it [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► Fred he she or quiche depending money [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► he's a real bad i'm going to guess it's [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► not even i prefer quiche Frederick kishi [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► i think i read his philosophy whole stop [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► making fun of the listeners I feel like [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► it started [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► he liked uh he said very well-read hobos [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► schrödinger's cat dare you mean the [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► museum for sony that right not actually [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► very well if i get a spinal tap wrath of [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► khan the redshirts episode he's just [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► listing all the episode like the mall is [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► everything alright Fred had something to [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► make me laugh Brian Hamilton said the [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► Joe the joco episode obscure reference [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► references and said thanks for getting [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► me into jonathan coulton he says that [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► was very nice [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► you're welcome our work here is done [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► Clinton Phillips the man who is making [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► the Scot McMillan supercut I haven't [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► heard an update on that in a while by [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► the way I haven't given up [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► it's been very quiet he's working on it [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► Scott don't talk anymore you make more [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► work for him he said he liked it [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► kids have bad taste episode where we [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► talked about what we what we expose our [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► kids to in terms of what I mean I'm I [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► was not on that the sound he didn't have [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► any like yeah you didn't have to get out [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► that was why he liked it so much it's [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► alright it's alright Scott you have bad [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► taste to and he he actually listed some [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► favorite moments he likes when and he [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► says the Avengers is like Michael based [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► Transformers movies and everybody [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► suddenly get irate again it wasn't an [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► awful movie it was just your basic [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► transformers two style on its 100 no I [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► think you need to watch transformers two [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► again he like an after-dark number 154 [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► when everybody does an impression of [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► Scott McNulty saying hello in tilling [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► recording know that is a classic [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► it angered me instead of saying [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► recording we show [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► imitates commenting saying saying hello [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► Lou and he also liked the insular [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► nervous fear episode we talked about [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► john scalzi and the the Hugo's and [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► sci-fi fandom voting for itself for [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► awards like you know nominating feed for [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► things and stuff like horrible things [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► erik christensen said he enjoyed me haha [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► finally somebody's on my side describing [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► the scene in in return of the jedi where [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► Luke is attempting to explain his [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► relationship with her [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► the force is strong in my family I have [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► my father has it my sister are you [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► following along you're done [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► he just wants to talk two layers so [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► badly about this and she's just not [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► getting the hint and he's like all right [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► come on please I view that as being [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► looks like what we will with the most [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► dramatically I could tell you this I [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► could just run up to it today I thought [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► of your bases you doing there's a father [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► God but no no no let me stretch it out [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► let me make it a little more dramatic [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► that's it the Darth Vader's here [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► remember Darth Vader he's a bad guy [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► yeah okay guess what guess what the [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► force is strong in my family I know that [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► seems unrelated wait wait for it wait [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► for it [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► Darth Vader's my father who no no that's [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► not it [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► oh that starts out the conversation with [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► like I never remembered my mother [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► oh my sister has it my name is Gail she [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► lives in Oregon actually and the thing [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► that really gets me about that is that [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► let's try to process it all and I I'm [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► really should and she says I know I know [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► somehow I've always known anybody you [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► know what she should be saying there is [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► wait a second are you saying that Darth [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► Vader is my father [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► holy crap right now she's like I've [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► always known and we and we made out that [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► one time i do then to that was just [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► getting on jealous he also loved John [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► talking about the Jedi philosophy of [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► pacifism so22 moments from our return of [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► the jedi episode and he also credits [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► leash misers laughs which is infectious [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► and that is true we've all been in fact [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► by Lisa's laughs hence the fires yeah [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► there is no cure and and I want to [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► acknowledge mr. Doug leak who suggested [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► that we talked about movie trailers [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► that's a good idea will take that under [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► advisement and stupid ideas it turns out [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► yeah exactly sorry Doug yeah so uh you [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► guys have any anything that you want to [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► recommend from being comfortable from [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► the world at large from 2012 before we [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► cast into oblivion [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► I did my homework and I made a big list [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► of notes here yes John you said 10 [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► favorite thing or two from 2012 and [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► favorite thing from icomparable Sean's [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► totally the teacher's pet you always [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► showed up with his homework done to say [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► I come prepared of anyone elses takes [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► his email seriously here's an apple [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► Jason I got a big I got a big list here [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► too but go ahead Johnson is daughter [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► might do my quick so I never prepared [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► for class my favorite things from 2012 [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► Iranians are easy to guess but you know [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► what's my number one guy's heart related [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► don't know tourney come on [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► love-40 during you get a videogame [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► journey with the and stationary not the [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► band not the incredible journey with the [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► dog and the cat then we touched then we [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► say yeah right so that the video game is [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► specifically what I'm talking about [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► that's the best game i played in 2012 by [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► a long shot and it's easily in my gaming [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► top 10 and depending on what I feel like [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► when i wake up in the morning sometimes [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► it's my number one so big thumbs up [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► there I yeah I know you like that w [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► scott did just for you [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► we know we know what he likes you know [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► he likes Colombo and bathroom humor [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► alright the perfect together and and on [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► what my second picture that things like [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► this year is like I watch a lot of TV [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► but if you go down like the shows that I [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► have season passes for at the top of my [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► season pass list or you know [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► past present future Sopranos the wire [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► Game of Thrones Breaking Bad boardwalk [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► empire walking dead like those are not [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► exactly laughfest there you know there's [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► not a comedy in the but it's all kind of [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► like pretty adult drama fantasy sci fi [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► you know and I basically given up on [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► sitcoms entirely except for 30 rock and [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► stuff because a tina fey is awesome [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► so when I look back at 2012 1 [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► are they really stood out it's not all [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► those other shows are listed there were [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► great and everything but it's HBO's [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► girls because it's the closest I came to [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► something that was you know I don't know [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► happy like it's not a completely [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► comedies more of a dramedy or whatever [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► but it was it's you know quirky and [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► interesting and offbeat and people don't [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► get their heads chopped off and nobody's [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► a zombie and it's not about organized [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► crime i and III really like it you know [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► it's a nice change of pace that's why it [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► stands out because it's like wow this [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► other thing you know and uh the show [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► could also be called like I yeah [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► Lena Dunham presents lena Dunham's girls [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► by lena gonna finally Donna LaDonna [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► joints because she pushed her she [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► created it [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► she produces it she writes it and she [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► stars in it all which I didn't know when [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► i watch the series so I am a big giant [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► fan of her despite her all for flaws as [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► an actress and a rider and probably as a [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► person they all just make her more [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► endearing [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► so those are my those my two pics for [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► 2012 am i comfortable pics quickly [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► surprised the journey show you i was [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► excited that we had a show I was very [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► touched that everyone managed to find a [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► way to play it [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► despite not having Playstations and I [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► was glad that everyone seemed to like it [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► so I didn't have an Avengers moment ya [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► on that episode when you will tell me [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► was there was terrible and i really like [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► every like the way music was that into [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► that episode I think we should do more [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► of that I said that is person who never [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► had doesn't know yeah except yeah I'll [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► take that under advisement it helped [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► that somebody who was involved in that [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► actually like sit sent me specific [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► recommendations for what songs to play [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► at what times that we're facing more [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► wilhelm scream could help look at that [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► I've contributed I tell you hear this [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► here's the audio clips and here's where [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► you put them in I go to town supervisor [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► and I went to town you know that is [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► jason and i also like Princess indiana [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► jones and who cares what we think I [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► guess I like princess diana jones [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► because we have to talk about a movie [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► and then we talked about a meta topic [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► about the movie we should do more of [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► that we have time like and there you go [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► you're helping already [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► yeah and who cares what we think I like [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► a metal show that it was about the show [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► how could you not a hundred episode you [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► that was a good one that was on my list [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► that's great i'm done i like the journey [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► show to ya [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► it was fun good episode damn yeah I am [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► there are a couple moments I that I like [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► this year we wrapped up our star wars [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► trilogy like the return of the jedi [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► episode especially I would went back and [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► listened to it earlier and I like the [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► beginning where we all sing the Fox [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► fanfare oh yeah did you do digit digital [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► ooh internet didn't did it did you do [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► did to do anything where we make sound [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► effects and noises anything with a horse [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► with the head on it clearly I'm crazy [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► but here's my problem i can't remember a [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► lot of things that we thought we had a [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► lot of singing and sound effects come [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► from us this year it's very strange i [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► don't know what's wrong with us [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► I don't either but I think we might have [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► some sort of collective disorder [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► we have a probe droid an empire that was [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► one of the yeah that's exactly I was the [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► only comment was that this year i can [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► recommend a TX is like one of the few [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► moments I actually remember that was [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► last year games one I think I may have [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► given it as my favorite moment from last [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► year on the west i'm on the wrap-up [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► thing for last year so can I throw up my [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► favorite moment moment from about yes [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► please God I got you know I was racked [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► my brains that it popped into my head [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► because I just I love this moment and [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► remember exactly where you put in i [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► think it may be at the beginning of one [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► of one of the Empire episodes which is [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► everybody's impression of a imperial [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► probe droid [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► oh yes that's at the beginning of one of [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► the Empire episodes and the other the [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► other one ends with yes largely you [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► doing your series of sound effects from [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► you can wear story star wars soundboard [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► and I'm a trap Batman around a proper [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► irony and understand what [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► remember we're already paying attention [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► during internet [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► after that nap yeah [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► report trooper 020 girl got also [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► throughout our live episode at singleton [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► where we made lecture even talk about [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► Indiana Jones despite having exactly and [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► look [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► Lex has and CNN alternately great and [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► also to me why did you make me do that [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► makes it because I thought it was funny [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► I didn't think you just go about it [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► would be funny to have you up there [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► saying i don't know i havent what are [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► your impressions it's alternatively if [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► it's alternately hilarious and [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► incredibly painful same time and Lex [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► Friedman who hasn't seen them [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► I don't know why I'm here max hasn't [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► seen it [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► that's that's Lex has seen many movies [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► it's it's not true that he's not seen [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► any movies he just hasn't seen any [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► movies that anybody else has seen right [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► i basically there was a large gap in the [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► eighties and early nineties when if the [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► movie was fantastical my parents were [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► interested in they were the arbiters of [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► what we got to watch at home so I didn't [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► see it [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► so relax and I haven't made up for that [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► lost time [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► what do you know about Indiana Jones I [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► want to start before we start talking [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► about the movies i would like to quiz [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► you what you see that youtube video [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► about the three-year-old explaining Star [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► Wars yeah this is basically the same [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► yes only on 31 yeah [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► it's other that is getting this is what [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► I know I know it stars Harrison Ford I [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► believe Shawn consciousness will do that [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► yes Sean Connery's i love is in the [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► fourth one that people don't like that [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► had the nuclear bomb that he hides from [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► a refrigerator right i doing great so [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► far [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► yes it's like you've seen them in the [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► first 1i think the first one I don't [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► know which title goes with which movie [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► but in the first 10 there's the big [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► boulder that he runs away from yes and [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► everything I know about the first movie [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► i know from UHF and there's a thing [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► where he's got a bag of sand that he's [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► gotta replace the weight and he's got a [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► time right after that the see you've [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► seen the weird al yankovic parody of you [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► guys either not the actual movie and I [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► know there's one of the odm that I know [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► that at the end the the Nazis spoiler [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► alert get fried when the Ark of the [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► Covenant opens I know that happens that [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► is approximately he's basically seen it [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► why do we not yet have a 30 style drop [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► of somebody going [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► Lex hasn't seen hey I'm thinking we got [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► plop in every given up aside I'm sure [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► likes would perform that for you [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► yeah as for things that i consumed this [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► year it was a it was not a great year [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► for a lot like television was looking [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► through my television listings like a [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► lot of good stuff i'm watching but it's [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► all into you know second seasons third [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► seasons cetera and there was really as [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► we discussed in our TV episode not a lot [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► good that was new this year and before [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► that I need to go back to writing down [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► the books i actually and movies I [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► actually watched site lets can't [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► remember anything i saw or read this [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► year I feel very bad memory for those [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► things but I did like there are a couple [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► things i did--like i played some video [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► games including journey which I really [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► enjoyed and yeah I don't know it was a [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► yeah I guess there is some good stuff [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► and stuff i don't remember that's about [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► it you're not disappointed i have very [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► good i have a very good memory for [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► certain things which include people's [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► faces and names i have a terrible memory [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► for things that happened in books and [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► movies and television shows even though [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► i like all of those things we need to [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► perform an experiment both Scott and Dan [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► read a book and then we wait a week and [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► then we ask each person questions about [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► the book to see who remembers less [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► that I will I will I will take part in [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► this i want as well just because the [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► first question will be i read that book [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► and if there's a movie adaptation you [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► can put Lex in there i would just I was [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► just watching just doing some catch-up [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► on Homeland the second season which I [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► hadn't finished watching I'd sort of let [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► the last five or six episodes build-up [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► turn my back and we're watching them and [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► and you know I had to keep having my [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► viewing companion like say oh yeah don't [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► remember when that thing happened and I [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► was like no do you remember that you did [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► with it don't got that kind and they [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► recap like the whole season the [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► beginning of each one of those shows [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► like that but they were like little [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► details like oh wait did we ever learn [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► that this guy knows this thing and you [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► look at four episodes ago I don't know I [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► have no recollection effect [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► yeah right its name is a problem simpler [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► then yeah there's not a lot of baggage [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► there i like to live in the moment [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► happy birthday it's my birthday [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► Frosty the Snowman help everybody [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► I don't think that here we go I don't [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► think that's in a much better impression [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► Scott what about you i enjoyed the [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► structure to episode me too mostly I was [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► a good episode [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► this is City al5 I enjoyed that it is [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► that was good that was fun we in [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► addition to singing and making sound [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► effects we also reality and this is [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► eddie out 45 a lot at you as you do is [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► study alpha 5 is a back with this is [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► Ceti alpha five and one of my co-workers [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► hadn't seen any of the Star Trek movies [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► before the reboot and he said well which [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► star trek's movie should i start with [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► and I said clearly wrath of khan so I [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► lent him the blue house and see what you [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► wrecked it you should have told of any [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► other film and then you something to [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► look forward to [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► I told him not the first one good god [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► and and then the next day I said oh well [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► did you like wrath of khan what did you [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► think [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► and he said it was alright and I said [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► never speak to me [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► we're no longer coworkers [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► exactly I i like the the the game show [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► episode i enjoyed the air force episode [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► yes that was this year my god that was [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► this year game show team old and Tim [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► young team young [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► yeah it's good i enjoyed that I also [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► like the the the manic episode about why [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► we do this that's good and I enjoy all [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► the book club episodes because it makes [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► me read things that I would have read [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► anyway since I suggest all the books but [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► still I thank you scarred the one we did [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► on the how we read to it that's good [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► oh yeah that was good that's good [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► suggested by listening right so yes just [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► as soon as keep bringing it in I feel [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► like this is suggest very well-read [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► hobos that was that's the name of that [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► episode I was gonna make a joke about [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► how you read show is one word after the [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► next but that's not actually however on [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► the show red so forget about the summary [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► diagonally [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► I don't know it's a live right in [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► addition pieces and as for other things [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► that I have a read or watched a [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► television has been kind of lackluster [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► for me this year yeah haven't seen many [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► movies but I've read a lot of books so i [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► could talk about some i think i like the [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► night circus which read for an episode [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► that was a highlight of this year for me [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► yeah the brook by Daniel O'Malley is a [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► fun book we haven't spoken about it but [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► a look it up on the internet so not to [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► explain to you the hydrogen Sonata in [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► banks is latest culture book lot of fun [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► if you've read any of the culture books [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► even if you haven't read the culture [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► books it's a good place to jump into it [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► i spent a lot of time reading a a KJ [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► parker books which I've spoken about [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► before it like seven of them this year [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► so check them out [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► i also enjoyed more than other people on [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► this podcast the cloud atlas [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► yeah not naming any names but the book [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► not the book i haven't seen the movie so [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► who knows my book did not start tom [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► hanks so happy about that and you know [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► that covers it for me [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► alright that's good Steve what about you [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► I only put down one cool thing about [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► 2012 because just in general 2012 sort [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► of blue for male don't like to uh the [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► one cool thing I put down actually in [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► keeping with last year's clip show [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► episode it's it's another new thing new [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► things [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► yes that's right it's new to you that's [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► all that matters [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► this was the year that i discovered [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► Star Trek it's true [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► oh yes yes shortly after after we did [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► our breath of cod episode I'd mentioned [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► previously that my daughter and I were [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► kind of going through a few twilight [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► zone episodes and just one night I [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► suggest you know second twilight zone [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► I've been thinking about going through [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► the original series of Star Trek and [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► kind of checking it out [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► you want to watch one of these said okay [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► sure why not [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► so we put it on and she is completely [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► hooked I I nine-year-old girl completely [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► hooked on Star Trek which is great [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► because it means i don't have to worry [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► about boys for at least another 50 years [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► until all those nerd boys get up the [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► leprechauns I know how to deal with them [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► though [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► yeah that's having been one myself and I [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► can easily handle them [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► it's the the football team guys that I [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► wouldn't be able to manage but there's [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► no problem there because she's a big [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► star trek fan [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► yeah in fact you know we get towards the [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► end of the year here i would recommend [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► night before she goes to bed you want to [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► watch a miracle 34 street and watch a [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► christmas show let's watch Rudolph let's [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► watch how about a christmas story she [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► would say no star trek and we are we're [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► almost almost done with season two right [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► now and about to drift into season three [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► Oh Steve it's all it's all downhill from [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► there I gotta say I'm prepared for some [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► downhill site yes season three is [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► another good because i have been awful [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► lot of down hills in seasons wanted to [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► have already put up with [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► yeah you do 28 or 30 episodes a year [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► which is insane like they did and and [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► yeah it's it's variable but you know a [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► lot of people talk about what if start [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► record stayed on the air for longer and [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► I keep thinking there's a reason it [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► didn't they needed that third season to [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► get into syndication to make all those [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► other things happen but that third [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► season itself really not very good [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► yeah well I don't want to get into a [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► whole episode here on Star Trek the [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► original series will do that i mean [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► there's a good chance that might happen [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► sometime in the future eight happened i [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► I've got the got the blu rays of the [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► first two seasons and they look since [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► they shot that on you know nice high [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► quality film and then they scanned it [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► all in it looks great it looks fantastic [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► cam but it's funny we've gotten very [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► into [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► the original series of Star Trek and [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► we'll probably once we're done with that [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► because she's she seems to be still [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► interested [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► midway through the second season will [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► probably continue on with the the films [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► and then maybe on into the next [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► generation generation sure we'll see [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► we'll see how it goes i described the to [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► her as like The Twilight Zone in space [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► and it pretty much is in that whole [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► first season fact a lot of the same [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► writers and some some of the same [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► directors pop-up and with Shatner and [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► yeah and Shatner right he's in like [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► three or four toilets and episodes so [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► that's pretty much it for for external [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► to the incomparable items in 2012 now as [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► far as the incomparable goes i have a [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► favorite episode and some favorite [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► moments my favorite episode it this year [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► it's tossed up but i gotta go with the [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► criminally underappreciated game show [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► episode which was already mentioned I'm [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► proud of that because I that I through [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► like every single kind of crap that I [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► could think of it as the Sun yes yes i [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► do something stuck to the wall the [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► bucket it's a bucket show that show is [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► full of it's more complicated than like [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► risk it's like got eight different games [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► in it happening simultaneously with a [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► parallel universe and yeah so I'm glad [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► you liked it because i liked it and in [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► its it helps for me because I was so [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► god-awful sick at the time that I can [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► actually listen to it and i have no no [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► recollection of having participated so [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► it's a big surprise to me but I was I [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► was kind of surprised you know we've had [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► even some of our weirder episodes we've [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► had a lot of feedback from people on [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► Twitter and the game show episode kind [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► of got dropped in there was just nothing [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► yeah maybe one or two people responded [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► on Twitter but it was it was pretty [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► quiet and I thought it was a pretty darn [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► good episode it was very entertaining [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► I agree people who did you don't [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► remember it you should go back if you [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► maybe you're sick and you couldn't [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► remember anything about anything listen [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► again because you know it'll be new [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► years to had so deep in the throes of [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► typhoid was i that that having the old [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► farts performance Cheech and Chong [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► sketch seem like a pretty good idea yeah [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► like oh man that's one back [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► no well that's why people don't like it [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► at some of those [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► did you go well you just have to wait [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► for them to it in the pre-show rehearsal [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► it was it was snappy patter it was like [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► you know back and forth it was funnier [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► than hell and then by the time that the [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► episode started the skype skewed kicked [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► in [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► you shouldn't you should have recorded [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► the pre-show rehearsal and I could [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► adjust with that in there as well hey by [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► the way Jason thanks a lot for not [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► tightening that up at all in [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► postcrossing sounded sort of general and [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► you're a very similar to be that was [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► tightened w that's this city [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► out-of-pocket this is exactly how crappy [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► it happens I got it I got to be honest [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► you but you may not remember it it is [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► actually tighten up with all the help of [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► five of bad skin 11 of one of you was [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► tightened up this is the game show [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► episode now you've made me sad yeah [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► sorry but i will continue anyway so as [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► far as favorite moments from various [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► episodes first of all we're going to do [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► clips in this shirt shirt on Syracuse's [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► it's great when you drop clips yeah [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► sewed and then i'm going to pick the [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► part in the 2011 clip show episode like [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► the Skeletor clip at my goal my goal is [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► to create a recursive singularity loop [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► and eventually takes over the entire [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► annual clip show podcast if we survived [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► watching too much Star Trek's these on [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► tempo cornfield Steve I loved I loved it [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► when we remembered how funny Skeletor [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► was from last year in this year's clip [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► show that look back on last year so [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► listen Laurie liked the cancelled TV [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► show draft but she says the TV character [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► draft made her laugh from beginning to [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► end so i guess my favorite moment steve [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► was the drafting of Skeletor yes mr. [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► Janus said I laughed so much of the [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► character draft that my sister thought i [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► was nuts [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► well there's a good chance you're [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► welcome me mr. Chad road in simply [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► saying Skeletor house needs to be sick [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► well i'm gonna go with one that's a [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► that's close to my heart for various [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► reasons and I know somebody's just [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► raring to pick him so I better grab him [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► now I'm gonna pick a pic Skeletor from [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► the Masters of the Universe seems yeah [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► yeah so I do not think you should be on [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► the show with Tom servo well the beauty [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► of Skeletor is that he can die every [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► weekend yet miraculously reappeared from [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► under the pile of rocks that he was [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► buried under in subsequent holds so if [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► Anthony tries to send Skeletor the [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► cornfield what happens is back to the [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► next week [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► that's the intention of the show's [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► spoilers no spoilers alright okay so [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► you're you're pretty clearly it's [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► crucial to my plot which which I look [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► forward to making up on the candy yeah [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► that's appropriate but it's Skeletor is [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► the alpha and the omega of our podcast [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► he won that draft by killing everyone [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► else [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► yes well I'm hoping this episode [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► actually airs in 2013 so that i can then [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► pick the 2014 clip show 2013 clever of [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► me picking the clip where we played [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► Skeletor clip [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► good luck future Steve alright other [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► favorite moments I i thought the quick [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► the jonathan coulton cameo at the end of [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► episode 98 was hilarious hilarious and [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► cruel [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► we should get more famous people to pop [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► in and say one sentence [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► well I want to say thank you to [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► everybody hey for putting up with me but [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► be for a very interesting talk about [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► Jonathan Coulton so thank you John Scott [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► and Greg thank you thank you x [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► thank you thanks sure and that's it [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► I don't know how Jason's these things [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► hey guys i happen to have the man [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► himself jonathan coulton right here with [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► me and he has something that you'd like [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► to say to you I heard what you were [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► saying you know nothing of my work I [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► mean how you got to record a podcast [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► about anything is totally amazing [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► how if only real life worked like this [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► and then actually my real favorite [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► moment from this year was probably the [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► after dark from the movie draft is I [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► think the funniest moments are the parts [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► where we just go completely bug nuts [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► insane and i mean that that particular [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► After Dark has the the old prospector [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► oh yeah and it also has the bit where [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► where Jason realizes that the only way [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► he's going to finally get get us off the [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► call is to kill us off one boy which is [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► just a brilliant sequence and and makes [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► me laugh every time I hear that i have [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► probably played that after dark more [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► than that up I go back every once in [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► awhile and play that because there's a [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► lot of good stuff in that but that [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► you're right i remember that that that [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► was a great one [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► I'm here to Georgia of the pie care [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► through the primary points where is [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► weird because Raiders already done I've [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► done with my my selections but Alexis [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► that's okay Jason anywhere without me [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► this will be the wildest podcast in the [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► wilderness [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► hi my name is that but why would you not [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► use that beautiful rose gold boiler or [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► that would be the fast it's the spoilers [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► we are the people sound like someone who [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► just like you're just got spoiled a [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► movie and it will boil and boil and [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► reduce my father was the wilhelm scream [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► doesn't make you hang up first no return [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► to know you hang out you and I know you [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► I don't start trying to I know [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► when when when I say so who's the sucker [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► who hung up win [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► oh go out but it was hired a rad cast by [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► the way can be titled podcast this what [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► happens when I don't cancel the podcast [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► is that nobody gets up people just yes [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► we just wait last one out the button [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► no I'm gonna go talking about me I have [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► to go home but you can't stay here [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► I'm real survivor we have a whole paper [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► with the guys know it's like survivor [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► you never know who's gonna who's gonna [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► go next last person to take the handoff [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► the idol I i am as the initiator the [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► call i can actually hang people up now [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► so I'm like the god of the skype call [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► Jason is getting you a tiny vengeful god [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► you should have a choice [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► back off one by one loss is that means [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► on Syracuse's going did it like and then [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► there were five that's it sentimental [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► Indians this is a locked skype murder [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► mr. his skype a transmitter for talking [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► to god that's very clever dan-o who a [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► little morons guy next let's talk about [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► you in his movie sucked [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► let's touch your fan baby still Raiders [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► yeah it's not like they're really more [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► and you really do that Steve what did [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► you just sink parody lyrics so let's [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► talk about sex i did and they involve [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► Mellon oh no point I think I know what's [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► going to happen it's just the two of you [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► hmm we are your favorites for my least [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► favorites [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► oh yeah one of the other I'm going to [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► bow out now early without that [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► distinguish between the wrath of i win [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► yeah that was a whole great the whole [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► film festival think that being much [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► wacky of them i expected and that we [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► have like six hours of content out of [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► yeah yeah well if you look at the [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► archive we ended up doing a recap of it [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► the next week when we had had assembled [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► are our schedules and it says part 3 of [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► two [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► just like it's the increasingly in [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► accurately named 21 episode that's that [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► is very exactly so that's it for twenty [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► twelve men had already much better than [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► that other than that [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► fair enough Lisa Schmeisser I i come to [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► you now to ask things you liked sure uh [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► let's start with TV i really liked the [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► show arrow which which I i dashed off in [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► like two sentences when we talk about [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► fall TV I said it was better than i [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► thought but it wasn't very interesting [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► so tell me more i finished on hulu over [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► a couple of days and I've caught up all [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► the way to the ninth episode and there [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► are a number of reasons i like it first [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► of all susan thompson who plays Oliver [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► Queen's mother is fantastic i think [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► she's one of the most underrated [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► actresses working on TV right now [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► because she's also very good on King's [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► she has a certain presence where she [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► manages to simultaneously convey a sort [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► of a professional warmth you know I like [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► Gwyneth Paltrow who does pepper potts [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► but at the same time you can always see [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► the wheels turning and there's this [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► undercurrent of menace in her [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► performance that is just riveting so [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► arrows worth watching for that the [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► action sequences are great and they've [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► managed to take some of the best parts [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► of the green arrow mythos and discard [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► some of the really ridiculous stuff and [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► it's a little bit more intelligent than [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► most CW shows the only the only the only [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► quibble i have a battle that's a local [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► that was yeah well now but you have a [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► skillet easily quickly i have is that it [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► once again there's like a cabal of [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► people who run the who run everything [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► and they have to be brought to justice [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► and i'm just getting really tired of the [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► one world conspiracy as a conceited TV [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► shows but its its light entertainment it [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► might be a good on comic adjacent way to [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► get into the green arrow especially if [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► you were to go to write like when your [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► nerve the comic friends and say okay I [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► really liked the show then the person [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► consider great you know read the long [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► bow hunters are great read the kevin [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► smith run or what have you and it sort [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► of fits into the whole continuum and [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► again it's not thinking entertainment [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► you know you're not going to watch and [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► come away all of this is a metaphor for [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► you know humanity learn something about [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► the arrow taught me something important [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► about man's inhumanity to man it's not [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► what you know it's not only shows where [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► people were our critics are going to [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► endlessly with her on like they do about [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► mad men or breaking bad but ya know but [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► you know this is actually the year i got [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► the appreciation for what I'd call [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► mid-level TV or comfort TV because I i [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► became a huge fan of alphas and haven on [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► the SyFy channel and those are certainly [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► shows where you can kind of dip in a nap [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► there's a little bit of mythology but [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► every episode is kind of self-contained [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► with you know freaky mutant of the week [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► I was sick a few weeks back and i was [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► thinking what do I want to watch and I [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► could have watched breaking bad i could [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► watch mad men and i ended up watching [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► season 1 episodes of supernatural [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► because the fact is there's some shows [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► that that you want to watch when you're [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► you're laying on the couch under a [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► blanket and don't feel well and the end [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► it's not necessarily the highest art [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► that you want [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► yeah it's chicken noodle soup and [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► sometimes that's all you want is it the [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► end of a long day when you when you use [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► your brain and then you had to match [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► what the toddler and you probably lost [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► then you that you just want something [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► that's oh look it's the story I want to [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► see how it turns out [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► so other other stuff you have any books [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► or comics or other things but the movies [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► cake movies [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► see I enjoyed the adventures as a [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► spectacle a lot you know I realize you [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► can drive from a Helicarrier through [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► some of plot holes there's a lot of [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► dependent a lot it doesn't make sense [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► and you know fanservice fanservice [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► setting up an item but it was a lot it [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► was a lot of fun to watch and it was fun [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► to see somebody charismatic and good [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► actors in one place doing doing [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► entertainment you know I've seen I've [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► seen it three times now because i bought [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► the blu-ray and yes you're right all [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► that there are lots of cooking [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► criticisms you can level at in fact is I [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► enjoy that time [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► yeah every time in terms of comics [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► continue to really enjoy scalped even [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► though it ended this year wrapped up and [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► I swear probably person Americans [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► talking about it [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► I loved that loved lock and key which we [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► read for coming and we're going to have [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► to talk about the forthcoming to be in [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► 2013 and we'll talk about walking key in [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► the next comic book club that's press [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► and and love that and I should mention [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► in case I don't mention it later [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► since you're on the subject of comics [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► that I i really enjoyed great pox [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► extreme x-men which is a terrible title [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► what is totally [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► fun crazy apart parallel universe [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► hopping x-men with a savior floating [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► head in a jar and that's that's what i [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► wanted my economics is is that level of [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► kind of craziness any podcast related [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► thoughts for the past year i think i [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► think the podcast i had the most fun on [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► this year actually was the parenting one [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► and one of the reasons i did and pardon [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► me for very into amateur sociology but i [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► think that the practice of mothering in [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► the u.s. is slightly different than the [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► practice of fathering in part because [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► there's so much media aimed at mothers [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► and and the practices and and you know [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► are you doing this greater you doing [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► that right and it was so nice to to hang [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► with a bunch of people who like if you [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► know what their small people and we just [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► do this with them I don't beat myself up [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► over it i'm not worried about how this [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► is gonna play out 20 years down the line [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► and I'm not judging myself by it and it [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► was it was eye-opening to it was [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► eye-opening to realize that to realize [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► the Gulf and parenting cultures as it [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► was and and I enjoyed the experience of [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► a lot so so i think that was my favorite [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► yeah we got a nice nice comment from [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► adam highland who has written to us a [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► bunch as the proton k yes the real [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► proton k or proton as we sometimes like [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► to say and his pick for best 2012 moment [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► was in the parenting episode which I [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► thought this was nice i love despite my [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► fears about parenting related podcasts [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► and enjoyed least misers growing mix of [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► delight horror and fascination upon [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► hearing John Syracuse's plan for [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► indoctrinating his children in the [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► correct order and framing of the Star [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► Wars movies it's the Nicene Creed it's [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► true he just has this planned out like [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► he had actually sat down and got all [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► right you know how am I going to do this [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► and this is what we deeply believe in [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► something like you gotyou got the idea [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► to maybe there were some storyboards [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► my main concern was to ensure that what [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► they thought of as Star Wars was what I [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► thought of a star and so I knew that [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► once they came became school-aged and [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► like got older all their friends [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► who have parents that don't know these [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► rules are going to be telling them about [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► because the people and so I had I had to [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► cement in their little minds that star [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► wars Luke Skywalker Princess Leia Han [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► Solo Chewbacca c-3po you know like I had [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► like that is star wars so that by the [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► time they inevitably enter the world of [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► their peers in kindergarten [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► you know and regular elementary school [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► and all their friends tell the battle is [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► pretty cool stuff that will be like like [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► explain expanded universe John if you [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► don't explain the prequels to your kids [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► are only gonna hear about it on the [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► street man hit us the thing i knew they [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► were going to hear about it from their [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► friends I just wanted to really lay down [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► those tracks of like this is what star [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► wars is it and almost didn't care so [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► much if they were like excited like [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► dinner whenever I just wanted to think [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► of this star wars and then this is other [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► crazy stuff and I know it's weird to use [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► expanding universe to explain to the [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► expanding universe is a real thing [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► within the star wars universe but i'm [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► i'm trying to say let's push the [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► prequels out and right there's the [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► cannon right and then there's the like [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► sort of non you know not really cannon [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► right and I was like those out of there [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► push the prequels because this star wars [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► games like they play lego star wars all [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► those things like a nice nap so what I [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► did was I showed those like the Star [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► Wars version of the Nicene Creed where [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► you just decided what's dr. no it's not [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► it's it's started storing those are my [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► biggest reason the star wars honestly [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► believe we believe in one star in a [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► galaxy far far away where Luke Skywalker [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► is the protagonist believe in three star [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► wars so i showed my on my son a new hope [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► first it's the truth yeah you run the [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► risk of having the ostracized kids who [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► can't talk the prequels with their [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► little friends on the playground when [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► you like the kids who didn't have TV [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► they're gonna start knocking on doors [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► does anyone else have like imagine a [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► little circus on the playground like [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► chastising his is his fellow [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► six-year-olds that like this is not [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► pleased besides are only three movies [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► and Star Wars of the unbelievers [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► the unbelievers in the name of the son [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► and of the father that's impossible and [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► the force [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► loading Yoda but uh but yeah so I [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► thought his comment was great in the [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► sense to that I was a little worried [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► when we talked about parenting stuff too [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► and I'm glad to hear his comment which [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► is that you know he viewed with dread [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► and then he listened to me and he liked [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► it and I thought that was good i think i [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► thought that was a really nice [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► discussion about how how we as parents [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► deal with what we expose our kids to [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► those are great that's great [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► a serenity Caldwell yes i do you have [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► things that you inhaled into your brain [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► and 2012 that you'd like knows about [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► that the phrase that will stay with me [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► forever now from our last show i am glad [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► that I have been able to you know [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► yeah give such a wonderful phrase to the [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► podcast [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► yeah i was looking over my list I've [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► been taking pictures of all like my [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► ticket stubs and things like that to try [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► and actually remember what movies i saw [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► this year because it's been a very jam [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► packed yet I feel like I agree with Lisa [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► and that there it's it hasn't really [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► been a super fascinating year for movies [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► and TV but I still feel like I as you [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► like to put it I inhaled a lot into my [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► brain [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► despite all of that I came up with three [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► movies that really stand out from the [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► past year and I'll go in order of [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► watching on the first I actually saw at [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► South by Southwest at its South by [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► Southwest premiere which was safety not [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► guaranteed which is a very very cute [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► cute little time travel film about a [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► series of or a couple of kit while two [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► kids two interns and a news reporter [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► going out basically into the boonies to [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► investigate a guy who's put out a [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► classified ad to you know [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► warning i want to i want to find [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► somebody to go back in time with me this [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► is not a joke must bring your own [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► weapons and I don't know if you manage [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► to get a chance to see it Jason it is [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► very it is adorable it starts up the [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► plaza from from parks and recreation and [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► she she is so happy in this movie [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► despite she still has her sort of [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► trademarks cowl from park [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► and wreck but it is at the same time a [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► completely different character than [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► you've ever seen her playing and it's it [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► is such a delightful film to watch both [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► from a good character standpoint and [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► from a oh my god time-travel this is so [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► adorable it reminds me a lot into like [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► totally of of Johnny Five a little bit [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► which is weird because they're yeah [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► they're not they're nothing alike [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► because there's no robots in this movie [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► sadly but spoilers but it's still it's [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► very sweet [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► it's very adorable it's a commentary on [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► both time travel movies and living your [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► life and being able to let go of the [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► past and how the past affects your your [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► day-to-day choices I so I i really [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► really adored that movie and seeing it [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► at South by Southwest with the cast and [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► a very excited full audience at the [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► Paramount Theater definitely helped and [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► I saw it again in September with dan [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► Morin and a couple of my friends and I [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► was like no it still is good it's a [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► really really sweet film so i encourage [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► everybody who did not get a chance to [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► see safety not guaranteed when it's in [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► theaters to go pick it up on iTunes or [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► Amazon because it's it is a great little [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► time touch that you you said I don't [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► know if Jason you've you've seen it all [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► I i don't think i've actually even heard [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► of it so i would also seek it out now [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► but I don't think I even knew about that [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► movie I mean it was a it was in indie [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► film that I played plead regionally I [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► don't think it ever got full nationwide [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► nationwide building in theaters down for [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► the government out alright [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► yes it is I'm so there's that and then [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► my my other big movie choice would be [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► Moonrise Kingdom which is another indie [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► film but i think a few more people saw [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► and that is like it's a Wes Anderson [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► movie so when you go when you know that [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► going in you know you're going in for a [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► very specific sort of sort of tale but [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► it was very it's very sweet it was [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► basically you know fantastic mr fox west [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► anderson was actually tackling more or [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► less a fairytale but I feel like [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► Moonrise Kingdom [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► is the actual realization of him [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► tackling a fairy tale where he decided [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► let's make a movie about children and [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► how children think and the imaginations [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► and the fleeting you know we're going to [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► run away and we're going to found our [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► own place and we're going to you know [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► we're going to be adults and the [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► realization of how that actually [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► translates in the real world it was [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► utterly charming very sweet very very [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► West Anderson but i like it doesn't [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► quite top Rushmore for me which is I [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► think my favorite Wes Anderson movie but [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► it comes very close and it's it is [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► definitely one of those if people had [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► never watched a Wes Anderson movie I [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► might recommend Moonrise Kingdom to them [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► over Rushmore and be like this is [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► actually you know while it is still very [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► much a Wes Anderson movie i think it's [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► actually his most his most widely widely [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► acceptable like the the best one to sort [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► of give to a wider audience and say here [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► this is kind of what west anderson is [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► about don't believe the stereotype so so [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► yes I like that one quite a bit LOL [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► tenenbaums is my favorite I'll overall [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► 10 monsters I didn't like that 1i like [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► rush like Rushmore a lot of pressure on [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► Wilson the cowboy hat that just gets me [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► every time [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► but but Owen Owen Wilson has great parts [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► in west anderson movies I I can't get [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► over him and he's in bottle rocket i [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► believe is and then I have to tip my hat [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► towards the Avengers because i really [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► enjoyed that I love justin is writing i [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► love [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► well done big movie spectacles that's [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► like it doesn't it doesn't need to make [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► sense entirely once I walk out of the [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► theater as long as you keep me engaged [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► and involved the entire time while I'm [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► watching it [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► ya did ya yet he did it with a bullet [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► that but that movie so easily could have [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► been a legend just you know let's cash [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► in just a bore and awful and I I know [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► Andy and I co thinks that it was but oh [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► yeah he put that down [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► he put that thing on Twitter the other [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► day like the 63 things that are wrong [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► with the Avengers in under three minutes [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► and okay yes you're fine and and again [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► let's emphasize they put an archer up [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► against the alien army but it was still [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► so much stuff and it was a great [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► yes yeah you can't help but get a little [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► glee in your heart when you watch [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► somebody firing and you know an arrow [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► that contains a bomb at a giant alien [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► ship and i was just reading Alan [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► Sepinwall book about the I think like [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► eight series that changed 12-month [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► series the same yeah yeah the Revolution [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► was televised is the name of it and i [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► was reading the the buffy chapter and he [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► was talking about the Avengers and about [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► about serenity to not the one on the [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► podcast the movie of the same name and [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► uh get referred he reminded me he [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► reminded me that uh that that serenity [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► has the same trait that the Avengers has [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► in that although it's not super serious [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► or anything like that it's fun and I [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► remember coming out of that movie [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► thinking that's what the kind of sci-fi [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► movie I want to see I want to come out [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► being like God that was that was so much [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► fun [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► which is how I left like the Star Wars [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► movies when when I saw those and the [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► Avengers you know it's like that it's [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► it's it's it's fun it's a fun movie yeah [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► there's a common i read in Wired [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► magazine about 12 years ago that's [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► always stuck with me which said if you [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► want to figure out what scientists are [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► going to do 20 years from now you should [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► read side fine now because if you have a [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► set if you have a store with a sense of [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► excitement and fun and discovery this is [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► what sticks in people's brains and they [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► want to do that would make up the same [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► way that I think people who went to [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► school the same time Jason I did I think [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► we all wanted to be on the space shuttle [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► and living in space for a while you know [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► I think everybody have that that [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► astronaut moment in the eighties from [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► star wars in the space shuttle they like [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► that and like you said there's it as [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► much as i enjoy post-apocalyptic [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► post-apocalyptic sci-fi and I run a lot [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► of ye dystopia and and I enjoy that too [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► there's a lot to be said for for when [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► there's fantasy and adventure in sci-fi [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► where it's like we're in space does this [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► kick-ass isn't this cool you know of we [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► that there's a lot to be said for that [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► as a halt [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► yes and there's a Hulk there's a whole [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► group major major ups for solving the [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► whole problem right just weed was like I [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► know how you doing it well yeah yeah [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► deploy him on a limited basis and make [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► sure he's played by my [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► Buffalo who at the casting in Avengers [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► was just so good because if if they [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► hadn't cast everybody the way they did [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► it really could have been awful but you [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► know if I'm not sure there's anybody [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► would have recast now permanently [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► watchman where you could take off half [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► the cast and say that would have been [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► better with somebody else in the [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► Avengers right Randy have any uh any uh [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► diagonally red looks that you liked to [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► get their picture i have i have a couple [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► actually so the the two that came out [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► this year and funny enough 2012 was [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► definitely a year for reading books from [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► the past for me i have a lot i'm looking [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► at my Goodreads list and I have a lot of [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► books that i read that are actually from [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► you know 5 10 15 mins behind 50 years [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► ago yeah what was it what you consumed [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► this year not what Kim yeah yeah I'm so [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► the two books that i consumed this year [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► that were actually came out this year is [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► number one which i think is probably my [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► favorite book of the year is erin [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► morgenstern the night circus [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► Oh which i still need to buy in [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► hardcover because that that is the kind [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► of book that I want on my shelf for the [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► rest of my life and I want to be able to [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► loan it people own to people that will [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► because i think it's so perfectly [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► it's so perfectly captures the the [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► beauty of a good fantasy story and [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► close-knit relationships it's such a [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► fascinating book the imagery is so vivid [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► the writing is almost poetic in its [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► beauty and it like I i love that book [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► because I can open it up and read a [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► paragraph and be completely subsumed [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► into the world and not many authors can [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► do that well and erin morgenstern really [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► really showed a talent for doing that [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► and I'm i cannot wait to see where she's [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► going to so like that that is my number [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► one book I can't like I can't even talk [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► that much about the plot because I just [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► I don't want to spoil anything it's just [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► more this book is amazing [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► oh yeah and everybody should go read it [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► so that's one and then another one is [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► actually an old a new book at once which [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► is to say it's some hope Larson's [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► wrinkle in time graphic novel which came [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► out this fall and I mean wrinkle in time [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► has long been [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► one of my favorite books and was one of [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► my favorite books in childhood and [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► clearly it was one of Hope Larson's as [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► well because she pour so much love and [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► respect for Madeleine L'Engle is work [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► and adapts it so pitch perfectly like [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► that is that is a very difficult book to [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► try and adapt into a graphic novel what [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► I mean you have the dark thing and you [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► have you have picked the tesseract alone [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► would be on my gosh [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► and she she does it so well like i am [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► i'm really impressed na three-tone book [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► to it's not you know it's not in full [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► color it's a it's black and blue and [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► some shades of some shades of gray and [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► she just does somet so much great work i [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► mean i've i've been a fan of larsen [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► since her first graphic novel but [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► wrinkle and time is really really a [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► masterpiece [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► I'm and it's something I'm really [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► excited to you know I i have some [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► cousins who are smaller and it's very [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► much i'm so excited to be able to start [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► showing them this as a way to sort of [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► get them hooked onto bigger books [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► because i really think you know the [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► wrinkle in time is a is a book that is [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► ness you know not it's written towards [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► children but it has a lot of big ideas [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► and it sort of gets you thinking in a [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► bigger world scape and the idea of space [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► and the idea of multi dimensional travel [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► and it gets your senses really excited [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► and to be able to sort of start kids who [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► maybe aren't so interested in reading [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► 400-page books like look here's a [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► graphic novel it has pretty pictures but [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► it also has really really interesting [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► substance to it so I'm that's definitely [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► am a Christmas present for several of my [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► family members who this year [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► yeah so the last set of books that i [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► wanted to mention her sort of older [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► older books that i started reading this [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► year one of which was Jasper Ford's [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► thursday next series which of which i [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► had read the fourth book something [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► rotten in 2005 on an airplane because I [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► needed something to read and I'm like oh [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► Shakespeare this sounds like it could be [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► fun and I got hooked but then [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► subsequently never picked up the other [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► books in the series [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► these and had no idea what was going on [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► so coming back to those books starting [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► from the beginning in 2012 was very [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► strange and very delightful because it [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► is a great series of books for people [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► who love literature and love literature [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► literary in jokes [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► it's very very funny and very British [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► and very well sure but uh but is it [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► great a great series of books [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► very clever so I'm I've been enjoying [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► working my way through those I'm now on [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► the second set of those books and I [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► think again we have a jasper fforde [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► podcast plan at some point so i will [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► save most of my rambling for that and [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► then Neal Stephenson's diamond age I [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► just got through this year [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► ah yeah that is a book you know I did [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► not think that books at you know 25 [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► still had the ability to change the way [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► i think but a diamond age is really [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► really remarkable [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► I told you I told you I i know i know [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► it's not that I didn't believe you I [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► just had I had so many books to read and [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► I finally picked that up and within two [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► chapters i was completely hooked and [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► just absolutely fascinated by it so I [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► really really enjoyed diamond age [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► another book I've got to get to put on [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► myself [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► yeah but broke my heart oh my god it is [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► tragic and beautiful and fascinating all [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► at once [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► anything else couple TV show all right [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► so when I actually just started very [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► recently and just discovered is a very [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► cute little british show called spy [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► that's all I love that hulu right now it [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► is on hulu right now and i had never [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► heard of it and hulu got syndication for [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► it for its second season it might have [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► gotten syndication for its for the first [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► that's yeah it's got all of them [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► yeah well its got all of them but i [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► didn't i didn't actually hear about it [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► until its second season started running [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► and so one of one day while I was [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► cleaning my apartment i just got a [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► television and I [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► an apple TV so I hooked that up and I [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► thought hey you know I want something to [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► to play while I'm cleaning up in the [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► background and this seems like a [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► suitably adorable show and I play it and [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► I i was hooked [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► it's it kind of reminds me a little bit [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► of space and a riddle a little bit of [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► arrested development with a side of [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► Spooks thrown in [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► it's a 10 funny little amalgam of a show [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► with great great character actors but [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► the the basic plot is there's a you know [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► 30-something guy who has a ten-year-old [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► kid he works in a computer store his kid [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► is super brilliant kind of think Peter [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► from ender's game and looks down upon [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► his father as being a complete washout [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► and horrible and so his father decides [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► you know what I'm gonna make my son [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► proud of me and also because my my wife [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► and I just divorced I need to figure out [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► a way to win custody of my son [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► so I'm going [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► so I'm going [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► you go and get a better job than working [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► at a computer shop and I'm going to you [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► know rise above and so he applies for a [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► job working for the government and on [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► the day of his his interview he [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► accidentally wandered into the wrong rum [TS]

01:00:14 ◼   ► and takes an exam that ends up being for [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► mi5 so he ends up becoming part of the [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► service and has to covertly learn how to [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► be an intelligence officer while [TS]

01:00:32 ◼   ► basically being the bumbling straight [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► man of this ridiculous 22-minute comedy [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► and the music is also very catchy i have [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► it kind of running through my head while [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► i'm talking it's it's very upbeat very [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► cute the the person who plays his son [TS]

01:00:49 ◼   ► dude right who plays Marcus is just [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► hilarious and has the best facial [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► expressions and the show is so smart [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► the this the series ender for the first [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► series [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► I Marcus just whips out the word [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► habitude pneus is like how tenure so [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► have a tunas I can't take this life [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► anymore and it's like at that point my [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► my heart was was the show's forever [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► it was it's so cute another thing I [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► haven't even heard of [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► oh you have to you have to yeah it's [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► very short I mean it's a series of 22 [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► minute episodes and it's very funny you [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► would enjoy it a lot [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► alright i'll put it on the list boy the [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► lists keep getting longer but there's a [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► whole other year because you watch the [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► IT crowd right [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► yes some of it probably about half of it [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► because you know that the boss on the IT [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► crowd there are shades of him in the [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► boss for mi5 and that that only makes it [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► more hilarious [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► alright new things new things new things [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► are great and I also liked the hour this [TS]