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JohnBhttps://twitter.com/YouOldSoAndSoJesseWario64We need to bring back Dogme 95Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name Againhttps://saint-arthur.tumblr.com/This Is Just To Say, by William Carlos Williamshttps://poets.org/poem/just-sayWhatever happened to outdoor pop machines?https://lovepittsburghshop.com/blogs/love-pittsburgh/may-the-pop-machine-be-with-youGodzillaA Link's Awakening speedrun that may surprise you.Lord clouds.What's the deal with Wario 64?Asking Webster's Dictionary to define Wario 64.Your source for video game deals.How Wario64 feels about Chris Pratt voicing Mario.Geralt in the bathtub.Wario World for the GameCube.The hidden origins of Wario64.Ten rules for how to make a movie.Lars von Trier being traumatized by a dolly shot and inventing Dogme 95.Unintentional Dogme 95 movies.Unboxing a Criterion Collection DVD live on the show and there's just a DVD in there.Creative freedom, the worst constraint.A recipe for the worst movies in the fucking world.Dogme 95 drinking game.Making a flag in the bucket.The Adventure 2600 continuity.Bats that can steal things that shouldn't be able to be stolen.A video game quest that was very difficult and obscure until someone wrote a FAQ.The ludonarrative consonance of following your self-destructive obsession at the same time your character follows their self-destructive obsession.Being confused about a story beat in a video game and having to seek out a lore genius on the internet.The Random House Annotated Fallen London.Becoming St. Gawain's Candle.How the icebox plums poem became a meme.Learning about poutine on social media.Satirical poetry in the 1960s.Things that are Ira Glass's fault.Extreme meminess.Wanting a god damn plum right now.Pictures of normal people that are considered heresy.Deliberately making your podcast guest's audio sound bad.Continuing to read poetry even though you're terrible at it.Asking Siri to get you a substantial raise.Checking the change return slots on the mobile phone bank for quarters, to do your part to sustain the soda vending machine economy.The cost of a 510 ml bottle of pop these days.The fastest pop machine in the world.Joking about the day we record the show when it comes out weeks later and none of the listeners have any idea what you're talking about.Applying the sugar tax to beverages sweetened with aspartame.The Godzilla movie with Inspector Gadget in it.Redheaded Stepzilla.The three Godzilla movies that are out of print in the US. (But not on archive.org)Having to license all the Kaiju separately.Movies that are in the public domain because they were not explicitly labeled as copyrighted.Public Domain Day.The personality traits of Sherlock Holmes that are and aren't copyrighted.The Beast at 20,000 Fathoms.Messing up a slow-motion shot by undercranking the camera rather than overcranking, but it has to go into the movie like that because it was your only take.Making a movie where you can do as many takes as you want but they all have to go in the finished film.Godzilla taking some much needed time off.Invasion of Astro-Monster.Watching the entire Godzilla series and learning why people think Avengers: Endgame is good.A latchkey kid in 1960s Japan overcoming his bullies by imagining that Godzilla is his friend.A dinosaur falling in love with a lighthouse.Empathizing with the dinosaur who is completely misunderstanding the situation.Why the English speakers in Japanese or Korean films are such bad actors.An island protector of these native people brought to society for reasons of Capitalism.