Dez and Marco

We're back! We finally kick off season 2 after a few (many) weeks to talk about one of the best games of 2021: Metroid Dread. Join us to hear our thoughts!

Beers of the week:

Dez - Beaverton Brewery - Bloody 'Ell

Marco - One Beer Later - Fresh Restart

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Our automatic replies are on, as we are now officially Out Of Office.

We cap off season 1 with loads of stats, final reviews of everything discussed so far and a sneak peak at what to expect from season 2. For now, enjoy the rest of summer, and see you next time!

Beers

Dez - Podcast - Drygate

Marco - Punk IPA - Brewdog

It's All About The Journey

As we look forward to our holidays, we turn to TV for ideas on where to go. Is it better to have a cruise in the jungle with The Rock or a road trip in Scotland with Jeremy Clarkson? We review Jungle Cruise and The Grand Tour Lochdown to help answer this question.

Beers

Dez - Throwin' Shapes, West Coast Ipa - 71 Brewing Company

Marco - Egmondse Tripel, Tripel Blonde - Brouwerij Egmond a.k.a "Holy Beer"

News

- HBO Max Branching into podcasts - https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22609212/hbo-max-podcast-exclusive-batman-audio-jeffrey-wright

- Apple will scan iPhones in the US for child abuse photos. Controversial because of privacy & possible abuse (you could easily be framed, or it could be extended to governments using it to monitor dissidents) - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/06/apple-plans-to-scan-us-iphones-for-child-sexual-abuse-images

TV and Film

- Jungle cruise - Disney+ and Cinemas

- The Grand Tour: Lochdown - Amazon Prime

High Stakes Drama 

What do Scarlett Johansson, the International Space Station, and Quentin Tarantino have in common? NOTHING but this week we focus on Disney's off screen drama, the space station's out of this world drama, old school Hollywood drama and real life Heist drama as captured by Netflix. Delivered to you with no drama, but good beers to "Polish" off. P.s this episode was plagued by technical drama. 

Beers of the Week 

Dez - Browar Gościszewo - Surfer 

Marco - Rabauw - Verbitterde Vlegel 

News 

Netflix to release a Schumacher documentary https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/netlfix-to-release-new-documentary-on-michael-schumacher/6638847/

 Scarlett Johansson suing Disney - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/29/media/scarlett-johansson-disney-lawsuit/index.html

Drama on the ISS - https://www.space.com/nauka-module-thruster-fire-tilts-space-station 

Scott Manley YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg 

Pixel 6 and 6 Pro announced, kinda https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22605094/google-pixel-6-pro-tensor-processor-specs-ai-ml 

Main 

Netflix Heist 

Once upon a time in Hollywood 

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The Olympics are on with adorable Japanese quirks!

They're also the most eco-friendly Olympics yet.

This has us talking about sustainability onto nutrition and where our food comes from. To help us we examine Supersize me 2 and Clarksons farm with two excellent not so healthy beers.

Beers

Dez - Jaipur - Thornbridge Brewery

Marco - California IPA - Sierra Nevada

News

TV

What does the future hold? Billionaires racing each other to space, portable triple A PC gaming and effortless biking are only some of the things we can look forward to. Tune in for a special future facing episode!

Beers

Dez - Espresso Martini Stout, The Bristol Beer Factory

Marco - Peroni Nastro Azzurro

News

- We have a space race! https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/20/22582735/blue-origin-jeff-bezos-space-launch-landing

- Steam deck announced. Ign did a hands on

https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-hands-on-impressions-details-valve-handheld-gaming-pc

- Windows 365 announced - a fully cloud windows, accessible from any browser

https://news.microsoft.com/2021/07/14/microsoft-unveils-windows-365-ushering-in-a-new-category-of-computing/

- Secret news & Hype & review

Main

- Vanmoof S3 Electric Bicycle review. Future of cycling? 

PODS SAFE FOR CONSUMPTION

We pay homage to the podcasts which inspired us! From funny and educational to short and quirky. We explain our creative process (the beer helps)  and the tools we use to produce our final "highly professional" episodes.

Beer of the Week

Dez - THE WHITE HAG IRISH BREWING COMPANY - Phantom Hazy IPA 

Marco - Budweiser

News

-Ghost of Tsushima Director’s cut announced, out August 20 https://blog.playstation.com/2021/07/01/ghost-of-tsushima-directors-cut-arrives-on-ps5-and-ps4-consoles-on-august-20/

-New Titanic expedition

https://gizmodo.com/new-expedition-will-inspect-deteriorating-wreck-of-the-1847211487?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=gizmodo

-Oppo and Oneplus taking steps towards integration

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22560765/oneplus-oxygenos-coloros-oppo-android-updates

- Chris Meledandri, CEO of Illumination (makers of Despicable me) has joined the nintendo board of directors in an effort to help animated movies? https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-despicable-me-producer-board-of-directors-movies?utm_source=twitter

Best podcasts:

Inspiration: 

Power Pizza - Italian friends talk about movies, tv series and games (In Italian) https://www.spreaker.com/show/power-pizza

Funny: 

My dad wrote a Porno - three friends read erotic novels written by the dad of one of them. Hilarious, great chemistry.

Fake Doctors real friends - Zach Braff and Donald Faison (JD and Turk) go over all the Scrubs episodes, they tell you behind the scenes stories, have guests. Must listen for scrubs lovers https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-fake-doctors-real-friends-60367049/

Quirky:

You're dead to me - focuses on historical characters and periods revealing funny anecdotes which are true all taken in context. Hosted by Greg Jenner (Horrible histories) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mdbhg/episodes/downloads

No such thing as a fish - from the researchers of TV trivia show QI, the writers get together and chat about a weird and random thing they learnt that week. Hosted by: James Harkin; Andrew Hunter Murray; Anna Ptaszynski; Dan Schreiber https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/

Short:

Robot or not - average length 3 minutes. Stupid but makes you think. John Siracusa and Jason Snell (both tech freelance journalist) https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/

Interesting:

99% invisible - by Roman Mars. Focuses on design and architecture - shows things that you don’t normally see. Episodes cover one topic. Example: how skateboarding started using empty pools. The radioactive symbol https://99percentinvisible.org/

There are certain lines even Batman won’t cross, but you’ll be surprised about this one. Nintendo was the star of E3 and got us properly hyped with some very special game announcements. Finally Marco has a theory about Instagram, remember you heard it here first! Tune in for all this and more.

News

DC vetoed Batman - link

Jupiter's Legacy (Netflix) is CANCELLED for S2.

Clubhouse competition heating up!

The Verge - Article of Interest on Google's Messagging attempts - Link 

Myth: Gods of Asgard - YouTube Link

Main

E3 Coverage 

Nintendo Wins Everything!