How's That Day?

These episodes are too long and we are truly sorry. We are going to actively try and cut down on the length in the future. But we just LOVE THIS SHIT.

The back half of the episode is all about 2020 music releases, with the highlight being Fiona Apple’s insta-classic, “Fetch the Bolt Cutters.” The first half is a roundup of a few stories and news pieces — the highlight being a really pathetic fight Phil & Tom have over a Josh Trank article that you can read here: https://www.polygon.com/2020/5/5/21246679/josh-trank-capone-interview-fantastic-four-chronicle

(it’s a really great piece by Matt Patches at Polygon, we highly recommend reading if you’re interested in directors, Hollywood, and/or crash-and-burn-and-resurrection stories!

00:00 Intro
19:50 The National Theatre’s Frankenstein
29:50 Parks & Rec’s Fundraiser Special
43:50 Josh Trank Discussion
01:11:50 Fiona!
01:39:30 Other 2020 Music
02:10:50 Wrap-up/Recs

Focused discussions have returned! How fun!

First, we discuss the explosive battle between Universal Studios and AMC theaters, a battle for the future of film distribution that went from 0 to 100 VERY quickly. Next, we discuss the new Academy Award rule changes (just for next year(?)), before we dive into the brilliant ESPN documentary series, “The Last Dance.” From there, we transition into a brief discussion of the Ben Affleck-led sports drama, “The Way Back,” before wrapping up with some recommendations while we’re all hunkered down at home.

Not every episode will be two hours long, we promise! It’s just nice to socialize right now, even if it’s over the dang computer!

00:00 Intro/Coronavirus Talk
28:15 AMC vs Universal
50:25 Oscars & Streaming
57:35 The Last Dance
01:42:00 The Way Back
02:01:00 Wrap-Up/ Recommendations

Welcome back, us! It’s great to be back! Phil & I are excited to return to the podcast fold — with all the current downtime, we figured what better place than here… what better time than now? What song is that from? Who cares! Google it! You have time, too!

Anyway, this is an unstructured episode, just getting back into the swing of things, future eps will be specific — if you wanna do some homework so you can listen along and hate our opinions about things, might I suggest listening to the new Fiona Apple album? Or watching the Chicago Bulls doc on ESPN? Or streaming Neon Genesis Evangelion on Netflix? We will discuss those, and more! Listen to the episode to discover what that MORE means!

Love to you all, it’s good to be back!

Guess who’s back? Back again? Nerds is back. Eat some ham.

That’s right! After a four-month hiatus, Tom & Phil return with some focus, finally. After nearly 20 episode of How’s That Day?, we could no longer deny the obvious: we’re movie guys, guys! So that’s what we’re focusing on going forward.

More specifically, we’ve decided to rebrand the show in a way that focuses (mostly) on upcoming entries in ongoing movie franchises! Your Bumblebees, your Crimes of your Grindelwalds, your Phantasm Ravagings, etc. Here’s the idea: we make a couple episodes discussing previous entries in an ongoing film series, leading up to the new release of this newest… release. Then, we dish and dash about the new movie, discuss the series as a whole, yadda yadda yadda how’s ya father, you get the idea.

Interestingly, we begin with a rather unusual film series: M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero trilogy, which consists of Unbreakable (2000), Split (2017), and the upcoming Glass (2019). This episode deals with Unbreakable, next week we discuss Split, and we round up the trilogy with episode three, all about Glass. Make sense? Cool.

Come along for the ride!

Longest break yet. Whatever, y’all. Nobody pays us to do this shit, and nobody ever will! But we’re happy to be back.

Since we took so long to get around to things, there’s not much focus to this one. We talk politics and whatnot, specifically about John McCain’s complicated legacy, before discussing the upcoming A Star is Born remake, the (now-scrapped) new Popular Film Oscar category, and Tom recommends all the 2018 films he saw in August, before Phil gives a fitting tribute to the late, great, Aretha.

00:00 Intro

25:00 Politics & McCain

51:00 Oscars Talk

01:18:00 Wrap-Up & Recommendations

This week, we draw back the curtains and get PERSONAL! The idea initially was to do “20 Questions,” but we got through, like, five questions and then were suddenly at two hours because we love talking about ourselves LOL JAJA. Anyway enjoy I guess. Sorry.

00:00 Intro
33:50 Twenty Questions*
02:00:00 Wrap-Up & Recommendations

*not really

Had to get a little serious today, y’all. Hope that’s OK. But there’s so much happening in the world, and recently, alt-right trolls have started attacking performers (who have one notable commonality — they’re vocally anti-Trump on Twitter) with disingenuous smear campaigns.

You can call this liberal tears, whatever you want. Doesn’t change the truth of what’s happening. So we discuss it.

That’s not to lump in our later conversation about Chris Hardwick into that problem. That’s a different situation entirely, but another with complexity to it beyond the extreme shouting you may be reading on social media. So we try to have a civil discourse about that issue, as well.

Finally, we get into Sacha Baron Cohen’s new show, Who Is America?, and laugh (through tears) about the willingness many political shills share regarding the selling of their souls.

Guys, girls, we have to communicate better. That’s the point of this episode. Don’t feed the trolls, learn about nuance, be genuine, listen to each other, and be willing to have a goddamn conversation. Also, vote.

00:00 Intro
09:10 James Gunn Fired & Other Hollywood Controversies
48:50 Who Is America?
01:05:45 Wrap-Up & Recommendations

Boys and Ghouls, if you like DRAMA, you’ll love this shitshow of an episode! Tom & Phil discuss the new Jurassic World movie and GET. IN. TO. THE. SHIT. One takes the side of a movie whore; the other decides to be a pretentious asshat. You’ll have to listen to find out who is who(m)!

After that, “the boys” discuss the pure joy of Incredibles 2. I guess it’s a sequel episode, huh? Should’ve just called the episodes “SEQUELS!” But promoting that JUICY, JUICY DRAMA is what slinging that ‘tent is all about.

Enjoy, nerds!

00:00 Intro

16:40 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

01:04:00 Incredibles 2

01:22:00 Planning Future Episodes

01:29:30 Wrap-Up & Recommendations

Lists! LISTS LISTS LISTS! God oh man oh boy or gurl I love lists!!! Phil enjoys them too, more or less.

Anyway, I'll be brief. Phil and Tom discuss their respective top ten lists of the year (plus a few honorable mentions brought up, natch), then briefly mention some anticipated films coming out later in the year.

We meant to discuss our Top Tens of 1998, but the discussion ran long. But DO. NOT. FEAR. We will make that a Part Two to this discussion, and release it sometime before the calendar year expires! We promise! Please, don't panic! Young man climb off that ledge RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW!!!

00:00 Intro
19:30 Our 2018-Midpoint Top 10 Lists
01:13:00 Upcoming 2018 Films
01:22:25 Wrap-Up & Recommendations

Big Strong Boys Tom and Phil get into the latest offering from A24, the horror/drama "Hereditary." This is the longest review yet! 50 minutes long, and Phil had to cut us off like a dang taskmaster. We could've gone on and on about this one, labels and golems! Spoilers, ahoy!

Next, Phil assigned Tom some more reading, so we discuss an article featured in Vice about the company MoviePass, and their goals. Like, what are they trying to do, anyway? Seems unsustainable. I dunno.

Finally, a great piece in Vulture about Netflix's methodology at the upper levels of the business. Really fascinating read, and we discuss in equally fascinating measure!

Enjoy!

MoviePass article: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4355xn/ted-farnsworth-moviepass-interview-on-business-model

Netflix article: http://www.vulture.com/2018/06/how-netflix-swallowed-tv-industry.html

00:00 Intro

20:20 Hereditary Review

01:09:45 MoviePass, Netflix, & Commodifying Data

01:30:20 Wrap-Up & Recommendations