Mike v. Matt

Not satisfied with already being mediocre at many things, the gentlemen discuss the hobbies they always wanted to explore. They also explore the triangle that prevents them from picking up even more hobbies: Don’t know what to do, don’t know how to do it, and don’t have the time to do it.

A trip down memory lane…for more movies. Mike and Matt discuss movies that are generally regarded as bad, but they still love. Not be confused with movies so bad they are good, which is another topic altogether.

• Back to School
• Friday the 13th
• Armageddon
• Waterworld
• Pacific Rim
• They Live (but only in the original VHS)
• Red Dawn
• Road House
• Hard to Kill
• Over the Top
• Cobra
• Wanted Dead or Alive
• 6 Underground
• The Day After Tomorrow
• Love Actually
• Army of Darkness
• The Evil Dead
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Just in time for spooky season, the duo explores options for disposing of their remains after they shuffle off this mortal coil. Hilarity ensues. The creepiness will stay with you for days.

• Bill Bryson’s At Home where he talks extensively about the history of churchyards and cemetery “parks”
• Mushroom burial suit?
  • Also: Detritivore is a word
• Body Farm at the University of Tennessee
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
• Frisbee golf inventor’s dying wish
• Turn your remains into fireworks
• Turn your ashes into a diamond

Finally, your favorite scoundrels finish their in depth discussion of Love, Death, and Robots, culminating in an epic battle over their favorites. Also: discussions over public illness shaming in the midst of a pandemic.

Once again, the gentlemen discuss Volume 1 of Love, Death, and Robots, but not before reviewing Mike’s experience at Gencon. Episode mentioned: The Dump, Shape Shifters, Fish Night, Helping Hand

Links of interest:

Love, Death, and Robots

Gencon

The boys continue talking about Love , Death, and Robots (Volume 1), but not before following up on the previous episodes challenge to find non-dystopian science fiction. They discuss Beyond the Aquila Rift, Ice Age, Secret War, and Good Hunting.

Links of interest:

• Love, Death, and Robots
• Becky Chambers’s Wayfarers series
• The Time Machine
• Peter Cline’s Threshold Series

Your favorite gentlemen of the night continue their exploration of Netflix’s Love, Death, and Robots by diving into Volume 1. Naturally. They discuss Sonnie’s Edge, Three Robots, When the Yogurt Took Over, The Witness, and Suits. Disheartened by the bleak vision for the future, they ask if there are examples of science fiction with a positive outcome?

Mike and Matt discuss the final three episodes of Netflix’s Love, Death, and Robots: All Through the House, Life Hutch, and The Drowned Giant. Matt tries to take in too much meaning. Hilarity ensues.

• Love, Death, and Robots
• Exploding Whale Video

The boys continue discussing Netflix’s animated sci fi anthology series, Love, Death, and Robots. This week, they discuss three episodes, Pop Squad, Snow in the Desert, and The Tall Grass. Maybe living forever isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

• Love, Death, and Robots
• Vsauce - What is the Scariest Thing?
• In the Tall Grass
• The Long Walk

Mike and Matt deep dive into Netflix’s Love, Death, and Robots. Mike can’t follow directions, so we’re starting with Volume 2, looking at the first two entries, Automated Customer Service and Ice. Join us to learn more about the future of AI and body modifications. It’s a race to create machines that will kill us or for us to be too strong to be killed by machines.