Recorded 12/30/21 - Happy New Year

-Horror movies

-What this movie was

-Climate change and COVID

-Listening to the scientists

-Evidence

-Hope and consequences

-Meryl Streep

-Hedging bets

-Tax the rich

-There’s always something we can do (it’s the fight that keeps us going)

-Realism of 2021

-Social media

-Bothsideism

-The performances

-The coolest part

-Being informed versus being over informed

-What despair brings

-Funny and terrifying

-2+2=4

-Increasing the chances for change (personally and politically)

-What the movie evokes

-I meant 2021, not 2020

-What I thought of the movie

-What’s hopeful now

-Climate change affecting New York

-Adapting

-If there really is a comet…

-Ways to increase our chances to stay alive

-I just moved

-Links!

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I react and comment with no dead air.

Recorded on November 29, 2021

-The first trailer

-I’ll edit this?

-Reaction videos

-Spider

-Western motif

-The Godfather (spoiler alert for I and II)

-What I expect

-Teaser

-YouTube commercial

-He is Boba Fett

-What I’m not going to do

-Not completed excited but…

-My expectations

-The Mandalorian

-Crime, drama

-Outer rim

-The throne

-What I hope

-Sarlacc pit

-Boba’s identity

-Jango 

-A mother figure?

-Human element

-All the Star Wars

-The only really bad Star Wars (aside from the Holiday Special)

-Plugs!

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-Wear your mask, get vaccinated, get boosted

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The review is much shorter than the movie

Recorded October 21, 2021

-What I thought

-It’s length

-The trailer

-My history with Dune (the books and the David Lynch movie)

-My quick review of the Lynch movie

-I butcher the pronunciation of Denis Villeneuve

-Left me wanting more

-Some tastes (even though it was a long movie)

-Soundtrack, effects, acting, storyline

-What the Star Wars prequels could have been

-Father/son, mother/son

-Supernatural, politics, messiah

-The fighting

-Lynch and the Weirding Way (ugh)

-I yawned

-Part II needs to be released tomorrow

-Things get weirder

-I’ll leave you wanting more

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What a destroyer from Alanis…I love it. Recorded on 9/21/21

Show notes:

-It’s a destroyer

-What music can do

-Jess Locke

-Alanis on tour

-Jagged Little Pill

-Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

-The live version

-Buzzing

-The flute

-Lyrics on the Internet

-I have the CD booklet

-Lyrics

-Self worth

-Societal pressure

-Internal and external validation

-Developing a solid foundation

-Doing nothing in a pandemic

-The Internet and “thumbs down”

-Shield of anonymity 

-Our own worst critics

-Being sick as a kid

-Positive versus negative self talk

-Weight and societal pressure

-Marvel superhero physique

-Bankruptcy 

-Baldness

-Reframing the aging argument

-Post Jagged Little Pill

-Alanis’ childhood career

-You Can’t Do That On Television

-Seeing Alanis live in 1996; Taylor Hawkins was on drums and Radiohead opened up

-Knowledge 

-Losing any part of yourself

-After I stopped acting

-My life now

-Substance Abuse

-Trying not to beat yourself up

-Being overwhelmed

-Toxic positivity

-What not to say (if this worked, no one would be angry or sad)

-How to work with it

-Fearing of what someone thinks of you when you get angry

-Feeling feelings and safe spaces

-Validation

-Your feelings are always right

-Giving a person space

-Clinging, codependence, and boundaries

-Labels

-Another layer to the lyrics

-Relationships

-Learning from breakups

-Breakups and grief

-Co-dependence

-Music validates

-Music as a way to heal

-If music disappeared…

-A strong foundation

-Longevity

-Garbage and Cat Power opening

-Liz Phair

-I saw Garbage in 1995-96 at Roseland

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-New York and the pandemic (get vaccinated!!!!!)

-Follow the science

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-Knowlege is power. Stay powerful. Stay safe.

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Recorded August 13, 2021

Spoilers are ahead.

Show notes:

-Better than The Dead Don’t Die

-Plausible

-Adam and Eve

-“Humanity” of the vampires

-One possible implausibility 

-Eva

-Blood

-Implying

-Showing and not telling

-Gloves

-Knowledge and conversations

-Marlowe

-John Hurt

-Predicting

-Jeffrey Wright

-Time

-Similarities in Adam at howe and being locked down (get vaccinated, please)

-Back to Eva

-The ending

-Compulsion

-Possible unrealistic aspect

-Passing off their work

-The acting

-The pace

-Finally got a chance to see it

-Movies versus TV (I love them both)

-Get vaccinated, wear a mask, I hope for mask mandates, speak up

-Greatest good and least harm

-Get your knowledge from credible sources (New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Washington Post, BBC, etc.)

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He certainly can.

Spoilers are ahead!

Recorded August 3, 2021

-Annie Murphy

-Just watched the season finale

-Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

-Allison and Kevin’s relationship

-The sitcom version 

-Watching sitcoms growing up

-Sitcom tropes

-“It’s just Kevin”

Who’s married to a woman that you don’t normally see with a guy like that

-A prequel would be cool

-Kevin, his father, and Neil

-What the show did well

-Abuse by Kevin in both multi-cam and single cam

-Kevin and privilege 

-I hope it gets renewed

-Serious moments in sitcoms

-Family Ties

-More sitcom tropes

-Taking a dramatic turn

-Single cam version of characters

-Subtext

-Pressure on Allison and Patty

-What did Neil really hear?

-Really good representation of despair and loneliness (even when you’re surrounded by people)

-Sam

-The traditional sitcoms, modern sitcoms, the evolution of sitcoms

-He really can

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I say “quote unquote” way too much. Spoilers are ahead.

Recorded July 25, 2021

Show notes:

-I have whiplash

-The title

-A lot of fun

-The true story behind the plot

-History

-Time period

-What I liked about this movie

-Don Cheadle

-A Cheadle Extravaganza 

-The cast

-Matt Damon (The story so far -  https://variety.com/2021/film/news/matt-damon-addresses-f-slur-1235032441/) 

-George Clooney

-Brendan Fraser

-Levels

-Crime world and business world

-What drives people in regards to money

-Soderbergh on the fish eye lens

-A possible reminder to the viewer

-Insufferable Bastards podcast

-Plugs

-I’m fully vaccinated

-Get vaccinated — think of things you can do and if you want to be a hero . . . 

-Get your information from credible sources (NY Times, BBC, USA Today, NPR, Washington Post, etc.)

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“Totally on purpose…bring you out of the space in which you have a 90 degree grid…a world in which things are that squared off…felt wrong to have images that were to have images that were that sort of square”

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Recorded May 31, 2021

I review Invincible (not the Muse song that I can’t get out of my head)

Show notes:

-Star Wars

-Superhero shows

-Watchmen, The Boys

-Back to Star Wars

-Why Invincible  wasn’t tempted

-Human qualities

-Grayson

-The cast

-Steven Yeun

-JK Simmons can be terrifying

-What makes Omni-Man terrifying

-Omni-Man compared to Superman

-Omni-Man versus Invincible

-Omni-Man’s conflict and identity

-Why information and knowledge is so powerful

-Balance 

-What may be keeping Invincible from turning evil (for now?)

-One of many problems with Omni-Man

-Next season

-Other superheroes 

-Cecil

-Physical and mental capabilities

-Nazis

-Other planets and species

-Episodic shows versus a movie

-What movies and music can teach us

-Doom Patrol

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I watch and comment on the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble

Recorded February 19, 2021

Notes:

-Real life superhero

-I will comment during the doc but this podcast won’t be the length of the doc

-What he’s been through

-That mugshot — https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/622844317162434560?lang=en

-Pre-COVID

-Elijah Cummings

-Organize, mobilize, legislate

-Being brutalized by cops for waiting on line to vote

-Knowing the risk

-The power of voting

-Pettus bridge and unlawful assembly

-Parading permit

-Troopers advancing with weapons

-Civil disobedience

-Bashed in the head

-Present day voter suppression

-Constant struggle

-“There’s so much more progress to be made”

-“My greatest fear…”

-Misinformation, hatred, and cruelty

-Comic Con story

-Equity

-Getting involved

-Ripple effects

-Good trouble

-Say something, do something, good trouble, necessary trouble

-2018 and the blue wave

-Change from then to now (so much more to do)

-Preaching to chickens

-Picking cotton

-Nashville and non-violence

-Non-violence as offense, not defense

-Starting locally to desegregate downtown Nashville

-Systems versus an individual 

-Under a constant threat

-Training

-One big temper tantrum from people in power

-Fear and insecurity

-First Nashville sit-in

-Optics

-Doing everything you can

-AOC

-How racism morphs

-Barriers

-Voting requirements

-Senator Warnock

-Beto O’Rourke

-Election Day 2018 and 2020

-James Clyburn

-John Lewis Voting Rights Act

-Republicans want to suppress votes

-AOC and the speed of freedom

-Moving slow versus moving fast

-Results of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act 

-Long wait times to vote

-HR1

-Opressors framing themselves as victims

-Freedom Singers

-How music lifts the spirit

-Thurogood Marshall

-John F. Kennedy and intentions

-We cannot be patient

-Democrats vs. Republicans

-Fast vs. Slow

-Wife and son

-Lawlessness and hypocrisy of the “law and order” Trump administration

-Viral videos

-Julian Bond and the danger of registering people to vote

-Rise into politics

-Becoming an “insider”

-Tense moments with Bonds

-Activism from the outside and inside

-Protest on the floor and the non-coverage of Fox “News”

-Stacey Abrams and the power of Lewis’ story

-The resistance to the right to vote

-The more who show up…

-President Obama

-Looking back 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020

-Paul Wyrech - he’s not from AIPAC, he’s from ALEC and he didn’t want everybody to vote

-Removing the filibuster

-This is not a time for despair

-The struggle

-2019 Edmund Pettis Bridge (Trump wasn’t there)

-Putting in the work

-Medal of Freedom

-A good start

-A giant

-There were post credits

-Inspiring

-Equity and progress (and justice)

-Plugs!

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#GoodTrouble

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Taking you way back to November 13, 2020

Show notes - It’s been a week:

-Friday the 13th - Oooooooo

-Tears of joy and relief

-The weeks that were

-My early voting experience

-Strangers congregating even during a pandemic

-After I voted

-Volunteering for campaigns (phone banking, text-banking, postcards)

-Vote tripling

-James Carville’s prediction

-Election Day

-Couldn’t accept a red mirage

-Heightened anxiety and disrupted sleep

-Future tripping

-Waiting for the counting

-24 hour networks news

-Trump shenanigans

-My reaction to Biden/Harris winning on November 7th

-Profound relief

-Social media and celebrations

-Back to the red mirage

-People I knew

-Deferring to experts

-Why I was still freaking out

-Arizona, Georgia

-Trump turnout

-What’s bad about social media

-November 3-7 (Freaking out to feeling ecstatic)

-More Trump shenanigans and a “coup”

-Transition team

-Chaos

-Ignoring Trump

-Conceding

-Exhaustion

-Words, actions, behaviors, policy

-Family separation

-Accountability

-Biden wasn’t my first choice

-Normalcy and trust

-Supporting democracy

-Doomscrolling

-Kamala Harris

-COVID-19 and the environment 

-Biden’s life story

-Dr. Jill Biden

-Difference between Biden in 2016 and Biden now

-The United States and the pandemic

-Biden and the pandemic

-Not being a dictator 

-Trusted public figures

-Prevention

-Will mask wearing continue post-pandemic?

-Being sick sucks

-Dying sucks

-After effects of COVID-19

-High stakes

-The virus doesn’t care

-Getting information from credible sources (New York Times, BBC, NPR, USA Today, Washington Post, etc.)

-Don’t get your news from influencers

-Congratulations President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris

-Help is on the way (we just have to get through the rest of the year)

-Wear a mask, practice social distancing, wash your hands, don’t touch your face, listen to the experts (no rogues)

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