This is NOT a reaction podcast.

Recorded September 6, 2020

-How I describe Devin Townsend

-Wall of sound

-Kingdom

-The theme

-When I first heard Storm

-Accelerated Evolution

-Steve Vai

-Prolific

-Reaction videos

-Metal and epic

-Strapping Young Lad

-Synths

-Yes 90125

-His scream and voice

-Vocal lessons and vocal teachers

-Natural ability?

-Adele, Roger Daltry, James Hetfield

-What’s in the background?

-The lyrics

-Physicist

-Bipolar disorder

-Obsessing

-Stay with me

-Epicloud

-The meaning of “play”

-Solo artist versus a collaborator

-The other vocals

-Love or Lord?

-The way I’m headed

-Truth or Youth?

-Descended or Defended?

-Worry

-I’m fine 

-It’s only a song

-“I was playing a character” excuse

-Fire it up!

-Galloping

-Devin’s guitar playing

-No solo

-Too epic?

-We are ….?

-Woman still

-Hath no fury

-Morning Bride

-Emotional journal

-One of my favorite things about music

-Abandonment

-Storm

-First Devin Townsend song I heard

-Steve Vai’s Sex and Religion

-What I was doing in 2003

-WSOU Seton Hall Pirate Radio

-Hearing the “stay with me” scream

-Accelerated Evolution

-My Devy collection

-Storm vs. Kingdom

-Townsend’s opinion on Accelerated Evolution

-Deadhead

-My request

-Slow Me Down

-The lyrics

-The world

-Devin’s family

-Running dry

-Flying high

-Feel

-Wanted to be

-Worked hard for a living

-Where it gets scary

-Don’t run and hide

-Dont’ worry I’m fine/Starting to feel okay

-SYL

-Wasted and failing

-It’s just me

-Never felt before

-Tired

-Touring

-Solo (or lack thereof)

-Time

-He’s screaming

-Progress in the relationship?

-Subject matter and emotions

-Empath, spirituality, positive emotions

-Facing emotions

-Releasing anger, rage, and happiness

-Seeing a mental health professional

-Mental health issues and the COVID-19 pandemic

-The war

-10,000 lies 

-The Iraq War and George W. Bush

-Trump and lies

-SYL and war

-The Rape Song

-Strapping Young Lad songs live

-Storm and Kingdom tied together

-Quarantine concerts 

-Charity

-Devin’s future

-His voice

-Buy his stuff

-The pandemic

-New York (since March, not January)

-Listen to science

-Credible sources of news (New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, BBC, NPR)

-Take care of each other

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There are spoilers ahead.

Recorded August 16, 2020

Show notes:

-David Bowie’s Heroes

-Movies/shows with music from a different time

-Why I love music and movies

-Rollercoaster of feelings

-Let everything happen to you

-The plot

-Experiencing different emotions at the same time

-Horror and laughter

-How Taika Waititi used Hitler

-Subject matter

-Roman Griffin Davis

-Yorki

-Quentin Tarantino and the auteur

-Taika Watiti

-Thor Ragnarok

-What We Do In the Shadows

-Watiti's filmography

-Mandalorian

-Captain Klenzendorf and Finkel

-Humanity 

-Jojo and his mother

-Scarlet Johannsen

-Comedy, Gestapo, and evil

-Tying shoes

-What's next

-Lies about Jewish people

-Conspiracy theories 

-Laughing at the ridiculousness 

-Expertise vs. authority

-Trump

-Happiness, fear, anger

-Strength of words, propaganda and stories

-Escape from Sobibor

A Tangent

-My Jewish family 

-Governments rising to power using scapegoats

-How to prevent authoritarianism by learning how it's done and speaking out right away (even if it's not happening to you)

-Organize and vote

-Even if it's too late...

-Horror, Joy, Solidarity

-Always keep going

-Learning how government and civics work

-Push back with all your might

-Long Island, undocumented immigrants, and knowing their rights

-Knowing, fighting, recognizing

-Defunding the post office

-On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

-Read credible sources of history

-Incremental change

-Serious message cloaked in comedy

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

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In a hole in the ground there lived a podcast with SPOILERS!

Show notes:

-What I did throughout the movie

-Matching real life

-Overall

-Legacy

-Purpose and importance of art during the pandemic

-My Tolkien history

-Tolkien’s actual life

-Battle of the Somme

-Peaky Blinders

-Link to Time article - https://time.com/5586711/tolkien-movie-true-story/

-What was I doing in 2019 (it seems like a trillion years ago)

-The Tea Club Barovian Society (TCBS)

-Edith Bratt

-World War I

-Marriage

-Origin of the word “Hobbit”

-Professor Joseph Wright and Gandalf

-Sam and the batmen

-Tolkien and Christianity

-Biopic pronunciation

-Movies and accuracy

-Movies produced by the subjects themselves

-A starting point

-Plugs

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

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I do some character studies as well as review the show as a whole. Spoilers are ahead.

Show notes:

-This show was …..

-The special FX

-George Romero’s Day of the Dead

-Tom Savini

-Scream Greats

-Gloves for surgery

-Accuracy

-Good TV is about relationships

Dr. John Thackery

-Pain, work, destruction

-Finale

-Who we are

-Necrotic

-House

-Reason for addiction?

Dr. Algernon Edwards

-Two worlds

-Opal

-Self destruction

-Future

Dr. Everett Gallinger

-From the start

-Hypocrisy

-Eleanor

-Correlation vs. causation

-Cruelty 

-Eugenics

-Eric Johnson

Herman Barrow

-Likability

-Character traits

-Self destruction

-Conflict

Nurse Lucy Elkins

-Arc

-Getting what she wants

-Origin story 

-Skills as a nurse (competent was the wrong word better than competent - she was an excellent nurse)

Dr. Bertram Chickering Jr.

-Normalized prejudice

-Character traits

-Thack vs. Dr. Levi Zinberg

-Bertie’s mentors

-Genevieve Everidge

Cornelia Robertson

-Skills and potential

-Typhoid and the Black Plague

-Being held back

-Hobart Showalter

-The end of her arc

-Cornelia’s future?

-Cornelia and Algernon

Sister Harriet 

-Conflict

-Self destruction

-Identity

-Business acumen

Tom Cleary

-Arc

-Character traits

-Conflict

-Destruction

-A future Cleary

The Overall Show

-Steven Soderberg and a third season

-Flash forward

-What I would want for a third season

-How The Knick inspired me

-Dramatic license

The COVID-19 Pandemic

-My hopes (wear a mask)

-Credible sources of information and science (New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, NPR, BBC, etc)

-Take care of each other

-On 7/23/20, the number of dead in the United States from COVID-19 is about 145,000 

Plugs!

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Spoilers are tethered to this podcast. 

Recorded on May 30, 2020. 

Show notes:

-A disadvantaged group

-What I thought of Us

-What’s the resolution?

-Invasion of the Body Snatchers

-Get Out and planting seeds

-Influences

-The ending

-The twist

-What makes a movie great

-Subtlety 

-Us and the murder of George Floyd [I meant to say the murders similar to George Floyd’s]

-Good movies teach

-The balance of subtle versus not subtle

-The tethered 

-The message

-The characters

-The acting

-Lupita Nyong’o

-Saw Gerrera voice?

-George Romero zombie trilogy

-Dawn of the Dead

-Enjoying Us on different levels 

-Metaphors

-Raising interest

-Credible sources of news, please

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Come aboard and join the chaos and anxiety. Spoilers are ahead.

Recorded on May 25, 2020

Show notes:

-This movie was ______

-Adam Sandler

-A very New York movie

-I miss New York City 

-The pandemic

-The chaos of Howard’s life

-The ending

-The Departed

-What happened after

-70s grittiness with the 80s soundtrack

-2012

-Kevin Garnett

-The acting all around

-What I like about movies

-Dunkirk

-Safdie brothers

-Oscar buzz?

-Adam Sandler and creative freedom

-Funny People

-What I would have liked

-The pandemic and credible sources of information

-Listen to the experts!

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I made this podcast so. 

Spoilers are ahead so if you don’t mind spoilers, then engage!

Recorded March 29, 2020

Show notes:

-What I thought

-Modern TV and movies

-TV vs movies

-How I watched Picard

-What makes Picard so great (the character and the show)

-Star Trek The Next Generation

-Picard’s PTSD

-What makes compelling TV and compelling people

-Humans and synths

-First season of The Next Generation

-Even if you’re not a Star Trek fan . . . 

-Fanservice 

-I cried throughout the show

-Unintended consequences

-Story arcs in Next Generation vs. story arcs in Picard

-Hugh

-Elnor

-Different cultures

-Alison Pill and the Newsroom

-Agnes, motivation, and consequences

-The crew

-Season Two and stakes

-Hopes for season two

-Nitpicking

-Seeing Patrick Stewart live

-Data

-Worf

-Back to Data

-I want to live forever

-Back to Data again

-A public service announcement

-Plugs!

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For credible sources of information, here’s a good list:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/berlinschoolofcreativeleadership/2017/02/01/10-journalism-brands-where-you-will-find-real-facts-rather-than-alternative-facts/#27f75211e9b5

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I’m scared just typing this. Spoilers are ahead.

This was recorded pre-COVID-19 hence the lack of COVID-19 references.

-I am very much an adult

-I was scared

-The power of what movies can do

-The type of horror movie

-Elements

-The acting

-The effect

-The positive psychological aspects of horror movies

-Where are the mental health professionals?!?!?

-Other nitpickings 

-Suspense

-A little twist

-More nitpicking

-Spoiler alert for Rosemary’s Baby

-Pace and aesthetic 

-A brief review of Rosemary’s Baby

-Midsommar

-Toni Collette 

-Gabriel Byrne

-The dog

-Where it could go

-Paimon

-Hell probably sucks

-Erin and The Conjuring

-Hereditary versus The Conjuring

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This was recorded pre-pandemic and is finally being released. As we all know, life gets in the way. So enjoy my pre-pandemic attitude and my pre-pandemic review of The Mandalorian. Spoilers are ahead. This is the way.

Show notes:

-What I thought overall 

-Boba Fett

-Mandolorians in “Legends” 

-Paying homage without reverence (ahem, Rise of Skywalker)

-The themes of The Mandolorian

-Pedro Pascal

-The Child (Baby Yoda)

-Origin story?

-Yaddle

-Yoda’s species

-Will The Child grow?

-Guesses

-What I don’t want

-Stakes

-Eek, I mentioned going out to the movies (pre-pandemic)

-Focusing on something new

-The Last Jedi, Rise of Skywalker

-Balance

-I was tired

-Artwork

-Moff Gideon 

-Giancarlo Esposito

-Darksaber

-New Republic

-The Force Awakens

-My hopes (rebellions are built on them)

Plugs!

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Erin and I watched and reviewed Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones on Christmas night, 2019 (which seems like seven million years ago). 

Don’t forget to listen to the bonus commentary!

Show notes:

-My intro to the intro

-Coronavirus

-Merry Christmas

-This is Erin’s first time watching Episode II (that she remembers)

-Episode I recap

-Our Star Wars histories

Review

-What did we think?

-What did this mean to Erin?

-Relationships

-Jar Jar’s purpose (I wanted to add that the other senators agreed with Jar Jar so let’s not blame it all on him)

-Padme and Anakin

-What Mike thought

-Rise of Skywalker

-Deleted scene

-Arrogance of the Jedi

-Dooku and Christopher Lee

-Keeping track of the characters

-Attack of the Clones versus the other movies

-Episode III

-Bonus Commentary

-Plugs!

Follow Erin on Twitter @erunuevo 

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