This informal, topic-less episode contains audio issues! Rather than dump the full episode, we’ve decided to release it with a disclaimer. We apologize and promise we’ll be back to normal next week!

In the midst of recovering from gallbladder surgery, Matt had Mike and Tiny Skype in to catch up on all the movies and TV shows they’ve been watching. The guys talk about a variety of different Oscar nominees as well as some eye opening documentaries and a bevy of television including True Detective, House of Cards, How I Met Your Mother’s 200th episode and others.

Timestamps

• Gallbladder Surgery – 03:26
• Obsessive Viewer Oscar Pool Announcement – 06:24

MOVIES

• Mike’s Top Ten Amendment (Inside Llewyn Davis) – 08:19
• Matt and Tiny’s Thoughts on In Bruges – 13:33
• Matt and Mike on Anchorman 2 – 15:08
• Tiny Doesn’t Like Lee Daniels’ The Butler – 20:46
• Tiny and Mike Discuss American Hustle – 27:20
• Hollywood Collusion at the Oscars – 32:31
• Jonah Hill, Oscar Nominee/Best Supporting Actor – 40:52
• Tiny on Captain Phillips – 42:20
• Matt’s Post-Op Marathon (Jack Reacher, Fun Size, 127 Hours, Passenger 57) – 44:31
• An Atheist’s Reaction to Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God – 49:11
• The House I Live In, a great documentary on the War on Drugs – 58:28

TELEVISION

• Matt and Tiny on True Detective – 1:01:30
• How I Met Your Mother’s 200th Episode – 1:06:38
• Community, Troy’s last episode – 1:14:50
• Netflix puts director commentaries on House of Cards – 1:17:42
• Tiny buys Batman: The Animated Series – 1:19:22

Show Notes/Links

• Music: Star Tissue – An Eclipse of Events –  https://www.soundcloud.com/startissue
• Yahoo American Hustle Article – http://news.yahoo.com/american-hustle-overrated-104500290–politics.html
• ‘True Detective’ Creator Nic Pizzolatto Re-Ups With HBO for 2 More Years – http://www.thewrap.com/true-detective-creator-re-ups-hbo-2-years/
• Matt’s House of Cards Review – https://obsessiveviewer.com/2013/05/18/the-netflix-model-house-of-cards-season-1-in-review/

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