Read it and Weep

It’s time for another WET MONTH!

We decided to get wet / stay with the sequel to the 2008 musical of ABBA songs and lazy celebrities. It’s basically the same thing. It’s fun, but also terrible, but fun. And very wet.

Also, FUCK YOU STEVEN WILBER WE’RE NOT FRIENDS ANY MORE.

The Onion’s terrific video basically speaking directly to Alex:

To close out Poor Decisions month, our sponsors introduced Alex to his first official Star Trek experience ever (there was an unofficial one but let’s not talk about that), the fourth movie and the only one about time traveling whales. It’s a bonkers way to start the series, but it’s also a surprisingly fun movie. Goofy but pure-hearted and featuring time traveling whales. I know I mentioned that before but it’s really worth noting. There are whales. They travel through time.

Thank you to our sponsors, Paige and Dani from Fairbanks, Alaska! Live long and prosper and stuff!

Well, we tried our first 8 plans. Writing a message for humans in their corn, kidnapping and probing the humans, talking to them. All the good plans. I guess it’s time for plan 9, raise the dead and use those zombies to… something… and then we’ve defeated the humans!

Plan 9 is a classic of the bad movie genre, and yet we’ve managed to go 450 episodes without watching it. Thanks to Alexis for his Super Sponsorship, of which this is a buy-two get-one kind of situation. I hope you’ve enjoyed your three weeks of episodes. No refunds!

It’s the second half of Alexis’s super sponsorship and this time we’re watching the movie adaptation of World Warz. But there’s a slight problem. Alexis told us we’d love the book and hate the movie and as is sometimes the case, we’ve pulled up a chair on the wrong side of history. That’s right, this is a mostly positive podcast about a much maligned adaptation. Sorry. And also NO REFUNDS.

Do you have too much money and no idea where to “invest” it? You’re in luck, because we recently discovered that if you offer to pay us enough, we’ll read a book you like AND watch the movie version of that book. It’s a bad deal and definitely not financially sound, which is why we’re calling this Poor Decisions month.

Alexis from New York wanted us to read World War Z by Max Brooks and then watch the Brad Pitt movie, so this is the first half of that deal. And we definitely liked it, but we didn’t love it like he probably wanted. Which is another problem of Super Sponsorship: still no refunds.

But we talk zombies and geopolitical problems and probably too much about satellite technology. It’s fun! STILL NO REFUNDS!

The sun is setting on the #Junegle, but we decided to spend one more sticky night hanging out with a hot dummy named George, a monkeycook named Ape, and George’s sweatless lover. It’s a pretty silly romp, though it is feminist as fuck, which we found out after we assembled a team of all dudes. Sorry.

The most dangerous part of the jungle? It’s like we always say, mo monkeys mo problems. We learned more about that with Congo, the terrifically campy 1995 film about gorillas (fancy monkeys) who were bred to kill Tim Curry. This was a fun one! So far #Junegle is turning out to be really fun.

The jungle is no game. Except when it is totally a game, like in the 1995 comedy Jumanji, starring Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, and Bonnie Hunt.

We had a disastrous morning recording this episode, but we salvaged what we could and I think the result is pretty fun.

Ezra recommends this brilliant video on Robin Willaims’s movement from the series Every Frame a Painting.

Welcome to the Junegle, everybody! We’re kicking off the month by running around these ferns and vines being chased by a Predator, a killing machine from outer space who doesn’t care that you were in the middle of some kind of espionage plot.

Recorded at Helium Comedy Club, in Portland, OR.

Thanks to newest Meat Buddy, Joel from Calgary. I know where you live.

Welcome new guest Brandon Lyons who is a very funny human.

Here’s Jean-Claude Van Damme in the original monster suit. Learn more about it.

#AniMAY comes to an end with the high-concept show about an alternate-dimension Satan transported into teenage work drama in Tokyo.

Thanks for the fun month and we’ll see you in #WelcomeToTheJunegle!