Salt Circle Podcast

Ben and Hank discuss one of their favorite video games Persona 4. Obvious spoiler warnings if you haven't played or finished it because they go in full depth about it.

There's some light mention of the spin offs, Persona 5 TMS#FE and other SMT games but Ben hasn't touched that stuff at all so that's super brief and not in depth at all.

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Spinning out of a previous comment Ben made about his feelings on continuity and his dislike for conflicting multiple continuities, he and Hank have a lengthy discussion about different continuities. There's a lot of talk about comic books, but also TV and movies.

After so many episode of Hank talking about stuff that he's just OK with this is a topic he's super into, so enjoy that. (Also his audio peaked a bunch so, sorry)

Also when they're ready to call it at about an hour in Hank opens the J.K. Rowling Pandora’s box and they have to talk that through.

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In this episode Ben and Hank talk about the Space movie trend that existed for a handful of years but recently seems to be over. Specifically Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian and Arrival are the focus of that trend.

They also briefly talk about or at least mention some other space movies 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: The Year We Made Contact, Europa Report, and Moon among others. There's also some talk about Passengers, which neither of them have seen but which effectively ended this trend because of its poor reception.

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Just a nice chat about the TV show Scrubs. Its strengths. (Good jokes, character relationships and development) Its mistakes. (Season 9, That time the show threatened to destroy Turk's last testicle and not in a metaphorical sense) Y'know, the works. It's a huge jack, man.

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Because the people demanded it Hank finally read Saga, Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples fantasy space epic. I hope you're happy you made him read a really good comic. The horror.

So yea, he and Ben go through the series (Issues 1-42 specifically) and talk about it and their feelings about it in detail.

Also they talk a bunch of Star Wars stuff at the end because they cannot help themselves.

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WARNING THIS IS NOT A NORMAL EPISODE.

Hank and Ben are off spending the holiday with loved ones, but they didn't forget you dear listener. So as a Christmas Special they recorded a full running commentary for 1996's Jingle All the Way starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. So pull up your own copy of the film and watch along; they press play on the movie at 0:43.

It's a journey of discovery.

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Ben and Hank have a light discussion about Recess, a show that Ben really loves and that Hank thinks is good but never had a strong emotional attachment to. Also they talk a little about their childhood paranoia and the living nightmare that is Ben's life. I think, I dunno it's kind of a blur of rambling nonsense to me at some point.

Also Hank fucked up and recorded both sides of the audio on his end so if there's any quality issues blame him (It seems fine though).

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Here's a special Bonus episode of The Salt Circle Podcast because Ben needed to talk about the new Star Wars.

Hank already did a spoilercast on Star Wars: The Last Jedi with Paul (@Exfauxsure) for BurningBarrel.co but Ben went to sleep early and missed it so here's another spoilercast primarily for Ben's thoughts but also some back and forth. If you haven't listened to the Burning Barrel spoilercast don't worry, neither did Ben.

You can find the other spoilercast Hank did here: https://burningbarrel.co/other/spoiled-star-wars-episode-viii-the-last-jedi

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Yo, y'know Lord of the Rings. We talk about that here. So if you're into that, maybe check it out?

Hank compares genocide to anime... I think. I dunno it's kind of a blur.

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Ben and Hank talk about the disasterpiece that is The Book of Henry. Ben has feelings about the movie. Feelings like “Oh god why did I watch this?” They bounce around the movie a lot and get into late plot details right away so be aware if for some reason you're worried about Book of Henry spoilers.

More importantly there's a really long Pringles can dick bit that is pretty glorious. So enjoy that.

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