What can you say about this show? Or even this episode, which may be the greatest pilot episode of all time. The Bizzle brings his best commentator game to all seven episodes of one of the best first seasons we’ve ever seen. And while the show took until Season 3 to really find it’s mega-mojo (joining Netflix was HUGE), the writer’s strike-shortened Season 1 managed to accomplish an insane amount of world building. It didn’t hurt that the actors immediately owned their roles and their chemistry with one another, which is always a hallmark of a great series. Anyway, I’m rambling. Queue up you Netflix S1E1 to 0’0”00 and let’s ride.

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What can you say about this show? Or even this episode, which may be the greatest pilot episode of all time. The Bizzle brings his best commentator game to all seven episodes of one of the best first seasons we’ve ever seen. And while the show took until Season 3 to really find it’s mega-mojo (joining Netflix was HUGE), the writer’s strike-shortened Season 1 managed to accomplish an insane amount of world building. It didn’t hurt that the actors immediately owned their roles and their chemistry with one another, which is always a hallmark of a great series. Anyway, I’m rambling. Queue up you Netflix S1E1 to 0’0”00 and let’s ride.

If you like my commentary please check out more BizzleCastTV commentaries at: www.BizzleCastTV.com

A radically humanistic and realistically utopian take on the ultimate fate of the human race disguised as a feel-good space teamwork story that captured audiences imaginations and is going to be a critical tool in enticing younger people to engage with science in general and astronomy in particular. On a mindblowingly low budget of around $100m with legendary director Ridley Scott at the helm, THE MARTIAN in 2015 managed to upstage Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR from the year before (which also had Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain) with more compelling characters and a more grounded and realistic science that was always delivered with a personal touch — never straight exposition. But as great as the plot and action are, it’s the brilliant casting and the mixed comedy-drama deliveries of all of the cast that makes this not only one of the best films of 2015, but one of the great science fiction movies ever as well as one of the most rewatchable films of all time. As Papa Bizzle puts it: “the humanism of this movie just oozes out of its pores.” Laughing out loud through the entirety of a Ridley Scott movie against all odds, the drama, suspense, and of course “science-ing the shit” out of everything is a game-changer in terms of movies that romanticize science and the human project. Indeed, THE MARTIAN is a super-hero movie that’s actually a super-hero movie, gloriously bringing to life a near-future scientific utopia of global cooperation and single-minded devotion towards the preservation of human life and the uplift of all humanity.

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A radically humanistic and realistically utopian take on the ultimate fate of the human race disguised as a feel-good space teamwork story that captured audiences imaginations and is going to be a critical tool in enticing younger people to engage with science in general and astronomy in particular. On a mindblowingly low budget of around $100m with legendary director Ridley Scott at the helm, THE MARTIAN in 2015 managed to upstage Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR from the year before (which also had Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain) with more compelling characters and a more grounded and realistic science that was always delivered with a personal touch — never straight exposition. But as great as the plot and action are, it’s the brilliant casting and the mixed comedy-drama deliveries of all of the cast that makes this not only one of the best films of 2015, but one of the great science fiction movies ever as well as one of the most rewatchable films of all time. As Papa Bizzle puts it: “the humanism of this movie just oozes out of its pores.” Laughing out loud through the entirety of a Ridley Scott movie against all odds, the drama, suspense, and of course “science-ing the shit” out of everything is a game-changer in terms of movies that romanticize science and the human project. Indeed, THE MARTIAN is a super-hero movie that’s actually a super-hero movie, gloriously bringing to life a near-future scientific utopia of global cooperation and single-minded devotion towards the preservation of human life and the uplift of all humanity.

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A radically humanistic and realistically utopian take on the ultimate fate of the human race disguised as a feel-good space teamwork story that captured audiences imaginations and is going to be a critical tool in enticing younger people to engage with science in general and astronomy in particular. On a mindblowingly low budget of around $100m with legendary director Ridley Scott at the helm, THE MARTIAN in 2015 managed to upstage Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR from the year before (which also had Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain) with more compelling characters and a more grounded and realistic science that was always delivered with a personal touch — never straight exposition. But as great as the plot and action are, it’s the brilliant casting and the mixed comedy-drama deliveries of all of the cast that makes this not only one of the best films of 2015, but one of the great science fiction movies ever as well as one of the most rewatchable films of all time. As Papa Bizzle puts it: “the humanism of this movie just oozes out of its pores.” Laughing out loud through the entirety of a Ridley Scott movie against all odds, the drama, suspense, and of course “science-ing the shit” out of everything is a game-changer in terms of movies that romanticize science and the human project. Indeed, THE MARTIAN is a super-hero movie that’s actually a super-hero movie, gloriously bringing to life a near-future scientific utopia of global cooperation and single-minded devotion towards the preservation of human life and the uplift of all humanity.

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A radically humanistic and realistically utopian take on the ultimate fate of the human race disguised as a feel-good space teamwork story that captured audiences imaginations and is going to be a critical tool in enticing younger people to engage with science in general and astronomy in particular. On a mindblowingly low budget of around $100m with legendary director Ridley Scott at the helm, THE MARTIAN in 2015 managed to upstage Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR from the year before (which also had Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain) with more compelling characters and a more grounded and realistic science that was always delivered with a personal touch — never straight exposition. But as great as the plot and action are, it’s the brilliant casting and the mixed comedy-drama deliveries of all of the cast that makes this not only one of the best films of 2015, but one of the great science fiction movies ever as well as one of the most rewatchable films of all time. As Papa Bizzle puts it: “the humanism of this movie just oozes out of its pores.” Laughing out loud through the entirety of a Ridley Scott movie against all odds, the drama, suspense, and of course “science-ing the shit” out of everything is a game-changer in terms of movies that romanticize science and the human project. Indeed, THE MARTIAN is a super-hero movie that’s actually a super-hero movie, gloriously bringing to life a near-future scientific utopia of global cooperation and single-minded devotion towards the preservation of human life and the uplift of all humanity.

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BC61.5: BizzleCast Sports Goes Deep: We talk racism and diversity among athletes and fans; the state of youth sports; the problems lying beneath the NFL's $13.5 billion juggernaut; whether MLB is dying or flying; sports as the ultimate manifestation of American meritocracy; athlete activism led by LeBron James and more with Matty G aka Goose.

Topics include:

-we really get deep on sports culture and what it says about our culture

-superhuman spectacle of superstar athletes

-racism and race dynamics in sports and the growing diversity: fans using racism to taunt opponents and get them kicked out

-is there actually less racism than we think among American athletes if not the fans?

-where the four major sports are at plus soccer

-the American meritocracy of sports

-activism led by LeBron James and other superstars

-soccer as a rising force — MLS vs playing overseas

-and we end with which superheroes would be which superathletes

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BC61.5: BizzleCast Sports Goes Deep: We talk racism and diversity among athletes and fans; the state of youth sports; the problems lying beneath the NFL's $13.5 billion juggernaut; whether MLB is dying or flying; sports as the ultimate manifestation of American meritocracy; athlete activism led by LeBron James and more with Matty G aka Goose.

Topics include:

-we really get deep on sports culture and what it says about our culture

-superhuman spectacle of superstar athletes

-racism and race dynamics in sports and the growing diversity: fans using racism to taunt opponents and get them kicked out

-is there actually less racism than we think among American athletes if not the fans?

-where the four major sports are at plus soccer

-the American meritocracy of sports

-activism led by LeBron James and other superstars

-soccer as a rising force — MLS vs playing overseas

-and we end with which superheroes would be which superathletes

Sign up for BizzleCast on iTunes (keyword: BizzleCast) or use the RSS feed on any podcast app:

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BC61.5: BizzleCast Sports Goes Deep: We talk racism and diversity among athletes and fans; the state of youth sports; the problems lying beneath the NFL's $13.5 billion juggernaut; whether MLB is dying or flying; sports as the ultimate manifestation of American meritocracy; athlete activism led by LeBron James and more with Matty G aka Goose.

Topics include:

-we really get deep on sports culture and what it says about our culture

-superhuman spectacle of superstar athletes

-racism and race dynamics in sports and the growing diversity: fans using racism to taunt opponents and get them kicked out

-is there actually less racism than we think among American athletes if not the fans?

-where the four major sports are at plus soccer

-the American meritocracy of sports

-activism led by LeBron James and other superstars

-soccer as a rising force — MLS vs playing overseas

-and we end with which superheroes would be which superathletes

Sign up for BizzleCast on iTunes (keyword: BizzleCast) or use the RSS feed on any podcast app:

http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:35604552/sounds.rss

What is Ryan Lochte's level of douchey-ness from 9 to 1000? Ledecky or Biles? Why are the women kicking the men's asses? Can The Bizzle convince you that the Winter Olympics is the superior event? And of course, a short but insightful interview about how my #2 Matty G aka Goose became an esteemed sports reporter in the fertile sports ground of New England.