The Captain's Log

Episode 282. Get out your T-squares, we're talking Megalopolis! Melissa tries to sell us on The Substance, and Kyle shares the cartoon joy of Transformers One, Avatar: The Last Airbender live in concert, and being the first and maybe only person in his city to buy a ticket to see a Gundam movie in theaters. Melissa recaps her trip to Disney World, featuring edutainment and a biiiig cookie. We also discuss trailers for Thunderbolts*, Ballerina, and Sinners, and try to identify the Mtn Dew mystery flavor of the year.

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Episode 281. With the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Dune: Part Two at the box office, is a sequel to Tremors far behind? What if it's already secretly on the calendar, masquerading as a normal film, but surprise, a big worm pops out at the end? Kyle gives us advice on surviving a plane trip. Melissa shares the mystery of Celebrity Number 6. We discuss your new stepdad The Boobie Bouncer, a dishwasher mistake, our favorite weird little guy, Coke-flavored Oreos and Oreo-flavored Coke, memories of James Earl Jones, and how Shogun broke a record for the most Emmy awards before the main awards show even happened.

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Episode 280. Kyle goes kayaking in Tampa and sees dolphins and maybe the world's largest sand dollar. Melissa goes to a metal concert less for the music, more for live snakes and big demon puppets. She also deals with her office moving to a new building full of liminal white hallways, heat traps, and incessant beeping. We talk about the prolific crime series Homicide: Life on the Street now that it's finally streaming, the bizarre Tommy Westphall Universe from St. Elsewhere, and the frenetic summertime schemes of Snack Shack, and we wonder who Joel McHale will play in Yellowjackets S3.

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Episode 279. Now that the Olympics are over, it's time for fall to begin, with random sightings of kids out in public already wearing their Halloween costumes. We get nostalgic with Didi and confounded with Borderlands, and discuss two new movies based on true events starring the actual people from those events, Kneecap and Sing Sing. We recap movie and TV news from D23 and beyond, including Pixar's first TV show, the weirdly horror-tinged Tron: Ares, and a Pacific Rim prequel. Melissa is allowed "off the leash" to recap the Disney theme park news, including new Avengers rides, a Monsters Inc. door coaster, and a villains-themed land. We also dare to ask, what if humanity's final form is a baby born with full understanding of the movie Tenet?

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Episode 278. Kyle almost witnesses a road war. Melissa is blindsided by a new holiday and eats the best brownie that she may never encounter again. We discuss the wild rides of Longlegs and Trap, and recap the news out of Comic-Con! RDJ is our new Dr. Doom, but what if Marvel kept going and just announced more Dooms every couple weeks until we had a movie of nothing but Dooms? We talk about the potential plans for Doomsday and Secret Wars, DC trailers for Creature Commandos and The Penguin, and finally a Hellboy movie that gives us just a normal day in the life of Hellboy, begrudgingly going to fight a devil.

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Episode 277. If our slogan is that we "thirst for the taste of legend," and Oklahoma City is building the world's tallest building and calling it Legends Tower, we understand the bargain we've unknowingly struck to lick that building. Kyle tries a new gin and this leads him to the world of evil video game mods on YouTube. Melissa reads us a list of Street Shark names and feels the wind at a showing of Twisters. We try to describe the plots of Kinds of Kindness, talk about The Acolyte and the F1 trailer, make our final predictions for Marvel news out of SDCC, and brief ourselves on notable new films coming out in the rest of the year, declaring that our favorite type of film is "so mundane it's thrilling."

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Episode 276. Ignacio, Kyle, and Melissa gather once more for our annual trivia night! We trade custom questions about pop culture, science, soda, and shockingly, sports. What is the longest-running anime series? What year did the first Funko Pop debut? What type of food was the defunct Taco Bell item known as the "Bell Beefer?" Join us for the thrill of competition, the joy of learning!

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Episode 275. We identify a rival beverage enthusiast podcast, and ask how we can experiment more with our taste-tests, by wearing lab coats and drinking Mtn Dew out of beakers. Melissa advocates for the geriatric crime thriller Thelma, and goes to comedy podcast shows to see pizzas delivered live on stage. Kyle visits a wet n' wild paint room and catches up on the reboots of Twin Peaks and Clone High. We also discuss careful docuseries selection, the horny antics of the Olympic village, and Sprite entering the speedforce.

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Episode 274. How many movies does a person need to go see in a year to maintain a prosperous box office? How many Kyles need to gather in one place to get a world record? How do we continue to find new qualms and gripes about the one M&Ms commercial with the mime? We answer these questions, and discuss recent horror movies I Saw The TV Glow and In a Violent Nature, casting news for the next Benoir Blanc whodunnit Wake Up Dead Man, noir detective music tastes, sharpening your knives on a lazy weekend afternoon, meeting Grimace irl, and how Christopher Nolan would cope with a rowdy outdoor movie screening where you can barely see or hear the film and kids keep throwing rocks.

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Episode 273. It's the return of our annual tradition: Kyle and Ignacio force an oblivious Melissa to predict what video game news will be released at Summer Games Fest, and she has to compete against a Magic 8 Ball to see who can get the most correct guesses. Will we see a new Grand Theft Auto trailer this year? How about a new Metroid game? How many Goku variants will appear in DragonBall Sparking Zero? More than 20?? Also, Ignacio moves to the desert, Kyle discovers Japanese ramune soda, and Melissa was startled by seeing a Cybertruck in her mundane suburb.

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