The Captain's Log

Episode 243. Art is all around you! Really look at fireworks and determine your favorite shape. See the musical Chess, or throw a chess set in a pond. Go to a street fair and buy a Simpsons poster. Read Nimona and watch Nimona. Drink a new Mtn Dew flavor and think about the color. Art!! We also discuss joining Threads, how the 2003 Daredevil movie plays today, a new Superman and Lois, and the trailer for the Jon Hamm mystery movie Corner Office.

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Episode 242. Ignacio, Kyle, and Melissa gather again for our annual trivia night tradition! We trade questions about pop culture, science, technology, and snacks. Can we name the electric frequency of the average American household? Is a fight between three people called a "truel"? What horror movies have been turned into a Broadway stage musical? Join us for the thrill of competition, the joy of learning!

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Episode 241. Kyle has watched the new TV shows Drops of God and American Born Chinese, while Melissa is decades behind and has just watched all of the Indiana Jones movies for the first time. We discuss sweaty adventure hats, stores that close too early, buying our tickets for specific formats of Oppenheimer, the practical effects of Beetlejuice, the digital effects of Avatar, if the Final Fantasy world has cars in it, and a child giving you a special keepsake only to take it back and tear it in half.

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Episode 240. Friend of the show Jacq joins us again for a fantasy draft of our ideal dads! All our own original dads remain, and we are drafting new people joining our lives in some sort of paternal role. They don't have to be real, they don't have to be dads, they don't have to be men, they don't have to be human, they just have to project dad-like energy. Which characters played by famously fatherly actors made the list? How many spooky dads show up to party? How much do you remember about mid-2000s pop culture?

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Episode 239. Do you think you could pick up Paddington? Is he heavy? We know he must get heavier when he's wet, but he's dry in this scenario. We also discuss rewatching the Mission Impossible movies, getting out there to see live theater, glow sticks, and "buffoon dramas." We're halfway through the year for our Rotten Tomatoes predictions game, and we take this time to watch some trailers and add new 2023 movies to our list, arbitrarily assigning numbers to everything from franchise prequels to weird art movies to films that already had Oscar buzz a year in advance. Finally, we react to the trailer for the long-awaited Venture Bros movie, Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart!

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Episode 238. Ignacio is on the podcast this week, joining forces with Kyle to quiz a clueless Melissa with predictions about the upcoming Summer Games Fest. We've played this game before, but now we've added a Magic 8 Ball with its own competing blind predictions! Who will be more accurate, Melissa the living human woman, or a piece of plastic from Mattel? We discuss big hats, jetpack sex, and how "X-Box" sounds like an artifact that Indiana Jones would dig up.

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Episode 237. We don't know what beverages are and aren't cocktails, all we know is that we aren't cocktails. Kyle drinks in a vault. Melissa worries over a Hot Girl Brunch. We talk wienermobiles, the Good Burger car, pretzel sculptures, the future of the defunct Star Wars hotel at Disney World, and the upcoming reboots for Futurama and King of the Hill.

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Episode 236. Melissa updates us on Drops of God and commits herself to living large and seeing more summer movies in IMAX. Kyle plays the new Zelda and watches the old Lone Wolf and Cub. We go over some nominees for this year's Eisner Awards for excellence in comics. There's news on Beetlejuice 2, a Friday the 13th prequel series, and some Marvel details from both Disney and Sony. Finally, we react to the trailer for Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part 1! It's got a train!!

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Episode 235. We discuss Kyle's dad discovering the "new" "trend" of dad jokes and wonder if you can trace any evolution of pop culture comedy influence across the many years of America's Funniest Home Videos. Beetlejuice 2 ("Beetletwoce") and a new season of Good Omens are on the way. We ask if there any real consequences if you don't watch an acclaimed TV show? Are you the one breaking bad if you never see Breaking Bad? M3GAN makes Melissa question if she grew out of toys too early as a child, and Kyle shows off his Free Comic Book Day haul and the features of the new Viz Manga app. Plus, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 but it's a scented candle!

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Episode 234. Kyle has the final results of his competition with a Duolingo rival. Melissa is excited by the Big Puppets in the filmed Spirited Away stage play. We spotlight the new Summer Freeze flavor of Mtn Dew and imagine region-specific Dew flavors for our own states. We prepare for the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 by making playlists, carefully choosing a restaurant, and dehydrating our bodies. Speaking of dry things, we also watch the trailer for Dune Part Two!

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