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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 275 of The Chumpcast! Special guest Darryl joins the show this week so that we can give Spider-Man: No Way Home the love and attention it deserves. Also, a final and official ruling on the Disney Princess Debacle.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:15 - Can we just get a damn ruling already? I’m tired of talking about princesses

6:30 - TRAILERS! Kevin James is just a thicc Sean Payton, the Unbearable Weight of Being The Best Actor in History, a generic animated animal movie, A24 being weird again, and rom-coms making a comeback

22:15 - RECOMMENDATIONS! A real dad bro rec, Mark has a couch potato high def viewing addiction, and Brick won’t shut up about Halo

25:00 - DRAFT TIME! Let’s round out a list of our favorite Spider-Man costumes across all platforms

35:05 - Spider-Man: No Way Home spoiler free review and thoughts (stop clapping in theaters, dummies)

43:40 - SPOILERS for Spider-Man: No Way Home. You’ve been warned!

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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 274 of The Chumpcast! Mark and I spent our weekend at C2E2 instead of at the theater, so we decided to talk a bit about Hawkeye and Succession instead. Don’t worry, there’s always plenty of shit for us to argue about.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:15 - Cheaters never prosper, unless they never shut up about it and just wear you down eventually

4:00 - Only sociopaths eat dinner after 8 PM

6:20 - TRAILERS! Tons of video game trailers from the VGAs

22:10 - Just a few reasons why a Blank Check remake wouldn’t work today…

26:10 - MORE TRAILERS! Halo on Paramount+ and Sonic is back with new friends

33:50 - Extra life for Venom and Shang Chi, death for Cowboy Bebop, reincarnation for Mega Man

40:25 - RECOMMENDATIONS! Supercrooks (again), the South Park crew does it again, and polluting TO THE XTREME

44:50 - BEST MAN ALIVE! But also a dead guy plus some shady business practice from a car rental giant

49:45 - Let’s check in on Hawkeye and Succession because the box office sucks this week

1:08:30 - Next time on The Chumpcast…

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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 273 of The Chumpcast! Someone at HBO Max made a movie specifically for the 3 of us, so we watched 8-Bit Christmas. We also draft our Disney Princess Death Squads...

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:40 - What would a modern day Osmosis Jones look like? Also, Brick fried his computer

8:10 - Starting to think that none of us are console guys anymore…

11:30 - Shouldn’t Sony and Microsoft be more upset about scalpers hoarding their product?

16:35 - We’ll see you chumps at C2E2 in Chicago this weekend

18:35 - TRAILERS! None of us will see Dog with Channing Tatum for personal reasons, Peacemaker keeps getting more obnoxious, and a glimpse Across The Spider-verse 

28:00 - Sony has an Xbox Game Pass rival codenamed ‘Spartacus’ launching in 2022

31:50 - ‘Nic Cage as Dracula’ is all you need you hear about this segment

34:45 - Tom Holland is going to continue playing Spider-Man until he’s 47 and Mark divides everything by 3

37:30 - RECOMMENDATIONS! Why isn’t anyone talking about Hawkeye? Mark loves tennis or some King idk, and Brick likes Super Crooks

46:00 - Succession talk, because we do what we want

49:20 - DRAFT TIME! Disney Princess death squad edition (don’t forget to vote @thechumpcast)

58:50 - REVIEW! A slow few weeks at the box office leads us to 8-Bit Christmas, and it might have been made specifically for us

1:05:40 - Next week, on The Chumpcast…

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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 272 of The Chumpcast! If nostalgia is your drug of choice, pack your pipe and enjoy the homage that is Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:10 - What if Smithers is an actual felon, Bulls fans travel, surviving the guillotine, and Halo returns

10:35 - Snooty Android users will get snooty emojis from snooty Apple users, losers everywhere rejoice and Jeff Bezos hands out complimentary colonoscopies

15:00 - TRAILERS! Live-action Halo is actually happening, Nightmare Alley is supposedly sans-magic, Turning Red looks adorably malicious, Riz Ahmed’s sanity is in question in Encounter, and enough Spider-Man: No Way Home

29:50 - The cast of the Harry Potter flicks is reuniting for the 20th anniversary of The Sorcerer’s Stone

31:50 - RECOMMENDATIONS! Mark opines on a live-action Cowboy Bebop and Smithers relives the glory of Tiger King

39:00 - DRAFT! First, a shitty movie suggestion from a listener and then we select the most iconic movie vehicles of all time

58:00 - REVIEW! Ghostbusters: Afterlife starring Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, McKenna Grace, and Finn Wolfhard

1:15:05 - Next time on The Chumpcast…

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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 271 of The Chumpcast! Mark and Smithers are holding it down this week as we discuss the latest starring The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot...it’s Red Notice.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:10 - Smithers is an unemployed piece of trash because he’s obviously a convicted felon or something

4:05 - We have agreed to keep hosting this show but only because YouTube has eliminated the Thumbs Down counter for our videos

14:45 - TRAILERS! Silent Night brings Kiera Knightley into dark comedy and Disney+ dumps first looks of She-Hulk, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, Baymax, and Secret Wars

20:20 - Let’s run through all of this Disney+ content that dropped this week, regardless of how good it looks

33:35 - RECOMMENDATIONS! Smithers is trudging through Succession and streaming Forza Horizon 5 while Mark watched a Boba Fett documentary

38:15 - DRAFT! In honor of another Dwayne The Rock Johnson triumph, we’re selecting the coolest characters that this big bald mountain of a man has played

52:20 - REVIEW! Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds, and The Rock team up for a very tropey heist flick

1:07:30 - Next week, on The Chumpcast...

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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 270 of The Chumpcast! We’re here to draft characters that have NO RIGHT to still be alive, plus a review of the latest Marvel blockbuster, The Eternals.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:10 - Mark tells us about the time he spent with JFK in Dallas this past weekend, plus Kid Rock’s bar

3:15 - No one cares about Aaron Rodgers and his stupid opinions

5:05 - TRAILERS! The Book of Boba Fett will save us, Swan Song looks complicated, Stranger Things is allegedly still coming, Moonfall looks dumb, but not as dumb as Morbius

20:50 - Zack Snyder keeps talking about his Army of Darkness spinoffs and they just keep sounding worse

26:45 - The next Spider-Man movie will reportedly run for 159 minutes. What’s too long for a movie?

28:40 - Seth Rogen is getting a Donkey Kong spin-off because nothing matters anymore

31:15 - I don’t know about you, but I when I think of Garfield the cat...I picture Chris Pratt’s face

33:30 - RECOMMENDATIONS! Forza Horizon 5 is BANGIN, Brick loved The Harder They Fall, and Mark checks in with The Long Halloween on HBO Max

42:45 - DRAFT TIME! Let’s field a team of characters who should DEFINITELY be dead by now

1:01:15 - BEST MAN ALIVE! Gather round, children, to hear the story of the Pole Assassin

1:06:20 - REVIEW! Let’s talk about Marvel’s latest blockbuster, The Eternals

1:20:10 - Spoilers for The Eternals, you’ve been warned!

1:29:00 - Next week, on The Chumpcast….

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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 269 of The Chumpcast! Army of Thieves caught us all off guard this week, so let’s talk our way through it.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:10 - Smithers is angry, Mark is mean, and Brick doesn’t care, so I guess everything is normal again. Also, video game updates and Nickelodeon brawls

9:25 - TRAILERS! Geralt of Rivia returns for Witcher S2, Buzz Lightyear might be a dirty cop, Wendell and Wild will reunite Key and Peele, and more Bebop

19:00 - Denis Villeneuve will get a chance to finish the movie that he released half of in Dune 2

22:40 - RECOMMENDATIONS! Inside Job on Netflix is a Rick and Morty clone, and that’s a good thing.  

We also talk Only Murders in the Building and Succession

27:30 - DRAFT! Heist crews, ASSEMBLE

39:30 - BEST MAN ALIVE! Everyone step aside, Brick has a headline dump for you

41:40 - REVIEW! Army of Thieves on Netflix was flat out surprising (in the best way)

52:00 - Next week, on The Chumpcast….

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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 268 of The Chumpcast! We're back from a week of conventioning to discuss Denis Villenueve's sci-fi epic, Dune.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:10 - Recapping our first convention in almost TWO YEARS and the painful realization that we’ll probably never make it to SDCC

11:20 - TRAILERS! DC FanDome brought us looks at the Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad games, Peacemaker, The Flash, The Batman, and plenty more. Also, Uncharted looks cool and so does Cowboy Bebop

32:50 - NEWS! Danny DeVito signs on for Haunted Mansion at Disney and Ryan Gosling will be the Ken to Margot Robbie’s Barbie

36:50 - RECOMMENDATIONS! Mark is finally onboard with Formula 1 and Smithers has a soft spot for bad sci-fi comedies like Ghosts

45:00 - BEST MAN ALIVE! A group of hackers is doing the Lord’s work by bringing Big Cotton Candy to its knees

49:15 - REVIEW! Denis Villenueve’s Dune is weird and pretty, but is it any good?

1:28:50 - Next time, on The Chumpcast….

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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 266 of The Chumpcast! It’s a final goodbye to Daniel Craig in James Bond: No Time to Die. Also, don’t forget that our LIVE show is happening at Wizard World Chicago this Friday, October 15th at 8 pm on the main stage. See you there!

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:10 - Mark can’t function without Insta, is also bad at fantasy football, and Smithers might be smelly kid

5:30 - Brick has joined the cult of lawn-supervising homeowners who watch the sprinkler and sip coffee

6:50 - Someone at Wizard World doesn’t know who we are, because they’re putting us on the big stage next Friday night

13:30 - Mark is going to Lambeau field, securing his new fandom of the Green Bay Packers because the Bears are leaving Chicago

17:20 - TRAILERS! A look and Peacemaker and his sidekick Eagley, House of the Dragon is better have some goddamned dragons, and this new Resident Evil flick looks absolutely brutal (in the bad way)

RECOMMENDATIONS! our resident Battlefield gamer stan, being a sucker for The Muppets and Steve Martin, and Anthony Bourdain’s stories rule

35:30 - DRAFT! Let’s see who can pull the most questionable spy gadgets out of their butts (ft creepy Remy)

56:00 - BEST MAN ALIVE! Would you believe that we had a consensus Best Ninja Alive? It definitely wasn’t because no one else did any research….

1:02:15 - REVIEW! Daniel Craig’s final ride as James Bond in No Time to Die

1:20:30 - SPOILERS for No Time to Die! You’ve been warned

1:28:50 - Next time, on The Chumpcast….

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Whhhhaats up ya’ll and welcome to episode 265 of The Chumpcast! It’s just Mark and Smithers this week, but that’s an ample cast to dismantle the disaster that was Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:15 - Welcome, cameras are dumb, pay for movers if you can, and a grown up Ikea furniture discussion

3:00 - Our old friend Uncle Kyle shits ALL OVER one of Mark’s draft picks

6:20 - Time doesn’t mean anything anymore and employers are dumb as hell

9:15 - TRAILERS! My Hero Academia has a full length theater experience coming, another “Best Animated Picture” contender coming from Disney, and INCREDIBLE live-action Cowboy Bebop intro, Army Of Thieves looks better than Army of the Dead, and and extra creepy Stranger Things trailer

22:10 - NEWS! ScarJo gets PAAAIIIID but we will never know how much, Mark loves Home Alone 3, Smithers has a blood feud with a 4 year old, and AppleTV+ has preemptively renewed Invasion

27:15 - RECOMMENDATIONS! A check in on a major precedent setting lawsuit triggered by Squid Game, Mark has a way to save you some cash, and Smithers is still a romantic for The Simpsons 

32:20 - DRAFT TIME! Who has the best list of iconic duos from TV and film and why is it Smithers?

45:20 - BEST MAN ALIVE! A man joins his own search party to find himself, the ultimate response to getting fired from your construction job, and a money making hamster name Mr. Gox

52:50 - REVIEW! Venom: Let There Be Carnage might have sucked, but we hope that you enjoyed it either way

1:03:50 - Next week, on The Chumpcast….

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