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Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 234 of The Chumpcast!  Get your fart sniffing wine glass ready because we got a doozy this week. Frances McDormand lives in a van down by the river in Nomadland and it’s getting all sorts of award season buzz. We’re definitely equipped to review this....

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:50 – Smithers is computer illiterate, while people younger than him are landing shit on Mars

4:55 – LISTENER TEXT QUESTION! Are we entering an age of good video game movies? Are there games that we want to see make the jump to the big screen?

9:30 – Brick has a new mortal enemy and it’s someone’s car alarm

10:35 – Okay, the murder part is over and we can get back to video game movies now

17:25 – Mark attempts to defend his honor; no one buys it

19:15 – TRAILERS! Mortal Kombat might actually be good despite corny dialog and stupid takes from media, The Snyder Cut LiVeS iN a SoCieTy even though people 4get about Ezra Miller’s assault, Lucky is another time loop movie with a slightly different kind of setting, Cruella proves that Emma Stone should be the next Joker, Kevin Can F*** Himself is a WandaVision spinoff, Invincible remains atop the list of cool upcoming shows

38:55 – J.J. Abrams is bringing a John Constantine show to HBO Max, but it better not interfere with a Keanu Reeves sequel

40:45 – Paddington Bear will once again bless the big screen with his adorable presence

43:30 – BEST MAN ALIVE – A miraculous birth in Indonesia after a very brisk gust of wind, cloning adorable but endangered species to grace our Insta timelines, and a dog that is richer than all of you combined

49:00 – NOMADLAND starring France McDormand and all the farts you could possibly sniff

1:03:15 – RECOMMENDATIONS! Smithers is going to need a divorce attorney after playing Super Mario 3D World with his wife, Mark liked Justin Timberlake in Palmer, and Brick is catching up on his Peyton Manning love

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Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 233 of The Chumpcast!  Something felt a little bit off this week, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Doesn’t matter, we have important work to do, because Nic Cage is out here released psychotic movies left and right. It’s time for Willy’s Wonderland.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:55 – Mark is the new resident alcoholic of The Chumpcast, and he was late as usual

2:15 – Probably the most boring Super Bowl ever, or DEFINITELY the most boring Super Bowl ever?

5:30 – The worst local foods associated with major cities and regions, including any possible stinky fallout

8:20 – Brick Carano has some thoughts about his favorite dictator

9:45 - VOICEMAILS! Thanks to those of you who sent us your stupid injury stories!

16:30 – TRAILERS GALORE! Happily stars Joel McHale and Kerry Bishe, Devil May Care is giving us more Alan Tudyk, Old is happening because people keep paying M Night Shyamalan, plus Falcon and Winter Soldier gives us all something to live another month for

26:45 – The Snyder Cut of Justice League is trying to sell you a meal kit to distract you from the bad Jared Leto Joker

30:35 – The Borderlands movie has added Jamie Lee Curtis and Jack Black to an already loaded cast, plus video game movie rankings

34:05 – Dan Harmon has yet another project to pull him away from more Rick and Morty

35:50 – More Face/Off? More Face/Off.

37:40 – HBO has announced their Ellie and Joel for the upcoming Last of Us TV show

40:50 – Voices that will ALWAYS be recognizable

42:05 – BEST MAN ALIVE! Gina Carano is now unemployed and Mark is the worst neighbor ever

49:10 – REVIEW! The long awaited Willy’s Wonderland, starring Saint Nicolas Cage

1:07:50 – RECOMMENDATIONS! A Glitch in the Matrix was actually pretty lame and Star Wars Battlefront 2 is currently free if you have a gaming PC

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Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 232 of The Chumpcast!  Let’s discuss our dumbest injuries, the demise of Bruce Willis’s career, and a movie that some of us absolutely loathed but maybe the rest of the crew didn’t.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:50 – This is it. The culmination of American sports. NASCAR IS BACK!

2:55 – What’s the dumbest injury you’ve ever inflicted on yourself? Enjoy our pain!

6:45 – Super Bowl talk, including whether or not Tom Brady sucks as a human and a story

11:20 – Armie Hammer is definitely (allegedly) a cannibal and has for sure (allegedly) eaten people

15:05 – Jose Canseco is still out there crying for attention, again via dumb boxing matches

19:45 – Smithers is a computer hypocrite

22:35 – TRAILERS! Justice Society: World War II, Cosmic Sin and the demise of Bruce Willis, Moxie from the mind of Amy Poehler, and Heavy starring Sophie Turner

34:20 – Save Yourselves! was a sleeper of 2020, and now it’s getting a TV spinoff

35:10 – Is there a Dracula/vampire story that hasn’t been told yet?

38:40 – RIP in peace to Christopher Plummer, who was most famous for voicing a character in An American Tail

40:45 – IDIOT TRIVIA SHOWDOWN! Name a movie with a dance sequence. GO!

43:05 – A true sequel to Cloverfield is coming, and it won’t be found-footage shaky cam

45:30 – Ryan Coogler of Black Panther and Fruitvale Station fame will develop a Wakanda based TV series for Disney+

48:40 – Who’s in for a comedic Batman-centric podcast coming to HBO Max? Once you see the cast list, you will want to tune in…

51:45 – BEST MAN ALIVE! The archetypal Florida man needs a ride home, a good friend sends us holiday cards, Brick calls in a fake 911 emergency, an amber alert for a Chucky doll, and Hitler’s long lost toilet seat

1:00:35 – REVIEW! Bliss starring Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek left something to be desired

1:10:15 – RECOMMENDATIONS! Earwig and the Witch is the newest Studio Ghibli joint, Brockmire is still brilliant, and Brick loves Boss Level because Frank Grillo is his hero

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Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 231 of The Chumpcast! This was probably my favorite episode in recent history, but I won’t spoil why. Let’s just say...it gets weird. Also, we review a flick with some TRUE star power: The Little Things, streaming now on HBO Max.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:50 – Billionaire Brick is here to save us all from poverty with his investing savvy

3:50 – Listener text question! Panda Claus asks: what’s it going to take for you to feel safe enough to get back in a movie theater?

9:25 – More stock market talk, because that’s the biggest news of the week. Remember: you haven’t made one thin dime until you sell your shares!

14:00 – Voicemail! Kyle asks: what bad movie will you defend to your dying breath, and why is it probably Power Rangers?

21:20 – Godzilla vs Kong trailer. Who ya got in a fight? Why? Is Godzilla a Lizard Person? Does King Kong have morals because he is a primate?

26:20 – SURPRISE TRIVIA! How many monster movies can you name in 30 seconds?

28:40 – Palm Springs is adding DVD-like commentary to the streaming options. Do you want to see more movie extra on streaming platforms?

30:00 – Not to be outdone by Netflix, HBO Max released their own montage of their upcoming exclusive flicks

32:30 – The Courier, a very Brick-style movie starring Buttercup CrustyPants

35:35 – The Mighty Ducks return in TV show form, including Emilio Estevez and WAIT WHO THE HELL ARE HIS PARENTS?

37:45 – Warner Bros is kicking around a TV series based in the world of Harry Potter. Pitch us the spinoff that you want to see

41:50 – George Clooney will play Buck Rogers in a miniseries written by Brian K Vaughn of Saga and Y The Last Man fame

43:45 – As of March 18th, we will be cursed with the plague that is the Snyder cut of Justice League

45:10 – BEST MAN ALIVE! A woman gets stabby after seeing an old picture of her with her husband, batshit crazy people continue to be elected into positions of power, a monolith speculation update, and a very creative way to catch a robber

53:15 – REVIEW! The Little Things starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto

1:08:30 – SPOILERS for The Little Things. You’ve been warned!

1:20:15 – RECOMMENDATIONS! Hitman 3, Magic for Humans “live” show, and Resident Alien on SyFy

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Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 230 of The Chumpcast! Jesus, that’s like…229 episodes too many, but thanks for downloading so you can listen to us argue about whether Christopher Nolan is a piece of shit. Also, we watched One Night in Miami and it was dope.

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TIMESTAMPS!

0:50 – Nothing interesting is happening, so we’re gonna need Brick to get into another car accident

3:30 – The trailer for Psycho Goreman put us all on full tilt. Too much genius for us to handle

5:55 – Let’s check in on our NFL predictions…

8:45 – What the hell is a well double?

15:10 –The Invincible sneak peek has us VERY excited, and apparently people still play Words with Friends

20:20 – Brick hits us with a surprise quiz show that proves how little we know about movies

24:30 – A movie about Nazi Zombies riding flying sharks, who says no?

27:00 – Mark is gonna LOVE Fate: The Winx saga on Netflix

28:45 – What movie are you looking forward to most? It doesn’t matter, because it’s been delayed (unless its Godzilla vs Kong)

34:45 – Christopher Nolan is still crying about Warner Bros releasing movies on HBO Max

44:10 – Ethan Hawke has been cast as the antagonist in the upcoming Moon Knight series

47:00 – Yet another Game of Thrones spinoff is coming, set 90 years prior to ASOIAF

51:15 – Matt Damon will return in Thor: Love and Thunder, so keep your eyes peeled

52:20 – BEST MAN ALIVE! What the hell is a “pick-up fee” for food? A world record long distance soccer goal, a man robs a grocery store for A MILLION DOLLARS, and an audacious armored truck robber

1:01:40 – AMBUSH TRIVIA PART DEUX, “the earth is in peril” edition

1:03:30 – REVIEW! One Night in Miami and some STELLAR acting

1:22:40 – RECOMMENDATIONS! Spycraft on Netflix shows you all the James Bond shit in real life, Disenchantment is back, Hitman 3 is bangin, and Mark catches up on The Queen’s Gambit

1:25:30 – Final showdown: who knows the least about movies!?

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Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 229 of The Chumpcast! Thanks for sticking with us while we took a week to reset. We’re back and dumber than ever! Let’s do a brief pop culture catch-up and get into Outside the Wire from Netflix.

TIMESTAMPS!

0:50 – Too late NFL bets and predictions, getting nervous about your favorite teams, and fantasy football in the playoffs is a terrible idea

6:20 – BIRTHDAY BOI BRICK! Steaks and WandaVision early reactions, Mark doesn’t shower, and a chaotic week off

8:30 – When did Rom Coms actually take off? Let’s ask a panel of idiots

12:30 – Myriad review options, so naturally Brick won’t shut up about Kobra Kai and also he is a huge bully

16:40 – Behind the scenes reasons why we didn’t record last week, including lying liars, and our personal draft for the SB LV champ

20:30 – TRAILERS! A Netflix pissing contest of a trailer featuring a movie a week amid increasing prices, Willy’s Wonderland starring psycho Nic Cage, Tom Holland is a coy bank robber in Cherry, and Owen Wilson and Selma Hayek in Bliss

34:30 – Chris Evans Cap is back maybe? Or he isn’t, but maybe that’s a good thing. Who really knows?

38:20 – MOORTAAAL KOOOMBAAAAAT (first look)

40:20 – Disney is teaming up with Bethesda and Ubisoft to bring us an open-world Star Wars game and an Indiana Jones action game

42:30 – BEST MAN ALIVE! Featuring the best pigeon survivor and the investigation of his origins, Russian Space Gecko overlords, and comically inept robbers who lack inner monologue

51:20 – REVIEW! Outside the Wire on Netflix starring Anthony Mackie and Damson Idris

1:06:20 – RECOMMENDATIONS! Brick once again won’t shut up about Kobra Kai, Letterkenny is back for season 9, Mr. Mayor gives us more Ted Danson, and Mark loves The Night Stalker

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Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 228 of The Chumpcast! Happy New Year, chumps! Let’s take a minute to look back on some of the non-shitty things that happened during the simulation that was 2020, all before reviewing the latest Pixar hit, Soul.

TIMESTAMPS!

0:40 – Believe it or not, there were some decent things that happened to us in 2020, including a very cool one this week

5:20 – Mark’s birthday present was bad gambling advice

10:20 – Billion dollar app idea: Schlibly

11:15 – Some of our favorite podcast memories and memes of 2020

17:20 – TRAILERS! Superman and Lois coming to The CW, a documentary on whether we live in a simulation (plus bonus conspiracies!), Coming 2 America and stand-up comedy, and The Little Things shows off three Oscar winners

34:45 – Just hours after we dismantled Wonder Woman 1984 on the show, it was announced that Patty Jenkins would return to direct a third entry

39:50 – James Gunn laughed at the idea of The Peacemaker HBO series appearing on the CW due to its R-rated nature

41:05 – Ray Fisher is still pissed about Justice League and says he won’t return as Cyborg

42:45 – The Sun reports that Matt Reeves is running all of the actors from The Batman into the ground, and they are PISSED

45:10 – BEST MAN ALIVE! A real life Batman gadget with some hefty engineering, a Florida man who clearly loves his meth, Brick plans a prank that will land Smithers in prison for life, and the Mayo Bowl savior

56:45 – Brick springs a surprise test of movie knowledge on two unassuming idiots, chaos and insults ensue

1:02:05 – REVIEW TIME! Pixar’s Soul, starring Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey

1:21:15 – RECOMMENDATIONS! Mark is digging in to a Grant Morrison Batman omnibus, Smithers watched Death to 2020 on Netflix, and Brick is preparing himself for Hitman 3

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Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 227 of The Chumpcast! Hope you enjoyed your holidays, but now it’s time to get back to work, and we brought in an actual bona fide movie buff this time. That’s right, it’s Joe from GuyAtTheMovies.com and he is here to help us break down all of Wonder Woman 1984.

TIMESTAMPS!

0:50 – Weirdest Christmas ever? We sure hope so

4:05 – Our friend Joe from Guy at the Movies is here to add actual film knowledge

5:20 – TRAILERS! Including Lapsis, an indie film about a guy who lays cable and the next Studio Ghibli movie, Earwig and the Witch

13:00 – Millie Bobby Brown is teaming up with the Russo Brothers for an adaptation of The Electric State, which is guaranteed to get a theatrical release

14:05 – What does the future of theaters even look like? Will the Academy influence studios to push theatrical releases?

24:05 – Kevin Feige has given us the first series synopsis of the She-Hulk Disney+ series

26:00 – Kobra Kai is a blind spot for this show, but we’ve heard good things and season 3’s release date has been pushed up to January 1st

27:00 – If you had to give up a streaming service, which one would it be and why?

29:30 - BEST MAN ALIVE! Featuring taxi cab pups, Goku Ultra Instinct statues at the bottom of the ocean, a born and raised West Philadelphian philanthropist, and a former Simpsons writer answering important questions on Twitter

36:30 – Wonder Woman 1984 SPOILER FREE synopsis and review

48:20 – SPOILERS for Wonder Woman 1984. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!

1:14:15 – RECOMMENDATIONS! Obviously we all watched Soul on Disney+, Joe enjoyed Promising Young Woman and Let Them All Talk, Mark is reading King and Black and Silver Surfer, and Smithers just can’t quit Cyberpunk 2077

Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 226 of The Chumpcast! It’s almost Festivus, and I’ve got a lot of problems with you people. Also, I’m gonna talk WAY too much about season 2 of The Mandalorian. Enjoy!

TIMESTAMPS!

0:40 – The airing of grievances begins with tardiness, plus Zoom based scavenger hunts

4:35 – Mark is scared to download Cyberpunk and it has been pulled from the PS Store

10:35 - Too late NFL bets! Is Derrick Henry an alien? Is Brick clairvoyant?

15:00 – TRAILERS! Anthony Mackie is a cyborg maybe in Outside the Wire, Alan Tudyk hides in plain sight in Resident Alien, part 3 of Disenchantment is upon us, and Mike Tyson fights The Mountain in Dethert Thtrike

28:15 – Chris Pine is rumored to be the handsome and charming lead man in a Dungeon and Dragons movie

33:30 – Netflix is discussing an audio-only streaming option to save data for users. Anyone interested?

36:30 – A Borderlands movie is rumored to be in the works and Kevin Hart is obviously attached. Also, who is the snitch in the Super Mario universe?

39:20 – BEST MAN ALIVE! Ho Ho Hold on to your drugs because Santa is coming for you, a Space Force soldier on a mission from God, and a man who truly loves his pornography

47:30 – REVIEW! SPOILERS for Mandalorian Season 2 and a full breakdown! If you hate spoilers, then go away. Huge spoilers, but we’re gonna get weird with it…

1:29:00 – RECOMMENDATIONS! Brick is still deep into Cyberpunk, Smithers is deep into Clone Wars, and Mark loves beer

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Whaaats up everyone and welcome to episode 225 of The Chumpcast! We’ve made the executive decision to replace Mark with someone who actually knows about Star Wars, comic books, and specifically DC properties. We think you’ll be happy with the decision. Also, Joe Mankey Manganiello is a crazy guy in Archenemy.

TIMESTAMPS

0:50 – A very warm welcome for Elise the Scourge of Carpathia

3:45 – Cyberpunk 2077 has fully stolen our free time, and we’re cool with that

7:45 – There are rumors circulating that might make DC fans extremely angry

11:15 – Parts of being a hobo might actually be kinda….cool?

12:00 – TRAILERS! A salacious and seductive chicken-based love triangle, Nobody gives us Bob Odenkirk as a John Wick wannabe, and Disney crushing us with Star Wars and Marvel Trailers

35:10 – All of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man actors are reportedly returning for the next Tom Holland reprisal, plus possibly Charlie Cox’s Daredevil

38:55 – A Toy Story movie, but subtract the toys and add in Chris Evans

43:25 – Let’s take exactly 15 seconds to recognize that FX is bringing us an Alien show

43:40 – Disney has announced Rangers of the New Republic and Ahsoka Tano live-action series

47:25 - Hayden Christensen is back, baby! He doesn’t like sand. It’s all coarse and rough and irritating, just like Star Wars fans

48:05 – Patty Jenkins of Wonder Woman fame will direct Rogue Squadron, the next Star Wars theatrical release

50:35 – Marvel is once again ready to hurt us with another Fantastic Four movie

53:25 – This is where we threw the remainder of the Disney/Marvel/Star Wars news because the host got tired of making them separate stories

56:45 – BEST MAN ALIVE! Featuring possible involuntary erections, promises of vaccine distribution for mind control, and the aforementioned Harden Christensen

1:03:55 – MOVIE REVIEW! Archenemy starring Joe Manganiello and Glenn Howerton

1:17:30 – RECOMMENDATIONS! Always Sunny gets a 4 season extension, called Crossover by Donnie Cates, and The Scumbag by Rick Remender

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