Today we have a special episode, inspired by an internet post claiming that The Towering Inferno is the greatest disaster movie of all times, we test that hypothesis by watching and discussing the three greatest of the genre from the same period, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Earthquake.   Join us as we spoil our way through action, adventure, romance, fire, foods, crumbling buildings, tidal waves and every A list actor of the era!  

The movies:

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Earthquake (1974)

And the Incidentals…

Escape from the Planet of The Apes

Cutting Class

Taking of Pelham 123

The Odd Couple

Die Hard

There Italian Job

Glass Onion

Knives Out

Momento

Volcano

Fall

Other Stuff…

How the SVB Crisis reflects Human Nature in a crisis

Wokeness, Blazing Saddles, All in the Family, The Jeffersons and the work of Norman Lear

Cocaine Bear

And Movies we didn’t like:

Licorice Pizza

Dead Ringers

Popeye

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While Curtis is away, I continue to play!  Join me, Nina Levinson and Jason Rochlin as we talk about movies we’ve already talked about but with different people!

Spoilers happen, so you’ve been warned!

We discuss:

• 3000 Years of Longing

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It’s Lucky 13 where our heroes Spoil Menus, Whales, Banshees, Women Kings, Glass Onions and 1883.  It’s Life, The Universe and Everything plus Expensive Vacations, all the things that entertain us!

Spoilers happen…. You have been warned!

We discuss:

Alec Baldwin gets charged with involuntary manslaughter for the Rust shooting

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opinion/alec-baldwin-rust-5th-amendment.html

Oscar Nomination Scandal

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/business/media/andrea-riseborough-oscars-campaign.html

And the movies/shows:

• Amsterdam

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Take a couple of months off, and what do you get?  Broken Cars, Broken Feet, Tech Jobs Collapse, Ye implodes, Twitter Chaos,  Avatar, Babylon and Everything, Everywhere All At Once…. 

We got Spoilers!  

In today’s episode, we mention…

• Avatar

and

https://www.sothatshowyoudothat.com

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In today’s episode…. Jeff Auditions for a movie and Curtis takes apart his car!  We talk about Bullet Train, Fall, and The Sandman.  Jeff finally watches Ted Lasso and we talk even more StarTrek!   

We’re so full of spoilers this week that we curdle milk!

What we talk about:

• Thor - Love and Thunder

In today’s episode, our great American crisis is over as Jeff finally gets around to seeing Top Gun,  We catch up on a metric ton of shows, both on the big and little screens as well as talk about fixing the front end of your car using cable ties!

Spoilers are an inherent part of our lives here so be forewarned!  

Covered in this episode:

• Thor: Love and Thunder

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This Episode, Mr. Preston continues his service to our community as a Poll worker in the California State Primary and We talk all things podcasting…. Hear how the sausage gets made !

In this episode, we talk about:

• Curtis the poll worker

• Backup Central’s Restore it All  (BackupCentral.com)

And the Tools we talk about: 

• Hardware:

• Audio Technica ATR-100 (https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/microphones/wired)

• Zencastr (https://zencastr.com/)

• PodBean (https://www.podbean.com)

• Bitly (https://bitly.com)

And find about all my projects in the garage…. https://www.jrocksgarage.com/projects

In this week’s episode…. Jeff got covid… We talk about Military Challenge Coins… The USS Iowa and Mr. Prestons Service to our country.  We saw a screening of 1972’s “The French Connection” Complete with a live interview with its director., The state of the streaming wars and the slow crawl back to Cable TV… Curtis talks about his experiences with  Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, The Ambulance, The Northman, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent!

If you like Spoilers, this is definitely the place to be…. 

Tonight… We talk about:

Challenge coins, The USS Iowa, and Curtis’ Service

Academy screening of The French Connection

Netflix subscriber base takes a dump, Streamers and the slow crawl back to the Cable TV Model again

Plus, the movies:

Everything, everywhere all at once

Ambulance

The Northman

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

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In Tonight’s episode, we discuss the slap heard round the world, turning memorials into dance numbers, and other highlights of the 94th Academy Awards.  The Oscars never fail to excite an audience! 

We’ll discuss Ross Douthat’s article pronouncing movies dead, Curtis tells us about The Lost City and I ramble on about how many reels it takes to send a movie out to theatres in the old days.  

Spoilers… What the heck are those?  

Tonight… We talk about:

CODA Wins !

Will Smith Makes Oscar History !

The gospel of the dead list

Ross Douthat pronounces movies dead in the New York Times

In the old days…

and

The Lost City

This week on the podcast…. Jeff sounds like he’s in a fishbowl…. And our special guest Jason Rochlin joins the chat!  

We’re talking Oscar Nominations, The Batman, Citizen Kane, The Foo Fighters make a horror movie and how best to time that Bio Break when you’ve laid down that Jackson for your ticket and popcorn! 

Remember this is not a political show and never forget that spoilers are a way of life in here!

In This Episode:

• Gas Prices Suck!