What makes a great travel destination? What do we like about visiting a new place? 

We briefly mention some of our favorite places that we’ve visited and then discuss our top 3 places that we'd like to visit eventually. 

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We recently saw A24's Everything Everywhere All At Once and we wanted to chat about it. 

Let us know what you thought if you've seen it! thanks for listening, watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmyDf4ZP_nOMa75J5WNSTqA

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creativite outlets play a big role in each of our lives, and they are essential to being a happy, healthy person. along with the most obvious ones, creative outlets can also look like: graphic design, music, visual art, writing, creating events / spaces, woodworking, home projects, interior design, crafts (jewelry making, creating home products, etc), lawn work / landscaping, mixology, and so much more!

a 2010 American Journal of Public Health study found:

doing something you enjoy lowers blood pressure, stress, and BMI

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804629/

Arts therapy has been recognized as a profession since 1991, and creative outlets can provide a "break" from mental fixation on negative things (a comment a   co-worker made, family issues, etc). You're able to express feelings that are hard to put into words. 

we dive into one of each of our creative passions or projects, those being: writing/playing music, writing stories and scripts, and making a podcast! we answer questions about them like:

what do you personally "gain" from it?

is the hard work of culling through ideas and toiling on them worth it? (it's not always easy or "fun")

what are some things it has taught you?

do they change with the seasons of our lives?

do you have to do the creative thing for a living? 

what does getting your identity from your creative pursuits look like? is that healthy?

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Analog - relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity such as spatial position, voltage, etc. | exists in the physical world 

Digital - expressed as series of the digits 0 and 1, typically represented by values of a physical quantity such as voltage or magnetic polarization 

We discuss why/how the distinction had to start being made in the first place, and talk about what we enjoy doing analog and what we enjoy doing digitally? topics discussed: Writing a Letter vs Sending an Email 

Digital Currency vs Money/Check 

Vinyl vs Streaming 

Projected Film vs Digital Projection 

Physical Art vs Graphic Art 

In person socialization vs just online 

Board games vs video games 

Film photography vs digital 

Physical books vs e-readers

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A movie can be bad for a lot of reasons, but what makes a hilariously bad movie? What is the difference between a boring bad movie (all the money in the world) and a bad movie that is still entertaining? 

Wrap up:e movies get a bigger presence online nowadays thanks to things like Rifftrax and Red Letter Media?

We discuss movies like The Room, Spiderman 3, the Star Wars prequels, Birdemic, Moonfall, 15:17 to Paris, and Last of the Mohicans. 

Does the experience of a funny bad movie make it better? (Who you see it with/making fun of it together) any specific memories about an experience like this?

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In this episode we'll talk about all things Halo Infinite! From its delays, to its E3 debut, to its eventual surprise release, we'll be unpacking our initial reactions and how we feel the game is right now.  This is the first Halo game that is supposed to be a "live service" and we'll talk about how 343 is handling that, as well as the multiplayer part of the game with our good friend Gabe from TheWannabeCritic! 

The current state of the multiplayer: desync issues, ranking system convoluted, no new maps, BP not living up to the hype, etc leave a lot to be desired... and we definitely talk about that.  The campaign has a lot going for it: "open world" style for the first time, spartan upgrade system, engaging combat mechanics... but the problem is its $60 on its own now. Is that worth it? 

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In this episode we showcase a few of our favorite vinyl records in our collection! some of them we love for the story of when we got them, some because of the vinyl color, and some for multiple reasons! 

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this started as “why do comedies suck now?” Mainly thinking of Judd Apatow style broad comedies, but we thought it’d be more interesting to compare the quality of comedy movies to comedy tv shows.

Do we think comedy is just harder to do well because people have so many different senses of humor? If so, do the current movie trends just not match up with our tastes?

Do we feel like there’s been a decrease in the quality of comedy films? What kinds of comedies do we feel like are terrible/why? Also has the number of comedies decreased?

Does comedy naturally work better on tv? Why or why not?

comedies we've enjoyed lately: Death of Stalin, Licorice Pizza, Free Guy, Nobody, The Fatman, JoJo Rabbit, Lady Bird, Spiderman: No Way Home, The Nice Guys

all-time favorites: Hot Rod, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scott Pilgrim VS the World, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Walk Hard, The Big Lebowski, Super Troopers, Corneto Trilogy

We just got out of the theater and are excited to talk about The Batman! We start with a spoiler-free section and give ample warning before we start talking with spoilers. 

Matt Reeve's take is super interesting and different from any other Batman portrayal thus far, and it was a fun watch... but not all of us agreed on it when we walked out of the theater. 

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