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capture humans. Uh. Speaking about humans capturing things, She's captured our hearts,
minds and our attention. Lucy James, call me Depresso. That's my
powwell pal name. And speaking about Depresso, he's here, folks, Jeff
Bank, I'm not depressed. I'm just people depressed. I call you,
I call you, I call you the dipresso espresso. You do depresso espresso
depression. You don't say that. You don't say that to my face?
Did you just say that behind my back? Mostly mostly like and people around
revelation. Who's got power? World? In the in the in the fantasy
is what I want to know? Think he stole it from me? It
sucks to suck, I guess Charlie Brown coated like you see Like, No,
I can't be every fucking cartoon. I can't be every cartoon. Okay,
I'm mister slate. I'm fucking who is the guy C three p O
who's essentially a cartoon? Let's be honest. Uh no more of these?
Please? Can't you are Charlie Brown coded as? I know what think you?
I think I think you think I'm a fucking like uh southern like hunter
hillbilly like? Uh, actually, what are we doing? Maybe there's something
else going on here, folks, There's something else. There's another conspiracy at
play here. You're all projecting your freakish little character uh cartoon uh you know
likes into me. Can you imagine Jeff bugs bunny? It works perfectly?
No, it doesn't it. Damn you are actually wrong with that take.
How about that? I gotta go pick up my kid. Where's this fucking
rabbit? That's not Elmer fun Elmer fudd is like, I'm hunting rabbits,
that's what Elmer? So were you talking about? Sean? Can you please
iow that clip later? Thank you? My fucking christ all right, can
we just entertain the Charlie Brown thing real quick? Who's the Snoopy of the
crew? Then Snoopy? Okay, it was Rory. It was for sure
Rory. No, Rory would be the dude with like the cloud the dirt
cloud around them. I feel like, yeah, he didn't wear like shoes
either, right, Like actually no, no, no, no, Someone
twitchat Jay Train said Janice Snoopy, which I actually agree with because yeah,
cool dude. Also, you got like the Joe cool stuff going on,
Red Baron. You're jan of many of many talents. Sean is my woodstock?
Then yeah? Wow? And then were you I would be you would
be losing, would be because you would be I don't know, Tam,
who's the who's the person who turns his back on all of his friends in
Charlie Brown Happy, I got that character. Definitely not Lioness. You know
you're thinking that, just say Franklin. Okay, just say has to be
Franklin. Franklin just like not is that what it is? Everyone in Giant
Bomb chat says that Tam is actually Lucy and that's true because she's like an
h the chaos, right, it would be like the football the way Yep,
that's you, tim What the hell is Charlie Brown's sister called Lucille or
something? No, Sherman, No, just like the little like Franklin's father
was a soldier fighting in Vietnam. Jesus, that's how the peanuts are.
I didn't realize it went that deep with the mister shoals. We still got
to go to that music. We have to go to the museum, Yes,
we have to. What's the what's the other van Pelt's name? Is
it Scott van Pell? He does sports center. No, because there's a
little younger brother, isn't there whose little brother Linus Linus and Lucy? Yeah
yeah, yeah, but there's another one, isn't that You think of Schroeder.
Here's the one that Charlie Brown. I didn't go to Catholic school,
so I didn't look there's okay, it's because like no one remembers this dude
rerun Van Pell. Oh my god, Lucy, I'm sorry. Charlie Brown
sucks your whole You watched I watched that Christmas Ship the other like one of
the other seasons. It is so Christmas dull and boring and fucking depressing.
It's like, yeah, that's why it's Oh, that's why you like it.
And I'm mister Depresso myself as Depresso, call me, call me a
Depresso Martini. I'm right, everyone says I'm right. I'm right. I
want to be read back. You've heard it. You've heard it, Charlie
Brown. The musical is also very good. To check it out. It's
fun, folks. So we're here today. We're actually not going to talk
about you're we're actually not going to talk about video games on this video game
podcast slash website. Uh grub. You threw this in the idea or in
the idea hopper for BCR topics this week Best Things top ten things that are
not games, And I get down with this because you need to be a
fully fleshed out person to be a whole person, right, well rounded person's
that's the perfect circle that Indiana Jones movies. There we go a mix.
I mixed it a few things there so and not gonna lie this idea.
I think we were also throwing it around during our Monday meeting, partially inspired
by the Slash filmcast shouts out the christ gents. Shall we get on with
the list? Yeah? Absolutely? Should we go one through ten for all
of us? Or like take turns, serpenteectors go around the room, all
right, grub Would you feel comfortable starting? Absolutely? Yeah. I'm gonna
start with with a book, Going Infinite by Michael Lewis. I like all
Michael Lewis's books. He's the one that did like The Big Short and stuff
like that. I've recommended in a few places. This is the one about
Sam Bateman Freed. It is it documents sort of his rise and then the
very sudden collapse. Although there were a lot of hints and a lot of
signs if you were paying attention about how that was going to go down,
It's mostly a profile of a person who's like completely just has no interest in
any sort of rules or any sort of doing things by the book and keeping
things above board. It's like, yeah, there's there's like seven billion dollars
dollars around here somewhere, we'll find it and that's not really great for a
finance And they tell us the whole story of that, and it was really
really fascinating, just like, Oh, Michael Lewis's books are one day it'll
probably be a movie. You'll get to watch it that way, But I
really like it reading his books. Do you read shoot books or like ebooks
audiobooks? I most have did a lot of audiobooks most of the time,
but for these I usually do the thing where it's like I have the audiobooks
synced with the shoot book on an e reader. Yeah, and then yeah,
do both that That sounds neat? Okay, Yeah, I did that
with what was the project Hail Mary, the one from the guy that did
the Martian? Did that that? Yes? Hmm okay, okay, this
this you know, I say every year is going to be a big book.
Here, I legitimately think this year is going to be a big book.
Here, let's do it. I moved from good Reads to StoryGraph.
If you like apps that kind of track your your reading. And I really
like story graph because it looks so much more esthetically pleasing. Well, is
like track you like, use it to track your books? Yeah, so
you can do stuff that you want to read, stuff that you're reading,
and then the it also gives you insights on your reading habits. But you
can import all your good Reads information, so it's cool. And also you
can track how far you're along by the page, which I like. Oh
that's cute. I wow, I'm surprised you haven't put together some sort of
notion situation for this, Lucy. I'm disappointed. Jeff Bakla, what is
your number one thing? I don't really have one, but I just wrote
a bunch of things that I really enjoyed Brown Behavior. That's not Charlie Brown
looks. It just sounds concul all the time. I really like the film
Poor Things, And even though I saw it in technically in twenty twenty four,
it came out in twenty twenty three, so I'm using it in my
list. It was phenomenal. It made me believe in filmmaking again. It
restored all my faith in that medium, and I'm very happy that this was
allowed to get made. I think that's the biggest challenge is getting artistic stuff
getting off the ground. And this is the most one of the strangest mainstream
things I've ever seen, and I'm very happy it exists. I'm very happy
I got made. I don't want to say anything about it because I just
think it's too good to spoil. So I will just say it's a phenomenal
piece of work from start to finish, really a really sort of smart way
of of of communicating some important themes and notions. And I'm very happy it
is a thing. So if you have not seen it, go see it.
I don't know if it's out like on streaming stuff. I was right,
yeah, so I was able to check it out in like a screening
kind of thing, so you know, I'm cool whatever, and yeah,
go see it. It's amazing, it's phenomenal. Or wait till it comes
out to streaming it's great. Agree a couple of weeks ago and it was
phenomena. Hey, uh, not to spoil anything, but Emma Stone's outfits
in that movie, Oh my god, Like it's just one of forty thousands,
Like it's just uh, you know, some of the imagery is just
so ethereal and like like you're just like, man, how did that come
out? How? Like you You're like, okay, I could. It's
it's like you have these things in your head, right, You're like,
Wow, I wish the thing that I'm picturing in my head could be seen
by everyone else. And it seems like they did that. It seems like
they were able to somehow like print out cognitive abstract stuff and that to me
it was like wow, and I saw its stone cold, sober. Okay,
is anyone else a little bit scared hearing Jeff talk so positively about something?
Yeah, I don't like that. How do I talk about Cowboy Bebop?
Come on? It's you know, come on? So but yes,
like, please go see poor Things. I don't know if it's winning things.
I think it's nominated for a Bunch of the Globe Globe okay choice as
well? Yeah, all right, it's it's so good and I love Rama
Yusef is in it as well. I love Rama use and I thought I
thought so I did not know it. It's a funny movie, like I
think I found myself laughing. Again, we're already saying too much. If
you if you like the favorite, The Lobster, The Great written by the
same guy, directed by the guy who directed the movies. It's I think
it's your gros's best movie. Oh yes, I would agree. I would
have watch them. Wait, should go for the bottom and work our way
up, Jane. No, yeah, the first thing on my list I
should see. I gotcha. This is an unordered list in terms of my
ten, but mine is also a movie. We talked about this actually last
week, I believe on voicemail dumb Truck. The first thing on my list
is Past Lives. Oh I forgot to put it on my list. Oh
no, No, I was on a plane and I cried. I wept.
I distinctly remember before we all got on the train, we met in
the office, and then Lucy had asked me have I seen Past Lives?
And I told her, if you have ever been in a situation where you
had a childhood crush or a very close friend, fucking absolutely avoid that movie.
And yeah, I talk about a fucking directorial debut. Gretel's fucking murders
in that movie. I forget the Korean actor's name, but absolute fucking powerhouse
of a movie. Just feeling absolutely devastated and empty, but also kind of
content with it. It's one of those feelings that I tend to try and
chase of breaking myself down completely and destroying myself so I can rebuild and just
look at the puzzle pieces that was me. Whoa Jesus. And it's a
very quick movie. It's like a tight ninety, very small cast. You
can sit through it. I believe it is own streaming now past lives.
But also if you were recently getting over a relationship or something similar to that,
maybe avoided for a little stay away, right, Yeah, yeah,
you recommended it on a podcast or something, and then I'm like, oh,
Stace, let's watch it. She's like, I watched it ready,
and then I'm just like, well, I guess I can't watch it now.
Kind of how it works in my house fair enough. But yeah,
tight ninety and more about those tight nineties. Let's get in and out.
We've got things to do, people to see, food to eat. Tight
nineties. Let's go some more. You saying, oh, I'll continue the
theme of doing movies and say Godzilla minus one. Yeah, what incredible film.
I feel like most people know Godzilla for the Western versions of the character.
Sadly, but obviously, the people in the creators in Japan have a
much closer connection to why Godzilla is meaningful. Unlike most Western audiences or movie
makers who are like big thing stompy stompy, this is like Japan still has
a surprisingly, all these years later, an incredible ability and knack for exploring
the symbolism and the theme behind Godzilla in a way that is far more meaningful
than anything anyone outside of that territory can do. And it's a companion kind
of film to Shin Godzilla, which I think is also incredible. Shin Godzilla
is about how bureaucracy kind of holds up the process of protecting people and solving
the issue of a giant being monstrosity just suddenly appearing and the entire time like
that, you just you see how inept big government and is to deal with
stuff like that, and how like personal egos take over. Godzilla minus one
is the flip side of that, where it is the same situation, but
instead of the government and authorities doing it, the people have come to terms
with the fact that the government is incapable of doing it, and it's just
a small group of ordinary being, ordinary human beings just trying to figure out
how they can deal with this seemingly insurmountable challenge, and the way they kind
of weave the story of a Kamakazi pilot, Japanese Kamakazi pilot who kind of
abscondes and doesn't fulfill his duty and has to live with the shame of that
and how they give him an arc of redemption and how it ties into the
appearance of Godzilla. Is it is like writing and cinema on a level that
is just like, yeah, it sort of redeems the whole country in a
way, Like the way that they dealt with that, not just the pilot
himself, they like tie that together really well. It's very very moving.
I saw people compared to Top Gun set, the recent Top Gun in terms
of like it's its ability to get to emotions, and it's like, well,
yes it does that, but on a whole other level, it's like
a way above that. Even Yeah, is fantastic. Lucy James, Hello,
So I'm gonna take us out of the movie book zone. I'm gonna
go music. So last year I really got into the band Health and they
released a new album just before Christmas called rat Wars and I think everyone knows
me. I'm a very big Nani Nails fan, and I think, yeah,
yeah, go on, go on. Yeah. And my gateway was
a friend of mine who said, hey, Nina Nails did a song with
this band called Health. Started listening to it, mechanized, Yep, you
absolutely clocked it? Is it because the clad with Reznor And so that's why
I started listening to it. And then I started listening to a bunch of
their stuff. And I think last year was when I kind of got really
more into way more into Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, bands like that cool
I don't know how to say the name put to a B or something.
I don't know it Persurbator, yes, that one. And so I'm trying
to be my My thing is that like I will listen to the same music
over and over again, Like my Spotify wrapped every year is some collaboration,
some some mix of Interpol, beck In Excess, nine Inch Nails and maybe
Maximo Park anyway, So super glad to find Health really just great music to
just work to my favorite genre. Yeah, but also just like there are
something that you just can't help but sing along to. Super excited. We've
got tickets to go see them in April, and I am stoked and yeah,
and like they did the Maxi Pain three soundtrack, they I don't know.
I think the kind of industrial music just really works with the way that
my brain does. And yeah, the tagline is horny music for sad people.
And I my Gav Murphy friend of our, has got me a shirt
that just says that, and so I'm stuck. That was That's my musical
thing. Also, I'm super super annoyed because my we were supposed to go
see Gary Numan last year, oh wow, and then my cat got sick
and I couldn't go wow. And so I'm super super sad because I really
don't want to go see Gary Newman. I think he's touring again actually,
so maybe maybe this year I will finally get to get to go. I
have seen Carpet's a Brute live years ago, but I don't really Olama.
I love Carpenter. Yeah, I'll add them to my my list. I'm
definitely this year. I'm trying to do In twenty twenty one, I did
a no replay, no no rewatch year to kind of try to push me
to do more things and just rely on the same old things, and I'm
trying to do that less, not as intensely as I did it in twenty
twenty one, but I'm trying to do that more in twenty twenty four,
like experience like that new thing sat music for morning people. That was it.
Yeah, I've grown back to you, sir. Yeah, I am
going to go with a streaming service, ESPN Plus, which is I actually
have part of like Disney and Hulu and ESPN Plus, and I like it
because it's enabled me to watch a lot of hockey. It's been Yeah,
it's just included with the ESPN Plus and I've been able to watch every Red
Wings game because of it. I'm out of the Detroit market, so it
means it shows up on there for me, and I've watched every single game
for the last several years. But it's just like the service is surprisingly good.
It's you know, it's a streaming app, so it's not it's not
perfect. You will get encounter some airs every now and again, but for
the most part, it works like ninety five percent of the time, and
I'm really happy with it because it's like I don't have to try to track
down these games illegally online or I don't have to try to subscribe to some
super expensive service. It's like now it's just built right in here, and
it's it's been real nice. I think twenty twenty three was a year where
I'm like, I'm just gonna let myself get back into sports. I don't
have a ton of time for a lot of other hobbies. Sports are these
things where it's like they come around, come around, and it feels like
something I'm I can make an appointment to go watch and it breaks up the
monotony of everything else that I have to do that is very routine, and
it' say, okay, this is something to get excited about. And having
this as an option to make it very easy to keep up with one of
my teams has been fantastic. The monotony, the monati even to any yes,
Jeff Beckler back to me, what about did you go We're going down?
Like the discord window on the BombCast layout here, I would like to
call out drums. Drums were in the in the just as in the instrument,
as in the instrument. I Uh, this time last year, UH
got for my birthday a virtual a digital drum set and uh it's uh it's
it's changed my life in a very positive way. Has it changed stacey'son of
negative one? Uh? You know what, I want you to talk to
her. I will, and you ask her how it's going, how it's
been going, and she would I think she would give you an overwhelmingly positive
review of how it's been going. Now, Look, it's it's digital,
so like I can put headphones on and no one can hear me play really
so like I didn't get an acoustic drum set because I'm not a fucking animal.
I can't. I can't do that to my family and my dog,
right, But no, like, uh, you know, I think I've
talked about this, like I've I've had him for a while, Like I
it's something I've just kept up with and uh and I'm okay, like I'm
I'm, I'm, I'm I'm good enough to just like keep a beat and
like do the thing. And it's become like a real sort of like bonding
thing with the family and friends when they come over. We just listen to
a lot of music and play along with a lot of songs. And it's
just something I've alway wanted to do, just to like noodle around on it,
and it's, uh, it's been great. I love it. It's
great to blow off steam. I feel like Joe from Empire Records a lot
good and great, where he's just like, oh, I'm upset, I'm
gonna go in my office and do a bed like sort of drumming to that
a CDC song. But I've put that song on my playlist and I've been
doing that as well, So yeah, it's great. I don't know what
else to say. I think get it, you know, like it's just
fun to uh listen to new music and revisit old music where you're like,
I think I can play this nice nice, and you know, it's like
three decades of air drumming is actually teach me to keep rhythm in a weird
way. So there you go. Drums number two on my list, Number
two on my list. It's awesome music related. I got all the way
into Noah Khan this past year, in twenty twenty three. I'm a big
fan of stomp clapping music, so anything sounds adjacent to the Lumineers or Mumford
and Sons right fucking Alley, Oh my god, really, I fucking love
folksy Sad White people music man. Yeah, it's sad like the Whites exactly.
Yeah, Oh that's okay. I think I knew that though I guess
the whole jam it sounds okay. It's track just tracks track. Yeah,
it's more country and less folksy. But if you heard the album by Robert
Plant and Alison Kraus, No Raising Suns, I think it's called it is
okay one of the best albums. It's one of my favorite albums of all
time. Their voices are so beautiful together. And if you just want to
feel sad and a little folksy in a little country, please that fantastic.
H y'all know, I'm a big fan of Olivia Rodrigo. So I wanted
finding Nola Kan because she did a cover of Stick Season on like in Pure
Music or something. Oh sure, Yeah, So I found Noah kN I
was devastated that he performed at last year's Outside Lands that I was at,
but I didn't choose to see him because I didn't know who the fuck he
was at the time. God, He's done so many remixes of his songs
with other artists I enjoy. He has a remix to one of his songs
with post Malone, and post Malone is entering the folk world now, and
that's kind of cool. I don't think he's entering in now. I think
he's been there for a really long time. He's been there. People think
she's like a hip hop rapost, but he's not. This guy's a He's
very much not. He's like folks country. He's a sad white dude as
well. Yeah, that's one of the saddest white dudes. But the thing
that got me is I was high out of my mind and I was listening
to his discography and then I had, like, similar to past lives where
I had like a weird semi emotional breakdown. There was a specific lyric and
stick season, and as soon as I heard it and like it registered with
me, I was like, fun, this is a bit okay, I'm
okay being in my thirties now, all right, okay. Uh. It
was the lyric, so I thought that if I piled something good on all
of my bad that I could cancel out the darkness I inherited from my dad.
And then I was like, bro far bars, all right and that's
my number two, thank you? No con hell yeah, hey job yeah
me Okay, yes, I don't hear you say anything. Um, but
let me see what do we do? Let me see if I can find
something. Okay, I can stick with the music angle and say uh jpeg.
Mafia and Danny Brown released it's another one of my tam Scaring the Hose,
which is a really apt title for this thing. Obviously people know the
meme, which is like, you know, y'a'll stop talking about Bloodborne,
you'll Scaring the Hose. And like in the club sense, it's like music
that is, you know, quite repellent in a lot of ways, and
that is exactly what's Scaring the Hose is designed to be. It's it is
music that is it is that same kind of Actually, it's a lot like
Health and nanach Nails in that regard where it's very industrial standing. It doesn't
rely too much on like features, and it doesn't have loads of like very
recognizable samples and that kind of stuff. It is an album which they're trying
to make it as difficult to listen to as possible in a lot of ways,
very anti what you expect from a rap album, but because it's so
fucking weird, you kind of are like compelled to listen more and like try
and understand what the hell is going on, and sometimes it's got something to
say. Oftentimes it's just like, how can we make this the most bizarre
thing possible? And it becomes a very unique and kind of like distinct release
in the landscape of music that they lean on like cultural touchstones as well.
Like that, there's tracks called Lean Beef Patty, which is a reference to
obviously Lean Beef Patty. There's Stepper Pig that's good, Kingdom Hearts Key,
which is quite funny, it's a good track. Jack Harlow Combo Mill that's
a good name. And then they have like a set of additional tracks that
they called DLC Track Listing, And there's one track which is just called no
no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
no, And it's just that for like, it is a bizarre and very
like you will either absolutely love it or you will absolutely despise it, but
regardless of where you fall, you will be like, I've never heard anything
like that. It's insane. I love it, Yeah, Lucy. So
my next thing, Okay, So I read a book called My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell. I want to get the name out there. And
it was one of those really heavy books that I adored but kind of never
want to touch again. So earlier in the year I read Lalita for the
first time, and Lolita is an incredible book about the worst thing possible.
It is. It is awful, and you read it through the eyes of
a Humbert. Humbert who the Peter Farmers. So there's there's that everyone knows,
everyone knows about Lolita. My Dark Vanessa. No, I don't know
that is we got a time crunch back. I'm sorry. I guess I
have to google something. Oh God, anyway, so sorry, I don't
know what do you want from me. I can't tell this is a bit
or not. I'm gonna move on. It's not a bit. Okay,
you google that my Dokanessa ca Yeah, Aalita's book anyway. Okay, yes,
there you go, there you go. Yeah. So my my doc
Vanessa is about a girl and the pros references Lolita a lot, and when
she's fifteen, she is essentially groomed by her teacher. But as a fifteen
year old, she's like, I'm falling in love with him. He thinks
I'm so mature. They have this relationship for years, and then it's a
split timeline of when she is thirty and he is being exposed in the papers,
like it is all coming out, someone's gone to the authorities, and
he gets back into her life. And it is so well written. And
I think, you know, as a girl, who you know when you
are that age you always look up to and you kind of fancy the older
guys and seeing how that works, and it just, yeah, it was.
It was really well written. I immediately like told all my female friends
to read it. And it's it's a heavy one, especially doing it in
a double bill with Lolita. Yeah, it sounds like a lot, but
it was one of the best things I've read last year. Nice. So
I'm sorry, so you so that you didn't read Lolita, you read something
else. I read a Lina first and then this in a double bill.
Wow, Okay, I now know the things we're talking about. All right
Back to you, Grub You're number three. Yes. So I was on
TikTok and I kept getting these videos so these people doing this really cool dance
and I like the music, and I was like, what is this?
And I had to like kind of look around to figure out what it was.
It's called back on seventy four by Jungle. Back on seventy four is
it's a song, but the dance is like this dance troupe that does the
dances for all the music videos for this band called Jungle, And it is
really really well done dancing to the point where I think it's it's highly skilled
and I think people who are into like street dancing would kind of appreciate it.
But it's done with such beauty that it's very easy for like a lay
person like myself to like look and be like that. The way they are
moving their bodies is very enticing and it's attractive, but it's also like telling
a story and it just it makes you want to get up and dance.
And I watched this probably like one hundred times over the course of a week.
You probably if you watch this, you'll probably recognize it because I bet
it's come up on like your Instagrams and stuff like that. But yeah,
back on seventy four by Jungle. It's a really good song to the music's
great, But every time I hear the song, I just want to go
watch the video because I want to see the dancing and it just makes you
kind of want to move your bodies and ways you haven't moved it before.
So yeah, I just highly recommend Jeff Beckelart back to You. Ah The
Bear, Ah, The Bear, The Bear, The Bear, The Bear.
The Bear is a master class in storytelling an episodic television, and the
most recent season includes what I believe to be one of the best episodes of
television ever conceived by humans. There's nothing else to say. It's a phenomenal
show with phenomenal performances and a like one of the most I'd say this about
the second season more than the first season, but one of the most easiest
shows to watch because of how intoxicating it is, and it's getting all these
awards because it's the fucking best. It's a rare thing when that lines up.
But in the case of The Bear, it's true. It deserves everything
and more. A phenomenal cast. Everyone is so lovable and likable, and
that's it. You've probably heard of the show. Yeah, you don't live
on Backler and I have probably talked about it at nauseam as well. Yep,
it's true. That's all there is to it. Go watch The Bear
if you haven't. The third thing on my list was God's Liu minus one.
I'll skip the next one. I'm a big fan. This is another
movie. I'm a big Marvel fan. And last year was a terrible year
for Marvel fans, specifically the MCU. Just why is that just bad films
after bad films after bad projects. But I think the best Marvel film and
best superhero film to come out last year was Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three,
and it's actually satisfying conclusion to that specific trilogy. Y'all know that I
love the Guardians game. This is just building on top of that in terms
of like found family stuff and kind of departing, but departing on your own
terms in a good way. And yeah, if you if any of those
first two movies appeal to you at all, I definitely recommend checking out the
third one. I don't think you even need to be up to date with
all the other shit happening. You don't need to have seen Endgame or Infinity
War to understand or the Marvels any of them to understand that, oh shit's
happened. People who got maybe you should watch the Christmas Special. Actually,
the Christmas Special is actually pretty much dizeyplus and hey, anything with Dave Bautista
automatic list thing. For me, I've not watched this as someone who was
a huge MCU fan. I just kind of was like, I'm done with
it, even even Guardians like, I never could imagine the world where I
wouldn't watch that, But I'm I'm gonna, I'm gonna make time for this
in the next week or so. I don't need to give mix. Should
watch it with you though, gres Yeah, No, I've heard that.
Yes, I've also I think it's one of the things to kind of kept
be away from. It is like like I'm kind of like a like a
an exposed nerve with a lot of stuff that's very emotional or it deals with
like a lot of trauma, and I'm like, God, it could be
tough for me sometimes. So I think I mostly avoided it for that.
But I think I'm ready. I'm ready to love. Yeah, And then
you know that I don't like projecting too many times like myself or like my
life onto characters or whatever, but it just winds up inevitably happening. And
then you know the way that that movie concludes with specific characters having to kind
of start anew that reminds me of my own life sometimes. Damn all right,
let's get gross. Oh I already saw you prepping getting gross? My
favorite thing. Let me tell you about my visual Wi fi endoscope. Oh
wait, why are some Why are you saying yes? Which allows me to
look inside my ear like so vardial listeners. He just stuck it into his
ear and then he held up his phone with consent and showed me his ear
canal. Have you ever had someone like like a trench coat on the street,
you colon oscipy? Fuck? Are you doing? This thing? Is
incredible? It costs me like thirty dollars on animal. Why do you need
this? Why do you need this? Just to see what's up? What's
going on? What's in my head? Get ahead? Now I can very
carefully clean my own ear. Nice ear. Congratulations on that professional? Are
you? Aren't you? I would never let someone rob me of the joy
of cleaning out my own I guess you know you are one of these pimple
popper videos people. Yes, I am creeping creep you listen. I just
wanted to know what's going on in there, Okay, I just wanted to
see what what is happening. Let me tell you my ear is surprisingly clean
always, but every now and then I go in there and I'm like,
oh yeah, And then I get my cat and I go come here,
kitty, kitty, time to look inside your brain as well, that's why.
Oh yeah, no, no, no, never, never, the
inside of my nose. Now, you guys are so I'm sorry. I
can't get on board. I can't get on board. Right. Well,
I'm going to bring this to Packs and John we're putting up on the screen.
Okay, listen, James cannot reward these secoms. You know the best
thing about this is on the app you can press the bone take a screen
shot at any point, so you could just be like, this is disgusting
question about someone. I have a question. Does it? Does it like
fucking? Is that like a cleaning mechanism. It's got like this tip,
which is like a kind of rubberized tip. Thanks for saying that, Lucy.
And you get different attachments for it, depending on depending on how came
a hale attachment in. Now, okay, very good. I'm sorry.
I'm the weirdo. Now I'm talking about sticking a camera in your dick hole.
But this guy has like, literally come on, start doing it and
then then you're like, oh this is You're like, oh, sorry,
that's a bridge too far back, Jane. You okay, I don't feel
so good. Yeah, I don't feel well either. I'm sorry I had
to go to that. You never feel well, that's your normal state of
being. I'm worried about jan now, all right, all Lucy. So
I went to Amsterdam with my friends in November because my friend Kristen moved over
there. And while we were there, we went to like a little shop
on the on the corner and my friend Jen got this. She was it's
a little tube of cheese. Okay, I like the chef had She was,
oh, that's cute. Intrigued by it because it's a little chef on
the on the tube and then the hat is the the cap of the thing
and then if you I'm going to open it now because my friend Kristen is
coming over to the States and she has been sending us pictures because she's been
buying some of these to bring fir Us because we ate so much tube cheese
that he ran out in the shop cube cheese. You et tube cheese,
cube cheese and for British people. It's basically dairy lee but in a tube.
Wait, what is that? Like? What did you just say it's
just a type of cheese, like a soft cheese cheese. Well, no,
but I assume it's similar. But because it's European, it doesn't kill
my insides like American. Yeah, I'm gonna say it's probably real. It's
coming in harrisalt Can and so yeah, so then I don't need that.
Yeah, I'll just I'll just huff my easy cheese instead. Not being funny.
We may have just drank a lot of wine, had some weed and
just eight cheese that Danish summer camp Danish chef cheese spread natural flavor. There
was a garlic one. I think, yeah, real, I'm just I'm
just eating this. Do this it looks great. Yeah, that looks real.
We we looked into importing it, but we'd have to pay a lot
of money. So if anyone has a hookup for this cheese, let me
know. Chef cub yep. Okay, all right, I have a couple
of movies that I think fit together, and then I have another batch.
I'll do that the next time around. Spider Man Across the Universe Across the
Spider Verse and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mutant Mayhem. The Turtles Mutant Maam
was very surprising how good it was, very entertaining. I enjoyed it,
the kids loved it, and it's like it just has a really good style,
a ton of great energy, and then it does it kind of tries
to capture the magic of the Spider Verse movies, and yeah, nothing's going
to quite reach that level. That's fine. It like definitely should be lauded
for where it does get to. It's just high quality storytelling and it feels
like it respects the material, even though I'm like, personally, I'm like,
I don't really I like the Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles. I don't need
them to be respected. So to see someone come in and be like,
no, we love these characters and we're gonna treat them right, it's like,
oh, yeah, I guess you really can tell awesome stories with these
characters. That's awesome. And then Across the Spider Verse is somehow better than
the first Spider Verse movie. That's like surprising that it is that way.
Every new character they introduce is fantastic. The stakes they set up for Miles,
and the sort of him trying to figure out what's going on was very
entertaining. And then the action is just so beautiful because every time these camearacters
are interacting with one another, you're seeing all these clashes of styles, and
those styles obviously represent character traits, and it's it's just having like so boldly
visualized someone still feels subtle and really like it's done with a deft hand.
Just really great storytelling. Yeah, I can't believe we did that. Yeah
right, like good poor things and that. How do we do all that?
How do we do that? Yep? Really impressive, mister beckl Our
next thing on your list? Oh for fuck? Okay, let's see.
Let me just skip over all the gross body horror that was on my list.
That's fine, okay. Number twelve on my list is dispensaries. New
Jersey passed the recreational marijuana law a few years back, and only recently have
we started to take advantage of this new legislation. And let me tell you,
it's pretty fucking great. And I assume it's bringing in tons of tax
dollars. I don't know, I don't claim to know, and I'm not
about to research whether or not it is, but I do think it's a
long time coming. I can't believe I had to turn forty fucking years old
before marijuana would be legalized where I live, thank you. Uh, and
no, I think I think it's been an interesting experience, especially with you
know, like bringing Stacey to reverse dispensary ever was a really fun and hilarious
experience. And uh, you know, I still think it has a lot
of normalizing to do and to achieve, but I think it's pretty great now.
So I know, congratulation some low hanging fruit, I'm aware, but
Dispenser is number number eighteen on my list. There we go. Oh was
that that's what I thought? The next thing on my list? I believe.
Yeah, this is the last like TV show or film on my my
little top ten here beef from Netflix early on Steven Jesus Christ. It is
like a fever dream of anger the whole time. And I think it just
properly demonstrates how amazing Steven Jun is as an actor, so it absolutely shows
off his range. It is unfair. Also, the show got me to
try again for the first time in literally decades, the shitty long chicken sandwich
from Burger King. Let me tell you it has not changed. It is
just a brick of sodium correct. And I felt terrible afterwards, But yeah,
beef, and I'm so glad that they're getting their flowers in this award
season for it also like amazing to see Asian Americans winning big in these big
awards and representation matters. They mentioned several times the Filipinos helping them in jail.
And let me tell you, if I ever got locked up Steven j
I'd help you in jail. Hell, yeah, there we go. I'm
not Filipino, but i'd help you. There we go. TAM's horary,
Yeah yeah, Pakistani is a South Asian Filipinos. Yeah, there we go.
Tailor, next thing on your list? Have you ever looked at the
grime underneath your fingernails? I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I was gonna actually
give a shout out to a YouTube channel that I really really have been enjoying
a lot. It's not I mean, it's fairly popular, it's got one
hundred thousand subscribers, but it is. It gave me something that I really
really wanted and needed, which is more Soul's law. And it's a channel
called The Brothers Code, and they effectively do what many others do and they
just do like law videos, but they go like extremely in depth like they
are. For example, they have a an Elder Ring ending video which is
two hours long. They have the complete story of Dark Souls three which is
four and a half hours long. And what they do is they don't just
like talk about you know and then this happened and that happened. They rewrite
the story, and they rewrite the story and their narration of it into a
story in itself, so they almost like present this whole kind of like story
of Dark Souls, Dark Cel's two Dark Cells three, Secure Old Blood Born
even Last of Us, but as narrators of that story and also explore and
explain parts of the story that others may not focus in on. But I've
been using I've been listening to that the Dogs are Free on especially pretty much
every night for the last year and a half two years, because it is
just like the they also have a quite a unique voice. There's two there's
two people who narrate it, which I assume are brothers because it's called the
Brothers Code, but who knows, Maybe I'm wrong, And They have very
interesting voices in the same way that a Varti has this like very deep and
like basic voice. These guys have like a tenor and a tone and a
pitch to the and the cadence to the way they deliver that is at times
very strange but also like weirdly compelling to listen to. But yeah, it's
it is a channel that I adore like and honestly, I can tell you,
like I maybe I only watch the the From stuff they do. They
also have stuff like uh, stuff about foreignor and and stuff like that,
but I'm specifically focused on the the From Soft so they have the complete Demon.
So the latest video was the Demon Soul's story explained, They've got the
Elder Ring ending. The Elder Ring story explained, They've got Securo, Dark
Soul's one, two and three, blood Born Assassas, Schreud Valhalla and the
Last of Us. I can't recommend The Dark Souls three one enough. It
is four hours, but I've seen it maybe thirty or forty times over and
over again, and it is it's fantastic. Love it, Love it,
Lucy. I know that you have a heart out I have got I got
a quick one that I can't believe hasn't come up yet. Succession season four.
Hey, Like, I honestly cannot believe that they pulled it off.
I was so not worried. I just think when a show has been that
consistently good. I don't think there's a single def episode of Succession. And
I was really really concerned with how it would like. I really didn't want
it to drop the ball at the end. And we would do like so
me, Tam and our friends Andrew and Joey, we would do weekly watch
parties and we would also then watch Succession, but then we would watch it
started out by watching Pride and Prejudice and we would just watch loads of costume
dramas, so we're gonna through a bunch of them. But I loved it.
I'm so happy with that ending. I'm not going to spoil it in
case anyone hasn't seen it yet, but I think all the performances are so
so strong. I hated and loved every single character. There was so many
funny moments. Everything was tense and emotional, and I don't know jack shit
about business, but I was like, oh my god, I can't believe,
can't believe the Maxim the Max and Deal, you know, all this
kind of stuff. It pulled me into this world and everyone in it was
disgusting and how they act and how they behave and how they treat even the
ones that they are supposed to love, and I would so enthralled. But
the whole thing, the ending, wonderful, the music beautiful. I really
want to go and rewatch Peep Show now because it's Jesse Armstrong and yeah,
similar similar to Beef Glad they're getting the flowers like Kieran Culkin. Oh yeah,
my god. He absolutely crushed it, and so did the rest of
the cast. But yeah, Karen Colkin, damn Succession season four. I've
I got a dip, so I'm I'll stop my recording and gave you my
love. Goodbye everyone, Bye Lucy, Bye Lucy. Everyone she says bye,
I mean all right, I'm glad she's boys drag see see see you
are that character tam Oh, I knew it. My point into it,
Lean into the dark Side. On the Netflix streaming service, there's a movie
called Extraction too, uh what, and it's it's a sequel to a movie
called Extraction that I've never seen, but I saw a clip of Extraction too.
No, no, no, don't do that. Don't do that.
I've said a clip of Extraction two. We're like, here, we're gonna
have like a twenty minute fight scene that's uncut. I'm like, okay,
I'll check that out, and that movie rips it rules. It is likely
that one not stop sequence actually is amazing. It's like if Call of Duty
came to life. But it was also really good. It's it's such a
fun time. It's a not like NonStop action. You'll just you'll be like,
I can't believe that they're gonna still have this guy actually going in this
scene. He should be dead. And then you're like, I don't I
don't care either, because it's just every time he punches somebody, it's so
exciting. Uh. It's up there for me with like Commando and stuff at
this point where it's like, this is going to be an all time action
movie that I'm going going to read it for the rest of my life.
It's it's good. I recommend everyone watch it. If you like the action
scenes from John any of the John Wick films, you'll like Extraction. Yeah.
And for me, like the barrier of entry was so much lower than
a John Wick where John looks like, hey, you got to care about
this lor if you're gonna care about any of this fighting, and I'm just
like, I just can't. I'm sorry. And then extraction two was like,
no, here's just some dumb ass shit. Watch this Jeff Beckler running
out of stuff here. Oh, I'm gonna this just finished up just in
time for the end of twenty twenty three to make the list. I talk
about this program a decent amount, but maybe not that much. I just
want to give a shout out to Letter Kenny. I don't know if anyone
checks it out or what I believe. They just finished there. What was
the Canadians was, Oh, that was a Canadian SoundBite. No, no,
that was uh no, No, that was some friends saying, who
I don't know who Letter Kenny is. He was about to explain it,
Tam. Yeah. No, TAM's just like in Suffer Bully bully Ish,
is he not? So? Yeah, it's a It's thanks. It's a
Canadian show about these sort of like hicks and hockey players and drug addicts and
weirdos and just all around strange people. And uh. They did twelve seasons
of the show. Which feels like a lot of times a cross between like
a Kevin Smith of like TV show and a little bit right. It's just
in a lot of fast dialogue, a lot of inside jokes, a lot
of like wait, why what is going on? And then we hang out
show. It's like people mostly people hanging at show. Yeah, it is
very much that it has probably a budget in the in the quadruple digits.
Uh. And yeah, it's just really really fun to get into and it
definitely developed a sort of cult following that has afforded it. Like I said,
twelve seasons and a couple of years back, I went to go see
they did like a tour and I went to Central Jersey to watch them go
do their show live, and it's you could tell like it's a very fun
club to be a part of, uh and very much able to cultivate a
fun little community there. So yeah, and everyone's kind of checks in on
it ends up falling in love with it. It seems like it's a really
well made show, supremely likable characters, uh, and just jokes that are
very layered and deceptively smart and really just a lot of fun and and absolutely
as much as I compare it to Kevin Smith's stuff. Absolutely carve carving out
its own kind of path in a way that I think a lot of comedies
can't really do. I think they all sort of like fall into the same,
uh, you know, bad habits of being of of looking at the
camera and doing other things that are tongue in cheek, where Letter Kenny absolutely
from a comedic standpoint, in my opinion, just sits by itself so really
funny stuff. Also, like you'll watch that. You'll watch a season of
this show and literally nothing will happen. It'll be like seven episodes and you're
like, I don't understand what the fuck just happened. It was just them
talking about beer and stuff for seven and you're like, but it's great.
I know that's maybe not a wild dress, but it is absolutely fun.
They did. They have a spin off show called Schresy, which is just
about the lowest level of professional hockey, So if you really want to get
into the weeds, you can enjoy that too. That's still going while Letter
Kenny has finished up at the NLS year. Check it out. It's a
lot of fun. I feel like these people will be moving on to the
other in some capacity. It feels like that's what they're doing for I believe
in the States, it's on Hulu if you're curious. There we go.
Next thing on my list, this is my show and tell of the show.
I have several actually, uh, these are the Gestura g e s
t u are a tongs. These are the ten inch ones. I use
these every dang day for cooking and eating specifically these look at those, Yeah,
these are like exactly, uh imagine the snacktive things that we were goofing
about like a couple of years ago, but just giant. Uh. And
I use these to like I said, I use these to cook. I
use these conduct conduct spells. But these I want to put that in my
ear. Yeah, the ship I could fish out with that man. I
also have like the the six inch version, which are a little bit tinier
that are kind of used for plating like in fine dining or whatever. But
these have replaced chopsticks in my house for some occasional meals. Emmy and I
will do like k barbecue at the house, or will like grill stuff up
at the house like the pro level koreem barbecue tongs baby exactly, and like
you know, they're tactical enough you can hold something delicate like chapstick and have
no problem with it. Uh, they're exchangable. Do you have a code
I can use? Do you have some sort of referral link? I wish
I did. I got these from a local knife store here in the Bay
Area. But yeah, they can pick up stuff pretty wide. You can
like extend them just a little bit. And they're stainless steel dishwashers safe.
I highly recommend. Yeah. Those are they called again? Just just stirr,
just stir them. Yeah. Yeah. Also, yeah, grub.
They're great for eating chips. Yeah, I'm like, I need something because
like, I really hate having dirty fingers. It's a thing that gets to
me. So any chips that like has a layer of dust on it.
Uh Yeah, I'm mostly vot those anyhow, but sometimes you find yourself,
Okay, I'm giving in to temptation and now I'm like covered in chip dust
and I hate it. Yeah. I don't eat cheet us for that reason.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna pick me up some of these tongs. Great
for uh mixing salads as well. Damn Uh, I'm gonna kind of go
off something that I said it earlier and say sports, well a sports specifically,
I'm I've always I've not been a I'm not a big sports guy in
when I was in the UK at all. Like I didn't watch football or
soccer, whatever you want to call it. It wasn't into rugby. I
never cared about cricket, even though I played on a cricket team. I
was just like not into it. I always preferred watching American sports, and
I watched a lot of American football, and I reached a point where I
was like, I don't think I like American football. It's too like broken
stop start e And I liked the tactical element of it and the strategy involved,
but it wasn't for me. Basketball was the one I always gravitated towards
and I used to play basketball at school, but it wasn't a popular sport.
We just had a hoop for some reason, and I was the one
kid who was like trying to put the ball for the hoop constantly. I
was terrible, but I always had a kind of affinity for basketball. And
but whenever as I grew up, they would start to have these attempts at
the NBA coming to Europe, and they'll be like, oh, you know,
the Chicago Bulls are going to be playing in London or some Wembley or
something like that, and it would be like so prohibitively expensive to go see
them, and any like televised matches would happen at like three a m.
Four am at like absurd times. So I just never really got into it.
It was always one of those things where I was like, I like,
I enjoyed basketball when I can see it. Having moved over here more
recently, I've been able to actually engage in basketball way more. And obviously
I live in the Bay Area and we have Golden State Warriors, who are
you know, four time team dynasty one of the best you know teams of
all time, I guess, And it helps to have a good team,
and I have been able to go to games a lot, and I have
seen a great many games this season and last season. And being able to
follow basketball, especially Golden State Warriors, it's been a very different kind of
experience. I've never done anything. I listened to like go and State Warriors
focused podcast, listen to the NBA podcasts, I like follow people on Twitter
who are insiders and that kind of stuff. And it's like discovering and getting
into a new world that feels kind of like video games. But I have
zero experience. I don't have like the expertise. I don't have a you
know, I don't have a need to think about it in a way that
how can I like, how do I make commentary on this analysis? How
will this affect my day to day? What can I take away from this?
It's just it's just for me to enjoy it. And I've been very
fortunate in that, Like I have been able to go watch matches, So
I've seen Steph Curry play so many times. I've seen you know, Draymond
play. I've seen I've seen Clay player. I've seen Wiggans player, like
they are the local team here. And you know, I came in at
a time when Jordan Paul on the Golden State Warriors was kind of like the
new kid on the block who had just started. He was like the latest
entry. So I was like, I'm new to this. Jordan Paul is
the youngest guy they got going, So I'm going to be a Jordan Paul
fan. And I really enjoyed like the flair. And then they traded him
and he turned into complete ascid in the Washington Wizards. But like I've been
able to like and my favorite player is Gary Payton, second Gary GPT,
who's just like a nice dude and he loves video games and he like regularly.
He was streaming the other day Call of Duty and his set up is
a fucking catastrophe, and like I was watching it, and I was very
fortunate in that, Like he does a lot of stuff with Ubisoft, for
example, and our friend Yusef works at Ubosoft, and my former roommate Chaster,
he works at Ubisoft. Numerous members of the game Former Game Spot team
work at Ubisoft, and they were like, yo, GP two is coming
in. Do you want to come and say hi? And I like gone
to meet GP too a few weeks ago. It was like insane and I
had I almost bought my GVT jersey and that kind of stuff, and it's
like it was it's like I said, it's a different world. And I
love like watching basketball, and I love watching you know. I think it's
such a fascinating sport and like the skill of it, and also culturally it's
it's something that aligns with me way more I think most other sports they focus
on things that I have eithern no interest in or I can't engage in,
like soccer football, it's a lot about like it's very woven into British culture,
which itself also is built around pubs and drinking and yeah, certain things
that I just cannot I don't drink. I don't like particularly enjoy going to
pubs on my own unless I'm around like close friends. Baseball is the same,
American football is the same where it's like you go to eat food which
I can't eat because it's usually not catered to my you know, dietary needs.
I don't drink. Same with like American football and that kind of stuff.
Basketball kind of like cultural connection isn't specifically food or like drinking. It's
hip hop, it's sneaker culture. It is, you know, that kind
of stuff. So when I go there and like I realized that I was
in the right place and this was the thing for me. When I went
to one of my first Golden State Warriors games and the entire stadium was just
filled with the music of E forty and I was like, that's yeah,
that's a beautiful thing, like beautiful, yeah, and like hearing blow the
whistle and the San Francisco anthem and too Short is playing, and I'm like,
this is stuff that I grew up listening to with no connection to basketball,
no connection to America. I just loved hip hop. I just loved
rappers. And being able to now combine that with sports and it being such
a natural fit. I feel like this is the thing that connects with me.
And I've been like really really enjoying like basketball, and I know that
I'm like into it because the Golden State Warriors right now are absolutely dog shit
off. Yet they're in a bad spot, like Steph isn't playing well,
Clay's not playing well, Draymond got suspended after he fucking Haymaker, another player,
and then they've been through tragedy as well now, like the assistant coach
had a heart attack a couple of days ago and like that canceled two games
and I'm still like engaged in it, and either highs and lows of sport
are now hitting with me, and I'm like desperate for them to just like
pull it together. Trade deadlines coming up, and I'm like, please get
get someone who can help us turn this around. Like my favorite player,
like Gary Payton, was out for injury. He came back for one game
and got injured in that game and has been and I've just been like fuck,
I've been like he was back for a hot minute, and like when
he was back, he was incredible. He does this thing in which I
adore, Like every basketball player when they like dunk on someone, they always
do like the flex where they're standing over them or like something like that.
Gary Payton the second he dunks someone lands, turns to them, looks him
in the eye and just scratches his head like this as if he's like confused
about what happened, and it's just because it's anime to you. Yeah,
I mean, like he's strolling and he's like got a smile on his face
and like he's just like scratching his head like did you see that? And
that is so funny. And right now we've got like too, We've got
a bunch of rookies like Pajamski, who's like clearly he's like Steph Curry's understudy
and and he's like incredible. He's so much fun to watch. We've got
Trace Jackson Davis is like a talk player who they haven't had before, and
he's like defending and he's working with like Dario Saich who they call Super Dario,
and it's like it's such a I'm very I'm very excited. I have
like something like this and it's someone and it's something I share with, like
I loved one of mine and and it's and it's so so enjoyable. Love
it, love it. I cool think about sports like being able to surrender,
surrender yourself to like it because you have no control over it. So
and I like that because it's like then when it when things go well,
that's great. Even when things go bad, It's like I'm sticking with this
team. But I just feel like it's not I don't have to have like
this professional coolness like separation. I have it with like some sports or with
games. I could just fully lean into it and get really emotional about it.
And I love that. Yeah, Yes, I'm up next, Okay.
I I like Tetris, like I like the BlackBerry movie, and those
are some other things I wanted to mention, but I'm gonna go. I'm
gonna go with Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer, actually is it feels like a basic bitch
answer at this point, but it really did hit me, especially that the
last moment that recontextualizes the whole movie. Uh. And I'm gonna spoil it
because it's still going to be very effective even if you haven't seen it.
It's not actually gonna hurt it in any real way. But the idea that
this person that has been hounding Oppenheimer for all these years and has basically ruined
his life did so because of a petty misunderstanding that because he's very myopic,
any think all these things were about him and nothing was ever about him.
No one ever tried to make him look bad or do anything bad to him.
But he couldn't see past himself because he's a myopic politician. And this
story is about how Oppenheimer made the bomb and had to hand it over to
people like that, and and and and he never even considered that there are
people like that out there and that they were would be the ones responsible for
controlling the bomb after him, and it's and and having Einstein and Oppheimer have
this moment where they're like, we lit the we lit the atmosphere on fire,
and we have to hand it over to these people and and just we
can't do anything about it. Now it's out of our control and we're helpless
and the horror and they're on their faces and everything that leads up to it's
like, it is a beautiful thing to be able to understand physics and the
quantum world enough to be able to make this thing, and it's a really
sad thing to not understand humans enough to know what that's going to mean.
And the movie does a great job of capturing those two elements and putting them
together and making you reckon with it. Whoa, Jeff, here's the music
of the universe. I heard the music. That's that's Yeah, that's that's
powerful stuff. Good movie. I guess I gotta see that, huh.
I recommend it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I mean you like I
know what I'm getting. You like Nolan, right, yeah, yeah,
I've only I've maybe made. I don't like his I don't like war,
so I don't. I had I didn't see the Dunkirk one, so I
don't either. Backalat and it took a little bit of convincing from uh Emmy
to for me to watch this, but we sat down and watched it and
instantly fell in love. Yeah, I'm not like I I don't think I'll
watch Dunkirk, but I will watch this. It's important. This this,
this feels like something important that should be shown in like high school and ship
from what right? I feel like the lessons it has to teach are worth
hearing. And yeah, I guess it's depressing, right, because it's like,
yeah, it's depressing because you know Oppenheimer. I again, I haven't
seen this movie, but you know, knowing what I know about open Emerts,
it's sort of like you're you're cursed with knowing that like your uh work
will ultimately destroy the world yep, probably probably, And the way that he
carries that, in the way he wants to be punished for it, and
all that way that all that stuff is illustrated. It's really well done.
Think about weight, that's some weight. Think about the person that invented the
microphone because they are in it inadvertently responsible for so many shitty podcasts. Yeah,
that's a that's another thing. Huh, of course, I don't know.
You got another thing on your list, bud uh. Let's see the
Curse, the Curses fucking bananas. I'm watching that now, but it's I'm
almost done, and I know I had the end kind of spoiled and I
know what happened, and I'm just sort of like, wow, that's that's
cool. But where were we letting the Saftes do all this stuff? Why
are we giving them cameras? Like? What are we doing? Can?
Like? I love how like what goes through the mind of the Safte brothers
where they're like, hey, you know that feeling when you're like driving to
the dentist on your way to get a root canal? What if we made
all of our movies feel like that all the time? Would would be great?
And the feelings? And Hollywood's like, we love this idea, we
endorse it. Here's a bunch of money. Make whatever you have on your
mind. What else do I have on my list? Because we're not going
to go much longer, right, I'm just gonna put it. Yeah,
I did. Oh, I likes I like this band sleep Token. That
was I just I discovered early last year. They've been a lot of fun
Vaka Martin Vacca, Martini's I've gotten to do it a big way there.
Oh yeah, that's great. And and and live music, go see live
music. I finally went to a bunch of shows in twenty three and uh
it was. It was great. If you feel comfortable going to see live
music, go see live music. There we go, There we go.
Yeah, I'll just do a round up with my last couple of things as
well. Next thing another chantelle shin Ramen Light Folks. I'm a big fan
of shin ram and I like a little bit of spice, the problem being
the red kind and then the black label ones got a little bit carbs,
and you're boy's trying to watch his way and be a little bit better for
himself. This has overall less calories, less carbs because of the noodling process.
I believe these are air dried instead of fried noodles or whatever, same
exact flavor. The noodles are just a little bit of a different texture.
But if you're sodium conscious, carb conscious, calorie conscious, definitely recommend shin
Ramen Light. Asian supermarkets most of the big box ones will have them,
but I think you can also get these online. The other thing more cooking
stuff. I didn't want to bring over the whole set, but Yo,
I moved recently and I realized I need new pots and pans, and I
want to live with this person for an extended period of time. Because I
love her, so let's get virtually life proof pants. I wound up getting
an all clad stainless steel pot and pants set. These boys stainless steel,
heavy fucking duty. It is a giant learning curve to cook with stainless steel
pots and pans. You gotta let that ship heat up for so fucking long,
and I still mess up eggs. I kind of miss Teflon, but
I don't because I want these to last forever. Because I've seen these go.
People have had all clad stainless steel pot and pants sets for like forty
plus years, so it's something I eventually maybe want to pass down to my
kids in the future. And uh, the last thing on my list,
Tammi muted. I just love the idea, like the son before I go,
I have some pots and pans, and then they'll be like, you
got the good house? Can I have the house? We live in San
Francisco. I gave them my land to Michaelime Michael. And the last thing
on my list is in twenty twenty three, I kept this on the DL
for a little bit, but then I post about on my Instagram. I
took an acting class for like nine months and I had to pause just because
stuff got really busy here at GBHQ. But I highly recommend it even if
you're not looking to become an actor at all. It really teaches you a
lot about human interactions and about being human. Part of the reason why last
year I went through an arc of being obsessed with Spider Man two is because
one of the teachers was the guy that says you stressed up bore from Spider
Man two. He was also the cow Zone guy in Seinfeld. But yeah,
it was really really neat to get to meet a whole bunch of different
people and just be around other artists wanting to create induce stuff. Yeah.
I just saw a great clip of what's his Name at Ethan Hawk talking about
acting and how a lot of great directories used to be actors and not many
great directories used to be stand amatographers. And it's like, that's kind of
what making movies is, is being able to to act and understand the the
expressing yourself and turning that into a work of art. And I'm like,
that did that. I found it very inspiring, and so hearing you say
you've got a lot of an acting class, I'm like, maybe I'm man
should I do something like that. Maybe I highly recommend it. Mostly also
just like you know, gets you out of your shell. And then just
like I think, in the middle of it, something clicked with me here
of like, oh I feel comfortable just being me now, and despite working
here for six years, having that sudden like glass breaking thing of like oh
yeah no, I'm just me. That's cool. Yeah, no, no,
that's good. Tam the rest of your lists, sir, uh so,
I will I will follow up your pan with some pans. I I
got these. I think they called carot or carote heroic is a carraway.
Maybe I don't c a r olte Oh never mind anyway, Yeah, these
these non stick pans, which are basically I'll put a link to them because
they sound insane when you talk about them, but they're so good. It's
effectively a bunch of different sized balls that you can cook in. But you
get a detachable handle. Oh. What you do is like you you like
it, attach it to the big big like the deeper pan. You make
stuff in there, and then you can like pick that up, put it
on the table just unhooked the unhooked the handle and that becomes a serving bowl
and then you can attach at it and like I looked at it and I
was like, this seems like a fucking weird Instagram thing that is gonna yeah
dog shit. We got it and it was really good. Since then,
I've bought it for two sets of friends and they've this is awesome. Yeah.
Question I now, I'm a I like pots and pans as much as
the next person. Well, how are we doing with like non stick stuff?
Here is this legit? Like, so far I've cooked in it,
nothing has stuck. We bought a very expensive cook where about two years ago,
believe the brand was like Carraway or something like that, and they promised
non stick. And then a year fucking later, guess what's happening stick?
And guess what's happened in my eggies? I mean, I haven't had this
for a year, but so far nothing has stuck. I can't tell you
long term over the coating works or whatever it may be, but everyone the
reviews are at universally high. I think the only thing about it is they
only come in white as far as I know, so it can get like
if you're not careful, you can accidentally like scratch it. But I mean,
like pots and pans are gonna get scratched. Oh you're supposed to only
use like plastic and silicon. Ye, come on. Like the nonstick element
of it seems better than anything I happened. Like, I've had tfol pans
stuff before that that are like non sty and they have not been good.
They like get gunked up and gross and things stick on, But this one
has been good. I highly recommend this stuff, especially the actual handle,
like for people who might be like, oh, this looks very unsafe.
It's like it's like a vice. It like clamps into place, and it's
really good adular, very interesting. And then the other stuff that I have
is I restarted reading One Piece and it fucking rolls. Still the coolest ship
happening in that In that I think people look at One Piece and they're like,
oh, it's the Pirate anime. It's it's no, it's as an
anime about like a a freedom fighter and a or a series about a freedom
fighter and anti capitalist and like the stuff that is actually happening in their anti
government, anti military, anti war, like that is what Lufy and his
crew are all about. It's about it's about making a revolution happen and it
is. It is like one of the smartest, coolest animes that has ever
existed. I think it's intimidating for a lot of people. Yeah yeah,
in terms of its breadth, right, Like, I think that's what.
Yeah, I think it says a lot that in recent protests that you've seen
the strong hat pirates, Oh yeah, flag being flown like that is that
says a lot about what that show and what that series is all about.
And then my final thing is a little book published by Tune and Fairweather called
Blood Echoes, which, as you can probably guess, is a bloodborn.
They also published another one called Abistal Archive, and it is, without a
doubt, the coolest book that you will be able to buy around the from
software stuff. Cool. Look at this, this is like insane. It's
like it's got embossed like pattern design on it. You've got like these incredible
artworks. You can open it to any page and you will see some of
the coolest shit you've ever seen. Like I opened a random page there,
look at that work called Lady Marie. I'll pick like the paper is black
you, I'll pick another page and it's a it's allread. Now that's awesome.
Oh shit, I'll pick another one. And we've got a Migdalar there,
like it is so sick. It's like a it's a bunch of like
essays and in depth breakdowns about this stuff. The I have one for Dark
Souls as well, which is called the Abyssal Archive. It's just back there
somewhere and it is leather bound. It is if you're a from fan,
if you care about any of these games, you have to have one of
these, Like, it is essential to have this. You need this because
it's like the kind of thing that you will I described it as saying,
like it's so nice that sometimes I feel bad touching it, right, But
it's one of those things where you're just like people will be gravitating towards it
because they're like, what is this book? It looks insane? But yeah,
that's it. Love it. Love it. You want to finish your
list? Yeah, just one last thing. My Google Pixel does this thing
where it answers spam calls for me, so I never even have to hear
my stone ring and it's it rules. But basically I have stopped getting spam
calls entirely. And then you know, then you get in the habit of
not like answering anything a little bit, and it's broken me at that Olympics.
When people call, the Google thing will answer for me and get people's
little ad. They'll say why they're calling, and I could just see it
and then I could break in and answer real quick and it works and people
have started may people are getting used to this now. People have started like
saying, oh, yeah, this is why I'm calling. And I've gotten
some important calls and was able to pick it up, and then otherwise during
the day, I'm just not being bothered by incessant ringing on my phone.
It rules. It has completely made the phone a much more pleasant thing to
have around. Wouldn't you put the success rate at like ninety five percent?
Yes, definitely, yes, it's that high. Like there might be some
false positives, but I don't think so. It doesn't really seem like.
It seems like it's just working the way it's supposed to work. It's there
there is some special sauce going on there too, because you're like, well,
how does it know that, like I should pick up this call from
the mechanic or it's just there's something going on there. Just ask my wife
about her life now because she's got an iPhone and she you know, she
fucking hates it and log though yeah that she's like, finally I can really,
you know, adjust the colors of all my videos now, perfectly reasonable
sacrifices. Switch to an iPhone. No, she hates it, She misses
the pixel and look sucks to suck folks. I believe that does it for
our top things of twenty twenty three that aren't video games, Well, we'll
try and get the rest of Lucy's list and maybe we'll attach it to the
show notes here. Everyone so thankful for AI. I love AI. If
you guys had an AI cars, yeah, what, oh my god,
give it so much time. I used AI to make this list. Go
watch Extraction too, Go watch Extraction too, Go watch all of these things.
Well, go buy all these You don't have to go buy all these
is clean, your ears, have no fear. Go be yourself. Thanks
for joining us for a lovely week here at giant bomb dot com. Uh,
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