823: REVENGEANCE

Hey, everybody, it's Friday. We gotta get down on Friday. That's right, Scout. We're gonna get so down. We're gonna get ready to clown. This mixer is routed as something else, so I can't lower the volume anymore. Let's right, Scout, the scal out Jennifer love Pezz, let's scale loud. That's her right, she does that song. I'm your host, thinks, so today Jana, Scout, get with the program. We're not getting allowed anymore. Come on, come on, I'm fading the

music down, Scout, get with it. Welcome to Pomcast Revengeance. I'm your host. Janet Shoa is powered by a sixty co captain of the ship joining me is all ways de grub Hello. I tell you what's not one of my favorite things that power world. I'm okay on that. You can just stay where it's at, all right, all right? Uh, the ultimate Powell in our world two more Hussein, Hello, I will like to 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, that's it for this week. If you missed youp have earlier go tune in for that. We checked out Power World. That was an experience. We've done a lot of great other things this week as every fuck I'm all right, boys, But next week a lot of fun stuff popping off.

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