The Incomparable

00:00:06 ◼   ► the incomparable contest number 7 evilly [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► january twenty well we are back on the [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► uncomfortable podcast and this is a [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► strange episode this is going to serve [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► as our look back on 2011 basically [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► meaning we don't have to do a new [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► episode this week instead were but but [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► here we are so it is a new episode and [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► if you haven't heard the episodes before [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► their new to you is joining me today on [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► this magical mystery tour our Scott [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► McNulty hi Scott thank you for being [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► here I've always wanted to be on the [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► clip show and now you are dude my bad [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► news commander Riker has been bitten by [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► something down on a planet as an and now [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► is in sickbay reliving the first season [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► of star trek the next generation it's [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► terrible i hate when he get bitten by [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► the clip monster or what is collector [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► and also that other Voice you heard is [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► Steve lots [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► hi Steve hey Jason happy last year we [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► have to hear about the stupid Mayans [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► hey that's right behind the last year [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► ever [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► but when we didn't hear the Miami we [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► have to hear about the Mayan at the [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► entry here the Mayans all will climb on [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► to it like a boat and push off a ghost [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► just disappear into the sea [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► I believe they're boarding a comet [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► wearing their Nikes excellent and purple [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► munchos that's right that's good [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► sassy yeah ah this is so the topic of [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► our podcast is the heavens gate doomsday [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► colors because he's gonna say these [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► jokes are ripped-from-the-headlines [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► we've got ahold lemon grove california [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► hello you're on the air I honestly can't [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► remember anything that happened in 2011 [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► so I'm rolling it way back [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► that's the last year i have any [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► recollection of also joining me are [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► serenity Caldwell [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► hello hello Jason and Dan Morin I'm on [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► this podcast you are I am [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► hello I'm glad so so we have we have [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► four people here with me to have the [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► podcast episode that has no topic other [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► than 2011 [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► yes we're talking about time and we'll [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► also relive some exciting moments [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► because this is the incomparable clip [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► show exciting moments from the past but [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► before we do that I wanted to ask our [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► esteemed panel if they would like to [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► share a favorite thing from 2011 [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► something you discovered or enjoyed in [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► 2011 just a single it out and give it a [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► little last people love before we move [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► into the hate and violence and horror [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► and torment that is 2012 [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► Scott what about you something you like [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► from 2011 I should wear I 2011 will go [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► down in history [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► well it's got history which is a very [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► and focus the register yes it's true [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► it's a has limited appeal but it's big [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► in Germany as the year but I discovered [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► in mcdonald who is the author of the [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► different shall be tracked was my [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► favorite novel of 2011 [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► I believe you mentioned that on a [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► previous podcast i did but i thought i'd [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► mention it again since i have this [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► opportunity [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► no no Scott you're on a clip show [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► I believe you mentioned it on a previous [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► podcast I i remember incident like it [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► with you [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► his settings are non-western which makes [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► it very interesting to me because it's [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► an alien culture and yet it's you know [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► still humans so in the Dervish houses [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► case it we get it set and in Turkey [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► yep in the near future and like what 20 [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► 40 20 30 something like that yeah it's [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► great because i have no idea i don't [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► know the cultural enough to know what is [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► actually current behavior I mean know [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► the technology of course but I don't [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► know what's current behavior and what's [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► supposed it feels it feels very genuine [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► so even if it's wrong and feels right [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► but I'm but make it into the [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► displacement and a travel log kind of [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► feel to it was like this is cool i'm [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► learning things that may or may not be [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► true but I'm i feel like i'm learning [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► things about Turkey and about attitude [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► of the Turks toured europe and then [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► there's the whole sci-fi element on top [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► of him and the the story of the the [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► mellah fide man I don't know that which [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► is which is like again i don't know if [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► it's true or not but it's the the heats [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► honey until he dies and then they put [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► him in a stone casket full of honey and [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► they stored away in the ground and he [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► turns it's like his body turns into [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► honey and then it's supposed to like [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► have magical healing properties of [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► course i love that [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► word i was just like Mel ified you read [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► that you're just like well I want to [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► know what that is but I love the Jewish [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► now didn't you didn't you read the [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► Dervish house because you read another [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► book of his because you thought it was [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► required for the Dervish house which it [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► wasn't right i did i read the river of [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► God's which is a much longer book also [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► very good and for some reason i thought [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► the dermis house was a sequel to the [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► river of gods and it turns out they're [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► completely unrelated not even a little [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► have you read other a mcdonald this I i [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► did he actually he wrote a young adult [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► book which is came out last month maybe [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► december I'm was last month december i [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► don't know our planes runner which was [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► you know find it was so the thing I like [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► about in mcdonald is that he has in his [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► adult books I suppose several plots that [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► seemingly are unrelated and then they [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► come together and you go oh my god this [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► is a beautiful tapestry of wonderful [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► writing for his young adult thing he [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► decided I kids are stupid so let's have [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► one plots and lots of action and so it I [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► mean he's though it's it's the will [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► well written but it's not as complex or [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► as a doesn't have the depth of his other [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► works laughing seems like it just put [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► kids are stupid on the first page left [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► the rest blank true we summed up [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► existence at that point so so dan do you [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► have a favorite thing from 2011 [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► yeah a something that I didn't get to [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► manage mention a podcast unfortunately I [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► I want to kind of a clip show caster you [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► I i mentioned it on a future point this [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► is the new content but it's new to you [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► yes Shh you mentioned it in the future [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► clip I did I did [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► can we can we roll that clip yet what's [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► wrong now I was gonna say a video game I [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► played I played much video games here [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► the one that I that I found myself [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► returning to thinking about the most is [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► a game called deus ex human revolution [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► which is a a flawed game in many ways [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► but also a really fascinating game just [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► in terms of the world that it exposes [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► you to and this is a sort of a cyberpunk [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► near future game where a lot of people [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► have these human the cybernetic [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► augmentation [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► and there's a guy i try to figure out [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► what I like so much about this game and [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► i finally watched a video online from a [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► I can't remember where it was but it was [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► hosted a penny arcade's one of the [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► videos they sort of do for their [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► rotating TV series where some people are [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► talking about why they thought it was [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► like the best game of the year and they [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► kept seizing upon well as you know they [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► were frustrating parts in the game and [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► they had these weird boss battles that [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► didn't make they were totally throwbacks [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► but in and of itself it provides it was [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► such a case [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► syntactically perfect exploration of [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► this world and it's so the atmosphere [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► and the ambience of it were so so [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► pervasive and so consistent that it was [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► really immersive and i just i found [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► myself caught up in this entire world [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► just wanted to walk around and explore [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► things and not even always following the [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► plot that was given me but also I think [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► I really appreciated the fact that it [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► took this idea of sort of branching [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► choices and morality in a direction that [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► was was much more subtle a lot of games [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► that they're trying to implement this [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► now and I think this is something going [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► forward this can be really important [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► video games is idea like you want to be [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► a good guide you wanna be a bad guy but [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► they didn't make it into this like do [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► you want to save all these people or do [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► you want to kill all these people it [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► wasn't a heavy-handed choice there was a [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► there's a point very early in the game [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► where you have to get into a police [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► department and you're a former cop and [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► so you stopping you you talking to the [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► guy at the desk was the guy you served [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► with and depending on how you approach [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► there are a number of ways to accomplish [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► that objective and I chose to do it by [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► serving really sympathetic but this guy [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► who's been sort of fallen from grace and [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► you know had this terrible experience [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► and is oh my i played the character very [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► sympathetic and the guy was modified and [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► eventually let me and my friend Jason [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► Tasi who is also appeared on this [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► podcast took the entire opposite tack he [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► browbeat the guy into letting him in and [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► in a normal game you know me you might [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► think that's that's sort of interesting [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► you can approach those two ways but it [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► struck me later in the game as you're [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► exiting your apartment I hadn't it's a [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► second encounter with the guy works at [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► all you know i decided to leave police [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► department i was i just wasn't feeling [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► it didn't feel like I felt that you know [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► fit in there anymore and I said hello [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► let me get you a job i put in your name [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► or something so that'd be great [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► Jason least his apartment and the guy [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► tries to kill it is like you ruined my [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► life and tries to shoot when I was like [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► we and so neither of us knew about this [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► until we discuss was like wow that [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► that's fascinating these little like [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► things you set in motion and then later [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► on they have these huge you know little [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► implications or whatever and and it was [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► just it was a great game i really [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► enjoyed playing it and despite its flaws [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► i just found it was one of my favorite [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► things this year [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► alright that's great uh miss Caldwell do [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► you have a favorite thing my favorite [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► thing is is is broad and specific at the [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► same time which is just new things in [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► general I mean no this isn't yeah new [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► things are great this was taking a [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► letter here that last year's new things [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► we're good that 2010 things suck though [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► there yeah i was awarded more than old [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► things here now but I mean to elaborate [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► a little bit more on that in 2007 I did [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► this thing where i basically i looked at [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► what i was reading and I looked at what [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► i was watching and and basically said [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► you know alright i have i have a certain [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► amount of literature that I wanted my [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► belt but here it is here some books that [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► i really want to read and hear some [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► movies that i really want to watch and I [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► just lock myself up in a room for a [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► while in 2007 and did all that and 2011 [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► was a another similar year where I went [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► through a lot of content that I'd never [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► seen before I went through a bunch of TV [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► shows that I had been told repeatedly to [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► watch like Veronica Mars and party down [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► and buffy and supernatural thanks Dan [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► and you know so I television shows yeah [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► yeah she did sound that enthused when [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► she said things [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► uh-huh well it did take whatever and yes [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► seasons to slog through i should point [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► out but the lightning it's a delightful [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► romp it ruined your 2011 to romp through [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► the fields of of undead things I but I [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► mean aside from television shows i mean [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► i saw real genius for the first time I [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► bring yeah I blame the podcast for a lot [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► of it because having book club and [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► having you know our regular television [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► until talking about TV shows and talking [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► about movies and books like that it [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► gives me a reason beyond I need to be [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► more literate and I need to find more [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► things to inhale into my brain [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► I gives me an additional yes I know [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► and inhale and my brain maybe not the [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► best word choice but you know anyway [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► learning new things is fun and in 2011 I [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► did a lot of that who all right [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► was there any new thing in particular [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► that struck your fancy more than the [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► others or is it just all new things are [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► good [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► that's a good question i was really [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► happy to have seen short circuit for the [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► first time because I i adore robots and [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► robot movies and I hadn't seen this one [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► before and books wise I finally sat down [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► and read myself some neal stephenson and [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► I had been putting it off for ages and [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► I'm very very glad that I finally got [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► around to it sort of ice and fire maybe [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► not so much but else even I will count [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► as a win [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► alright that's great I Steve what about [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► well I 2 i'm going to tout the joys of [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► new things in the same way that that Ren [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► appreciates them which is to say I have [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► a very old thing that I would like to [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► talk about because as you know perhaps [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► you figured out from my discussion of [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► the heavens gate guys earlier how my [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► life is basically a tivo that's running [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► about 10 years back so this year I [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► finally got around to watching a film [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► that people have been recommending to me [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► for the better part of a decade [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► it's a japanese film that's that hails [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► from around 2000 and finally had a spare [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► moment i was sitting there with the DVD [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► and I said let's watch this [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► so I finally put on battle royale nice [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► which no doubt you know I'm sure that [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► most of you have probably absorbed [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► already i have not yet an email back [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► into my brain oh well you [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► yes it's a good it's a good inhale you [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► should really have you have you read the [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► hunger games because this is better [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► right that's another reason why I'm [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► bringing it up is because my wife read [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► The Hunger Games and she was describing [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► the plot to me and I was thinking that [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► sounds an awful lot like the plot battle [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► royale so it's it's topical even though [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► its ancient so yeah basically the film [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► is a is about a a dystopian future where [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► the children have rebelled and have no [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► respect for [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► our elders and it sounds like a stretch [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► but but it happens and apparently the [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► solution to this is the Japanese [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► government each year sequester's a kind [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► of its high school but whatever their [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► final their final year of schooling is [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► in Japan takes one class and they [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► sequester them on a deserted island and [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► they basically tell them you know one of [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► you can survive at the end of three days [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► and they give each of them a random [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► weapon i think one guy has like a pot [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► lid whereas it and somebody else [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► randomly ends up with a chainsaw and the [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► guy has an Uzi sony has a stun gun and [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► basically their dispatch to to dispatch [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► each other and if there's not one person [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► standing if there are multiple people [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► standing on the final day than everybody [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► dies it's never really explained how [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► this is supposed to cause the youth to [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► fall into line since apparently this [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► class was totally unaware of the [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► existence of this this annual event so [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► there are some plot holes at any rate [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► it's a it's a heck of a ride had is it [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► set in Japan or just the Japanese [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► government come to America and take the [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► students at the moment it is in fact [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► said in Japan that's really huh that [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► makes its yeah it's a heck of a ride [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► it's got liberal keepings of Japanese [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► over-the-top sort of cartoonish core [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► although not as bad as some films and [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► I've seen like itchy the killer and a [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► few others and it has some interesting [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► sort of poignant satire in it as well [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► although I'm not sure I understand more [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► than maybe a third of it there are a lot [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► of sort of recurring scenes from from [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► the past of the how the students [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► interacted with each other at school and [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► in some background as to why certain of [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► the students become just utterly [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► psychopathic and and seemed to take joy [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► and trying to kill their fellow students [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► and others can try to band together and [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► in sort of form a society or so it's [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► like lost except everybody kills each [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► other more or less yes they're all [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► they're all teenagers but it's a really [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► good film and and surprisingly moving in [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► places and [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► and I don't get all right and since I [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► didn't actually consume anything from [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► 2011 in 2011 [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► that's my pick for 2011 that is fine but [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► it's a new thing perfectly acceptable [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► pick in New Year's thing Jason may ask [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► what was your was your favorite thing [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► for 2011 why thank you for asking damn i [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► don't want to i'd like to know I way [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► home we're out of time I'm sorry for [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► this next time I guess real genius [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► that's my favorite thing for all eras [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► ever but in if I had to narrow down to [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► 2011 I I think the thing that I enjoy [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► the most [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► which surprises me when I was coming [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► down a list of stuff I liked is the HBO [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► TV series Game of Thrones which I [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► enjoyed a lot and having read those [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► books i was very impressed at how good [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► job they did in translating it into a TV [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► series that was both faithful to the [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► books and yet not so slavishly faithful [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► that they didn't work as individual TV [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► episodes and as a whatever was 10 [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► episode story arc the you know the [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► special effects were effective the [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► acting was good the writing was good it [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► could have been a train wreck and [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► instead i think it was one of the better [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► TV shows of the year and and so I really [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► enjoyed game of thrones in the in the [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► book category i can throw in somebody [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► asked me what my favorite book of the [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► year was I think it's probably among [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► others which I mentioned on the podcast [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► a while back by Joe Walton which I know [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► Scott read it and liked it too [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► I finally just I finally figured out a [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► way to describe what this book is it's a [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► fantasy novel about science fiction and [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► it's and and it's also about a Welsh [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► schoolgirl going to a an English private [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► school and it's it's great and strange [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► and not what you'd expect and i'm sure [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► there are lots of people out there who [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► hated because sort of on one level [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► nothing happens in it and yet it's great [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► and and then if I threw another pick for [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► a young adult that i read that i really [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► liked would be ship breaker by paulo [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► basico loopy who wrote the windup girl [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► which I liked in 2010 and this is an [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► older I think this is for also from 2010 [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► but uh as as the young adult novels go [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► it's actually kind of a shame that it [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► isn't more well-known it's a really [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► well-executed fun adventure story that [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► also has its own you know take on [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► environmental consequences and you could [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► have wrecked oil tankers figure in the [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► plot and it was really good too so but [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► if I had to pick one i think i think i'd [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► actually picked game of thrones much to [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► my own surprise now I this is the [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► portion of the program where I'd like to [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► share some listener feedback [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► oh I I didn't I didn't sign up for that [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► are you aware that there are listeners [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► to this podcast and we know my words [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► against tax basat yeah besides you go I [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► gotta go [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► I was that correct me if I'm wrong jason [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► but it is my understanding that there [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► were there were more listeners before a [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► podcast that we entitled Stephen Fry [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► does not appear [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► oh and then after that it that number [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► sort of dropped off sharply we had to [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► rebuild our listenership alligator we [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► have to make it stronger cousin so the [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► Stephen Pryor fri podcast is what [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► happened when we basically got like five [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► members of the incomparable in a room [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► together and close the door and it was a [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► very small room with no air and over the [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► course of an hour we became increasingly [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► loopy and and we discussed about 20 or [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► 50 or 90 topics and about an hour and [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► none of it made any sense [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► that did not met never ever left down [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► wow you're like this is like the swerve [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► easiest podcast ever issue what we'd [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► only been drinking would have a much [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► more sense [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► ya know we've already men that are I [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► think something called all the time I've [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► recommended our listeners drink before [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► the same I think you should put a recipe [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► at the outset of this please pour for [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► example martini [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► this is the incomparable after dark that [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► was not Muslim you know locked in a room [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► Stephen Fry no longer live TV show [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► called a bit of fry and laurie at the [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► end of each other with you Lori to be [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► more he has done your house you won t be [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► one of America's finest actors and [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► please sing it's not really anybody been [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► imitating trumpet very convincing yes [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► and they always serve a drink what shall [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► we order for the drink can dissolve i'll [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► have the hat tricks like all you take [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► three pounds of dried ice shavings and [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► arsenic mixing together and Shake and [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► Shake swell mr. music plays and that's [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► what I cannot believe that you brought [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► it around to stephen fry again there [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► that is I Williams processing plant I am [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► amazed by then it's stephen fry did not [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► appear never did Elizabeth great find [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► when we could still breathe [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► yeah I member and not so much after we [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► were all about to die so you're more or [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► less inhaling each other in the [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► operations [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► yeah and you can hear it's all it's [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► there on the tape if you play it back [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► you can you was that the episode where [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► Lex Friedman was joking and jokingly [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► laughing at all of our misfortunes in [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► the background [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► yeah he was our studio audience for that [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► poor bastard he was using up the oxygen [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► we should have kicked him out so well I [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► don't have any listener feedback about [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► the stephen fry episode because really [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► nobody listened to it because it was [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► unlistenable but i do have some [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► interesting i asked on the incomparable [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► twitter account at the incomparable [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► follow that by the way if you aren't [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► already it's full of fans doing it right [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► what is that no at the incomparable that [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► I asked i asked the listeners on twitter [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► if they have any favorite uncomfortable [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► moments from 2011 and here are some of [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► the responses i got listener [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► chris said John siracusa covertly [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► reconstructing the Firefly Firefly cast [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► from discarded part [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► mr. Adam similarly said easy [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► Syracuse's sneaky lightning but direct [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► pic with accompanying see lawyer and [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► over Han Solo status as a TV character [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► holiday hon or my fifth round pick [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► John Syracuse's selects on solo from the [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► star wars holiday special [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► oh I almost went there [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► judges charges and i quote from the [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► rules that a good time that with any TV [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► show ever [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► true it counts so does that mean life [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► day will feature prominently in your [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► thinking the character of Han Solo he [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► has an established character from the [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► movies yes but he appeared on television [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► in that which is any TV show ever in the [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► history of TV the exact words from the [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► email i'll allow it i'll allow it but it [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► but there's there's got to be a [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► holiday-themed he always has to remark [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► about wiki holiday is I like that rule [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► is that where you're at santa hat for [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► the whole thing it does not in Star Wars [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► and if he shoots first he uses a candy [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► cane it's 500 years in the future [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► mankind has slipped the surly bonds of [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► Earth is spread across the galaxy thanks [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► to a repulsion breakthrough that [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► harnesses the powerful electrostatic [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► discharges founded the atmospheres of [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► gas giant planets yes that'll make sense [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► a planetary government controls most of [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► the civilized plants but on the more [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► outer rim planets let's say government [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► authorities less potent on solo is the [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► captain of a starship and a smuggler [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► surprise river song is the [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► second-in-command a tough competently he [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► knows their way around a gun an old war [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► buddy of Hans its pilot and trusted [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► friend Hank Stallworth a ruffled [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► good-natured fellow will also happens to [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► be riversong husband jay-z Steiners [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► ships mechanic she's young and innocent [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► but with a hydrospanner James Ford is a [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► hired gun he's great in a fight but the [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► others on the crew not are not sure that [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► he can be trusted your own higher Harris [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► is a high-class corazon tagging along [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► and hardship for transport and [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► protections her presence lends an air of [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► legitimacy to another wise ragtag crew [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► but there's definitely some sexual [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► tension between jones scruffy-looking on [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► into the life of this crew falls Jack [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► Shephard a doctor [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► one of the civilized planet mr. myko [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► from the government but would explain [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► why Tywin Lannister's the government [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► officer in charge of apprehending Jaco [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► and he has no trouble going through some [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► anti-government rebels come to get what [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► he wants [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► finally at the far reaches of the known [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► plants like the nomadic tribes known as [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► the Horde by Khal Drogo Oh even [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► government ships hear them together on [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► his crew flip from planet to planet in [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► the tiny spaceship making a dishonest [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► living as smugglers what they avoid any [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► Imperial entanglements and steer clear [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► of the hoard all still trying to be the [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► good guys in the movie of their lives [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► there on ship crushes the trails heist [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► of the week episodes and remote planets [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► and overall story are concerning the [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► mysterious backstory of jackin echo the [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► show's title is the name of hardship the [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► lightning bug well and we grow now [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► really it's gonna make a million dollars [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► well I never heard of anything like this [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► before I have a feeling that this show [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► will be canceled after 13 episodes only [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► 10 of which will air not not in the [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► correct i'm not even in correct order [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► wow so I have nothing to say to that I [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► executed the plan not very creative but [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► it's kind of like like a pet cemetery [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► when the dad really wants a little boy [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► to come back to life so he uses dark [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► magic antenna and reanimates the corpse [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► that's what I've done here I'm still [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► upset about that [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► that's ok that's ok move on there was no [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► life day mentioned at all in the [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► lightning bug pitch as i recall it's [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► shameful wrong [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► so listen Laurie liked the cancelled TV [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► show draft but she says the TV character [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► draft made her laugh from beginning to [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► end so i guess my favorite moment steve [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► was the drafting of Skeletor yes mr. [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► Janus said I laughed so much of the [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► character draft that my sister thought i [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► was nuts [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► well there's a good chance you're [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► welcome mr. Chad road in simply saying [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► Skeletor i must needs to be sick [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► well i'm gonna go with one that's a [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► that's close to my heart for various [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► reasons and I know somebody's just [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► raring to pick him so I better grab him [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► now i'm going to pick a pic Skeletor [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► from the last of the universe seems yeah [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► i do not think you should be on the show [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► with Tom servo well the beauty of [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► Skeletor is that he can die every [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► weekend yet miraculously reappear from [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► under the pile of rocks that he was [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► buried under in subsequent hooks so if [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► Anthony tries to send Skeletor the [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► cornfield what happens is back to the [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► next week [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► that's the intention of the show's [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► spoilers no spoilers alright okay so [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► you're you're pretty girly it's crucial [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► to my plot which which I look forward to [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► making up on the candle [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► yeah that's appropriate it its Skeletor [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► is the alpha and the omega of our [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► podcast he won that draft by killing [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► everyone else so scary [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► in addition to the TV drafts wear it in [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► which mr. Lutz had the best pic and one [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► the pitch session after all of that you [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► were also steve the master of trash talk [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► i believe i believe telling me to eat it [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► in the classic dual image which actually [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► I think we may have been John Syracuse's [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► favorite moment of people [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► well you know every village needs its [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► idiot [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► so I've been happy to provide that role [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► you got me Steve nice the bed liners in [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► the cornfield with Anthony now eat it [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► smells all right I'm gonna trash-talk [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► alright it's getting good [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► normally I would reserve that for the [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► chat window well played it again Snell [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► oh man so you will each I mean it when I [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► say it's now [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► yes no that's that's Steve's line i [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► recommend it it's it's highly [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► questionable say it [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► that's right mr. mark rhodium that it's [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► a tie between the TV draft and pitch [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► please do that again he says huh [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► okay i think people will have a license [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► revoked if we if we do that again thank [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► you i will be draft and the i think i [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► think we should do a favorite movie drop [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► that would be good and the empire [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► strikes back to partner he also liked [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► listen risk mr. chris l wrote in and [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► said both the two-part draft pick and [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► pitch and the two-part star wars were [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► golden [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► so people like the star wars episodes [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► Adam wrote in and said he thought the [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► Empire Strikes Back episode was [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► incomparable haha there that doesn't [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► mean good Jason let's just be clear [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► yes it's well it's not necessarily [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► conveying a value judgment of any kind [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► listener Brandon wrote in and said [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► empire strikes back all the way listener [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► David wrote in and said to come to mind [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► episode 59 1 episode is 59 I don't [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► actually read the tip and the tail end [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► of the TV draft and the Empire Strikes [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► Back series especially the after dark [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► the where we were we talked about the [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► empire strikes back for an extra 20 [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► minutes after having board everybody to [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► death already and this says about about [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► things notice how they're not saying the [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► star wars two-parter they're saying the [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► Empire to know someone said the star [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► wars 2 part that I think I think they [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► mean the Empire to partner Dan let's [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► just face it the empire strikes back [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► it's just a vote in the sweet spot me a [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► favor just if I might recall where you [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► were you on the Star Wars two-parter I [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► was not [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► oh yeah so you know what is a no one [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► could possibly say that is what youre so [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► the reason the star wars episode i think [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► it's so touching is because you know we [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► we learned so many things in the star [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► wars episode we learned that start [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► seeing Star Wars can change your life [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► and we also learned about the coffee [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► drinking habit [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► darth vader that is true my my life [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► exists in into separate dimensions one [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► pre star wars and one post Star Wars it [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► was the transformative experience I I [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► was nine years old when Star Wars was [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► released and I saw at nine times during [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► its initial theatrical run i was just [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► totally blown away by everything in it [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► was it was perfect in every way and i [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► still believe that and I will argue it [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► with anybody who wants to that it is it [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► remains perfect despite its flaws [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► it is the Socratic ideal of what a [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► science-fiction movie should be so what [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► you're saying is even its flaws are part [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► of its reaction that exactly it would it [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► it is perfect because of its flaws [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► that's for old people like me and Greg [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► that's um that's such a strange idea the [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► idea that star wars was always there [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► I have to think that it would be a [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► little disappointing having it always [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► around because you didn't get to [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► discover it didn't like up here you know [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► dawn i might argue that that as as as [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► your idea Greg that star wars a Socratic [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► ideal in some ways up hasn't it always [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► been there [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► we just didn't know it's been inside of [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► us it was inside the block of marble it [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► was a long time ago in a galaxy far far [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► away you don't use the word faith there [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► to find his lack of faith disturbing [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► I want you need to have faith i'm [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► choking you dude you don't have to [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► believe believe that I believe it may go [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► Greg can you explain [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► can you explain the darth vader coffee [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► thing by the way for those who don't [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► know because this is one of my favorite [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► things about the original star wars in [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► the comic version there's the conference [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► room scene where they're discussing how [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► the plans got away and who's to blame [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► and your ancient religion blah blah blah [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► and it just as as the people are talking [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► around the table Vader floats over a [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► Styrofoam cup of coffee and a little yes [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► how does he drink it [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► yes I don't know using the force and [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► then United States he's holding it for [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► the rest of the scene including on shoka [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► together [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► need to do all the only thing that would [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► have been awesome about that is it well [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► to give you guys something of a copy [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► then throws it in his face installed [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► that would be hilarious you should have [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► been quietly sipping through his helmet [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► while choking the guy that's the dark [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► side band confidence for chokers Vader [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► doesn't put the cream in his coffee by [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► the way he likes it black takes that [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► black just like you like I like my [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► coffee like my like my evil select [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► myself Lords I really should have been [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► on the real genius episode back job man [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► yeah I know I I made it I made a [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► horrible mistake with that episode it [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► was I booked the wrong guests I I needed [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► more people on my side [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► it happens i went for diversity instead [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► of a monoculture that would agree with [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► me like that lesson [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► yeah it's very strange to me that so [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► there's so much love for the TV draft [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► episodes when we were all convinced that [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► that was going to be the second coming [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► of the stephen fry said I after we [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► posted the TV draft episode I really [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► they were evenings when I would look out [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► my window just to make sure that the [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► torches and pitchforks poured out there [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► you know if I had it all to do over [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► again I think I would do it differently [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► are those was that serious wow maybe a [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► little little little muslim are you [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► expecting us to create a flashback were [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► either a song that's about to start that [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► goes with that [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► well I drafted a bunch of vampire [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► detective and I have no I have no more [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► than that sign but even greater problems [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► don't seem dry so so more comments about [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► Star Wars listener Ryan said Star Wars [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► of course now John siracusa must turn [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► his lecture like I on episodes one [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► through three and he specifies the [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► analytical Hannibal Lecter not the [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► murderer apartment kind of like I i did [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► you get to choose which part of him and [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► passage deal i can guess which part [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► John would choose to inflict on the [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► prequels too and it's not the analytical [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► part it's the murder part i see but [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► here's the thing if you would just be [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► two hours of Dijon saying I don't know [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► what movie you're talking about [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► it's true that movie existed really is [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► his power of self-delusion is great [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► you know considering the impact that [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► ripples had on Star Wars fans i would [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► say that those two were life-changing [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► films troops in a different in a [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► different sort of way in a vastly [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► different sort of way if I could do it [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► all over again I think I would do it [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► differently [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► mr. Matt throat and said that a episode [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► 67 68 where the best of the year where [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► siracusa got down on Empire Strikes Back [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► my favorite moment from this episode yes [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► I am bleeding into a clip here is when [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► John Syracuse's summed up Han Solo's [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► character in just a few seconds the [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► character is established to immediately [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► fired his weapon upon seeing the enemy [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► the only reason he didn't immediately [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► shoot gritos gonna get the jump on them [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► and had the gun grunting him first and [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► he had to talk while he got his general [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► Han shoots first for crying out loud he [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► doesn't he doesn't even like Chewie [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► growls at least on just immediately [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► fires and draws his fast again doesn't [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► fire once you just aim shoot kill kill [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► kill [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► that's hot that's hot solo in that scene [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► he is a mayor and of action on solo and [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► shoots first people John kill cancerous [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► he's succinct yeah yeah but general [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► member Hannibal Lecter saying something [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► very similar in yeah it's somewhat more [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► eloquent my generally in the Empire [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► podcast there were some serious nerdery [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► going on between Dan and John no I find [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► that uh yeah I was nerded out I thought [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► I knew a lot but it's a bit of romance [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► I just have a curiosity everything from [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► your guy's perspective how many days do [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► you think he's there [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► not that long maybe like oh we're trying [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► to calculate based on like how long they [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► spent running away from the the fuckin [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► Spencer anyway [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► yeah you don't know how long it took [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► them to fly without warp speed 22 miles [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► to Cloud City exactly i mean it seems [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► like not more than a few days though [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► right they make it seem like it's not [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► long but I better be like a week yeah [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► they spend a week running away from the [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► empire but they were they spend a week [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► fly they couldn't they couldn't go to [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► light speed and takes awhile to get [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► around you also don't know how long they [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► were sitting on the back of the Star [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► Destroyer until they get dumped off for [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► track because you see them there and [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► it's all dark and you're like you know [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► what's our next move that could hang out [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► there for a while I i don't know i [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► always seems to me like three or four [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► days and like man that's a that's a very [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► short time to cram in your Jedi training [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► it does seem faster in the movie like [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► this look what exactly how much Jedi [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► training to look actually get but I [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► think even if you think it's only been a [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► few days [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► it shows he looks like someone who's had [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► like a three day course on you know [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► professional driving and now he's not [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► camp Jedi boot camp right and and has [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► not absorbed it's like if you took a [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► three-day professional driving course [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► such as our weekend really well yeah [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► he's a Jedi weekend warrior yah-yah-yah [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► dress venue and I had to basically stand [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► on the sidelines while while damage on [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► just listed all the things they loved [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► about the empire strikes back [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► yeah we we get our mouths open and then [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► John when ordered and will put it more [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► succinctly and then and then we go back [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► to our caves and be like yeah i really [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► love that movie to be there we really [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► love that movie [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► like a lot yeah I give it was legal in [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► my state to marry that movie [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► yeah i think it is it matches [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► Massachusetts were very liberal true [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► then you and John would have to fight [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► over who married that movie [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► oh I'm sure it's a slippery slope it's [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► great just maybe both married in three [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► two people in the movie are all married [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► together and it's it is madness dr. now [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► it's a sitcom sitcom there's yeah [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► there's the start of values conquers all [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► so mr. Clinton wrote in and said he [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► liked the star wars podcast but he also [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► specifically like to single out the [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► doctor who episodes and our review of [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► feed you see some people love it when we [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► are critical Scott well that's good [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► because that book is crap [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► let's relive just how bad that book is [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► feed by mira Grant who read fee i did [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► mean for child and neither of us like to [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► feed is is a novel about bloggers yes [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► who are essentially news reporters of [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► the future and this is set in the near [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► future as well where technology is a [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► little more advanced also there's been a [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► zombie apocalypse and everybody who dies [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► becomes a zombie and if you get bitten [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► if by a zombie you die and then your [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► zombie and an interesting i think that [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► her world building was interesting so [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► you can also since the the whatever the [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► the zombie particle or whatever you [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► wanna call it is been around it has not [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► a virus yet the virus that's probably [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► better is it so it's in everyone and it [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► can just spontaneously activate so you [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► don't have to be bitten by a zombie you [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► could just spontaneously turn into a [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► zombie and animals also turned into [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► zombies over 40 pounds or something so [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► right there's like there's a law that [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► you can't have a pet that's over 40 [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► pounds because it could spontaneously [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► turn into like a zombie my Marmaduke but [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► think how Bad's on be like mosquitoes [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► would be slung be one rat that's why you [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► can't do that yet so but zombie horses [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► yes this was really not very good know [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► it was you mean it would have had [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► bringing an endorsement [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► I cannot believe I actually i look at [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► this and think how did this get [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► nominated for hugo award [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► I don't understand a world where this [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► book and the Dervish house can be [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► considered in the same group [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► it's just the gap is so why don't [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► understand it [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► so Dan and Glenn what what can I tell [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► you you gotta reach yeah I'm gonna take [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► an article [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► oh I'm gonna go right out i'm so glad [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► that I didn't just like go on mute for [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► this then come back and guys like a [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► totally repeat happy [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► sucker and the best part is it's the [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► first book in a trilogy so [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► oh of course after i love it i love [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► however scott i had hate to break it to [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► some people also hate it when we are [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► critical listener ash road in and said [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► the most infuriating episode was when [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► you ravage the best book of the year [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► ready player one I have a special i have [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► a message [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► I i assume listener ashes illiterate [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► because then that book is also crap that [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► as much crap as feed i will give him at [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► still crap i read the that doesn't I'm [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► sample and I felt illiterate after [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► finishing just an efficient i think [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► that's an episode like the real genius [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► episode i think that's an episode with a [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► host Letta let the guests get away from [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► get wet get away from him now I think [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► that hosted an excellent job I i would [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► say he was one of the best host of the [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► year everything about this book is is [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► basically a trope right like the plot [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► the characters and the amaj and I guess [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► you know it seems like it's one of those [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► situations that should be a perfect [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► storm of things that people like and yet [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► it doesn't quite seem to succeed just [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► immune it doesn't have that one thing [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► that people like which is a story is a [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► story that keeps them guessing and I [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► mean like with fine pandered to whatever [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► but you want to you want to be kept like [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► I'm i was going to the story but it was [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► just you just saw where was going in [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► there isn't much surprised that's why [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► the pacman steam so it out so much [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► because there was so little in this [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► thing that you knew I'd like in a movie [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► that you know anything they show you [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► it's like a wall that's going to be [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► significant is probably gonna save them [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► in the end that because no one else is [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► doing it like there wasn't enough stuff [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► for it because it like a good mystery [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► even a short little mystery novel that [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► mean enough stuff going on that you can [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► immediately pick out haha when that guy [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► came into the room put that thing down [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► that was important because so much other [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► stuff happens in the story and you [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► wrapped up in the people in this thing [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► it was just everything was just poking [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► up out of the the ground really tall [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► appears this tower which is this plot [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► point this tower which is this plot [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► point and it wasn't any meat on the [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► bones you know that it's a new overclock [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► processor that's so fast its cycle time [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► board on [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► precognition first of all overclocking [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► that was like so two decades ago and [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► cycle time board its recognition make no [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► sense but like I asked my mother to [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► write a sentence about how fast the cpu [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► I'm glad we didn't get any comments from [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► people who said I'll i really like the [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► episodes where people who are Jason [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► hosted at least in getting episodes [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► where they're like I really hated the [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► people who subbed in for Jason cuz that [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► make me said I liked the episode where [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► Glenn breathe a lot thank you enough [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► so let them roll the clip you know so [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► critical i mean we are we are sometimes [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► critical and some people hate that and [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► some people like it we don't try to tear [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► everything down every week i mean i [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► think that reaction of the star wars [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► episode shows that people also enjoy it [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► when we talk about things we love and so [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► it's it's hard to strike a balance I had [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► somebody on Twitter the other day said [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► that we were all a bunch of a bunch of [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► pedis and infrared yeah that's that's [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► John job but the rest of us are are are [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► are much more kind of you know we love [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► things we hate things and that's okay i [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► think criticism is good is good to share [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► and sometimes we hate things and talk [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► about why we hate them but that's not [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► all we also love things we hate the dark [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► night though nobody likes the dark [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► ok we destroyed that that's ahead movie [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► held in high regard high regard but what [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► we did we toured that into little tiny [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► pieces i think i think i missed out on [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► that 1i might have defended who ya [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► always something that was the superhero [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► movie episode where you I was i believe [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► i was absent a little i would i would [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► argue that were united air [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► let's check the tape oh let's go to the [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► videotape [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► overrated is the dark knight not because [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► it's such a terrible movie because it [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► isn't terrible is a superhero movie that [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► tries to have everything in it you know [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► great acting dramatic fight scenes and [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► amazing villain and every possible [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► scenario you can imagine for the villain [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► to go in a you know a love story the [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► loss of a main character revenge and it [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► just it just ends up being too much the [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► dark knight is a great great movie for [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► about sixty percent and then it just [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► doesn't end it keeps going keeps trying [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► to have more and it it goes off the [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► rails at the end I don't wanna I don't [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► want to draw a parallel between the dark [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► knight and batman returns the second of [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► the tim burton Batman's which is a far [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► Batman Returns far inferior to the dark [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► knight i would say the dark knight is a [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► good movie it's just horribly overrated [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► but they are similar in that both of [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► them the first movie was successful had [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► a lot of constraints that I think may [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► have made them successful and then they [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► took all the constraints off and and the [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► with batman returns it was really like [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► okay well we made Tim Burton act like a [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► grown-up he made a good movie now will [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► let him do whatever the hell he wants [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► oh god he made he's made something [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► atrocious [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► not to mention the fact that that why is [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► it that superhero movie franchises feel [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► that once a movie is successful the best [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► way to do a sequel is by multiplying the [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► number of villains in it by a factor of [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► three [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► Oh God well the doctor i didn't have [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► that problem with the multiple villain [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► well I could have Harvey today's any of [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► this stuff comes at the end which is in [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► my mind the worst part of that movie is [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► with because that I know where are you [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► always try is trying to lead into the [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► next movie with my biggest complaints [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► are they like the fairy scene and the [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► sort of little brother moralizing those [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► two bits didn't need to be in that movie [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► a fairy stone i think is terrible and [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► that's actually happening simultaneous [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► with another scene that is bad which is [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► Batman gets equipped morgan freeman [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► equips Batman with his his bat radar [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► right his ballot all right he goes into [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► a tall building and he's trying to fight [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► bad guys in this tall building and it's [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► one of the most incompetent we put [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► together action scenes I've ever seen in [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► a major movie you at no point do you [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► really understand what [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► going on you're completely lose track it [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► sort of transformers level of confusion [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► and it's a shame because again if [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► somebody come in and said no no this is [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► too much you've got a great movie here [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► if we chop off most of the last 30 [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► minutes or 45 minutes it would be a much [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► better movie than it is [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► yeah because it starts really strong and [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► it's focused and strong and dramatic and [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► I think the worst decision was that they [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► tried to make the big dramatic thing [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► that happens in the final act is bad [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► one of the things is there's not a [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► problem is 10 different things that [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► happen the final actress Batman [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► rejecting the idea of spying on the [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► citizenry you know I'll do it this once [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► but you have to burn the computers down [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► when you're done you know and his and [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► his faithful helper almost you know [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► threatens to quit because of this great [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► decision like no one cares about this [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► this is not of Batman's world [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► I don't care about Batman spies on his [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► to fight the bad guys i was on a later [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► superhero movie episode [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► yeah you were talking about this we're [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► talking about this year's superhero [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► movies i was on that one when I was not [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► on the one where we talked about [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► superhero movies in general right in the [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► dark knight which we didn't like even [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► though my design [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► I liked it I liked it speaking of being [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► critical now would probably be a good [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► time to interject my personal favorite [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► podcast moment of this year [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► oh yes which is John siracusa in the TV [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► draft picking Jack Shephard and he's so [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► proud of himself for getting to the [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► third round and and still having Jack [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► Shephard on the board and immediately he [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► gets slammed relentlessly by every [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► single other person on the on the [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► podcast for picking such a drab dull [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► character and literally everybody has [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► their say I think 11 a time everybody [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► leans it and what is nothing to say at [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► the end of him because he's been so [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► abused [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► I'm happy to have made into the third [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► round for this pic Jack Shephard from [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► lost the lead of one of the best shows [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► in recent years at least interesting [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► there are you sure he wants that well [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► maybe I have a plan for him everything [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► that everybody has a plan for Jack's [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► gonna cry a lot [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► boredom is that you're playing i hope i [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► hope you're not counting on your show [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► involving him asking perceptive [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► questions i think i think he looks I [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► think you look sad a lot and he stares [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► in the middle distance a lot so you know [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► what would be a good episode of your [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► show but let's find out how Jack got his [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► tattoos I hear that would be really [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► he knew he just needed a doctor for his [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► little Firefly show right of course it [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► turned out to be you know part of the [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► plan but still it was it's it's so funny [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► because he's pleased just even John [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► siracusa needs needs a little needs to [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► be taken down a peg every once in awhile [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► it siracusa yeah listen Scott who is not [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► scott McNulty crazy or he would become [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► invited said that he enjoyed episode 33 [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► win Syracuse's skewered real genius [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► oh good times and I episode 23 when [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► serenity Caldwell picked Mystery Men as [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► her superhero movie that she enjoyed I [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► believe who Diana and skeletor yeah [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► there you go just yet and Scotts request [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► is more drafts and more old movies so [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► vote for old things [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► whoo yeah you can do that much for that [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► are you things that are also old no old [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► things [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► nice um I just big 40 you things have a [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► lot of canceled shows strapped to which [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► wich a which was our lesson same of our [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► tube perhaps that we did but there was [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► some good stuff and my favorite moment [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► of that episode is where we all forgot [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► to pick firefly except Scott who hates [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► firefly but the rest is just for God [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► didn't win forget didn't we make an [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► explicit agreement upfront that was [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► afterwards that I was named can we make [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► it explicit agreement at the word yes it [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► was red card I i think if you if you [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► listen carefully to a clip that i might [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► play in a second you might notice that [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► there is a slight edit their where [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► we actually went through the first round [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► realize nobody picked firefly I need [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► that it would be the first pic and then [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► moved that section ahead to make it seem [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► as if we planned the whole sexy [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► oh it's likely they changed the Darren's [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► secrets are revealed [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► oh here so i guess it's my choice but [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► before I make my my selection did [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► everybody just assumed that everybody [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► else is going to pick Firefly is that [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► what happened [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► I mean what should I just bought us [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► should we just site Firefly and spot it [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► as saying like number one is firefly but [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► and none of us are going to pick it [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► because really I could pick it here but [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► I've got such a long list and I think it [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► kind of goes without saying that [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► everybody knows that Joss Whedon's sci [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► fi Western e thing firefly got cancelled [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► way too soon and was really quite good [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► and it died young and left a beautiful [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► corpse [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► but you know please somebody wants to [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► wants to pick it we can do that but [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► otherwise i'm willing to just put it up [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► on the word was it was taking anybody's [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► was it not on anybody's list [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► oh it's on my list but of course I just [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► assumed also take it so I didn't you [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► know I think we should take it as read [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► and move on yes we've talked about it [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► all the time and other episodes it was [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► 20 f pic of the dream it was not on my [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► list because i do not like it but I'm I [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► you always gonna be Scott and yeah [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► anybody [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► yeah I assumed everybody else but Scott [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► would pick it will see they're all right [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► so I I you get firefly i will like a [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► firefly on the board [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► thank God we have an editor wait this [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► podcast is ended only slightly I our [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► army doctor who / podcasts know these [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► are completely unedited yes i have to [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► say and it shows [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► ya mean but originally just usually we [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► come up with greatness i particularly [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► liked our let's quilt Hitler episode if [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► only for the nonsense that it happens at [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► the very end when we go into things like [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► quilting Hitler and finding ways to make [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► nazis funny a new plot i just decided [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► that i'm going to write a book called [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► what's quilt Hitler oh look [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► uh-huh okay I know what Scott is my [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► daughter should people behind the [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► spaceship that's also a man come up with [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► a new plan called let's build Hitler i [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► like the idea of selling a book called [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► but schools filter for me to like now we [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► can suss out all the Nazis that's [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► expandable that's the way my name is [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► some overlap Nazi quilters who doesn't [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► want to smuggle with Hitler tonight but [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► they're all these while you're over 40 [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► so i can have blackmail material [TS]

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00:53:32 ◼   ► Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray are you have [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► not seen that 1i have no idea what he's [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► talking about [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► now I've never heard of it do you think [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► that stephen fry [TS]

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00:53:43 ◼   ► when the title is remember the night and [TS]

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00:53:59 ◼   ► club episode you joked about this being [TS]

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00:54:02 ◼   ► it's not it's not a joke okay maybe it [TS]

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00:54:06 ◼   ► he says I'm new so I apologize if this [TS]

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00:54:11 ◼   ► thing where I can learn of a book to be [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► discussed in the future read it on my [TS]

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00:54:18 ◼   ► together in the previous book club we [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► will mention it if we don't get our act [TS]

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00:54:34 ◼   ► of the book club and FYI you can always [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► not listen to episode read the book and [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► then listen to it such is the glory of [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► the podcast that is a great thing about [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► this medium if you guys pick a book [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► that's ten years old I might read it [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► maybe you already read it [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► chew on that Steve a pal of grey Moss [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► described only as a pal of greatness [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► wrote in to say tell your incomparable [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► buddies i have declared jihad on [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► siracusa he who despises real genius [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► despises life people people feel very [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► strongly like John Syracuse's what I'm [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► learning from this [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► yes yes he does that uh listener [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► Christopher wrote in to suggest a topic [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► for an upcoming show before Christmas [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► oh well let's get on that haha sorry [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► this 2012 but but he wants to hear us [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► discuss cult christmas movies so maybe [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► we'll see that Barbara Stanwyck movie [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► could be a stressed-out 2s9 you all [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► remember the night before this time next [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► year but he mentioned you mentioned [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► diehard a christmas story The Nightmare [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► Before Christmas elf home alone all of [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► which we mentioned in our christmas [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► movie podcast so I thought it was as [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► yesterday at least partially satisfy as [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► if we listen to Christopher even though [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► we didn't read his letter until much [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► later he's an avid listener of 2011 [TS]

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00:56:02 ◼   ► left on october tense the subject [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► ugh OH was unless my Kathy five people [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► talking over top of each other laughing [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► at their own poor quote jokes [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► close quote and then repeating them [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► again because no one else laughed no [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► insight no interesting points of view [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► no entertainment value unless you have [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► no friends to sit around a table and [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► chat with listen to be uncomfortable is [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► like listening to five different podcast [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► being played at once [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► that's an idea a stain on the otherwise [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► mostly excellent five-by-five network i [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► like that i like the qualifier mostly [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► closely [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► I'd like to apologize again for the [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► stephen fry episode i'm clearly we're so [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► I i think this gentleman might be an m16 [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► friday so Stephen Fry I've been playing [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► a lot of Wolfenstein 3d lately a [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► twenty-year-old game [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► oh and I bought it you name nine out of [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► ten models when they're shot die by [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► saying ugh [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► oh good point so it's you're saying he's [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► a pixelated not see it in the in his [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► death throes as he's taken a review [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► 30 mr. sure he listened to a second [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► episode that wasn't Stephen Fry it [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► probably it was probably this one and [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► this one is subsequently he drafted he [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► wrote that i remember seeing that one [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► yeah so not everybody loved it [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► not everybody loved the TV draft that's [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► ok that's ok you can love us you can [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► hate it's exactly you're allowed to be [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► critical of us we week so good we can [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► add ago we can be praised phul you [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► should be critical in principle to [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► exactly what you're gonna be critical [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► keep it to yourself don't want to hear [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► it cries your position [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► whenever i'm criticizing if your [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► critical at least be at least be [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► inventive and innovative don't criticize [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► thought you were gonna say at least be [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► critical of jobs siracusa for that or [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► that God knows I dude he's Syracuse is [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► too big to be on this episode tonight by [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► the way it's nice to be so this proxies [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► and his eye his agent is agent would let [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► up here [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► he doesn't do clip shows sadly strictly [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► regulated yeah ever since Eric's gonna [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► work without the star wars holiday [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► season we couldn't afford him couldn't [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► afford John cerquita up so I've [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► exhausted all of our reader interaction [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► for for 2011 there that was able to [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► thank goodness [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► can I ask can I throw out my favorite [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► moment moment from about yes please God [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► I right you know I was racking my brains [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► that it popped into my head because I [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► just I love this moment I don't remember [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► exactly where you put it and i think it [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► may be at the beginning of one of one of [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► the Empire episodes which is everybody's [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► impression of a imperial probe droid [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► oh yes that's at the beginning of one of [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► the Empire episodes and the other the [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► other one ends with yes largely you [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► doing your series of sound effects from [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► you can learn story star wars soundboard [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► very real problem guard and imap matter [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► and a proper environment [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► ok and I'll try it remember where ya [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► riverbrook super oh how forgot but maybe [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► it's a little crass two favorite my own [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► appearance and about getting you know [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► what no one else did [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► so no I thought it was that that was a [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► funny moment with John mentioned the [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► imperial probe droid have been all four [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► of us begin doing our impressions all of [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► which are extremely different which is [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► also strange its yes but all of them [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► good in their own way [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► oh i think i will like to give a [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► shout-out as the kids say maybe sure [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► this will say that to glen relations [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► Jack Donaghy impersonation so glad i [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► love and II we love we love Glenn Glenn [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► Glenn could do a one-man show [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► I think he did so so Glenn would do his [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► Jack Donnie impression and I believe he [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► mispronounces Jack Donaghey we could [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► have them do some heavy breathing that's [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► right and and then [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► right and and then [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► you could have him to host an episode [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► about they might be giants and [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► repeatedly delivered of the demand as [TS]

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01:00:08 ◼   ► there could be done I don't know go and [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► don't forget of course is also excellent [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► impression of Jimmy Stewart the holiday [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► movies episode but of course one of [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► these days to the moon [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► stop your yapping we have a shipment of [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► 10 million blackberry playbook stew [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► process for the unobtanium that the [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► Canadians actually baked into the cpu [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► Canadians to the moon [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► Sulu's probables a man of one voice [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► stroked out Jimmy's but many [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► Impressionists but we love God and a bag [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► claim my favorite thing about about the [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► Glen contributed to the podcast this [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► year is that he came up with the idea [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► for the TV draft man wasn't in it as [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► well and then refused to to play with [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► the team that we in fact drafted for yes [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► yes he's he's told me several times that [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► this is phase one of his multi-phase [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► plan to destroy the podcast [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► well I thought phase one with Stephen [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► fra that was more like phase zero well [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► so you know it was a it was a good year [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► we started this podcast in 2010 but we [TS]

01:01:15 ◼   ► did a whole lot of episodes in 2011 and [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► it was all it was a lot of fun i'm [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► looking forward to what crazy things [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► will do when in 2012 like this show [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► yeah nothing's gonna stop Skeletor [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► though hmm i don't that maybe Skeletor [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► nobody can defeat skills or he's in the [TS]

01:01:33 ◼   ► Hall of Fame now [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► well so happy New Year to everybody out [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► there and here's to a good 2012 and I [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► you know I want to thank not only the [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► people who are here on this episode but [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► all the contributors to the [TS]