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Jon, Riley, and Superfan Megan have high praise for the one of the last two episodes of House of the Dragon and frustration for the other. We appreciate some recycled window dressing and enthusiastically welcome small children beating the shit out of each other.
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Our monthly themes are movies on our collective top ten lists, and this month, Shane, Jon, JR, and Drew talk about three of our favorites with The Big Lebowski, Team America: World Police, and Menace II Society. Jon leaps at the opportunity to provide an irresponsible amount of historical context. Is that an endorsement of this episode? Depends on your tolerance for his rambling.
Jon and Drew welcome another prodigal Mediocre member with Ashli's return. House of the Dragon keeps bringing people back, and why wouldn't it with some sexy brothel scenes? The HBO CEO of Tits gets a shout-out, and so does Jon's recurring bit of equating a grand strategy medieval simulator to this TV show.
Superfan Megan's been gone so long that Jon forgot her last name. She returns to chat with Jon and Riley about the second and third episodes of House of the Dragon. Jon gets recommended some intimate stories about stepmoms and Megan can't get enough of those dragons.
Jon, Pierce, and Riley break down 2022 releases The Batman, Prey, and Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers. They have a lot of praise rapping chipmunks when they're voiced by talented actors, bears getting punched in the face, and anytime a David Fincher movie gets paid homage to.
Jon, Drew, and Riley recap the first episode of Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon. Still burned from the end of Game of Thrones, they take an arms-length approach but are optimistic about the future in their hope for less conscious surgeries and more palace intrigue.
Jon, JR, and Pierce go long on three Taika Waititi films. Hunt For the Wilderpeople is universally praised, Thor Ragnarok gets us talking about the trash the MCU is currently churning out compared to when the movies were pretty good, and during our talk about Jojo Rabbit, the phrase 'this is not allowed' gets used a whole bunch.
Jon, Pierce, and Shane talk about some of their favorite things from the first half of 2022, whether that be books, movies, TV shows, or video games. Jon comes up with an all-time segue that he's still super-proud of, Shane mixes up his Skarsgards with his Sarsgaards, and an argument breaks out on if backal is the opposite of frontal.
This month, Jon and Pierce watched three of David Cronenberg's squishy, fleshy, head-explodey films. Jon makes a big claim about eXistenZ and its comparison to The Matrix, The Brood makes for a weird exhibit in Cronenberg's 1970's divorce proceedings, and we experience the rare special effect that defines the movie that contains with it in Scanners.
Jon welcomes Phil back from a long hiatus to talk horse movies, specifically Dream Horse, Jockey and Secretariat. Phil's deep knowledge leads to a marathon podcast where Jon pieces together what 'dosage' means in equine world. Listen closely for Phil doxxing his employer.
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