Episode #53 - "Kentucky Ball Slap" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "One Tree Gotham"

• Tonight's Beverages: Woodpecker Granny Smith Tart Apple Hard Cider, Jim Beam (Dirk); same, but mixed together (Otto).
• Big storms and poor news reporting.
• The church fire:
  
• Otto is still trying to get his catch phrase to happen:
  
• Follow-up on Weird Al.
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• Follow up on the current Humble Bundle and advice of new sale items to pick up (Expires 8/5/14) and why liking and interacting with our FaceSpace page is so important so as to not miss hot deals when they happen.
• Follow-up on the death of Archie.
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• The Amazon Fire Phone is out and Dirk was right about it.
• Discussion of the various meager scraps of news out of San Diego Comic-Con.
• The Wonder Woman-Xena photo:
  
• Elizabeth Olson's Scarlet Witch costume:
  
• 13-year-old Winona Ryder with her real hair color:
  
• Sam Raimi's forgotten movie:
  
• The test footage for the proposed Deadpool movie. (Can't post the video because it keeps getting knocked down.)
• The Observe and Report red band trailer referenced (the quote starts at 2:35):
  
• A 64-year-old bystander was badly injured when hit by a car during a zombie walk.
• Great fan-made video cutting the original tunes' videos to Weird Al's medley:
  
• Otto reviews Jack White's concert at the Fox Theater.
• Dirk reviews Lucy and The Monuments Men. 
• Milla Jovovich in a real acting/non-ass-kicking movie:
  
• Netflix vs. Amazon Prime Video.

Episode #52 - "It Seemed Longer" - Show Notes

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Alternate Titles: "I'm A Dick Magnet

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice, Sam Adams Summer Ale, Jim Beam (Dirk); Jim Beam and Diet Mountain Dew (Otto).
• New pop filters deprive Otto of his fun.
  
• Dirk goes to court for some Constitutionally-suspect fun. (Read: Not fun.) Plus a hot Customs agent.
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• Recapping Jimmy Doom's "The Masturbation Is Implied" performance last week.
• A detour into the films of Paul Thomas Anderson.
• The clip from Magnolia, mistakenly mentioned as being "Save Me" by Aimee Mann, which was in the movie, just not this scene:
  
• The whole Rush documentary:
• The woman who accused Conor Oberst of raping her recanted her claim triggering discussion of how the the expansion of anything into "sexual assault" is ruining lives.
• An update on Dirk's OnePlus One and it's awesome battery life.
• A preview of Satori Circus' new show "...poems we tell ourselves..." happening August 1 & 2, 2014.
• The source of Dirk's "Camera one, camera two..." reference:
• Lucy Lawless is joining the cast of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 
• J.J. Abrams teases the new-look X-Wing for the new Star Wars movie and the ridiculous rumors being peddled by nerd sites.
• The 5-minute Guardians of the Galaxy trailer:
  
• Dirk encounters jerks on the Internet. (Shocking, right?)
• DC Comics flunks PR101 in their handling of a Superman logo on a child's tombstone.
• Marvel Comics shakes things up with black Captain America, Tony Stark moving to San Francisco for Superior Iron Man, and Thor will become a woman. We discuss it.
• Riverdale's favorite ginger, Archie, is killed off, martyred on the altar of liberalism. (After taping, this very good opinion piece appeared here explaining why it was a meaningless death, but it seems to have gone behind a rather pricey paywall within a couple of days.)
• Tommy Ramone RIP.
• The actual origins of punk music.
• An example of flyer art from Dirk's band made from comic art:
  
  
• Discussion of Buffy The Vampire Slayer's "Once More, With Feeling" episode (Streaming here on Amazon Prime Video), various Christopher Guest movies and Jane Lynch. 
• Free online screenplay formatting site Writer Duet. Best paid option: Fade In.
• Rundown of the new Humble Square Enix Bundle (running through August 5, 2014) which is mostly older and so-so titles unless you buy the top level.
• Daikatana - John Romero's folly as chronicled by Gamespot is missing, but a copy can sorta be read here); Stevie "Killcreek" Case's shameful transformation - old brown-haired, pre-surgery photos seem to have disappeared, but this is what she was turned into:
   
• Felicia Day: Nerd cute, natural, creative, credibility intact:
  
• Battlefield Hardline delayed and Dirk's clever way to buy Battlefield 4 Premium for half-price.
• Neversoft (Tony Hawk games, Guitar Hero) closes and gives their employees knives and burned their eyeball logo.
• The evil of pre-orders strikes again with Alien: Isolation is offering two DLC packs featuring the original movie's cast, but only with pre-orders and one of those is a Gamestop exclusive. The Verge and Polygon's coverage; Jim Stirling's righteous rant, "The Poison of Pre-Order Culture."
• Weird Al Yankovic threatens to have his first #1 album. (Note: After taping, it was confirmed that he did hit #1. Congrats, Weird!) The Business Week article we read from. The entire Behind The Music episode:
  
• Dirk reviews Transcendence and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
• The awesomeness of the original novella of The Running Man and the eerie echos of The Seige on 9/11.
• RIP Elaine Stritch and James Garner and Panic or Pain singer Scott Mick's sister. 
• The Rockford Files answering machine message referenced can't be found online - a compilation of the 2nd season's openers is below - but here's the transcript of the S5E06 message: "Jim, directions to the party. Left on Saugus, you'll see a rock. Left, left again, right, another left, there's kind of a hill—keep going you'll probably see a bunch of cars."
  
• Dirk is missing some guitars.

Episode #51 - "Auteur Filmmaking Driving School" - Show Notes

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Alternate Titles: "It's No Gossip Girl" or "We Throw Apples At Dorothy" or "Matthew Modine's Smug Bitch Face" or "Harrison Ford's Finger of Doom" or "The Stalker's Cologne" or "Eat A Dick, Tom Morello!" or "Tough Break, Violent J"

• Tonight's Beverages: Angry Orchard Hard Cider.
• "Free Dirk Now!" and mop-up.
• The physical edition of Gone Home.
• The new Humble 2K Bundle (deal valid until July 22). Get 3, 6, 8 or even more games for cheap.
• Discussion of the OnePlus One's amazing packaging from the phone that arrived earlier than last week's show implied. The unboxing video that goes nicely with what we talk about:
  
• "Nasty Ho" by Neurotic Outsiders.
  
• Dirk reviews Transformers: Age of Extinction.
• Compare and contrast!
  
  
  
• Discussion of A Cat In Paris - watch it on Amazon Prime Video here.
  
• Discussion of voice actor documentary I Know That Voice. Full movie below:
  
• "Angelina" and "Good News" by Neurotic Outsiders.
• Dirk finally saw Night of the Living Dead and shares his thoughts on it. Lengthy discussion ensues. Full movie below:
  
• The Dawn of the Dead: Ultimate Edition DVD set that Dirk paid about 1/10th as much for:
  
• The article about the dangers of Moon dust.
• Dirk runs into a couple of jerks on the Internet. Must've been a day with "day" in the name.
• Two more tracks from Neurotic Outsiders: "Jerk" and "Janie Jones."
• Otto announces a couple of events that are over by the time you read/hear this.
• Dirk finally clears his thoughts about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction off the spindle; the lackluster Nirvana set and the appalling hypocrisy of Tom Morello.
• The Kate and Ali sketch isn't available online in video form, but here's the transcript.
• Jay Pharoh's devastating Denzel Washington impression on SNL.
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• A rough clip job of Bill Hader's Stefon character:
  
• Odds & Ends: Brandon Routh joins the Arrow cast; J.Law's spray tan/side boob/Hermione (the Emma Watson one, not Dirk's woman) facepalm adventure...
  
  (you're welcome); Epic Rap Battles in History: Joan of Arc vs. Miley Cyrus; Lindsay Lohan is suing over Grand Theft Auto V stealing her likeness, too bad the model is already known; ICP's lawsuit against the FBI for calling Juggalos a gang gets tossed out; dumb criminal checks his FaceSpace while he's robbing a house.
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• Pig Grosse Pointer just dumped this a couple years ago:  
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Episode #50 - "Catholic Republicans From Ohio" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "I'll Meat Her"

• Tonight's Beverages: Sam Adams Summer Ale (Dirk), Jim Beam (Otto).
• It's our 50th show and there are presents!
  
  
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• Zombie Apocalypse II show report.
• Dirk was thinking of Jim Harper, the radio DJ. (Thanks, Hermione!)
• Dirk's sad tale of photographic woe from the film camera days.
• Dirk poorly explains his philosophy of picking music.
• Tonight's music is from Buckcherry's overlooked 2nd album Time Bomb:
  
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• "Dirk's War On Corporate Malfeasance" where the botched handling of the OnePlus One smartphone rollout - the Stockholm Syndrome thread is here - is contrasted against Microsoft botching the Xbox One's launch six months prior to the console's launch and Ubisoft's diligently anti-consumer antics.
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• Jim Stirling's videos about how Ubisoft screws over PC versions of games and lies to their customers:
  
  • Ubisoft - A Sad History of PC Failures
  • How To Sell Games Without Being A Lying Dick
  • EA & Ubisoft: A Cycle of Perpetration and Apology
• Why a Polygon writer isn't buying Battlefield: Hardline at launch.
• A gift for Otto:
  
• Brief recap of the Google I/O and the announcement of "Android L."
• Otto's surprising reaction to X-Men: Days of Future Past and discussion.
• Dirk's review of Gone Home, the first videogame (which isn't really a videogame) review ever at DirkFlix and factoring of the ratio of play time vs. price.
• Jupiter Ascending delayed; Star Wars: Episode VII may be delayed due to Harrison Ford's injury.
• How movies need to have the balls to kill the kid or dog instead of the obvious fakeout.
• Community moves to online via Yahoo and Hieroglyph gets cancelled while still in early stages of production.
• Pacific Rim 2 is happening. This was not cleared through us. 
• RIP Meschach Taylor and Paul Mazursky.