Episode #74 - "Drug Dogs or A&R Guys?" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Fant-Four-Stic"

• Tonight's Beverages: Diet Mountain Dew (Dirk); Jim Beam with a splash of Diet Mountain Dew (Otto).
• Previewing Otto's trip to San Francisco for Walker Stalker Con.
• Mop-up: Yahtzee's reaction to PC Gamer stepping in it; Thunderf00t's response to the violent unhinged Prom Queen Sarkeesian fan; liberal rage escalates even more over American Sniper being successful, especially compared to anti-American movies.
• Updates on the Hayley Jane and Pete Wurdock Kickstarter projects and Dirk goes over his word count a bit.
• Dirk's super inexpensive Superman Blu-rays arrived from England and Warner Bros gave him a bunch of free digital movies.
• 1st Music Break:
  
• What Tegan & Sara look like:
  
• The minor difference in laptop key size that's messing Dirk up.
• Windows 10 unveiled and has a heavy videogame name flava. As predicted last week, it'll be free.
• Casting news for Disney's live-action Beauty & the Beast; the new female Ghostbusters; Supergirl (who has some pr0n in her past); David Tennant (two Doctor Whos back) to be the villain on AKA Jessica Jones; the new Jean Grey, Cyclops and Storm for X-Men: Apocalypse.
• The diss scene from Girls referenced.
• Discussion of the trailer for what we call Fant-Four-Stic.
  
  
  A lengthy interview with Trank and Kinberg is here.
• 2nd Music Break:
  
• Snobby elitists who sniff that they're bored of [whatever] movies and the problems with trailers.
• Dirk reviews Rushmore, Altered States Blu-ray; The Imitation Game, Birdman and Hermione's "catty" guest review of Boyhood.
• The ending of Altered States and "Take On Me":
  
  
• Miles Teller is a turd?
  
• 3rd Music Break:
  
• Extensive learning about Amalgam Comics - the one-off limited series of comics mashing-up Marvel and DC characters.
• 4th Music Break (a story about it):
  
• A problem with the Nvidia GTX 970 video card.
• Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams are splitting up. The photo where she looks like Diane Lane:
  
• A woman who's made nearly $5M opening toys.
• Taylor Swift's Twitter got hacked.
• Cherkitert: ScreenCrush's You Think You Know Movies? series:
  

Episode #73 - "Thud: God of Carboloading" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Kim's Sunset Viking Funeral"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Jim Beam with a splash of Diet Mountain Dew (Otto). The same old same old. If you want to offer us an adult beverage sponsorship, drop us a line.
• The compiled list of our #GamerGate episodes is up now.
• Otto's caught up on Gotham and The Flash and we talk about it.
• The Felicity Smoak photos referenced - Normal Felicity:
  
  Party Felicity:
  
• The Not Another Teen Movie makeover scene referenced:
  
• Lost Girl has snuck back on the air for a final season.
• Ksenia Solo - Kenzi on Lost Girl because purdy:
  
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• Discussion of the Oscar nominations prompting EW to go SJW, Al Sharpton to get his usual riot threatening on, Vox to lie about racism, and the NY Times to do their usual worst.
• Marc Maron's WTF podcast interview with Boyhood director Richard Linklater.
• Keira Knightley wonders,“Where are the movies about female geniuses?” We have a brilliant suggestion.
• The one good scene from A Beautiful Mind:
  
• Kim Fowley RIP. 
• Our epic interview with Cherie Currie.
  
  
• Rumors of Tom Hardy out and Jake Gyllenhaal in as Rick Flagg for Suicide Squad.
• The Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal Family Guy scene referenced:
  
• Peter "Chewbacca" Mayhem has pneumonia. 
• Dirk talks about the Amazon Pilot Season shows Cocked and The Man In The High Castle. 
• Amazon is going into the movie business.
• Steven Soderbergh re-edits movies despite wanting that outlawed. Irony or hypocrisy or both?
• Someone has put together The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit which is only 4 hours long with lots of cuts. 
• The hacking in Blackhat is allegedly pretty plausible, but real IT is more like this referenced bit:
  
• Kim Fowley co-wrote this:
  
• Movie and TV show trailer talk:
  
  
  
• Fan-made trailer that recaps what was mentioned about Tru Calling:
  
• American Sniper is a smash hit, so Leftists are embarrassing themselves vomiting their rage online - Seth Rogen, Michael "Tubby Riefenstahl" Moore and Drew McWeeny for three - and then whining that a lot of people didn't appreciate their bon mots. Plus: #BabyGate, just another symptom of Kyle Derangement Syndrome.
• Dirk's American Sniper review. Plus: Act of Valor review.
• Otto recommends Manufacturing Dissent (Amazon Prime Video)
• The AKG C414 microphone is very nice and VERY expensive.
  
• Kim Fowley's post-mortem photo shoot desires. YIKES!
• Girls and Corpses magazine is a thing with a FaceSpace page.
• #GAMERGATE STUFF (time index ~2:07:45 thru 2:43:15 - 36 mins)
• PC Gamer editor demands gamers stop using "PC Master Race" term because Nazi causing #GamerGate to expose his relationship with a Ubisoft flack forcing PC Gamer to remove him from covering that company in any and clarify their policy.
• Yahtzee's reaction to this kerfuffle.
• Nightline gives the warm tongue-bath to Prom Queen Sarko and LWu.
• The best reply, as usual, from Sargon of Akkad:
  
• The videos by female gamers who are also sick of the anti-GG media lies:
  
  
• Game Politics' very interesting surveys and analyses:
  - Editorial: #GamerGate Political Attitudes, Part 1- Is The Movement Right-Wing?
  - #GamerGate Political Attitudes Part Two: Old Liberals vs. New Progressives
• How Millennials protest these days:
  
  
• Breitbart's John Hayward - "GamerGate and the Corruption of Criticism."
• The Robot Chicken animator's snazzy modified Nintendo Power Glove. 
• The Heaven Is For Real Kid admits making the whole thing up. Next stop: HELL!!! 
• Screenwriters complain about original works being rewritten into bland formulaic pap.

Episode #72 - "Brood Mare Hotel" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Agents of N.E.T.F.L.I.X." or "Clique For Life"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Jim Beam with a splash of Diet Mountain Dew (Otto). The same old same old. 
• Dirk's got a new new laptop which leads to technical issues.
• Talk about the latest episode of Agent Carter and Otto's completion of the first half of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 
• Venting about respective football disappointments - the rare exception to our "no sports" rule.
• A report on Otto's new side project.
• We're open to accepting free adult beverages. Contact us!
• The CW renews all their shows, but Jeremy is leaving The Vampire Diaries and more Arrow-verse shows may be incoming.
• Woody Allen to write/direct TV series for Amazon in 2016.
• Dirk mourns the apparent passing of Shaw on Person of Interest played by Sarah Shahi who never looked like this on the show:
  
  (After taping, the following episode revealed she's still alive, but in an undisclosed location.)
• Ghastly.
  
• Kyle MacLachlin returning for the Showtime Twin Peaks reboot in 2016. David Lynch's tweet about it.
• Tips on scoring killer Blu-ray deals from Amazon UK.
• Karen Sisco and Hawkeye:
  
• Golden Globes recap and discussion.
• The first episode of Transparent appears free for all to watch here.
• Vox: "The Golden Globes made an important statement about diversity on television."
• Uptight liberals whine about Margaret Cho's skits, but she spanks the haters and goes full honey badger.
• Brangelina were already married before their wedding. (But when?)
• WHO YA GOT?!?
  
  FYI: Amy Adams is 40; Julianne Moore is 54.
• The Aimee Mann/Sarah McLachlan Portlandia episode. The Aimee Mann part starts at 2:39:
  
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• The ScarJo-starring Ghost in the Shell movie gets a release date.
• Dirk's quick reviews of Blue Jasmine, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, In A World..., and Divergent (Some interesting VFX breakdowns).
• Lake Bell, yo!
  
• How Netflix is showing movies in the wrong format and Amazon is.
• Otto's reviews of Gravity (Dirk's 3D theatrical and home video reviews), The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Behind the scenes shooting Gravity:
  
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• Monster is suing Beats for screwing them over.The original Gizmodo article.
• Grim Fandango Remastered is available to purchase here and here are a couple of BTS videos about the project:
  
  
• Grand Theft Auto V for PC delayed. BOOOOOOOO!!!!! Have some 4K screenshots to tide you over.
• The origins of 21 tech terms.
• Yeah, country music is hella more reals than that pre-fab formulaic pop music, right? Yeah, no.
  
• Milo Yiannopoulos is writing a book about #GamerGate.
• Anita Ekberg RIP:
  

Episode #71 - "Blew Nü-Rae" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Big Soft British Girl"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Jim Beam with a splash of Diet Mountain Dew (Otto). We're in a rut.
• "CAN YOU DIG IT?"
• Colin's Coffee's FaceSpace page.
• Announcement of Otto's new show, The Witching Hours (Mondays, 7-9 pm EST at RawRadioX.com).
• Some apologies.
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• Adventures in laptop shopping. What Otto got. What Dirk got.
• Music by Puffy AmiYumi - "Planet Tokyo" (no video exists on YouTube of their version; lots of covers for some reason)
• Discussion of the Ant-Man teaser trailer...
  
  ...and the debut episodes of Agent Carter
  
• Gemma Arterton...
  
  ...versus Hayley Atwell...
  
  ...WHO YA GOT?!?
• Dirk's adventures in binge-watching The Flash and Homeland. FACT CHECK: Islamabad is in Pakistan.
• Firefly/V/Homeland actress Morena Baccarin has joined the casts of Gotham and The Flash.
• Dirk's getting apathetic about Sleepy Hollow leading to a discussion of the ups and downs of Lost including this classic moment:
  
• Was the mega-hyped Serial podcast worth listening to? Dirk tells us! (After taping the show, we discovered there's some interviews emerging disputing the series; one with the prime witness, the other with a prosecutor, leading to pushback from Sarah Koenig.)
• The Peter Pan portion of the This American Life fiasco episode referenced:
  
  
  
• The live version of the 2nd break song to illustrate how it worked live:
  
• The joys of a properly configured and calibrated surround system. This is the Disney WOW calibration mentioned:
  
  Radio Shack no longer sells the meter, but it's this model.
• Pay attention to the black letterbox bars:
  
• Movie attendance is down.
• Gratuitous photo of Krysten Ritter, because she purdy:
  
• Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem (Netflix link) and the video that started the craze:
  
  
• The most-pirated movies of 2014. Does piracy automatically mean lost ticket and disc sales?
• Rihanna in Battleship:
  
• A random sample pitting Netflix streaming vs. the Fortress of Dirkitude® - i.e. streaming vs. a physical collection.
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• UPDATE: The petition for AMC to lay off The Walking Hope was successful. 
• Quick reviews of The Lego Movie, Scrooged, Live Die Repeat, Gone Girl and The Interview.
• Hit the link to see this VFX breakdown for Gone Girl:
  Gone Girl Reel from artemplehollywood on Vimeo.
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• Bono may never play guitar again.
• Jessie J's earnings from co-writing "Party in the USA" paid her rent for three years.
  
• Wedding news for Cameron Diaz and Stephen Fry, but they didn't marry each other.