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Alternate Titles: "Backing Vocalists of the Vampire World" or "A Big Rubber Dildo the Size of the Washington Monument"
- Tonight's Beverages: Okocim beer (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
- Explaining why we've been MIA for a couple of weeks and the possible issue with viewing the player above in Firefox. (i.e. If you don't see it, try a different browser and drop us a line.)
- New Amazon Underground app to get free Android apps.
- Following up on the aftermath of the failure of Fant Four Stic: 8% at RT; star and director fist-fighting; Josh Trank tweeting he had a good version; rumors of Fox cutting budget and action scenes like the Thing drop scene isn't in the movie; and Otto's hatred for H.E.R.B.I.E. the Robot on the cartoons (witness here).
- Referenced: Red Letter Media's channel; Mr. Plinkett's infamous critique of The Phantom Menace; the part about the terrible "part time" line reading in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull review.
- Dirk announces his new computer's name: DIRKALINE®! (pronounced "Der-KAY-line")
- Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of Xanadu.
- First Music Break: ELO, "I'm Alive" (clip from Xanadu so you can see the compositing issues)
- Sense8 is coming back for a 2nd season. Joy.
- Violett Beane is playing Jesse Quick on S2 of The Flash.
- Fact Check: The announcer on the old Batman TV series was William Dozier, the show's creator and executive producer.
- Original Batgirl Yvonne Craig RIP.
- Dirk quick reviews The Unbreakable Kimmie Schmitt, updates Portlandia progress, and gives New Girl another look.
- Cara Delevingne and St. Vincent out:
- Referenced: Taylor Swift, Beck and St. Vincent performing together:
- We discuss the premiere episode of Fear the Walking Dead and Dirk's thoughts on why zombies are worse than werewolves and they suck.
- Second Music Break: ELO, "All Over The World" (clip from Xanadu)
- The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies Extended Edition will be R-rated.
- Columbia Pictures' capricious use of DMCA copyright strikes results in their own Pixels trailer being taken down.
- Some of the movies we've issued Netflix F*ckery Alerts over may have been fixed.
- The benefit of buying your own cable modem.
- J.Law - an Official Girlfriend of the Culture Vultures - is super-rich, too!
- Fact Check: The third Official Girlfriend of the Culture Vultures (in addition to J.Law and Krysten Ritter) whom we couldn't remember is Emma Stone.
- Referenced:
- Third Music Break: Olivia Newton-John and The Tubes, "Dancin'" (so-so quality video of the whole number from the movie)
- #GAMERGATE/SAD PUPPIES-HUGO AWARDS/STAR WARS HITFIX/FELICIA DAY STUFF (time index ~1h 32m thru 3h 24m - 112 mins)
- #GAMERGATE
- The list of previous episodes with substantial GamerGate content.
- Mundane Matt - "#GamerGate - 1 Year Later..." video.
- Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Tim Hunt's career destruction based on lies about a joke.
- The Australian Broadcasting Company investigates itself and declares it's not obligated to present balanced reports.
- Milo Yiannopoulis - "How Disgraced Blogger Leigh Alexander Torpedoed a Games Studio"
- Milo's three-part expose of big bully Randi Harper: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
- Ezra Klein's admission that the JournoList was strictly left-wing members.
- Referenced: The alternate opening of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as his mother.
- Sargon of Akkad's 20-minute interview with Steven Crowder and the nearly three-hour after-conversation and how SJWs are harassing him and his wife.
- An interview with "Based Mom", Christina Hoff Sommers.
- The much heralded survey that teenage boys DON'T want sexy female videogame characters turned out to be bogus. Related Reddit thread.
- Allum Bokari - "How #GamerGate Shattered Gawker’s Myth of Invincibility"
- What Based Milo has learned from a year of playing videogames.
- The SPJ Airplay panel about GamerGate was interrupted by bombs threats; here's what Milo didn't get to say.
- Milo calls out conservative media for missing the boat on GamerGate.
- SAD PUPPIES vs. HUGO AWARDS:
- Milo Y - "Set Phasers to Kill! SJWs Burn Down The Hugo Awards To Prove How Tolerant And Welcoming They Are"
- Sad Puppies honcho Larry Correia's commentary on the debacle.
- io9's hilariously-unaware-of-own-hypocrisy article praising block-voting as a means to defeat block-voting. Wait, what?
- Fourth Music Break: ELO, "Don't Walk Away" (movie version)
- HITFIX ATTACKS STAR WARS:
- Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow named as Star Wars: Episode IX.
- Hitfix's Roth Cornet and Donna Dickens - "30 years later and 'Star Wars' still hasn't fixed its gender problem"
- Fifth Music Break: Olivia Newton-John, "Fool Country" (movie clip)
- FELICIA DAY BOOK AND REAX:
- Recapping previous discussion of Felicia Day in the context of our #GamerGate shows last year and how Dirk was attacked for trying to empathize with her Tumblr post.
- History Lesson: Rebecca Schaffer's murder in the NY Post, "The celebrity murder that changed how stalkers are treated"
- The Ralph Retort staying classy, "Felicia Day is a Fraudulent Nutcase", and the Reddit thread Dirk worked OT replying on.
- Dirk reviews her book, "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir" (affiliate link), and discusses her deeply flawed #GamerGate chapter and the depressingly nasty comments about her.
- Final thoughts on it all.
- Sixth Music Break: ELO+ON-J, "Xanadu" (full film ending, so-so quality)
- Fact Check: ONJ's songwriter was John Farrar.
- A story about Dirk signing a charge and the cashier thinking it was personalized to him.
- Alison Brie is engaged to Dave Franco.
- Chinese woman guzzles whole bottle of cognac when not allowed to carry it on.
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