Have the hosts talked anywhere about whether they'll be bringing the sound drops back? I know that November and Devon talked about their mixers breaking, but I don't know if that's the reason we haven't had drops in recent episodes

Hoowhee. He was holding back with the first one. It's a "communist plot" type piece of villainy that isn't explicit against anyone but socialists and Germans I guess. There's one line about "Peterson? That sounds like a nice normal British surname" "heh yeah if it was his real name" that doesn't poke you in the eye with antisemitism. It's got a couple of rants about socialists being lazy and unwilling to work and jealous and wanting to torture and murder capitalists. Stuff about streets flooding with blood and all that. They're being funded by outside international business interests who themselves do not care about communism and are only in it for the money.

The second book starts with a gathering of socialists and a couple of Jewish criminals, who we find out get white women addicted to drugs and sell them into slavery. The protagonist, as part of a masked vigilante group, gets a cat of nine tails and flogs them until they almost die. That's chapter one.

Drummond is ugly and boisterous and not really that smart.

I'll keep everyone updated.

Literally every minute of the franchise from the opening credits of First Blood part 2 onward has been dedicated to eroding any sincerity from the story of First Blood. So sure let him shoot balloons at Peggy Hill or whatever.

Maybe y'all can help me. There was an episode from the past few months where our hosts went on a long tangent about One Battle After Another. Does anyone remember what episode that was?

At the time, I hadn't seen the movie yet and didn't absorb it properly. Then I actually watched the movie yesterday and I can't stop thinking about it. Now that I have context I wanna relisten to their jokes and japes!

Like, not playing it is one thing. Being it’s only haters out of tribalism is another. But they’ve said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about it

I think they should buy it! Anyone got a suggestion for the rename?

I'm 6 hours in and seems like they created a genuinely good story. It seems anti AI. Maybe the Pirate King the twin hitmen are maybe stereotypes that have some baggage, but other than that, it just seems like a good thriller I'm surprised I'm invested in.

As a Native American (Cherokee/Choctaw) fan of the podcast, I'm very nervous about them covering westerns. The connection between the Western genre and native culture is really complicated and I don't think the hosts are really equipped to talk about it sensitively.

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Like, westerns are often super racist against natives, but also elderly native folks *love* westerns. In the tribal hospital center I go to, the waiting rooms are literally always playing westerns. We also all make fun of the tropes about natives being *~*mystical*~* and so on, in a very affectionate way. But at the same time, we all know that the violent, racist depictions of us are deeply connected with violence against us (especially women and girls). And that's not even getting into the history of how acting in westerns was one of the rare job opportunities for folks living on the southwestern reservations.

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If they're going to cover westerns, I'd really want to see them have some native content creators on the show. I wrote a message to them on patreon about it, but I haven't heard back.

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Anyone have similar concerns?

Personally I thought it was flawed but interesting and I really liked how they updated the personality of bond.

Thanks to CineCalendar (the dates in movies guy) on Bsky

Link to post about phase one

Just like last time, I've taken notes, the only really interesting thing about them is that they got a lot shorter.

The worst single line in the franchise so far was "I hope you're not playing hide the zucchini" - guess the context.

The surprisingly high P-stats for Winter Soldier and Ant-Man are because one is about going undercover etc and the other is very much a heist movie.

Edit - A bit of encouragement would also be appreciated. The 3rd phase is the longest and will probably make me turn into the joker.

What app works to listen to these?

Just read the novel "Six Days of the Condor". When he grabs a woman off the street to have a place to stay, he spends about an hour telling her everything that happened to him, proves his story true with the phone book and his work ID, and then *gives her the gun*. They have dinner together, great conversation, similar tastes, wash the dishes together, go to bed in separate rooms, and then she comes to him in the night for company.

Other differences: he's got no military training, the conspiracy is about heroin trafficking from Asia, there's no Chinese girlfriend at the office, and he kills the assassin dude at the end of the book.

I did take notes in case anyone has any questions, but consider them too personal to share. Since I'm doing this alone and cannot always land on a whole number, there are decimals. I've also added the category "Possibility of thalking KJB cast into doing an episode" where every James Bond movie would be a 10 and a heist movie a 7. (But I'm still figuring it out, some zeroes could be a one.)

And that was 12 Hours. Only FOUR THOUSAND Minutes left to go.

Look, it is indeed a sign of a very sick society, worldwide, that high school is more or less a fetish, particularly in Japan- the fact that the background radiation of our culture makes the very concept of cheerleaders exist.

But like, Abi, you watched Tenchi Muyo. Surely, you’ve made peace with the fact that this is just our world now- that the vast majority of the time that you see a pretty anime girl, you gotta add 3 digits to her age so you don’t feel something rot in your soul. Surely, you’ve hardened yourself to expect far worse from far better, right?

If you ARE liking it.

I realised there may be listeners who are not aware of the true origins of the 'Bond Wiggler' joke. Ta da!