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Yeah, you're not hurting me It's kind of impressive because normally when you grab my hand like that you're excited about something and you squeeze Oh, no, I'm like gingerly like yeah, like I'm it's not like I'm grabbing her folks Like it's like a me to be like the mental patient pat on the hand where I'm like do you remember when? It's time to take your medicine. Oh, what was that the name of the Alzheimer's movie where it's like my name is Karen or whatever it was Anyway, um, I'm gonna throw Wayne Federman Pat Oswald and David Cross on there because I was the first of ever listen to Thanks to you My favorite podcast jokes of all time but continue on I am gonna throw on Beep because he's gonna be on the show. Yep.
I'm not saying yes I know that okay because reasons if Benson doesn't want it out there then I don't want it out there I think cool TJ Miller will end up on the poster regardless because he's on the poster. So what poster am I doing Deadpool Deadpool to in fact? Well, you know, I'm doing that. I'm doing that.
I'm doing that. I have a dead giveaway That's about the only job he still has right now. Oh, that's actually reason that's not thing from them use the next commercials Mm-hmm. I'm a fine fucking guy is he's he's got a still be on a voice for the big hero six cartoons That's the whole thing.
Okay, but TJ Miller's doing stuff Yeah, he is gonna say he got himself in a little trouble right when his star was rising from death Yeah, but not and he did not handle it in a way. He should have handled it You don't think the store was rising after Yogi bear 3d Maybe in dollar theaters. Okay, so Deb doesn't watch that much she's been won't need tell them I've been hermiting. Okay, I had to help with my actually I had help out to friends with some stuff this week Having to deal with some personal problems if theirs and I've had some other personal things in mind on my mind So I've been very busy watching Tony Shaloop and Monk while I fall asleep There's a lot of weird cameos in that a lot of weird cameos wasn't this big through on wings?
Yes, but it's just like you have a most gonna say pre-beared Nick Offerman playing a harm stealer No, you can't say pretty beer because a he's always beard. Okay, sans beard. Okay I was gonna say Nick Offerman was gonna say playing I was gonna say an arm stealer in there And then you have Sarah Silverman that makes sense playing his obsessed fan and you have Angela Kingsley from the office Really? And then you randomly have an episode of the snoop dog as you do, you know like you do it wasn't 90s No, it was a new dog So I think this was like 96 was an extra weirdest that he re-records, you know the theme song.
I like a remix Well, it's more like a cover that's been remixed This you know nobody's Randy Newman except Randy Newman Left foot right right? Yeah That Apple she takes one she chews it once she's using again looks at Randy Let's get the hell out of here Well speed of luck. Let's get the hell out of here Let's go into black mirror Correct yes, I did we talked a bit last week about It before I finished the season We talked a little bit about it off air which I don't know if you want to apologize or not personally When you last talked about black mirror personally and the episode Archangel Yeah, you should but off air Just same No, I'm pretty sure they could listen to the last 237 episodes and no exactly But none of them that personal Well, you did talk to a few friends about the episode Archangel which was the second episode on the season I think gloriously directed by Journey Jody Foster. I think this is one of the There's always an episode where You watch it and want to just being the sheriff or the clothes on crying and I think Archangel was one of them for this season Which we talked about last week.
Yes, but your friends Didn't think so well what I was gonna say not all of them had the same visceral response And it might be that they're just more emotionally healthy people than we are or they don't have children I don't have children. I guess I have cats They don't count. No, they don't count. I don't watch what my cats were doing all day No But this was a very visceral episode for a lot of people Everybody liked it.
They just didn't have the same response that you and I did to it My couple notes after this are the that season finale Black Museum which yeah, I know it sounds terrible and they do make a joke about that section I was rolling my eyes about I was just It's not garbage on actually but the same noises. Yes One this is one of the few times that you have an outside of running influence from Charlie Brooker The first part of it which it is set up much like the in my second notes says It's about the Xmas episode Xmas the Christmas episode. Yeah, you have been watching The did you ever see the Christmas episode with John here? No, okay It's a series of what seems to be unconnected many stories.
Yeah, then yes Yes, that probably could have been whole episodes, but they kind of did like a truncated version of them tails of interest Once you see it you can't see it, but anyway It is Give or take not necessarily time-wise some of the What would you call the many episodes vignettes? I guess yes, I'm taking longer than the others But they do all in the Christmas episode of Black Mirror Connect and in Black Museum at the all-connect Based on this guy who killed a lady There's really not much more than that Okay, the kill the lady Whether the DNA was tampered with or not we don't know was it real was it not? But I did like that it is set up like that Three unrelated stories. It's an anthology and anthology.
Okay like that So that just makes me think of like go Where they're all very loosely connected, but only in like a very loose sense of the word they're connected by a location By the end of it it's not as loosely as you think and I guess in go it I think it is the very loose Also refers to ejaculation not a thing In terms of go that like tantric thing where he's like I learned tantric like tantric sex in like six hours No, you didn't fuck you you Paul Bettany clone, which he is You know what's funny is you say that and I mean it we think that it was tay-digs was the one that was originally talking to him about it I think he thinks was but like the the Paul Bettany clone was the guy who like I always just wanted to punch him in his face. Fuck he came and said the words tantra like it was like no He was just like I said he was just such a scum pick I always wanted to just punch him in the face Good on you. So I did like it when he got shot at the end I get the arm or something. Oh, no, it was not fail.
Oh, yeah, that thing afterwards that I'm all right But I do want to say this is one of the first times in like your history that There is an outside writer. Yeah, they do tend to be pretty cloistered with their staff and Do you want to guess on who co-wrote part of the The first part of the anthology of the anthology on the black museum? I'm guessing it's not Paul Bettany It is not Paul Bettany. It's pendulat and that fucker is messed up I don't have a problem with that, but I would never guessed that exactly does that make sense It's based on a short story he wrote called the pain addict and it is fucking dark as you would imagine a thing called the pain addict is The way they work it in though is immaculate and I'm glad that You know it does seem that Charlie Brooker and Jody Foster and Pendulat like it seems like black I'm so black balls blackener is becoming kind of like hey, this is a fringe thing.
That's really fucking good So if you actually have a creative Like mindset come over here and do this thing, but if you don't have your some kind of like corporate actor bullshit Let's stay the fuck away. So you think that they're basically Nurturing their branding. I was gonna say they're nurturing and utilizing a brand Okay, I've been both But we'll say the robot dog episode was a little late That was from Dr. Who that was canine and I was actually say the better robot dog is the song from MC Chris Robot Don't know I take it back the rat thing was basically a robot dog in snow crash Well, they do have an episode based on the the boston mechanics Dogs and it is shot extremely well.
It's shot like a low-budget 1950s horror films all black and white I just didn't think it had the emotional impact after watching Archangel and D.J. Morris Damn it it is I know it's a pleasant thing to the I don't like Morrissey. No, I don't either. No, you love Morrissey.
I like the Smith's I don't like Morrissey I don't like an innate iteration. I was gonna say because with the Smith's they at least ring the middle little It's the sugar cubes in the Bjork Mm-hmm We're gonna be really short thing. I've watched the two-hour season finale of gifted I know you're written to Ben Jett and I have room to bet a bit of it with the the cuckoos I've watched it, but the fact that they the network Fox Went up to metniks who did burn notice to we're gonna do an excellent thing I mean, there's Legion, but we're gonna ignore that which you shouldn't just legion is wicked fucking awesome I'm guessing that we love it massively different shows. Oh, yes, because one of them is a little bit more playful Which one I would say gifted.
Okay, I would say I wouldn't say playful actually I would say Legion is more playful in terms of the fact that you don't know what what's real It's not it's all about memory and self and you can be a lot more playful and funny in that you don't know what's reality Where's with gifted? It's all gritty realism of a actual Civil War or race war really? I made it more real. I'm sorry You made it real It got renewed.
I'm happy The fact that they this is my point that Fox went to metniks and said we want you to do a show or you have you know You're a couple ideas and he wanted to do one about the Hellfire Club Which is this kind of secret society in Britain? It's been pretty well known club among the British royals for quite some time In fiction supposedly We don't really know But then he ended up including the Hellfire Club in gifted and I haven't seen the finale But like I said, I do love that they involved the cuckoos the three and one from the great Morrison run of X-Men and We'll talk about the finale next week Do you want to get in the future man or the expurgatory? How many of us do you have on expurgatory because you said you have a lot of future man? I do have a lot of future man.
Let's go through expurgatory because I mean I just I'm sorry. I can't I just can't Okay, you can't but I'll tell you what this last book which is book four out of five Which we talked about last week or a couple weeks ago that it starts off with the whole like mind control the real world of the dream and you know, whatever cliche which I would be Rames to critique because it will happen in something we were gonna be doing but At the half mark of the book when the one of the stealth and St. George finally realized it's fucking fake and What's going on? There's trying to pull the others together.
It gets really fucking good It's just kind of like when I was reading the welcome to night We'll sorry welcome to night Yeah, I just had a critic bear it through the first half of the book but then the second half is worth it Yes, but the worst part is with this book series You have to start the book you have to grid and bear it for the first three books to get to a good book I'm gonna need this to be a park said rectane where they give me like a solid nether four books before I'm gonna feel like it Well, there's another book that I've known to get X Exile I believe Which I've known to but I will say very late in the game about 200 out of 300 pages Does see finally start dropping street names in California, which I have no idea where they go At this point, I just go alright cool You know there was something that was bothering me about the Anita Blake books She was always dropping these very specific street names in St. Louis Who the fuck knows the geography for St. Louis? This was kind of the point I want to bring up with you where it's like these would be great books if I wrote okay I've been speaking I wrote the Xbox or the Anita Blake books or whatever and I said they moved from Lawrence to Larimer Now admittedly you could probably a figure out the lot of thought I mean a lot of thought that yes The streets are a medical base on the grand you'd have to I'm not also like but if you're just reading it but if you're just reading it like you don't know that you just jumped ahead like two blocks Maybe one over whatever it is.
You don't know that you might even be changing entire neighborhoods Okay, I mean it bothers me a little bit less in the Sandman's Lynn books when he does geography of LA because he explains it Well, he also gives you a much larger kind of area So you have like a little neighborhood your picture in your head as opposed to just any Which grabs it kind of describes what kind of people live there businesses are focused there. Yeah So my note for the expert which admittedly I really like this book I think the whole like Dreamy all these stuff is a great basis for I wouldn't say first-time readers, but if you were to jump in the fourth book actually I'm that bad. Okay Honestly because it's been so since I've read the other three books of the series I forgot who some of the characters were and they explain them really well Well, and it's just like I said I said this every time we talk about this book the problem I have the books as I had zero emotional connection to any of the characters So I can talk about them Once again, you do get that more with saying George and stealth when they finally do Yeah, I'll be charitable and saying meet they do say like your hand felt right and we start getting into that I think it builds a bit more So I was like sorry maybe feel like it was always just a really interesting collection of fascinating ideas that were poorly developed and badly edited Grinnety-up poor execution. Absolutely the X series.
It's if you're just joining us just joining us The X series is a book series by Peter Klein's CLINES I'm gonna be confused with Ernest Klein Right or ready player one and Armada That was the dimension Armada, but all right But effectively it's the whole premise is that there's no zombie apocalypse and these superheroes have kind of fortified a chunk of Hollywood Called the mount but it's basically the Avengers needs to walk in dead and I completely agree with that That description It does it does get away from him sometimes I guess there's some very fascinating ideas in there two of which my favorite being the one we talked to you about where we had the guy that could Transform himself into the demon with like the medallion and he ends up getting turned into a zombie Which I thought was fascinating and to the fact that they play the celebrities game One without foraging. Yeah, I'm saying yeah, I'll try next Yeah, when you see a zombie that you think is a I was gonna say celebrity you try to call them and kill them Which of course makes me think of the joke and I think God, what was that? They had a living dead when they're at the mall and they're shooting Yeah, I was gonna say off the roof and the guy's holding up descriptions to the ones he wants to be aimed at The remake. Yeah, yeah Same as being rames.
I think is that yeah the marksman in that I don't know if he was the marksman that one but um speaking of apocalyptic futures Yeah, who lose future man and this is one of those I wanted to text and go please watch this We can have some stuff to talk about It's really fucking funny Looks like hilarious So the premise of it is the last starfighter Effectively but updated and are rated that just makes me think of the the clerks episode where they has pharaohs and he has to build the pyramid Yeah Um it was created by Howard Overman who you might know Or already this might not or I hope they do creator of misfits on BBC um, it's not as dark comedy first hero second the same way with drew pierce and no heroics Uh, but it is really dark high concept Um guide meets a video game people from the future come and say oh you beat the video game. You're our savior He's a gender at a STD lab the genders played by Josh Up to the hunger game series my boy jay books Um who looks 12? I don't care that he has some stubble the entire episode or the entire series in fact He still looks 12. Wait, let's talk about the fact that he's always gonna be a little bit of bread not the character He's always gonna be a little bit short and stunky, but that's also hope you spare No, no, no, he's like skinny gangly Pivody going through like no He's lean he's what not standing next to him helmsworth.
He isn't So in a while since you watch the hunger games hasn't no, but you're describing him as Howard that I'm saying no I was gonna say he's not I don't see him as being particularly gangly. I think he like I said I see him as a little bit short and pretty solidly built No, no, I mean short. Yeah, we'll give it short, but he's still gangly No, thanks. No, he's got pretty broad shoulders and chest.
I guess gangly plays tall doesn't it? No, thinkly also implies like really awkward. Yeah, yeah, yeah But uh, I'm a huge fan I just I just got to the episode where they have to uh the future break into John Cameron's house not John James James kid who's john Cameron like he said he's less successful brother that does like infomercials No, I think it might have been a hero of the civil war fact Um john Cameron John Cameron the guy who lit the lanterns for paul revere. Um, oh, I was gonna go civil war I was gonna be like the man who beat out the last of the flames in Atlanta But like with its fists Uh, no, so I just got the Fire and iron.
Yeah, yeah And they sort of footband called fire and iron Um Moving on, uh, but oh, so they break into James Cameron's house to seal time travel fluid Which James Cameron eventually steals or discovers rather Uh, the James Cameron house, uh, it's episode seven or eight Is awesome. He has a future like ai smart house who keeps making James Cameron references We're like his basement is called the abyss Uh And it's just one of those she goes. I've been pre-programmed with like heroic like story arts But I have no sense of irony like she literally just makes fun of James Cameron movies. It is fucking awesome Um, I remember liking it.
I mean, I think in the end I think it'll just be uh, I watched it and there it was Um, but I think episode by episode I can kind of pull it apart and say there's some really good stuff There's really a lot of smart humor there. Okay Um, I mean anything that Howard Overman does I'm gonna watch um, are these hard presses say It's gonna be time to rewatch miss bits again. It's been a while Oh, that force isn't rough Thursday isn't great. Forces are rough.
This isn't great They had a what would you call that like senior? Idis slump? I don't know what they can call that but Sometimes it's called short-timers syndrome Like when you don't think you're gonna be making it much longer anything you're just kind of done with it Well, they added a whole bunch of new characters in the fourth season That's why it kind of sucked because they added a bunch of new characters and they don't have to do with them Um, can't do that Yeah, that it just blow in your load. Can't do that You gotta do it slowly with more intent.
You need to have a better game plan Thus the fifth season The girl that knits the future sweaters Yeah, the future sweaters Yeah, totally works and then they paid that off with with the fact that they become supervillains. Oh fuck spoilers Sorry Oh, uh, usually London nonsense Well, that was horrible. I was gonna say first I thought she wanted to yell about uncharted a little bit No, I did that off air. I'm fine But I was gonna make the aero reference demon So I got captured in uncharted three spoilers games been out for a while.
Uh, I'm captured on a freighter I escaped the freighter realized I'm in some kind of weird freighter graveyard make my way out of said freighter graveyard to the Head pirates like you know, you know, luxury yacht. It's like a smaller pirate style. Um, get on that Realize fuck not supposed to be here Uh sync the boat race against the water and then end up in the desert which was a very dumb dumb sequence to fucking play The walking through the desert sequence in uncharted three is so fucking pointless like you just walk towards stuff Like no guns. No enemies.
No, and then you get there and it's like Nope, that was a mirage and then it's like Hide under this rock. Okay, and then you go to sleep and then you wake up and You get up from under the rock and you go towards This other thing and it's like it's like no nothing and you're like I am literally just wandering through the desert which admittedly if there was an entire game I'm wondering if the desert just trying to find shit. I would play it But this this was meant to be like you need to go, you know to xyz to get shit done so to have a Random chapter in the game where you're just wandering around and it keeps like Blacking out whiteing out what everyone would call it like the character keeps blacking out with the lighting effects on the game Bleaching do you feel like something like got a weird note about the game story and just got pissed and wrote that level? Yeah, actually I do.
You're totally right. Like I said, I think it sounds like a plot line for like season one or two of arrow Yeah, god on freighter freighter graveyard pirate ship pirate ship desert sink got to escape Yeah desert wander in desert with no water blacking in and out Fine water water water not drinkable. I found that Also found like 19 pieces of treasure. It's a great place to do it A trophy upgrade on that one but still Uh usual ending nonsense mistakes.
I made this week So my sister gave me her old apple laptop Which is great and I basically just have it plugged in in my bedroom on my bed because I watched tv on it my bed But for some reason I got into my head this week that if I fell asleep with both the laptop and my electric blanket and the bed I was gonna catch the bed on fire Which is completely ridiculous But yeah for some reason in my head i'm like if I fell asleep with the electric blanket on top of the power supply Or on top of the laptop what if the laptop bursts into flames? La flames La flames or something completely flintops That doesn't work. The flame top sounds a little bit like a ginger gang You got a bus bus cool Are you such a social contract? What about your mistakes?
Um don't google how many people die a day for a writing reference You're not gonna like it Which is why i'm never going to uh sort of buy the zombie apocalypse if it ever happens They will outnumber us acts financially to one Um you know the saying you don't have to be the fastest you just have to not be the slowest right um Social contract I would say I got a piece of spam in my normal mailbox on my spam box Okay um I went to unsubscribe It will take 24 hours for us to unsubscribe you Sure okay In the meantime i'm gonna get 80 million fucking emails from you until the 24 hour like expiration date And i'm not clicking on any of them That's correct that's a complete douche move So fuck you Quote unquote Spambots because it's my real email Mmm Fuck them I actually have one more social contract And that it has to do with an incra-sportal And I feel like it's an incredibly inappropriate portal to have and I can't figure out how to complain to them and try and get the portal moved The problem is the where the position the portal is positioned you actually have to walk inside this building to get it You're blocking the portal It's one of the oldest aa in recovery houses in denver It's open 24 hours a day It's open 24 hours a day and I know there's players been going in and lying about needing help with the variety to get that portal Oh, oh, yeah, and I think that's really it's like Holocaust museum disrespectful I think and I cannot figure out how to infra- Believer But I can't figure out how to contact nantic to get them to remove it And the other players have been completely douchey about it when I pointed out to them that maybe they should just leave it alone And let it be a dead portal Like they've been going in and saying they'd help just to They don't actually they don't actually say they need help But if somebody asked them how long they've been sober or what they're looking for they'll fucking lie And considering that anonymity is a big part of that process You need complete transparency and be able to trust people you're talking to there and that's bullshit Wow, your social contract is way better than mine Oh, it's been bothering me for a while it just came to a head this week If you like this check out some of our other shows like mr Right exact liability and no applause just the clap You can find us at www.bacnpodcast.com and by searching for bacn on iTunes and stitcher Oh, yeah