Episode 23 - Cinema Maxxing

This week, we somehow went from hibachi and MSG to discussing how COVID completely wrecked my taste buds for months and may have permanently altered my relationship with food.We also survived another weekend of apartment hunting, toured some truly unforgettable floor plans, and are now anxiously waiting to hear back on an apartment we've had our eyes on for a while.On the reading front, I finally experienced Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (and have some thoughts about how it compares to the movie), gave John Green another chance with The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, and finished It's Kind of a Funny Story.Then came our biggest accidental decision of the week: trying AMC on a whim and immediately becoming A-List members. Naturally, we spent the rest of the weekend seeing as many movies as possible. We review Obsession, The Backrooms, The Sheep Detectives, and AMC's latest Screen Unseen, The Furious.We also talk about Atlas filling in on drums at a friend's church, a lunch outing with friends afterward, and discovering what might be the greatest Six Flags hack of all time: showing up at 6 PM on a scorching Sunday evening.Finally, we're getting ready for Rosemary Beach this weekend, which means one thing: road trip podcasts are officially back and if you give a mouse a long car ride, chances are he'll make 17 podcasts.Chapters:0:00 - Intro5:45 - A Completely Normal Conversation About MSG 11:08 - Application Pending 21:14 - John Green: Redemption Arc? 22:34 - AMC Got Us…25:17 - Obsession: I Thought We Were Having a Nice Date30:13 - The Backrooms: The Real Backroom Was the Story We Lost Along the Way 39:04 - The Sheep Detectives: I Still Think It Was the Maid44:45 - The Furious: The Screen Should Have Stayed Unseen53:35 - Percussion and Fellowship 59:08 - Roller Coasters Hate This Trick 1:07:17 - Next Stop: Rosemary1:12:38 - Outro