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Laughs, Chaos in Low-Budget Cinema, Oh Yeah and the Return of Hayden

• Hayden, Mitch, and Tom

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Ever wondered what happens when you mix aliens, cowboys, and The Golden Girls in a $20,000 film? We've got the answer in our year-end special of "Entertain This," where we hilariously recount the best—and worst—moments from our a little over 200 episodes. While Hayden was off serving in the military, Mitch and Tom kept the show running, and now that hes back his punishments continue. Hayden's punishment of reviewing truly terrible films to the chaotic yet oddly fascinating world of "Atomic Poop." Join us as we celebrate our evolution on social media and express our gratitude to you, our incredible listeners.

Journey with us as we offer a scathing review of a low-budget movie found on Tubi, where flushing toilets inexplicably trigger alien invasions, and explore the whirlwind pacing of the "Supergirl" TV show. We critique the questionable production choices and storylines that leave more questions than answers but offer a treasure trove of laughter. Our discussion also veers into the realm of gaming, where we reminisce about nostalgic experiences from "Call of Duty" and "Baldur’s Gate" and share our frustrations with game exclusivity and evolving monetization trends.

Our superhero critique takes center stage as we dissect the portrayal of historical figures in recent films, the ups and downs of movies like "Venom" and "Kraven the Hunter," and the rapid-fire turnover in superhero cinema. We wrap things up with a trivia challenge that tests our knowledge of past episodes, sparking debates and plenty of laughs. We also tease a thought-provoking film discussion featuring Aubrey Plaza that promises to offer intriguing perspectives on time travel and personal growth. So, buckle up for a festive ride filled with camaraderie, humor, and a sneak peek into the future of "Entertain This.

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Tom:

Are you ready, Mitch? Oh, we still got the Christmas. It's all right. It's our last episode of the year Before the new year and season 35 of Entertain this. We're almost there.

Song:

Santa's on his way. Everybody knows there's not a better time of year. Hear that sleigh. Santa's on his way. He'll kill for right for Christmas vacation.

Tom:

Great movie.

Mitch:

You know how you say I have bursts of energy.

Tom:

Yep.

Mitch:

I took my headache medicine on the way here and I'm drinking an energy drink.

Tom:

So you're just even. It really is, you're just even. It's like doing quaaludes and blow. You're just even. You started out exactly where you began. Anyway, welcome to entertain this. It's a podcast about movies, tv shows and video games. Oh, my name is tom, I'm mitch and my name is hayden.

Hayden:

My name is Hayden, we're back.

Tom:

Yep Way to ruin it.

Hayden:

I was ready to get a drink while you guys were talking. I don't want to spoil it. I'm back. It's been a long year All right enough of that, mitch social media.

Mitch:

Well, you have different social media. Nowadays it's entertainthispodcastcom, or you can go to our Instagram, which is entertainthis underscore.

Hayden:

That's it, yep.

Tom:

Well, we tightened it down. We sure did Wow it only took four years, almost five.

Mitch:

Wow, look, I tried to make it simpler. Everybody can find it in the simple things. You still messed it up, though.

Tom:

Yes, I did.

Hayden:

Because I up though. Yes, I did, because I don't remember what I changed it. How many episodes have we done, like 236? I actually I compressed off recording stuff, but I compressed all of our episodes. There's 264 individual uploads, 39 of them are throwbacks, all right, and then there's like 27 that aren't like serialized episodes. So we're I think, 198 that are individual numbered episodes.

Tom:

So we're almost 200 episodes special.

Hayden:

This is like we've done it 200 episodes special or did you count for like the uh random uploads, like the uh interviews and stuff like that?

Mitch:

Well, let's see, I don't know.

Hayden:

While he figures that out.

Tom:

Yep Hayden's back. We found him lurking outside. He forgot where I lived. He just knew the apartment complex, he just couldn't remember which building.

Hayden:

I had to walk back from Iraq it felt like it. I left Iraq in the end of November. I got back last week, so Would you take a? Sailboat I might as well, just like six airplanes.

Mitch:

We got 233 numbered episodes. Because you got to remember that the first two seasons aren't even on there.

Hayden:

Oh.

Tom:

Oh Okay, that's two years of entertainments.

Hayden:

That's going to have to change some stuff that I was planning.

Mitch:

I'll figure it out. So we're probably like what, almost 400? I mean I can put them back on there. I just took them off. Uh, you can leave. We'll talk later.

Tom:

You can leave them off the first season and most of the second season is nothing worth revisiting those are the ones I pick for throwbacks most of the time oh okay, all right, so they still make it back out there.

Hayden:

Yeah, occasionally seeing the light okay, well, I I don't know what we're doing. It's been a year. I don't know how to podcast anymore.

Tom:

It's your episode, Hayden.

Hayden:

What do I do, what do I speak?

Tom:

Words, words, things Into the microphone. Oh, okay, we didn't change that much.

Mitch:

You don't think and it comes out.

Tom:

I'll say this the worst part about this is having to turn my head to the right I'm so sorry instead of just looking straight across the table I'll say this you guys carried the podcast the whole year.

Hayden:

I'm thoroughly impressed I don't know if I could have done it and the fact that you guys made it work and you still had regularly scheduled, you know, recordings uploaded.

Mitch:

My hat's off to you, gentlemen well, there was several times where we're like what? Let's just record three episodes and we'll be back in a month. You still figured it out.

Tom:

We made sure the content got there.

Hayden:

I'm plenty impressed. That being said, I have some notes.

Tom:

I'm sure, yeah, you can tell us about it after and we can ignore you.

Mitch:

We kind of figured you would no matter what.

Tom:

I'm going to be like Mitch show me the stats, yeah.

Hayden:

Yeah, all right. And, of course, despite my service to my country, you punished me with two terrible You're damn right we did.

Mitch:

I'll be honest, I was just going to let you skate by, but then you asked. I was like okay, well, here they are.

Tom:

You're lucky you got by with two. I mean, how many episodes did he miss?

Hayden:

A lot, a lot. 52. 52. I watched all well one of them. I started three days ago and I couldn't get into it.

Tom:

You're not supposed to get into the punishment I mean just like will myself through it.

Hayden:

I'll explain more. Do you want to go ahead and review these messes? Yeah, go ahead. The first movie I chose to watch Because I gave him a choice out of six to pick. Yeah, the title caught my attention. It was called Atomic Poop. You've taken a few of those? Yeah, none compared to.

Song:

Mitchell, Sir Mitchell himself.

Hayden:

No, they're the same guy.

Tom:

The poop king of Chicago.

Hayden:

Imagine, if you will, will a community film school of aspiring filmmakers that moonlight their classes while they're working at costco's right. This is the think tank vibe behind the curtains for atomic poop. Maybe sketch comedy was initially intended, but someone shoehorned all these sketches together in a don't-look-back attitude. We got aliens, catboys, diy funerals. So catboys, cowboys oh, I thought you said catboys. He said catboys. Sorry.

Tom:

I got to I don't know, they're really small men who ride cats like horses, little tiny saddles.

Hayden:

There's even a little bit of a Titanic old lady reminiscing about her old and true love and stuff like that and all that this is all within the first 20 minutes when I decided I should probably attempt an intro to this review. So I started writing this stuff down. Okay, I don't know how, but I'll try and find a way to make this make sense. Aliens with a $20 Home Depot gift card budget are out of food in their alien home world.

Song:

Okay.

Hayden:

These bucket-headed people wear spandex and wigs on top of their buckets. They eat these bricks of goop that are apparently in short demand for them. They screech at each other with telegraph beeps like the.

Song:

You know, wasn't it.

Hayden:

Marvin the Martian or something like that did that, I don't know. Um, uh, and they do like this. Excessive amounts of miming. You know their body language. I don't know how, but they made that look like bad acting, perhaps along with the poorly written subtitles that explain that the alien King, who is a bucket headed dude dressed like everybody else but is a bucket-headed dude dressed like everybody else.

Hayden:

But he has a burger king crown. Yeah, like, literally, it says burger king on it. I think they spray painted over for copyright stuff, but yeah, but anyways, he's mad at his people and threatening to eat them if they don't solve their food crisis. Meanwhile, on earth, uh, temu, golden girls is that how you say it? Timu, timu, timu, timu. Golden Girls sit around the car table in a nursing home and they take their pills, reminiscing about the good old days, those days being today, I guess. So the Golden Girls bit takes place in the future, you wouldn't know, since they dress and the scene looks like it's in the back of some used car lot office area, I don't know. You can get definitely get the sense that this was just like okay, we got my uncle's garage for this. This scene, we're gonna make it work. Uh, these old ladies whip out a can of easy cheese. Yeah, and one talks to about how her husband, brett, saved the world with a can of the same stuff.

Tom:

Cheese whizzing himself in the legend.

Hayden:

They literally do that, yeah, because they're wild, wild, crazy old ladies.

Mitch:

So he saved the world by making himself constipated with so much cheese.

Hayden:

Well, let me get through this. Yeah, brett, who introduces himself as a school gym teacher, hides his face for the entirety of this first scene. Why, if it was for some elaborate means to make the character interesting, this strategy was completely abandoned in the next scene, where Brett was described as a cowboy and his face is shown serenading us with some dumb campfire song while riding a stick horse.

Tom:

Like the stick with the horse's head on it, yep, yep, yep, and he's singing.

Hayden:

I could spend the rest of the time reviewing this movie describing the asinine events that take place, but I will spare you. Let's talk about the quality, the good. The one smart thing that this much-to-learn film troupe did was tripod their decent camera. Never does it move, and thank God it doesn't. They do not have the mental capability or capacity to handle something so complex as moving camera shots. That's the good, all right. The bad acting.

Hayden:

These people, these people, they stumbled through their lines. It was painfully obvious that they had no clue what they were acting, and these poor grandmas that agreed to be in their family's little art film are definitely struggling. Uh, the other actors, which include kids, friends or whatever guy on the street they could find, are choppy takes that are glued together with mismatched camera settings and splayed overlays and color treatment for scenes that come in too early or didn't get keyed in correctly. So random articles of clothing appear invisible, right, so like they try to key out a certain color of their clothes and then like their green socks would be invisible and they're like they didn't have ankles. So yeah, because they just were, they didn't have ankles.

Hayden:

What? Yeah, because they just didn't know how to film. Yeah, they were just making it work the Ugly. That's not even the worst part. This cocktail napkin idea of a story that was written on an Adderall and Jaeger bombs the night before should never have been produced. The problem with accessible film resources for the layman is that everyone can make their crappy movies. Sure, some diamonds are out there and they are worth sifting through to find them, but Tubi should really practice some quality control here. I mean, that's where I found it was, on Tubi.

Tom:

Yeah, that's where I was. I feel like most bad movies. You'll find it on Tubi. That's where I found them when.

Hayden:

I sent it to you. You must have to pay. Find it on Tubi. That's why I found them when I sent it to you. You must have to pay to get on Tubi. Why would they have that be their business strategy? Give us your crappy movies.

Mitch:

I mean, they have good movies on there too. Yeah, they do.

Hayden:

That's why I said no one watches Tubi to begin with, and no one will watch some random fever dream film mess that they threw together when they could watch Die Harder, when they could watch Die Harder, which is also on Tubi, or other actual films that aren't good enough for Netflix. Look further attempts into rationalizing this thing I'm hesitant. To call a movie would be further waste for everyone's time, and I already wasted too much on this. Let me just say this this movie made me productive, right. I tried watching it over three days, but every time I started I noticed dishes needed to be cleaned, trash needed to be taken out, help my kids with their chores, contemplate my life decisions. My son was watching Captain Underpants in the other room and I became enthralled with that show. Trying to pay attention to the car wreck that was in front of me. The only thing I could find on the internet was that this movie was released in 2023 with a budget of $20,000. Jeez, which tracks. I've decided to come up with a reason for this abomination to exist that will hopefully be more entertaining than the actual movie. So this is why I think this movie got made. This is true this bit right here.

Hayden:

The director, susan Scannell, who was a soap opera actress from the 80s that's the only truth I could find decided she wanted to make a movie with what was left of her acting fortune from yesteryear. She's a realist and knew that she needed to cater to a younger audience and enlisted the help of her flaky basement-dwelling son. He got too excited about making a movie and bogarted his mother into the drug-induced nonsense as described. Susan realized during her final cut preview that her little sci-fi romance was now a tragedy and quit film altogether, kicking her son out who emulated her toxic, estranged husband. She then read Eat, pray, love and Vacation to Venice, where she rediscovered her passion as a storyteller and is currently working on something outstanding Go Susan.

Hayden:

I was thinking like the entire time watching this, because I started IMDb-ing because anything. The ads for this movie were much more entertaining than the actual movie, so I started IMDb-ing, trying to find resources and research on this, and so I started clicking through. And this, trying to find resources and research on this, and so I started clicking through and this lady is like an accomplished 80s soap actress that just decided to make this mess in 2023.

Tom:

Over a weekend.

Hayden:

Yeah, that's what it seemed like At one point. The main actor, I guess. They only had him for four days, so they put him through an alien rearrange ray or some dumb MacGuffin for that and they switched him out with a new actor altogether and he was like no, I'm Brett, I just look different. They kept saying that to keep people and to the audience over and over again.

Tom:

I guess they just didn't have the money to go back and reshoot all that stuff or they couldn't afford them for five days, I guess, or six, it's like ah, it's a five-day schedule, we can only afford you for four. The new brand wouldn't sing.

Hayden:

So yeah, maybe they wanted the other guy to sing, all right. So yeah, I watched that. That was bad.

Mitch:

It was actually made in 2023. Yeah, I know the description, for it is a hilarious comedy where the love story is affected by an alien invasion.

Hayden:

Yeah, it's bad.

Tom:

See, they give us that tagline or like that little nugget of like this is what the movie is, and then we listen to Hayden's dissertation. It's like no.

Hayden:

No, and the aliens wanted to eat the earthlings because they were flushing their toilets. That apparently affects their food source. I don't know, they come from some planet I can't pronounce and they just screech and they poop radioactive poop. That's why it's called atomic poop. Sure, yeah, it was dumb and I felt so bad for these old people that they got put into this Coerced. Yeah, and I'm, and I felt so bad for like these old people that they got like put into this Coerced, yeah, and I'm like, ladies you got to know what you're doing Elder abuse by coercion?

Mitch:

Yeah.

Hayden:

You know, I don't know, yeah. So I watched that and I give it like a 2 out of 10. Yeah, Probably not the worst thing I've ever seen, but it's up there.

Tom:

Samurai Cop bad.

Hayden:

Samurai Cop now has a colorful spot. It's becoming a cult classic. To just hate For it to be the keystone of bad movies. I'm like is it Samurai Cop bad?

Song:

Yeah, so all right. Then I watched Supergirl, oh yeah.

Hayden:

Yeah, so all right. Then I watched Supergirl.

Mitch:

Oh, yeah, yeah, how was that?

Hayden:

Well, while decent production quality is much more appreciated after what I just watched, the reason for this show being a punishment is readily available from early on. Cara Danvers is a mild-mannered reporter who lives in discount metropolis called National City, a city named poorly for even a Power Rangers episode. I thought you guys might like that one.

Tom:

It's not Angel Grove. No, it's not Angel Grove.

Hayden:

Danvers sports a name that is so unoriginal that a girl superhero whose whole message is I'm not like other superheroes, yet she shares, shares her name with Marvel character who shoots lasers. What's the Danvers from Marvel? Carol Danvers, kara Danvers, carol, come on, come on, mitch. Who came first? Which one? Kara Kara did?

Mitch:

She was Supergirl. Oh, long before there was a Carol Danvers.

Tom:

Isn't her like crotone name? Like Kara Zorro? Carol Danvers came out in the 90s Supergirl oh, long before there was a Carol Danvers. Isn't her like crotone name? Like Carazoro Carol?

Mitch:

Danvers came out in the 90s. Supergirl's been around since the late 70s maybe early 70s.

Hayden:

She's a carbon copy of Clark, just for girls.

Tom:

Yeah, they have a dog. That's a carbon copy of it.

Hayden:

But there's no dog audience out there, Like this is shameless. Yeah.

Mitch:

I know, shameless, I know.

Hayden:

She's Supergirl.

Tom:

You don't check the forums.

Mitch:

It was a Supergirl movie back then.

Hayden:

Anyways, she shares a name with a Marvel character who shoots lasers, flies and has super strength. She starts off interesting enough with her backstory being that she actually was a tween when she fled Krypton, so she remembers plenty of her previous life before being adopted into Danvers' home. She tries desperately to set herself apart from her already established cousin Clark by laying roots in an even more forgettable city than Metropolis and venture into her original idea of being a reporter the sarcasm original If you're trying to be different than Clark, right?

Tom:

I'm going to do the exact same job.

Hayden:

Exact same job, but not even that the whole identity. She wears these bland clothes, wears glasses and changes her hair. Nobody can recognize her.

Mitch:

I mean, I'm sure there's more to it than what I remember, but for the most part from what I remember about her in the comics is when she's still a teenager. She is living on the farm, just living there.

Tom:

On a farm like.

Hayden:

Clark. She tries too hard to not be Superman but adopts the moniker Supergirl, all right, and then the cute rendition of Superman's outfit the reporter life, the potential reporter love life, because there's other people that she's got relations with. The shrewd boss that wants more pictures of Spider-Man, I mean Supergirl the bland office, wear different hair and glasses, like I said, yet she constantly shrieks that she's not her cousin. Is this the CW show? Yes, oh, on top of that, her cousin, who is a superhero.

Mitch:

Actually, I think the first season was Fox and then it went to CW they flashed CW non-stop.

Tom:

Yeah, because the flash was on there, or what arrow?

Mitch:

well, I want to say this one was on some other, maybe it was cbs. It was on something other for the first season and then went to see this well, I, I, one of my like pros is like how the effects?

Hayden:

because I thought the effects were pretty good for a cw show, but I'll get to that in a minute. Um uh, her cousin clark. He is a superhero negligent for not at least helping her transition into her new super life. And he is also a bad hero in this world because Kara gets attacked by fellow Kryptonians in episode two. Wouldn't that be like a world-threatening event worthy of Superman if Kryptonians showed up and started beating the crap out?

Mitch:

of them. Look, they didn't have the rights to have Superman on there yet.

Hayden:

They kept saying well, they kept saying Clark. I guess they didn't say Superman. Wow, I just realized that Money, they didn't have the rights to Superman yet.

Tom:

The rights to things. Copyright.

Hayden:

How are you going to make a show about a character who's trying so hard not to be Superman?

Tom:

How did Amazon make a show about the rings.

Hayden:

They don't own the rights to the book. I listened to that episode. You'll be okay.

Mitch:

Henry Cavill was Superman in 2013. This was 2015 when it started. So, they still didn't have the rights to use Superman yet they had to. Eventually, they coerced basically DC Comics into letting them use it Please.

Tom:

Didn't they use like Tyler Hoechlin?

Mitch:

Yeah, and he's a good Superman later on in his own show.

Hayden:

All I got to say is Zod gets a movie, but Astra Kara's aunt, not that one. The other one gets a guest spot on the show as a middle ground mastermind. That's right.

Song:

A man is pulling her strings from the background.

Hayden:

I would care to tell you who it is if I desired to keep watching the show, but I did not. So what you're saying is behind every successful woman is a man telling her what to do. So she gets her butt kicked by the ant and this dude shows up and stabs the ant. He's just like nah, it's a human man.

Tom:

Stabby stab.

Hayden:

It beats her just by stabbing her and she's like nah, and runs off. And she's like, oh thanks. And she's like, oh thanks, I would have been dead if you didn't show up. He's like I got you, supergirl, get back in the kitchen.

Mitch:

You doing anything later? See, I've never seen the Supergirl, other than like the one or two episodes that were crossovers with Arrow, just so I could keep the whole story of the crossover going. So like I didn't know there was a Lena Luthor.

Hayden:

Oh my God, it's an Alexa. This is like some bizarro world. This can't be real. Like the comics didn't have all this stuff. They're just like just do what they did Copy their homework.

Mitch:

I mean a lot of the CW.

Tom:

Do that.

Mitch:

A lot of the CW. These characters were in the comics, but they're used a lot different and a lot more in these shows than they were ever in the comics.

Hayden:

Alright. Poorly written characters aside, let's talk about the quality of the show. It clocks in at 45-ish minutes, making the CW hour block work nicely for all those poor people who hadn't yet discovered Netflix. It's crammed too much. They spend too much time in the first two episodes developing backstory while exposing the immediate threat. Angry axe time in the first two episodes developing backstory while exposing the immediate threat. Angry Axe Guy in the first episode. Pokey Bug Guy in the second episode. Those are the two main villains that she has to beat up. Their names are forgettable and I'm sure it doesn't matter.

Hayden:

Meanwhile, supergirl is trying to establish a brand for herself by saving lives in original ways, like stopping an airplane from crashing. Meanwhile, her adoptive sister secretly works for a superhero government agency that want to recruit her and train her. Meanwhile, her two male friends who could be potential love interests at work for find out her superhero alter ego. Meanwhile, her boss wants to push a piece out on Supergirl good or bad before the Daily Planet does. Meanwhile, there's a cabal of angry, cranky Kryptonian criminals committing crime in her city. Say that ten times fast.

Tom:

So yeah, that all happened in two episodes right, that's a lot to unpack in two episodes it was so fast, it was so like neck-breaking speed.

Hayden:

I was like what is happening, you know? And the only thing that I had to put my faith in was like understanding the Clark Kent storyline, to kind of feel out where she is in the origin story. Otherwise, if I had no idea who Superman was, I would have been lost in the sauce of the show. This is like what.

Tom:

Supergirl like year one Pretty much, yeah, yeah.

Mitch:

Her first year of being Supergirl, yeah.

Hayden:

It's got a lot going on. The fire hose effect for the show, with all the craziness going on, brings glaring issues of the show to light. Technical stuff aside, though, their classic CW cheesiness like the way they have her flying and stuff like that, you know it's just really dumb. Like you can tell, they put a camera and they had her standing and like put her fist up to the camera and they just put the camera like looking down on her, yeah, blowing her wind in her little cape, um, but anyways, uh, the writing suffers the most. Cara will never get out from clark's shadow if she keeps mentioning it.

Hayden:

Maybe this would have been a revelation to explore later, but it's so obvious it warrants an eye roll every time she anybody talks about it. They could slow down and spend the first season letting her discover her roles, power and relationships, instead of flinging themselves into the gist of the Supergirl life that a typical serial show would have. In other words, they're wanting this like rinse and repeat episodic take on. Okay, she's got a new bad guy to beat this episode, but meanwhile she's dealing with her life as a reporter. Meanwhile she's also working for this government agency. Meanwhile her aunt's trying to kill her from Krypton.

Hayden:

You know, like they've established so much that they want to keep repeating the vicious cycle. Instead, they could have stretched it out to make it a normal serialized TV show. However they did, each episode is a continuation of certain plot beats from the previous episode, so why cram it all together? To begin with, I don't know. Well, whatever they did, it worked for whatever audience they were producing it for, because the show got six seasons. I don't understand TV and I give up the end.

Tom:

Thank you for Hayden's scripted punishment reviews.

Mitch:

Now, they did use a lot of older Superman actors from other shows.

Song:

Yeah.

Mitch:

Like eventually, dean Cain plays one of the characters.

Hayden:

Wasn't he in trouble for something recently?

Mitch:

I don't know.

Hayden:

He said something anti-woke and everybody hated him.

Mitch:

Terry Hatcher plays Mon-El's mother, which is another character that shows up later on.

Tom:

Terry Hatcher, mon-el's mother, which is another character that shows up later on Terry Hatcher.

Mitch:

Yeah.

Song:

Who's that Dean?

Mitch:

Cain's Supergirl.

Hayden:

Oh, lois Lane, yeah, okay.

Mitch:

I know Erica Durrance from Smallville plays, I think, kara's mother in this show as well later on, or maybe her aunt, or something like that.

Hayden:

Well, her aunt and her mother are identical twins, because we'd need to make it more confusing and soap opera.

Tom:

And we can only hire the one actor due to budget limitations at the time.

Hayden:

What they did, though, was they put a streak of white hair in her hair.

Tom:

So you can tell the difference. Of course, clever.

Song:

It's not a great show.

Mitch:

No, Now I will say that the Superman and Lois, which is a spino Years in the future, where Superman already has like two teenage sons.

Hayden:

So she's in the show Superman and Lois.

Mitch:

No, but it's the same guy from Superman.

Tom:

That's what's doing good.

Mitch:

It's basically a spinoff where it's him and Lois and the two kids.

Hayden:

So wait, is there ever a Superman in the Supergirl show? And it's that guy.

Mitch:

It's either season two or three. It's Tyler Hoechlin from Teen Wolf. I don't know if you ever saw that, no, oh well, basically he plays Superman in that. It's a lot better show and, honestly, it was still CW up until this last season and then it went to Max.

Hayden:

Oh wow, they got some real money.

Mitch:

Well, I mean even the original. It almost looks cinematic Like. It looked like the I don't want to say Zack Snyder movies, but it had that tone where it looked more like a movie when you have a drinking board.

Hayden:

Whenever Mitch mentions Snyder, somebody takes a shot or Teenage Mutant. Ninja Turtles, teenage Mutant.

Tom:

Ninja Turtles Wrestling.

Hayden:

Whenever you mention Lord of the Rings.

Mitch:

I'm just saying it looked more like a cinematic movie as opposed to a TV show when they made those, so it's pretty good.

Hayden:

Yeah, it was just very like I don't know it was CW Like oh yeah, we take ourselves very seriously. You know this is a very serious show and you could tell like the they, like the actors, were decent enough where they you could feel them still over forcing saying you should have been, should have been better. Yeah, the goofy lines and stuff that they're having to say, you know. I don't know, it was just not my fave, but it was better than Atomic Poop, so I give this a 4 out of 10. Oh, good, good.

Tom:

How does it feel to be back and punished?

Hayden:

Ah, great Thanks for having me, it's like you never left.

Mitch:

Don't worry, I got one saved, just in case. Don't worry, I got one saved, just in case.

Tom:

Well, I guess it would be Tom's choice to punish if he wins. Trivia, trivia.

Mitch:

Yeah, what Trivia, tom, I told you, there was going to be trivia.

Hayden:

Oh crap. Yeah, Tom, you got to pay attention. Now I'm back.

Tom:

I'm back. It worked out great the whole year, yeah, you just bullied Mitch the entire time.

Hayden:

Every time Mitch would say something continue on with whatever story you're rambling about, I'm like shut up, tom Tom.

Mitch:

you got any news or reviews? Play Call of Duty again.

Hayden:

Yeah, you have put such a bad taste of Call of Duty in my mouth. I downloaded all six billion gigabytes of that game, played like two matches, and I was like no, I could just hear Tom's voice in the background like they nerfed us Nah, Where's Vernask? And I was just like dude.

Mitch:

There's so many hackers and stuff and now we're talking about it's pay to win now because you can buy skins and stuff that actually make you invisible through certain frames of the screen. It's like why.

Hayden:

Game's broken, man.

Mitch:

They have one that's like an ice skin, that on the snow maps you literally can't be seen unless you're moving.

Tom:

Yeah, we countered that guy, but I made four people quit out of a game last night.

Song:

Here we go.

Tom:

This is Tom doing the rocket launcher challenge.

Song:

That's okay, bitch, I got your back.

Hayden:

I'll keep this very brief. All right, let me start.

Tom:

So the rocket launcher challenge to get diamond you got to get 50 kills. So stakeout's back 24-7. And you know that long hallway between kitchens. I was just posted up firing RPGs and you spawn with like three of them or an ammo box. I remember my dead body and I'd have like five. So I'm just launching RPGs and dudes are like peeking around the corner and rockets are just bouncing off their foreheads and all I see is the chats lighting up. Because I had my TV muted because I was talking to my fiance on the phone and then she hung up and I unmuted my TV and then people were like quitting out because I killed them X amount of times. But I have never been called the N-word so many times by people. I'm pretty sure we're Caucasian.

Hayden:

That was racist. Good job, Tom. That was less than 30 seconds.

Tom:

I was just laying there chuckling hysterically. Well, I already got the challenge, I just didn't stop shooting rockets.

Hayden:

I should have pushed the start button again. All right, okay. So yeah, I played two games of Call of Duty and I stopped and I deleted most of the thing. Anyways, I had to make room for Cyberpunk.

Tom:

The best gaming experiences I've had this year has been Elden Ring Shadow of the Earth Tree.

Hayden:

I need to download that again.

Tom:

It's great I need to download it again Vice City Remastered, because that was just a nostalgia trip.

Hayden:

Today's the 27th. Isn't there supposed to be some GTA 6 trailer coming out today?

Song:

I don't know.

Hayden:

My phone's been blown up about it. I subscribed to some game.

Tom:

It's been like what 10 years since the last one.

Mitch:

Yeah, I've been working. I haven't seen.

Tom:

I'm still waiting for Elder Scrolls 6. My kids might play it ever come out I know we got more Starfield DLCs Space. Marines.

Hayden:

For the Emperor. I did enjoy Space Marines. I have a. I'm still enjoying that, but nobody will play with me. I have a list of Well, I have a list of games that I played throughout this year.

Mitch:

Well, that's what we're supposed to get into. Tell us what you've played.

Tom:

Your top games movies. Your top games movies and shows for the year.

Hayden:

While you were playing games by PowerPoint. I was, so it took me a month and a half to download Baldur's Gate.

Song:

Jesus.

Hayden:

My internet capabilities were roughly about 30 megabits a second and that was like a $300 deal.

Hayden:

So me and my roommate split that and you know, four people, 30 megabits. You know we basically were just like 30 megabits. You know we basically were just like all right, I'll download today, you download tomorrow. And anyways, one of my about like week three for Baldur's Gate, the game got corrupted through the download so I had to start all over again. Yeah, that was like the. I think Baldur's Gate was like 160 gigs, so that's what took the longest. Everything else I was like I'm never downloading a game that big again, you know, on third world internet. So I but once I downloaded it, it was worth it because Baldur's Gate was an amazing game.

Mitch:

I downloaded it and I've played like I got off the main ship that you start off with and then I stopped because I figured we'd play more later. Yeah.

Hayden:

It's as close to a D&D campaign as you can get to in a video game. Literally every decision you make impacts so much of the story, and how you design your character impacts everything, and who you say yes or no to could have causality. That negates hours of gameplay that you'll never know. If you answered wrong about stuff, you can kill people just in passing. That could end up being a party member, like NPCs, as soon as you spawn.

Mitch:

Yeah, it has the same feature as Cyberpunk, where you can design the junk. That's true.

Song:

Max it out.

Hayden:

I played through.

Tom:

He runs weird. It's like you would too if you had three legs.

Hayden:

I played through by myself and I beat the game, had a lot of fun with that, and then me and some friends that had it in Iraq we did the co-op multiplayer thing. But they're soldiers so they just wanted to kill everything that was on the screen.

Hayden:

And that kind of got old after a while while. So I was like, oh, you guys want to play again, I'm busy, I can't do that. But uh, after a while, uh, I kind of was like you know what, this would be a great game for me and my wife to play together. So I'm gonna save that for when I get home and try and like, for you know, have as much time from when I first played to play with her again, and we started playing uh three or four days ago and she's really into it. It's a lot of fun, like a couples game. I've seen a lot of forums about it, like Baldur's Gate.

Mitch:

So how do you all play together? You can split screen it, Dude. It is so seamless. Well, I guess because you don't have to be fighting at the same time.

Hayden:

No, yeah, it's entirely turn-based, which is I know that's a turn way. This game works. It's it. There's no other way it could and it honestly makes it more fun well going into it, knowing it's like dnd it makes yeah, it's, it's all the options and capabilities that you because it's not just like, do I hack with my sword, do I back up and then shoot them with my bow and arrow it's, there's you got trying to go back the way I came, yeah you can environmental control stuff.

Hayden:

Let's say, like there's a you know, uh, a cauldron of coal dangling from the ceiling. That's like a fire of some sort. You can shoot that and drop it on an enemy, and then you can dip your sword into it, catch it on fire. There's so many things that you can do in this game and everything is so customizable and controllable. You'll never see everything. People have put thousands and thousands of hours and they're still discovering new stuff in this game.

Mitch:

Look, I'm putting in work. To begin with, I saved the two females.

Tom:

Damsel in distress. Hello, I'm Sir Mitch We'll see what happens.

Hayden:

You know, If that's your shtick, all I can say is at one point in the game, everybody wants to sleep with you. Like. All I can say is at one point in the game, everybody wants to sleep with you. Like everybody.

Hayden:

You're like dude, get off, I'm the man, it's wild, which has a renewed purpose to pick this game back up and sometimes you're like you like misread stuff Because, like one of your party members will be like I need your help with this quest, and you're like, okay, and so you go help this guy, right. And then at the end you're like I feel like we have a really good friendship going for us and you're like yes. And then he's like would you help me with one more thing? You're like okay.

Tom:

In the bedroom.

Hayden:

And then the next thing, you know, he's like in his underwear.

Tom:

And I'm like, I'm out sword button.

Hayden:

You can kill anybody at any time too.

Tom:

I don't know if I want to play with you. Here we are starting.

Hayden:

He's like fair, point fair point I mean, we went through that with the soldiers and stuff when I was playing it. We just would spend an hour murdering each other. They're like alright.

Tom:

Have we gotten it out of our systems?

Hayden:

Resurrect everybody. Go back at it. I played that. Before that I played Helldivers. I really liked Helldivers.

Tom:

Me too Tom.

Hayden:

I think I liked it better than Space Marines because it's solely co-op based, which means that there's a lot more forcing people to work together to do. You know, and the amount of chaos that happens on the screen. You're just like what is that? Like? It's a total sphincter clincher the entire time. Like you, just Sweaty hands.

Mitch:

I mean, you've seen Starship Troopers when they're inside the little bunker and they're coming from all angles. Yeah, that's the game.

Hayden:

Imagine Starship, troopers and Terminator, like in the future, combined.

Mitch:

Depending on which side of the galaxy you go to In the future combined. Which side of the galaxy you go to?

Hayden:

Yeah, like robot skeletons.

Mitch:

But now there's the Illuminate as well.

Hayden:

I saw that I don't know what that's all about.

Mitch:

They're like alien, zombie kind of things.

Tom:

Oh, of course.

Mitch:

They have, like the War of the Worlds, walkers from the Tom Cruise one.

Tom:

Oh, they're just like sucking people up and juicing them for their blood.

Mitch:

They'll walk along and they'll shoot lasers at you and stuff the blood just goes.

Hayden:

I played with some friends when we had. This was when we were in Texas getting ready to go to Iraq and we had decent still internet. And civilization, yeah, so we play together and we're like you know you get so advanced in the game, but then the enemies like compensate.

Hayden:

And like you know how the game works, we're like there's fronts right and there's some guy that controls the ai of all the war fronts on the entire galaxy, because it's a share world universe that all the players yeah, joel is his name, curses damn you joel so like like you'll fight your little skirmish with your three other friends at a front and some little battle and you'll like win and like the percentage of you taking over that planet goes up like 0.2 percent but, if everybody in the world and our world is fighting and doing that and making it work like over the week, they'll take over the planet, right? So, uh, push back the threat.

Song:

Yeah, you really want to win and you really want to you know, I'm doing my part and then I'm like I ain't doing but uh, you know.

Hayden:

So when you're, when you get better and more advanced, the more enemies and the more chaos happens on the screen and the more like ginormous enemies show up. So then you get these more powerful bombs and eventually you're just like we're about to lose. I'm calling in the 500 megabyte.

Mitch:

No, no, no, it doesn't take that. I throw those when there's just a bunch of little guys.

Tom:

You just stand there like Willem Dafoe in platoons I did. You're getting impaled with spices and the bombs go paled with like spices and the bot was going.

Hayden:

We were getting overrun. So I looked at my buddies and I was like, just run for it, guys, just leave me. And they were like, what do you mean? And I just threw it at my feet and I was like, just go, it's like Rico you know what to do and they ran off. They're like. We'll remember you. You see bug, guts and your body parts flying all over the screen.

Mitch:

Because you can call down the mech and you can just be fighting them off while they're trying to escape.

Hayden:

You're just buying them time it's a wild game.

Song:

It needs to come to Xbox. It does.

Hayden:

It's such an overrated game to not come to Xbox, or underrated game to come to Xbox.

Tom:

Is it like a contract issue?

Hayden:

Sony owns the, I think.

Mitch:

You've got it on PC, don't you? I have it on PC. I got it on.

Song:

PS5, so Shucks.

Hayden:

I did play Space Marines. I like the co-op feature for Space Marines the most. The storyline was meh, I don't know much about the Warhammer universe and I had a friend with me on deployment that is well-versed. He's the Tom version of Warhammer, but you know, like Tom is for Lord of the.

Tom:

Rings.

Hayden:

So, like every time there was a reference, he'd be in my ear like you know, this guy was this. This is why this was significant and I'm just like thank you, I don't care, you'd be playing all the time. And I started like he gave me like two books to start looking into. And I'm like he gave me like two books to start looking into and I'm just like reading and they keep referencing other books and I'm like I can't be bothered.

Tom:

I don't have time to get a degree. Yes, it is. It's like case law.

Hayden:

Like, you want to know what this is. Buy a book.

Tom:

I've watched like hours of YouTube videos about the lore and, like each, you know all the Primarchs, the Emperor. There's like 300 different books. Yeah, all the original 20 Legions or the original 18, because two of them don't count.

Hayden:

It's too much, it's too involved, can't be bothered with that.

Mitch:

But they are making a horde mode where you just fight until you die. Okay, which?

Tom:

would be kind of fun. They had a lot of stuff already planned. This wasn up with it, because even when the game was about to come out, they had, like the flyer, that already projected the first four seasons of multiplayer.

Mitch:

Yeah, and it's free DLC for the most part. You can buy stuff, yeah it's a solid game.

Hayden:

It's got everything. The campaign is good. The co-op stuff, I think, is where it's at. The multiplayer is fun for about I don't know, maybe like a week and then you're just like doing the same stuff over and over again, you know, and I don't really care about cosmetics enough for the long grind.

Song:

Yeah so.

Hayden:

I did. What level did you get to?

Tom:

Whatever the tactical one is, I have every armor unlocked.

Hayden:

Okay, I mean I have that for the sniper, but I do too.

Tom:

Because I was like once I saw I went and looked through like all the cosmetics for each guy and I was like which guy looks the coolest? I saw the helmet with, like you know, the feather, the horse hair, you know like the Roman centurion look, and I was like that's my guy and I was like tactical class. I was like sign me up, let's play.

Hayden:

So it's fun, but like if we could play any game. I want to play Elden Ring. That's been a year since I played that.

Mitch:

I haven't played the DLC. I only played the first maybe two or three bosses.

Tom:

We got you through the Lion, we got you through Raynala, the Twin Knight.

Mitch:

That's the only one I've gone through.

Hayden:

Have you guys seen anything about the co-op game coming out?

Tom:

Yes, it's kind of like a Battle Royale, but it's weird. It's really tailored to three people. You could do it by yourself Well it's not a battle.

Mitch:

It's like where the circle will close. But it's you three.

Tom:

It takes place over three days and nights and the map gets progressively smaller and smaller and the bosses get harder and harder and harder as you fight your way into it and you're forced to by the zone. So you see, okay, and You're forced to by the zone.

Mitch:

So you see Okay.

Tom:

And there's like what the Night Lords is, who you're fighting? Because there's the Night King, yeah. And there's like eight different Night Lords. You have to fight until you get to him and then it's a final boss fight and you obviously loot and gear and awesome stuff.

Mitch:

And from what I heard, it's all like random as far as what bosses appear and when they appear. Yeah, Interesting.

Tom:

It's kind of like they took that mod, the randomizer for Elden Ring, where you go and it's like the first boss and it's, you know, millennia Do you think it's going to be Battle Pass stuff.

Mitch:

I did hear that there's going to be a season pass where your XP unlocks new stuff. I don't know if you have to pay for it or what, but the more XP you get, the more things you'll unlock.

Hayden:

I know that's something they talked about. You get the more things you'll unlock. I know that's something they talked about. I'm so burnt out on all this pay stuff. You know just $60 for a game or $70 now for a game. That's plenty.

Tom:

I'm kind of having a nostalgia trip now. Assassin's Creed, the first one. I've downloaded it off the store and I've been playing through that. A that game has not aged great. No, no, Graphics-wise I mean 2000 and like what? Seven or the?

Hayden:

first one, I think, came out in 2010. I was in high school. Yeah, it was like 2010, I think the first one came out. No, the first one came out in like 2004. No, yeah, no bollocks.

Mitch:

No, it would have to be either 360. It was one of the first 2006, 2007, because I didn't have a 360 until.

Hayden:

Well, I graduated in 2006, so it might have been 2006.

Mitch:

It had to be right after high school then, because I didn't have a 360 until then 2007.

Tom:

Wow, yeah, I said that off the bat.

Hayden:

It must have been the summer.

Tom:

So I've been playing through that and it's kind of nice. The whole game's unlocked, it's just. I get to enjoy a game that was complete with a story, its games unlocked, it's just. I get to enjoy a game that was complete with a story, its own universe, its own little thing, and it's just like it was like, hey, check this out, it's like you know pseudo history, you're an assassin, you get to do the stabby, stabbing people's necks and counter, kill the crap out of as many people as you want I just remember playing that game being like why didn't you just do another prince of persia?

Tom:

well, because they the guy who wanted to do prince of persia, who did Prince of Persia. He was like I didn't want to do just another game with some hoity guy who's a prince waiting to be king. Yeah, he's like I wanted something a little more grounded in history. You know, expand on a whole lot of mythology and lore. Well, look at it now and yeah, they went off the rails, yeah.

Tom:

I mean it was great up from one to three. I like Black Flag. Black Flag is like a 50-50 split on the community. I love Black Flag A lot of people. You either loved it or you were like nah, I hate all the ship battle stuff.

Mitch:

Nah, it's great yeah.

Hayden:

It's great. It's better than that most recent pirate game. I watched videos of that and I was like this looks terrible.

Tom:

I haven't played that one, yet this is one with the skull and bones. Yeah, and it's just hilarious, dumb misadventures. Didn't we all get killed by a Kraken and a Megalodon? Yeah, because we'd get a ship. It's like, hey, a team, and we'd sail out of it.

Hayden:

And Hayden's like fire the cannons. I introduced everybody there to golf with friends because it was less than a gigabyte download. It only took three days. Yeah, and you can split screen and all that, and I mopped the floor with everything I wonder why?

Tom:

yeah, because he's a cheater, because they would play the game like normal and I would like do all the little cheats that we discovered after years of playing any videos like if I yeet it in this direction, that has no, it's not even going towards the pin, it's just like we know it'll go and balance and go and land for a hole-in-one they would.

Hayden:

They would do that. I would always be last and they would do that and they'd see all the like. I've watched them like struggle, bust their way to the hole and then I'd go and then just watch me like what's?

Tom:

either hole-in it or you're a wizard.

Hayden:

How do you do this?

Tom:

And you're like.

Hayden:

I have experience. It's basic geometry, guys.

Tom:

I mean, it's just physics.

Mitch:

I mean, you know, what he didn't tell him was trial and error for the last three years.

Tom:

We've been playing that game forever. We haven't played that in a hot minute.

Hayden:

They have a new map out Do?

Mitch:

they.

Hayden:

Yeah, you got to buy it, though how much is it? It was like $2. I think it's $7 because it's an 18-hole. It's a big map, big old maps, big old.

Mitch:

I've been playing Marvel Rivals. It's fun. Basically, you just pick a superhero. It's like Overwatch, where they have some special abilities and you just go in and fight.

Hayden:

It's like Team Deathmatch and there's one where you have to escort this thing to the other zone.

Mitch:

It's still a subscribe to this Battle Pass to get whatever stuff, isn't it? No, it really only does unlock cosmetics. But you got all the characters. I don't want to and you can actually earn Because you can do it without having to buy the Battle Pass. You can actually earn stuff to buy other things in the game, yeah.

Hayden:

Even still the games that have the gnawing feeling of that's a cool-looking character, but it's a free game, yeah.

Tom:

I don't know. Got to get the money somehow.

Mitch:

It was a lot of fun. The only drawback I didn't like was that there's no sprint option. Your character moves at one speed unless you use, like his special move, that like zips him a little further.

Hayden:

That's such a weird thing. Now, yeah, to not be able to sprint. It was strange. Yeah, I was playing so, like they were, somebody had call of duty, I think black ops whatever and um it was not the newest one, one of the older ones and like they had their little call of Duty tournaments this year and they were all just mopping the floor with everybody and I was like you want to play a real man's game, we're playing Halo 2. And they were like oh, I can kill you in Halo 2.

Song:

I was like all right, fire it up, Okay, kid.

Hayden:

And I smashed. You know, I dominated everybody in Halo 2.

Tom:

And they were like what button's the sprint? And I was like there is no sprint. Back in my day that hadn't been invented yet. What do you mean? Run faster than running, yeah, yeah, one speed slow or go and look.

Hayden:

If I shoot you in the head, you die, Isn't that?

Tom:

wild.

Hayden:

So yeah, yeah, yeah. Another game I downloaded was called Vampire Survivors. Yeah, it's like 400 megabytes, super pixelated, easy game, but it's very fun because it is also split screen.

Mitch:

you can only play locally that's what we found out the other day, you can't play online he was like download this game. So I was like, alright, I downloaded it. He was like, alright, there's gotta be some way.

Hayden:

Like 5 minutes later he was like, no, there's not a way there's not a way but so like you and your little you know cohorts you all start out with like a hero and you have one attack and like there's a guy with a whip, he just there's no button, all you have is the stick that you walk around with right and he just, every second, whips his whip.

Tom:

Yeah.

Hayden:

So the enemy starts swarming the screen. You slap the enemies with your whip. They drop these gems. You collect them to get experience. Once you level up, you unlock a second weapon that you can pick. This one could be shooting little balls of light. So now you're whipping and shooting balls of light. You can have up to six weapons and then you can combine those weapons into super weapons. And you know like I played that game, like the Power Rangers. I played that game so much because that was my travel game while I was just bored and not listening to the podcast.

Tom:

Interesting Sounds about right.

Hayden:

I would play that and I got so advanced into it. Somebody was playing with me and then left for a couple days and then came back and wanted to play. And he's just watching me and the screen was so inundated with pixels and explosions he was like what is happening?

Tom:

I'm God, I was, I was essentially like nothing can touch me.

Hayden:

I became so powerful in this game.

Tom:

I can just set the controller down.

Hayden:

Yeah, I did, I did, I put it on endless mode and I was like let's see how long this goes. So, I went to go get dinner and I came back and I was like it's still going, it's still alive.

Tom:

And he just sits there and just spins the stick. So he's just shooting in all directions.

Hayden:

You get stuff to do that for you.

Tom:

Like the game, builds it to where you want it to. Private. Get over here Clockwise.

Hayden:

But yeah, that was a game I played. I tried that Lethal Company game. I played that. You know one where you're like those junkmen and you like go into spooky, like abandoned places on planets, like they're very factory-looking. You know industrial complexes. You collect junk and you have to scrap them to get money, to get better resources, to collect more junk and monsters will get you seen that nope, anyways, it was it was fun, but it was like I, I don't know the.

Hayden:

It was really crappy controls and, you know, I think the three of us would have fun playing it, um, but that's pretty much all the games I I've tried, so yeah, I watched a lot of movies and tv shows, though, so, all right, what were some of your?

Mitch:

favorite tv shows. Um, I watched a lot of movies and TV shows, though what were some of your favorite TV shows?

Hayden:

I watched a little show called the Leftovers, which I highly recommend. So I was about season I think it's three seasons and I watched one season and did some research and found out it was made by the people who did Lost and I got deeply concerned, with good reason they're still in the bathroom and found out it was made by the people who did Lost, and I got deeply concerned, with good reason.

Hayden:

They're still in the bathroom. But when I finished it it had a solid ending and I was actually pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it way more than Lost. So it was a great show, great music for a TV show. I was kind of blown away with all that.

Song:

What was it?

Hayden:

about so essentially it's hard to explain, Kind of like Lost. There's this town and the sheriff of this town, so there's like a cult of people in the town that just apathy is like their message. And they just do stuff just to show people that there's nothing that they can do about it and the sheriff's ex-wife is like a leader in this cult and I'm also trying to remember this from six months ago. You know he falls in love with somebody else. Her brother is a priest in the town.

Hayden:

And his wife is like an ensemble cast of people who all have interesting character issues and they all, like, affect each other. You know so it's pretty cool. But there's like, if there is supernatural goings-on, it's so minuscule that you can't really describe it. You know so it's hard to explain, but it's really a fascinating watch and I would recommend it for couples watching. If Rachel wants to watch it, sure she would we're done watching.

Tom:

If Rachel wants to watch it, she would. We're done watching the Crown. We need to find something else to watch.

Hayden:

There you go Leftovers. I think it was on HBO, yeah.

Tom:

Mitch has that. Yeah, that's why, yes, we know.

Hayden:

Mitch's account got me through Iraq, so thank you.

Tom:

I don't use your account that much.

Mitch:

People my brother uses it as well and he'll be like I didn that much. I know people my brother uses as well, and he'll be like I didn't watch this, I'm like he's like.

Hayden:

Did you use the account? Like no yeah, um, I figured I watched um man, I was just thinking of stuff on the way here, um I watched three body problems I did watch three body problem. I love that show uh great from the writers of Game of Thrones, so at least it starts really strong yeah.

Tom:

And then just spirals out of control. We'll see what happens.

Hayden:

I'm excited for season two. Don't, don't be.

Song:

Why.

Tom:

Considering what they did with season two of House of the Dragon.

Hayden:

What's wrong? I thought season two for House of the Dragon was fine.

Tom:

The Damon Trip and Ball show.

Hayden:

There was like one episode of that no.

Mitch:

There was six. There was one focus episode of that.

Tom:

The rest of it was, it would just cut to him and he's eating and he's like I thought it was fine.

Hayden:

It was almost as good as season two of the Lord of the Rings show.

Tom:

I watched every single one of those damn episodes for you.

Hayden:

I stopped watching after the second episode of the first season.

Tom:

I wanted to stop watching after the first episode of the first season, but it's like Tom, you gotta do it for the show. You gotta report back to the show, tom. Thank you for your sacrifice.

Hayden:

I watched all the Taylor Sheridan stuff. Most recent season for Mary Kingstown was pretty good.

Mitch:

I guess it's an ending. That's what I thought I was like. I'm assuming that's the end of the show. I don't know, though.

Hayden:

I don't know either, and then the Linus special ops show.

Mitch:

I like that one.

Hayden:

It's interesting. They're going into places with military stories that haven't been done before, but they're just so campy about it. In certain places Nobody in the military talks like that, and if you're a commander of a base and some lady shows up and is like I need your helicopter, he's not going to say whatever you say, ma'am.

Tom:

He's a person with extreme confidence.

Hayden:

Get out of here, but anyways, yeah, that was good. I haven't seen the most recent season for Yellowstone.

Mitch:

I haven't seen that yet either. Costner's not in it.

Hayden:

Apparently like they killed him off in a really goofy way.

Mitch:

I know he dies, like in the first episode or two of this newest season, but I haven't seen it yet.

Hayden:

I kind of know. I did watch the Costner movie.

Tom:

Western Front.

Hayden:

Horizon or something like that. He did another Western. Yeah, he left Yellowstone to do these movies and I watched it and I was like you never should have left.

Tom:

Yellowstone. It's like this isn't what's the one he did with Robert.

Hayden:

Duvall, jim Stone, I don't know.

Tom:

Costner, is that Open Range dimsut? I don't know um costner, is that open range, yeah, that's a good one. Or silverado? No, that was 1985. Okay, so that's with uh, kevin klein okay, yeah, so uh open range I think kevin costner isn't silverado, though he's like a big guy you watch tulsa king I did like uh, tulsa king season two.

Hayden:

It was also kind of goofy, I think. Think Taylor Sheridan has a really short shelf life for his shows, but he just can't stop cranking out these ideas. They're popular though I watched a little bit of that Landman show that's still coming out.

Tom:

I haven't seen that one yet, billy Bob Thorne just being a douche.

Hayden:

Yeah, it's.

Song:

It's interesting, though it's an interesting take on.

Hayden:

It hadn't really been anything in a, a staple of.

Tom:

America A hot minute.

Hayden:

No, but getting a guest to Taylor Sheridan's show is the hot ticket for A-listers today, probably because they know it's going to be like a two or three season. Yeah, like a solid gig and everybody's watching.

Tom:

Not like a Patrick Stewart where it's like, oh, the show's not going to do well. And it's like what was the show Star Trek the Next Generation.

Hayden:

The greatest TV show ever made Engage. I loved Lower Decks this season. I've seen that one Great Star Trek Lower Decks is the best Star Trek since the Next Generation.

Tom:

Oh, that's high praise. Is this also on Max? No, on Paramount Paramount.

Hayden:

Yeah, if you like Family Guy and Star Trek, it's the show for you, so I recommend it. Plus, like, if you know enough about Star Trek to get all of the inside jokes, it's great.

Tom:

Hey, he's sitting there laughing going and everybody in the room is like what?

Hayden:

This show was made for me.

Tom:

They wrote that for me.

Hayden:

Yeah, there's a couple other shows I watched. I did watch House of Dragons, it was okay, I watched.

Song:

Shogun.

Hayden:

I liked Shogun a lot. I did too. I was disappointed with the ending but, Well, I mean, it's based off of a movie or a play from like a. It's based off true events, yeah, which is based off of historical events. So for them to like try to continue on with something would be kind of poor form or whatever. But you know they're thinking about doing something akin to Shogun, just in a different time period.

Mitch:

I thought they were supposed to do a season two.

Hayden:

It'll be an anthology season right.

Tom:

So that's what I hope they do, like True Detective or something.

Hayden:

Yeah, that's what I hope they do, Like True Detective or something. Yeah, that's what I hope they do, instead of just trying to like resurrect characters.

Tom:

Oh, that was this year, wasn't it? True Detective Season 4 with Jodie Foster. I think so. I watched that I did not care for that at all. I fizzled out like in episode, like five.

Hayden:

Yeah, it was kind of all over the place. It had a pretty good ending for the show, but like the story mystery was interesting enough. It was just kind of all over the place with like I don't know.

Tom:

Supernatural nonsense.

Hayden:

Yeah, it was way more supernatural than True Detective has been. Season one is still peak.

Tom:

Have you watched any of the skillet Time is a flat serve.

Hayden:

I watched like two episodes of my kids. We're into it, you know it's.

Mitch:

Star Wars for the kids. That's why I mean they kind of described it this way, but it's kind of like a Goonies version of Star Wars, because all the kids go on this misadventured befriend one adult.

Tom:

I guess he's like looking around like damn it.

Mitch:

now I got to take care of these kids. He's like a gray Jedi or something, isn't he? Maybe, Basically, he was a pirate that got mutant-deed off his ship.

Tom:

He got Jack Sparrowed.

Mitch:

But he's got Force abilities is all I know.

Hayden:

So it sounds like he's kind of in it for himself. Jedi, which is a gray Jedi right.

Tom:

I'm sure they'll flesh out his story.

Mitch:

Unless they reveal that he is bad at the end or good, I mean, I don't know.

Hayden:

I don't know. I watched a ton of movies. I watched Wolverine versus Deadpool or Deadpool versus Wolverine, whatever.

Mitch:

Deadpool and Wolverine yeah.

Hayden:

And it was good. I liked it better than the second Deadpool movie. I did too. But Donna's song slaps. It's in every TikTok meme nowadays. But you know like there's some corny parts where, like wolverine, finally puts his hood on.

Mitch:

Yeah, that, yeah. I was not a big fan of that yeah but I did like all the easter eggs of all the old stuff showing back up, like, like when, uh, chris evans shows up, he's like he's gonna say he's gonna say flame on.

Tom:

He's like wait, wait a minute when I saw the trailer, the bit, and I was just like he had like the spiky hair and a beard and I was like he's Johnny Storm and I was like he's not.

Hayden:

It's worth a watch. If you haven't seen it, you should watch it. I like when Blade shows up he says there's only one Blade.

Tom:

There's only going to be one Blade his eyes on his eyelids, because that one time he wouldn't open his eyes and they had to paint it.

Mitch:

Oh no, they used like the CGI stuff to do it.

Tom:

Yeah, he refused to open his eyes. Okay.

Mitch:

But they said that Channing Tatum's Gambit is actually going to return with the X-Men stuff that they're working towards the future of Marvel is very. I don't know.

Hayden:

I'm not interested anymore. I'm kind of burnt out on comic book movies.

Mitch:

I'm interested if they continue to go towards the X-Men, because that's my favorite as far as Marvel is X-Men.

Hayden:

We'll see. They keep saying we're done with the multiverse stuff. No, you're not. You've written yourself into a corner.

Mitch:

Well, they can't be done until they get done with this next part. Where the Secret War stuff because in the comics that where like the Secret War stuff because that in the comics that's where all this combined.

Hayden:

Where do you go from there? Like it's Well, the Secret Wars.

Mitch:

The Secret Wars is where all these multiverses get combined into one universe and then some characters basically fade from existence and then the others join this world as one big world.

Hayden:

Meh, meh. So I watched. I watched Long Legs. That was a dumb movie I watched, like the Maxine movies. Those were all dumb I watched. I made people who hadn't watched certain staples like the Lord of the Rings movies. I made them. I sat them down. I was like you will watch this movie, this is your assignment today. And some of them liked it. Some of them didn. I was like you will watch this movie, this is your assignment today. And some of them liked it. Some of them didn't like to be made to watch a movie, but whatever.

Song:

Well, they're wrong.

Hayden:

Yeah, that's the way I said it. Like this kid didn't see Starship Troopers.

Tom:

And I was like, well, you're going to-page report on how like star rico should have got with the other girl and not denise richards.

Hayden:

He was actually like really intuitive. It was like starship troopers is about the american bureaucracy and how capitalism is actually, you know, the downfall of human humanity and stuff like that. I was like look at this kid, I'm impressed that's like he's wrong, but okay, I mean that's why the guy made the movie to begin with. Anyway, yeah, mostly because I became like I was dubbed like the film nerd, so people were always asking I wonder how that happened.

Tom:

What's the good movie? He self-dubbed himself that. He's like listen here, kid. I know a thing or two about film.

Hayden:

So people are always asking me about what movies they should watch next and stuff, and so I was making recommendations.

Song:

Yeah.

Hayden:

So as far as stuff that came out like I watched that Kevin Costner movie, I watched White Claw or Iron.

Tom:

Claw or whatever it was called.

Hayden:

I liked that movie a lot.

Mitch:

I was talking with someone online and I was like not to sound tough, but there's not a whole lot that makes me cry, that made me tear up.

Hayden:

at the end I gotta say there's a whole bunch of surly dudes in a room watching that movie, and when the ending happens yeah.

Mitch:

I'm gonna call my brother so there's two like yeah two scenes that hit you right there we got Zac Efron, you know, saying he's not a brother anymore.

Hayden:

Who got shredded for that movie. That dude is definitely his jaw. Yeah, where did that? Where did that come from? How do you work out your jaw?

Tom:

I don't know. He's almost looking like that 80s bad guy in like Samurai Cowboy. That guy has like that jaw. It's like if you punched him you'd break your hand. Yeah, that's wild. Like that guy can't get a concussion.

Mitch:

In that movie the scene where he says he doesn't have any brothers anymore, and then he's five years old meeting him.

Hayden:

It's kind of sad yeah, that was a good movie. Um, I saw the sequel to dune it was. It was good. Um, I it left you wanting more. And you know they're scrambling to figure out how they're going to pull off a third movie even though, like, the source material takes place decades after the second book comes out. So, like they're, they're trying to figure out how to like, age up the characters and stuff like that, which is, I'm afraid, they're kind of like, you know, shoehorning it a little bit. You know trying to figure out how to make a third movie when I thought that those first two were fine.

Mitch:

So george oppenheimer was that last year. I watched oppenheimer.

Hayden:

I think I did see it last year but I liked it. It was a solid movie, Made you really contemplative of, like you know, war, the war industry and how far humanity will go the military-industrial complex. Yeah, why does America think that we are responsible enough to conjure up world-ending? You know?

Tom:

Machines, yeah, into explosions.

Hayden:

Yeah, so it was a little preachy. They kind of sensationalized Oppenheimer a little too much for me. Like the whole Shiva quote I am the god of death, or whatever. I have become death, yeah that stuff. I was like, okay, I get it. A lot of people are going to die, but a lot of it's just like fancy explosion stuff.

Tom:

And Cillian Murphy just like he's looking like. Matthew McConaughey, just like chain smoking a cigarette like high on meth and true detective he's just like this is going to be tough.

Hayden:

It was stressful. I'm sure you said you saw Venom no, you. This is going to be tough. It was stressful. I'm sure you said you saw Venom no, you hadn't seen.

Mitch:

Venom. I didn't.

Hayden:

After the second one I wasn't a big fan of the second one. I meant to watch the third one. I just never got around to it.

Mitch:

It was all right.

Hayden:

Well, it was great because we might have a listener who was on the movie.

Mitch:

Her parts were good, but I just I didn't like the whole ending, the way they about stuff. I felt like the bad guy needed to be featured a little more and not his little dog like minion that chased after people. I mean.

Hayden:

I'm not saying the acting was bad.

Mitch:

I just didn't like the story.

Hayden:

I can't think of any other movies that were big this year that came out. I watched Roadhouse. That was terrible. I like that, except I watched Roadhouse that was terrible.

Mitch:

I like that, except for what's his name?

Tom:

McGregor, yes, walking around. I hated that it's not Patrick Swayze.

Mitch:

No, no, it's not the same. I thought it was pretty good.

Hayden:

So dumb and I was like what's his name? The dude from you know Nightcrawler, and stuff oh, Jake Gyllenhaal. Yeah, I was like, bro, you're better than this. I don't know, but and then?

Tom:

I watched.

Hayden:

I watched the stupid Kragan movie, or whatever.

Tom:

Oh Kraven the.

Hayden:

Hunter.

Mitch:

Oh, I hadn't seen that one.

Hayden:

Dude like Sony. You know the Hunter? Oh, I hadn't seen that one. Dude like Sony. So, you know it was so bad. Right Like Sony has canceled all their comic book movies. Yeah, like that was their last shot.

Mitch:

That's good, because they can just give the rights back to Marvel.

Hayden:

They have shot themselves in the foot to like try and hold a flame to the other comic book movies, but when, like DC's laughing at you, like you know, you've messed up. And that Madam Web movie was like you know Terrible the lethal injection in this Craven movie was a bullet to the head.

Hayden:

So and I watched it because my friend it was Troy. Troy was like hey, you know, we got one night. This was back when we were in Texas. On the way back he was like we got one night, let's go see this movie. Well, he, let's go see a movie. So I was like I already got tickets and I was like, okay, I was like what movie? And he didn't respond. So we get to the movie theater. I was like what movie are we watching? He was like we're seeing the Kraven movie. I was like no, you son of a.

Hayden:

He tried to he and we sat through it and I was just looking at him the whole time.

Mitch:

Were the action scenes at least good, even though you didn't like the movie.

Hayden:

No no. Some of it was kind of like okay, so he's like this, I don't know. He embodies the animal to hunt people, so he's creeping around like a panther, right. So he creeps up the wall like a panther and then he sneaks into the window and then he starts crawling out of people's line of sight and then he gets up and runs where people can see him. You're like well, what are you sneaking for?

Tom:

It's like he's using his panther thing. It's like quick, throw a ball of yarn at him.

Hayden:

Yeah, he starts pawing at it. So the little plot points just didn't make sense and I don't know, it was really corny. They were kind of I don't know, trying to find an everybody audience with that movie instead of just like a. I think if they had buckled down for a core audience and made it about kind of like this one guy, the hunter, and not like all of his little side characters that were interesting, the bad guy was really weird I mean, what kills me is the craven, is the bad guy why?

Tom:

why is he being portrayed as?

Mitch:

the good guy.

Hayden:

He's like the one that kills spider-man at one point and, uh, aaron taylor johnson, who got he's like yoked as well, right, but he couldn't put his arms down the entire time, so he just walked around peacocking the whole time. What's up? And you walk around flexing and I'm like, okay, you are a man.

Mitch:

I got it. Have you seen the trailer for New Superman?

Hayden:

Yeah, the James Gunn one it looks interesting.

Mitch:

I think it looks good. I'm excited to see all these other characters. I mean, I don't think they'll have big roles, but it's nice to see that it's a world that's built.

Hayden:

I watched an interesting interview with Amy Adams and somebody was like how does it feel to be the old Lois Lane? She just had a movie like what three or four years?

Tom:

ago. How does it?

Hayden:

feel to be old. Amy Adams had a movie like what three or four years ago.

Tom:

How's it gonna?

Hayden:

be. Oh, damian adams, tell us, we're uh, we're rehashing superhero movies. Like you know, I remember when, uh andrew garfield came out with spider-man everybody's like ah, it's too soon. You know, that was like 10 years after toby mcguire. Yeah, you know, now it's just like it. Nah, it's been a minute, let's do Spider-Man again.

Tom:

What was the last Spider-Man movie Last year? Huh, all right, cool, let's do a new one.

Hayden:

Yeah, that's another one.

Tom:

You want the same actor. No.

Mitch:

Well, like a lot of people are, complaining like. Supposedly Robert Pattinson they're trying to get him, or James Gunn's trying to convince him to be the.

Hayden:

Batman. Oh, I watched the Penguin. I really liked that show. I did like that one and it does like, so it's got a historical 100% review rating. And I was like bananas, right, so I watched it and I was like, okay, it's a pretty good show.

Mitch:

And what gets you is it makes you almost feel for him the entire show, and then at the end you're like yeah he's a bad guy.

Hayden:

He is a bad guy, Ah.

Song:

I forgot.

Hayden:

They slap you in the face with a two-by-four, what's that? And you're like, okay, I see it now. And for that weird movie Like Batman was okay, but like for that character, why yeah? And then the way they figured it out, it's almost like they made the Batman movie for this character. Yeah, you know, because he's such a stellar outcast for it.

Mitch:

Well, because there's plans for it to be a trilogy with that Batman, and then they just wanted to build this for this character to be a bigger part in the next two movies.

Hayden:

Well, if they try and make something after the thought of this show just to keep the party going, it's going to suck. If they hadn't already had something planned out, it's going to suck.

Mitch:

Well, I mean, they've had this plan just to kind of build his character for the movies, though We'll see.

Hayden:

You know DC's kind of like every once in a while they'll have a diamond in the rough. But you know you can still make that diamond poopy if you keep polishing it, you know Well.

Mitch:

I did hear it was either yesterday or today that they have delayed the Batman movie because, I'm sure, because of the success of Penguin, they want to include him in the movie a little more.

Hayden:

See they're already messing with stuff. I don't like it.

Tom:

I don't like it. I don't like it, he doesn't like it. What else is new?

Hayden:

All right, yeah, that's it. That's been it Pretty much my year.

Mitch:

All right. Well, it's kind of sad that you said you hadn't been listening to the podcast enough, because that's what the trivia is over, oh great.

Tom:

So what's my punishment, hayden? You were here, Tom, I know.

Mitch:

You were here. Uh, my buzzer, this is mine me, okay, so when you answer, you can tell me what the question is and then, if it's uh, pretty much all of them. If you could tell me the title of that episode, you get an extra. That's not fair. I'm just saying Tom, don't know him either, I'm sure no, tom doesn't, so wait.

Hayden:

How do I get some of the points?

Mitch:

If you can tell me what the episode was about and then if you can tell me the actual title of that episode, then you get an extra point.

Hayden:

Okay.

Mitch:

Oh crap.

Hayden:

He's flipping through pages.

Tom:

I forgot how anxiety inducing this was. My hand is getting sweaty.

Mitch:

Did you catch Penta? Don't write.

Hayden:

It's a good thing you got four of them. Yeah, one of them works.

Mitch:

All right. So first question what was our first episode about?

Tom:

Our first episode was the one in your basement?

Mitch:

No, no not the first ever episode, our first episode of this year. Okay, All right, something I'm starting. You got 10 seconds to tell me something, or it's his turn.

Tom:

Did we talk about Elden Ring was going to come out that year or this year?

Hayden:

Elden Ring's been out for a year now no Shadow of the Urchery.

Mitch:

No, there was a whole theme for this first thing.

Tom:

Was it Tom's Top Something? No, your Top Something Wrestling.

Hayden:

Superman Snyder Cut. Is it Christmas? No, new Year's no.

Tom:

Aiden's finally gone. No.

Mitch:

Hayden's finally gone. Yeah, the first episode for this year was Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring.

Tom:

I thought you did that, oh yeah, later anybody know what the title was?

Hayden:

no. The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring exploring the enchantment of Middle Earth.

Mitch:

That's what I said give me my point number two besides Lord of the Ring movies. What was our first movie? Focus episode on.

Hayden:

It was Oppenheimer, no Ugh.

Mitch:

Tom, you were on the show, I know, I know.

Tom:

This was 300-something days ago, Mitch. A lot's happened in my life.

Mitch:

I told you the trivia would be about this last year.

Tom:

Ugh Ugh, ugh Ugh. Predator no, I told you the trivia would be about this last year. Predator no.

Hayden:

Damn it Terminator. No, we didn't talk about Terminator.

Song:

Okay.

Tom:

Is it a deep dive into a movie?

Hayden:

Yes. Is it a movie that came out this year? No, okay, came out in year. No, okay Came out in the 70s, 70s.

Tom:

Did you give up?

Mitch:

No.

Tom:

Godfather? No, no, we didn't do the Godfather, we talked about a movie from the 70s. You watched it?

Mitch:

We both did. It was right after the Lord of the Rings stuff.

Tom:

Did I suggest it? Nope, did you? Nope, did somebody? Yep, did somebody. We talked about a 70s movie. Yep, huh, I don't know why I'm thinking Italian Spider-Man.

Mitch:

A guest suggested it.

Tom:

Was it.

Hayden:

French Connection.

Tom:

No, okay.

Hayden:

No, I bet you never would have sat through that. I know I'm trying to think of like seven movies from that Serpico.

Tom:

No, it wasn't a Chino film. Can I get a little bit of something?

Mitch:

Part of the well, the title is Blank Cult Classic. The title of our episode Is this a good movie.

Tom:

No, oh Godzilla vs Shidora Ghidorah.

Hayden:

Godzilla vs Giga Zilla no.

Mitch:

Okay, I'll give it to you. It's Godzilla vs Megalon. Megalon he got the first part. So one point for Tom. I remember watching that Can you tell me what the blank cult classic is.

Hayden:

Godzilla, cult classic.

Tom:

No Kaiju.

Mitch:

Yes, oh yes, because it was Nathan and Michael said.

Tom:

Oh yeah, All right. Yeah, I heard Rachel was asleep. Oh yeah, all right. Yeah, I heard Rachel was asleep. She took a nap while I sat on the couch and watched it.

Hayden:

I did listen to that episode. I remember now.

Mitch:

All right, this one doesn't have an extra part to it. What is the moniker for our throwback episode?

Tom:

Throwback Thursday no.

Hayden:

ET Throwback. Yes, thank you.

Mitch:

I actually meant to say what's the moniker for our Thursday episodes, but I said throwbacks. All right, number four, who was our first guest of the year?

Hayden:

It was Lucy, or what's her name from.

Mitch:

No, that was October.

Hayden:

Oh, okay.

Tom:

Was it Nathan and yes.

Mitch:

Oh darn. Do you know what the name of that episode was? Nathan and yes, oh darn.

Tom:

Do you know what the name of that episode was? No, I just know we talked about like kaiju history.

Mitch:

Okay, yeah, you don't know the name of that episode.

Hayden:

Kaiju and Power Rangers, power Rangers, crossover Power Rangers. What's the cross network?

Tom:

You know what? Don't ask me. You're competing against me. I'm going to give you a pity point because it's morphing through the memories.

Mitch:

I look at Power Rangers and their Japanese roots.

Tom:

That's right. We spent like 20 minutes talking crap about that one kid who lets the Green Ranger loose because he wouldn't listen to anybody.

Mitch:

Let's see what main Monday episode was between X-Men 1 and X-Men 2?.

Hayden:

Main. What main Monday episode was between X-Men 1 and X-Men 2?

Tom:

Main Monday episode yes, between X-Men, our deep dive into the two towers. No Damn.

Hayden:

Deep dive into Spider-Man. No, read the question again into Spider-Man no.

Mitch:

Read the question again. What main Monday episode was between our movie focus on X-Men and X-Men 2? Predator, no, damn it.

Tom:

Deep dive into Hang on, let me look it up the Rings of Conquest or whatever.

Hayden:

The Lord of the Rings show.

Tom:

Was it a Lord of the Rings movie? No, okay. Was it Tom Lord of the Rings movie? No, okay. Was it Tom's Top Ten?

Hayden:

No, the Deep Dive Was it. Was it, deep Dive?

Tom:

Okay, deep.

Hayden:

Dive into.

Tom:

Time Bandits. No, that was August Okay.

Mitch:

This happened in the end of March, beginning of April.

Song:

Man.

Tom:

We did a lot of these Power Rangers. I know we did that on the other show.

Mitch:

How many episodes did you listen to? Three.

Tom:

Okay.

Hayden:

This wasn't one of them, I listened to everything, but I listened to it in like eight-hour clunks, clumps and that would take like a week or two off All right time's up.

Mitch:

Oppenheimer, the essence of Oppenheimer. Darn it Boo, Number six. Filmmaker Nick Ross' movie was called what?

Tom:

Hanky Panky. Yes, with the hat.

Mitch:

Yes.

Tom:

Voiced by Seth Green yes. All right by Seth Green yes.

Mitch:

All right, let's see Number seven. In April we had a two-parter about what?

Tom:

The Predator no Two-parter, huh.

Mitch:

Yeah, a two-part episode Over two weeks.

Hayden:

I guess yes.

Tom:

Shadow of the Archery Lord of the Rings no.

Song:

Call of Duty.

Mitch:

Yes, do you know what the title of that episode was?

Hayden:

Call of Duty. Tom goes on a rant no.

Tom:

War Zone. Revisited it. A rant no War Zone, revisit it.

Mitch:

Nothing to do with War Zone.

Hayden:

Call of Duty, Black Ops 6.

Tom:

The history of Call of Duty.

Mitch:

Yes, we went through each iteration, each cod each one Wow. Let's see when was I, Number eight. In June we did a holiday special on what?

Tom:

The most patriotic movies.

Hayden:

No, independence Day no.

Tom:

Wait, we did a special. Say it again.

Mitch:

In June we did a holiday special on what?

Tom:

June.

Mitch:

Yes.

Tom:

I like the holidays in June.

Hayden:

Juneteenth, tom, don't be a racist.

Tom:

We didn't talk about glory. Nobody's listening at this point.

Hayden:

Leap year.

Mitch:

You want a hint? Yes, get your buzzers ready. It could be. I just want to see if Tom would hit the buzzer, something that's Tom's soon to be a father.

Tom:

Father's Day. Father's Day.

Hayden:

I said Father's Day first, tom will get one point.

Mitch:

Can you tell us the title of the episode? A father, father's Day, father's Day. I said Father's Day first, tom.

Hayden:

We'll get one point, can you tell us the title of the episode Father's Day no. Top 10 fathers in movies. Oh, top 10 action movies for your father? No.

Tom:

Your dad's top 10 movies. No, your father's top 10. No.

Hayden:

I mean, that's what we did on the episode, but that's not the title of the episode Movies to watch with your dad.

Tom:

No Movies your dad likes. Who is my dad who?

Mitch:

are you and what does your daddy do? Who is your daddy? No, it was monsters. Movies, medical mayhem, a Father's Day special. Oh okay, all right, number nine. Our first top ten episode was about what?

Tom:

When did it come out?

Mitch:

April, april or May.

Hayden:

Hmm, tom's thinking.

Mitch:

And it was one of your suggestions for a top 10 episode.

Tom:

Christ was it. It wasn't the most recent one we did.

Hayden:

I know that is it Call of Duty?

Tom:

No Predator.

Hayden:

Power Rangers.

Mitch:

Timeless Films no. Predator no, no. Power Rangers no, don't give up. Yeah, timeless films. Timeless films. Anybody want to guess the name of the?

Hayden:

thing Timeless films Top ten list.

Mitch:

Close enough, I'll give you a point Yay, timeless films and today's entertainment yeah, just so you have some points. Number ten In what episode did Mitch and Tom both Both do hot sauce?

Hayden:

That one? Was it the Rings of Power, episode no.

Tom:

It was the Support the Troops episode. It was. Was it a Lord of the Rings? Deep dive episode.

Song:

No, support the Troops.

Tom:

Yeah, it's your fault.

Hayden:

I listened to it, but I just don't remember.

Tom:

We did it for you in America.

Hayden:

Oh, that's right.

Tom:

The 4th of July movies won.

Hayden:

I do remember saying the July 4th.

Tom:

Yeah, Because I texted you saying If you don't do it, you don't support the Troops.

Song:

I remember that.

Tom:

And then me and Mitch did it for America, god, and then.

Mitch:

Number 11. Director Michael Day's film was titled what Ambulance? No.

Tom:

Clawfoot yes.

Mitch:

Yes, I had to look at it.

Tom:

That's what it was.

Mitch:

And do you know the title of the episode?

Hayden:

Clawfoot A Deep Dive, no.

Tom:

What was the guy's name? You said Michael Day. Interview with Michael Day.

Hayden:

Michael Day, I thought you said Michael Bay.

Tom:

Yeah, we talked to Michael Bay too. That's coming up later. All right, you must not have gotten to that episode. It was sometime around like July. Towards the end we talked about his new movie, exploding Penguins.

Mitch:

I was like, no, no, no, secrets of Clawfoot. That was that one. Was that the. That was the one where the lady's like trying to.

Tom:

Yeah, no, I know that one. I'm saying the interview with the Harry Potter thing, was that with him?

Hayden:

Or was that with the?

Mitch:

Hanky Panky guy.

Hayden:

I think that was with him. I remember the Hanky Panky episode.

Mitch:

Number 12.

Song:

What was our final movie? Focus episode on.

Hayden:

Godzilla, godzilla minus one.

Mitch:

No, that was like early in the year.

Tom:

Okay, Time Bandits. Yes, got it. Little people, big adventure, 10 to three.

Mitch:

Let's see Number 13. How many non-throwback Halloween episodes did we record? This is clicking. He's just not making a noise.

Hayden:

Because it's just Three.

Tom:

No Two. No One no Four no Two no One no.

Hayden:

Four. Yes, darn, it.

Mitch:

Should have gone up. I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it Until you eventually get it, let's see.

Tom:

It's Peggy.

Mitch:

That's the first name, but you both said Peggy, so Her last name is Lee. No.

Tom:

Chin no.

Mitch:

That's her name in the movie, yeah.

Hayden:

Oh Cindy.

Tom:

Is it Peggy Lee?

Mitch:

No, you already said that?

Tom:

Oh, I thought you said Lou, is it Lou?

Mitch:

Yes, her last name is Lou.

Tom:

Yes, Peggy Lou L-U.

Mitch:

Yeah, I don't know. At this point it doesn't matter. Let's see Number 15. How many episodes did we have a guest on?

Hayden:

Five, no Four, no Six, no.

Tom:

Seven no.

Mitch:

Eight no.

Tom:

Nine yes, nine guests were chosen by the podcast.

Mitch:

And for 10 points.

Song:

Oh bollocks 10 points.

Mitch:

What was our 200th episode on?

Hayden:

Breeder. No Damn it. Lord of the Rings, Call dude.

Tom:

Yes.

Hayden:

Yeah.

Tom:

One, two, three, four, five six, seven, eight, wow, First trivia of the year.

Mitch:

I'm back For 20 points. Get out of here. What numerical episode did we end the year on?

Hayden:

238. No 217.

Tom:

No 267?

Hayden:

No, where are we at?

Tom:

232.

Hayden:

Higher 237.

Mitch:

No Lower 236.

Tom:

Lower 234. Lower 233.

Hayden:

Every time, every time, yes, it's on wind, every time, every time.

Mitch:

Yes, it's on wind All right, I am back baby.

Hayden:

I wasn't present while you guys recorded this.

Tom:

You had a whole year to listen. I did.

Mitch:

Sadly he wasn't Without help. He would not have gotten most of us.

Tom:

I managed to pull it out of my mind, pal.

Song:

It's not fair.

Tom:

I forgot we were going to do trivia. I don't have a punishment ready.

Hayden:

Oh, look at that.

Tom:

Some things don't change.

Hayden:

I've got one.

Tom:

Okay, hang on, hang on. I'm looking at the worst movie of 2024. We'll keep it current.

Hayden:

I've probably already watched it. It's Red 1. I can tell you, that.

Tom:

Did you watch the Borderlands movie? I did, all right, damn it. Gladiator 2? I did my Old Ass.

Hayden:

No, I have not seen that one.

Tom:

Never heard of that one. All right. An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings Elliot face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. When the older Elliot starts handing out warnings what her younger self should and shouldn't do, she realizes she has to rethink everything about her family, love and what's becoming a transformative summer.

Hayden:

Oh wonderful, I'll watch it.

Tom:

Let's see who's in this Maisie Stella Stella, aubrey Plaza. Percy White yeah, it's Aubrey Plaza.

Hayden:

Okay, I'll watch it. There you go. It's a hard name to forget.

Tom:

Alright, alright, alright.

Hayden:

Well yeah, what happens now?

Tom:

Alright, it's been an hour and a half.

Hayden:

Yeah, who's? What do we do?

Tom:

now, yeah, we're pretty much done. Yeah, we're pretty much done now okay, take it away alright.

Hayden:

Well, that's all I got for today.

Tom:

At this point we say, you know, thank you for listening and sticking around with us. If you enjoyed this episode, you know. Check out our other ones like comment subscribe. Ring the bell, do the thing. Notifications. Five star reviews yeah, india.

Hayden:

We'll catch you on the next one. Goodbye.

Tom:

My name is Tom.

Hayden:

My name's Hayden. No, Mitch goes after me.

Mitch:

Oh, why is Mitch?

Hayden:

God, my name is Hayden. Goodbye, goodbye.

Tom:

Spotty lip Sack of monkey.

Song:

It's that time, christmas time is here. Everybody knows there's not a better time of year. Here's that snake. Santa's on his way. He'll kill for right for Christmas vacation.

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