Bryan “Scare Bear” Dressel
Graham “Not Nick” Mason
Matt “Smurfs Lay Eggs” Dykes
Brok “Toaster Face” Holiday
One of my favorite people ever Charriii5 joins me to talk Kingdom Hearts 3. We both shed some beautiful man tears while we talk about what this game and series means to us.
Talk about a jump in quality! This week in our Taika Waititi retrospective we discuss Boy, his feature-length follow-up to Eagle vs. Shark set in New Zealand in 1984. It’s a story about overcoming grief, growing up, and being there for your family, all told from the point of view of the title character. Taika has a larger role in this film compared to the last and his energetic and comedic touch REALLY work. Could say more, but you should probably just dive into the episode.
We also talk Team Thor, Team Thor Part 2, and his Flight of the Concords episode “New Zealand Town,” all of which are pretty funny but maybe don’t pop in the way we’ve come to expect from a Taika Waititi venture.
Rest and revelations are the order of the day as the party arrives and gets settled into the Ver’osh Dea. For Leysa it’s a call to action and a charge to take stock of what’s important to her.
Our Pod father Bryan from from ATH joins us to talk about the areas of Nintendo we missed. In other words let us talk about our Nintendo blind spots.
A new month means a new filmmaker, so for this month we’re talking Taika. We begin with his feature length debut Eagle Vs. Shark, which at first glance looks like the next Napoleon Dynamite. Instead it’s much more down to earth and features characters that are more than just dorky caricatures. Doesn’t mean the film is without flaws and we note that were this movie made today it would end quite differently.
We also talk Thor Ragnarok, which provides an interesting look at the filmmaker and gives us a little bit of an idea about what to expect for the rest of the month. Boy, oh boy, are we in for a treat.
The Ver’osh Dea looms ever closer and to help pass the time the party devises a plan to get some extra blood in case things go south. If only there was a tiefling on board the ship who they could convince to donate.
Sometimes, we gotta take a shot through the heart like Boromir to help good prevail.
Great anti-racism resources:
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Reading on Defunding the Police:
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Samuel Sinyangwe’s Amazing Twitter Thread
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In this adventure Mike from the Funnie papers joins to help us understand why Ghandi loves Nukes and why strategy games can turn into “Spreadsheet gaming”. For the first 15 minutes of the Episode I talk about the tragic passing of IceyCat25 and what he meant to the Rainbow 6 community.
We end our John Singleton month with Four Brothers, a movie that never quite finds its tone and never really hits its stride. It’s a well-directed movie, and the acting is fun across the board, but the script drags the experience down by playing more to caricature than to character. We also discuss his entry in the Fast series: 2 Fast 2 Furious and why despite his obvious skill as a director, he was not right for the job. Toward the end of the podcast we wrap up our thoughts on the month and what we found interesting about his career. There’s quite a journey from Boyz in the Hood to Four Brothers.
