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Fork the Forking Forkers: A Good Place Podcast Ch. 28-29

Bryan, Matt, Joel, and Ryan are more impressed than ever with this magical show.  Season 3 is where it really lands at how truly brilliant this show is and the Binge Buddies are swooning!

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Fork the Forking Forkers: A Good Place Podcast Ch. 26-27

Your hosts Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Rachel Carson” Dykes, Joel “William Herchel” Dewitte, and Ryan “Leo Tolstoy” Lootens have to be brought back to life with the rest of the Brainy Bunch this week as we dive into the insanity of season 3!  But not before we say a very fond farewell to season 2!

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Fork the Forking Forkers: A Good Place Podcast Ch. 24-25

This week the Binge Buddies finally get to see some of The Bad Place, then get one of the best guest stars ever on a show.  There is a ton to cover this week on the amazing show that somehow keeps getting better. 

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Fork the Forking Forkers: A Good Place Podcast Ch. 22-23

Binge buddies are in Season 2 and having some fun! Bryan Dressel Matt “Zombie Dog Confucius  Joel “Johanne Brahms” Dewitte Ryan “Gandhi”  are on the roller coaster of character development this week! Season 2 keeps giving the goods and we are here for it!

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Fork the Forking Forkers: A Good Place Podcast Ch. 20-21

Binge Buddies Bryan Dressel, Matt “Johann Kepler Zombie Dog” Dykes, Joel “JRR Tolkien” Dewitte, and  Ryan “William Wallace” Lootens all learn the difficulties of love and being a not robot/ not girl.   Buckle up folks, this one is great!

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Fork the Forking Forkers: A Good Place Podcast Ch. 18-19

Join Bryan, Matt, Joel and Ryan as they dig into a very good pair of episodes.  Between Michael’s existential nightmare and torturing Chidi with a very real simulation of the Trolly Problem we have two episodes that have knocked it out of the park!  

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Fork the Forking Forkers: A Good Place Podcast Ch. 16-17

The Binge Buddies, Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Dmitri Mendeleev” Dykes, Joel “Archimedes” Dewitte, and Ryan “Blaise Pascal” Lootens start digging into Season 2 of this brilliant show.  This show stays on its toes and refuses to set a rhythm, join the buddies as the after life keeps getting crazier! 

And no, Bryan doesn’t actually blame everything on Matt.

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MTV Cops: Celebrating 40 years of Miami Vice

The quintessential pop culture icon of the 1980s turns 40 years old this year – and its impact is still being felt to this day

It’s 1984. There’s a black Ferrari driving through the streets of Miami. The only light on the car comes from the street lights overhead. Phil Collins’s song In the Air Tonight is blasting through the speakers. Audiences are witnessing TV and cultural history unfolding before their very eyes. They’re watching the pilot episode of Miami Vice.

“I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord.”

Miami Vice made an impact on the world like no other drama series had and it would go on for 5 seasons. Its impact would change the way television is produced and it would be one of the only television programmes that would create a genuine fashion craze. When people talk about the fashion of the 1980s, they will point to the pastel colours, suit jackets over T-shirts, shoes with no socks. All of this was created in the show. The colour palette was designed by series producer, Michael Mann. Mann had a single edict on the colour palette of the show, no earth tones, this meant that the production design leaned into the lighter pastel colours that defined the series look.

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Fork the Forking Forkers: A Good Place Podcast Ch. 13-15

Join the Binge Buddies are the wrap up Season 1 of the good place and dive into season 2!  Once this show really showed off what it had in store the good times never stop! 

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Fork the Forking Forkers: A Good Place Podcast Ch. 11 & 12

Join Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Ben Franklin” Dykes, Joel “Johannes Gutenberg” Dewitte, and Ryan “Buddah” Lootens as they break down 2 of the final episodes of Season 1!  More twists and turns to come on their way through the afterlife!!

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