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Free Guy is a 2021 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. The film stars Ryan Reynolds as a bank teller who discovers that he is actually a non-player character in an open-world video game and becomes the hero of the story, trying to save his friends from deletion by the game's creator. Taika Waititi, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, and Utkarsh Ambudkar also star in the film. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have You Heard about the upcoming California recall election, the first game at LA’s new football stadium has people getting into a massive brawl over a preseason NFL game, the Nabisco worker strike, OnlyFans is planning on banning porn, and Mike Richards out as host of Jeopardy after taping one day of taping the new season. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Suicide Squad is a 2021 American superhero film based on DC Comics featuring the team Suicide Squad. Produced by DC Films, Atlas Entertainment, and The Safran Company, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a standalone sequel to Suicide Squad (2016) and the tenth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). It was written and directed by James Gunn and stars an ensemble cast including Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis, David Dastmalchian, Daniela Melchior, Michael Rooker, Jai Courtney, Peter Capaldi, Alice Braga, and Pete Davidson. In the film, a task force of convicts known as the Suicide Squad are sent to the island nation of Corto Maltese to destroy evidence of the giant alien starfish Starro the Conqueror. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have You Heard about the IPCC report that warns us all about the impending doom of Climate Change, the US Census release shows America is more diverse and more multiracial than ever, about the new host of Jeopardy is someone no one wanted, and the White Sox vs Yankees game is like a Field of Dreams remake and captures baseball fans attention everywhere. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have You Heard about the Wildfires are happening all over the world, Turkey, Greece, Russia, America all have huge fires going on. Apple opening a new Apple Store in DTLA in a historic building that was known for its artistic architecture and now its just a fucking Apple store. Disney's Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel stays will cost at least $4,809. Rihanna becoming the first female musician to make $1B. Target to pay 100% of college tuition and textbooks in bid to attract workers. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have You Heard about all the problems in the Olympics and do people actually care about them.... Scarlett Johansson sues Disney after releasing Black Widow on VOD.... The new Space Jam is weird.... Food waste is being turned into synthetic leather and discarded Mango flesh is being turned into products like wallets, bags, shoes, and more.... British Prime Minister Boris Johnson doesn’t know how to use an umbrella and its hilarious. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Black Widow is a 2021 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 24th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Cate Shortland from a screenplay by Eric Pearson, and stars Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow alongside Florence Pugh, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, Olga Kurylenko, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, and Rachel Weisz. Set immediately after the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), the film sees Romanoff on the run and forced to confront a conspiracy tied to her past. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have You Heard about Bezos going to space, NBA players catching Covid in pre Olympic Games, the $73,499-Per-Guest World Cruise selling out in less than 3 hours, LA is bringing back a mask mandate even if you’re vaccinated, and the new documentary 'Roadrunner' using an AI computer to make dialogue from Anthony Bourdain that he never spoke. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Have You Heard about the building collapse in South Florida.... Congress and The Supreme Court ruling that college athletes should be able to make money off their NIL (Name, Image, Likeness)... The west coast drought... and Bo Burnham's Netflix Special? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We talked about What Mattered This Week .... NEWS: Texas Dems walkout of legislature before voter restriction laws pass and all the other crazy laws Texas republicans are trying to pass... SPORTS: NFL assistant coaches refusing to get vaccinated... ENTERTAINMENT: John Krasinski and Emily Blunt aren’t happy to be losing residuals on Quiet Place 2 since it’s going to streaming and leaving theaters quicker... SCIENCE: A washed up whale carcass was towed to sea in San Diego. Now it’s back, rotting on an O.C. beach and it makes the city smell horrible... HUMOR: CA vaccine lottery looks like an SNL Skit... REMINDER: Dr. Fauci was a medical advisor and not a policy maker. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding... CURRENT EVENTS: The COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis is becoming mainstream... ENTERTAINMENT: The new Zack Snyder zombie movie was filmed with a messed up camera that had dead pixels in it... SPORTS: Are they going to postpone the Olympics...again?.... TECH: Tesla making autopilot cars without the use of radar and having the cars learn for themselves... SCIENCE: WMO report says Global Warming Could Pass 1.5° Celsius Within the Next Five Years... HUMOR: Jeremy’s vacation and having to install an AC unit which will probably be funny somehow. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Crime of the Century is an American two-part documentary film, directed, produced, and written by Alex Gibney. The film follows the opioid epidemic in the United States, and the political operatives, government regulations and corporations that enable the abuse of opioids. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding CURRENT EVENTS: Why are Republicans voting against a commission to investigate the January 6th Capitol Hill terrorist attack?... ENTERTAINMENT: AT&T drops WarnerMedia and merges with Discovery Media, Amazon wants to buy MGM, are all these different streaming services just making us head back to cable packages?... SPORTS: Are the NBA play-in games a good idea? And isn't LeBron going to be punished for breaking Health and Safety Protocols?... TECH: Racist facial recognition software could lead to innocent people getting arrested.... SCIENCE: More UFO sightings... HUMOR: The new Riddler in the upcoming BatMan movie looks like an S&M Bondage sex slave, why couldn’t they just put him in a green jacket with question marks on it? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding CURRENT EVENTS: Gavin Newsom claiming there is a huge $75 billion California surplus right before the recall election. Says there will be new stimulus checks to Cal residents. Why didn’t he use that money last year during the shutdown when people were needing it? Is he just doing this to stay in office?.... ENTERTAINMENT: NBC cancels next year's golden globes amid HFPA scandals... SPORTS: Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit fails drug test; trainer suspended. Trainer blames cancel culture for backlash.... SCIENCE: Indian doctors warn against cow dung as Covid cure. US Customs asks travelers to stop putting cow dung in baggage... HUMOR: Elon Musk does SNL. Claims to be the first host with Asperger's when he wasn’t. Dogecoin drops after appearance. Gen Z is mad at skit... BADASS: South African cash transit driver evades high-speed heist.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We talk about the Hulu documentary WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn. WeWork is a 2021 American documentary film, written and directed by Jed Rothstein. It follows WeWork, a real estate company run by Adam Neumann, who was ultimately forced out of the company. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 17, 2021.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding CURRENT EVENTS: A federal judge accused the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr of misleading her and Congress about advice he had received on whether Donald Trump should have been charged with obstructing the Russia investigation. NEWS: Decline in vaccination numbers across the country. Biden wants 70% of Americans vaccinated by July. SPORTS: Denver Broncos Offensive Lineman could lose $20 million this season because he got injured working out on his own but if he was injured at a team facility he’d get to keep the money. Is this fair during Covid restrictions time? ENTERTAINMENT: House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones spinoff, gets a batch of first-look photos. Are you excited about a GOT spin-off show? SCIENCE: Pentagon tracking out-of-control Chinese rocket that could reenter Earth's atmosphere TECH: Britain’s Royal Marines is testing jet suits to help with maritime boarding in place of a helicopter. The suit, which was created by Gravity Industries, presents a potential ‘revolution in tactical capability’ by special forces. HUMOR: Pathetic Trump Facebook ban upheld and is now “tweeting” again on a #SAD knockoff platform. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

For today's very special Birthday Episode we eviscerate the new "Mortal Kombat" movie, reminisce about how much fun we had watching "Snatch" for the millionth time, and get emotional about "Love Actually".  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding CURRENT EVENTS: CDC updates mask guidelines plus you get perks with you vaccine.... SPORTS: NFL Draft and are sports drafts weird.... ENTERTAINMENT: The Academy Awards held at Union Station was one of the worst Oscars ever and had the lowest ratings.... TECH: Dogecoin skyrockets after Elon Musk labels himself 'Dogefather'... SCIENCE: the impending mega-drought facing the SW United States... HUMOR: Rudy Giuliani under federal investigation for Ukraine deals and Andrew Guliani looking like a Will Ferrell character  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding NEWS - Derek Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd's death.... SPORTS - Everyone hates The European Soccer Super League... ENTERTAINMENT - The Falcon and The Winter Soldier had to cut major storylines and do reshoots because it was originally about a weaponized virus from Asia, and then Covid happened... TECH - Apple Spring Keynote disappointment and Apple being sued for not really selling movies to customers on iTunes.... SCIENCE - Meet the four people who will take the first all-civilian rocket trip to orbit Earth on a Space-X ship... HUMOR - MTG can’t read "ALL 14 PAGES" of AOC’s Green New Deal --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is Malcolm Gladwell's second book. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious: mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information. Blink examines the phenomenon of snap judgments, meaning the split-second decisions we make unconsciously. These snap judgments are important decision-making tools, but can also lead to bad choices and all manner of problems. Blink explains how we can best make use of them. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app