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• Ian
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tEaI_bi-i8
  
  


• Shannon
  
  
  
  
  • https://www.oddityroadshow.com/
  
  
  • https://www.youtube.com/c/struccimovies
  
  

Topics:

• Official and unofficial remakes of Yojimbo


• Danny McBride shows, and how to balance character likability with dark comedy- examples of this done well vs poorly?


• I can't fix bad movie dialog mixing for everyone, but I can fix it in my own house


• The Chinese Checker Players by Richard Brautigan
  
  
  
  
  • http://kempwash.blogspot.com/2011/05/chinese-checker-players-by-richard.html
  
  

Microtopics:

• Songs that signify that this scene or moment is sophisticated.


• How to pronounce Debussy.


• Southern gothic dark comedy body horror.


• A weirdo from Twitter who can't email your employer because he doesn't know who you work for.


• The Glass Key's remake family tree.


• A drifter samurai coming to a town.


• A dude who shows up in town and decides to play all the criminal factions against each other.


• The scene where the protagonist sets the bed on fire and jumps out the window.


• Escaping from rum runners by convincing them that you've already escaped.


• Propping your gun on a cross and using Jesus to pull the trigger.


• A sorceress who spends the whole movie topless because it's one of those movies.


• Omega Doom starring Rutger Hauer.


• A robot who gets stabbed in a bar because the stabber needs to download his memories.


• Using a mook as a human shield.


• The supporting actor getting a better offer and quitting in between takes.


• Where you put the interesting part in your movie.


• A hobo who runs two crime syndicates.


• The story of two rival vice principals.


• Jim's theory for why cringe comedy shouldn't exist.


• Where cringe comedy has gone since Seinfeld.


• How to make an unlikable protagonist that people don't admire.


• Characters who aren't good at anything.


• The schlub.


• A montage of dad destroying model airplanes with a sledge hammer.


• Liking some things about someone while not liking other things.


• A monster who is very fun to hang out with.


• The character in the show who ends up in Florida.


• Marathoning Breaking Bad and Better Call Sail and ending up 40 years old no matter how old you were when you started


• Why you might not throw away a sound bar.


• Entering the Konami code to enable compression.


• What the Clear Voice feature actually does.


• Getting really agitated and putting the subtitles on.


• Thinking of something interesting to say and then forgetting it.


• Which one's the son and which one's the dad?


• Ripley vs. Ripley's Believe it or Not.


• Lobbying for more mean old lesbians in theatrical productions.


• Playing Chinese Checkers with a woman who outlived her husband by 70 years.


• Where you were when you realized that it's possible to outlive your spouse by 70 years.


• Bowling Alone.


• A place to meet people that isn't the play you go to drink or the place where you go to pray.


• All your friends who went sober in the last year.


• Liquor stores that only sells non-alcoholic products.


• Mocktail bars.


• Name tags that have different foods on them.


• Inappropriate attention in nerd spaces.


• Figuring out where you can go with all your sober friends.


• Who listens past the first five minutes of a podcast?


• AI-driven smell-o-vision.


• Searching automated transcripts to find things that people didn't say.


• The subtitler writing "knockos" whenever people in The Wire say "narcos" in a Baltimore accent.


• Streaming services cutting corners wherever possible in a desperate attempt to become profitable.


• Snitching on bootlegers of racist Disney movies.


• How to get banned from TikTok.

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