The Wickening is upon us. Prior to seeing John Wick 3 on opening weekend, the brothers discuss John Wick 1 and John Wick 2 and all the Mayhem, Car Fu, and Gunjitsu. Along the way they discuss Godzilla ’98, Godzilla ‘14, King Kong Skull Island, and the Wolverine podcasts.
Brother J and Drew discuss Ben Affleck’s Argo. During housekeeping they discussed San Francisco, fortune cookie dust, Hamilton, Rocky IV, Green buildings, office furniture, and CO detectors.
Drew and Eric discuss both Shane 1953 and Logan 2017. One is a classic, the other is fantastic. Along they way they discuss Cliven Bundy, Romeo Is Bleeding by Tom Waits, ER, Joe Rogan, and MMA
Have you ever been a renter or a landlord? Do you like Michael Keaton? Do you not care if a movie can’t make up it’s mind about whether it’s a thriller or a horror movie? If all of these are true, Pacific Heights is the movie for you.
The Raid 2 has ruined all other martial arts and maybe all action movies. It’s that good, especially the stabby bits. They also discuss Steven Seagal vs Mike Tyson, dentistry, and plumbing.
Brother J and Eric discuss the Sean Penn vehicle: Milk. It gets real gay up in here. Then, through the miracle of time travel, Drew weighs in on Milk at the end.
Brother J and Eric discuss both documentaries about the ill-fated Fyre festival. Fyre talk turns to arson talk and then, of course, to trouser shrimp. And then it’s an amazing amount of recipe swapping. Gobble it up!
Brother J and Eric discuss the third Oliver Stone presidential film: W. It’s surprisingly fun. They also discuss Vice, MC Rove, blackmailing Jeff Bezos, Frasier, Two and a Half Men, and a heaping helping of Presidential memories.
Eric and Drew start 2019 talking about surveillance and Gene Hackman.
Along the way they discuss the serial fiction podcasts Wolverine: The Long Night, Homecoming, and Limetown. They also discuss Tom Ripley, SAG-AFTRA health insurance, The Phantom Thread, Hereditary, Darkest Hour, Assassination Nation, It, Constantine: City of Demons, Cop and a Half: New Recruit, Mayhem, Upgrade, Drew’s shoes blues, car karma, flaming seafood, and a dump truck mishap.
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Enemy of the State begins at 44:55
Housekeeping begins at 1:13:35
The last Christopher Nolan film in his Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, left us wanting more. Specifically: more like the second film.
Incidentally this was recorded the night of the big earthquake (just after we recorded our earthquake stories) and there were two pretty big aftershocks during the recording. We decided not to edit them out.
Housekeeping begins at 31:43 and the brothers discuss the podcast Bag Man, a gift that doesn’t eat BrOJ’s pants, the Saipan typhoon Yutu, culinary mishaps, and a helicopter story.
BrOJ and Drew talked for quite a while after Eric dropped off of the The Dark Knight episode and the conversation starts out with the movie Song of the Sea then gets deeper.
Just our luck that while discussing one of Drew’s favorite movies his sound is a bit wonky. Note this was recorded August 30, 2018 so there might be cultural references that don’t make sense in December 2018.
Interstellar is arguably Christopher Nolan’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Eric is not happy about it. Along the way they discuss Ford sport utility vehicles, Bond villain Elon Musk, and weights and measures.
Eric, Jason, Drew and Jesse are all together to celebrate Christmas with the movie Go, a slice of 1999 that exactly half of this foursome would watch again. Along the way the discuss multi-level marketing, brotherly hijinks, postal fails, testicular tragedies, and being a bad babysittee.
The Endless is a well shot, clever horror movie that really makes the most of its modest budget.
Drew and Eric also discuss the other Benson / Moorhead movie in this universe “Resolution,” and touch on their third movie “Spring,” and talk around another movie of this type “Hold the Dark.” They also discuss the Last Podcast on the Left, Lovecraftian tales, cults, the Bertcast, Beaver Fever, and Harry Potter.
Housekeeping starts about 41:00 Earthquake update runs from 47:25 - 1:07:00 Drew’s Medical Update starts at 1:07:00
Grab your case, we’re back to the Christopher Nolanoverse with Inception.
Housekeeping starts at 53:10, during which Brother J tells a tale of animal rescue (his very own Night of the Lepus) and Drew reports on his own difficulty with potent potables.
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Our last movie of Clocktober is Looper. It’s a little Back to the Future, a little Omen, a little Carrie, and a JGL, Blunt, Willis treat. During housekeeping the brothers discuss the Netflix show Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat; as well as Good Eats Reloaded, the reboot of the original Iron Chef, MXC, and Good Omens.
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Clocktober continues with the Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, and David Warner in Time After Time. Eric found the H.G. Wells vs Jack the Ripper tale more charming than Brother J but it did lead to a conversation about whether they’d be able to kill Baby Hitler and the value of being neighborly.
Housekeeping starts at 50:50 and Eric tells a tale of car repair.
Our last episode recorded during Kleptember, Oceans 11 is a fun all-star heist romp. J and E also discuss Johnny Carson, Craig Ferguson, and then there’s a harrowing tale of medical billing.
Support UNH’s Rebecca Booth’s new project “Scared Sacred” Housekeeping starts at 38:20
Celebrate Kleptember with the cartoonish heist car film Fast Five. Warning: we spoil all of the previous movies in the series, just so’s you knows.
Housekeeping Begins at 49:00 and the brothers talk about It’s Gonna Get Loud, Judas Priest’s British Steel, Kid Rock, and Brother J’s take on Gotham by Gaslight.
It’s Batman vs Wolverine as 19th Century stage magicians. It’s Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige and it’s super dark. Along the way the brothers discuss juggling and deadly magic tricks.
Housekeeping begins at 58:00 where we eulogize Alice, an Anderson family dog.
Eric and Drew take on Eric’s favorite Freddy movie. Then at 32:40 they discuss the animated Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. Then in housekeeping Eric gives some book recommendations and tells San Diego tales
Whimsical or twee? We discuss Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, a movie brother Drew hated. Housekeeping starts at 54:00 and Drew has a radical idea about the podcast.
Michael Clayton is an underappreciated dark gem. The brothers also how to commission a piece of music. Housekeeping includes tales of OCD. Stay for the Camping Song!
Song talk first Michael Clayton starts at 07:38 Housekeeping starts at 1:10:00
