TCRPN - The Critical Reviewer Podcast Network

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

We talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding CURRENT EVENTS: Another police shooting that results in an unarmed black man being shot to death, when will there be police reform, Cariol Horne pension ruling/Adam Toledo of Cook County, Teams postpone games and wear “Liberty and Justice for ALL” shirts, how will racists criticize this slogan now. SPORTS: NBA’s condensed season and start-of-season delays taking a toll on players health as some teams face 8 games in 12 nights. ENTERTAINMENT: Hope you liked WandaVision because Wanda Maximoff will join the cast of characters in the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel.... Stephen Colbert begs The Rock to not run for president. TECH: NYPD has a Robodog policing the streets. SCIENCE: Space Junk removal is not going smoothly. HUMOR: MTG challenging AOC to a debate on the green new deal..... MORE FUNNY: University of Agder taking aim at Will Ferrel and mocking the US’s social services in satirical video. --- 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: Amazon beats the Union vote, and Emergent a biotech firm with Covid vaccine manufacturing deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars has yet to produce a usable dose. Last week, the company said up to 15 million Johnson & Johnson doses from its Baltimore plant had to be scrapped. SPORTS: Texas sports fans (Baylor, Texas Rangers) don’t care about Covid restrictions. Is it fair that sports leagues police and punish players and staff but don’t have mandates for fans to follow Covid rules? ENTERTAINMENT: Actor Zach Avery arrested for allegedly running multi-hundred million dollar Hollywood movie Ponzi scheme TECH: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took aim at tech companies, writing that social media companies are "sufficiently akin" to common carriers, like public utilities, and argued they should be "regulated in this manner." HUMOR: Nike makes new Red Sox uniforms that don’t have the color red or the word Sox on them --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We breakdown the HBO Max movie Godzilla vs. Kong. Legends collide in Godzilla vs. Kong, as these mythic adversaries meet in a spectacular battle for the ages, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Kong and his protectors undertake a perilous journey to find his true home, and with them is Jia, a young orphaned girl with whom he has formed a unique and powerful bond. But they unexpectedly find themselves in the path of an enraged Godzilla, cutting a swath of destruction across the globe. The epic clash between the two titans — instigated by unseen forces — is only the beginning of the mystery that lies deep within the core of the Earth. --- 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: Biden to spend $2 trillion for infrastructure, and Matt Gaetz scandals and him possibly heading to NewsMax, TECH: Broward County schools computer systems hacked with a $40M demand, SPORTS: MLB moves the All-Star game out of Atlanta to oppose Georgia’s new restrictions on voting rights, ENTERTAINMENT: Are movie theaters doomed since streaming services snagging up all the big movies, SCIENCE: Cicada Spring... billions of cicada will hatch in the next couple of weeks after being underground for 17 years, Bears with a rare disease appearing to be unfazed by humans, HAPPY: Our badass of the week... Lee Wong an elected official in West Chester, Ohio & a US Army veteran with 20-years of service, took his shirt off during a town hall meeting on Wednesday and revealed scars he received during his service. “Is this patriot enough?” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Day Sports Stood Still is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of the unprecedented sports shutdown in March of 2020 and the remarkable turn of events that followed. Emmy®-winning director Antoine Fuqua (HBO’s “What’s My Name | Muhammad Ali”) will chronicle the abrupt stoppage, athletes’ prominent role in the cultural reckoning on racial injustices that escalated during the pandemic, and the complex return to competition in the summer and fall. ‌ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We switch things up to make it more fun when we talk about What Mattered This Week in the news surrounding Current Events: the Colorado Shooting and Gun Laws, Entertainment: Is Evan Peters the perfect Jeffery Dahmer, Sports: NBA Trade Deadline overreaction and how it mirrors the reaction from Snyder Cut fans, Tech: What are NFTs and why are tech investors dumping millions into them, Comedy: Shrimp in your Cinnamon Toast Crunch --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We breakdown the HBO Documentary "Persona". Taking a personality test can provide fun and useful insights into our sense of self, but many may not realize how deeply embedded personality assessments are in everything we do. This riveting documentary explores the unexpected origin story of America's great obsession with personality testing, uncovering the complicated history behind the world-famous Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Raising a slew of ethical questions and demonstrating how other personality tests may do more harm than good – from impacting online dating matches, to job prospects, and more – this eye-opening film reveals the profound ways that ideas about personality have shaped our society. --- 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 why law enforcement feels like they need to defend the actions of a man that murdered 8 people, Crazy conspiracy theories that Biden is having green screen press conferences that are now being talked about outside of just QAnon circles, Rand Paul is a d-bag that is still fighting with Dr Fauci about wearing masks, Stimulus checks being sent out, indoor businesses/restaurants reopening, and the stock market at all time high, so can we stop excusing all the horrible stuff Trump did because “the economy” was good during his presidency, plus the science behind why the birth rate is going down. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Coming 2 America is a 2021 American comedy film that serves as a sequel to the 1988 film Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy. The film is directed by Craig Brewer from a screenplay by Kenya Barris, Barry W. Blaustein, and David Sheffield, and a story by Blaustein, Sheffield, and Justin Kanew, based on characters created by Murphy. It stars Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, KiKi Layne, Shari Headley, Teyana Taylor, Wesley Snipes, and James Earl Jones. Originally to be theatrically released by Paramount Pictures, the film's distribution rights were sold to Amazon Studios due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon released it digitally via Prime Video on March 4, 2021. Coming 2 America received mixed reviews from critics. --- 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 the Second Covid-19 Relief Bill finally passed and this time it actually seems like it helps people and not just major corporations, 75% of Americans support the American Rescue Plan. 0% of the GOP voted for it, Republicans are making their moves banning abortions in 11 states, getting ready for midterm elections by restricting voting rights, and making laws easier for police to arrest people for insulting cops, plus some science about alcohol before Saint Patrick’s Day. --- 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 Texas ignoring the CDC, Arizona republicans openly telling the Supreme Court that they're suppressing votes in order to beat Democrats, Neera Tanden can focus on tweeting now, Dr. Seuss isn’t Canceled but Fox News wants you to think so, Hunters are back to destroying an endangered species after one of Trump final moves in office, plus Russian slapping each other for money, and squirrels stealing pizza. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Little Things is a 2021 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by John Lee Hancock and produced by Hancock and Mark Johnson. Set in 1990 Los Angeles, the film follows two detectives (Denzel Washington and Rami Malek) who investigate a string of murders, which lead them to a strange loner who may be the culprit (Jared Leto). The film also stars Chris Bauer, Michael Hyatt, Terry Kinney, and Natalie Morales. The Little Things was released in the United States on January 29, 2021, by Warner Bros. Pictures, as well as a month-long simultaneous release on the HBO Max streaming service. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances, direction, and atmosphere but noted the film as familiar and criticized the screenplay, with some comparing it unfavorably to the 1995 film Seven. For his performance, Leto received Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards. --- 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 Andrew Cuomo's nursing home nightmare, the golden idol worshipping of the Trump cult, South Dakota Republican attorney general kills a pedestrian while reading conspiracy theories and driving, Biden administration has to spend millions to undo all of Trump's crazy national rants and convince Americans to believe in science again, a Trump-appointed judge says it’s ok to evict people hurting from the pandemic, plus wrapping up Black History month with a personal family story about a forgotten Black Tennis barrier-breaking athlete in Jimmie McDaniel. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We read "What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism" by Dan Rather. With a fundamental sense of hope, "What Unites Us" is the book to inspire conversation and listening, and to remind us all how we are, finally, one. At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on—and writing passionately about—what it means to be an American. Now, with this collection of original essays, he reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded. Looking at the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as the audacity to take on daunting challenges in science and medicine, Rather brings to bear his decades of experience on the frontlines of the world’s biggest stories. As a living witness to historical change, he offers up an intimate view of history, tracing where we have been in order to help us chart a way forward and heal our bitter divisions. --- 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 the freezing natural disaster in Texas, Ted Crus ditching Texas for Mexico, Australians unable to share news on Facebook, NASA having Perseverance and landing on Mars again, scientists cloning and endangered species, and a check-up on COVID vaccine dose number 2. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Mandalorian is an American space Western television series created by Jon Favreau for the streaming service Disney+. It is the first live-action series in the Star Wars franchise, beginning five years after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). It stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a lone bounty hunter who goes on the run after being hired to retrieve "The Child". Star Wars creator George Lucas began development on a live-action Star Wars television series by 2009, but the project was deemed too expensive to produce. After he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in October 2012, work on a new Star Wars series began for Disney+. Favreau signed on in March 2018, serving as writer and showrunner. He executive produces alongside Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson. The series' title was announced in October 2018 with the start of filming at Manhattan Beach Studios in California. Visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic developed the StageCraft technology for the series, using virtual sets and a 360-degree video wall to create the series' environments. This has since been adopted by other film and television productions. --- 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 the debacle at the impeachment trial, Disney pulling the plug on Gina Carano, if it's possible to be allowed to have a nuanced discussion about Cancel Culture, the NBA forcing the Dallas Mavericks to play the National Anthem, the alarming rise in anti-Asian crimes, the bacteria in your body that is controlling you, and what the hell to do for Valentines Day. --- 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 Washington state giving priority access to VIPs for the COVID vaccine, Jeff Bezos leaving Amazon and Amazon trying to destroy any chance of a union for its workers, Space X shuttle exploding, and Canada calling the Proud Boys a terrorist group but why can't America. --- 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 Reddit taking down Wall Street causing the world to go crazy, billionaires crying about needing regulation, Robinhood stealing from the poor and giving to the rich, AOC and Ted Cruz teaming up, and other crazy stock market stories, plus a final Q&A on QAnon. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action-thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it with Emma Thomas. A co-production between the United Kingdom and United States, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a secret agent who learns to manipulate the flow of time to prevent an attack from the future that threatens to annihilate the present world. --- 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 the Inauguration (Biden acts presidential, tons of celebrities, freezing cold memes), a trip down memory lane of some other horrible presidents, Biden is in for a challenge with Republican congresswoman already filing impeachment articles for Joe Biden in the first week, Mutant strains of coronavirus but Dr. Fauci says that’s normal for RNA viruses and shouldn’t stop the vaccine from working, and are robots taking our jobs. --- 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 the fallout from the Capitol terrorist attack by Trump supporters, Trump being impeached a second time, Bugs on the menu as Yellow mealworm safe for humans to eat says EU food safety agency, Bitcoin and crypto currency craziness, do vitamin supplements actually work, and can sleep apnea affect your mental state. --- 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 Trump's Georgia tape trying to tell them to find him 11,000 votes, Georgia election where both Dems won, Trump inciting a riot and MAGA terrorists storming the capitol, and Republicans still voting against certification of the election. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We breakdown the book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). The book was published on August 16, 2011. An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters. In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2011 Prometheus Award. A film adaptation, screen written by Cline and Zak Penn and directed by Steven Spielberg, was released on March 29, 2018. A sequel, Ready Player Two, was released on November 24, 2020. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We breakdown the book "Contact" by Carl Sagan. Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced, extraterrestrial life form. It ranked No. 7 on the 1985 U.S. bestseller list. The novel originated as a screenplay by Sagan and Ann Druyan (whom he later married) in 1979; when development of the film stalled, Sagan decided to convert the stalled film into a novel. The film concept was subsequently revived and eventually released in 1997 as the film Contact starring Jodie Foster. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We breakdown the book "The End Of October" by Lawrence Wright. In this riveting medical thriller — from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author Lawrence Wright — Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We breakdown Bill Murray's hilarious 1988 Christmas comedy "Scrooged". In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). But after firing a staff member, Eliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwait), on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We breakdown the crazy Mel Gibson movie "Fatman". To save his declining business, Chris Cringle, also known as Santa Claus, is forced into a partnership with the U.S. military. Making matters worse, Chris gets locked into a deadly battle of wits against a highly-skilled assassin, hired by a precocious 12-year-old, after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking. --- 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 the Electoral College voting Biden in, republicans finally start to accept Biden will be president, Trump losing it, Crazy conspiracy theory Republican Fake electors try to deliver Arizona's 11 votes for Trump, Atlantic City to auction off the chance to blow up Trump's former casino, Mara Lago neighbors say Trump can’t live at Resort, Hackers accessed systems at the US nuclear weapons agency, 1,000 people stuck overnight in Japan traffic jam stretching 9 miles long, and the real science on how to tell how old your dog is in human years, plus a celebrity makes a cameo to wish one of our hosts a happy birthday. --- 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 crazy republicans suing to overturn the election and then Supreme Court dismissing the cases. The last step is the electoral college voting on Monday. Will Trump concede after he officially loses? Other countries approve Pfizer vaccine. Obama Bush and Clinton plan to take vaccine live. US getting the vaccine after UK and Canada. We hit 3,000 deaths in one day from Covid in US. Metal monoliths popping up all over the world. A good Florida Man? - A Florida businessman, after the twin catastrophes of Hurricane Sally and the coronavirus pandemic, paid off the bills of 114 families who were facing imminent disconnection --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We discuss the movie The Right Stuff. This adaptation of the non-fiction novel by Tom Wolfe chronicles the first 15 years of America's space program. By focusing on the lives of test pilot Chuck Yeager and the Mercury astronauts, including John Glenn (Ed Harris) and Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn), the film recounts the dangers and frustrations experienced by those involved with NASA's earliest achievements. It also depicts their family lives and the personal crises they endured during an era of great political turmoil and technological innovation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app