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In this week's episode, I take a look back at the movies and streaming shows I watched in Summer 2025. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Ghost in the Serpent, Book #1 in the Ghost Armor series, (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store: FALLSERPENT50 The coupon code is valid through September 15, 2025 (please note the shorter expiration date). So if you need a new audiobook this fall, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 267 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is September 5, 2025 and today I'm doing a review roundup of the movies and streaming shows I saw in Summer 2025. Before we do that, we will have Coupon of the Week and a progress update on my current writing and audiobook projects. First up, this week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Ghost in the Serpent, Book One in the Ghost Armor series (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store. That is FALLSERPENT50. This coupon code will be valid through September 15th, 2025 (exactly one week). So if you need a new audiobook to listen to as we head into fall, we have got you covered. Now for an update on my current writing and audiobook projects. I am pleased to report that the rough draft of Blade of Flames, which will be the first book in my new Blades of Ruin epic fantasy series is finished. The rough draft came at about 90,000 words long, which was what I was aiming for. Next up, I will be writing a short story set as sort of a bonus in that plot line called Thunder Hammer and that will be the backstory of one of the characters in Blade of Flames. And when Blade of Flames comes out (which will hopefully be later this September), newsletter subscribers will get a free ebook copy of Thunder Hammer. So this is an excellent time to subscribe to my newsletter. I am also 8,000 words into Cloak of Worlds. At long last, I am coming back to the Cloak Mage series after nearly a year's absence. Longtime listeners will know the reason was that I had five unfinished series and I wanted to spend the summer of 2025 finishing the unfinished ones and focusing up so I will only have three ongoing series at any given time. I'm hoping Blade of Flames will come out before the end of September and Cloak of Worlds before the end of October, and after that I will be able to return to the Rivah series at long last. In audiobook news, recording is finished on Shield of Power. That will be excellently narrated by Brad Wills and hopefully once it gets through processing and quality assurance and everything, it should be showing up on the various audiobook stores before too much longer. Hollis McCarthy is about halfway through the recording of Ghost in the Siege, which was, as you know, the last book in the Ghost Armor series that just came out. And if all goes well, the audiobook should be coming out probably in October once everything is done with recording and quality assurance and all that. So that is where I'm at with my current writing and audiobook projects. 00:02:34 Main Topic: Summer 2025 Movie/TV Roundup So without further ado, let's head into our main topic. The end of summer is nigh, which means this time for my summer movie review roundup. As is usual for the summer, I saw a lot of movies, so this will be one of the longer episodes. For some reason I ended up watching a bunch of westerns. As always, the movies are ranked from least favorite to most favorite. The grades of course are totally subjective and based on nothing more than my own opinions, impressions, and interpretations. Now on to the movies. First up is the Austin Powers trilogy, the three movies of which came out in 1997, 1999, and 2002. The Austin Powers movies came out just as the Internet really got going in terms of mass adoption, which is likewise why so many Austin Powers and Dr. Evil memes are embedded in online culture. Despite that, I had never really seen any of them all the way through. They've been on in the background on TBS or whatever quite a bit when I visited people, but I've never seen them all. But I happened upon a DVD of the trilogy for $0.25 (USD), so I decided for 25 cents I would give it a go. I would say the movies were funny, albeit not particularly good. Obviously the Austin Powers movies are a parody of the James Bond movies. The movies kind of watch like an extended series of Saturday Night Live skits, only loosely connected, like the skit is what if Dr. Evil had a son named Scott who wasn't impressed with him or another skit was what if a British agent from the ‘60s arrives in the ‘90s and experiences culture clash? What if Dr. Evil didn't understand the concept of inflation and demanded only a million dollars from the United Nations? What if Dr. Evil was actually Austin's brother and they went to school together at Spy Academy? Michael Caine was pretty great as Austin's father. Overall, funny but fairly incoherent. Overall grade: C- Next up is Horrible Bosses, a very dark and very raunchy comedy from about 14 years ago. It came out in 2011. Interestingly, this movie reflects what I think is one of the major crises of the contemporary era, frequent failures of leadership at all levels of society. In the movie Nick, Dale, and Kurt are lifelong friends living in LA and all three of them have truly horrible bosses in their place of employment, ranging from a sociopathic finance director, the company founder's cokehead son, and a boorish dentist with a tendency to sexual harassment. At the bar, they fantasize about killing their horrible bosses and then mutually decide to do something about it. Obviously, they'd all be prime suspects in the murder of their own bosses, but if they killed each other's bosses, that would allow them to establish airtight alibis. However, since Nick, Dale and Kurt are not as bright as they think they are, it all goes hilariously wrong very quickly. Bob Hope has a hilarious cameo. If the best “crude comedies” I've seen are Anchorman, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder, and Dodgeball, and the worst one was MacGruber, I'd say Horrible Bosses lands about in the middle. Overall grade: C Next up is Cowboys and Aliens, which came out in 2011. Now I almost saw this in 2011 when it came out, but I was too busy to go to the theater in July of 2011, so I finally saw it here in 2025 and I would say this was almost a great movie, like the performances were great, the concept was great, the scenery was great, the special effects were great, and the story was packed full of really interesting ideas, but somehow they just didn't coalesce. I'm not entirely sure why. I think upon reflection, it was that the movie is just too overcrowded with too many characters and too many subplots. Anyway, Daniel Craig portrays a man who wakes up with no memory in the Old West, with a mysterious bracelet locked around his wrist. He makes his way to the town of Atonement, and promptly gets arrested because he is apparently a notorious outlaw (which he doesn't remember). While he is locked in jail, space aliens attack the town. The aliens, for unknown reasons, abduct many of the townspeople, and Daniel Craig's character, who is named Jake even if he doesn't remember it, must lead the town's effort to recover their abducted citizens. Harrison's Ford has an excellent performance as this awful cattle baron who nonetheless has virtues of courage and fortitude that you can't help but admire. An excellent performance. That said, the movie was just too packed, and I thought it would work better as a novel. After I watched the movie, it turned out that it was indeed based off a graphic novel. Novels and graphic novels allow for a far more complex story than a movie, and I don't think this movie quite managed to handle the transition from a graphic novel to a film. Overall grade: C Next up is Heads of State, which came out in 2025. This was kind of a stupid movie. However, the fundamental question of any movie, shouted to the audience by Russell Crow in Gladiator is, “are you not entertained?!?” I was thoroughly entertained watching this, so entertained I actually watched it twice. Not everything has to be Shakespeare or a profound meditation on the unresolvable conflicts inherent within human nature. Anyway, John Cena plays Will Derringer, newly elected President of the United States. Idris Elba plays Sam Clark, who has now been the UK Prime Minister for the last six years. Derringer was an action star who parleyed his celebrity into elected office (in the same way Arnold Schwarzenegger did), while Clarke is an army veteran who worked his way up through the UK's political system. Needless to say, the cheerful Derringer and the grim Clarke take an immediate dislike to each other. However, they'll have to team up when Air Force One is shot down, stranding them in eastern Europe. They'll have to make their way home while evading their enemies to unravel the conspiracy that threatens world peace. So half action thriller, half buddy road trip comedy. The premise really doesn't work if you think about it too much for more than thirty seconds, but the movie was funny and I enjoyed it. Jack Quaid really stole his scenes as a crazy but hyper-competent CIA officer. Overall grade: C+ Next up, Captain America: Brave New World, which came out in 2025 and I think this movie ended up on the good side of middling. You can definitely tell it went through a lot of reshoots and retooling, and I suspect the various film industry strikes hit it like a freight train. But we ended up with a reasonably solid superhero thriller. Sam Wilson is now Captain America. He's not superhuman the way Steve Rogers was and doesn't have magic powers or anything, so he kind of fights like the Mandalorian – a very capable fighter who relies on excellent armor. Meanwhile, in the grand American political tradition of failing upward, Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross, who spent years persecuting The Hulk and whose meddling caused the Avengers to disband right before Thanos attacked, has now been elected President. To Wilson's surprise, Ross reaches out and wants him to restart the Avengers. But Ross (as we know) did a lot of shady black ops stuff for years, and one of his projects is coming back to haunt him. Wilson finds himself in the middle of a shadowy conspiracy, and it's up to him to figure out what's going on before it's too late. I was amused that lifelong government apparatchik Ross wanted to restart the Avengers, because when the Avengers had their biggest victory in Avengers: Endgame, they were essentially unsanctioned vigilantes bankrolled by a rogue tech billionaire. Overall grade: B- Next up is Ironheart, which came out in 2025. I'd say Ironheart was about 40% very weird and 60% quite good. It's sort of like the modern version of Dr. Faustus. The show got some flak on the Internet from the crossfire between the usual culture war people, but the key to understanding it is to realize that Riri Williams AKA Ironheart is in fact an antihero who's tottering on the edge of becoming a full-blown supervillain. Like Tony Stark, she's a once-in-a-generation scientific talent, but while she doesn't have Stark's alcohol problems, she's emotionally unstable, immature, ruthless, indifferent to collateral damage and consequences, and suffering from severe PTSD after her best friend and stepfather were killed in a drive-by shooting. This volatile mix gets her thrown out of MIT after her experiments cause too much destruction, and she has to go home to Chicago. To get the funds to keep working on her Iron Man armor, she turns to crime, and falls in with a gang of high-end thieves led by a mysterious figure named Hood. It turns out that Hood has actual magic powers, which both disturbs and fascinates Riri. However, Hood got his magic in a pact with a mysterious dark force. When a job goes bad, Riri gains the enmity of Hood and has to go on the run. It also turns out Hood's dark master has become very interested in Riri, which might be a lot more dangerous for everyone in the long run. Overall, I'd say this is about in the same vein as Agatha All Along, an interesting show constructed around a very morally questionable protagonist. Overall grade: B Next up is A Minecraft movie, which came out in 2024. I have to admit, I've never actually played Minecraft, so I know very little about the game and its ecosystem, only what I've generally absorbed by glancing at the news. That said, I think the movie held together quite well, and wasn't deserving of the general disdain it got in the press. (No doubt the $950 million box office compensated for any hurt feelings.) One of the many downsides of rapid technological change in the last fifty years is that the Boomers and Gen X and the Millennials and Gen Z and Gen Alpha have had such radically different formative experiences in childhood that it's harder to relate to each other. Growing up in the 1980s was a wildly different experience than growing up in the 2010s, and growing up in the 2010s was an even more wildly different experience than growing up in the 1960s. Smartphones and social media were dominant in 2020, barely starting in 2010, and implausible science fiction in 2000 and earlier, and so it was like the different generations grew up on different planets, because in some sense they actually did. (A five-year-old relative of mine just started school, and the descriptions of his school compared to what I remember of school really do sound like different planets entirely.) The Minecraft game and A Minecraft Movie might be one of those generation-locked experiences. Anyway, this has gotten very deep digression for what was essentially a portal-based LitRPG movie. A group of people experiencing various life difficulties in a rural Idaho town get sucked into the Minecraft world through a magic portal. There they must combine forces and learn to work together to master the Minecraft world to save it from an evil sorceress. As always, the fundamental question of any movie is the one that Russell Crowe's character shouted to the audience in Gladiator back in 2000. “Are you not entertained?” I admit I was entertained when watching A Minecraft Movie since it was funny and I recognized a lot of the video game mechanics, even though I've never actually played Minecraft. Like, Castlevania II had a night/day cycle the way Minecraft does, and Castlevania II was forty years ago. But that was another digression! I did enjoy A Minecraft Movie. It was kind of crazy, but it committed to the craziness and maintained a consistent creative vision, and I was entertained. Though I did think it was impressive how Jack Black's agent managed to insist that he sing several different times. Overall grade: B Next up is Back to School, which came out in 1986 and this is one of the better ‘80s comedies I've seen. Rodney Dangerfield plays Thornton Melon, who never went to college and is the wealthy owner of a chain of plus-sized clothing stores. His son Jason is attending Great Lakes University, and after Thornton's unfaithful gold-digging wife leaves him (Thornton is mostly relieved by this development), he decides to go visit his son. He quickly discovers that Jason is flailing at college, and decides to enroll to help out his son. Wacky adventures ensue! I quite enjoyed this. The fictional “Great Lakes University” was largely shot at UW-Madison in Wisconsin, which I found amusing because I spent a lot of time at UW-Madison several decades ago as a temporary IT employee. I liked seeing the characters walk past a place where I'd eat lunch outside when the day was nice, that kind of thing. Also, I'm very familiar with how the sausage gets made in higher ed. There's a scene where the dean is asking why Thornton is qualified to enter college, and then it cuts to the dean cheerfully overseeing the groundbreaking of the new Thornton Melon Hall which Thornton just donated, and I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself, because that is exactly how higher ed works. The movie had some pointless nudity, but it was only a few seconds and no doubt gets cut in network broadcasts. Overall grade: B Next up is Whiskey Galore, which came out in 1949 and this is a comedy set in Scotland during World War II. The villagers living on an isolated island have no whiskey due to wartime rationing. However, when a government ship carrying 50,000 cases of whiskey runs aground near the island, wacky hijinks ensue. I have to admit the first half of the movie was very slow and deliberate, gradually setting up all the pieces for later. Then, once the shipwreck happens, things pick up and the movie gets much funnier. Definitely worth watching both as a good comedy movie and an artifact of its time. A modicum of historical knowledge is required – if you don't know what the Home Guard is, you might have to do some Googling to understand the context of some of the scenes. Regrettably, the version I watched did not have captioning, so I had to pay really close attention to understand what the characters were saying, because some of the accents were very strong. Overall grade: B Next up is Happy Gilmore 2, which came out in 2025. This was dumb and overstuffed with celebrity cameos but thoroughly hilarious and I say this even though it uses one of my least favorite story tropes, namely “hero of previous movie is now a middle age loser.” However, the movie leads into it for comedy. When Happy Gilmore accidentally kills his wife with a line drive, he spirals into alcoholism and despair. But his five children still love him, and when his talented daughter needs tuition for school, Happy attempts to shake off his despair and go back to golf to win the money. But Happy soon stumbles onto a sinister conspiracy led by an evil CEO to transform the game of golf into his own personal profit center. Happy must team up with his old nemesis Shooter McGavin to save golf itself from the evil CEO. Amusingly, as I've said before, the best Adam Sandler movies are almost medieval. In medieval fables, it was common for a clever peasant to outwit pompous lords, corrupt priests, and greedy merchants. The best Adam Sandler protagonist remains an everyman who outwits the modern equivalent of pompous lords and corrupt priests, in this case an evil CEO. Overall grade: B+ Next up is Superman, which came out in 2025 and I thought this was pretty good and very funny at times. I think it caught the essential nature of Superman. Like, Superman should be a Lawful Good character. If he was a Dungeons and Dragons character, he would be a paladin. People on the Internet tend to take the characterization of superheroes seriously to perhaps an unhealthy degree, but it seems the best characterization of Superman is as an earnest, slightly dorky Boy Scout who goes around doing good deeds. The contrast of that good-hearted earnestness with his godlike abilities that would allow him to easily conquer and rule the world is what makes for an interesting character. I also appreciated how the movie dispensed with the overused trope of the Origin Story and just got down to business. In this movie, Lex Luthor is obsessed with destroying Superman and is willing to use both super-advanced technology and engineered geopolitical conflict to do it. Superman, because he's essentially a decent person, doesn't comprehend just how depraved Luthor is, and how far Luthor is willing to go out of petty spite. (Ironically, a billionaire willing to destroy the world out of petty spite is alas, quite realistic). Guy Gardener (“Jerkish Green Lantern”) and the extremely competent and the extremely exasperated Mr. Terrific definitely stole all their scenes. The director of the movie, James Gunn, was quite famously fired from Disney in 2018 for offensive jokes he had made on Twitter back when he was an edgy young filmmaker with an alcohol problem. I suppose Mr. Gunn can rest content knowing that Superman made more money than any Marvel movie released this year. Overall grade: A-   Next up is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, which came out in 1988. This was a very strange movie, but nonetheless, one with an ambitious premise, strong performances, and a strong artistic vision. It's set in post WWII Los Angeles, and “toons” (basically cartoon characters) live and work alongside humans. Private eye Eddie Valiant hates toons since one of them killed his brother five years ago. However, he's hired by the head of a studio who's having trouble with one of his toon actors, Roger Rabbit. Roger's worried his wife Jessica is having an affair, and Valiant obtains pictures of Jessica playing patty cake (not a euphemism, they actually were playing patty cake) with another man. Roger has an emotional breakdown, and soon the other man winds up dead, and Roger insists he's innocent. Valiant and Roger find themselves sucked into a dangerous conspiracy overseen by a ruthless mastermind. This movie was such an interesting cultural artifact. It perfectly follows the structure of a ‘40s film noir movie, but with cartoons, and the dissonance between film noir and the cheerfulness of the toons was embraced and used as a frequently source of comedy. In fact, when the grim and dour Valiant uses the toons' comedy techniques as a tactical improvisation in a moment of mortal peril, it's both hilarious and awesome. Christopher Lloyd's performance as the villainous Judge Doom was amazing. (I don't think it's a spoiler to say that he's villainous, because his character is named Judge Doom and he's literally wearing a black hat.) Like, his performance perfectly captures something monstrous that is trying very hard to pretend to be human and not quite getting it right. And the amount of work it must have taken to make this movie staggers the mind. Nowadays, having live actors interact with cartoon characters is expensive, but not unduly so. It's a frequent technique. You see it all the time in commercials when a housewife is smiling at an animated roll of paper towels or something, and Marvel's essentially been doing it for years. But this was 1988! Computer animation was still a ways off. They had to shoot the movie on analog film, and then hand-draw all the animation and successfully match it to the live film. It wouldn't have worked without the performance of Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant, who plays everything perfectly straight in the same way Michael Caine did in A Muppet Christmas Carol. So kind of a strange movie, but definitely worth watching. And it has both Disney and Warner Brothers animated characters in the same movie, which is something we will never, ever see again. Overall grade: A Next up is K-Pop Demon Hunters, which came out in 2025. Like Who framed Roger Rabbit?, this is a very strange movie, but nonetheless with a clear and focused artistic vision. It is a cultural artifact that provides a fascinating look into a world of which I have no knowledge or interest, namely K-pop bands and their dueling fandoms. Anyway, the plot is that for millennia, female Korean musicians have used the magic of their voices to keep the demons locked away in a demon world. The current incarnation is a three-woman K-Pop group called Huntrix, and they are on the verge of sealing away the demons forever. Naturally, the Demon King doesn't like this, so one of his cleverer minions comes up with a plan. They'll start a Demon K-Pop Boy Band! Disguised as humans, the demon K-Pop group will win away Huntrix's fans, allowing them to breach the barrier and devour the world. However, one of the Huntrix musicians is half-demon, and she starts falling for the lead demon in the boy band, who is handsome and of course has a dark and troubled past. Essentially a musical K-drama follows. I have to admit I know practically nothing about K-Pop groups and their dueling fandoms, other than the fact that they exist. However, this was an interesting movie to watch. The animation was excellent, it did have a focused vision, and there were some funny bits. Overall grade: A Next up is Clarkson's Farm Season Four, which came out in 2025. A long time ago in the ‘90s, I watched the episode of Frasier where Frasier and Niles attempt to open a restaurant and it all goes horribly (yet hilariously) wrong. At the time, I had no money, but I promised myself that I would never invest in a restaurant. Nothing I have seen or learned in the subsequent thirty years has ever changed that decision. Season 4 of Clarkson's Farm is basically Jeremy Clarkson, like Frasier and Niles, attempting to open a restaurant, specifically a British pub. On paper it's a good idea, since Clarkson can provide the pub with food produced from his own farm and other local farmers. However, it's an enormous logistical nightmare, and Clarkson must deal with miles of red tape, contractors, and a ballooning budget, all while trying to keep his farm from going under. An excellent and entertaining documentary into the difficulties of both the farming life and food service. I still don't want to own a restaurant! Overall grade: A Next up is Tombstone, which came out in 1993. The Western genre of fiction is interesting because it's limited to such a very specific period of time and geographical region. Like the “Wild West” period that characterizes the Western genre really only lasted as a historical period from about 1865 to roughly 1890. The Western genre was at its most popular in movies from the 1940s and the 1960s, and I wonder if it declined because cultural and demographic changes made it unpopular to romanticize the Old West the way someone like Walt Disney did at Disneyland with “Frontierland.” Of course, the genre lives on in different forms in grittier Western movies, neo-Westerns like Yellowstone and Longmire, and a lot of the genre's conventions apply really well to science fiction. Everyone talks about Firefly being the first Space Western, but The Mandalorian was much more successful and was basically a Western in space (albeit with occasional visits from Space Wizards). Anyway! After that long-winded introduction, let's talk about Tombstone. When Val Kilmer died earlier this year, the news articles mentioned Tombstone as among his best work, so I decided to give it a watch. The plot centers around Wyatt Earp, played by Kurt Russell, who has decided to give up his career in law enforcement and move to Tombstone, Arizona, a silver mining boomtown, in hopes of making his fortune. However, Tombstone is mostly controlled by the Cowboys outlaw gang, and Earp is inevitably drawn into conflict with them. With the help of his brothers and Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer's character), Earp sets out to bring some law and order to Tombstone, whether the Cowboys like it or not. Holliday is in the process of dying from tuberculosis, which makes him a formidable fighter since he knows getting shot will be a less painful and protracted death than the one his illness will bring him. Kilmer plays him as a dissolute, scheming warrior-poet who nonetheless is a very loyal friend. Definitely a classic of the Western genre, and so worth watching. Overall grade: A Next up is Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, the eighth Mission Impossible movie. Of the eight movies, I think the sixth one was the best one, but this one comes in at a close second. It continues on from Dead Reckoning. Ethan Hunt now possesses the key that will unlock the source code of the Entity, the malicious AI (think ChatGPT, but even more obviously evil) that is actively maneuvering the world's nuclear powers into destroying each other so the Entity can rule the remnants of humanity. Unfortunately, the Entity's source code is sitting in a wrecked Russian nuclear sub at the bottom of the Bering Sea. Even more unfortunately, the Entity knows that Hunt has the key and is trying to stop him, even as the Entity's former minion and Hunt's bitter enemy Gabriel seeks to seize control of the Entity for himself. A sense of apocalyptic doom hangs over the movie, which works well to build tension. Once again, the world is doomed, unless Ethan Hunt and his allies can save the day. The tension works extremely well during the movie's underwater sequence, and the final airborne duel between Hunt and Gabriel. I don't know if they're going to make any more Mission Impossible movies after this (they are insanely expensive), but if this is the end, it is a satisfying conclusion for the character of Ethan Hunt and the Impossible Mission Force. Overall grade: A Next up is Deep Cover, which came out in 2025. This is described as a comedy thriller, and I didn't know what to expect when I watched it, but I really enjoyed it. Bryce Dallas Howard plays Kat, a struggling comedy improv teacher living in London. Her best students are Marlon (played by Orlando Bloom), a dedicated character actor who wants to portray gritty realism but keeps getting cast in tacky commercials, and Hugh (played by Nick Mohammed), an awkward IT worker with no social skills whatsoever. One day, the three of them are recruited by Detective Sergeant Billings (played by Sean Bean) of the Metropolitan Police. The Met wants to use improv comedians to do undercover work for minor busts with drug dealers. Since it plays 200 pounds a pop, the trio agrees. Of course, things rapidly spiral out of control, because Kat, Marlon, and Hugh are actually a lot better at improv than they think, and soon they find themselves negotiating with the chief criminals of the London underworld. What follows is a movie that is both very tense and very funny. Kat, Marlon, and Hugh are in way over their heads, and will have to do the best improv of their lives to escape a very grisly fate. Whether Sean Bean dies or not (as is tradition), you will just have to watch the movie and find out. Overall grade: A Next up is Puss in Boots: The Final Wish, which came out in 2022. I don't personally know much about the history of Disney as a corporation, and I don't much care, but I do have several relatives who are very interested in the history of the Disney corporation, and therefore I have picked up some by osmosis. Apparently Disney CEO Michael Eisner forcing out Jeffrey Katzenberg in the 1990s was a very serious mistake, because Katzenberg went on to co-found DreamWorks, which has been Disney's consistent rival for animation for the last thirty years. That's like “CIA Regime Change Blowback” levels of creating your own enemy. Anyway, historical ironies aside, Puss in Boots: The Final Wish was a funny and surprisingly thoughtful animated movie. Puss in Boots is a legendary outlaw and folk hero, but he has used up eight of his nine lives. An ominous bounty hunter who looks like a humanoid wolf begins pursuing him, and the Wolf is able to shrug off the best of Puss In Boots' attacks. Panicked, Puss hides in a retirement home for elderly cats, but then hears rumors of the magical Last Wish. Hoping to use it to get his lives back, Puss In Boots sets off on the quest. It was amusing how Little Jack Horner and Goldilocks and the Three Bears were rival criminal gangs seeking the Last Wish. Overall grade: A Next up is Chicken People, which came out in 2016. A good documentary film gives you a glimpse into an alien world that you would otherwise never visit. In this example, I have absolutely no interest in competitive chicken breeding and will only raise chickens in my backyard if society ever collapses to the level that it becomes necessary for survival. That said, this was a very interesting look into the work of competitive chicken breeding. Apparently, there is an official “American Standard of Perfection” for individual chicken breeds, and the winner of the yearly chicken competition gets the title “Super Grand Champion.” Not Grand Champion, Super Grand Champion! That looks impressive on a resume. It is interesting how chicken breeding is in some sense an elaborate Skinner Box – like you can deliberately set out to breed chickens with the desirable traits on the American Standard of Perfection, but until the chickens are hatched and grow up, you don't know how they're going to turn out, so you need to try again and again and again… Overall grade: A Next up is The Mask of Zoro, which came out in 1998. I saw this in the theatre when it came out 27 years ago, but that was 27 years ago, and I don't have much of a memory of it, save that I liked it. So when I had the chance to watch it again, I did! Anthony Hopkins plays Diego de la Vega, who has the secret identity of Zorro in the final days before Mexico breaks away from the Spanish Empire. With Mexico on the verge of getting its independence, Diego decides to hang up his sword and mask and focus on his beloved wife and daughter. Unfortunately, the military governor Don Montero realizes Diego is Zorro, so has him arrested, kills his wife, and steals his baby daughter to raise as his own. Twenty years later, a bandit named Alejandro loses his brother and best friends to a brutal cavalry commander. It turns out that Montero is returning to California from Spain, and plans to seize control of California as an independent republic (which, of course, will be ruled by him). In the chaos, Diego escapes from prison and encounters a drunken Alejandro, and stops him from a futile attack upon the cavalry commander. He then proposes a pact – Diego will train Alejandro as the next Zorro, and together they can take vengeance upon the men who wronged them. This was a good movie. It was good to see that my taste in movies 27 years ago wasn't terrible. It manages to cram an entire epic plot into only 2 hours and 20 minutes. In some ways it was like a throwback to a ‘40s movie but with modern (for the ‘90s) production values, and some very good swordfights. Overall grade: A Next up is Wick is Pain, which came out in 2025. I've seen all four John Wick movies and enjoyed them thoroughly, though I've never gotten around to any of the spinoffs. Wick is Pain is a documentary about how John Wick went from a doomed indie movie with a $6.5 million hole in its budget to one of the most popular action series of the last few decades. Apparently Keanu Reeves made an offhand joke about how “Wick is pain” and that became the mantra of the cast and crew, because making an action movie that intense really was a painful experience. Definitely worth watching if you enjoyed the John Wick movies or moviemaking in general. Overall grade: A The last movie I saw this summer was Game Night, which came out in 2016. It was a hilarious, if occasionally dark comedy action thriller. Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams play Max and Annie Davis, a married couple who are very competitive and enjoy playing games of all kinds. Jason has an unresolved conflict with his brother Brooks, and one night Brooks invites them over for game night, which Max resents. Halfway through the evening, Brooks is kidnapped, with Max and Annie assume is part of the game. However, Brooks really is involved in something shady. Hilarity ensues, and it's up to Max and Annie to rescue Brooks and stay alive in the process. This was really funny, though a bit dark in places. That said, Max and Annie have a loving and supportive marriage, so it was nice to see something like that portrayed on the screen. Though this also leads to some hilarity, like when Annie accidentally shoots Max in the arm. No spoilers, but the punchline to that particular sequence was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Overall grade: A So no A+ movie this time around, but I still saw a bunch of solid movies I enjoyed. One final note, I have to admit, I've really come to respect Adam Sandler as an entertainer, even if his movies and comedy are not always to my taste. He makes what he wants, makes a lot of money, ensures that his friends get paid, and then occasionally takes on a serious role in someone else's movie when he wants to flex some acting muscles. I am not surprised that nearly everyone who's in the original Happy Gilmore who was still alive wanted to come back for Happy Gilmore 2. So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show enjoyable and perhaps a guide to some good movies to watch. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes at https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.  

In this week's episode, we spotlight the big and beautiful Malines chicken. Dr. Jon Moyle, Poultry Specialist with the University of Maryland Extension Service, joins us to talk about Avian Flu and separate some fact from fiction. We share our recipe for delicious Bavarian Apple Torte, and provide some retail therapy and biosecurity with footwear for Chicken Ladies and Gents.Grubbly Farms - click here for our affiliate link.https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100963304-15546963Pre and Probiotic and Vitamin and Electrolyte Powders!Bright and Early Coffee - use code CWTCL15 for 15% off of any bagged coffee. K Cups always ship free!https://brightandearlycoffee.com/Omlet Coops- Use Our Affiliate Link for 10% off!https://tidd.ly/3Uwt8BfChicken Luv Box -  use CWTCL50 for 50% off your first box of any multi-month subscription!https://www.chickenluv.com/Breed Spotlight is sponsored by Murray McMurray Hatcheryhttps://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/Metzer Farms Waterfowlhttps://www.metzerfarms.com/Nestera UShttps://nestera.us/cwtclUse our affiliate link above for 5% off your purchase!Roosty'shttps://amzn.to/3yMDJBavarian Apple Tortehttps://coffeewiththechickenladies.com/farm-fresh-egg-recipes/bavarian-apple-torte/CWTCL Websitehttps://coffeewiththechickenladies.com/CWTCL Etsy Shophttps://www.etsy.com/shop/CoffeeWChickenLadiesAs Amazon Influencers, we may receive a small commission from the sale of some items at no additional cost to consumers.CWTCL Amazon Recommendationshttps://www.amazon.com/shop/coffeewiththechickenladiesSupport the show

Thank you for listening to this episode of Bawk Tawk, Welcome to Chickenlandia's 100% Friendly Backyard  Chickens Show! In this episode, I interview Thomas Xenos of the new podcast Crazy Chicken People. We had a lot of fun and I hope you love it!You can listen to Crazy Chicken People on all the major podcast apps including Apple Podcasts. Order my new book Let's All Keep Chickens! here.Become a more confident chicken keeper with my new online course: Backyard Chickens 101 - A Chicken Course for Everyone. Click here for more.Join my mailing list and become part of Chickenlandia NationCheck out My Favorite Chicken for all your chicken needs including First Saturday Lime, Nesting Herbs, and Flybusters!Check out Small Pet Select and use the promo code SPSCHICK15 for 15% off!Learn all the ways to preserve eggs so you can eat them all winter by clicking here: Homesteading Family's Preserving Eggs Class. Use the coupon code CHICKENLANDIA for 25% off (offer valid through Jan 1, 2025)!Check out my TEDX Talk "I Dream of Chickens"Visit Welcome to Chickenlandia's website by clicking here!Submit your own chicken question here!Check out Welcome to Chickenlandia on YouTube by clicking here!Watch my TEDx Talk: I Dream of ChickensFind Welcome to Chickenlandia on:FacebookInstagram Twitter Write to us!Welcome to Chickenlandia™2950 Newmarket Street, Ste 101, PBM 125Bellingham, WA 98226Disclaimer Notice: The content of the Welcome to Chickenlandia YouTube Channel, podcast, website, blog, vlog, and all social media is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional veterinarian advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Dependence on any information appearing on the Welcome to Chickenlandia YouTube Channel, website, blog, vlog, and social media sites is entirely at your own risk. Please do your own research and make your own informed decisions regarding the health of your chickens.The President of Chickenlandia has a new book now available called Let's All Keep Chickens! Order yours today by clicking here.

Megan and Michelle distract themselves with weird documentaries, tickle cells, Fraggles, holding ducks accountable, air guitar(ing), competitive endurance tickling, “real” pets, and a cacophony of chickens.Documentaries (IMDB listings):- Chicken People (2016)- Well Groomed (2019)- Air Guitar Nation (2006)- Tickled (2016)Want to support Prosecco Theory?Become a Patreon subscriber and earn swag!Check out our merch, available on teepublic.com!Follow/Subscribe wherever you listen!Rate, review, and tell your friends!Follow us on Instagram!****************Ever thought about starting your own podcast? From day one, Buzzsprout gave us all the tools we needed get Prosecco Theory off the ground. What are you waiting for? Follow this link to get started. Cheers!!

Show Open1:50: A chicken update.5:00: Clark's Fork, short history of Pompey's Pillar and Lewis and Clark.7:40: Recap of Nat Geo's special on Lewis and Clark.9:35: Recap of Chicken People documentary.12:50: We're back and the Little Green Clean machine.15:30: Incoherency and seedlings and growing plants.18:57: Adversity stimulates growth and a study in James.20:33: JR's shoulder injury, resistance and strength training.23:03: God designed us to make us strong through resistance.24:38: Violin recitals, kid failures, and mom differences.27:30ish: How hard do we push our kids?27:50: A liberal bias and the way men are floundering in America.30:28: High tolerance for spicy is a sign of high testosterone.34:XX: The eradication of masculinity in pop culture.36:35: Boys need the symmetry of men and women in the home.Too Busy to Flush Telegram GroupGet $10 in Bitcoin! (Gemini App)Pique Tea - Referral Link (Website)38:04: Tucker Carlson's advice for young people.41:30: Show Close

Parrots, swans, and chickens, oh my! Zoë shares three of her favorite Regency Romances that feature avian meet-cutes. Pick up any of the books from today's podcast:Get Thee off my Lawn by Daria VernonHen Fever by Olivia WaiteThe Wallflower Wager by Tessa DareZoe also mentioned a documentary you can watch on Prime called Chicken People.Join us on Patreon at patreon.com/tnstrumpets!Subscribe to our email list to learn what we're reading next month, for fun extras, and more!Follow us on Instagram @tnstrumpetsFollow us on Twitter @tnstrumpetsFind us on Facebook facebook.com/tnstrumpetsAnd subscribe to us on YouTube!

Down on the Docs - Ep. 27 - Chicken People (2022)   Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/NeX5wVfYgM Down on the Docs, starring comedians Chris Neff & Dave Sarra, is a weekly podcast breaking down the latest documentaries on Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Prime the only way they know how, with lots of dumb jokes. Twitter: https://twitter.com/downonthedocs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/downonthedocspod/ Chris Neff: https://twitter.com/chrisneffcomedy https://www.instagram.com/horsetooth Dave Sarra https://twitter.com/davexhale https://www.instagram.com/dave.sarra https://youtube.com/DaveSarra

Jeriney is known to watch some strange things on TV. She tells us about the latest documentary called "Chicken People" on Prime Video!

The Butter Crew is wetting their beaks with their new Movie-Grab-Bag theme and discussing an assortment of films we enjoy! Connor kicks us off with the 2016 documentary Chicken People! Does this film portray the art of breeding and presenting show-chickens as maudlin escapism or with a tasteful tenderness? Would we eat the hypothetical chickens we would each hypothetically raise? And, when put to the test, which chickens would each member of the Crew be? Tune in to find out!

In this episode, Dave from Kind Supply drops by to share some blue dream with us. While Dave is said to have the best GMO in Oklahoma, this Blue Dream also ranks up there. Recording in the back of the Kush Dispo, Katy, Chris and Marshall enjoy an entertaining episode while being uplifted by the wonderful flower Dave brought!

Sarah explains why breaking up in your thirties is a whole different experience. Sarah describes her "Little Mermaid" cocktail event. Susie talks about a documentary on chicken breeding that she thought would be funny, but was surprisingly insightful about loneliness, healing, and community. We hear about a game show where men have to guess whether women are fat or pregnant. Susie explains why board games are a problem for underrepresented groups. We discuss the 1st century Roman relic that turned up at a Goodwill for $35 and Sarah gives tips for finding amazing thrift store treasures. Join our book club, shop our merch, sign-up for our free newsletter, & more by visiting The Brain Candy Podcast website: Connect with us on social media: BCP Instagram: Susie's Instagram: Sarah's Instagram: BCP Twitter: Susie's Twitter: Sarah's Twitter: More podcasts at WAVE:

14 years ago, a podcast started. Perhaps you have heard of it? It's called the OSMcast, your podcast for everything awesome. 14 years later, against all odds, they posted a new episode coincidently on the same day. And that episode? This one. The one you are listening to right now! And this time we are talking about Centaurworld, a cool cartoon for cool people that like cool things created by Megan Nicole Dong, with songs by Dong and Dominic Bisignano. It's a Netflix show so chances are you can go watch it immediately after listening to this episode.OSMnotes14 years. Wow. Also, yikes. But wow. Here's to 14 more? I guess we should point out that this episode was recorded in the distant past, aka in 2021. A month or two before the second chunk of episodes came out for Centaurworld. Therefore, one could imagine that another episode covering the second half will happen. One could. Alas, we also never finished the Legend of Korra, Hellsing Ultimate, and shoot even Steven Universe had a movie and sequel short series after we thought we had wrapped that up. Then again, we did power through all that Evangelion! So hey! It could happen. But now, Time Cues: We Start OSMcast!ing – 0:00General Gabbing, So how about then Evas? – 0:36OSMplugs (Discord, Patreon) – 2:22Moments of OSM – 6:33Kevin: Get in the Car, Loser! – 6:57Dylan: Old Gods of Appalachia – 11:33Basil: Lost Judgement – 16:07John: Melty Blood: Type Lumina – 19:21Doug:Free Guy – 23:25Chicken People on CuriosityStream, also on Amazon Prime – 24:38Centaurworld (Season One)Centaurworld (Season One), Sans Spoilers – 28:41Centaurworld (Season One), Full of Spoilers – 48:42OSMs Out of OSM and Final Thoughts – 1:37:54And as always, feel free to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! And if you still use Spotify, go ahead and get on that mobile device and throw us some five starts there too. Tell your friends! As well, just like we mentioned in the OSMplugs, you can also join the Discord and support us on Patreon!  

If you've ever watched "Best In Show," replace the dogs with chickens and you end up with "Chicken People"! That's the doc Tig and Cheryl are cluckin' about on today's very Ohio episode of True Story! Tig and Cheryl also take a moment at the top of the episode to talk about events outside the usual scope of the podcast. *this episode spills beans* Get merch at podswag.com/truestory (tigandcheryltruestory@gmail.com)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Back in 2016, someone made a documentary about three lovely people who liked to raise and show chickens and all these years later, we are the beneficiaries of this work of art. Listen in as Misty and Amarilys talk about this documentary in between some ridiculous discussions having nothing to do with this film. It's what they do best, after all. Talk about nothing while still talking about everything. As always, if you enjoy what you hear, please rate and review. OTD is found on all major social platforms. We always love a voice mail so click the link below and let us know what's on your mind! Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/onthedoc/message

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 334, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Let's Play Chicken 1: This canned tuna company has been using a mermaid on its logo since 1952. Chicken of the Sea. 2: This fast food chain told us to "Save the Chickens...Eat a Whopper". Burger King. 3: The unofficial theme song of this Warner Brothers blabberbeak is "Camptown Races"...doo dah. Foghorn Leghorn. 4: It's often performed at wedding receptions. Funky chicken. 5: Created by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, his secret identity was Henry Cabot Henhaus III. Super Chicken. Round 2. Category: People Of The Month 1: She was the "She-Wolf of London" on film before starring in TV's "Lassie" and "Lost in Space". June Lockhart. 2: This Spaniard's 1984 duet with Willie Nelson, "To All The Girls I've Loved Before", was a Top 10 hit. Julio Iglesias. 3: Mike Nichols' former comedy partner, she co-wrote the "Tootsie" screenplay but was uncredited. Elaine May. 4: In the 1980s this golfer was the leading money winner 3 times on the Senior PGA circuit. Don January. 5: This Swedish playwright represented himself as "The Stranger" in his trilogy "To Damascus". August Strindberg. Round 3. Category: Food For Thought 1: These snack "nuts" bear the name of a vegetable that also grows in a pod. peanuts. 2: Too much of this, whether saturated or polyunsaturated, can permanently damage brain tissue. fat. 3: These seeds are crushed to a paste and mixed with sugar, verjuice and white wine by the people of Dijon. mustard seeds. 4: Whether laksa or soba, to use this is to think. your noodle. 5: This corn oil brand was first sold in 1911 in a can with a drawing of a corn cob forming the body of an Indian girl. Mazola. Round 4. Category: "Mid" Terms 1: Cinderella's deadline. midnight. 2: A crop top is designed to leave this part of the body bare. the midriff. 3: This word completes the proverb “DonÂ't change horses in...”. midstream. 4: Even Rachel in the Bible had one of these women to help her deliver her baby. a midwife. 5: ItÂ's where your tympanic membrane is located. the middle ear. Round 5. Category: Chemistry Experiments 1: You can use these, made by blowing soap film through a wand, to detect carbon dioxide. bubbles. 2: To learn about different types of molecules, note that salt will do this in water but flour won't. dissolve. 3: Wet steel wool in a jar helps demonstrate the formation of this; so does an old car. rust. 4: Use the dye from boiled red cabbage to tell alkalis apart from these, like lemon juice. acids. 5: By putting silver and aluminum together in a solution, you can remove tarnish, caused by this element with the symbol S. sulfur. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Carmen and Kirk talk about Norm Macdonald, the documentary Chicken People, the latest Jake Paul fight, and more.

In this episode Ric & Mat dissect the Amazon Prime documentary “Chicken People"   Ric & Mat find beauty in a dark world as well as the strangest book from the 1800's which is sill in print. Did anyone buy a copy?   Chicken and humans were not harmed in the watching of this documentary or in the making of it, well a few were but that was a genuine accident, or was it?...........................     *** As always each episode contains passion, intelligence, spoilers,  feathers & jokes ***   DiscussingDocumentaries.com   https://www.facebook.com/DiscussingDocumentaries   DiscussingDocumentaries@gmail.com   Tweet us @DiscussDocPod    

We get real personal--like medical records personal. Then we analyze the Popeye's chicken sandwich craze... what is going on? LeBron adds an extension on the 'I Promise School,' for the kids and their families. And the NBA is back in full swing! We have some teams in new positions. Looking interesting!

Today: Sarah worked a chicken people party and Greg is fascinated by it, what is a chicken party and how does it work, mojitos with Fidel Castro, flying first class and a professional candy taster, Walmart to Waffle House, Blazer win first game, and more - have a great afternoon all!

Our first phone interview!  Brian Knox of the (awesome) documentary "Chicken People" joins us to talk about his breeding program, the quest of breeding 15,000 chickens to get to the perfect show chicken. You can email Brian and buy some of his birds - salessugarhillpoultry@gmail.com And you can watch some of his presentations here Ohio Nationals is November 9&10 2019 this year!   WHAT WE NEED MOST is for you to share this episode with your friends! Follow us on instagram @enoughtobedangerous or Facebook

A documentary about chickens has captured Greg's attention and we think it will for you too. Chicken People is both great and.....sad? It's great. Sarah is also back to watching horrifying Lifetime movies. In World of Crazy: Nickelodeon, Dog Mayor, Don't Take An AC. Ball Talk: OSUBB, World Cup BK on VK, Russian Beer, Team Japan. Plus, our brand new "Summer Sale" ad, that you'll have to hear to believe....there's a camel involved.

Do you feel like you are watching the same movie over and over? Are you asking yourself, “how many of these movies were made?” You could have a severe case of Sequelitis!!! Sequels Better Than the Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6tvRqVCSac What Makes a Sequel Good?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEeoRgqj0Vc Deadpool 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20bpjtCbCz0 Chicken People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Q8DHr4vv8 Bad Samaritan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZiNWzqll04 Email us at itsgoingtogetstupid@gmail.com Find us on Twitter @IGTGSshow, Instagram @itsgoingtogetstupid, and connect with us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/itsgoingtogetstupid/ http://www.itsgoingtogetstupid.com/

In this episode: You get a flamethrower, you get a flamethrower, and you get a flamethrower (thanks to Elon Musk, of course). Movie Pass says, ‘Step aside Netflix, we’re making our own movies too.” And oddball documentary “Chicken People” pleasantly surprises us.   Welcome to the Stream Team Show! Join Saeed and Cherie Gatson on their weekly podcast covering what to watch on platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. Subscribe to the show in your favorite podcasting app. Learn more about the Stream Team at

We chat to the director of Chicken People Nicole Lucas Haimes.

I tarried a hair today. I have excuses. But hearing excuses is not why you hired me. Sigh. So I'm hammering away at these keys and jumping back and forth between multiple windows to get this thing posted before midnight tonight. Nothing like a deadline to intensify one's focus!* That pressure aside, let's look at another force that affects certain of us who try to help save the world from time to time: The role of Supporter When you live life as a supporter, you run the risk of helping too much; being too enthusiastic; spreading your net too wide, catching more types of people than you care to. You can shoot yourself in your own foot, if you're not careful. I've been struggling with being someone who can't help but try to support at all times and doing so in a way that actually benefits both me and the ones I'm trying to help. Given time, I'll potentially stomp your guts out with the best of intentions This is where personal development practices, maturity, hard earned wisdom, and proper mentoring all come into play to produce a more metered approach as I attempt to give all in a way that doesn't smother the recipient. It's a fucking chore at times. Maybe you can relate? *(Finished with 3 minutes to go!) Subscribe To OJ Podcast! Sponsors: Family Network Chiropractic in Kingston, NY: The only providers of NSA Chiropractic in the Mid-Hudson Valley Maximum Results Fitness w/ Mike Romano: Online Training with Individually Customized Support Key Points: I couldn't stop supporting people even if I tried. What do you feel similarly about that you could turn into a platform? When I try to build with others, it often falls flat; I do most of the work and others can't maintain what I've built in my absence I get nowhere when directly trying to lead people to my work: Facebook ads are how I will passively lead people to my info Most of my best info has come from outside the system - from left field The people part of business has to be done right or the business, itself, will never prosper If you know something that others don't or have a unique way of sharing something familiar, you need to get it out there for those who will only hear it from you Thousands of others know how to do this better than me but millions more don't! (Paraphrased from the movie "Chicken People") I walk a tough line between sharing my old bipolar info in a way that doesn't draw me into people's pain and my new focus on showing people how to live life on their terms You have to know yourself as well as possible so that you can build anything at all in the way best suited to someone like you If you are building or maintaining an audience, be consistent with your delivery of updated content! It separates you from the herd! Links: Human Design Report: Mine shows I work best in response to things When I try to build something with others, it often blows up AdEspresso: How I intend to leverage Facebook in my favor Jason Leister: The first person to clarify that I work best in response to things My Kolbe results say I am designed for idea creation and information spreading "Chicken People": The movie I got the quote from "You'd Have Made A Great Jew! My book was contraband in an Israeli psychiatric lockdown ward Wealth Dynamics Entrepreneur Type Test: Where I first found out I am a Supporter "Best In Show": This movie belongs in your head. You're welcome! The photographer of this post's featured photo: rawpixel.com

My Life as a Zucchini, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Chicken People were discussed. With Thomas Caldwell, Emma Westwood and Alicia Sometimes.

A chicken about town What if there were chickens everywhere in your town? While towns all over the world argue about whether or not to allow their citizens to own chickens, other towns have taken a different approach.  They allow flocks of feral chickens to run all over town! I had thought that you had to go to a place like Guatemala to find a town enlightened enough to let their chickens run free, but it turns out there was a town, much, much closer! Amber and I visited Yuba City, Ca, which is just such a town.  We had no idea that fate had delivered us directly into a flock of feral chickens.  How do they survive?  How do the locals feel?  What about other cities?  Would you believe that one city has taken advantage of their 300 member strong chicken population, and even have a yearly festival?  We'll tell you all about it! Also in this weeks show; we're moving to a new town!  Amber bought a house, and the chickens have far greener pastures ahead!  Pardon us while we make the transition.  An episode might be late here and there, but were not going away any time soon!  Moving to a new town means starting all over with our chicken yard, chicken coop, our whole chicken set up. Stay tuned to future episodes and follow along as we show you how we make a new home for our chickens! Amber has Medieval Christian Chickens in her Cabinet of Curiosities this week!  What did Christian Medieval Monastics have to do with your hens wonderful personality?  Amber takes a deep dive back into chicken history to bring you the curious history of Friar Tuck and Fryer Turken. We've been really busy with the move, theres a lot of work to do on the new house.  But we did get the chance to watch the movie "Chicken People"; An entertaining look at the world of show chickens.  Chicken shows may sound silly, but they're highly competitive, very exacting, and the competitors (ok, their people) take the shows very seriously.   The characters in the movie are complex and interesting, and theres lots of very, very pretty birds to look at.  If you've been curious about chicken shows, the movie gives the audience a good look at the workings of chicken competition. Let us know what you think of the show in the comments or on our Facebook page; we look forward to hearing from you!

"The Birth of a Nation" has not only got Oscar buzz, it's got built-in controversy. So Neil Rosen, Bill McCuddy and Bill Bregoli take a look at this much talked about directorial debut by Nate Parker. We also look at the family film"The Great Gilly Hopkins" as well as "Microbe and Gasoline," which is the latest charmer from director Michel Gondry. Taking a break from the movies, the two Bills talk about HBO's new series "Westworld." Oh and there's also a documentary about competitive chicken farming (we can't make this stuff up) called "Chicken People." It's finger licken' good and it's all right here. 

We saw the Jarred Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) directed comedy 'Masterminds' starring Kristin Wiig, Zack Galifianakis, Jason Sedeikis, Owen Wilson and Kate Mckinnon - plus a documentary called 'Chicken People' (yes really).  Perhaps the most entertaining part of the show is when Anthony and Darren read and re-enact the text conversation they had deciding on which movie to see, and where.  It's.. dramatic.  

It's a Bus of Love, all right!? This week we have another director's lottery on our hands, the winner was Sam Wood - we decided to join the Marx Brothers for a Night at the Opera. Elsewhere on the show, we are covered by surreal Scandanavian black comedy Men & Chicken, lilting Japanese drama Sweet Bean, Fritz Lang wartime Noir Hangmen Also Die and the newest addition to the Second Run Stable - People of the Mountains. Let's not forget this week's mammoth Question of the Week which isn't TOO offensive.

JAYSON DINSMORE serves as executive vice president of development for CMT, where he leads growth and programming of all original series and oversees the development teams in the network’s Los Angeles and Nashville offices. Since joining the network in February 2011, Dinsmore has redefined the brand’s creative filter, doubled the number of series in development and launched the most successful shows in the network’s history. Under his leadership, CMT saved“Nashville” and notched the network’s highest ever ratings for an original series with the scripted comedy “Still The King” (2016). In unscripted, Dinsmore launched some of the brand’s biggest hits including “Broken Skull Challenge” (2014), “Party Down South” (2014) and “I Love Kellie Pickler” (2015). Additionally, he created a critically acclaimed documentary division (“Urban Cowboy: The Rise of Fall of Gilley’s,” “Johnny Cash: American Rebel,” “The Bandit,” and “Chicken People”). Dinsmore spent over a decade at NBC Entertainment where he served in several capacities including Senior Vice President, Alternative Development, and Vice President of Alternative Programming & Development (“Deal or No Deal,” “The Sing-Off,” “Minute To Win It,” “The Restaurant” and “Three Wishes”) and was an Executive Producer on such shows as “Last Comic Standing” and “I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!”  On the specials front, Dinsmore has overseen production on the Tournament of Roses and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades, Miss USA and Miss Universe Pageants, and the Golden Globes.  The Hollywood Reporter named Dinsmore as “one to watch” in their 2012 “Reality TV: THR’s 50 Most Powerful List,” and in 2015 he was named to Variety’s Music City Impact Report for his influence on Nashville.

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This ep: Bob Siegfried of MidAtlantic Farm Sensors on wiring up your farm for better management, plus John McCauley of Chicken People returns to recommend the best bird to start with if you're new to pasturing livestock. Interested in entering the contest mentioned in the episode? Use this link to participate. It's April 1, 2016 at time of writing; the draw will be held in a couple of weeks.