Podcasts about infinity stones

Another week, another dive into the 2015 Secret Wars Event pool. This time, Hayley and Brian read the Infinity Gauntlet tie-in comics. Thanos is at it again, trying to acquire all of the Infinity Stones, but has multiple factions trying to stop him, including Zigzag the dog of the Bakian Clan. See below for the guide that we are using as a reference for this read-through.https://marvelguides.com/part-17-secret-warsComics Read: Secret Wars (2015) Infinity Gauntlet: # 1 - 5EMAIL: SPARCPODCAST@GMAIL.COMTWITTER: https://twitter.com/SourcePagesCastINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thesourcepagespodcast/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SPARCPODCASTSPaRC's Podcast Buddies:Across the Bifrost: The Mighty Thor - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/across-the-bifrost-the-mighty-thor-podcast/id1572200841Dan and Ian Have Questions - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-and-ian-have-questions-podcast/id1587402809Commute: The Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/commute-the-podcast/id1552657624Segabits - https://segabits.com/Machtails From the Cantina - https://www.facebook.com/machtailsfromthecantina/Rebel Force Radio Presents "The Babu Freaks" - https://www.rebelforceradio.com/shows/category/BaJacked Kirby - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-kirby/id1248146026So Weird So Fun - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/so-weird-so-fun-swsf-friends-through-fandom/id1793135012Star Wars YOU-niverse - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/star-wars-you-niverse-podcast/id1704904756

Buckle up, Puny Pod listeners! In a rare detour from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ryan cashes in on his hard-earned bet victory, forcing us to swap Infinity Stones for NOS canisters as we watch The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift! Join us as we break down the high-speed action, questionable Southern accents, and the surprising MCU connections hidden in this fan-favorite Fast & Furious installment. Is Tokyo Drift the true underdog of the franchise? Does Han deserve his legendary status? And most importantly—how would Dominic Toretto fare in the Avengers? Hit play and drift along with us for this high-octane, off-the-rails episode! Themes by J.R. Trimpe: https://trimpe.org/ ---------------- Support the show! Check out our super secret spoiler show on the EarzUp! Patreon Visit us on Etsy for the official Puny Pod Merch Come say hi on Discord! Subscribe on iTunes Start your own podcast with Zencastr

Welcome to Week In Geek Wednesday! That's right, we've spun off our quick-hits segment of entertainment and interesting bits of internet debris into its own show! This week, we run down Uncle Todd's first ever indie wrestling show, The Man They Call Tim being initiated into a college fraternity almost 30 years after graduation, and a ton of MCU news!   FULL VIDEO EPISODES! That's right folks, you can see our bright smiling idiotic faces in full color on our YouTube channel. Full episodes available as well as clips.   LINKS OF INTEREST: - Rest easy Star Wars and Marvel fans, we shan't have an Incursion between the two beloved franchises - Another article that supports the rumor that Dr. Doom may layeth the smacketh down on Kang's candyass - Will Loki be the next Avengers Duology's version of the Infinity Stones? - Russo brothers confirm that Tony Stark's death is part of Dr. Doom's story   ...AND ANOTHER THING: The Man They Call Tim suggests watching "WWE Rivals" on A&E Uncle Todd suggests checking out Limitless Wrestling in Maine or watching them on YouTube   FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL MEDIAS: Facebook - http://facebook.com/freerangeidiocy Instagram - http://instagram.com/freerangeidiocy YouTube - http://youtube.com/@freerangeidiocy

You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been, on this week's Strat Sesh!TommyB and SFD look to the past for wisdom, first as they revisit Tommy's solo episode on value gains during the playoffs, and look back on the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl. Then, Hogue lays the groundwork for hunting for Infinity Stones at the WR position: what are the qualifications? Which players get eliminated from consideration? And who are the 2025 Infinity Stones? History has those answers, the guys are just here to report the findings, on this week's Strat Sesh!************* JOIN THE SFSS DISCORD SERVER HERE FOR THE SUPERSIZED, ONGOING CONVERSATION ON SUPERFLEX!! ************* The SuperFlex SuperShow – one of many great podcasts from the Dynasty League Football (@DLFootball) Family of Podcasts – is hosted by John Hogue (@SuperFlexDude) and Tommy Blair (@FFTommyB), and always dedicated in loving memory to James “The Brain” Koutoulas. Featuring weekly dynasty football content focused on superflex, 2QB and other alternate scoring settings. Special thanks to Heart and Soul Radio for their song, “The Addiction,” and special thanks to the Dynasty League Football Family of Podcasts and the entire DLF staff for the ongoing support! Stay Sexy… and SuperFlex-y!

In this episode of Open Collar, Cory and Steve dive into another jam-packed discussion, starting with—of course—more technical hiccups that delayed the show. Cory's Family Disneyland Trip: Cory shares highlights from his recent trip to Disneyland, including family adventures and favorite attractions. Movie A Day Update: Cory catches us up on his ongoing Movie A Day challenge, sharing standout films from the week. Geek News: Daredevil: Born Again Trailer: The guys break down the new trailer, giving their thoughts on the tone, action, and expectations for the series. DCU Casting News and Rumors: They discuss recent confirmed casting choices for the DCU and speculate on intriguing rumors swirling around upcoming projects. And as always, there's all this and more! Catch the full episode to join the conversation.

The universe is at stake as Thanos has arrived!  The mad titan is on a quest to acquire the Infinity Stones and bring forth his genocide to the universe.  It is up to Earth's Avengers plus heroes from across the galaxy to stop him.  Will they succeed or will the landscape of everyone's very existence be changed forever!  We discuss the fantastic film Avengers: Infinity War for Long's birthday pick this year! We also tlak some things we watched, the Daredevil Born Again trailer, and more!  Plus a preview of next week's film, Wanted! Visit us for all episodes & more at the www.therebelradiopodcast.com Please leave us a 5-Star review on iTunes! You can also find us on Spotify iHeartRadio Follow us on Facebook

This week, we continue to collect members of the Ocean's gang like Infinity Stones, as we find Danny playing a convincing soldier and compelling leading man in a 90s geo-political thriller that feels like a total forgotbuster, despite starring two massive movie stars and launching DreamWorks as a studio. It's 1997's The Peacemaker, directed by Mimi Leder, and starring George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iureș, Aleksandr Baluev, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Holt McCallany, Goran Višnjić, and Michael Boatman. One of the Cloondog's early jumps from ER star to silverscreen leading man, this movie is also deeply tied to ER as a production. Clooney unquestionably has the juice however, and the movie's 90s thriller sensibilities -- while not as refined as some of its contemporaries -- still feels like something of a lost art, a type of movie we just don't get enough of these days. If you'd like to watch the movie before listening to our discussion, it is not available to stream in Canada but can be rented on YouTube and Cineplex. Other works discussed on this episode include The X-Files, Groundhog Day, Source Code, The X-Files: Fight The Future, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, You've Got Mail, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thelma, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, The Beekeeper, The Art of War, The Foreigner, Superman Returns, Strangers on a Train, Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, The House, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, The Bourne Identity, Clear and Present Danger, Mission: Impossible, Batman & Robin, The Green Hornet, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Pay It Forward, On The Basis Of Sex, The Leftovers, The Morning Show, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Three Kings, The Men Who Stare At Goats, 24, Burn After Reading, Michael Clayton, Out of Sight, Twisters and Legally Blonde. Next week, we're switching things up and going back to Hayley's new VHS stack to talk one of the all-time great westerns: 1992's Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood's deconstruction of the genre that made him famous and a worthy winner of Best Picture Oscar gold. Unforgiven is streaming on Crave in Canada and Max in the US. Until then, we'll see you at the movies!!

Today's episode Matthew and Nort review the 2019 American superhero film Avengers: Endgame based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the direct sequel to Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).  In 2018, 23 days after Thanos erased half of all life in the universe, Carol Danvers rescues Tony Stark and Nebula from deep space. They reunite with the remaining Avengers—Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, and James Rhodes—and Rocket on Earth. Locating Thanos on an uninhabited planet, they plan to use the Infinity Stones to reverse his actions but find that Thanos has destroyed them. Enraged, Thor decapitates Thanos. We are a comedy movie review podcast where Matthew & Nort take turns watching and reviewing a movie the other host has not seen. They go over the entire plot with spoilers and discuss how they feel about the film. They also talk about fun facts, box office, actors, and how the movie impacted us.Join our Patreon to support the show and get ad-free podcast episodes, full access to our exclusive Patron Discord, and get access to a secret podcast called Flight School where we watch and review a TV Pilot voted on by the Patrons! You get all of that for the low price of $5! Sources for So, You Finally Watched Support the lovely people who created stuff for the show:Art by: Meraki2019Deep Voice by: MarlarIntro music by: Ozeyzin GET THE MERCH!Scroll down the page to find our shows! GET THE CHIBI SHIRT!https://encounterco-shop.fourthwall.com/pages/byshow We are a part of The Encounter Co. network! Check out all the other awesome shows on the network! Follow us on Twitter at:Show: @SYFWPodNort's Twitter: @NortSauwceOther Socials:Instagram: SoyoufinallywatchedpodTik Tok: SyfwpodcastYouTube: So, You Finally Watched Podcast If you liked the show be sure to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify so we can get the word out about our show! Also tell a friend or two! Thanks for listening!  Nort has another podcast with his co-host and wife Anna called Reading isn't for Kids! The pair review and discuss children chapter books, YA books, and sometimes comics. Check it out here! If you want to check out Nort's actual play podcast click this link! The show is called Grim Encounters and it is a campy horror actual play podcast using the Chill 3rd Edition ruleset for seasons 1-3 and season 4 is a campy sci-fi Fallout setting. Best place to start is Season 1, Season 2, or Season 4.

It's a Discord AMA to usher in the Non-Point-Scoring Season on this week's Strat Sesh!SuperFlexDude goes solo with TommyB on assignment/in the basement, but the with the SuperFriends, you're never alone! SFD tackles questions from the Discord on 2024 reflection and 2025 NPSS prep; from process beliefs strengthening/solidifying/dying to retooling a championship roster, SuperFriends aren't entirely done with the 2024 season just yet. And from approaching rookie drafts and draft picks, to shuffling rookie picks into startup ADP, SuperFriends are already on to 2025. Plus, the 2024 Infinity Stones (everyone is chasing Chase), and Hogue gushes over Lamar Jackson in an embarrassing display that has been a long time coming. All that and more, on this week's solo Strat Sesh!********** JOIN THE SFSS DISCORD SERVER HERE FOR THE SUPERSIZED, ONGOING CONVERSATION ON SUPERFLEX!! ********** The SuperFlex SuperShow – one of many great podcasts from the Dynasty League Football (@DLFootball) Family of Podcasts – is hosted by John Hogue (@SuperFlexDude) and Tommy Blair (@FFTommyB), and always dedicated in loving memory to James “The Brain” Koutoulas. Featuring weekly dynasty football content focused on superflex, 2QB and other alternate scoring settings. Special thanks to Heart and Soul Radio for their song, “The Addiction,” and special thanks to the Dynasty League Football Family of Podcasts and the entire DLF staff for the ongoing support! Stay Sexy… and SuperFlex-y!

Welcome to Day 55 of the Apocalypse. Closing out our Kobe year with a bang. The Samurai Pros are back!!! The boys discussed the Christmas holiday. They discuss the Beyoncé's halftime performance. The discussion then shifts to a conversation about the internet's reaction to Travis Hunter and his fiancée. It's that time of year again, time for our annual This Year In P*rn wrap-up, where they go over: favorite times to watch, how long people are spending on these sites, top searches, what each generation is watching, needing to submit government ID to access P*rnhub, Sophie Rain, and much more. Let's Chop It Up! Rate, Comment, and Subscribe. It helps the podcast to grow. Intro | Rocking A Cardigan In Atlanta - Lil Shordie Scott Vibes of the Week Frank |  Marvin | Anyways - Gen Ballo Vibes of the Week Playlist:  https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/samurai-professionals-vibes-of-the-week/pl.u-oZylld9FR8Be5G  Please visit us at TheSamuraiPros.com Leave us a voice note. We'll play it on then show.  Follow the hosts on social all social platforms: Instagram | @TheSamuraiPros  Twitter | @TheSamuraiPros  Marvin | @MarvinxAdams  Frank | @iCanOnlyBeFrank Don't forget to tag #TheSamuraiPros or @ us to let us know what you think of this week's episode!

THE END IS HERE!! What If Season 3 Full Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ What If...? Season 3 Episode 8 Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review w/ Greg Alba & Coy Jandreau (Dc Studios Comics Correspondent)! Join Greg and Coy as they delve into the series finale titled "What If... The Watcher Disappeared?"  In this climactic episode, The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) is kidnapped by a higher council led by The Eminence (Jason Isaacs). A formidable rescue team assembles, including Captain Carter (Hayley Atwell), Ultron wielding the Infinity Stones (voiced by Ross Marquand), Byrdie—the daughter of Howard the Duck—Storm from the X-Men wielding Mjolnir (Alison Sealy-Smith), and others. Together, they embark on a daring mission to liberate The Watcher, culminating in an epic battle for freedom. This finale masterfully intertwines various Marvel universes, delivering a satisfying conclusion to the season. Throughout Season 3, audiences have encountered a diverse array of characters, including Sam Wilson/Captain America (Anthony Mackie), Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), and many more, each bringing unique perspectives to the multiversal tapestry. Next up is Captain America Brave New World, Fantastic Four, Daredevil Born Again, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Avengers Doomsday, Avengers Secret Wars Follow Coy Jandreau:  Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this epic episode of Puny Pod, the hosts tackle the monumental Avengers: Endgame! Joined by special guest Erik, they revisit the ultimate showdown against Thanos, unpack the emotional arcs of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and debate the time-travel logic (or lack thereof). From tear-jerking moments to epic battle sequences, they leave no Infinity Stone unturned. With a mix of heartfelt reflections and hilarious banter, this discussion is a fitting tribute to one of the most iconic superhero movies of all time. Grab some tacos and tune in for the Endgame deep dive you've been waiting for! This is a 4 part episode! Part 1 contained the production details and our pre-movie analysis Part 2 is the first part of our breakdown of the movie Part 3 contains the rest of the movie from the 70's detour on Part 4 here has our final thoughts and rankings ---------------- Themes by J.R. Trimpe: https://trimpe.org/ Support the show! Check out our super secret spoiler show on the EarzUp! Patreon Visit us on Etsy for the official Puny Pod Merch Come say hi on Discord! Subscribe on iTunes Start your own podcast with Zencastr

In this epic episode of Puny Pod, the hosts tackle the monumental Avengers: Endgame! Joined by special guest Erik, they revisit the ultimate showdown against Thanos, unpack the emotional arcs of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and debate the time-travel logic (or lack thereof). From tear-jerking moments to epic battle sequences, they leave no Infinity Stone unturned. With a mix of heartfelt reflections and hilarious banter, this discussion is a fitting tribute to one of the most iconic superhero movies of all time. Grab some tacos and tune in for the Endgame deep dive you've been waiting for! This is a 4 part episode! Part 1 contained the production details and our pre-movie analysis Part 2 is the first part of our breakdown of the movie Part 3 here contains the rest of the movie from the 70's detour on Part 4 will have our final thoughts and rankings ---------------- Themes by J.R. Trimpe: https://trimpe.org/ Support the show! Check out our super secret spoiler show on the EarzUp! Patreon Visit us on Etsy for the official Puny Pod Merch Come say hi on Discord! Subscribe on iTunes Start your own podcast with Zencastr Audio from the following clips were used during the episode: On your Left: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAIzLj3mYTw Avengers Assemble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBJqTVTJJ8o

In this epic episode of Puny Pod, the hosts tackle the monumental Avengers: Endgame! Joined by special guest Erik, they revisit the ultimate showdown against Thanos, unpack the emotional arcs of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and debate the time-travel logic (or lack thereof). From tear-jerking moments to epic battle sequences, they leave no Infinity Stone unturned. With a mix of heartfelt reflections and hilarious banter, this discussion is a fitting tribute to one of the most iconic superhero movies of all time. Grab some tacos and tune in for the Endgame deep dive you've been waiting for! This is a 4 part episode! Part 1 contained the production details and our pre-movie analysis Part 2 here is the first part of our breakdown of the movie Part 3 will contain the movie breakdown Part 4 will have our final thoughts and rankings ---------------- Themes by J.R. Trimpe: https://trimpe.org/ Support the show! Check out our super secret spoiler show on the EarzUp! Patreon Visit us on Etsy for the official Puny Pod Merch Come say hi on Discord! Subscribe on iTunes Start your own podcast with Zencastr

In this epic episode of Puny Pod, the hosts tackle the monumental Avengers: Endgame! Joined by special guest Erik, they revisit the ultimate showdown against Thanos, unpack the emotional arcs of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and debate the time-travel logic (or lack thereof). From tear-jerking moments to epic battle sequences, they leave no Infinity Stone unturned. With a mix of heartfelt reflections and hilarious banter, this discussion is a fitting tribute to one of the most iconic superhero movies of all time. Grab some tacos and tune in for the Endgame deep dive you've been waiting for! This is a 4 part episode! Part 1 contains the production details and our pre-movie analysis. Parts 2 and 3 will contain the movie breakdown Part 4 will have our final thoughts and rankings ---------------- Themes by J.R. Trimpe: https://trimpe.org/ Support the show! Check out our super secret spoiler show on the EarzUp! Patreon Visit us on Etsy for the official Puny Pod Merch Come say hi on Discord! Subscribe on iTunes Start your own podcast with Zencastr

In this week's episode, I take a look back at the movies and TV shows I watched in Autumn 2024, and rate them from my least favorite to my favorite. TRANSCRIPT Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 230 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is December the Sixth, 2024, and today we are looking at my movie/TV show roundup for Fall 2024. Before we get to that, we'll have an update on my current writing projects and then we will do Question of the Week.   First up, I'm pleased to report that the rough draft of Orc Hoard is done at 78,000 words, so it'll probably end up being about exactly the same length as Half-Orc Paladin, the previous book in the series. I've also written a short story called Commander's Wrath that newsletter subscribers will get a free ebook copy of when Orc Hoard comes out and hopefully we're on track to have that out before Christmas. I'm also 7,000 words into Shield of Deception, which will be the fourth book in The Shield War series and if all goes well, I'm hoping to have that out in January or February. In audiobook news, recording is currently underway for Cloak of Masks and that will probably be out towards the end of January or perhaps February, depending on how long processing takes.   00:01:02 Question of the Week   Question of the Week is designed to inspire enjoyable discussions of interesting topics. This week's question, what do you listen to while working: genre of music, audiobooks, podcast, nothing else so you can concentrate, et cetera. No wrong answers obviously, and we had quite a few answers.   David says: I listen to audiobooks and music. Music ranges from classical to country to pop, bands and soul artists to instrumental. No rap or heavy metal or dance music or I listen to music from YouTube channels. If I have to really focus on what I'm doing, I'll turn it low so it doesn't distract.   Justin says: video game music is my first choice. It can help you grind in real life just like it does in the game. If that isn't working for me, then rock or classical music with movie soundtracks at third.   Brooks says: I tend to gravitate towards hard rock/punk rock. I have to stay adrenalized. Outside work, I'll listen to almost anything.   Michael says: I find I can't listen to words or lyrics without getting distracted by them, so instrumental music is the way to go. Usually video game music too (the Stelara soundtrack is particularly epic), movie scores (Kingdom of Heaven is one of my favorites), or Dungeon Synth, an amazing music genre I only discovered recently.   Barbara says: sometimes I play music while writing, but most of the time I prefer the silence so I can better hear the voices in my head. Of course, I prefer very specific types of music that always end up coming back no matter how much I try to stray.   Jenny says: lots of EDM and techno if words would distract me or my solid nineties pop punk angsty mix. I also have a giant one I called “I heard it in a video game” for background music. John says: When I did/could work, I enjoyed outlaw country music, particularly that from Texas. Put me in a kick butt and take names kind of mood. When you're a plumber who gets paid by the work done, not the hour, that's where one wants to be.   (A different) John says: I only listen to music when I'm working in the kitchen. I'm eclectic. Sometimes classical music, sometimes ‘80s prog rock with Hawaiian music and occasionally jazz tossed in.   Juana says: I like rock and roll from many eras. I put my eclectic music on shuffle. I also listen to movie soundtracks: Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Animal House, et al.   Brandy says: If I'm cooking, I listen to Pandora. There's a pop ‘90s - ‘20s station. I do have a few that are specifically listed, angry or sad, one more angry German metal or Mongolian throat metal, the other more goth and industrial. I read books instead of listening. If I'm proofing, I usually have something on in the background. Today it's Sanctuary Season One.   Morgan says: ADHD means I jump around a lot on what I'm listening to depending on the day, but audiobooks- usually fantasy or horror. Podcasts- Pathfinder actual play podcasts, horror podcasts, and wrestling/gaming news podcasts. Music, whatever artist/album I'm obsessing over at the time, but usually prog rock, metal, or rap.   Matthew says: I always have my iPad for background noise. If I'm particularly invested in getting chapters done, I'll put on something largely audible.   Gary says: audiobooks, podcasts, worship music, Christian hard rock.   Bob says: Retired now, but when I was working I didn't listen to anything-needed to concentrate on what I was doing. When paying bills, I sometimes have some Morse Code on in the background (one of my previous means of paying the bills). On long car trips, it's nice to have some distraction -whatever radio station I can find, preferably one with a story. In truck stops, we used to find some stories on disc that had the actors doing the voice of the characters and some of them were pretty good.   For myself, I almost always listen to music while I'm working and that genre is usually soundtracks and video games, movies, and TV shows (in that order) that I liked, which makes it difficult to discuss music with people, I have to admit. I do listen to podcasts when I'm working outside, so long as I'm not using a power tool that requires earplugs for safe operation (which sadly seems to be most of the time).   00:04:42 Main Topic: Autumn 2024 Movie/TV Review Roundup   Now on to our main topic, the review roundup of the movies and streaming shows I watched in Autumn 2024. I was going to do a combined Autumn/Winter 2024 one, but it was getting a bit too long, so Winter 2024/2025 will be its own post in a few months. I seemed to watch a lot of time travel movies this time around and quite a few with Space Magic. As ever, the grades are totally subjective and based on nothing more than my own thoughts and opinions. Now let's take a look at the movies and streaming shows from least favorite to most favorite.   First up is Escanaba in Da Moonlight, which came out in 2001 and it is a surrealist comedy about hunting traditions set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 42-year-old Reuben Sodi is the only man in his family who has never shot a buck, so when he complains about this to his Native American wife, she casts a spell to help Ruben bag his first buck, which results in a very bizarre nighttime journey/vision quest. This includes UFOs, visitations by nighttime spirits, and a Department of Natural Resources officer having a mental breakdown. This was a funny movie, but it was definitely very weird and even more specific. If you're at all familiar with the hunting culture of Upper American Midwest, you'll get the humor. If you're not familiar with it, this will be like watching a movie from another planet. Overall grade: C.   Next up is Looper, which came out in 2012. I didn't actually like this movie very much, but I respect how well done it was. Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Joe and is a type of assassin called a looper living in the US in 2044. About 30 years after 2044, time travel is invented but immediately outlawed. Since it's difficult to get away with murder in 2074 due to advanced technology, crime syndicates have taken to sending people they want eliminated back in time to 2044 where the loopers immediately execute the target in exchange for a big fat payout. Loopers can live like kings, but there's a price. Eventually the loop is closed and the looper's future self is sent back to be killed by his past self. Failure to comply results in an extremely grisly fate at the hands of the syndicate. Joe, being a hardened killer and drug addict, is fine with all this and even helps turn in a fellow looper who failed to close his own loop. Then Joe's future self arrives. Joe is about to kill Future Joe (played by Bruce Willis), but Future Joe escapes and Present Joe has to hunt down and kill Future Joe if he wants to survive.   In the process, Present Joe stumbles across the farm of a woman named Sarah (played by Emily Blunt) and her young son Sid. Present Joe realizes that future Joe has traveled back to kill the child, Sid, who will be responsible for the death of Future Joe's wife in the future. Despite everything he's done, Present Joe is not okay with this and gears up to help Sarah defend Sid from Future Joe. This movie was on the very dark side of noir filmmaking: no good characters, essentially only various degrees of bad people trying to navigate their way through the maze of time crimes. I did strongly dislike how fundamentally nihilistic the movie was and the addition of telekinesis did seem like kind of a plot crutch. There is also some unnecessary nudity. Rian Johnson is actually an excellent filmmaker. Knives Out and Glass Onion were both very good, but I cannot imagine how someone will watch Looper and think, hey, this guy is a good choice for a Star Wars movie. Overall Grade: B-   Next up is Agatha All Along, which came out in 2024. It was extremely well written and well-acted. You almost have to watch it twice just to admire how well put together the plot was. I wasn't expecting to like Agatha All Along, but it is an excellent example of writing a show with a villain protagonist and actually pulling it off. The show is also a good example of something I've talked about before on the podcast and the blog: characters can be likable, emotionally sympathetic, or both. It's sometimes tricky to write a character who's both, unlikable but emotionally sympathetic. By contrast, Agatha Harkness is an excellent example of a character who's both likable and highly, highly unsympathetic. Agatha All Along is indeed a show with a villain protagonist, but Agatha is charismatic enough to remain likable even though she's unquestionably an absolute monster who deserves every bit of suffering she endures.   Actress Kathryn Hahn deserves major credit for making someone as evil as Agatha so charismatic. Agatha retains just enough of a sliver of sympathy to keep the audience from turning on her, but even when she shows flashes of humanity, beneath that there are even more layers of monster. She also does a very sort of a modern Doctor Who/ Sherlock thing where she talks very fast and puts up a flippant and silly facade, but she's actually calculating things several steps in advance and manipulating everyone around her to her final goal. Anyway, the plot of Agatha All Along is that Agatha finally breaks free from the spell of the Scarlet Witch placed on here at the end of Wandavision. However, Agatha doesn't have any magic left, which is a major problem for her because she has very many enemies who very much want to see her dead as soon as possible, but then a mysterious teenager turns up and asks for Agatha's help. He wants to walk the legendary Witches' Road and it has said that someone who walks the road and survives to the end will receive their heart's desire. Since Agatha doesn't have any other options and she has some major enemies, she agrees. Agatha, the teenager, and the Witches' Road itself all have very dark secrets and their reveal makes for some major drama. As I mentioned, the show was very well written and acted. I suspect that may be the secret for movie or TV success in the 2020s economic climate: good actors, an excellent script, and keep your costs down. Overall grade: B   Our next movie is Field of Dreams, which came out in 1989. An Iowa farmer discovers he's a very specific kind of necromancer, like how sports medicine is a specific field of study. Maybe sports necromancy is a specific subclass for evil wizards or something. All joking aside, the main character is Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin Costner) and he's walking his cornfield one day and he hears a mysterious voice tell him “If you build it, he will come.” Ray builds a baseball field in one of his cornfields and began speaking to the ghost of Shoeless Joe, a popular baseball player who died in 1951. Soon a lot of other ghosts arrive and start playing baseball as well. The mysterious voice starts urging Ray to “ease his pain” and Ray concludes this must means Terrance Mann (played by James Earl Jones), an activist writer from the sixties who dropped out of the public eye and is living in seclusion. So Ray starts on a cross country trip to persuade Mann to come to his baseball field. This movie is really perhaps the ur-example of the Feel-Good Eighties Movies and maybe a Baby Boomer movie. The characters speak with near religious reverence for the ‘60s, baseball is the Great American Pastime, and Ray really wants to heal his relationship with the father he rebelled against back in the ‘60s. The best part of the movie was unquestionably James Earl Jones' character and his performance as he resigns himself to Ray's craziness and then starts to believe in it was pretty great. Overall grade: B Next up is Holiday, which came out in 1938. Holiday is a romantic comedy from the 1930s. Cary Grant plays Johnny Case, who has fallen in love with Julia Seton, the daughter of a wealthy New York banking family. However, his more individualistic outlook soon puts him at odds with Julia's more traditionalist family, though this draws the attention of Julia's elder sister Linda (played by Katharine Hepburn). It felt a bit like watching a play and a little research revealed that it was indeed based on a play from 1928, which may be why the film didn't do so well when it originally came out, though it is regarded as a classic today.   Viewers in the Great Depression era would probably find it difficult to sympathize with a man who wanted to turn down a well-paying job at a bank, not out of moral objections to the bank's business practices, but because he would feel constrained. The Seton family is played as eccentric and somewhat troubled, but not as buffoons or villains as rich people were often portrayed in other 1930s movies. Good performances and worth watching as a classic, though sound technology has improved quite a bit in the last 90 years, so you probably will want to watch it with the captions on. Overall grade: B   Next movie is Twisters, which came out in 2024. This is basically the same movie as Twister from back in 1995, but with some of the plot of Pride and Prejudice bolted on. Kate Carter (played by Daisy Edgar-Jones) is an Oklahoma storm chaser with her boyfriend and best friends. One day, one of their storm chases goes horribly wrong, killing Kate's boyfriend and most of their friends. Five years later, Kate is working for the National Weather Service in New York when her old friend Javi, the other survivor of that storm, asks for her help testing a new radar tracking system. Kate reluctantly agrees and they return to Oklahoma and crosses horns with storm YouTuber Tyler Owens (played by Glenn Powell) who makes videos of his truck shooting fireworks into tornadoes. Naturally, Kate and Tyler immediately misunderstand each other in the same way as in Pride and Prejudice but are forced to work together when it turns out that Javi's company might have ulterior motives. I thought this was a thoroughly enjoyable summer popcorn flick. Given how both Covid and the 2023 writers' strike hit this movie's production like two successive freight trains, it's astonishing it turned out so well. Overall grade: A-   Next up is The Rings of Power Season 2, which came out in 2024. I have the same attitude towards this as I do with Starfield. I really like it. In fact, my Xbox told me I played Starfield for 270 hours in 2024, but I get why some people do not. This show is essentially very elaborate fan fiction. The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, despite the changes from the book, was still recognizably The Lord of the Rings. The Rings of Power is almost entirely its own thing. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this for a couple of reasons and hope it continues. First, it's nice to have an epic fantasy TV series that's not a nihilistic pornographic torture fest like Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon and is more competently executed than Disney's ill-fated Willow Series.   Second, all things must be taken in their context. What do I mean by this? Perhaps a food comparison will illustrate the point. The book the Lord of the Rings is like Kobe beef prepared by the finest chefs in the world, the sort of experience you get maybe once or twice in your life if fortune smiles upon you. The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is like a high-quality supermarket steak grilled in the backyard by someone who's pretty good at it. The Rings of Power is like McDonald's, but there are times when you really want some McDonald's. In fact, I kind of want a Big Mac after saying all of that, but The Rings of Power is really good McDonald's, the kind of McDonald's you have after driving the car for 250 miles without stopping across one of America's flatter and less populous states. The only place to eat for like a hundred miles in any direction is this McDonald's in the same building as a gas station, so you stop and don't expect very much, but it turns out the fries are crispy and salty and the nuggets are just right.   I don't think it's surprising that The Rings of Power has had such a mixed reception. The Venn diagram of “enjoys Lord of the Rings” has some wildly divergent circles to it and that is a testament to the fact that the Lord of the Rings is such a great work of literature that so many people from so many very different ideological identity groups enjoy and identify with the book. Even ideological identity groups that are mortal foes agree on their approval of the Lord the Rings. So naturally each different group has its own strong opinion of what an adaptation should look like.   With that very long-winded introduction out of the way, I liked season two and I thought it was an improvement over Season One, a lot more narrative tension. Season One perhaps spent too much time setting the table and building context, but Season Two works well in making Season One better in hindsight. The Rings of Power version of Galadriel is improved in Season Two because she was one of the few characters in Season One able to throw off Sauron's mental domination and seduction. The highlight of the season was the toxic dynamic between Sauron and Celebrimbor.  Actors Charlie Vickers and Charles Edwards did an amazing job portraying the slow-moving disaster that Sauron and Celebrimbor's collaboration would create, two intellectual equals working together to create something great, but nonetheless, Sauron twists everything to his own ends. Their final scene together was just astonishingly good. The portrayal of Sauron is both very modern and true to Tolkien, a destructive narcissist who actually believes whatever lies he's speaking at any given moment. He really, truly believes he's going to heal Middle Earth, no matter how many people he has to kill to do it. The scenes with Prince Durin, his father, and one of the dwarven rings of power were great as well. It had the same sort of feel to it as an adult child watching with horror as a beloved parent succumbs to a drug addiction. The best new character the show created (in my opinion) is Adar, one of the progenitors of the orcs. Tolkien himself could never really decide on the origin of the orcs and came up with different thoughts throughout his lifetime. When editing The Silmarillion, Christopher Tolkien settled on the corrupted former elves version, which seems to be what his father had been leaning towards anyway. Rings of Power takes that to its logical conclusion. Adar wants his orcish progeny to live free of the dark lords Morgoth and Sauron, which makes sense because in the books, the orcs hated Morgoth and Sauron and only served them out of fear. Indeed, in The Lord of the Rings, Sauron seems to have secret police and informers among the orcs to keep track of their loyalties. Since the show displays how twisted and cruel Sauron really is, it makes sense that Adar is willing to go to any lengths to stop Sauron, no matter how extreme. The orcs are still monsters, including Adar himself, but they're monsters who want to be free of an even greater monster than themselves. If you've read The Silmarillion or The Lord of the Rings, you'll know all the characters' efforts are doomed to failure, especially Adar and Celebrimbor's, which lends an air of inevitable tragedy to everything that happens. I know some people were mad that Tom Bombadil was basically Wizard Yoda, but I thought it worked. Tom Bombadil is so inscrutable of a character that he can really do whatever he wants so long as he's inscrutable. It was also great how composer Bear McCreary wove a variation of Sauron's theme throughout the show. The soundtrack was A+ work in my opinion. Overall, I enjoyed the show and would like it to continue. If you know the difference between Fëanor, Finwë, Finrod, Felagund, Finarfin, Findulias, Fingon, and Fingolfin (without having to look it up), and in fact have everything about them from The Silmarillion memorized, you'll hate this show. But I think it's worth watching. Overall Grade: A-   Next up is Casa Bonita Mi Amor, which came out in 2024. Way back in the 1990s I saw an episode of Frasier where Frasier and his brother Niles decide to buy a restaurant. A series of hilarious cascading disasters result. At the time I decided I never wanted to own a restaurant and every piece of both factual information and fictional media I have consumed since has not changed this decision. Casa Bonita Mi Amor definitely will not challenge that decision. Apparently, Casa Bonita was a beloved theme restaurant in Colorado that went out of business during Covid. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, decided to buy the restaurant themselves and reopen it. They budgeted $3.6 million for the restoration of the building. Costs soon swelled to $40 million and the problems were still only just beginning. This is an excellent and entertaining example of the “rich man buys restaurant, soon finds himself over his head” genre of documentary filmmaking. Overall grade: A   Finally, my two favorite things I saw in Autumn 2024 and the first of them is the movie Frequency, which came out in 2000. It's another variant on a time travel story, but I like this one considerably better than Looper. Frank Sullivan is a firefighter and devoted family man living in New York circa 1969. His son John is a police detective living in the house 30 years later in 1999 with emotional problems because he never got over his father's tragic death in a dangerous fire 30 years earlier in 1969.   When the son of a friend stumbles across his father's old ham radio, John lets the kid goof around with it. Later that night, John starts talking to someone on that radio and to his astonishment realizes he's talking to his father from 30 years ago on the same ham radio. Desperate, John tries to warn Frank about the fire that kills him and it works. Frank survives the fire and instead of dying 1969, instead dies in 1989 from lung cancer due to a pack a day habit. The scene where history changes and John suddenly realizes what has happened was pretty great, but this isn't the ending. We're only 40% of the way through the movie. John successfully managed to put right what once went wrong.   However, in doing so, he accidentally also put wrong what once went right. His mother is a nurse and in the original timeline was on bereavement leave the day after Frank's death. In the new timeline, Frank is okay, so she goes to work and saves a patient who otherwise would've died in medical error and the patient happens to be the deadly serial killer known as the Nightingale. To his horror, John realizes that The Nightingale is now free to continue his murder spree and his new target is John's mother and Frank's wife.   As I've mentioned numerous times before, I'm not really a fan of time travel stories, but this one was quite well done. Interestingly, the plot structure was similar to Avengers Endgame. The Avengers go back in time to steal the Infinity Stones to undo Thanos' Snap, but Past Thanos figures out what's going on and follows the Avengers back to the present and attempts to make things even worse than they already are. John manages to save Frank from the fire, but this means the Nightingale serial killer survives and might create a worse present than the one John already has, so that really adds an altogether excellent element of dramatic tension to the entire movie. As one amusing side note, this movie shared Field of Dream's reverence for baseball as the Great American Pastime and John manages to convince Frank he's telling the truth about their time travel radio by accurately predicting the outcome of baseball games. Overall grade: A Now the second favorite thing I watched in Autumn 2024, The Grand Tour: One for the Road, which came out in 2024. I admit that when I started self-publishing in 2011, I knew absolutely nothing about the contemporary United Kingdom, like I couldn't even told you whether the UK used the Pound or the Euro. When I started getting book royalties from Amazon UK, let's just say I learned about currency conversion rates really fast, but as UK book royalties fluctuated as they do, I started reading the UK news since when there's an election or major news event in the UK, book royalties tend to drop for a few days after the same way they do when something similar happens in the US. Because of that, I saw the news article when Jeremy Clarkson was fired from Top Gear in 2015 for punching out a producer. At the time, there were some seasons of Top Gear on Netflix, so I was curious and started watching and was thoroughly entertained.   When Grand Tour started on Amazon, I started watching that as well and I was also thoroughly entertained, but all good things must come to an end. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May go on one last road trip adventure across Zimbabwe. The usual hijinks ensue for one last time, and it was a fitting end to Top Gear/The Grand Tour. I'll miss the show, but I am grateful for over a decade of entertainment from Top Gear/The Grand Tour and from the various spinoffs like Clarkson's Farm and James May's travel show. Overall grade: A   So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

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By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Joanna Robinson and Dave Gonzales, coauthors of the book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, out in paperback this week.I really loved the book, it dives into what is the main flywheel of mainstream entertainment, for better or for worse, and dives into the fascinating history of the MCU. Whether you're a fan of Marvel movies or just someone living in a world dominated by them, the book is a really interesting look into contemporary filmmaking and the pressures and economics and just simply human scale of these massive operations.We spoke about Marvel's journey from underdog to cultural icon, how its moviemaking process has changed over time, and what it was like covering a narrative that was developing in real time.Robinson and Gonzales can both be found on the podcast Trial by Content, and the book can be found wherever books are sold.This interview has been condensed and edited. Dave and Joanna, thank you so much for coming on.GONZALES: Absolutely.ROBINSON: Thanks for having us.I really, really love this book. So happy to see it out in paperback. I guess I'll just kick it off with an easy one: What were each of your first experiences with Marvel? How'd you get into this?ROBINSON: As in the comic books or the films?Anything.ROBINSON: Anything at all. Gosh, I think X-Men: The Animated Series was my introduction, back in my infancy. It really got into the world they created, the various characters, their character sets, the trading cards, and then everything spirals out from there. That was my introduction.GONZALES: Mine was probably with the comics. I might have had some X-Men: The Animated Series in there, but I got much more into the comics around late 1993, early '94, when I happened to buy a Spider-Man issue that was part of “The Trial of Peter Parker.” Suddenly I had questions: Why was Peter Parker on trial? How many different Spider-Man books were there? Because I bought an issue of The Spectacular Spider-Man, but the next part of “The Trial of Peter Parker” was The Amazing Spider-Man.That led me to get a cubby at my local comic book shop in Louisville, Colorado, which was Time Warp Comics at the time. That was my way in, just being a comic book fan. I also jumped in on one of the longest and mostly considered worst Spider-Man arcs, but loved it. So imagine how good “good” Spider-Man was to me as a child, because I got weaned in on “bad” Spider-Man.Amazing. One reason I really dug the book is that it's about the MCU, but it's also about Marvel, the history of this entire company, and its very different evolution over time, from the '60s to the period of the '90s. What was it like trying to cover not just a film series, but a big franchise with a lot of moving parts as part of an even bigger company with even more moving parts?ROBINSON: A good question we asked ourselves was both where to start and where to end, and where to end was a constant, ongoing question mark. I'll let Dave address that. But in terms of where to start, there were certain things we felt we had to backdate, because there were players involved in the major “How did Marvel Studios come to be?” question and you had to know who they were, why they were important, how did we get here and what were the stakes? Being able to loosely explain who's Stan Lee, who's Perlmutter, who's Avi Arad, who are all these people, helped us tell that story without losing the audience entirely by throwing a bunch of new names at them. Dave, what about ending the book?GONZALES: Oh, ending the book. That was super fun. We started right as Avengers: Endgame was in theaters. I remember seeing Endgame and knowing that Joanna and I were going to work on this, so we started off thinking, what a fantastic hill that Marvel climbed, this interconnected universe with three phases. Everything surely was planned out from the beginning and could only go up from here. The book was originally “The Rise of Marvel Studios,” because we thought surely this was just up and up and up.Then the pandemic hit — which was very good for us, having to write the book and just sit down and figure out what it was. It also gave us and a lot of sources a pause to regain our footing. As Marvel started rolling out, we tried to peg an end date. I wanted it to be Blade to Blade when we started, but Mahershala Ali's project has still not come out, so that became an impossibility. Then WandaVision premiered and suddenly there was this whole other aspect to the story we were trying to tell. So we wanted to do that and just tried to report things as they went along.We were blessed and cursed by the year that we published the hardcover, October 2023. As we were turning in the final part of the book in January and February, a whole bunch of Marvel news started breaking. Ike Perlmutter left Disney; Victoria Alonso, who was a big mover and shaker in Marvel Studios, was let go, so we had to report that out; Jonathan Majors went on trial.It was only in a panic over all those things that I really ended up appreciating what we had done just by thinking of all these topics so thoroughly for several years. Even though we were tacking new endings on, it wasn't that hard to make it feel like it was a whole arc because we were kind of working there anyway. I wouldn't say I'd've enjoyed releasing the first version of this book in one of Marvel's worst financial years and most critical years ever, but I do think it provided an interesting little tie-off or a fascinating ellipses that allowed us to be relevant and, more importantly, in the year 2024, look like we knew exactly what we were talking about in Marvel's rebounds.That's a really good point. When I met you on tour, a key thing you were getting at was that the idea that Marvel has not had a slump before is naive, and also ahistorical. A fun thing about the book is that you go through all these different eras, and sure, there's an easier story and probably a more polished, corporate story that's ever upward, toward Excelsior, all that crap.But you really do cover the pits and troughs of this. There was Iron Man 2; there was Thor: The Dark World; there was that period of time between the assorted Spider-Mans. What was that perspective like, particularly as it was coming out and as you were able to talk about the issues in 2023?ROBINSON: It was important for us, just on a basic journalistic level, to try to tell as much of the story as possible. We're fans of Marvel, of the movies, but as long as I've known Dave, both of us have been people who don't like to feel like we're not being told the whole story. We don't want the PR version of something — we want to know all the messy details as well. And it's not to knock Marvel or have any kind of “gotcha” moment. It's to say, “Okay, they had these various pitfalls, these various problematic people that they were working with, X, Y and Z. Look what they accomplished anyway.” That's the story in broad strokes. It was important for us to be able to acknowledge the stumbles along the way.When we found ourselves in a 2023 space where everyone was saying Marvel is cooked, or Marvel used to know exactly what it was doing from the beginning and now they're just making it up — no, they were always making it up. They just did it so well, you didn't notice. That gave us a better perspective to be able to say, let's just slow down. We were looking ahead to 2024, saying they're only putting out one movie and two shows next year. If those hit, then you'll start to hear that Marvel's back, baby. Then Deadpool & Wolverine makes a gajillion dollars and Agatha All Along is a pretty solid hit for them.So I think that “Marvel is over” narrative that was so prevalent a year ago is now the question, “Is Marvel back?” Looking even further forward at the next couple of big projects coming, I think Captain America: Brave New World is going to be a tough one for them. I don't know if that's going to hit the way a lot of people want it to. I think Thunderbolts is going to be hit for them, and I think The Fantastic Four: First Steps is going to be hit for them. They're still getting their bearings, but to your point, it was a bit naive to say they've been nothing but successful and now they've run off a cliff. Dave, what do you think?GONZALES: It was just a less interesting narrative, ultimately. I actually found myself getting less adversarial the more we learned, especially being a fan when all this started around 2008. There was this idea that Joanna was talking about, which is even a fan perspective today, that if something doesn't work out it's because we've been denied something at some creative step. Like, you know what, screw those guys; we want to do Harrison Ford as Red Hulk instead, or something like that.But it's not that at all. There are a whole bunch of different drama and production and business problems, and all these things come together to make these gigantic machines of a movie work. It was really important for us to drill down on Marvel Studios and get into those ups and downs, because a lot of times you can try to compare Marvel Studios to something through contrast, through Warner Brothers trying to do it with DC back in the early 2010s. Everybody started trying to launch an interconnected universe from the first movie, but all you could really say is that Marvel's worked and these others didn't. The details of the alchemy are in the tiny stories and little conflicts. That's why I think they were so important to track, be they how movie stars look or how we use CGI to make movie stars look. Tracking that over at Marvel Studios was just as important as how many movies Tony Stark was going to be in.Can you speak more to how much of this was on the fly? One of my big takeaways from your book was just how much things aren't necessarily set in stone during the production of a movie, and how sometimes one person's smart idea, regardless of where it comes from, can drastically alter what a lot of folks think was written in stone in 2007.ROBINSON: That idea of “best idea wins” — without ego; best idea from whomsoever — was a prevailing concept at Marvel. Kevin Feige was also this really interesting figure that has no comparison at any other studio. He's head of the studio, a creative producer, a storyteller in his own right and someone who wanted to make movies as a kid and thought he would be a director. He wound up an executive, but he has that storytelling sense. When Marvel was putting out fewer films and TV shows — or no TV shows at all and just a few films a year — the process was, “Go shoot your movie. Bring me, Kevin Feige, back the pieces and I'll tell you what you're missing.” They had this built-in reshoot window where you could go and add scenes where he felt like you hadn't really nailed this character, or cut this action out to bump up the action over here a bit more. They had this rough-drafting process with the master editor being Kevin Feige himself. There's no system like that at any other studio.That works so well for them, and in doing so, they're able to cement over the cracks and make it all feel like one smooth story that they're telling, because that refining process is built into their filmmaking process. Once the mandate comes from Disney, from Iger on his way out the door, from Chapek in his seat for a while, that they need to compete with Netflix and all these other streaming services, that they need more and more content — then the pace becomes untenable for that revision process that made them so solid in the first place.You talk about Feige not having an analog. I was really shocked reading the book because there's not even anything recent. You have to go back to Cecil B. DeMille for someone who has that producer, authorial presence. He's really a fascinating figure, and it's a key takeaway from the book that I loved. It really highlights the people who make these movies, not just the corporation. It's actual human beings who do this kind of stuff, often with long continuities. Do you want to speak about some of that?GONZALES: Definitely. Actually, while you were talking, I was wondering if part of the chip on Zack Snyder's shoulder was because someone at some point told him he was going to be a Kevin Feige and he's been chasing that ever since.A lot of the Marvel continuity that's been going on is still going on, even after our new chapter. It's been interesting to see how it's developed. It could be that the best idea wins, but then they also have that old school, in-house process where the starting team is very often the same people and has been since phase one. You put together a bullpen of concept artists, so you're constantly using concept art. Not only is that smart from a design standpoint for making a movie, but then you can have those things scanned and it goes directly into making toys. So at the beginning, there's no fight about bringing on these design creatives super early on.Where we start to see the wear and tear is, as Joanna was saying, with this output increase. All of the pressure starts being put on post-production, which is the place where you can't make more time. The solution is to hire more people, and because of that, the job of keeping things consistent falls to Victoria Alonso.She does a pretty good job considering that she's working a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week work schedule because the industry is so messed up. It was never built to do stuff like this. In a lot of ways, the way the VFX industry is structured is still from the '90s turn of the century, when you would bid on a number of shots to do and get money for that number of shots. You'd have to work those shots until they get approved by the director. There isn't an extra budget, and there isn't an overtime, which was a fine way to do it when there were three or four VFX shots in every movie. But now that we're in the 200s or some such, there's a natural strain put on that, and it's impossible to budget on the VFX side. They have to underbid because there's a limited amount of work. If Marvel decides they don't like you, as much as a third of your entire year's work can just not come to your company.As Marvel ages into it, we get a lot of people who are able to make their careers there, from Kevin Feige to Mary Livanos, who's doing great things on Agatha and seems really close to being ascendant. We have Brad Winderbaum, who's been made head of streaming now to take some of that pressure off Kevin. You have all these great continuities. You're less likely to see continuities in visual effects artists, just because of how they're going recently. When Joanna and I were interviewing people like ILM for Hulk, occasionally we'd do a person that was in three or four movies. Now, like for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, there was a team of about 12 people at Framestore who make animals look good. They just come in for that movie to make animals look incredibly good. They did it the whole time, but they're not as legacy as other parts of the Marvel development studios — which I hope will change, because there are some people who are really good at making Hulks. And if you've made Hulks for 20 years, shouldn't those be the people that are making Hulks in Brave New World? We'll have to see.ROBINSON: I love that you mentioned Cecil B. DeMille. As we were putting this whole story together and realizing that they bring all these teams in-house, Dave and our coauthor Gavin and I, we are to varying degrees students of old Hollywood history, and we had this realization that it's just the old Hollywood studio system. You're putting actors under contract for nine movies, all this other stuff, and we felt so smart. Then I was talking to someone who worked at Marvel and they were like, “Oh yeah, Kevin says that all the time.” I was like, oh, I thought we really put something together. But at least we were right! We were consciously doing this.I think that industrial element of it is really interesting. A key thing that changed the way I see the film industry was realizing that every movie is basically a corporation that briefly exists. Every movie is an entire apparatus, with a CEO operation and departments and all that. Then it folds and you move on to the next one.With Marvel, though, the circus never closes; it's just onto the next city. It was really interesting to see its place in the industry. Like Dave was saying, the limiting reactant for some of this is just the number of animators on the earth who are capable of making this kind of stuff. It's so cool to get a look inside this apparatus through the book.ROBINSON: Thank you.GONZALES: What an apparatus. It's really interesting to me, even now, as we are pending the return of the Russo brothers, who are just able to find this and also find the emotion in it.In Endgame, the Tony Stark “I am Iron Man” moment was the last insert. They had to go to dinner with Robert Downey Jr. and Joel Silver and have Silver be like, “You'd be dumb not to do it, Robert,” because Downey didn't want to go back there. He's a weird dude, but for him, it felt like in order to get to what he needed to do, he had to take off a scab that had formed and get back into the character. Whereas the Russo brothers are like, we built a workout system and we have our smoothies and every day is trying to make the machine work. Somehow, through the alchemy of those two things, the machine works, and occasionally we get these story moments that feel like they were created individually for that movie.That, I think, is the mystery that the book is trying to unravel. At the beginning, it's untapped storytelling potential. Everyone's like, if you don't have the X-Men, if you don't have Spider-Man, what do you have? There's so much in just proving that you have good stories. Now that you're the biggest game in town, that idea of, “Are you going to make me feel anything?” is so much different than what the initial promise was, that they're going to bring Thanos to the screen and you're going to understand who he is and what he wants. That was the big lift. Now there's a whole simultaneous saving of the industry, and bestowing status on different actors. There's just so much more mixed up in it now. It's amazing we got where we did.The book is also a really interesting look at the transition from being a super underdog. As you describe in the earliest chapters of the book, Marvel was bankrupt, and all the executives were folks who fell out of the toy industry or Revlon. The folks who were in charge came to it in the manner of somebody accidentally having to join a carnival, and then eventually it becomes the hegemonic juggernaut of everything, in many ways the thing that people stand against. In the book, watching the perception around it change and then internally having to adapt to that change in perception was a really cool tension.ROBINSON: My favorite indicator of that underdog status versus top-of-the-world status versus wherever we are now is the making of the first Iron Man movie. Marvel Entertainment in New York — who was, to your point, chiefly concerned with merchandising and toys — had the attitude, “Okay, go make your cute little movie. If it doesn't cost us any money, you can go do your little cinematic experiment in Hollywood and we don't really care that much. Just make sure you don't spend any of our money. Other than that, go have fun.”And they make Iron Man, and Iron Man is a massive, smash hit, and all of a sudden the people in New York are like, we're forming something called the Creative Committee. We would like a lot of intake. We want to be part of this. This is the big shiny thing, and everyone wants to weigh in on it. So it's really interesting to track this going from a weird little project they were doing out in Los Angeles to The Thing for Marvel. You can track it by who needs to have an opinion about what and when they start to care.GONZALES: One of my favorite moments — it's after the book chapter “Marvel vs. the Creative Committee” — is when Kevin Feige gets on stage himself to unveil the entirety of phase three, which includes Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War and everything. That is such a telling moment for me. He had just won his battles with these behind the scenes. He's fully in full control. Black Panther is coming. Joss Whedon is in the edits for Avengers: Age of Ultron, in the audience, but they already know he's not coming back.There was a version of a chapter in the book that was just me going through that and being like, here's why each one of these announcements is like Kevin Feige spiking a football in the face of someone that told him he couldn't do it. That's still the purest creative energy I've seen. “We could finally do it!” burst out of Marvel. I think they've been more reserved since, even with some big announcements, but I like to go back and look at that just to see the pivot point when Marvel was the underdog. It was like, we want Black Panther, we want Captain Marvel, but the studio won't let us do it. Then Kevin Feige gets up and goes, “Here are the next 10 years of your life.” It's just such a joyous moment.ROBINSON: We love that moment. We talked to people behind the scenes who were working at Marvel at the time about it, and there's a reason that whole presentation wasn't at a Comic-Con. It wasn't at D23. It was its own thing at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, and internally, they jokingly called it Kevin-Con. It was this whole thing, and part of it was that they weren't ready to announce certain things at Comic-Con.But part of it was this moment for Feige who fought various personalities across the various companies to get control of the narrative. And I agree, Endgame is of course in all of history going to be looked at as the pinnacle of achievement at Marvel. But I actually think it might be Kevin-Con at the El Capitan Theater, when Chadwick Boseman comes out and Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans are there to anoint him as the future of the franchise. That, of course, comes with its own terrible poignancy. We were really lucky to talk to Chadwick Boseman for the book before he passed away. These were things that happened while we were writing the book. History was constantly happening as we were trying to frame this entire narrative.If there's a protagonist in the book, it feels like it's Kevin, even in the earliest days when he was advising on the Fox products. Having read the book and then seen Deadpool & Wolverine — which, as you mentioned, went on to become a phenomenal financial success — it was really cool to come away with a little more admiration for the role that Kevin had in some of the Fox properties. Seeing that manifest in the MCU was just really nice.ROBINSON: I love that he got to have his Wolverine story, given that it all starts with him in a trailer with Hugh Jackman saying it needs to be bigger, it needs to be bigger, it needs to be bigger. I love that.GONZALES: I don't even know if it's still called that, but Joanna used to call that the “Feige fix-it.” Instead of developing these things by always going forward and introducing younger Avengers, he's actually much more interested in reaching back. There were good things there. Or, I guess the generous way to think about it is rewarding the fans that were around before it was the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Like, “You didn't waste your time with X-Men: The Last Stand. I know it might have felt like that occasionally, but here's this. Or Andrew Garfield. Yeah, maybe we treated him badly, but don't worry. You didn't waste your time with that because boom, here it is paying off in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.”Initially there was some hesitancy about Marvel homework. Do I need to have seen these things to do these things? But ultimately, if we're just talking dollars and cents, the nostalgia play has made them a billion dollars so many times that it doesn't surprise me that Deadpool & Wolverine is a huge hit just by being a swan song for the Fox movies.ROBINSON: I was personally incredibly gratified to finally get Channing Tatum as Gambit. That was a very important moment for me.My favorite version of the Feige fix-it was putting the storyline from Thor: The Dark World into Endgame and making Thor: The Dark World, the most universally mocked and reviled MCU film, an integral part of their biggest triumph. All of a sudden that's wrapped into the larger tapestry in a way so you can't just toss it in the garbage and say, oh, don't bother watching Thor: The Dark World — now you have to watch it to understand everything you're seeing in Endgame, which is certainly not a movie you're ever going to skip.It's a magic trick that really works and almost shouldn't work as well as it does. But even how they were able to get the Infinity Stones, almost taking elements of the first couple films that were dropped or introduced somewhat randomly and then doing that. It's a trick that they keep on pulling.GONZALES: Kevin Feige will say this, but we're coming up on 80 years of comic book history, and if there's one thing that comic books do more than any other medium, it's just use the same story. How could you have another angle on this story? They have so much A/B testing on what we like about this character, or what we'll buy about a certain character, it's interesting to see Marvel adapt that along with what sort of story you like on the Hollywood side of it.But yeah, we're going to see Captain America: Brave New World and finally see that Celestial that came out of the ocean in Eternals. Every Marvel property contributes something, we're told. Except the Inhumans; that never happens.The book is MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, and it's a fascinating look at the intersection of the humanity behind these movies and the technology of these movies. And if there's one figure that reminds me of that in particular, obviously, one of the most central people in the Marvel universe is Green Steve. Let's talk a little about him before we wrap this one up.ROBINSON: He's my favorite! Green Steve, a Chippendales dancer that was painted green in order to make sure they understood how the green light on skin would be captured accurately for the Hulk. Green Steve was one of my favorite anecdotes we got, and it was out of the book for a while before we worked it back in. Dave, what do you want to say about Green Steve?GONZALES: I love Green Steve. I love that this bodybuilder from Long Island can technically say he played the Hulk in a sort of way. In theory, because it's a whole CGI character, he might have played the Hulk close to how much Mark Ruffalo played the Hulk in that first movie. I love that story.Pretty early on, we brought in Gavin Edwards, our third author, to help us do a book, since Joanna and I had never done a book before. We were starting to put together the notes and I was like, can we please have a mid-credits scene? Can we just have a chapter in the middle of the notes?ROBINSON: That was Dave.GONZALES: I held onto that for as long as possible. I remember in one of the final meetings after we turned in the draft, we pitched it up to the editor and they were like, “That's really fun,” and I thought, oh thank god. That was a really early idea, and Green Steve fits that perfectly; it's a super interesting story that doesn't really belong anywhere else, but will stick in your mind as, Marvel literally tried everything to make the best Hulk. So I'm very happy that it's the mid-credits chapter — and remains the mid-credits chapter! Even when we added another chapter in, we were like, where does this go? Not before Green Steve.ROBINSON: He's got the final word for sure.Amazing. The book's out of paperback now. Where can folks find it? Where can they find you? And what's next?ROBINSON: “All good and evil news agents.” That's what the Empire Magazine folks say. All good and evil bookstores or any online book purveyor is where you can find our book. Dave does a tremendous podcast called Fighting in the War Room, which I love to listen to, so you should listen to that. And together we do a podcast called Trial by Content that y'all should listen to.GONZALES: Joanna's on a fantastic podcast called the House of R with Mallory Rubin over on The Ringer, where she covers lots of cool pop culture things. If you want to go to a bookstore and don't know exactly which one to go to, you could head to theMCUbook.com. That will forward you to our publisher's website, which has links to your Barnes and Nobles, your Amazons, your Bookshops.org, and will help you track down the book near you. And look for us in a couple more years with something similar.Thanks for coming on.ROBINSON: Thanks, Walt.GONZALES: Thank you.Edited by Susie Stark.If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.numlock.com/subscribe

What does it take to become an award-winning Director of Strength and Conditioning in the National Football League (NFL)? Justin Lovett reveals the “we over me” mentality that guides his role with the Los Angeles Rams. Lovett reflects on receiving the 2024 NSCA Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year Award after being an NSCA Member for over 20 years. He draws parallels between working with high school and NFL athletes — where the desired training responses are the same and ability levels vary — making versatility key. Lovett also stresses the importance of finding clean and effective training methods to accommodate wear and tear in football athletes. He compares the Rams’ hiring philosophy to gathering “infinity stones,” emphasizing character attributes, culture alignment, and staff chemistry. Lovett and NSCA Coaching and Sport Science Program Manager Eric McMahon discuss progressing into leadership and the rise of performance director roles, as well as how to seek out career and networking opportunities. Connect with Justin on Instagram: @strcoachlovett, Twitter/X: @justin_lovett,  or LinkedIn: Justin Lovett | Find Eric on Instagram: @ericmcmahoncscs or LinkedIn: @ericmcmahoncscs  Show Notes“Your ability to individualize is critical, and make it position or sport or athlete-specific in many cases... It's never quite a repeat one-size-fits-all cookie-cutter approach.” 7:25 “You need some juice. You need some authentic and genuine passion.” 13:45 “I think, first and foremost, the thing that resonates with me is that it's never about you. It's never about you. These players shouldn't be able to recognize who the head strength coach is when we're working the floor. Everybody — it's almost a flat hierarchy where we're here to help players, so it doesn't matter who gets the credit.” 18:45 “Your players have to be available. They have to feel like they are in a position where they're improving. And you have to be able to audit your programs and show them metrically that, yes, you are in a prime state or a ready state to compete at the highest level. So, it's never about you, ever about you. And the minute it becomes about you, you should leave. And I strongly believe that.” 19:45 “You have to provide strategies for them to grow horizontally within your organization, within your department, and vertically.” 20:30 “I think that's an empowering message for anyone listening is that no matter what you're going through, the challenge you're facing, how you're feeling about your current role or where you want to be, there's someone that's had that experience or can help you maybe relate to that experience better, going back to it's not about us. It's about our athletes, our teams, the programs that we are tasked with empowering and growing, and the people that we influence in this business.” 33:50

Coulson's story continues in comics as he gets brought back to life and the newest Infinity Stone gives him some sort of death power . . . what does it mean? We find out a little bit more in the final six pages of the following annuals:Ms. Marvel Annual #1 (July 31, 2024)Wolverine Annual #1 […]

Coulson's story continues in comics as he gets brought back to life and the newest Infinity Stone gives him some sort of death power . . . what does it mean? We find out a little bit more in the final six pages of the following annuals:Ms. Marvel Annual #1 …

Episode 300 closes out the non-point-scoring season, and ushers in the 2024 lineup setting season!TommyB and SFD straddle the line between offseason and inseason, a week out from the start of the new season. News and notes from preseason and roster cuts, and the way to use that new information; preparing for early season waivers; and the guys revisit some of their early NPSS takes. Plus, the Infinity Stones and their backup plans as drafts kick off this weekend. All that and more, on this week's season prep episode! The SuperFlex SuperShow – one of many great podcasts from the Dynasty League Football (@DLFootball) Family of Podcasts – is hosted by John Hogue (@SuperFlexDude) and Tommy Blair (@FFTommyB), and always dedicated in loving memory to James “The Brain” Koutoulas. Featuring weekly dynasty football content focused on superflex, 2QB and other alternate scoring settings. Special thanks to Heart and Soul Radio for their song, “The Addiction,” and special thanks to the Dynasty League Football Family of Podcasts and the entire DLF staff for the ongoing support! Stay Sexy… and SuperFlex-y!

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In Hour 1… [07:03] – Recapping USA Basketball with Charlotte Wilder Gojo and Golic get Charlotte Wilder's perspective on Team USA's road to Olympic Gold over France. Steph Curry's stellar performance, scoring 24 points on eight three-pointers, including clutch shots in the fourth quarter. LeBron James contributed significantly with 14 points, six rebounds, and ten assists, earning the Olympic MVP title. Kevin Durant also played a crucial role, becoming the first American male to win four gold medals. [13:43] – Potential Ramifications of a Kevin Durant Retirement Kevin Durant hinted at retirement and expressed uncertainty about his future in an interview. This raises questions about the 2028 Olympics and the NBA's future without him. Durant's potential absence from the 2028 Olympics would leave a significant leadership void. [20:01] – Haason Reddick Request Trade From Jets Gojo and Golic discuss Haason Reddick's trade request from the Jets and how it highlights trust and communication issues between the player and the team. The Jets traded for Reddick without a new contract in place. Reddick's camp believed a deal would be finalized, while the Jets expected him to play under his current contract. [32:32] – Noah Lyles: Hero or Villain Noah Lyles, a six-time world champion, has the potential to be the face of track and field. His desire for fame and brash personality could elevate the sport's visibility or it could cloud his personal success due to negative backlash. Charlotte, Gojo, and Golic discuss which route is best for Noah Lyles career & his sport. [39:23] – Jordan Chiles Gets Bronze Medal Revoked Jordan Chiles was asked to return her bronze medal due to a late scoring change. The controversy centers around the timing of the USA's challenge, which was deemed to be four seconds late. -------------------------------------- Click here to subscribe, rate, and review the newest episodes of GoJo and Golic! If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling, and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NJ/ NY/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. New customers only. Min. $5 deposit required. Eligibility restrictions apply. See http://draftkings.com/sportsbook for details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your quest begins! And what are you looking for? A MacGuffin! It's one of the most prevalent plot devices in movies. Where did it begin? Where did the name come from? How is it used? ...wait, I just made another 3 MacGuffins...Join Jay and Shua as they dig deep into some of the most famous MacGuffins in history on Enjoy Stuff!   You've got to find the secret object before the other characters do! It's important!    News There's a new Weird Al single - Polkamania RIP Bob Newhart  Alien popcorn bucket and Deadpool and Wolverine popcorn bucket A Beetlejuice Beetlejuice full trailer has been released The Rings of Power Season 2 is almost here Kevin Smith Reveals Jay & Silent Bob 3 Title and Story Princess Leia's gold bikini sold for big bucks Be sure to check out lots of news from San Diego Comic Con on Superhero Suite plus a review of Deadpool and Wolverine Check out our TeePublic store for some enjoyable swag and all the latest fashion trends What we're Enjoying Jay took a trip to the other side of the world to Tuscany, Italy. It was a relaxing (yet very hot) trip to the old country to enjoy a little relaxing environment. Shua traveled to Anaheim, California and enjoyed Pixar Fest at Disneyland. They both had great vacations but are happy to be home.    Sci-Fi Saturdays This week on Sci-Fi Saturdays we talk about 3 different sci-fi movies that Jay has analyzed. Idiocracy makes some bold (and sometimes accurate) predictions of the future of our country. The Prestige was a bizarre tale of two competing magicians and a Tesla machine. And Children of Men presented a scary dystopia where there are no new babies in the world and how that is really going to screw us up. Educate yourself and check out all of Jay's articles on Sci-Fi Saturdays, only on RetroZap.com. And make sure to play around with the interactive map on MCULocationScout.com. There are some new locations from Deadpool 1 and 2 in preparation for the new movie. Plus, you can tune in to  SHIELD: Case Files where Jay and Shua talk about great stuff in the MCU.     Enjoy MacGuffins!  You've probably heard of a MacGuffin, but do you actually know what it is? MacGuffins themselves have been around about as long as stories, but the term originated in the 1920s and was made popular by the master, Alfred Hitchcock himself. While Hitchcock believed that the MacGuffin isn't important to anyone but the characters in the story, George Lucas believes that it can be a very strong emotional connection to the people enjoying the story.    Which MacGuffin philosophy is stronger to you? What's your favorite MacGuffin? First person that emails me with the subject line, “Your mission, if you choose to accept it…” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to EnjoyStuff@RetroZap.com  

Like what you hear? Show some love and send a text. #Cheers Hold onto your seats, true believers! In this explosive episode, we dive deep into the cinematic juggernaut that is "Avengers: Infinity War." Join Reels, Booze & Bro's aka RB2podcast as we dissect every jaw-dropping moment, from Thanos' relentless quest for the Infinity Stones to the heart-wrenching sacrifices made by our favorite heroes.  Tune in for a fun, engaging, and action-packed discussion that's guaranteed to leave you wanting more. Don't forget to rate us on your favorite podcast platform and share your thoughts with us! Your feedback powers our Infinity Gauntlet of awesome content. Support the Show.

Send us a Text Message.Special guest Bhupinder Singh, an engineering leader and author of 'Interview Champion', shares his decades of experience in tech, from starting coding at 12 to working with Fortune 100 companies.Learn how Bhupinder collected offers like Infinity Stones from top tech companies after getting obsessed with interviewing like a champion. He discusses his new book, the nuances of tech interviews, and offers practical advice for job seekers, especially coding bootcamp graduates. Bhupinder delves into his personal interview experiences, mindset strategies, and the importance of preparation and self-reflection. We get his hot takes on 9-5 vs entrepreneurship, JS vs TS and LinkedIn vs X for networking.Bhupinders' special offer for podcast listeners ​dyn.si/brian​Bhupinder's LinkedIn: ​https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhupindersinghglobal/​His site: ​DynamicSingh.comShameless Plugs

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We're collecting Walt Disney World episode cast members like Infinity Stones, and this week we're talking to the sexiest dolphin trainer who's ever lived, guest star Debbe Dunning! The gang FINALLY gets an answer to the question that's been bugging them for months: did Debbe have to live amongst sea creatures for months in order to fully understand her cameo? Debbe also shares the real-life Cory and Topanga moment she experienced while filming, how she became an iconic part of Home Improvement, the most popular show of the time, and why Pamela Anderson returning to Tool Time made for a very awkward week. We might not be able to speak dolphin, but we certainly can understand how inspirational Debbe is - on an all-new Pod Meets World!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode I discuss: Todays patch .. the changes to Thanos stones and what it means for the mad titan. (Series drops release as well) I go into the META report and my week in snap .. where I ended up on ladder and in conquest.. the super fun deck I played most of last week. The Top 5 GODS in marvel snap (so far) and two that didn't quite make the cut. A new segment called “let me talk to ya” (fans of WWE might recognize this). where I give some advice on goalsetting for snap, comics corner focuses on the new Eternals cards .. Gilgamesh and Thena .. the comic book and movie history and my thoughts on the cards.. also have a few recommendations for books to check out. I end the show with a couple reviews I got from listeners ❤️..

Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive are launching "What If...? – An Immersive Story," an interactive Disney+ Original story exclusive to Apple Vision Pro, expanding on the popular animated series "What If...?". This mixed reality app allows users to immerse themselves in the Marvel Universe, where they can interact with different realities and Marvel characters, learning mystic arts and managing the power of the Infinity Stones. The narrative-driven experience uses Apple's spatial computing to create realistic environments with stunning visuals and spatial audio, making participants feel as if they are part of the MCU. Directed by Dave Bushore and produced by Shereif M. Fattouh, the project features a creative team that includes writers David Dong and Phil McCarty and composer Laura Karpman, aiming to redefine immersive storytelling. More details about this groundbreaking experience are expected to be revealed soon.

Tuesday's 9am hour of Mac & Cube saw Kendall Rogers, managing editor for D1 Baseball, says why the top of the SEC is better than anything else out there, and why South Carolina & Vanderbilt need deep runs; then, Lane Kiffin seems to be snagging & collecting college RBs like he's Thanos looking for Infinity Stones; later, why aren't people talking about Georgia ahead of the season; and finally, we get BOUT IT, BOUT IT and celebrate the best individual performances from the last few days.   "McElroy & Cubelic In The Morning" airs 7am-10am weekdays on WJOX-94.5!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Instead of capes, aliens, and Infinity Stones, we're talking food, swearing, and stress as Jeff, Steve, and John talk about one of our favorite non-nerd shows, The Bear!

Join us as we navigate through the multiverse of Marvel trivia, featuring 15 heroic questions that span the comic pages to the big screen. This episode is a gauntlet of challenges, perfect for fans who've followed the epic saga from Iron Man's first flight to the Endgame. We begin our adventure with the Trivia Tots round, where the questions are as friendly as Spider-Man's neighborhood. It's a fantastic way to get your little heroes involved! Next, we soar higher with the Mind Movers round, where the questions pack a punch like Captain America's shield. These intermediate queries will test your allegiance to the Marvel lore. Finally, brace for the Brain Busters round, where the questions are as challenging as Thanos' quest for the Infinity Stones. Only the truest of Marvel mavens will emerge victorious! So, whether you're a guardian of the galaxy or a defender of New York, it's time to prove your Marvel mastery. Assemble your team, hit play, and let the trivia battle begin! Subscribe to the Dad and Lad Family Trivia Podcast for more action-packed episodes that bring families together for a universe of fun. Share with fellow Marvel enthusiasts, and don't forget to leave us a review if you love the show! Episode Links: ⁠⁠⁠Like and follow the Dad and Lad Family Trivia Podcast on Facebook!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Follow us the Dad and Lad Family Trivia Podcast on Instagram!⁠⁠⁠ Episode Credits: Trivia Development: Keely Marlowe Editing and Production: Evan Marlowe Dad and Lad Family Trivia Podcast is a member of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Northern Roots Media Podcast Network⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Theme Music: -Tourism by Alex-Productions | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://onsound.eu/Music⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -Promoted by https://⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.free-stock-music.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ -Creative Commons / Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

Do you think you're a bad dad? Don't. Thanos is out there throwing his kid off a cliff to gain an Infinity Stone. Glenn Boozan, author of There Are Dads Way Worse Than You, returns to talk thread walls and bobbins, shutting down the braggarts, and the difference between (fictional) bad dads and bad guys who are dads.Get your copy of There Are Dads Way Worse Than You: Unimpeachable Evidence of Your Excellence as a Father, as well as Glenn Boozan's previous book, There Are Moms Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof That You Are Indeed a Fantastic Parent, at the bookstore of your choice.Go to MaximumFun.org/join to support One Bad Mother in its final year!Share a personal or commercial message on the show! Details at MaximumFun.org/Jumbotron.Visit our Linktree for our website, merch, and more! https://linktr.ee/onebadmotherYou can suggest a topic or a guest for an upcoming show by sending an email to onebadmother@maximumfun.org.Show MusicSummon the Rawk, Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)Ones and Zeros, Awesome, Beehive SessionsMom Song, Adira Amram, Hot Jams For TeensTelephone, Awesome, Beehive SessionsMama Blues, Cornbread Ted and the ButterbeansMental Health Resources:Therapy for Black Girls – Therapyforblackgirls.comDr. Jessica Clemmens – https://www.askdrjess.comBLH Foundation – borislhensonfoundation.orgThe Postpartum Support International Warmline – 1-800-944-4773 (1-800-944-4PPD)The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Helpline – 1-800-662-4357 (1-800-662-HELP)Suicide Prevention Hotline: Call or chat. They are here to help anyone in crisis. Dial 988 for https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org and there is a chat option on the website.Crisis Text Line: Text from anywhere in the USA (also Canada and the UK) to text with a trained counselor. A real human being.USA text 741741Canada text 686868UK text 85258Website: https://www.crisistextline.orgNational Sexual Assault: Call 800.656.HOPE (4673) to be connected with a trained staff member from a sexual assault service provider in your area.https://www.rainn.orgNational Domestic Violence Hotline:https://www.thehotline.org/help/Our advocates are available 24/7 at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) in more than 200 languages. All calls are free and confidential.They suggest that if you are a victim and cannot seek help, ask a friend or family member to call for you.Teletherapy Search: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/online-counseling

In which the NetHeads talk about the five year anniversary of Avengers Endgame, play an Infinity Stone trivia game, it's Flash Vanishes in Crisis Day, react to that Deadpool & Wolverine trailer, and our hopes for the future of the MCU. SPONSOR: ►► Go to https://www.magicmind.com/NETHEADS20 or use the code NETHEADS20 to get 56% off a subscription or 20% off a single purchase of greater energy and focus.

The Avengers are GONE and Thanos has obtained 3 Infinity Stones. Join Chris, Ryan, and Scott as they draft Disney characters to replace the Avengers and save the world!! Don't forget to vote for who you think has the best team in the poll. Click the link to follow Scott and watch him live on Wednesday mornings at the Disney parks! (31)No New Friends Podcast (@no.new.friends.podcast) | TikTok

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We're so excited to have soccer broadcaster and CBS Sports pundit, Aly Trost Martin, join the show to recap a salacious week in the world of footy!  We're collecting Morning Footy cast members like they're Infinity Stones! This time, Aly Trost Martin is in-studio to discuss some hilarious off-the-pitch headlines that made waves on social media, including Korbin Albert's suspicious Twitter likes and Emil Forsberg allegedly abandoning his family to join New York Red Bulls. Aly, Christian, and Alexis also analyze LAFC signing Olivier Giroud and Maxime Chanot and send postive vibes to Midge Purce following her ACL injury. Exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/SoccerCooligans This is where we put everything we shouldn't say

We're so excited to have soccer broadcaster and CBS Sports pundit, Aly Trost Martin, join the show to recap a salacious week in the world of footy!  We're collecting Morning Footy cast members like they're Infinity Stones! This time, Aly Trost Martin is in-studio to discuss some hilarious off-the-pitch headlines that made waves on social media, including Korbin Albert's suspicious Twitter likes and Emil Forsberg allegedly abandoning his family to join New York Red Bulls. Aly, Christian, and Alexis also analyze LAFC signing Olivier Giroud and Maxime Chanot and send postive vibes to Midge Purce following her ACL injury. Exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/SoccerCooligans This is where we put everything we shouldn't say

Steve Ditko has been named a Disney Legend. Brian Posehn and Joe Trohman are launching Rifters for Image Comics. Thanos is hunting for the Infinity Stones in a new crossover. All on Comic Book Club News for March 21, 2024.SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, AND FACEBOOK. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Brian runs through Dan Quinn's full staff that was announced this week.  These hires should have Commanders fans excited for "DQ's Infinity Stones." Presented by BETONLINE.  Use promo code: BLEAV to receive your 50% welcome bonus on your first deposit. Follow the guys and the show on X, Instagram and TikTok: @BleavCommanders @ratedarmstrong @bmurph13

Keri, Fred and Andrea are back! This month, we discuss Thanos' epic quest to unite all six Infinity Stones and cleanse... err... We mean we discuss The Avengers fight AGAINST Thanos, to stop him from slaughtering half the universe. Yes! We're discussing Avengers: Infinity War, from 2018.

Keri, Fred and Andrea are back! This month, we discuss Thanos' epic quest to unite all six Infinity Stones and cleanse... err... We mean we discuss The Avengers fight AGAINST Thanos, to stop him from slaughtering half the universe. Yes! We're discussing Avengers: Infinity War, from 2018.

So... I had to do some head cannon with this one.... Add your theories to the YOUTUBE VIDEO: How Did Captain Carter Hold All 6 Infinity Stones!? (youtube.com)Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Spoiler Alert: This video contains in-depth discussions about "The Marvels," so proceed only if you're ready to dive into the multiverse of spoilers! Who IS Binary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_nABmOp3UQ Dive into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with our candid review of "The Marvels"! Join us as we dissect the highs and lows, exploring the mind-bending powers, the breakneck pacing, and the unexpected plot twists that define this superhero extravaganza. From character dynamics to accessibility concerns, we leave no Infinity Stone unturned in this spoiler-filled breakdown. Grab your popcorn and get ready for a no-holds-barred discussion on the Marvels!What did you think of "The Marvels"? Share your thoughts in the comments below and let's geek out together over the latest chapter in the MCU! Vactor-Verse Links: Twitter - https://twitter.com/VactorVerse TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@vactorverse Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vactor/ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/vactor Credits: Our theme song is by shanghai.jacob808 https://www.instagram.com/shanghai.jacob808/ Every episode is recorded with Riverside https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=Vactor #TheMarvels #Marvel #MCU --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vactorverse/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vactorverse/support

You can talk to Samson here: davidsamsonpodcast.com Today's word of the day is ‘tarp' as in rain as in rain delay as in groundscrew as in the Mets and Marlins game was postponed after hours of talking about the field. The Marlins are furious. What happened? How could this happen? (10:15) Josh Harris opens up to ESPN about why he needed to own the Washington Commanders. He is on a quest. He now has 4 Infinity Stones of franchises. (19:40) Colin Kaepernick wrote a letter to the Jets. It was released by J. Cole. What did the letter say? Will the Jets give him a chance? (32:35) Review: Theater Camp. (36:00) Is Damian Lillard getting traded? We're going into Month 4 of this. Now the Raptors are the favorites? What happened to the Heat? Is he going to stay a Blazer? (42:35) NPPOD. (44:55) Time to talk Swifties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can talk to Samson here: davidsamsonpodcast.com Today's word of the day is ‘tarp' as in rain as in rain delay as in groundscrew as in the Mets and Marlins game was postponed after hours of talking about the field. The Marlins are furious. What happened? How could this happen? (10:15) Josh Harris opens up to ESPN about why he needed to own the Washington Commanders. He is on a quest. He now has 4 Infinity Stones of franchises. (19:40) Colin Kaepernick wrote a letter to the Jets. It was released by J. Cole. What did the letter say? Will the Jets give him a chance? (32:35) Review: Theater Camp. (36:00) Is Damian Lillard getting traded? We're going into Month 4 of this. Now the Raptors are the favorites? What happened to the Heat? Is he going to stay a Blazer? (42:35) NPPOD. (44:55) Time to talk Swifties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices