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Episode 240 - Some Favorite Blu-rays of 2021

The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2021 56:36

In this episode, Brian is joined by longtime JTD fan & supporter/ physical media collector Keith Rich to talk about some of their favorite releases of 2021. This week's episode is sponsored by Mubi - Enjoy 30 days of Mubi for free by using this link: http://mubi.com/justthediscs This week's episode is also brought to you by the fine folks at DiabolikDVD - a great place to buy your discs from! https://www.diabolikdvd.com/ Just the Discs Now has a YouTube Channel! Check it out here and subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCffVK8TcUyjCpr0F9SpV53g Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We're also on Instagram! instagram.com/justthediscspod/

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The AmWritingFantasy Podcast: Episode 153 – Critical Reading of Jade City by Fonda Lee

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2021 50:00

Today we delve into the Nebula Award Nominated and bestselling book Jade City by Fonda Lee. What can this highly acclaimed AND popular novel teach us about worldbuildling, plotting, and characters? Join us and we share what we love, what we didn't prefer, and our thoughts on this novel. Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday. SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going. Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (1s): You're listening to The Am. Writing Fantasy Podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now on to the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt. Jesper (29s): Hello, I'm Jesper and Autumn (31s): I'm Autumn. Jesper (33s): This is episode 153 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. And it is time for our Critical Reading of Jade City by Fonda Lee. And we'll be sharing our thoughts and views with the aim to see what we write as can learn from Autumn (51s): Yes, I'm looking forward to it because it was such an interesting story, but you know, listening right now, if you were planning on reading this book and you haven't yet spoilers, there will be spoilers. So keep that in mind. If you're listening, this is a critical review, not a blurb or a teaser. We're going to rip it apart and say what we love, what we wish had been different and see what else we can learn from this book. Jesper (1m 15s): Yes. And we also got a few remarks from patron supporters. So we will also mention some of that Autumn (1m 23s): As well. Yes. I'm looking forward to it. I happen to have read some of those comments and I'm kind of in agreement with them. So that'll be really fun. Jesper (1m 32s): I am for the most part as well. Autumn (1m 36s): All right. End of episode. No, Jesper (1m 38s): That was it. Go on. Read, read, threatened. That's it Autumn (1m 43s): Awesome. Well, how are things over at Denmark? It's been a little while since we talked, which was partially my fault. I will warn viewers now. I am still, I had a cold. It really knocked it. Wasn't COVID knock on wood, but it's definitely knocked me for a loop. So if my voice is a little hoarse or if I will, I swear I will cough. I'll either mute myself or he'll go away from the microphone. But yeah, there's, there's a chance I'm still coughing a little bit. So it's been awhile. This episode was supposed to be the previous one and we just couldn't get together because cold I've got to call. Jesper (2m 18s): Yeah, this was supposed to be 100 and episode 1 55, 2, and then it now turned out to be 1, 5, 3, and, well, it was a bit of a mess because we had to rearrange stuff and redo stuff and rename podcast episodes and whatnot, but we succeeded and we're here now. Autumn (2m 36s): That's what counts. So how are things been? It's been absolutely ages since we talked. Jesper (2m 42s): Yeah. Well now I don't remember if it was last week or the week before, to be honest. But we were in here during winter time, as I've said on previous podcasts, I started doing sea kayaking. So here during winter time, well, you can go out, see kayaking, but you need a dry suit, which costs a lot of money. So, and we don't have that, but then what we can do is we can go to the swimming hole. So we take the kayaks into the swimming stadium and we train in the swimming pool to do like, you know, Eskimo rolls is what we call them. Dana's I don't know what the English word is, but you know, without getting out of the kayak, you basically you're upside down in the water and then you learn how to get back up out of the water without exiting the kayak at all. Jesper (3m 31s): And I actually managed to do the first roll this last time when we went to practice for the first time I succeeded in rolling around. So that was pretty cool. Autumn (3m 42s): That is really cool. I've never managed to do a full one note. I usually, I was a whitewater kayaking so much smaller, like half the size of a ocean kayak, a sea kayak. And I still never quite learned the hip snap part to get myself fully back on my own. So that's really cool that you could advantage one. Jesper (4m 2s): Yeah, well, it was like a w the time before my wife succeeded doing it and she was just like, and she did it like 10, 15 times, like, like w what, what brown run around. And I was, and I was just so much struggling. It was like, fuck, I can't do it. And then, but then last time we were here in the swimming hole, we had a couple of instructors with us. So I think the instructor probably spent like an hour with me trying to explain how, you know, because it is really, I mean, when I succeeded, I was actually surprised to see how little muscle power you need to use it. It's actually, it's all about technique. You, you almost need to do nothing to flip around if you just use the right technique. Jesper (4m 45s): So, and, and if you like, like angle your body just slightly wrong, or you, you use your arm slightly in the wrong way, you're not going to flip around. So it's really about techniques, but it it's, I succeeded, but now of course, I'm concerned the next time we're going to go train, then I can't do it again. Autumn (5m 4s): Well, it's all muscle memory. So eventually you'll get it down with that as awesome. However, it's hilarious. Your wife was like, whoo, I'm just rolling. Like Jesper (5m 12s): Rolling around like, well, it's quite easy. Yes. That's easy for you to say Yeah. At the other than that, then a well on, in terms of working wise, we've sent book one of our new series off to the editor. So we're waiting to get it back from the first edit, and then it'll go to the second editor and so on, but, but we're getting there now. So, so that's pretty cool. And otherwise we've started to look ahead for 2020 and kind of discuss some of our future plans and so on. But I quite like this time of year when we're sort of reviewing, what are we going to do next inside? That that's always fun to me. Autumn (5m 54s): It is. I think it's it's so it's good to do that. You should do in your life. Should do it in your writing, your book, marketing, whatever you got going on. I think so many people don't take the opportunity to reflect and then reorganized and then hit the new year with maybe some new goals and some new operations and stuff. So I agree which again, you know, go figure we've we tend to agree on just about everything. So it's no surprise. We both enjoy looking over stuff. And I think it gets your passion going, if you feel like you're just doing the same old thing and you just need to keep plugging away at it, you'd lose the passion. And, and it's half the fun is getting that back and getting excited about things and what you're going to do for the next year. Jesper (6m 35s): Yeah, indeed. So how about you? What have you been busy with the last couple of weeks Autumn (6m 40s): Sick, but not much. I've well, I mean, I've managed to get the editing done and so that's been off and I'm going to be working, starting to delve into getting our website for dot com, going some minor, things like that. So I'm looking forward to really getting into that more, but I was surprised last time I was truly sick was actually right when I came back from London and in January, 2019, I got kind of the same thing, chills, really sick. And that really knocked me down for three days. But this one, it was funny. I started feeling better and then I'd be sick for two days and then I'd start feeling better. Autumn (7m 20s): And, oh, it's been a nightmare. I really thought I was surprised when I got the COVID test results back as negative. I'm like, really? If this isn't COVID, oh, there's some other nasty bugs out there. No one should ever have to go through this, but I have never had chills, like shaking so hard while I had a fever in my entire life. Thank goodness. My husband has medical wilderness medical training. Cause he's like, I wasn't worried. We're fine. I know what to do. But I was like, he's saying, right, this is not right, Jesper (7m 52s): But there is a buck like that going around because I mean, over the last two weeks, I was sick for a couple of days as well. And I wasn't, I didn't have the shakes like you're describing there, but I did have a fever. And I was absolutely absolutely sure that this is COVID because it felt like, you know, the, all the flu kind of symptoms, all the stuff that you hear about and, and your throat, you can feel it all the time. It was exactly like the symptoms described for, for COVID. But I also went and got a test and it was negative, but there is something going around like that at the moment. Autumn (8m 23s): Yes. I mean, none of our listeners catch it. It's not contagious through podcasts. Thank goodness. I Jesper (8m 28s): Don't think it's contagious through podcasting. Autumn (8m 32s): I hope not. But yeah. I mean, as I've described it, I feel like I've actually been sleeping with a hot water bottle. I feel like my internal thermostat, we, we speak in car language all the time. I'm not sure, but my thermostat is busted. It is not working. So please, if you find yourself getting cold, stay warm, make sure you, I was sleeping with a hat on and a hot water bottle and a coat. And it's just ridiculous. But yeah. Keep yourself warm and healthy and have a good December. Cause you don't want to get sick at the beginning of winter. It's I'm going to have a horse, a sore throat all winter now Narrator (9m 7s): A week on the internet with The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast. Jesper (9m 13s): So I found a very interesting article on the internet that I just thought I would share here. Excellent. Because it's probably over the past month or something like that, I've been posting sort of different topics to our patron supporters about different aspects of PIP, big publishers merging together and sort of the effect that it might or might not have on us authors that all these big publishers are merging, you know, like low advances, lower royalty payments and so on. I mean us indie publishers, it's not so concerning, but for everybody doing the traditional publishing, then I've been just making different patron posts about that. Jesper (9m 55s): But then I found this article as well about a penguin random house and Simon and Schuster was, they are looking to merge in a $2.2 billion deal. Wow. But then the us justice department stepped in and blocked the merger. Did you see that? Autumn (10m 11s): No, I did not. It's funny. I read the news a lot, but I did not see that one. Jesper (10m 16s): No, no. So the U S justice department assessed that the merchant would create a two dominant market role and it would hurt authors and readers. What do you think about that? Autumn (10m 27s): Well, it's funny. I I've, I agree. We need competition. And so there are things to keep the, you know, something from developing into something that's not gonna squash competition, but then I like a Facebook and Amazon and Jesper (10m 43s): Facebook Autumn (10m 45s): And they haven't considered that dominating things. I mean, especially with Amazon bought good reads and they own publishing and, and there's like the dominant market, but at least they're trying to protect the brick and mortar ones. You know, it's good that they're maintaining some competition out there. Jesper (11m 3s): Yeah. I mean, from a publishing point of view, penguin is the largest publisher and they are launches rival is shaman, Simon and Schuster. So those two merging would generate like a massive dominance in democracy. And in my view it would be like unprecedented on re what are you saying, unprecedented? That was what I was trying to say, control of the publishing industry. Right? So I fully agree with the us justice department here. I think it's a good thing that they are blocking this, but of course the lawyer of penguin then claims that it would actually be good for the authors if the two giants merged and that the publishing imprints will continue to compete against each other is what he said. Jesper (11m 46s): I don't buy that for a second. Autumn (11m 48s): I don't buy that. I think it would give them a better edge to compete against Amazon, but Amazon is so far ahead and eBooks and they're just really, and they're pretty solid and paperbacks, but they're just delving into hard cover. So I think it would put them against each other pretty solidly that way, but I don't think it would help authors to have basically your choices, Amazon or whatever penguin and Shuster would be called. But I mean, to me, it's almost like Amazon decided to buy, oh gosh, I might just completely blanked, but where you buy your, where we're also have our paperbacks published Ingram, like Amazon bought Ingram, spark authors would be doomed, just doomed, but I don't think anyone wants to go under, but yeah, that is like the only other real competition for Amazon is Ingram spark. Autumn (12m 38s): And a lot of people don't even realize it. Jesper (12m 43s): Yeah. And Spotify just bought a find a way voices. Autumn (12m 46s): Wow. There's some shakeup going on. Jesper (12m 50s): Yeah, yeah, yeah. They want to be the dominant audio producer, just like YouTube being for video to Spotify, want to dominate the entire audio Margaret. Oh, Autumn (12m 59s): That'll be interesting. Jesper (13m 1s): But then you also saw, you know, of course that was like early in the year, but also Spotify buying Joe Rogan's podcast for a hundred million dollars and stuff like that. Right. So they're, they're really, you know, playing hot in, in trying to just dominate the audio market, which I probably think, I think, I think they're onto something, but of course from a content creator point of view, you can be nervous that it's going to be the same outcome as it was for musicians. I like getting paid pennies when it's paid on And when or music is played on Spotify and it could be concerned about the same thing here from, from a audio book kind of perspective. Now today bought find a way of voices that you also can end up in a situation where we authors are just going to get paid a few pennies per audio book play. Jesper (13m 49s): So that is a bit concerning. Autumn (13m 52s): I agree. It's yeah. Jesper (13m 60s): All right. So Jade city is a world fantasy award winner. It is, or it was named as one of the times, top 100 fantasy books of all time. And it was a Nebula award nominee for best novel. So, and I actually went, and now it's a couple of days ago, but I did go and check the sales ranking on Amazon. And I think you will see if you do that, that it's selling quite well. So there is a reason why we picked this book in the first place. Yeah. Autumn (14m 28s): And I have to say in some ways it really impressed me. I was so excited. I think by the time I hit chapter two or three, I mean, I was into it. There was no way I wasn't going to finish the book. So I can say that, but I don't know when we'll get there, but my impression at the end I'll let you know if I still felt that way. And I went on because it is a trilogy and there was a book two and a three. So I will say we'll get to maybe how I felt at the end of the little bit. But I will say when I first started reading it, it was unlike the last critical review we did, which was of the fifth season. That one, we were talking about tense changes. I mean, that was very much literary fantasy. Autumn (15m 9s): This one was true fantasy. Not, it wasn't even high fantasy. The setting and the time is more like Japan just after world war one maybe, or just after the U S you know, came in and started taking over just after Japan. Now I can't even remember the date that is, but when Japan opens up to the rest of the world and goes from the Shogun period into a modern era. So it's right at that cusp, there's guns, there's different far-flung politics, but this central very strong government that is used to a very traditional way of doing things and the clans are there. And it's, if you like Kung Fu movies, it has so much of that. Autumn (15m 50s): It was really exciting. I kind of, yeah, I've kind of, it's just like the Grisha of universe. I'm kind of really liking that these a lot of fantasy that is not just medieval, it's really pulling up to different time periods now. And it's kind of like, well, this is, this is different. This is exciting. I'm really enjoying it. Jesper (16m 10s): Yeah. Okay. I think I will, I will not give my overall sort of a conclusion on it. I think we'll talk through it. And then if it's not clear by everything else I say, then I can give my, my final words on, on this book by the end. But I think just as Autumn said, in the beginning of the episode, we are heading into spoiler territory now. So a B one, if you haven't read this book and want to read it, you probably want to stop now and then come back once you read it, and then you can listen in and see if you agree with what we're saying here, but yeah, from now on, you'll have been warned. Autumn (16m 46s): That is very, I think that's been clear to warnings, you know, what you're getting into if you continue on from here. Jesper (16m 53s): Yeah. But so I've made some different notes that sort of some, let's say places where I feel like I can, I can sort of drop in and talk about something, but there was no specific order to this. It's just like different notes on different thoughts. And then also some comments from Stephen, both from good reads our Goodrich group, but also from, from patron. So I have some comments of his and I, I picked some of the comments where I also have a, have you on what he says. So it's sort of like, they are good talking points. But I think first of all, I could start by saying this book is really well written. Jesper (17m 37s): I really feel like, you know, it, it evokes feelings and, you know, the way she described things though, the characters and they do make me as the reader. No, I'm able to picture the scene in my mind when things are happening. So, So that is really well done. So yeah, first, first let's say item on the list is just that it is really, well-written Autumn (18m 3s): Definitely, I think it is worth reading. It is a fun book to read. It is engaging the, again, the world is a different little bit of different time period. If you do like Kung Fu movies, it has that the magic system. I'm sure we'll get into that as well with the Jade and the green bones, the only people that kept kidneys who are the ones who can actually use Jade, everyone else is if they touch it, they're either, unreactive, there's a few people who are in the world who are unreactive to Jade, but the rest of them can basically become addicted. It's like opium. Maybe it's a good substitute for that, but it also gives you really amazing powers. So it's, it's sort of the magic system. And it's really fun. Autumn (18m 43s): I liked that it's tied to a traditional item, that it works in very set ways when she talks about like, you can do this with it, you can do that with it, but it's really hard to do both. Some people are more powerful. They can take, they can wear tons of J jewelry. And there's other people that, you know, you put on five and that's your Bakst out, that's it? I like that there's variation. And it depends on who you are and your heritage. And that there's only this one select group of people, the Keck honeys, who are truly there, the Jade warriors, the green bones who can wear this. And it's also knowing a little bit of Japanese history and Chinese history, how important Jade was, you know, they, they buried their emperor's wearing Jade uniforms. Autumn (19m 25s): And so I'm like, oh, this is it's tying in history. And it's, it's, it's Jade. I love stones and I love green, so, oh, I just liked this matching system. It really resonated with me. Jesper (19m 37s): Yeah. Okay, cool. Because at one of the points that I had written on my list here is really a question mark to my cell is that it's this magic system. Really? That unique question, mark. It was what I wrote on my, on my list because it's basically just superpowers. I mean, yeah, you're using the Jade to, to get your powers, but it's nothing more than that. I mean, the more I thought about it, the less unique I actually feel like the magic system is. I mean, it's fun and all that. It's not, not that, but if you're looking at it from a uniqueness point of view or trying to create something new, then I really don't feel it is that, I don't know if that's fair to say, but Autumn (20m 14s): I think in some ways, I mean, it's based on a lot of traditional, you could substitute any stone instead of Jade on any universe. I mean, I know I've read other ones where it's just a, sort of like the L stones of Shannara. You have stones and you can do something with it. So I think it has a very strong heritage in the same aspect, but I liked that she tied it in to a culture and a history. But again, I also know, and we'll probably get into that or we can get into it now, but the Jade is tied to a history that, again, I keep saying Japan, this is not supposed to be Japan. It's supposed to be Keck, knees and kick on. And that is, I think to me was the biggest weakness is that it was so obvious what country it was and the time period and the era that I was just like, can we just call it Japan? Autumn (21m 6s): It felt like it's an island. So I felt maybe this is supposed to be Okinawa. There's the one area we're against, which to me is the Korea, is which Japan has a huge history of fighting with the Korea. And then there's this sort of English slash for some reason I kept thinking of Spain, but it might be because it was started with like Espana, you know, it had that kind of name to me. So it was like an English slash European foreign power as well. It's just like, it was so obvious that I was like, make it either more different and truly unique, or just call it what it is, because it's not even a filmy gray layer. It's pretty apparent what you're trying to base this on. Jesper (21m 49s): Yeah. I think, I think that's correct. Not necessarily that I think that's a problem as such. I mean, I know we've talked about many times doing our monthly Q and a session with, with our students and, and patron supporters. And so on that if it's a horse, call it a horse. Right. I mean, we set many times, but I, I'm not sure it's a problem as such a, that, that you are sort of mimicking, mimicking close off of some, some real life place, because on the other hand, if you call it Japan and then they were running around with Jade powers, that might, that might also feel wrong. But I, I don't know, but I don't necessarily think that's a problem. That's probably like a, you know, taste kind of thing or opinion thing. Autumn (22m 34s): Some people, yeah, I think some people will not mind it as much, but I, and I was comparing it to like the Grish of books, the Grisha verse, which has also has some key aspects that are very much based on cultures of this planet, but she does a really good job of anchoring the history into her novel it's they develop out of the novel and they have completely unique aspects based on the world. I guess I was, I like my fantasy, just a little bit more fantasy. And this was so close to the real world with just a little van veil of difference that I was like, well, I wanted to see, I think, a little more different. I wanted a little more traditional, a little more history based on the world she was creating for the book rather than something that, oh, I could let me go check Wikipedia and make sure that that is what, how it happened. Jesper (23m 27s): Yeah. Yeah. I, I think on that note, I could just sort of inject the comment we got from Stephen on Goodreads, because it sort of goes very much along with what you're talking about. I think because Steven said a quote here, we have a very Earth-like world where technology is straight out of the late seventies, early eighties. Yeah. So that's just me saying he he's in a different time zone or time period, and you are thinking about it, but okay. Then back to the quote, they have cars, they have guns, they have landline phones, they have vocabulary is completely from modern times. Lee basically took the idea of a Jade based magic system and shoved it into a culture of Oriental gangs from the seventies. Jesper (24m 8s): And right. So, so he's thinking that this is like late seventies, early eighties, where you're talking about after world war one. So there's a bit of, let's say change there, but, but again, I'm not so sure that I fully agree with the fact that their vocabulary is completely from modern times. Like you said, well, maybe it is, but I don't necessarily think that's a problem. I mean, this for me, this is a fantasy setting, so who knows how they talk? I mean, but it goes very much along with what you were talking about. Like, it feels like depends or why not just say it's Japan and so on and so on. Whereas I just think, I just view it as it's a fantasy setting so she can do whatever she wants and maybe it is indeed heavily inspired by some real life cultures and real life locations. Jesper (24m 52s): I don't disagree with that. I also think that it's it's, it is that just like Steven is saying, and like you were saying as well, but I guess I'm just not seeing it as a problem. Autumn (25m 4s): I, and I think that just comes down to personal taste to me. I'd like to see it. I would like to, if I didn't understand a word, like how the people greet each other, there is language used and I'm pretty sure all the language use was Japanese. And I basically could have put it into Google translator and checked it. I think there's a part of me who said, I would rather have that as a fantasy language, make it up to fit your world and don't just make it so that I check it. I did not, but I, I had assumed that I probably could have with that a lot, except for the place names that some of the greetings, some of the words, some of the language, the traditions were very much based on real things that you could Google or check on Wikipedia and double-check. Autumn (25m 52s): And I was just like that's Yeah, to me, I'm like, I would rather have that just shifted a little more into fantasy. Otherwise it w it felt a little not cheating. It just felt like a little bit more work could have been done to make it really have like, wow. That is fantastic. That is so cool. Instead of going like, yeah, I read that the other day in an article on Wikipedia. Cool. Jesper (26m 19s): Yeah, no, fair enough. Fair enough. But I have another call comment as well from, from Steven, which this time I very much agree with him. So I, you ready for this one? Is it also about culture and stuff? So he says a quote. I think if a culture had such a magic system for many centuries, it would have drastically all areas of history and industry in such a way that the world would be a very different place. How would Jade have affected the countless wars over the centuries? How would it have affected the world governments? How would it have affected technology? She doesn't really answer those questions and quote, and here, I really agree with Steven, because if you just imagine, like you take these Jade warriors and you put them in some sort of special forces in the military, I mean, there's nothing they couldn't do, right? Jesper (27m 16s): I mean, yeah, you have guns and stuff. You can shoot them. But, but I mean, if they are like, especially the forces and they sneak in behind enemy lines, I mean, just, they can wreck complete havoc and there's not much you can do to stop them. So, and I don't think that she really concerns herself with, with the fact that wooden governments also try to find ways to basically leverage these kinds of people and conquer other countries and stuff like that is it's never mentioned really from a building perspective. I just felt like that was stuff that could have been explored further here. Autumn (27m 56s): Yeah. I, there, I completely agree. The one thing I did like is that she does have the kind of European foreign power is trying to develop a drug to allow them. Yeah. So yeah. To allow their military to also be able to use Jade and I mean, it has bad side effects. It basically makes you addicted. It can completely overreact. So there, I like that. That was a really cool aspect. But looking at the history, basically all the history you have of Kay Khan and the Keck Annies and the Jade warriors is that they were kind of guerrilla fighters. There was a foreign country that was controlling them and they came down the Hills, they fought for freedom and a revolution, and they want it very, very recently, but it's just like Jesper (28m 39s): Taking over the Autumn (28m 40s): World. I know it gives, like you were saying, I mean, you have these guys train, they can deflect bullets. They have the power to do that. There's like six major powers and one of them is deflection. So yeah, you have some ninja like trained warriors. You could go assassinate just about anyone. Jesper (28m 58s): I have a super fast speed and they have super strong, you know, super strength as well. So I mean, there's almost nothing they can do. Autumn (29m 7s): No. And it's neat because she does have setups where it's like, it's really hard to do two of those at once. It's almost like you can only do one at a time unless you're really, really good. And you have to be well trained. I mean, there's a school you go through. I don't know how many years of schooling, just to be able to learn, to harness this energy. I loved all of that. But again, once you became a full blooded Jade warrior, a green bone here, pretty much it all, it's like, it all was just clan in fighting to control this tiny nation where it's like, they, their history, these people should have rulers. They should have been gone. Like there's mentions of being descended from gods, but it's not developed the point to explain that why they were so insignificant in their own culture prior to this period. Autumn (29m 55s): And I agree with Stephen wholeheartedly, it just felt like it was missing. And if this was a real, real, real fantasy culture, their history would have probably needed a lot more explanation of why they weren't ruling other countries and incredibly wealthy country and a huge superpower because they got skills. Jesper (30m 16s): Yeah. Yeah, indeed. And then that's the part where I don't quite understand why they're just sticking to the small little island here. I mean, why? I mean, okay, fair enough. I mean, gang fighting and stuff like, you know, it is basically the gangs fighting each other and so on, but, but come on. I mean, the government would have stepped in and say, say, Hey guys, you know, you're going to be filthy risk rich, all of you, if you worked for us and, and we go out and we conquer some nation, other nations, I mean, they would have done that. Autumn (30m 46s): I agree. And I Jesper (30m 49s): Could have just now. Yeah, I was just about to finish my, my thought because they, she could just have mentioned it as a short paragraph somewhere, just saying for whatever reason they didn't want to, or, or just give some sort of explanation to why, and then that, that would have been closed. Right. But because it's never mentioned, then it just makes me wonder. Okay. Autumn (31m 10s): Yeah. And I think, again, this is where she was relying way too heavily on the history of Japan because they did close their borders for two centuries, 200 years. They basically were not open up to the rest of the world until the U S came in with a steam ship and basically opened up a country to, from the Shogun era where they're using samurais to basically fast forward, within a matter of years to a full industrial nation. And if you know the history, you're kind of like, oh, she's just basically assuming this is what happened here. And just mentioning instead of the shoguns, as it's the warriors in the mountains and the revolutions and the gorillas and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Autumn (31m 50s): But that doesn't work that's, this is supposed to be a fan of it. Doesn't it's not explained with the magic system she has. And that's where, again, I have the problem that if you're going to develop this culture and this history, and it's a different world, don't just rely on what happened in this world, because it doesn't fit. It's going to leave you these disjointed things that I'm like, I don't understand why this would happen this way. Jesper (32m 14s): No, I agree. I, and one of the things we talk a lot about in our world building causes, basically making sure that you analyze what are the wider consequences of the magic system and of the things that you develop in your world, because it will have impact on other things in society on other nations may be in this case and so on. So it's not that you have to play that all out, meaning that just not like the needs to then conquer the world or stuff, but, but at least you need to think about what does it mean? And then if we, I don't want as an author to have the conquered the world, then at least I should have an explanation for why they didn't do so. Jesper (32m 54s): And, and in the same vein here, Steven also said, if Jade is such a powerful substance, has anyone tried to harness it as a power source, the lead through line in there somewhere about scientists studying Jay to find other users, but to no avail, because it only enhances people of bloodline. I would have been able to accept that, but then it would have brought me back to my initial question of why would those J powered S J powered supers have been content with just their tiny corner of the world? And then we're back where we started. Right? But again, I mean, this is again the wider, the wider consequences of having J powers. Jesper (33m 37s): And if you can really get that many powers out of a Jade stone, then I understand what Steven means in terms of, it's not only about military strength here, right? I mean, you, you probably would wonder as a government as well. I wonder if we can use this as a power source for other things, right. And again, like Steven also says, it's not that the fund, the leader needs to make that into something she could, like Steven says she could just have made a small paragraph some way explaining why they tried and they failed and decided not to go any further or whatever, and then fine. Right. But I'm, I'm really missing from a worldbuildling perspective. I think it is a really cool setting. Jesper (34m 17s): So don't get me wrong. I think it's, it's quite cool, but that what would have just made it even better would have been some, some consideration about this wider consequence of the Jade powers. And I really feel that it's completely missing. Autumn (34m 36s): I then I completely agree with you and Steven, that is just, there's something missing. I mean, there could have been any explanation why Jade warriors were limited, why they, they were sick. There was a disease, something just, I wanted some explanation of why they seem so minimal. They were just figure, you know, they had Klan leadership, but it was just this little island. Why not more, but I also want to get into the character is because I think Jesper (35m 4s): Just thinking about, Autumn (35m 7s): You know, we haven't talked in like two weeks and it's, we're still in the same Playboy that's, that's good. But that was, I think my other love and hate of the story were when it came down to the characters, they were well-developed. They were interesting. They had very strong personalities and there were two I wanted to really bow. Well, I guess there was three I wanted to bond with the one was the clan leader who was land. I really, he was my favorite up until okay, very big spoiler alert. He dies. And up until that point, I was really excited. Like he did not want to be the leader of a clan during a war. Autumn (35m 49s): And that's where this world was heading. There was going to be a clan war. And he was basically the only one trying to keep everything together. He didn't want, he wanted to be, he was an awesome, peaceful clan leader, but I'm like, I want to see how he changes, how he transforms and boom kills them off. So I was like, Ugh. And I also, there was Shay, which was his sister and I wanted to like her, she had gone out and explore the world and come back. And there was a few chapters in there where it was like, do I go back to my clan? Do I knock it back to me? And I got to the point, I'm like, just make a decision. I was getting a little sick of her indecision and I never bonded with her because she was just too wishy-washy. And the only other one I kind of liked was Emery Andin. Autumn (36m 31s): Who was the one who was the young Jade bone who had quite the backstory. His mother was like too sensitive, went bad. His father's European. Well, okay. Quote, unquote, European. We're just going to call him that. And he, so he's highly sensitive to Jade. He can do amazing things with it, but he was also too emotional there's times. I wish he was a girl, but then I would have been really annoyed. He was so emotional. At least as a guy, he was like, oh, okay. A really emotional guy. That's kind of different, but I didn't bond with him either. And at the end of the book, that is actually what kept me from buying book two is like, this is interesting. I have some questions about the world and the Jade and the magic, but I really don't really care. Autumn (37m 13s): They killed off land and I don't really care what happens to any of the characters enough to make me go buy book two right now, maybe if I have some spare time later and that's prized me, I was really all set to love this book, but I didn't find the character that really made me want to turn the next page. Jesper (37m 33s): No. And funny enough as usual, we agree here. I mean the only one that slightly had my interest until he was killed, but because it's like, I feel like from the very first page, the worldbuildling really comes into its own. Right, right. Immediately you're sucked into this pretty cool setting. And I was very hooked in it. The first couple of chapters, like this is really great pot. Then the character building and making me as a Rita care for those characters never really happened. It's also, I feel also it's a bit difficult to care for characters who are part of a crime syndicate and they just heard each other people and stuff like that. Jesper (38m 16s): And it's that alone that in his own, it's a bit difficult. It's like, it's like the, the short story we wrote as a prequel for our new series, basically the main coats are there is, is one of the villain in the, So that also they it's, it was a to make, make a character to read us would actually care about because he is actually not that good of a guy. And I feel like that that's the same problem here. Yeah. That it's just like, there is no real character development. I feel like there's real. No, no real care to ox. It's just like a straightforward standard gangster succession story. Jesper (38m 59s): Really? That's it? Autumn (39m 0s): Yeah. I think you really put your finger on it. What, there's no character arc. I was, I thought li like I said, the land had some potential and I was interested to see where he grew too. And he dies. And that was the only one who really, I saw a potential arc to even Emory. I thought at the end, he totally acts out at the perfectly perfect storm moment to not act out in a culture where you don't act out, insult his family, insult everyone, like a huge slap in the face to his family. And I was just like, I wanted some reservations. Like I understood as a writer, why you would do that because to me, you know, you're Writing Fantasy. Autumn (39m 42s): It's always like oceans are supercharged. Things happen, you know, big drama, but I just wanted some restraint from his character to show some sign of growth of thinking beyond his own needs. And yeah, he was being used. But again, in the family setting, it was kind of, he needed to have been used at that point. And it was also an opportunity for him to grow and he just didn't. And I didn't really, I just was so disappointed in him at the end of specifically where I'm like, okay, maybe there's potential. And I was like, I really don't care what happens to him after this. And like I said, I had that one thought I'm like, gosh, it would have been interesting if he had been a strong woman, because there's only a couple of strong women's because it's a very patriarchal, very patriarchal society, even though it's written by a woman. Autumn (40m 35s): And I thought, well, I, I didn't connect with anyone. And that's really a shame because it's a kind of, it's the story itself had so much potential. Jesper (40m 46s): Yeah. I mean, of course this is a Critical Reading episode, so we are being very critical. I mean, I would say it, isn't an entertaining read. It's a good book. So, so, so, so it's just us being very critical here because it's a Critical Reading episode, but so I'll continue in the second way and being a bit critical because what I also felt like I would really have liked some sort of surprised or, or twist about something, just something, but everything was so straightforward that I really felt like, not that I could predict everything that would happen as such, but I, and I don't know if Lee, maybe Lance Beth, you could say was a bit of a surprise. I was, I actually, I was not expecting him to die. Jesper (41m 29s): And so that was a bit of a surprise, but know, but I, I dunno, it just felt too straightforward if you know what I mean. Autumn (41m 37s): Yeah, no, I do. I see, I was kind of, I knew land was either going to die or he's going to have an awesome character arc. And I was so hungry for that character arc and it didn't happen. And I was a little surprised at how they used Emery to defeat the other clan or, well, it wasn't really a defeat defeat, but how they used him and his power, but it completely made sense. And if you were paying maybe attention to embryo a little bit more, you would have totally seen where that was coming from. So everything very much built off of everything you expected to in the story. And there was no huge surprise twist. There was no women coming in to save the day, which, you know, I always hope for, but it didn't happen. Autumn (42m 17s): I was true. Everything was just a little too stuck in its box and stayed there pretty tightly. And so there, I kind of agree. I, I wanted something a bit more exciting, something a bit more surprising and it never developed. I was actually really holding up when LAN the night he dies, he gets a letter from his ex-wife that he had let go. He was way too nice of a character in many ways for the world he was in. And I always wanted to know what was in that letter. It was like the hanging threat. I was expecting her to say, well, actually I left and I was pregnant with you. And I just he's, he's your son and or your daughter, which would have been really awesome. Autumn (42m 58s): And I it's time she come back and begin her training with you. I would've been heart-stopping Lee so excited, but they never actually mentioned the letter. He puts it in a drawer and no one finds it. I'm like, is this in book two? I don't. And again, that's, that's about the only curiosity I have is what was in this really thick letter edits. At least I'm curious about it, but you know, if there had been some tea, some tea, but it would have been better to end book one with someone having found it and opening it going, oh my gosh. Then I would have been booked to right there then. Autumn (43m 38s): Oh my gosh. Jesper (43m 40s): Oh, lots heat from Rita's if you did that. Oh my God. They said, Autumn (43m 44s): I know, but I would have bought it in this, in a heartbeat just to find out what was said. So I didn't have that draw. And again, I agree with you, this book it's worth reading. It's entertaining. It's beautiful. If you love kung-fu it is such a fun book to read. I think book two and three might be worth reading. I mean, the reviews are astounding. The book sales are astounding. It's probably worth reading. Yeah. But I wasn't drawn to it enough, but I think there is, there's something to learn there as a writer that there's something missing with a character or something. A lot of people, even Steven had mentioned, he didn't connect with the characters. Jesper (44m 25s): Yeah. Yeah. And of course a Windell, everybody could then say, yeah, that's nice. You guys are saying that, but this is, is this a top 100 fans as you broke it of all time. And so neighborly award nominee for best novel and so on. Yeah. And fair enough. Yes. But we can only speak of our own opinions here. And, and if I'm very honest about it, the only thing in my opinion, I can say, I don't understand why it is that highly praised. It's a good book. Yes. It's a good story. Yes, it is very, well-written great. Worldbuildling maybe with some, some missing pieces, like we talked about here, but I don't feel it's that good that it should be that highly pre I don't know. I mean, maybe I'm just, I'm just weird and I'm not like everybody else. Jesper (45m 9s): And fair enough if that's the case, but I dunno, I enjoyed it. Good read, good entertainment. But if I hadn't known that it was a award-winning novel like this, I would never have guessed it. Let me put it that way. Autumn (45m 23s): Agreed. I think I I've read some indie fiction that I think topped it, rivals it and tops it. So it's interesting that it got picked for us is such an award-winning and so touted. I think there's a lot of great books out there. It's no better than a lot of them. I mean, well, okay. It's better than some of the really rough ones, but it's on par. It's a good book. It's entertaining. There's other ones that are probably more exceptional. But other than that, again, it is my opinion. It was worth reading, but wow. I can only complain to complain to have the problems she has with how well it's doing good luck best for her. I'm so excited. Autumn (46m 4s): I wish every author who wrote that well or on par could do as well. Jesper (46m 10s): Yeah, for sure. For sure. I think one last thing I had on my list to mention here, because this is really something I've learned, not from this novel alone, but sort of from all these kinds of bestseller novels that we read over the, I mean, we read, we went one before as well for the, for this podcast. But outside of the podcast here, we, we have also had like what, four or five, something like that, very best-selling books that we've read over the last month, but just because we were trying to see what are the common denominators in these books and what I have learned, and this book is exactly the same. And I've been surprised about this because it's not, I guess my standard preference, but I just have to admit as well that after reading all of these massively successful bestsellers, what they all have in common is that they are fairly slow paced all of them, this one as well. Jesper (47m 8s): You know, it, it takes time before things get going. It's not that nothing is happening, but, but it's not a fast page. One way that you like flipping pages to see what happens next. It it's fairly slow paced. It takes a time with where you spent just spend time with the characters and all of these very, very successful novels. They all do this. So I know, I know some people sometimes say, will, it feels a bit boring because not enough is happening, but at the same time, I just have to, you know, concede and say, well, apparently that's what most people want. That's the only conclusion I can draw because I've seen it over and over and over again now. Autumn (47m 48s): Yeah, no, I agree with something and it's definitely not to my taste. Like I said, there was probably two or three chapters. I'm like, you could have cut one of these out. Oh my gosh. It's so slow in the beginning. Especially without the character development more. I think, I think that could have been stronger, but yeah, a lot of these incredibly best-selling books are slow paced and there seems to be a lot of time just spent dilly-dallying and learning parts of the world. And oh, remember when I read, there's a lot of cooking and food descriptions and I'm a foodie and I was getting a little tired of the cooking and the food description. That's a lot of cooking and food descriptions. Yeah. Jesper (48m 26s): No, I mean, don't get me wrong. The point, the point with slow paced is not to be boring. That's not what I'm saying. Right. I mean, if you just have chapters cooking and nothing is happening, that is boring. That's not what I'm trying to say. I'm more things are happening and things were also happening in JTD, but it just takes it time with it. It, nothing is rusted, you know? Yeah. It's just a slow paced. Autumn (48m 50s): Yeah. Slower than you might think. If you're writing slow and you think it's slow, you might be okay. Read a couple of these books and see how you, you measure up. Yeah. Jesper (49m 0s): Alright. Anything else on your list autumn? Or is that it? Autumn (49m 4s): That's it? I think we covered all my big topics. So I will just say it is a good book. It's worth reading. There's also a lot of great authors out there, so yeah. Go check out a book. All right. Jesper (49m 17s): That's good. So next Monday I have a great interview lined up for you and I hope very much. You're going to enjoy that one. So see you then, Narrator (49m 30s): If you like, what you just heard, there's a few things you can do to SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST. Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. You can also join autumn and Jasper on patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy for as little as a dollar a month. You'll get awesome rewards and keep The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast, going, stay safe out there and see you next Monday.

The AmWritingFantasy Podcast: Episode 149 – Top 10 WORST Plot Twists EVER

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Some plot twists can elevate a story into a masterpiece, whereas others utterly destroys everything that came before it. In this humorous episode of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast, Autumn and Jesper compete to come up with the WORST five plot twists ever created. Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday. SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST! Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review. Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you'll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going. Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion). Narrator (1s): You're listening to The Am writing Fantasy Podcast. In today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing. Join two best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them now on to the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt. Jesper (30s): Hello. I'm Jesper. Autumn (31s): And I'm, Autumn. Jesper (33s): This is episode 149 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast. And this is the first episode of the month. And we all know what that means. Don't we Autumn? Autumn (44s): This one's a challenge where we compete with each other to come up with the worst of something. So these are always kind of fun. Jesper (54s): These are my favorite ones and today's top 10 list is the WORST Plot Twists EVER. Autumn (1m 3s): Oh gosh. At least I'm not going to give you a plot twist and say what? That's not what I prepared for. So I'm ready. Like I just mentioned to you, I actually was, I thought we were recording this two days ago, so I've been ready for two days. So I've got a good list. I think it'll be fine. It was actually really fun. This one was feeling kind of, I don't know what to come up with. And so I did a little bit of reading and research and started thinking and I'm like, oh yeah, there's some fun ones in this slide. Yeah, I think so too. All mine movies, although I only have two movies, so ha I, I actually tried to stick with books as much as possible, but yeah, two movies snuck in there. Autumn (1m 49s): Okay. I know I picked movies on purpose because then I could play some audio clips and I liked those. Lets you do one of these days. I want you to plan ahead and send you some movie, some clips and tell you not to listen to them until you play them. But that's going to be kind of hard cause you have to test them somehow. No, no, that'll be fine. That's fine. I can just click and listen half a second just to see if it plays and then stop it. Okay. One of these days, one of these days I'll really be prepared. It'll be a miracle, but everybody's mind just like my God. Yes, it will be and prepare us. Autumn (2m 30s): That'd be fantastic. Just imagine. Anyway, how are things going for you? Jesper (2m 37s): I'm pretty busy these days. I just finished up the first draft of book two in our new Sherry's over this last week. So that was good. That's exciting. Yeah, but I'm taking a short break from writing now because I have so much preparation to do for my attempt to become a referee instructor. So that's basically, Yeah, it's taking up so much time. So yeah, just taking a bit of a break between book two and book three in our series a so that will probably be okay. But Autumn (3m 11s): I think that is fine since you were so much further ahead of me on the Writing department. I don't mind if you take a little writing break and let me catch up a bit. Jesper (3m 22s): No, no, indeed. That's fair enough. And yeah. And, and, and speaking about referee, actually, sometimes it's nice to have a referee at hand because yesterday my youngest son, he was playing a match and then we arrived there and then the coach came over and he said like, well, the referee who was supposed to be here has not shown up. So can you just refereed this match for me? I was like, oh my God. I mean, I don't have any of the clothes on, I don't have whistle. I don't, I didn't have anything because I was not going, I was just going to be spectator. Jesper (4m 2s): Right. But, but then of course, I mean, they, they don't have a referee and I was just standing there. So I said, okay, fine. But I don't have any of my things with me. So I'll have to shout instead of blowing the whistle and so on, because that's what you're going to get then. And, and we did then, but that why I'm mentioning it because I was really surprised because these are a 13 year old kits. Yeah. Right. And I'm a bit surprised about how their behavior, you know, that, that they can talk the way they do to adults. Autumn (4m 40s): Really. Jesper (4m 41s): Yeah. Because I don't get, I mean, they, the away team there, they were the players that their 13 year old kids. Right. But they were complaining a lot, like all the time, like, well they've, they felt like the free kick was the wrong way or to the wrong team, or it shouldn't have been a free kick and, or the throw in wasn't in the other direction, in their point of view. And it was just all kinds of things. They complained all the time. And then the one point, like during the second half, I, I started getting a bit annoyed by it. Right. So I, one of the guys, one of the kids then complained again. And I just said to him, like, be quiet and concentrate on playing soccer instead. Jesper (5m 24s): And then another teammate of his who was also walking by, he then said, well, we can't concentrate with your round. It took me a bit back. What did these are 13 year old kids talking like that to adults. What's going on? That Autumn (5m 39s): That's crazy. That's quite a backtalk man. Yeah. Jesper (5m 43s): But I didn't do that when I was 13 years old, no, to an adult? I mean, what's going on? Autumn (5m 50s): I don't know. I didn't raise kids so I can not even imagine. Jesper (5m 56s): No. But do you remember when were 13 year old? You wouldn't speak like that to an adult, you didn't even know, would you? Autumn (6m 1s): No, I usually didn't speak. I had my nose in a book and I was just like, I prefer a silence. I am mute. So no, I would never have spoken to a, an adult with a bit of a snap, not till I was at least 16 or 18 and being snarky. Jesper (6m 19s): Yeah, indeed. Yeah. I don't know. I think there's something going, because, and we talked about with some of the parents as well, not, not specifically to refereeing as such, but just in general. How, how the younger generations nowadays, they, they are very like egocentric, you know, they just focus on themselves and their life and they are the ones who are important. And I don't know. It's it's, I I'm, I D I don't like that kind of attitude, I must say. No, Autumn (6m 48s): No, I, I respect any parent trying to raise a kid these days. It's, it's, it's a challenge with internet and so many issues. And I just Instagram for kids that they won the launch. I mean, let's just see this hideous. Absolutely. He is. Jesper (7m 6s): Yeah, indeed. So, yeah. But how about you? You've been busy as well. I know Autumn (7m 14s): I've been working on a portfolio website and, but it was also my husband's birthday. So we went for a hike it's high it's like peak fall colors. The trees are like yellow, and they're just dropping these gentle golden leaves in the sunlight. If it's sunny, this is all for artificial lighting today. It's a kind of a gray day, but other days it's been sunny. It's just, just, you know, in the seventies. So maybe a flannel weather and just absolutely stunningly gorgeous. So I cannot complain. It's, it's always a shame to have to do to computer work on such lovely days, but at least I have a nice view of the forest. Autumn (7m 56s): As someone pointed out, I've got a nice view behind me. So, you know, I'm not suffering too badly that way, but yeah, it definitely seems to be a very busy fall, but it was wonderful to take a day off, to go hiking. And we're actually hoping for a bit of a float trip cause he worked as a whitewater raft guide for the summer. So we're hoping to go back and do the same trip together without paying customers just to have fun. And that'll be really kind of nice to get out. So yeah, I think so. Jesper (8m 28s): Very cool. And you're also busy editing. I know. Autumn (8m 31s): Yes. Yeah. That's what I was going to say. Thank you for jogging my memory. I'm so close. I wanted October one. I wanted to be done, but between that fantasy colony, I went to and a birthday celebrations and fueled their little life hip cups. I'm so close. But then I also remember we are, one of our characters is a dwarf and we created this whole speech pattern for how they speak and was like, oh, bugger that I had tried to do it a little bit, but now I've got to go back and double check. So it's like, I have like two, three chapters from the end and also have to go back and do a quick sweep of everywhere the door speaks. Autumn (9m 9s): And so it'll probably be at least another week. Yeah, probably another week, but I'm living with it because it's so nice to be like seeing Scribner and you like, you're this, this long we're hitting definitely over 40 chapters, by the way, to see this huge list of Barbados so close. So that does feel very, very good knowing this is the last one, but it's still like, I feel like this is the one that every time I think. All right. I'm oh shoot. I forgot about doing that. It is the never ending story. We're so close though. Jesper (9m 45s): We'll get there Narrator (9m 48s): A week on the internet with The Am Writing Fantasy Podcast. Jesper (9m 53s): So after launching our new critical reading initiative, two weeks back, you can go back and listen to episode 1 47 if you missed it. But we also had to pick the next book to read and their voting already took place on Patrion and also in the Am Writing Fantasy Facebook group. So if you want to join in, you know where to go, if you want to vote in the future. And we don't know if we're going to keep this upright, I mean, this is was a new initiative we are doing and we will see how much people enjoy it or how much they, they jump on board and participate. And of course, if they don't and we will probably stop it again, at least now we, yeah, at least now we are on the second month. Jesper (10m 39s): So at least the second attempt, we'll, we'll just try a bit more. And the voting this time was between the sudden appearance of hope by Claire, north Jade, JTD by finale, or which marked by cl Polk. And we had a pretty clear winner. Autumn (10m 56s): Yes we did. I, there was no getting rid of wiggle room in this winter. So we had to go with it. I have to say. Jesper (11m 5s): Yeah. So it was a Jade City by Fonda Lee that we, we picked up this time around. So, and of course we already started, you know, the, it was the voting took place like a week ago or maybe over the last two weeks from the time that this episode airs. But of course we still would love you to read along. And this episode where we will analyze JTD will air on the 22nd of November. So by the time you listen to this, if you listen, when this podcast episode releases, you still have a bit of time if you haven't started reading yet. And if we need to give you a bit of incentive, we can say to Jade city is the winner of the world Fantasy award. Jesper (11m 51s): It was shortlisted for a Nebula awards, the Lotus award, the Aurora awards, the sunburst awards, and became best book of the month on Amazon. So you might want to check it out. Autumn (12m 2s): You might, and if you need more incentive, I've already started reading. I picked it up instead of reading the news, which is horrible. Anyway. So I've been reading a Jade city for my breakfast and lunch breaks and I already 30% in. And I think I only started a couple of days ago. I like it. I really kind of got sucked in. I see a few things. I'm like, well, I don't like how, you know, funded this few point of view things that I'm like, eh, but the story, I don't know, it's totally sucked me in all the characters have pulled me in. And so I'm like, okay, now I've gone from, oh, I've got to read a book. Autumn (12m 45s): Where am I going to find the time to, okay, I need more time to read this book. I read this. I even put aside some of my design work last night, cause I needed a mental break from it. Anyway, when you fall asleep too many nights in a row, thinking about the next thing you need to work on, I was like, okay. I took a, an evening off. I read instead and I thoroughly enjoyed it. So I have a feeling I'm going to finish this one probably before the end of the weekend. Jesper (13m 13s): Wow. Okay. Yeah. I, I, of course I do audio books because I don't have time to read and I read too slow to read an entire book unless I, well, I could read it in a month, but then I really have to dedicate time to it and I don't have that time. So I do the audio book. I also did that last month, but I, I started listening to it as well. I think I have listened to seven chapters by now. I think I quite like it to so far, I must say, compared to last month book as well, this one is much easier to follow. Yes. You know, there's like the storylines, it's pretty clear. I last the, the one we had last month, it was like listening to the audio books. Jesper (13m 57s): Sometimes I had to like rewind or whatever you would call it on the, you know, go back 30 seconds here and there to just listen to it again, because it was, it was a bit complicated. It felt like that at least in the audio book. And sometimes if I wasn't concentrating, I would, I would sort of lose the plot a bit. But, but this one is much, much easier to follow along. I think this one has, Autumn (14m 23s): Yeah, I really like it. I think it has a ton of characters at least named characters, but once you kind of absorb them and see which ones are the really important ones, you're like, okay, I'm good. The plots this plot straight forward, even though the point of view change. And yeah, it's just a really fun story. So I'm, I, I do like this one. I can not wait to see what other leaders like think of it as well. Jesper (14m 46s): Yeah, exactly. And I'm looking forward to discuss sort of the, all the, all the stuff that was done really well and what we didn't like until I did notice though, in the first seven chapters that there are, she's doing the right thing in terms of sharing world building in the sense that it's characters talking about it. But when I was listening to one of the chapters today, it did sort of rub me the wrong way to like, you know, th th the kind of conversation they were having, it was like a conversation nobody would ever have. Right. They're basically telling each other things that they all, both of them already know, but it was clearly dialogue just to get the billing across to the reader. Jesper (15m 27s): And that, that was not too elegant. That, that part. But otherwise, I would say so far, I really like it. Excellent. Narrator (15m 34s): And on to today's topic. Jesper (15m 37s): So here we go on another competitive list. Oh, no, I hit that one again. Yes, he did. I did that last week as well. You did. Autumn (15m 46s): I'm not editing this one out. Jesper (15m 48s): No. Now I have to live with it. There is this for listening to, is this like a loop thing you can accidentally hit when you do a sound clip? And last week I hit it and I made Autumn edit it out. But I guess this time I have to live with the fact that it played twice, But okay. Another competitive list where we will try to outdo each other with the best worst list, and you are still competitive in the body. And Autumn (16m 18s): That's why this is your favorite. It's not that it's a fun thing to find the worst of something. It's just, you're super competitive. And so you're like, yeah, that's amazing. And I'm like, oh, geez. Jesper (16m 30s): It's not that bad. Autumn (16m 34s): I can pick. I do at least a little bit. I am not quite as competitive as you, but I enjoy coming up with the worst ones I can find. So this one was quite fun. And if I remember correctly, I think I went first, last time. So guess who started his, Jesper (16m 53s): Ah, didn't you say that again? Last time as well? Autumn (16m 57s): Oh, no, I I'm pretty sure. I wouldn't. First listeners will have to tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I went first, unless you want to flip. I was fighting. Do you want me to go? I'm ready? My list is awesome. So if you want me to put the best foot forward, I can decimate you. Jesper (17m 21s): I don't mind either way, but I, I will say though that it was actually quite interesting to build this list of plot twists, because I don't know. I really feel like these plot twists when, when I was sort of building the list and looking through this stuff, it's like, if you get the plus plot twist, right, you can really elevate the story into almost a masterpiece. I was about to say, but it can also like orderly destroy everything that came before it, if it's not handled well. And I think that was quite interesting. Autumn (17m 54s): And I thought, I thought it was interesting. I don't know if we'll need to define it if we want to define it now, but I noticed how many bad plot twists involved the deuce ex Machina, which is the term for the God in the machine, or when something completely never before seen in the entire novel shows up to save the day. And instead of being the hero and it's like almost all the ones I was finding where that was, what was happening in the readers were like, or the Watchers viewers were like, no, you just ruined the character. Went through all of this effort, everything suffered, nearly died, lost their loved ones. And then something comes out of left field and saves the day And they hate it. Autumn (18m 38s): So I think that's going to be my take home. Yeah. That we'll have to see if there's another take-home, but that was definitely the take home I got of this was like, do not do this in your applaud. Jesper (18m 50s): Yeah. I think it Dave's ex McKenna, isn't it? Autumn (18m 53s): Yeah. I did not take Latin. I took French, So I, that's not how it'd be pronounced in French. Jesper (19m 2s): Okay. Fair enough. I didn't take friends, so, and I did not take Latin. So what do I know? Autumn (19m 9s): You're just making it up very well. There you Jesper (19m 10s): Go. Calm. I'm waking up as I go. Autumn (19m 13s): All right. So who's starting, You decide. All right. Well then I'm going to go ahead and start fine. I'll just, I'm just going for it. We got to decide. So are you ready? My number five, which I, I, as you know, I ordered this right before we started recording. Cause I had not done that part. So this is the only one. It is a movie. It's not my only movie, but it's one of two, but it's the only one I have not read or watched. So this is out of the dark, out of the dark by David Weber. And I chose this one to include because I thought it just sounded so crazy. So this is a science fiction novel in which humans are fighting an alien invader on a human colony world that Vader's are too powerful and all seems lost when out of the blow, one of the humans turned out to be wait for it Dracula. Autumn (20m 8s): And he single-handedly destroyed the alien invading force by using his vampire powers. Jesper (20m 17s): Wait, wait a second. So, so Dracula was part of the story all along and nobody knows. And then all of a sudden he is there, or yes, he just came on on screen. All of a sudden when you needed him, Autumn (20m 28s): It turns out he was a character all along. And a lot of people have pointed out that it was very obvious because his name was I'll loop cut because I can't pronounce it. It's Dracula's spell backward is, was his, his name. People are like, oh, it's so obvious. You know, there's these Roman S Scholtz Scholtz soldiers. And there's this, you know, guy who is Dracula spelled backward. Obviously he was there all along, but everyone else said there was absolutely no hint that the guy, this character was a vampire. And it was just so surprising that most readers absolutely found it crazy, just totally out of left field and never saw it coming. Autumn (21m 14s): And it ruined the entire story up to that point. They just felt like an entirely different ending than the novel should have had it. Jesper (21m 22s): Right. But, and the other thing I don't understand is that he would have known all the time that he has that he's powers and you can just defeat them if he wants to. So has he just been walking around letting them take over like, well, I don't care. I'll deal with it later. Autumn (21m 38s): I don't either. I haven't read this one. So I, I can't speak to that, but I was sort of wondering the same thing saying, oh, he was there the whole time. Why was it ever a problem? It'd be like super bad. Like, oh, I can't use my powers. I can't use my, oh fuck. Jesper (21m 54s): You can't be bothered humans. You can die. I don't, I can't be bothered today. I'm too tired. Autumn (22m 1s): Okay. So I probably will not read this one to find out what really happened, but there you go. That was my number five that I, it just sounded so crazy. I S I always joke. It's one of the examples of like John Rose, smashing you can write anything you want as an Indian indie author. You could have vampires in space. Well, someone has vampires in space. I had to pick this one for the list. Jesper (22m 28s): So that, that is so weird. I don't, I'm not familiar with that book, so I don't know, but it sounds really weird. And I'm just wondering how, how the entire characterization of Dracula throughout the book, how that even works, because unless he he's like a very minor character and you almost don't see him, and then all of a sudden he walks onto the scene when you need him in the end. I mean, that even that is annoying too, but if he's part of the story throughout, then it makes even less sense to me, Autumn (22m 58s): Just from the little bit I read, I think he was one of the main characters. He was very important, so Jesper (23m 3s): I don't get it, Autumn (23m 6s): But there you go. Bad plot twists your turn. Jesper (23m 9s): Yeah. That's a, that's a pretty bad, bad product choice for sure. Dracula. Okay. Well, my online five examples on my list are movies, as I said, and I have audio clips for all of them, of course, just because I think it's fun. Not because I think you can guess all of them, but I'm going to make you try anyway, just because of like, I like tormenting, you like that. Autumn (23m 37s): You too. All right, let's go for it. Get the torture going. Jesper (23m 42s): Okay. So my number five is an example of what I earlier about the ending, destroying everything that came before it. Yes, because I actually quite liked the premise of this movie. And I also remember watching it, that it had me hooked as well. Okay. That was until the end of course. And I have a short audio clip here. So it might reveal which movie it is. This was, this is one of the ones that you might be able to guess if you at least are familiar with the movie, otherwise you can probably not get it, but maybe the listeners can, but let me play the audio clip and then you can see if you can guess it. Jesper (24m 27s): Okay. You ready? Yep. Let's go. Autumn (24m 57s): I've never watched this movie. I'm guessing it was called 23, but I have no idea. Jesper (25m 2s): Yeah. It's called the number 23. That's correct. Autumn (25m 5s): At least I guessed right. So, what's this about? Jesper (25m 10s): So this is a thriller with a Jim Carey where he's character gets a book called. The book is called the number 23. He gets it as a person from his wife. You could hear that in the audio clip, which she says that I'm going to get this for you. So that's a book she buys to him for him. And he starts completely obsessing about this number 23. Like he sees it everywhere and he can constantly see things that makes connections to becoming 23, adding things together becomes 23. It's just all the time, everything. And in this book that he, his wife bought him, the chapter 23 is missing as well. Jesper (25m 53s): So everything sounds pretty interesting so far, right? There's something going on. That's kind of fun. All right. Yeah. And it also had me pretty entertained. I actually quite liked it, but then it turns out the plot twist comes onto the stage now. And the mission chapter 23 explains that a girl was murdered and Jim character character, the main character was actually the one who did the killing. And then you learn that he wrote the book himself, but he has no memory of it because he gave himself a head injury. So he would forget the murder. Jesper (26m 41s): He had an injury. I mean, talk about a skilled head injury. I Autumn (26m 44s): Want to forget this bang. Jesper (26m 47s): Yeah. That, that in itself is pretty lame. But the fact is also that once that reveals come, once you get that reveal, the movie spends like half an hour trying to, you know, come up with the explanation for everything that you've seen and how it all fits together. It just keeps explaining all kinds of it's like, they're trying to justify how everything makes perfect sense. And it's just like the last half an hour. It's just a nightmare up until that point. It's actually pretty interesting. And then it gets destroyed completely. Autumn (27m 22s): Yeah. It sounds that way. I mean, they could have make it significant, make it someone else who did, I don't know, make it a mystery, not explain it and then have to explain everything. And just as I say, beat a dead horse, I mean, it just sounds like, okay, moving on. I don't really need to know that Jesper (27m 43s): It was, and it was a real shame because I, I liked the movie. And then when it gets destroyed in the end, it's a bit like, dammit, Autumn (27m 53s): Why couldn't they actually plot? This sounds. Yeah, you're right. Because up until that point, it's like, everything's adding up. It's like, you know, the number 42 is the meaning of life. You know, there's something important going on here with 23 and yeah, it's actually, he's a homicidal maniac that gave himself a head injury. Jesper (28m 16s): Yeah. And also why, I mean, I, yeah, it makes no sense. Autumn (28m 20s): I, is that your way of feeling regret to like bash yourself in the head? Why, why would you have written a book and then you should have brought the book and then hit yourself in the head and then there'd be no evidence you would have forgotten. Jesper (28m 34s): And why would you walk into a store and find your own book? And your wife accidentally buys it to you for you? It's like, okay. Yeah. That's a coincidence. Yeah. I Autumn (28m 45s): And name. Yeah. There you go. Oh, well, Jesper (28m 51s): Yeah. Okay. All right. But that's my number five. It was not Dracula, but I still feel like it was pretty shitty, Autumn (28m 57s): So, so pretty bad. I will not strike that one from my watch list. All right. So my number four and I was, I think I mentioned said my number five out of the dark was a movie. I was wrong. Sorry. That one was actually a book, but my number four is a movie. I don't know if you've seen this one, but it's a superhero movie. So you'll probably have it. It's not superhero. Movies are not your favorite, but as Hancock. And that actually starts will Smith. Yeah. So, yeah. So if it's the one Jesper (29m 29s): Where he, he can fly or something, right? Autumn (29m 32s): Yes, yes. And it sort of starts out the same way he wakes up in the hospital. He has no memory of who he was, but he's has these amazing powers. So he becomes a superhero, but this woman that, you know, he's interested in, but it's like, whenever they're together, she's the villain. She is the arch villain in the story. But then, you know, it starts like, you know, it sounds like this beginning of a superhero story, like this is the B the Genesis of a superhero and there's this evil villain. It's perfect. But that's the twist. The twist is with like no setup, nothing. It's just suddenly revealed that they're both gods and the previous it's just there. Autumn (30m 14s): And she's not really a villain. She's more like his kryptonite. And if they're at the same place at the same time, bad stuff happens. But truly they love each other. And there used to be two other gods and they basically annihilated each other because of the same thing. They loved each other, but they can't be together because if they're together, they destroy things, things just blow up around them. And as most people who watched the movie have said that, it just feels like you're watching a superhero movie. And then there's this switch. Like someone else wrote the completely different movie ending. And now they're instead of superheroes they're gods and he's got his memory back and they're basically trying to come up with some resolution where they both get halves of the planet. So they don't cross paths. Autumn (30m 57s): I'm not explaining it as well as it's confusing as it is, but it goes from superhero movie to God movie, God, and God. Jesper (31m 5s): Yeah. You lost me a bit there halfway. I think it was complicated enough that even the explanation confused me Autumn (31m 12s): And that's just, it, it feels like it could have been you to stick to the superhero, just stick to superheroes. You wouldn't need to suddenly say that the superheroes are really gone well. Yeah. That's, that's fine. You know, whatever all the way through I have. And at the time I didn't really notice it. I'm like, okay, that's just a weird twist. And now it doesn't surprise me that, you know, will Smith tends to get movies where it's, it doesn't surprise me where the villain is actually not a villain. It's just a misunderstood character. That's very will Smith. So that doesn't surprise me so much, but it was kind of like will Smith on my list. Oh, that's too funny. I wonder if it's, there was a one I almost selected that I would call a rum runner up for this list. Autumn (31m 53s): So I'll have to see if it's the one you chose be interesting. But yeah, I, it was one of those ones where it was a perfectly good superhero, fun movie. Why, why, what happened to him that he lost his memory? Who is this other character? Who's sort of not even a huge character for awhile, but as the villain ish one and what what's going on. And then to find out, you know, boom is just like drop reveal. Oh, you're both gods. Oh, this is what's really going on. Oh, here's your memory back? Oh, there's these friends that you've lost a long time ago and boom. It's just like, well, we're at a totally different movie now. Autumn (32m 34s): Thank you. Jesper (32m 34s): Right. Because it's the same, same thing with, with the number 23. Like it's pretty good. And then all of a sudden it a detour and it's just like what happened happened. Yeah. You're just, you feel like you got, they lost the essence of what they were, the whole plot was up until that point. And you're like, I don't, it wasn't a twist so much as a different story. Yeah. Okay. That's a, it's a completely different story than my number five, but I feel like the, the conclusion of it is exactly the same, you know, it's, it's, it's about a good story. That just goes bad. Yes. That's exactly what it is. Yeah. All right. So what's your number four. Okay. I have a number four now and I'm actually not so sure you can guess which movie this is from the audio clip the fans out there of this stuff. Jesper (33m 23s): They will probably know instantly, but I think I would not be able to guess it. I think so. I'll help you at least by saying that it's a Christopher Nolan movie. Okay. Okay. Okay. So I already for the audio clip. Yeah. Let me go get my phone so I can Google it, then I'll go ahead. Okay. Here it comes. Jesper (34m 12s): So don't worry about what they're saying, but the voices might give it away what it is, you know, the way that he speaks. Autumn (34m 18s): I would say based on the way he speaks, Batman, but I also say that is almost the exact level of decibels that I am deaf in for my left my right ear. So I was like, I don't hear you, but I'm guessing that the deep gravelly voice that is spoken slowly. Jesper (34m 35s): It is definitely Batman. Autumn (34m 38s): Okay. Yes. That's pretty good. That's two out of two now. Jesper (34m 40s): That's pretty good. You're on a roll now. I think, first of all, I have to say that in general, I really like Christopher Nolan's movies and it's not that this one is bad either, to be honest, this is the dark Knight rises. Okay. And it's, it's actually okay. And you know, I don't, I don't generally like super hero movies, like you said, but this one is not too bad, actually. Okay. But why I have it on my list anyway, is because of the actual scene where this audio clip is from. So in the dark, not the dark Knight rises. Jesus. That was difficult to say, Batman is fighting bane. Jesper (35m 22s): You know, that's the guy with that mask on and it looks pretty cool. Yeah. And they are fighting each other for like two hours when we get to this scene. Wow. And yeah. And all the way through, up until this point, Bina, he's like a really formidable villain. No, he he's like really good at what he does of being a villain. And he really challenged us Batman. And then they put in this twist in this scene. So just by the end of the audio clip, you could hurt, you could hear a woman talking. Yeah. And that was a Miranda tape as she used to, like Batman's love interest. And then in this scene, it is revealed all of a sudden, you know, like Batman has final defeated pain. Jesper (36m 8s): He has him like on the ground. I got you finally, like after two hours right off movie, you finally got the upper hand. And then behind him is this, he's a love interest, Miranda, Tate. And then she stops him with a knife. She stops Batman. And you're like, what? And then it turns out, well, she's actually the true villain. And she was the one all along who wanted to destroy Gotham city with a nuclear bomb. It was not Bain at all. And the Bain is basically sort of reduced to this like, well, simple puppy who was just like carrying out the orders of his master, because he's so much in love with her as well. Jesper (36m 52s): I mean, it's, it's just, it's such a shame because I really feel like just the mask that Bain wears, right. That the way he speaks you, you, well, you couldn't hear it, but at least I could hear his voice, but he's really cool. Dean is really cool. And he's a really, really good villain. And then because of this scene, you reduce him to dislike petty criminal. Who's just following somebody else who, a mastermind who wants him to do this and that. And, and then this lady, she kills pain, like really, really easily in the scene. And then this just it, and then Bain is done. And it's like, why do I want two hours of Batman fighting this guy? Like the best villain that he's ever fought. Jesper (37m 32s): And then he's just like this Hensman basically, Autumn (37m 38s): It'd be one thing. If, I mean, at least he should have some charisma of his own, you know, be a good, he could still be an amazing, massive villain and she could be in on it, but she doesn't have to be the one pulling his strings that does seem to reduce who this character from. Totally awesome to. Well, that was, Jesper (37m 59s): Yeah, it's doing such a disservice to the character and all the characterization you've been building so far, because I really think that Bain is very iconic. He's a really cool villain until this point, if this stuff had happened happened, he would have been amazing. It's just like, ah, it feels like just because we need a plot twist, we need something exciting. Okay. Let's make a, this woman that Batman thought he was a loving that she was a love interest of his let's. Let's let, let's make her the villain and Tara, all of a sudden there's a new will. And in the end of the movie, it's just like, oh my God, I know. I really hated. Autumn (38m 37s): I don't, especially a two hour, it'd be one thing. If it was like, you know, 45 minutes, the end of a TV episode, you're like sucked. But two hours in a theater to get to like that kind of a twist, I would have been throwing popcorn at the screen and walking out thinking I just wasted two hours of my life. I could've been like kayaking or something. Exactly. Oh yeah. Okay. Well, I agree that once I I'm glad I never watched dark Knight rises. I never got around to it. I don't think I will anymore. No. Next time. Yeah. Next time I break my leg and I'm tied up in hospital for like months at an and or something. Autumn (39m 20s): I'll consider it until then. Yeah. No, I'm good. No. All right. All right. Good. You're number three then number three. So this one is my last movie and it was one when I watched it, I was like, oh, this is just horrible. So the producer shouldn't surprise you because he has he, after his first couple of movies, he made some flops. So the director is M night Shyamalan. I have him on Melissa as well. Well, you have to see which one he's got a couple of bad ones. I selected signs. Is that the one you picked or do you got a different one? Autumn (40m 1s): It might be. Yes. So this is the alien one where it was a good premise. You know, there's this, there was some good scenes, cornfields, everyone. I grew up in the countryside. My neighbors were Amish. I grew up in cornfields. So I do not find them frightening at all at dark. But for some reason, most of the human population thinks massive cornfields are terrifying at night. They think the woods are terrifying at night. I live in the woods too. So I'm just weird. But I, so there's these things happening. It's a, he's a widower. He's got his daughter and there's this threatening music and weird things happening. And you realize this is this alien invasion and it's sort of tense and terrifying. Autumn (40m 45s): And you're wondering how it's going to go actually pretty good up until that point until you find out, until you find out what defeats the aliens is, water, what is what 90% of this planet is made out of. If you're an alien species that can design faster than light ships, which you attack an alien world, that 90% of it is toxic to you. And then don't even bother throwing in the premonition of the little girl, leaving water glasses all over the house because she just subconsciously knows that her dad will need them to fight the aliens. And then they tie in his wife's dying words that are somehow our premonitions also for what was going to happen. Autumn (41m 32s): I'm just, I'm not, I just couldn't buy it. I mean, really, if you're an intelligent alien raised, you're not going to go. You would at least come in a stupid, a suit that could protect you from the thing that's going to kill you. You can design spaceships. Oh, it was just horrible. I just water. You're allergic to water. Yeah. Great. Jesper (41m 54s): I fully agree. It was number two on my list because I just hated so much. Autumn (41m 59s): So I took all your number two. Jesper (42m 2s): You know what I mean? Exactly. Because of what you say, you know, if you, if you know the water is going to kill you and you're like an highly intelligent alien race, number one, either, like you say, you would wear some protection on number two. Why don't you just pick another planet? Some something that wouldn't kill you. There's kind of, I mean, it makes no sense Autumn (42m 22s): Go to Mars. Jesper (42m 23s): Why do you even want it? Why do you even want invade a planet that kills you? It makes no sense. Autumn (42m 31s): I mean, yeah. I, I, we're only trying to go to Mars, which would kill us. I mean, we're not allergic to anything there, but it has no atmosphere, but we're trying to go there because it's like the only other place we have to go, we don't have spaceships. That'll take us across the, you know, solar system. But yeah, I'm pretty sure there's other places we'd go. It's like, we wouldn't choose, oh, look, there's this planet. 90% of it is composed compost of acidic acid. That's going to totally boil our skin. Let's go there. Yeah. That's a great vacation. Jesper (43m 1s): Yeah. And then we will be like, oh look, there are some people living dead. Let's invade. Then we need to conquer this planet. That will kill us. That's an excellent idea. Oh my God. Yeah. I really hated. Yeah. Autumn (43m 15s): Ah, wonderful. I think that was the first one I watched where I was like, I don't like a nighttime alone anymore. I like the village. I like sixth sense. There was the one with the, yeah. The one with the brittle bones disease that he ended up making into a trilogy. That one wasn't bad. Now I can't even think of the name of it, but Jesper (43m 37s): Mr. Glass or something Autumn (43m 38s): That would, I kind, that was not bad. But by the time I got to signs and like, oh, this is horrible. Jesper (43m 47s): I actually had a, an audio clip for it. Do you want to hear, Okay, here you go. Autumn (44m 11s): You did my homework. Jesper (44m 12s): Yeah. So that was also on my list. I absolutely agree. I hate that Twists that they put in there. That's ridiculous. And also because they just very easily defeat stadiums, then Indiana not like, oh, okay. They can't take water then boom, boom, boom. Then they are defeated. It's like Autumn (44m 30s): The irrigation system. Jesper (44m 30s): Why do we spend all this time building up to it? Then if you can just kill them off that easily, it makes no sense. Right? Waste of time, Autumn (44m 39s): The brain will kill them. As I think one of the commenters, it was one of the famous founders. Like, you know, this guy, the lead character is a former priests. There's all this kind of premonitions and godliness. Well, you know what? God could have just made it rain and no problem. So yeah, it was a bad Plot, such a bad flood. Okay. You're a number three. Jesper (45m 5s): You can, you can, yeah, you can get my number three here. And I think you might be able to get, guess what this one is because the dialogue in this audio clip is sort of pretty iconic, but I can give you another hint that this is the one that I mentioned. I had one on my list with will Smith. And this is, this is the one you ready. Jesper (45m 49s): You know what that is, right? Autumn (45m 50s): Oh yeah, that is, I am legend. And that was my runner up for the list. So that is awesome. Jesper (45m 57s): Cool. It's funny that we have the same thing that annoyed us. That's pretty cool. Autumn (46m 1s): I guess I like this. I love this movie up until. Jesper (46m 7s): Yeah. So in summary, I think most people probably know it, but just summary, 90% of the people's population is killed by a man-made virus designed to cure cancer and then it sort of mutates and then it starts killing everybody. And as a result, you get these, Somby kind of like creatures, which they are quite terrifying. And, and, and it's actually a pretty cool the first half of the movie that that's pretty cool, very dramatic and will Smith character. He is, he's like this brilliant scientist, who's working on finding a cure or vaccine or whatever you want to call it. And he's alone in New York city and is basically just sort of surviving and working. That's all he does. Jesper (46m 47s): And up until this point of the movie, the movie is pretty cool. I really, really liked it. And then he comes across to humans who are actually immune to the virus. So, and this, of course for him as a scientist, this is good news because then maybe he found the holy grail and now he can cure the disease. And it just so happens that when he then brings these people back to his house, this also leads to those kinds of some, be creatures to find his house, which he has like worked for years and years and years to make sure that they would never find him. And now they do and how she's under attack and all that is also fine. But then the twist comes now. Jesper (47m 29s): So because of these two people who are immune, he actually manages to find a cure, but then the houses overrun by these some B kind of creatures. And then he decides to help these two people escape down a cold shoot while he himself decides to stay behind and pull the pin of a grenade and blow himself up, taking all the Sunbury creatures with him. And then you might be wondering, well, why is that so bad? That's pretty heroic. Yeah. But not if I tell you that he could easily just jump down to shoot himself. There was absolutely no reason for him to blow himself up. And the other part is that Autumn (48m 9s): Jumped down the coal chute. Yeah. Jesper (48m 10s): He could. And the other thing is that if you just find a cure and he gives it to these two people who are like, they're not scientists, they have no idea. And then he just sends them off. Like, how does he even know if he wants to cure mankind? How does he even know that they know what to do with that cure? Or will they even be able to find people who know what to do with it? He doesn't know. So it's just like the whole thing. It's like what? So years and years and years to find the cue and then he just blows himself up because of two random people. Autumn (48m 42s): But he wasn't, even though no, I remember saying that at the end, when they're approaching, like they find a as another little town, that's like got a wooden fence. And I'm like, yeah, that looks like it has a top secret, you know, lab Labrador, the moratory where they're going to know what to do to create, you know, spread this cure to other people. And so that's part of the reason it almost made into my list. But then what I didn't know is that the book, this is based on has a different ending it's and the movie completely changes the whole meaning of the book where the book, the, the vampire zombie, like creatures actually have found their own cure. Autumn (49m 22s): And they're not evil. They're basically a better race that it's going to just like we transplanted the new young Neanderthals. They were going to take over the human and humans are a legend. We're becoming something archaic from the past. And we're just fighting for our own last survival. But really, we just need to give up the ghost because we've created something that's better and stronger and more intelligent. And I mean, they have a whole culture, but so that's, doesn't show up in the movie. And I was like, no, they took the book and they completely changed the Authors meeting. Wow. So, yeah, there's a fair. Jesper (49m 58s): And what you just mentioned about the book, that's what makes it cool because then it's, there is an irony in the fact as well that he's been working years and years and years to find a cure for something that isn't about being cured. It's not about being cured, but he doesn't understand that. I know that that's what makes it pretty cool to me. I think the book ending that's cool. But yeah, I D I don't know what the heck they were doing when they made this movie. It's just like, it's so stupid to screw it up like that. Yeah. Autumn (50m 29s): I, they completely changed the character of the will plays. They changed the meaning of the story. They obviously did not understand how difficult sciences, other than it took him years to come up with this cure. And then he doesn't even know if they're going to be able to hand it over to someone who's surviving, who knows how to replicate it. Jesper (50m 49s): It's not like you just put it in like some chicken soup and you're good. Oh, that movie. Yeah. It that's why it was all I was trying to divide between Hancock and that one. And I'm just so glad you came up with iron legends. So I got to have both of them on the list. Oh, cool. Okay. Well, you already took my number too, so I guess you need to do two in a row. Now. I only have my one number one, Autumn (51m 15s): Right? Well, maybe I can grab one of your other ones. So my number two were, well, all of the rest of mine are books. So I know they're not going to be the same as yours. So this is actually mocking Jay from the final book in the hunger games series. And that is because, so this is the end where, you know, the whole story, three books, three movies lead up to the moment where Katniss is sent to, you know, take out snow and everything that's going on. And what happens. She actually gets knocked out towards the end of the movie and wakes up to find out the war is over. So it basically invalidates the entire book where she is. Autumn (51m 58s): She accomplishes nothing. And so she spends all of mocking Jay on her super secret mission to reach the Capitol and kill snow. And ultimately, and all these people die to help her get there. And ultimately she contributes nothing. The problem solved totally without her. And she made as well as stayed home. And what's pissed me off almost more than that, because I had already given up on her as a character. She never really resonated with me. She was too wishy washy, but her sister, a little sister prim, who just wanted to do something important. She trained as a nurse basically to go and help the soldiers who were fighting the battle. And she ends up getting killed. Autumn (52m 39s): And what ends up being a faked attack by the Capitol? It was actually the other side making it look like it was the Capitol. She dies as basically friendly fire, sort of, they kill out a whole bunch of people. It was so unnecessary and pointless. I was just frothing at the mouth. I was so furious. So that's why I made it to number two. It was just her Katniss herself. I've always said she, she has a flat character arc the entire trilogy. She never changes. She never does anything. She never grows into her role or takes control of her own life all the way down to getting knocked unconscious and everything happening without her. Autumn (53m 20s): And she's just the most pointless character. And you're really hope that, you know, book three, the third movie, that something exciting would have happened. And it doesn't, I still don't like her. I Jesper (53m 35s): Didn't read those books. Autumn (53m 36s): Yeah. It was just not worth it, not worth it. So I will stop beating it there. But yeah, it just was a pointless, it has such potential. It was so interesting. And I really was hoping that by the end of the book, she would be like, I'm, bad-ass, I'm going to go and stomp somebody. And it really just never resonated. It never grew into that. She never becomes really a hero in, she sort of stays as a propped up figure. And it's just whatever. Jesper (54m 7s): Yeah, because in the movies, I don't, I don't think that that's the case. I mean, in the movie she takes initiatives and she drives the plot forward. And so on. I don't, at least I don't recall it being such an issue in the movies. Autumn (54m 20s): I feel every once in a while she would pop up with something good, but she was always, it was never an upper word arc. She was always never fulfilling her true potential. She never reached it and it's just disappointing. It was very disappointing. All right. And so we're going to skip right ahead since we did your number two to my number one of WORST Plot Twists. And I think this one, it'll be interesting to see, cause this was a movie, but I always look at it from the book side, but it's actually Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets. Jesper (54m 56s): I would have to say, now I have not read any Harry Potter books and I'm not what's any Harry Potter movies. So I don't really know. Autumn (55m 3s): Okay, so this is not yours. So this is the one where Harry is at the end of book one. So he enters the legendary chamber of secrets and Harry finds them face to face with Tom riddle, the younger version of the evil wizard, Voldemort and Ray riddle sends in a ballot. Basilisk I can't pronounce that, which is an enormous Fang snake after him. And it's chasing after Harry and things seem, yeah, snake giant snake. This is not a snake. Well, that's what it is in the movie. We're not going to question what JK Rowling's uses for her creatures. Jesper (55m 36s): So, okay. So let me, sorry. Autumn (55m 40s): So things are looking really bad for Harry. He's very young. Yestermorrow this is the first year he's at Hogwarts and then suddenly a magical Phoenix flies into the chamber dropping the sorting hat in front of Harry, which happens to hold the sort of Griffin door. So he uses that to kill the basle Lisk. And the Fenix is tears even heal Harry's wounds. And professor Dumbledore later reveals that Harry's loyalty caused the Phoenix to fly to him. But really, I mean, up until this point, there's no mention of a Phoenix it's just and brings the sorting hat. Autumn (56m 20s): It brings the sword that Harry couldn't rim thing to bring himself. It's just comes out of nowhere. If that hadn't happened, Harry would have died. Book one, there goes the rest of the series. Jesper (56m 33s): There's Deus Ex Machina. Again, Autumn (56m 34s): It's such to me, it's one of the worst examples. It's like the whole book wasn't plotted and JK Rowling's realized she wrote written herself into a really bad spot instead of fixing what came earlier. She just thrown a Phoenix with a who brought the sorting hat that was holding the sword. Why would the sorting happy holding the sword? Jesper (56m 53s): Why is, I mean, considering how popular Harry Potter is, why is more people not complaining about this? Or maybe they are just noticed it Autumn (57m 0s): Maybe. And I just, even the fact is Harry Potter know how to use a sword. He can see, you know, how to use one. I just it's so ridiculous that, you know, it would've been better with the Phoenix had caused the bass list to blow up in flames. At least I could have said, well, that made no sense, but at least a Phoenix knows how to you know, like night something. So, Jesper (57m 22s): I mean, short fighting is not something you just do. Right? I mean, you have to train pretty well to do that, especially fighting a monster. Autumn (57m 31s): Oh exactly. I'm fighting something that's already, you know, poisoned you in a cut you in you're already in bad shape, but just because you got a magic sword, you're good to go. Jesper (57m 42s): Oh, okay. That's convenient. Isn't Autumn (57m 46s): It just, Jesper (57m 49s): Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. I feel like I can, because this one is not Dave's X McKenna. This is just like screwing with your audience completely OTs. And it's, it's really bad in my view, but I have to admit that I really struggled with finding number one, my one number one entry, because I had to find something that was worse than everything else. And I had to do sort of, I did a lot of research on the internet just to see if I could, if it would jog my memory on something. And then I did find, find something that I actually had completely forgotten about. Oh, but this show that I'm gonna talk about. It's not a movie, it's a TV show, but it is one of my all time childhood favorites. Jesper (58m 39s): I absolutely loved this TV show and I'll play the theme song song in just a second. And I promise you, you will know exactly what it is. Oh, that'll be exciting. But the, the show took the world by storm and anyone growing up in the nineties, they will know what this is. Okay. So I ready for your son clip. Jesper (59m 21s): Yes. Okay. Here you go. Autumn (59m 23s): So the X-Files it's going to be the first Twilight zone. I'm like, no, no. That's a different theme song. So yes, Jesper (59m 32s): I guess all of your clips. I think, I feel like I wait, that's a bit, that's a bit of cheating because you didn't even have some place that I could guess. So I just lose automatically because you guessed. Right. And I didn't even have a chance to compete. Well, there Autumn (59m 50s): You go. Ah, I like this rule. I like this game. I Jesper (59m 56s): Think that's a crappy rule. Autumn (59m 58s): This is like playing dune. Every player has their own strategy to win. I know what my showed is. You have to figure out yours. Jesper (1h 0m 6s): Oh my God. Okay. Well, first of all, I want to say again that I love the show, however, and this is why it made it to number one on my list, because do you know like that feeling of your favorite show? Just being ruined completely. Maybe not completely, but they, they throw in some, some span into the wheel that just like what the heck is going on here. And it felt like it was just because the show creators, they had to do something to try to, I guess, spice things up a bit or something. But I had forgotten about this. Probably suppressed it to be honest, but what I found in doing my internet research, it came back to me. Jesper (1h 0m 50s): So let me just explain. So in season 11, in the very first episode, we learned that you remember the wrist is a mysterious secret smoking man, who is part of the series. He's really weird and you don't really know what he's, what's going on with him. But then in season 11, we all of a sudden learn. In the very first episode, we learned that he actually impregnated Scali using some sort of alien science with the aim to create like the first superhuman child. And we get a flashback to season seven where Scully accused the cigarette smoking man of dragging her. Jesper (1h 1m 30s): And it then becomes apparent that Scalia's son is in fact not molded after all then. So, you know, doing something like this, like four seasons later, it is just such a betrayal to the audience. You know, you for four seasons, you have believed that these two characters has have, they have a son together. They finally got together after all that time, you know where, or there was all this tension between them like romantic tension and so on and so on, they get a child and then four season later you'd just drop a bomb to say, well, actually it's not his child. Anyway. I mean, I liked plot twists. Don't get me wrong. And I can probably even stomach more plot twists than most people, because it does take quite a lot bef before I, it stops annoying me, but this one, it was just like, I really felt like a completely destroyed everything. Jesper (1h 2m 22s): I thought about these characters. And it came also completely out of the blue, like, like the created just that, what can we do to spice things up? Oh, let's throw this stuff in here just to create some drama for the sake of drama. Autumn (1h 2m 35s): Yeah. It's I don't know if they changed writers or what was going on, but I agree. I mean, they betrayed everything that the core essence of what you thought was sort of between these two characters and then it was just like, Nope, Nope, Nope. They're not a happy family. Sorry. Yeah, he don't do that. Jesper (1h 2m 55s): Not okay. It's it's such a betrayal Autumn (1h 2m 58s): And it's funny. Cause you, you were mentioning that reminded me of probably one that would have made my list and it might've even been number one. And that is the ending, the Firefly, the movie that pissed me off so much because they, again, not, not a twist so much as what they did to the characters, they killed off the pilot. They make it through this amazing crash landing and this happens and that happens and he gets spirited like by a piece of debris or something, right at the laughter everything is safe. And I'm like, no, it was such, it was done just to yank at the viewer's heartstrings, especially cause he was married to the, yeah, it was just, ah, there was a lot about the movie. Autumn (1h 3m 44s): I wish I had never watched the movie. Anyone who's a Firefly fan. If you have not watched the movie, don't watch the movie. It ruins everything. I wish it's an exist. Jesper (1h 3m 55s): Yeah. I love the series though. The Autumn (1h 3m 57s): Series is awesome. The movie sounds good. And I can't remember all the characters well to enunciate all the ways that it sucks, but it sucks in very, very, it's cruel to several of the characters in ways that it just didn't need to be the series. That was awesome. Jesper (1h 4m 15s): Okay. Well you said before that the it's like playing risk and you have to make up your own rules for how to win. So I actually just brought another one here because that's my way of winning. So if I can't beat you with five bad things on the list, I'll put six on the list. Autumn (1h 4m 31s): I guess we're both winners this week. Jesper (1h 4m 36s): So just an honorable mention here because some people will have this movie on their list of the worst of the worst. And let me just play you the short audio clip and then I will explain. Autumn (1h 5m 16s): Okay. Jesper (1h 5m 16s): I actually, I only watched it like probably a month ago or something like that. But this movie is called mother and it is staring a starring Jennifer Lawrence. And I included this one as an honorable mention because I'm really, really conflicted about this movie. You know, when I first watched the movie, I was like, what's going on? You know, the, the Mo the longer you get into the movie, the more crazy everything just becomes. And it's like, everything goes into chaos and it's like, it doesn't make any sense. It's like, where's what I, I can't even explain it. It's like, you have no idea what's going on. Jesper (1h 5m 57s): And it just makes no sense. There's all these kinds of people who does terrible things, all of a sudden in, in her house. And it's just like, what the heck is going on. And you're completely confused all the way through the first half of the movie is just like normal mystery kind of thing. Pretty, pretty good, actually. And then the second half is just complete chaos with nothing makes sense anymore. And I won't spoil it here and say two months, because, because people might not have watched it yet. And it was not that long ago since it came on Netflix. So I don't want to spoil it. Like some of the other movies that I've mentioned today, they were all very old movies. So I want, I want, don't want to spoil it, but I just have to say, because after I watched the movie, I was like, when it ended, I was like, I have no idea what went on here. Jesper (1h 6m 42s): So I actually went on the internet and I then didn't start searching for some explanations about what is the meaning of this movie. And then I found the answers. And then when I read those, I must admit that then all of a sudden, I say, ah, okay, I see, you know, and maybe it's just me being thick and not seeing it, but I understood it when I read. And it was explained to me what the point was and everything that happens in that movie, even though it seems completely insane, it actually has a purpose and an explanation to it. Oh. And I'm still conflicted about it because on one end, it's, it's, it's crappy because you, you don't understand what's going on and it just feels like complete chaos. But on the other hand, once you actually read the explanation for it, then it's like, okay, I, at least I can re I can respect what they were trying to do at least. Autumn (1h 7m 32s): So, yeah. I mean, it's good that it had a meeting, but it does sound like it was bad. Something filming, plotting something where they, you need to go and read it on YouTube. They're going to hand out a flyer on your way to the movie theater so that you can understand what you're about to watch. Jesper (1h 7m 47s): Yeah. I don't know be because once you, once you read the explanations, you want to also understand why it has to be shown as very chaotic. It's completely on purpose, but yeah. People can watch the movie if you want. I just want you it's. It's crazy. And then, and then go read about what I would definitely say. Don't read about what the movie is about first, because then it'll spoil everything. What's the movie just what's it. And then read about it afterwards and then make up your own mind whether you think it's just either this, either this movie complete stroke of genius oil, it's complete madness. I don't know. Jesper (1h 8m 30s): It's one of the two, that's a good note to end on. That sounds like a fun twist. Yes. I think our plot twists, we both declare ourselves winners, so, Hmm. I don't know if it was the counselors winners, but also because we actually had a few that we actually agreed on. So it's true. Yeah. That's pretty. Okay. We both win. We're good. I'll say I won and then we can close it with that. Yes. You won as well as I did. That's not what I said. That's what I understood. Jesper (1h 9m 11s): That doesn't count. No. Alright. Well, next Monday, we have an episode with writing a vice for you. We'll discuss how to create chapters that will read us. So see you then. 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#TDBS #Afterhours #DaveChappellevsLGBTQ & "Artie's Funky Song Proposition"

The Stephanie Little Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2021 163:22

"The Debate Ladies" & "Artie & Co" have a discussion over the controversy over "The Great Netflix Walk-out" of the Transworkers of Neflix over the #DaveChappelleSpecial" as he was throwing shade @ them which offended many in that community. Plus the cargo/shipping disaster that's facing the US & the anti-Biden folks of #WineDownWed episode blames it completely on #TheBidenAdministration & #TheDemocrats & they claim #Trump has nothing to do with it. Plus "Artie" has an answerback to last nigt's episode regarding "Funky White Men Music" by counter-attacking with what he feels is "Funky White Women Songs". He says it's only fair & "Roddy" backs him up. Plus "James or "JTD" won't leave "Stephy" alone.

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JTD on wellness, needs & soulutions (solutions that serve the highest Self aka Spirit)

Living DOPE LIFESTYLE

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2021 0:38

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Coches Familiares que valen la pena por 3.000 euros

El Garaje Hermético de Máximo Sant

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2021 19:59

¡Adoro los coches familiares! Son coches inteligentes: tan prácticos y capaces como los SUV, pero más ligeros, estables y económicos. Para mí las carrocerías más bonitas son los coupés y los familiares… ¿Soy un friki? He elegido 10 opciones interesantes. Porque la buena noticia es que como en España no son coches especialmente apreciados, puedes encontrar verdaderas joyas a un precio muy interesante. Eso sí, siempre os recuerdo que, si compras coches de segunda mano, dejes parte del presupuesto para hacer una buena revisión. Y también os recuerdo que esta lista no es ningún “refrito” que podrías encontrar por ahí, sino que está hecha a base de tiempo y de hacer búsquedas de coches interesantes, reales y a precio razonable. Las marcas alemanas, francesas y escandinavas, sobre todo, han cuidado y siguen cuidando mucho este segmento de mercado, y han ofrecido y ofrecen verdaderas bellezas y coches muy dinámicos, porque allí no se asocia el concepto Break o Familiar con el concepto furgoneta, sino al concepto de vida “dinámica” con hobbies que requieren espacio. Por eso incluso Porsche tiene coches con esta carrocería, como el actual Panamera Sport Turismo e incluso el M4 va a tener carrocería Touring, que es la denominación de BMW para sus Break. Os voy a poner un caso limite, los llamados Shooting Break, que algunos llaman “coupé de caza”. Un claro ejemplo es el Volvo P1800 ES (1972) del que se espera una versión actualizada y el Aston Martin DB5 Shooting Break (1965) del que solo se fabricaron 19 unidades… Dos auténticas bellezas Pero antes de comenzar con nuestra lista, tengo que explicarme: Decía al comenzar que los Break o Familiares son coches inteligentes, y voy a explicarlo. Porque si un SUV es un coche que tiene muchas de las desventajas de los TT y ninguna de sus ventajas, un Break tiene casi todas las ventajas de un SUV y de una berlina y ninguna de sus desventajas. Hoy la lista va por orden alfabético. El año que pongo se refiere al año de matriculación del coche real que me sirve de referencia. 1. Alfa Romeo 159 1.0 JTD 16v (2007). 3.000 euros. 2. Audi A4 TDI Quattro Avant 180 CV (2003). 3.000 euros. 3. BMW Serie 3 330D Touring (2002). 4.000 euros. 4. Citroën C5 2.0 HDi Break (2006). 3.500 euros. 5. Lexus IS200 2.0 SportCross (2003). 3.500 euros. 6. Mercedes Benz Clase E 320 CDI Avantgarde (2001). 3.500 euros. 7. Saab 95 SW 2.2 TiD Vector (2005). 3.000 euros 8. Toyota Avensis 2.0 D4D SOL (2005). 3.500 euros. 9. Volkswagen Passat Variant 2.0 TDi Trendline (2007). 3.000 euros. 10. Volvo V40 1.8 Gasolina (2004). 3.000 euros. Si te gustan los familiares y tienes entre 4 y 5 mil euros, puede comprarte uno de estos coches en buen estado, darles un repaso a fondo y tendrás coche para disfrutar mucho tiempo, pues son coches con años pero ya son muchas de las medidas de seguridad imprescindible, como el ABS.

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Gossip & Games

Jot That Down Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2021 59:04

What do you get when you combine celebrity gossip, rapid-fire questions, and America's hottest game show? This episode of JTD, of course! Hear us talk about everything happening in Hollywood and listen as two of our hosts go head-to-head in some friendly competition for all the hypothetical marbles. Enjoy and jot that down!

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We'll Always Have Paris

Jot That Down Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 69:32

What do all three JTD hosts have in common? We all...lived overseas. Learn why we don't use the phrase "study abroad" (then hear us say it 100x), why some of us despise Paris, and why we wish we were college kids frolicking in Europe once again! Enjoy the ride that is not unlike a cheap Ryanair flight and don't forget to jot that down.

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Miami V Lakers, Slump Busters Episode 1 2/20

We Slay Books

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2021 33:21

JTD and Larry Legend break down the prime time games, and talk slump busters.

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Milk & Camo | Arcade Coffee Roasters – Negusa Nare – Bensa, Sidama, Ethiopia – JTD EPS060

SportsBalls The Movie: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 53:11

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpWe hit you with our political and civilian group hot-takes after having seen the storming of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. And even worse, Snoop and Em are beefing over something that happened a decade ago. 18:00 The CoffeeWe were taken by surprise with an amazing Ethiopian roasted by Arcade Coffee in Riverside, California. The notes didn't line up for us exactly as they were described, but it didn't matter! This was an excellent coffee and highly recommended by the JTD™!Shop info:3672 Chicago Ave. Ste. A, Riverside, CA, 92507 951-266-6839arcadecoffeeroasters.com43:15 The News Italian Study Suggests Espresso Can Help Fend Off Death

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SportsBalls Weekly: 11/24/2020 - The JT Daniels/DRIP Episode

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2020 47:34

We take on the Saints big win over the Falcons, JTD breaking through in his debut at UGA, and a great bounce-back from LSU.Also, the guys try and figure out what the kids are calling things these days. That goes about as well as you think.Please subscribe and follow. Tell a friend about the show and spread the word.Sound effects from www.zapsplat.com

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Gregger Jefferson | Linea Caffe, Guatemala El Injerto – JTD EPS051

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2020 68:22

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpWhat a wild week! We chop it up about Boosie's tense moment on Mike Tyson's Hotboxing with Mike Tyson podcast, Greg's male pattern baldness, counting down the final days of presidential election season, the reveal of the new EV Hummer, and JTD's morning coffee meet up at Vesta Coffee in downtown Las Vegas28:59 Coffee SegmentThis week's coffee was Linea Caffe's Guatemala El Injerto; a beautiful and delicate coffee boasting tasting notes of muscovado sugar, banana, orange blossom, and key lime pie, with an elegant caramel-noted finish. We're always hyped for the fermented coffees and this one delivered. More info about Linea Caffe:Potrero Hill Cafe (roasting location)1125 Mariposa StreetSan Francisco, CA 94107Mission District Cafe (second location)3417 18th St.San Francisco, CA 94110 lineacaffe.com47:00 Coffee NewsA year ago, this company (Bottomless coffee subscription) had 750 customers. Today it has 6,000Italian woman tells how colleague spiked coffee to 'eliminate' her from job

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Adhese Nuts | Madcap Coffee Company, Ethiopia and Colombia – JTD EPS050

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2020 78:57

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpGeorge is still workin on his latte game, his kitchen sink is still busted. JTD team lunch meeting at The Wynn.25:29 Coffee SegmentWe recap on Madcap … no cap. This week we brought in the fall vibes with Madcap Coffee's Oktoberfest.Roaster info:Madcap Coffee RoastersRoastery Location1041 Fulton St EGrand Rapids, MI 49503madcap coffee.com50:28 Coffee NewsMushroom Coffee Company Shut Down Amid Pyramid Scheme AllegationsBrew Temperature Not That Big Of A Deal, New SCA Study FindsJimmy Butler's coffeeshop inside the NBA bubble now has competition from one of his own team's trainersShout OutsCoffee McGregger's old football coaches: Joe Blockovich, Brent Carder, John L Smith … Matt Wells, and all good football coachesT Baby for “It’s So Cold in the D”

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Zone 6, Ethiopia | Mudhouse Coffee Roasters, Teshome Gemechu, Ethiopia – JTD EPS049

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 60:45

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpDoes your dinner party have guest vacancies? Invite George and he'll come bearing gifts. Plus, George gives us more lowdown on his Peleton discoveries, and the JTD team has custom gaiters on deck!20:43 Coffee SegmentMudhouse in the house! This week we cracked open a bag of Mudhouse Coffee Roasters Teshome Gemechu, from Guji Zone Ethiopia. This was a fully washed heirloom varietal that packed som subtle fruit notes with an overlying sweetness. Roaster info:Mudhouse Coffee Roasters213 W. Main St.Charlottesville, VA 22902(434) 984-6833https://mudhouse.com 44:54 Coffee NewsCoffee Consumption Linked to Improved Outcomes in Colon Cancer Patients20-year-old woman charged with throwing iced coffee at 2-year-old during road rage incident55:39 Shout OutsLarry and Pam for the dinner party … thanks for the wine!Medical folks Mikala Ono

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Al Roker Bromance | Backyard Beans Coffee Co. Ethiopia Basa

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2020 54:55

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpGreg breaks down the unexpected vim and vigor of his recently snipped pup, George is finally updating his rickety patio deck, we discuss a potential move back to the Affluent Person's Traphouse Studios, and the amazing trajectory of the JTD YouTube Channel.13:05 Coffee SegmentSome people boogie in their backyard, others brawl or have brews … but this week's coffee has origins of roasting on a grill. We picked up a few bags of Backyard Beans Coffee Company's Ethiopian Basa and put it to the JTD test. Between the two of us it hit on every tasting note and aroma. A great Ethiopian heirloom. Name/Roaster: Backyard Beans Coffee CompanyRegion: Ethiopia BasaOrigin: Idido, Yirga CheffeProcess: Natural (dry process)Altitude: 2042 maslTasting Notes: blueberry, lavender, grape taffyAbout the Roaster:(via the company's web site)The company name came about because all the work was initially done in our backyard. The logo is also significant because the initials of Laura L. Adams and Matt Adams spell “L.L.A.M.A.”Our name and logo together reflect the hard work and dedication that goes into creating superior coffee. In many ways, Backyard Beans is a labor of love.We only purchase superior, responsibly sourced coffee beans. Working with importers to source sustainably grown coffee from around the world is something in which we take great pride. Great coffee begins at the heart, with hard-working farmers and co-ops. By sourcing, we’re doing our part to secure a sustainable future.408 West Main Street,Lansdale, PA, 19446,United States(215) 368-1055backyardbeans.com29:52 Coffee NewsDunkin’ Donuts Announces Caffeinated Coffee-Flavored CerealsThis cold brew keg is on sale and exactly what your WFH life needs43:23 Shout OutsGeorge's in-laws for bring over some patelitos!Montecito Animal Hospital for the clean snip up!

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Still Gonna Smoke Crack | BLK & Bold Limu Ethiopia Single JTD EPS043

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 74:35

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpGeorge sends out a public apology for cancelling his highly anticipated birthday shindig but then quickly shifts gears to remind us all (again) about the Thor's blood coursing through his body. We do a brief recap on beers and dinner in Downtown LV with the JTD wives and discuss the state of mask-wearing. 25:31 Coffee SegmentThis week's coffee was black den a MF, too! We checked out BLK & Bold's Single Origin Limu, Ethiopian. It did not disappoint! Name/Roaster: BLK & BoldRegion: Limu Ethiopia (100% CERTIFIED FAIR TRADE)Origin: Single Origin, Light RoastProcess: NaturalAltitude: 1900-2000 maslTasting Notes: Chocolate, Blueberry, HoneyAbout the Roaster:Our founders, Rod Johnson and Pernell Cezar, created BLK & Bold with a desire to make purpose popular. They welcome the obligation to equip young people with tools to live their best lives and overcome familiar unfortunate circumstances by turning a daily ritual, enjoying a cup of coffee & tea, into a means of giving back.5% of all profits will be contributed to initiatives that support improving the lives and future for domestic at-risk youth.You can purchase their coffee directly from their site at blkandbold.com. They have distribution via Amazon, Target and Whole Foods also.41:00 Coffee NewsMICE and World Coffee Championships Not Happening in 2020Bourbon Meets Bourbon In Deviation Distilling’s New Barista SpiritsDunkin' is closing 800 US locationsDunkin' Donuts employee arrested after cop finds 'large, thick piece of mucus' in his coffeeCoke with coffee will hit US stores next yearHow To Counteract Caffeine When You’ve Had One Coffee Too Many1:11:49 Shout OutsRod & Pernell at BLK & BoldSenza Gluten Free BakeryVesta CoffeeMothership CoffeeSouthern Nevada Animal Rescue of Las VegasDavid H. and the rest of the H. fam!

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O.G. Wush | Big Shoulders Coffee Burundi Kibingo – JTD EPS041

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2020 89:44

0:21 The Weekly Catch Up(2:40) George finally took delivery of his Tesla Model Y, (14:00) we discuss the links between racism, civil unrest, and social media, and the eternal genius of Dave Chappelle. 36:20 Coffee SegmentWhen it comes to shoulders they don't get much bigger than the hosts of JTD … so it only seems right we sampled some product from Big Shoulders Coffee. Our cups were filled wit Big Shoulders' Burundi Kibingo, a honey process bean from Kayanza Province (MASL: 1,893) in northern Burundi, that has alleged tasting notes of orange zest, exotic spice, and aromas of jasmine and caramel.Big Shoulders Coffee is a Chicago artisan roaster that emphasizes a fresh-roasted, no-nonsense approach to fine coffee.Big Shoulders Coffeewww.bigshoulderscoffee.com2415 W 19th St.Chicago, IL 312.846.143950:50 Coffee NewsAll That Coffee Drinking at Home Might Affect Chains Into Next YearCosta Coffee releases full statement on why cyclists can’t use drive-through lanes

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Episode 163 - The To Watch Pile Vol.4

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 58:39

On this "To Watch Pile" Episode, Brian is joined by returning guest Aaron Pynn - who has a great YouTube channel that is perfect for JTD fans: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC86Rb_aoMKA3IKKZwJBhLVQ On this show, we touch on discs from Scream Factory, AGFA, Warner Archive, Twilight Time, Kino Lorber, Massacre Video and more! Follow Aaron on Twitter @MrVinsyn and definitely check out his YouTube Channel! Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We're also on Instagram! instagram.com/justthediscspod/

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Best Of JTD - COMPLETE SHOW

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2020 51:02

June 2nd 2020 - All of the highlights from Tuesday in one handy podcast. Listen for free anywhere you go on the iHeartRadio app or just search for JTD on iTunes

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AntiBody | Superlost Coffee Roasters Organic Single Farm Ethiopia Natural Process Strawberry Fields – JTD EPS040

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2020 76:42

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpStill without a studio JTD continues remote podcast production in the City of Unemployed Entertainment. Cooking, bike riding, busted burr grinders, Animal Crossing, and of course, local coffee shop talk.31:20 Coffee SegmentFirst we were Superlost, then we were found! This week we put down a fantastic single origin, natural process (“skin contact” to combat these COVID times!) Ethiopian roast from Superlost Coffee Roasters based out of Brooklyn, NY. With berry and citrus notes, plus, limited edition artwork packaging (this particular artwork is by Levi Prewitt) you cannot go wrong!Superlost Coffee297 Meserole StreetBrooklyn, NY 11237superlostcoffee.comInstagram: @superlostcoffeeBe sure to check out artist @levitzo on Instagram as well!41:54 Coffee NewsRoasting Coffee in a Popcorn PopperWhy Reheated Coffee Tastes So Bad, And What To Do InsteadCoffee maker JDE Peet's looks to wake up sleepy IPO market

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Episode 158 - LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH + NIGHT TIDE

Puzzled Silence + Jot This Down

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 70:33

Brian is joined by JTD regular John Cribbs (from The Pink Smoke) to talk about two atmospheric horror-y films - LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (Via the Scream Factory Blu-ray) and NIGHT TIDE (via the two-disc Indicator set). Follow John on Twitter at @TheLastMachine Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We're also on Instagram! instagram.com/justthediscspod/

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010#: How this organization is helping to control the spread of COVID 19 in rural India – Conversation with Dhananjay Ramakrishnappa , Founder ‘Joining The Dots’ foundation

Passion To Profession

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2020 49:32

Episode 10 covers the story of “Joining the Dots Foundation” – NGO based in Bangalore working diligently to uplift rural education in India, particularly Palamaner, Andhra Pradesh.Given the recent pandemic situation , JTD has refocused its efforts towards making Palamaner area safe and help control the spread.They have undertaken a massive FACE MASK DISTRIBUTION effort and have successfully delivered more than 65k + face masks to more than 50 surrounding villages within a span of just 15 days!! This called in JTD team to work on the field with more than 450 village volunteers , it took more than 90 tailors who gained employment because of this initiative! JTD Founder Dhananjay Ramakrishnappa elaborates on the company’s vision which started with a goal of providing scholarships, assisting in higher education for atleast 100,000 underprivileged kids. This vision of making ‘school the most favorite place for children’ – has resulted in JTD providing all round educations for lower income kids.Some of their notable accomplishments in Palamaner, India Sponsored college education for 200 students 10 Computer labs with over 260 + computers and telescopes for schoolsTeaching basic programming skills to under privileged kidsBuilt a military training facility First all girls hockey team and formal sports trainingBuilt 5 libraries with more than 10,000 books available for kidsThree things that has helped his success-1. Having a strong family support2. Strong Self-discipline and Success habits like effective morning routine , running3. Dedicated volunteers who treat this not as a NGO, but a start up taking ownership and being accountable.What does it take to follow your passion and find true purpose in life ? According to Dj,“Understanding that ideas are over rated, execution is the key.You will need 2 kinds of people in life- one who is very excited for you and cheers you on, and second kind of person who will give you a reality check and not compassionate talks when things go wrong .Embrace your failures more than success , it is only when odds are low that growth actually happens”Follow and support JTD – facebook.com/JTDfoundationFor a complete list of "Passion To Profession" episodes - you can subscribe to http://ashrao.com/applepodcast More about the Podcast -Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Passion2ProfessionPodcast/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashrao1/Twitter - https://twitter.com/Ash_Rao1

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Life is Strange: And so is this review

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2020 7:30

Life is Strange, and so is this episode of JTD, I talk about the first episode of Life is Strange.It's pretty strange. Izaiah talks about you know, strange stuff, idk whatever just listen to it. cipe

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Steepin’ On a Come Up | Bixby, Hatchet, and Queen City Collective – JTD EPS039

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2020 63:18

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpIn an effort to continue to “flatten the curve,” episode 39 is our first socially-distanced JTD podcast. Greg's leg and George's Tesla are both in limbo-status-mode, and how COVID-19 is affecting the JTD crew.13:30 Coffee SegmentWe put three coffee roaster brands in a head-to-head taste test: Bixby Coffee Roasting Co. – Medium Roast: Kenya + Guatemala + EthiopiaHatchet Coffee Roasters – Light Roast Ethiopia ArdiQueen City Collective Coffee – Belafonte: Columbian + EthiopianWhile all three coffees are roasted by their respectively labeled companies, they are all packaged as steeped coffee bags by Steeped Coffee.40:00 Coffee News How to make Dalgona CoffeeDalgona Coffee - Explained and Upgraded (YouTube video)#StillRoasting Coffee Map

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Episode 151 - Fun With Fulci (with Brendon Small)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2020 73:33

On this episode, Brian is joined by JTD regular Brendon Small to talk about Lucio Fulci and two of his most crazy films: NEW YORK RIPPER (1981) and CONQUEST (1983). These Blu-rays come from Blue Underground and Code Red respectively. Follow Brendon on Twitter @_Brendonsmall Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We're also on Instagram! instagram.com/justthediscspod/

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Best Of JTD - COMPLETE SHOW

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 78:23

March 5th 2020 - It's the big Thursday show! Jackie watched the Wallenda Volcano on a tether thing. Plus people are now posting photos of empty shelves on social media. We have a Dear Donnie regarding child support, and our old boss Chuck pays us a visit. Listen anywhere you go with the free iHeartRadio app, or on iTunes (just search for JTD in the Morning)

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Tailored Sweats | Ruby Coffee Roasters - Finca De Dios, Guatemala – JTD EPS034

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2020 58:45

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpGeorge gets cozy with tailored sweatpants and weighted blankets, Greg reflects back on his Isuzu mini truck days.18:00 Coffee SegmentThis week's coffee was clearly a JTD favorite this year: Ruby Coffee Roasters Finca De Dios (Guatemala). Ruby is based out of Nelsonville, WI. Be sure to check them out at www.rubycoffeeroasters.com27:00 Coffee NewsI Simplified My Morning Routine By Switching to Steeped Coffee's Single-Serve SachetsHe ordered coffee while wearing an AirPod. The barista refused to serve himIs Madagascar Bat Spit Coffee The Next Kopi Luwak?

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Best Of JTD - COMPLETE SHOW

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2020 79:28

(January 24th 2020) All of the highlights from Friday's show: We're giving away the JTD bags in the parking lot! Jackie is making a wall of pictures of the dogs. Plus Guess The Song with Elmo, The Daily Dish, and more!

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Best Of JTD - COMPLETE SHOW

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2020 62:03

January 21st 2020 - All the highlights from Tuesday! The Daily Dish, Mommy Squad, Email Bag! Plus who doesn't delete anything from their phone??? Nick has little L's and R's on his socks! Plus we've got those snazzy JTD reusable bags to give away !

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Best Of JTD - COMPLETE SHOW

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2020 62:31

January 20th 2020 - It's a holiday, but we're working anyway! Are Brad and Jen back together? Find out in the Daily Dish! Plus an update on Sally the Stray. We have no reusable JTD bags for you! Plus Tony is trying to talk Jackie into airpods, even though she says her "earholes" are too small.

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I Got 2 Drones | Takamura Coffee Roasters Nicaragua La Laguna – JTD EPS031

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2020 96:49

0:21 The Weekly Catch UpGeorge nerds out about Sony's electric car, window washing robots, cameras, and civilian-transport quadcopters at CES and the JTD crew finally agrees upon a movie: Joker.52:19 Coffee of the WeekGreg's son gifted us with a bag o' beans from across the Pacific …Nicaragua La Laguna from Takamura Coffee Roasters (https://takamuranet.com/) to be specific.47:00 Coffee NewsOatly Hopes Starbucks Deal Gives Customers Positive Plant-Based Milk ExperiencePennsylvania woman allegedly steals coffee, throws it at trooper who confronts herPabst Blue Ribbon releases ‘Hard Coffee’ in Massachusetts after success in Maine

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Episode 139 - THE BLOB (with Brendon Small & Joe Lynch)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2019 105:05

On this week's episode, Brian is joined by JTD regular Brendon Small and returning guest - director Joe Lynch (MAYHEM, WRONG TURN 2, EVERLY and the currently available Netflix film POINT BLANK) for an epic discussion of Chuck Russell's 1988 remake of THE BLOB and the outstanding new Collector's Edition Blu-ray of the film from Scream Factory (which contains a commentary that Joe Lynch himself moderates)! THE BLOB is one of the great practical effects films of the 1980s, right up there with THE THING and THE FLY and there is much love for it shared on this show. Please Enjoy! Follow Brendon on Twitter: @_Brendonsmall Follow Joe on Twitter: @TheJoeLynch! Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We're also on Instagram! instagram.com/justthediscspod/

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Best Of JTD - COMPLETE SHOW

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2019 68:20

(11/13/19) All of the highlights from Wednesday in one handy podcast. Is Tony violating AirPod etiquette? Also, It's World Kindness Day. We've got the Daily Dish and more! Listen for free anywhere you go on iHeartRadio or search for the JTD podcasts on iHeartRadio

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Ep. 36. Keep Scrolling ft. First5.JTD

BHB Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2019 126:18

episode 36 we sit down with First5.JTD who will be performing at our inaugural live show in November. we discuss his music and what he has in store as well as why he was chosen to be apart of history in SC. We also dive into Wale's new album, the 6ix9ine controversy. We also give flowers to Shad Moss aka Bow Wow and try to dissect this Kanye West move with the gospel album.

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Episode 106 - FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (Kino)

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2019 71:20

On this episode, Brian is joined by returning JTD regular John Cribbs (of The Pink Smoke) to discuss their favorite Sergio Leone film in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE and the recent fantastic Kino Lorber Special Edition Blu-ray. Check out The Pink Smoke here: http://www.thepinksmoke.com/ Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We're also on Instagram! instagram.com/justthediscspod/

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Best Of JTD May 8th 2019

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2019 64:04

It's the highlights from Wednesday's show all in one podcast! The Dish, the Secret Word, Listener Email Bag and more. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio app or ask Alexa to "play the JTD in the morning podcast on iHeartRadio"

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Best Of JTD April 29th 2019 - COMPLETE SHOW

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2019 62:06

All of the highlights from Monday's show in one handy podcast! Get caught up with what you've missed for free on the iHeartRadio app or just say "Alexa, play the JTD in the morning podcast on iheartradio"

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ANZAC DAY: A Karen in the Australian Defence Force - tDp-whv,gok;zd unDo;p>f

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2019 10:33

"Thank you Australian for letting me serve this country," says Justin a former Karen refugee who is currently serving in the Australian Defence Force based in Darwin. SBS Karen Program talked to him about his life as an Australian soldier, his dreams when he first came to Australia, and how he feels about serving for this country. - unDzd vDRqD'.fw>f ydmfcGgySRo;p>f v>t[J'd.fxD.f rhwrh>f [Jtd.fzsJ.fxD.f zJtDp-whv,guD>fylR td.f0J'.fwbsK;*RvH v>tEkmfvDR uJok;zJ tDp-whv,g w>f'Do'>0JRusdR tylRe h.fvDR?

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Karen in Australia celebrates the 34th anniversary of KWO - tDp-whv,gunDrRvRuyDR unDydmfrk.fu&>rk>feHR ySJRxD.f 34 0Dw0D

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2019 3:41

To mark the 34th anniversary of the Karen women organization, which falls on the 5th of April, the Karen community in Melbourne and Sydney held a ceremony today. - zJweH.ftHR vgthjzh.f 5oD unDydmfrk.fu&> rk>feHRySJRxD.f 34 0Dw0DteHRe h.f unDydmfrk.fu&> u&>cd.f uGJrkmfb.f0J'.f unDydmfrk.f v>ttd.fv> uD>fylRuD>fcs> xHq>uD>fq> ud;*R uzD.fvdmfpkrR oud;w>f qD.fxGJrRp>Roud; ydmfrk.fu&>tw>f[l;w>f*JRoh.fwz.fe h.fvDR?zJunDydmfrk.fu&>rk>feHR ySJRxD.f 34 0Dw0D tvHmf[h.f,k>ftylRe h.f u&>cd.f y'd.f eD>fzD'hwd q>rk>fv>f0J'.fv> unDydmfrk.foh.fwz.f uq>x>.f*>>fus>Rv> unDydmfrk.fu&>tusJtoEl 'D;zD.fvdmfpkrRoud;w>fwkRv> w>frRe>RtzDw>.fwpke h.fvDR?vgthjzh.f 5 oDteHRe h.f rh>f0J'.f unDydmfrk.fu&>trk>feHRtCd unDydmfrk.fu&>'D; unDzdv>uD>fylR uD>fcs>oh.fwz.f oh.feD.frRvRuyDR0J'.frk>feHRtHRtusg unDzdv> t[Jtd.fqd;zJ uD>ftDp-whv,gylR oh.fwz.fph>fuD; rRvRuyDR0J'.f rk>feHRtHRph>fuD;e h.fvDR?unDzdv>ttd.fzJ 0h>frJvfbd'D; qh.f'eH.f 0h>foh.fwz.f cDzsdv> w>fq>uwD>f w>ftd.fo;tzDcd.ftCd rRvRuyDR0J'.frk>feHRtHR zJvgthjz h.f 6 oDteHRe h.fvDR?

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A Buddhist in Bendigo - unDoDcg zJbJ.f'H.fud.f0h>f

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2019 8:46

From kung fu tests to almost working in a slaughterhouse, settling into life in Bendigo was an adventure for this Buddhist monk.Full story: https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/burmese/buddhist-bendigo-moonienda-migration-adventure-australia - oDcg rl.feH.fthR'.f rh>f0J'.f unD oDcgwyg v>t[Jtd.fqd;0J'.fzJ 0h>fbJ.f'H.fud.f v>ttd.f0J'.fzJ 0H;xd&H,guD>fpJ.f tDp-whv,gtylRe h.fvDR?

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Best Of JTD January 8th 2018 - FULL SHOW

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2019 66:16

All of the highlights from Tuesday in one pod. It's the Best of JTD

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Episode 86 - Favorite Blu-rays of 2018!

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2018 121:08

We've come to the end of another great year for the kind of Blu-rays we talk about on this show -- and there's A LOT to talk about! Brian is joined by JTD regular Stephanie Crawford to each pick 5 of their favorite Blu-ray releases of the year - that would be enough for one show, BUT there's more! We also have a bunch of honorable mentions to discuss and thus this show is quite epic! Enjoy and happy shopping afterwards!

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Episode 77 - HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL and SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2018 75:52

On this episode, JTD regular Stephanie Crawford joins Brian to discuss two recent Scream Factory Blu-rays: HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1999) and SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME (1978) - the latter directed by John Carpenter just before he did HALLOWEEN. Both good discs!

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Best Of JTD September 10th 2018 - Go In For Tile, Come Out With Floors

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2018 6:23

JTD does this thing where she shops for one thing, and leaves with another....and she did it again.

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Episode 70 - RETURN OF THE LIVING BRAINSCAN UNBORN, Part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2018 83:21

On this episode, Brian is joined again by JTD regular Stephanie Crawford (of the ScreamCast) to talk about the Scream Factory Blu-rays for RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD PART 2, BRAINSCAN and THE UNBORN.

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Episode 66 - MODERN ROMANCE

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2018 68:01

On this episode, Brian discusses one of his favorite films of all-time in Albert Brooks' MODERN ROMANCE. He is joined by JTD regular John Cribbs from The Pink Smoke who is also a gigantic fan of the movie as they both go in depth on what they love about it and the newly released Blu-ray from Indicator.

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Episode 63 - FEMALE TROUBLE with XTRO

BuckAround: A Wisconsin Badgers Football Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2018 75:10

On this episode, JTD regular Stephanie Crawford is back to talk about one of her favorite people - John Waters - and his film FEMALE TROUBLE (now out from Criterion). Brian and Stephanie also examine the amazing craziness of the film XTRO, which is like E.T., but really not like E.T. at all (new on Blu-ray from Second Sight in the UK).

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Episode 204 - Week 8: Maryland

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2017 40:14

Rich is on his own reviewing the Badgers' 38-13 win over Maryland and handicaps their playoff chances. SHOW NOTES 1:00 Flying solo 5:00 Maryland game is the new Purdue game 9:15 JTD 10:45 This team is gonna get penalized 13:30 The best defense since the arrival of Aranda? 18:00 Hornibrook is what he is 22:30 Zombie Wisconsin 24:15 UR Player of the Game 30:45 Big games in the B1G 35:30 The Prince of Darkness acknowledges the Badgers could make the playoff... and even that is somehow depressing 38:15 A John Settle Retweet!!!

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Best Of JTD October 17th 2017 - You Shop Winner!