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

Smiley eats a candy and his full power is unleashed across the island. Zoro and the others run for deal life while Luffy's group makes there escape and wait for the rest of the crew inside. The new Luffy/Law Alliance temporarily agrees to allow Smoker in. Who knows how that is gonna go...Next Week: 605-609https://linktr.ee/goingmerrypodTHIS WEEK ON!!!The Variant Vendetta: The Twilight Zone w/ Kinghttps://linktr.ee/VariantVendettaAnyone's Comic Book Podcast: N/Ahttps://linktr.ee/anyonescomic

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Jairo Aníbal Niño fue un destacado escritor, poeta y dramaturgo colombiano, nacido el 5 de septiembre de 1941 en Moniquirá, Boyacá, y fallecido el 30 de agosto de 2010 en Bogotá. Es ampliamente reconocido por su obra dirigida a niños y jóvenes, aunque también escribió para adultos. Fue un autor fundamental en la literatura infantil y juvenil en Colombia y América Latina. Nacimiento: 5 de septiembre de 1941 en Moniquirá, Boyacá, Colombia. Fallecimiento: 30 de agosto de 2010 en Bogotá, Colombia. Sus obras suelen estar cargadas de ternura, humor, imaginación y sensibilidad. Aborda temas como la infancia, la paz, la fantasía, los sueños y la esperanza, muchas veces con un lenguaje sencillo pero poético.Obras destacadas: El trapezista volador. Preguntario (una serie de preguntas filosóficas y poéticas para niños). Zoro. La alegría de querer. Puro Pueblo (obra teatral). Las bodas de lata. Razzgo, el sabueso de la guerra. La bicicleta de Leonardo. De las alas caracolí. Piojos y otros bichos. Niño tenía un estilo muy particular, tierno, imaginativo y lleno de sensibilidad, que conectaba fácilmente con niños y jóvenes, pero también con lectores adultos. Muchos de sus libros están impregnados de lirismo y de una visión profundamente humanista. Además de escribir cuentos y poesía, también trabajó en teatro, tanto como dramaturgo como director. Su obra ayudó a legitimar y fortalecer el campo de la literatura infantil y juvenil en Colombia, llevándola a espacios educativos y culturales donde antes era escasa o marginal. Fue también un influyente dramaturgo. Muchas de sus obras teatrales fueron montadas por grupos escolares y profesionales en Colombia. A lo largo de su carrera recibió varios premios y distinciones, tanto nacionales como internacionales, por su contribución a la literatura infantil y juvenil. Además de escritor, Niño fue un importante promotor de la lectura y formador de nuevas generaciones de escritores y lectores en Colombia. Trabajó en bibliotecas, centros culturales y proyectos educativos.

Let me know what you thought of the episode!On this episode I go into anime episodes 683-685 where all of Luffy's past opponents in the Corrida Colosseum return to help Luffy, Zoro and Law out as they try and get past the mountain that is stone Pica! Hope you Enjoy!Support the show

Carlas far var sjov. Han kunne tage sin finger af og stikke en blyant gennem ørene, og en varm dag sidste år fløj han til himmels. Eller måske blev han til Zoro. Det kunne Carla i hvert fald godt tænke sig. Hendes mor, Tine Riis Jørgensen, kunne godt tænke sig, at det gik op for os andre, at sorg ikke er forbeholdt gamle mennesker på plejehjem, der er færdige på arbejdsmarkedet. I andet kapitel af serien ”Børn under himlen” besøger journalist Lasse Momme familien Riis for at forstå, hvad sidste sommer lærte dem om livet. Og om vores samfunds måske lidt forkerte forståelse af dets slutning. Fortæller og tilrettelægger: Lasse Momme Klip og produktion: Asbjørn Kjærgaard-Pedersen Foto: Stine Bidstrup På jp.dk/underhimlen finder du hele serien og Stine Bidstrups billeder.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episodes discussed: 683 - 688The bois really are digging on Sabo and his newly formed Fire Lead Pipe powers! They can't stop talking about who is the head of graphics for Dressrosa and the Donflamingo family after watching all of Donflamingo's very fancy star rating graphics for the Straw Hats. Giggles are aplenty about Pica's real voice and Matt gets very giddy over Zoro's nasty fight time face that he is cheesing with for most of these episodes. Mike also continues to elongate the Buggywatch Buggy call for Matt, so Matt has to say even more words and it's getting REALLY GOOD folx. Send your thoughts, love letters, recipes, and more via transponder snail to ⁠⁠⁠funpiecepodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠ Join our Fun Piece Discord! ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/6YQCJunnK5Looking for more Fun Piece? Become a Patron on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/FunPiecePodcast

How does a World Renowned Drummer for people like Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown and Frankie Valli come to Jesus and continue to spread his ministry while drumming for these legendary musicians? Today, he tells us his story to faith and how he continues to evangelize and be a good example to these people to show his faith. READ: Maria's Scarf: A Memoir of a Mother's Love, a Son's Perseverance, and Dreaming Big by Zoro (https://a.co/d/i2XLGoI)*Get a MASTERS IN APOLOGETICS or SCIENCE AND RELIGION at BIOLA (https://bit.ly/3LdNqKf)*USE Discount Code [SMDCERTDISC] for 25% off the BIOLA APOLOGETICS CERTIFICATE program (https://bit.ly/3AzfPFM)*See our fully online UNDERGRAD DEGREE in Bible, Theology, and Apologetics: (https://bit.ly/448STKK)FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://x.com/Sean_McDowellTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sean_mcdowell?lang=enInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmcdowell/Website: https://seanmcdowell.org

Based on his award-winning memoir, Maria's Scarf, Zoro's journey from the slums to the spotlight as a world-renowned drummer is an unforgettable, heartwarming, heartbreaking, hilarious, and hopeful story that will inspire you never to give up. To learn more about Zoro, go to zorothedrummer.com.

Based on his award-winning memoir, Maria's Scarf, Zoro's journey from the slums to the spotlight as a world-renowned drummer is an unforgettable, heartwarming, heartbreaking, hilarious, and hopeful story that will inspire you never to give up. To learn more about Zoro, go to zorothedrummer.com.

Based on his award-winning memoir, Maria's Scarf, Zoro's journey from the slums to the spotlight as a world-renowned drummer is an unforgettable, heartwarming, heartbreaking, hilarious, and hopeful story that will inspire you never to give up. To learn more about Zoro, go to zorothedrummer.com.

We got Poseidon Mythos to watch One Piece for the first time!!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-one-piece-virgin--4215089/support.

The guys are back after a wild weekend at WasabiCon! CJ kicks things off with Saturn's first anime appearance—find out what the crew thinks about his design and power level. Then it's time for the Zoro Gauntlet Challenge: can Zoro survive four brutal match ups in a row?Next up: Rico and Ty go head-to-head in a free-for-all anime battle debate—can Shigaraki take down Mahoraga, Beru, and Kafka? Things get heated.Finally, the crew dives into a hot Discord debate: Jiraiya vs. the 4th Raikage. CJ and Rico make the case for the Raikage, but does Jiraiya have too much in his arsenal? Tap in to find out who the crew picked.

Today we released part two of our interview with Zoro. Known by musicians around the world as the “Minister of Groove,” he's one of the world's most respected and award-winning drummers. For more than thirty years,  Zoro has been consistently voted the #1 R&B drummer and clinician by music industry publications such as Modern Drummer, Drum! Magazine, and Rhythm Magazine.He's toured and recorded with celebrated musicians, including Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown, Frankie Valli, New Edition, and Jody Watley. In addition to performing, he's a teacher, author, and an inspirational speaker who's worked with organizations such as Compassion International, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and the Head Start Organization.You won't want to miss this uplifting story of a teen on the edge of homelessness who overcame adversity to become a performing artist who uses his experiences to help others reach their goals!  https://zorothedrummer.com/ and https://www.zoroministries.org/about-zoro/ 

Today we released part one of our interview with Zoro. Known by musicians around the world as the “Minister of Groove,” he's one of the world's most respected and award-winning drummers. For more than thirty years,  Zoro has been consistently voted the #1 R&B drummer and clinician by music industry publications such as Modern Drummer, Drum! Magazine, and Rhythm Magazine.He's toured and recorded with celebrated musicians, including Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown, Frankie Valli, New Edition, and Jody Watley. In addition to performing, he's a teacher, author, and an inspirational speaker who's worked with organizations such as Compassion International, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and the Head Start Organization.You won't want to miss this uplifting story of a teen on the edge of homelessness who overcame adversity to become a performing artist who uses his experiences to help others reach their goals!  https://zorothedrummer.com/ and https://www.zoroministries.org/about-zoro/ 

Episodes discussed: 609-614Matt accidentally says a bad word in this one without him even realizing it. Mike and Matt are inching ever closer to the end of Punk Hazard and Matt has some particularly great fun with the amount of swordplay in these episodes. Zoro folks?!!? There's a deep deep appreciation for Smoker throughout by Mike and his Vergo fight proves to be some interesting fodder. Are the bois finally starting to see Caesar as more of a threat?! Definitely not, but listen in to see what shenanigans pop off this episode! Send your thoughts, love letters, recipes, and more via transponder snail to ⁠⁠⁠funpiecepodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠ Join our Fun Piece Discord! ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/6YQCJunnK5Looking for more Fun Piece? Become a Patron on our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/FunPiecePodcast

Another episode of the One Piece Virgin Podcast Featuring Posiedon Mythos covering the second half of Skypea! Next Week we cover the best filler in anime. G-8Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-one-piece-virgin--4215089/support.

In this episode, The Crew discuss the start of the Worldwide Anniversary in OPTC with the release of Luffy & Lucci and Zoro & Kaku. They also delve into the Kizuna Skull fiasco, Pokémon Day Presentation and Dokkan!For details about future uploads and if you want to keep up to date with the hosts on the show, please follow our social media;Good, Great, Perfect Socials: https://linktr.ee/GoodGreatPerfect------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Good, Great, Perfect Podcast discusses all things ONE PIECE Treasure Cruise and beyond, and we thank you for watching/listening to this podcast.GGP Crew:- Captain Papi Twitter: https://twitter.com/captainpapii- Toadskii Twitter: https://twitter.com/Toadskii- Nitemare Twitter: https://twitter.com/nitemarejp- Flamevious Twitter: https://twitter.com/Villainueva__#OPTC #TreCru

Este capítulo nos deja con revelaciones clave sobre la islade los gigantes. Franky descubre una rama dañada del legendario Árbol del Tesoro Adam, afectada por fuego y un rayo. ¿Cómo es posible que el material más resistente del mundo sufra este tipo de daño? ¿Podría ser una pista de que Elbaph no es tan indestructible como se pensaba? Mientras tanto, Loki ya está de pie tras ser liberado, y lagran pregunta es: ¿de qué lado está realmente? Luffy confía en él, pero Zoro no baja la guardia. ¿Es un aliado inesperado o una amenaza latente para los Sombrero de Paja? Este capítulo nos deja teorías explosivas sobre el futuro dela historia. ¡Únete al análisis y cuéntanos qué opinas!

In this episode, Digital Experience Expert Samantha Schwartz joins us to discuss the power of digital transformation in B2B commerce. With experience at companies like Jensen, McMaster-Carr, Zoro and ISN, Samantha shares how businesses can move beyond traditional sales models, leverage data for trust and create frictionless customer experiences.Key Takeaways:(04:22) How a customer-first strategy and strong data foundation drive growth.(09:35) Why B2B eCommerce is more than an add-to-cart button.(14:11) The impact of digital tools on sales, operations and customer service.(16:07) How better merchandising and search can significantly increase RFQs.(19:19) Why high-quality product data builds trust and drives conversions.(20:17) How digitizing invoicing and payments can save hours of manual work.(24:19) Strategies for meeting customers where they are and removing friction.(28:02) The importance of taking risks and testing new digital channels.(31:41) Advice for eCommerce leaders on proving digital's value internally.(34:35) How to assess a company's digital maturity before joining.(41:01) Why creativity requires stepping back and giving ideas space.Resources Mentioned:Samantha Schwartz -https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantharschwartz/Jensen Infrastructure -https://www.jensenprecast.com/“Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide” by John Cleese -https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Short-Cheerful-John-Cleese/dp/0385348274Thanks for listening to the “B2B Commerce UnCut: A Journey Through Change,” powered by Oro. If you enjoyed this episode, leave a review to help get the word out about the show. And be sure to subscribe so you never miss another insightful conversation.#eCommerce #B2BeCommerce #DigitalCommerce

Welcome to "That One Piece Talk," the podcast where we discuss, review, and debate the latest One Piece chapters. In this week's episode, we will review One Piece Chapter 1139. Remember to like, comment, and share your thoughts with us. See you soon!

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This week on the podcast, Jon Negroni and Travis Hymas discuss the three most recent chapters of the One Piece manga, titled “Introducing Shamrock,” “The Harley,” and “Mountain-Eater.” One Piece 1137-1139 are currently available to read for free on Viz. And you can also read an edited transcript of our conversation below! We want your feedback! If you have any questions, corrections, or your own theories and speculation, you can either email us (rookiepirateradio@gmail.com) or join our Discord, where we have a special channel devoted to all things One Piece spoilers! We’ll be back to discuss the next chapter after it comes out, but in the meantime, be sure to subscribe to Rookie Pirate Radio on your favorite podcast app, so you can stay up to date on all our releases. Extra Credits: Our intro music is a remix version of “Overtaken” from the One Piece anime, cut together by Jon Negroni. Our podcast artwork is by Jon Negroni. Travis Hymas is the Anime & Manga editor of InBetweenDrafts, and Jon Negroni is the Film Editor of InBetweenDrafts. Our recap of One Piece 1137-1139 is based on the English translation of the manga, courtesy of Viz. In case you didn’t know already, Eiichiro Oda is the creator of One Piece. Plus, we’re not just a One Piece podcast by the way! If you have a manga or anime you’d like us to cover or mention on the show, definitely reach out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Let me know what you thought of the episode!On this episode I get into anime episodes 613-615 where Zoro and Tashigi go up against Monet while Chopper and co. desperately try and protect Mocha from the rest of the kids. Lastly, Caesar reveals a dark secret Punk Hazard was built for! Hope you Enjoy!Support the show

Get ready to dive into the wildest and most controversial One Piece takes from our Discord in 2024 with Sebastian & Larry!

"You think Bleach is better than Hunter x Hunter? "SummaryIn this episode of the Suuuper Anime Podcast, host Ed welcomes Olamasama, a popular anime commentator on YouTube. Suuuper Animes discusses Olamasama's journey in content creation, his love for basketball, and the challenges of being a sports fan. The conversation also delves into the evolution of Olamasama's You Tube channel, his transition from skits to anime commentary, and the impact of anime on culture. Throughout the episode, Ed and Olamasama share insights on the struggles and rewards of being a content creator in the anime community. Discussion NotesMeet Olamasama: The Anime CommentatorThe Struggles of Being a Sports FanContent Creation Journey: From Skits to Anime CommentaryThe Evolution of Olamasama's ChannelThe Impact of Anime on CultureThe Transition from Skits to Anime ContentThe Rise of Olamasama: From Zero to One KFinding My Niche: The Power of AnalyticsAnime Journey: From Dragon Ball to NarutoHot Takes and Character Debates: Zoro vs. SanjiAnime vs. Manga: The Icing on the CakeCharacter Comparisons: Bakugo vs. DekuAnime Popularity: AOT vs. NarutoStorytelling Depth: My Hero Academia vs. JJKAnime Adaptations: Bleach and Thousand Year Blood WarTop Anime Rankings: Subjectivity vs. ObjectivityDefining Anime: Cultural PerspectivesAnime vs. Western Cartoons: A Blurred LineDebating Anime Greats: Berserk vs. Vinland SagaThe Role of Fan Service in AnimeComparing Anime: Slime vs. Demon SlayerCosplay Culture: A Personal TakeAttack on Titan: A Decade of ExcellenceVillains vs. Heroes: Who's More Compelling?Blue Lock: Overrated or Underrated?Shounen Arcs: The Greatest of All Time?Hunter x Hunter vs. Bleach: A Classic DebateAnime Elitism: A Double-Edged SwordAnime Seasons and Personal PreferencesCharacter Empathy in AnimeDebating Anime VillainsPower Scaling in AnimeCommunity Engagement and Content CreationOlamasama You Tube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@olamasama9243/featured Support the show

Welcome to "That One Piece Talk," the podcast where we discuss, review, and debate the latest One Piece chapters. In this week's episode, we will review One Piece Chapter 1136. Remember to like, comment, and share your thoughts with us. See you soon!

Un capítulo cargado de información y Lore que nos lanza una curva para repensar las cosas y darnos cuenta de que Oda tiene algo más grande cocinándose. One Piece es más complejo de lo que esperamos, aunque todo apunta a que la historia sí es como Matrix y luffy tendra que romper el ciclo igual que Neo. Por otro lado, Loki apunta a ser un buen sujeto y que la historia de Elbaf está mal contada. Luffy, Zoro y Nami se lanzan a una aventura juntos como al principio de One Piece tal vez para enfrentar a Gunku, Loki y el No-Shanks.   Ilustración: https://www.instagram.com/greiish_/   Síguenos en: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sombrerosdepaja_podcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sombrerosdepaja_podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElPodcastDeLosSombrerosDePaja X: https://x.com/SDP_podcast3D2Y Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5hIsfgVLRGX6Id1tN3PSz6?si=f44ad80c2908427b

In this episode of the Better Tech podcast, Colin McCarthy chats with Andy Goodfellow, SVP and CTO of Zoro, to explore his career journey and the transformative role of technology in the distribution industry. Andy shares how his technical leadership and customer-centric approach have redefined Zoro's operations, transforming it into a technology-driven powerhouse. The discussion delves into building empowered teams, leveraging AI and data for innovation, and maintaining a balance between operational efficiency and future readiness. Andy also highlights the importance of clean data as the foundation for AI applications and reflects on how people-centric leadership fosters team growth and success.

I brought Patrick Zoro from Lehigh University on the channel to discuss jobs, hiring, program rankings, networking, and just to catch up with him on a personal note.Some interesting takeaways include how programs gather and report graduate income. For example, the data is self reported by the students and then self reported by the universities. Some universities have third partis that do the work to reduce over stating salaries while others directly report. Another interesting piece is that many students take internships or research work at the universities as a way to stay in the US while they find a full time quant job. Should we include these as employment in the reporting for rankings?Support the show

Continuing our reviews of the One Piece manga and anime, Christian Ashely and Liz (Pang) Clyde discuss the Thriller Bark arc! They discuss how we meet Brook, who Bartholomew Kumo is, and how the team develops in this Halloween themed arc! .Which episode is Thriller Bark? Who is the bad guy in Thriller Bark? What happened at Thriller Bark? Did Zoro take Luffy's pain? What is the longest arc in One Piece? What happens to Zoro after Thriller Bark? Why was Moria so weak? Who was Brook before he died? What Devil Fruit did Brook eat? Mentioned in this episode:The SG StoreCheck out the SG store for exclusive merch!Systematic Geekology StoreCheck out the Anazao Ministries Podcast (AMP) Network on Spotify or Apple Podcast!Anazao Ministries Podcasts - AMP NetworkCheck out other shows like this on our podcast network! https://anazao-ministries.captivate.fm/Systematic GeekologyOur show focuses around our favorite fandoms that we discuss from a Christian perspective. We do not try to put Jesus into all our favorite stories, but rather we try to ask the questions the IPs are asking, then addressing those questions from our perspective. We are not all ordained, but we are the Priests to the Geeks, in the sense that we try to serve as mediators between the cultures around our favorite fandoms and our faith communities.Support us on CaptivateYou can sponsor our show and get access to bonus content through Captivate

Get Our Affiliated Link With NordVPN Now: https://go.nordvpn.net/aff_c?offer_id=15&aff_id=107057&url_id=902 TOPT Artist: https://www.behance.net/amandanico Welcome to That One Piece Talk, the podcast where we discuss, review, and debate the latest One Piece chapters. This week's episode will feature fan phone calls and be exciting! Remember to like, comment, and share your thoughts with us. See you soon!

Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Sanji, Usopp, Chopper, and the Straw Hat Pirates have become a major staple in the anime world since their first appearance in 1999. Going on many adventures to pursue their dreams throughout this vast world. But, have you ever wondered, what if the Straw Hat crew had access to every anime ever made, would they choose other characters to fill in the essential roles needed for their crew? Well, come aboard and bring along all your hopes and dreams as William, Tyrone, and Brandon sit down and discuss who they would choose to be on their Straw Hat Crew. Who will they choose? Tune in to find out. Join in on the conversation and get the latest updates on the podcast by following Comic Talkers on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @comictalkers. Also, let us know what anime characters you would have on your Straw Hat Crew. You can listen to Comic Talkers on: Spotify For Podcasters - ⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/comictalkers⁠ Apple Podcasts - ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/.../comic-talkers/id1560772306⁠⁠⁠ Spotify - ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0mLHZQajx81j0iFDqD1vGE?si=9b8f2313487d463f YouTube (Please Like And Subscribe) - https://www.youtube.com/@comictalkers

One Piece fans, we've got a lot to unpack this week! With the anime going on a six-month hiatus and the manga taking a two-week break, we break down what this means for the series and share our predictions for what's next. Ty offers his thoughts on the hiatus, and we dive into the latest One Piece fan letter episode, sharing our ratings and favorite moments—plus a hilarious moment where Rico teases Cj about Sanji's unexpected interruption in Zoro and Mihawk's strength talk. Shifting gears, we explore the new Dragon Ball Daima series and debate how it stacks up against the classics like Dragon Ball Z and GT. Our initial thoughts might surprise you! To wrap things up, we tackle the age-old debate: Yonko vs. Admirals—who's truly the strongest? And Rico drops a fresh swordsman ranking list that stirs up some epic reactions. Don't miss this episode packed with anime updates, laughs, and plenty of hot takes!

Over the past four years, The Wholesale Change Show has featured CEOs from MSC Industrial, Global Industrial, Zoro, Lawson Products, Johnstone Supply and dozens of other leading distributors. It's the most informative and entertaining webcast and podcast in distribution! Watch on-demand for a special milestone event as we celebrated our 100th episode! We looked back on what we've learned and talked about the state of the distribution industry today and where it's going. Distribution Strategy Group's own Ian Heller, Jonathan Bein and Brian Hopkins were joined by long-time distribution executives and frequent guests Ron Paulson, who spent decades at Grainger, Eric Wessinger of Richards Supply and Dirk Beveridge, Executive Producer of We Supply America. Whether you're a longtime listener or new to the series, this event is a must-watch.

On this spooky edition of the pod, Alexi Lalas and David Mosse are joined by special guest Zoro to break down all the soccer action. At the Ballon d'Or Awards Emma Hayes was named Women's Coach of the Year. Over in Europe Tim Weah and Weston McKennie are in great form, both scoring in Wednesday's match against Parma. Ricardo Pepi, Malik Tillman, and Co. take on Ajax in an Eredivisie top of the table clash. Tyler Adams also takes on the Premier League defending champs in his second game back. (4:55) Finally, the MLS Cup Playoffs roll on with a few big cupsets. In #AskAlexi the guys answer questions on positions that make good managers and Wrexham hate. To wrap the show, Alexi and Mosse share halloween costumes over the years. (33:41) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when Luffy's fighting style takes a comedic turn with kitchen utensils? Picture the chaos as the Sanji retrieval squad dons disguises to outwit the Navy and navigate the absurd unpredictability of anime filler arcs. Our discussion spirals into the realm of fan favorites, lively debates on the employability of Zoro versus Sanji, and a humorous exchange on food preferences that veers into fantasy territory involving celebrity chefs.Red Bubble ShopLinktreeThank you for listening! The everything bagel is peak fr fr~       Support the show

In this video, Dena Tauriello, drummer for Little Shop of Horrors and a sub for Hamilton and several others, discusses what it takes to make it on Broadway in a group podcast that you can listen to here:Dena shares her experience about the importance of networking in the industry and how she's often asked to grab a coffee or chat about the business, but due to her busy schedule, she appreciates a more focused approach—like using platforms such as MeetHook.com. With MeetHook, you can book time to ask questions, get mentorship, or take lessons directly from professionals like Dena, making it easier to connect and learn. Whether you want to know about subbing for Broadway or improving your drumming skills, this is a great way to get personalized advice!Hit the subscribe button, share this video with anyone who could benefit, and check out MeetHook.com to book a session with top professionals!Why MeetHook?Personal Interaction: MeetHook allows you to book sessions with your favorite drummers, including myself.Broadway Drumming 101 is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.SubscribedSign up to add me and other renowned drummers to your favorites. Once I post my available times, you can easily book a session.Tailored for Musicians: The platform is designed with musicians in mind, making it easy to search for and connect with hosts based on name, affiliation, skill, or keyword. Whether you're looking for a lesson, career advice, or answers to burning questions, MeetHook provides a seamless experience.Endless Possibilities: Every MeetHook session is unique and potentially life-changing. The platform enables connections that might otherwise never happen, offering a personal touch that can inspire and elevate your musical journey.Some of Broadway's best are on this platform:Andrés Forero: https://app.meethook.com/#/dashboard/hostprofile/7685Jared Schonig: https://app.meethook.com/#/dashboard/hostprofile/7281Karl Latham: https://app.meethook.com/#/dashboard/hostprofile/8217Sean McDaniel: https://app.meethook.com/#/dashboard/hostprofile/7646Dena Tauriello: https://app.meethook.com/#/dashboard/hostprofile/2109User Testimonials:* Chris Coleman (Beck, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Sheila E.): "MeetHook goes beyond lessons; it makes dreams come true. Trust me!"* Zoro (Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown): "MeetHook is an amazing idea! The ability to call up one of my favorite drummers would have been a dream come true."* Rich Redmond (Jason Aldean): "MeetHook is streamlined, fun, and easy to use. It's a win-win for connecting and sharing expertise."* Mark Guiliana (David Bowie, Matisyahu, John Scofield, Matt Cameron): "The spontaneity of MeetHook is its strongest attribute."* Stephen Perkins (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros): "MeetHook levels the playing field for sought-after information. The exchange of knowledge is priceless."How to Get Started* Sign Up: Visit meethook.com and create your account.* Download the App: Get the MeetHook app on your iPhone or Android.* Explore and Connect: Search for your favorite drummers, including me, and get notified when we're available for a personal video call.Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to connect with top drummers in the Broadway scene. Sign up now, add me as a favorite, and stay tuned for my available times. Feel free to explore and connect with other incredible musicians on the platform, too!Book a Lesson, Get Advice, Make a Connection, or Get Your Burning Questions Answered… The possibilities are endless with MeetHook!Clayton Craddock is the founder of Broadway Drumming 101, a comprehensive online platform dedicated to providing specialized mentorship and a meticulously curated collection of resources.Clayton's Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include: tick, tick...BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill, and Ain't Too Proud - The Life And Times Of The Temptations, Cats: The Jellicle Ball and The Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical. He has subbed for shows like Motown, Evita, Cats, Avenue Q, The Color Purple, Rent, Spongebob Squarepants - The Musical, Hadestown (tour), and many more. Clayton has appeared on The View, Good Morning America, Jimmy Fallon, The Today Show, the TONY Awards, and performed with legends like The Stylistics, The Delfonics, Mario Cantone, Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth, Kerry Butler, Christian Boyle, Norm Lewis, Denise Williams, Chuck Berry, and Ben E. King.Clayton is a proud endorser of Ahead Drum Cases, Paiste Cymbals, Innovative Percussion drumsticks, and Empire Ears.For more about Clayton Craddock, click here: www.claytoncraddock.comCONNECT WITH ME ON MEETHOOK! Get full access to Broadway Drumming 101 at broadwaydrumming101.substack.com/subscribe

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The crew is back this week to bring you a review of one of Zoro's most iconic moments in all of One Piece. Not only that, but we are diving more into Brook and his backstory with Laboon. Emotions are high along with the laughs. We look forward to being back next week to wrap up the Thriller Bark Arc!!! Next Week: Episodes 380-381

In this podcast episode, Amir interviews Addhyan Pandey, Zoro.com's Senior Director of AI and Data. They discuss the role of data platforms in serving businesses, mainly focusing on advanced technologies like machine learning and AI. Addhyan explains Zoro's current AI maturity, the challenges posed by data quality, and the concept of technical debt in data management. He also touches on the importance of self-service and human-in-the-loop systems for enhancing business processes. Addhyan shares his experience at Zoro and provides insights on strategic prioritization and stakeholder engagement in data projects. Highlights: 01:13 AI and Machine Learning at Zoro 03:13 Challenges in Data Quality and Technical Debt 05:45 Balancing Business Needs and Data Feasibility 11:43 Self-Service and Human in the Loop 15:14 Addhyan's Onboarding Experience at Zoro Guest: Addhyan Pandey is the Head of AI and Data at Zoro.com, an e-commerce platform focused on supporting businesses. Before this role, he led Machine Learning and Platform teams at Cars.com and Groupon, addressing diverse marketplace and e-commerce challenges. He also spearheaded the re-platforming of the tech stack at Cars Commerce as part of the Product and Strategy teams. With several research papers and patents in machine learning, Addhyan holds a strong technical background and a degree in electronics and communication engineering. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/addhyan-pandey

We are starting all over again from the begining with the Vtuber Poseiden and experiencing her first imprerssions! Next week we cover syrup village and orange town!

In this episode we to an anime related Q&A

In V Podcast 158, Bryan Gee honors the late DJ Randall, a true legend in the drum and bass scene. Known for his precision mixing and pioneering sound, Randall was instrumental in shaping the genre since its inception. As part of the trio Watch The Ride alongside DJ Die and Diemantle, he crafted some of the biggest tracks of recent years, as well as numerious releases on his own Mac II imprint and beyond. This episode features a host of Randall's productions and collaborations like "Sound Control" with Andy C and "2 Worlds" with Benny L and many many more, showcasing his profound influence. Bryan also delivers fresh tunes from L-Side and Makoto, Carlito, Lynx, Adam F, Break, and more. A heartfelt tribute to a drum and bass icon. Stay connected with us on social media and subscribe to the V Podcast on your favorite platform to stay updated on all the latest episodes. 01. Carlito - Hold Me Close 02. Makoto and DJ Marky feat. Sola - Poetry (Remix) 03. DJ Marky and Makoto - Groove Thang 04. L-Side, Makoto and Frank H. Carter III - What You Won't Do For Love 05. Riya and Frank H. Carter III - Confessions (Unreal Edit) 06. Mako and Marcus Intalex - Keep Your Cool 07. DRS, L-Side and Simplification - Protection 08. Bcee - Generation (L-Side Remix) 09. Break - Something 10. Sl8r - The Pillar VIP 11. Sl8r - Tomorrow Night 12. Zoro and Azfm - Once Again 13. Randall and Andy C - Sound Control 14. Randall - The R 15. Randall and Shimon feat. Fatman D - Twang 16. Randall - Song and Dance 17. Randall and Die - Skematics 18. Randall - Make It Happen 19. Randall and NV - BS4 20. Randall - C Locerz 21. Project 2 - Well Well Well 22. Randall and Benny L - 2 Worlds 23. Randall - Going Home feat. Kathy Brenen 24. Project - Understand 25. Randall - Bionic Ran (L-Side Project) 26. D Double D - Watch Da Ride 27. Watch The Ride - Retrograde 28. Watch The Ride - Abyss 29. Watch The Ride - Out The Gate 30. Watch The Ride - Maximum Tribute 31. Watch The Ride - Good For You 32. Watch The Ride - Stop Lights (L-Side Remix) 33. Watch The Ride feat. Gardner - Ready 4 Dem 34. Watch The Ride feat. Nia Archi - Mash Up Da Dance 35. Sigma feat. Doktor - Trouble You (Watch The Ride Remix) 36. DJ Die - Morro Dud (Watch The Ride Remix) 37. Watch The Ride - Times Up 38. London Electricity - Billion Dollar Gravity (Watch The Ride Remix) 39. Watch The Ride - Shake The Foundation 40. Watch The Ride - Wicked Man 41. Watch The Ride feat. Scorpio MC and D Double - Raw 42. Total Science - Gangsta (Watch The Ride Remix) 43. Watch The Ride - Mad Mad Mad 44. Paul T and Edward Oberon feat. MC GQ - Kamakazie 45. The Sauce feat. Fox - First Class 46. Alibi and LowQui - On Course 47. Icicle - Dreadnaught (Break Remix) 48. Level 2 - Nas 49. Acuna and MC Fava - Unseen VIP 50. Alibi and Yatuza - Foundations 51. Carlito feat. Holly - Ah Who 52. Chimpo and Sl8r - Respect 53. Lynx - Fyah 54. Adam F - Aromatherapy (Paul T and Ed Oberon Remix) 55. Crystal Clear and Sweetpea - Dreamstate 45 - Alibi and LowQui - Happy Shopper

On this week's episode of The One Piece Podcast we go through ONE PIECE Magazine Vol. 18 “Sanji & Zoro” with Josh McKenzie (contributor and storyboard artist) and friend of the show Ken O'Connor, featuring special guest Stephen Paul (translator for One Piece in Shonen Jump & Manga Plus)! Then we have a double Anime Recap of One Piece Episode 1115, “The Navy Surprised! The Navy Headquarters' Former Admiral, Kuzan” and One Piece Episode 1116, “Let's Go Get It! Buggy's Big Declaration” with Sam Leach! SUBSCRIBE TO US ON PATREON! You can subscribe on Patreon and get access to ad-free episodes and our 800+ episode archive, our exclusive series 4'ced to Watch 4Kids with Steve & Alex, our full-length film OPPJapan, exclusive episodes with our special guests and a lot more. 00:00:00 Introduction & An Update from Ed; 00:10:31 Manga Recap: ONE PIECE Magazine Vol. 18; 02:06:49 Anime Recap: Episodes 1115 & 1116; 02:40:40 To Be Continued…! NEWS & UPDATES Our video recording of the OPP at City Winery is now LIVE for patrons! Check out the August edition of our new column Ri's Reactions! Every month, Ri brings you his latest takes on the latest happenings in the One Piece world. They are available at onepiecepodcast.com before anywhere else! OPLA! is back for a whole new season! Check out interviews with the cast including Aidan Scott (Helmeppo), Alexander Maniatis (Kuro), Craig Fairbrass (Zeff) and Chioma Umeala (Nojiko)! Don't miss out, subscribe at patreon.com/onepiecepodcast to get the full One Piece Podcast experience!  We have an all new series about the history of 4Kids … as told by the people who were actually there. Check out 4Kids Flashback every Wednesday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Florida native McCoy Gibbs made the move to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 18 to pursue a Music Business degree at Belmont University.  He not only earned that degree, but also made lifelong connections and friendships while falling in love with the city, energy, and opportunity that is Nashville.  The crazy part is that Gibbs didn't really learn to play drums until his college years.  For this natural musician, drums and rhythm came naturally and he found his groove, literally. After college, Gibbs emerged as a drummer while playing with pop/rock band Hot Celle Rae.  He then went on to become an independent drummer to soak in all the music he could.  During this time he met tons of musicians, bands and artists, cut his teeth on the grind of Broadway bars and “honky tonks,” and jumped in a van for a random show in Montana.  He loved every minute of it. In 2013, his hard work paid off when Gibbs successfully auditioned for CMA-nominated Duo of the Year, Love and Theft, and hit the road for the busiest year of his life thus far.  It hasn't slowed down for him since.  From touring, live TV performances, music videos and award shows, Gibbs has kept himself quite busy. Gibbs is currently playing with 2017 CMA New Artist of the Year nominee Lauren Alaina, and continues to find other ways to fill in the occasional off day with sessions, shows, and housework.  If there is an example of hard work, passion, and preparation paying off, McCoy Gibbs is that example.   Some Things That Came Up:  -2:45 Tall drummers  -4:15 Playing the Opry -5:00 Imposter Syndrome?  -5:20 Musical family. Played Sax, Sing, Guitar -8:20 An elder Millennial  -10:90 The beauty of the Dave Matthews band and Carter -12:00 No formal lessons. NOT passing the torch yet!  -14:00 Guitar! Singing AT you!  -16:30 The birth of Grunge and Dave Grohl -21:00 Music Business Major at Belmont University  -26:50 Meeting Ed Toth. Into Tonic, Vertical Horizon, etc.  -28:00 The Singing Drummer (“The 5th Limb”). Don Henley, Deen Castronovo, Phil Collins.  -33:00 Continuing to play Lower Broadway  -36:30 John Hamlin and Hot Chelle Rae  -38:30 Early Hot Chelle Rae demos  -50:00 Playing with Lauren Alaina  -52:20 Aaron Sterling on some of the records -52:50 Joey Moi as producer now  -54:00 The glory of private jets -56:00 Jim Riley and Zoro always got the photos! -1:00:00 Gretsch, Remo, Zildjian, Vic Firth…getting endorsements -1:09:00 Pass -1:11:00 House Band at The CMT Awards since 2014 -1:14:50 McCoy's charts -1:15:30 Subbing for Cole Swindell's tour last minute -1:25:00 “The Fave 5”    Follow:  https://www.mccoygibbs.com/ FB: Robert McCoy Gibbs IG: @McCoy.Gibbs  X: McCoy Gibbs    The Rich Redmond Show is about all things music, motivation and success. Candid conversations with musicians, actors, comedians, authors and thought leaders about their lives and the stories that shaped them. Rich Redmond is the longtime drummer with Jason Aldean and many other veteran musicians and artists. Rich is also an actor, speaker, author, producer and educator. Rich has been heard on thousands of songs, over 30 of which have been #1 hits!   Check out Rich's books on Amazon!    Follow Rich: @richredmond www.richredmond.com   Jim McCarthy is the quintessential Blue Collar Voice Guy. Honing his craft since 1996 with radio stations in Illinois, South Carolina, Connecticut, New York, Las Vegas and Nashville, Jim has voiced well over 10,000 pieces since and garnered an ear for audio production which he now uses for various podcasts, commercials and promos. Jim is also an accomplished video producer, content creator, writer and overall entrepreneur.   Follow Jim:   @jimmccarthy www.jimmccarthyvoiceovers.com

Shocking Joy Boy twist shakes the world as Vegapunk continues to reveal the truth, and the Straw Hats battle against the Gorosei.

On this week's episode of The One Piece Podcast we go through One Piece Chapter 1117, “A” with special guests Stephen Paul (translator for One Piece in Shonen Jump & Manga Plus), Victoria L. Johnson (writer and host of the Sailor Moon Fan Club podcast), and Allen Ortega (game developer)! We also have our Anime Recap for One Piece Episode 1108, “Incomprehensible! The Seraphim's Rebellion!” with Sam Leach! 00:00:00 Introduction; 00:17:42 Manga Recap: Chapter 1117; 01:24:50 Anime Recap: Episode 1108; 01:38:30 Piece Together 02:14:08 To Be Continued…! SUBSCRIBE TO US ON PATREON! You can subscribe on Patreon and get access to ad-free episodes and our 800+ episode archive, our exclusive series 4'ced to Watch 4Kids with Steve & Alex, our full-length film OPPJapan, exclusive episodes with our special guests and a lot more. NEWS & UPDATES OPLA! is back for a whole new season! Check out interviews with the cast including Aidan Scott (Helmeppo), Alexander Maniatis (Kuro), Craig Fairbrass (Zeff) and Chioma Umeala (Nojiko)! We will be LIVE at the City Winery once again on Sunday, August 25th at 7:00 PM ET! Tickets will be on sale soon, check back for more! You can check out our last live podcast performance here! Don't miss out, subscribe at patreon.com/onepiecepodcast to get the full One Piece Podcast experience!  We have an all new series about the history of 4Kids … as told by the people who were actually there. Check out 4Kids Flashback every Wednesday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices