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Squacklecast Episode 29 – “Air Bag Recall Beyond Darkness Awakens”

January 23, 2016 davepoobond (DPB) Leave a comment

This entry is part 29 of 38 in the series The Squacklecast

Hey everyone! Sorry for the long break, but we’re finally back with a new Squacklecast.

This time we talk a little bit about the reason behind using aliases on the web site as well as the inspiration/explanation behind the current theme song for the 3rd set of Squacklecasts. I’ll be debuting a new song for the 4th set (Episodes 30 through 39) with Episode 30.

With David Bowie‘s passing this month, we go into David Bowie‘s career and what movies/music we personally have interest in when it comes to him.

The Prestige is the most notable acting performance to me, other than knowing he was in Labyrinth. Music was obviously a big part of our exposure.

The Man Who Fell to Earth is the movie Billy referenced to. The Hunger, as well.

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Red Dawn has been stuck on my desk for like six months. I never seem to have “time” to sit and watch a movie for 2 hours because there’s so many other things to do (like this).

Netflix DVD was on its way to being called Qwikster at some point. We talk about the effects of the movie/TV show streaming on small rental stores.

Fierce Creatures was the most recent “rare” DVD I’ve had to get from Netflix because it was a very long wait.

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I finished Quantum Leap last month, and I’m still watching Gotham, but its on break. They announced plans for a possible spin-off in the future.

The new Star Trek series speculation. What we think it’ll be like and what we hope for. Battlestar Galactica discussion.

…and Star Wars discussion What else did you expect? The Force Awakens was released since last podcast, and we talk about why Star Wars has become such a big cultural relevance.

A deeper Star Trek movie discussion commences after.

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Other random movie stuff, like Die Hard, Terminator: Genisys, etc.

We go into a longer discussion of Terminator: Gensisys and talk about how laser weapons, time travel, and killer robots are much more believable than one billion pre-orders of an operating system. Also, the movie seemed to be trolling people after the third time travel jump. They also turned Terminators into metal zombies. It was basically one big cartoon of a movie.

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It’s a lot easier to remember what you didn’t talk about when you do more than one podcast every 3 months.

See ya guys next time!

Dictionary

seeree

June 3, 2015 davepoobond Leave a comment

seeree – n. a classification of plot devices used in writing which the fiction (time travel/alternate dimensions) or things that do not actually exist within the fictional universe at hand (dreams/books) are used to lazily write-off any discontinuity or to retcon what you don’t like.

Ex. I’m not sure X-Men: Days of Future Past would have been as enjoyable if not for the seeree that was used to excise X-Men 3. None of that shit matters anymore!

Stories, Fairy Tales

A Hop Into the Future

October 25, 2010 davepoobond (DPB) Leave a comment

There once was a rabbit, named Terrance, who got lost in the woods on the way home from school. He had asked his crush out on a date for later that evening and hadn’t been mindful of the way he was hopping home. In fact, the rabbit was so lost, he couldn’t even tell which direction he had gone. The smell of the trees was different and even the ground looked different.

Little did Terrance know, he stepped through a dimensional portal and ended up in the future. Guess that date is gonna have to wait. But if it was in the past, it would have already happened, and he stood her up. So I guess he’s screwed.

Anyway, Terrance was hippity-hopping along his way trying to figure out where he was, when all of a sudden a vicious hyena came out from behind a tree! Considering hyenas don’t live in woods, Terrance had never seen a hyena before. He politely asked the hyena where he was.

The hyena became depressed. He popped open a package of Zanax and ate it all.

The hyena replied, “Am I not scary enough? Oh man, I just want to kill myself.”

It was then when the hyena took out a razor and started cutting himself because he was so emo. The rabbit didn’t understand and went along his way, until he met another hyena.

This hyena had a stupid look on his face. He had obviously never seen a rabbit before. And he was confused why the rabbit had a little backpack and was wearing Vans.

The new hyena inquired, “Hello there. My name is Johnny, and I like sand.”

Although it sounded like a question, it was more of a statement. Terrance didn’t know what to say, other than ask where he was.

Johnny replied, “Oh you’re so silly, you’re on the outskirts of Hyenapolis!”

Terrance had never heard that word before. “What’s a Hyenapolis?”

Johnny burst into song, “Hyenapolis is the most wondrous city in all of the Urf! We are a magical land full of magical hyenas who are used for medical experiments!”

Terrance questioned the sanity of the hyena, and went along his way. Too bad he got caught in a trap and was shot by a hunter. Then Hyenapolis was nuked by a terrorist seahorse civilization. Too bad the United Nations didn’t inspect them more harshly.

Moral of the story: Things never change.