0:01:55-Law and Alyx and Jack. There it is. Did Jack ever have a mullet? What music was he into at that time, if so? Ammon’s off backpacking, or something. Fuck that guy. Football. Sport. TM and PJ are the new hosts behind the Binge Sportscast. Site shit.
0:10:19-GOOGLE VOICE. Alyx has an anecdote to start it off. It then goes off tangent. What else is new? New Sounder drop.
0:36:11-Law revisits some of his old notes.
0:45:01-Random old show review/commentary Part 1
1:10:39-TV ROUND UP. Game of Thrones. Or…not. Or sort of. WELL I DONT KNOW LISTENER IM TRYING HERE. Alyx is still watching I’m Dying Up Here and he gives his thoughts on Ozark. Jack details Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later, Preacher, the last two seasons of Silicon Valley, Twin Peaks, Rick and Morty, and The Keepers. Alyx presents audio for the upcoming Netflix series American Vandal.
Law has Ray Donavan, The Sinner, Episodes, and Room 104.
1:58:50-Random old show/review commentary Part 2
2:30:00-LITERALLY LITERARY. Jack started the audiobook for The Dark Tower. Jack talks about his Harry Potter adventures.
2:44:03-LIL RETROS.Jack watched Deliver Us From Evil (a documentary that inspired The Keepers), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Dunkirk (again).
2:49:15-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Alyx checked out Guardians Vol. 2. PeteMC shows up, and he states how he watched Preacher, an ILM doc from 2010…and then he gets taken off course. Back to Game of Thrones. Law brings up Mr. Mercedes. More Game of Thrones. This segment is on point. Some Freaks. No, not the guys on the podcast, it’s a movie.
3:46:38-Random old show review/commentary Part 3
And then it’s done. You can leave now. You’ve suffered enough.
0:00:00 – Ammon Sounder by a certain someone who likes to have Good Times.
0:02:32-Law and Alyx are here, waiting for Ammon. That’s not a new thing. Binge Jeopardy is not happening on this show but Quotes Whores is!! TV Round Up is going to be epic. Carlito’s Way? More like CarliNo’s way, am I right guys? IndieGoGo is a go….go so we will keep you posted when the first episode is good to go…go. What’s this month’s giveaway? We don’t fucking know. Just keep an eye out. How’s those Jaws aftertastes going? What’s this new Karate Kid thing? Death Wish Trailer because we have to.
0:36:23-GOOGLE VOICE. Ammon shows up.
0:57:00- QUOTE WHORES
1:15:06-TV ROUND UP. Game of Thrones, bitch! However, the boys spoil episode 4 of the series, so keep that in mind. Ammon wrapped up Season 1 of The Handmaid’s Tale. He is also watching Blood Drive, Preacher, and finally checked out Master of None Season 2. Law talks Big Brother, Rick and Morty, Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later, and The Sinner. Mr. Mercedes. Room 104.
2:26:42-LIL RETROS. Ammon revisited Sleepwalkers.
2:36:55-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? After a small barrage of sounders, Ammon starts with Baby Driver and The Lost City of Z. The Mummy is broken down by the OG3. Chuck (otherwise known as “The Bleeder”) is discussed by Law and Alyx.
3:31:34-LITERARY LITERALLY. Ammon talks The Fireman by Joe Hill and Into the Water by Paula Hawkins. Law has Extracted and recommendations for Ammon. Alyx is still working on Harry Potter.
Now get on your broom and get the fuck out of here.
Question: What’s better than another Game of Thrones commentary?
Answer: A Game of Thrones commentary featuring Binge Media’s own “He Hate Me”, Jim Kupka. Join Kupka and Jack as they talk about Kupka’s change of heart, black as that heart may be, on this week’s season 7 episode 3 commentary for “The Queen’s Justice”.
Law & Ancira return from their respective lakes just in time to awake the mighty Poonslayer and his trail of wet spots.
Google Voice is ridiculous as usual. We hear about a horrible theatrical screening, somebody thinks firefighters are cocksuckers, somebody else declares war on avacaaaaados, and Magic Johnson still has AIDS. Or does he?
There’s also a bunch of new television to talk about and some advanced screening reviews. There’s no way I can remember everything that happened last night, alright? Stop yelling at me.
Timestamp Guy, save me!
0:00:00-Major IndieGoGo/Better Call Binge update!
0:04:10-Intro soundaaaaaaa
0:06:53-Law, Alyx, and GC! GC’s fucking here! He’s had some drinking problems, but not like that. Alyx details his lake getaway. Why wasn’t GC on last week?
0:12:00-GOOGLE VOICE. New drops! Lots of voicemails. Fuck.
0:54:53-Lil announcement
1:02:23-Law starts with I’m Dying Up Here and Preacher. He also started The Defiant Ones and got back to Ballers. Game of Thrones. Law started and finished Ozark. Garrett watched O.J.: Made in America for the first time and People vs. O.J. Simpson, and the 30 for 30: June 17th, 1994. Collins has been drinking the juice! He also blasted through The Defiant Ones.
1:40:42-LIL RETROS. Alyx talks about Smokey and the Bandit. Law goes with Big Trouble in Little (Lil?) China. Mr. 4 on 10 brings up Aftertaste news with a possible massive movie franchise retrospective. Back to Law with a lake story. Pranks. Audiobooks/books.
2:03:42-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Law and Alyx discuss Shot Caller. Garrett is in full shark mode with 47 Meters Down and then he goes further down the shit hole with The Emoji Movie. He also briefly touches on Under the Silver Lake, which he can’t say too much on. He concludes his portion with Detroit.
2:46:05-LIVE GARRETT COLLINS GAME: DETROIT EDITION. Game takes place after a piss Sounder.
That’s it, cocksucker. Now piss off, ya bloody wanker.
Episode 2 brings some dry meat stumps, weird hump/not-humping and way too much time with Greyworm and his not-greyworm. Law and Freak dissect the latest on Thrones, including their ideas about where the show is headed and just how gross porridge can be. Download now.
Game of Thrones is back and, yes, I’m watching. No, secret viewing shenanigans here. Batch joins me to talk about “Dragonstone”, the first episode of the show’s 7th season. We discuss some book stuff but not much since the show is beyond the books now. We also talk about how much we love The Hound, Ed “here, pass this” Sheeran and the infamous shit montage. It’s glorious and awful.
With Season 7 of Game of Thrones quickly approaching, I was once again torn between watching the show and holding out for The Winds of Winter. Since it’s unlikely we’ll get both TWOW and A Dream of Spring before the entire series ends (hoping to jinx myself here), I resigned myself to watching Season 7 and eventually, Season 8.
I enlisted my homeboy Art from Cali (an A Song of Ice and Fire geek in his own right) to discuss one of my favorite storylines in the novels. Let’s just call it the “Young Griff” storyline. There’s a lot of things that are either missing or changed in the show and I wanted to highlight, arguably, the most important storyline when it comes to Westeros and the Iron Throne.
We talk about Young Griff, Griff, Tyrion and how history in Westeros tends to repeat itself in future generations. Not in exact terms, but the same themes often pop up.
Art and I talked for a long time and we could’ve easily done another few shows. And we will definitely be doing that if you guys are interested. What other storylines should we discuss? Or should we go and discuss theories like we initially planned? Let us know!
OG3 in the house to fight about what is Canadian and what isn’t. Homo milk is. Dickies aren’t. This argument goes on for way too long and we forget everything else we were talking about for an hour or two.
Google Voice see the return of The Search For Garrett’s Bar and an Unknown Caller, as well as one of the greatest accent reviews of all time.
Movie Homework gets everybody all worked up about THE PATRIOT, aka AMERICAN BRAVEHEART.
TV Round-Up has Always Sunny, Cheers, Taboo, Game of Thrones, The Path, The Batchelor, Scientology and the Aftermath.
What Did You Watch gets rolling with DR. STRANGE, BEWARE OF THE SLENDERMAN, OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, THE ART OF ORGANIZED NOISE, CAPTAIN FANTASTIC.
You can find our “Waiting For Ammon” edition of Monday Morning Moreno available for download right now and stay tuned this week for the new Patreon show which features the five characters we’d invite to our end of the world party. There’s yelling.
Everybody has been busy giving their highlights of the year (except Kupka – what the fuck was that?) and the good thing about going last is that you get to cheat off everybody else and say “I liked that shit too.” But I’ll try not to do that because a) I’m a professional, and b) I forget most of what they wrote and don’t feel like clicking my mouse a couple times to find out. Here goes – my favorite things of 2016
BOOKS
I fell away from reviewing books on the BingeCast this year partly because I’m a drunk idiot and always forget, and partly because I went on a tear this year, sometimes finishing two books a week, and couldn’t keep up with myself. Here’s a couple that come to mind as I wrap the year up. IN THE DARKNESS, THAT’S WHERE I’LL KNOW YOU: THE COMPLETE BLACK ROOM STORY by Luke Smithered in a brilliant little novel about a dude that wakes up inside a strange woman’s head. That’s all I can give without ruining the rest. CRITICAL FAILURES is a series of books by Robert Bevan in which a group of friends get thrust into their role playing game called Caverns & Creatures (not unlike Dungeons & Dragons). It’s a fun read filled with shit talking, farts, and dick jokes a plenty. The best audiobook I listened to by far this year though was ALIEN: OUT OF THE SHADOWS by Tim Lebbon. I can’t remember who recommended this to me on Facebook but I can’t thank them enough. The audio version is a full budget presentation with sound effects and entire cast. The story plays as an alternate sequel to the original ALIEN film (but officially says it takes place between ALIEN and ALIENS) and finds Ripley waking up aboard a mining ship in deep space. Said mining ship finds a shit load of Xenomorphs. It takes a lot for me to give a book credit that is basically going head-to-head with the greatest sequel ever made in my opinion so give it a shot and see what you think.
VIDEO GAMES
I’m pretty sure I played one actual video game this year. That’s okay because I absolutely dominated it with my boy, Pete MC. This year at Lawlapalooza in Chicago we met up with Chad D, Chad C, Nick, and Creepy 209. Add Moreno, Pete, myself, and lots of lovely wives and we lived through the greatest meet-up yet. At some point we stumbled into a bar/arcade and started talking shit. After a few rounds of Ninja Turtles, getting my ass handed to me on Donkey Kong, and a few shots of pure death, Pete and I settled into our spot on NBA JAM and started kicking everybody’s assholes all over the walls. That’s right, the walls were painted in assholes. I’m retired from gaming for now, a champion, a hero, a complete prick.
ANIMATED FILMS
As a whole, the animated genre is in it’s golden age. No longer is it just Pixar followed by everybody else. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS is the biggest surprise on my list as I absolutely loved (almost) every second of it. Bundle that with the likes of ZOOTOPIA, FINDING DORY, MOANA, TROLLS, STORKS, and Pixar’s short film, BORROWED TIME, and you have one hell of a list. There were some clunkers too (THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS, ANGRY BIRDS, SAUSAGE PARTY) but those are easily outweighed by some brilliant films.
VADER
As I write this I’m gearing up for an all out podcast war with some of the other asshats from this site where we’ll argue about the importance, quality, and overall necessity of ROGUE ONE. Whatever the outcome of that conversation, there is one fact that I will not back down from – when Vader lights up his saber in the pitch black hallway after a few seconds of just his breathing is the single greatest shot in the history of STAR WARS cinema. What immediately follows is the best representation of the big bad we’re ever going to get on screen. Remember how excited we all were when we got to see Yoda kick ass in ATTACK OF THE CLONES? And how stupid it turned out to be? The Vader equivalent is anything but stupid – it’s glorious.
TV
There’s lots of good and bad in the television I watched this year, sometimes within the same series. STRANGER THINGS was good but failed to capture me the way it did countless others. THE WALKING DEAD had a great half hour of the premiere episode and then literally shit the bed every other second of screen time in what I consider to be one of the worst seasons of television I’ve ever watch throughout. SOUTH PARK started off on fire but felt like it went on a tad too long and lost some steam with me by the end. AMERICAN HORROR STORY pulled off the impossible by my standards by having me tap out mid-season and then having me tap back in before the end of the season (this is 100% Ammon’s fault and he’s an asshole). CHANNEL ZERO was the horror show I’ve been looking for, and even if it didn’t nail the landing, there were enough creepy moments to last a lifetime. VEEP was incredible from start to finish this year, leaving me wonder how they can ever top what they pulled off. I welcomed back BLACK MIRROR with open arms and was not disappointed. There’s an argument here that this show was pound-for-pound the most entertaining thing (movie or TV show) I watched this year. Some new shows caught my eye too – HORACE AND PETE was emotional, funny, and incredibly performed. ATLANTA was hilarious, all too real, and original. And DIVORCE was a triumphant comeback for Sarah Jessica Parker to HBO. The runs we were treated to by John Oliver on LAST WEEK TONIGHT and Samantha Bee on FULL FRONTAL might never be matched as they fell face first into a political shitstorm for the ages. ASH VS. EVIL DEAD was simply the greatest this year. I’ve ranted and raved enough about it on the show and in my personal life so I can hear everybody saying “We get it!” Shut up and watch. And of course, the first fully un-spoilerable season of GAME OF THRONES grabbed me by the jaw from the first episode and never let me look away. I loved it all. Book purists can sit and pout all they want, this was fantastic television.
MOVIES
I’m not going to get into my top films of the year here as we like to record a BEST OF 2016 BingeCast for that type of shit, but I will talk about some of my favorite moments. Such as the fantasy prom scene from SING STREET. This shit plays to my inner musical fan like a perfectly beat drum. I love random choreographed dance scenes in films. Don’t know why, just do. The fight between all the heroes in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR was as epic as they could make it. Sure nobody died, but we got to see Spider-Man hanging with his new friends and Ant-Man own almost every second of screen time he has. DON’T BREATHE made me gag and almost throw up at work, DEADPOOL made me laugh harder than I have in years, and HACKSAW RIDGE had one of the most unrelenting war scenes of all time and almost made me press pause to catch my breath. Twice. I got a cool-as-fuck Denzel in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, a scary as all hell John Goodman in 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE, and a hot-as-shit Blake Lively in, one of my biggest surprises of the year, THE SHALLOWS. I loved Kevin Costner in CRIMINAL, wanted to hang with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling in THE NICE GUYS, and marveled at the subtle indifference of Amy Adams in ARRIVAL and NOCTURNAL ANIMALS. I can’t tell if she’s an amazing actress or not, but I like her.
I guess that’s it. Prepare yourself for lots of shit talking in the new year on the BingeCast and, as always, have a drink or two for me whenever you have one.