It’s Law, Moreno, and Ammon talking about Thanksgiving, movies, television, voicemails, and finally playing a little Binge Jeopardy.
Hey, Time Stamp Guy is back!
0:00:00-Grab the Thanksgiving leftovers and sit your ass down. It’s Bingecast time.
0:01:52-It’s on, bitch. Binge Jeopardy is finally happening. Moreno celebrates his birthday TODAY. Send him a taco. Or two. Or three…thousand. Is a Thanksgiving fight a thing? Ammon is back from Hawaii and he’s getting shit done. Except he’s not on time for this Bingecast.
0:10:48-FUHOOGLE VOICE.
0:35:14-TV ROUND UP. Moreno starts with Six Feet Under. Law checked out Search Party. Ammon finally arrives. Fuck. Did he finish AHS? We’ll find out, but he did complete Channel Zero. He then details his trip to Hawaii a bit. This is Us doesn’t get the play by play this episode. Womp womp. Law gets the mic back and talks Divorce and South Park. Ammon talks about his Christmas tree. STAY FOCUSED. Westworld gets passed back and forth between Law and Moreno. Walking Dead-Law hates it, doesn’t care, wants to take a steaming dump on every episode.
1:23:46-BINGE JEOPARDY ROUND 1
1:54:01-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Lot of sound bites to lead the segment in. Ammon saw Hell or High Water and The Monster. He also did his Movie Homework like a champ and watched Basketball. Moreno checked out The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, Swiss Army Man, The Guv’Nor, and Supersonic. Law has a fuck ton, including Masterminds, John Fallon’s The Shelter, Loving, Snowden, Night of Something Strange, and Love is All You Need? Holy shit.
2:56:20-BINGE JEOPARDY ROUND 2/FINAL JEOPARDY
That’s it, game over. Have a good one, you Alex Trebabadecks
This week saw the return of the Walking Dead for another season, opinions are all over the place so i am joined by the one and only Jim Law as we give our thoughts on what went down and if it lived up to the hype and speculate where this season is going besides giving us at least 4 episodes of emo rick. As always SPOILERS ahoy…
what did you think of this season premere, have you tapped out? let us know in the comments below
Moreno, Kupka, and Law kick things off with some TV Round-Up which features thoughts on Ray Donovan and Narcos. This leads to a mini Fall preview where we discuss what we’re looking forward to. This includes Ash Vs. The Evil Dead and Fargo.
Ammon shows up in the middle of Google Voice and makes us do the entire first hour over as he brings up 11/22/63 and other bullshit.
There’s a huge Hottie League update as we look to the Fall for the points to roll in. Kupka describes his ideas for next year’s league which would feature actors and directors. It’s all so confusing.
As a preview to Moreno’s wedding next weekend, Ammon gives his Top 5 wedding moments.
What Did You Watch has shit talking of FANTASTIC FOUR, LOVE & MERCY, AMERICAN ULTRA, THE OVERNIGHT, JAWS, GAURDIANS OF THE GALAXY, and MONSTER’S INC.
0:00:00-Why is there a Kupka sounder starting off the Bingecast? Hmmmmm
0:04:30-Because Kupka is guesting on the Binge, you dumbass! He also makes an announcement that is kind of surprising, but not at all life changing, depending on how you look at it.
0:14:30-TV ROUND UP. The Boys discuss (with somewhat disgust) The League. Drunk History notes are swapped.
0:41:40-Spontaneous Skype Bachelor Party!
0:44:42-TV ROUND UP CONTINUED. Kupka talks Network TV and how he binge (plug?) watches dramas. He also hates shows that are continuations of movies. Picky bastard. Moreno fifes over Gossip Girl. Fall TV 2015 gets an overview.
1:13:16-GOOGLE VOICE. Translation is getting better every day. But not 100% yet.
2:12:25-Lead in from GOOGLE VOICE: MOVIE HOMEWORK: Sling Blade
2:35:34 Law questions the Game Cast. Kupka gets feisty.
2:40:08-Announcement of Movie Homework Theme for the past few weeks. This news will blow your fucking mind! Unless you figured it out or saw the theme mentioned on Facebook already. Then fuck you.
2:41:50-In honor of Moreno’s wedding less than a week away, we bring you the Top Wedding Moments in Movies. D’awwww.
2:55:44-WHAT DID YOU WATCH? Kupka revisits Jaws. Shark still looks fake. Back to the Future sequel ideas are discussed. Moreno dug Love & Mercy, the story about the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson. Ammon shows his Disney love card with Guardians of the Galaxy and Monster’s Inc. Law watched The Overnight and Fantastic Four. Take a wild fucking guess which one he liked more.
Let me start by saying that my interest in the television adaptation of The Walking Dead has slowly disappeared. What the show used to have, I no longer believe it has. The comic book however, is an entirely different story as it continues to find new ways to reinvent itself. Negan has been the villain that has totally rejuvenated the book into what it’s become post-television show. At this point it seems to be known by Robert Kirkman that the show has gone far enough off, and also adapted and changed enough that he doesn’t have to worry about writing for the show. This has led us to one of the most foul-mouthed characters I have ever read on page, this being Negan. Also, this book reaches a conclusion that I did not expect and has opened up the doors to a whole new possible world. Rick and others find themselves in a more peaceful environment, knowing they have to pick up the pieces from the battles in All Out War. Negan is locked up, but he’s still being paid visits by his number one fan, who is beginning to look awfully shady. Carl could possibly become an even larger character, and maybe even an issue, if he continues on his path of interests. Then, at the end of this book, a talking zombie shows up and my brain exploded. The last 4 page turns are out of this world, and I’m so ready for some more The Walking Dead now. Just when I start to wonder how they can keep the series going after dealing with the best villain in Negan, Kirkman and crew blow the hinges off the doors and open up a whole new can of worms for our survivors. The Walking Dead is still brilliant and what an ending, which was not spoiled above I promise. Holy hell, the ending…
I have not gotten the chance to read anything by Joe Hill yet, but from what I’ve heard he’s definitely an author I would enjoy. I own several of his books, but the one that most recently came out was NOS4A2. I think that The Wraith probably had a heavy influence from this story, but I wanted to read it anyways because it’s a graphic novel. I found the graphic novel to be pretty entertaining, but I do think there was a lot that I missed out on not having read NOS4A2 before. The art was definitely dark and bloody, and the writing ranged from extensive to minimal so it never really became overwhelming. It presented the story of Christmasland, which is a strange land ruled by a strange leader. It definitely is a Christmasland, but it’s dark and the streets are not what they seem. I would like to give this book another go once I read NOS4A2 and more familiarize myself with Christmasland. This book is accessible for new readers, but I think there’s a lot to be missed out on. Pick it up if you’re a fan of horror and darker illustrations, as it was good read for that in itself, but definitely if you’re a Joe Hill reader. I am very interested find out more about Christmasland very soon, but for now I give this a passive thumbs up.
SPOILER ALERT: I will be spoiling the shit out of things, so unless you’re all caught up with The Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, or Game of Thrones, you should probably stop now. You have been warned.
I feel like a broken record when it comes to the “rules” of spoiling TV shows (and movies, to an extent), but really what I’m talking about is common courtesy. Facebook and Twitter and other places on the internets have made a great place to chat, discuss, theorize, and converse about movies and TV shows and that is pretty flippin’ awesome, especially if you don’t have anyone in your day-to-day life to talk about such things. But that doesn’t mean it’s OK to spoil shit for the rest of us–especially the night something airs or even the morning after? Just like we live in the age of the internet, we also live in the age of DVRs and other online outlets that allow us to watch our running shows anytime we want… starting with the next day they air (I’m talkin’ Xbox Video, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, etc…). So blabbin’ about spoilery shit on Facebook the night of is a super dick move.
By spoiling it on Facebook, I mean a status update like this on Sunday night: I can’t believe Beth just died on The Walking Dead. You write something like that, you’re not only a fuckin’ asshole, but you’re a piece of shit scumbag. This week was a super weird week for shit like this because The Walking Dead’s official Facebook page accidently spoiled the shit out of the mid-season finale for all its fans to see. Yes, that sucks. Yes, someone probably lost their job over that. But Jesus Christ people, just because they spoiled it doesn’t give you the OK to spoil it for those of us who aren’t fans of The Walking Dead Facebook page!
Case in point, some assclown I went to High School with, a dude who was an asshole then and is an asshole now, a dude I would call a casual acquaintance over a “friend”, had this as his Facebook status update on Sunday night: “I’m glad I already know that Beth dies tonight on The Walking Dead” followed by a bunch of comments like “why would you say that” and “thanks for ruining it for the rest of us”. Instead of deleting his update after realizing he opened his big fat fucking mouth, he just left it… for comedic effect? I don’t know. Fuck that guy. Unfriending has never felt so good.
I did the same thing to some other assfuck from High School who spoiled the death of Joffrey on Game of Thrones earlier this year. He didn’t spoil it for me, but he spoiled it for everyone who watches the show and who hadn’t read the books. Fuck that shit. I immediately Unfriended that motherfucker too (I also spoiled the fuck out of the rest of the season before doing so). I know it sounds petty and juvenile and who really gives a fuck about anyone Unfriending you on Facebook, right? But shit man, it’s all I can do. I’m a 12 hour drive away from these shitheads, so it’s not like I can take a dump in a bag, light it on fire, put it on their porch, and ring the doorbell. But I can Unfriend them. I have no need for people who don’t respect others in my life, on the internet or otherwise.
Because that’s what it all comes down to, right? Respect. People who blab about big moments on TV don’t respect others who haven’t seen that episode yet. Sure, there is a respectable timeline when it’s OK to spoil shit, but the night of or the day after is way inside the “don’t be a fucking asshole” window. Shit, I know people who are just watching SOA for the first time right now, on Season 1, and while I want to talk about the deaths of Opie, Tara, Clay, Bobby, Juice, Unser, and Gemma… I hold back… because who does that benefit? Me? No, just emphasizes what a shitbrick I am. And it sure doesn’t benefit them. So I sit quiet and am secretly giddy about the awesomeness that’s to come and the shocking experience they’re about to go through, which is way better than telling them what’s going to happen.
Moral of the story here. Don’t be a dick. Keep your spoilery-updates in check. And if you spoil anything, whether I’m watching it or not, and we’re friends on Facebook, I will immediate Unfriend your ass.
I love decorating my house for Halloween. I start promptly as close to October 1st as possible, or just slightly before, to ensure that Halloween is in full effect for the entire month of October. While some people may stop at hanging up a few Jack-O-Lantern cut-outs on the walls, or decking out their mantle with spider webs, skulls, pumpkins, and other spooky paraphernalia, I take it one step further by doing all that, plus decking out the outside of the house as well. I take pride in making my house the spookiest, most Halloween-decorated house in the neighbor. To do this, I put up a few strings of orange lights, a graveyard, a few human skulls, a couple of creepy-ass looking scarecrows, and couple of three ghosts/ghouls/demons that just ‘hang out’ in the yard all month long. Because I have three kids under the age of 7, the yard is part super-scary, part kiddie-friendly, with friendly skeletons coming up from beyond the grave, and silly sayings like ‘Enter If You Dare’, which doesn’t sound silly, but the sign is. Trust me.
People stop to check out the yard every time they walk by it. Kids are freaked out and don’t want to walk by the house and are therefore forced to run as fast as they can. My kid’s friends don’t want to come to the front door. Basically, that’s all I need to make it worth it. Best of all is the kids who then start asking their parents why they don’t decorate their house for Halloween. Good fucking question, yo! Get on that shit, that’s what I say. And you know what, the amount of decorated houses for Halloween in my neighborhood as doubled every year we’ve been there (this is Halloween season 3 on this block), and that is all the confirmation I need that people dig it… and it’s nice to have other spooky houses to oooh and aaah over throughout the season. My only hope is that someday, there are as many Halloween houses around as there are come Christmas time (and just you wait to see my yard then!).
Speaking of Halloween, I’m loving the horror movie season this year more than any year previous–this year I’m trying to veer away from the crap and sticking strictly with the quality horror, making my month of movie watching 1 billion times better than Jim Law’s 101 Damnations. I’m taking in all kinds of classics–some of which I’ve seen, some of which I’ve never seen before, and I’m loving every second of it. At Day 9 of October, I’ve taken in Psycho, The Birds, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (on Blu-ray!), Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, Scream, a few episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Eaten Alive, Creepshow, Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, The Town That Dreaded Sundown (original), Horns, Gone Girl, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (with Donald Sutherland), House of Wax (original), 28 Days Later, and The Baby. And I’d recommend all of them… except Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, cause that one sucked (but it has a good catfight towards the end). I’ll be checking out even more as the weeks go on, including Night of the Demons, a flick that I’ve surprisingly never seen before.
On the TV side, American Horror Story: Freakshow starts this week, as does The Walking Dead. After wrapping up the shitastic The Strain this week, I’m looking forward to some quality horror on TV. Let’s hope these two delivery. Yes, Walking Dead has let me down in the past, but what can I say… I’m an optimist about this season. And AHS: Freakshow just looks awesome. Love that show. Old shit like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, and The Munsters will also be in the loop all month long to get into the holiday season. Sons of Anarchy is still awesome and is, by far, the one show I look forward to the most week after week.
And because I need one more source of horror in my life, I’m currently reading Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. While much more dense than, say, FRANKENSTEIN, it’s still a pleasure to read, and perfect for the season. The whole thing is drenched with a gothic atmosphere that’s so damn thick you can practically cut it with a knife. Hopefully I can time it right so I’m reading THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW during the last week of the month, leading up to Halloween. That’s a Halloween tradition I always take on as the story of the Headless Horseman is a staple of Halloween for me. So fucking cool.
Last week it was full blown summer, and now we’ve nicely transitioned into fall and I couldn’t happier. I love the fall–cool & crisp sunny days, the changing of the leaves on the trees, and the start of new (and improved) fall television. The summer has been blah for TV (as it usually is), so I’m looking forward to some of my favorite shows coming back to prime time. First up, Sons of Anarchy. The final season starts on Tuesday and I’m genuinely excited for it. Yes, Season 6 sucked. But the rest of the seasons leading up to this have been fun… decent…. ok, who am I fooling? But they’ve been entertaining as hell and that’s all anyone can ask. They’re not curing cancer, they’re providing entertainment one hour a week. And Jax and the boys are entertaining motherfuckers.
Other shows I’m looking forward to include Gotham (the first episode was intriguing enough), The Amazing Race (my guilty-pleasure reality show), and… um… well, as far as fall TV goes, I guess that’s it. Damn. That’s not as exciting as I was thinking it was going to be. That show with Mr. Fantastic called Forever looks like it might be cool, but then it’s on ABC so I’m not holding my breathe (but I’ll give it a chance). I’ll be watching The Walking Dead because, for me at this point, it’s tradition. It’s the end of October? Let’s watch the new season of The Walking Dead. I just hope it’s better than last season. My guess is there will be at least 8 good episodes this season… and 8 horrendous ones. And let’s not forget American Horror Story: Freak Show. I know nothing of this season other than the setting, but I gotta say… it’s set up for all kinds of horror greatness. Not sure if they can make it work for a full season either, but if they can nail 8 episodes, then I guess I’ll be happy.
Speaking of TV, the last episode of The Strain, where everyone sans the Mexican car thief, were in a stand-off for their life in the gas station while hordes of zombie-vampires moved in around them…. that shit was da bomb, yo! The best episode to date, and really, the only thing I’ve wanted from this show since day 1. It was like an early Walking Dead episode where they cared more about the zombie action than the silly people drama. The Exterminator was awesome, Sean Astin briefly redeemed himself, a Rick Baker cameo, a ton of beheadings, Walder Frey fuckin’ shit up, and the set-up for (hopefully) more awesome episodes to come. They haven’t done a lot right this season, but they fuckin’ nailed Episode 8. Kuddos to them for that shit.
Ok, the other thing I love about fall is the season for watching nothing but horror flicks 24/7. I mean, I’m a horror guy anyway, so I watch horror all year round, but there’s something about the fall that makes watching horror that much more enjoyable. I’m getting my October lined up as we speak, but I’m also dipping into some old shit now to prepare myself. I’m fifin’ hard on classic Universal Monster stuff, by getting my hands on Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (my personal favorite). I still need to get my hands on The Wolf Man and The Phantom of the Opera to make my Universal Monsters collection complete, but in the meantime, I love getting deep in the black and white classic shit like this. Makes me look forward to Halloween even more than normal. Other non-Universal classics are fun too, like The Fly series, Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space, and a few of the Hammer titles (though, truth be told, I’m way more of a Universal guy than a Hammer guy).
Another week, another round of VHS home movies from the archive. Last week I treated you to the music video I made for Are You Gonna Go My Way (watch that shit HERE). Today we take a little flashforward, with one of my final projects for the Video Production class I had my Junior year in High School (1998). This time the assignment was… do whatever you want. So I made a sequel to Are You Gonna Go My Way to Jameriquai’s Deeper Underground. Yes, from the Godzilla 1998 Soundtrack. It’s a sequel in that it stars the same dude (Nick Raya) in the same outfit (white shirt and jeans) fighting 2 dudes. No kidnapping, no other locations other than my High School, but… well, it’s just a better made music video than the first one. I like this as a sequel, but it’s funny… at the time, having the school blow up at the end seemed fitting (we did the same thing in the first video), but now in 2014… well, I’d probably get suspended for doing some shit like that. I mean, this was pre-Columbine too, so at the time, no one even gave a shit I blew the school up. And why should they? It’s just a video, yo. Anyway, enjoy! And extra points for anyone who can name the movie the explosion is ripped from at the end.
Ammon, Moreno, and Law have finally all made it to their microphones at the same time. I wish I could remember more of it. TV Round-Up features Ammon helping Law convince Moreno to get caught up on American Horror Story after Law does just that. Moreno contemplates dropping Homeland off the face of the planet and then pooping in it’s general direction. Sons of Anarchy makes us giggle, The Simpsons makes us a little sad, and Ammon starts getting caught up on Justified.
As for movies, there’s lots of them. Moreno revisits THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, hates on JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME, and kinda loves OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN. Law checks out the ridiculously frustrating HOURS, with Paul Walker, falls in love with THE TO DO LIST, and gets all inspired by LINSANITY. Ammon feels weird about the MANIAC remake, loves the chemistry in 2 GUNS, wants to fight John Travolta because of KILLING SEASON, and gets everybody riled up over CONGO. Fuck CONGO, and it’s stupid talking gorilla bullshit.
Be sure to play along at home and do your Movie Homework. This week’s film will be the John Hughes classic, PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES, just in time for the Holiday season. Join us next Monday when all of us will discuss the film over a few dozen bourbons. And one Vodka.
Law and Moreno ar not screwing around this week. There’s plenty to talk about even if nobody wants to leave a voicemail (but it still hurts). First up is a little mini TV Round-Up. Law gets an early look at the season premiere of Homeland, Sons of Anarchy and Boardwalk Empire come back strong-ish, and Ray Donovan stays solid.
Law goes on and on about the uselessness of The Road to Woodbury and how there’s no room in The Walking Dead universe for such bullshit.
From there it’s all movie reviews. THE FAMILY, YOU’RE NEXT, BLACKFISH, REQUIEM FOR DETROIT are all put through the grind and most of them pass the test. We also try to figure out who, and how much money, Robert De Niro owes to various loan collectors. It must be a lot. Enjoy, and come back Wednesday for our Breaking Bad commentary.