It’ll be a season of ten episodes and I’m all for it!
Once I saw this at the 50 second mark, I wanted to see it again. Google Image Search told me the gif was from Tumblr, but I couldn’t find it anywhere on it to give credit to the person who took the time to do it.
I’m all about Rachel Keller as Sydney Barrett!
Though I’m the worst as I have not watched Fargo Season Two yet, and I really should!
Jemaine Clement should have a larger role and looks he gets to have a blast with Aubrey Plaza too!
Navid Neganban has the Shadow King’s comic persona, Amahl Farouk, is amazing casting! Neganban has been in everything!
He was in American Sniper and he’s going to be the Sultan in the upcoming live action Disney adaption of Aladdin. Which made me think they were going to take a darker approach to the film. Then I saw Will Smith as the Genie and now I’m not sure what type of film that is going to be. The Pink Power Ranger from the latest film is going to be Jasmine. They are now filming that movie so no photos of people in their costumes. I still need to watch that Power Rangers film, I heard it was pretty fun.
He was Maz in the Season Five Episode 22 “Memorial Day” of West Wing, which I’ll have to rewatch one of these days. I’m sure it was a smaller role.
He was Omar, Sayid’s supervisor in Lost, as seen in Season One Episode 9 “Solitary.” Can’t believe Lost and West Wing were on at the same time, they feel like two completely different eras of television in my mind.
He was in eight episodes of 24’s 8th Season, yes the FPJr season!
He was season one’s big bad on Homeland, Abu Nazir.
He was in Season 2 Episode 5 “League of Assassins” of Arrow as Al Ow-Al.
He was Ali Hasan in Season Four Episode 1 “Panopticon” of Person of Interest, as the PoI!
So many great shows he’s already been in!
Hopefully Hulu carries it again, and ideally, releases the episodes regularly two days after the new one is supposed to be out. They were good about the first few then the last ones were out a week later or something. We tried out SlingTV and that didn’t seem to work for us and we’re currently using Philo and that’s been nice. I wish they had a back catalog of shows, they do to a certain extent but the app is supposed to be more used to stay current on live shows. I really wish they had FXX. I’ll see how I have to figure that out as I really want to be able to watch this show as it is airing.
Thanks to being a free game to PS4 PlayStation Network subscribers, I was able to finally play my first TellTale game.
I had a blast and I thought about this game whenever I wasn’t playing it. I just kept wanting to go back to it.
There are plenty of interactive choices. I sort of wished that they gave us a full minute to make a decision, just so I could playfully ask my son or wife (or both!) for their opinion to weigh in on the choices. There were a couple choices that clearly mattered but a lot of the “they will remember that” never seemed to pay off. Like, I was expecting the fifth (and final) chapter to just be a giant personalized story about what I’ve done up to that point.
There were obvious changes made, such as go as Batman or Bruce or Save Harvey or Save Catwoman, or confront Harvey or confront Penguin, that clearly changed the way the next quarter of the game was going to played.
I liked the saving system, it occurred enough that I didn’t have to be a real jerk with having to put my family on hold as I didn’t want to repeat a full ten minute game sequence.
The detective mode was fun, if not added to one of more longer sequences when I was trying to figure out what caused the giant explosion.
I really liked the relationships you are able to effect like with Bruce and Harvey. I was trying to start a romance with both Vicki Vale and Catwoman. I missed a big opportunity, or at least I think I did, with Vicki Vale, like in Episode Two just to learn later that I don’t think that was ever in the cards by Episode Four. That one moment, when I could have provided information to Vicki but I chose to protect my friendships with Gordon and Harvey that I wished I did just give her what she wanted. Then Episode Three started as if I did provide the information so that was disappointing, to see a decision not really get honored. It was the sole time I saw that happen.
I might end up playing the game again and, of course, make different choices.
For PS4 players, all I did was literally play along and got a Platinum trophy so there are no bad choices. One of the options is to select triangle which is a non-response (or the default response if you are not fast enough). I’m not sure if my first two responses counted or did I think too long but I think those two interactions were soft balls to get prepared for the game. It might be a long 15 second time delay for a response but you definitely can’t just put the controller down and watch the “film.” There are fight sequences, that I’m not sure my wife or a more casual player, would enjoy. You don’t need to be super fast but I think you have to be fast or learn to adapt and anticipate which button sequence is coming. I never knew if I was going to be pressing any of the four buttons or an arrow direction. Which I’m fine with but I got the impression quick that my wife wasn’t going to play the game like I was envisioning. I was thinking she’ll play it and I’ll watch it unfold but maybe we’ll do that now that the pressure of finishing the game is off.
I have it downloaded and unlike the other games I’ve downloaded for free from the PSN. Which are January’s Deux Ex : Mankind Divided – which I deleted in a matter of 30 minutes, Uncanny Valley – which I deleted as I didn’t know how to get onto the second floor. And December’s Darkriders II – which I’m enjoying, a tad more on the fantasy side that I’m used to, Kung Fu Panda : Showdown of the Legendary Legends – which I deleted after doing the tutorials as I felt like I wasn’t really playing in a tournament and it wasn’t really that much fun, and Forma 8 – which was fun enough until I got stuck and I’m not sure where to go now but at 12% trophy progression, it was a fun time up to that. I have those games in my game library until I no longer keep subscribing to the PSN but Batman I only have for a year, which makes sense. I’ll probably keep throwing $60 at the PSN as I do like the idea of new free games. The old list has several games I wished I was able to play but I’ve bought Life is Stranger and I’m hoping to get Until Dawn for my birthday.
Infamous Second Son would have been great. Metal Gear Solid V : Phantom Pain would have been nice to tried after I didn’t enjoy IV. Just Cause 3 was free and I’ve heard of that franchise. Assassin Creed : Freedom Cry, I just read, is an expansion pack so I’m not sure if they just modified it so it would work as a stand alone game or would I have needed the proper game to have played it? I’m sure it would have been stand alone. I wasn’t that impressed with the first Assassin’s Creed and I didn’t commit to the second one though it was better than the first one. The Game of Thrones game would have been the TellTale game so now I know that would have been a treat. We just subscribed to HBO so I’m hoping to get back into that show. I keep thinking if I watch that show enough, I’ll want to play that game. I just looked it up and the game consists of a side adventure ranging from the end of the third season up to the beginning of the fifth season – so I’m a distance from that game. I’m sure they built it so you can just play the game as its own thing but I rather it be more of an award. I’ve read that the Walking Dead season one game is pretty great too so I’ll be tempted to pick that up. It has nothing to do with the television series nor the comics, from what I’ve read. Tales of the Borderlands is fun too, also from TellTale but I haven’t played any of those games but I’ve read how fun their game is.
Abzu and Journey would have been fun as free games too.
Those are the games I’ve missed out of since August 2016. I keep waiting for
To update with the February games. I’ve been spoiled with not having to wait for December and January lists so it has been a long month. It seems no one can properly guess at what the games would be but it doesn’t look like they follow a particular path.
Back to the Batman game.
I didn’t care for Alfred’s character design.
TV Tropes informs me that he may be based off of the 1966 Batman Alfred, portrayed by Alan Napier
Which I can sort of see, without the moustache, of course.
Which, in that case, I rather he have the moustache but then I guess we’ll be in the royalties territory.
I should write that this takes place within its own continuality which might effect how I play my second round. Not having to look for collectibles will shave off only twenty minutes. I read that some of TellTale games (or similar story games like these) have collectibles that you may miss out on and have to play episodes over again. But I originally had played it thinking what we learned can’t be true but then having to commit that, yep, that’s what they are saying is true. I’m trying not to spoil anything but I believe any curiosity read about the game will spoil what the crux of the game is about.
I do wish that there were multiple save files so that I could play the game and my wife could have her own ongoing game but I’m not seeing that as an option. I do like how each chapter ends and tells you how your decisions ranked against other players. I seemed to be in the majority of others but almost all decides had majorities, it wasn’t like they were all 46 to 54 percents. A few were but most definitely went one direction.
I was hoping the TellTale website would provide me with my stats but they don’t. I tried to upload my stats to Facebook, when the game said I could but Facebook blocked me all five times. I wouldn’t normally post my game progress on Facebook but this felt safe enough.
There’s still time to download the game too, I meant to type this up like weeks ago but I rarely have time to play the game much less write about it.
I’m not waist deep into Fallout 4 and getting obsessed with it. I was doing every side mission, leading me up to Diamond City and now I’m wading through the main quest. I might try to go back and forth pending on missions. I just saved Valentine, regarding the main quest. I’ve apparently told Dogmeat twice now to stay as he got in my way while scavenging a room and had to go back for him. I forgot how much I hated being encumbered. My next perk point will go towards the Lone Wanderer perk as I need another hundred pounds lifted off of me.
The show is very British and I couldn’t stop thinking about that, as they drive cars and always getting on the wrong side of it and their steering wheels are wrong too! I kid, I kid but I kept noticing it as the characters do drive for a bit.
Alex Lawther plays James and Jessica Barden plays Alyssa.
The show is based on a comic by Charles S. Forsman.
Thanks to Fantagraphics Books Inc. for hosting their own video regarding the book.
I’ve added the book to my wife’s Amazon list so maybe I’ll get it, one of these days.
The two cops are amazing and I really liked their chemistry too.
I like how the show can be broken down to three plots or scenes: Where it starts, when they get to the house and the aftermath. I probably could rewatch the show and get more of a two episode breakdown, as I bet every two episodes work as a chapter but maybe it doesn’t quite neatly fit into that, as well.
Vulture goes into detail about the differences between the book and the show. The comic sounds even more intense (which makes sense) and covers more space, which also makes sense. I should really check it out. Amazon had a hardcover for only $15, which seems very reasonable.
I’m not sure how else I can convince you fine people to check out the show but each episode is between twenty to twenty-two minutes but move so quickly that I had saw the first three before realizing I was already almost halfway done with the show.
I found this video last night –
Thanks to YouTuber GossipVal1 for hosting the video.
I found several other fun tribute videos but I went back to this one at the end. Such an interesting couple and the show lends itself to so many great songs!
I was writing this for another post but then I realized there is enough here for a separate post. I’ve been thinking lately about how I could do a quick recipe post and then the “what I watched/listen to last week” as a separate post, but that seems silly as the recipe posts are never very long.
keep thinking about, once I have the PS4 hooked up, when am I even going to play any games? I might try to wake up at 5am and play, but my wife seems to wake up around 4am and sadly, can’t go back to sleep so that might not work. I can try to do it on my Shopko nights but if my son is still awake (he tries to stay up to see me) then I won’t be playing on those nights. Just not sure when I’ll be able to do it. When he naps, on the weekends, we try to watch a show but he has not been taking naps so I’m not sure. If he had a sibling, he wouldn’t need so much attention but I work so much, that I like to give him so much attention. The waking up early is probably my best option. This is definitely a first world problem but I don’t often get those. It’ll probably be used for Netflix and Hulu, mostly, but I’m getting a few games that I’m hoping to actually play on a frequent basis.
I keep reading lists of Must Own games for the PS4. I’m getting Grand Theft Auto V and Fallout 4. I saw that Gamestop has the Game of the Year edition of Fallout 4, so I’l have to buy the DLC pack. I also saw that you can get KITT (the car from Knight Rider) in GTAV, so I’m going to want to do that as early as possible. Though I can’t find the step by step process on how to do it. I saw that it is super expensive and is part of a DLC pack, so I’ll have to download that one. I just looked up the word for that DLC and now I’m seeing that GTA Online might be a separate thing? Is it separate from V or is that just the fancy word for the multiplayer mode? KITT is in the Import / Export DLC, one of the later cars. It isn’t a separate game on Amazon so it must be within GTA V. I guess I’ll find out soon.
I’m also hoping to get the Uncharted Trilogy (for the third game) and 4, plus Lost Legacy. I’ve been also wanting The Last of Us (also by Naughty Dogs – who develops the Uncharted series). But then I read (or was reminded) that isn’t the Ellen Page game, Beyond : Two Souls is which there is a double game of that and Heavy Rain, that I really want.
Speaking of Naughty Dogs, my wife is getting the Crash Bandicoot trilogy, which I’ll probably end up playing for her. We’re also getting Little Big Planet 3 for the family too. My son likes racing games so I need to add Gran Turismo Sport for that purpose. I may be wrong, LBP3 might be a future purchase, I’m not sure now.
I just checked metacritic.com for best racing games for PS4 –
I’m just going to go ahead and switch out Gran Turismo for F1, as I’m not loyal to any racing game franchise.
I want to also get Batman Arkham Knight, to finish that story. I still haven’t played Origins either but I’ve heard I can skip that one.
I also want to get TMNT : Mutants in Manhattan. I’ve heard it isn’t a stellar game but it is pretty good for a Ninja Turtles game. Like, people wanted more from it but what they got, was pretty decent.
In researching games, I found some that sound super interesting games.
Life is Strange sounds super interesting.
Hellblade : Senua’s Sacrifice sounds like a brand new type of game.
Rachelle of Living Between Wednesdays talks about Lego Marvel’s Avengers, with how fun the Farmhouse segments were.
I’m a nut for Peggle so that could be fun on the PS4. Maybe a tad silly but another family game.
I never got to play Red Dead Redemption, and it looks amazing. The prequel comes out next year as does Far Cry 5. I’ve never played a Far Cry game before, but it is set in Montana (where I live) so I feel compelled to play it. It is a fictional city, of course, plus super stereotypical of who people think Montanans are but I’m not from here, so I’m fine with it.
I keep reading how much there is to do in Witcher 3 but I’m not the biggest sorcery / fantasy guy.
Until Dawn also sounds like an incredible game, I’ll want to get that at some point.
I’m regretting getting two massive open world games in Fallout 4 and Grand Theft Auto 5. I wouldn’t mind a smaller or more linear game to play, along side those two.
Then my research took me to easy games to platinum and found a fun list of those games.
Some sound fun and easy but I’m not sure if I want to throw down twenty dollars just for easy trophies. Though I’m curious about the TellTale games, when I wasn’t before reading that list.
Which has several games on it that seem like they would be fun for my wife and me. She likes a good puzzle game, and I like games that push the graphic card, to justify the system and the fancy TV.
Those games would be : The Witness / The Last Guardian / Inside / Abzu / Flower / Journey
I kept finding game lists for games that came out in 2017 but I wanted a more comprehensive list. I also like that we are buying this system in probably its second to last year so a slew of games should be more affordable but if not, time tested.
This is probably the most comprehensive list I could find. i like how they have it by Metascore and another list created by users (that keeps track of the metascore, too).
I feel like the user list might be the one I listen to, even though Witcher 3 is on the top of it.
I’ll be tempted to get Injustice 2 once the Game of the Year edition comes out, unless the Ninja Turtles are lame on it, then I might still pass. I’m not the biggest fighting game guy, or first person shooter nor a racing gamer.
I was tempted by Amazing Spider-Man 2, as it reminded me of Spider-Man 2, being an open world Spider-Man game. I read decent reviews, back in the day. Essentially most of them stated to play it on the PS4 and not the PS3, which was the case for most games where that was an option. Which makes perfect sense.
Night in the Woods sound cute.
We’re getting the 1 terabyte PS4 proper (or it could be a slim, for all I know) so hopefully that is enough memory to last several games.
Here are some other sites that I found with helpful lists.
At lunch, my wife told me that seven games should be enough to hold us over for some time, so I know four of those games. I’ll let you know what the other games are, once I know them.
As I do enjoy making lists (it gives me something to scratch out or strike through), here is the list of games I’m interesting in, broken down into tiers as I’m also way into using the word “tiers.” It really is the little things in life that amuses one, later in life.
Grand Theft Auto V Fallout 4 Uncharted Trilogy
Uncharted 4
Uncharted : Lost Legacy
Batman : Arkham Knight
Heavy Rain / Beyond : Two Souls Crash Bandicoot trilogy Little Big Planet 3
Lego Marvel’s Avengers
The Last of Us Remastered
F1 2017
TMNT : Mutants in Manhattan
Peggle 2 (11)
Life is Strange
Hellblade : Senua’s Sacrifice
Until Dawn (3)
The Witness
The Last Guardian
Inside
Abzu
Flower
Journey (6)
Which is 20 games, and I do enjoy a list divisible by 10, heck, even 25, which is my comic book upbringing coming through for the latter.
okay, so I counted the list and it is 23 games, so I’m not sure how I missed up counting that before. I originally had Peggle 2 on there twice but that doesn’t really help. Oh, I wasn’t counting the games I know we own, that’s how I got to 20 but 23 are listed. Gosh, the difference an hour makes when writing a post!
The second tier games are the ones I discovered after conducting my research.
The third tier is mostly games I think my wife would enjoy and are apparently very nice to see.
The TCL 43″ Classic 1080p Roku LCD TV, is the TV we are going to pair the PS4 with. The Roku TV is how we’ve been addressing it. For Black Friday, it was down to $250 but we’ve committed to paying the $280 for it, as it didn’t time out right for us. My original goal was to “surprise” my wife for it for an anniversary present, as it is the TV she picked out. We like the Roku brand (until it goes wrong, which is rare nowadays) so it does have everything we want in a television set.
I write “surprised” as anything over fifty dollars, we discuss it as one never knows. Such is the married life.
That is a narly looking Lockheed! He’s like a gargoyle. And look! Kitty with transparent legs!
That is one sassy Kitty Pryde there, too.
I’m just glad to see something that has come out this year, that includes Lockheed.
Poor Lockheed, hasn’t made a comic book appearance since Secret Wars 2015!
Captain America : Steve Rogers 15’s ResurrXion variant cover is the only place he can be found, in the past two years! Also, I would like to get this variant cover as well!
The cover is by David Marquez.
According to my old pals over at ComicBookDB, Lockheed hasn’t been seen since
Groot (2015) 6, which came out in January 2016! I’ve checked variant covers, as good as I could, and this is the only one he’s appeared in. I’m not sure about dialogue but as of comics released in August 2017, Lockheed hasn’t been mentioned either. I’ve been compiling a list from Marvel Database from July 2016, when Hastings closed, to August 2017 (I have to update it for September books). It takes some time to look at all of the comics Marvel releases on a monthly basis.
So those four items are the latest we could see, besides shirts that I’m not sure were official or are fan made, it was hard to tell from how they appeared on Amazon. I do like how Amazon has third party, including individuals, giving eBay a run for their money.
After Magik (44) got her own Chess Piece, I thought for sure Kitty would get hers, soon after. Instead, it took longer than one would suspect. They did eventually make one, 61, and I want it so much! Poor Lockheed, can’t get included in any new merchandise materials!
Magik came out in November 4, 2015, she’s a White Pawn
Kitty came out in May 25, 2016, she’s also a White Pawn
So she must have came out around the same time, I had quit searching for her.
Ever since Hastings closed, I’ve allowed myself to lose all interest in comics, outside of podcasts. I don’t even keep up with comic movie news, until they are literally coming to theaters.
All of chess discussion is making me want to listen to Murray Head’s One Night in Bangkok.
Thanks to ChessVEVO for hosting the video!
Which is odd, I was expecting it to read as MurrayHeadVEVO but I forget it is from a musical titled, Chess. A play, I would love to see, as I do enjoy the game of Chess. As I prefer my kicks, above the waistline. A line, that I adore to say, whenever I can. Except, most people don’t get the reference now and I’ve had to dial it back as they probably think I’m talking about boobs. ( o ) Y ( o )
YouTube actually has five songs from the musical!
The order to listen to them, according to Wikipedia –
Arbiter
Nobody’s Side
Pity the Child
One Night in Bangkok
I Know Him Well
So I’m going to have to listen to these, sometime soon!
This reminds me of when I discovered YouTube had a live performance of Beethoven’s Last Night
Thanks to YouTuber squintyt4e for having the playlist. I thought YouTube made it so you can link to a website of a playlist but I’m not seeing that option. My understanding is that that video should play all 37 videos.
Probably my favorite musical and by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, so great!
My favorite songs, in order of the show –
What Good is this Deafness
What is Eternal
The Moment
This is Who You Are
Who is This Child
I’m not sure how I came across buying Meja’s second album, Seven Sisters, but I did. I’m sure I heard “All ‘Bout the Money” and the CD was affordable and I bought it.
This is one of those rare albums where you can play the first track, Lay Me Down, and play it through to the end with, Do The Angels Have a Home. Which I must have done for a while.
Unfortunately, YouTube is letting me down with no videos of the entire album available – which may be the right thing to do, I’m not sure what the rules are on that.
I did find a playlist that starts with All ‘Bout the Money
Which is pretty great, but it leaves out both
Daughter of Mornin (the song that I often think about with this album)
Thanks to YouTuber yuri20 for hosting this video.
Lullaby Song
Thanks to YouTuber rrn3000 for hosting this video!
Such a great album!
I clicked on MejaVEVO and learn that she did release official videos for this album, so here are the ones that her channel are hosting –
Lay Me Down
All ‘Bout the Money
Intimacy
Pop & Television
Not sure why these are not part of the playlist above but here they are for completion sake
I’m so out of touch that I didn’t realize I was supposed to be expecting the first trailer for The New Mutants film, out in April 2018.
Thanks to 20th Century FOX for hosting their own video.
I saw this was an option to view yesterday but didn’t have the time to watch it, where I was at. So I looked up any information about the trailer, before hand, so I would know what to look for.
I found Kevin Melrose’s article on the Comic Book Resources.
Nothing ground breaking that you couldn’t get from watching it yourself. Besides knowing how the actors and where you may have recognized them from, which is pretty handy.
I hadn’t realized Charlie Heaton was cast as Cannonball, off of his successful appearance in Stranger Things.
What got me all types of excited was Chris Brown’s comment on that article about young Illyana’s plush friend.
Could that be Lockheed!?! At the very least, enough of a representation so if they do hint some sort of winter time mindscape, that the plush animal can become “real” and be a cat sized flying dragon named, Lockheed.
We watched the trailer and I had to keep rewinding it on Youtube as I kept missing the exact second so that my wife could see the plush friend.
It is a microsecond within the 1:40 second mark. I saw the “There is Something” and “New” so many times!
This morning, while drinking my V8, like an adult, I was thinking about how exciting it would be to finally getting Lockheed on screen. Magik and Lockheed, finally being represented in film, is going to be amazing!
April 13, 2018, I’m getting pretty pump!
What helps is that we’re talking about taking Walker Dennis to movies now. Our plan is to see Disney’s Coco and see how that goes. The Alex Foundation partners with Cinemark 8 to have these special Sensory Friendly screenings and we feel those would be a great way to slowly introduce him to the movie going experience.
Apparently, this is supposed to kick off an entire trilogy of horror films. Which I imagine the next one, that is supposed to have Warlock and Karma in it, will take place in Legion’s mind, another horror element. Be awesome if they could get Dan Stevens to be in that film, maybe commit a season to setting up that film. Two franchises, who wouldn’t want that!?! They’ll want to include Rachel Heller too, I know I want that.
Josh Boon, who directs the film, and co-wrote it with Knate Lee, is influenced by the Bill Sienkiewicz’s run on New Mutants, written (of course) by Chris Claremeont. The article sites the run as being from 18 – 31, and 35 – 38.
What would the third film be? They can’t go to Asgard, unless they can!?! FOX should give Disney the Fantastic Four rights so FOX can borrow Asgard, then the three main New Mutants storylines could be properly represented.
No, they won’t go to Asgard, they will probably go to Limbo, the fourth storyline the New Mutants do. “Crazy teen hi-jinks” would probably be the fifth one, where they fight the teen rival team of the Hellions.
Legion is supposed to come back in February, I have to renew our subscription to FX, by then.
2018 is going to be a big X-Year!
February – Legion Season 2
April – New Mutants
June – Deadpool 2
November – Dark Phoenix
Plus, Gifted second half of the season, should be airing still. We’re caught up on all three episodes and it is pretty good. I keep thinking about how Natalie Alyn Lind was Dana on The Goldbergs, Adam’s first girlfriend. Apparently, she was on Gotham too. A show that I think about catching up on. But who has the time for all of these shows? I’ve been impress that we’re keeping up as good as we are. Waking up early to get The Voice and Dancing with the Stars out of the way, has really helped.
Gifted is only ten episodes, so it may be done by December. We’re actually at the ten weeks before the end of the year mark, and those are going to go fast, so yeah, all the episodes should have aired by the end of the year, unless they delay a few to get into January. Though they only have to air seven more, so that would give them time to air all of them before Christmas, when television watching goes down. Well, besides the highly anticipated Doctor Who Christmas episode and various other Christmas themed episodes, specials and movies.
Let’s hope that Marvel can get behind this gravy train and release some actual product! I’ll straight by two Lockheed plush animals, just give me the opportunity already!
Heck, they put Lockheed on anything, I’m buying that nonsense. Then, Dani can bring that version of him outside of Illyana’s head and boom! Lockheed is in existence in the film proper. So easy to write!
Then, of course, we have to get Lockheed and Ellen Page’s Kitty Pryde together and have the most fun film of all time! Get Anya Taylor-Joy (who looks great as Magik) for a buddy movie for the ages!
I Googled “Anya Taylor Joy Ellen Page Lockheed” and found this website –
Alex Wong wrote an article for Inverse, talking about the connection too.
I was hoping to see some fun fan art that put those actresses together. Did you know that Taylor-Joy is 21 and Page is 30? I didn’t until I looked it up. Ellen Page still looks super young so they can still buddy it up in that film. It’ll be awesome, do it FOX! Do it!
I’ve also started listening to The Fighter and the Kid, mostly on YouTube, as Freddie Prinze Jr. has been on two episodes.
Thanks to UFC on FOX for hosting this video.
I’ve watched a few now but I’m hooked and I’m not even into MMA but Brendan Schaub and Bryan Callen make it seem like something I could get into and I really enjoy their dynamic.
Bryan Callen is an actor I’ve always liked when I see him in something. I had forgotten he was on How I Met Your Mother as Barney’s boss. Well, he was Marshall and Ted’s boss too, now that I think of it. He’s on the Goldbergs, too. He was really funny in Old School as well, which is true for everything he’s in. I don’t remember him from the first two Hangover films. I should check out his nine episodes of Seventh Heaven, any excuse to watch Beverley Mitchell, I say. I really need to watch that new show of hers, along with Christine Lakin and Jodi Sweetin. It is called Hollywood Darlings on the Pop channel, a channel I’ve never heard of until now. I do like all three of those ladies.
I thought I could recommend with the episode numbers but it seems like YouTube (or them, most likely) were not keeping track of it that way, from the very beginning.
Thanks to the Fighter and the Kid for hosting their own videos.
Josh Wolf joined Freddie Prinze Jr. for episode 273.
I saw the Kevin Smith episode, episode 248. This made me want to dive back into Smodcast and Tell ‘Em Steve Dave, but that would be years and years of episodes and I can’t do that. I do miss hearing Scott Mosier’s tales though. He was on FEAB (Four Eyes and Beard) with Matt Mira, another great podcast. They just had so many that I fell way behind. Sort of like what is happening with me and Fighter and the Kid.
That’s when I thought I’ll look up their other celebrity appearances but I didn’t really recognize anyone else who I really wanted to see, besides the list at the bottom of this post.
Hosted by UFC on FOX, thanks!
Except for Whitney Cummings, episode 126.
I’m not sure what happened with FOX, Bryan hinted about something in episode 274 but their production value went way up once they took ownership of the show. I guess it wouldn’t be that hard to figure out which episode the switch is made.
From there, I’ve seen episodes 274 and 275. 276 just went up (they are on episode 297 – so I’m crazy behind), and I’m trying to learn their schedule. 288 is the Bill Goldberg episode, so that’s the last full episode I saw. I want to watch 290 with Taran Killam. So I’m not as crazy behind as I thought I was.
These are two hour episodes, so it takes some time to watch them. Mostly, I watch them at night as I try to unwind and go to sleep. I usually do one hour one night and finish it the next. Or I just watched the whole episode and regret doing so when I wake up, wishing I had another hour of sleep. But that’s on me.
Watching these back to back like I have, Bryan has these facial mannerisms that I feel like I’ve incorporated, or maybe I feel like I’m about to incorporate and I have to pull back.
Schaub is pretty controversial, I guess. My main take away was his record, 10-5 MMA, 6-5 UFC, something his Wikipedia page isn’t great with. Or I didn’t understand it.
So this is the video wherein Schaub says his goodbye to UFC –
UFC on FOX
So the very first episode on their channel is 161
The Fighter and the Kid
Which makes me think that I probably shouldn’t go deep on this show either, just stick to the rivers and the lakes that I’m use to.
but now I’m just searching “fighter and the kid 161” “162” and still seeing that UFC on FOX is hosting the videos. Maybe they had an agreement to co-host a few of them?
Okay, so 171 is the final one on UFC on FOX
and 172 is the first one only on The Figther and the Kid
I’ll make a point of watching these episodes, in the proper order and see if I can get some answers that way. (Or probably not, as this became a daunting task.)
As long as Bryan is on the episode, I’ll watch these as I see there are times when one is not present. I like Brendan but Bryan is who I’m drawn to more, at this moment. Brendan also has his own show and I feel like that has to concentrate more on the fights that I’m not watching so I’m passing on that right now. Big Brown Break Down, is a great title for a show. I do like that Brendan has joined Bryan in stand-up and they have taken their show on the road, just like what happened with Smodcast.
Looking at the thumbnails of the videos on The Fighter and the Kid page, they clearly get production values at some point. I couldn’t tell when that happen, I’ll probably have to go slower in my search and see when it occurs.
Looks like 211 is the earliest with the current set
210 has an older set, at least that’s how it looks like. They put a curtain up for a backdrop.
The comment section leads me to believe that people really like Bryan over Brendan, but I don’t see where that is coming from. Not yet, anyways. I get that I like Bryan more, but I’m more familiar with him. The comments read like they rather just have a podcast that doesn’t involve Brendan.
208 has Will Sasso, from Bryan’s MadTV days. The first of the curtain era.
207 has a logo backdrop. Not sure how else to describe that background. It is a well lit room, whereas I see some that are filmed in a very dark room, like from their UFC days. This episode has David Koechner AND Josh Wolf filling in for Bryan. I thought I recognized Josh Wolf in a couple thumbnails, I have to go back and see.
He is in two non-numbered episodes!
August 28, 2015
November 19, 2015
I wish they had committed to the episode numbers, for those two Josh Wolf appearances.
I can’t tell if it is just a different camera angle and I’m not really in a place to fully gauge what is happening. Mostly, I’m just looking for a good sampling of the old shows to get a better feel on the hosts.
Episodes 161 through to 207, appear to be the same room, but with the camera angle moving slower to camera left, over time.
. . .
I found these interesting guest hosts. UFC on FOX is so cluttered with all of their UFC related videos, that I can’t even begin to start going down that list. Shame they didn’t just always have a Fighter and the Kid page, within the UFC channel. If anyone has any episode referrals, I am clearly making a list and can add to it.
Ed O’Neill, Episode 168. FPJr told a story about how O’Neill use to box and at the gym, would straight knock some kids out who thought he was nothing more than an old man!
So I had a lot more videos to post but after watching half of the Ed O’Neill interview, I’ve decided to not go backward in time. I’ve also decided to never watch an episode that doesn’t have Bryan in it, unless Josh Wolf is the guest host (or someone else that I really enjoy). Brendan is nice enough but I’ve found out that I watch for Bryan and their dynamic.
I will say that after the Bill Goldberg episode, I did want to watch the Steve Austin episode but that was an episode of Big Brown Breakdown and I was going to earn the Steve Austin section but I’ve only gotten to the 14:28 mark, and that was weeks ago.
I’ll eventually just skip ahead to the Steve Austin section but I’ve fallen way behind on this series.
Here is the list of guest stars that I had originally found interesting enough to provide the embedded videos but now I’m just going to provide the episode number.
Michael Rapaport (176 and 232)
Dominic Monaghan (179)
Tom Papa (186)
Dr. Drew (190)
Bob Saget (191)
John McGinley (203)
Rob Corddry (213)
Pete Holmes (216)
Chris D’Elia (225 and 265)
Jeremy Pevin (234)
Rapaport and De’Elia are friends of the show so they make several appearances.
. . .
Bryan Callen does have his own podcast, Mixed Mental Arts, with co-host, Hunter Maats
I guess I’m really a fan of Podbay FM, as I use that site for both Prinze and the Wolf and Living Between Wednesdays. They were hosting the official How I Met Your Mother podcast but it stopped when the show did and now those episodes are no longer available. I was so excited when I stumbled upon that and thought I had a new podcast to listen too but then the links were dead.
One of these days, I’ll get back into it. I’ve been tempted to just download the episodes onto my phone but knowing that there is a visual representation of the podcast, I don’t feel like I could go strictly audio with them. Especially as they have a news segment and they show images on the screen that Chen shows them. But I would listen to more episodes, if I had them on my phone.
If you allow your children to be on YouTube, you probably have heard of Blippi.
So the other day, I wanted to learn about who Walker Dennis’ current obsession is. By current, I mean, like a six month love affair. Blippi essentially replaced Bounce Patrol in our house.
Thanks to these two wonderful articles, I know a bunch more about the man and the character.
I went from being slightly annoyed at hearing the same music and seeing the same visuals (over and over, again) to having a new appreciation for him, now that I know he’s really Stevin John, a veteran US Air Force serviceman. Good for him for being inspired to make better entertainment for his nephew and now is making crazy money and having world wide recognition, is super impressive.
We got our son this sweet pair of headphones, so I rarely hear the music but it isn’t really that bad. It was more of an issue of hearing the same 30 seconds of something, without context, and on repeat.
Garbage Trucks for Children with Blippi, is his most popular video.
The ones Walker Dennis has watched the most, is the videos where Blippi goes on field trips.
Like, to the Ranch
Or, to the Trampoline Park (his current favorite video)
Or, learning about the letter B with Handles Franklin, a Globetrotter.
I’m pretty sure the very first video I noticed him watching, and me learning the lyrics, was to the Excavator Song.
Thanks to Blippi for hosting his own videos.
I’m sure my son will eventually move on to another YouTube personality, eventually, but he’s really into Blippi right now. Even when he was into his car crash videos (a very short phrase, but we still have to crash our grocery cart into things, from time to time) he was still watching Blippi.
There are other videos my son watches, on a regular basis, but I haven’t felt compelled to figure out what their deals are, yet.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 