Episode #28 - "Big Book of British Smiles" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Let's Talk About Chicks, Man"

• Special Co-Host: Otto the Autopilot
• Tonight's Beverage: Smirnoff Ice Raspberry (Dirk); Crown Royal (Otto)
• Stumble out of the gate with three cracks at the intro and the false promise of doing the Deep Thoughts Musicians Quiz game.
• Comparing Christmas loot hauls.
• What makes The Grinch Who Stole Christmas good. (Not Dr. Seuss.)
• Discussion of Dirk getting Watchmen Collector's Edition: Ultimate Cut + Graphic Novel [Blu-ray] and Alan Moore's stories, particularly Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition. (The original inked panel showing a nude Barbara Gordon.)
• The evolution of Batman in comics and movies.
• Escher Girls.
• The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings.
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• Alicia Silverstone's body. Dirk didn't get to  mention that she's modeled nude for a PeTA ad since she's vegetarian.
• The whole kerfuffle about body-shaming/fat-shaming/shame-shaming.
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• Debate over who should play Wonder Woman with Otto's ideal and lookalikes Lucy Hale and Phoebe Tonkin:
  
  
  
• J.Law: Hot or not; fat or not; was Silver Linings Playbook mismarketed; and is another Oscar in her near future?
• Hot chicks we don't want to bang.
• Anna Silk's baby weight vs. Jessica Alba and Anna Paquin. Here she is before the baby:
And after:

Rachel Nichols in P2:

Otto's connecting to Dale Bozio of Missing Persons.

Who goes to the movies on Christmas?

Otto's list of people who died in 2013.

Episode #27 - "Saturday Morning Mild Hangover" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "The One Where We Quote Scrooged"

• Special Co-Host: Otto the Autopilot
• Tonight's Beverage: Smirnoff Ice
•  A 35-year Royal Oak Christmas tradition is ending, but we digress through...
• ...and Winona Ryder before discussing it.
• A Scrooged quote-a-thon!
• Legendary 89X DJ Kelly Brown is coming to Raw Radio X.
• Bill Murray's career.
• The 60-year-old kid meme.
• Pussy Riot freed. Dirk's review of Pussy Riot: A Punk Rock Prayer.
• Canuckian politician who felt cyberbullied when her topless appearance on The L-Word was tweeted by a kid.
• The weird connection between Marv Albert and Chuck D.
• Detroit musican Patrick Davy drops by to discuss what he's been up to. We listen to his recorded music, he plays a tune, and plays the Deep Thoughts Musicians Quiz game.
• Discussion over Patrick and Dirk's thoughts on Radiohead.
• The pros and cons of saying you're a musician from Detroit.
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• Dirk's rare moment of rock glory.
• Battlefield 4 continues to be buggy and Dirk sucks at The Witcher 2.
• Low Winter Sun is canceled. No loss.
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt making a Sandman movie and Paul Rudd is Antman.
• Frank Darabont sues AMC for The Walking Dead $$$.
• An Onion story about an upcoming season of Girls.
• Go help the Hater Kitty Rescue Army, please! Buy a card!
  
  
  
  Post by Hater Kitty.
• Lost Girl is back, so here's a gratuitous shot of the girls: Zoie Palmer, Anna Silk, Ksenia Solo
  
  

Episode #26 - "Gottahavium" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Alan Alda: A Very Believable Dick"

• Special Co-Host: Otto the Autopilot
• Tonight's Beverage: Smirnoff Ice Raspberry
•  The case of the missing music.
• Android 4.4.2 released for Nexus devices and Chromecast gets more usable.
• A theory about Bob Koski.
• Otto's life as a Boblo boat DJ.
• Dirk's purchase of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey extended edition Blu-ray, the crazy amount of extras and Otto's deep dislike of Peter Jackson's take on the book.
• Comic book artists who drive us away from books we'd like to read.
• Home For The Holidaze 11: Songwriter Showcase and Charity Drive on December 20.
• The Batman/Superman movie will be shooting in Michigan and Fast & Furious 7 is being rewritten to give Paul Walker an appropriate sendoff.
• More Star Trek Into Wrathness of Khanness Blu-ray annoyance.
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• Dirk's review of Elysium prompts a vigorous debate (*cough*) of Jodie Foster's performance in Contact.
• Should Oscar-winning actors who make terrible movies have their awards repossessed?
• Free Fallout games (deal has expired; listen to the live show, kids) from GOG.com and the Fallout 4 and leaks confirming its reality.
• Music by Def Ref: "A Girl Without Hands (Def Ref Takes the Message Mix featuring Lisa Vicious)"
• Dirk misremembered the specifics, but jump to 1:50 for the non-smoking gag:
  
• Battlefield 4 single-player remarks and Dirk & Otto's gaming histories. 
• Doom's 20th Anniversary; John Carmack's leaving id Software; game engines explained. Heavy nerd tech yammering ensues. Frostbite 3 article.
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• Movie trailers quickly discussed:
  
  
  
• Otto has never seen Bound! Infidel!
• The Maxx needs to be on DVD. What's that? It is?!?!? w00t!!!
  
  
• Detroit radio DJ legend Ken Calvert retires.
• ABC News and Ted Koppel screwed over the freelance journalist who interviewed Cambodian genocidal dictator Pol Pot.
• Go to www.HaterKitty.com to get the Christmas card that fundraises for Hermione's East Side cat rescue.
• Unnecessary photo of J.Law: Murder Girl of West Virginia:
  
  

Episode #25 - "Ingmar Bergman's Elf" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "A Runnier Vagina Than Alan Alda"

• Special Co-Host: Otto the Autopilot
• Tonight's Beverage: Smirnoff Ice Green Apple Bite
• Thanksgiving recap, Black Friday disappointments and horders.
• Problems with Battlefield 4. (Even EA's stock price is taking a hit.)
• Talking about the weather and beer.
• The Android 4.4.1 for Nexus devices. (UPDATE 12/9/13: 4.4.2 is out!)
• The David Bowie is exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
• The mid-series finale of The Walking Dead and how everything remains Andrea's fault!
• The benefits of B&W movies.
• Dirk finally started catching up on the backlog at DirkFlix with The Prestige, Trance, 2 Guns, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, The To Do List and Snitch.
• Dirk thinks Almost Human is slipping and isn't crazy about emo Nikita in this final season.  Otto enjoyed this season of Boardwalk Empire.
• Mopping up last week's sci-fi horror discussion with Pandorum.
• Dirk got his car back! Yay!
• Paul Walker RIP and what they should do with the in-production Fast & Furious 7 to address Brian O'Connor's absence. (Later, Hermione suggested Channing Tatum.)
• Elf: The Musical at the Detroit Opera House and where you should sit in a theater.
• The casting of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman for the Man of Steel sequel and the insipid bleats about body-shaming.
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• Odds and ends which will be discussed next week.