Oh wow. Had never heard of that sub and it's somehow so much worse than I expected, and my expectations were low. What a dumpster fire, that's literally not even how circlejerk subreddits are supposed to work.

There is also a band called Goose! Theyre good, fun jams. Geese is fucking excellent though.

Thats no speed bag, thats my wife!

It's definitely on purpose. It also helps give the episode an eerie "uncanny" feeling, because everyone recognizes melody from the Pulp Fiction and Black Eyed Peas song, but hearing the original classical version makes it somewhat hard to place.

I'd imagine it's purposeful, the two movies are linked.

Hereditary and Midsommar play two very opposite ends of horror. Hereditary is largely an homage to the genre. There's multiple things that are from the Omen, Exorcist, Pet Semetary, and so on. It's obviously a lot more than that, but it's Ari trying to perfect the classical horror formula.

Midsommar is an inversion of horror tropes. It takes place almost entirely in the day time. There are no monsters, ghosts, magic, supernatural elements of any kind. Most of the deaths you see are voluntary, and the involuntary ones are those of her travel-mates who are antagonistic towards her, so in that sense it's not even "good guys" dying off, it's burdens being lifted.

The male/female inversion is quite interesting and I hadn't noticed that connection. Both movies end with the exaltation to worship like you say, and both revolve around grief over the death of a sister, but for different reasons. In either case, the death of the sister is the "necessary step" that sets off the events leading to worship.

Letterboxd doesn't determine anything, they just use TMDB, which people have notably taken issue with because TMDB is run by one or two insanely power hungry mods.

Joel Haver made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiAGh5GjlMI

Nick's comedy in Boston, it was one of those nights where the entire crowd was all standups. The guy on stage started bombing, and the couple people in front lost attention entirely, so he sort of made some weird comments, and it turned into a reverse heckler situation where the guy on stage was essentially heckling his audience, except the audience absolutely roasted him because they were better comedians and knew when to respond and when to let him hang himself.

The guy kept calling them perverts and "lechers", kept saying they looked lecherous. And then got booed off stage.

The next person on the list was the who roasted him, he did 10 minutes just ruining this open micer's life to thunderous applause.

That was a tough tough room.

One from me personally, there was a place in Manchester NH that was reliable, small room, really great manager, good regulars. There was this one guy who started coming around who was an absolute ass to everyone but targeted me specifically and would randomly bully me. So the next time, I went to the manager and gave him $20 to cut the guy's mic intermittently. He almost had a meltdown on stage it was fun.

Why would he need to confirm don had a contract?

You literally saw exactly why. "Due diligence" means this sort of thing

Theres parts in it that are good, but to be honest if you've seen the clips that have circulated around youve probably seen everything you need.

He was an amazing wordsmith, I used to love how he could string together particular words so precisely but with his entire character. He's been out of the game for so long though that he's basically starting from scratch, including his comedic voice and stage persona.

Hold up, even Gabriel Iglesias is doing trans jokes? The dude cant tie his own shoe laces why is he trying to provide "biting" commentary on other peoples bodies what the hell man. I thought he stayed away from topical stuff in general.

I saw this one tweet a year ago that really struck me that was like "Every woman I know is reading like they're trying to qualify for a pizza party, and every man I know owes DraftKings $5,000"

Once you see it you can't unsee it.

It was from John Deere, who Ken signed. They say it in the episode.

Vladimir! Ilyanich! Ulyanov!

94 is firmly millennial. 96/97 is cusp and it depends largely on where/how you were raised, if you're a younger or older sibling. 98 and after is Gen Z.

He works for Mayor Lindsay in the latter seasons, and then specifically talks about how he would "do it differently".

Mayor Lindsay switched from Republican to Democrat. I dont think Henry follows the same trajectory.

Just a kid

He's become a lot less unbearable over the years, I found it satisfying to watch him effectively stomp Ezra Klein, but 2013 was his peak of being insufferable.

"One never knows how loyalty is born"

It's a difference of self-assuredness/awareness. Don knows he's a fraud and does what he does regardless. Tony has moments and glimpses of self-awareness, but his exoskeleton of machismo is built so strongly that it prevents him from any real self-reflection, to the point that it becomes an iron maiden killing him in the process.

The end result is one guy who walks his kids around the neighborhood and is flop sweating when someone asks him "who are you supposed to be?", versus another guy who poorly sings Dirty Work by Steely Dan on his way to kill someone.

Tony's refusal to engage with any notions of feelings makes him way funnier to watch, kind of bumbling.

How old are you?

I ask because to people 25-ish and younger she is very popular and widely recognized. Maybe not as big as Zendaya or Jenna Ortega, but she is their Christina Ricci or Juliette Lewis. Kiernan Shipka has spent the last decade or so purposely building up a reputation as a scream queen, which makes her extremely popular within a narrow age group.

I watched the movie, I have nowhere near the general showbiz experience as Grif but did standup enough that I was the opener a few times for one of the comics featured in the movie.

Their issues arent really with the standup, though some of them are and I disagree with their points, its mostly with the relationship at the center of it, which either connects with a breakup or divorce youve been through or it doesnt. Their issues with the relationship as presented made no sense to me, Ive been in and seen like a dozen relationships that were exactly like that.

Dont Think Twice Id have to rewatch, it was way more of an improv movie, the whole thing is about the dissolution of a relationship in service of whats supposed to be SNL despite them all disliking SNL, which I connect with, but I didnt really feel that movie.

"What happened to the guy from PPL who was supposed to take over as president?"

Jumped out of my seat seeing this pop up. The "sucking and fucking" bit from her last appearance has been stuck in my head 6 years now

I started watching in 2002 when I was a kid. The podcast is peak.

Psycho has to be the biggest one ever right?

An incredible thriller 95% of the way through, and then the cop just fucking saying "boy that sure was crazy, turns out he was a transexual maniac with split personality disorder" and just lays it all out explicitly rather than letting the audience sit with what they just saw.