Lords:
* Ian
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tEaI_bi-i8
* Shannon
* https://www.oddityroadshow.com/
* https://www.youtube.com/c/struccimovies
Topics:
* Official and unofficial remakes of Yojimbo
* Danny McBride shows, and how to balance character likability with dark comedy- examples of this done well vs poorly?
* I can't fix bad movie dialog mixing for everyone, but I can fix it in my own house
* The Chinese Checker Players by Richard Brautigan
* http://kempwash.blogspot.com/2011/05/chinese-checker-players-by-richard.html
Microtopics:
* Songs that signify that this scene or moment is sophisticated.
* How to pronounce Debussy.
* Southern gothic dark comedy body horror.
* A weirdo from Twitter who can't email your employer because he doesn't know who you work for.
* The Glass Key's remake family tree.
* A drifter samurai coming to a town.
* A dude who shows up in town and decides to play all the criminal factions against each other.
* The scene where the protagonist sets the bed on fire and jumps out the window.
* Escaping from rum runners by convincing them that you've already escaped.
* Propping your gun on a cross and using Jesus to pull the trigger.
* A sorceress who spends the whole movie topless because it's one of those movies.
* Omega Doom starring Rutger Hauer.
* A robot who gets stabbed in a bar because the stabber needs to download his memories.
* Using a mook as a human shield.
* The supporting actor getting a better offer and quitting in between takes.
* Where you put the interesting part in your movie.
* A hobo who runs two crime syndicates.
* The story of two rival vice principals.
* Jim's theory for why cringe comedy shouldn't exist.
* Where cringe comedy has gone since Seinfeld.
* How to make an unlikable protagonist that people don't admire.
* Characters who aren't good at anything.
* The schlub.
* A montage of dad destroying model airplanes with a sledge hammer.
* Liking some things about someone while not liking other things.
* A monster who is very fun to hang out with.
* The character in the show who ends up in Florida.
* Marathoning Breaking Bad and Better Call Sail and ending up 40 years old no matter how old you were when you started
* Why you might not throw away a sound bar.
* Entering the Konami code to enable compression.
* What the Clear Voice feature actually does.
* Getting really agitated and putting the subtitles on.
* Thinking of something interesting to say and then forgetting it.
* Which one's the son and which one's the dad?
* Ripley vs. Ripley's Believe it or Not.
* Lobbying for more mean old lesbians in theatrical productions.
* Playing Chinese Checkers with a woman who outlived her husband by 70 years.
* Where you were when you realized that it's possible to outlive your spouse by 70 years.
* Bowling Alone.
* A place to meet people that isn't the play you go to drink or the place where you go to pray.
* All your friends who went sober in the last year.
* Liquor stores that only sells non-alcoholic products.
* Mocktail bars.
* Name tags that have different foods on them.
* Inappropriate attention in nerd spaces.
* Figuring out where you can go with all your sober friends.
* Who listens past the first five minutes of a podcast?
* AI-driven smell-o-vision.
* Searching automated transcripts to find things that people didn't say.
* The subtitler writing "knockos" whenever people in The Wire say "narcos" in a Baltimore accent.
* Streaming services cutting corners wherever possible in a desperate attempt to become profitable.
* Snitching on bootlegers of racist Disney movies.
* How to get banned from TikTok.
