The Toy Department features radio professionals Matt Kolsky and Derek Madden discussing, debating and dissecting all things sports, entertainment and pop culture. It's a free-wheeling, unfiltered chat about the lighter side of the modern world.
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The Toy Department – Episode 222
In Episode 222, Madden and Kolsky start with a discussion of babies and zoos before getting into:
- The second week of The Challenge: Total Madness Reunion (5:00) and the general let-down of this season’s end…
- The return of HBO’s Room 104 (21:10) and just how delightful the first episode of this season was, even if it doesn’t make the show feel essential…
- The new Amazon Prime film Radioactive (28:20) and some of the curious choices made by the filmmakers…
- The return of sports (32:45) with MLB already underway (for now, at least), the NBA set to start and the NFL opening training camps…
- Homework for next week (52:45), including: the new season of Umbrella Academy on Netflix, the fifth season of the Netflix docu-series Last Chance U, the new Go-Go’s documentary on Showtime, the end of HBO’s docu-series I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and revisiting HBO’s Perry Mason…
- The new Taylor Swift record Folklore (57:15) and how it doesn’t quite resonate with either of our hosts…