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episode 104: #104 - Whatcha' Doin'? - Late July 2022: MCU, Obi-Wan, Stranger Things, The Orville, and much more...
So much has been going on, the Geeks catch up with each other with another Whatcha' Doin'? episode.
This week, we discuss...
- "Moon Knight"
- "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness"
- "Ms. Marvel"
- "Thor: Love & Thunder"
- "Obi-Wan Kenobi"
- "The Batman"
- "Outlander" season 6
- "The Time Traveler's Wife" season 1...and done :(
- "Stranger Things" season 4
- "THE ORVILLE" SEASON 3 :)
- "For All Mankind" season 3
- "Top Gun: Maverick"
- Live performance of "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis
- "Chronicles of Amber" book series by Roger Zelazny
- "Pilgrim's Progress" modern telling
- "Save the Cat" scriptwriting book
- "The Boys" seasons 1 & 2 (Andruw hasn't quite gotten to season 3 yet; Todd isn't bothering)
- "Umbrella Academy" season 3
- Dave's rewatch of "The A-Team"
- Todd's rewatch of "Picket Fences"
- News & trailers coming out of San Diego Comic Con
- The Geeks' mutual decrease in enthusiasm for some upcoming movies & TV shows :(
- DRAGON CON !!! :) -- What are the guys looking forward to the most this Labor Day weekend (Dave and Andruw's first time going, Todd's 11th, if you count Dragon Con Virtual 2020)?
...And, well...that's enough, don't you think?!? Out of the items above that all three of us saw, I don't think we totally agreed on any of them. So, you'll get a lot of different opinions this time.
OOOHHH!!! And, this is our 2nd anniversary of podcasting!!! :) Technically, our previous episode could have counted as our 2nd anniversary. We didn't even realize it. Whoops. Maybe we'll make a big deal out of it...eventually. Or, maybe we'll just celebrate on odd-numbered anniversaries. (?!?)
Note: Due to the timely nature of some of the reviews in this episode and the news out of SDCC, this episode is coming out before two previously-recorded episodes. Our reviews of horror movie "The Mist" is almost completely edited, and we have a review of submarine comedy "Down Periscope" in the can (between the creamed corn and deviled ham...you'll get the joke if you've watched that movie). Episodes we plan to record (hopefully) soon are "Thor: The Dark World," which we rolled on the "Down Periscope" episode, and another showdown of "After Earth vs. Oblivion," which we rolled off-mic when we realized we didn't do it in this episode. Edit (a week later): Oh, yeah, we also rolled "Dark City" at some point and still need to record the review for that one too, probably even before "Thor: The Dark World" or the showdown.
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- Intro/Outro: "I Guess What I'm Trying to Say" by Bryan Teoh via FreePD.com
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