Episode #130 - "Pokemon & Circuses" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "We're Not Japanese Businessmen Here"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk), Ottopilot (Otto)
• Fun Fact: Otto's dog is named after a Pokemon.
• Apologies for not announcing there was no show last week.
• Introductory whatnot and FaceSpace deals for our new Likers.
• Sorry, the only Hamm & Buble video out there is some potato version shot off a screen; the official SNL channel doesn't have it.
• Notes on our summer production schedule and how to deal with the miserable outside world.
• Report on Bob "I'm gonna kill somebody" Koski's birthday shindig.
• Why Dirk wears a watch. (Yes, this came up as a question.)
• Referenced:
  
• Amazon Prime Day was successful.
• Pokemon Go is popular and morons are crashing their cars playing it or being hit by cars. A handy guide if you're happily oblivious as to this latest lemming fad. 
• Referenced: The New Yankee Workshop.
• Referenced: They Might Be Giants' "Minimum Wage"
• First Music Break: Iron Curtain, "YYZ" (8-bit Rush cover)
• The 2016 Emmy Awards nominations (complete list); the NY Times' and EW's lists of surprises and snubs.
• Game of Thrones S7 will be delayed because they have to wait for winter.
• A brief review of the premiere episode of The Night Of.
• Laurie Holden (Andrea of The Walking Dead who was the worst) reveals she had an eight-year contract, but got killed off.
• Tom Felton joins The Flash (TV) cast and Wally West as Kid Flash revealed.
• Referenced: "I'll never tell" Britney Murphy style and Buffy the Vampire Slayer style.
• CW Network and Netflix make a killer streaming deal that leaves Hulu in the cold. 
• New stuff on Netflix including Albert Brooks' Modern Romance featuring this referenced scene:
  
• Dirk discusses Mr. Robot and is puzzled as to its mass appeal.
• The referenced Carly Chaikin:
  
• Referenced: The Tumblr with movie code exposed/explained.
• Second Music Break: Iron Curtain - "Burnin' For You" (8-bit Blue Öyster Cult Cover)
• The Rogue One trailer unveiled at Star Wars Celebration turned out to be just a behind-the-scenes teaser like the one for The Force Awakens, but is still very exciting. The TV showed turned out to be just BD extras edited down.
  
• Ghostbusters 2016 is getting good reviews, but can they be trusted?
• Sulu is now gay in Star Trek Beyond and George Takei isn't happy about it, but straight male Simon Pegg tells him to shut up, ingrate. (Paraphrasing.) 
• The Verge's Chief Grievance Monger Kwame Opam isn't happy about all the penises involved with the Wonder Woman script. 
• Fact Check: William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman, developed the blood pressure component of what became part of the polygraph, but wasn't directly connected to its invention.
• A digression into Kathryn Bigelow's career and the demands for specific racial and gender matches to the material.
• Iron Man is being changed to a 15-year-old girl to The Verge's Chief Grievance Monger Kwame Opam's approval, though Mundane Matt calls out the BS is it. Daily Caller says, "Iron Man Is Now A Woman, Because Diversity."
• Referenced: Lloyd Dobler's manifesto from Say Anything. (potato quality)
• Couldn't find the specific Quora post about Japanese "herbivore males" that Dirk referenced, but Google that and you'll get the gist.
• Third Music Break: Iron Curtain, "Land of Chocolate" (8-bit Simpsons cover)
• Dirk reviews The Legend of Tarzan and Keanu.
• The trailer to Hideo Kojima's new game:
  
• Details on Detroit: Become Human.
• Red Dead Redemption is now backwards compatible on Xbox One and runs better than ever before.
• Nintendo announces NEX Classic, a mini NES console with 30 games included. Unfortunately for Otto, Contra is not one of them. :(
  
• T.Swizzle castoff, Calvin Harris, is being a whiny little bitch.
• RIP to The Deer Hunter director, Michael Cimino. A scathing rundown of how he killed United Artists with Heaven's Gate. 
• Hilarious Twitter account, Nihilist Arby's. 

Unused Alternate Titles: "Pokey Go" or "Poke Ya, Mon" or "Squatting Scuba Man" or "Skipping Down The Liquor Aisle" or "Canadian Four Loko" or "Pokemathmatician" or "Air Cello" or "Draco the Zookeeper" or "Taste Dust Condiment Stand" or "Interior Monologue Is Voiceover Now" or "You Do Some Work, Lady"