Episode #178 - "The Validator" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Spider Trash Panda"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Autopilot (Otto) 
• Intro boiler plate and freebies for our FaceSpace Likers.
• The Screen Rant Pitch Meeting series which we've been quoting from liberally in the past couple of shows:
  
• Listener feedback and preview of next episode.
• Dirk's birthday recap and trip to the Star Wars and the Power of Costume exhibit culminating with this:
  
  
• Mop-up from previous episode.
• Vince Vaughn busted for DUI.
• Harvey Weinstein charged with rape.
• Morgan Freeman accused of rude comments. He punched back, but after taping we discovered his legal team had bailed.
• Moses Farrow defends Woody Allen from the false accusations of child molestation. 
• Nerdist founder Chris Hardwick accused of abusing ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra. The site and its writers disavowed him, but the majority of comments (an example of) seem to find this suspicious.
• First Music Break: Fugazi, "Lockdown"
• Star Trek Discovery has a new showrunner. The referenced deleted scene which should inform the next season:
  
• Leslie Jones wants SNL to be less reliant on tired political humor.
• Dirk reviews Fleabag S1. Here's the trailer which makes it seem more about the boyfriends then it is:
  
• A ton of movie trailers starting with the latest A Star Is Born:
  
  White Boy Rick:
  
  Fact Check: It was filmed in Cleveland because they pay 30% in corporate welfare for Hollywood with just a day of shooting in Detroit because we don't.
  Widows:
  
  Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2
  
  Bumblebee:
  
  The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part:
  
  Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
  
  The Girl in the Spider's Web:
  
  Peppermint:
  
  Mortal Engines:
  
  Serenity:
  
  First Man:
  
  Tim Burton's Dumbo:
  
• Referenced: Dirk's Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs DVD review.
• Second Music Break: The Pretenders, "Night In My Veins" (from 1994, not 1997)
  
• Comcast is crashing the Disney-Fox deal and nerds are getting worried. 
• Dirk reviews Ocean's 8. 
• Marvel Studios pimp daddy Kevin Feige says Captain Marvel will be the face of the MCU in Phase 4.
• Captain Marvel star Brie Larson launches an unfortunate new culture war (according to Mundane Matt) with her comments against white male movie critics. 
• Mindy Kaling blames white male critics for harming Ocean's 8 pretty good RT score and it's #1 box office take. 
• Otto talks about buying a mattress pad.
• Thanks to our Shout-Out Level Patreon supporters. 
• RIP: Anthony Bourdain.
• A raccoon climbed a 23-story office building in Minneapolis.

Unused Alternate Titles:  "Suspect Sammy" or "The Rebound Kings" or "Hiss Cardwick" or "Lady Gangster Story" or "Death Bitch" or "Punisherette"



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