The Things That Entertain Us: Recent Episodes
Jeff Rochlin / W. Curtis Preston
Today we have a special episode, inspired by an internet post claiming that The Towering Inferno is the greatest disaster movie of all times, we test that hypothesis by watching and discussing the three greatest of the genre from the same period, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Earthquake. Join us as we spoil our way through action, adventure, romance, fire, foods, crumbling buildings, tidal waves and every A list actor of the era!
The movies:
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
And the Incidentals…
Escape from the Planet of The Apes
Cutting Class
Taking of Pelham 123
The Odd Couple
Die Hard
There Italian Job
Glass Onion
Knives Out
Momento
Volcano
Fall
Other Stuff…Airplane Censorship and Love Actually
How the SVB Crisis reflects Human Nature in a crisis
Wokeness, Blazing Saddles, All in the Family, The Jeffersons and the work of Norman Lear
Cocaine Bear
And Movies we didn’t like:
Licorice Pizza
Dead Ringers
Popeye
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: JSearching by Faith Yasar
Free download: https://snapmuse.com/track/searching-1909772
License By Snapmuse.com
While Curtis is away, I continue to play! Join me, Nina Levinson and Jason Rochlin as we talk about movies we’ve already talked about but with different people!
Spoilers happen, so you’ve been warned!
We discuss:
- 3000 Years of Longing
- Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
- Black Panther-Wakanda Forever
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Star Trek Picard
- Taylor Sheridan’s Universe
- 1883
- 1923
- Yellowstone
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Jazzi 3 by Frank SchroeterFree download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8069-jazzi-3License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseArtist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.schroeter.52
It’s Lucky 13 where our heroes Spoil Menus, Whales, Banshees, Women Kings, Glass Onions and 1883. It’s Life, The Universe and Everything plus Expensive Vacations, all the things that entertain us!
Spoilers happen…. You have been warned!
We discuss:
Alec Baldwin gets charged with involuntary manslaughter for the Rust shooting
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opinion/alec-baldwin-rust-5th-amendment.html
Oscar Nomination Scandal
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/business/media/andrea-riseborough-oscars-campaign.html
And the movies/shows:
- Amsterdam
- Glass Onion
- RRR
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- The Menu
- The Woman King / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- The Whale
- Ghosts
- Jack Ryan
- The Last of Us and
- 1883
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Jazzi 3 by Frank Schroeter
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8069-jazzi-3
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Artist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.schroeter.52
Take a couple of months off, and what do you get? Broken Cars, Broken Feet, Tech Jobs Collapse, Ye implodes, Twitter Chaos, Avatar, Babylon and Everything, Everywhere All At Once….
We got Spoilers!
In today’s episode, we mention…
- Avatar
- Babylon
- Elvis
- Everything, Everywhere All At Once
- The Adam Project
- Top Gun
and
https://www.sothatshowyoudothat.com
Enjoy the show! Tell Your Friends!!!
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Jazzi 3 by Frank Schroeter
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8069-jazzi-3
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Artist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.schroeter.52
In today’s episode…. Jeff Auditions for a movie and Curtis takes apart his car! We talk about Bullet Train, Fall, and The Sandman. Jeff finally watches Ted Lasso and we talk even more StarTrek!
We’re so full of spoilers this week that we curdle milk!
What we talk about:
- Thor - Love and Thunder
- Bullet Train
- Fall
- Nope
- M. Knight Shamlan’s films
- The Princess Bride
- Ted Lasso
- The 2000 Year Old Man
- Never Have I Ever
- Startup
- Grim Reaper
- Parasite
- The Sandman
- American Gods
- Below Decks
- Rue Paul’s Drag Race
- Pose
- Better Call Saul
- Breaking Bad
- Star Trek TOS
- Nichelle Nichols
- Star Trek (JJ Abrams Version)
- How it should have ended (Web Series)
- Fringe
- Star Trek - The Motion Picture (Directors Cut)
- Star Trek The Voyage Home
- Star Trek II - The Wrath of Kahn
- Star Trek First Contact
- Star Trek Picard
- West World
In today’s episode, our great American crisis is over as Jeff finally gets around to seeing Top Gun, We catch up on a metric ton of shows, both on the big and little screens as well as talk about fixing the front end of your car using cable ties!
Spoilers are an inherent part of our lives here so be forewarned!
Covered in this episode:
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- The Boys
- Dr. Strange
- Wandavision
- What If ?
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
- Face Off
- Top Gun Maverick
- Minions
- Elvis
- The Peacemaker
- Night Sky
- Whiplash
- Ms. Marvel
- Gandhi
- Obi Wan Kenobi
- Solo
- Stranger Things 4
- Black Phone
- The Umbrella Academy
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
- The Terminal List
- Taps
- If
- Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut
Find out more about all my projects in the garage at https://jrocksgarage.com/projects
This Episode, Mr. Preston continues his service to our community as a Poll worker in the California State Primary and We talk all things podcasting…. Hear how the sausage gets made ! (Be sure to Stick around to the end for something special!)
In this episode, we talk about:
- Curtis the poll worker
- How we produce our podcasts:
- Backup Central’s Restore it All (BackupCentral.com)
- Relief Valve (https://reliefvalve.podbean.com)
- Druva’s No Hardware Required (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/druvas-no-hardware-required/id1514019825) and of course...
- Things That Entertain Us (https://tteu.podbean.com)
And the Tools we talk about:
- Hardware:
- Audio Technica ATR-100 (https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/microphones/wired)
- Yetti Blue (https://www.bluemic.com/en-us/products/yeti/)
- Center Cam (https://thecentercam.com)
- Recording and Editing Tools:
- Zencastr (https://zencastr.com/)
- Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org)
- descript (https://www.descript.com)
- Wondershare Fillmora (https://filmora.wondershare.com)
- Hosting Services:
- PodBean (https://www.podbean.com)
- Captivate (https://captivate.fm)
- Vimeo (https://vimeo.com)
- Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com)
- Automation Tools:
- Bitly (https://bitly.com)
- Meet Edgar (https://meetedgar.com)
- Zapier (https://zapier.com)
And find about all my projects in the garage…. https://www.jrocksgarage.com/projects
In this week’s episode…. Jeff got covid… We talk about Military Challenge Coins… The USS Iowa and Mr. Prestons Service to our country. We saw a screening of 1972’s “The French Connection” Complete with a live interview with its director., The state of the streaming wars and the slow crawl back to Cable TV… Curtis talks about his experiences with Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, The Ambulance, The Northman, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent!
If you like Spoilers, this is definitely the place to be….
Tonight… We talk about:
Challenge coins, The USS Iowa, and Curtis’ Service
Academy screening of The French Connection
Netflix subscriber base takes a dump, Streamers and the slow crawl back to the Cable TV Model again
Plus, the movies:
Everything, everywhere all at once
Ambulance
The Northman
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Enjoy the show? Tell your Friends! Find more of our projects at: https://www.jrocksgarage.com/projects
In Tonight’s episode, we discuss the slap heard round the world, turning memorials into dance numbers, and other highlights of the 94th Academy Awards. The Oscars never fail to excite an audience!
We’ll discuss Ross Douthat’s article pronouncing movies dead, Curtis tells us about The Lost City and I ramble on about how many reels it takes to send a movie out to theatres in the old days.
Spoilers… What the heck are those?
Tonight… We talk about:
CODA Wins !
Will Smith Makes Oscar History !
The gospel of the dead list
Ross Douthat pronounces movies dead in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/opinion/oscars-movies-end.html)
In the old days…
and
The Lost City
This week on the podcast…. Jeff sounds like he’s in a fishbowl…. And our special guest Jason Rochlin joins the chat!
We’re talking Oscar Nominations, The Batman, Citizen Kane, The Foo Fighters make a horror movie and how best to time that Bio Break when you’ve laid down that Jackson for your ticket and popcorn!
Remember this is not a political show and never forget that spoilers are a way of life in here!
In This Episode:
- Gas Prices Suck!
- The Run Pee App
- The Academy Museum
- Citizen Kane
- Mank
- Whiplash
- The Batman
- Tick.. Tick.. Boom!
- Studio 666
In this episode, we see Curtis does something more than sit in front of a screen (unlike his partner in crime) and that ancient Mongolians apparently liked Bar B Que…. We’ll talk even more about Star Trek and how Hollywood folks just can’t stop mucking with Sci Fi Perfection… we’ll glance upon how Hollywood is both missing the point and then getting it right on representation on the screen. As well as our opinions on our latest TV Binges, Belfast, The Eternals, Free Guy and the latest installment of The Matrix…. If Spoilers bother you, you might as well give up now and turn this off!
In This Episode…
- Curtis is dusty from building a wood working shop
- Jeff finally starts to emerge into society again by taking the family to Mongolian BBQ
- The great Enhanced Star Trek re-watch Redux
- and Why do Sci-Fi directors keep making changes to their effects (We’re talking about you George Lucas)
- Belfast
- CODA
- Death on the Nile
- Enchanted
- Free Guy
- Guardians 2
- Inventing Anna
- Matrix Résurrections
- Raised by Wolves
- The Eternals
- The Fifth Element
- Severance
- What If ?
Welcome to the things that entertain us!
On today’s episode we go where no one has gone before talking about the great Star Trek re-watch, The tragedy of the Rust on-set shooting, a not so tasty piece of Licorice Pizza, an Enchanted animated family and a trip back to the dark ages with The Last Duel….
Remember, We don’t talk about Bruno and Spoilers are a guarantee!
In Today's Episode:
The Rust Shooting
SAG Awards Noms are out
Rewatching Star Trek (Yes... All of it)
Station 11
Archive 81
Raised by Wolves
The Rookie
Maid
Encanto
The Last Duel
House of Gucci
In today’s episode, We ‘re gonna talk about seeing celebrities on your computer, Black Cowboys of the Old West, Roving Puerto Rican Gangs of New York, watching for falling magma balls and giant asteroids in the sky and other experiences with The New Normal…
Really…. We’re talking The Harder They Fall, West Side Story, Cyrano and the beginning of awards season!
Remember… Spoilers Happen!
Welcome to The Things that Entertain Us!
In today’s episode we discuss
- Cyrano
- Don’t Look Up
- The Departed
- Finch
- The Harder They Fall
- Maid
- The Midnight Sky
- West Side Story
Catch all our projects at https://www.jrocksgarage.com/projects
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about everything from the MCU / Defenders universe crossover, How deaf people are portrayed in films, casting choices and the actresses that have to live with them and can we stop for a second and talk about how great is that Tom Hanks guy is anyway…. There’s Gal Gadot’s Red Dress and let’s not forget Tango Shalom!
!!! Remember… Spoilers Happen! !!!
In today’s episode we discuss
- Being The Ricardos
- CODA
- Dune
- Finch
- Hawkeye
- The Humans
- No Time to Die
- The Power of the Dog
- Red Notice
- Spider Man: No Way Home
- Star Trek Discovery
- Tango Shalom
Catch all our projects at https://www.jrocksgarage.com/projects
In today’s episode, get to know your hosts a little bit and listen to them talk about the lead in to Awards Season.
Jeff pulled the lucky card and was chosen as a member of the Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominating Committee and this capacity has been binging his little heart out on Movies and TV shows for a couple months now.
W. Curtis Preston jumped right back into watching movies in the Theaters as soon as they re-opened again.
Spoilers Happen! You've been advised!
In today’s episode they talk about:
Dune
The Card Counter
Respect
Maid - Netflix Mini-Series
CODA
Invasion - AppleTV+ Series
The Morning Show - AppleTV+ Series
Boogie Nights
Uncut Gems
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - Netflix
I Care A Lot - Netflix Series
Ted Lasso - AppleTV+ Series
The Movies That Made Us - Netflix Series
The Nightmare Before Christmas