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Hi! I think all of us who have participated in the past have shown interest in maybe starting this up again. It looks like we will be able to do it through Kast, which has worked tolerably well so far. So, if you're interested in rebooting this sucker, let me know. Also, if you're interested, and haven't already, you may want to go ahead and create an account with Kast I was thinking we'd pick up where we left off: First Friday of the month, 9PM EST. (Although, I was thinking we shoot for Jan 8th since the first Friday in January is New Year's Day and that might not be ideal for everyone ) Also, how do you all want this to be? Do you just want to be where we left off in the HDTGM catalogue (I'll have to look what the last film we did was) or do you want it to be more open? For example, I know a bunch of us have been goofing on A California Christmas. Should we structure this more like Musical Mondays where somebody picks a film? Or, since we're piggybacking off of the HDTGM thread, should we keep to the plan and just do those other movies on a more individualized basis? Anyway, I hope you guys are in! I want 2021 to be a better year, and I always looked forward to these evenings with you guys.

So not sure if the cookie math was done in the show(haven’t finished it) but here is mine Roughly, if a cookie recipe needs eggs it’s usually about one large egg per dozen cookies. So 10 Dozen eggs is 120 eggs which gets you 1440 cookies. So about one tenth of the number of eggs she needs to make 15,000 cookies. Clearly she is bad at cookie math

All right everyone... this is gonna be predictable as all get out. It's four days until Christmas and my holiday-themed Twitter name is literally "Gonzo is the best Charles Dickens" (hell, my Twitter bio contains the phrase "Listens to Black Metal, tweets about Muppets",) so this week's holiday pick is...

One in the hand is worth two in the bush. Three in the pink is worth four in the tush.

I added a poll

I think there's definitely some validity in this. Even after the Beatles, he went to just play back-up for Delaney And Bonnie. I think he wanted to just play music without the stardom (which is true of a lot of musicians).

Curly to bed, Curly to rise. Makes a Moe slappy, eye tappy and a wiseguy ehh?!

Yes and what if you want a snickerdoodle but don’t know who it’s named after, can you still order it?

Lennon saying they were cool feels revisionist to me (at least at the time). I'm sure I've heard Paul say something like How Do You Sleep got personal or hurt or something like that. I'm also pretty sure Paul has kind of reversed his story on Too Many People from saying John perceived insults in it to finally admitting it was directed at him. I don't know if John changing his story is intentional or just misremembering and I wouldn't blame him either way. I guess I'm just glad fights I've been in aren't public. It's been a very long time since I read I Me Mine but John seemed over sensitive about it if he felt ignored. I remember thinking the book didn't say much of anything about anything. Half the book was pictures or song lyrics. My recollection is that Paul and Ringo were barely mentioned too.

So Roped on January 8th?

And why can't it be something like "Sally's Favorite Snickerdoodles" or "Kevin Loves Almonds"? Instead, we should just walk up to the counter and ask for two Sallys, straight up? I forgot to mention that MJH's character backstory is lifted almost entirely from Maggie Gyllenhaal's in 2006's Stranger Than Fiction. There, she plays a baker who was on track to studying law at Harvard or something but spend more time baking for the study groups than actually learning anything so she opened her own shop. Both movies have their different magical realism, but clearly Nutty Christmas is stealing from the better movie, so if you haven't seen Stranger Than Fiction yet, bump it to the top of the queue.

It’s like Bobby deniro once said to me, he says, “Put down that knife, I’m not Robert deniro.”

Does anybody else think it is crazy trusting of MJH to name every cookie in her bakery after members of her family? Like to me this is just asking for somebody to straight up try and steal my identity by figuring out my mother's maiden name and my date of birth and any other information about me I happen to name a cookie.

PERFECT!!!

I'm down for whatever as long as you fine folks are there.

I do appreciate going through old HDTGM films, but maybe that should be the rough guide and if something comes up we all decide we must see we can jump off the path every so often. So maybe the default is an HDTGM film and every month we can decide as a group if we want to deviate to something else? (Like, we should probably do this Roped we just learned about together right?)

For all you Beatles-loving lads and ladies, here is a wonderful, seasonally appropriate piece from the great Alex Ross... https://www.instagram.com/p/CI1jyP1lOWj/?igshid=wlqkpa1rstuw

Its really hard to even fathom how anyone, let alone a large group of people thought that this would be a good idea.

Although the logic of Timecop is flawless, I had 2 questions. First, in the beginning of the movie, bobo Obama says that they recovered Confederate gold bullion dated 1863, and its age was "carbon tested" for authenticity. But as the name of the test implies, the test is done with carbon, not gold, which is a different element altogether. In addition, carbon dating is performed with radioactive carbon 14 (C-14), which is present in organic matter, like plants or animals that were once alive. The last time I checked, gold is not a living thing and therefore unable to consume C-14 from the environment. I'm sure there are tests that could determine the age of gold, but carbon dating is not it. The second thing is related to the rules of time travel in this movie. Bobo Obama also told us that you can only travel BACK in time, because the future hasn't happened yet. So how do the time travel cars come back to their present time, if at the time of departure, the car's arrival back to present time hasn't happened yet? For example, if the time car leaves at 12 pm, presumably it can only come back to a time point before 12 pm, before departure, right? Well, that would create some problems, as both the past car and future car would be on the same track and you know what they say about the same matter existing in the same space...

Wait for it

YES! So happy to be able to listen to how this was recorded! This was by far one of the BEST shows I've ever gotten to see live and y'all made all us Texans (and those who traveled from out of state) the happiest people in the world! I'm also incredibly happy to have gotten to spend time with JammerLea, EternalSammich, and Fister! Internet friends made into real friends!!! Enjoy this photo I took from the dirty balcony! (This Week in Feminism to come after I get to actually sit and listen to the episode!)

Interesting fact, this movie has been in the can so long they almost premiered it against Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. They held this back for nearly two years and are already projecting a loss of $115 million on it. The pitch meeting for this must have been have been something to behold.

It has Barry Pepper on the cast. What could go wrong?

That club has a police car hanging from the ceiling. Huh.

Amy Nicholson just tweeted that Pennies is her tied #1 favorite film of all-time