Cameron H.

That’s perfect!

That’s a great idea! Is there a way of wording that so it’s not so vague? Best Hypothetical...Side Project? (Lol I have no idea.)

Ugh! Double Post!

I added "Best Made Up Podcast" to the list ("Is this an episode of Tech Talk?")

Cool! I can start at 136-146 if you want to do 226-236. We can assign stuff to other people if they're interested, if not, we can just meet each other in the middle. We'll have to listen through the minis as well for good C&O's. Should we include Paul's Explanation Hope Line? I'm not sure if personal help, humorous or not, is something you include on a "best of" list... I think I'm going to edit my initial post to put a complete list of (tentative) topics. If you, or anyone, think of more we can pencil them in.

I put it in the first post. It starts at episode 136 Hell Comes to Frogtown and goes through Great Wall (I guess.) Do you want to divide some episodes up? 100 episodes is a lot for us all to go through. I know last time, Marissa gave us a list of episodes, we’d look for the listed topics and jot down the time stamps for any notable moments. ETA—I just started listening to Hell Comes to Frogtown

I’m kind of excited to go back and relisten to older episodes.

These are some categories Paul posted for the last Howdies. If you can think of any moments to be included, even if just vaguely, feel free to post them here.

It’s been awhile, but I want to say it was one of the shows in Austin. Time Cop maybe..?

I love all of these!

Both of these for sure!

7) (suggested by @Elektra Boogaloo) Best of Jason Antagonizing the Crowd Best Audience Explanation Hope 9) Best Correction & Omission 10) Best 2nd Opinion

From what I heard, Paul won’t release Swordfish as long as he’s on a show with Don Cheadle. Honestly, I think that’s fair. It’s only a minor bummer for us, but it could be career and relationship affecting for him.

Too late! I’m expecting an amazing C&O from you now.

Off the top of my head, maybe: 1) Best Celebrity Impression (although I suspect a certain British Angeleno will win that) 2) Best Tangent 3) Best Anecdote from Paul’s Harrowing Childhood (This might fall under “Best Tangent,” but I feel like there are enough to warrant its own category.) 4) Best 2nd Opinions Song

I was kind of disappointed too, but then I realized that we’ve never really discussed it on the forums, so that could be fun. I haven’t listened to it since it dropped, but I remember having this I wanted to bring up.

Might I recommend...

So...when Damon pulled that archery trick with the bowl, did he really just let that first arrow go careening into that crowded hall? When the shot ended with the bowl being propped up by the other two arrows, I really wanted to see an extra in the background staggering through the throng clutching an arrow sticking out of their chest.

I agree, I also love it. It was definitely a nice surprise.

@grudlian. what’s your feeling regarding Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul?”

At one point in the movie, they hypothesize that the magnets deafen the tao tei, and that being unable to receive audible directions from the queen is what causes them to freeze up. However, there is absolutely no science that magnets have any affect on hearing at all. I’m not even sure how that would work. In fact, all speakers and earbuds are equipped with magnets as part of the speaker diaphragm. If the movie had posited that the tao tei communicated through some kind of magnetoreception (a sense that allows an organism to detect magnetic fields) then they might have had a compelling argument, but the movie specifically says “deafen” while showing them communicate exclusively through audible means. Furthermore, the Earth is essentially a gigantic magnet. That is how compasses work! They aren’t called the North and South Pole for nothing! It is literally magnetic polarization from the Earth’s molten magnetic core. If tao tai were that sensitive to magnetism, they would be in such a chronic state of lethargy that they would have probably starved to death within days of crash landing their jade meteorite on Earth.

At first, I wanted to call shenanigans on the hosts for suggesting that all of the characters should have been decked out in magnets to protect themselves from the tao tei as there was a line in the movie where Strategist Wang calls it a “strange stone,” implying that they were somehow unaware of the existence of magnets, or at the very least, unaware of the effect magnets might have on rabid space mutts. However, while searching for the scene to support this with a quote, I stumbled on another scene where Strategist Wang not only refers to the stone as a magnet, but that they actually have an ancient record of another instance where a magnet was present and the tao tei simply stopped attacking and allowed themselves to be slaughtered. Okay, if the presence of a magnet was that conspicuous during this weird outlier encounter that it was worth being recorded in their tao tei tome, then yeah, there is absolutely no reason why they shouldn’t have spent the subsequent six decades stockpiling magnetite. Why wouldn’t you? You’ve known it works for at least 60 years! According to Wikipedia, magnetite isn’t even all that rare, and that it is commonly found with iron ore. In other words, the same material they’re using to make their armor, weapons, comically large pruning shears, and Cirque de Soleil bungee hoops is lousy with the exact material they know for a fact will peacefully subdue their enemy. I’m sorry, but there’s just no excuse why that entire wall isn’t just overlaid in lodestone.

Glad to hear you’re doing okay and taking care of your mother. Hopefully, your employer will come to their senses