144. Vultures Who Know The Difference (Between Sugar And Aspartame)

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Topics:

• Wario64
• We need to bring back Dogme 95
• Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name Again
  • https://saint-arthur.tumblr.com/
• This Is Just To Say, by William Carlos Williams
  • https://poets.org/poem/just-say
• Whatever happened to outdoor pop machines?
  • https://lovepittsburghshop.com/blogs/love-pittsburgh/may-the-pop-machine-be-with-you
• Godzilla

Microtopics:

• A Link's Awakening speedrun that may surprise you.
• Lord clouds.
• What's the deal with Wario 64?
• Asking Webster's Dictionary to define Wario 64.
• Your source for video game deals.
• How Wario64 feels about Chris Pratt voicing Mario.
• Geralt in the bathtub.
• Wario World for the GameCube.
• The hidden origins of Wario64.
• Ten rules for how to make a movie.
• Lars von Trier being traumatized by a dolly shot and inventing Dogme 95.
• Unintentional Dogme 95 movies.
• Unboxing a Criterion Collection DVD live on the show and there's just a DVD in there.
• Creative freedom, the worst constraint.
• A recipe for the worst movies in the fucking world.
• Dogme 95 drinking game.
• Making a flag in the bucket.
• The Adventure 2600 continuity.
• Bats that can steal things that shouldn't be able to be stolen.
• A video game quest that was very difficult and obscure until someone wrote a FAQ.
• The ludonarrative consonance of following your self-destructive obsession at the same time your character follows their self-destructive obsession.
• Being confused about a story beat in a video game and having to seek out a lore genius on the internet.
• The Random House Annotated Fallen London.
• Becoming St. Gawain's Candle.
• How the icebox plums poem became a meme.
• Learning about poutine on social media.
• Satirical poetry in the 1960s.
• Things that are Ira Glass's fault.
• Extreme meminess.
• Wanting a god damn plum right now.
• Pictures of normal people that are considered heresy.
• Deliberately making your podcast guest's audio sound bad.
• Continuing to read poetry even though you're terrible at it.
• Asking Siri to get you a substantial raise.
• Checking the change return slots on the mobile phone bank for quarters, to do your part to sustain the soda vending machine economy.
• The cost of a 510 ml bottle of pop these days.
• The fastest pop machine in the world.
• Joking about the day we record the show when it comes out weeks later and none of the listeners have any idea what you're talking about.
• Applying the sugar tax to beverages sweetened with aspartame.
• The Godzilla movie with Inspector Gadget in it.
• Redheaded Stepzilla.
• The three Godzilla movies that are out of print in the US. (But not on archive.org)
• Having to license all the Kaiju separately.
• Movies that are in the public domain because they were not explicitly labeled as copyrighted.
• Public Domain Day.
• The personality traits of Sherlock Holmes that are and aren't copyrighted.
• The Beast at 20,000 Fathoms.
• Messing up a slow-motion shot by undercranking the camera rather than overcranking, but it has to go into the movie like that because it was your only take.
• Making a movie where you can do as many takes as you want but they all have to go in the finished film.
• Godzilla taking some much needed time off.
• Invasion of Astro-Monster.
• Watching the entire Godzilla series and learning why people think Avengers: Endgame is good.
• A latchkey kid in 1960s Japan overcoming his bullies by imagining that Godzilla is his friend.
• A dinosaur falling in love with a lighthouse.
• Empathizing with the dinosaur who is completely misunderstanding the situation.
• Why the English speakers in Japanese or Korean films are such bad actors.
• An island protector of these native people brought to society for reasons of Capitalism.