Episode 206: J.J., Joss & George
Posted by billsimmon on 28 Jan 2013 at 11:11 am | Tagged as: episodes
Shortish show this week. Pre-show notes follow after the jump…
Original air ate: 1/27/13
Total run time: 1:35:47
File size: 46 MB
JJ Abrams to get Star Wars
Being Human
H+
Continuum
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Inauguration
* Obama’s spirited defense of ‘collective action’
* “The era of liberalism is back”
* GOP feels left out
* Looking out ‘one last time’
Election-rigging scheme
* Looking shaky in Virginia and Florida
* Looking possible in Michigan
* And also watch Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio
Senate reform
* Filibuster reform that doesn’t reform the filibuster
* Supermajorities don’t (and shouldn’t) define the Senate
House GOP suspends debt ceiling
Women in combat
Senate retirements
* Saxby Chambliss in Georgia
* Tom Harkin in Iowa
SPSST
1. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
2. Tucker Carlson, Fox News pundit
3. Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.)
4. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
5. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
Re: Paul Verhoeven
I’d definitely recommend Black Book if you’re open to being turned around on the guy. It’s a fairly recent Dutch-language period drama about a Jewish woman trying to get through the Nazi occupation, played without the overwhelming sarcasm of some of his films. Though Robocop is still pretty awesome.
Also, the Abrams Trek movie is the best Trek movie? That’s insane. It’s very watchable but it’s not much of a story–Kirk starts a dick and ends a dick, and he’s the main character! And shouldn’t the explosion have time-traveled and destroyed the galaxy years before Nero arrived? And then there’s a third act enervatingly free of complication, they basically just come up with a plan to beat Nero and it works flawlessly. The dumb science extends, unfortunately, to every aspect of the movie.