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Comment by The Profit on September 1, 2012 at 7:40pm

It's very rare that a female can make me laugh.  Kayla, you rock!  BACOCK!  Not bukkakke Rubio, bacock.

Comment by SomeNewBull-shit on August 14, 2012 at 11:40pm

Kayla's Chicken and Hamburger beds and Great Racks

Comment by TheBoogieMan on August 14, 2012 at 7:53pm

Man, it would be so awesome if you guys got Patrick Rothfuss on the show.

Comment by Jose Antonio Rivera on August 14, 2012 at 3:33pm

I'm listening to the episode and I'm loving it so far. I would like to talk about The Expendables, if I may:

Leon says he just doesn't get it, he doesn't get the appeal. There's nothing wrong with that. Not everything is for everyone. I did take a little exception with the implication that people would be seeing this movie and enjoying it the way a cat would enjoy a shiny thing or we go to see the movie just because of the explosions.

I was excited to see the first one because I found the idea interesting. All of these action heroes I enjoyed as a kid in the same movie? And a chance to see some action heroes I'm not normally exposed to? Okay, I'll give it a shot. On that level the nostalgia is what brought me in. I was lucky enough to grow up at a time when these type of movies were THE thing. And I was also lucky enough to have family who enjoyed watching them by either having cable or going to another relatives house who had them on VHS. To me action movies are fun as hell, but they remind me of a time in my life where I got to spend time with friends and family to sit down and enjoy something that was either really fun to watch or so ridiculous you got a chuckle out of it.

When I saw the movie, I enjoyed it. Yes it had it's problems with the CG-blood and the limited cameos from Willis and Schwarzenegger, but overall it was a fun action movie. Yes, half the fun was seeing these actors who I loved as a kid going for one more run, but the story wasn't terrible, either. It's not supposed to have this deep message, but it did show what leading a life like that can do to you (I.E. On relationships like on Jason Statham's character...even though he solved that with violence, on what it does to a person I.E. Mickey Rourke's monologue and so on) It's not meant to be a totally deep movie, it was fun. It also exposed me to Jason Statham and Terry Crews, who I knew of at the time, but watching The Expendables made me want to actively seek out their other work. Statham is great in the crank movies and Terry Crews is actually a funny guy...I also forgot he was in Battle Dome.

What I did take exception to was when the movie came out, there was this hatred for it because it came out the same day as Scott Pilgrim vs the World and the thought of "How DARE this pointless stupid action movie take away from the genius of Scott Pilgrim?!" Look, people. I saw both movies and I enjoyed the hell out of both of them. While I'm not a fan of Michael Cera, this was the first movie I really loved him in and it was fun. If anything, Scott Pilgrim may not have been the number one box office draw of that week...but who cares?! Plenty of good movies that people love weren't top draws in their day...look at It's a Wonderful Life for example. When it first came out...not a lot of people say it, but to this day it's a classic. Am I saying Scott Pilgrim vs the World will be a classic? Not my call, time's gonna tell on that one. But this stigma about Expendables being hated because it took money away from Scott Pilgrim gets to me...they're movies, people! There's room to enjoy both! I did.

I'm aware The Expendables is what it is, it's a fun action movie. It goes back to something that was said in the episode, albeit on a different segment, but the idea that if you genuinely love something, who cares what someone else thinks? You enjoy it, it's special to you and has meaning. I realize that's a bit of a contradiction as I'm writing this out trying to defend it, but the guys made a point.

The Expendables isn't for everyone. That's okay. Personally, I'm glad the first one made enough money that we're getting a sequel. It means this weekend I'm taking my group of friends that I saw the first one to see the new one and hopefully the movie is good or fun enough that we'll enjoy it as much as we did the first one. Again, I can't make that call cause I haven't seen it yet. But it should also be said that deriding the people who do like it and dismissing them as simpletons who are only going to see it because of tropes and big explosions...eh...THAT I don't get.

Thank you all for letting me explain/rant :)

Comment by KGishFish on August 14, 2012 at 11:49am

The fake geek girl thing is just stupid. Who cares if these girls aren't real geeks? If they were beating up real geeks and taking their lunch money or something like that, maybe I'd hate them too. Seeing as that's not the case, who cares?

Comment by KGishFish on August 14, 2012 at 11:47am

@Haze-man yeah nerdfighters!

Comment by Haze-man on August 14, 2012 at 11:28am

Like Cyrus, I don't have a favorite pony.

Comment by Gothka13 on August 14, 2012 at 3:24am

Oh my, Kayla certainly does lead an interesting life. Why haven't we heard more before?

Comment by Gothka13 on August 14, 2012 at 3:19am

Oh, come on, Captain Planet was sort of okay....no, no, it was a bad show. But it was a little fun for a child, such as myself, to watch when they are just first learning about the enviroment. And there's one thing that Captain Planet did give us all:

Staff Comment by Fungusmonkey on August 13, 2012 at 10:40pm

@Dig Bick - How about "Meh, it's a terrible show"?

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