DeRazzled 2nd Unit - The Amory Wars - Which Album Are We On?

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07/19/22 • 82 min

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To kick off our brand new 2nd Unit series exploring films and properties lost in Development Hell, Joe uses the release of Coheed & Cambria's latest album as an excuse to talk about the lost film adaptation of their long-running sci-fi epic, The Amory Wars. What was supposed to be a major feature produced by Mark Wahlberg turned into a lot of nothing despite a built-in audience. We try to get a grasp on why this project didn't come to fruition by delving into the finer details of the world built by Claudio Sanchez through songs and comics. Joe builds on material from the albums and graphic novels, as well as interviews with Claudio and narrative breakdowns from the sadly-defunct Cobalt & Calcium fan community, while Jack tries his best to follow along and make Star Trek and Grant Morrison jokes to cling to his sanity. Which is impressive, considering he's a time traveler from 1967 whose only musical touchstones are apparently Led Zeppelin and Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass. Pull up your Ten Speed and man your own jackhammer as we dive head-first into the well and unknowing, and Joe chuckles to himself as Jack tries to figure out what any of that means. CW: Sexual assault, misogyny, violence toward women and children, fictional blasphemy People & Stuff Mentioned: Coheed & Cambria, Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert, Peter David, Rags Morales, Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, The Matrix, Second Stage Turbine Blade, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: III, Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vaxis II: A Window of a Waking Mind, Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown," Donny Wahlberg, Wahlburgers, Star Trek, Dance Gavin Dance, Moby-Dick, Boom! Studios, Netflix, HBO Max, Leverage Management Check out our special playlist for this episode, "Derazzled Presents Cambriheed & The Tijuana Brass" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NFixXpFLmMpMmNp3Gr00O?si=d2a5e0dee55b42a0 Podcast plugged on this episode: Making a Martini (@MartiniMaking on Twitter)

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DeRazzled - The Emoji Movie - Sorry To Put Pee Between Your Toes

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We're officially back for SEASON 2! We open things up by taking a fortunately short trip to Textopolis to break down The Emoji Movie (2017), the only animated children's film to ever win Worst Picture at the Razzie Awards. While we do have some ideas for how to fix this mess, we decided to try something different for our season premiere and examine Jack's writing tool of choice, the Hero's Journey, and how The Emoji Movie ignores the parts of the Journey it actually does engage with. Listen as we rant about how deeply this movie misunderstands basic technology, Jack learns where emojis even come from, Joe gushes about how great Jason Mantzoukas is, and we all become overly concerned with Jack's foot hygiene and overall bathroom cleanliness.

CW: Sexual assault, intoxication, pee

People & Stuff mentioned in this episode: Tony Leondis, TJ Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Stephen Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Maya Rudolph, Seth Rogen, Nick Kroll, Jason Mantzoukas, Gaten Matazarro, Sir Patrick Stewart, George Lucas, Joseph Campbell, Jordan Peele, Jared Leto, Morbius, Silicon Valley, Stranger Things, The Good Place, Parks & Recreation, Halloween, Chopping Mall, Mad Gods, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and more

Podcast plugged in this episode: The Geeky Dad Podcast (@geekydadpod on Twitter)

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DeRazzled - Mommie Dearest - Your Dad WASN'T The Quintessential Flapper?

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Jack and Joe are joined by Dr. Becca Hayes (scientist, Pittsburgh improv comedian, and Joe's partner) to talk about the wildly troubling, weirdly campy, and terrifyingly not-supposed-to-be-funny Mommie Dearest (1981), winner of the second-ever Razzie Award for Worst Picture. But we don't just tackle the film -- Jack directly compares it to the memoir it's based on to highlight the differences between these accounts of Joan Crawford's problematic parenting. We dig into the life-threateningly glaring omissions, reminisce on Cabbage Patch dolls and other childhood toys, somehow manage to reference the Simpsons and F. Scott Fitzgerald multiple times, and accidentally provide Jack with a therapy session regarding narcissism and parenting through a conversation on the Internet with ACTUAL NUANCE! Also, in a DeRazzled first, we get an alternative fix for this movie from our guest! Pour yourself a Pepsi, throw out your wire hangers, and awkwardly strap yourself into bed as you enjoy this one. CW: Discussions of sexual assault, child abuse, narcissism and cluster B disorders, misogyny People & Stuff Discussed: Christina Crawford, Garbage Pail Kids, Mildred Pierce, What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, hagsploitation, horror, It, Rashomon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, The Great Santini, Austin Powers, Mike Myers, Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Mara Hobel, Frank Perry, Last Summer, Surviving Mommie Dearest Podcasts Plugged in This Episode: If You Give A Dad A Podcast (@DadPodcast11 on Twitter); The Red Dove (@dove_podcast on Twitter)