
452: Summer Movie Preview
05/04/22 • 54 min
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In this episode, for the first time since 2019, we break down the summer movie slate. This episode is your floatation device so you can avoid drowning in the flood of movies that are finally being released. We tell you which movies we think are worth the deep dive and which you shouldn’t even test the waters with.
MENTIONS
- Giveaway: Comment with your favorite summer movie on our Smooch Marry Kill Instagram post @ThePopcast this Friday and be entered to win movie tickets.
- Rewind: 2019 Summer Movie Preview | See also: 2018, 2017
- Is there a cornerstone element that you love? If you like the director or producer or writer? Production company?
- Youtube playlist: most of the movies we mention
- Mentions: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Top Gun: Maverick | Men | Innocence | Downton Abbey: A New Era | Firestarter | Emergency | Chip and Dale | Bob’s Burgers | Lightyear | Jurassic World Dominion | Elvis | Cha Cha Real Smooth | Crimes of the Future | JLo’s Halftime | Good Luck To You Leo Grande | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | The Black Phone | Thor: Love and Thunder | Nope | Where The Crawdads Sing | The Grey Man | Bullet Train | Don’t Make Me Go | My Old School
- Yikes: Bill Murray | Delia Owens
- Redlight mention: Tucker Carlson’s The End of Men
BONUS SEGMENT
Our Patreon supporters can get full access to this week’s The More You Know news segment.
In this episode, for the first time since 2019, we break down the summer movie slate. This episode is your floatation device so you can avoid drowning in the flood of movies that are finally being released. We tell you which movies we think are worth the deep dive and which you shouldn’t even test the waters with.
MENTIONS
- Giveaway: Comment with your favorite summer movie on our Smooch Marry Kill Instagram post @ThePopcast this Friday and be entered to win movie tickets.
- Rewind: 2019 Summer Movie Preview | See also: 2018, 2017
- Is there a cornerstone element that you love? If you like the director or producer or writer? Production company?
- Youtube playlist: most of the movies we mention
- Mentions: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Top Gun: Maverick | Men | Innocence | Downton Abbey: A New Era | Firestarter | Emergency | Chip and Dale | Bob’s Burgers | Lightyear | Jurassic World Dominion | Elvis | Cha Cha Real Smooth | Crimes of the Future | JLo’s Halftime | Good Luck To You Leo Grande | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | The Black Phone | Thor: Love and Thunder | Nope | Where The Crawdads Sing | The Grey Man | Bullet Train | Don’t Make Me Go | My Old School
- Yikes: Bill Murray | Delia Owens
- Redlight mention: Tucker Carlson’s The End of Men
BONUS SEGMENT
Our Patreon supporters can get full access to this week’s The More You Know news segment.
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451: Urban Dictionary 20
In this episode, we are back for our 20th installment of Urban Dictionary. Join us as we introduce new-to-you words that will help you update your vocabulary arsenal and get you the green flag from the youths.
MENTIONS
- Last chance: knoxandjamie.com/live - join us this Saturday in Dallas... or from your living room
- Rewind: last week’s episode was amazing!
- Episode source material: UrbanDictionary.com
- Look back: Previous Urban Dictionary episodes and The Nos of Sickness
- Buy-curious: Mini Jumbotron, Frame TV, St. Elmo’s Cocktail Sauce
- Himbos: Chris Evans & Sebastian Stan, Henry Cavill, Kronk, Joey Tribbiani, Jason Mendoza, Fred Jones from Scooby-Doo
- Rabbit trail: Lizzo’s Please Don’t Destroy
- “Why are we acting like the silhouette of Larry the Cucumber is something to be obtained?” -Erin Moon
- Smoking google: Climate change? What is Jamiroquai doing? Risky click —> Gopher semen as an ingredient?
- Asides: Is It Cake (Netflix)? Adele ate British food blindfolded, Hannibal Barca
BONUS SEGMENT
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453: Fixing Zac Efron and Parenting Snake Draft
In this The More You Know episode, Erin steps in for Jamie and we dream up a new career path for Zac Efron, we cast the deep fake versions of ourselves in honor of Kendrick Lamar’s The Heart Part 5 video, and we discuss which blondes we would have liked to see in the upcoming GoT prequel House of The Dragon. Plus THE Jason Waterfalls joins us as we snake draft the Nos of Parenting.
MENTIONS
- The AUA we mentioned in this episode did not happen! It's been rescheduled for next Tuesday, May 17th. Not a BFOTS? Become one today! http://knoxandjamie.com/patreon
- First red light mentions: Pneumonia! (Get well soon, Jamie!), @thepopcast_ underscore
- Celebrity career makeover: Zac Efron in Firestarter (see also: Candy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Wicked film casting, Austin Butler is Elvis), Zac Zefron is ready to be cast in a Marvel movie, Three Men and a Baby remake, The Boys
- How do we feel // The Heart Part 5 music video (mentions: Power by Kanye West, This is America by Childish Gabino) | Brené Brown is taking a sabbatical and she referenced this speech by Machaela Coel | Giannis did this shimmy | Deep fake Knox contenders- Mark Driscoll, Luka Doncic, Stanley Tucci and Spongebob as a human
- Trailer Park // House of the Dragon (see also: Matt Smith) | Dove Cameron before and after |
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