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On this very special episode we take a deep dive into the wild world of Wall Street Bets, their latest scheme involving GameStop $GME and how they've managed to break free from the Reddit water tower where they've been locked away since 1936. Sascha finally opens up about his deep seated aguish caused by years of playing Settlers of Catan.

For a very special Halloween treat we go long and talk about three films: The Crazies (1973), Pulse (2001), and Ready Or Not (2019). Grab some candy and settle in for an extremely spooky discussion on pandemic response, isolation, and surveillance capitalism guaranteed to put you in the Halloween Mindset. 

On today's episode we talk about S. S. Rajamouli's Eega (2012), the Tollywood blockbuster that has become an international sensation. As the film explodes into our hearts like a nuclear missile we are brought to the brink of madness and discuss Western Blockbusters, adaptations of comic books/cartoons, and even The Flinstone's Movie (1994). 

Eega Trailer: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbWURFD4vdE 

On our very first episode we come out swinging and walk head-first into a nostalgia trap by discussing "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990) as a lens for viewing the 1990s and how as kids we were inundated with images related to crime, violence, and the War on Drugs . Later, we examine one of pop-culture's most deranged creations: The anti-drug PSA "Cartoon All Stars To The Rescue".