Episode 155 - Brew

How’s it going, eh? Prepare yourself mentally and physically for Andrew and Ben to drop a lot of movie quotes this episode. You have been warned! After a little improvisational bit where they channel their inner Bob and Doug McKenzie, Andrew fills us in about his latest creative efforts and the recent suspension of his feud with Christopher Nolan, which he commemorated using a delivery of bark mulch to cover the former location of a rat-infested shed. Next, Ben talks about two very different games that he completed recently: Pragmata and Mixtape. When they FINALLY get into the word, they talk about the movie Strange Brew and how the story was inspired by a particular Shakespearean tragedy. To close the show, they reminisce about their former jobs at local and not-so-local coffee shops before Ben talks about playing the pumpkin spice latte-inspired game Strange Brew, developed by Electric Monk Media.

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00:00:19 - Thrown by the buddy, all the bowling alleys, 24 hrs of productivity, and funding news00:02:59 - The PAX octagon, Elvis Costello, finishing the anthology, and a guy has a meat hand00:06:48 - A suspended feud, a little slapdash, wrangling snakes, on a list, and The Odyssey00:09:53 - Palindromes in film, Robert Patterson, and the Christopher Nolan Feud Memorial00:12:52 - Helen of Troy, sleepy noise, poems, stop yelling, and Andrew’s late rat shed update00:18:04 - Ben finished Pragmata, pregnancy trends, and how video game electricity works 00:25:32 - Mixtape thoughts, internet opinions, an uninteresting trailer, and coming of age00:32:47 - The Artful Escape, to a lesser extent, masquerading as nostalgia, and an impression00:36:48 - Andrew tops off, Ben bought an electric kettle, grits, and a beer book for Andrew00:38:56 - False expectations, fractions of caffeination, Cheyenne cheers, and Google changes00:41:52 - Straight to Merriam-Webster, take that robots, and fomenting or contriving coffee00:43:37 - Possibly offensive to verbs, generationally appropriate songs, and the theater kids00:47:16 - As if, vending machine coffee, Ngram theories, amazing tees, and Strange Brew00:53:25 - Percent Canadian, Clif and Marty’s Talking Pondo, and Shakespearean connections00:59:53 - Using all the drinking water in Utah, the Claude AI incident, and meat-body bound01:03:16 - Enough with the steeping, brew bros, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, and Mel Blanc01:06:45 - The electric monk, a particular coffee place, and sometimes it’s just a mermaid01:09:03 - Barista stories from Cuppuccinos, all the vaccines, the MacGuffin, and reasonable 01:15:08 - Andrew’s thoughts on the trailer, customer service, and pumpkin spice zombies01:17:38 - Perpetuating your apathy, Andrew’s favorite game right now, and gamification01:20:55 - Rolling dice in day-to-day life, the tea tannins, final quotes, and the joy of Biscoff01:25:22 - More positive jazz numbers, Uncle John, and a baby CJ cuteness sign-off

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