Mediasplode #23 - Ranking the Best Picture Nominees and Our Favorite Films of the Year

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Thanks to our awesome Patrons, we're proud to present another episode of Mediasplode! Running Time: 00:53:56 This month, Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick are joined by their original Pick of the Week co-host Ron Richards to discuss... What We've Been Enjoying: 00:01:43 - Ron finished Around the World in 80 Days, listened to Where It Went, and watched Riot on the Dance Floor: The Story of Randy Now & City Gardens. 00:07:49 - Conor is reveling in the rebirth of Sunday night TV and has been watching The Gilded Age. 00:16:47 - Josh has been watching Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. Discussion: 00:25:02 - Ranking the 2022 Academy Award Best Picture Nominees 00:33:32 - Picking Our Favorite Film of 2022 and The Overall State of the Movies Listener Mail: 00:44:20 - Steve from Maryland wants to know who would win a very unusual fight. 00:46:42 - Ken J. from The Great White North makes the iFanboys rank their of their favorite films. SPOILERS ABOVE! What's a Mediasplode? It's a monthly special edition show in which we talk about what we are enjoying in media outside of the realm of comic books. It's like our All Media Year End Round-Up but in a shorter, monthly format. Music: "He Took Her to a Movie" Ladytron Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by Better Help.
0:03.0	Ah, there's a lot in the world to deal with.
0:07.1	If you can't figure out a way to shut your brain off sometimes from just mentally calculating
0:12.9	and working through all of the things that are going on in a given, just listen to a
0:16.4	five minute news report and then look at all the things that you have to do in a given
0:20.9	week and people you have to take care of and all that and it can be really difficult.
0:25.0	And sometimes, you know, it keeps you from going to sleep, it keeps you from relaxing.
0:29.1	It's hard to find, you know, a way to decompress, unplug yourself, things like that.
0:34.8	And you might be thinking, well, it's just the way it is.
0:36.9	And the fact is, you know, there are ways to make that better.
0:39.9	It's better help, see?
0:40.9	You're going there.
0:41.9	It turns out the therapy is one way that for some people, it might be helpful to, they
0:48.8	wrote here, they wrote to get out of your negative thoughts, like, I was actually really
0:51.4	like that as a phrase because that's a thing that we do is that, you know, we dig a groove
0:56.0	in our heads and then we circle around that even though all sense says, hey, you know,
1:00.5	you know, better than this, but you keep coming back.
1:02.8	And so you can find mental and emotional peace.
1:05.4	And that right there is the thing that is the goal I have for sure is you want to find
1:10.9	some mental and emotional peace.
1:12.3	You want to be able to be calm, you want to be able to be content and you look around
1:15.6	and like, how can I be calm and content with a world like this or whatever, but you can
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