The Top 10 - Topic Thunder! Pick a car, any car
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🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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It's another week of Topic Thunder on The Top 10, hosted by John Rocha and Matt Knost. This show is brought to you by our incredible patrons over at https://www.patreon.com/thetop10. They send in questions/topics and we answer them. It's that simple. If you're a patron then make sure to get your questions in and the email address is listed on the site for you to join the show today!
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| 0:00.0 | In a world crying out for a top 10 show. |
| 0:09.0 | John Roka and Matt Nost are here to bring you the top 10. |
| 0:20.0 | Take it away, boys. |
| 0:21.7 | What's up, everybody? What's up, everybody? Welcome to this episode of topic. Thunder. |
| 0:43.7 | Here from the top 10. That's right. When you hear the topic, thunder intro, it means we're doing questions for our patrons. |
| 0:49.8 | And this is a great benefit for the patrons who are $5 and above. If you're not a patron and you've been enjoying these shows and you want to send in your questions, thoughts or comments, head on over to patreon.com slash the top 10 and sign up for the Patreon there. |
| 1:02.2 | And we'll answer your questions here on the show. |
| 1:05.1 | Right, Matt? |
| 1:06.2 | And we will. |
| 1:07.3 | We don't know what they are beforehand. |
| 1:08.9 | We just answer them as they come in. |
| 1:10.3 | So it's a surprise to us. And our first one comes to us from Oliver Madrel. Okay. Simply titled the Bechdel test. He says, hey, guys, hope you're doing well, or you're both doing well, rather. I was talking to my partner and she wondered if you'd ever done a top 10 movies that passed the Bechdel test. |
| 1:32.2 | It got me thinking as to what you guys think of the Bechdel test and whether in this day and age, |
| 1:35.4 | it's still a reasonable way of judging a film and the way it treats women. |
| 1:39.4 | It seems to me maybe it's not quite good enough for 2022, |
| 1:42.5 | but would be interested to hear your thoughts. |
| 1:43.9 | Cheers, Ollie. Okay. So the Bechtel test is a simple |
| 1:51.1 | test which names the following three criteria. The film has to have at least two women in it who |
| 1:56.8 | talk to each other about something besides a man. |
| 2:03.7 | And this was popularized by Beckdale's comic, |
| 2:06.7 | the name of which Google won't let me put on this page for inciting hate, |
| 2:09.8 | in a 1985 strip called The Rule. |
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