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Twas the AKOP Night Before Christmas

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“Three Holiday things, one Christopher Walken: Welcome to Twas the AKOP Night Before Christmas!”

Happy Holidays to all, and to all GET PUMPED!!!!!! BRO! Soooooooo welcome to another installment of AKOP Nights wherein this episode we tackle not three holiday movies but two TV specials and one movie. We are doing things differently and why not it’s the holidays. So if you are new to AKOP Nights, here is the drill: Earl, Shawn and Patrick all pick a movie, or TV show in this case, and they have to watch all three. When each show is done they discuss the selection for your listening enjoyment. And in keeping with the Chris titling, we have a very special guest: “Christopher Walken”!

What are the three picks you ask: Well don’t let anyone know we told you but: Earl choose the recently released TV special Black Mirror/White Christmas. Patrick dove back into his childhood and picked The Muppet Family Christmas, and finally Shawn picked, of course, a Christmas horror movie in the form of Black Christmas.

Get that eggnog and shove some tinsel in your mouth because we are ready for the holidays…are you?

Let it begin…the night now.

*SPOILER WARNING: We spoil the hell out of these shows and we have to ask: If you haven’t seen either Black Mirror/White Christmas, The Muppet Family Christmas or Black Christmas then have some fun this holiday season, watch these shows, and then come back and listen to the show.

Audio notes: (1hr. 20min. runtime)
0:04:20 – The cold open, and special guest “Christopher Walken”
0:08:55 – Earl’s pick: Black Mirror/White Christmas, TV specials, writing, and pick-up artists
0:26:05 – Patrick’s pick: A Muppet Family Christmas, Muppets in KH3, and Jim Henson
0:47:45 – Shawn’s pick: Black Christmas, pioneering thrillers & slashers, and Margot Kidder
1:15:20 – Final thoughts

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Oscars 2014

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This week, we take a look at the nominees for the Oscars 2014! Earl brings back Patrick Barfoot, who brings in new guest Shawn Lotte to the show, to talk about the Academy Awards, hash out their thoughts on the choices and offer up some alternate nominations. They also end up discussing the Jonah Hill conundrum, and completely go off the rails when they start power rankings on the actor and actress categories. Before the awards show, why not check out our pre-show episode! (No major spoilers here.)

Guests:
Patrick Barfoot (@patrickbarfoot) – Editor and Director, patrickbarfoot.com
Shawn Lotte – “Hello, Google”

Supplementary notes:
2014 Oscar Nominees
How To Pronounce Chiwetel Ejiofor
Most Americans have yet to watch any best-picture Oscar nominee: poll

Audio notes: (1hr. 9min. runtime)
0:01:35 – Documentaries: Stories We Tell, The Act of Killing, and Crystal Lake Chronicles
0:08:10 – Makeup & Costuming: Jackass presents Bad Grandpa, Evil Dead, The Hobbit, and American Hustle
0:13:35 – Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema, Emmanuel Lubezki, and Roger Deakins
0:18:15 – Best Picture: 12 Years a Slave, and Gravity
0:24:05 – Alternate Best Pictures: Out of the Furnace, Side Effects, Pacific Rim, and returning to Gravity
0:33:55 – The Jonah Hill conundrum, Vince Vaughn, and Leonardo DiCaprio
0:39:25 – Best Actor: Bradley Cooper, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Nicolas Cage
0:49:35 – Power Rankings: Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Michael Fassbender, and Jared Leto
0:58:00 – Animated films, who’s watching the awards this year, hosting, and Pixar
1:01:10 – Best Directors: Steve McQueen, Alfonso Cuarón, David O. Russell, and Martin Scorsese
1:04:00 – Google, and more than 60% of Americans have not seen the nominees

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2013 in Review

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No lists or best of the best choices here, just pure old-fashioned rambling and nonsense in our own 2013 in Review episode! The original team of Earl, Brent Peckham, and Tony [redacted] are back to talk about the things they checked out and didn’t get to talk about in previous episodes. They get into everything from Out of the Furnace, to Final Fantasy 14, to Paul Walker’s untimely demise, to Aziz Ansari’s latest special, and to Justified, among many others. Along the way, Earl gets tipsy, Brent reveals he’s extremely old, and Tony stays quiet about some of his current endeavours.

Guests:
Brent Peckham
“Well we’re off to a great start” Tony

Audio notes: (1hr. 18min. runtime)
0:01:50 – Orphan Black, Sharknado, Out of the Furnace, Homefront, Beyonce, and Frozen
0:15:00 – Netflix, The Bletchley Circle, House of Cards, Amazon Prime, and Alpha House
0:22:00 – Elysium, Neill Blomkamp, Duncan Jones, 12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen, & Oscars
0:31:30 – Luther, Idris Elba, Nathan For You, Aziz Ansari, and stand-up specials
0:41:45 – Games, Final Fantasy, Beyond Two Souls, No Man’s Sky, Ready Player One, GTAV, & Persona 5
1:01:55 – Paul Walker and Fast & Furious franchise
1:05:35 – FX in January, and Justified
1:06:50 – 2014, Interstellar, Jupiter Ascending, 22 Jump Street, Captain America, and Marvel films

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