The Things That Entertain Us
Jeff Rochlin and W. Curtis Preston get together to talk about the Things That Entertain Us!
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So… Ever wonder what happens when you take a couple of middle aged computer nerds and let them loose with fancy microphones and an on-line recording service? You get a Podcast, Naturally!
Welcome to our show, In which our protagonists… Jeff Rochlin, out of work Actor and Tech Guy in Hollywood and W. Curtis Preston, Tech Guy known as “Mr. Backup” get together to talk about the Things That Entertain Us!
Episodes
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Today we have a special episode, inspired by an internet post claiming that The Towering Inferno is the greatest disaster movie of all times, we test that hypothesis by watching and discussing the three greatest of the genre from the same period, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Earthquake. Join us as we spoil our way through action, adventure, romance, fire, foods, crumbling buildings, tidal waves and every A list actor of the era!
The movies:
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
And the Incidentals…
Escape from the Planet of The Apes
Cutting Class
Taking of Pelham 123
The Odd Couple
Die Hard
There Italian Job
Glass Onion
Knives Out
Momento
Volcano
Fall
Other Stuff…Airplane Censorship and Love Actually
How the SVB Crisis reflects Human Nature in a crisis
Wokeness, Blazing Saddles, All in the Family, The Jeffersons and the work of Norman Lear
Cocaine Bear
And Movies we didn’t like:
Licorice Pizza
Dead Ringers
Popeye
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: JSearching by Faith Yasar
Free download: https://snapmuse.com/track/searching-1909772
License By Snapmuse.com
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
While Curtis is away, I continue to play! Join me, Nina Levinson and Jason Rochlin as we talk about movies we’ve already talked about but with different people!
Spoilers happen, so you’ve been warned!
We discuss:
3000 Years of Longing
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Black Panther-Wakanda Forever
The Banshees of Inisherin
Star Trek Picard
Taylor Sheridan’s Universe
1883
1923
Yellowstone
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Jazzi 3 by Frank SchroeterFree download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8069-jazzi-3License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseArtist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.schroeter.52
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
Saturday Feb 18, 2023
It’s Lucky 13 where our heroes Spoil Menus, Whales, Banshees, Women Kings, Glass Onions and 1883. It’s Life, The Universe and Everything plus Expensive Vacations, all the things that entertain us!
Spoilers happen…. You have been warned!
We discuss:
Alec Baldwin gets charged with involuntary manslaughter for the Rust shooting
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opinion/alec-baldwin-rust-5th-amendment.html
Oscar Nomination Scandal
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/business/media/andrea-riseborough-oscars-campaign.html
And the movies/shows:
Amsterdam
Glass Onion
RRR
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Menu
The Woman King / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Whale
Ghosts
Jack Ryan
The Last of Us and
1883
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Jazzi 3 by Frank Schroeter
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8069-jazzi-3
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Artist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.schroeter.52
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Take a couple of months off, and what do you get? Broken Cars, Broken Feet, Tech Jobs Collapse, Ye implodes, Twitter Chaos, Avatar, Babylon and Everything, Everywhere All At Once….
We got Spoilers!
In today’s episode, we mention…
Avatar
Babylon
Elvis
Everything, Everywhere All At Once
The Adam Project
Top Gun
and
https://www.sothatshowyoudothat.com
Enjoy the show! Tell Your Friends!!!
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Jazzi 3 by Frank Schroeter
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8069-jazzi-3
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Artist on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.schroeter.52
Saturday Aug 27, 2022
Saturday Aug 27, 2022
In today’s episode…. Jeff Auditions for a movie and Curtis takes apart his car! We talk about Bullet Train, Fall, and The Sandman. Jeff finally watches Ted Lasso and we talk even more StarTrek!
We’re so full of spoilers this week that we curdle milk!
What we talk about:
Thor - Love and Thunder
Bullet Train
Fall
Nope
M. Knight Shamlan’s films
The Princess Bride
Ted Lasso
The 2000 Year Old Man
Never Have I Ever
Startup
Grim Reaper
Parasite
The Sandman
American Gods
Below Decks
Rue Paul’s Drag Race
Pose
Better Call Saul
Breaking Bad
Star Trek TOS
Nichelle Nichols
Star Trek (JJ Abrams Version)
How it should have ended (Web Series)
Fringe
Star Trek - The Motion Picture (Directors Cut)
Star Trek The Voyage Home
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Kahn
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Picard
West World
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
In today’s episode, our great American crisis is over as Jeff finally gets around to seeing Top Gun, We catch up on a metric ton of shows, both on the big and little screens as well as talk about fixing the front end of your car using cable ties!
Spoilers are an inherent part of our lives here so be forewarned!
Covered in this episode:
Thor: Love and Thunder
The Boys
Dr. Strange
Wandavision
What If ?
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Face Off
Top Gun Maverick
Minions
Elvis
The Peacemaker
Night Sky
Whiplash
Ms. Marvel
Gandhi
Obi Wan Kenobi
Solo
Stranger Things 4
Black Phone
The Umbrella Academy
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
The Terminal List
Taps
If
Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut
Find out more about all my projects in the garage at https://jrocksgarage.com/projects
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
This Episode, Mr. Preston continues his service to our community as a Poll worker in the California State Primary and We talk all things podcasting…. Hear how the sausage gets made !(Be sure to Stick around to the end for something special!)
In this episode, we talk about:
Curtis the poll worker
How we produce our podcasts:
Backup Central’s Restore it All (BackupCentral.com)
Relief Valve (https://reliefvalve.podbean.com)
Druva’s No Hardware Required (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/druvas-no-hardware-required/id1514019825)and of course...
Things That Entertain Us (https://tteu.podbean.com)
And the Tools we talk about:
Hardware:
Audio Technica ATR-100 (https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/microphones/wired)
Yetti Blue (https://www.bluemic.com/en-us/products/yeti/)
Center Cam (https://thecentercam.com)
Recording and Editing Tools:
Zencastr (https://zencastr.com/)
Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org)
descript (https://www.descript.com)
Wondershare Fillmora (https://filmora.wondershare.com)
Hosting Services:
PodBean (https://www.podbean.com)
Captivate (https://captivate.fm)
Vimeo (https://vimeo.com)
Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com)
Automation Tools:
Bitly (https://bitly.com)
Meet Edgar (https://meetedgar.com)
Zapier (https://zapier.com)
And find about all my projects in the garage…. https://www.jrocksgarage.com/projects
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
In this week’s episode…. Jeff got covid… We talk about Military Challenge Coins… The USS Iowa and Mr. Prestons Service to our country. We saw a screening of 1972’s “The French Connection” Complete with a live interview with its director., The state of the streaming wars and the slow crawl back to Cable TV… Curtis talks about his experiences with Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, The Ambulance, The Northman, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent!
If you like Spoilers, this is definitely the place to be….
Tonight… We talk about:
Challenge coins, The USS Iowa, and Curtis’ Service
Academy screening of The French Connection
Netflix subscriber base takes a dump, Streamers and the slow crawl back to the Cable TV Model again
Plus, the movies:
Everything, everywhere all at once
Ambulance
The Northman
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Enjoy the show? Tell your Friends! Find more of our projects at:https://www.jrocksgarage.com/projects
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
In Tonight’s episode, we discuss the slap heard round the world, turning memorials into dance numbers, and other highlights of the 94th Academy Awards. The Oscars never fail to excite an audience!
We’ll discuss Ross Douthat’s article pronouncing movies dead, Curtis tells us about The Lost City and I ramble on about how many reels it takes to send a movie out to theatres in the old days.
Spoilers… What the heck are those?
Tonight… We talk about:
CODA Wins !
Will Smith Makes Oscar History !
The gospel of the dead list
Ross Douthat pronounces movies dead in the New York Times(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/opinion/oscars-movies-end.html)
In the old days…
and
The Lost City
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
This week on the podcast…. Jeff sounds like he’s in a fishbowl…. And our special guest Jason Rochlin joins the chat!
We’re talking Oscar Nominations, The Batman, Citizen Kane, The Foo Fighters make a horror movie and how best to time that Bio Break when you’ve laid down that Jackson for your ticket and popcorn!
Remember this is not a political show and never forget that spoilers are a way of life in here!
In This Episode:
Gas Prices Suck!
The Run Pee App
The Academy Museum
Citizen Kane
Mank
Whiplash
The Batman
Tick.. Tick.. Boom!
Studio 666