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The Toy Department – Episode 286

  By toyAdmin | December 17, 2021 - 12:20 pm | Uncategorized
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In Episode 286, Madden and Kolsky are wrapping up another hideous year in style with a loooong episode, covering:

  • The best, most thoughtful and considered coverage of The Challenge: Spies, Lies and Allies (2:05) and arguably the greatest final in the tremendous history of the series…
  • Some thoughts on The Challenge All-Stars 2 (44:20) as the competition (hopefully) heats up heading down the stretch…
  • Best of 2021 lists!!! Madden and Kolsky share their favorites (58:40) from a weird year of pop culture content…
  • Homework for next year (1:31:40) as the boys will reconvene in January, including: Station 11 on HBO Max, the new film The Matrix Resurrections (also on HBO Max), the new Star Wars series The Book of Boba Fett on Disney+, the film Being the Ricardos on Amazon Prime and the Apple TV+ movie Swan Song… Happy Holidays everyone!!!

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The Toy Department – Episode 51

  By toyAdmin | December 28, 2016 - 8:21 pm | Uncategorized
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In Episode 51, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky flirt with some non-toy-department issues as they open with a few words about the miserable, repulsive, inconsiderate behavior of The Year 2016… but swim safely back to shallow waters for discussions of:

  • The Cleveland Cavaliers’ Christmas Day victory over the Golden State Warriors (5:40), and what it means for the rest of the NBA season and their presumed eventual NBA Finals matchup… and whether there is any team out there that might be a able to disrupt that eventuality (14:00)…
  • The National Football League (17:00) and how they have reached their goal of general league-wide parity… Plus a breakdown of some potential playoff situations and vague Super Bowl matchup predictions (AFC first, NFC around 26:20)…
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (42:30) and a probably not-that-surprising difference of opinion between Madden and Kolsky on the quality of that film… and whether Hollywood is still making action movies for people like Derek Madden (49:35)…
  • Homework for next week: when Madden will FINALLY watch the excellent documentary film Scratch (56:25)… and the guys will also do some year-in-review stuff with music and tv and possibly movies (57:10)… and will also discuss the new Run the Jewels record RTJ3 (58:35) now that Derek has figured out how to acquire it… ALSO – not mentioned, but the guys will also finally get around to revisiting the Clash’s London Calling in next week’s pod!!!!!!!!!! (they forgot this week)

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