sonic and knuckles

For your ears only: we're dorking out about Bond, James Bond. Who was the best? Who was the worst? Who should be next? We get into all that we love, hate, and love to hate about 007 while dipping in to the best Bond song, colonialism, masculinity, ghost fellatio and more. Diamonds are forever but this podcast comes in at about an hour so there's no time to die.

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• Sean Connery (1962–1967, 1971, 1983)
• George Lazenby (1969)
• Roger Moore (1973–1985)
• Timothy Dalton (1987–1989)
• Pierce Brosnan (1995–2002)
• Daniel Craig (2006–2021)

BONUS CONTENT:

• Barry Nelson (1954)
• David Niven (1967)

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• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
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"Mr. Bond! We can do a deal! I'll buy you a delicatessen! In stainless steel!" -Ernst Stavro Blofeld

P.S. Amar Chadha-Patel for the next James Bond

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit
• This podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.

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MOVIE DISCUSSION: 

Sonic's speeding back into theaters, and this time we're in agreement: Sonic the Hedgehog 2's kind of great! 

Topics:

• Daniel reflects on how he was in the minority with Sonic the Hedgehog, but that's old news because Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is pretty good!
• Our theater crowds were 75% kids, 20% adults, and 10% video game nerds and podcasters.
• The comedy in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is more absurd and downright goofy.
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 contains some extremely well-done CGI, as well as clearly unfinished sequences where animated characters mouths stutter, or human characters are improperly input into CGI sequences.
• The Sonic video game franchise is celebrated for having some of the best, most creative video game soundtracks, so why are the movie soundtracks so bland?
• Talking about the mid-credits scene and what to expect for the future of Sonic on the big screen!
• For Daniel, the mid-credits scene was the third most excited he's ever seen a crowded theater only behind Avengers: Endgame and Evil Dead (2013), even more than Spider-Man: No Way Home.
• The Sonic franchise has countless stories (needlessly well written and interestingly complicated ones) for these movies to draw from, leaving both Melvin & Daniel excited for what future installments may contain.
• Discussing the horrible nightmare that would be a Super Smash Bros. universe of films, and how that's a terrible, awful, and completely bad idea.

Recommendations:

• CSB Study Bible
• Company Man (YouTube Channel)
• Old Enough! (Netflix)

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The most accurate game-to-comic adaptation ever? Sit down with your Control Old Man and enjoy another episode of STC's *great* S3&K adap. And! Party memories! And! Rock & Roll Racing goes wrong! And! The Sega "Neptune" doesn't happen! And! And! And! And?

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Tonight on Pick n' Mix, we take a look at Sonic 3 & Knuckles, a game with an arguous history that has definitely stood the test of the time in the eyes of the community despite SEGA's attempts to erase the game from history. We dive into the backstory, the controversies and your thoughts and opinions on the game and its newfound underground cult status.