I like Griffin—I suspect he's a good guy and he clearly knows his shit about movies—but he clearly leans into the more caffeinated sides of his personality for the podcast, probably because he thinks it's funny to be longwinded and annoying. You can really hear Sims try to get him to bring his absurdly long stories…

DLM tends to be so long and shaggy that I can dip in and out and not feel like I've missed anything. Like if I have a long drive ahead and nothing pressing to listen to I'll revisit it for the first time in half a year.

Speaking of a stupid take on "smart people."

His Kanye Best?

Fortunately, a few factors that are notoriously good for mental balance and stability are a) enormous wealth, b) global celebrity and c) constant pressure to top yourself and be the best in the world at everything.

I have no idea what you're talking about but I'm cherishing the idea that he took on Q-Tip. Like, the brand of cotton swabs.

Yeah, that reaction to the Kim robbery was ugly.

You're probably right, but the mere fact that we have to explain to each other specifically why the future president probably isn't going to destroy human civilization in a fit of pique demonstrates just how far the Overton window has shifted.

I thought that was generally understood pretty much from the outset. What else could it possibly be?

Bet you can navigate space lanes like a motherfucker, though.

Sting thought they were shooting a documentary about geodesic domes and that the codpiece and peanut oil was the standard uniform for singer/songwriters in this society.

I was never clear what a "genetic eunuch" was, precisely, but I admit that the Universe's deadliest knife fighter being a sad count with a hot psychic wife and a shitty mustache is a fun idea.

As I remember it there pretty clearly weren't consent issues when the Mule showed up. One might say that he suffered one of his greatest reversals because of his respect for consent issues.

Aw, you don't like when Leto gets a supersuit made of liquid sandtrout and gradually turns into an immortal omniscient human/worm mashup? I see Benedict Cumberbatch as the God Worm.

Typically? We don't bother.

Didn't know that but it makes perfect sense. It was so highly specific, like someone born in Hong Kong who attended boarding schools in Switzerland, Uruguay and outer space.

I think John Wayne may have been dimly aware that there were people in the world who were not in fact white, Christian English speakers, but he sure as hell wasn't going to pay them the respect of talking like one of them.

Idle and Palin in particular are hilariously terrible. I remember at one point Idle was doing an American newscaster describing events in "Canadar".

But the Arleen Sorkin version of the voice sounds like what she is: a cartoon character. It'd sound ridiculous if Margot Robbie talked like Janine from The Real Ghostbusters.

Oooh, remember the "Irish assassins" in Sin City? It was like they'd had the accent explained to them using pictograms.