Late 2012, yeah. 

Yeah he went from a wacky fringe conspiracy theorist to propaganda arm somewhere around the year 2016. I can’t quite put my finger on what caused the about-face, though.

A Mission Hill reboot where the formerly cool neighborhood is nothing but Lululemon stores and fucking gourmet doughnut shops.

That’s right.

I wish they’d cover the latest story arc where Stav is housebound and only wearing swim trunks and Nick is losing his grasp on reality.

I had my money on RoboCop becoming the first Verhoeven movie made real by Trump. I never would have guessed it would actually be Starship Troopers.

He applies “why don’t they make the whole plane out of the black box?” reasoning to literally everything.

I think it’s because David, correctly, comes at it from the angle of examining the deteriorating mind of a dimwitted outer-borough lout. Just an old, mushy New York real estate goon who somehow posted his way into being President.

Everything about this just bums me out.

You have Art of Pizza way too low.

Albert Brooks’s character in Drive, while great, shouldn’t really count as him going against type. I mean, he played arch-villain Hank Scorpio like 15 years before Drive came out.

He was so good in that. His character was how I imagine Patrick Bateman from American Psycho would’ve turned out if he hadn’t grown up rich.

Yeah I heard about the Daryl Hall thing recently. It would’ve been 900x worse than Van Hagar.

Absolutely. Michael Anthony was so important to the band, I can’t imagine the reunion shows without him working. I mean, the vocal harmonies alone...

Thankfully, Theo Epstein knew better than all the fans who wanted him traded for Andrew Cashner a few years ago.

I think Topher Grace should get even with Tom Hardy by starring in a standalone Bane movie.

Yeah, Sammy had cool uncle vibes. Like, he’d let you drive his boat after he got too drunk or something. Apparently, Eddie Van Halen also considered Daryl Hall as a DLR replacement, which wouldn’t have worked at all. Anyway, I find discussing Van Halen to be a whole lot of fun.

Sammy Hagar’s “Jimmy Buffett with a distortion pedal” vibes were a pretty severe departure from DLR, but I think Eddie was ready to push the band in a lamer direction no matter who became the singer.

I’m not going to defend Van Hagar, or Van Cherone, or the current lineup with Eddie Van Halen’s large adult son playing the role of Michael Anthony. I think it’s totally fair to pretend the real Van Halen broke up in 1985 and a new, proto-Audioslave type unholy alliance was formed in their stead.

The best band is Van Halen.