I need my tools!

Oh, Dr. Yueh's in this?

Most of the podcasts are still dropping from a couple of weeks ago, and I'm cringing because they just have no idea what's in store. Like PFT said something funny about November 7 in his plugs, and I'm like, "Oh man, you're going to be so sad once November 8 hits."

Like nerd culture, speech impediments are cool now.

Was he the one who was angry about Mulan because it promoted women in the military, or was that one of the many other people considered for a cabinet position?

The short story goes into this. They have trouble with what to us is simple algebra, but calculus is very easy for them. This is because how they see time. So for us, space travel is a problem of us being here, and we must calculate how long it takes to go on a particular path to there. Whereas for the Heptapods, they…

Metallica now looks like your dad on a casual Sunday after mowing the lawn. "Just wanna chill out and watch the game with a brewski and a toy drum."

You won't believe what the President-elects top adviser said about Jews. And Asians. And women. And transgender people.

It's just like how I skipped his concert and opted to go to a younger, actually relevant artist instead.

That was his "dark" period, before Mother. Before Kumar.

I first saw it in college. I didn't realize it was supposed to be funny until Doogie Howser showed up in full Nazi regalia at the end and mind melds with the bugger.

That's gonna be part of the Wall.

No, America. Just no. This is not good.

The short story makes more sense because it isn't some magical power she gained. It's simply that by mastering their language, she now thinks like a Heptapod. I took her narration of the story as something she was writing way after everything had happened (meeting the aliens and her daughter's death), and the…

In the short story, the heptapods never explained their purpose, and it wasn't really to teach their language in order for humans to see into the future.

Yeah, they knew the bomb was going off because they see all of time at once, like the Tralfamadorians. And so it goes.

Yeah, I understand why they had to leave out the calculus and physics explanations and put in a "rogue soldiers and Chinese aggression almost blow the whole thing up" plot, but it kinda left Jeremy Renner with little to do other than be the "wife."

I thought he had won for Best Screenplay for "Rocky", but looking it up, that was just a nomination. Huh. So maybe he stole it?

Which would you cut out in place of this, the interpretative dance performance of the forgettable Phil Collins song in a Disney movie, or the tribute to sound editing?

He Anglicized it from "Belle." Taco Bell is actually FRENCH. Get'im!