I’ll admit it - he’s prettymuch the main reason I checked out the English dub to Castle in the Sky.
I mean, Ghibli dubs in general are good work, but Hamill was where I went from “This looks promising” to “Oh, Hell yes!”

(...if I’m being fair though, Cloris Leachman’s also bringing her A-game on that one. I feel like…

It still fascinating how his work in the two movies is intertwined.
Lucas went to bat for Bakshi at the time because the budget on Wizards was getting slashed (resulting in the heavily rotoscoped final battle we see in the finished film.) He wasn’t able to get them to budge - and even took a bit of a budget hit himself…

Tough to say on the meth, but the guy has shown signs of being a pretty hardcore alcoholic.

One of the plusses of listening to Knowledge Fight is them finding the samples of him supremely shit-faced.

If it makes you feel any better, Jones got weirdly petty when Trump decided to give Limbaugh an award, so he’s still suffering for that.

Two things:

1) Having heard the larger rant on Knowledge Fight, it even comes across less as done for necessity, more out of spite. Which is...not much better when your options are ‘inept’ or ‘psychopath’

2) “Ewww! You’re gonna carve from the butt?”
“Well where do you want me to carve from?!”
“...Well, not butt!” --…

The guys at Knowledge Fight called this as Jones making a desperate play for attention (given he has a history of counting on weird outbursts like this going viral.)

As far as the ‘eating ass’ part, I could see it going one of two ways. Either it’s a calculated part of the scam designed to really get people talking…

I think that defense is...both a truth and a lie.
A lot of it, I think, he sincerely believes in. But during some of those rants, he does tell on himself with some of the things he circles around to (his not-so-casual bigotry, his repeated harping on drag queen storytime.)

When it comes to a lot of the big game, I…

I can’t speak for multiplexes, but arthouses doing live performances/repertory screenings can still draw a good crowd.
Hell, best theatrical experience I’ve had this year was going to a repertory screening of Stop Making Sense that played to an almost packed house.
It didn’t matter that it was filmed, the audience was…

‘and perceived oppression’ -- I suppose now’s a bad time to point out this applies equally, if not more so, to people who are made at comics companies ‘forcing their agenda’ on us, huh?

Amazon already has one foot in the door for that thanks to their owning Comixology.

Now reminded of a year or so back when an old fan letter to Marvel from the Claremont X-Men years that was bitching about the diversity back then.
I don’t know if the guy meant it to sound that way or not, but it came across as...pretty Goddamn racist (wanting Storm and Banshee to ‘go back where they came from’ and…

Interestingly, what started drawing me onto the digital side for some things WAS that there were certain titles I couldn’t get any other way (...well, okay, I theoretically COULD hunt down the old paper volumes of Cyborg 009, but knowing how obscene some prices on out of print manga can get vs that 4.99 a pop price on…

One BIG example that comes to mind - Black Panther and Captain Marvel both getting pushed back in line because Disney and Sony were able to strike up a deal for Spider-Man rights.

Suddenly the vaunted master plan saw two properties told to step aside so we could get a third Peter Parker.

(Also, I will go to my grave…

I’ve said it elsewhere, but I’ll repeat it here -
‘Darth Vader’ is a name Lucas had kicking around for a long time before the SW we know took shape. You can see the name in the old drafts from back when the main character was named ‘Starkiller’, where Vader was simply a general in the Empire.
A look at the interviews…

I see two issues with this argument:
1) As much as I have issues with him as a filmmaker - Colin Trevorrow DID manage to look at what Johnson set up and still constructed a solid story and script from it (one that people apparently seem to find more satisfying than what Abrams gave us, at that)
2) Abrams was an…

You would be right there. Interviews with Lucas at the time paired with some of the earlier drafts of the script really tip the hand that the Vader reveal came later.

Not only did he not have it planned out then, he hadn’t even worked out the full game plan when he was filming Empire.

Han’s open fate and “There is another” were narrative insurance policies Lucas put in place in case Ford or Hamill decided they weren’t gonna come back for another round (if there was a similar…

The more I dwell on it, TLC is much in the same camp for me as, fittingly, Return of the Jedi - there’s definitely some issues I have with the movie overall (Marcus’s turn into comic relief clashes with the ‘adventurer who aged out’ we were presented in Raiders, Elsa is a kind of redundant character whose only real…

Give or take for spending some time studying the rock wall in case he needed to touch up the paint on that damn invisible bridge.

The fact Scott and Drew picked this to be the ‘opening’ music for 80's All Over is just one on the long list of reasons I love that podcast and am sad it didn’t get to complete its run.