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I would say that there are no good Star Trek movies, but plenty of good-enough-for-me Star Trek movies.

Yeah, the first 30 minutes are particularly hilarious. If the quality was the same, but all of the highlights were at the end instead of the beginning, it would be way more fondly remembered.

Yeah, I associate it with the Sopranos - they did it multiple times. As far as I know that's where it started.

I used to love it, back when it was one of six podcasts in the world, but I kind of overdosed on it and I haven't listened for a few years. What's been good lately?

I always liked the Neil Innes parody. "I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn."

No, he's not great when it comes to actual policy or governance. (John Oliver seems a lot grounded in that area so far.) But Stewart was great at sniffing out the hucksters in politics and media, and showing just why you shouldn't fall for their song and dance.

Yeah, I love Jon Stewart, but he has his blind spots, and David Axelrod found them. It was a really good interview.

Doughboys question: Why do they keep calling one another a soupless bitch? I've been going through old episodes but I haven't found the one where that started. Which episode did it come from?

That's how I feel too, the good and the bad. I like Mike, and I like that his scenes give a window into the Albuquerque crime world. But his storyline didn't have much meat on it, and it didn't relate to anything else, so why is it there?

You can't take it too seriously. They're comedians telling funny stories. Dave sometimes likes to present himself as an expert in all things, but that's just his personality.

I agree with you, Jimmy's law scenes are actually tenser and more interesting than Mike's crime scenes. I just wish the two storylines weren't so totally separated from each other.

That's why they make commercials overseas. They still get the money, but the people who hold the entertainment industry purse strings never see them.

Back when he was blogging regularly he mentioned working on a historical fiction novel, but I guess it didn't go.

On the one hand, that's obviously crazy.

Yeah, "IMO" is useful when you're talking to stupid people who have nothing in their life but their carefully gathered but curiously underdeveloped opinions, IMO.

I'm on board with any podcast where one of the hosts says with genuine righteous anger that "sides stay on the sideline and drinks stay in the gatorade container which is also on the sideline!"

Maybe Michael Bay's best movie. It has more personality than you would ever expect from him. It's funny and fucked up, has a ton of energy, and it tells an odd story in an odd way that's still very enjoyable and watchable.

He's probably good at the boring stuff that you don't see on the screen. Movies are giant projects with a lot of people, a lot of deadlines, and if something gets jammed up it can cost a lot of money to undo it. Maybe he keeps everything running smoothly and keeps everyone he works with happy and his movies make money.

We also have American Splendor, Ghost World, and Road to Perdition for great comic adaptions. And if we're just focusing on superhero stuff, I think both Iron Man and Spider-Man 2 were both very charming, and captured a lot of what was great about the characters in the comics while making the most of the medium of…