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Cultural Waste Management PodcastA podcast by two roommates who bully bad media. Author: The Millennial Spinsters
The podcast by two roommates who bully bad media. Join your hosts, the Millennial Spinsters, as they attempt to manage the pile of trash culture has produced since the invention of movies and TV one episode at a time. Content warning: lots of swearing, screaming, laughing, and the occasional mention of a genital clamp or two. :) Language: en Genres: Arts, Comedy, Visual Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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11: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Episode 11
Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
"In a hovel in Berlin above a bank of trash bins, there lived two podcasters. The apartment wasn't a damp, rundown "altbau" filled with unemployed DJs from Spain, nor was it a charmless over-designed architectural nightmare for tech bros and their adaptogen meal replacements: it was a Millennial Spinster hovel, and that means comfort." (Why yes, one of the Spinsters adapted the first lines of The Hobbit for this description. Thanks for noticing!) In all seriousness, the first Hobbit movie is a real cinematic disaster. The film follows Bilbo as he gets gaslit and bullied into going on an adventure to help get his future boyfriend's "throne under the mountain" back from a literal actual dragon. Along the way, the tone continuously shifts from goofy to bone-crushing, slamming the audience from one extreme to another like an emotional ping pong ball throughout the 2 hour and 40 minute runtime. Watching it is a nauseating experience and oh my GOD has there ever been any movie with more exposition (visual or otherwise)?? The only respite seems to be the rugged beauty of the king dwarf, Thorin Oakenshield (aka daddy, aka daddy dwarf, aka Daddy Dwarf I'd Like to F#$k, aka DDILF). Or you can keep yourself going by enjoying the delicate features of the only dwarf in the cast with cute bangs and literally zero dwarfish facial or puffy hand prosthetics who ends up being in the world's worst love triangle in the next 2 movies. Whatever floats your boat. [Also spoilers, but the Spinsters will be watching ALL the Hobbit movies back to back to back in the coming weeks because they make terrible choices and feel like changing the rules they never established for this podcast. Hope you stay tuned for part 2 and 3 in the next weeks or else none of this will have been worth it :D Enjoy! ] As with all our episodes, you don't need to watch the movie to understand or enjoy this episode. But if you do end up watching, please don't hold it against us. Don't miss an episode! Follow us on: Facebook @Cultural Waste Management Podcast Instagram @CulturalWastePod Twitter @CulturalWaste And if you really like us, you're absolutely welcome to rate and review on Apple Podcasts so other weirdos can join in on the trash collection
