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341. Sports Edition (recorded 9/16/26) (opens the original)
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Show Notes provided by Joe Peluso The boys are back at the sports desk with their usual predictions, plaudits, pontifications, and pet peeves. Being a sports fan is akin to taking an endless ride on a rollercoaster--from euphoric highs to devastating lows--a fan's emotions are hair's breadth from fair or foul, like a fly ball down the line at Yankee Stadium. They call baseball a "game of inches". Being a fan of any sport is a game of holding onto one's sanity. And here to once again put all this
340. 40 Years of The Dark Knight Returns (opens the original)
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Show notes provided by Joe Peluso This year has been the year of anniversary celebrations on SOMC: 75 years of "I Love Lucy", 75 years of "Adventures of Superman", 60 years of "Star Trek", 40 years of "Transformers", and now the Mint crew looks back to1986 (that's 40 years for those of you who have trouble with math like Joe) and the premiere of "Batman:The Dark Knight Returns". The boys gather in the dusty, dank, decrepit Batcave (the giant penny rolled off its base and knocked over the dinosau
339. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Transformers: The Movie (opens the original)
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of Transformers: The Movie we are re-releasing our episode from a few years ago about it. However, instead of just releasing the episode on it's own host's James, Keith and Arco. Give an intro talking about 40 year's of this movie, it's legacy and the future of the franchise.
338. What is Star Trek (opens the original)
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Show notes provided by Jack Adrien This year marks Star Trek’s 60th anniversary. Created by Gene Roddenberry – with more than a helping hand from D.C. Fontana and Gene L. Coon – to date, the science fiction media franchise has generated 13 television series and 13 theatrical releases, totaling 800 to 837 hours of content. Thus, it would take roughly 35 days of continuous viewing to watch every single episode and movie in the franchise. For those unfamiliar, with a focus on space exploration, dip
337. Our 6th Anniversary Edition: All Good Things with Michael Jan Friedman (opens the original)
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Show notes provided by Joe Peluso Six years of The Secret Origins of Mintcondition--proving beyond rebuttal "that time flies when you are having fun".James the consummate host, Chris the indisputable inquirer, and Joe the lunatic Rangers' fan, form the triumvirate team of pop culture enthusiasts duty bound to explain, explore, and expand the horizons of universes that lie just beyond our real world. Over the years they have tackled everything from yes or no to Superman's red underwear to surviva
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