THIS ON THAT: 23 Jessie Graff on Fear

Stunt woman and crazy awesome person Jessie Graff (AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR, SUPER WOMEN podcast) sit down with Mike and Chad to talk about the stuff that scares us. We talk all about fear and over coming fear. We also get into haunted houses, social fears, stress, death, rationality, phobias, overcoming fear, pull ups, and Chad's time as a welder.

THIS ON THAT: 22 Mike Gandolfi & Stephanie Storey on Iceland

Husband and wife Mike Gandolfi (GILMORE GIRLS, DENNIS MILLER LIVE, ROSEANNE) and Stephanie Storey (OIL AND MARBLE, THE WRITERS ROOM) join Mike and Chad to talk about their trip to Iceland and how fantastic the country is. We get into travel, Reykjavík, comparative literature, trying new foods, sharks, and how underwhelming Mike felt the Northern Lights are.

[NOTE I (Mike Sellari) mispronounce Mike Gandolfi's last name as Gandolfini. Basically I wish he was Tony Soprano]

THIS ON THAT: 21 Daniel Mills on Beyoncé

Comedian and Musician Daniel Mills (The Four Horseman of the Funkpocalypse) comes to talk about pop icon Beyoncé. We get into the newest Beyoncé visual album "Lemonade," Beyoncé's discography, Prince, 90's music trends, The Bey-Hive fans, Michael Jackson's funeral, Stevie Nicks, breaking down the ideas of how music delivery and music videos are presented, and comparing Beyoncé to Attila the Hun.

THIS ON THAT: 20 Lana Condor on Yoga

Lana Condor (X-MEN: APOCALYPSE) sits down with Mike and a This On That All Star - Matt Acevedo (COLD READ RADIO) to go over one of her passions - yoga. We get into everything from different types of yoga, war movies, temperature issues, secret Instagrams, drugs, punching, and Matt's time working at In N' Out. 

THIS ON THAT 19: Michelle Krusiec on Being Asian in America

THIS ON THAT 18: Josh McDermitt on Texting

Josh McDermitt (THE WALKING DEAD, LAST COMIC STANDING) comes on the show to get all of his woes about texting off of his chest. We get into the dangers of texting and driving, group messages, communication/miscommunication, technology, sarcasm, insurance, and the idea of what life could be like if you just put your cell phone down for long periods of time.

THIS ON THAT: 17 Paul Sloan on Watchmen

Paul Sloan (I AM WRATH, VIGILANTE DIARIES), a diehard comic book lover and all around tough guy comes into the recording booth to talk about the ground breaking graphic novel WATCHMEN by Alan Moore and the film adaptation by Zack Snyder. We get in deep about both the graphic novel and the movie, about Zack Snyder as a director, comic books, society, the 1980s, the Smashing Pumpkins, what makes us human and beg to ask the question: who watches the Watchmen?

THIS ON THAT: 16 Joe Sumner on Game of Thrones

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Musician Joe Sumner (FICTION PLANE) comes over to the studio to geek out about GAME OF THRONES with Mike and Chad. We get into MANY theories, talk John Snow, should you read the books, what characters do you root for, and answer the age old question: what house are you?

Weezer is the James Bond of Music

Weezer has just released it's newest single "Thank God For Girls" and it is fucking great. After 9 studio albums and 26 singles, Weezer remains one of my favorite bands. They are a band I listened to like crazy in high school and college and Rivers Cuomo has always been someone who fascinated me. Something that I have always done is that I keep drawing to comparisons to Weezer and James Bond movies.

Everyone can agree that the James Bond films are uneven as are the actors who play Bond themselves. With that everyone can tell you their favorite and least favorite bond (Connery - Best, Moore - Worst) but one thing is for certain, people who love Bond movies LOVE Bond movies. SPECTRE is about to come out this week and it looks damn good. It already broke records in the UK and it's got the team behind the awesomely good SKYFALL along with Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, and David Bautista.

Go back to Weezer, the early stuff - WEEZER (the Blue Album), PINKERTON, and WEEZER (The Green Album) - are all super strong albums. Bond is the same way with DR. NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, and GOLDFINGER - superb filmmaking.

Let me break it down.

Weezer's beginning is the Connery of their career. Aside from the albums great series of hits:

  • Undone (The Sweater Song)
  • Buddy Holly
  • Say It Ain't So
  • El Scorcho
  • The Good Life
  • Pink Triangle
  • Hash Pipe
  • Island in the Sun
  • Photograph

Maladroit is Lazenby. It's good but different and not as understood as the predecessors. 

'Make Believe' is DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. It feels like what we've known before (Connery) but there is a is a little silliness.

I believe we just passed the Roger Moore era of Weezer's music career. We went through 2006-2015 a long span of years that are only kind of intriguing at times. Through Roger Moore's career there is relatively one good movie (LIVE AND LET DIE), two good Bond girls (Solitare and Melina Havelock) and three good villains (Francisco Scaramanga, Jaws, and Baron Samedi).

As mentioned in Chuck Klosterman's, EATING THE DINOSAUR, Weezer constantly has a fanbase despite have what is relatively mediocre albums with maybe one good song on them. The songs on RADITUDE and HURLY in particular sounded very similar to one another with maybe one song standing out (both also have poppy covers as bonus tracks on them).

Now back to 'Thank God For Girls' there is something mature yet cool. New but the same. This is so Timothy Dalton it's not even funny. People didn't really get the Dalton movies and there were only two of them but they are pretty good films. The plot of THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS is super cool and follows a sniper targeting Double-O agents, while a little slow at times it still falls in the category of a good Bond movie. Then LICENSE TO KILL, probably the most underrated Bond film of all time, featuring the brutal Franz Sanchez and features him feeding Felix Leiter to a freaking shark! It's so good. It's probably the most real of any of the bond films (including the Craig films).

I think if we are to follow Weezer in the recent years we will see it mature with Timothy Dalton. Be as complex as THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS and as real LICENSE TO KILL. Let's just see what happens. If Denise Richards shows up in a few years on a Weezer single, we'll know I was right. 

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