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#115. Coming Friday: 'Top Guns'!

2022-06-01 · 3:07

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This is not a regular episode but a short solo audio note from Sonny Bunch, taped in lieu of a Wednesday show, explaining that the trio's usual episode got derailed. Sonny recaps that Vic had hardware and computer trouble all week (initially blamed, jokingly, on "Vic's old age and decrepit nature"), so the crew instead had him record a two-man show with JVL earlier, covering The Fifth Element — which Vic was reportedly bummed to miss, since he loves that movie. With no third recording day available before Thursday, they never got a proper bonus episode taped, so Sonny apologizes at length (with a Star Wars "Emperor Palpatine" / Death Star joke about redoubling their efforts) and promises a full episode on Friday covering both Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick, floating the idea of either one long 90-minute cut or splitting it into two 45-minute episodes and asking listeners to weigh in. He closes by musing, half-seriously, about whether the show should ever try a Netflix-style split-episode format for something like Stranger Things, though he admits JVL isn't caught up on it.

From the show notes

Coming Friday: TOP GUNs.

Full transcript
Sonny00:00:00Well, hi everybody, this is Sonny. I just wanted to let you know, this is actually probably worse, what I'm doing right now, than just putting up a post to the Patreon. Because you're going to get your hopes up, you're going to be like, oh, a new episode on Wednesday, I wasn't expecting that. Here's, so we, as I mentioned on the show the other day that Vic wasn't on, we had some technical issues. At first we thought it was, you know, just Vic's old age and decrepit nature. But no, it turns out he had some hardware issues, so we're getting him set up with a new computer. We're going to be back on Friday with another episode, the whole team will be there. And it's too bad, because I know Vic was very excited to talk about The Fifth Element. He enjoys The Fifth Element quite a bit, so we were sad to miss him. I thought the show with JBL went pretty well, for what it was. But, you know, look, the show with two people, two-man show, not as good as a three-man show, I recognize that. Anyway, we're going to have a new episode up on... On Friday, we're going to be talking about Top Gun Maverick and Top Gun. You know, we were going to do a special bonus episode just on Top Gun. Again, because of the various technical issues, because of the fact we didn't get started taping until Thursday late. We didn't have an episode. So, you know, I'm making a lot of excuses here. Basically, I'm just making excuses, because I feel bad. I feel bad that we didn't do the thing we said we were going to do. I don't like feeling bad. So I wanted to, again, I wanted to tape this. This is... This takes me much more effort to record this than it does to type up. So you're going to hear me ramble for just a little bit. Anyway, we are, you know, we're very happy to have everybody who we have as a subscriber. We love having you guys around. Feels terrible when we can't get the episode out. So we are, we're going to make, we're redoubling our efforts to please Emperor Palpatine. Make sure that this Death Star is fully operational on time this week for Friday, Friday and that episode. But come back Friday. We'll have a, we'll have a new one on various Top Guns. It'll probably be, we're probably just going to end up doing like a 90 minute episode instead of splitting them into regular and bonus because or maybe we'll do, maybe we'll do two 45 minute episodes. What do you think about that? I could split them across two days. I don't know. Let me know. Get in the comments. Let me know what you, what you would prefer. If you would rather have one. Very long episode on one day and then or split, spread it out over two days. Do the Netflix model where, you know, one episode we're going to do one half of Stranger Things and then a second half of Stranger. Are you guys watching Stranger Things, by the way? Should we do a Stranger Thing? I don't think, I don't think JBL is caught up on Stranger Things. I think it would be too hard to get all of us on the same page there. But yeah, anyway, I'm rambling now. You're getting, you're going to get four minutes of Sonny ramble. How do you like that? Um, so go, go, uh, get your hopes up for Friday. We won't, we won't let you down this time. I promise. I promise we won't.

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