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The Weekly Substandard
The movie-and-pop-culture nerdcast with Victorino Matus, Jonathan V. Last & Sonny Bunch, born at The Weekly Standard.
156 episodes · Nov 2016 – Dec 2018
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The Substandard on Incredibles 2, Pixar, and DishwashersSonny and Vic saw Incredibles 2 (JVL did not).The Substandard on Ant-Man, Cruising, and Dishwasher TrollingAll three review Ant-Man and the Wasp. Sonny: totally entertaining in the moment, but barely memorable afterward; the mid-credits Infinity War snap that wipes out the Pym family…The Substandard on Jurassic World, Dishwashing Drama, and SandSonny delivers the most analytical review: the core problem is that the film is philosophically opposite to the original Jurassic Park — where Crichton's thesis was "science will…Funny How? The Substandard Tackles ScorseseSonny saw Silence (Scorsese) — a two-hour-forty-minute film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan, based on Shusaku Endo's novel, starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver.The Substandard Summer Clip ShowJVL is absent this week at the beach. It is just Vic and Sonny. The episode opens with Vic and Sonny conducting a Cherry Cola Oreo taste test (verdict: terrible, the filling…The Substandard Halloween Candy Draft EpisodeThe entire episode is a ten-round snake draft of Halloween candies.The Substandard on The Death of Stalin, Dark Humor, and SwingersThe episode opens with JVL doing his "Johnny Ivey" bit — an impression of Jony Ive (Apple's former design chief) describing mundane objects in reverential product-launch language.The Substandard on Blade Runner 2049, Harvey Weinstein, and the Lost EpisodeThe cold open explains the audio disaster of episode 067.The Substandard on Green Book, Italian Accents, and Vic's PicksThe cold open covers Vic's gout flare-up and his spa day in Scottsdale (where he discovered colleague Mike Warren was already in the same massage suite).The Substandard: EndgameThis is the final episode of The Weekly Substandard.