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158 | Mission: Impossible (1996)

Rob and I get ready for this summer's Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One with the first in a series of episodes covering the Mission: Impossible movies so far. In this one, we talk about Baby Tom Cruise, the fate of Jim Phelps, charming Max, and whether any of this makes sense.

After Lunch | After Dinner Lounge – What's In the Box?

Rob, Evan, Pax, and I reminisce about our favorite things we watched this year, do some thinking about the past and the future, and open some presents.

After Lunch | After Dinner Lounge – Not a Pho-natic

Rob, Evan, Pax, and I talk about our favorite things we listened to and read from 2022. And whether we'd be willing to pay the horrible price of teleportation.

After Lunch | Star Trek: Discovery, Season 3

Rob, Delaney, and I skip ahead to the 32nd Century in our chronological Star Trek trek with Season 3 of Discovery. As the crew tries to locate the remnants of the Federation and acclimate to life in the future, our panel talks about favorite characters, plot threads, and themes of the season.

After Lunch | Blind Reboots

Rob, Pax, my son David, and I reboot TV shows based only on brief descriptions of their premises.

After Lunch | Bond Novels: You Only Live Twice

I continue my solo exploration of Fleming's Bond novels with the next-to-last in the series, You Only Live Twice. Following the tragic events of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, M sends Bond to Japan on an impossible diplomatic mission that becomes something much more bizarre and personal.

Seriously Felicity | The List

Kristi and I perfect our high voltage looks, learn to talk to girls, and throw a party.

After Lunch | From Russia with Love (1963)

Rob, Karen Flieger, and I board the Orient Express to speed up the frequency of our Bond movie discussions this year, starting with Sean Connery's second appearance as Bond in From Russia with Love. We talk about the characters, music, quips, clothing, gadgets, and everything else that makes this one of our favorites.

After Lunch | After Dinner Lounge – The Wig Budget

Rob, Pax, and I talk about what we've been watching: TV series like Midnight Club, Andor, Stargirl, Wednesday, Mythic Quest, Willow, Perry Mason, Mare of Easttown, and A-Team “Christmas” episodes. Then there are movies like A Christmas Story Christmas, the Cannonball Run sequel Speed Zone, the Underworld series, The Shop Around the Corner, Ernest Saves Christmas, and a White Christmas live production. 
Finally, we're thinking about Christmas movies. Specifically: what makes a Christmas movie, favourite Christmas movie characters, and the future of Christmas movie discussions on After Lunch.

After Lunch | After Christmas Lounge – Bring on the Whamageddon

Rob, Pax, and I talk about annoying Christmas Songs, Christmas mysteries and ghost stories, Lindsey Stirling music, book forewords and introductions, Mount Westmore, X-Men: Inferno, Batman: Three Jokers, and other things we've been listening to and reading.