1. The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis
2. Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Programmer [With Stickers] by Susan Marenco
3. Another Day at the Office by Thomas Underhill
4. Reefer Madness by Arthur Hoerl
5. The Ten Most Unintentionally Hilarious Toys Exported by China by Seanbaby

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-10-most-unintentionally-hilarious-toys-exported-by-china/

Our guest speakers this week are…

* Laura Kate Dale of (among others) Podcastquisition
* Lou Fernandez of Lou Reads the Internet For You.
* Derrick Ritchie of The Console Ninjas Podcast.
* Lorin Grieve of the Digital Drift community.

And by popular demand we begin with Lou reading out ten bad reviews from @AmznMovieRevws

Next week: We begin a month of Korra. Four podcasts covering the last two seasons. After that we proceed with the Disney animated classics review series with Daniel Floyd, starting of course with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

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This is the first impressions review of The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies. Next year we will be covering all three movies with a deeper focus on production in our Extended Edition podcasts. If you’ve just joined us for Digital Drift you can of course hear the reviews of the Lord of the Rings and first two Hobbits on the Digital Gonzo section of the podcast feed.

It’s been hard-going for some of us to say a last goodbye to the Weta films. The fact that they’ve divided audiences far more than the original trilogy exacerbates the isolation that comes with this. Experience the wrath and ruin of dragon fire. Watch an obscene amount of gold drive an essentially decent dwarf to insanity. Witness five pages of battle written by Tolkein get fully expanded into a war among the species’ of Middle-earth. Feel the loss and grief of these events from the many perspectives beyond just that of Bilbo Baggins as the scope of this project hammers home.

Joining Sharon and I are Chris Eason of GameBurst, who’s been with us every step of the way on the Middle-earth series. Chris brings along his colleague James Batchelor, returning for the first time since An Unexpected Journey. Finally Drift community member Glen Watts returns for the first time since The Lego Movie.

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Yes you could buy both, yes you could buy neither or you could opt for a Wii U or high performance gaming PC rig, but for many people the two machines seem very similar from the outside and I was interested in delving below the shiny, black surface to see if the decision ultimately lay beyond the console exclusive games.

Joining me for this debate are several gentlemen whose opinions I trust, whose gaming histories stretch far back and who own both consoles.

We have both the former Digital Cowboys, Tony Atkins of Cane and Rinse and Paul Shotton reunited on this podcast for the first time since the last episode of that show back in 2011.Joining the Cowboys are Gary Blower of GameBurst, James Carter of Cane and Rinse and Derrick Ritchie of Console Ninjas. Our aim is for a rare and tricky to manage combination of both balanced reasoning and honest, personal preference.

Come along to the forum and look for the Xbox One VS. Playstation 4 thread in the video games section to join this discussion.

Next week: The Hobbit

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In early January 2014, after finishing Digital Gonzo but before starting Digital Drift I recorded this episode just for a bit of fun, without any direct plan on releasing it. Nearly a year later, here it is. What I didn’t expect were several moments of weirdly portentous tangents that would thread through the episode. Backlogging your material can have that effect, hence my uncertainty as to whether or not to ever release the audio of Sharon and me reviewing Mrs Doubtfire.

Either way, enjoy the show.

My guests are Neil Taylor of GameBurst, Michael Fox of The Little Metal Dog Show, former Digital Cowboy Paul Shotton and from the Digital Drift community; Matt Whetter.

(These are the scribblings the Blue and Red teams received for the Badly Drawn Boy Round)

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The main reason was variety but we also had the pleasure of Joseph Grabinski the editor of the @AmznMovieRevws Twitter feed as a guest so we wanted to present him and his followers with something they might not have read yet.

It was a packed show; as you might imagine this format has been insanely popular and everyone wanted a piece of the action. Our other guests included (returning from previous Volumes) Joshua Garrity and James Carter from Cane and Rinse, Jerome McIntosh of Gameburst (pitching up for his first go at B.R.A.H.) and for the first time on our show, from the Cartridge Bros. podcast it’s the mysterious fellow known only as “Player 1″

WARNING!: Do not attempt to drive, lift weights or engage in sexual intercourse while listening to this episode. You may have a fatal mishap from laughing too hard. In fact this is the first podcast I’m putting a general health warning on: It may be the funniest thing you will ever hear and thus break funny bones everywhere, leaving life by comparison dull and grey. Jerome had to resort to his inhaler in the end, though he assures me this was worth it.

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The first installment was met with adulation from everyone. In fact this is an official warning not to listen while driving, your uncontrollable fits of hysterical laughter could result in catastrophic car pile-ups.

Once again these mini-review snippets were gleaned from the Twitter feed @AmznMovieRevws who very kindly retweeted our show for us.

For this episode Sharon and I recruited Neil Taylor of GameBurst, James Carter of Cane and Rinse and Lorin Grieve of the Digital Drift Community.Once again our reading is a cocktail of the shocking, competitive play of Cards Against Humanity with the theatrical performance of the much missed GameSpot YouTube show Feedbackula.

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For this episode Sharon and I got together with former Digital Cowboy Paul Shotton and Cane and Rinse alumni Josh Garrity and we had a bit of a game. I passed out fifteen reviews each and we competed for fifteen rounds to see who could read the most facepalm-inducing nugget of critical appraisal.

Prepare thy sides, for they shall split. Some of these reviewers come up with the most splutteringly random of reasons why they don’t like movies that are largely agreed upon to be rather great. I shall definitely be revisiting this format.

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In the previous two shows we heard perspectives from 17 different people from the gaming community

This week is a conversation between myself Alex Shaw and Leelee Scaldaferri.

We start off with a brilliant presentation from The Idea Channel on five logical fallacies that frequently occur during arguments on the internet. If you’ve already heard this and don’t want a refresher, jump to minute 14 for the main show.

Next week my guests and co-hosts read through one star reviews of great movies. The results are genuinely hilarious. I think we all need that right now.

This is a series of podcasts about GamerGate; How it developed, what its effects have been and how we can move forwards.

Nine more contributions make up this episode. Some were in response to Volume 1, some elaborated on ideas laid down in that one, others were simply inspired to speak on hearing about this series.

For this show only one man wished to remain anonymous, the other eight were; Jo Wike, Nick Gibson, Laura Kate Dale, Lorin Grieve, Rose Lynn, Jesse Ferguson, Laureta Sela and a man who goes only by the name of Chris.

Gamergate Volume 3 will be out next week and is a conversation between myself Alex Shaw and Leelee Scaldaferri. That will round out the series and as of today i am no longer taking submissions for this project. I’m proud of how it’s turned out and the measured, intelligent response from pretty much every listener who has commented.

To kick off a discussion about “nanar”; that is movies that are so spectacularly bad that they wrap right the way round into great we bring you the podcast reviews of Troll and Troll 2. This also constitutes our Halloween Spooktacular and gives you all something fun to listen to while taking shelter from the GamerGate debate.

Troll was a daft fantasy horror movie made in 1986. It’s hard to say who it’s aimed at because it’s too scary for small children and too silly for anyone over the age of nine. It has inflections of Gremlins and Poltergeist but none of the style or craftsmanship. There are plenty of surprising and appealing nuggets of fun to be had amongst the weird “troll-menaces-apartment-block” plot and some disarmingly canny performances to boot, but ultimately this was one of those films made to be forgotten.

Until Troll 2 came along in 1990 that is. This isn’t a sequel of any sort. It was originally going to be called “Goblins” and the name was changed so as to purposefully be confused with the mildly successful Troll. Now that’s the sort of creative pedigree that makes us sit up and take notice. Dig even further into this green gloop and you’ll find it is one of the most incompetently constructed movies ever, with every single scene botched in some way and some world class overacting and delivery by the hysterical cast. The short of it is; Family goes on a house exchange to a town in Utah named “Nilbog” turns out it’s full of goblins. They like to eat people after turning them partly into vegetable matter. Also the boy has the Shining or something. Clickety clack.

It has in recent times been rediscovered and cherished by a select group of fans celebrating its sheer badness. A documentary by its now grown up child star; “Best Worst Movie” was made in 2010 and is available on Netflix UK. In it we re-acquaint ourselves with the oddball cast reflecting back on when they took part in this extraordinary project. The brilliant review podcast “We Hate Movies” won’t cover Troll 2, because in their words, what are they going to say that’s funnier than anything within this film? We had to at least try since in the UK this is not infamous and is barely even known. That’s an injustice we’d like to redress.

Don’t worry about seeing these first. Listen to the show to get a feel and then track down the R1 double DVD set if it sounds like your thing.

It also leads to a discussion about nanar film and whether or not it is possible to make one on purpose, with a wonderful little inspirational piece on that subject from The Idea Channel, which you should be watching every week.

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