{"id":405,"date":"2018-10-24T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T18:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=405"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T18:01:55","slug":"the-toy-department-episode-139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"The Toy Department &#8211; Episode 139"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Episode 139, Derek Madden and Matt Kolsky briefly check in on Kolsky&#8217;s new radio show before dissecting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Season 2 of Netflix&#8217;s Making a Murderer (2:15) and whether the story bears further investigation or is simply a source of anger and sadness&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The debut of Matthew Weiner&#8217;s The Romanoffs on Amazon (12:40) and how it is a good hang and somewhat less high-concept than expected&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Greta Van Fleet&#8217;s debut album\u00a0Anthem of the Peaceful Army (24:45) and how it&#8217;s unnecessarily pretentious and judgmental to reduce them to nothing more than a cover band&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The new 21 Pilots album Trench (35:00) and the guys&#8217; diverging opinions on the quality and originality of the band in general&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>A tiny taste of basketball (51:05) with a discussion of the Rajon Rondo\/Chris Paul fight&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>A run-down of albums Kolsky is planning to listen to (54:10) just to check if Madden is willing to give any of them a try&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Homework for next week (59:40), including: a whole lot of Netflix \u2014 the British series Bodyguard, Adam Sandler&#8217;s new special 100% Fresh and Hassan Minaj&#8217;s new show Patriot Act \u2014 plus LeBron James&#8217; new HBO show The Shop and new albums from Open Mike Eagle (What Happens When I Try To Relax) and Esperanza Spalding (12 Little Spells)&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the way, if you like this podcast, TELL A FRIEND!! 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