{"id":637,"date":"2020-07-30T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=637"},"modified":"2020-07-30T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T18:02:15","slug":"the-toy-department-episode-222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"The Toy Department &#8211; Episode 222"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Episode 222, Madden and Kolsky start with a discussion of babies and zoos before getting into:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The second week of The Challenge: Total Madness Reunion (5:00) and the general let-down of this season&#8217;s end&#8230; <\/li><li>The return of HBO&#8217;s Room 104 (21:10) and just how delightful the first episode of this season was, even if it doesn&#8217;t make the show feel essential&#8230; <\/li><li>The new Amazon Prime film Radioactive (28:20) and some of the curious choices made by the filmmakers&#8230; 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