{"id":693,"date":"2021-01-12T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=693"},"modified":"2021-01-12T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:03:52","slug":"the-toy-department-episode-243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"The Toy Department &#8211; Episode 243"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Episode 243, Madden and Kolsky are (unsuccessfully, again) aiming for a short episode, so they dive right into:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The new Tiger Woods documentary on HBO (2:40) and how it spins a fascinating story around a rather uninteresting personality&#8230;<\/li><li>The too-widely-acclaimed How To with John Wilson (20:05) and how the odd but unexceptional HBO Max show fails to live up to its billing&#8230; <\/li><li>The Apple TV+ original Mythic Quest (27:00), where Kolsky stopped watching and why Madden thinks it&#8217;s worth sticking with it&#8230;<\/li><li>The Netflix docu-series History of Swear Words (33:25) and the enjoyable comedy of filthy language&#8230; <\/li><li>Some quick sports thoughts &#8212; on the NBA&#8217;s COVID issues (39:50) and the NFL&#8217;s first Super Wild Card Weekend (49:25)&#8230;<\/li><li>Homework for of next Tuesday (1:02:45), including: the second part of HBO&#8217;s Tiger documentary, the new film Promising Young Woman (available on VOD), the Amazon Prime film One Night in Miami (directed by Regina King) and the third film in the Small Axe Series &#8212; Red, White and Blue; plus MORE NFL playoffs and NBA basketball&#8230; and DON&#8217;T MISS our coverage of The Challenge: Double Agents on Thursday!!!<\/li><\/ul>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2845\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-693-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/319419\/kolsky.info\/toydept\/episodeData\/TDEpisode243.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/319419\/kolsky.info\/toydept\/episodeData\/TDEpisode243.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/319419\/kolsky.info\/toydept\/episodeData\/TDEpisode243.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/319419\/kolsky.info\/toydept\/episodeData\/TDEpisode243.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?powerpress_pinw=693-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/319419\/kolsky.info\/toydept\/episodeData\/TDEpisode243.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TDEpisode243.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('693-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_693-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_693-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?powerpress_embed=693-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-toy-department\/id1064684433?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kolsky.info%2Ftoydept%2F%3Fp%3D693\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Episode 243, Madden and Kolsky are (unsuccessfully, again) aiming for a short episode, so they dive right into: The new Tiger Woods documentary on HBO (2:40) and how it spins a fascinating story around a rather uninteresting personality&#8230; The too-widely-acclaimed How To with John Wilson (20:05) and how the &hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=693\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2336,2212,1925,2330,2333,1980,3,214,2064,2341,2338,1540,2,2334,2335,7,2340,168,20,109,2343,114,2342,2337,98,1154,40,2339,18,4],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nba-2","tag-apple-tv","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-covid-19","tag-derek-madden","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-max","tag-history-of-swear-words","tag-how-to-with-john-wilson","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-matt-kolsky","tag-mike-tomlin","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-movies","tag-mythic-quest","tag-netflix","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-rob-mcelhenney","tag-super-wild-card-weekend","tag-television","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-the-toy-department","tag-tiger","tag-tiger-woods","tag-toy-department"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ToyDept_NEW-logo.jpg?fit=1400%2C1400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZRMV-bb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}