{"id":739,"date":"2021-03-30T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=739"},"modified":"2021-03-30T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:00:47","slug":"the-toy-department-episode-254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"The Toy Department &#8211; Episode 254"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Episode 254, Madden and Kolsky do a little pandemic life check-in before getting into:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>HBO Max&#8217;s Swedish series Beartown (1:25) and how it is both gripping and also somewhat difficult to watch&#8230;<\/li><li>HBO&#8217;s Tina Turner documentary Tina (10:10) and the extraordinary woman whose life story it tells&#8230;<\/li><li>Nate Bargatze&#8217;s Netflix stand-up special The Greatest Average American (30:50) and how it&#8217;s a nice, fun time with comedy&#8230;<\/li><li>Netflix&#8217;s documentary The Last Blockbuster (38:20) and how it does a great job of capturing a specific feeling from a specific time, as well as telling an interesting story&#8230;<\/li><li>Homework for next Tuesday (1:00:50), including: the new season of Top Chef in Portland, the Netflix movie Bad Trip with Eric Andre and Lil Rel and the new Netflix show The Irregulars&#8230; and DON&#8217;T MISS our coverage of The Challenge: Double Agents AND the first season of The Challenge All Stars on Thursday!!!<\/li><\/ul>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1219\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-739-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/319419\/kolsky.info\/toydept\/episodeData\/TDEpisode254.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/319419\/kolsky.info\/toydept\/episodeData\/TDEpisode254.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/319419\/kolsky.info\/toydept\/episodeData\/TDEpisode254.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\/TDEpisode254.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?powerpress_pinw=739-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/319419\/kolsky.info\/toydept\/episodeData\/TDEpisode254.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TDEpisode254.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('739-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_739-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_739-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?powerpress_embed=739-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%3D739\" 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 254, Madden and Kolsky do a little pandemic life check-in before getting into: HBO Max&#8217;s Swedish series Beartown (1:25) and how it is both gripping and also somewhat difficult to watch&#8230; HBO&#8217;s Tina Turner documentary Tina (10:10) and the extraordinary woman whose life story it tells&#8230; Nate Bargatze&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/?p=739\"> 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":[2471,2478,3,1547,214,2064,2472,2473,2,7,6,2476,168,2480,826,2470,98,2477,40,2474,2475,4,2479],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beartown","tag-blockbuster-video","tag-derek-madden","tag-documentary","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-max","tag-hockey","tag-ike-turner","tag-matt-kolsky","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-nate-bargatze","tag-netflix","tag-rock-and-roll","tag-stand-up-comedy","tag-sweden","tag-television","tag-the-last-blockbuster","tag-the-toy-department","tag-tina","tag-tina-turner","tag-toy-department","tag-video-stores"],"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-bV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/740"}],"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=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kolsky.info\/toydept\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}