Patreon Newsletter #61: November 2024

HRR Updates/News:

• Our November Review Crew (Building Lego sets and watching Dawsons Creek s3 e21) will be released Monday November 18th.

• The November Review Crew live-stream will be Monday November 11th from 8pm to 9pm CST. 

 From Adal:

Here’s what I consumed in October. Let me know if you’ve enjoyed anything recently that I should check out!

TV:

• What We Do in the Shadows season 6

• Abbott Elementary season 4

• Somebody Somewhere season 1 (my sister Sadieh is in season 3 which just released, so I’m rushing to watch the first 2 seasons!)

• The Floor season 2

• Starting Five

Movies: 

• Over The Garden Wall - which just celebrated it’s 10th anniversary and creator Patrick McHale made this new video to celebrate, which I think is worth checking out: Over the Garden Wall | 10th Anniversary Stop Motion Short | Cartoon Network

• It’s What’s Inside - Super fun new movie on Netflix, Jemma’s cousin plays ‘Forbes’ 

• Pearl

• MaXXXine

• The Shadow Strays

• Jennifer’s Body - had never seen this and was surprised how funny it was. A ‘Heathers’ vibe to be sure

Other Stuffs: 

• I Recently guested on The Restricted Section podcast as well as Source Not Found podcast 

• I went to my very first Ska concert in Madison. A band called ‘I Voted For Kodos’ which was Jemma’s favorite when she went through her ska phase. Pretty fun concert…I finally saw someone skank

• Speaking of Jemma, I saw a show she was involved with called The Last Days of Eden Creek. It was an immersive style musical by a local immersive group, Birch House. If you’re in Chicago, I recommend you check out whatever show they put up next!

• I had a blast on the Hey Riddle tour and especially losing my mind and breaking my body at Boda Borg in Boston….WUMPLEFRUMP.

• I really dig the new ‘straight to album musical’ of the movie The Warriors that Lin-Manuel Miranda just put out called ‘Warriors’. Almost every song is inspired by a different genre of music

• Jemma and I have played and enjoyed the new Super Mario Party Jamboree

• Read and enjoyed The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke (highly highly recommend her last book Piranesi if you haven’t checked that out yet) and War by Bob Woodword

Adal

From JPC: 

Hey Riddiots - 

I recently had knee surgery so I’ve had a lot of time to just kind of lay around. Shout out to Adal & Jemma who brought me dinner and buckeyes after my surgery. Good people! Definitely keep them in mind for your next surgery.

Luckily, my recovery started on the same day that the Brotato DLC was released. Been having a blast with that. Playing my Steam Deck more than I have in the last year. Guess that purchase is really paying off for me now. Also been playing a fair amount of Risk of Rain 2 since the new DLC got “fixed”. It’s still very hard! 

I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm just not a TV guy anymore. I watched Nobody Wants This with my wife and it was fine. I like that Adam Brody. We also watched all of English Teacher and that is really good. Highly recommend that. And those two shows took me almost 2 months to watch! 

Two quick professional updates:

1) My other podcast Billbuds is on hiatus. We've been recording that podcast weekly for 4 years! That's wild. It's truly been a lot of fun and I learned embarrassing little about music doing a music review show. The show was very much a "pandemic" project that Johnny & I had talked about doing for years and then we finally had a lot of time on our hands. 4 years later, and we have way less time on on hands (mostly me who has a toddler on my hands). Anyway, the pod is still available wherever you get podcasts but there won't be any new episodes for a while. We also paused our Patreon, but if you have any interest in the almost 100 bonus episodes, you can buy them all for $10 here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/785448

2) I've taken over as the producer for Whirled News Tonight at iO. We've probably talked about WNT on the show a ton before, but if you are new here or don't recall the details, it's a weekly improv show every Saturday night at 8pm at iO in Chicago. The show is an improvised satire of the news of the week. The audience clips out news articles, we read them on stage and then improvise scenes based on those articles. If you've never seen the show before, it's a lot of fun. I'll be there every Saturday in November (and most in December). I'll be the one walking VERY weird. I've really enjoyed meeting HRR listeners, so if you come to the show, make sure you say hi! Remember, you know me but I don't know you, so you have to approach me. Terrifying, but I believe in you. 

Okay, now I simply must know: what’s your favorite thing to do while you’re recuperating from knee surgery? 

-JPC