Breadline Optimists: A Film Podcast

   A few months ago, I played a game based on the Incinerator Podcast, hosted by one Billy Ray Brewton, where a friend and I determined the best film from Woody Allen. I wrote a blog about it. (https://frombtoapodcast.blogspot.com/2022/05/my-friend-and-i-played-movie-game.html )  I got a lot of good feedback on the blog and a bit later, my wife (Vanessa) and a mutual friend (Scott) decided they wanted to play the same game but with Stephen King adaptations   ( https://frombtoapodcast.blogspot.com/2022/06/my-wife-and-friend-played-movie-game.html). I offered to play an version of this game my wife chose with our friend Scott as engineer. She decided on Marilyn Monroe films. We are both fans and have seen the films, but we decided to rewatch twenty films for this game so the prep work took some time. Here is how the game works. The usual premise is two people make individual top twenty lists on any given topic (for instance vampire films). The host takes a look at...

 Last month I played a game based on the Incinerator Podcast, hosted by one Billy Ray Brewton, where a friend and I determined the best film from Woody Allen. I wrote a blog about it. (https://frombtoapodcast.blogspot.com/2022/05/my-friend-and-i-played-movie-game.html )  I got a lot of good feedback on the blog and my wife (Vanessa) and a mutual friend (Scott) decided they wanted to play the same game but with Stephen King adaptations.  Here is how the game works. The premise is two people make individual top twenty lists on any given topic (for instance vampire films). The host takes a look at the lists and sees what titles the two players have in common. Let's say the players have 8 in common picks. Each player must now pick 6 out of the 12 they did not have in common and submit those. That makes up a top twenty list. There is an engineer who adds five films that he/she feels are lacking from the list and that makes a top 25. The players then eliminate films one by one ...

 I am a completist. If I love a handful of films by an actor or director, I will soon see all of that person's films. This has paid of in a lot of ways and sometimes I regret the time spent. John Schlesinger for instance ended up having a so-so filmography. I found this podcast called The Incinerator; the creator/host is named Billy Ray Brewton.  The premise is two people make individual lists of the 20 best films on any given topic (for instance vampire films). The host takes a look at these lists and sees which films both individual lists and notes what if any films the players have in common. Let's say both players have eight common picks. Each player must now pick 6 of the 12 they do not have in common and submit those. That makes up the top 20 list. There is then an Engineer who adds 5 films that the engineer feels are lacking from the list.  That makes the list a top 25.  The players then eliminate films one by one, until only one is left standing. But the engi...