Exciting and New · Jason, Andy, and Dana

S6 Mini 14 What are we watching?

April 6, 2026·30 min·2 clips

Dan reveals he watched the impossible-to-stream 1980 comedy 'Fatso' after hearing about it on another podcast.

1. Exciting and New, Season 6 Mini Episode 14, is a round-table recommendation segment where hosts Jason, Andy, Dana, and returning co-host Dan share what they have been watching and listening to. 2. The four hosts — Jason, Andy, Dana, and Dan — are pop-culture enthusiasts; Dan's previous appearance was a Rocky IV watch with Jim, referenced as context for his absence. 3. The episode functions as a casual watch-list exchange with no single thesis — its value is the breadth of titles covered and the group's reactions to each other's picks. 4. Dan opens by revisiting Fatso (1980), a Dom DeLuise comedy he found on YouTube, and Super Fuzz (aka Super Snooper), an early 1980s Ernest Borgnine and Terence Hill film where the hero loses powers whenever he sees red. 5. Jason watched the Hulu documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead, a new Hulu release featuring interviews with Billy Idol himself, which he recommends to fans. 6. Jason saw Pizza Movie on Hulu, a new release starring Daniel Radcliffe, Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin from Stranger Things), and Adam F. Goldberg, described as a drug-comedy about trying to get downstairs to order pizza. 7. Watching while his wife Michelle was in Florida, Jason binged Black Mirror Season 7, focusing on the episode Common People — Chris O'Dowd and Rashida Jones as a working-class couple whose brain implant begins serving ads, with Tracee Ellis Ross as the corporate rep. 8. Jason explicitly draws a parallel between the Common People brain-implant ad model and Netflix's own practice of selling cheaper ad-supported tiers and charging more to remove commercials. 9. ChatGPT recommended Arrival (Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner) and Ad Astra (Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones) when Jason input a list of recent sci-fi favorites; he liked Arrival more on a second watch without family talking over it, found Ad Astra underwhelming. 10. The group's most animated discussion centers on Sunshine (2007, Danny Boyle), a film none of them had heard of despite a cast of Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Rose Byrne, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Benedict Wong — all pre-fame for most. 11. Andy adds that the Sunshine cast lived together during production to build chemistry, except Cillian Murphy who went home each night because his wife was pregnant. 12. Dan recommends The Chair Company as a "cringe humor" show that sometimes requires pausing because of the second-hand embarrassment, comparing the feeling to watching Uncut Gems. 13. Dan has been watching American Dad from the beginning for the first time, reaching Season 7, and singles out Roger's throwaway one-liners as the funniest material. 14. The group briefly debates the Scrubs reboot, with some cast members appearing intermittently due to other commitments — Judy Reyes is on High Potential, John C. McGinley is on the HBO show Rooster with Steve Carell. 15. Andy recounts reading Robbie Robertson's autobiography and the earlier Band history book, noting Robertson confirmed the visible cocaine on Neil Young's nose in The Last Waltz documentary. 16. Andy and Jason saw Corey Glover and Vernon Reid of Living Colour perform acoustically at a 50-seat venue, stumbling onto Corey Glover dining at a diner across the street beforehand. 17. The group mentions attending a Circle Jerks and Gorilla Biscuits show at TLA the following day, noting the Circle Jerks' 31-song set averages 95 seconds per song — roughly a 45-minute set. 18. The tone throughout is relaxed and digressive, with frequent crosstalk, shared trivia, and the casual shorthand of friends who have watched television together for years. 19. Best suited for TV and film enthusiasts who enjoy informal group discussions mixing old and new titles across streaming platforms. 20. Listeners who prefer structured reviews, analysis, or a single-topic focus will likely find the episode too scattered.

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A loose watchlist hang that moves from older movies to TV talk and back again.

This mini episode plays like an easy watchlist hang. Dan's return gives the banter a lift, and the conversation moves from Rocky IV to Fatso, Super Fuzz, Vanished, and The Institute without feeling rushed.

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For when you want a scrappy mini-episode chat that jumps from old cult movies to a couple of MGM shows.

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