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PTP On Ranked: Top 5 Lists of Stuff That Don’t Matter – Top 5 Fictional Swords

“We’ll be back next week with an all-new episode of Pull the Plug, but for now, here’s a little treat for ya.

Here’s the episode that Justin G and PTP alum Jordan G recently guested on with host Tuong La and Tom Zalatnai for Ranked: Top 5 Lists of Stuff That Don’t Matter.

Listen in as we try and rank the Top 5 Fictional Swords! There’s hilarity. There’s innuendoes. There’s an uncomfortable amount of Lord of the Rings and anime lore. It’s a good time maybe!

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159. Chef (2014) ft. James Hawes!

This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and special guest James Hawes (@turrethousepressmtl) talk about Jon Favreau’s 2014 movie “Chef”- this conversation contains some mild spoilers! We get into the themes of The Chef as An Artist, parent-child relationship redemption stories, and how food service workers can touch people’s lives with their work.

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From the Dummies Vault: Top 5 Pixar Movies

Over a year ago the Dummies ranked Top 5 Disney Animated Feature Films in a special CROSSOVER episode after spending a few years discussing and catching up to all of the Disney movies. Well we did it all over again, as Pixar Pals this time, watching every single Pixar movie (so far)! That’s right, we’re once again assembling the ultimate top five list as your Pals Tuong, Laura, Sam, and Brad duke it out to decide which story from the adventures of talking toys, to robots finding love, to listening to your emotions, and much more will be crowned our champ!

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130 – Top 5 Movies of 2021

Wait did any movies even come out last year?

The pandemic has made the timing of movie releases weird. Movies endlessly have been getting delayed and it really seemed like nothing came out in 2021. With the Oscars coming up, y’know the most prestigious awards show nobody watches, we once again took it upon ourselves to reflect on if there was anything even worth watching or talking about for this year’s best movie podcast. The answer was YES! Even in a sea of delayed films, there was a number of great stuff that came out last year that supplied that much-needed escapism that only movies can provide, transporting our minds away from the harsh reality of real life and into a world of imagination and wonder. So join Tuong and Movie Lovers Nivala Maharaj, Jesse Anderson, and Alyssa Wooldridge as they binge all the films from last year to bring you a Top 5 Movies of 2021 list!

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Ep 100 – 100th Episode Spectacular Bonanza

We made it to 100!

We did it everyone! Talkin’ Tuong has officially hit a big ol’ milestone today with the release of episode 100! Join the titular Tuong from Talkin’ Tuong as he reminisces about the history of this very special show while looking ahead to the future. Also if you have never listened to an episode of TT, there has never been a better time! With relentless stupidity and determination, Tuong decided to celebrate today’s occasion by giving a micro-review of EVERY SINGLE movie, game, show, etc. he’s ever talked about on this show all the way back starting from episode 1. Will this be an episode you want to miss? No. Will this be entertaining for you as a listener? Maybe. Will Tuong have fun anyways recording this thing even if talking to yourself for a long stretch of time makes you go a little crazy? Absolutely. So sit back and enjoy Tuong ramble on and on with Talkin’ Tuong’s 100th Episode Spectacular Bonanza!

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Ep 75 – The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021) with Meghan Murphy

“Families can be hard but they are so worth fighting for.”

Stop us if you heard this before: A movie about an unlikely group of people saving the world from killer robots. You’d think with the amount of times this type of movie has been done before that there would be no way to tell us this movie in a fresh exciting way. Well we were wrong! This week on Talkin’ Tuong join Tuong and Overlord Robot A.I. Meghan Murphy as they talk about the latest movie from the minds behind Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse and The Lego Movie – The Mitchells vs. The Machines!

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EP36 – Stroke of Genius

Angus shows Walter Ego (Matt Barrow) the ropes at S.H.A.R.T. while visited by the great Super City director Claude Lancaster (Paul JP, The Pen Is Mightier). The guys get a graphic look into the business of making films in Super City.

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Ep 62 – Dope (2015) with Stenley Philippe

“Why do I want to attend Harvard? If I was white, would you even have to ask me that question?”

Geeky kids. A party gone wrong. Geeky kids are forced into a life or death situation involving drugs. These are all beats from thousands of other movies that we’ve seen before. So is it possible to have a unique perspective with these well worn tropes? Short answer: YES! This week join Tuong and special guest Stenley Philippe as they discuss Rick Famuyiwa’s Comedy/Drama drug-filled adventure – Dope (2015)!

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102 – Top 5 Kings

A Top 5 fit for a King!
The title of King is one the highest positions of powers that people across the world have yearned and fought for (maybe because you get a fancy crown and comfy velvet robe?). For everyone else, the King meant the ruler of a kingdom who called all the shots, where you just really hoped they were a kind King and not the type that believes in you know…an ol’fashion beheading. But what makes a good King or rather interesting King? This week we’ll find out! Join Tuong La and Royal Court Jesters/ Pull the Plug’s Justin Godelie, Shannon Godelie, and Dan Foerster as they obey the royal decree of the PodCavern and all hail the Top 5 Kings list!

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100 – Ranked’s 100th Episode Spectacular

Celebrating 100 episodes of Ranked!
Almost 4 years ago there was an idea. An idea of Tuong uniting three other guests to bicker, banter, and passionately put together arbitrary Top 5 lists of anything and everything. Over the last few years we have ranked everything from Sandwich Toppings, to TV Theme Songs, to a variety of Fictional Animals. But for the 100th episode, we knew we had to go above and beyond to make a list that TRULY does not matter that also honours the legacy of all Ranked episodes (so far).

So join us as Tuong La and the A-Team Angus MacDonald, Samantha Leggatt, and Leslie Cserepy look back on all of the winners of each Top 5 list we have ever done, pit them together in a battle royale of which #1 was the best, and record a marathon episode where we rank and order ONE HUNDRED EPISODES in Ranked’s 100th Episode Spectacular!

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