A.Ron

Ex Machina (2015)

After Westworld season 3 ended, I expected we’d be done discussing what it means to be alive and artificial intelligence. And then we started talking about Devs. And now we’re covering this. Join us for about an hour as we discuss Alex Garland’s ambitious Turing test, Ex Machina.

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Devs: Season 1 – Episodes 3 & 4 – Off the Clock

This week A.Ron talks briefly about “The Great” and we continue our “Devs” watch with season 1, episodes 3 & 4.

“Off the Clock” is our weekly premium show where we talk about all the TV and movies we’ve been watching in our free time. One episode per month is also dedicated to discussion of topics voted on by our Patreon supporters.

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LWJ&A – Episode 247: “Quarantine Classic”

In this week’s lunch, we talk about modding a Playstation Classic, run through a classic movie face-off to pick the winners, and get in touch with our true selves thanks to the coronavirus quarantine.

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Episode 26: “Pick Your Spots”

Club members get access to a live recording of Lunch with Jim & A.Ron every Friday at 1pm, where members get to ask questions in real time. On the fifth anniversary of Lunch with Jim & A.Ron, we started reheating previous lunch episodes and making them available to the public for the first time.

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Season 3 Wrapup

For our wrapup, we’re joined by Kim Renfro of Insider to consider some of the major questions we have coming out of the latest season. She’s been following Westworld more closely than perhaps anyone else on the planet, so there’s no one more qualified. Hope to see you again next season! [groups_member group=”Members”] [/groups_member] [groups_non_member…

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Devs: Season 1 – Episodes 1 & 2 – Off the Clock

“Off the Clock” is our weekly premium show where we talk about all the TV we’ve been watching in our free time. One episode per month is also dedicated to discussion of topics voted on by our Patreon supporters.

This week we’re talking about Alex Garland’s latest sci-fi series, Devs, episodes 1 & 2.

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LWJ&A – Episode 246: “On the Edge”

This week on lunch: Detailed plans for the return of Watching Dead. Edge or middle of brownies? Are cast iron pans worth it? Tiny Houses. Beard fiddling. And more.

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Episode 25: “Crisis of Lifestyle”

In Episode #25, originally aired on 5.8.15: Jim and A.Ron discuss the problems of the glut of Golden Age television. How do you decide what to watch? How do you decide what to let go? Can you ever catch up? All this and more is pondered over Lunch.

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S04E06 – Never Ricking Morty

Rick and Morty find themselves on a cosmic train with no memory of how they go there. One thing is quickly made clear – all tracks lead to a confrontation with Rick Sanchez.

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Episode 24: “The Society”

In Episode #24, originally aired on 4.24.15: Jim and A.Ron discuss their religious past and pull something from the dark recesses of the Bald Move studio closet… an alpha version of the card game “The Society” that the boys created years ago to explain what it feels like to grow up in a cult.

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