Thor's Hour of Thunder

(Or at least you are probably picturing that after reading the title. If not you should give it a try, nothing like a real person doing the nasty with a super sexy cartoon character. I think that is at leasts 20 percent of the reason Who Framed Roger Rabbit is so popular.)

NEW EPISODE UP ON Thor's Classic, the much referenced Valentine's Day Special, Episode 4, from 2011. Download here:
http://hourofthunder2.podomatic.com/

(Thor wrote this episode description obviously.)

Thor, Hiemdale, Njord, Hell, and Baldr discuss:

Death, Lady Death, Spider-woman, Spider Woman, Thanos, The Avengers, The Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Thor 2, Thor 2 villain speculation, Loki, Kryptonite, Kevin Spacey, Superman Returns

The Avengers, Joss Whedon, Hawkeye, Thor, Loki, Black Widow, Hulk, Mark Ruffalo, Iron Man, Tony Stark, Samuel L Jackson, Nick Fury, heliport, The Cabin in the Woods, Mad Man, Jon Hamm, sterling cooper draper pryce, Peggy, Don Draper, Superman, Superman Returns, Sin City, Buffy, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3d, Michael Bay, Camera Work, cinematography, direction, directing, writing, screen writing, Matthew Weiner, Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, vincent Kartheiser January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Jared Harris, Bryan Batt, Michael Gladis, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, maggie Siff, Kiernan Shipka, jessica Paré, Christopher Stanley, Jay R. Ferguson, Robert Morse, john Slattery, pornography, porn, pornography

Thor, Hiemdale, Njord, Hell, and Baldr (who joins us about 45 minutes into the episode) talk:

The Avengers, Joss Whedon, Hawkeye, Thor, Loki, Black Widow, Hulk, Mark Ruffalo, Iron Man, Tony Stark, Samuel L Jackson, Nick Fury, heliport, The Cabin in the Woods, Mad Man, Jon Hamm, sterling cooper draper pryce, Peggy, Don Draper, Superman, Superman Returns, Sin City, Buffy, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3d, Michael Bay, Camera Work, cinematography, direction, directing, writing, screen writing, Matthew Weiner, Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, vincent Kartheiser
January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Jared Harris, Bryan Batt, Michael Gladis, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, maggie Siff, Kiernan Shipka, jessica Paré, Christopher Stanley, Jay R. Ferguson, Robert Morse, john Slattery

illustration of jon hamm as superman via: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=55825

A slightly delayed posting, this recording took place on Easter Monday and in some extremely eager anticipation of Ian Flemming's May 28th birthday. Thor, Loki, Fray(j)a, and Njord gather together around a cozy Skype window and hash out their Bondliest feelings. Loki is back at the editing desk and Baldr is suspiciously absent from this session. Coincidence? Let Ragnarǫk decide. Some topics inaccurately discussed include: EVERYTHING BOND (especially Grace Jones), haphazardstuff.com, Good Night and Good Luck, AED distributors and marketing strategies, Roger Moore shoots Muppets, Do you like my hair?, The Nerdist, WTF with Marc Maron, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Doctor Who in NYC, MST3K, Cookie Monster, Shaky Math, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, The Clash and/or Wrath of the Titans, Arnold is Mr. Freeze, Conan O'Brien, Das Boot, Titanic, Titanic ice cube trays and inflatable slides, jousting, Space Jam, Wayne Knight, 3rd Rock from the Soun, The Avengers (spies, not comics), Ralph Fucking Fiennes, The Phantom of the Opera, Ray Winstone is the new Gerard Butler AND Russel Crowe, Gladiator 2, Javier Bardem, The Thunder Round!, SNL, One Direction, Harry Styles, U2, Amanda Bynes, Vinnie Jones, She's the Man, Gettin' Iced, Zima, Facebook, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg's kegerator, Napoleon, and Google+ (you remember Google+)

Hey folks, Thor here, sorry for the month delay between episodes, Loki used magic to cause myself and Chris Hemsworth to trade bodies and I spend the entire month I was in his body staring at myself in the mirror. Damn that man has fine abs.

Podcast NEWS: I've decided to start uploading old episodes which we had to take down, due to the space limitations of podomatic, onto a new podomatic account. Episode ten is already up there with more to come. Which "lost" episodes do you want to hear first? let us know at hourofthunder (at) gmail.
Access "Thor's Hour of Thunder CLASSIC" here: http://hourofthunder2.podomatic.com/

Official Website for the new episodes is still
http://hourofthunder.podomatic.com/

Listen to our old college scripted comedy parody "The Shadow" here:
feed://www72.homepage.villanova.edu/tyler.cunnion/shadow/index.xml

This episode we talk about:
Hunger Games, Ender's Game, Battle Royal, Influences of the book "Hunger Games". Thor's review of the book Hunger Games, Bladr and Loki's review of the movie Hunger Games, Loki's review of the book Enders Game,

saoirse ronan, hit girl, chloe moretz, bieng a teenage girl, Ru, Katniss, Jennifer Lawrence, dark shadows, adam west, wheat thins, johnny depp, tim burton, hunger games, evil dead II, evil dead 2, Shakey cam, Book versus movie, Ender's Game, Producers of show have causing deaths, bait, series 7: the contenders.

Cover Photo this week via Deviant Art
http://woodwose.deviantart.com/art/Freyja-s-chariot-126114709?q=gallery%3Aavaloncommunity%2F26566262&qo=6

End song provided by friend of the show Alan. It is him covering Mark Hamill's cover of "Only You" at the character "The Joker" from the end credits of the video game "Arkham City"

PS I Really want the adaptation of the Hunger Games book "Mocking Jay" to have the end credits music be Carly Simon and James Taylor re-recording their ridiculous cover of the nursery rhyme "Mocking Bird". Just picture it: mock YEAH ing YEAH bird YEAH!. YEAH! (Yeah!)

While sadly somewhere in a ditch lay Baldr during this recording, Thor, Frey(j)a, Loki, Heimdall, and chef-to-the-gods Nicole gathered on a cloud and begat Episode 55. Episode 55 in turm begat the Thunder Round - a competition to end all episodes (of this show).

Topics covered listed here with no regard to order or totality:

Community, Modern Family, Al Bundy, Ted Bundy, Rosemary, Potatoes, Rosemary's Potatoes, Omega Watches, Fake Omega Watches sold on Canal Street, Police reactions to Omega Watches (fake or otherwise), David and Samantha Cameron, Barak and Michelle Obama, potential sublets available in the White House, Trained killer sharks from Egypt, The Bugle, Monarchy, Democracy, Boy Scotts, Lax uniform policies on the U.S.S. Enterprise, Annie's Boobs, Heimdall's abs, Sex and the City, The Carrie Diaries, Billie Piper's Eyebrows, Salmonella, The Band Cats and Cats and Cats and Cats, Rob and Nate Corddry, Nicholas Sarkozy, his Hott Hott third wife, Tom Cruise: Hot or Not, Simon Pegg HOT, B.L. (Before Loki) episodes of Thor's H.o.T., Crazy high Australian food prices, Parrots bein' Bitches, Breakfast Cookies, Snooki's baby, Vegemite, It's Hard Out Here for a Dingo, Everything is Illegal in VA, Rush Limbaugh as wrong, Bill O'Reilly getting it right, Prostitots.

The usual assortment of tom foolery starring: Thor, Baldr, and Loki

We talk about:
frank welker
peter weller
robo cop 2

John Carter of mars
priest

Money ball
historical biopics
spoilers

new segment: delayed reaction

aaron sorken

Mr. Hooper
Seasame Street
Mr. Moto
Charlie Chan
Mr. Wong, Detective
Robocop2

Bloody birthday
Total Eclipse
of the heart.
Slumber Party Massarce
driller killer
the ultimate driller killer thriller
drill

The extended Pantheon watch the terrible film Troll 2 and make fun of it.

After a few minutes of introduction and tom foolery we tell you the exact point to start playing Troll 2 on netflix streaming so that you can watch it along with us.

we also invite the Troll 2 drinking game and give the rules before we start the movie, so you can not only watch along with us but also drink along with us.

the gods this week are: Thor, Baldr, Loki, Frayja, Hiemdale and the NEW Hell, (who is ready to trow down against the original Hell from episode 37.)

keywords:
Claudio Fragasso, Drake Floyd, Michael Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey, Connie Young, Connie McFarland, Deborah Reed, Jason Wright, Rossella Drudi, Carlo Maria Cordio

photo from Deborah Reed's official facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/DeborahReed.Creedence

Starting at about four minutes into this episode, Thor conducts a half-hour long interview with Adam Glasser who is the porn producer director and former actor "Seymore Butts."

Here about: Glasser/Butt's filmography, his upcoming projects, the origins of the Reality Show "The Family Business which Glasser/Butts had on showtime, Glasser's sexual education/how to guide DVDs, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tim Tebow, Glasser's predictions about what the future of porn technology is, Adam Glasser's obscenity trial, the first amendment, and much more.

Balder and I talk briefly about the Wynonna Rider and Christian Slater film, "Heathers" after the interview.

Song at end was choosen because be it was orginally the soundtrack to a softcore Swedish B-Movie called "Sweden: Heaven and Hell"
http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/28/9069032-mahna-mahna-came-from-a-porn-film

Thor, Bladr, Loki, Frayja and the artist currently known as Hiemdale discuss the Oscars and talk about the actual best movies which came out last year, and the best movies that didn't come out last year but they saw for the first time. Longer episode this week because we cover a lot more topics than usual.

The official Thorscar winners for the first annual Pantheon Movie Awards are declared at about an 1 hour and 23 minutes into the episode.

Wriite in with your thoughts on the Oscars and this year in movies to HourOfThunder (at) gmail

Also! write in via email or call 754-444-THOR (754-444-8467) (same as a regular call to Florida, United States) to vote for the Who Did It Better questions which Loki posed as an awesome category/ question to the fans. (They are discussed by Loki in the second half of this episode, and are also printed below for your convenience)

¿Who Did it Better?:
-----The Matrix is in your dreams:
Inception (I know, 2010) vs The Adjustment Bureau

-----Wedding Pregame:
Hangover (or Hangover II) vs Bridesmaids

-----The "Arrangement":
No Strings Attached vs Friends With Benefits

-----Motherfucking Narration:
Born to Be Wild 3D vs African Cats

-----Found Footage Horror:
Paranormal Activity 3 vs Justin Beiber: Never Say Never

¿Who Did it Better: To the Wayback Machine!
------Crazy Girls Have All the Fun:
Sucker Punch (2011) vs Return to Oz (1985)

------It's Graduation, Get the Girl!:
Take Me Home Tonight (2011) vs Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

------Convention-al Misadventure:
Paul (2011) vs Galaxy Quest (1999)

------Dudley Moore versus Russel Brand:
Arthur (2011) vs Arthur (1981)

------Kurt Russel versus some dame:
The Thing: 2011 vs 1982)

------The Getaway Driver/ "Rules, I like that":
Drive (2011) vs The Transporter (2002)

This these words come out of our mouths: Oscars, The Artist, Jonah Hill, Money Ball, Aaron Sorken, Fright Night, Fright Night 3D, Winnie the Pooh, The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Transformers 3D, Transformers: The Dark of the Moon, Bellflower, Harold and Kumar 3D, Inception, Adjustment Bureau, the red carpet, oscar pre-show, dresses, boobs, immaturity, Joan Rivers, Third Eye Blind, Blue, Third Eye Blind's second album, the dark knight rises, Ad campaigns, dick jokes, Gieco, caveman, man of obvious intelligence, Deep Space Nine, Trails and Tribble-ations Progressive, Flo, Hamsters, HamStars, Party Rock Anthem, Party Rock, LMFAO, Kia, Best Ad series, Old Spice, Bonnie and Clyde, An American President ,The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, isaiah mustafa, Wolverine and the X-men, x-men skyrim, wolverine, Cyclops, DC’s New 52, the best comic book relaunch in 2011, Grant morrison, 2007 Oscars, Jon Stewat, Once, The Swell Season, Falling Slowly, 80th Acadamy Awards, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, People who are nice. Irish People.

And! Many more things that I'm not typing because my fingers were just eating by tribbles.

This week's cover photo via: http://firewireblog.com/2009/03/19/marvel-celebrates-wolverine%E2%80%99s-35th-anniversary-with-variant-covers-and-fine-art/

The Chris Farley and Keenan Thompson skit from "All That" which we talk about can be watched here: http://gawker.com/5415244/chris-farley-and-kenan-thompson-clown-around-on-all-that

Sukiyaki Western Django, The Good, The Bad, and the Weird
Czechvar, the original budweiser, 1945, Czech Republic, Soviet Union, USSR, CCCP, Iron Curtain, Budvar, Bud, Japanese gore films, Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett, Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes, Jude Law, Doctor Watson, 1984 TV series, Jeremy Brett
David Burke, Edward Hardwicke, Granada Television

music to play at end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQebeuVYPqs

this week's theme music via:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQebeuVYPqs
(youtube user " RonaldvanKeulen93

Thor's 51: pouring out a Czechvar for Sherlock Holmes

Starring: Thor, Bladr, Loki, and Frayja

More talk of love in movies and books including: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Harley Quinn, The Joker, Batman, Batman: The Animated Series, Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3D, Jaws the Revenge, Roy Schieder, Michael Caine, Hannah and Her Sisters, Oscars, Academy Awards, The Bahamas, choosing movies to star in based solely on the filming location.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Rape metaphors in 1950’s films. Rodger Corman, The Creature Walks Among Us.

The Help, Glory, Danny Glover, Red Tails, Haiti, King of the Hil, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Daily Show, Being a nerd versus being a fan, wyatt cenac, Peggy Hill, Hank Hill, Bobby Hill.

Thor, Loki, and Frayja start the episode, Baldr stumbles in via his secret Batcave entrance to the internet about 11 minutes into the episode.

To celebrate valentines day, We talk about fictional characters we find sexy, real people we find intellectually sexy.
Review the new Daniel Radcliff Horror film The Woman in Black, Thor does quick reviews of Netflix streaming available horror films:
The Wolf Man, American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Lon Cheney Junior, Doctor Terror’s Hour of Horrors, A Comedy of Terror, Tales of Terror, Madhouse (aka The Curse of Doctor Death), Dracula 1972 AD, Satanic Rites of Dracuala (aka Dracula is Dead and Well and Living in London)

Stone Hedge. What is a Hedge? Bath, Cadbury chocolates, Cadbury Eggs, Cadbury Bunny, Kraft, Cheez Whiz, The Man Who Would Be Polka King, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Bill Nye, Judy Dench, The Artist, The Dog From “The Artist”, Dog Cancer. jeffrey palmer, Philip Pullman, Sally Lockhart, Abed, Community, Glee, Britney S. Pears.

We give a shout to the awesome horror podcast “The Flicks the Church Forgot” which someone leads to us discussing the stereotypical repressed british person versus the reality. (Sorry to anyone from England who is offended by our bad impressions of your accents or by our general idiocy ).

http://nakforcooking.blogspot.com is the web address where you can find more from our awesome special guest chef Nicole. On tonight's episode Nicole teaches Thor, Baldr, and Loki how to make buttermilk biscuits and how to make butter, both from scratch. It gets pretty epic. Learn more about how to cook things at Nicole's aforementioned awesome website: http://nakforcooking.blogspot.com

( Also file under: Volume 1: Episode 1 of: Episodes that will actually teach you something)

Here (from wiki) is a more detailed explanation of the origin of Alcohol  proof, if you are interested:  "In the 18th century and until 1 January 1980, the United Kingdom defined alcohol content in terms of “proof spirit”, which was defined as the most dilute spirit that would sustain combustion of gunpowder.[1] The term originated in the 18th century, when payments to British sailors included rations of rum. To ensure that the rum had not been watered down, it was “proved” by dousing gunpowder in it, then tested to see if the gunpowder would ignite. If it did not, then the rum contained too much water and was considered to be “under proof”. It was found that gunpowder would not burn in rum that contained less than 57.15% abv. Therefore, rum that contained this percentage of alcohol was defined to have "100 degrees proof". "
via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_proof#History

Here is the recipe for both items so you can cook along at home: 

Butter

Ingredients:

-       Heavy cream

-       One liquid-tight jar

Directions:

1)   Pour heavy cream into jar, making sure that you do not fill the jar more than ½ full.  The cream needs room to expand.

2)   Put the lid on the jar and shake.  This will take a while.

3)   The cream will eventually stop sloshing around.  This is the whipped cream stage.  It will feel like you are accomplishing nothing, but keep going…you’re almost there.

4)   Eventually, the whipped cream will suddenly separate into a yellow mass floating in a white, watery liquid.  The yellow is butter, the white is buttermilk.

5)   Pour off the buttermilk to save for baking.

6)   Add some water to the jar with the butter and shake.  Pour off the water and repeat a few times. This rinses the buttermilk out of the butter.

Southern Buttermilk Biscuits

recipe via: http://www.food.com/recipe/southern-buttermilk-biscuits-26110

Ingredients:

-       2 cups all-purpose flour

-       ¼ teaspoon baking soda

-       1 tablespoon baking powder

-       1 tsp salt

-       6 tbsp unsalted butter, very cold

-       approx. 1 cup buttermilk

Directions:

1)    Preheat oven to 450°F

2)   Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.

3)   Cut butter into the flour (or use a food processor).  It should resemble coarse meal. 

4)   Add the buttermilk and mix until just combined.  If the dough looks a little dry, add some more buttermilk.  DON’T OVERWORK THE DOUGH.

5)   Flour a board or clean surface, and turn the dough out onto it. 

6)   Gently pat the dough until ½” thick.  Fold about 5 or so times, then pat until 1” thick.

7)   Use a round cutter (or a round glass) to cut the biscuits.

8)   Place the biscuits on a prepared cookie sheet – sides touching for soft sides, or 1” apart for crispy sides.

9)   Bake for 10-12 minutes.  Look for a light golden brown color.

This week's photo is via: http://letsfightcrime.com/2010/07/21/poppy-poppy-popcorn-shrimpies/
(I thought it was important to note that the photo was originally titled "BorkBorkBork.jpg" 'cause that is pretty cool.)

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We discuss more TinTin, Spielberg, Sci Fi and horror movies. And a bunch of more specific stuff that I don't have time to right down right now.

The photo for this episode is some silliness I (Thor) made in homage to a joke I really dug from the podcast
"The Flop House" found at http://www.flophousepodcast.com/
You should give it a listen, it is a awesome podcast about bad movies.

To explain the P2 poster further: In Episode 77 of The Flop House, Dan mentioned the low grossing horror film "P2" to which Elliot explained, "Yes the movie 'P2: Pudgement Day.'" and Stuart went onto explain that it was about a shape changing robot from the future made of liquid chocolate.

(I find very silly things very funny, as your probably noticed from listening to the podcast. Which is why the Monty Python skit "The Silly Party" is one of my favorites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FFTx6AKmU )

Thor, Balder, Loki, Frayja and Njord talk the new TinTin movie, including how it compares to the orginal comics, the animated TV shows and "Rin Tin Tin: canine cop".

We also talk: War Horse, debate the merits of motion capture, the academy award buzz for Andy Serkis in "Raise of the Planet of the Apes", debate whether or not James Franco is a fucking asshole (See if you can guess which side Thor, who writes these summaries falls on.)

Also for a change we actually discuss norse mythology at the beginning of the episode. Along with the upcoming Avergers movie, if Digital 3D is a fad and the fact that Thor's personal favorite incarnation of Thor is the marvel comic run written and drawn by Walter Simonson

Also I think esperanto, William Shatner and the daily show comes up at one point.

Photo is of the recording studio where Thor summoned the thunder this week. This episode powered by Espolon Tequila. (pictured)

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