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Monty Ashley

@montyashley.bsky.social
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Seattle nerd. I podcast on The Incomparable Podcast Network and sometimes other places. I used to recap television shows.

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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 2h
Hey, I used to work with many of those people! Good for them!
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Tape goes kind of hard on The State nostalgia.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Of course the Musk documentary runs into distribution problems the day after I pick it in the Vulture Movie Fantasy League
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Tura23 @tura23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong???
Netflix sets "New Stanford Prison Experiment" unscripted series for October release.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I judge cashiers for whether they keep all their bills faced the same way.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Catching up on pocasts I’ve recorded! First, Part 3 of some D&D, featuring me as K’ronng, bugbear rogue. www.theincomparable.com/tpk/569/
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You Are Now Free to Move Around the Castle (Total Party Kill 569)
Jaee jigged when she should have jagged. Tink(’s player) has so many questions. K’ronng reaches out to the porch. Levithia is menaced by a monster. Cherish is livin’ glaive life.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It turns out that when Pringles puts "Glow in the Dark!" on their cans, what they mean is that the can itself has glow-in-the-dark elements, not the actual chips.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was the star of the movie that I have, by far, seen the most in thraters (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, obvs) and one of the movies I wore out on VHS (Clue). I loved him on Duckman in the Nineties and a million other things too. I am devastated.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
One of these days, I really ought to find a comfortable position in which to sleep.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I liked the word “liminal” more back when it didn’t just mean “abandoned.”
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Probably “If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?”, a batshit piece of Christploitation that got sampled in the great Negativland song “Christianity Is Stupid”. (You have to go to the right kind of theater)
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
More D&D! With some foolishness! www.theincomparable.com/tpk/562/
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This Mouse Is Spotless (Total Party Kill 562)
In this new adventure, the Keys need to perform a reverse heist! Along the way they meet an adorable playwright and a couple of improv goblins who keep slapping each other like two nine-year-olds in t...
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I don’t think I believe that a man like Tony Soprano would name his daughter “Meadow.”
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I feel that the power dynamics of The Odd Couple are dependent on one of the actors not being twice the size of the other one. This dude understands neither himself nor the play.
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Dwayne Johnson Tried To Revive 'The Odd Couple' On Broadway With Kevin Hart
Despite Kevin Hart's scheduling conflicts, Dwayne Johnson revealed that he's "been working on my Broadway debut" for nearly three years.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Tina Turner has three acting gigs on her IMDB where she does not play “Tina Turner”: The Mayor in Last Action Hero, Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and The Acid Queen in Tommy.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My favorite thing about the World Cup is the RefCam. It should immediately be adopted by all other sports, except that now it’s a GoPro on a random fan they let run around the field. Imagine the footage!
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Fifty years ago, I was in Washington DC. The new National Air and Space Museum had its grand opening. Everyone seemed happy, and there was Bicentennial stuff EVERYWHERE. I liked that national birthday more.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Lestat should invest in some outfits for his band. It looks silly when he’s being all Superglam and he’s being backed by what is clearly an okay bar band. Get those dudes some capes.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Prime Video, you are a liar.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I’m told Euphoria just ended its third season, which is weird because I feel like I have been hearing about this show for decades.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I just got this book on the history of State Fairs, and now I feel weird reading it.
A hardback book entitled “The American State Fair”
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
In my memory, everyone liked and enjoyed The Departed until this Simpsons episode put in the knife. But that's probably wrong, because it was Season 19, which means most people had checked out.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"Demonetized" should mean "got turned into a demon."
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I feel like all these data centers would provide more value if they just mined Bitcoin all day. And that’s a mean thing to say about anything.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Widow’s Bay’s guest star game is on pot.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Missed Connections is a game that improves Connections by adding riddles. Riddles improve everything. This is a very fun episode, and I'm not just saying that because of the margin of victory. www.theincomparable.com/gameshow/282/
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Psychedelic Pizza (Game Show 282)
Welcome back to Missed Connections, a game in which our contestants must make four colorful word connections while guessing tricky (some might say problematically tricky) word clues. This episode was ...
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace is a title that hints at a movie with some cyber-nonsense in it. It doesn't even scratch the surface! I love this garbage movie, and I was delighted to talk about it on a podcast with friends. www.theincomparable.com/theincompara...
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Fascism for Algernon (The Incomparable Mothership 816)
Put on your eye phones and jack in to the cyberscape! Rocket Surgery comes for 1996’s cyberpunk epic “Lawnmower Man 2.” (Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the original “Lawnmower Man,” half of us didn’t...
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
In this podcast episode, we discuss the movie SINNERS. We enjoyed it! www.theincomparable.com/theincompara...
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I Guess I Gotta Kill All These Klan Guys (The Incomparable Mothership 815)
Not now, Klansmen, I’m killing vampires! “Sinners” got nominated for all the awards, and it’s also a vampire (with a hint of zombie?) movie. We love it when genre movies get attention, and Ryan Coogle...
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I spent hours reducing a rose bush today. When Sondheim wrote, "A thicket's no trick. The quickest is pick it apart with a stick," he was spouting nonsense. A stick is useless. You need giant powerful gardening shears, something to protect you from the vicious thorns, and, ideally, a source of fire.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I am enjoying Dimension 20’s City Council of Darkness, in which some goofball vampires try to take over a pointedly tiny and insignificant Pacific Northwest city. I have relevant experience, having once played the Prince of Renton, WA.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I'm watching this cheapo country music movie called Forty Acre Feud, and this one band is actively screwing around with each other.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Snoopy playing baseball is fundamentally different from all the other stuff he does.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I always think the theatrical cut of Blade Runner gets a bad rap. It's the one that changed the look of science fiction. It's the one everyone fell in love with! Point is: we talked about the theatrical edition specifically. www.theincomparable.com/theincompara...
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Have You Considered More Voiceovers? (The Incomparable Mothership 811)
These movie producers really did a job on “Blade Runner.” They don’t advertise for narrations in the newspaper, every good writer knows that. But when you’re trying to sell a narratively dense piece o...
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
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Tura23 @tura23.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The view from my hotel balcony is lovely .
San Diego night time photo. Harbor with various ships and boats and the lights of the city ona distant hill.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I am on this podcast game show!
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The kid from The Wire? Good for him!
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Big if true
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This, but the signs all say RATE, REVIEW, and SUBSCRIBE.
A black-and-white screenshot from the movie "They Live". Billboards on the tops of city buildings say BUY, CONSUME, and CONFORM.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I participated in this!
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
How long has Amazon had this tip-your-delivery-person thing?
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It sure is We Have Updated Our Terms Of Service season
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The word “mediocre” originally meant “of moderate quality”. Not good; not bad; mediocre. It has since picked up a bunch of negative connotations, so that it now means “on the low side of moderate. Pretty bad.” Anyway, I think it’s interesting that “mid” went through the same cycle so quickly.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Star Wars Opinion: People like Babu Frik because he(?) is a weird little guy who doesn’t do much. The Mandalorian and Grogu will begin The Overexposure. It’s the same arc as Boba Fett, but much quicker. Happy for Shirley Henderson, obviously.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I like that Beauregard is the first Muppet we see in the new Muppet Show, because it means that original Muppeteer Dave Goelz is front and center.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
D&D! A heist! As I remember, this is where the plan starts getting squirrelly. Also, this is part two on account of I forgot to post when part one happened. www.theincomparable.com/tpk/541/
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Party on the Roof (Total Party Kill 541)
When all four adventurers reunite on the roof, that’s when the party really starts buzzin’!
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Podcast Opinion: Just tell the story. It doesn't matter if your co-host has heard it before; your audience may not have. It doesn't matter if you've told it before. If you find yourself saying "Do you know this story..." then you should immediately pivot to "Here's the story."
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If this new The 'Burbs does not have an equivalent character for Brother Theodore, I'm out. I mean, I was out already, but still. Justice for Brother Theodore.
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Monty Ashley @montyashley.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I understand the value of protecting the brand. But making everyone call it "The Big Game" is dumb.
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