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EPISODE 4: Fantastic Four (2025) — We’re Cookin’ 🔥👨‍👨‍👧‍👦🔥

What do you get when you toss two film nerds, one chaotic mediator, a superhero reboot, and a suspiciously blonde Hispanic child into the Tri-Pod studio? THIS. DAMN. EPISODE. 🎤💥

Justin hated it. 😠
Ethan loved it. 😍
Brandon tried to be the bridge. He drowned. 🪦

This did wrap as a tight 76-minute episode. But then came the side quests ✨✨.

Somewhere around the 1-hour mark, post-Fantastic, we enter Tangent Purgatory™ — barking studio beef, microphone trauma, and why Sue Storm gave birth to a California Abercrombie model.

PLUS:
🐉 Our Top 3 Nic Cage movies (Spoiler: Ghost Rider makes an appearance)
🎬 Don't ask why, just enjoy.

4th episode. Fantastic Four. We’re nothing if not lazy geniuses. 🧠

🎧 Main feed is poppin’. Sub to the Classics Tier in August.
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🧡 For the Faithful Fifteen who stuck with us all the way through Eddington

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🧠💥🔥 Ari Aster goes full chaos mode.
This week, the Ratings First squad unpacks the utter madness that is Eddington — a dark, violent, twist-loaded character study set in a pandemic-era American town 💉🇺🇸.

🧔‍♂️ Joaquin Phoenix plays a right-wing sheriff with a god complex
🧑‍🎤 Pedro Pascal is the chill but doomed lefty mayor
👩 Emma Stone? Ethan says checked-out, J&B say locked in.

Lowkey terrifying, if this is now America. Not a single redeemable soul in sight.

⚠️ This movie has:
🔪 Small-town politics
😡 Screaming matches
💣 Surprise violence
🤯 Twists on twists
😬 And yeah... a very sloppy Act 3 (Justin & Brandon still kinda dug it tho)

Ethan?? HATED IT. Said it was a “total mess” and meant every word 💀🔥

🎧 Listen now to hear the full breakdown, the beef, and maybe a little screaming:
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Superman: Legacy of Debate – Ratings First Episode 2

It’s Bizarro World this week as Justin drops a shocking Superman rating that might rupture the space-time continuum. Ethan’s flying high in Superman Heaven, Brandon’s cortisol is through the roof, and the pod hits peak chaos when the guys can’t agree if James Gunn’s vision soars or sinks. It’s our most contentious second episode yet — and yeah, we do shout out our beautiful, delusional listener.

Welcome back to Ratings First, where the takes are hot, the capes are ironed, and nobody agrees on anything, except James Gunn sure seems fascinated with animal torture!

Quote of the Week --

"If I'm not seeing Will Ferrell with his pants around his ankles, it's not a comedy!"

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