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Techland contributors list their top five nerdy news nuggets of the week -- including Repo Men, Ugly Americans, MOG, Kick-Ass and our very own Monster March Madness bracket -- in this week's episode._ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:21 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Techland's Top Five of the Week: Zombies, Playstation Move and More](/video/Z7AHaQsy/) ### Techland's Top Five of the Week: Zombies, Playstation Move and More [Techland's Top Five: Tron, March Madness and More](/video/h8TyNIe6/) ### Techland's Top Five: Tron, March Madness and More [My Nerdy Valentine: Techland's Top 5 Date Movies](/video/DnpAhxDc/) ### My Nerdy Valentine: Techland's Top 5 Date Movies --- ## Transcript >> Number five, Repo Men. >> Number four, Ugly Americans. >> Number three, Music, MOG. >> Number two, Kick- Ass. >> Number one, Monster March Madness. >> Welcome to the Techland Show. I am your co- host Peter Ha. >> And I'm Steve with coffee. >> As usual. >> As usual. Welcome back, Peter. >> Thanks. >> How's San Fran? >> It was nice. I didn't really wanna come back. I liked playing video games all week. Not that it's ain't different any other week but-- >> Otherwise known as a Thursday. >> Yes. >> You start to see in the beginning that there's just the corporate-- the corporate state has gone completely insane, like everything is corporatized, there's billboards everywhere and now, corporations have found a way to make money off your body. You need a new organ? Well, we'll give you a transplant. It's gonna cost about $ 600, 000 and if you don't have the money, don't worry, because they have a payment plan that's perfect for you, 19 percent interest and-- >> What? >> If you missed your payments though on day 96 if your missed payments, six days after the third month, they're gonna come back and take the order back. >> So, then like what? Put you in a tub of ice? >> Well, if they're taking back their heart, you're pretty much just lay in there and good to go. >> Dead? >> Yeah. Well, they have to ask you if you want an ambulance. But when they'll shock you unconscious, you tend not to be able to reply. >> What? >> They do ask though, you'd see there like, would you like an ambulance waiting? Well, the-- they do doubt. [ unk ]. >> So, Ugly Americans looks really funny because Randall, our zombie of the week, actually he's trying to go after this chick and the chick was like, " Well, you know, I'm only in the zombies ." So, he goes and gets zombified. And then she's like, " You know, I'm just in the warlocks now ." And then like his skin like falls off randomly and he has like a human roommate, it's really, really fun. I'm looking forward to it. >> Reminds me of my first girlfriend. >> So, MOG is online streaming service. What's really-- okay, the biggest thing for me is the simple fact that A, I can listen to one artist for as long as I want, or is it like Pandora? Like you get that one artist in maybe once an hour. On MOG, you can listen to him all day long if you want, and then there's little slider on the player, that lets you mix in different artist. MOG has deals with all four major record labels and then they have deals that's like a bunch of low India labels and their model is-- it's pretty basic. It's like all you can eat, I mean, you're already paying for the service, so it's $ 5 a month. >> Oh, okay. >> You can create your own playlist, you can save songs to your library. >> Nice. Sort of figuring how to do it to the point where you'd be willing to pay for it. >> Right, exactly. >> Nice. >> And then at South by Southwest this week, they announced their iPhone and Android apps. >> Which I know-- >> Which I'm excited about because you can store music locally on your phone. >> Nice. >> I'm hearing that Hit- Girl was like she is the one to watch in the movie. Is that right? >> And I heard ramblings, it was that all in a Mark Millar with Lev that she actually improvised a lot of her stuff. >> Yeah, that's amazing. >> That there was killing back on the offense of this, and then she ratcheted back. Anyway, here's the deal. We already wrote something about Kick- Ass. >> Uh- hmm. >> I'm wondering, do we have an easy link we can give? Well, anyway, go to culture movies, a review of-- a spoiler free, first look that's already up and what I really dug about the movie is that everything is as promised. It's crazy, violent, crazy bloody, great fight choreography. What's not to like? >> I'm excited. I wanna see it. >> I think it's a winner. I think it's a total winner and I think people will be-- I laughed-- not laughed, I sort of smile to the whole damn thing. >> Yeah. >> Because even the violent parts, even the villains, even the little joy, you know, celebratory joy rides here and there, the movie takes its time to really just love its characters and you can tell that it made by, you know, a comic geek who just is in love with the vamp, he's able to make a movie. >> Our super villain March Madness Tournament, which started, wait, what was that? >> Started yesterday. >> I'm sorry. >> Although this is like an NCAA, like a CBS sports. March Madness. You know how most people take their, a day off work, get drunk at the bar and watch the March Madness basketball games? >> Yeah. >> Well, we got drunk, took a day off work and filled in our bracket. >> Yeah. >> Not really-- >> Who do you have won it? >> Well, so my bracket went up yesterday. >> Yeah. >> And I know what people are going to be ticked off about, is the match, the nothing from the never- ending story versus-- >> Uh- hmm. >> MCP from Trojan. And I picked the, you know-- >> Is this old MCP or new MCP? >> That's old school MCP. >> Okay. >> We don't know anything about the new MCP. >> Well, you know, it's Jeff Bridges probably. But, who do you think is gonna win the whole thing? >> The whole thing. >> Yeah. >> The number one villain of all time. >> Yes. >> Yeah, I don't know. I know everyone is freaking out. 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