EP 377 "Critically of the cuff with the Brothers"

October 9, 2025·46 min·3 clips

The Menu ends with a cheeseburger, a boat, and a restaurant-wide fire.

1. Critical Thinking Podcast episode 377 mixes sports talk, movie reviews, games, and home-repair stories. 2. Walter Coyne, Rick the Rizzo, and Eric Fairenuff-Lopez host the episode and set the roundtable tone. 3. The episode asks what the hosts watched, played, and fixed that week, while teasing a retro rewind on Tombstone and Army of Darkness. 4. Walter Coyne describes a water leak near the garage door and traces it to the hot-water line for the kitchen sink. 5. He says the sink line was dripping onto insulation, and a plumber is coming the next day to fix it. 6. The host also explains that the dishwasher is broken and that a shop vac and fan were used to dry the area. 7. Coyne reviews The Menu and names Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult, Anya Taylor-Joy, Judith Light, Jane Lynch, and John Leguizamo. 8. He says Fiennes plays a chef who runs an island restaurant and knows everything about the guests except Anya Taylor-Joy’s character. 9. He describes a bread-free course, a sous chef who kills himself, and a meal that keeps escalating. 10. He says the final dessert course is s'mores and that the restaurant ends in flames. 11. Coyne says Anya Taylor-Joy’s character asks for a cheeseburger, and he calls it the best burger scene in the film. 12. He notes that the boat runs out of gas as she leaves the island and watches the building burn. 13. Eric Fairenuff-Lopez says he finished Marvel Zombies and gives it a 3 out of 5. 14. He says the best part of Marvel Zombies was Blade Knight. 15. Rick the Rizzo says he played a lot of Hogwarts Legacy, got the broom, and started traveling farther into stronger areas. 16. Rick also says he watched the first two episodes of Chad Powers and is still deciding on it. 17. The episode stays casual and chatty, with interruptions, jokes, and quick topic changes. 18. The format feels like a loose conversation between friends rather than a formal review show. 19. Listeners who like casual pop-culture banter and specific media takes. 20. Listeners wanting tightly edited criticism or one-topic focus.

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