It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Avengers: Endgame With Ben Baker

Avengers: Endgame (2019) - Ben Baker joins TIm Worthington for a chat about the aftermath of Thanos' plan to leave everyone arguing over whether Die Hard is a time travel movie in It's Good, Except It Sucks - a movie by movie - and television series by television series - hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time it’s Avengers: Endgame from 2019, and joining Tim to talk about the aftermath of Thanos’ plan to leave everyone arguing over whether Die Hard is a time travel movie is writer and quizmaster Ben Baker. What will they find to say about the importance of Ftone Clearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what Ken Loach’s problem is with a CGI racoon holding hands with a blue-faced Scottish woman and why so many superheroes have children who are older than them, and what does any of this have to do with Not Natalie Portman’s Head? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

You can also find Ben on It’s Good, Except It Sucks talking about Ant-Man here and Cloak And Dagger here.

You can find a two-part chat about Avengers: Infinity War with Martin Ruddock here and here and another look at Avengers: Infinity War with Joanne Sheppard here. You can also find Mark Griffiths on Avengers Assemble here and Garreth Hirons on Avengers: Age Of Ultron here.

Ben has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about TV Mayhem, The Onion Bag, Fiendish Feet, the early internet craze for misidentifying every comedy song as ‘by’ Weird Al Yankovic, Bingo Brown, and the International Youth Service penpal scheme here, ITV’s daytime nostalgia show Looks Familiar here, Toksvig, The Whizzkid’s Guide, Mysteries Of Old Peking, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Go (the 1999 film) and Making Your Own TV Listings Magazines here, Mr T’s Christmas Dream, There’s Something Wrong In Paradise, God In The House, To Hell With The Devil, Highway, The Flint Street Nativity, the 1990 Bullseye Christmas Special, Adam And Joe’s Fourmative Years and TFI 1998 here, EastEnders spinoff single Something Outa Nothing by Letitia Dean And Paul J. Medford here, the original version of Now – The Christmas Album here, and Bernard And The Genie here.