Mike and Kelsey are back for another edition of the Best and Worst movies of the month. They share their picks for June from The Sheep Detectives to Obsession. They also talk about why the month of May was Chaotic for them. Plus, talk about their recent move and if they had to title it the name of a movie…what would it be? In the Movie Review, Mike talks about Backrooms. It’s about a grieving therapist, Dr. Mary Kline, who ventures into a terrifying, labyrinthine alternate dimension after her patient, Clark, mysteriously disappears into it. He shares the origin of the ‘creepy pasta’, the original YouTube video, 20 year old director Kane making history and why he’s excited for a sequel more than this original. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about Focker-In-Law starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Ariana Grande. He shares why he thinks Ben Stiller is the most underrated comedy star and why he has always thought of Ariana Grande as an actor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. What a month May has been.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I have never been so ready for a month to
be over. I just I need we need to turn
the calendar page needs to be June.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Get me out of May.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We'll get full into all we've experienced in May. But
we will be talking about the best and worst movies
of May, which I felt May is pretty strong.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It was pretty strong, starts off the summer blockbuster season.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm all ready for the summer blockbuster season. In the
movie review, I'll be talking about back rooms, which you're
not going to go see.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
No, it's not even a question if it is remotely scary,
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah. I really wanted you to go see Obsession and
you were like, nah no, But we'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We plus, I had the house to myself when you
mean to see that, It's true I needed that. In
the trailer park, we'll be talking about Fokker in Law.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
That's always hard for me to say, but.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You're like that halle Berry club that I posted earlier,
that the biggest ick. Yeah, Jenna Bushager said biggest ick
and Halle berryer.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And something excuse me, and she thought about answering it.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
What did you hear? Same?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I heard biggest ick, but then when Jenna started at
the end again, it did sound more. But I heard
it dirty way twice. Really Yeah, okay, so I see
why Haley Barry was like, what the Yeah, I can't
tell you that.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
But thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now
let's talk movies, Movie Mike Movie Podcast. Getting into it.
Now are best and worst movies of the month of May.
I will say at the start of this, we are
in a different location now, yeah, we move in case.
(01:35):
It looks a little different, maybe sounds a little different.
It's not how I want it yet.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
We don't have.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Wait, we have the house unpacked, but we don't have
things like yeah, and we haven't been here that long.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
But this is this is good.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm surprised it looks like this, to be honest, before
our best and worst of May? What was the best
movie in your opinion that we saw.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
The worst PRODUCTU it's still your favorite? Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Do you want to rewatch it at this point or
is it, Because that's the thing about the first one,
it's so rewatchable. You've lived with it for a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, I didn't want to rewatch it four weeks after
seeing the first one, Like I want to rewatch it eventually,
not right this moment.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
But you still love it, yes, and you still don't
want to Double Wars Prada three. I was surprised to
see how much that movie sustained. When you look at
all the movies that came out in May, I always
kind of determine a movie success by where it ranks
on the regal app because whenever you go, they put
the big three movies up there that people are going
to watch the most throughout the entire month. It was
up there in the top three. Yeah, the nostalgia was
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real in that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's also like the age of the chick flick is gone. Honestly,
Like you think of the early two thousands, Double Worst Prada,
Sweeedom Alabama, Legally Blonde, She's the Man all the way
up to like Bridesmaids, and then they like kind of
ditched chick flicks.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There is one coming out this August. I can't wait
to see.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's called Spot Weekend ah, yes, look hilarious. I think
the trailer for that dropped recently, but yeah, the chick
flick is gone, and like, hello, it's just action movies now,
like it truly it went to like a dude's world
of like Superheroes and seventeen Fast and the Furious movies.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, it's like superhero movie now horror movie. A lot
of horror movies right now, and then comedies as a
whole have just kind of not been as profitable, so
people are spending less on taking that risk.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Nancy Myers is making a movie Nature's Healing. It's Apple
Martin's going to be in that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I did see that making her debut, yeah, which we've
ran into her before and her mom.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, that was a great story. So I'm on the
chip aisle of Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We have this thing when we both see a celebrity
in the wild with our eyes, and that was what
I think. That's probably top five famous people we've run
into in public, like not out of work thing, just randomly.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
You've also seen Chris Martin, You've seen I've seen both
of Apple's parents.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yes, because Chris Martin. I was in Malibu for American
Idol I was just walking down in Smoothie, yeah, in
like Malibu, and I just going like on like the
side of this main road there, and then I see
this white jeep just come up and I instantly I'm
really good at recognizing people. Yeah, But Chris Martin driving
this white jeep turning into this what I later discovered
(04:18):
is like an art house that he owns, so he was,
I guess going to check in on the property. But
I'm pretty normal car for Chris Martin.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah. Gwyneth Paltrow was a big, a big spot.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
For us sorr at the grocery store with their daughter
because she went to college here. Yes, she graduated, and
now she graduated. Now she's going to be in a movie.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There we go back to the trick flick of it all,
Nancy Myers.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There you go, Nature is healing. For my best of May,
there was a lot, but I think it comes down
to not only one of my favorite horror movies of
the year, but probably of the decade. It is called Obsession, okay,
and Obsession is about this dude who has a big
crush on a girl. They've been friends for a long time,
but he wants to tell her how he feels about her,
(05:00):
doesn't really have the courage. He ends up trying to
go buy her a gift. Instead of buying her this
stone thing that he thinks would be cool, he purchases
this kind of like children's like toy where it says
you snap it and you make a wish, and that
witch comes true. And his wish is for her to
love him more than anybody else in the world, which
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he's just trying to be like, I just want to
be in a relationship with her.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Be careful what you wish for, buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And then it gets completely crazy because there's this sinister
element to it because he obviously makes that wish and
she not only loves him more than anybody else in
the world, she's super obsessed with him, hence the name
of the movie. But it is really intense. The movie
was made for less than a million dollars and is
now one of the highest grossing, like lower budget movies,
it's grossed like fifty sixty million dollars at this point.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And it was a movie I didn't get to go
see opening weekend because we were moving, but I went
the second weekend it came out, and it was still full.
That is insane. That doesn't happen anymore. The hype around
this movie was all word of mouth. A lot of
gen Z just gravitates towards horror movies. Right now, I
think they were the ones who made this movie a success.
But there was way more of a buzz for this
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movie than there was one hundred and sixty million dollar Mandalorian.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Which.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Don't tell me they spend that much on that, because
that is what did y'all do with that money? In
comparison to other Star Wars films, it is the lowest.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
What did y'all do with that money?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Paid Pedro Pascal for very little screen time?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Voice and Sigourney Weaver.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, but that's the thing about horror is you can
make a movie with a vision and a vibe and
create a story that people find compelling. Because that's what
I've been reading the entire week and a half since
watching that movie, is people discuss different plot points like
who is the villain in this? Like what do you
think about this? His decision to do this, who is
in the right, who is in the wrong, what happens
(06:53):
at the end. All these little things that get people
talking that you don't necessarily need a big movie budget,
and you don't need a lot of promo. You don't
need the grogu eighty dollars popcorn bucket. It is just
creating something that people actually want to go experience in
theaters with people, which I think is a big thing
about horror. You want to go see it with friends,
even though I go to every war movie alone. But
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it's one of those things that you go experience with
other people. You're in a dark room where you feel
scared because of what you were watching, but you're still safe.
It's kind of just in your mind. But it's a
community thing. And then there's the social media aspect where
you like talking about it, debating with other people, some
people getting in arguments about it. But you don't get
(07:34):
that from a Disney movie that is just cranking out
a franchise just for the sake of cranking it out.
But that is why I love that movie even more
is because to me, it lived up to the hype.
I give it a four point five out of five.
And then it's the discussion that it caused where I
think that is where movies are lacking right now is
creating moments, and that is what's really standing out and
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making people a lot of money, and you can't really
buy that. So that is why Obsession is my best
of the month. What about your worst?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Mandalorian?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That was your worst? It was and you weren't a
fan of the show. You haven't seen the show, and
you were like, do I need to watch any of
the show going into it? But I like that you
have that perspective because I think that was a lot
of people, because I don't think people were going to
go back and watch three seasons of a TV show
to go watch a movie that's homework.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It was, and I like Star Wars, It's bored. It's
so bored.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It was long, low budget for a Star Wars film,
and boring, and those are the worst three things you
can be.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I was so surprised at how little action there was.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Soundtrack was good. The sound was a starry song was good.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Whenever they go into the city to go try to
rescue Rod of the hut, that's the only part that
felt like, Okay, this is actually kind of cool. It
kind of reminded me of like a Blade Runner twenty
forty nine, where it was kind of dark city vibes.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, it was like, this is the only thing that's
like Star Wars ish.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That was cool. Aside from that and rout of the hut,
there was nothing else redeeming about the movie. It was weird.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It felt two hours.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, it really did. And it wasn't inherently bad like
we've seen movies that we wanted to walk out of
because they were so bad, whether it's whether it's the
acting or the storytelling. It wasn't that I wanted to
throw tomatoes at the screen. But it was just that
the movie had so much potential and did nothing. It
(09:28):
gave us nothing. It made very little of Grogu. He
almost felt like a minion.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Him and the other point he literally him and the
other creatures mechanics.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, they're just kind of like gibberish. That was kind
of minion like ishtle like birds and it was just minion.
It was trying to be very cute and leaning into that,
which I think they thought, we're going towards the younger
audience and also maybe this is going to sell more
toys if we make it a little bit more cute,
and that is what Star Wars movies were basically created
for to sell merchandise. Yeah, so Yeah, I didn't enjoy that.
(10:02):
I feel like that's one that's probably going to go
on Disney Plus sooner than every other Disney project.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It could be out tomorrow and I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Dispress because Hoppers is just coming out on Disney Plus
this month, and that movie came out back in the
start of the year because it did pretty well March. Right, Yeah,
so you're worst of the month. Mandalorian did not recommend it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
For my worst of the month, I'm gonna go with
Mortal Kombat two, even more so than Mando and Grogu.
I was so let down by this movie because I
love the original Mortal Kombat movies and it is one
that is not really one that I was going to
go be excited about. And anytime I have to tap
my every I watch a movie and I hit the
(10:43):
timer every single time. If I have to look at
the timer and it's only like thirty minutes in, that
is the sign of a bad movie. And that is
what happened to me during Mortal Kombat too. And I
went into it just wanting some good blood and guts.
Don't go into it expecting any kind of great plot
or premise. But it kind of felt like they were
trying to make an Avenger style movie without the quality
(11:05):
of characters and didn't even really lean into the rate
at R rating that much.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It's glowing a recommendation.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, so that was one that was probably the most
let down by, even though I thought the Popcorn Bucket
was probably the best of the month. The helmet, the
helmet that I wanted to put on except my head
is way too bad.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Better than the Devil Wars brought a persone for me.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, Like, if if I were to buy one, I
would have bought the helmet before I bought the butter burkin.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I would have bought the butter burkin.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The butter burkin was cool, but the ones I saw
I didn't think they were made that well. Like the
concept was cool.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah it's a plastic, a little three D printed, but
the concept was better would surprise me.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But the actual helmet O shau Kan was cooler. All right.
Our TV shows of the month, Oh yeah, we got
to go through all the movies started off. I saw
Hokum also without You. That's probably my runner up for
best movie of the month.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Scary movie.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, I'm not gonna see that you would have hated
that one because that one's more like nightmari ish scary
obsession doesn't really have any kind of paranormal element. There's
like a sinister element where I don't want any of
that if you don't know exactly what is causing her
to be so obsessed. But it's not really like things
popping out at you. There's not jump scares. It's just
violence and overall just kind of like creepiness. But Hokum
(12:25):
is like you're gonna have a nightmarees there's one character
that you would have nightmares. We then saw The Devil
Worst Producty, which I gave before out a five. I
stand by that Oddity was a movie that I went
back and watched because of the director of Hokum. It
was the movie he did before that. I highly recommend
that one. You can watch that one on YouTube again
if you like really I mean not YouTube on Hulu
(12:46):
if you like really you creepy scary. He he does
a really good job at kind of creating this Irish
folklore because he's an Irish director, So it's like creepy
possessed objects. That is what addity is about. I like
that one in the Gray That is the most mid
movie we've we watched this month with Jake, Jillenhok, Henry cavill.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I already forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It is a Guy Ritchie movie. They essentially play these
guys who you call in if you need to take
down a shady person. They're kind of they work in
the gray, but it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Was like the person they were protecting. I still didn't
understand what she did.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
The hardest part of this movie was it was so
confusing in the first ten.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And there was like a bad voiceover and there was
like text on the screen like trying to be like
next chapter.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It was not. This movie was trying to be much
cooler than it was. Yes, it was like Guy Ritchie
doing a Quentin Tarantino impression. And in the opening it
was a voiceover trying to explain everything and how complex
this story was.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And Jay, if you had to explain it to me.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And like, I couldn't, I couldn't enjoy the movie because
so much was happening in the scene. But then you
had this really loud voice over the entire time explaining
things to you and it was too much information to
take in. Yeah, maybe I was just being dumb, but
I just felt like it was it was overstimulating in
the beginning, and then I thought Jake Jildenhall's character was
just really weird where he was trying to be really
(14:09):
cool in like a sly like.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Leader, like a macho dude who like is tough without
having to be tough, but it's cool.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And then says like cute see things that are kind
of it was like really going for like I want
a movie quote from this movie. So Henry Cavill was good.
I feel like he's he's always a solid actor, especially
when he does what he does best, does action movie. Yeah,
and the entire movie was kind of building up to
the third act and it just felt really weird once
(14:42):
it actually happened, like that's it. And then it ended,
and I was like that was not satisfying.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It wasn't satisfying, but.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It was entertaining enough for us not to leave. Yeah,
So I would still give that movie a three out
of five. Listen, it has to be really bad for
us to leave. But like, especially in the summer, if
I can go sit in the free air conditioning at
Regal and drink Diet Pepsy and eat some sour Patch kids,
I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I'll turn the brainness down and play the New York
Times word if I get really bored.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I just thinking like how much I love those seats
because we were talking about going to our other local theater,
the bell Court, Yes, and I was like, man, I
just loved the Regal seat, Like I think that is
the most comfortable about.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Going to the Bell Court on a Sunday and you
do your long run on a Sunday and then you
have to stretch, Like listen, everyone, he has to sit.
He boots me off the couch to a specific side
of the couch that he can sit and stretch his legs.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You gotta stretch from my legs. It feels good. That's
how I recomfort. But yeah, I was just thinking like, hey,
those Regal seats are just the most that's my most comfortable.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Just are comfortable.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And then we talked about Mortal Kombat to you, I
saw that after that.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And my honor I mentioned them on the Sheep Detectives.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I would say, the most underrated family movie in a
long time.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So good, We're so good.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Hugh Jackman is on the poster. How are these people
getting away with it? Where they're like Bill is like
huge Jackman in The Sheep Detectives, and then they're barely
in the movie.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh, we can't say much.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
That's all I can say. It is barely in the
movie saying thing with Mandolin. Grogan was barely in the movie,
but he's at the title character. This movie was so heartwarming.
I feel like if I would have had this movie
come out when I was eight, maybe nine years old,
it would have changed my life because it deals with
things that are hard for kids to process. It talks
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about how the sheep in the movie just want to
wish the bad things away and they just don't think
about them, and it forces you to live in that uncomfortableness,
to live in that sadness, to be a real person.
I thought that was such a great concept to put
in a movie like this. That kids don't really learn
that from anything you watch anymore, and sometimes it's an
(16:48):
uncomfortable conversation to have. But for me, where my parents
didn't really teach me all those lessons, I learned it
a lot through TV and movies. I learned about death
through The Lion King. I feel like if I would
have watched this movie when I was eight or nine,
i would have taken a lot from it. It was funny,
I thought, well produced. It was kind of like a
(17:08):
family friendly knives out. Yeah, and I kind of forgot
that all the sheep were gonna start talking and then
were all voice by celebrities. I loved the sheep, but
now anytime I see a sheep, I wonder, are they
trying to solve like a mystery right now? What did
you like about it?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I mean, yeah, it was just heartwarming and just like
the overall concept of I think you mentioned it talks
about death, that's not a spoiler, and it's like, yeah,
explaining that in a way that like kids understand it.
I mean I've mentioned on the podcast before that my
dad passed away when I was two and a half,
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and like, as a kid, you don't understand what that means, like,
and I feel like it did a really good job
of handling like what death means and like helping kids
understand that in a way that like makes sense but
doesn't scare them.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Did it at all make you want to live off
the grid because he lives in like basically a camper.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I mean, if we're.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Living off the grid, like raising some cute sheep, sure,
take me to like the coast of Ireland or something,
and I'll.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Live off the grid.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, the little village.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Do I want to live off the grid in Tennessee? Particularly?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Do you want to go to another? Yeah, Ireland looks beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You know what I don't want to do live without
internet again. We'll get into that street about being off
the grid.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But between this and the banshees an interus sheer in,
I would like to go to Ireland.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I alway said I don't want to go, but I
don't know what.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Else to do there. Like, once we get to some
of these beautiful locations, you just like look out and
just enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Go on like the tours, go visit the pubs.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, I guess I'd have to start drinking again to
enjoy Ireland.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I think Ireland's a great place to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah. We he's talked about man doing grogu and we
talked about Obsession. Those are all the movies we watched
in May. Probably would have watched more streaming movies if
we'd had internet.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah. So somebody asked me on my book Instagram if
we were going to talk about remarkably great bright creatures
and answers. Yes, when we have the chance to watch it.
We weren't gonna watch it. Maybe the night before I moved.
And then they cut our internet. Yea our old house
too quick that we didn't have internet.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
It's been the longest month.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Before we get into that. Are TV shows of the month?
Shrinking finished Shrinking Season two. I love that show now.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
That show it just does something to me. It is heartwarming,
it is funny, it is witty, is all the things.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It is the only show we've watched recently that I
feel like I know these people, like they are like
friends in a weird way. Yeah, it's like this weird
relate because they're so well written and they're so well rounded,
and they all get along so well that you kind
of feel like a part of the friend group when
you watch this show. Yes, And you don't really get
that anymore. And Apple just has great TV shows, not
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good movies.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, they got to stick to the TV shows.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Because the other show we finished was Margo's Got Money Troubles.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yeah, so good.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
That's another one where all the characters are so well
written and it's such a great.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
We well comes from a book though, So Apple doesn't
get the credit for that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh, you're right, you're right, you're right. Rufy Thorpe gets
the credit for that. But all those characters are so great.
It is so much about family, and.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Apple did a good job screenwriting and bringing it to
life and casting.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Because the show itself there's always I think the thing
about both of those shows, Shrinking and Margo, is that
anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, there's conflict, there's mess.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Anytime you think something is going to become a problem,
it becomes a problem. And you find that's entertaining to watch.
Although if that was your own life, you wouldn't want
all those bad things to do. But like a new
character gets introduced or a new situation, and like that's
going to become a problem, and it does. It always
becomes a problem. But both of those shows, I would
say those would make me want to get an Apple
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TV subscription if I didn't have one.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
There's a selling point.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Their movies would make me want to get it at all.
The TV shows are great. Those are our TV shows.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Oh and I'm also watching for All Mankind on Apple.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That is five seasons and like ten episodes per season.
They're all an hour. So I'm working through that one.
That was a good space show.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
We got to start your friends at Neighbors.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, we have that. We have so much to catch
up on. I've just been like downloading er on my
iPad and watching.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It And then your book is it the one you
spent the longest amount reading?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
No, I did love that one.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I read Stephen King's eleven twenty two sixty three, and
I need to watch the show from ten years ago. No,
my best book of the month is one that I
read in less than twenty four hours. It is The
Burning Side by Sarah dam Off and phenomenal, just so good.
Couldn't put it down. The writing's incredible, the story was great,
it was sad, it was hopeful, all of the emotions
(21:48):
in a book. And I started it on like a
Monday evening and then finished it like Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
How many pages less than twenty four hours? Let's see,
I mean project held me. It was four hundred and
sixty four pages. That took me like a month collectively.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But you also don't devote as much time to reading,
Like Yeah, you sit down and you kind of blaze
through a book. I've never been I like always like
to read.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Three hundred and thirty six pages. That's a lot of pages.
That's the same one.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It took me a long time because I was reading
it on my kendle, and so I would read before
I fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
But then I would like fall asleep while reading.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And now with that, you don't really know how thick
it is because you're just looking at Oh.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
No, I knew it was eight hundred and something, but
I mean you don't really.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Like visually see it. Don't tell the time.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, you can tap on the corner of your kindle
and I'd read and it's like you're eight percent into
this book. It's like you have ten hours left, and
like ten hours.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Soose there are movies, TV shows and books. Where do
we start on for a month of me?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Which this coffee was a glass of rose? Right now?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
If you had to assign a movie title, a real
movie title, to our moving experience, what would.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It be Alexander and the Horrible bad, no good, rotten
Day or the.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Terrible terrible, no good, bad Day. Yeah, so just specifically
the moving day was that? No, the whole month, oh,
the whole month, the whole month. It was a terrible month.
Mine would probably be twenty eight days later because because
I feel even though we haven't been in this place
for twenty eight days, kind of the process of where
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everything happened has been like the last twenty eight days,
from us starting to move, the actual moving day, which
was not a great experience, and then else everything that
has happened. As far as nothing has gone right, I
would say, hmm, what's the worst thing.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I mean, the fact that we paid a moving company
and they didn't move all of our belongings.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It was probably the worst thing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And then that was hard to figure out.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And then when we tried to give them feedback, they
gas led us and told us it was our fault.
Just put those like emojis of like thinking above my head,
I would say collectively, I mean the internet was probably yeah,
because we were able to figure out that on our
own and within the same moving weekend it was resolved.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It sucked and it was the worst in the moment.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
It was resolved.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Me yes, because I love to chat, hey sometimes talking.
We went out to dinner and having an interest to her,
mentioned to our waitress whir day was bad, and then
I was like, so if you have a handyman, and
she was like, actually, the coworker here does moves and so.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But then when we actually moved in, the thing we
were so like deliberate about was we got to set
our internet moving date the same day we move in
three months ago. We set it up like as soon
as we knew we were moving.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We set it up before we even signed the lease
on the reas.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
We've got to sign that because we already have our
appointments there. Yeah, but they came and then ran into
a problem.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
But he goes, Okay, so keep in mind, this whole
morning has been terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And I'll also say I love our internet provider. Yeah,
and that is why we actually stuck with That's why.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
We stuck it out and waited. Yeah, the guy goes
like a goodness like a badness. Good news is, your
equipment's all set up.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's great news.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Bad news is I'm not getting a signal, sir, but
it's really bad news.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
That's not really yeah, that's not really good. Good news is.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And so then he said it was going to be
resolved in like a day to three, and we thought
that was ridiculous. We did oh to go back and
think about that, and then it was just a comedy
of errors. And for two and a half weeks, I worked.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Off a hot spot, which is really hard to do
because not only does it cost money to add more
bandwidth to make your phone into a hot spot, but
also drains your battery like crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
We also discovered we happened to like, oh yeah, move
in somewhere where the cell service isn't great.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
When you first came here, you're like, yeah, cell service
wasn't great, and I was like, that would only be
an issue if we don't have it a yet. We
did not have internet for seventeen days and I think
fifteen hours, which is what the apps once we finally
connected back.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, it just it was one of those months where
I can say this on the podcast. Next weekend is
our five year wedding anniversary, and I was like, I
don't know that we've ever had a month where we
just like didn't like each other as much. And it's
not even like us not liking each other. It was
just like stress after stress after stress after stress.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, it's kind of like if you put two cats
into the same like moving containment.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It was almost worse than when we didn't have AC
for ten days because I think the AC it was
it was a solid Ooh which.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Was which would you rather the ten days of no
AC or the seventeen days of NOE.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
But I'm saying I wouldn't want to do either one
of them. The seven day days of internet is more manageable.
But I feel like the ten days of no AC
we were united in that. And then I just feel
like this month there was so much and we were
both trying to like take certain aspects and be like,
I'll deal with this, you deal with this, And so
there were just like things and we were just like
(26:57):
cats at each other. And I feel like anyone a
relationship knows that you go through those phases where you're
just like you just it's like the littlest thing, and
then it's everything.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Moving is very stressful. We've also just had bad luck
at it. Whenever we moved you from Austin to hear
your car broke down and we were stuck in Arkansas,
we had to in the pandemic. During the pandemic, we
had to figure out how to get the we try
to get it fixed.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
We went to three different places.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Nobody could helpless. It was was it a Saturday or Friday.
It was Saturday Saturday. Nobody could helpless. Everybody's like, the
best we could do is get you in on Monday,
and I'm like, we can. I have a vision of
us sleeping in our own midnight. So we ended up
renting a U haul, putting it on the U haul,
and then driving it here and then dealing with it
once we got here. So we haven't had the best
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experience when it comes to moving, but we've been able
to overcome those obstacles. But moving is just stressful.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And it was just like I had a really busy
month at work, like I had a big event. I
also just I did this was a great month to
switch antidepressants.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
That was a terrible.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But I have the span of two weeks.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I was like, I'm gonna switch these, We're gonna move,
and then I'm gonna have a giant work of it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
But why why?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
But yeah, that was our month of May. But now
we're through it. We are all moved, we're all done
with the old place. We're in the new place, and
we have a lot of good movies to look forward
to in June.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yes, and I have my own office now. Yeah, that's
The selling point of this new house is that I
have an office after six years of working in the
living room.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
In this place where in now it's completely separate. It's
like a little cave.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, your office is its own little entity. We do
have to sound proofet a little more. Yeah, I like
got so excited when we moved because I was like,
he's gonna be upstairs. And then the first day that
he starts recording again, this is no internet.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
We're in the middle and I can hear.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Damn all of a sudden, I hear this sagitating voice,
but anything else. I mean, I feel like I should
just tell people be like each other again. People are
going to be like, oh god, No, anyone who is
in a long term relationship knows that you just like
go through phases and like, I mean, we want to
(29:12):
have kids someday, and I feel like that's just prep
for like life, It's happened things.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Sorry, I thought I had a bug in my mouth.
There's a bug on your desk and I thought I
was eating it. Yeah, it's good, Yeah, You're just that's
just life. We haven't married almost five years now.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Twenty twenty one feels like so long ago, but.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's like five years is a while. Yeah, It's like
that's like the first milestone. I feel like, yeah, five
years is a long time. That is like how long
some people spend in high school. If you're not good
at high school.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I was gonna say college. Okay, high school.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
High school. If you're not going to high school, that's
all of five years college. Yeah, I guess some people.
All right, anything else, no, nothing left. And I'll give
my spoiler free review of back Rooms. Let's get into
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it now, A spoiler free movie review of Backrooms. I
just sat in this seat straight from the theater. I
am not convinced myself that I am not still in
the back Rooms. As I start this review, I'm going
to create the portal on my chest like you have
in the movie. Because what this movie is about. You
have a guy played by Chewetel eg four who is
(30:30):
going through a lot mentally, and he's going to see
this therapist trying to work through all of his problems.
You learn about well his tragic past. And while he
is doing this, he is working at a furniture store
and he uncovers something in the bottom level of the
furniture store that he has never seen before, and he
discovers a door into the back rooms, which is this
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kind of endless, big old office building where everything is
a pale yellow. You have fluorescent lighting that is just
buzzing and a humming like and it is very creepy.
It goes on and on and on and on, and
there's all this furniture just stacked in really weird places,
all these things that you can't describe. And he builds
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this little kind of what I have here on my
chest now just outlines wherever he is able to put
his hand through the wall and go into the back rooms.
And he's been spending time with this therapist working through
all of his problems, and he tells her about the
back rooms, and she does not believe him, and he says,
as he storms out of our office, I'm going to
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prove it to you that this place exists. This movie
comes to us from twenty year old director, Yes, twenty
years old Cain Parsons, who I am fascinated with, is
now one of the youngest people to ever top the
North American box office. This entire movie started from a
single image that was put on four Chan, which is
a really weird part of the Internet, kind of like Reddit,
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but it's or I would say, even more hyper nerds
than I am. This image that has later been discovered
was I think like an office depot or some kind
of just retail store that somebody just uploaded on the Internet,
and another user created what is called a creepy pasta,
which is essentially Internet folklore, like an old just story
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that would be handed down, and a creepypasta is just
a piece of text. And there was this original piece
of text that gave this backstory of the back rooms,
all about this buzzy yellow place that goes on for
miles and miles where you can really discover anything. It
is just whatever you can imagine. It is kind of there.
And Kane Parsons got the attention of A twenty four
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because you put out a short film on YouTube, just
on YouTube that now has millions and millions of views.
And his story of the back rooms is just one
telling because the entire Internet lore is that everybody has
added to this story. There are different levels of the
back rooms. The one that we know is from that
original yellow image that Cain made this film, where essentially
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in that film, if you haven't seen it on YouTube.
You can search it up. But it's this kid and
his friends making this kind of home style video and
very shaky cam found footage type thing. And there's one
moment where he takes a step back as he's trying
to get this wide shot and he falls into the
back rooms and it is just that first person perspective
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of somebody walking through and uncovering these really weird monsters
that are kind of wiry, kind of looks like something
that would maybe be in a clover field, but it
is very weird. And Kane Parsons did this all through
a program called Blender, which is an animation program that
allows you to create kind of these three D walls
and objects and figures. And that thing just blew up.
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And now A twenty four went to him and said, hey,
do you want to make a movie for us? And
he was thinking about going to college and he's like,
you know what, I'm not going to go to college. Instead,
I'm going to make this movie. And now, just one
single image that was posted on the internet, somebody wrote
some texts. I don't even think the original person who
wrote the text has even taken credit for it. The
idea is just bigger than itself is now a full
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fledged Hollywood movie, and it is doing numbers at the
box office. And I will say I bought into the
hype because this is something that I'm just fascinated with.
Any kind of creepypasta or just internet story about something
horrific I am drawn to. I will stay up on
TikTok and just scroll through these little short films that
people make. And I used to love going on Reddit
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and reading these because it is crazy how in just
a paragraph somebody can make you feel terrified. So while
this movie is set in the nineteen nineties, to me,
it was kind of reliving my twenty tens, where I
was more obsessed with Reddit, had a lot more free time,
So what'd spend a lot more time browsing through all
the subreddits trying to find these great stories. Even though
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it was set in the nineties, it was like I
was living out those twenty tens memories of going into
Reddit and YouTube worm holes where I would discover this
type of thing. And now you have this burning fan
base who wants to go see this movie and wants
to see to succeed. Where I'm curious to see how
people who don't know the backstory of this are going
(35:15):
to digest this movie because I do not think it's
for everybody after I watched it, and for somebody like
me who was so interested, so hyped for it. I
loved the setting. I love the world building that Kane
Parsons did more than the story itself, because you have
this essentially broken man who was working at a furniture store.
I do like the aesthetic of the furniture store, but
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all of his personal struggles that he is dealing with.
I found a really unique angle to tell this story
because it's so focused on his psyche, his relationship with
his therapist, and I just thought that the world itself
was way more interesting than the actual story, any kind
of character development. It wasn't really about that. So it's
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almost I'm more excited for the next movie because this
one quite didn't do it for me, Even though she
would tell EG four, I believe gave a fantastic performance
as his character gets more and more obsessed with these
back rooms and exploring it. There's a good, maybe twenty
thirty minute chunk that it's kind of a slow burned part,
(36:19):
But my favorite part of the movie is just him
exploring the back rooms where it kind of felt like
what I wanted back when I was reading this back
in the day, back when people were making video games
about this. It felt like that was where this movie
really shined. But you couldn't really do that the entire
movie because even for me, I thought, Okay, where are
we kind of going with this, and where it started
to kind of ramp up the horror, it pulled back
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pretty quickly to tell the rest of this guy's story,
where I think I just didn't quite connect with it.
So I am more excited for what is going to
come for Kane Parsons, because twenty years old is crazy,
but to think that a twenty four is taking a
risk like this, and really Hollywood and in general is
finding these young directors who I believe are in their
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creative prime, because if you think about yourself back in
your twenties, you are fearless then, and I think that
is what Hollywood needs to focus on, is finding these
people who are so passionate about what they do, which
is what Kane Parsons is back when he was just
creating this for fun, not making any money from it,
and letting them have creative control, which there's a lot
of speculation online. Mark Duplas, who's also in the movie,
(37:27):
had to come out and say, guys, all you people
saying that he didn't direct this movie on his own,
that we had a ghost director. You guys are out
of your mind. And I think it's because some people
can accept that some people are just built different and
creatively different, and that prodigies don't exist. And I think
I do want to do an episode on the youngest
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directors ever to have success, because if you look back
in history, some of the greatest movies ever were directed
by people in their twenties. But I think we have
to focus on the younger generation gen Z to really
make filmmaking interesting again and getting people out into the
theater in a way that hasn't been done before, by
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taking something like this deep internet lore that seems so
niche and so risky and making it successful. And I
think that is what we need to do to make
noteworthy movies. So they got my money. I went to
see it in theaters. I was so hype about it.
Even though I left not completely satisfied, I didn't feel
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as let down as I would have if I was
just going to watch like Scream seven earlier this year
not satisfied whatsoever, and I left rapulse from that movie.
This movie was so comforting in a way where it
kind of felt like playing a cozy video game on
the Nintendo Switch, where there's not a crazy amount of action,
you just kind of play it to feel good. That
is how I felt living in that world completely covered
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in yellow. Because even the cinematography I felt fit this
movie perfectly because there's nothing that really stands out about it.
It's almost pretty big sick in itself, like he was
making that same YouTube video again. But I think that
is the perfect way to tell this story because I
could smell some of those rooms, the way they described it,
the dinginess of the carpet, some of the things that
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pop out at you. I can smell that world. I
can feel that world that as I left the theater,
like I mentioned earlier, I still felt like maybe I
was living inside the back rooms and I never left
that theater at all. Did I ever leave that theater
at all? I don't know. I could still be in there.
So even though I didn't leave, loving the story and
even saying that everybody needs to go see this movie,
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I felt like I had a really good time and
went somewhere that I never expected to go. That I
would go watch this movie again in theaters because I
feel like, I go there, I want to see back
rooms two, I want to see backrooms three. I really
hope that this becomes a franchise because there are so
many stories that you can explore here. Because we only
got one guy's perspective, there are so many other places
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where this can happen that I think could make played
to having a little bit more action. I thought there
was gonna be a little bit more high intense moments. Instead,
it was much more psychological, especially where this movie leaves you.
It just kind of messes with your brain more than anything,
so much so that you really had to pay attention.
So that's why I think it's not for everybody. But
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this one guy next to me decided to leave towards
the end of the movie and missed something so pivotal
and then came back and sat down right before the
credits rolled and then asked me, Hey, what did I miss?
And it was kind of hard to explain to him,
like why would you leave it? The best part of
the movie. Who goes to the bathroom in the last
five minutes just hold it or at that point just
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bet your pants. You should have just beat his pants.
So this is one of those movies that I'm gonna
spend a lot of time with reading theories about seeing
things that I missed, some things that I kind of
picked up on that I knew were easter eggs to
the original YouTube series. It is a movie that people
can really dive deep into, and I think that is
what movies need now. They need that extended life, They
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need that discussion, that discourse that people are going to
agree on things and disagree on things and think they
should have included this level. No, this should have been
you know, that is what we need. Movies that get
people talking, and that is what this movie did. So
for back Rooms, I give it three point five out
of five taped off doorways its side to head down
(41:25):
to movie Mike Traylor Parr. I have to be honest,
this is my second time starting this segment because it
is so hard for me to say the title of
this movie Walker in Law, foc Ker in Law. They
know what they're doing by naming these movies. It's been
a running joke in the franchise. But whenever I first
(41:48):
hit record, I did not say Foker in Law. I
think I just said the word. But this movie is
coming out on November twenty fifth, stars Ben Stiller, Robert
de Niro, coming back from the original movie almost fifteen
years after the last What do you call this franchise?
The Meet the the Meet the franchise, the meat franchise.
(42:09):
Meet the Parents came out back in two thousand. Meet
the Fockers came out in two thousand and four, a
pretty good follow up, and then Little Fockers came out
in twenty ten, not so good. I think a lot
of people kind of forget about that one. But Foker
in Law is coming out this Thanksgiving November twenty fifth,
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twenty twenty six, more than fifteen years after the original movie. Again,
Ben Steller's back, Robert de Niro is back, and joining
the cast is Ariana Grande. I have two questions that
I want to finish by the end of this trailer park.
One is Ben Stiller the most underrated comedic actor of
our lifetime? And two? Do you see Ariana Grande more
(42:53):
as a musician or an actor? But before we get
into that, here is just a little bit of the
okay Okay, here we go, Here we go, Walker in
law trailer. What do you think of Olivia?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
She's adorable, so smart us good boy, he likes you
with one sniff.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Dogs can tell more about a person's character.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Than a human cooking.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
People underestimate me, But actually I was an FBI hostage negotiators.
Comes the airplane.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
I call the strings of.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
The hostage takers like strategic emotional puppetry.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
That's how I'm gonna free Henry from you. Greg.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Oh my god, Oh my god, you've baby Bernie, Grandpa Jay.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So what this movie is about? Greg Fokker's son, Henry
brings his girlfriend home, who is Ariana Grande. As you
heard there, she is a trained FBI hostage negotiator. She's
here to meet the family. And then Greg soon gets
worried when Henry tells everyone that he plans to propose
to her. So now the roles are reversed here because
Ben Stiller is the one worried that she is not
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good enough for his son. We learn more about ben
Stiller's character, who is very overprotective, helicopter parent ish also
way too nurturing to his very adult son, where he
still calls him by his pet name that I guess
he had for him as a kid, Wee Wee. They
get into a whole discussion about his Wiener size. So
(44:16):
that is the overall premise of this movie. And I
like seeing Ariana Grande really hold her own in this trailer,
which I think some people forget how funny she is.
So that is my question I want to get to first.
Do you see Ariana Grande Moore as a singer or
as an actor? And I think it's because how I
was introduced to her. I always think of her more
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as an actor. But I keep seeing people saying that
she's getting back into acting now, she's pushing music away,
which I don't think she's going to do that. But
the way I was introduced to her was I was
a big Nickelodeon kid, never much of a Disney Channel kid.
Dabbled in it a little bit, but if I had
to pick one, I was Nickelodeon all day, every day.
I remember her in Victorious, that was on the air
(44:58):
from twenty ten to twenty thirteen. Even more so than that,
I was more of a fan of her and Sam
and Kat. That's where I got to know Mariano Grande first.
Where her character had bright red hair, and I think
is a big reason that she has some kind of
hair issues now, where I think she's been pretty upfront
about the reason her hair has thinned out over the
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years is because she died it so much for that show,
which Nickelodeon is not good for you. But then again,
they have a lot of other things to worry about.
But that's where I know her from first. And obviously
she was massive in the twenty tens, but she didn't
release her first debut album, Yours truly until twenty thirteen.
So I think it's because I associate her with those
Nickelodeon shows, and I feel like that has been such
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a part of her DNA. And I never fully became
a fan of her music, even though she is an
amazing singer. I just never gravitated towards it. Not really
my genre, not really my style. I don't think that
I would go see her in concert if she came
to town. However, she puts out a movie, I'm gonna
go see it. And I think with her having success
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in Wicked and Wicked for Good, people kind of forgot
how good of an actor she is and how great
a comedic timing that she has, and you see it
here in this trailer, But I knew that because the
Nickelodeon days. So I don't really see this as her
giving up music to do acting. I feel like her
foundation isn't acting me personally. If she never put out
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another album, I'd be fine with it. I would be
well on the journey of seeing Ariana Grande take more
roles where I think Wicked was a great transition for
her because she got to act, but she also got
to sing. And now I think this role in Fokker
in Law, she's also going to give people an entirely
different look at her of how good she is comedically,
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which if you've seen her on SNL, you knowing that
she gets funny, and I know when this trailer first dropped,
there was a lot of discourse online, people saying that
it is hard to take her seriously because she looks
so much like Ariana Grande, And on the surface, that
sounds kind of a kind of like a dumb thing
to say. Of course, she's gonna look like Ariana Grande.
She is Ariana Grande. But I think what people are
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saying is that her look is so definitive and so
uniquely her that it makes her stand out in the story.
But the more I watch this trailer, the more I
think it fits naturally. I do think she has this
pop star look, and whether it's her makeup or her wardrobe,
she is always going to look much different than anybody else.
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So I think unless she goes the route of maybe
like a Mariah Carey and precious and does a role
where she completely changes her look and has some maybe
a makeup list look, I think it's gonna require a
much different role. Though it's not this, It's gonna be
some big oscar bait drama that is going to give
us ariana grande in a way that we have never
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seen her before. So for me, I see her as
more of an actor, and she doesn't look distracting in
this trailer. Now, when it comes to Ben Stiller, I
do believe he is one of the most underrated comedic
actors in our lifetime, where I think, for the most part,
if you think about the people who have dominated the
comedy genre from about the late nineties two and twenty tens,
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you got the big three in there, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler,
Mike Myers. Those are the dudes who have just carried
franchise after franchise. Adam Sandler alone still crushing it on Netflix.
Will Ferrell, I think for a majority of the two
thousands was that guy Mike Myers is up there because
of Shrek, because of all the Saturday Night Live stuff,
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because of Wayne's World. He has been doing it for
so long and is now slowly getting back into acting
and having some cameos here and there. But I think
those guys are the big foundation. I would also argue
a Melissa McCarthy deserves to be on that top five list.
I think she is somebody who dominates every single role
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that she does. Maybe doesn't have quite the body of
work of big franchises and big icon roles as some
of these other people on this list, But when it
comes to people I think do not get enough recognition
for franchise after franchise, banger after banger. I think it
has been Stiller, obviously to meet the parents franchise that
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we've been talking about. Along came Polly, There's something about
Mary Dodgeball. Then you also think about movies like Zoolander,
Tropic Thunder, and then you start getting into the things
that he has directed I know it's not a comedy,
but being behind Severance is proof that he can really
do it all. And he's also one of those people
like Adam Sandler who has dabbled in more of the
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dramatic roles with movies like Greenberg, The Mayorwitz Stories, Brad's Status,
and also The Secret Life of Walter Miitty, which it
was good. But around that time, when it came out
in twenty thirteen, I thought that was going to be
my next favorite movie. That was a case of the
trailer was a little bit better than the entire movie
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because that trailer was epic. It had me sold. Oh
that was way back in the Blu Ray days where
I'd go to the Red Box and get a Blu Ray.
But I did see this movie in theaters and thought
it was okay, and then I watched it again on
Blu Ray, and maybe it's one of those movies if
I revisited now, I'd have much more of an appreciation
for But Ben Stiller consistently crushing it in comedy. I
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haven't even mentioned ninety at the Museum or Starsky and Hutch,
all these movies. On Mystery Man, that's another banger as well.
But I feel that he has only gotten better with age,
But watching the trailer looking back at the legacy of
this franchise made me realize we can't take his work
for granted. Because if you look at some of those
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other big comedic actors I have mentioned here, they all
have different styles of comedy and how they make you laugh.
Jim Carrey makes you laugh at what he is doing.
His face is so expressive, his characters are larger than life.
He has physical comedy elements. He's not exactly like a
Chris Farley who is going to dive through and crash
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into a table, but a lot of it is his
body and his actual performance. He is very cartoonish and
over the top. I think just his face muscles alone
has made him millions and millions of dollars. Will Ferrell
makes you laugh at how absurd he is. He is
somebody that is going to commit to the bit, even
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if he's not doing it in a movie or a
TV show. If he's just spotted out at like a
basketball game, and the camera gets put onto him, he
is going to give you an absurd performance and he
is going to live in that awkwardness. So he makes
you laugh at that and how absurd he actually is.
Adam Sandler makes you laugh because he acts like a kid,
and he brings out this really fun side that we
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don't get to live in. We can't act childish and
say crazy things. And maybe it's a little bit of
He does the things that we wish we could do,
and he just gets to have fun. I think that
is why his movies are successful, even though sometimes I
don't entirely love them anymore. But Ben Stiller is different
than all those guys because I think he is able
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to make us laugh because he feels like us in
those nightmares social situations. He makes these things feel relatable
where they are not over the top situations. A lot
of his movies could happen in everyday life. It's not
so crazy of a concept like putting on a mask
and then turning into this guy with a green face
and a yellow suit. It is something more along the
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lines of having a crazy in law who is so
over the top in this case work for the CIA
and is going to grill you. And it's all these
almost sitcom like situations instead of this absurdity and cartoonish
actions come to life. So his movies feel just way
more relatable to everyday life, and I think that is
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why he doesn't rake up there with those behemoths. And
if this movie proves to be successful and better than
the last one, better than Little Foker's, I think this
is going to be one of the weirdest franchises of
all time, just because they didn't really lead into the
f words so much early on, but now feel very
committed to that and now seeing them kind of bring
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back the gags from the first one, I hope it's
not just nostal debate where now you see Ariana Grande
being the one with the light detector ron. Now, is
Ariana Grande going to get another OSCAR nomination like she
did in twenty twenty five for Best Supporting Actress as
Glinda in Wicked. Probably not, but it just might get
Best Comedy In Our Hearts. Fokker in Law is coming
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out in theaters on November twenty fifth, And that was
this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer Barr and that
is going to do it for another episode here of
the podcast, But before I go, I gotta get my
listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm going
over to X where I rarely go to now it
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kind of feels like the mall everybody used to go to.
Like recently in Nashville they closed down a mall that
had been here for decades. And when I go back
home to Texas, I used to love going to the mall.
It would be my favorite thing to do. A mall
app get a nice coffee, and then go to At
that time was an AMC. But even the mall I
(54:17):
go to back in Texas, it's starting to feel like,
oh no, this isn't the cool mall anymore. But that's
kind of what X feels like. Whenever, maybe ten years
after your childhood, you start going back to that mall
and you see some of the stores closing down and
taking their place. Are these really obscure businesses that you're like,
how do you even have a brick and mortar business?
(54:39):
You sell cell phone covers for your pets? I don't
even know what you sell. How are you here operating
with not one, sometimes two employees, and you get a
little bit depressed. That is what X feels like where
there's not a whole lot of people active over there.
I still post there just because I know every now
and then you do get some attention from some people,
(55:00):
but it very much feels like the mall that is
about to go under. But Joel posted over there on
x and said at Mike Distro about last week's episode,
he goes, now that we've talked about TV characters who
need their own movie, what movie characters could use their
own show? Giving Rocket his own show would be great. Also,
Zuko and Soca from Avatar would make a good show,
(55:23):
even though they started as TV characters love the podcast.
So Joel, I think that is a great idea for
a topic. Maybe here in the next month or so
I could do that. I think that does fit into
the movie space, which I'm always very deliberate about staying
inside of. I think a Rocket TV show would be
great because probably my favorite character in Guardians of the
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Galaxy easily my favorite character, even more so than star
Lord Zuko and Soca. I'm not too familiar with Avatar.
This is the TV show, not Avatar the Blue People
from James Cameron. This is Avatar the last air. I
never fully got into that show. I was mentioning earlier
how I'm a Nickelodeon kid, and I think whenever Avatar
(56:07):
was popular on Nickelodeon. That was a little bit when
I was aging out of the network, even though I
came back around later, but I never fully got into Avatar,
and I know from people who have been longtime fans
of that franchise, you've had a lot of ups and down,
some bad movies in there. But it is one that
I should probably dive into, just because a lot of
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people who like the same shows that I like when
it comes to animated shows, all love Avatar. So Joel,
thanks for listening. As always, thank you for suggesting a
topic because I always like listening to you guys and
doing things that you want to hear, so appreciate that.
And to everyone else listening now, wherever you may be,
hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope you have a
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great rest of your week, and until next time, go
out and watch good movies and I will talk to
you there.
Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I
am your host Movie Mike, joined by my wife and
co host Kelsey. What a month May has been.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I have never been so ready for a month to
be over. I just I need we need to turn
the calendar page needs to be June.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Get me out of May.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We'll get full into all we've experienced in May. But
we will be talking about the best and worst movies
of May, which I felt May is pretty strong.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It was pretty strong, starts off the summer blockbuster season.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm all ready for the summer blockbuster season. In the
movie review, I'll be talking about back rooms, which you're
not going to go see.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
No, it's not even a question if it is remotely scary,
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah. I really wanted you to go see Obsession and
you were like, nah no, But we'll get into that.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We plus, I had the house to myself when you
mean to see that, It's true I needed that. In
the trailer park, we'll be talking about Fokker in Law.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
That's always hard for me to say, but.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You're like that halle Berry club that I posted earlier,
that the biggest ick. Yeah, Jenna Bushager said biggest ick
and Halle berryer.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And something excuse me, and she thought about answering it.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
What did you hear? Same?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I heard biggest ick, but then when Jenna started at
the end again, it did sound more. But I heard
it dirty way twice. Really Yeah, okay, so I see
why Haley Barry was like, what the Yeah, I can't
tell you that.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
But thank you for being here, thank you for being subscribed.
Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew. And now
let's talk movies, Movie Mike Movie Podcast. Getting into it.
Now are best and worst movies of the month of May.
I will say at the start of this, we are
in a different location now, yeah, we move in case.
(01:35):
It looks a little different, maybe sounds a little different.
It's not how I want it yet.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
We don't have.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Wait, we have the house unpacked, but we don't have
things like yeah, and we haven't been here that long.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
But this is this is good.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm surprised it looks like this, to be honest, before
our best and worst of May? What was the best
movie in your opinion that we saw.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
The worst PRODUCTU it's still your favorite? Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Do you want to rewatch it at this point or
is it, Because that's the thing about the first one,
it's so rewatchable. You've lived with it for a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well, I didn't want to rewatch it four weeks after
seeing the first one, Like I want to rewatch it eventually,
not right this moment.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
But you still love it, yes, and you still don't
want to Double Wars Prada three. I was surprised to
see how much that movie sustained. When you look at
all the movies that came out in May, I always
kind of determine a movie success by where it ranks
on the regal app because whenever you go, they put
the big three movies up there that people are going
to watch the most throughout the entire month. It was
up there in the top three. Yeah, the nostalgia was
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real in that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's also like the age of the chick flick is gone. Honestly,
Like you think of the early two thousands, Double Worst Prada,
Sweeedom Alabama, Legally Blonde, She's the Man all the way
up to like Bridesmaids, and then they like kind of
ditched chick flicks.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There is one coming out this August. I can't wait
to see.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's called Spot Weekend ah, yes, look hilarious. I think
the trailer for that dropped recently, but yeah, the chick
flick is gone, and like, hello, it's just action movies now,
like it truly it went to like a dude's world
of like Superheroes and seventeen Fast and the Furious movies.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, it's like superhero movie now horror movie. A lot
of horror movies right now, and then comedies as a
whole have just kind of not been as profitable, so
people are spending less on taking that risk.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Nancy Myers is making a movie Nature's Healing. It's Apple
Martin's going to be in that.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I did see that making her debut, yeah, which we've
ran into her before and her mom.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, that was a great story. So I'm on the
chip aisle of Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
We have this thing when we both see a celebrity
in the wild with our eyes, and that was what
I think. That's probably top five famous people we've run
into in public, like not out of work thing, just randomly.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
You've also seen Chris Martin, You've seen I've seen both
of Apple's parents.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yes, because Chris Martin. I was in Malibu for American
Idol I was just walking down in Smoothie, yeah, in
like Malibu, and I just going like on like the
side of this main road there, and then I see
this white jeep just come up and I instantly I'm
really good at recognizing people. Yeah, But Chris Martin driving
this white jeep turning into this what I later discovered
(04:18):
is like an art house that he owns, so he was,
I guess going to check in on the property. But
I'm pretty normal car for Chris Martin.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah. Gwyneth Paltrow was a big, a big spot.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
For us sorr at the grocery store with their daughter
because she went to college here. Yes, she graduated, and
now she graduated. Now she's going to be in a movie.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There we go back to the trick flick of it all,
Nancy Myers.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
There you go, Nature is healing. For my best of May,
there was a lot, but I think it comes down
to not only one of my favorite horror movies of
the year, but probably of the decade. It is called Obsession, okay,
and Obsession is about this dude who has a big
crush on a girl. They've been friends for a long time,
but he wants to tell her how he feels about her,
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doesn't really have the courage. He ends up trying to
go buy her a gift. Instead of buying her this
stone thing that he thinks would be cool, he purchases
this kind of like children's like toy where it says
you snap it and you make a wish, and that
witch comes true. And his wish is for her to
love him more than anybody else in the world, which
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he's just trying to be like, I just want to
be in a relationship with her.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Be careful what you wish for, buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And then it gets completely crazy because there's this sinister
element to it because he obviously makes that wish and
she not only loves him more than anybody else in
the world, she's super obsessed with him, hence the name
of the movie. But it is really intense. The movie
was made for less than a million dollars and is
now one of the highest grossing, like lower budget movies,
it's grossed like fifty sixty million dollars at this point.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And it was a movie I didn't get to go
see opening weekend because we were moving, but I went
the second weekend it came out, and it was still full.
That is insane. That doesn't happen anymore. The hype around
this movie was all word of mouth. A lot of
gen Z just gravitates towards horror movies. Right now, I
think they were the ones who made this movie a success.
But there was way more of a buzz for this
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movie than there was one hundred and sixty million dollar Mandalorian.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Which.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Don't tell me they spend that much on that, because
that is what did y'all do with that money? In
comparison to other Star Wars films, it is the lowest.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
What did y'all do with that money?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Paid Pedro Pascal for very little screen time?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Voice and Sigourney Weaver.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, but that's the thing about horror is you can
make a movie with a vision and a vibe and
create a story that people find compelling. Because that's what
I've been reading the entire week and a half since
watching that movie, is people discuss different plot points like
who is the villain in this? Like what do you
think about this? His decision to do this, who is
in the right, who is in the wrong, what happens
(06:53):
at the end. All these little things that get people
talking that you don't necessarily need a big movie budget,
and you don't need a lot of promo. You don't
need the grogu eighty dollars popcorn bucket. It is just
creating something that people actually want to go experience in
theaters with people, which I think is a big thing
about horror. You want to go see it with friends,
even though I go to every war movie alone. But
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it's one of those things that you go experience with
other people. You're in a dark room where you feel
scared because of what you were watching, but you're still safe.
It's kind of just in your mind. But it's a
community thing. And then there's the social media aspect where
you like talking about it, debating with other people, some
people getting in arguments about it. But you don't get
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that from a Disney movie that is just cranking out
a franchise just for the sake of cranking it out.
But that is why I love that movie even more
is because to me, it lived up to the hype.
I give it a four point five out of five.
And then it's the discussion that it caused where I
think that is where movies are lacking right now is
creating moments, and that is what's really standing out and
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making people a lot of money, and you can't really
buy that. So that is why Obsession is my best
of the month. What about your worst?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Mandalorian?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That was your worst? It was and you weren't a
fan of the show. You haven't seen the show, and
you were like, do I need to watch any of
the show going into it? But I like that you
have that perspective because I think that was a lot
of people, because I don't think people were going to
go back and watch three seasons of a TV show
to go watch a movie that's homework.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It was, and I like Star Wars, It's bored. It's
so bored.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It was long, low budget for a Star Wars film,
and boring, and those are the worst three things you
can be.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I was so surprised at how little action there was.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Soundtrack was good. The sound was a starry song was good.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Whenever they go into the city to go try to
rescue Rod of the hut, that's the only part that
felt like, Okay, this is actually kind of cool. It
kind of reminded me of like a Blade Runner twenty
forty nine, where it was kind of dark city vibes.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, it was like, this is the only thing that's
like Star Wars ish.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That was cool. Aside from that and rout of the hut,
there was nothing else redeeming about the movie. It was weird.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It felt two hours.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, it really did. And it wasn't inherently bad like
we've seen movies that we wanted to walk out of
because they were so bad, whether it's whether it's the
acting or the storytelling. It wasn't that I wanted to
throw tomatoes at the screen. But it was just that
the movie had so much potential and did nothing. It
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gave us nothing. It made very little of Grogu. He
almost felt like a minion.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Him and the other point he literally him and the
other creatures mechanics.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, they're just kind of like gibberish. That was kind
of minion like ishtle like birds and it was just minion.
It was trying to be very cute and leaning into that,
which I think they thought, we're going towards the younger
audience and also maybe this is going to sell more
toys if we make it a little bit more cute,
and that is what Star Wars movies were basically created
for to sell merchandise. Yeah, so Yeah, I didn't enjoy that.
(10:02):
I feel like that's one that's probably going to go
on Disney Plus sooner than every other Disney project.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It could be out tomorrow and I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Dispress because Hoppers is just coming out on Disney Plus
this month, and that movie came out back in the
start of the year because it did pretty well March. Right, Yeah,
so you're worst of the month. Mandalorian did not recommend it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
For my worst of the month, I'm gonna go with
Mortal Kombat two, even more so than Mando and Grogu.
I was so let down by this movie because I
love the original Mortal Kombat movies and it is one
that is not really one that I was going to
go be excited about. And anytime I have to tap
my every I watch a movie and I hit the
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timer every single time. If I have to look at
the timer and it's only like thirty minutes in, that
is the sign of a bad movie. And that is
what happened to me during Mortal Kombat too. And I
went into it just wanting some good blood and guts.
Don't go into it expecting any kind of great plot
or premise. But it kind of felt like they were
trying to make an Avenger style movie without the quality
(11:05):
of characters and didn't even really lean into the rate
at R rating that much.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It's glowing a recommendation.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, so that was one that was probably the most
let down by, even though I thought the Popcorn Bucket
was probably the best of the month. The helmet, the
helmet that I wanted to put on except my head
is way too bad.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Better than the Devil Wars brought a persone for me.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, Like, if if I were to buy one, I
would have bought the helmet before I bought the butter burkin.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I would have bought the butter burkin.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The butter burkin was cool, but the ones I saw
I didn't think they were made that well. Like the
concept was cool.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah it's a plastic, a little three D printed, but
the concept was better would surprise me.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But the actual helmet O shau Kan was cooler. All right.
Our TV shows of the month, Oh yeah, we got
to go through all the movies started off. I saw
Hokum also without You. That's probably my runner up for
best movie of the month.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Scary movie.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, I'm not gonna see that you would have hated
that one because that one's more like nightmari ish scary
obsession doesn't really have any kind of paranormal element. There's
like a sinister element where I don't want any of
that if you don't know exactly what is causing her
to be so obsessed. But it's not really like things
popping out at you. There's not jump scares. It's just
violence and overall just kind of like creepiness. But Hokum
(12:25):
is like you're gonna have a nightmarees there's one character
that you would have nightmares. We then saw The Devil
Worst Producty, which I gave before out a five. I
stand by that Oddity was a movie that I went
back and watched because of the director of Hokum. It
was the movie he did before that. I highly recommend
that one. You can watch that one on YouTube again
if you like really I mean not YouTube on Hulu
(12:46):
if you like really you creepy scary. He he does
a really good job at kind of creating this Irish
folklore because he's an Irish director, So it's like creepy
possessed objects. That is what addity is about. I like
that one in the Gray That is the most mid
movie we've we watched this month with Jake, Jillenhok, Henry cavill.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I already forgot about it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It is a Guy Ritchie movie. They essentially play these
guys who you call in if you need to take
down a shady person. They're kind of they work in
the gray, but it.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Was like the person they were protecting. I still didn't
understand what she did.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
The hardest part of this movie was it was so
confusing in the first ten.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And there was like a bad voiceover and there was
like text on the screen like trying to be like
next chapter.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It was not. This movie was trying to be much
cooler than it was. Yes, it was like Guy Ritchie
doing a Quentin Tarantino impression. And in the opening it
was a voiceover trying to explain everything and how complex
this story was.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
And Jay, if you had to explain it to me.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And like, I couldn't, I couldn't enjoy the movie because
so much was happening in the scene. But then you
had this really loud voice over the entire time explaining
things to you and it was too much information to
take in. Yeah, maybe I was just being dumb, but
I just felt like it was it was overstimulating in
the beginning, and then I thought Jake Jildenhall's character was
just really weird where he was trying to be really
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cool in like a sly like.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Leader, like a macho dude who like is tough without
having to be tough, but it's cool.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And then says like cute see things that are kind
of it was like really going for like I want
a movie quote from this movie. So Henry Cavill was good.
I feel like he's he's always a solid actor, especially
when he does what he does best, does action movie. Yeah,
and the entire movie was kind of building up to
the third act and it just felt really weird once
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it actually happened, like that's it. And then it ended,
and I was like that was not satisfying.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It wasn't satisfying, but.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It was entertaining enough for us not to leave. Yeah,
So I would still give that movie a three out
of five. Listen, it has to be really bad for
us to leave. But like, especially in the summer, if
I can go sit in the free air conditioning at
Regal and drink Diet Pepsy and eat some sour Patch kids,
I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I'll turn the brainness down and play the New York
Times word if I get really bored.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I just thinking like how much I love those seats
because we were talking about going to our other local theater,
the bell Court, Yes, and I was like, man, I
just loved the Regal seat, Like I think that is
the most comfortable about.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Going to the Bell Court on a Sunday and you
do your long run on a Sunday and then you
have to stretch, Like listen, everyone, he has to sit.
He boots me off the couch to a specific side
of the couch that he can sit and stretch his legs.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You gotta stretch from my legs. It feels good. That's
how I recomfort. But yeah, I was just thinking like, hey,
those Regal seats are just the most that's my most comfortable.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Just are comfortable.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And then we talked about Mortal Kombat to you, I
saw that after that.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
And my honor I mentioned them on the Sheep Detectives.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I would say, the most underrated family movie in a
long time.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So good, We're so good.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Hugh Jackman is on the poster. How are these people
getting away with it? Where they're like Bill is like
huge Jackman in The Sheep Detectives, and then they're barely
in the movie.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh, we can't say much.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
That's all I can say. It is barely in the
movie saying thing with Mandolin. Grogan was barely in the movie,
but he's at the title character. This movie was so heartwarming.
I feel like if I would have had this movie
come out when I was eight, maybe nine years old,
it would have changed my life because it deals with
things that are hard for kids to process. It talks
(16:27):
about how the sheep in the movie just want to
wish the bad things away and they just don't think
about them, and it forces you to live in that uncomfortableness,
to live in that sadness, to be a real person.
I thought that was such a great concept to put
in a movie like this. That kids don't really learn
that from anything you watch anymore, and sometimes it's an
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uncomfortable conversation to have. But for me, where my parents
didn't really teach me all those lessons, I learned it
a lot through TV and movies. I learned about death
through The Lion King. I feel like if I would
have watched this movie when I was eight or nine,
i would have taken a lot from it. It was funny,
I thought, well produced. It was kind of like a
(17:08):
family friendly knives out. Yeah, and I kind of forgot
that all the sheep were gonna start talking and then
were all voice by celebrities. I loved the sheep, but
now anytime I see a sheep, I wonder, are they
trying to solve like a mystery right now? What did
you like about it?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I mean, yeah, it was just heartwarming and just like
the overall concept of I think you mentioned it talks
about death, that's not a spoiler, and it's like, yeah,
explaining that in a way that like kids understand it.
I mean I've mentioned on the podcast before that my
dad passed away when I was two and a half,
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and like, as a kid, you don't understand what that means, like,
and I feel like it did a really good job
of handling like what death means and like helping kids
understand that in a way that like makes sense but
doesn't scare them.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Did it at all make you want to live off
the grid because he lives in like basically a camper.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I mean, if we're.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Living off the grid, like raising some cute sheep, sure,
take me to like the coast of Ireland or something,
and I'll.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Live off the grid.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, the little village.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Do I want to live off the grid in Tennessee? Particularly?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Do you want to go to another? Yeah, Ireland looks beautiful.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
You know what I don't want to do live without
internet again. We'll get into that street about being off
the grid.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
But between this and the banshees an interus sheer in,
I would like to go to Ireland.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I alway said I don't want to go, but I
don't know what.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Else to do there. Like, once we get to some
of these beautiful locations, you just like look out and
just enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Go on like the tours, go visit the pubs.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah, I guess I'd have to start drinking again to
enjoy Ireland.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I think Ireland's a great place to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah. We he's talked about man doing grogu and we
talked about Obsession. Those are all the movies we watched
in May. Probably would have watched more streaming movies if
we'd had internet.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah. So somebody asked me on my book Instagram if
we were going to talk about remarkably great bright creatures
and answers. Yes, when we have the chance to watch it.
We weren't gonna watch it. Maybe the night before I moved.
And then they cut our internet. Yea our old house
too quick that we didn't have internet.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
It's been the longest month.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Before we get into that. Are TV shows of the month?
Shrinking finished Shrinking Season two. I love that show now.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
That show it just does something to me. It is heartwarming,
it is funny, it is witty, is all the things.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It is the only show we've watched recently that I
feel like I know these people, like they are like
friends in a weird way. Yeah, it's like this weird
relate because they're so well written and they're so well rounded,
and they all get along so well that you kind
of feel like a part of the friend group when
you watch this show. Yes, And you don't really get
that anymore. And Apple just has great TV shows, not
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good movies.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, they got to stick to the TV shows.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Because the other show we finished was Margo's Got Money Troubles.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yeah, so good.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
That's another one where all the characters are so well
written and it's such a great.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
We well comes from a book though, So Apple doesn't
get the credit for that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh, you're right, you're right, you're right. Rufy Thorpe gets
the credit for that. But all those characters are so great.
It is so much about family, and.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Apple did a good job screenwriting and bringing it to
life and casting.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Because the show itself there's always I think the thing
about both of those shows, Shrinking and Margo, is that
anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, there's conflict, there's mess.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Anytime you think something is going to become a problem,
it becomes a problem. And you find that's entertaining to watch.
Although if that was your own life, you wouldn't want
all those bad things to do. But like a new
character gets introduced or a new situation, and like that's
going to become a problem, and it does. It always
becomes a problem. But both of those shows, I would
say those would make me want to get an Apple
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TV subscription if I didn't have one.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
There's a selling point.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Their movies would make me want to get it at all.
The TV shows are great. Those are our TV shows.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Oh and I'm also watching for All Mankind on Apple.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That is five seasons and like ten episodes per season.
They're all an hour. So I'm working through that one.
That was a good space show.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
We got to start your friends at Neighbors.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, we have that. We have so much to catch
up on. I've just been like downloading er on my
iPad and watching.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It And then your book is it the one you
spent the longest amount reading?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
No, I did love that one.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I read Stephen King's eleven twenty two sixty three, and
I need to watch the show from ten years ago. No,
my best book of the month is one that I
read in less than twenty four hours. It is The
Burning Side by Sarah dam Off and phenomenal, just so good.
Couldn't put it down. The writing's incredible, the story was great,
it was sad, it was hopeful, all of the emotions
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in a book. And I started it on like a
Monday evening and then finished it like Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
How many pages less than twenty four hours? Let's see,
I mean project held me. It was four hundred and
sixty four pages. That took me like a month collectively.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But you also don't devote as much time to reading,
Like Yeah, you sit down and you kind of blaze
through a book. I've never been I like always like
to read.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Three hundred and thirty six pages. That's a lot of pages.
That's the same one.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
It took me a long time because I was reading
it on my kendle, and so I would read before
I fall asleep.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
But then I would like fall asleep while reading.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And now with that, you don't really know how thick
it is because you're just looking at Oh.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
No, I knew it was eight hundred and something, but
I mean you don't really.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Like visually see it. Don't tell the time.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, you can tap on the corner of your kindle
and I'd read and it's like you're eight percent into
this book. It's like you have ten hours left, and
like ten hours.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Soose there are movies, TV shows and books. Where do
we start on for a month of me?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Which this coffee was a glass of rose? Right now?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
If you had to assign a movie title, a real
movie title, to our moving experience, what would.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It be Alexander and the Horrible bad, no good, rotten
Day or the.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Terrible terrible, no good, bad Day. Yeah, so just specifically
the moving day was that? No, the whole month, oh,
the whole month, the whole month. It was a terrible month.
Mine would probably be twenty eight days later because because
I feel even though we haven't been in this place
for twenty eight days, kind of the process of where
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everything happened has been like the last twenty eight days,
from us starting to move, the actual moving day, which
was not a great experience, and then else everything that
has happened. As far as nothing has gone right, I
would say, hmm, what's the worst thing.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I mean, the fact that we paid a moving company
and they didn't move all of our belongings.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It was probably the worst thing.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It's pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And then that was hard to figure out.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And then when we tried to give them feedback, they
gas led us and told us it was our fault.
Just put those like emojis of like thinking above my head,
I would say collectively, I mean the internet was probably yeah,
because we were able to figure out that on our
own and within the same moving weekend it was resolved.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It sucked and it was the worst in the moment.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
It was resolved.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Me yes, because I love to chat, hey sometimes talking.
We went out to dinner and having an interest to her,
mentioned to our waitress whir day was bad, and then
I was like, so if you have a handyman, and
she was like, actually, the coworker here does moves and so.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
But then when we actually moved in, the thing we
were so like deliberate about was we got to set
our internet moving date the same day we move in
three months ago. We set it up like as soon
as we knew we were moving.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We set it up before we even signed the lease
on the reas.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
We've got to sign that because we already have our
appointments there. Yeah, but they came and then ran into
a problem.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
But he goes, Okay, so keep in mind, this whole
morning has been terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
And I'll also say I love our internet provider. Yeah,
and that is why we actually stuck with That's why.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
We stuck it out and waited. Yeah, the guy goes
like a goodness like a badness. Good news is, your
equipment's all set up.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's great news.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Bad news is I'm not getting a signal, sir, but
it's really bad news.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
That's not really yeah, that's not really good. Good news is.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
And so then he said it was going to be
resolved in like a day to three, and we thought
that was ridiculous. We did oh to go back and
think about that, and then it was just a comedy
of errors. And for two and a half weeks, I worked.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Off a hot spot, which is really hard to do
because not only does it cost money to add more
bandwidth to make your phone into a hot spot, but
also drains your battery like crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
We also discovered we happened to like, oh yeah, move
in somewhere where the cell service isn't great.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
When you first came here, you're like, yeah, cell service
wasn't great, and I was like, that would only be
an issue if we don't have it a yet. We
did not have internet for seventeen days and I think
fifteen hours, which is what the apps once we finally
connected back.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, it just it was one of those months where
I can say this on the podcast. Next weekend is
our five year wedding anniversary, and I was like, I
don't know that we've ever had a month where we
just like didn't like each other as much. And it's
not even like us not liking each other. It was
just like stress after stress after stress after stress.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, it's kind of like if you put two cats
into the same like moving containment.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
It was almost worse than when we didn't have AC
for ten days because I think the AC it was
it was a solid Ooh which.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Was which would you rather the ten days of no
AC or the seventeen days of NOE.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
But I'm saying I wouldn't want to do either one
of them. The seven day days of internet is more manageable.
But I feel like the ten days of no AC
we were united in that. And then I just feel
like this month there was so much and we were
both trying to like take certain aspects and be like,
I'll deal with this, you deal with this, And so
there were just like things and we were just like
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cats at each other. And I feel like anyone a
relationship knows that you go through those phases where you're
just like you just it's like the littlest thing, and
then it's everything.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Moving is very stressful. We've also just had bad luck
at it. Whenever we moved you from Austin to hear
your car broke down and we were stuck in Arkansas,
we had to in the pandemic. During the pandemic, we
had to figure out how to get the we try
to get it fixed.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
We went to three different places.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Nobody could helpless. It was was it a Saturday or Friday.
It was Saturday Saturday. Nobody could helpless. Everybody's like, the
best we could do is get you in on Monday,
and I'm like, we can. I have a vision of
us sleeping in our own midnight. So we ended up
renting a U haul, putting it on the U haul,
and then driving it here and then dealing with it
once we got here. So we haven't had the best
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experience when it comes to moving, but we've been able
to overcome those obstacles. But moving is just stressful.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And it was just like I had a really busy
month at work, like I had a big event. I
also just I did this was a great month to
switch antidepressants.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
That was a terrible.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But I have the span of two weeks.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I was like, I'm gonna switch these, We're gonna move,
and then I'm gonna have a giant work of it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
But why why?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
But yeah, that was our month of May. But now
we're through it. We are all moved, we're all done
with the old place. We're in the new place, and
we have a lot of good movies to look forward
to in June.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yes, and I have my own office now. Yeah, that's
The selling point of this new house is that I
have an office after six years of working in the
living room.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
In this place where in now it's completely separate. It's
like a little cave.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, your office is its own little entity. We do
have to sound proofet a little more. Yeah, I like
got so excited when we moved because I was like,
he's gonna be upstairs. And then the first day that
he starts recording again, this is no internet.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
We're in the middle and I can hear.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Damn all of a sudden, I hear this sagitating voice,
but anything else. I mean, I feel like I should
just tell people be like each other again. People are
going to be like, oh god, No, anyone who is
in a long term relationship knows that you just like
go through phases and like, I mean, we want to
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have kids someday, and I feel like that's just prep
for like life, It's happened things.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Sorry, I thought I had a bug in my mouth.
There's a bug on your desk and I thought I
was eating it. Yeah, it's good, Yeah, You're just that's
just life. We haven't married almost five years now.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Twenty twenty one feels like so long ago, but.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's like five years is a while. Yeah, It's like
that's like the first milestone. I feel like, yeah, five
years is a long time. That is like how long
some people spend in high school. If you're not good
at high school.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
I was gonna say college. Okay, high school.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
High school. If you're not going to high school, that's
all of five years college. Yeah, I guess some people.
All right, anything else, no, nothing left. And I'll give
my spoiler free review of back Rooms. Let's get into
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it now, A spoiler free movie review of Backrooms. I
just sat in this seat straight from the theater. I
am not convinced myself that I am not still in
the back Rooms. As I start this review, I'm going
to create the portal on my chest like you have
in the movie. Because what this movie is about. You
have a guy played by Chewetel eg four who is
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going through a lot mentally, and he's going to see
this therapist trying to work through all of his problems.
You learn about well his tragic past. And while he
is doing this, he is working at a furniture store
and he uncovers something in the bottom level of the
furniture store that he has never seen before, and he
discovers a door into the back rooms, which is this
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kind of endless, big old office building where everything is
a pale yellow. You have fluorescent lighting that is just
buzzing and a humming like and it is very creepy.
It goes on and on and on and on, and
there's all this furniture just stacked in really weird places,
all these things that you can't describe. And he builds
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this little kind of what I have here on my
chest now just outlines wherever he is able to put
his hand through the wall and go into the back rooms.
And he's been spending time with this therapist working through
all of his problems, and he tells her about the
back rooms, and she does not believe him, and he says,
as he storms out of our office, I'm going to
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prove it to you that this place exists. This movie
comes to us from twenty year old director, Yes, twenty
years old Cain Parsons, who I am fascinated with, is
now one of the youngest people to ever top the
North American box office. This entire movie started from a
single image that was put on four Chan, which is
a really weird part of the Internet, kind of like Reddit,
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but it's or I would say, even more hyper nerds
than I am. This image that has later been discovered
was I think like an office depot or some kind
of just retail store that somebody just uploaded on the Internet,
and another user created what is called a creepy pasta,
which is essentially Internet folklore, like an old just story
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that would be handed down, and a creepypasta is just
a piece of text. And there was this original piece
of text that gave this backstory of the back rooms,
all about this buzzy yellow place that goes on for
miles and miles where you can really discover anything. It
is just whatever you can imagine. It is kind of there.
And Kane Parsons got the attention of A twenty four
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because you put out a short film on YouTube, just
on YouTube that now has millions and millions of views.
And his story of the back rooms is just one
telling because the entire Internet lore is that everybody has
added to this story. There are different levels of the
back rooms. The one that we know is from that
original yellow image that Cain made this film, where essentially
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in that film, if you haven't seen it on YouTube.
You can search it up. But it's this kid and
his friends making this kind of home style video and
very shaky cam found footage type thing. And there's one
moment where he takes a step back as he's trying
to get this wide shot and he falls into the
back rooms and it is just that first person perspective
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of somebody walking through and uncovering these really weird monsters
that are kind of wiry, kind of looks like something
that would maybe be in a clover field, but it
is very weird. And Kane Parsons did this all through
a program called Blender, which is an animation program that
allows you to create kind of these three D walls
and objects and figures. And that thing just blew up.
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And now A twenty four went to him and said, hey,
do you want to make a movie for us? And
he was thinking about going to college and he's like,
you know what, I'm not going to go to college. Instead,
I'm going to make this movie. And now, just one
single image that was posted on the internet, somebody wrote
some texts. I don't even think the original person who
wrote the text has even taken credit for it. The
idea is just bigger than itself is now a full
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fledged Hollywood movie, and it is doing numbers at the
box office. And I will say I bought into the
hype because this is something that I'm just fascinated with.
Any kind of creepypasta or just internet story about something
horrific I am drawn to. I will stay up on
TikTok and just scroll through these little short films that
people make. And I used to love going on Reddit
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and reading these because it is crazy how in just
a paragraph somebody can make you feel terrified. So while
this movie is set in the nineteen nineties, to me,
it was kind of reliving my twenty tens, where I
was more obsessed with Reddit, had a lot more free time,
So what'd spend a lot more time browsing through all
the subreddits trying to find these great stories. Even though
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it was set in the nineties, it was like I
was living out those twenty tens memories of going into
Reddit and YouTube worm holes where I would discover this
type of thing. And now you have this burning fan
base who wants to go see this movie and wants
to see to succeed. Where I'm curious to see how
people who don't know the backstory of this are going
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to digest this movie because I do not think it's
for everybody after I watched it, and for somebody like
me who was so interested, so hyped for it. I
loved the setting. I love the world building that Kane
Parsons did more than the story itself, because you have
this essentially broken man who was working at a furniture store.
I do like the aesthetic of the furniture store, but
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all of his personal struggles that he is dealing with.
I found a really unique angle to tell this story
because it's so focused on his psyche, his relationship with
his therapist, and I just thought that the world itself
was way more interesting than the actual story, any kind
of character development. It wasn't really about that. So it's
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almost I'm more excited for the next movie because this
one quite didn't do it for me, Even though she
would tell EG four, I believe gave a fantastic performance
as his character gets more and more obsessed with these
back rooms and exploring it. There's a good, maybe twenty
thirty minute chunk that it's kind of a slow burned part,
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But my favorite part of the movie is just him
exploring the back rooms where it kind of felt like
what I wanted back when I was reading this back
in the day, back when people were making video games
about this. It felt like that was where this movie
really shined. But you couldn't really do that the entire
movie because even for me, I thought, Okay, where are
we kind of going with this, and where it started
to kind of ramp up the horror, it pulled back
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pretty quickly to tell the rest of this guy's story,
where I think I just didn't quite connect with it.
So I am more excited for what is going to
come for Kane Parsons, because twenty years old is crazy,
but to think that a twenty four is taking a
risk like this, and really Hollywood and in general is
finding these young directors who I believe are in their
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creative prime, because if you think about yourself back in
your twenties, you are fearless then, and I think that
is what Hollywood needs to focus on, is finding these
people who are so passionate about what they do, which
is what Kane Parsons is back when he was just
creating this for fun, not making any money from it,
and letting them have creative control, which there's a lot
of speculation online. Mark Duplas, who's also in the movie,
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had to come out and say, guys, all you people
saying that he didn't direct this movie on his own,
that we had a ghost director. You guys are out
of your mind. And I think it's because some people
can accept that some people are just built different and
creatively different, and that prodigies don't exist. And I think
I do want to do an episode on the youngest
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directors ever to have success, because if you look back
in history, some of the greatest movies ever were directed
by people in their twenties. But I think we have
to focus on the younger generation gen Z to really
make filmmaking interesting again and getting people out into the
theater in a way that hasn't been done before, by
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taking something like this deep internet lore that seems so
niche and so risky and making it successful. And I
think that is what we need to do to make
noteworthy movies. So they got my money. I went to
see it in theaters. I was so hype about it.
Even though I left not completely satisfied, I didn't feel
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as let down as I would have if I was
just going to watch like Scream seven earlier this year
not satisfied whatsoever, and I left rapulse from that movie.
This movie was so comforting in a way where it
kind of felt like playing a cozy video game on
the Nintendo Switch, where there's not a crazy amount of action,
you just kind of play it to feel good. That
is how I felt living in that world completely covered
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in yellow. Because even the cinematography I felt fit this
movie perfectly because there's nothing that really stands out about it.
It's almost pretty big sick in itself, like he was
making that same YouTube video again. But I think that
is the perfect way to tell this story because I
could smell some of those rooms, the way they described it,
the dinginess of the carpet, some of the things that
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pop out at you. I can smell that world. I
can feel that world that as I left the theater,
like I mentioned earlier, I still felt like maybe I
was living inside the back rooms and I never left
that theater at all. Did I ever leave that theater
at all? I don't know. I could still be in there.
So even though I didn't leave, loving the story and
even saying that everybody needs to go see this movie,
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I felt like I had a really good time and
went somewhere that I never expected to go. That I
would go watch this movie again in theaters because I
feel like, I go there, I want to see back
rooms two, I want to see backrooms three. I really
hope that this becomes a franchise because there are so
many stories that you can explore here. Because we only
got one guy's perspective, there are so many other places
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where this can happen that I think could make played
to having a little bit more action. I thought there
was gonna be a little bit more high intense moments. Instead,
it was much more psychological, especially where this movie leaves you.
It just kind of messes with your brain more than anything,
so much so that you really had to pay attention.
So that's why I think it's not for everybody. But
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this one guy next to me decided to leave towards
the end of the movie and missed something so pivotal
and then came back and sat down right before the
credits rolled and then asked me, Hey, what did I miss?
And it was kind of hard to explain to him,
like why would you leave it? The best part of
the movie. Who goes to the bathroom in the last
five minutes just hold it or at that point just
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bet your pants. You should have just beat his pants.
So this is one of those movies that I'm gonna
spend a lot of time with reading theories about seeing
things that I missed, some things that I kind of
picked up on that I knew were easter eggs to
the original YouTube series. It is a movie that people
can really dive deep into, and I think that is
what movies need now. They need that extended life, They
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need that discussion, that discourse that people are going to
agree on things and disagree on things and think they
should have included this level. No, this should have been
you know, that is what we need. Movies that get
people talking, and that is what this movie did. So
for back Rooms, I give it three point five out
of five taped off doorways its side to head down
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to movie Mike Traylor Parr. I have to be honest,
this is my second time starting this segment because it
is so hard for me to say the title of
this movie Walker in Law, foc Ker in Law. They
know what they're doing by naming these movies. It's been
a running joke in the franchise. But whenever I first
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hit record, I did not say Foker in Law. I
think I just said the word. But this movie is
coming out on November twenty fifth, stars Ben Stiller, Robert
de Niro, coming back from the original movie almost fifteen
years after the last What do you call this franchise?
The Meet the the Meet the franchise, the meat franchise.
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Meet the Parents came out back in two thousand. Meet
the Fockers came out in two thousand and four, a
pretty good follow up, and then Little Fockers came out
in twenty ten, not so good. I think a lot
of people kind of forget about that one. But Foker
in Law is coming out this Thanksgiving November twenty fifth,
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twenty twenty six, more than fifteen years after the original movie. Again,
Ben Steller's back, Robert de Niro is back, and joining
the cast is Ariana Grande. I have two questions that
I want to finish by the end of this trailer park.
One is Ben Stiller the most underrated comedic actor of
our lifetime? And two? Do you see Ariana Grande more
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as a musician or an actor? But before we get
into that, here is just a little bit of the
okay Okay, here we go, Here we go, Walker in
law trailer. What do you think of Olivia?
Speaker 3 (43:03):
She's adorable, so smart us good boy, he likes you
with one sniff.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Dogs can tell more about a person's character.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Than a human cooking.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
People underestimate me, But actually I was an FBI hostage negotiators.
Comes the airplane.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
I call the strings of.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
The hostage takers like strategic emotional puppetry.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
That's how I'm gonna free Henry from you. Greg.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Oh my god, Oh my god, you've baby Bernie, Grandpa Jay.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So what this movie is about? Greg Fokker's son, Henry
brings his girlfriend home, who is Ariana Grande. As you
heard there, she is a trained FBI hostage negotiator. She's
here to meet the family. And then Greg soon gets
worried when Henry tells everyone that he plans to propose
to her. So now the roles are reversed here because
Ben Stiller is the one worried that she is not
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good enough for his son. We learn more about ben
Stiller's character, who is very overprotective, helicopter parent ish also
way too nurturing to his very adult son, where he
still calls him by his pet name that I guess
he had for him as a kid, Wee Wee. They
get into a whole discussion about his Wiener size. So
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that is the overall premise of this movie. And I
like seeing Ariana Grande really hold her own in this trailer,
which I think some people forget how funny she is.
So that is my question I want to get to first.
Do you see Ariana Grande Moore as a singer or
as an actor? And I think it's because how I
was introduced to her. I always think of her more
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as an actor. But I keep seeing people saying that
she's getting back into acting now, she's pushing music away,
which I don't think she's going to do that. But
the way I was introduced to her was I was
a big Nickelodeon kid, never much of a Disney Channel kid.
Dabbled in it a little bit, but if I had
to pick one, I was Nickelodeon all day, every day.
I remember her in Victorious, that was on the air
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from twenty ten to twenty thirteen. Even more so than that,
I was more of a fan of her and Sam
and Kat. That's where I got to know Mariano Grande first.
Where her character had bright red hair, and I think
is a big reason that she has some kind of
hair issues now, where I think she's been pretty upfront
about the reason her hair has thinned out over the
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years is because she died it so much for that show,
which Nickelodeon is not good for you. But then again,
they have a lot of other things to worry about.
But that's where I know her from first. And obviously
she was massive in the twenty tens, but she didn't
release her first debut album, Yours truly until twenty thirteen.
So I think it's because I associate her with those
Nickelodeon shows, and I feel like that has been such
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a part of her DNA. And I never fully became
a fan of her music, even though she is an
amazing singer. I just never gravitated towards it. Not really
my genre, not really my style. I don't think that
I would go see her in concert if she came
to town. However, she puts out a movie, I'm gonna
go see it. And I think with her having success
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in Wicked and Wicked for Good, people kind of forgot
how good of an actor she is and how great
a comedic timing that she has, and you see it
here in this trailer, But I knew that because the
Nickelodeon days. So I don't really see this as her
giving up music to do acting. I feel like her
foundation isn't acting me personally. If she never put out
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another album, I'd be fine with it. I would be
well on the journey of seeing Ariana Grande take more
roles where I think Wicked was a great transition for
her because she got to act, but she also got
to sing. And now I think this role in Fokker
in Law, she's also going to give people an entirely
different look at her of how good she is comedically,
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which if you've seen her on SNL, you knowing that
she gets funny, and I know when this trailer first dropped,
there was a lot of discourse online, people saying that
it is hard to take her seriously because she looks
so much like Ariana Grande, And on the surface, that
sounds kind of a kind of like a dumb thing
to say. Of course, she's gonna look like Ariana Grande.
She is Ariana Grande. But I think what people are
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saying is that her look is so definitive and so
uniquely her that it makes her stand out in the story.
But the more I watch this trailer, the more I
think it fits naturally. I do think she has this
pop star look, and whether it's her makeup or her wardrobe,
she is always going to look much different than anybody else.
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So I think unless she goes the route of maybe
like a Mariah Carey and precious and does a role
where she completely changes her look and has some maybe
a makeup list look, I think it's gonna require a
much different role. Though it's not this, It's gonna be
some big oscar bait drama that is going to give
us ariana grande in a way that we have never
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seen her before. So for me, I see her as
more of an actor, and she doesn't look distracting in
this trailer. Now, when it comes to Ben Stiller, I
do believe he is one of the most underrated comedic
actors in our lifetime, where I think, for the most part,
if you think about the people who have dominated the
comedy genre from about the late nineties two and twenty tens,
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you got the big three in there, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler,
Mike Myers. Those are the dudes who have just carried
franchise after franchise. Adam Sandler alone still crushing it on Netflix.
Will Ferrell, I think for a majority of the two
thousands was that guy Mike Myers is up there because
of Shrek, because of all the Saturday Night Live stuff,
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because of Wayne's World. He has been doing it for
so long and is now slowly getting back into acting
and having some cameos here and there. But I think
those guys are the big foundation. I would also argue
a Melissa McCarthy deserves to be on that top five list.
I think she is somebody who dominates every single role
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that she does. Maybe doesn't have quite the body of
work of big franchises and big icon roles as some
of these other people on this list, But when it
comes to people I think do not get enough recognition
for franchise after franchise, banger after banger. I think it
has been Stiller, obviously to meet the parents franchise that
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we've been talking about. Along came Polly, There's something about
Mary Dodgeball. Then you also think about movies like Zoolander,
Tropic Thunder, and then you start getting into the things
that he has directed I know it's not a comedy,
but being behind Severance is proof that he can really
do it all. And he's also one of those people
like Adam Sandler who has dabbled in more of the
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dramatic roles with movies like Greenberg, The Mayorwitz Stories, Brad's Status,
and also The Secret Life of Walter Miitty, which it
was good. But around that time, when it came out
in twenty thirteen, I thought that was going to be
my next favorite movie. That was a case of the
trailer was a little bit better than the entire movie
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because that trailer was epic. It had me sold. Oh
that was way back in the Blu Ray days where
I'd go to the Red Box and get a Blu Ray.
But I did see this movie in theaters and thought
it was okay, and then I watched it again on
Blu Ray, and maybe it's one of those movies if
I revisited now, I'd have much more of an appreciation
for But Ben Stiller consistently crushing it in comedy. I
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haven't even mentioned ninety at the Museum or Starsky and Hutch,
all these movies. On Mystery Man, that's another banger as well.
But I feel that he has only gotten better with age,
But watching the trailer looking back at the legacy of
this franchise made me realize we can't take his work
for granted. Because if you look at some of those
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other big comedic actors I have mentioned here, they all
have different styles of comedy and how they make you laugh.
Jim Carrey makes you laugh at what he is doing.
His face is so expressive, his characters are larger than life.
He has physical comedy elements. He's not exactly like a
Chris Farley who is going to dive through and crash
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into a table, but a lot of it is his
body and his actual performance. He is very cartoonish and
over the top. I think just his face muscles alone
has made him millions and millions of dollars. Will Ferrell
makes you laugh at how absurd he is. He is
somebody that is going to commit to the bit, even
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if he's not doing it in a movie or a
TV show. If he's just spotted out at like a
basketball game, and the camera gets put onto him, he
is going to give you an absurd performance and he
is going to live in that awkwardness. So he makes
you laugh at that and how absurd he actually is.
Adam Sandler makes you laugh because he acts like a kid,
and he brings out this really fun side that we
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don't get to live in. We can't act childish and
say crazy things. And maybe it's a little bit of
He does the things that we wish we could do,
and he just gets to have fun. I think that
is why his movies are successful, even though sometimes I
don't entirely love them anymore. But Ben Stiller is different
than all those guys because I think he is able
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to make us laugh because he feels like us in
those nightmares social situations. He makes these things feel relatable
where they are not over the top situations. A lot
of his movies could happen in everyday life. It's not
so crazy of a concept like putting on a mask
and then turning into this guy with a green face
and a yellow suit. It is something more along the
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lines of having a crazy in law who is so
over the top in this case work for the CIA
and is going to grill you. And it's all these
almost sitcom like situations instead of this absurdity and cartoonish
actions come to life. So his movies feel just way
more relatable to everyday life, and I think that is
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why he doesn't rake up there with those behemoths. And
if this movie proves to be successful and better than
the last one, better than Little Foker's, I think this
is going to be one of the weirdest franchises of
all time, just because they didn't really lead into the
f words so much early on, but now feel very
committed to that and now seeing them kind of bring
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back the gags from the first one, I hope it's
not just nostal debate where now you see Ariana Grande
being the one with the light detector ron. Now, is
Ariana Grande going to get another OSCAR nomination like she
did in twenty twenty five for Best Supporting Actress as
Glinda in Wicked. Probably not, but it just might get
Best Comedy In Our Hearts. Fokker in Law is coming
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out in theaters on November twenty fifth, And that was
this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer Barr and that
is going to do it for another episode here of
the podcast, But before I go, I gotta get my
listeners shout out of the week. This week, I'm going
over to X where I rarely go to now it
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kind of feels like the mall everybody used to go to.
Like recently in Nashville they closed down a mall that
had been here for decades. And when I go back
home to Texas, I used to love going to the mall.
It would be my favorite thing to do. A mall
app get a nice coffee, and then go to At
that time was an AMC. But even the mall I
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go to back in Texas, it's starting to feel like,
oh no, this isn't the cool mall anymore. But that's
kind of what X feels like. Whenever, maybe ten years
after your childhood, you start going back to that mall
and you see some of the stores closing down and
taking their place. Are these really obscure businesses that you're like,
how do you even have a brick and mortar business?
(54:39):
You sell cell phone covers for your pets? I don't
even know what you sell. How are you here operating
with not one, sometimes two employees, and you get a
little bit depressed. That is what X feels like where
there's not a whole lot of people active over there.
I still post there just because I know every now
and then you do get some attention from some people,
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but it very much feels like the mall that is
about to go under. But Joel posted over there on
x and said at Mike Distro about last week's episode,
he goes, now that we've talked about TV characters who
need their own movie, what movie characters could use their
own show? Giving Rocket his own show would be great. Also,
Zuko and Soca from Avatar would make a good show,
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even though they started as TV characters love the podcast.
So Joel, I think that is a great idea for
a topic. Maybe here in the next month or so
I could do that. I think that does fit into
the movie space, which I'm always very deliberate about staying
inside of. I think a Rocket TV show would be
great because probably my favorite character in Guardians of the
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Galaxy easily my favorite character, even more so than star
Lord Zuko and Soca. I'm not too familiar with Avatar.
This is the TV show, not Avatar the Blue People
from James Cameron. This is Avatar the last air. I
never fully got into that show. I was mentioning earlier
how I'm a Nickelodeon kid, and I think whenever Avatar
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was popular on Nickelodeon. That was a little bit when
I was aging out of the network, even though I
came back around later, but I never fully got into Avatar,
and I know from people who have been longtime fans
of that franchise, you've had a lot of ups and down,
some bad movies in there. But it is one that
I should probably dive into, just because a lot of
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people who like the same shows that I like when
it comes to animated shows, all love Avatar. So Joel,
thanks for listening. As always, thank you for suggesting a
topic because I always like listening to you guys and
doing things that you want to hear, so appreciate that.
And to everyone else listening now, wherever you may be,
hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope you have a
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great rest of your week, and until next time, go
out and watch good movies and I will talk to
you there.
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