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July 14, 2025 • 12 mins
Robots Running Down Hills | Shrek 4's Lasting Legacy
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have you seen this video?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I have not.

Speaker 3 (00:02):
I'm sending it to you right now. Hold that thought.
I gotta be honest with you. I'm a little concerned
about this. This This is a little bit more mobility
than I thought that they had at this point. And again,
I don't know what kind of intelligence it has, if
it could feel, or if it's just being programmed to
literally just run down a hill without falling over. But

(00:25):
take a gander at that and tell me what you think.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, that's about the gist of it.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
They put it in a little very large T shirt.
Not there's a robot running down a hill. Yat he's
doing the Maybe they're training him to be the cheese
rolling one. It's like being the cheese rolling race up
there in the Scotland area.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I could see now they wouldn't be allowed in the contest,
but if they were, they do pretty good because they
wouldn't feel the falls exactly.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
I mean, he goes fast as he possibly can down
the hill without falling. The problem is what happens when
he falls. Right? Have you seen them like actually test
these things. They abuse the heck out of them, Like
any kind of robot like this that is like they're
trying to like test stability and what it will do
in certain situations. If you've knocked this guy over, like
they'll just like take a broomstick and like knock a
standing robot over to see if it can, like how

(01:11):
it can get up. I'm telling you we're a bit
closer to this than I think we're willing to admit.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
We're close to all kinds of terrifying things. But this guy,
I mean, you would know this is a robot running
down a hill. This is not one of those robots
that look like an actual human, right, And even if
it did look like a human, even with the shirt
and shorts that they put on them, which you know,
just kind of makes it look funny. But even if
like they did, his gait running is odd enough to
where you'd be like, this is something that quite right there.

(01:39):
But he's actually running down the hill pretty fast and
isn't fallen over. So and I keep saying he like
it's some sort of like syentient being like.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
That's a problem like that, that's just not true.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
It's a machine.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's a machine dressed like he's from the He's we're
not getting double boats. He looks like he's from the
early two thousands. He's wearing got some baggy khaki jeans,
hanky pants. That shirt is three sizes keeping shorts. Yeah,
but that's the early He looks like he belongs. You
know what, he's robot's smash mouth running down a hill. Hey,
now you're a robot running down this hill?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh man, robot smash mouth. Well, he kind of does.
I mean, you're you're you're not wrong. I just want
to know what's next, right, what can't he run up
to hill?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I just wonder if you can give that robot maybe
some frosted tips mm complete the early two thousands.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Look.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
I don't like it. I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I didn't say I liked it. I just thought it
would help out with the image. I like that he's, uh, you.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Know where he's running.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
If you look off in the distance, there's a there's
a hot topic down at the bottom of that hill.
It's hard to see in the video, but that's where
he's headed for.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, well, that's it's interesting. It's like he's he going
to run back up to hill.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
He's gonna get a chock otaco, and then he's going
to go to Spencer's gifts before he heads home. Look
at this robot nostalgia. Who knew robots felt nostalgia? And
I don't think he does. I just think somebody put
those clothes on him and they might take him. Spencer
is part of the gag, A movie about this robot
being nostalgic for the early two thousands. I probably would

(03:06):
watch it, Okay, let's not kid ourselves. Like the premise
you've out laid out here, You and I would be there.
We would be in the theater watching this story about
this robot trying to achieve his dreams in early two thousands.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Nostalgia.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Have you seen the first Shrek?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
It'll always be the og best and it.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Is for whatever it's worth. Don't let anybody fool you otherwise.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Don't sleep on number four.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh, come on, I liked it more than I thought
I would. I think it was a fourth one. I've
lost track, but it was one of the later ones. Well,
the fourth one's the most recent one. Shrek five is
the one that they announced in the last few months
that they're gonna, you know, make and if.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
The way is ogre, Shrek is back in theaters. Not yet, No,
it's give it a couple of years. You know, how
long can they keep doing this? Like, you know, it's
been twenty five years, you know. They they keep making
toy stories. They said Toy Story was just gonna be
a trilogy.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Yeah, they keep going. Aren't they making a new one already?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
They keep making stuff was to story. It's like we're
sitting on a cash cow here. We need more, more content.
If you're a Star Wars fan, have you gotten sick
of all the like additional Star Wars stuff?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Probably not. You love it. You love that world.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Most people do.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I have heard that there are some discruntled star fans
out there.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
They messed up the timeline, so they keep adding new
stuff in there and into certain time and like this
would be happening during this timeline, and all of a
sudden you're like, no, that's not what was gonna happen.
But you have to understand that they're coming up with
this on the fly here just to make money, right.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
It's yeah, it's a money grab, and we all participate
in it.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
You know, a we society, Like look at the money
that the Star Wars movies are making in the box office.
That will tell you all you need to know. Okay,
what did the superhero movies? Yes, exactly. You think Marvel
started out thinking, we're gonna make twenty three movies in
this phase of movies and see what happens. No, I
don't think they did. I think they did the first

(04:53):
Iron Man. Oh, I went, well, you know, we should
do Iron Man two. That was the second movie, Iron
Man two. And then as they get to the Iron
Man's they have I'm sure they had plans to, like independently,
you know, get movies for the Incredible Hulk and Captain
America and Thor and all these movies that ended up
getting made, you know, a couple of years down the line.
But then they had this crazy idea, it's like four

(05:15):
or five years into the whole thing, like let's do
the Avengers and bring them all together. Now, I can't
tell you that they didn't have that as an idea
right away. It's like, hey, let's get introduce all these
you know, superheroes, and then they're gonna get together and
they're gonna fight people. Okay, well that's one thing, you
want to know. What else is the thing The fact
that they ended up making like another twenty movies after
those Ironmans, like I think I don't know if The

(05:37):
Avengers was supposed to be the end, but the fact
that they went on for another like seven eight years
making movies in that phase of this universe, I think
they were just probably feeling like, hey man, everything single
thing that we're doing is just making bonkers money. How
do we keep this story going until we can finally
get to like an endpoint? Twenty three movies? Think about that,

(05:57):
Think about how many movies that Think about how many
hours some of those movies are two and a half
three hours, like of in yours in Games three hours.
How much time I spent watching those movies? Well, guess
that's like three full days two and a half to
three full days of a movie watching over a time.
And that doesn't count how many times you rewatch some
of them. I can't even remember, like some of the
stuff that happens.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
In some of these movies. There's so many of them now, Like,
do you know what happened in Shrek the Third?

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Could you tell me?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Matter of fact, I don't exactly.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Pussing Boots has a couple of movies by all accounts,
the Pussing Boots Movie and the Puss and Boots Final
wish movie. Those were even better movies than the Shrek
movies were, but nobody wants to say that because Shrek
wasn't in them.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Shrek Forever After that's the fourth one. Yeah, and I'm
telling you don't sleep on that one. You'll miss a
good movie forever after. Shrek five is in the works.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
To get caught up.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
What Shrek four? You can't name it Shrek forever after,
and then it not be the.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
End and ever and ever.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Amen, maybe that'll be number five, or maybe it's just
Shrek five.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Just kidding, we're back, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
I see what I mean.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Like they've learned their lists and they're like, no crazy titles
to the movies.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now, we have no idea how many of these will make.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
We'll have Ai voice it once, you know, Mike Meyers
and Nanny Murphy can't do it anymore. Like Cameron Diaz
just says, I'm out, guys, I'm sorry, I'm getting old.
And then when they have Shrek twelve on the way out,
it's just Ai, Cameron Diaz.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Shrek six, Please help me stop, I can't stop. I
need help.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
You're gonna have these movie, guys, these running robots in China.
You know they're gonna all of a sudden be starting
in these movies because we just can't find people willing to,
you know, waste their time. And then all the producers
and directors and all the people and the staff and
the production companies they're making money hand over fists, they're
just like, we don't even need people anymore.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
What do we do?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Then?

Speaker 4 (07:40):
Wow, twenty ten. Shrek four came out in twenty.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Ten, so it's gonna be like what twenty six, twenty
seven years after the last.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Wee sixteen seventeen, because there's twenty.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Ten, yeah, I mean twenty six, twenty seven, the year
my bet oh oh got it?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Understood?

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Does it say?

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh, let's see.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Here Shrek five released?

Speaker 2 (08:00):
They surect five confirmed it, sure is, but it's not
gonna be until Christmas of next year. Twenty six December
twenty third, twenty twenty six is when it is scheduled
to be released.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
And that's not like if they have any unforeseen like backups, right,
So I don't know, man, I'm not saying that like
people are gonna go like Happy Gilmore in this week
when the Happy Gilmore sequel comes out. So when the
Happy Gilmore sequel comes out. Did anybody ever think they
needed a second Happy Gilmore? The first Happy Gilmore is
just fine. But people like me who love Happy Gilmore,

(08:32):
I'm like, I'm going to go see that movie. It's
our fault we let this happen. We can't come up
with any new ideas these days and get people to
like it. We have to keep leaning on the old ones.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, people could, It's just it's riskier, it's more of
a risk. This is why risk reward. That's why reality
television has taken over TV.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
But this is why we need the movie about the
robot who's living in nostalgia for the early two thousands,
because it is a unique and original idea.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
That is, that's a funny idea for a movie. We
got to figure out the way to the guy like
program a robot to be nostalgic for the early two thousands.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
It is anybody doing John Hughes style movies these days,
like let's try to get one of those guys like
very simplistic, very fairist bullery and like a coming of
age for this like Robot.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
I think that Robot is better placed is kind of
like a bit character like let's say it's it's like
it's Michael Sarah and it's about his life, but the
robot's his roommate, and the robot just like shows up
and makes some early two thousands reference and they're.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Like, what was that that he just and he starts
living with the robot and the robot just becomes like
his third best friends or something. All Right, maybe maybe
that's how you do it. Yeah, two forty eight, this
is what we do, ladies and gentlemen, We have fun.
Thanks for listening on news radio eleven ten kfab and
where you songer? That wasn't the right ending to Shrek.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
I'll have you know.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'm literally creating a account on rotten toomatoes dot com
right now to leave a glowing review of this.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Masterpiece Shrek forever after.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
We got to stop this nonsense with people poorly rating
movies that are good. And if I got to lead
that charge, it starts at strek Shrek four, okay, and
then we're gonna next up, We're going to do the
Disney's Robin Hood. Yeah, poorly received and poorly rated by
people who I guess they just didn't get.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
It according to you know, like, I think we need
to look at the context of the situation, you know,
back in the seventies when it was released. But I'm
with you, that movie is a lot better, you know,
decades later than people give it credit for.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Oh, it's a wonderful it's a masterpiece of a movie.
It's got a brilliant soundtrack or brilliant soundtrack, and it's
a really good movie. It hits you in the fields
and it's really funny too.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Okay, it's wonderful.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Well, I just wonder, you know, like Shrek five is
coming out sixteen years after the last one, and they
thought they were done with it at that point. It's
like Rocky Balboa and Sylvester Salone deciding Rocky Balboa needed
a better finish than Rocky four, saw the money signs
in his eyes and makes Rocky five, which is an
absolute abomination of a movie. On a variety of levels,

(10:56):
it is a terrible film. There are so many continuity
issues that take place. Nothing that takes place early in
the movie makes any sense. You would think that after
defeating Ivan Draguall, Rocky is like set for life, what
more do we need? He makes a fifth one and
absolutely destroys the entire franchise basically, and he has to
come back something like fifteen sixteen years later, he makes
the sixth one Rocky Balboa to try to save the

(11:19):
legacy and ended on a better note. But that like
gives it a leaping point for the Creed movies and
actually ended up turning out okay. But Rocky five was
an absolute abomination and actually made Saloon after over a decade.
Rethink the way that the whole thing ended. And it
sounds like DreamWorks has been mulling over the whole Shrek
debacle for whatever it's worth.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
You think they're back for number five because they want
to apologize for number four.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
I think that that could be part of it. Yeah, Like, hey,
we've learned from our mistakes. We have a little bit
more like clarity, a little bit more wisdom now. And
I think this audience, especially, you know, not just for
the money. It's far enough away from the terrible movie
we made in twenty ten. Maybe we just get it
right this time, and we could try to close the
book but also maybe leave some like side notes open

(12:05):
for maybe spin off that could take place with one
of the characters down the line who knows puts in
boot style.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
You watch number four, you're gonna feel something. Let me
just tell you that.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
We'll see if you keep listening to news right here.
Eleven think Kfab
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