Can Kids Movies Save Theaters? (Guest Co-Host Matt Shearer)

On this week's episode: WBZ's Matt Shearer comes on the podcast to talk about how kids movies can save the cinema experience, Love on the Spectrum, The Rehearsal, The Holdovers new TV series, A Goofy Movie Powerline experience, Mid Century Modern, and if 100 men could defeat a gorilla!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
This is the Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm your co host,
James Rojas, And on this week's episode, we have a
guest co host, a mister Matt sheer Th.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
That's yes, thanks James, I'm like to hang out.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Absolutely, we're gonna talk about a lot of stuff and
uh and more. But on this week's episode, we're talking
about my favorite movie of twenty twenty three becoming a
TV series. Wow. Yeah, have you seen The Holdovers? No,
it's a it's a great movie. But yeah, it's a
great It happened here in Massachusetts. Di you it really okay?
Here Fall River? Wow, filming over there. So Paul Giomadi,

(00:44):
Dominic SSSA, a lot of great stuff. So we'll get
into that mission impossible. And Lilo and Stitch, Uh, they're
gonna be having a great Memorial Day weekend according to projections.
Your fresh thoughts on some kids' movies, Yeah, don't are
these controversial?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
I don't know that they're necessarily hot takes. But I
noticed as I age, as I get older, the strength
of my opinions on kids movies has shot way way up.
It's like I cared a lot about kids movies when
I was a kid. Then I had my teenagers, didn't
care at all, And now that I have kids, I'm
more concerned about the quality of kids movies than I
ever have been in my entire life. So yeah, I

(01:21):
have thoughts on those.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Actually a moment. I can't wait to dissect that and
get into that. But first, well we had to get
into and this isn't really movie related, but everyone's talking
about it, and I actually did a story for WBZ
this past week on it, and that is the debate
to the question that has taken the Internet by a storm,
and that is whether one hundred men could defeat a gorilla.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, yeah, so I'll start. You know what this reminds
me of. By the way, do you remember in like
twenty ten, when like Reddit was all of a sudden
super mainstream and every celebrity and politician was doing and
ask me anything on Reddit. Barack Obama did one then,
and one of the biggest questions that got asked of
the President of the United States was would you rather

(02:07):
fight a horse sized duck or one hundred duck sized horses? Yeah,
And like, first of all, amazing question. It is Second
of all, someone's asking this to the president of the
United States. I feel like this is the new version
of that, right, a hypothetical question that doesn't matter, but
is getting is really starting fights? Like it's not starting
fights amongst guerrillas and humans, but it's starting fights amongst friends,

(02:28):
thank goodness. Yeah yeah, yeah. Are a mutual friend and colleague,
Kyle Bray. He actually went to the zoo and I
asked him because he did a story about, you know,
potentially if animals were to get loose, a perfect scenario
for this question. If an animal were to get loose,
you know what the zoo would do, how they would respond.
And I asked him, did you ask him about the
one hundred man versus gorilla? And he goes, no, I

(02:49):
forgot so we could have gotten the official answer from
official smart folks, but we'll answer it ourselves. But yeah,
I went to Logan taught to folks, you know, what
do you want?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Have you heard about this? What do you think who
would win? And maybe I shouldn't be too surprised, but
the first like four or five guys I spoke to,
oh yeah, one hundred guys. Oh yeah, no, yeah, no
no problem. If anything, all you need is four two
hundred pounds men and you can totally defeat a gorilla.
The first ladies women I spoke to, they're like, yeah,

(03:20):
those guys are delusional. They'll they'll be torn to shreds.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
So you think there's a gender divide here, I think
for sure, I think a lot.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I think our one of our biggest weaknesses, not only
just human but man is our ego. Our ego is
too big. Sure where do you say.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Like, but yeah, I mean, okay, maybe I'm just a
typical man here, But one hundred percent, I think one
hundred men could do it. Look, think about it this way,
if like five superheroes could nearly beat Thanos before of
course star Lord lost his mind, he got all upset.
Sorry spoiler alert for Infinity War if you haven't seen
it yet. I think one hundred men could beat a
gorilla who doesn't have an Infinity Gauntlet. Like, there's no question. Like,

(03:59):
all you get ten guys on each toe, right, one
man per toe, one man per hand, and that's only
twenty guys. You still have eighty more dudes that can
handle business, one per each eye. You know, you could
even get people in there to hold his mouth or whatever.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Sure, so you've actually thought this through Oh yeah, yeah, like.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
There some men may lose fingers, may lose limbs, maybe
lose their lives. Yes, but the question isn't whether the
gorilla can take any casually, you know, whether anyone's gonna die.
The question is will the gorilla lose? And I think
the answer is obvious, yes, like one hundred men, so.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'm not sure. I think. I think of fear is
a big factor. And I think the first ten people
that try to go in for the gorilla and they
get man handled a gorilla handled by this great ape,
I think that will instill fear and ruin morale for
the rest of the group. And then you'll have people,
you know, half asked, kind of fighting back. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Well okay, but then that you need to go in
with strategy, right, You can't all just like expect Okay,
you two go first. It's not like this isn't a
gauntlet here. This is like a team effort here. We're
all gonna approach at the exact same time. You know,
I'm sure some people will like get their heads knocked off,
but like while that's happening, someone else can sneak up
from behind and grab them in a choke hold. And

(05:12):
just yeah, you're gonna get swung around. It'll be like
bull riding, but it's doable. Bull riders don't die so often.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
They don't have to be committed, like everybody will have
to agree that you will very likely die, but but
your death will be for the greater good of defeating
this guerrilla. Why we're fighting them, we have no idea.
It's not important.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
But listen, I've seen King Kong the new one, like,
we we got to all work together. That's the only
way that King Kong has ever been defeated is when
humanity comes together.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
So okay, yeah, okay, well I think we're in big
trouble with the gorillas rise up like in Planet of
the Apes. Hopefully you're right. And uh, but.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Were those gorillas in Planet of the Apes or.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Gorilla There were gorillas, know, there's a hierarchy. The chances
are the smarter of the of the smart apes in
the movies, and they're they're kind of like the leaders
and then the gorillas of the muscle.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, I haven't seen like the seventeen prequels they've been made.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
You have to see them. Honestly, they're really good.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
I'm just amazed they keep finding ways to make prequels
about It's like you Rise of Planet before the Rise
of the Planet of the Ape.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. I was
actually not really excited for the Kingdom, but then you know,
you know, it looks good, the trailers look good, and
you watch it and they did something that progressed the story.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
So okay, that's my if.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
You take anything out of this one hundred men versus
Gorilla debate is that you should watch the film The Apes, okay,
because they're good. They're really good. Let us know what
you think, Comma down below. Do you think man will
overcome beast or we have no fighting chance against this
this this monster. I don't call it a guerrilla monster.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, if they're listening, you're not monster.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
I'm on your side. If anything, I'm on your side.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Let's work together as primate kind.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Absolutely, well, you know what what's going to be beating
up things, specifically the box office Leland on Stitch live
action adaptation amazing and also Mission Impossible, the last reckoning,
the alleged last Mission impossible, that's what they say. Yeah,
so what's your stance on live action? You know, animated

(07:13):
to live action because I for the longest, longest time
very against it. Yeah, this one's actually kind of making me.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
I think they're learning lessons along the way. I think
the biggest thing with the Disney movies in particular is
that you're losing the cute factor, you know, the colorful
animal characters with the big bright eyes that you fall
in love with, like when you see like real animals
hanging out with people or in the case of The
Lion King, just like being animals in the wilderness. It's

(07:41):
not quite as cute, even when they're baby animals. I'm sorry,
baby Simba in the Lion King cartoon is cuter than
like live action Simba.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Out of principle, I refuse to watch The Lion King
and like the Mufasa movie. Oh yeah, And I think
they try to correct their mistake from the first Lion
King movie, the live action, because in the second one
I didn't. I do know. They try to animate the
faces so they're a little more expressive and more kind
of cartoony or reactionary as opposed to like the documentary
kind of style of the first one.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. It's like they keep
saying live action live action too, and like it's CG,
it's still CGI, it's still computer animated. And I mean
with snow White the Seven Dwarves too, I mean, like
they talk about that one. I'm sorry, but no. I again,
I don't want to jump the gun with my my
take on kids movies at all, but I will say,
as far as like the live action stuff goes, they

(08:33):
will never be as good as the cartoons. I agree
for all the reasons I just said. They're losing the
cute factor and that's so important with kids. But their
goal is to get people to spend money and go
to the theaters, and that is clearly working.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, mufassa made a bunch of money. The Lion King
remake made a bunch of money, so they will continue
to do this. My thing is that, you know, Lelo
and Stitch is a Disney classic. It's a fantastic, nearly perfect,
if not perfect movie. And so right now in Casa
dea Rojas, right now, my daughter two years old, she
loves Lelo and Stitch. So that's on a repeat. And
I don't mind, because that's actually a really good movie,

(09:07):
really good music, really good animation. And it took a
while for me to get to get my wife to
watch it. But of course, like most movies, I recommend
and she fights tooth and nail to watch it. She
eventually liked it and loved it. And so, but that
being said, with this remake, I actually have hope. Maybe
I'm in the nostalgia Lelo and Stitch phase again right now,

(09:27):
and that's why I'm like, Okay, I'm down to watch it.
Maybe not show my daughter at this moment, but you know,
I have high hopes also for How to Train Your Dragon?
Have you seen most movies?

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah? See, this is where I'm starting to sound old.
I feel like the original How to Train Your Dragon
movie just came out, but I guess it's what twenty years.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's been like twenty years. Yeah, and maybe three of
them amazing and they're each so much better. I mean
they get progressively better. Okay, and so this one, you
have a Gerard Butler coming back as playing Hiccup's dad.
Obviously different cast members for the kids, but this won't
looks that's really good too.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, you know this, I have a confession to make.
I made a kid cry in my neighborhood yesterday because
he's six years old. He's friends with my daughter. He
spent about ten minutes explaining the plot of How to
Train Your Dragon to me and I retained none of it.
So when he was like, so, which character do you
want to be after this long? I was like, oh, man,
I'm sorry, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I like the dragon.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, I said, could I be a Knight? And he's like, no,
they're vikings. It was bad, but no, I mean, I'm
glad people are clearly so passionate about this movie.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
And you're right.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I mean, if this movie is coming up on like
twenty years old, yeah, then there are fully grown adults
who grew up with this movie. And so to have
that live action adaptation, the gritty, dark version of How
to Train Your Dragon, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah. One thing I love about this remake is that
the director for How to Train Your Dragon, he is
directing this live action film and so and the thing
is also he says that he is happy to have
been given the opportunity because there are things that he
wanted to do in the first movie, be like, you know,
if you could redo something again, you know, they're always
tweaks and things you may adjust. He is happy to

(11:05):
do this because now he can make those adjustments for
this film. So so I think if he's doing this,
as long as he's.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Not getting carried away like George.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Lucas is walking around and yeah walks and yeah slapping
a weirdly cgi what's his name in the in the
in a new uh J of the Hut drop by
the Hut. Yeah, yeah, that was awkward. Yeah, we won't
talk about that.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
No, no, no, that's right. I found myself a VHS
copy of the originals before the special editions, and I
keep that as my pride and joy.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
So that was it, the nineties box of the VHS.
I grew up with that too, and so watch those
as a kid, absolutely loved him and fell in love
with the world and and and Star Wars everything since
that age. And then of course a couple of years
later they released those because of the anticipation for The
Phantom Menace and the and the new prequels, and so
I kind of again, I'm like, I'm raising my daughter,

(12:00):
or I want to raise my daughter to believe it's
the nineties and sometimes show where all this stuff I
grew up on put in BHS. The Internet doesn't exist,
and all this stuff and so if she has like.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
A you know what I find with my kids, it's
a totally a selling point when I say I used
to watch this as a kid, because then it becomes
exciting for them, you know, And you know, there's they're
not like snobby about the animation because obviously animation has
gotten way better over the years. Yeah, but also it
hasn't you know, there's some there's some kids shows today
that look like clip art from Windows ninety five. Yeah,

(12:30):
but like still like there's a lot of great hand
drawn cartoons, and I'm glad that the kids still appreciate
that too.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, I appreciate that. I also appreciate Tom Cruise, you know,
risking his life every seemingly every week with the new stunts.
Are you a fan of the Mission Impossible stuff?

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah? Yeah, more so when I was a kid. But
I mean, I think it's great that they're keeping the
franchise going. I think it's cool that they continue to
expand and find new ways to blow vehicles up and
have people jumping out of those vehicles.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, it's cool. He's nearly sixty and he's still jumping
out of helicopters and yeah, he's a biplane he's hanging off.
So no, and let me know if this is controversial,
because my wife thinks it is. So I feel like
if Tom Cruise, and I'm not saying I want this
to happen, and I hope, you know, he survives everything,
But if Tom Cruise were to pass away during a stunt,
I would assume that he would want that to be

(13:18):
kept in the movie, and I would assume he would
want us to watch that happen.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
He said.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Is that a dark thing to think?

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Because my wife I get that he should absolutely, first
of all, put that in his contract. And I say
every all the time, Like when I'm out driving the
WBZ news radio vehicles, I like, if I get in
a crash, that's great content. You know, that's like gonna
be amazing publicity. It's going to be all over the news.
Our car like nearly totaled with the BZ logo on

(13:45):
the side on every other radio station. So yeah, I mean,
think about the publicity you would get from Tom Cruise
dying in the production of a movie. Yeah, everyone would
have to go see that.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, you put that in the trailer, like the moment
just before like oh okay, and now I have to
go watch this.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
I just show support for this is so bad. Watch
it happen now.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Because of Oh my goodness, we'll scrub this from the internet.
But Tom, we're rooting for you. I want to see
you more death. I want to see you die. No,
I don't, but if you were to die, I feel
like you would want me to see that. Yeah, so uh,
speaking about dying. Uh. People are just dying to see
this movie if they haven't seen it already. And that's Sinners.
Sinners the new Maryan Coogler film. Of course, the director

(14:25):
of Black Panther, of Fruitvale Station and Creed, partnering up
with mister Michael B. Jordan again and and his twin
Michael see Jordan because in this film he plays a
twin brother.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Right.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know anything about this.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Film, No, tell me, just the buzz.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
So basically, it takes place in nineteen thirties Mississippi, you know,
Jim Crow, segregation era Mississippi, and then you have these
two brothers smoking Stack their nicknames played by by Michael B. Jordan,
And you know they come back into town after being
away for a bit. They want to open up a
juke joint, like a nightclub for the local you know,
their local black community, and then things turn awry when

(15:03):
supernatural forces come about. And this isn't a real spoiler,
but because it's in the trailers, sure, but you know,
The Vampire is a vampire movie, okay, and it's very
it's very good, and people are just talking about it,
raving about it, and and everybody's raving it about it
so much that the spatlight of where the movie is
set has been brought to the forefront because apparently there's

(15:25):
no movie theater in the city or in the town
where the film is set. And so the folks who
live there in Clarksdale, Mississippi, they're petitioning, they're calling on
Ryan Coogler in the cast to have a special screening
for the film. Oh yeah, and I think it's very
appropriate and if anybody could do it, absolutely, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
It's just one of those things. I mean, this is
I remember when Hollywood came to Boston for the first time,
because it hadn't been for so long. Every time you
would see Boston in a movie, it was really like
somewhere in New York, right, Yeah, you're like, and they'd
be trying to pass it off. But then of course
the film ax credit happened and suddenly shooting started here
and to this day, like every single movie that is

(16:05):
shot around here is like a huge deal to that community.
I mean you made a whole podcast about it, you
started this whole podcast.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, and so it's.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Just incredible, Like, yeah, I agree, it means so much.
Like literally every time I drive by this one former
bank in my where I live in Framingham, now I'm like,
that's where Ryan Reynolds's character worked in that movie where
he played a video game NPC free Fall.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, good guy, Yeah exactly, that's a sequel free Fall.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
No.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah. And the thing is like there's so many things,
and like you said, you drive by a place, I
drive by Quincy where they shot the latest like Matt
Damon Casey Affleck movie, And I always think about, not
only did I coverage for a story, but you know
this thing where like little old institutions, things I've been
around here forever now get a new breath of life
because people saw it in the movie, they saw the

(16:51):
production going on, they want to go back and visit it,
visit it and it just house business. And yeah, I
think this will bring a lot of business and attention
to Clarksdale, Miss Sippy Again. Sinners is so successful that
they're actually bringing seventy millimeter film, like you know the
old school film racks two more movie theaters. Wow, because

(17:12):
it's so it's made for IMAX and you know seventy
millimeter is that larger film prints and so just more detail,
I recommend you watch the movie. How oft is you
get to go to the movie theater? Well, with two kids?

Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's honestly pretty much every time I go nowadays is
because of my kids. It's with my kids.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's become a thing. Yeah, you know, it's like a family.
It's a great family outing. And I'll rant about this
too when we get to the kid movies stuff, but
I mean, I screw it, I'll rant about it now. Yeah,
here's the thing. Yeah, kids movies are gonna save cinema.
I think because again, families, especially when you have little kids,
especially living in a place like New England, you are

(17:52):
desperate for indoor activities, things you can do just to
keep them in one place for two hours at a time.
The movies are perfect for that time. There's a kid's
big kids movie going. It doesn't matter if we've seen
the prequels or not, or the movies, all the movies
that came before. We went to the movies to see
Kung Fu Panda four. We had not seen Kung Fu
Panda one through three, but it didn't matter. The kids
just wanted to see a panda on the screen doing

(18:14):
karate and they got that. Yeah and so yeah, and
they just love the experience. Man. And here's the thing.
They're going to grow up with those nice nostalgic memories
and they're gonna be adults and want to share that
with their kids too. They're gonna be teenagers and want
to feel that feeling again of comfort of going to
the movie theaters. You have to start them young. Every
business wants like immediate, short term, fast growth, fast profits,

(18:38):
but this is a long term solution. Invest in really
great kids movies and people will go to the cinemas
for decades to come.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, and you need to have some sort of like
pricing structure adjustment because if you have a family of
two or three or four, and then that that easily
goes over one hundred dollars one hundred and fifty bucks
lost concessions, that's just the tickets.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
So yeah, I think it's a very good investment to
think about the younger generation invested more in kids movies.
I am dying to get to till my daughter gets
to that age where I can take her to the
movie theater, because, like you said, I have many great
memories of going to the movie theaters with my parents,
with my sister, with my friends, different ages, from from
as young as I can remember, even movies that were

(19:19):
like my parents grew up in a different time where
they would just if a movie rated, our movie was
out and they wanted to see it, You come up,
you come along. So there are so many movies I
should not have watched when I was five or six
years old, but I did, And in hindsight, I look
back on it and those are very fond memories. Maybe
scarring at the moment, but in hindsight, I think those
are those are fantastic moments that you build with the family,
and and it's it's it's also a good excuse to

(19:41):
kind of junk out on you know, oh yeah, bad food.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Well, I can give you a pro tip right now,
bring like sneak in little bulls, like little plastic bulls
that you can put popcorn in for each kid because
they don't need like a whole bucket or even a
whole bag. But like if you just like scoop them
into bulls hand them to the kids, you're saving so
much money. Yeah, so that's a good way to save
money for sure. My wife actually joined one of those,
like amc stub Club one.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
I'm are you, Yeah, I mean it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
You have to skip the line and get right to
the shoulder line for the food and everything. You save
money the more you buy. And there are like lots
of kids movies coming out. A lot of them are remakes,
a lot of them sequels. But again it doesn't matter.
The kids just want to be in the theater. I mean,
this is a consistent thing that happens when my wife
comes home with my kids. I'll say, how is the movie?
And my kids great? Great? My wife is like, yeah,

(20:30):
I got some notes. You know. It's like kids don't care.
They just love the experience of being there. And there
is like a transition period too. I will say when
like like you're saying you're worried about when can you
actually bring the kid where they'll have the attention span?
You know. It's like my littlest definitely will have her
moments where she wants to get up and just like
walk around or like you know, recline the chair and

(20:50):
have that over and then yeah, yeah, and you're use
it as a slide and slide down and stuff. But
generally speaking, they're getting better and better, and the old
my oldest from the moment I was worried, you know,
like we took her to her first movie when she
was three. It was the Mario movie and she was
hooked edge of her seat the entire time, just into it.
I think the right movie matters because she's always been

(21:11):
a massive Mario fan. Yeah, so that helped.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, I feel like, you know, the right movie is
very critical to pick. But also like yeah, like you said,
they get they learn etiquettes, they learn how to behave
or you know, sit through through through a long movie.
And I can be a stickler when it comes to
movie etiquette. I'm not sure if if you've seen any

(21:35):
of the episodes, but I'm a very against talking in
the movie theater. Oh yeah, yeah, I've about this. My
wife and I one of our biggest one of our
first fights when we first started dating, not like a
real fight, but one of our first disagreements. On one
of our first dates, we went to go see a
movie and my wife is a movie talker, like it's
a crowded movie as Terminators, like then one of the
bad Terminator movies, and over watching it and she's like

(21:58):
like just leaning over and talking about it, joking about stuff,
and I'm just like looking locked, locked, straightforward, looking at
the movie because like I don't want to engage.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, yeah, because.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
We're around a lot of people, and I don't want
to be rude because my thing is I don't want
to be rude to other people who paid money to
watch this film and they seem to be enjoying it
while my wife not my then, you know, a dating
or at the time was like blasting it and making
fun of this movie while all the people are having fun.
And so one of the first things was like, Okay,
we agreed to a truce where at at home we

(22:27):
could talk during the movie, which that was a little
thing for me too, but I I, you know, I conceded.
I said, Okay, at the home week a week of watch,
we can talk. But at the movie theater, yeah, let's
let's not talk.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
No way.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, So, how.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Did you feel about all this stuff going on with
like Minecraft and like kids yelling in the theater, throwing
popcorn all that.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
So that would be a movie I would not go
to just for just for that fairy fact alone. But
that being said, I'm like against the the the throwing
of popcorn and you know, throwing of drinks and like
just acting ridiculous up and down, up and down the
aisles and whatnot. I know, you said the future of
the kids are what's going to be saving the movie theater,

(23:07):
And yes, I will agree. Events like the Minecraft movie,
events like the Endgame or things like get people hyped
up for for going to the movie theater, that is
what will save the industry because people are going to
go out for that. And so yeah, Minecraft felt like
an event, felt like something that people can accidentally and
do things.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah have you ever are you familiar with the room
the Tommy we Sew movie?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Have you ever seen it in theaters when people do
their at the screen.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
So those things feel like parties or events, like for example,
like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. If you're going to
midnight showing of that, you're expecting the people to dress
up and dance and sing like the Taylor Swift thing
when Taylor Swift's concert came to movie theater. Yet people
like singing and belting and dancing the front, you kind
of expect that for I'm a little more stern when

(23:56):
it comes to like, you know, you're there for a movie,
because yeah, everybody is there to watch the antics that
people are right, Many people are not there for the antics,
and so they want to watch the movie. And when
you have some of these things where they act out
so wildly that they have to pause the movie or
kick people out, that's when it's crossing a line.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, it's funny because I had seen the room for
the first time without knowing any of this antics, and
so all of a sudden, I'm getting like plastic spoons
pelted into the back of my head. And like at first,
I was like, can everyone just shut the hell up?
But like after a while I started to get it,
and like some of the jokes they were yelling were
pretty hilarious, and so I was fully on board. Rocky

(24:37):
Horror Picture Show. I went into it knowing it, and
I was still annoyed by it, like just because the
problem is they've got something that they yell at every
line of that movie. It's not like the room where
it's like, you know, you get little runs where it's
like peaceful and kind of quiet and you're laughing at
what's going on the screen. Rocky horror picture movie. People
don't shut the hell up for two hours.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
No, it's terrible.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
So I mean not to knock. If anyone likes that experience,
good for you. I'm glad you have that community. But yeah,
I'm with you James in that particular case where I'm
just like, no, that doesn't do it for me.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
They should make rooms were like, Okay, this is the
showtime for antics, and this is the show time for
watching the film.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, at the same time, sat is just next door,
maybe across the hall, but yeah, they should have like
this is the fun This is the fun one if
you want to be wild and crazy, And this is
the one for a real cinematographer, you know, cinephiles who
want to appreciate a Minecraft movie and Chicken Jockey.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
It's like it's like on amtrack, how you have the
quiet car where nobody talks in the loud car where
everyone talks.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Speaking of chickens and Minecraft movie, sorry not to go
up on another tangent. My kids are currently obsessed with
the Steves Lava Chicken song and they want me to
listen to it on repeat whenever I drive them around.
The problem is that is a thirty second long. So yes,
So I have heard that song probably five hundred times
in the last week, and I can sing it for
you verbatim. I won't, I'll say you, but I know

(25:58):
all the words and I it just plays on loop
in my head everywhere I go.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's the funny thing, because yeah, like I said, my
daughter is into Lelo and Stitch and so we so
many great songs and they're all like Hawaiian or Elvis,
and so they're all they're all good, you know, good
good songs to jam with or vibe with. She has
started getting into Bluey just because they play like the
theme song add daycare. The show is so good. It's

(26:23):
the best. That being said, The intro theme song is
like thirty seconds long, forty five seconds long. And my daughter,
we're driving back from daycare. She just heard the song,
so she wants to hear it. Okay, we'll play it
and then like again, Okay, play it again, forty again,
and so it's just like okay, and it's just did
did she have.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
You discovered the like extended version of it with like
the saxophone solos and stuff.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
There's like the whole family, like the whole friends and
family kind of a thing. They get invited into the
intro for this longer version, but I think it's still
a minute, which is still like okay, repete. Yeah, so
the drive home is like twenty minutes to drive back home.
You have twenty times this thing is looping.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Love that repetition over and over and over again again.
That's why they'll save the cinema. You can bring to
kids to the movies for multiple screenings of the same movie.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah. So yeah, movie theaters get on, get onto, uh
raising the next generation and.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Bring back old kids movies too, like you know, they're
bringing back Revenge of the Sith yes weekend, like bring
back old kids movies.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
To bring it back, Jurassic Park, bring back the Future,
bring back all that stuff. I would go back in
a heartbeat. Before we move on, I do want to
mention it because I just mentioned back to the Future.
One of our one of my wives and I and
our big fights are big again. Disagreements was when we're
at home and you know, we're just started dating and
we're watching Back to the Future because we both love
the movie and we're watching it, and then she starts

(27:41):
talking and again I'm a stickler. I've definitely eased up.
I have eased up. And she's like, James, you've watched
this movie one hundred times, Like, why does talking through
it or during it will bother you? And I'm like,
because we agreed to watch a movie. When I when
I when we netflix and show. When I say that,
I mean we netflix and chill watch that movie.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
There's no there's no subtle code.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
No, I want to watch this movie. But no, I've
definitely eased up and stopped being a jerk about it. Oh,
but speaking about curmudgeonly characters, The Holdovers. You have not
seen The Holdovers, but it's it's a great film.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
You've picked an amazing week to have me on. By
the way, have you seen this movie?

Speaker 1 (28:23):
No? How about that one? No?

Speaker 2 (28:25):
No?

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Great?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
But no, this is your opportunity to tell me about
your You're my Wikipedia for today, Mike IMDb.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, well, the Holdovers. I'm blanking on the director. He's
so he's so he made sideways.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, I know who you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yea, So I'm playing on his name, but also insideways. Apologia.
Maudi Dominiccessa of Massachusetts, just cast in his first role
for in the first feature film for this film, Man
the Joy Randolph Randolph Joy. I'm blanking on her name too,
but she won Best Supporting Actress that year. Great movie.
I love that movie and watched it like May three

(28:59):
or four times in the movie theater because it just
feels so Massachusetts. It feels so. It takes place during
the seventies at a boarding school and basically the synopsis
is Paul Giamati. His character is a teacher and he
decides to stay at the school during winter break, and
you know, not every kid can go back for the holidays,
and so those are the holdovers. So like a group

(29:19):
of five kids that end up staying there and he
kind of like, you know, he babysits them at the school.
And then one there's a one woman who's the cook there.
She stays there too. The beautiful story, all the other characters,
all the other kids leave except for dominic SAS's character
and Paul Giamati's and they already had like this, you know,
teacher student, you know, friction, kind of animosity towards each other.

(29:42):
But you know, through the film they learn, they learn
more about each other's lives, and they come to you know, uh,
you know, respecting each other more.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
It's The Breakfast Club for a whole new generation.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Basically, but but much better, much much better film.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Wow, better than The Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
You heard it here, folks, some hot take. Yeah, I
don't think it was a hot take to say The
Breakfast Club isn't a great It's an iconic movie, it's
a classic movie, but it's not you know.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
I mean, I definitely think part of what people love
about The Breakfast Club is just the sheer nostalgia of like,
this is what high school looks like in the eighties. Yeah,
and this is our soundtrack. This is what we were
listening to at the time.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah. Heyact But yeah, long story story, The Holdovers better
from the than The Breakfast Club. It's becoming a TV series,
so meel Max developing the TV adaptation of the film.
Details limited right now. My big question is are they
going to be filming it here in Massachusetts? Because that'd
be amazing. Obviously, more jobs, local business, and and you know,

(30:42):
just seeing them film out here.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
We have plenty of great schools they can film at. Absolutely,
you know, tons of really big schools. Massachusetts spends a
lot of money on education.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
So yeah, it's good. So so they filmed this and
like in parts, you know, the film parts in Boston,
like outside the you know the movie theater outside the
Common right next it used to be a Low's.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
It might still be a Low's but yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Is it no, it's is it capital? Oh no, what's
the movie theater.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
You're talking about, the one on Boston Common? Yeah, yeah,
that's it was an AMC Lows for a while, and
I don't know who owns it now.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
No, that is a AMC. But there's a there's an older,
like a more historic movie theater. So they filmed inside
the Somerville Theater and then for the exterior they used
this old, this old theater right right on the Common.
Woe so a colonial theater.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yes, yeah, okay, Emerson owns that now, Emerson College, oh
my alma mater.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah, there we go. But yeah, so the film there.
But they also film in in mid mid Mass. And
the cool thing is that they actually filmed during an
actual like snowstorm or when it's snows so you so again,
it feels that one of the most authentic feeling movies,
just because there's actual like snow around and it feels
like it feels, you know, just like the perfect period
piece taking place in the seventies. So I'm looking forward

(31:57):
to this again. Not many details, but but hopefully we'll
learn more and hopefully they film in Boston. Speak about
you know, filming in Boston or at least having a
Boston connection. Is the show that people keep talking about,
rating about. They say it's a feel good show of
the century, Love on the Spectrum.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yes, I love this show and I have some serious
connections to the show because I've interviewed two of the
cast members technically three because I got to interview one
of their girlfriends too. So, yeah, have you seen it yet?

Speaker 1 (32:28):
I have not seen it.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yes, I got something that I've seen that you haven't.
Oh my gosh, finally, but I'm sure you're familiar with
the concept. It's a docuseries more or less. It gets
sometimes lumped in with the dating shows just because it's
about dating, and the producers do set the cast members
up on dates. But really all they're doing is just
you know, kind of nudging along reality a little bit

(32:49):
and showing the world what it's like to be in
the dating scene as somebody who's on the autism spectrum.
And it's fascinating because I think so many people are
learning that the autism spec now is not just this
straight line where like on one side you're heavily you know,
in need of special services, and on one side you're
barely noticed, No one notices. It's not one straight line.

(33:12):
It's like a big circle where you know, it's it's
almost like a character profile from an RPG, right, where
like you're closer to certain traits than others, and it's
just it manifestifests itself completely differently in everybody. And that's
something that I kind of learned just from watching the show.
So there are some criticisms of the show, as there
are with anything depicting any sort of reality and a

(33:34):
and a group of people who are you know, misunderstood
by the masses. Some of those criticisms are like the
music choice for the character when they're playing, Like when
there's like a particularly quirky scene, maybe they'll have like
some sort of like a childish sounding song going in
the background, like the bad music. But and so there's
been criticism like you're infantalizing the cast. There are these

(33:55):
grown adults, you shouldn't be treating them like kids. I
don't personally see it that way at all. I think
that's just a classic reality show trope of having like
the goofy music during a goofy scene. And they're clearly
not trying to make fun of these people intentionally. I'm
not intentionally they're not making fun of these people at all.
They're like just showing them in their day to day
lives and of course, naturally, like in all of our

(34:17):
day to day lives, funny moments happen. You know.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Is it like a blind date, like they set up
two people who don't know each other.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
That's exactly it. They set them up. And it's more
it's not like they're setting them up to fail like
other reality dating shows would, you know, they're setting them
up for drum. They're not picking people out who are
like the most dramatic, you know, they're genuinely trying to
find a good match for someone. And like a lot
of these people on the show are going out on
dates for the first time ever, and so to be

(34:45):
able to document that, it's like, you know, those of
us who are lucky enough to have been on dates
in our lives, like it takes you back to that
moment when you're sitting down across the table from someone
and you're so nervous you don't know what to say.
So it's really heartwarming in that respect. Also seeing it again,
I go back to the lens watching this stuff from
the lens of a parent. You know, they interview the
parents and the family members of the people who are

(35:09):
on the spectrum, and it's like, what's it been like
for you? What was it like growing up in the
house with them? And hearing their stories are so heartwarming, touching,
sometimes devastating and sad, you know. I think one moment
on the show that stands out to me the most
is this cast member Connor, who's like one of the
most popular characters on the show. He's from Georgia. They
were interviewing his mom, who's also a big character on

(35:31):
the show, and they said, the producer asked her, so,
you know, does he have any friends? And suddenly she
just broke down, start crying and she said no, and
she's like, but he has us and I think we're
pretty cool and like that like just gutting me, just
like tore my heart out of my chest because it's like, USh,
that is so something that as a dad, I think

(35:52):
about wanting my kids to have friends and have a
social life and like the idea of them not doing
that is heartbreaking.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
But because because of this show, these people on the
Autism Spectrum, the cast members now have amazing social lives.
And that's exactly what I heard from James and Perry,
the two local Massachusetts cast members when I've interviewed them.
I interviewed James last year and Parry this year.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
They believed two different seasons.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
So James has been on all three of the US seasons.
They continue to document his life. Parry is a new
cast member from this season and yeah, like they James
told me, like his life is now better than it
ever has been. Perry two says that going on Love
on the Spectrum is the best thing she's ever done.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
So, for all the criticism the show gets, it's really
doing amazing things for the people that that are involved.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
And so I don't want to spoil anything, but Perry
is James still with a partner or are they are
they now had the confidence to like date and or
the ability to.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Or yeah, I mean I can tell you. I'll say this,
and I'll say spoiler. It is a spoiler. But you
should still watch the show because there's a lot of
educational value in it, even if you're not really following
along with the plot. They're very open about this on
social media and stuff. Perry lucked out. She's one of
the only cast members on the show who they got
it right on the first day. Others have had to

(37:12):
go through bad dates and be like, sorry, we're not
a connection, we're not connection. The first person they set
her up with, this amazing girl, Tina who lives in Somerville,
who I've also met. They're still together. It was like
a year after filming. And James is a funny case
because they set them up on all kinds of dates
on the show. None of it worked out, but he
went out on his own because of all this newfound
confidence and was like he found someone in his dms

(37:34):
on Instagram and wanted to date him and like, so
at the end of season three he's like, oh, by
the way, I have a girlfriend now, and you hear
the producers being like, wait, what where did this come from?
And so you meet her Shelley, who I've also met
from doing another story with James, and she's fantastic. James
is doing amazing, So it's yeah, I hope I didn't

(37:55):
ramble on too much about this, but I cannot recommend
this show enough from an educational perspective and a feel
good perspective.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
And I can't recommend enough you know, of those listening
and watching to watch your TikTok on w b Z
News Radio on our page because that that's an again, kudos,
you're killing man. That was That was an amazing report
you kind of for those who haven't seen it, But
just quick synopsis, Perry, she's a big fan of the MBTA.

(38:21):
She and I've seen clips where she's just praising the
local the transit train, subway system, and and you just
gave her like this the best day ever. And the comments,
I'm sure you must go through the comments where people
are like why who's cutting onions? Or like why am
I crying so hard? Yeah, and people are just so
happy for her and and you being able to be

(38:42):
the one to provide that or make those opportunities available.
It's incredible. So it was cool.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, thank you. I had no idea that she was
such a fan of Mayor Michelle Wu here in Boston
until we were on our way to meet Michelle Michelle Wu,
which was supposed to be a surprise for her, and
I said, what's your number one? Like tea dream goal?
Like what's your dream and she said to ride the
tea with Michelle Wu.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Having no idea we were about to do, like, don't
freak out, thy freak out. I was like, Yeah, in
that moment, I knew we had a hit. I like
looked to the other people on the train who knew
what was coming. I was like, hmmmm, so how did
that work out? You reached out the Mayor's office, Like
how did that work?

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, so it's kind of funny. So uh. Originally the
only plan was to just get her to that MBTA
training facility because I knew it would be like a
playground for her. She would have so much fun there
and that was going to be the whole thing. But
I guess to get that approved by the MBTA, they
had to go to the state level, and Governor Mora
Heilly caught wind to this. Apparently she's a big fan
of Perry and Love on the Spectrum and so she
wanted to come meet her. Scheduling didn't work out, but

(39:45):
I kind of had the idea in my head, oh
my gosh, this big public figure wants to meet Perry.
I have to make this happen. So just for the
heck of it, I reached out to Michelle Wu's team.
Come to find out, they're also fans of Love on
the Spectrum and Perry, so they said, yeah, we'll be
there one hundred percent. And so unfortunately, Perry went to
the wrong train station that morning. I cut all this out,
but we found her. We brought her there, so Michelle

(40:06):
Wou had to hang out a little bit. She had
her baby with her. It was just, yeah, such a
lovely moment and probably easily one of the most fun
I've ever had working on a story.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
So that moment where you're like, oh, there she is
that you literally found her.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
In the beginning of the video, no, that's so great.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, No, that's right. I had this old
footage of Oh, you're talking about with a meeting Perry.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
No, I think I think if I remember correctly, like
the beginning of the video, you and someone else find
Perry like walking the station, like, oh, there she is.
Somebody recognizes her immediately too, that's right.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah, she has fans exactly.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Everywhere she goes on the tea now people are like, they,
I want to ride with the tea princess. Yeah. It's
she's such a lovable character, as is the entire cast
of Love on the Spectrum. That's the other thing. It's
like a show is only as good as its characters,
and it's cast right, Yeah, and all the characters everyone
on Love on the Spectrum is so authentic and real
and lovable.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Where is the streaming Netflix? Flix? Okay, so I just
got rid of my Netflix?

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Did you really?

Speaker 1 (41:03):
I did? Yeah, it's because I'd hardly go on in
and the price increase was going on, and plus the
Last of Us was coming back on and so I
I I deleteded one to add.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Like Max, I'll send you my password, all right, No,
that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Well again, if you haven't seen Matt's TikTok on on Perry,
check it out and check out Love on the Spectrum
because it's, uh, it looks so good. Jamie and I
were talking about it in one of our last episodes,
and I confused Love for the Spot heard that Love
is blind, I Love on the Spectrum, and I.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Was like, oh no, very different shows, very different shows.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
That's hilarious. Let's see.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Well, although you know, it was funny when you said
that and you were confusing with Perry, because it just
so happens that Perry's girlfriend, who she meets on the
show is blind. Legally, she has a condition called cv I.
I can't remember what that stands for, but she walks
with a walking cane and everything. So the fact that
you were confusing that specifically, I was like, maybe that's why.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
I that's why. And it was also a blind day
kind of set up, right, blind days. Okay, I'm not
completely I'm not clearly in the wrong. Oh okay, excellent.
Well let's see. Well, speaking about what we're watching, I
won't go too much great detail into this, but I
started watching my wife and I started watching mid Century Modern.
It's okay, Nathan Lane show. Okay, I've heard about that.

(42:20):
So I was sick, maybe like two weeks ago, and
so I was home alone, baby at daycare, wife's at work,
and I was like, I'd hardly get like consecutive hours
by myself to watch stuff. So I binged everything I
wanted to binge movies and TV shows, and you know,
just going around you kind of run out of things
to watch.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
So I'm on Hulu or Disney Plus, and I saw
Nathan Lane. And Nathan Lane had been popping up on
recent podcasts, like on the on Konan's podcast talking about
the show mid Century Modern, and I love Nathan Lane,
and so I was like, okay, well I saw it,
let's put it on. And basically it's about after an
unexpected death, three best friends, gay gentlemen of a certain

(42:58):
age decide to spend their golden year living together in
Palm Springs. And so I was like, okay, let me,
let me just give this a shot. I love the Lane.
So I watched the first episode, and you know, pilots
can be rough, many pilots, and just are you know it,
they're getting they're getting their feel for the characters and
the setting, and so I wasn't wooed by it, and
I was kind of like, oh, that's kind of like

(43:19):
kind of cheap jokes or kind of like low hanging
fruit jokes. Great cast and everything but I wasn't really
getting into it. My wife comes home, they, oh, I
was your day, Like, oh, it's good. I watched this.
I watched this. I think you need to watch this
show mid Century Modern. Sorry Nathan Lane, because like it's
not a bad show, but I don't don't think. I'm
not sure if it's a good show yet, but I
was trying to describe the jokes for her and she's like, okay,

(43:41):
we'll check it out. So a couple of days later
we check it out and like the first thirty seconds
in my wife is busting up laughing. I'm like, ah,
like maybe this is a good show. And so we
finished the first episode and I was like, Okay, it's
not a great it's not it's not like breaking bad,
but like it's a it's a good, decent enough like
live you know, film in front of a live studio audience,
three can show. And eventually we just fell into like

(44:03):
watching it, like un ironically, and it's it's a very light,
breezy show twenty minutes each per episode, right, and it's
it's fun, and you know, my wife and I we
got engaged like it in like right by palm Springs,
like the what's it called. What's the National National Park
with the Joshua trees? So Joshutree National Park, so, which

(44:23):
right by Palm Springs and so we kind of have
like a Palm Springs connection and so uh and so
that's our like our show that we're kind of binging
right now. Nice and the season one halfway through, people
already online on Reddit, already calling and demanding a season
two for it as well.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
So well, you had me at twenty minute episodes my
attention Spanish short and I fall asleep on the couch.
So often nowadays it's like if I could fall asleep
and then or say, okay, that's that's a good good
EPI Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
So it starts Nathan Lane, Matt Broke, Matt boemerh Nathan
Lee Graham, Linda Lavin. So if you want to, you know,
an easy, breezy kind of siicami show, check out MIT's
Entry Modern on Hulu Disney Plus love it. There we go.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Yeah, I've been watching the rehearsal this.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
I love Nathan Fielder me too, He's so freaking hilarious genius.
Where's the streaming?

Speaker 2 (45:11):
So this is on HBO Max.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Okay, So at the time I didn't have it, so
but I wanted to. No, I do have it.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah, So the first season wrapped up sometime last year.
The second season just started. It's already getting a lot
of buzz. You know how Nathan's brain works, Like he's
always trying to do these bigger and bigger ideas and
like take things to the next level, a kind of
unexpected level. Now that he has HBO money and not
just Comedy Central money, he can do the most ridiculous

(45:39):
I don't even want to call them stunts. They're more
just social experiments. Ever, and so this season he's trying
to solve the problem of plane crashes. Like he noticed
a pattern with plane crashes and it's that, you know,
the co pilot recognizes the problem before the pilot does
and they're not communicating effectively on that, And so he
has a scenarious he came up with the solution to

(46:03):
fix that problem, and he's gonna do it, and of
course hijinks are ensuing, and like he's meeting hilarious characters
along the way. It's wild.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
So let me be completely honest, I thought you were
talking about a different Nathan Fielder project. Well, do you
know the show that he has in hemistone.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah, so I don't remember that one, but yeah, that
was really good.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
But I do know the rehearsal.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
I do.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
I actually saw I forgot which episode, but I have
seen one episode of that, or I think on YouTube,
like the a segment of one of the episodes. And again,
I love anything he does, and so yeah, being able
to use that, as you said, HBO MAXI money to
create these kind of scenarios or setups. Oh the one where.
One thing I love that he does is that he
hires actors to portray himself living an experiment or an experience,

(46:47):
and so that's always I mean, it's just a genius
it is.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
It's so funny, and it's just so unlike anything else
on television. And I love people that do that, people
that take it to the next level. You know, of course,
every TV executive is going to want to say, well,
this is what's working now, so let's make another show
like that, Let's make twelve shows like that. Yeah, Nathan's like,
I want to do something no one's ever done before.
That's what excites me.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
I think the one that I'm trying, I'm putting the
pieces back together was one where he's helping somebody and
then he hired like an actor to portray that person,
but then he wasn't really feel something happened, so like
he hired an actor to portray that actor and another
actor to portray him feeling that moment and like re living.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
So it is so meta. The Yeah, so the whole
premise of the show is he's helping people prepare for
difficult situations by simulating those situations down to a t.
And so, yeah, you're right, he has to like hire
actor on actor on actor, and it's just it goes
deeper and deeper and deeper and it gets so funny.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
That's so Goodly, HBO Max my new show, I'll be
binging whether I'm sick or not excellent. Well, I think
those are the main I think I think we hit
on everything. Uns you have any more any more thoughts on? Oh,
speak about kids movies? I did want to throw this in.
Uh did you watch a Goofy movie growing up?

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Yeah, okay, did you do you see documentary? Now?

Speaker 2 (48:01):
I heard you talking about it.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Yeah. So it's a great documentary and it just go
talks about like the underdog story of the of the movie.
When it came out, it didn't do well at the
box office. You know, critics were very lukewarm about it,
and it kind of one of those movies that seemed
like it just disappeared. However, for people of our generation,
the kids who actually watched it, it had such a very,

(48:24):
very transformative effects on many people for different reasons, whether
it's like the school angle or the love angle, crush angle,
or father especially the father son parents child connection angle,
so many things going going for it, or.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
The Killer soundtrack.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
The Killer soundtrack one of the best soundtracks, and and
because of that, people have been like demanding for like,
you know years, like yeah, thirty years, like we want
to see that power Line concert. We are Oh, Disney
did the best they could. They just released a video
yesterday and it's a three hundred and six see degree

(49:01):
interactive video where you are on stage with power Line
during the climax performance with Goofy Max and the singer.
So if you get your smartphone, you can you can
move it with your finger three sixty, but you can
have your smartphone and as you pivot it, you can
look around all around the stage. Just have a VR mode,
because I just has a VR mode. It has a

(49:21):
VR mode, and it recreates the entire scene. So you
see Max on the rafters getting chased by security guard.
You see Goofy getting like pulverized by the electricity busting
out to the ball. You see like the backup singers dancing,
and you see power Line like doing his thing, and
you can turn around so like, so if you this
is the closest we'll ever get, I think, to an
actual power Line concert. It's worth it. I'll take it. It's

(49:41):
so worth it. And again, this is one of those
movies I'm not I hate calling on my wife, but
I will say, like there's so many movies where I'm like,
this is a great movie. You'll love it. No, I
don't want to watch it literally not literally but figurably
twisting your arms. I you watch some stuff after the movie.
She's like, this is a fantastic movie. Like I told you,
I keep telling you that. And so this movie we
saw recently because I saw the trailer for the documentary

(50:04):
is coming out, and she knows I've been bringing it
up for years saying it's such such a great movie.
She's like, Okay, ifine, we'll watch it. And sure enough,
at the end of it, She's like, that's a really
good movie.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
I told you.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
It's nice to have that vindication. Now. The other thing
about a Goofy movie that I love too is like,
so many of the projects that are involving those Disney characters,
whether it be Mickey, Goofy, Donald and stuff, are definitely
targeting younger kids, and I felt like a Goofy movie
was like the perfect transition. It hit of the right
time in my life where I felt like maybe I
had aged out of the Mickey Mouse eight years of

(50:37):
my life, but now suddenly there's this movie that I
felt more connected to, like I was growing up and
there's Goofy's kid growing up too, Like that's cool.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Yeah, you felt like you're a Max and then now
you know, thirty years later we are Goofy.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
I know, right, Yeah, that's so so weird. I was
thinking someone, you know, what I recently learned yesterday from
like a meme is that Tim Allen in Home Improvement
was thirty eight years old in that movie. Yeah, It's like, yeah,
I know, that seems like he seems way older to
that in my mind.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Yeah. Yeah, well yeah, well, if you haven't seen that
video yet check out Disney's YouTube page and check out
power Line again, the closest experience that we'll get ever
to watching that great performance. But yeah, for those listening
and watching us, thank you so much. I'd be sure
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(51:53):
wherever you get your podcasts. Do you listen to any podcasts?

Speaker 2 (51:56):
I decide from the Hub on Hollywood of course, of course,
genuinely do listen to on Awesome. I love you guys,
You're awesome. I listen to a lot of music podcasts.
That's my thing, Like discussions about bands and music and
histories on different songs and stuff. That's what I like.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Excellent cool. Well yeah, well, thank you so much, Matt,
thank you so much. You're a great, fantastic guess.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
So thanks James, back soon, love to excellent.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Well for the help on Hollywood. I'm James and I'm
Matt Sea.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
I'm gonna do that with your know