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June 22, 2025 37 mins
Aviv likes the new Mission: Impossible, but Matt hates the new Fear Street. Can these two ever get along?

We recorded this episode in May of 2025, so the people whose voices you hear have no idea that we've just bombed Iran. Have pity on them. 

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
But how are you doing today?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
To be I'm doing okay.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I am very very busy before before I leave for
my little honeymoon trip.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
You will be here.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
You all will be hearing this episode while I'm already
on the road, and so that's fun. But I have
a bunch of writing projects to finish before I go,
because I promised my wife that I wouldn't work on
our vacation and she.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Will totally reasonable.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
She will divorce me if I if I if I
do that. So yeah, as as I told you before
we started, I wrote seventeen pages today, which is kind
of a lot, and I probably will write a few
more after we hang up.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
But other than that, quick Rubinstein recommends, But I bet.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
What do you got you guys? I regret to inform
you mission impossible. The final reckoning rips. Really it kicks
so much ass.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, I mean cool, I guess uh it's you know
the ones that I've seen, I've liked. It's just I'm not.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, I have a couple of I have a couple
of notes for you, specifically not for Tom.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Tom is perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Everyone no, no one denues this.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
So the first like it's three hours long, So strap.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
In aren't they usually all of like, no.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
This is this is the longest one.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
This is quite a lot, or not by that much,
because the last one was like two and a half
or so, So.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Is this like it's a it's a pick up where
the last one left off kind of think it's like
they split it into two.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yes, so this is and and they probably should have
split it into three. So like there is definitely like
you can tell that there are basically you're watching two
movies in a row when you're watching this movie, and
the first like forty five minutes or so is just
like exposition exposition, like like a just such a long

(02:17):
exposition machine that you're like, has the movie started yet,
Like like I think it's like a half an hour
in where you get the title sequence and I'm like,
Jesus Christ, that was all the fucking cold open.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well don't these things normally start with some sort of
gigantic set piece.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, so I actually so this one wasn't.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Instead it was just Tom Cruise for forty five minutes.
Start get the screen like, so let last.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Week what happened?

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, basically like this is what you missed on Glee.
But there are two gigantic set pieces in this One
of them takes place underwater, one of them takes place
on an airplane.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yes, I've seen, I've seen the fucking so the TV
spots a bunch.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
So fortunately, but unfortunately, the TV spots make you think
like you've seen basically all there is to see from
those those set pieces, and I am here to tell
you have not seen all there is to see from
those set pieces. The one of them is so crazy
that I was getting physically it nauseous during the sequence,

(03:25):
which never happens to me.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay, that's not necessarily in a good an endorsement. Okay,
it was like.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
He's lising, he's lising, and so yeah, so if you
if you treat it for what it is, which is
just like a forty five minute recap and then two
hours of stunt spectacular, it's incredibly good. I mean, okay,
and the whole thing is about how AI should be

(03:53):
destroyed and it's all making our lives worse.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
So like, okay, here here for that. Yeah, on board,
on board for the themes.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah yeah, and I'm on I'm on record as being
a Tom tom apologist, So yeah, everything, everything's great. Another
movie I saw quick Room aside recommends for something completely different. Uh,
The The Devil is a woman from nineteen thirty five.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Wait a real different direction?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah yeah, directed by Joseph von Sternberg and starring Marlen
di Dietrich. One of the movie theaters here has a
micro cinema which has about twenty.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh yeah sets, you told me what movie you so?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
I did tell you about this? So we saw So
they're playing The Devil as a woman, starring Marlon Dietrick.
And we went to see it and twenty five seat
theaters so tiny, and we got we didn't have tickets
ahead of time, so we got there early to about
half an hour early to buy tickets, got in, sat down,
and the only other person that was in the theater

(05:02):
was Jack Black, and so we just like hung out
with Jack Black for twenty minutes as other people got into.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
The theater was a full theater, so like everyone's sitting,
there's no there's no buffer seat kind of.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
I mean, you know, I think it was sold out,
but a couple people didn't show up. But because it's
only like twenty five seats, a couple of people, it's like,
oh my god, that's empty. In here, but we didn't sit.
I purposely was like, we shouldn't sit next to him.
He's that's enough, right, yeah, but but yeah, I'm here
to answer all of your Jack Black questions. He loves

(05:36):
popcorn and raisinetes. He likes dark chocolate raisinets. I like
milk chocolate raisinets. I said I'm a milky boy to him,
and he did not react.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
That sounds about right. That's that sound that sounds like
something that you would say. And this reaction sounds exactly
like how someone that you would say that to would
react to you.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
I wind my popcorn and raisinetes.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
He held up his and I was like, oh yeah,
and he's like, did you know that there's dark chocolate?
And I was like I didn't, but I'm the milky boy.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
And he was like please next to me, please, please
keep walking, Please keep walking, please keep like, oh all,
you're sitting down.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
But as I mentioned to you via text, he was
like pretty quiet and and just like kind of polite.
And then the more people that came, the more he
like became his Jack Black persona. And it was also
like very clearly the people that were there were like,
be funny for be funny for us Jack Black perform

(06:33):
and so but he he was very gracious and super
nice and uh, I've only seen him one other time ever.
And it was also at that theater. Leanne was seeing
oh Man, some like it hot and I I, we
got coffee, but it was like a Sunday Mattinee. We

(06:53):
got coffee and then I went back, I think, and
edited our podcast instead of going. But She's like, but
we were like, was she stood in line behind Jack
Black when she was getting her ticket? So yeah, Jack Black,
good dude. Uh yeah, And that's how my week's been busy.
Lots of writing Jack Black, Tom Cruise rules good.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
So if you had to sub it up those.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
You were you met.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Uh, doing pretty good. So I have a Reuter does
not recommend. Very disappointed.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
I saw your letter box. Yeah, so you're once in
a blue Moon letterbox.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah. So uh saw and did not care for and
was very disappointed by the uh fierce Street prom night
Like h Gassie and I were both pretty jazz about
it because we enjoyed the the first trilogy. It's it
was like, okay, it's you know, it's the type of
cheesy like slasher. Yeah, a little right, but it hit

(07:55):
like it hit the sweet spot of it. Knew what
it was and it delivered upon that, and so I
figured they were going And like I saw a lot
of the promos for it, like the the art they
were doing was very much a throwback to specifically like
night Barre and Elm Street, the original Uh and a

(08:17):
lot of other stuff. So it's like cool and then
you watch it and you're like, then what the first
I don't know how many minutes of it, but speaking
of exposition dump, it was just so lazily written where
it's like they it's just voiceover. It's like and this
is these are these people, these are these people. But

(08:38):
it's not even like the Fish out of Water where
it's like someone is explaining it to you. It's like
like in Mean Girls, where it's like.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Right, this is the map of the cafeteria or whatever,
and like that's done.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's just an exposition dump in Mean Girls, but it's
done right. This was just like exposition dump. All of
the actors are born post two thousand and are trying
like it. My letterbox review was basically it feels like
it was written by.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Ai, which it might may have been which it.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
May have been, and the people that programmed that AI
were also born post two thousand and have only and
have only been told about what the eighties were like
without actually understanding the vibe of it.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
I think that that's probably I mean, and we were
born we like neither of us remember the eighties per se,
But I think that that's probably more accurate than you think.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's in the same way whenever we were discussing, however
many weeks ago, like that Finn Wolfhard movie where it's
an eighties aesthetic.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Eighties adjacent's movie, but.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
It doesn't have anything like you know what I'm saying,
where it's like stop stops. If anything, this generation should
be like going back to the nineties or which they are,
even the early two thousands.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
I really liked the Y two K movie, which I
know I am the minority of I.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Started it and I got I don't know. I think
I got twenty minutes, twenty five minutes maybe in and
I turned it off. But I to be fair, I
it it could be all have to go back and yeah,
another go.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
But it's I don't think it's gonna, you know, revolutionize cinema.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
But but it's so annoying because again not hy two K,
but the fear Streets specifically. It's like they they figure
they struck oil with Stranger Things and the eighties Yeah yeah, yeah,
but that that's almost like ten years ago with this.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
And they and they don't understand like why it works.
They're just trying to like do a pastiche.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah. So it's they're like, Okay, well, if you struck
oil there, if I go and drill immediately adjacent to you,
I also will. And it's just keep doing that.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
I can't believe I get to say it. I will.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah. It's it's kind of that, and it's like they
don't understand. It's like, you got it that that worked
for a set period of time, but you can't if anything,
you gotta let you gotta let that market cool. It's
the same thing with like Marvel Fatigue. Yeah, those were
the biggest movies in the world, and now everyone's just
like we're fucking sick of these these suck stop making

(11:16):
them there and then you know, you get a refresh
with something like Thunderbolts or whatever like that, which is
apparently good, but like you gotta there. It's you can't
just keep doing the same fucking thing over and over again.
And if you must do better, care more about the products.
Don't just be like we're just gonna crank this shit

(11:36):
out and we'll make a bunch of money based off
it worked the one time, why wouldn't it work this time?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
And that if Zaslov has proven anything, it's like, you
gotta get as much money as you can before everyone
realizes you're a fraud and then you're run.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
The funniest part about this of even so, we watched
the Fear Street movie and we were so disappointed by it.
We were so terrible and we were just like, so
many terrible decisions were made. And we were also talking about, uh,
the the new Lilo and Stitch movie.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
I have not I'm I'm I was never a Lilo
and Stitch person to begin with.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
I was it not like I remember having seen it
back in the day. I wasn't an anti. It wasn't
like a.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Huge no no.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
But just like I don't like those like quote unquote
live action remakes anyway, and Sitch is like, what, like
it means nothing to.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Me, but okay, so the the big thing.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Like I saw the Aladdin one because I like Aladdin
and Morbid Curiosity.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Sure so, but you're familiar enough you have you ever
seen the original.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Animated believes so yes, okay, So the.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Whole, the whole stick the whole spiel.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Of its family.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Right, and that means though it has forgotten or left behind,
and that is the theme that is the thesis statement
that is provided at the beginning of the.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Animated film, I'm extremely word and is.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Then paid off at the end where they all stick
together as a family.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
And then and there's like an alien chase in the sky, yes,
and then.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Like and then the the overall alien people come down,
are like, all right, well now these people are Inner
Protection and you guys get to all stay together. And
this apparently CIA agent that was masquerading as like a
person like turns out like and then he's going to
be there to help them all stay together and like
the community the right okay, But that's that's this apparently

(13:31):
in this move because the whole the whole time, it's
like the guy that turns out to be the CIA
agent keeps saying, like, you know, we're eventually going to
have to take your sister away from you because you
can't take care of her, and it's not good for her,
right like, okay, fine at the end, and they find
a way to make it work. And that's the point
because Ohanami's family, which means no one has fucking forgotten
or left behind, right Disney in their infinite wisdom. In

(13:55):
addition to well, we've got to take an ip property
that we already own so we don't have to pay
for it and just make it a live action and
will just milk that and make a bunch of fucking
money off of it rather than remaking it and keeping
everything the same, they decide in the end.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
They change it.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
They change it to the fact that the.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Sister Boilers spoilers for spoilers for clelow Sticks.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Apparently in this one they have the big sister at
the end give up her sister to the system and
she and she goes off to study marine biology in
California when they live in Hawaii.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Well yeah, yeah, California is so much, so much more Ghostline.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Meanwhile, my understanding from a quick Google is that the
University of Hawaii has one of the best marine biology programs,
certainly not in the United States. In addition, people that
are Native Hawaiians get in for free. So this girl
literally gives us, gives them her sister and then goes

(15:04):
to attend school elsewhere, thus destroying the whole concept of
the ohanam means family, so no one is left behind
or forgotten.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
I have I have some worse I have some worse
news for you, though, bud, So, I guess. In in
the in the new one, Lelo makes a joke that
her sister should join the Marines instead of at like.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Confusing that for marine biology.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yes, and uh, there's there's like some kind of leftist
TikTok or Instagram thing that's like, uh, the Marines gets
to say whether or not people can use their trademark.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Their Marines is a trademarked name.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
So like like look out for the sci op that
Disney is running about joining the Marines.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Conveniently, there are recruiters positioned right outside the theater. Whatever
you are done seeing is so it's just like, again,
didn't see this is what my understanding is. But I'm
just thinking, so you have the movie that is the
animated one, the original one that is available on Disney
that has not been cut to ribbons at this point
to cover up everything.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yet sure, still there are some edits that are made
to the Disney place, of course, of course, but I
guess originally she like hides in a in a washing
washing machine and they're like, don't do that, don't do that,
so they like covered it with a pizza or something.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Would you say, she gets stuck and said washing machine.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
A step brother, She's eight, calm down, that's so fucked up.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
So here's the thing. Yeah, you're then gonna put up
the new version, which has a totally different ending and
a totally different message. I guess what is gonna happen
when you're Disney, because.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
The send someone else's problem.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
But the pendulum will swing back eventually, and all of
these fucking decisions that you've made to appeal to the
right to appeal to the fucking fascists whenever that goes away.
Fascism fell eventually. It took time, and it took a
gigantic war to do it.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Well, you know, Loves Loves the fascists anyway, So anyway.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
So we we watched the Fear Street, we watched Lelo
and Stitch different nights and just marveling at how many
stupid fucking decisions that are just being made. It inspired
us to finally begin watching the studio.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
And being like, oh, it hits.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
So much better after you look at these stupid fucking decisions,
and then you watch that show being.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I know a lot
of producers who are just like, this is my life.
What how many episodes in?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Are you? Uh?

Speaker 1 (17:45):
We made it through the Golden Globes?

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Oh, the Golden Globes is the best. So you don't
have two episodes left?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yes, I don't know. I would say that the casting
episode may have been the best.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
The kool Aid very funny.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
I mean, I think something's something's happening here.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
When you see it, it's like.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
And then they recast everyone. It's like that they're looking
at it. It's like, well, now this is racist. Now
this is all racist.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
The kool Aid. The kool Aid one was, The casting
one was great. The Ron Howard one is great. They're
all great.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
I loved the fucking I mean, yes, agreed, they're They're
all absolutely great. But the fucking the uh pediatric on College.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
I knew that. I knew that would be your favorite.
I knew it.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
It wasn't necessarily my favorite.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Just to admit that what I do is as as
is important sometimes more than what you do and what.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
And when you get to that hospital, in every room,
what is there a screen? A screen to watch? We
make life worth living.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
So apparently little fun fact behind the scenes of the studio.
So in uh, in the in the Golden Globes episode,
they had a cameo by the real Ted Sorandas.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
They originally had it scheduled on that day to shoot
the same day that they're shooting the rest of the
or the same like window that they're shooting the rest
of that episode, and he had to change his availability.
So they actually built the bathroom of the Golden Globes
on the same set as the pediatric oncology conference, and

(19:30):
they like stopped down shooting that episode to go shoot
the Ted Soranda's Surrando's cameo.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, it's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Right, Yeah, And just the whole the whole self Sapperstine thing.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh, that was so fucking it was.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
So fucking funny. Every single time.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
I love this Seric Sorkin getting up there.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, I know that show is is fucking spectacle, but again,
when you watch it immediately after watching these idiotic choices.
It's like you like, this becomes funny because it.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Is so Saslov must think he has a tail.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
But here's the thing. I feel like Zaslov, maybe not
Serato's because he cameoed in it, but like they all
must think, like watch that and be like, yes, I
don't understand why this is considered satire.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
All ye documentary.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
I also feeling that Ted Sarandos shot his cameo before
any of the episodes came out and maybe regrets it.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
I doubt that not regrets it, but like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
I would think he it's like, hey, ten, it's an
episode where everyone's thanking you, They're all sucking your dick.
You want to be a part of this, even with
a competitor. And the one where they have to fucking
kill Scorsese's movie.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh my god, that was funny.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Like because you told me better where it's like, oh,
it's cold kool aid, but then at the end where
it's like wow, you uh so you bought it so
you could kill it? That's that's cold.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, I didn't would have spoiled that.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, that was so funny that.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Marty's an okay actor? You forget that that Ron Howard's
an actor.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, just the part whatever. Scorsese is like, you know,
to sell it back to me, and I should. I'll
just go, I'll do it with Apple like I should
have like so many little things in there.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Where exactly right. I also really like the Noir one
where he's just like talking into his Yeah that's ivo.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
That was pretty funny too, But that was just so
much better, I know, and I was just like a
Vive of course, a Eve is like, yes, it's gotta be.
It's gotta be on film.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
I gotta be on film. The last two episodes are great.
It's a two parter, okay, And that's the only thing
I'll say, Okay.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Fair enough. I mean, I'll that'll probably end up getting
ripped off tonight.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
So it's very funny.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
And I'm glad that you had to watch him back
to back because we had to wait a week and
we were like, no.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh, fair enough. But uh, it's just I you know,
the death. And here's the problem. The Lelo and Stitch
movie made like one hundred and sixty million dollars domestically.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
So it's like an audience baby, It's.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Literally no one is going to learn a lesson from this.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Why would they exactly there making lesson is to be learned.
That it's a success but it's not good is the problem.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, but there's no and.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
We've never said we are at the point now and
it's not just movies, it's it's everything.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
It's everything. It's just there's no makes money.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
It's gonna there's no ghost of quality that's going to visit,
you know, Bob Iger in the middle of the night
and be like stop it. I actually think that that
ghost was snow white because they said that they they're
putting all of the live action remakes on hold because
that lost like two hundred million dollars.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, but then Lelo and Stitch made all that money back, so.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
They might turn the faucet back on again. So it's
Mowan is almost done. So we're definitely getting that one.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's just if if you must do these live action remakes,
just do them as remakes. Don't change them.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
I mean, just sure. That's that's like a very small
bar to clear.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Look, because here's the thing. They're not going to stop.
They're never going to stop. It doesn't it doesn't matter.
They all think they're the smartest people in the room.
And it's all just what if, right, like if you
must just do it as a shot for fucking shot
remake of the original thing that like And it's the

(23:27):
other part that kills me about this, It's like you
don't think that perhaps it's specifically with the Lelo and
Stitch one. It's like, did it ever occur to you
that perhaps the reason that people liked the original and
it was successful and has that built in audience is
because it was good what you had and put on

(23:47):
screen was the reason that it was in fact successful.
Not well, we owned the rights to Lilo and Stitch,
so what if we had Lelo get into the port industry?
And it's actually like a secret fucking Choker Girl's remake,
Like what the fuck are you talking about? Just remake
the fucking movie you made that.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
People like this is the second time you made you
made a reference to Lelo doing poor.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
That is not true. I'm i asked if Lelo got stuck.
I didn't ask any questions beyond that. What are you
saying of if? What did you elaborate on this point?

Speaker 2 (24:19):
What? What are you saying?

Speaker 1 (24:20):
What are you saying? What are you saying I was saying,
perhaps she was trapped or in other word, stuck in
that stripe up. Hey man, synonyms, I'm talking synonyms here.
I don't know what you're talking to, playoffs, but you
know what it's like. Perhaps that's the reason that it made
so much money is because people liked the message and

(24:42):
the content of the movie. Not like no, no, no,
people people don't know what they like.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
It's it feels everyone everyone just assumes that they're that
their target audience are morons, and which, okay, this is
how we get to where we're at now.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
I just it feels so much the these days with
with ever and again it's not just movies, although it's
a lot to do with movies. It's not we're gonna
listen to what the audience wants. It's more the other
way where it's like, we're going to tell you what
to like, and you ask you if you don't.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
The dumbest audience members of the loudest ones to see.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Also Star Wars right where it's like, hey, we're gonna
listen to Reddit on how to make Star Wars movies.
I'm like, that's a terrible fucking decision.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
And meanwhile they're there movies have tanked, but the and
Or is very good watching and.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Good do they give they put work into it.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I like Gilroy. Gilroy is doing a great job.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
It's just it's so aggravating to to be like gas
into just like no, no, no, you like this. It's like, no,
we don't like this, No no, no, you like it because
we made it, so therefore you have to like it.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
So your week has been good, is what I'm hearing.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Uh, you know, it's been fine. It's been I've enjoying
watching the Studio amongst a bunch of other shits.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
And yeah, we had a long, long weekend. Had a
on Friday. Did A actually took time to not like
Cassie and I both like put our phones away for
and evening. And boy, until you do that, you don't
really realize how much of like a fucking crackhead we
are when it comes down. Yeah, exactly, And it was

(26:25):
quite nice. I highly recommend people doing that rather than
just being glued into technology for all the time. So yeah,
pretty good.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Watch Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning. He turns off the
Internet at one point.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
It's great.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Does he go to the internet like an sbu?

Speaker 2 (26:43):
He actually does go to the internet.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh wow, okay, good to know that we've.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
He kind of goes to the internet. Yeah, and now
mail bag.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yes, short trip to the mail bag. We have a
little bit of a mail here. First email is from
listener Peggy and the titled Land Based Allies Peggy and
Right talk about Aviv. Netflix is releasing a new documentary
about the Titan submarine disaster on June eleventh. Here's the
trailer with the link to the trailer fellow Land based
ally Peggy.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Why would I watch this a million times? No? Thank you?
So tragedy porn, like thank you to Ted Sorrando's.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
It's because'ra actually oplicated, otherwise why would they thank us?

Speaker 3 (27:22):
I mean, I mean this is like because like the
Firefest doc was so big and popular during COVID, they're like,
every time there's like a giant idiotic disaster, we got
to make a documentary about it.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
But this wasn't a giant idiot disaster.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
It was a giant idiotic disaster.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
It was like for the idiots, the idios gigantic, not
the disaster, the disaster itself.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
And to call Firefes a disaster, that might be that's
a little.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
I mean it was I mean, it was they they
so Jo John Rule lost disas Billy McFarlane went to jail. Okay,
So I mean it's still good. It was a disaster
for him, but he's doing another one, I know.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
And this is what I'm saying where it's just like,
what are we what are we doing here? Guys? Honestly anyway,
idiots idiots died underwater? Ohay, and just canew about it
before everyone else.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Next epis from listener Peggyn Peggy so again, so so
the name of last week's bonus episode mail Bag episode
was should we watch Another Simple Favor? And Peggyn writes in, Hi,
Matt and Evive, I'm listening to the new Mailbag episode
as I previously requested, please do a takedown theater of

(28:37):
another simple Favor.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I haven't watched it yet, but I very much want
to hear you take it down.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Regarding Pottersville and It's a wonderful life, it was called
that in an alternate timeline because the rich old guy
mister Potter bought everything in town and basically the town
itself was renamed to Pottersville. Yeah, I know, we've seen
Bedford Falls we've seen the movie. Well, it seems seems

(29:03):
like Matt doesn't remember, but I did remember that. That's
why I thought that a Potter's Field may be in
reference to the like destitute town in It's a Wonderful Life,
because it's like an unmarked graveyard.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, so I have seen It's a Wonderful Life all
of one time.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
You don't like it, right, It's not that.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I dislike it, it's just it's that it's George Bailey
just crazy, just being fun. Like the last half hour
of that, it's just a crazy man running around Pottersville.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Fun fact.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Uh, the TV edited version of that, that's all the
movie is, Like, you don't get any of his like
life before Christmas.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
It's just all Christmas.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
How the fuck does that make any sense? So you
kind of need the setup.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, the payoff.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
He starts I think with like his building a loan closing,
he beats, he meets uh Claire, and Clarence is like,
I'm an angel, this is your this is your fucking life.
But we don't see him and Mary at the dance.
We don't see this sledding. It's bad, it's not good.
The longer one is the better one.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Sure, okay, well that's the one I have seen so thankfully.
Yeah uh And last week Leslie uh hot off the
presses actually from listener Rose, she writes in meaning by
the title they.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Are the batties, they are the batties, and.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Rose writes much to cover rapid fire, And now we're
bullet points. First bullet point, Yes, yes, of course it
was a comic book scene and transgender bridge that made
me cry me too, Yes, of ev you are right
about Facebook and girls de leading selfies. Source careless caris
Careless People by former Facebook director of Public Policy Sarah

(30:51):
Winn Williams, which tried to hush up and therefore totally
strikes and affected a great ready.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, yeah, I remember when Careless People came out. I
can picture the cover and Spotify like pushed it to
me to listen to the audio book and I was like,
don't tell me what to do, Spotify, and I just
never did.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Next bull point. Did either of you see the short
documentary Incident.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
From last year, No Eve, No No.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
It depicts a Chicago police shooting and the aftermath through
security cameras and caught bodycam footage, and it's about us
infuriity infuriating as you'd guess. I'll bet it should have
won the Oscar Imo. It's free to watch on vimeo.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Oh, okay, this is a weird one bullet point three,
bullet point four.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yes, I'd like to know if I'm the first person
to listen to a special Viewing Unit episode whilst getting tattooed.
Listening dang, ros right in and tell me it was
the three hundred and seventy point one mail bag, and
I immediately regretted it when Lily's email the Lady in
the Garden made me laugh out loud, and I had
to try very hard not to move.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Damn.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
I can see at the tattoo and the picture that
you sent Rose, I'm assuming is what it says.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yeah, Roses, Okay, I can see the the plastic audit.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
I creeped Josh Piss's Instagram to see if he's if
he's really a bb stand with a skull emotion next
to that, but he doesn't seem to mention politics at all,
so that was a character choice question mark.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Oh boy uh And.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
The last bullet point, by the way, do you like
my shirt? And it's a picture of Rose his shirt
that says one day we will wake up to his
obituary and a lady enjoying a nice cup of coffee.
Looks like there.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Could be tea. Yes, I do like that shirt Rose.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Indeed by E p s. I will brainstorm the ideas
for the Lily and Rose podcast. So there's what's the
tattoo we only see?

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, yeah, some tattoo picks.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
And that's what I don't have any blue ski.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
So yes, in a segment we like to call I
just blew myself.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
I'm afraid I just blew myself.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
It's got to be.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
A better way to say that.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
There it is from listener Ezra. Ezra writes in from
the Goops Department, Seymour is the guy in Little Shop
of Horrors. Did you mean the plant?

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Because it was? It was?

Speaker 3 (33:24):
I was talking about the the romance novel cover. The
plant is named Audrey two. I think you're incorrect on that, Ezra.
Don't you remember the famous line from the Little Shop
of Horrors? Feed me parentheses? I am Seymour, I think
you might, you think you might.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
I'm Seymour. Thank you not paying attention.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
If you don't have the subtitles on, you might miss that.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
The subtitles on a play.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Canadian correspondent Sonia Missio writes in the Black Lives Matter episode, which.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
I forget was the name of community policing.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
It was certainly not Black Lives Matter, but stop the
title of the episode.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
She writes, this is the episode that made me stop
watching SVU proactively. I couldn't even hate watching anymore. I
just could not care less about it.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, it's PS. That makes sense.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
PS belated. Welcome to Canada, Matt.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Oh, thank you, it's I am. I am back stateside.
But hopefully o'cup whenever you hear the episode again, the
timelines now it's like, oh boy, I don't know, I
don't know what we've what we've talked about on what episode?

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, so, Sonia is it's weird because Sonia is one
of our earliest listeners, and yet we started the podcast
after she stopped.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Watching the show, which is wild.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Wild.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Listener Katie writes in o MG, Matt's rand about the
light switch.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
I'm trying to.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Bird it's when they were looking for the looking.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Just turn the lights, so yeah, just turn the fucking lights.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
On, idiots, What do you doing the lights on?

Speaker 1 (35:10):
I always had a disadvantage to you to turn the
fucking lights on? What do you do when you walk
into a room normally turn on the fucking lights? It's
Katie Nor.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Katie also writes in O MG, well, well, well if
it isn't Josh Piss, how did he get that name?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Anyway?

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Great question, Katie for the if we only had our
Wikipedia up, Kauh. Josh Piss's real name is Josh pice
p a I s which also happens to be my
maternal grandmother's maiden name. You call it, well, she's dead, uh,

(35:51):
fraternal grandmother's maid name. She died when my dad was tall,
so I never never was even close to meeting her.
And it's it's pronounced pisce. But I obviously like saying
Josh piss, and she says, a ev you will definitely
find yourself saying that again.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Later on Matt will have the mother of all rants.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
About Josh Piss.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
I guess so okay. Ezra writes and again saying, you
asked about what dating app Liz would Liz, You asked
about what dating app Live would use. And in the
show nine to one one, the dating website we see
the characters use is called romancing the uniform, so maybe
it would be the same.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Good lord, Oh my god, I was gonna say farmers only,
but you.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Know, yeah for pigs.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah yeah, you get it.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Right on, you get it, and come on, you get it.
You get it.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
And last, but not leastly, Ezra writes and again saying,
one of my favorite episodes this season seventeen, episode eleven,
and I'm so curious about your thoughts on the episode.
Well we'll get to that in two weeks. Ezra, thanks
for writing in. As always you can get as we're
at SVU podcast on Bluesky, which is the official blues
guy Josh piss.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Uh you take that to the bank, blood bank, Senator
and for longer weirder stuff. Send us an email special
viewing Unit Strude Strudle, thank you. I was like, I
want to say croissant, but it's not it.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
It's true strud bagel. You fucking Gmail, you know what
it was.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
It was a banked good. I was always thinking it's like,
it'll be cupcake next time, it'll be soboas
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