September 22, 2025 • 33 mins
Dave shares his theory about the Stranger Things-ification of modern horror and the shadow it casts on classics like Gremlins, Ghosbusters and Poltergeist. He gives his spoiler free review of Alien: Earth, and explains why Noah Hawley (Fargo, Leigion) is the perfect fit for the franchise. Plus, Dave breaks down surprising new albums by Hayley Williams, Deftones and The World Is A Beautiful Place (TWIABP).
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Now this is a story all about how I had a podcast you're
listening to now. Welcome back to DIRECT Edition,
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And I'm your host, your captain Dave, look at me.
I am the captain now. And we're I'm returning to a
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people. I thought it would be good to do
a check in and talk about thingsI'm enjoying right now and give
a little little light in dark times.
I hope you've been enjoying the interviews that I've been
putting down. Matt Fraction, Johnny Phillip
and my buddy Robert Kirkman and David Finch and Felipe Smith and
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Daniel Warner Johnson. Some some stuff in the works in
the pipeline. But I'm always trying to do new
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This is the the giant size edition of his first Batman
issue. And if you enjoy Batman movies,
if you enjoy Batman books, if you enjoy Batman anything that's
a good book. It it it feels like classic
Batman, but for modern times, ifthat makes sense.
Speaking of modern times and we,if you're not watching, I won't,
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I don't go into spoilers on thispodcast unless it's something
that's, you know, past history, you know, 2 year old movie, 20
year old movie, you know, Jaws, the shark is Roy Schneider's
father. You find that one out in the
second movie. I won't go into spoilers on
current stuff though, but 5 episodes or 4 episodes into
Alien earth. And it's interesting.
I've I've had a lot of conversations with different
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friends about how they feel about the show.
I love it. I love it for so many reasons,
mostly being that it's a Noah Hawley show and Noah Hawley for
me and and what I've digested ofhis work.
He busted onto the scene with Legion, which was a show based
off of the X-Men, a character New Mutant's character.
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It's such a not Marvel thing andit is so weird.
Oh wait no I'm sorry. He busted onto the scene with
Fargo and when I first heard Fargo was announced, I was like,
oh, it's a fucking amazing. Like it's a 10 out of 10, you
know, Coen Brothers movie. But what this guy look like
anyways. Oh, he's a little guy, kind of
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funny looking. Coen Brothers have several 10
out of 10 movies, and I would put that for me above Lebowski.
This aggression will not stand, man.
Even though I think Lebowski's, you know, top three of their
movies, but Fargo's probably my favorite Coen Brothers movie.
And when I heard they were doinga show of it, I'm like, I not a
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huge fan. At that time, which was about a
decade ago, I wasn't a huge fan of the idea of like taking a
movie and making it ATV show. This isn't one of those optional
check A or B scenarios. I'm going to change your mind.
Now, I think with somebody like him especially, it's done really
well. But now I think it's definitely
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been better than we ever deservehaving, you know, movies that
are TV shows based off of movies.
But Fargo first season, which Martin Freeman and Billy Bob
Thornton were the stars? If I was any kind of man, that
is shown man, Sam, what's what. I was like, oh, they he got the
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tone of the Coen brothers down within like the first two
episodes. I felt that.
But it had it spin on it where it was like weird.
It was not abstract. There were abstract moments
where something would happen andit would they would never
explain what it was. It was just there.
One of the things in that first season that I was convinced in
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the first maybe 4 episodes, evenfurther down, was that Billy Bob
Thornton's character wasn't actually there.
Like he wasn't a real person. He was an imagination, an
imaginary character. I think I went back and watched
that season again and then I waslike, no, there's a couple
characters that noticed him and he is real.
But they would Hollywood go on to craft these seasons which
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don't. You don't have to watch season 1
if you want to watch jump into season 3.
There is just a tiny, tiny bit of overlap in characters via
ancestry or like or or or they reference something that
happened just as a piece of history, much like True
Detective in season 2. There's one reference to the
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events of season 1, Season 3. I think there's one or two
references to season 1. So they always kind of go back
and just reference the events aslike a news story.
But with Fargo, they're just like, I believe there was 1
character in season 2 that was related to one of the characters
in season 1. If you've not watched Fargo,
just take the plunge because, like, you're instantly
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interested in these characters. The most recent season that
starred Jon Hamm and Juno Templewas a fireball.
I mean, it was so good. Defender of freedom and
protector of the common man against the tyranny of the State
and all its wicked demands. And Ham plays just such an
unlikable piece of shit character with also so much
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charm in the previous season with Chris Rock and Jason
Schwartzman was great. He's JP fucking Morgan, an
American success story because it was different.
And yeah, they're they're it's just, you know, you should watch
Fargo. And then he came out with
Legion, and Legion was so weird.Nothing that hurts me is real.
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No one who hates me is real. I dug it so much, but it was
just so weird. Definitely not for everybody.
And yeah. And then he's doing Alien Earth.
It feels like a Noah Hawley show, but it also has like the
opening and the credits are veryshort.
It's like a 1015 second thing. But it it's got imagery that
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kind of makes you unsettled, andit almost sounds like there's
some piece of a Nine Inch Nails song in that opening credit
sequence. But the 4th episode, which was
the most recent one as I'm recording this was so unnerving,
so unnerving. And it focuses on the character
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that you think might be really evil and not good.
And then you kind of get his story and you understand him a
little more. The one point of debate between
a couple of friends. And even I looked on on Reddit
to see if this was a point of contention for people, But each
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episode ends with a song. Like it's kind of like an
exclamation point on the end of the episode is like a a song
from generally. It seems to be the 90s, and it's
interesting because the show is alien Earth, so it's supposed to
be grounded in the fact that this is Earth at some point.
But some people are saying it doesn't feel right because it
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doesn't kind of go online with what we're used to with Aliens
and the Alien series. But I like it.
I feel like it. It always puts a smile on my
face, but it always accentuates that episode.
Tool. They use tool in one episode,
The Smashing Pumpkins, Jane's Addiction, and Metallica so far,
and I dig it. I dig the cinematography.
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I think they're doing great. What they're doing with the
budget that they have and using CG when they obviously have to
and using real practical sets and effects when they have to.
It looks really good. I'm excited to see where it goes
specifically because the timeline of this is set, I think
between Covenant and the first alien.
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So it's an unexplored part of, of this universe that we've most
of us have grown up watching or been indoctrinated in by other
people. And it, it's interesting because
I'm, I'm talking to people like,oh, I went back and watched the
first two Aliens and you know, I'm skipping Alien 3 and
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Resurrection. And I think the only skip of
ones 100% are Alien Predator. Those two movies are dog shit.
Alien 3 was the first movie of the series I saw in the theater
because I was 7 or 8 when Alienscame out.
My parents would not let me see it.
I watched it. One of my old friends, Jason
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Randall, I watched it at his house.
So Alien 3 was the first one I saw in the theaters and it's,
you know, obviously historicallymixed, but I think it's looked
back favorably these days. It was David Fincher's first
full length movie. He walked off of that movie at
some point because the studio there was so much interference,
which is kind of legendary. The Blu-ray has the assembly
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cut, which is closer to the original script.
I read the novelization in high school before the movie came out
by I get I think it was Alan Dean Foster, but I want to say
maybe it was based off of William Gibson's script.
So the assembly cut is more towards that.
But going back now that we have Fincher, like seeing where he
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came from on that movie. I, I love that movie.
Resurrection I'll never be fullysold on.
I never was at the time. It has its moments, but I I I
like it enough. I'll say that Prometheus I liked
From the Drop. I thought that movie was
fantastic when I saw it in theaters.
I know that one came under a lotof fire because of the character
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motivations, which are some of them are quite stupid.
But it's a beautiful looking movie and I think it laid a lot
of groundwork that we that they could build upon Covenant.
Never going to be completely sold on that movie either.
I love the first half and I'm not a fan of the second-half.
I thought it was very predictable.
Yeah, I thought, I thought it was very predictable.
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I'll go back and watch it, but Ihave no hopes of ever really
enjoying it fully. And, and now we have Alien
Earth. Oh, and Romulus.
I really liked Romulus. That's what I'd like to watch
again. And I I, it's interesting
because a lot of people are revisiting it, trying to get
themselves pumped up to watch Alien Earth.
And if, like I said, if you likeNoah Hawley's TV shows, you're
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going to like this by default, even if you're not a fan of the
Alien franchise. It's just done so well.
And so that that's been definitely a point of me
enjoying every week when it drops Peacemakers out.
I thought the first two episodeswere good, not great.
I heard this newest episode was really good.
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Yeah, I, I love the first season.
Everybody involved in it, I am afan of.
I do not think the new series new season is bad.
I just thought the first two episodes kind of spun its wheels
a little bit. It's early on and and so you
know, I'm I'm love James, so I know I'm going to enjoy this.
So that's that's the TV I've been consuming.
But one thing I I forgot that I wanted wanted to do.
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I had this thought a couple months ago and it's definitely
something I want to talk heavilyabout is I wanted to go back and
start re watching stranger things.
Stranger things is something that came to me in 20.
Whatever that whenever it came out, it was very quiet that it
when it came out and my buddy Phil, that's you buddy.
Yep, that's my editor. He text me and he's like, hey,
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have you heard about this show Stranger things?
I started watching it. I watched the, I think he said,
and I could be wrong, but I think he said he watched, he
might have been sick or hungoverand he watched the entire first
season right there. And he's like, dude, you're
going to love this show. It's a throwback to the stuff
you grew up watching because he's a little bit younger than
me. He's 10 years younger than me.
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He's like, it's a throwback to all of the things that you grew
up watching and, and it feels really fresh.
And so I put it on and right away I was like, yes, this is
awesome. And it took I I could be wrong
on the timeline because like it,you know, it's 11 years ago or
10 years ago or whatever, but I feel like it took about a month
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to or so for that show to catch like wildfire.
And when it did, it caught and we're still in we're still in
its wake because of final seasonhasn't come out yet.
It's coming out at the end of this year.
But my God I started re watchingit and fell in love all over
again with that first season. Now my memory serves me
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correctly. I I thought the second season
was good but the second season definitely hinged on homaging
stuff a little too much. Third season was a little slow
and wasn't my favorite. I want to say it was the 4th
season. Then on is when it got really
good again. I think it was at 4th season.
It was when they were all working at the mall.
Oy oy ahoy. Star Court Mall is one of the
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finest shopping facilities. And the characters obviously you
fall in love with, they're very easy to fall in love with,
especially going forward as the chemistry, as they grow older
and the chemistry increases between the actors and
actresses. You know, I'll never be a fan of
what's her name, Millie Bobby Brown.
I do not think that she's that talented, but I think in that
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show she fits. And I think the cast just all
kind of brings them all up. But I've seen her in other
things that I'm not a fan. That first season is so special
because it didn't rely on the tropes of everything that kind
of created it's it leaned on thereferences and inspiration, but
it didn't feel like it was copying things or or or
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anything. But that second season, I
remember there's one episode where it is a straight homage to
aliens and gremlins in one episode.
And I thought it was cool, but at the same time I was like, I
see what you're doing, but it doesn't, it doesn't feel like
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it's original when you're doing that.
Like I remember it's like the demo organs coming up from the
the bottom or the chasm and they're using the alien sound of
the tracker and like all that stuff.
But at the same time, I still loved that season.
I still like the show. What, what is interesting about
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Stranger Things and Harry Potteris definitely like the, the
Harry Potter movies have led or laid the groundwork for stuff
like this in the modern kind of times of like the kid centric
cast and growing up with them issuch an interesting thing.
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The movies are its own thing. And obviously, you know, the
piece of shit that JK Rowling has become has nothing to do
with the, you know, the, the fact that we fell in love with
these characters either in the books, if you're, you grew up
reading them or the movies, if you never read the books and you
know, that entire cast, you know, we, we love them.
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And Daniel Radcliffe has turned out to be such not just a
stellar actor, but a stellar human being and.
The whole world will be dancing and singing and farting, and
everyone will feel a little bit less alone.
Going back to Stranger Things, what Stranger Things did for
better or for worse, if you're aparent and your kids grew up
watching Stranger Things, I think that's such an awesome
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thing. But but what I was saying, for
better or for worse, what I noticed and I'm 100% confident
that this this traces back to Stranger Things.
Stranger Things comes out and isalmost like APG 13, almost
leaning towards R in its kind ofhorror vibe, violence, you know,
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grossness and all that stuff. But what Stranger Things did, it
found this niche for the studiosto create almost adult like
showing that line between this is a kid show, but adults will
love it too. And the nostalgia is why us
adults really loved it. It was dark in the places it
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needed to be dark, but it was soft in the places that it
needed to be so that parents could say, yes, it's OK to watch
this. And that laid the groundwork for
so many projects coming out thatwere aimed at that 13 to 18 year
old with the in mind that the adults can enjoy this too.
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And there are so many projects that came out that I was like,
this is awesome that this exists.
But it also ruined at least one thing that I can pinpoint that I
was excited for to come out was Sweet Tooth, which was a Jeff
Lemire comic that ran DC Vertigo.
I want to say it was. Yeah, I think it was Vertigo 60
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issues. Great story, fantastic book.
You know, Lemire's art is so nonmainstream that like it works so
well for me. It was a dark, dark story.
It was a really dark story. And when that show came out on
Netflix, I watched, I think, I think I watched the entire first
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season and I was like, this isn't Sweet tooth, this is Sweet
Tooth for the Stranger Things generation.
And that's OK. I still have the comic.
You know that I enjoyed the comic.
It'll never. The fact that that show came out
and I didn't like it didn't makeme not like the comic anymore.
I'm not one of those people. And we all know they're out
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there. You might be one of them who's
like, oh, the it's ruined. They ruined it.
The movie sucked. The TV show sucked.
It's ruined. It's like the thing that you
liked supposedly that you liked still remains the same thing
that you did when you liked it, when you read it.
Those things don't change. No, but the stranger things,
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ification of a lot of things, and I can't pinpoint anything
right now that that there's other things that I know I can
rattle off examples, but we've all seen it.
And I think, look, I think that's great because for people
my age, in your 40s, your mid 40s, grew up liking things like
Back to the Future or Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Star Wars, these
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things that had undertones that we like.
Ghostbusters is the greatest example.
That was a kids movie with totaladult junk jokes in it.
Are you the key master? Not that I know of an Aykroyd
Ray getting a blowjob from a ghost and and all of the sexual
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jokes and all of the things thatBill Murray says.
Those are adult jokes. I didn't fucking get them when I
was a kid. And now as an adult, I
appreciate that movie on such a different level.
And Gremlins is a horror movie that just was able to be aimed
at kids and it was frightening. That was the first movie that
gave me nightmares. Even Poltergeist we think of.
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That's a terrifying movie for kids.
Yet it stars there's kids in it.And the main, you know,
Caroline, she saves the day. Run to the light, baby.
Just stay away from the light, the wind to the light.
I think having these types of things like Stranger Things is a
benefit for kids growing up. They're not.
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It's all, you know, rooted in fantasy, horror, you know,
science fiction, Dungeons and Dragons references.
Like all that stuff speaks to somany different people now.
And I I whether I liked certain seasons or not, I respect the
hell out of that show for pavingthe way for kids to grow up
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watching fun stuff that's going to really stick with them and
also like work that imagination.You know, I'm going to start
season 2 probably this week and I'll probably, I can probably
finish the season a week becausethe, you know, the 8 to 12
episodes, you know, if I watch 1A day or whatever.
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So that that I've been enjoying,I'm excited for the final
season. I mean, I vaguely remember the
big plot points of the final season, but you know, Eddie
being that character that came around, played by Joe, whatever
his name is, that play Johnny, Johnny Storm man is great
character. Great character.
And the fact that kids like no master of puppets.
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Now my friend Seth, his daughterknows Metallica now because of
Stranger Things was crazy shit. Anything that we can use,
whether it be movies, TV, whatever it is to keep this
going for future generations, tokeep them wrapped up and
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enjoying things that came years before they were born.
I mean, it's one of the reasons why I have such a respect and
such a a love for comics historyor music history is because I
started to explore the things that came before it.
And it might have been because of a movie, because of, you
know, Beavis and butt head or something, you know, just
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anything that forward that gets the future generations
interested in the stuff in the history that came before it.
And that goes with a real history, like exploring reasons
for conflicts or reasons that certain things exist in this
world and how we can work to change that.
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History does teach us everythingwe need to know.
So. So yes, excited for the next
season of Stranger Things, but really enjoying going back and
watching and watching these kidsgrow up to.
Also been watching the King of the Hill reboot or the
continuation, which has been fun, but I've not watched all of
King of the Hill like I watched the first maybe four to six
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seasons, you bastard. But the new stuff has been
enjoyable. I mean, Mike Judge doesn't
really get it wrong. It's very rare that we look at
something that Mike Judge has done and been like, it was OK,
very rare, very rare. And then music.
There's been some really fantastic albums that have come
out in the last month, one that might surprise you that I'll
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talk about, but we'll start withthe new Deftones album, Private
Music. Fucking banger of an album.
Fantastic. Heavy when it needs to be,
Spacey when it needs to be, and not soft but chill in moments
where it needs to be. And that's a band that I was
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late to. I, I was not listening to them
back in the early 2000s when allmy friends were listening to
them. You know, I, the one song that I
did know is probably the song that most people knew is House
of Flies, because I, I, them song might have been on Tony
Hawk, but I know it from the Queen of the damn soundtrack.
And I would, when I first heard it, I was like, damn, this is a
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great song. And I put it on most, I think it
was on every single one of my party mixes going forward from
then on. So I it was a song that I
absolutely loved, but I never really yeah, got into them.
I understood that they were likeinfluenced by so many bands that
I really love, especially, you know, I hear a lot of Alice In
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Chains in there in in certain ways.
And you know, obviously Tool, but they were, you know,
Maynards on White Pony on Passenger, so they were, you
know, contemporaries in ways. But the new album is just
fantastic. My only criticism, and it's not
a criticism, but my only criticism is that like that
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album hits its stride, like it'son a high note when it ends.
And I'm just like man, I want like 6 more tracks after that
last track, but whatever. Another album that came out very
recently is a band called The World Is a Beautiful Place and
I'm No Longer Afraid to Die, which sometimes gets short into
the world is TWIABP. They are.
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I mean, it's so interesting to categorize them because it's
really hard to put them in a even just in a genre, but emo,
punk, whatever. But their new album is so heavy.
It's thrash metal. It's like mathy thrash metal.
It's so lyrically, they have always been such an interesting
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band to me. They that they're wordy, but
they, they, they reuse like theyalways, there's always a song on
one of their albums that kind ofreferences a song that came
before it, either by title or bylyrics.
And I really enjoy that. But this is a very angry album.
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It's very social, politically, current, real feelings, real
anger, real fear. They deal with they're, they're
and they're a band that's I think only one of the founding
members is still in the band. They've always been like an open
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revolving door. And most of the members that are
in the band now have been in theband for 10 plus years.
But they're a band that I found out via Tumblr.
I want to say, you know, in the in the early 2000 tens or
something like that and they, they had a nasty sense of humor
and they were very self deprecating, but very thoughtful
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in their songwriting and very, very, very technically sound.
Some of the best recorded drums I've ever heard on their albums.
Great guitar work. But the new album is heavy as
fuck. I would put it, it is heavier
than the Deftones album. It's a lot of there's a lot of
screamo elements in it, but justlyrics that you can definitely
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relate to as a human being, as aworking class human being in
this world. There's a lot in there to to, to
relate to that. That's the name of the album's
dreams of being Dust. I believe is is is the name and
their last album, which was called Illusory Walls, is one of
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my favourites in the last 10 years.
And if you're adverse to the kind of experimental nature of
song, lengths, may not be for you.
But their last two songs combined to be about 36 minutes.
But it's not like it. It's just like they construct
these. Probably what they do is they
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construct a song and they're like, ah, we'll add to it.
And then they're like, well, this is like 3 separate songs,
but we can just put it into one anyway.
Illusory Walls is Illusory Wallsis fantastic album, but their
their new one is definitely it'snot a departure from their
sound, but it's just leaning into the heavier version of
their sound. And then finally an album that
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I, if you would have put this onmy bingo card, like Dave, you're
going to absolutely fall in lovewith this person's solo album.
I would have been like, really? But Hayley Williams, lead singer
in front Woman of Paramore, released AI Guess it's her third
solo album, which started as just herself releasing tracks on
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and that's it. It's an album called Ego Death
at The Bachelorette Party and I never listened to Paramore.
I believe I saw them once at Warped Tour very aware of who
they are very aware of her and Istarted to get videos of them
performing her performing solo thrown onto my TikTok algorithm
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and I she's one hell of a performer great energy seems
like a very loved person also bythe the fans.
So it's kind of like Oh yeah, yeah, whatever always you know,
friends listen to her post abouther, but I I listened.
I once again, the algorithm doing the job for me, her single
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for the title track for Ego Death at The Bachelorette Party
was on my YouTube algorithm. And so I clicked on it.
I'm like, let me see what this song is.
And it's fucking great. It put it in.
It's already definitely going tobe one of my top songs of the
year. And so I started exploring a
little more, watched a couple interviews with her, start
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listening to the songs as they were.
And then, yeah, the album officially was announced with
another track, and it's 17 tracks, but I like to put on a
good album to, you know, take mydaily walk to, and that one's
like 60 minutes. And it's perfect.
And it is what I really like about the album and what I like
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about her solo stuff. Her sound is varied.
It's not pigeoned into it. It's not pop punk.
It's not, you know, whatever Paramore is considered rock,
pop, rock, pop punk, whatever. But it just is a very lush
sounding album with a lot of different tracks.
And I think as a lyricist, she'sextremely relatable and
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fantastic at what she does. And I, I once again, I would not
have imagined that that was a album that I would listen to
right away and then start listening to a lot.
And it has been and it's been, Yeah, I've been enjoying the
hell out of it. So I I'm, I'm actually think I'm
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going to put together a top ten list of albums this year because
I think this year has been personally, for my taste, great
for music. And it'll be something that I'll
go over on this podcast. But ego death of The
Bachelorette party and might even be my top album of the
year. We shall see.
But yeah, Deftones world is a beautiful place and I'm no
longer afraid to die. And Hayley Williams have been on
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my rotation very heavily over the last three weeks or so.
And so I wanted to share that with you.
You know, I thought this would be a fun little catch up with
some of the things I'm enjoying right now.
Like like I said, the Batman book by fraction has been first
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issue was Great War by Becky Cloonan and Garth Ennis is the
most is the scariest story I've read so far this year.
I'm not done with it because it's being collected I think
over 3 or 4 issues. Absolute Wonder Woman also
fantastic. Shout out to my buddy.
Shout out to my buddy Sanford Green that great very covered
that he put out this past week. Been reading a lot of manga.
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I've been reading Killer Shark from another universe and People
chew and the Spawn manga. I've been trying to read as much
as I can because it's good for your brains.
Before we get going, if you haven't subscribed to the
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that's exclusive to the Patreon.West Coast Avengers episode
that's exclusive to the Patreon.Voting on that West Coast
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If I feel like I want to record something that is more for my
Patreon subscribers, well, I'm just going to do it.
I'm not going to try and tie myself to doing just the thing I
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said I'm going to do. I'm always trying.
And then the private sale, whichis a drop of books and different
stuff that you get to see and it's exclusive to you before
anybody else gets to buy it. The next one's going to be early
November before I go to Japan. And this season, season 4 of the
podcast, which is this is not included in it, but Season 4 is
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going to end right before I go to Japan.
And then I will be sure to have a Season 5 start when I get
back. And hopefully it's just going to
be bigger and better and awesome.
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Drop a comment down below. Let me know what you think of
Alien Earth or what you think ofStranger Things in my you know
what I say that the road of Stranger Things and tells.
What albums have you been listening to recently?
I'm sure a lot of you like Deftones that are listening to
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this right now. So what's your favorite track?
I think my favorite track is CXZ.
Other than that, I'll see you soon.
There's been direct edition. I'm Dave.
Now this is a story all about how I had a podcast you're
listening to now. Welcome back to DIRECT Edition,
a podcast about nothing and everything.
And I'm your host, your captain Dave, look at me.
I am the captain now. And we're I'm returning to a
solo episode to give you all a break from listening to two
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people. I thought it would be good to do
a check in and talk about thingsI'm enjoying right now and give
a little little light in dark times.
I hope you've been enjoying the interviews that I've been
putting down. Matt Fraction, Johnny Phillip
and my buddy Robert Kirkman and David Finch and Felipe Smith and
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Daniel Warner Johnson. Some some stuff in the works in
the pipeline. But I'm always trying to do new
things. Look at my eyebrows.
Look at look at the brow. Old.
Yeah, I want to say as well, thank you to the Patreon
subscribers. In the first couple weeks of my
Patreon, we're almost at 50 paidsubscribers, 5 bucks a month and
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you get additional episodes of this and my other channel, we as
Ghost Avengers. But I added a 15 minute bonus
episode of Matt Fraction on there this week and you're
hearing this a couple weeks after.
So thank you once again, everybody that has taken part of
that. Yes, with Matt Fraction.
I'm going to show this off just very briefly.
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This is the the giant size edition of his first Batman
issue. And if you enjoy Batman movies,
if you enjoy Batman books, if you enjoy Batman anything that's
a good book. It it it feels like classic
Batman, but for modern times, ifthat makes sense.
Speaking of modern times and we,if you're not watching, I won't,
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I don't go into spoilers on thispodcast unless it's something
that's, you know, past history, you know, 2 year old movie, 20
year old movie, you know, Jaws, the shark is Roy Schneider's
father. You find that one out in the
second movie. I won't go into spoilers on
current stuff though, but 5 episodes or 4 episodes into
Alien earth. And it's interesting.
I've I've had a lot of conversations with different
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friends about how they feel about the show.
I love it. I love it for so many reasons,
mostly being that it's a Noah Hawley show and Noah Hawley for
me and and what I've digested ofhis work.
He busted onto the scene with Legion, which was a show based
off of the X-Men, a character New Mutant's character.
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It's such a not Marvel thing andit is so weird.
Oh wait no I'm sorry. He busted onto the scene with
Fargo and when I first heard Fargo was announced, I was like,
oh, it's a fucking amazing. Like it's a 10 out of 10, you
know, Coen Brothers movie. But what this guy look like
anyways. Oh, he's a little guy, kind of
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funny looking. Coen Brothers have several 10
out of 10 movies, and I would put that for me above Lebowski.
This aggression will not stand, man.
Even though I think Lebowski's, you know, top three of their
movies, but Fargo's probably my favorite Coen Brothers movie.
And when I heard they were doinga show of it, I'm like, I not a
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huge fan. At that time, which was about a
decade ago, I wasn't a huge fan of the idea of like taking a
movie and making it ATV show. This isn't one of those optional
check A or B scenarios. I'm going to change your mind.
Now, I think with somebody like him especially, it's done really
well. But now I think it's definitely
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been better than we ever deservehaving, you know, movies that
are TV shows based off of movies.
But Fargo first season, which Martin Freeman and Billy Bob
Thornton were the stars? If I was any kind of man, that
is shown man, Sam, what's what. I was like, oh, they he got the
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tone of the Coen brothers down within like the first two
episodes. I felt that.
But it had it spin on it where it was like weird.
It was not abstract. There were abstract moments
where something would happen andit would they would never
explain what it was. It was just there.
One of the things in that first season that I was convinced in
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the first maybe 4 episodes, evenfurther down, was that Billy Bob
Thornton's character wasn't actually there.
Like he wasn't a real person. He was an imagination, an
imaginary character. I think I went back and watched
that season again and then I waslike, no, there's a couple
characters that noticed him and he is real.
But they would Hollywood go on to craft these seasons which
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don't. You don't have to watch season 1
if you want to watch jump into season 3.
There is just a tiny, tiny bit of overlap in characters via
ancestry or like or or or they reference something that
happened just as a piece of history, much like True
Detective in season 2. There's one reference to the
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events of season 1, Season 3. I think there's one or two
references to season 1. So they always kind of go back
and just reference the events aslike a news story.
But with Fargo, they're just like, I believe there was 1
character in season 2 that was related to one of the characters
in season 1. If you've not watched Fargo,
just take the plunge because, like, you're instantly
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interested in these characters. The most recent season that
starred Jon Hamm and Juno Templewas a fireball.
I mean, it was so good. Defender of freedom and
protector of the common man against the tyranny of the State
and all its wicked demands. And Ham plays just such an
unlikable piece of shit character with also so much
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charm in the previous season with Chris Rock and Jason
Schwartzman was great. He's JP fucking Morgan, an
American success story because it was different.
And yeah, they're they're it's just, you know, you should watch
Fargo. And then he came out with
Legion, and Legion was so weird.Nothing that hurts me is real.
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No one who hates me is real. I dug it so much, but it was
just so weird. Definitely not for everybody.
And yeah. And then he's doing Alien Earth.
It feels like a Noah Hawley show, but it also has like the
opening and the credits are veryshort.
It's like a 1015 second thing. But it it's got imagery that
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kind of makes you unsettled, andit almost sounds like there's
some piece of a Nine Inch Nails song in that opening credit
sequence. But the 4th episode, which was
the most recent one as I'm recording this was so unnerving,
so unnerving. And it focuses on the character
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that you think might be really evil and not good.
And then you kind of get his story and you understand him a
little more. The one point of debate between
a couple of friends. And even I looked on on Reddit
to see if this was a point of contention for people, But each
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episode ends with a song. Like it's kind of like an
exclamation point on the end of the episode is like a a song
from generally. It seems to be the 90s, and it's
interesting because the show is alien Earth, so it's supposed to
be grounded in the fact that this is Earth at some point.
But some people are saying it doesn't feel right because it
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doesn't kind of go online with what we're used to with Aliens
and the Alien series. But I like it.
I feel like it. It always puts a smile on my
face, but it always accentuates that episode.
Tool. They use tool in one episode,
The Smashing Pumpkins, Jane's Addiction, and Metallica so far,
and I dig it. I dig the cinematography.
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I think they're doing great. What they're doing with the
budget that they have and using CG when they obviously have to
and using real practical sets and effects when they have to.
It looks really good. I'm excited to see where it goes
specifically because the timeline of this is set, I think
between Covenant and the first alien.
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So it's an unexplored part of, of this universe that we've most
of us have grown up watching or been indoctrinated in by other
people. And it, it's interesting because
I'm, I'm talking to people like,oh, I went back and watched the
first two Aliens and you know, I'm skipping Alien 3 and
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Resurrection. And I think the only skip of
ones 100% are Alien Predator. Those two movies are dog shit.
Alien 3 was the first movie of the series I saw in the theater
because I was 7 or 8 when Alienscame out.
My parents would not let me see it.
I watched it. One of my old friends, Jason
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Randall, I watched it at his house.
So Alien 3 was the first one I saw in the theaters and it's,
you know, obviously historicallymixed, but I think it's looked
back favorably these days. It was David Fincher's first
full length movie. He walked off of that movie at
some point because the studio there was so much interference,
which is kind of legendary. The Blu-ray has the assembly
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cut, which is closer to the original script.
I read the novelization in high school before the movie came out
by I get I think it was Alan Dean Foster, but I want to say
maybe it was based off of William Gibson's script.
So the assembly cut is more towards that.
But going back now that we have Fincher, like seeing where he
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came from on that movie. I, I love that movie.
Resurrection I'll never be fullysold on.
I never was at the time. It has its moments, but I I I
like it enough. I'll say that Prometheus I liked
From the Drop. I thought that movie was
fantastic when I saw it in theaters.
I know that one came under a lotof fire because of the character
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motivations, which are some of them are quite stupid.
But it's a beautiful looking movie and I think it laid a lot
of groundwork that we that they could build upon Covenant.
Never going to be completely sold on that movie either.
I love the first half and I'm not a fan of the second-half.
I thought it was very predictable.
Yeah, I thought, I thought it was very predictable.
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I'll go back and watch it, but Ihave no hopes of ever really
enjoying it fully. And, and now we have Alien
Earth. Oh, and Romulus.
I really liked Romulus. That's what I'd like to watch
again. And I I, it's interesting
because a lot of people are revisiting it, trying to get
themselves pumped up to watch Alien Earth.
And if, like I said, if you likeNoah Hawley's TV shows, you're
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going to like this by default, even if you're not a fan of the
Alien franchise. It's just done so well.
And so that that's been definitely a point of me
enjoying every week when it drops Peacemakers out.
I thought the first two episodeswere good, not great.
I heard this newest episode was really good.
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Yeah, I, I love the first season.
Everybody involved in it, I am afan of.
I do not think the new series new season is bad.
I just thought the first two episodes kind of spun its wheels
a little bit. It's early on and and so you
know, I'm I'm love James, so I know I'm going to enjoy this.
So that's that's the TV I've been consuming.
But one thing I I forgot that I wanted wanted to do.
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I had this thought a couple months ago and it's definitely
something I want to talk heavilyabout is I wanted to go back and
start re watching stranger things.
Stranger things is something that came to me in 20.
Whatever that whenever it came out, it was very quiet that it
when it came out and my buddy Phil, that's you buddy.
Yep, that's my editor. He text me and he's like, hey,
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have you heard about this show Stranger things?
I started watching it. I watched the, I think he said,
and I could be wrong, but I think he said he watched, he
might have been sick or hungoverand he watched the entire first
season right there. And he's like, dude, you're
going to love this show. It's a throwback to the stuff
you grew up watching because he's a little bit younger than
me. He's 10 years younger than me.
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He's like, it's a throwback to all of the things that you grew
up watching and, and it feels really fresh.
And so I put it on and right away I was like, yes, this is
awesome. And it took I I could be wrong
on the timeline because like it,you know, it's 11 years ago or
10 years ago or whatever, but I feel like it took about a month
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to or so for that show to catch like wildfire.
And when it did, it caught and we're still in we're still in
its wake because of final seasonhasn't come out yet.
It's coming out at the end of this year.
But my God I started re watchingit and fell in love all over
again with that first season. Now my memory serves me
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correctly. I I thought the second season
was good but the second season definitely hinged on homaging
stuff a little too much. Third season was a little slow
and wasn't my favorite. I want to say it was the 4th
season. Then on is when it got really
good again. I think it was at 4th season.
It was when they were all working at the mall.
Oy oy ahoy. Star Court Mall is one of the
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finest shopping facilities. And the characters obviously you
fall in love with, they're very easy to fall in love with,
especially going forward as the chemistry, as they grow older
and the chemistry increases between the actors and
actresses. You know, I'll never be a fan of
what's her name, Millie Bobby Brown.
I do not think that she's that talented, but I think in that
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show she fits. And I think the cast just all
kind of brings them all up. But I've seen her in other
things that I'm not a fan. That first season is so special
because it didn't rely on the tropes of everything that kind
of created it's it leaned on thereferences and inspiration, but
it didn't feel like it was copying things or or or
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anything. But that second season, I
remember there's one episode where it is a straight homage to
aliens and gremlins in one episode.
And I thought it was cool, but at the same time I was like, I
see what you're doing, but it doesn't, it doesn't feel like
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it's original when you're doing that.
Like I remember it's like the demo organs coming up from the
the bottom or the chasm and they're using the alien sound of
the tracker and like all that stuff.
But at the same time, I still loved that season.
I still like the show. What, what is interesting about
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Stranger Things and Harry Potteris definitely like the, the
Harry Potter movies have led or laid the groundwork for stuff
like this in the modern kind of times of like the kid centric
cast and growing up with them issuch an interesting thing.
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The movies are its own thing. And obviously, you know, the
piece of shit that JK Rowling has become has nothing to do
with the, you know, the, the fact that we fell in love with
these characters either in the books, if you're, you grew up
reading them or the movies, if you never read the books and you
know, that entire cast, you know, we, we love them.
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And Daniel Radcliffe has turned out to be such not just a
stellar actor, but a stellar human being and.
The whole world will be dancing and singing and farting, and
everyone will feel a little bit less alone.
Going back to Stranger Things, what Stranger Things did for
better or for worse, if you're aparent and your kids grew up
watching Stranger Things, I think that's such an awesome
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thing. But but what I was saying, for
better or for worse, what I noticed and I'm 100% confident
that this this traces back to Stranger Things.
Stranger Things comes out and isalmost like APG 13, almost
leaning towards R in its kind ofhorror vibe, violence, you know,
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grossness and all that stuff. But what Stranger Things did, it
found this niche for the studiosto create almost adult like
showing that line between this is a kid show, but adults will
love it too. And the nostalgia is why us
adults really loved it. It was dark in the places it
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needed to be dark, but it was soft in the places that it
needed to be so that parents could say, yes, it's OK to watch
this. And that laid the groundwork for
so many projects coming out thatwere aimed at that 13 to 18 year
old with the in mind that the adults can enjoy this too.
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And there are so many projects that came out that I was like,
this is awesome that this exists.
But it also ruined at least one thing that I can pinpoint that I
was excited for to come out was Sweet Tooth, which was a Jeff
Lemire comic that ran DC Vertigo.
I want to say it was. Yeah, I think it was Vertigo 60
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issues. Great story, fantastic book.
You know, Lemire's art is so nonmainstream that like it works so
well for me. It was a dark, dark story.
It was a really dark story. And when that show came out on
Netflix, I watched, I think, I think I watched the entire first
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season and I was like, this isn't Sweet tooth, this is Sweet
Tooth for the Stranger Things generation.
And that's OK. I still have the comic.
You know that I enjoyed the comic.
It'll never. The fact that that show came out
and I didn't like it didn't makeme not like the comic anymore.
I'm not one of those people. And we all know they're out
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there. You might be one of them who's
like, oh, the it's ruined. They ruined it.
The movie sucked. The TV show sucked.
It's ruined. It's like the thing that you
liked supposedly that you liked still remains the same thing
that you did when you liked it, when you read it.
Those things don't change. No, but the stranger things,
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ification of a lot of things, and I can't pinpoint anything
right now that that there's other things that I know I can
rattle off examples, but we've all seen it.
And I think, look, I think that's great because for people
my age, in your 40s, your mid 40s, grew up liking things like
Back to the Future or Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Star Wars, these
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things that had undertones that we like.
Ghostbusters is the greatest example.
That was a kids movie with totaladult junk jokes in it.
Are you the key master? Not that I know of an Aykroyd
Ray getting a blowjob from a ghost and and all of the sexual
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jokes and all of the things thatBill Murray says.
Those are adult jokes. I didn't fucking get them when I
was a kid. And now as an adult, I
appreciate that movie on such a different level.
And Gremlins is a horror movie that just was able to be aimed
at kids and it was frightening. That was the first movie that
gave me nightmares. Even Poltergeist we think of.
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That's a terrifying movie for kids.
Yet it stars there's kids in it.And the main, you know,
Caroline, she saves the day. Run to the light, baby.
Just stay away from the light, the wind to the light.
I think having these types of things like Stranger Things is a
benefit for kids growing up. They're not.
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It's all, you know, rooted in fantasy, horror, you know,
science fiction, Dungeons and Dragons references.
Like all that stuff speaks to somany different people now.
And I I whether I liked certain seasons or not, I respect the
hell out of that show for pavingthe way for kids to grow up
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watching fun stuff that's going to really stick with them and
also like work that imagination.You know, I'm going to start
season 2 probably this week and I'll probably, I can probably
finish the season a week becausethe, you know, the 8 to 12
episodes, you know, if I watch 1A day or whatever.
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So that that I've been enjoying,I'm excited for the final
season. I mean, I vaguely remember the
big plot points of the final season, but you know, Eddie
being that character that came around, played by Joe, whatever
his name is, that play Johnny, Johnny Storm man is great
character. Great character.
And the fact that kids like no master of puppets.
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Now my friend Seth, his daughterknows Metallica now because of
Stranger Things was crazy shit. Anything that we can use,
whether it be movies, TV, whatever it is to keep this
going for future generations, tokeep them wrapped up and
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enjoying things that came years before they were born.
I mean, it's one of the reasons why I have such a respect and
such a a love for comics historyor music history is because I
started to explore the things that came before it.
And it might have been because of a movie, because of, you
know, Beavis and butt head or something, you know, just
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anything that forward that gets the future generations
interested in the stuff in the history that came before it.
And that goes with a real history, like exploring reasons
for conflicts or reasons that certain things exist in this
world and how we can work to change that.
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History does teach us everythingwe need to know.
So. So yes, excited for the next
season of Stranger Things, but really enjoying going back and
watching and watching these kidsgrow up to.
Also been watching the King of the Hill reboot or the
continuation, which has been fun, but I've not watched all of
King of the Hill like I watched the first maybe four to six
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seasons, you bastard. But the new stuff has been
enjoyable. I mean, Mike Judge doesn't
really get it wrong. It's very rare that we look at
something that Mike Judge has done and been like, it was OK,
very rare, very rare. And then music.
There's been some really fantastic albums that have come
out in the last month, one that might surprise you that I'll
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talk about, but we'll start withthe new Deftones album, Private
Music. Fucking banger of an album.
Fantastic. Heavy when it needs to be,
Spacey when it needs to be, and not soft but chill in moments
where it needs to be. And that's a band that I was
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late to. I, I was not listening to them
back in the early 2000s when allmy friends were listening to
them. You know, I, the one song that I
did know is probably the song that most people knew is House
of Flies, because I, I, them song might have been on Tony
Hawk, but I know it from the Queen of the damn soundtrack.
And I would, when I first heard it, I was like, damn, this is a
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great song. And I put it on most, I think it
was on every single one of my party mixes going forward from
then on. So I it was a song that I
absolutely loved, but I never really yeah, got into them.
I understood that they were likeinfluenced by so many bands that
I really love, especially, you know, I hear a lot of Alice In
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Chains in there in in certain ways.
And you know, obviously Tool, but they were, you know,
Maynards on White Pony on Passenger, so they were, you
know, contemporaries in ways. But the new album is just
fantastic. My only criticism, and it's not
a criticism, but my only criticism is that like that
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album hits its stride, like it'son a high note when it ends.
And I'm just like man, I want like 6 more tracks after that
last track, but whatever. Another album that came out very
recently is a band called The World Is a Beautiful Place and
I'm No Longer Afraid to Die, which sometimes gets short into
the world is TWIABP. They are.
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I mean, it's so interesting to categorize them because it's
really hard to put them in a even just in a genre, but emo,
punk, whatever. But their new album is so heavy.
It's thrash metal. It's like mathy thrash metal.
It's so lyrically, they have always been such an interesting
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band to me. They that they're wordy, but
they, they, they reuse like theyalways, there's always a song on
one of their albums that kind ofreferences a song that came
before it, either by title or bylyrics.
And I really enjoy that. But this is a very angry album.
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It's very social, politically, current, real feelings, real
anger, real fear. They deal with they're, they're
and they're a band that's I think only one of the founding
members is still in the band. They've always been like an open
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revolving door. And most of the members that are
in the band now have been in theband for 10 plus years.
But they're a band that I found out via Tumblr.
I want to say, you know, in the in the early 2000 tens or
something like that and they, they had a nasty sense of humor
and they were very self deprecating, but very thoughtful
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in their songwriting and very, very, very technically sound.
Some of the best recorded drums I've ever heard on their albums.
Great guitar work. But the new album is heavy as
fuck. I would put it, it is heavier
than the Deftones album. It's a lot of there's a lot of
screamo elements in it, but justlyrics that you can definitely
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relate to as a human being, as aworking class human being in
this world. There's a lot in there to to, to
relate to that. That's the name of the album's
dreams of being Dust. I believe is is is the name and
their last album, which was called Illusory Walls, is one of
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my favourites in the last 10 years.
And if you're adverse to the kind of experimental nature of
song, lengths, may not be for you.
But their last two songs combined to be about 36 minutes.
But it's not like it. It's just like they construct
these. Probably what they do is they
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construct a song and they're like, ah, we'll add to it.
And then they're like, well, this is like 3 separate songs,
but we can just put it into one anyway.
Illusory Walls is Illusory Wallsis fantastic album, but their
their new one is definitely it'snot a departure from their
sound, but it's just leaning into the heavier version of
their sound. And then finally an album that
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I, if you would have put this onmy bingo card, like Dave, you're
going to absolutely fall in lovewith this person's solo album.
I would have been like, really? But Hayley Williams, lead singer
in front Woman of Paramore, released AI Guess it's her third
solo album, which started as just herself releasing tracks on
(28:24):
and that's it. It's an album called Ego Death
at The Bachelorette Party and I never listened to Paramore.
I believe I saw them once at Warped Tour very aware of who
they are very aware of her and Istarted to get videos of them
performing her performing solo thrown onto my TikTok algorithm
(28:47):
and I she's one hell of a performer great energy seems
like a very loved person also bythe the fans.
So it's kind of like Oh yeah, yeah, whatever always you know,
friends listen to her post abouther, but I I listened.
I once again, the algorithm doing the job for me, her single
(29:11):
for the title track for Ego Death at The Bachelorette Party
was on my YouTube algorithm. And so I clicked on it.
I'm like, let me see what this song is.
And it's fucking great. It put it in.
It's already definitely going tobe one of my top songs of the
year. And so I started exploring a
little more, watched a couple interviews with her, start
(29:31):
listening to the songs as they were.
And then, yeah, the album officially was announced with
another track, and it's 17 tracks, but I like to put on a
good album to, you know, take mydaily walk to, and that one's
like 60 minutes. And it's perfect.
And it is what I really like about the album and what I like
(29:51):
about her solo stuff. Her sound is varied.
It's not pigeoned into it. It's not pop punk.
It's not, you know, whatever Paramore is considered rock,
pop, rock, pop punk, whatever. But it just is a very lush
sounding album with a lot of different tracks.
And I think as a lyricist, she'sextremely relatable and
(30:15):
fantastic at what she does. And I, I once again, I would not
have imagined that that was a album that I would listen to
right away and then start listening to a lot.
And it has been and it's been, Yeah, I've been enjoying the
hell out of it. So I I'm, I'm actually think I'm
(30:35):
going to put together a top ten list of albums this year because
I think this year has been personally, for my taste, great
for music. And it'll be something that I'll
go over on this podcast. But ego death of The
Bachelorette party and might even be my top album of the
year. We shall see.
But yeah, Deftones world is a beautiful place and I'm no
longer afraid to die. And Hayley Williams have been on
(30:58):
my rotation very heavily over the last three weeks or so.
And so I wanted to share that with you.
You know, I thought this would be a fun little catch up with
some of the things I'm enjoying right now.
Like like I said, the Batman book by fraction has been first
(31:19):
issue was Great War by Becky Cloonan and Garth Ennis is the
most is the scariest story I've read so far this year.
I'm not done with it because it's being collected I think
over 3 or 4 issues. Absolute Wonder Woman also
fantastic. Shout out to my buddy.
Shout out to my buddy Sanford Green that great very covered
that he put out this past week. Been reading a lot of manga.
(31:45):
I've been reading Killer Shark from another universe and People
chew and the Spawn manga. I've been trying to read as much
as I can because it's good for your brains.
Before we get going, if you haven't subscribed to the
Patreon, consider it. It would be awesome to see you
on there. 5 bucks a month gets you at least one episode of this
(32:07):
that's exclusive to the Patreon.West Coast Avengers episode
that's exclusive to the Patreon.Voting on that West Coast
Avengers episode. But to be honest with you, I'm
just going to keep pumping stuffout.
If I feel like I want to record something that is more for my
Patreon subscribers, well, I'm just going to do it.
I'm not going to try and tie myself to doing just the thing I
(32:27):
said I'm going to do. I'm always trying.
And then the private sale, whichis a drop of books and different
stuff that you get to see and it's exclusive to you before
anybody else gets to buy it. The next one's going to be early
November before I go to Japan. And this season, season 4 of the
podcast, which is this is not included in it, but Season 4 is
(32:49):
going to end right before I go to Japan.
And then I will be sure to have a Season 5 start when I get
back. And hopefully it's just going to
be bigger and better and awesome.
If you're watching this on YouTube, you can hit the like
button. You can, you know, the the
algorithm likes it when you comment on it, like it, share
(33:09):
it, all that good stuff. And if you haven't gone on to
review the podcast on Spotify orApple, come on, what are you
doing? What do you do?
Drop a comment down below. Let me know what you think of
Alien Earth or what you think ofStranger Things in my you know
what I say that the road of Stranger Things and tells.
What albums have you been listening to recently?
I'm sure a lot of you like Deftones that are listening to
(33:30):
this right now. So what's your favorite track?
I think my favorite track is CXZ.
Other than that, I'll see you soon.
There's been direct edition. I'm Dave.
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