August 25, 2025 • 43 mins
Jeff and Garret love a good anthology film. This week, they dive into the chaotic madness and freaky fun of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's 2025 comedic action anthology Freaky Tales!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
So the definition of an anthology film is a movie
composed of several distinct, self contained stories, often connected by
a common theme, premise, or director. So, Garrett, I think
this type of film lends itself more to the horror
genre when you consider all the greats like Creep Show, VHS,
(00:25):
Cat's Eye, Twilight Zone, the Movie. But let's not forget
we have examples like Sin City in Four Rooms. There's
even a Yeah, there's even animated films like Heavy Metal
and Fantasia. So yeah, I myself, I love a good
anthology film. Do you happen to have a favorite?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oddly enough? I really enjoyed the All Hollows Eve films
one and to you, I mean, I thought they did
a pretty amazing job. And if I'm not mistaken, that
is where Art the Clown ended up coming from. And
that's what brought us Terrifier.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You gotta be kidding. I didn't even realize that there
was a Are you saying that there's like a movie
before the first Terrifire that introduced him.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
There, they're sure is all Hallows Eve. Yeah, go ahead
and check that out. There's a little segment in there.
And then I believe the second one is where it's
a breakthrough performance for him.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm definitely gonna check that out because, uh, I mean,
we're getting summer's about over and we're getting we're getting
into the creepy months.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So oh yeah, I want to say the first one
takes place a kid gets gifted a VHS tape during
Trick or Treat, goes home, watches it with mom, and
then of course pandemonium starts.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
All right, I'm looking that one up. I would have
to think that the the Goat might be creep show
for me.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh by far.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes, we're talking to the anthologies. Let's let's talk about
a film by Anna Bowdin and Ryan Fleck there twenty
twenty five underrated comedic sn anthology film Freaky Tales. Hello everybody,
(02:28):
and welcome back.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'm Jeff Johnson and I'm Garret Gibson, and.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
This is a film by podcast so Garrett. Before we
get started, I'd like to welcome our newest Patreon member
and shout out how unbelievably awesome he is. Eric Dearth
has signed up for our assistant director Tier and that
gets him the stickers, the color changing stadium cup. We're
(02:57):
gonna do a Patreon episode of his choice, and him
being a new member definitely makes him awesome, but what
makes him unbelievably awesome is the incredible gifts he sent us.
So listeners, if you'll recall, back in June, we celebrated
our four hundredth episode with something truly unique. We did
(03:19):
an episode on Richard Donner's nineteen eighty nine film Batman.
And right now some of you are saying, wait, that's
not right. He didn't do that. Well, our episode came
from the alternate universe, where he in fact did direct
that movie. So go back and check it out if
you haven't already, because I promise you it's like nothing
(03:41):
you've ever heard on a movie podcast before. And Eric,
who is insanely talented, sent us a full sized theatrical
poster for this alternate Batman film. Garrett, you got to
see this thing. It's just it blew my mind, man,
it really did.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That's actually pretty freaking cool, it is.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And in addition to that, he sent us a special
piece of movie memorabilia from the film, which again does
not exist in our reality. And I won't say what
it is because I don't want to spoil the fun. However,
we are working on a special behind the scenes episode
for our Patreon about the Batman episode, because frankly, a
(04:25):
lot of you have had a lot of questions on
what was real, what wasn't and how we pulled it off.
I just thought, you know, instead of answering all the
messages and the emails, maybe we just do have some
fun to do, like a behind the scenes type of
thing to show you how we created this thing. But
we'll be showing off the amazing gifts that Eric sent
us when we do that. So look forward to that
(04:46):
here in the next few months. And oh, by the way,
go back and check out our Michael Mann episode on
Collateral where we invited Eric Dearth to join us. So
great to have him as a Patreon member. Great to
have him on that episode. Gary, let's get to it.
I guess some facts and a quote from this directing duo.
(05:10):
Not a whole lot these they're they're kind of new
to the scene, but I was able to dig up
a little bit on him. So. Anna Boden's love of
movies led her to take an intro to film class
in high school, where she wrote a report on Robert
Altman before heading off to Columbia University to study English
in cinema. If Amber Lewis is listening to this, she's
(05:31):
already just become a fan of Anna Boden because Amber
loves Robert Altman obviously. Ryan Fleck, on the other hand,
who grew up in Oakland, was always interested in the
movie business after seeing his stepdad play a poker player
in the John Wayne film The Flying Leathernecks. So after
(05:52):
studying theater, acting, and directing at Diablo Valley College, he
went to New York to study film at NYU's Tish
School of Arts, which I think that's where Spike Lee went.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I think we've talked about it is yep.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, we talked about that school a couple of times
on this on this podcast. Uh. It was at NYU
where Boden and Fleck met. She was taking a summer
filmmaking course and he was working in the film editing department.
They bonded over their love of Robert Altman movies, and
that's what made them decide they wanted to work together.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Nice Okay, So, and they've been kind of like a
packaged deal ever since.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I like, yeah, all their stuff, they're they're together on
fun fact for you, before James Gunn was chosen. They
were heavily considered by Kevin Feike to direct Guardians of
the Galaxy.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh man, uh not to not to say that would
have been a bad move or anything like that, but uh,
I'm a big fan of James Gunn's work.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Hey, listen, I'm not I'm not even gonna hold my
cards close here. I love Freaky Tails and just seeing
what this movie is, the craziness that's involved in this movie.
I know they could have done a great job with
Guardians and Galaxy, but I mean, James Gunn, yeah, I
(07:12):
think I think he did. He did just fine. So ultimately, though,
it was their discussion with Kevin Feige about Carol Danvers
and her the Journey that they'd love to see her
take which led them to getting hired to being hired
for Captain Marvel. So, I mean, hey, we're gonna go
(07:33):
another direction with Guardians of the Galaxy. But here's another
MCU superhero.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Film exactly a strong female lead and honestly is one
of the first strong female leads that they had a
standalone film with. So actually, big feather in their cap
for him.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, I got to give credit where credits due Captain Marvel.
It did like a billion dollars. Yes, and I might
need to go back and watch it. I've told you before,
not one of my favorites in the MCU, but you
know it kind of makes sense. But you know Ben
Mendelssohn was was in when that and you know we're
gonna see him. We're gonna talk about him a little
(08:12):
bit in this movie. But uh, Freaky Tails. Anna Boden
had this to say when when she was asked straight
up like what is Freaky Tails? She said, quote, this
is gonna be a mixtape of a movie things that
Ryan loved growing up in Oakland in the eighties, things
that we loved about the movies that affected us when
we were young. I think there's a little bit more
(08:34):
you could you could you could uh emphasize there, Garrett,
for I know a lot of people have not seen
this because it just came out. What can you tell us?
What's what's the film synopsis that that Garrett Gibson would
give us?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Uh, this is one of the better horror anthology films
that I've actually seen as of late. It's truly extraordinary
in the direction and the pace that it keeps going
across the four stories while also intertwining the four so
I believe each story had their own kind of key
(09:06):
point that it brought to the table. And I don't
think this film could have done it without any of
the four segments. So I believe it was actually done
the correct way, And as far as anthology films go,
I would rate this up there with some of the
better ones.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in twenty twenty four,
before Lionsgate snaps it up releases it in April of
twenty twenty five. It just became available on HBO Max,
where you and I caught it. We got to talk
about this opening credit sequence. We get the greeny picture,
there's some tracking issues, that title font that you know,
(09:45):
the excellent music, It's instant eighties nostalgia, and I cannot
love it more. I think we're in for an hour
and forty eight minutes of awesomeness.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You're absolutely right. This just everything about it, how it shot,
the direct it keeps the pacing, it keeps its very
nineteen eighties, so it being set in Oakland nineteen eighty seven,
it fits perfectly with any eighties gen that you want
to watch.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You know you mentioned there's four separate stories. It all
gets set up by this title crawl, which is being
narrated by eighties rap star Too Short. It's all about
how wild Oakland was in eighty seven. There's there's mention
of this mysterious bright green glow that's affecting things at
this point. Were you ready for how chaotic and off
the wall was gonna get?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh, by no means and not at all. And just
the first story it introduces you too. I mean it's
a sucker punch to the face, is how quick this
film takes all for you? And I've got to tell you,
I freaking enjoyed that first story that they kick off with.
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, let's take a quick break and then we'll talk
all about Chapter one, Strengthen Numbers, also known as The
Gilman Strikes Back. Welcome back. We are talking about freaky tales,
and Garrett, let's get into a little bit of a
(11:12):
chapter one. You know, we got four parts to go.
Chapter one Strengthen Numbers, better known as The Gilman Strikes Back.
So we open on this theater that's letting out where
the crowd has just watched The Lost Boys and throughout
the anthology, we'll come back to this spot a few
more times, and each time we're treated to a little
more of the marquee aside from The Lost Boys. Did
(11:34):
you happen to catch the other films that we're playing
that weekend?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Okay, So it's The Lost Boys, yep Ish Tar, Radio Days,
Raising Arizona, Oh my gosh. And on the side it
says coming soon Creep Show two.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Dude. Okay, way to pay homage to a super classic
anthology film there.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna be a box office note
here for a second, because I'm assuming that there's got
to be some kind of connective tissue either between these
movies or they're they're they're chosen for a certain reason. Yes,
you mentioned, you know, Creep Show two obviously had awesome
horror anthology. But here's the thing, if we're gonna get technical.
(12:26):
The Lost Boys came out July thirty first, Ishtar came
out May fifteenth, Radio Days came out January thirtieth, Raising
Arizona came out March thirteenth, and Creep Show, which we
see is coming soon, actually came out May first. So
because I was all excited. I was like, wait, did
all these movies open against each other?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Not the case? So that is not the case. I
don't know. We gotta talk with Ryan and Anna and
find out why these movies were chosen. But we got
we got punk rockers versus neo Nazis, and it's all
going down at the Alternative Music Foundation, a nonprofit, all
ages Welcome, inclusive music club, mostly known as the Gilman
(13:12):
because it's located at nine to twenty four Gilman Street, Garrett.
One of the cool things about this movie is that
each one of these little segments is steeped in reality.
It's all about you know, yeah, Ryan Fleck growing up
in Oakland in eighty seven, So these are real places.
The Gilman well regarded as the place that started the
(13:32):
nineties punk revival. I was actually surprised to find out
that back in the late eighties and early nineties you
may have caught such acts as Operation Ivy, which they
mentioned in the movie, Rancid, The Offspring, and green Day,
all these bands playing on stage at the Gilman.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
No way, Okay, that's actually pretty freaking awesome to see
Green Day or like the Offspring or something have a
like venue of that size that that's pretty freaking cool.
That's kind of like the size of the Attic that
used to be out in Kettering, Ohio, just a little
in the wall place. That's pretty freaking cool.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, also awesome. The Gilman is open to this very day, Okay, Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So we could probably get out there and watch some
up and coming punk rock bands out there exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Okay, who you see at the Gilman today might be
on I wasn't gonna say a TV, but that doesn't
happen anymore. But you'll see him headlining some big festival
on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, so we're treated to some punk music, some weird animation.
There's a will they won't they love story that's kind
of blossoming, and it all culminates in this wild street
brawl with the punk rockers defending their turf against some
scumbag Nazis. This blew my mind.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Uh, it definitely blew my mind. And I've got to
tell you, anytime I can tune in and see a
bunch of punk rock kids is beating the hell out
of some not neo Nazis, I absolutely love that. So
I give that like first segment a ten out of ten.
Man just perfect.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yes, I know, I know. Our good buddy Andrew Blake.
Lee has always maintained that nazis like the perfect villain
in any movie because you there's like a universal hatred
for him. You want you want them to get what's
coming to them exactly. And this fight it it's both
gory and hilarious. Uh did you pick up the Am
(15:30):
I wrong in saying that there's there's a little Batman
sixty six vibe to it?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Oh? You're damn right there is.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, I'll tell you, man, that one Nazi gets set
on fire. I was like, holy shit, Like, what what
are we? What are we doing here? Man?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Like yeah, yeah, I like how they just scatter after that,
it's like just a classic eighties movie, like how did
nobody die? What happened?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, it's a fun it's a it's a fun segment.
You know, the guy gets the girl, or you could
say the girl gets the guy. Music love it wins,
Evil is punished, and I really loved it. Moving on
chapter two, don't fight the feeling we're zigging with this
(16:16):
punk rock or Nazi fight and we're about to zag
into the world of eighties hip hop and man am
I loving this one? So we go back to the
movie theater. Now we're at a different point of view,
this time with Barbie and Entice, the two girls that
make up the rap group Danger Zone. They're like a
rising talent in the local clubs that give off to me.
(16:39):
They give off like jj fad vibes. Do you remember
you remember.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Jj fadd super absolutely supersonic. And then I was also
seeing a little bit of salt and pepper thrown in
there as well.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, there's some salt and pepper. So they get
noticed by the guy who represents Too Short. He invites
them to perform with h with the rap star at
Jimmy Sweets. So you know, nice little setup, right, And
then the next day we're at the we're at their
day job, they're at the ice cream shop, and we
are treated to the slimiest performance possible by the brilliant
(17:15):
actor Ben Mendelssohn.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh, absolute ultra slim in there. Brother. It's a role
that I'm surprised to see him in, but I absolutely
love this for him because he made this character so
hate herble and that just tells me he's a great actor, right,
there gy.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, he makes your skin crawl, like I'm I'm concerned
for these girls well being, especially when he when you know,
we get the realization that he's he's a cop. So
now yeah, you're like, oh, now it's it's not just
sexual harassment and and and being in a creep. Now
he's he's it's an abusive power. He is so fun
(17:55):
to hate in this movie, though.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He is to see and you used to see that
a lot in eighties films where you'll just see this
slimy dirt ball of a guy and you're like, I
just hate your face, I hate your personality and everything.
And Ben Mendelssohn freaking kills it in that role.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So what he's doing, he's he's slimy, but he's he's
doing this in this really disgusting, playful way he is,
you know, like I love the fact that the girls
are not backing down from him. No, no, Like he's
he has that moment where he's like, what do they
say the Derek and the Barry she goes the heart
of the slap. He's like, I don't think it goes
(18:37):
that way. He's just disgusting man, And he gets back
in the squad car. His partner doesn't get an ice
cream cone. He's like, you didn't think to ask me
if I wanted something. He's a guy. They're out, but
it's too short.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
The fact that they slide too short in there as
what is dubbed the Guy's partner because they never gave
Ben Mendelssohn's character a name other than yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
He's the guy.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Like, looking through the cast, I'm like, the guy's partner.
What the hell are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Okay, yeah they yeah, they never named him. Okay, they
never gave name.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, so slimy and evil, he just he's not even
get getting the name.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Heck no no, uh.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But this rap battle, I'm telling you right now, it
had me wishing there was an actual danger Zone album
because these two ladies slay too short.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Oh, they absolutely do, and they're essentially brought there to
be made fun of for him to kind of like
walk all over them, and it's like, hey, your rap
is trash. We're gonna go ahead and just dish you
because you're too younger ladies out here trying to make
a name for yourself. We're gonna too short just evists
rate you. And that is not what happened brother.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, well yeah, I remember this is this is eighties rap,
and this is the time of n W A and
two Live Crew, Too Short, Easy E. This is where
there's a specific kind of songs being sung about women
by these by these these rap stars. Yeah, and they
(20:11):
were there to just be cannon fodder. And I love
the fact that they find their voice. You know, we
talked about we mentioned this, this mysterious green glow. It
kind of shows up in all the in all the segments,
but it's almost like it's the moment when someone gets
their power or they find their power, yep.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And it's when they finally realize that they need to
stop running or stop hiding or whatever it needs to be.
They stand up for themselves. And in this one, oh
my gosh, the delivery after they get the little bit
of hype from the green glow, it's fricking amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The crowd is behind them and they get the best
of Too Short. I like the fact that it ends
with him kind of smiling like and and giving them
their props. They have the hug. It's it's a fun
little segment, especially after the the bloody battle that we got,
just like ten minutes earlier. Oh yeah, you know, we
took a different, different, different path on this one, I think,
(21:08):
and it works, It really does.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
It was definitely a nice, little, real end to calm
down the film because it's like, hey, again, we're starting
this one with a sucker punch. You're gonna be reeling
for the next fifteen minutes and then you're gonna go
ahead and get into this thing that's kind of gonna
slow it down a bit, and I think it's definitely needed.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So at this point, like I don't know about you,
but we're a good thirty minutes into the movie. Maybe
did you have the same reaction that I did where
you thought to yourself, where the hell's Pedro Pascal? Isn't
he the star of this movie?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Like what's going especially since you see him in the
first like segment for like two seconds, You're like, Okay,
I thought he was like supposed to be the main
guy in this film. When are we getting him?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah? Are two protagonists from the uh the punk rockers
versus Nazi fight. He just throw in a diner. They're
having a nice moment and he just walks by, and
it's like, wait, that was him? But is he coming
back and yeah, and I'm thinking, you know, because when
you watch the trailer for this, it's all Pedro and Ben.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, it's all.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So Chapter three, Born to Mac Pedro, Pascal has finally arrived.
He's on the payphone having a very ominous conversation with
a doctor. His wife is dead. The baby is in
the neodatal intensive care unit. It's not looking good for
the baby. No flashback to tell us how we all
(22:38):
got there. You know, he's what is He's in the
car with his wife. They're parked outside Late Night Video YEP,
playfully arguing about what to rent.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, he goes in and then this is where they
reveal a little bit more of his backstory of why
he's actually at Late Night Video, why his wife is
sitting in the car. You notice a mysterious gentleman staring
from across the street at the car the entire time
he's in the video store. Uh, this is where you
(23:07):
find out he's kind of like a fixer, kind of
clean up guy, like, oh yo, someone money collect Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
But uh it's inside the video store. We are treated
to the greatest cameo ever. Now, Garrett, we're not gonna
mention him, no, because I don't want to. I don't
want to ruin it for people that haven't seen the
movie yet. But how happy were you when when he
walked out.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
When Hank we could say his name, the character when
the character walks out. Honestly, I was blown away to
see him in this film and just his back and
forth with Pedro Pascal. For those I want to say,
it's probably about three to five minutes. They're a little
back and forth, Yeah, but it was truly extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, guys talking about the underdog as a character in film,
how we relate to said characters, and then quizzes Pedro
Pascal's Clint character, which we're not going to get into
right now. I know we need to take I know
we need to take another quick break, so we're gonna
do that for the sponsors. But when we get back,
we'll continue our conversation about Chapter three starring Pedro Pascal.
(24:22):
You know what, Actually, I do want to talk more
about Hank. So I know those of you listening on
our Patreon, you know it's ad free, So we're going
to dive into this specific scene a little bit more.
And to those of you not listening on Patreon. We'll
be right back after this message. Welcome back, everybody. Well,
(24:47):
Garrett and I've been over on Patreon talking about what
we think maybe is our favorite scene of the movie.
But we are back on your streaming app of choice
talking about Anna Boden and r in Flex anthology film
Freaky Tales. So Garrett, jumping back into uh chapter three,
Born to Mac Pedro, asks for some very specific nineteen
(25:11):
eighty six movies, Big Trouble in Little China, tough guys,
ruthless people, and the color of money. And when you
string them together, we realize it's code talk because this
video store is a front for illegal gambling.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I didn't pick up on that the first time.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No, no, I had no idea. As soon as I
heard Big Trouble in Little China, I just got excited
because I'm like Kurt Russell, there it is.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, Well, I'm thinking like we got green, we got
a green glow happened in this movie. I'm talking too,
Trouble on China. But think about it like tough guys,
you know, the color of money.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yep, and ruthless people. They're running an illegal underground gambling
casino down there.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, there's a guy in that base that Pedro goes
and pays a visit to that U is in the
hole a little bit, and again as payment, he goes
ahead and forfeits his tickets to the Golden State Warriors.
First four, Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Sir, easily worth a thousand dollars, maybe five hundred. Jack
Nicholson would pay a thousand dollars. Do you know Jack Nicholson?
Well no, but okay, sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Will anyone buy these tickets? I'll give you fifty.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh yeah. The Asian guy who is great because he yes,
he gets he gets the better of that, uh.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Just undercutting him at every turn of.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh gosh, yeah yeah. Uh. I love the I love
the love for the ninety ay six movies because obviously,
with exception to Tough Guys, we covered all those on
our limited ninety eighty six ers, So go back and
check that on. I love this. I love this movie
because it's given me a chance to talk about all
the episodes that we've done in the past. So it's
(26:58):
like the plug episode. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It is. Yeah, it's that great little flashback. And since
we cover a lot of the stuff of the flashback
air I mean, yeah, it's right up our alley.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So speaking of the flashback era, can we talk about
the details of this kid selling his East Bay mixtape,
because you know, now we flash back to the reality
where Pedro has lost his wife and his kid. He's
in his car, he's about to end it, and this
kid comes up selling mixtapes.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Comes up selling mixtapes. At first, he's selling it as well, yeah,
it's got this hip hop artist on it, it's got
this one on it. And then he's like, but if
you're not feeling that, it's got some metallica on it,
it's got some prints on it. And it's like, hold
on what wait?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Okay, so this mixtape and I had to watch this
twice to get them all too short, rich and Rich
and Tower Power. Yeah, and he's like, I know you're
down with short, but if you don't like rap, it's
got Slide, the Family, the Pointer Sisters, Shila E. It's
got the Grateful Dead, Operation Ivy. It's even got Metallica.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So, which is freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
If if someone has not already made the East Bay
Mixtape as a playlist on Spotify, they have got to
get on it because this this mixtape was fantastic, and.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Uh yeah, this is like when the Guardians a Galaxy
released the actual mixtape that he's listening to that they
need to do that for this film.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And the fun thing here it's it's the East Bay
Mixtape because every artist that he names got their start
in or near the Bay Area in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Okay, that actually makes sense. You know Metallica and all
them out from California and Too Short.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah. Yeah, so I was like, well, I know two
Shorts from Oakland, and I know Metallica grew up in
the in the Bay but yep. And I was like,
I was like, wait, what about did the Pointer sisters
come from? And right you went down the list, I
was like, yep.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
They're all They're all from that down that rabbit hole.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah. So Clint, you know Pedro Pascal, he's faced with
the the quote unquote one more job trope, which is
always a fun thing in action movies. You know, I'm out,
no one more and then you're out. You know what'd
you think of that one?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I love that because he gives him two options and
then he's like, I'll take option three essentially three. Yeah,
there's no option three burns the money in front of
Him's like, I know, I'm out. And then it's pretty
much like, all right, we've got to hit on you now,
you're you're done, this is your last day of living.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, So he gives option three. He delivers one of
what I will say are the two best lines in
this movie, like catch phrases. So Pedro gives him the
I'll see you in Hell with a gasoline suit. Now
I immediately recognized that phrase. Did that Did that phrase ring
(30:00):
a bell to you? Have you? Have you heard that before?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
No, So in March of nineteen eighty nine, Pete Rose
said I'd walk through Hell in a gasoline suit to
play baseball. So again like the throwback nostalgia to like
the eighties old Charlie hustle himself. Yeah, and I'm gonna
get to the other catchphrase that I thought was as
(30:25):
soon as I heard it, I was like, oh, that's
a Garrett that's a Gret Gibson phrase right there, you know.
And I'll get to that here because we got to
talk about the last chapter, Chapter four, the Legend of
Sleepy Floyd, And can I just say I feel like
each chapter is better than the first one before it.
It just keeps This movie just keeps building up and
(30:45):
getting better and better.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I'll agree with you on that. And just the portrayal
of Sleepy Floyd by j Ellis is freaking phenomenal in
this movie.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Amazing, he really is. Where's Jay Ellis from? Have we
seen him in something?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Due? No, I've done.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I can't believe that he's got to be somebody.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
It's nothing like really too big, And I'm like, why
hasn't he like this? This guy's amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
He's doing these weird infomercial things like they're cutting like
they're almost doing like a RoboCop thing like where they're going. Yes,
like with the infomercials popping.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Up here and there kids with him. What's the cytropics
or something psy tropics, tropics, cytropics there it is spics
y tropics.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, it's almost like a And again, you gotta remember
back in the eighties, like we had like uh l
Ron Hubbard dianetics that was like becoming. It was like
the the ground floor of like you know whatever that
what's the.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
What's the scientology?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Scientology? Yeah, it was like it was Yeah. So I'm
like watching I'm like, well, that's why we're going with
that stuff, you know, astral projections and using your mind
over over matter. But uh so we're back again with
the Nazis from chapter one, and now it's their point
of view. Lo and behold, creepy sexist cop Ben Mendelssohn
is back. And if he wasn't abhorrent enough before, now
(32:09):
we discover he's a homophobic racist and he's secretly controlling
the Nazis and this crime ring.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
The fact that he plays the father of the head
neo Nazi. Yeah, honestly, once you come across today, it's like,
you know what, I'm not surprised you're dirt bagging this
film anyway. Yeah. Yeah, And then for them to be like, Okay,
who do we have in town that's playing this big
game right now? Okay, we're playing against the Lakers. Let's
(32:38):
go ahead and send some people over to his house
to just burgle it real quick.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
There we go, Yeah, who has the best stuff? Turns
out Sleepy Floyd has invested quite a bit of his
fortune in art, fine art and collectibles. And that brings
us to May tenth, nineteen eighty seven. It's Game four
between the Warriors and the Lakers. I love that they
chose to animate the game as they're they're talking about
(33:05):
the game. And I don't know if that's whether that's
a choice, like whether that's a creative choice or that's
a because we get animation in mixed in throughout this movie,
which is kind of cool, or maybe they were just like, hey,
we can't We're not gonna pay the NBA to show
game foot now. But it works as the with the animation,
it's so much better.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
True does yes? Uh, now we'll give a shout out
just because we're you know in this fourth story to
Angus Cloud and the gentleman that played Travis that tells
him off about Sleepy Floyd's house. Yeah, he was in
this film and Abigail, both in twenty twenty four and
he ended up passing away. This was the final two
films he worked on.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
No, yep, yeah, that's where I know. Okay, now I know,
now I recommend it.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, he was the shaved head, dirt bag looking guy
and al as well. Shockingly enough, but was your buddy
Kevin Durant, right, Evin Durant, Yes, sir, yeah that yeah, yeah,
he had those two and a few others in the
pipeline and he ended up passing away, you know, early
(34:08):
younger gentleman. So we'll give that shout out, because dude,
both films were freaking awesome what I have seen of him,
So you know, at least leaven a little bit of
a legacy in there behind.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I'm glad you bring him up. I know we haven't
really dug into like the actors, the actresses in this one,
where this is almost like a glorified back to the
box office since it's a brand new movie. Yeah, but
you know, I'm happy that you you mentioned him again.
We're dipping it. We're blending reality with fiction. In this movie.
(34:39):
Game four, Sleepy Floyd scores fifty one points, twenty nine
of those happening in a single quarter, and that's a
record that has yet to be broken in the NBA.
And I just, you know, like, I've never been the
biggest NBA guy, you know. I love watching Jordan in
his prime. Yeah, but the fact that I didn't know
Sleepy Floyd, Like, I'm like, oh, is he real? Is
he not? I'm like, well, he must be guy, And
(35:00):
I'm like, come on, who's gonna score twenty nine points
in a single No that's but that it happens, but uh,
tragedy ensues. The bikers slash Nazi slash scumbags. They break in,
Sleepy's family is murdered during the boxed robbery, and this
gears up to one of my second favorite moments in
(35:23):
this movie. First moment being what we talked about on
our Patreon takeaway there, but Sleepy meditates in the in
what I'm gonna call the weapons room yep, and then
gears up as Metallica's for whom the bell told plays.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Now, I've gotta tell you this is so the movie
reminiscence me have two different things here. It gives me
major kill bill vibes. Yeah, and it also like just
how he's dressed and how he's gearing up. It reminds
me of that original Blade film with Leslie Snipes and
I got perfect mix between those two.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It's it's what we I never knew that we needed
that mashup, and it's it's here. He's he's even on
the bike. He's like racing, racing to the strong, the
Nazi strong hold on the on the motorcycle, Garrett. I
think he slaughters maybe eighteen bikers and Nazis before I
before I lost count. But yeah, just just when I
(36:19):
had thought I had seen him slay enough scumbags, he
Mortal Kombat style tears a guy's heart from his beating chest.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Which is freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
And then he explodes Ben Mendelssohn like he's in Scanners.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yes, he does that.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It's just so good.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Okay, So the one thing I'm thinking when this one
kicks off, yeah, I'm a little disappointed because I'm like, wait,
is Ben Mendelsson just a piece of shit that's gonna
get away with being a piece of ship? And then
when he shows up in this one, I'm like, Okay,
someone has got to get him. Someone's got to bring him.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
To justice exactly, and you're how this is going to
play out. And then as Sleepy Floyd is tearing his
way through the neo Nazi stronghold, he comes across our
good buddy, Pedro Pascal that has been kidnapped by those Nazis,
and Sleepy Floyd helps him get free. So that's a
that's a fricking win right there as well?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah it is. And the whole idea, like you're at
this point, if you're wondering what are these weird infomercials
all about. There's a moment where as the carnage is
going on, we cut back to Sleepy's house and he's
in his vault, still meditating, and that's when I was like,
wait a minute, he's this is all astral projection. He's
(37:40):
not even at the place. He's just no cutting through them,
which kind of explains how he can go through like
twenty or thirty thirty bad guys and just slay them.
But at that point the movie hits another level from him,
like I can't even believe that this is what I've
been watching the whole time, Like exactly, Yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
It explains why when Pedro Pascal is walking out in
the not like the younger Nazi kids are coming in
that you don't see sweepy floor it again and it's
like he was never really there's a projection.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome, dude, It's absolutely awesome. Uh. I'll
tell you something. We we didn't really talk a whole
lot about what Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have directed.
I know they've done some some great television, They've done
a handful of movies. We mentioned Captain Marvel. I think
they did a one. It's kind of a funny story. Yes,
if you saw that, they've done some great they won
(38:34):
some festivals with some of their short films. But I
am excited about what they've got coming next. I don't
know about you, but.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
He is, like, yeah, after this film right here, I
think if they followed up with anything that is even
remotely as amazing as this, you will see them back
in either the MCU or the DCU or whatever it
may be, directing another one of these huge box office films.
Because after delivering something like this with so much like
(39:07):
already known talent or new talent, I think the sky's
the limit for them. This duo is pretty freaking awesome.
They're literally a real life danger zone.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, it's as we said, it's streaming on HBO Max.
I don't think it's any spoiler say that we both
recommend the hell out of this movie, right Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Absolutely, yeah. I mean I would give this two thumbs
up any day of the.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Week and make sure when the credits starts to roll,
don't turn it off. You know, HBO Max likes to
minimize it and then tell you like, yes, what's coming
up next? Go back into it because there is a
fun Easter egg which I won't spoil. And then there's
we get the danger Zone music video, right.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
We sure as heck do yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, we didn't mention Entice played by it's our feature
film Normani yet sir, believe it's from a popular group.
Also did Dancing with the Stars. Fantastic young actress. I
mean everyone in this movie really knocked it out of
the park. I know we we kind of move, you know,
(40:16):
blurred through all the actors and actresses, but for the
sake of time. But just a hands down, just an
excellent cast on this film. Well, listeners, what do you
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(41:42):
In the past, we our first run of T shirts.
I know, we sent out several T shirts just because
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or you know, Instagram comments. So as as you already know, Garrett,
we've got the brand new the twenty twenty five T shirt.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
I'm wearing one right now, looking damn good.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Thank you, sir, I appreciate you. Uh, we might send
you one of those, uh, all you gotta do is
reach out. Garrett. You're back next week to kick off
Week one of the NFL season with me, right. Uh,
you wanna tell the listeners what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Uh, we're gonna go ahead and discuss Uh a little
Kianna Reeves film. You may have heard of it.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
It's called The Replacements, a film by Howard Deutsch, The Replacements.
I love that movie, and it does not get the
love that it should.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
So it doesn't. But I'm gonna tell you right now
that's gonna get me ready for football season.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
All right, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Brother, yes, sir, And to all of.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
You listening to the show, following us on social media,
and subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
These all the tales, the freaky tales. These are the
tales that I tail so well. These are the tales,
the freaky tales. These are the tales that I tail
so well.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
I met this girl. Her name was Joan. She loved
the way I rocked on the mic reformed. When I
met Joan, I took her home. She was just like
a doggie, awe on my bumps. I met another girl,
her name was Anne Or She wanted, what's the freak
with a miss. When I met Anne, I shook her
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head
So the definition of an anthology film is a movie
composed of several distinct, self contained stories, often connected by
a common theme, premise, or director. So, Garrett, I think
this type of film lends itself more to the horror
genre when you consider all the greats like Creep Show, VHS,
(00:25):
Cat's Eye, Twilight Zone, the Movie. But let's not forget
we have examples like Sin City in Four Rooms. There's
even a Yeah, there's even animated films like Heavy Metal
and Fantasia. So yeah, I myself, I love a good
anthology film. Do you happen to have a favorite?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oddly enough? I really enjoyed the All Hollows Eve films
one and to you, I mean, I thought they did
a pretty amazing job. And if I'm not mistaken, that
is where Art the Clown ended up coming from. And
that's what brought us Terrifier.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You gotta be kidding. I didn't even realize that there
was a Are you saying that there's like a movie
before the first Terrifire that introduced him.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
There, they're sure is all Hallows Eve. Yeah, go ahead
and check that out. There's a little segment in there.
And then I believe the second one is where it's
a breakthrough performance for him.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm definitely gonna check that out because, uh, I mean,
we're getting summer's about over and we're getting we're getting
into the creepy months.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So oh yeah, I want to say the first one
takes place a kid gets gifted a VHS tape during
Trick or Treat, goes home, watches it with mom, and
then of course pandemonium starts.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
All right, I'm looking that one up. I would have
to think that the the Goat might be creep show
for me.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh by far.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes, we're talking to the anthologies. Let's let's talk about
a film by Anna Bowdin and Ryan Fleck there twenty
twenty five underrated comedic sn anthology film Freaky Tales. Hello everybody,
(02:28):
and welcome back.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'm Jeff Johnson and I'm Garret Gibson, and.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
This is a film by podcast so Garrett. Before we
get started, I'd like to welcome our newest Patreon member
and shout out how unbelievably awesome he is. Eric Dearth
has signed up for our assistant director Tier and that
gets him the stickers, the color changing stadium cup. We're
(02:57):
gonna do a Patreon episode of his choice, and him
being a new member definitely makes him awesome, but what
makes him unbelievably awesome is the incredible gifts he sent us.
So listeners, if you'll recall, back in June, we celebrated
our four hundredth episode with something truly unique. We did
(03:19):
an episode on Richard Donner's nineteen eighty nine film Batman.
And right now some of you are saying, wait, that's
not right. He didn't do that. Well, our episode came
from the alternate universe, where he in fact did direct
that movie. So go back and check it out if
you haven't already, because I promise you it's like nothing
(03:41):
you've ever heard on a movie podcast before. And Eric,
who is insanely talented, sent us a full sized theatrical
poster for this alternate Batman film. Garrett, you got to
see this thing. It's just it blew my mind, man,
it really did.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
That's actually pretty freaking cool, it is.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And in addition to that, he sent us a special
piece of movie memorabilia from the film, which again does
not exist in our reality. And I won't say what
it is because I don't want to spoil the fun. However,
we are working on a special behind the scenes episode
for our Patreon about the Batman episode, because frankly, a
(04:25):
lot of you have had a lot of questions on
what was real, what wasn't and how we pulled it off.
I just thought, you know, instead of answering all the
messages and the emails, maybe we just do have some
fun to do, like a behind the scenes type of
thing to show you how we created this thing. But
we'll be showing off the amazing gifts that Eric sent
us when we do that. So look forward to that
(04:46):
here in the next few months. And oh, by the way,
go back and check out our Michael Mann episode on
Collateral where we invited Eric Dearth to join us. So
great to have him as a Patreon member. Great to
have him on that episode. Gary, let's get to it.
I guess some facts and a quote from this directing duo.
(05:10):
Not a whole lot these they're they're kind of new
to the scene, but I was able to dig up
a little bit on him. So. Anna Boden's love of
movies led her to take an intro to film class
in high school, where she wrote a report on Robert
Altman before heading off to Columbia University to study English
in cinema. If Amber Lewis is listening to this, she's
(05:31):
already just become a fan of Anna Boden because Amber
loves Robert Altman obviously. Ryan Fleck, on the other hand,
who grew up in Oakland, was always interested in the
movie business after seeing his stepdad play a poker player
in the John Wayne film The Flying Leathernecks. So after
(05:52):
studying theater, acting, and directing at Diablo Valley College, he
went to New York to study film at NYU's Tish
School of Arts, which I think that's where Spike Lee went.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I think we've talked about it is yep.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, we talked about that school a couple of times
on this on this podcast. Uh. It was at NYU
where Boden and Fleck met. She was taking a summer
filmmaking course and he was working in the film editing department.
They bonded over their love of Robert Altman movies, and
that's what made them decide they wanted to work together.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Nice Okay, So, and they've been kind of like a
packaged deal ever since.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I like, yeah, all their stuff, they're they're together on
fun fact for you, before James Gunn was chosen. They
were heavily considered by Kevin Feike to direct Guardians of
the Galaxy.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh man, uh not to not to say that would
have been a bad move or anything like that, but uh,
I'm a big fan of James Gunn's work.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Hey, listen, I'm not I'm not even gonna hold my
cards close here. I love Freaky Tails and just seeing
what this movie is, the craziness that's involved in this movie.
I know they could have done a great job with
Guardians and Galaxy, but I mean, James Gunn, yeah, I
(07:12):
think I think he did. He did just fine. So ultimately, though,
it was their discussion with Kevin Feige about Carol Danvers
and her the Journey that they'd love to see her
take which led them to getting hired to being hired
for Captain Marvel. So, I mean, hey, we're gonna go
(07:33):
another direction with Guardians of the Galaxy. But here's another
MCU superhero.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Film exactly a strong female lead and honestly is one
of the first strong female leads that they had a
standalone film with. So actually, big feather in their cap
for him.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, I got to give credit where credits due Captain Marvel.
It did like a billion dollars. Yes, and I might
need to go back and watch it. I've told you before,
not one of my favorites in the MCU, but you
know it kind of makes sense. But you know Ben
Mendelssohn was was in when that and you know we're
gonna see him. We're gonna talk about him a little
(08:12):
bit in this movie. But uh, Freaky Tails. Anna Boden
had this to say when when she was asked straight
up like what is Freaky Tails? She said, quote, this
is gonna be a mixtape of a movie things that
Ryan loved growing up in Oakland in the eighties, things
that we loved about the movies that affected us when
we were young. I think there's a little bit more
(08:34):
you could you could you could uh emphasize there, Garrett,
for I know a lot of people have not seen
this because it just came out. What can you tell us?
What's what's the film synopsis that that Garrett Gibson would
give us?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Uh, this is one of the better horror anthology films
that I've actually seen as of late. It's truly extraordinary
in the direction and the pace that it keeps going
across the four stories while also intertwining the four so
I believe each story had their own kind of key
(09:06):
point that it brought to the table. And I don't
think this film could have done it without any of
the four segments. So I believe it was actually done
the correct way, And as far as anthology films go,
I would rate this up there with some of the
better ones.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in twenty twenty four,
before Lionsgate snaps it up releases it in April of
twenty twenty five. It just became available on HBO Max,
where you and I caught it. We got to talk
about this opening credit sequence. We get the greeny picture,
there's some tracking issues, that title font that you know,
(09:45):
the excellent music, It's instant eighties nostalgia, and I cannot
love it more. I think we're in for an hour
and forty eight minutes of awesomeness.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
You're absolutely right. This just everything about it, how it shot,
the direct it keeps the pacing, it keeps its very
nineteen eighties, so it being set in Oakland nineteen eighty seven,
it fits perfectly with any eighties gen that you want
to watch.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You know you mentioned there's four separate stories. It all
gets set up by this title crawl, which is being
narrated by eighties rap star Too Short. It's all about
how wild Oakland was in eighty seven. There's there's mention
of this mysterious bright green glow that's affecting things at
this point. Were you ready for how chaotic and off
the wall was gonna get?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh, by no means and not at all. And just
the first story it introduces you too. I mean it's
a sucker punch to the face, is how quick this
film takes all for you? And I've got to tell you,
I freaking enjoyed that first story that they kick off with.
My goodness.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well, let's take a quick break and then we'll talk
all about Chapter one, Strengthen Numbers, also known as The
Gilman Strikes Back. Welcome back. We are talking about freaky tales,
and Garrett, let's get into a little bit of a
(11:12):
chapter one. You know, we got four parts to go.
Chapter one Strengthen Numbers, better known as The Gilman Strikes Back.
So we open on this theater that's letting out where
the crowd has just watched The Lost Boys and throughout
the anthology, we'll come back to this spot a few
more times, and each time we're treated to a little
more of the marquee aside from The Lost Boys. Did
(11:34):
you happen to catch the other films that we're playing
that weekend?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Okay, So it's The Lost Boys, yep Ish Tar, Radio Days,
Raising Arizona, Oh my gosh. And on the side it
says coming soon Creep Show two.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Dude. Okay, way to pay homage to a super classic
anthology film there.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna be a box office note
here for a second, because I'm assuming that there's got
to be some kind of connective tissue either between these
movies or they're they're they're chosen for a certain reason. Yes,
you mentioned, you know, Creep Show two obviously had awesome
horror anthology. But here's the thing, if we're gonna get technical.
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The Lost Boys came out July thirty first, Ishtar came
out May fifteenth, Radio Days came out January thirtieth, Raising
Arizona came out March thirteenth, and Creep Show, which we
see is coming soon, actually came out May first. So
because I was all excited. I was like, wait, did
all these movies open against each other?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Not the case? So that is not the case. I
don't know. We gotta talk with Ryan and Anna and
find out why these movies were chosen. But we got
we got punk rockers versus neo Nazis, and it's all
going down at the Alternative Music Foundation, a nonprofit, all
ages Welcome, inclusive music club, mostly known as the Gilman
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because it's located at nine to twenty four Gilman Street, Garrett.
One of the cool things about this movie is that
each one of these little segments is steeped in reality.
It's all about you know, yeah, Ryan Fleck growing up
in Oakland in eighty seven, So these are real places.
The Gilman well regarded as the place that started the
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nineties punk revival. I was actually surprised to find out
that back in the late eighties and early nineties you
may have caught such acts as Operation Ivy, which they
mentioned in the movie, Rancid, The Offspring, and green Day,
all these bands playing on stage at the Gilman.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
No way, Okay, that's actually pretty freaking awesome to see
Green Day or like the Offspring or something have a
like venue of that size that that's pretty freaking cool.
That's kind of like the size of the Attic that
used to be out in Kettering, Ohio, just a little
in the wall place. That's pretty freaking cool.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, also awesome. The Gilman is open to this very day, Okay, Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So we could probably get out there and watch some
up and coming punk rock bands out there exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Okay, who you see at the Gilman today might be
on I wasn't gonna say a TV, but that doesn't
happen anymore. But you'll see him headlining some big festival
on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, so we're treated to some punk music, some weird animation.
There's a will they won't they love story that's kind
of blossoming, and it all culminates in this wild street
brawl with the punk rockers defending their turf against some
scumbag Nazis. This blew my mind.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Uh, it definitely blew my mind. And I've got to
tell you, anytime I can tune in and see a
bunch of punk rock kids is beating the hell out
of some not neo Nazis, I absolutely love that. So
I give that like first segment a ten out of ten.
Man just perfect.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Yes, I know, I know. Our good buddy Andrew Blake.
Lee has always maintained that nazis like the perfect villain
in any movie because you there's like a universal hatred
for him. You want you want them to get what's
coming to them exactly. And this fight it it's both
gory and hilarious. Uh did you pick up the Am
(15:30):
I wrong in saying that there's there's a little Batman
sixty six vibe to it?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Oh? You're damn right there is.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, I'll tell you, man, that one Nazi gets set
on fire. I was like, holy shit, Like, what what
are we? What are we doing here? Man?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Like yeah, yeah, I like how they just scatter after that,
it's like just a classic eighties movie, like how did
nobody die? What happened?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, it's a fun it's a it's a fun segment.
You know, the guy gets the girl, or you could
say the girl gets the guy. Music love it wins,
Evil is punished, and I really loved it. Moving on
chapter two, don't fight the feeling we're zigging with this
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punk rock or Nazi fight and we're about to zag
into the world of eighties hip hop and man am
I loving this one? So we go back to the
movie theater. Now we're at a different point of view,
this time with Barbie and Entice, the two girls that
make up the rap group Danger Zone. They're like a
rising talent in the local clubs that give off to me.
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They give off like jj fad vibes. Do you remember
you remember.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Jj fadd super absolutely supersonic. And then I was also
seeing a little bit of salt and pepper thrown in
there as well.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, there's some salt and pepper. So they get
noticed by the guy who represents Too Short. He invites
them to perform with h with the rap star at
Jimmy Sweets. So you know, nice little setup, right, And
then the next day we're at the we're at their
day job, they're at the ice cream shop, and we
are treated to the slimiest performance possible by the brilliant
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actor Ben Mendelssohn.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Oh, absolute ultra slim in there. Brother. It's a role
that I'm surprised to see him in, but I absolutely
love this for him because he made this character so
hate herble and that just tells me he's a great actor, right,
there gy.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh, he makes your skin crawl, like I'm I'm concerned
for these girls well being, especially when he when you know,
we get the realization that he's he's a cop. So
now yeah, you're like, oh, now it's it's not just
sexual harassment and and and being in a creep. Now
he's he's it's an abusive power. He is so fun
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to hate in this movie, though.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He is to see and you used to see that
a lot in eighties films where you'll just see this
slimy dirt ball of a guy and you're like, I
just hate your face, I hate your personality and everything.
And Ben Mendelssohn freaking kills it in that role.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So what he's doing, he's he's slimy, but he's he's
doing this in this really disgusting, playful way he is,
you know, like I love the fact that the girls
are not backing down from him. No, no, Like he's
he has that moment where he's like, what do they
say the Derek and the Barry she goes the heart
of the slap. He's like, I don't think it goes
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that way. He's just disgusting man, And he gets back
in the squad car. His partner doesn't get an ice
cream cone. He's like, you didn't think to ask me
if I wanted something. He's a guy. They're out, but
it's too short.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
The fact that they slide too short in there as
what is dubbed the Guy's partner because they never gave
Ben Mendelssohn's character a name other than yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
He's the guy.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Like, looking through the cast, I'm like, the guy's partner.
What the hell are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Okay, yeah they yeah, they never named him. Okay, they
never gave name.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, so slimy and evil, he just he's not even
get getting the name.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Heck no no, uh.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But this rap battle, I'm telling you right now, it
had me wishing there was an actual danger Zone album
because these two ladies slay too short.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Oh, they absolutely do, and they're essentially brought there to
be made fun of for him to kind of like
walk all over them, and it's like, hey, your rap
is trash. We're gonna go ahead and just dish you
because you're too younger ladies out here trying to make
a name for yourself. We're gonna too short just evists
rate you. And that is not what happened brother.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, well yeah, I remember this is this is eighties rap,
and this is the time of n W A and
two Live Crew, Too Short, Easy E. This is where
there's a specific kind of songs being sung about women
by these by these these rap stars. Yeah, and they
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were there to just be cannon fodder. And I love
the fact that they find their voice. You know, we
talked about we mentioned this, this mysterious green glow. It
kind of shows up in all the in all the segments,
but it's almost like it's the moment when someone gets
their power or they find their power, yep.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
And it's when they finally realize that they need to
stop running or stop hiding or whatever it needs to be.
They stand up for themselves. And in this one, oh
my gosh, the delivery after they get the little bit
of hype from the green glow, it's fricking amazing.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
The crowd is behind them and they get the best
of Too Short. I like the fact that it ends
with him kind of smiling like and and giving them
their props. They have the hug. It's it's a fun
little segment, especially after the the bloody battle that we got,
just like ten minutes earlier. Oh yeah, you know, we
took a different, different, different path on this one, I think,
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and it works, It really does.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
It was definitely a nice, little, real end to calm
down the film because it's like, hey, again, we're starting
this one with a sucker punch. You're gonna be reeling
for the next fifteen minutes and then you're gonna go
ahead and get into this thing that's kind of gonna
slow it down a bit, and I think it's definitely needed.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So at this point, like I don't know about you,
but we're a good thirty minutes into the movie. Maybe
did you have the same reaction that I did where
you thought to yourself, where the hell's Pedro Pascal? Isn't
he the star of this movie?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Like what's going especially since you see him in the
first like segment for like two seconds, You're like, Okay,
I thought he was like supposed to be the main
guy in this film. When are we getting him?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah? Are two protagonists from the uh the punk rockers
versus Nazi fight. He just throw in a diner. They're
having a nice moment and he just walks by, and
it's like, wait, that was him? But is he coming
back and yeah, and I'm thinking, you know, because when
you watch the trailer for this, it's all Pedro and Ben.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, it's all.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So Chapter three, Born to Mac Pedro, Pascal has finally arrived.
He's on the payphone having a very ominous conversation with
a doctor. His wife is dead. The baby is in
the neodatal intensive care unit. It's not looking good for
the baby. No flashback to tell us how we all
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got there. You know, he's what is He's in the
car with his wife. They're parked outside Late Night Video YEP,
playfully arguing about what to rent.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, he goes in and then this is where they
reveal a little bit more of his backstory of why
he's actually at Late Night Video, why his wife is
sitting in the car. You notice a mysterious gentleman staring
from across the street at the car the entire time
he's in the video store. Uh, this is where you
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find out he's kind of like a fixer, kind of
clean up guy, like, oh yo, someone money collect Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
But uh it's inside the video store. We are treated
to the greatest cameo ever. Now, Garrett, we're not gonna
mention him, no, because I don't want to. I don't
want to ruin it for people that haven't seen the
movie yet. But how happy were you when when he
walked out.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
When Hank we could say his name, the character when
the character walks out. Honestly, I was blown away to
see him in this film and just his back and
forth with Pedro Pascal. For those I want to say,
it's probably about three to five minutes. They're a little
back and forth, Yeah, but it was truly extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, guys talking about the underdog as a character in film,
how we relate to said characters, and then quizzes Pedro
Pascal's Clint character, which we're not going to get into
right now. I know we need to take I know
we need to take another quick break, so we're gonna
do that for the sponsors. But when we get back,
we'll continue our conversation about Chapter three starring Pedro Pascal.
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You know what, Actually, I do want to talk more
about Hank. So I know those of you listening on
our Patreon, you know it's ad free, So we're going
to dive into this specific scene a little bit more.
And to those of you not listening on Patreon. We'll
be right back after this message. Welcome back, everybody. Well,
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Garrett and I've been over on Patreon talking about what
we think maybe is our favorite scene of the movie.
But we are back on your streaming app of choice
talking about Anna Boden and r in Flex anthology film
Freaky Tales. So Garrett, jumping back into uh chapter three,
Born to Mac Pedro, asks for some very specific nineteen
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eighty six movies, Big Trouble in Little China, tough guys,
ruthless people, and the color of money. And when you
string them together, we realize it's code talk because this
video store is a front for illegal gambling.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I didn't pick up on that the first time.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No, no, I had no idea. As soon as I
heard Big Trouble in Little China, I just got excited
because I'm like Kurt Russell, there it is.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Yeah, Well, I'm thinking like we got green, we got
a green glow happened in this movie. I'm talking too,
Trouble on China. But think about it like tough guys,
you know, the color of money.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yep, and ruthless people. They're running an illegal underground gambling
casino down there.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, there's a guy in that base that Pedro goes
and pays a visit to that U is in the
hole a little bit, and again as payment, he goes
ahead and forfeits his tickets to the Golden State Warriors.
First four, Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Sir, easily worth a thousand dollars, maybe five hundred. Jack
Nicholson would pay a thousand dollars. Do you know Jack Nicholson?
Well no, but okay, sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Will anyone buy these tickets? I'll give you fifty.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh yeah. The Asian guy who is great because he yes,
he gets he gets the better of that, uh.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Just undercutting him at every turn of.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh gosh, yeah yeah. Uh. I love the I love
the love for the ninety ay six movies because obviously,
with exception to Tough Guys, we covered all those on
our limited ninety eighty six ers, So go back and
check that on. I love this. I love this movie
because it's given me a chance to talk about all
the episodes that we've done in the past. So it's
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like the plug episode. It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It is. Yeah, it's that great little flashback. And since
we cover a lot of the stuff of the flashback
air I mean, yeah, it's right up our alley.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So speaking of the flashback era, can we talk about
the details of this kid selling his East Bay mixtape,
because you know, now we flash back to the reality
where Pedro has lost his wife and his kid. He's
in his car, he's about to end it, and this
kid comes up selling mixtapes.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Comes up selling mixtapes. At first, he's selling it as well, yeah,
it's got this hip hop artist on it, it's got
this one on it. And then he's like, but if
you're not feeling that, it's got some metallica on it,
it's got some prints on it. And it's like, hold
on what wait?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Okay, so this mixtape and I had to watch this
twice to get them all too short, rich and Rich
and Tower Power. Yeah, and he's like, I know you're
down with short, but if you don't like rap, it's
got Slide, the Family, the Pointer Sisters, Shila E. It's
got the Grateful Dead, Operation Ivy. It's even got Metallica.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So, which is freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
If if someone has not already made the East Bay
Mixtape as a playlist on Spotify, they have got to
get on it because this this mixtape was fantastic, and.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Uh yeah, this is like when the Guardians a Galaxy
released the actual mixtape that he's listening to that they
need to do that for this film.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
And the fun thing here it's it's the East Bay
Mixtape because every artist that he names got their start
in or near the Bay Area in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Okay, that actually makes sense. You know Metallica and all
them out from California and Too Short.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah. Yeah, so I was like, well, I know two
Shorts from Oakland, and I know Metallica grew up in
the in the Bay but yep. And I was like,
I was like, wait, what about did the Pointer sisters
come from? And right you went down the list, I
was like, yep.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
They're all They're all from that down that rabbit hole.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yeah. So Clint, you know Pedro Pascal, he's faced with
the the quote unquote one more job trope, which is
always a fun thing in action movies. You know, I'm out,
no one more and then you're out. You know what'd
you think of that one?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I love that because he gives him two options and
then he's like, I'll take option three essentially three. Yeah,
there's no option three burns the money in front of
Him's like, I know, I'm out. And then it's pretty
much like, all right, we've got to hit on you now,
you're you're done, this is your last day of living.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, So he gives option three. He delivers one of
what I will say are the two best lines in
this movie, like catch phrases. So Pedro gives him the
I'll see you in Hell with a gasoline suit. Now
I immediately recognized that phrase. Did that Did that phrase ring
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a bell to you? Have you? Have you heard that before?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I have not.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
No, So in March of nineteen eighty nine, Pete Rose
said I'd walk through Hell in a gasoline suit to
play baseball. So again like the throwback nostalgia to like
the eighties old Charlie hustle himself. Yeah, and I'm gonna
get to the other catchphrase that I thought was as
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soon as I heard it, I was like, oh, that's
a Garrett that's a Gret Gibson phrase right there, you know.
And I'll get to that here because we got to
talk about the last chapter, Chapter four, the Legend of
Sleepy Floyd, And can I just say I feel like
each chapter is better than the first one before it.
It just keeps This movie just keeps building up and
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getting better and better.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I'll agree with you on that. And just the portrayal
of Sleepy Floyd by j Ellis is freaking phenomenal in
this movie.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Amazing, he really is. Where's Jay Ellis from? Have we
seen him in something?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Due? No, I've done.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I can't believe that he's got to be somebody.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
It's nothing like really too big, And I'm like, why
hasn't he like this? This guy's amazing.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
He's doing these weird infomercial things like they're cutting like
they're almost doing like a RoboCop thing like where they're going. Yes,
like with the infomercials popping.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Up here and there kids with him. What's the cytropics
or something psy tropics, tropics, cytropics there it is spics
y tropics.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, it's almost like a And again, you gotta remember
back in the eighties, like we had like uh l
Ron Hubbard dianetics that was like becoming. It was like
the the ground floor of like you know whatever that
what's the.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
What's the scientology?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Scientology? Yeah, it was like it was Yeah. So I'm
like watching I'm like, well, that's why we're going with
that stuff, you know, astral projections and using your mind
over over matter. But uh so we're back again with
the Nazis from chapter one, and now it's their point
of view. Lo and behold, creepy sexist cop Ben Mendelssohn
is back. And if he wasn't abhorrent enough before, now
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we discover he's a homophobic racist and he's secretly controlling
the Nazis and this crime ring.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
The fact that he plays the father of the head
neo Nazi. Yeah, honestly, once you come across today, it's like,
you know what, I'm not surprised you're dirt bagging this
film anyway. Yeah. Yeah, And then for them to be like, Okay,
who do we have in town that's playing this big
game right now? Okay, we're playing against the Lakers. Let's
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go ahead and send some people over to his house
to just burgle it real quick.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
There we go, Yeah, who has the best stuff? Turns
out Sleepy Floyd has invested quite a bit of his
fortune in art, fine art and collectibles. And that brings
us to May tenth, nineteen eighty seven. It's Game four
between the Warriors and the Lakers. I love that they
chose to animate the game as they're they're talking about
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the game. And I don't know if that's whether that's
a choice, like whether that's a creative choice or that's
a because we get animation in mixed in throughout this movie,
which is kind of cool, or maybe they were just like, hey,
we can't We're not gonna pay the NBA to show
game foot now. But it works as the with the animation,
it's so much better.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
True does yes? Uh, now we'll give a shout out
just because we're you know in this fourth story to
Angus Cloud and the gentleman that played Travis that tells
him off about Sleepy Floyd's house. Yeah, he was in
this film and Abigail, both in twenty twenty four and
he ended up passing away. This was the final two
films he worked on.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
No, yep, yeah, that's where I know. Okay, now I know,
now I recommend it.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, he was the shaved head, dirt bag looking guy
and al as well. Shockingly enough, but was your buddy
Kevin Durant, right, Evin Durant, Yes, sir, yeah that yeah, yeah,
he had those two and a few others in the
pipeline and he ended up passing away, you know, early
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younger gentleman. So we'll give that shout out, because dude,
both films were freaking awesome what I have seen of him,
So you know, at least leaven a little bit of
a legacy in there behind.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I'm glad you bring him up. I know we haven't
really dug into like the actors, the actresses in this one,
where this is almost like a glorified back to the
box office since it's a brand new movie. Yeah, but
you know, I'm happy that you you mentioned him again.
We're dipping it. We're blending reality with fiction. In this movie.
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Game four, Sleepy Floyd scores fifty one points, twenty nine
of those happening in a single quarter, and that's a
record that has yet to be broken in the NBA.
And I just, you know, like, I've never been the
biggest NBA guy, you know. I love watching Jordan in
his prime. Yeah, but the fact that I didn't know
Sleepy Floyd, Like, I'm like, oh, is he real? Is
he not? I'm like, well, he must be guy, And
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I'm like, come on, who's gonna score twenty nine points
in a single No that's but that it happens, but uh,
tragedy ensues. The bikers slash Nazi slash scumbags. They break in,
Sleepy's family is murdered during the boxed robbery, and this
gears up to one of my second favorite moments in
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this movie. First moment being what we talked about on
our Patreon takeaway there, but Sleepy meditates in the in
what I'm gonna call the weapons room yep, and then
gears up as Metallica's for whom the bell told plays.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Now, I've gotta tell you this is so the movie
reminiscence me have two different things here. It gives me
major kill bill vibes. Yeah, and it also like just
how he's dressed and how he's gearing up. It reminds
me of that original Blade film with Leslie Snipes and
I got perfect mix between those two.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It's it's what we I never knew that we needed
that mashup, and it's it's here. He's he's even on
the bike. He's like racing, racing to the strong, the
Nazi strong hold on the on the motorcycle, Garrett. I
think he slaughters maybe eighteen bikers and Nazis before I
before I lost count. But yeah, just just when I
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had thought I had seen him slay enough scumbags, he
Mortal Kombat style tears a guy's heart from his beating chest.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Which is freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
And then he explodes Ben Mendelssohn like he's in Scanners.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yes, he does that.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It's just so good.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Okay, So the one thing I'm thinking when this one
kicks off, yeah, I'm a little disappointed because I'm like, wait,
is Ben Mendelsson just a piece of shit that's gonna
get away with being a piece of ship? And then
when he shows up in this one, I'm like, Okay,
someone has got to get him. Someone's got to bring him.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
To justice exactly, and you're how this is going to
play out. And then as Sleepy Floyd is tearing his
way through the neo Nazi stronghold, he comes across our
good buddy, Pedro Pascal that has been kidnapped by those Nazis,
and Sleepy Floyd helps him get free. So that's a
that's a fricking win right there as well?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah it is. And the whole idea, like you're at
this point, if you're wondering what are these weird infomercials
all about. There's a moment where as the carnage is
going on, we cut back to Sleepy's house and he's
in his vault, still meditating, and that's when I was like,
wait a minute, he's this is all astral projection. He's
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not even at the place. He's just no cutting through them,
which kind of explains how he can go through like
twenty or thirty thirty bad guys and just slay them.
But at that point the movie hits another level from him,
like I can't even believe that this is what I've
been watching the whole time, Like exactly, Yeah, man.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
It explains why when Pedro Pascal is walking out in
the not like the younger Nazi kids are coming in
that you don't see sweepy floor it again and it's
like he was never really there's a projection.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome, dude, It's absolutely awesome. Uh. I'll
tell you something. We we didn't really talk a whole
lot about what Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have directed.
I know they've done some some great television, They've done
a handful of movies. We mentioned Captain Marvel. I think
they did a one. It's kind of a funny story. Yes,
if you saw that, they've done some great they won
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some festivals with some of their short films. But I
am excited about what they've got coming next. I don't
know about you, but.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
He is, like, yeah, after this film right here, I
think if they followed up with anything that is even
remotely as amazing as this, you will see them back
in either the MCU or the DCU or whatever it
may be, directing another one of these huge box office films.
Because after delivering something like this with so much like
(39:07):
already known talent or new talent, I think the sky's
the limit for them. This duo is pretty freaking awesome.
They're literally a real life danger zone.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, it's as we said, it's streaming on HBO Max.
I don't think it's any spoiler say that we both
recommend the hell out of this movie, right Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Absolutely, yeah. I mean I would give this two thumbs
up any day of the.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Week and make sure when the credits starts to roll,
don't turn it off. You know, HBO Max likes to
minimize it and then tell you like, yes, what's coming
up next? Go back into it because there is a
fun Easter egg which I won't spoil. And then there's
we get the danger Zone music video, right.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
We sure as heck do yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, we didn't mention Entice played by it's our feature
film Normani yet sir, believe it's from a popular group.
Also did Dancing with the Stars. Fantastic young actress. I
mean everyone in this movie really knocked it out of
the park. I know we we kind of move, you know,
(40:16):
blurred through all the actors and actresses, but for the
sake of time. But just a hands down, just an
excellent cast on this film. Well, listeners, what do you
think of Freaky Tails? Have you seen it? Are you
going to see it? Now that you know where it's at,
you can let us know on social media. You'll find
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(40:38):
a film by podcast dot com for links to all
of our episodes streaming on the platform of your choice.
Hint hint, Patreon link is there. You should probably sign
up because there's extra stuff. There's Garrett. There's like seventy
something episodes now that we've got over there. Yeh yeah,
and listen if you're like Hey, you know, I don't know.
(41:00):
I don't know yet. Just remember there's a seven day
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(41:20):
it like every every every month, like one a month,
maybe sometimes one every other month. But there's some good
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an email address, get you signed up, and then you
got access. So check it out. Write to us at
a film by Podcast at gmail dot com with their questions,
comments and concerns. We may just read your response on
the show and send you some a film by swag Garrett.
(41:42):
In the past, we our first run of T shirts.
I know, we sent out several T shirts just because
we would randomly pick someone's email or Facebook comment so
or you know, Instagram comments. So as as you already know, Garrett,
we've got the brand new the twenty twenty five T shirt.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
I'm wearing one right now, looking damn good.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Thank you, sir, I appreciate you. Uh, we might send
you one of those, uh, all you gotta do is
reach out. Garrett. You're back next week to kick off
Week one of the NFL season with me, right. Uh,
you wanna tell the listeners what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Uh, we're gonna go ahead and discuss Uh a little
Kianna Reeves film. You may have heard of it.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
It's called The Replacements, a film by Howard Deutsch, The Replacements.
I love that movie, and it does not get the
love that it should.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
So it doesn't. But I'm gonna tell you right now
that's gonna get me ready for football season.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
All right, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Brother, yes, sir, And to all of.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
You listening to the show, following us on social media,
and subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
These all the tales, the freaky tales. These are the
tales that I tail so well. These are the tales,
the freaky tales. These are the tales that I tail
so well.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
I met this girl. Her name was Joan. She loved
the way I rocked on the mic reformed. When I
met Joan, I took her home. She was just like
a doggie, awe on my bumps. I met another girl,
her name was Anne Or She wanted, what's the freak
with a miss. When I met Anne, I shook her
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