Andrew Johnson of Have Mercy

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from the podcasting or music community and we explore their
love of pop culture. I'm an Sean Mott and my
co host this episode is Drew of Have Mercy. Welcome
to the show. Hey, what's up? Thanks for having me.
I'm so excited. I am very excited to have you here.
Just even before the recording, the vibes are great and
I'm excited to see where this goes.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Dude, it's gonna it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun.
It's gonna be a journey. But you know, we're gonna
see where it goes.

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Speaker 2 (01:53):
Core nerdsols want to say this, smash that motherfucking like button.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Okay, there we go, got to say it, got to
say there you go, making dreams come true? Yeah, there
we go before we get the park culture. We're gonna
kick off the show like we do every week with
the middle Cord song of the week and the song
of the week this week is from the band eighty
four Days. This is their latest single, find Your Way
Back Home.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's a reminded jes in case you have forgot to
the ground and real lit you have a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Don't have focus on the bands.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
No, it's out.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
So when you well your way, you say, I know

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you're tried, said day wants get don't away.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I know that we will get in you will way. No,
that's so that.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Let you well, then let me go? Why need.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
You so it is so bad?

Speaker 3 (04:47):
If no.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Again? That was eighty four Days with their latest single,
find Your Way Back Home. For more music recommdations, you
can check out the Middle Corner and its pull the
Spotify playlist. You go find the direct link in the
show notes below. I want to know, okay, what got
you into pop culture? What was the entryway into this
wonderful world of movies, TV and everything like that? What
was your pop culture origin story? My dad?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
So, my dad and I didn't didn't really get along
a lot like when I was younger, but he but
him and I really butted heads because I was like
a true punk rocker. He was like a cop, you know,
Like so I was like, I can't be friends with
the enemy, you know. And then like, but he also
got along a lot more with my older brother with
like you know, mechanics, like working on stuff, fixing stuff

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and all that.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
But my dad, when he was in.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
The Navy would bootleg movies. He would take like two
or three He had like two VCRs back in the day,
and he would take like two or three movies and
put him on one tape. And then growing up we
had this I'm not lying, man. It was like literally
like thousands of just VHS tapes with like movies on them,

(06:08):
and he would just and even when like I was younger,
I remember him like I think the last movie he bootlegged,
it was like it was like camp nowhere in Air
Force one on like like a double He would do
like double and triple features like on like movies on
like these tapes, and then he cataloged them all in
like this binder. So like we it was like it
was I had my own Netflix growing up, so he

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had that, and then he had a huge vinyl collection,
so like when he would go out with my brother,
my mom would like be teaching me how to cook
and stuff like that and doing like artsy stuff and
and then like when we're waiting for something to ste
like waiting for a stude to finish like three hours,
I would just like grab one of the tapes and

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just pop it in the VCR like in my in
my room and just like watch whatever was on there.
So like I remember watching like there's this movie like
one that sticks out is like me and my brother
growing up, we love the movie Christine from Stephen King,
Like that was like one of my favorite movies and
we just like also growing up in the nineties, like
I grew up in like kind of a smaller town

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like suburb outside of Baltimore, where like we had everything.
We had a movie theater, we had a video we
had multiple video stores, we had a record store, we
had like everything. So like you know, like that era,
I kind of it kind of sucked cause like you
would go to like Blockbuster and like want a certain
movie and it's out of it, and then you have
to go to like Suncoast or West Coast Video and
then they didn't have it and then you have to

(07:34):
go to like Hollywood Video and they had it, but
you know it was like a fucking like shitty vhs,
like the first version of it, not the one with
like the special features after the credits, you know, like
that type of thing, you know, like and then also
like you had like CBS doing all of those like
Stephen King like miniseries.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, like it.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
And the one of my favorite ones is the Langaliers.
Do you remember that one with like the people it's
essentially lost before lost, Like they were on an airplane
and like it was like a storm and they were
like getting haunted by these like ghosts or whatever. And
then they find out that the ghosts are like living
is like living, their like living soul and they're essentially

(08:16):
like afterwards or whatever. I might be remembering it wrong.
You also had Trucks, which was on USA, and then
that was and then that in turn was inspired by
It was the his short story Trucks, which he then
turned into Maximum Overdrive, which was my favorite, one of
my favorite movies as a kid, I like I watched.
My parents were a lot older when they had me

(08:37):
and my brother, Like, for example, my dad was like
forty four when I was born, so we got We
watched a lot of shit that we were not supposed
to watch as like kids. Like my favorite movie when
I was like five years old was Escape from New York.
Like that like was like my favor I loved it.
I would go. I remember like I was like six
when like Jurassic Park came out and I went into

(08:58):
like the we had to do like a like a
pre what we did that weekend? And I told my
teacher I went and saw Jurassic Park and she was like,
who did you see Durassic Park with?

Speaker 1 (09:05):
And I was like with my dad.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
And then she was like who takes their kid to
see a horror movie? And I was like it wasn't really,
it wasn't as bad as like Dawn of the Dead.
And she was like, you see Daughter of the Dad
And I was just like yeah, my dad and I
watched it all the time as kids, you know. So
that kind of got me into pop culture. Was like
my dad, and even now like to this day, like
I'll watch like certain movies and like think of my dad.

(09:29):
And I even started doing the mustache because my dad
had a mustache and I my job ended. My career
was over. And I was just like, I need to
change a pace. And we were getting back together as
a band. Always had a beard and I was just like,
I'm just gonna shave it off. And this is where
the mustache came from. So have Mercy has a song
on NASCAR twenty five.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yes, that's fucking cool. Tell me about how that happened, so.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
I know a little bit of it. Dale Earnhardt Junior
was really spearheading this and being wanting to get this
game essentially bring back the NASCAR game franchise, you know,
and bring it, bring it back from the deck, because
they it was like pretty huge back in the day
and then became and then like a lot of people
started doing like the virtual racing or like the internet

(10:15):
racing type thing, and NASCAR was affiliated with that for
a little bit. And now they're doing the NASCAR And
then according to what I understand, NASCAR is now putting
out like an official game again with Dale Earnhart Junior
spearheading game. Fun fact, daleer and Hart Junior eats more
pizza and one is one of the biggest pop punk
fans in the world. That dude loves like drive through records,

(10:39):
Like if we went to high school with him. We
would probably be like best friends. Dude is like such
a sweetheart. He like like he will go out of
his way to like hook up any ban, any fan,
anybody that really reaches out like that. Dude is one
of the last of like a like a following group

(11:00):
of like fate of like stars that will go out
of or celebrities that will go out of their way
to do it like that truly like love their fans
and will do anything for them. And I feel like
he's doing this with like this whole NASCAR thing, being
like we've heard you, we see you were doing it.
He had a he has a podcast, and on that
podcast he brought us up. He brought up us in

(11:23):
the Danger summer. They were talking about music, and literally
people I haven't talked to in like fifteen years were
like texting me and like messing me on Instagram being
like Dale Arnhardt brought you up, Dale, and I was
just like, I know. I listened to his podcast, Thank you.
I Love Dale Earnhart Junior. So he chose a couple
he reached out or a NASCAR or the music director
reached out to a couple of bands like Us and

(11:44):
the danger Summer people that were on this playlist of his.
It's called Shuffle It, and it's literally just like like
it's our entire discography.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
It's the Dangerous Summer. You know, you have the starting
line other bands that like, you're just like this dude
listens to that. That's insane, like and so he asked
us if we wanted to be on it, and we said,
not only yeah, but hell yeah, brother, you know raise
hell Prais Dale. You know, like, dude, I grew up
worshiping eight and three and eighty eight Dale, Earnhard Junior Man,

(12:15):
Thank you so much. That dude rips and dude, love
that guy. He's so awesome. We're playing in Charlotte on
the with Boys Night Out. It's the last day of
the tour and we are going to We're gonna invite
him out and hopefully it comes and hangs out. That'd
be sick.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'd play some play some NASCAR twenty.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Five with him. Oh my god, what a cool story.
That's insane. I didn't know that he is like a pop.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Punk he's a he's a huge like he's a huge
like alternative music fan. We're all huge wrestling fans and
we were at rehearsal, we were getting ready for our
album release show. There's this wrestler, Anthony Bowens for aw
and the Bones started following us on Instagram and we
were like, holy shit, Anthony Bowens one of the best
fucking wrestlers. That fucking Scissor Me daddy. You know, you

(12:59):
know the claim the acclaimed that's what it is. Yeah,
I have the pink Scissor Me Daddy fingers like I have,
like I have like an Acclaimed over everybody T shirt.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Like.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
We literally sent him a message back being like didn't
think Anthony Bones following us was on our twenty twenty
five Bingo card, and then he messaged us and we
were like, holy shit, this is fucking six so like,
and he was like, Yeah, you guys got me through
a lot of tough shit in my life, and the
Earth pushback and everything you guys put out after that
really meant a lot to me. And then he when

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the album came out, he messaged us and said we
were rocking out to the album all the way down
to Collision, and I was just like, holy shit, Like
this fucking guy that's on TV twice a week on
like that wrestles does one of my favorite forms of
art and is one of like the most influential people,
Like one of the nicest guys, like both in character

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and out of character, one of the first like openly
gay like wrestlers on TV like this, like this like
role model for so many young PEO people and even
like people our age and people older, you know, and
just sit seeing that he like loves my shit or
like the art that I put out and I love
the art that he puts out, and I was just like,
this is fucking awesome.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Before recording, you did say every Tuesday you go see
a movie, So yeah, I want to know about that.
And then after kind of like what you're what you've
been watching recently? Okay.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
So when I first quit drinking, back when it wasn't
cool to be sober in like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen,
originally quit drinking, I was just going through like a
rough patch in my life. I was like and then
one day I was just at work and instead of
getting a shift drink, I got a snapple and I
was like, man, I feel so much better, you know,
like what's going on here? And I had movie pass

(14:44):
when it was nine ninety nine, go see any movie
you want. Literally that's how that goes. The mall was
around the corner from the music store I worked at,
and so happens to be the same movie theater I
worked at when I was a teenager, and I and
they took movie pass, so I would literally after work,
I would go to the movies instead of the bar,

(15:07):
and I would go and see a movie. And I
saw so much just bullshit, like just coming out in
like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, like fucking I saw one
of I saw the Pirates of the Caribbean with Javi
air bardein and I'd only seen the first Pirates of
the Caribbean on like DVD, like when it came out
like with like my mom on like like no idea,

(15:27):
what was I fell asleep during a lot of them,
like because it was like nine thirty at night, I'm
just going to the last show and of just whatever.
I literally would just see whatever. And then when I
and then fast forward to like twenty twenty one, got
sober again and because I literally just had like one
of the worst nights of my life and I was
just like this, I'm not good. I blacked out and

(15:49):
truly don't remember anything. And I was just like this,
that's fucking scary, and I I'm done, you know. And
then I had to call my my girlfriend when we
first started dating. It was like one week before our
one year anniversary. Called her at like four thirty in
the morning. I was like, hey, I think somebody stole
my car. I don't know, can you come pick me up?

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Like? And she would.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
She She was like, you got one get out of
jail free card and you just used it. And I
was just like all right, cool. And here we are
five years later, and tomorrow is actually my four year
anniversary suberversary. And but I use the movies as kind
of a instead of going to the bar and go
to the movies, you know, So I'm comfortable like sitting

(16:33):
at a bar all day every day. I could sit
there and just drink like SODA's not alcoholic beers, you know,
watch game.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
You know.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
I could do that, And that's I rack up a
tab of like you know, eighty to one hundred bucks,
like eating food, drinking, you know, and just not being
being very productive. Or I can go when it's seven
dollars on a Tuesday to the movies and see something
that's super entertaining, like Weapons was amazing. I saw Warfare,
which was pretty decent. I'm not a big A twenty

(17:01):
four guy, thought that was a great movie. A Civil War,
another A twenty four movie, amazing. Oh, I have them
all on my phone.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Here. There's a shopping center down the street in the
next neighborhood over called Hampden. It's called the Rotunda, and
in there they have a movie theater with like the
reclining seats and sign seats, like all my favorite things.
And I can ride my bike there, I can drive there,
I can walk there. It's super convenient and I literally
go there every Tuesday. So my wife and I are
seeing The Long Walk tonight, and because I was, I

(17:32):
was just like, I want to go see that, but
let me.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
See showtime tickets. Sorry, man, this is great radio past
twenty the past twenty one. So this is the last
couple of movies I saw. Caught Stealing, Oh, four out
of five Andrews, Nobody Too, three out of five Andrews, Weapons,
five out of five Andrews. That day, I also got

(17:55):
a large drink, a regular popcorn and peanut Eminem's. I
saw The Naked Gun four point five out of five Andrews.
Fantastic Four First Steps, Large Drink, Regular Popcorn four out
of five Andrews twenty eight years later, sequel to two
of my favorite movies two point five out of five
Andrews Captain America Brave New World more like Captain America

(18:16):
Boring New World that got one point five out of
five Andrews. Surprisingly, this was one my wife picked, and
I was like, Hey, we can go see this movie
that I really want to see, which is a horror
movie which you don't like, or you can pick the movie.
And she said, Let's go see Conclave that day at Concklave.
We got two large drinks, two candies at at a

(18:38):
large popcorn and I saw Conclave at four twenty nine pm. Surprisingly,
I fell asleep during it. I watched it more recently,
I was like four out of five Andrews. And so
those are the past couple of movies I've seen, and
I've also seen like other movies like when the movie
theater around the corner from me isn't do, I will
like go to cinemak or something like that. The Andrews

(19:01):
Gordon rate. So instead of one out of ten or
five stars, you know, I've just I remember I was
walking with my friend who's my best friend the whole world,
Matt known him for like almost like sixteen or seventeen years.
We used to double feature movies, which is where you
would buy a ticket for one movie and like at
a Saturday morning and at like a large like movie theater,

(19:22):
and we would just movie hop all day, like literally
spend an entire Saturday just seeing. That's how I saw
the Dukes of Hazzard. We were walking out of some
movie I want to say it was like the Entourage
movie or something around like that time frame, like twenty fifteen,
twenty sixteen, and I was just like, man, that movie
five out of five Andrews. And he was like, what
the fuck is that? And I was like, I was like,

(19:43):
if there were five of me, we would all be
jumping in high fiving, you know. I was like, that's
what that's what that means. The movie theater that I
go to is like a small like independent chain. There's
like three of them, and they do like a movie
club that it's called movie Club where they show like
the old movies. So back in when I was like
in college, me and my friend met. We would go

(20:04):
to this thing called Gunky's Basement that was put on
by Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche right around the
corner at the Charles Theater, which was like one of
the last like film thirty five millimeter theaters. The first
or second Thursday of the month, you would go. You
pay ten dollars and you got a ticket to a
movie and you got a screen printed limited to like
one hundred like things. So you know that that famous

(20:26):
it's kind of famous picture of Bill Murray with all
the little Bill Murray's making a big picture of him.
That was a poster they made for Groundhog Day. I
have that, and it's literally like I just got to
stand up real quick. It's like this tall if I
was like had it on the ground, It's like it's
like five feet tall and like and like three feet wide,

(20:47):
and it's like a thin sheet of paper. But they
also I also have like videodrome. I have like you know,
silence of the lamps, Like I really wish this thing happened.
Well now it's they don't do that anymore. They haven't
done it in a long, long long time. The theater
around the corner from me warehouse. They do this thing
called Film Club where they do on Wednesdays they do
kind of like an offbeat movie and this week they're

(21:09):
showing Maniac Cop two and I was like, man, I
might have to call out of work to cause I
went down a Maniac Cop wormhole like two weeks ago
with like one of my coworkers at work. I was like,
you've never seen Maniac Cop And they were like twenty
two and they're like no. I was like, oh, dog,
you got you gotta see it, Like it's fucking amazing.
I'm that guy at work, Like people come to me

(21:30):
for like tone and pedal recommendations and movie recommendations, like
TV shows, Like I'm just like I'm watching what everybody
else is watching. You know, my time is precious, you know.
I spend a lot more time watching movies than TV shows.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Personally. Yeah, I'm both. I watched a lot of movies,
but I watch a disgusting Oh I'm out, I discuss it, dude.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I Becky, my my, I keep calling her my wife.
We have a Low's card together. That's the only amount
of the government we need, you know, to be like
we're together, you know, right, there that's illegally binding contract.
If I don't pay on it, guess what affects my
credit to We both are from that generation of like

(22:12):
our family didn't have a lot of money, but we
did steal cable, so there was always TVs on in
like every room had something different on. So like, I'm
one of those people where even when I'm leaving for
the day, I'll leave TV on.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
For my cat. I saw a long walk. What do
you think? I thought it was great. I loved it.
It's the basic premise is I'm sure you know the
premise my favorite story of his. Oh oh, you've read
the book, Okay, I have not read the book. I
will say the endings are different. Okay, so I've heard.
I don't even know the ending of the book because
I want to read it. I'm I'm like, I grew

(22:47):
up watching Stephen King movies and now that I've started
reading as an adult, I've read a few Stephen King
books and I like, I want it. And usually it's
hard for me. Usually I can't read something after I've
watched it, like it like ruins the allure for me.
But I love reading something and then watching it after
and then finding the differences and similarities. I love doing that,
but this one, I'm like, I really want to read it,

(23:09):
so I'm going to The concept is very cool where
it's like each state elects a person who walks. They
do this every year. It's kind of like it's literally
I think if they did Hungry Games in America, this
is what it would be. Absolutely a thousand percent that's
exactly what it would be like. And America lost a
war like nine years ago, like the time isn't really

(23:29):
specified or anything, or who they lost the war to
or whatever, but they've said America is in this like
economic hardship now and they do this this walk every
year and it's supposed to uplift the spirits and the
person that wins gets a ton of money and one
wish And it's basically you have to walk over three

(23:49):
miles an hour and until there's one person left and
you get certain warnings and things like that that explained
in the movie. It's and I thought the novels because
like a lot obviously one person lives, so a lot
of people die in this movie, and I thought the
novelty would wear off, and it does not at all.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh, it just so it's kind of like a monkey
where like it's just it's keeps keeps going, you know, yes,
yeah to say like another recent Stephen King.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Movie like yes one percent, and and because you feel
like the weight of the deaths continue to happen and
you see the bonds form between these boys and everything
like that. David Johnson who is in this movie, and
he was in Alien Romulus last year. He was the
synthetic great movie in Alien Romulus. And this dude is

(24:32):
going to be like the guy I think you're kind
of already is like he's getting a ton of praise
for this movie, and he got a ton of brace
for Romulus. He does a lot of like like kind
of center left, meaning like you know, more like pop cultry,
like sci fi kind of kind of fufty. He doesn't
I don't see him in a rom com anytime. See
you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, yeah, I
definitely want to and continue to be in dramas. He's

(24:53):
also in this show Industry. That's an ah. I love Industry, dude.
I love season one. In the season to.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
The latest season, Oh my god, it was so fucking good.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I gotta get back on it. That's one of those
shows that I was like, I got HBO Max specifically
for that I would watch it. I was like, this awesome. Sorry,
back back to The Long Walk. That's the main thing
in The Long Walk. It's just like it's brutal, totally
rated are they do not pull back any punches. But
it's also like very beautiful of how it explores humanity

(25:32):
and friendships and life itself. Which is crazy because the
Life of Chuck came out this year, which is also
Stephen King adaptation, and that's literally that whole movie is
about embracing the beauty of life and like knowing your
fate and purpose and everything like that. So it's kind
of wild that there's like two Stephen King adaptations that
are like not even remotely similar tonally or how they're

(25:53):
portrayed as the adaptation, but they have like similar themes.
I just think that's fascinating and amazing. And Life go
watch Life Shuck I mentioned a few episodes ago. But
Nelson in it. Yeah, it has a ton of like
Shoeytael Edgery Foro is in it, Karen Gillan's in it,
Mark Hamill's also in that one. I feel like Mark
Hamill has become the token Stephen King guy. Yeah, Matthew

(26:18):
Liller is also in it. It's industry pops on my
mind like every other week because I'm like, I should
restart that, but then I'm also like, oh, yeah, I
just got screeners for Tulsa King and then Marvel's Ons
show that I love the ship.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Out of that is that is I love I love
Tulsa King.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
That I really like the show. I think, I think
it's so fun. Sylvester Sloan is perfect for this role,
and this season feels very similar to season two, and
that's kind of what bothers me, not in a bad way,
it just feels kind of repetitive, just with new characters
in the same positions that he was in in season two.
Other than spoilers for season two, but he ends getting
taken in by the FEDS and he kind of obviously

(26:57):
in season three kind of becomes an informant for the fence,
and that is obviously a big factor, and that's kind
of the most interesting thing. But it's of course Dwight
gets another business venture and then he then then they
have to go figure out how to run this different business.
It's like so it's very much the same as season too,
and then he's like, oh, there's another old time boss
that wants to cut the pie, and you know, it's

(27:17):
like the same thing.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I love how it's like first season is like I'm
gonna get in the weed business and buy a bar,
and then the second season he's like, we're gonna do
a windmill of a casino and a wind farm, and
I'm just like and like, what is it now he's
gonna be was he buying a fucking nuclear power plan
in this one?

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Or what? Booze booze? Like he buys like a like
a an age long Oh, he goes like a liquor
or something. Yeah, it's kind of like when when Turtle
buys the tequila company and uh, the last season of Urage, Yeah,
he ends up buying like a I can't remember the
like I'm straight edge, I don't fucking know this ship

(27:57):
some really fancy top shelf liquor. And then of course
he was entangled with this other guy who happens to
be Robert Patrick, who's fucking awesome and it's so cool.
It's so wild watch everything, dude, yet like watching Peacemaker
and being like Robert Patrick and Frank Carillo, and then
you watch Tulsa King, it's like, oh yeah, also there's
Robert Patrick and Frank Grillo and it's it's just funny.

(28:17):
It's just funny that yeah, it's it's it's awesome. But
so the screeners I got, I got the first six
episodes and episode three and on are not finished, and
as you get further in, they're like really not finished,
Like the color grading is off. Some of the ad
R stuff is like sampled from a completely different person

(28:39):
that you can easily tell it's just some person being
like blanket statement here, and then obviously it gets recorded
over there is certain like establishing shots that it's just
text on the screen and they haven't edited in yet.
Some of the driving sequences are them in a car
with blue screen all around it. The best part is

(29:00):
when there's gun violence because it's just the gun and
then them going bang and there's no VFX on like
the person getting shot, so they just go and then
nothing happens. I'm like, this is hilarious and an unforgettable
experience that I will share this until the end of
time because it's sem to.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Get on, like I need to start a podcast to
I can get some screeners. It happened a lot.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
To be honest, there's some stuff where like there'd be
like a shot of the effs where you can tell like, oh,
that's obviously not finished, but nothing like this where it's
like some of the episode, I mean to be fair,
like episode six comes out six weeks from now or whatever,
so they got obviously they're still working on it, and
I'm not judging it for that. It's just really funny.

(29:41):
But yeah, usually it's like a shot or something and
you're like, oh, yeah, that's obviously not finished.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
But aside from that real quick, Alien Earth gave us
one of the best alien movies ever. A couple of
a couple of couple of weeks ago is awesome. It
The new episode airs tonight. So we have a song
called Spacecraft's off our second album and rehearsal. We were
recording our rehearsal to send to our sound guy so

(30:06):
he can do like a like a remote mix so
that when he flies in he just has to put
this file on them on the on the console and
half of his work is done for him because he's
based on Nashville. Hey, Hey, Phil, we had all been
watching Alien Earth and we were talking about Alien Earth
and Brian it was the season where you find out
what happened with the ship, and Brian hadn't seen it yet,

(30:29):
so me and Steve were talking about it like in
like kind of incognito, just being like, yeah, that that
one part where that thing happened that was so sick like.
And then I literally said the line it gave us
the best alien movie ever. And then so we kept
talking about Alien Earth. And then when Spacecrafts came on,
I was just joking and doing like fake stage manter

(30:49):
like for Phil and I was like, I was like, yeah,
this is a song off our second album. We wrote
it about the movie about the show called Alien Earth.
Alien Earth Tuesdays at eight on FX and Disney Plus
and Hulu, and then kept playing it, and then we
kept bringing and then anytime there was like a part
where we needed to do it or whatever, and being like, yeah,
Alien Earth APM on FX and FX and Hulu and

(31:12):
Disney Plus and all that, and just making it seem
like we were in we were sponsored by Alien Earth.
And it got to the point where it was the
day of our CD release show We're rehearsing that morning
because with Phil in the room and I kept doing
the Alien I did it probably eight or nine times,
and I just kept saying, like, man, can't get enough
of that Alien Earth, you know, Alien Earth eight pm

(31:34):
every Tuesday FX, you know. And then eventually it was
just like Alien Earth Tuesday's eight FX, you know. And
then just like how like they do like the like
how like a paid person would. So during our show,
Spacecrafts comes up. Brian's in the middle of like saying
something kind of kind of like sentimental about like the
crowd and stuff, and I said, yeah, so like ten

(31:55):
years ago we put out an album called a Place
of our Own. Who's heard that? Well, this songs on
that We wrote it about Alien Earth Tuesday's eight pm
on FX called space Crafts, and then literally did it.
And then halfway through the show, We're tuning again. Is
one of those things where like I didn't really have
a lot to talk about. I said, so, who's been

(32:16):
watching Alien Earth Tuesdays on FFX at Disney Plus, you know,
and then kept pushing this thing. Each episode of Alien
Earth ends with like a rock song. If one of
our songs could get on Alien Earth, I swear to
God I would lose my shit because like in order,
it'd be wrestling, NASCAR movies and like Alien like and

(32:38):
Marvel and DC like those are like my favorite franchises.
And if Art and we already got played during a
Ravens game. We already got wrestlers that love us. We
actually got into a couple of wrestling shows for free
because there's some independent wrestlers.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
That we love that love us.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
And next up, Ridley Scott and FX and Disney, I'm
looking at you. We have been endorsing your show. There
are literally people who did not watch Alien Earth that
went to that show. Hurt us doing this Alien Earth
bit Alien Earth Tuesdays at eight FX and then literally
and then literally are tagging us being like get our

(33:15):
TV shows from have mercy, Guart TVs have mercy. So
like FX, you're welcome, Disney, you're welcome, Fox, You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Sorry, that's an amazing story. Hey, Noah, Holly said he
has plans for multiple seasons of this series, so we
can manifest that.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
The drops, like yeah, one of the needle drops being
like spacecrafts, like literally could you imagine just like Xenomorph
knocks out like a human, dragging it like down like
one of the hallways or whatever. As it's like walking
into like a light doors, those famous doors like close
and literally as it's closing you just hear that from

(33:56):
spacecrafts or right as it closed. Noah, you can have
at see like I I had. I'm minored in film
in college because I like, I just love movies. And
one of the movies that so Monday nights we would
go to like this big lecture hall and we would
do like a pop quiz on the movie we had
to watch like the week of, and then we would
watch a movie. One of them was Aliens, and it

(34:18):
was like literally just sitting in a movie theater and
watching Aliens.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
I was like, fuck yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
So like Alien Earth, Tuesday's at eight FX great show
that series, along with Peacemaker, South Park and and and
I'm trying and like I'm just waiting for Marvel Zombies
now even though they're all getting dropped in the same day.
And also the paper surprising surprised me. It was pretty fun.

(34:44):
It was pretty fun. But those are like the four
like series that I've just been like anti, like I
hold my breath. If I held my breath like waiting
for the next episode, I pass out. Because I was
just because I just love those shows so much. Like
when I was a kid, I used to quate trash
Day with what show came on that day. I was like, well,

(35:04):
trash goes out when South Park goes on. So during
the first commercial break of South Park, I'll take the
trash out and then Trash comes in the day that
Law and Order comes on. Recycling goes out when this
comes on, and it comes back in when that comes on,
you know, and that type of thing. So I've always
just like I my schedule at work can be all jambled,

(35:26):
and the only way I know what day of the
week it is is by what show is on and
what show is and like what, Like I know when
it's Wednesdays because it's Wednesday night. You know what that means,
aw Dynamite. The Thursday's is Law and Order. Fridays is
usually like that is SmackDown, the Saturdays is Collisions. Sundays
is I just go to work on Sundays. Monday is

(35:49):
Platonic Tuesday, and then Friday is also Peacemaker, but Monday
is Platonic, Tuesday is Alien Earth, Tuesday's a day, and
on FX Wednesday is I switch between south Park and
watching Dynamite live or because or watching a recap at
Dynamite because they've been doing that on week off week
thing Thursdays. I've just been watching the old Law and

(36:10):
Order episodes to get ready for a new Law and Order,
even though they're all, you don't need to do that.
I just and then yeah, so and then Fridays is Peachmaker, dude.
I just I just love TV. I love it so much.
What are some shows you've been watching.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
So I have seen. I've seen all of Marvel Zombies
and is it worse part of me? Yeah, is pretty
fucking awesome. I'm not I'm not gonna lie. I think
what I like about it the most is you can
watch it without watching anything. Obviously, it's very isolated. It
does take place after the what if Marvel Zombies episode,
like that is like the inciting incident of it, and

(36:43):
this is kind of the aftermath of the outbreak and stuff.
But it has so many like really weird wild connections
to like MCU lore that I was just like, this
is so cool. That's what's got me. That's exciting. The
action is awesome. It's fully TV m a as as
they have promised. It's it fits this like really weird

(37:06):
middle ground because obviously they made like Deadpool work in
the MCU by just having it be Deadpool and letting
them let them do their thing. This feels like a
true tv M A thing that feels like Marvel stuff,
like Marvel of old. It's not like Echo or was
Echo where that was tv M A and Daredevil where
that was like tvm A. But like this is like

(37:28):
a little bit more gory. Would you say, yeah, yeah,
it's like fully fully gory, but like the tone is
it feels more like other MCU stuff, whereas like Daredevil
felt kind of like more of a continuation of the
Netflix series because that's just felt like this doesn't need
to exist. Mostly, yes, most.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Marvel TV doesn't need to exist, but you know, like
for example, Hawkeye was surprisingly fun, but back to Marvel Zombies.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yeah, but yeah, that's the cool thing with this is that,
like obviously a lot of people in MCU they're like,
I don't understand how this Avengers movie is gonna work.
There's been no build up, which I disagree with and
can go on a big tangent about that. But because
people are trying to compare it to how Thanos was
built up. I was like, oh, yeah, because he was
in a movie a post credit scene and then showed up.
That was his build up. Get the fuck out of here. Yeah,

(38:17):
it wasn't that much build up. You're just comparing to compare.
But what it proved is that they can make this
sort of like event world ending type thing with this
random cast of characters, and it can work with like
zero build up, zero anything. And the main characters kind
of of this end up being Miss Marvel Kamala Kahn Lena,

(38:39):
which obviously she's gonna be a massive factor, and Avengers
Judy after went in the Thunderbolts and Thunderbolts by the way,
I saw that so good, Yeah, so so good, and
Shun she is also like those. I'd say those three
are the main characters.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
In it, because I knew in the in the what
if it was a Spider Man Paul ry Head, and
I forget who the third one black Panther, Black Panther. Yeah,
And then I like that we have a Moonnight Blade
coming in, like he is so sick.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Obviously there's been a lot of weird production issues with
Blade and the MCU's version and shit like that. This
kind of tempered. I've been of the of the mindset
that they are delaying it because they want to make
sure they get it right and they don't want to
put out that sucks, which I'm all for that. Fuck yeah,
that's a great attitude and way to go about things, honestly.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I mean, that's what James Gun's doing with the DCU,
and I love it, Like I don't care if I
have to wait seven years for a for Batman to
join the Justice League, as long as it's done correctly,
you know, like and you know that. And I feel
like that's what the mcgu is finally getting to with
like the Thunderbolts, and like they kind of realized with
like Brave New World and Secret Invasion, like we don't
need to do this bullshit, Like we can just put

(39:52):
out a group team up movie and the people that
know these like it didn't do well at the box office,
but did amazing at home and to like Marvel fans,
like people like us that have watched all those movies
know where all these characters are from. Like I feel
like if Star Wars and Marvel and Disney and Reality,
just like I understand they want everybody for like money wise,

(40:13):
but if you just focus on creating quality content for
these fans that you already have for laps, fans like myself, like,
you'll get all of us back, You'll get us spending
our money to like do that. You know, we're and
I feel like they. I feel like with Marvel Zombies,
that's what they're doing, is there is They're just being
like they're getting our faith back in Marvel TV. You know.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah, like I said, it's like that. That's the biggest
thing I took from it is that, like, oh yeah,
and I had no doubt about Avengers Doomsday anyway, Like yeah,
RDJ is an all time actor, so I have no
doubt he's gonna pall off Doom for these two movies.
And Secret Wars is one of my favorite comic events
I've ever read in most oh yeah, so oh yeah.

(40:52):
I've been talking about Secret Wars being a movie since
Endgame ended. I've been talking about that happening. So like
when it got announced, I was like, holy fuck. I
was like, my time is now, let's fucking go.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Secret Wars is I've always wanted a movie, and I've
always wanted a Shadows of the Empire star Wars movie,
like because when when they announced the sequel trilogy, I
was like, you're telling me, my boy, dash Rendar is
gonna be in there.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
And then now he's just like he doesn't exist anymore.
But I'm really glad that that Marvel is like pulling
out like the like like moonnight Blade has existed in
the comic books and they're just like he's coming with us.
Shang Chi. He is one of the best, like one
of the most underutilized like Marvel heroes, and he is

(41:35):
fucking sick.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Like the last show I've been watching, Yeah, it's it's
It just started on HBO. It's called Task and yeah,
you go watch the Ask Dude. I literally have not
seen the Mayor of Queenstown, but I was like, you're
telling me Mark Ruffalo and Ben Meacham from Ironfister in this.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Okay, I'm in, like you know. And it also takes
place outside of Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
And I love making fun of those motherfuckers because if
there's one thing, it's Baltimore and Philadelphia. Just have this.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Have thisw I do say water. But like also like
the way he's like he's like, oh yeah, I know,
dawn't like me and him go, we won't go way back. Yeah,
me and your dad, we work together. It's like it's
like that motherfucker sounds like he's from Dundalk, which is
like a part of Baltimore. And I'm just like I
can just relate to these garbage people because like he's
the thing. They're not white trash. They're white garbage, just

(42:28):
like me, I'm white garbage. The white trash is like
loose collected, you know, kind of scatterbrain. We're like collected,
Like I can present as a normal person of society,
but as soon as I get home, I'm gonna go
wash my car with the water from the hose, you
know what I'm saying, Like you know, like that's like
that's literally like I put on a voice, like this
is not my actual speaking voice that I'm using with you.

(42:50):
Like I'm trying very hard not to say water or
phone or oreos or ambulance, you know, like all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
I call it with crowns, you know, like it's just
you know, it's it's so funny. So I once I
saw that it took place in like Philadelphia and they
were talking like that, I was like, hell yeah, brother.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
I also love the whole like idea of it. I
don't really know a lot. It's only been two episodes,
but I love that show.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah, the way the way they've been. I love a
show because, Okay, this is the problem I have with
certain people and how they interpret media nowadays is they
need everything answered, which I think is dumb and no
offense to people were like that and they're like, I'm
so confused. What's going on? Motherfucker? You watch the whole
thing and then you make that assessment after they tell

(43:37):
you the story, and guess what if something is planned
for multiple seasons, you're not gonna get all the answers
in season one.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Yep, saw yep, my boy shots said it shot shots right.
I love shows when they're like they have a plotline,
they have a plan, and they stick to it, you know,
and it's like I love these shows where like I
don't know what I know just as much about what's
going on as the main maybe a little bit more

(44:06):
than the main inspector in the series, you know what
I'm saying. And I love that. That's what Alien Earth
did with like the first five episodes, where they would
just show you flashbacks of the ship crash and you
kind of know, like what went on, you kind of
don't know, and then they give you the whole thing
from start to finish, and then they just jump back

(44:26):
into like the normal shit, and I'm just like, hell yeah, brother,
and with task, this show fucking rips, dude.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
I love it. It was one of those ones where
I was like I was bored, Like I finished watching
The Paper, finished watching Department Q, I didn't want to
watch that new lawyer show on USA anymore that's like
based on a time book, The Rainmaker, And I was like,
just needed a new show, and I watched it. Just
so happened that there was two episodes and I was like,

(44:54):
let me check it out, and I was heavily surprised
and fell in love with it. And now I'm just
like I've been instagram tests Sundays that Sundays it ain't
on eahbo, you know, so you could have that one.
So I know you say you didn't watch Mariv's Town,
but it's not only is it the same creators and
stuff like that, it's same world, supposedly same world and

(45:18):
if you love that whole outside of Philadelphia talk like
it was coined as like this creator. It was coined
in that series, and that series is also awesome.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Oh they're all gonna say ambulance and phone hey lemon
Bard is that.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
One is more of a mystery, It's like more of
a whodune it of that one, but it has this
very much totally similar. It is so good.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
I love a good like heist, slash like high like
high thought like crime kind of movie like I love
like The Place Beyond the Pines and all that, and
I feel like this has kind of a very similar
vibe of just like guys that don't get in over
their heads, not really knowing what they're doing, but starting

(46:02):
off doing one thing and end up doing another thing,
kind of like that movie Mystic River, you know, kind
of kind of similar vibes to that, kind of similar
to No Country for Old Men a little bit. If
you're a fan of those things. Task is for you,
you know, and I'm me and my friend.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Liam have been we'll text each other every Monday and
we'll be like, go see what happened to asking pretty
much we're like fucking crazy. It's awesome. It's awesome. Yeah,
go watch Task if you if you haven't started Task,
go Alien Earth Peacemaker Task Task.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Any any other shows that people should watch that I
should watch.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
You listened a lot like Platonic. I saw the whole
sex season two, and I think that's like such an
underrated comedic gem that's also very smart of what of
how it examines friendships, especially friendships in adult age, and
truly examining if platonic friends are possible being and seeing
how those relationships affect like your more central relationships. I

(46:59):
think that was so eerly like sneakily genius.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Being somebody who like two of my closest friends in
this world are of the opposite sex. It it's one
of those things where it has been in like previous
relationships has been an issue where they're like you're you're
cheating on me with them. It's like no, like Charlotte
and I literally just went to the bar and just
made fun of people all night and you know, like
that's it, or like Angie and I just like did this,

(47:25):
like you know it wasn't you know, And I feel
like Platonic does kind of the first season is that
whole like won't they won't they? You know if you
know what I'm saying, you know, and then and then
the second season is kind of building up on like
how that how like balancing like your friends and your family,
you know, kind of like that. I feel like that's

(47:45):
what this season is all about. Also, another one that
Apple has been killing with, which also swept at the Emmys,
was The Studio, which I absolutely love.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
There's been so much good shit that has come out.
One of my.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
One of my favorite ones that I always recommend if
you just want a show to just put on, turn
your brain off, very low stakes. You know everything's gonna
turn out good, even though it doesn't always. The Rookie
on ABC and Hulu starring Nathan Fillyon as the LAPD's
like oldest rookie to enlist, and just seeing his character

(48:22):
art like being somebody like from like a law enforcement
like like I have uncles that were cops and like,
you know, my dad worked for the police department. Like
it was just like you know, like I just those
shows are just like I'm just like, I fucking hate
the cops, but I love shows about cops, you know
what I'm saying, Like like one of those things where
I'm just like it. But that's one of those shows

(48:44):
that I'm just like This is very low stakes, very comforting,
you know, and if you just don't have anything to watch,
throw it on. It's surprisingly entertaining.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Yeah, I think I think one just popped up on
Hulu like a random episode, and I was like, this
seems like a good background TV show.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Yeah, it's exactly that. It's like, yeah, it's like it's
kind of like The Resident that was very similar, where
it was like The Resident the Good Doctor like came
out at the same time, and the Good Doctor was
the more like drama like you know, that type of thing,
where the Resident was like House because they're all snarky,
but it's also like a little bit edgier, and and

(49:22):
you have like three different doctors doing three different things
and all that, and and I feel like that was
for a while, like during COVID, like when I was
like doing dishes or like cleaning my apartment, that would
be on on like Hulu while I was just like
doing ship and I'd just be like, oh shit, she
got shot. Damn Okay, back to back, I mean, you know, like.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
You know, got shot damn, yeah, you know damn Yeah.
But Drew Show, no problem, this is great. If you
ever want me on again, you know iw to get ahold.
I'm this is a great time. I've had a great time.
I would love to catch up when all these shows

(50:02):
are over and rank them on on the Andrew scale.
I like that. I like that.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
I have a friend Max who has an even better scale.
If you want to hear about that one. She just
rates things one or two. It's either good or bad.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
That's it. You can't get simpler than that.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
We went saw we went and saw that movie with
the Rocks San Andreas. He's like it's too good. He's
like it's two. And then like but then we saw
like something else.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
He was like that was one, you know, like and uh,
I was just like, what's this On the Max scale,
He's like it's a it's a two, you know. Like
so like I was just like, okay, well so it's
like five out of five Andrews or is like three
out of five means like it's like a like a
two point five out of five Andrews.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
You know, like it's not good, but it's not bad.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
You know. I can appreciate that way. That's great. Before
we get out of here, please let people know what
have mercy that is going on and where they can
find you.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Yeah, so have Mercy m D on all the socials.
So we're leaving for Boys Night Out. We're hot on
the train Wreck twentieth anniversary tour in October, and then
we got some stuff in the pipeline for the winter.
Our album The Loneliest Place I've Ever Been is out
now on Rude Records, and if I'm missing anything, We

(51:15):
just put out a live music video for our buddy
Tom put that together for August seventeenth. That's that's what
we're pushing now. A video for Little Pieces just came out,
which Brian actually put together and it's compiled of the
last two years since we got back together, of touring
and all of it just being put to It's literally
a bunch of little pieces of the band over the

(51:38):
last two years put together to music.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
It's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
And Yeah, other than that, you know, just hanging out
with my boy Sean virtually. Yeah, that's about it.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
That's all we've been doing. Yeah, check out Guitar Center.
We got guitar so on coming up.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Buy some stuff from there. You go, there, you go, Yeah,
if you're in the area, go buy guitar.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
I can literally ship nationwide all forty eight. Maybe no,
you don't even got to be in the Talis and
Guitar Center.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
You can just call that's amazing. Yeah, I'll put the
number up right here. I'm not gonna do that, don't.
I'm I'm not. I'm not gonna do that. I'll link
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air nerds.