Subculture Radio Show Ep #108

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
After almost twelve billion streams on social networks and numerous
number one hits under their belt, Five Finger Death Punchers
celebrating their twentieth anniversary with the release of a brand
new album called Best Of Volume One, a collection of
re recorded versions of the band's most iconic chart topping
hits available everywhere right now. The move to re record

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these tracks came in response to the recent sale of
the band's original master recordings by their former label, an
action made without their knowledge or the opportunity to reclaim
their work. Not to be defeated, the band decided that
they were going to re record their most iconic tracks
and give it to you the public with their Best
Of Volume One. It'll be available right across all the

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streaming platforms and will also be released worldwide in physic
with physical CDs and vinyl formats. There are also a
whole bunch of merch copies as well going out there,
so make sure you check Five Finger Death Punches website
for more information on how to grab a copy of
Best Of Volume one. And welcome to Subculture meets the

(01:19):
Popcorn Conspiracy. I'm Dave g and joining me right now
is Harley.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Welcome mate, Hello, Welcome to the show. Everyone. We're back
with lots more of culture and entertainment goodness, and I'm
going to let Dave tell you exactly what today's goodness is.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, well, we're going to start with a bit of
sad news. Of course, Ozzy Osborne passed away this week.
The Godfather of heavy metal as many people have called
him over the years. And look, Ozzie Osborne has done
a lot over the years. He's released a lot of music,
both as a solo artist and also with Black Sabbath.

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Him and Sharon have also discovered a lot of bands
and artists over the years as well. There's a lot
of musicians out there that probably wouldn't have the careers
that they have today if it wasn't for Ozzie and
Sharon Osborne. And I think this one's come as a
bit of a shock as well, because of course we
saw him perform the last ever show only a couple

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of weeks ago. So we're going to pay tribute to
Ozzie Osbourne today. And of course, on the day that
Ozzie passed away, we had a listener contact us as
well and say how much it was affecting her. But
also what artists' deaths have affected us the most over
the years as well, So Harley and I are going

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to jump into that a little bit later on. We've
also got a bunch of new music today as well.
We've got new music from the Goo Goo Goo Goo Dolls,
We've got new music from The Living End. We're going
to debut Rihanna's brand new song as well from the Smurfs,
and I'm also going to review this and Alio. Talking
of movies, we're also going to do a preview for

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the Melbourne International Film Festival because Harley, Kyle and myself
will all be attending the festival. We're going to chat
to psychedelic hard rockers Earthless about their Australian tour that
is coming up, and we're also going to chat to
a couple of the cast members of Footloose, the musical
which went on sale in Melbourne earlier this year and

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sold out in three weeks. They did not have any
spare seats at all for the entire season, so now
they're starting an encore season back in Melbourne before hopefully
hitting the road and going around Australia as well. So
we're going to chat to Jared who is the star
of Footloose, And we're also going to chat to Australian

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Theater Royalty Stephen May who's also part of the Footloose
cast as well. Harley. So it's a big show today.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
It is indeed, So I suppose we better get footloose
and get into the show.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah. So we're gonna kick off today's show with a
little bit of a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne. We're going
to play an absolutely amazing track if he is an
underrated track, I think of he is that a lot
of people overlook from his Osmosis album. We're going to
play see You on the Other Side by Ozzy Osbourne.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Voices A thousand thousand voices, Woyisbury, the time has bear
for you, choices, Golden Days, Bassy.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yes but.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
One way again, my name the side, listen, I don't
name this side, leave me, leave me.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
I ain't to see you, Fris.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
Breathing breab brea, I ain't to say good bye, don't
say as birds.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
I said this guys out in the sky. Got to
see you guys do and I see I see your
name listen, Yes, I.

Speaker 8 (06:17):
See you.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
My name this bes stray be got side.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
God knows.

Speaker 9 (07:50):
I was drawn to your light.

Speaker 10 (07:54):
I'm a fire.

Speaker 11 (07:56):
You ignae were staying, but with pure world it's cruel,
but it's beautiful, the huge condition they're at your heart.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
You don't have to worry.

Speaker 12 (08:13):
I loved you from the start because you know you're incredible, chemical,
physical chick into my bones, because your words are so larcal, and.

Speaker 8 (08:26):
You won't ever seen it.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
Cry because nothing else forever.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
To make, no promises, done it all it.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
Is because nothing else. I'm nothing.

Speaker 9 (08:48):
My arm our place like a soul that's just safe.

Speaker 12 (08:56):
Seas the past from in front of me put it
in flames, watching burn, watching burn, it's eks a.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
The pain when you were born in the yashes with
innocent again.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
And never come to burn downing, don't ever see me cry.

Speaker 8 (09:19):
There's nothing like forever, don't you?

Speaker 6 (09:23):
Thomas says nothing.

Speaker 13 (09:25):
I don't what it is.

Speaker 14 (09:27):
And nothing less forever.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Time.

Speaker 12 (09:38):
Shut my mouth and learn, listen, open up my eyes
what I'm missing.

Speaker 8 (09:46):
It's all so easy to believe in.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
Now, it's all so easy just.

Speaker 15 (09:52):
To leave in prices, prices, prices.

Speaker 8 (10:01):
Happen laughing, I do ever seen a crime.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
It's nothing that's for it. Don't you make your thomases done.

Speaker 8 (10:31):
What it is, it's nothing like it.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
Nothing, it's nothing else.

Speaker 8 (11:08):
I'm gonna feel a set fool.

Speaker 9 (11:11):
On the day that he comes, heal.

Speaker 16 (11:14):
Skin what the ball man does anniction divide and with
messages and then he want shut to us?

Speaker 8 (11:26):
What apology to things?

Speaker 5 (11:29):
I can feel attention in my.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
Soul feels like the weld is out of the truth.

Speaker 16 (11:34):
I can feel attention in my soul, feels like.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
The web's out of control, the truth control control.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
I know I don't.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
I don't trust no religion, politition.

Speaker 8 (11:50):
I don't trust rocking ros.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I only trust rocking rooms.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
And then FI.

Speaker 17 (12:04):
Don't need to make a change.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
Half one peason.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
While the other half one.

Speaker 10 (12:10):
Flood, no asses, no justice that goes through the streets,
long man, nervous, crazy from the hes.

Speaker 18 (12:22):
I can feel attention in my phones bez like the
well is out of control. I can feel attention in
my soul, bes like the well is out of control.

Speaker 8 (12:32):
Controls control control.

Speaker 6 (12:35):
And I know I don't.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
I don't trust no religion, polititions trust, I can't love.

Speaker 16 (12:50):
Yes, no religion politician.

Speaker 10 (13:23):
I won't fear the devil. On the day that he comes,
he don't scare me like the government does a nation divided.

Speaker 8 (13:35):
My message of hate was shot too early.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
An apology to this.

Speaker 16 (13:43):
So I can feel attention in my soul.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
He's like the web's out of control.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
I can feel attention in my soul.

Speaker 16 (13:50):
Be's like the what's out of control? Control?

Speaker 5 (13:55):
Control, control, Still, don't stay.

Speaker 8 (14:10):
Trust trust rock and Roll Heli spokesman, well Adicion Religion.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
Don't let officially trust.

Speaker 14 (14:29):
Rock and Roll.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well listeners. Footloos the musical is returning back to Melbourne
for an encore season and we thought today we would
actually chat to the start of the show to find
out a little bit more about how he feels about
coming back to Melbourne and to find out a little
bit more about himself and also his performance in Footloost
as well. So, without any other further ado, let's welcome

(14:58):
Jared Moore to the show. Jared, welcome, Thank you, seving
me no worries now, Jared, we are so excited that
footloosey is returning back to Melbourne. Tell us a little
bit about how you feel about coming back for a
return Melbourne season.

Speaker 13 (15:15):
Look, it's not very often you get to just do
a show once and then you get to come back
and do it over again. But after the last season
which we sold that in three weeks, it's pretty exciting
to be able to come back and do it for
a whole bunch of new people, if not maybe even
some people come and to see it again.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
So yeah, I know, it's really exciting, definitely.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
So Jared, let's go right back to the beginning, because
you know, you were a newcomer coming into this show.
A lot of the cast have got vast experience and
other musicals over the years, but you came into this
as a newcomer. So tell us a little bit about
that journey. How did this all kick off for you?

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, well, it's been a little bit.

Speaker 13 (15:54):
I've been kind of chipping away the industry for a while,
Like I graduated UNI, and then I did some contracts
overseas at theme parks, and then it was about twenty
post COVID where I finally said it to be like, no, okay,
let's give it a red hot crack the true misk
coal fitter industry.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
And yeah, no, I was actually doing a show in in.

Speaker 13 (16:17):
Melbourne at Chapel Off Chapel, a little a cabaret style
pantos show with Trevor Ashley called them Mulin Scrooge and
Davey kame saw the show and then he got in
contact and was like, hey, we're justsing footloose?

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Can you to the callbacks? And I was like, oh, yeah, sure,
I'm not a Melbourn, I'm available, why not? So yeah,
we've and that was that was history. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (16:40):
I went in kind of knew all the material before
because I knew some of them, was caught this stuff.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
From auditioning previously for certain shows. And yeah, that was it.
That was history.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
So what was that moment, Like we always talk about
life changing moments when a phone call comes through or
something like that, what was that moment like when you
first got asked to so come along on an audition?
Because I'm guessing that doesn't happen very often where you
receive the call normally it would be you it's just
going along to an audition.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah. No, it's pretty surreal it really. Maybe you feel
a little bit, oh okay, maybe this is what this
is what it feels like.

Speaker 13 (17:15):
They can't be in the big leagues at that point,
because yeah, being asked to come an audition and stuff,
it's it's quite affirming, and it's like Oh, someone has
seen you on stage performing and they've been like I
really like what they're doing and I want to see
them do something else.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
So it's like if they're kind of affirmation and then
also a bit of an excitement to be like, wow, this.

Speaker 13 (17:34):
Could lead to more, which is the dream always is
to be able to do something to then go on
to something else.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
So yeah, for young performers out there, though, did that
put more pressure on you?

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Like?

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Did you feel more pressure because you were being invited
then say, if you were just turning up for a
cold audition.

Speaker 13 (17:53):
A little bit in a way, it has that kind
of expectation because you're like, oh, they've seen me, and
that you want to live up to their expectations. Also,
this this just happened to be a look enough turnaround
of a process. They didn't have too much time to
dwell on it, really, which is sometimes the best. Sometimes
your worst auditions you do are the ones where you
spend a month preparing for it and you really want

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to do well, so you put a bunch of pressure
on yourself.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
Or is this one it was hey, can you come audition?
And I was like, sure, I'll see you in two days.

Speaker 13 (18:20):
So it was kind of just like throw yourself in
and that car sometimes has the best outcomes because you
can generally have time to overthink.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
You just get to be your own authentic self.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
So then, what was it like stepping into the character
of Ran As you said, you already knew some of
the Footloot material, But what was that like then? For
that next step stepping into the character and getting to
learn the rest of the show.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
It was actually really nice.

Speaker 13 (18:46):
Granted I had to watch the film because I had
not seen the original film, so I was like, right,
I'll do some research and I'll watch that to make
sure I you see what kind of where it's come from.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
But the musical is a down beast separate from the film,
so it was really really opening.

Speaker 13 (19:03):
To kind of dig away at rend and see what
they've taken from the film and how they.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Fleshed them out a bit more for stage as well,
which is really interesting the ways.

Speaker 13 (19:11):
Fun because obviously characters from screen don't always immediately translate to.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
On stage, so they're given a little bit more, a
little bit more, a little.

Speaker 13 (19:24):
Bit more, a little bit more fist, there's a little
bit more of a cutting edge as well, which translates
twelve for stage. But yeah, no, it was a It
was a really really, really good experience to kind of
like get in touch with this character that so many
people know so well, and yet try and make it
your own as well, so you're trying to like serve

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two narratives.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
I was going to ask that about the movie as well,
because I remember chatting to the cast of Cruel Intentions
and they said, sometimes it's very difficult to walk into
a role that is based on such a classic movie
because everybody knows the character from the movie. It's kind
of difficult to walk in and make it your own.
How did you find that experience of finding that right
mix of what Wren was like in the film, so

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then making it your own role, especially with the differences
there in the musical as well.

Speaker 13 (20:17):
Yeah, I definitely think what helped me was I didn't
try and really create anything Kevin did in the movies.
In the movie, I kind of I looked at the
text it's itself and kind of dug it through the
actual script itself first, and that was my main intro
to Ren. And I took everything from the text and
the stage directions and everything, and that's how I created

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my own image of rem and then when I watched
the film, then I was like, okay, I could kind
of like cherry pick bits and pieces of like, oh,
it's a little bit more, a little bit more nonchalant,
or that's kind of an attitude you could bring, but
it's you've already kind of like had it already created
a base of a character there, so it's just kind
of like a little flavor on top enough to get
people to be like, oh, yeah, you're the Kevin Bacon

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guy when you see them after the show. So I
was like, Okay, I think I've I've done enough then,
enough to make it my own, but enough to still
get the fans of the original film happy and on side.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Now that both versions of the movie, the original and
the remake. Of course, I've got such amazing soundtracks. What
was that like for you and the rest of the
crew to start working on bringing these amazing tracks to
the stage.

Speaker 13 (21:28):
The music itself, I think is some of the best
parts of the show because I didn't realize just how
much of the music from the show was also originally
written for the film as well. So when you want
to do the original film, a lot of the key
production numbers, and even some of the smaller numbers from
the show are in the movie, but they'll be playing
on the radio in the background. They'll be playing in
the background, so while they're not singing and dancing two

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the said songs, they're always kind of president through the film,
so they actually it's a really interesting version of a
it's like a half a j jukebox musical because while
they are modern pop there a lot of them were
pop rock songs of the time make famous by the movie.
They were all originally written for the movie, so they
serve the plot of the of the musical then quite well.

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And then there's a couple of songs peppet in as well,
they were written exclusively for the musical. So yeah, it's
been great finding the new numbers or finding light of
old numbers, like holding Out for a Hero, which has
always been you've noticed that the number from from from
the original eighties and and for Loose Music movie, but

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then to see it translated into the musical as well,
it's just as doubly.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
As funny get to find ye oh my god.

Speaker 13 (22:37):
This is this is how we're relating it to these
characters now as well, So it kind of brings the
whole show to life in that way, which is really cool.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Now.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
I know this might be like asking someone who their
favorite child is, but do you have a favorite musical
number from the show?

Speaker 13 (22:55):
Look, guitar, there's a lot of good ones. But I
would say that maybe it's because I'm not in it,
but I really do love holding out three Hero.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
But that's me as RN. I'mside stage. I get to
watch Pro'll be a great one to be in.

Speaker 13 (23:10):
But aside from that one, let's hear it for the Boy,
which happens to act too, is kind of like a
real standout for the whole show because it's a great
little moment between Willard and Rusty as.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
The characters and their character stories.

Speaker 13 (23:22):
And then it's fun for Ren at that point to
take a bit of a backseat and just kind of
like support and we just need to have a dance.
And it's that point of the movie where they've left
the musical, where they've gotten out of bon Monts, so
they can Ren can like show them what dancing is
like and show them to take them dancing. So it's
a really really fun part of the show every single
night because we're just literally us as actors and also

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characters are having fun on stage and that's kind of
the best part of any.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Show, definitely, So I wanted to ask as well for
the young performers out there that listen to this show,
what did you find was the biggest step up for you?
Like you said you were doing shows with Chapel Off Chapel,
and like for myself as a as a player, I've
done work with La Mama. What was that like taking
that next step up going from a Chapel Off Chapel
show to a big musical like Footlost. Was there much

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of a step up that you found that you had
to do and what was that biggest difference?

Speaker 13 (24:18):
It's the main kind of thing you when you step
up in terms of size of venue and everything, is
that you can't always play things as small as you'd like.
A lot of things, while you're trying to maintain the
intagony of scenes and you're trying to connect with the
people on stage, you unfortunately have to telegraph quite a
bit because you're trying to reach the back of the
dress or the back of even the top balcony, especially

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the aff which is quite tall, so a lot of
sightlines get lifted up in in production numbers and it's
like no, no, no, where Amy four dress like or
higher or a lot of scenes, well, you cheat out
a lot more than if you're in a really intimate
space where they can see. But those things, when you
kind of like get clued into them, they kind of
they come pretty n actually they don't feel too fishing genuinely,

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and then they're just come part of the stagecraft.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Okay, So Jared, I know we are running out of
time very very quickly, and I can see in the
background right now that you're already at the theater. So
I guess to finish off. Yes, you're right, I guess
to finish off. What would you like to say to
people out there who are heading along to check out
the Encore season?

Speaker 4 (25:27):
I think that they should be excited for something bigger, better.

Speaker 13 (25:33):
Electric is the is the key word that's been thrown
around for this new season, because we've taken what's happened
in the original season and we.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Said that's maybe anterest so they can have a great
time at.

Speaker 13 (25:45):
The theater and just you know a bit of escapism,
which we all like with a story that we all
love and know, with music that we all love to
know as well.

Speaker 19 (26:09):
Where all the good men gone, and where all the god?
Where the require please the bi riseing on?

Speaker 6 (26:22):
Isn't there light? Night?

Speaker 8 (26:25):
The fire, lady night, a person a.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Hero.

Speaker 14 (26:36):
I'm holding off for Rey till the end of the night.

Speaker 19 (26:40):
He's gotta be gown any God and be fast, and
he's gotta be first.

Speaker 14 (26:45):
On the bie.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Hear.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
I'm only not gonna here to the body fly.

Speaker 14 (26:53):
He's gotta be sure, he's gotta be go, and he's
gotta be fe.

Speaker 19 (26:59):
Not I when after midnight in my lab fas some

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would just be your mommy, someone your back.

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Risting on the sun, riding where it's gonna take two
farms short. I'm only enough for the end of the night.
He's gonna become and got a massive.

Speaker 19 (27:49):
He's gotta be wrist from the fire.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
I'm long enough for the morning line. He's got it
sor it's gone and he's gonna be ane.

Speaker 16 (28:09):
I correct you.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
On the end of the night.

Speaker 19 (28:40):
Blots me to happen a b I don't the light expend,
but tea what the troll the recme from the top
were like you.

Speaker 20 (28:52):
Through the wind and.

Speaker 14 (28:53):
The turn of the rain.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
I'm the tarn the.

Speaker 8 (28:59):
What the fear is A browns like a fire in
the bar.

Speaker 14 (29:04):
I'm I'm here till the end of the night. He's
gone to be strong. It's gone and be fast and
he's gotta be.

Speaker 21 (29:23):
First on the FI.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
I need here.

Speaker 8 (29:28):
I'm all I.

Speaker 14 (29:28):
Gonna hear till the morning. Now he's got I'll be
sure he got goon and it's gone the last.

Speaker 8 (29:38):
I need I hear all.

Speaker 14 (29:40):
I'm only I got a hero to me.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
It's just the night.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Well, listeners, there is a tour coming up this September.
We know a lot of you are so excited about
Earthless are coming to Australia and they are bringing an
absolutely magnificent show with them, and we thought today to
find out a little bit more about this amazing tour
that's coming up. We would actually get Aziah from the
band on the phone, So welcome to the program mate.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Hey, how are you, Dave?

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I am really well and I know so many of
our listeners are so excited about this tour coming up
in September. How are you feeling about heading to Australia?

Speaker 22 (30:55):
Just as excited, Like we love Australia so much and
we love of just the gigs have always been fantastic,
and uh, I don't know, it's it's honestly one of
our favorite places to go, go and play and spend
time and catch up with a lot of really close friends.
And yeah, it's it's a beautiful thing. Is the opportunity

(31:20):
to come again after only a few years is awesome.
So yeah, we're we're we're very happy to be coming back.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
And you have this amazing connection with our country as well,
because of course of the track Ullery Rock, tell us
a little bit about that connection that you guys have
formed with Australia. What made you fall in love with
Australia enough to go away and and write a track
about one of the most unique things that we have
in this country.

Speaker 22 (31:48):
Yeah, so it kind of there's multi parts to that answer, Like, so,
I mean me personally, when I've whenever I've been to Australia,
especially the early times, you know, not knowing anything, well,
not knowing, not knowing a lot about it.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
It's like you can do your.

Speaker 22 (32:10):
Research, you can study it, you can read and watch
about it whatever, but it's not until you get in
some place or a situation that you're really going to
start to understand it and like as soon as I
got to Australia, it's like there was like something magical
in the air, something very different, and it was It's

(32:32):
really interesting because I'm, you know, from the United States.
It's like we're also you know, colonized by Europe and
the UK and all that, so you know, you so
much of that kind of way of being in existence
has taking over the natural beauty of the place. So

(32:55):
in Australia it's like you could feel this beauty and
this huge difference rents. But then you look around and
it's like, oh wow, I feel like I mean, you know,
parts of California or the UK just with like the
buildings and structures, you know, it's there's but to be
able to see on beyond that and with the assistance

(33:16):
of the landscape and the flora and the fauna, like
it's really it's so different than anywhere I've ever been.
And if there's something in the air, I can't put
it in a different way except for magic. That's how
I've always used it. For Australia, it just feels like
a very there's like a spiritual magic that's in the
air there, and so like just fascinated also with the

(33:45):
Aboriginal culture and you know, their way of being. It's
like it's just like the Native Americans here, you know,
I guess primarily like the nomadic you know, chasing or falls,
not chasing.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
But following, you know, game following.

Speaker 22 (34:02):
You know, here they follow the buffalo, for instance, And
you know it's just it's a nomadic people. They're not
building houses and staying there. They're moving with nature and
listening to nature and being guided by nature. And that's
a very beautiful existence. It's a very powerful existence and
one that has been is hugely disconnected here. You know,

(34:26):
there's just no room for it. There's white people built
up too much and there's not a lot of room anymore,
like not what it used to be. So yeah, there's
a beautiful spirituality to the people of the First People
of Australia, and you know, start to learn more and
like a lub rock like wow, that's like a huge, huge,

(34:49):
monolithic just being of its own. And yeah, of course
it's going to hold a huge spiritual significance to the
Aboriginal people.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
But just just all those things is like a very
very beautiful to me.

Speaker 22 (35:03):
And so that's like the you know where my heart
is with all of that, and then you know we're
We're at Tim Guitars and Brisbane. We're playing an in store.
This is probably I don't know, it's a long time ago,
like twenty eleven or twelve or something, and we're on stage,
we're about to play, and Mario, our drummer, had to

(35:25):
run to the restroom bathroom before I started playing, and
I'm just I thought we were about to start playing,
and I'm just like looking out and there's a bunch
of people there and I feel kind of nervous, so
to starting to noodle. And then that the Luu riff,
the main rift, the main theme just was coming out,
and I was like, Okay, this is cool, and I
just kept going with it, and then Mario got on

(35:48):
the kit and then we just we just started playing
on that, and that's how we started our set, just
like as an improvisational just kind of jam, just starting
it off. And I really liked that, and I think
I recall like for the rest of that tour we

(36:09):
did the same kind of opening. So it had had
a magic to it, it had a power to it,
so I wanted to keep doing that. And then we
took me then we you know, got back and you know,
I guess it. It wasn't already composed by the end
of that tour. We definitely finished it off, uh you
know the nooks and crannies that it would eventually become,

(36:30):
like definitely we got home and then we recorded it
and needed a name, and to me, it was just
like it started off like looking as a ars rock,
but then I was like, no, that's that's disrespectful.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
It's not as rock. It's Uluru and so called it.
You know, I wanted to name it Uluru, so we did.

Speaker 22 (36:51):
But then there was something about like, you know, like
bringing in like a Led Zeppelin thing like Misty Mountain Hop.
Like I like the way that kind of rolled, so
they want to go alu U rock like kind of
in kind of a nod to the Zeppelin Misty.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
Mountain Hop title. So that's how it came. And yeah,
that's that's the story of that song.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
That's amazing. I have to ask as well. I know,
with the tour that's coming up, it's pretty much night
after night without a break. But on other tours here
have you been able to use brakes to go out
and explore our nature and the country's beauty a little
bit more as well.

Speaker 22 (37:36):
Just a little bit, not a not a ton unfortunately.
I mean we've done crazily enough a couple of tours.
I've been a couple of tours, both solo and one
with Earth was where we drove and that was absolutely bonkers.
So we got to see a little bit more that way,

(37:56):
which I'm grateful for. I wouldn't do it again, not
with any not without any days off or like shows
in between smaller shows or whatever.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
The major cities. But yeah, it hasn't been a.

Speaker 22 (38:08):
Whole lot of recreational time getting out like in the
bush or doing anything, you know.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
But this this time coming up, there.

Speaker 22 (38:20):
Are some extra days off and you know, hopefully utilize
them a little bit better.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yeah, and a lot of a lot of.

Speaker 22 (38:30):
Times it's like catching up with friends and spending time
and you know, if someone doesn't have a car, we're
just going to be in the city getting around like
whatever mode of transportation, you know. But yeah, I haven't
gotten to really see a lot of the new nature.
I mean, we've been to Loane Find Sanctuary in Brisbane,

(38:51):
but I'm sure that was like the day we had
like two days in Brisbane or got there the day before.
It is like a fly day from this place or that,
or we're blown in and that next morning go do
that before we go to soundcheck or something.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Yeah, I know that some very early influences for the
band were Japanese bands as well. Is culture from around
the world? Is that something that is always fascinated you
arts and culture from from different countries?

Speaker 4 (39:19):
Oh, oh gosh, yeah, probably more than I even realized.

Speaker 22 (39:23):
But yeah, like you know, literature, movies, art, just ways
of thought and the spirituality, like oh gosh, one hundred percent.
I mean, it's such a colorful planet that it's like

(39:43):
it's I would never want to be closed off to
something that's you know, that has such a like an
open invitation and is so beautiful and bring out any
curiosity like it's it's and it's good for you, and
you know, you get to learn about people more, you

(40:03):
know their way of life, and it just you stop
like being hopefully stop being closed minded and be more
open and be a kinder person.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 22 (40:14):
I just think it's so integral and especially if anyone's
like that finds themselves doing creative things for themselves or whatever.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
It's like that stuff is just going to feed you
more and more.

Speaker 22 (40:27):
And then even like in like a I don't know,
in any kind of artistic you know, venture, like in
my case music, hopefully you can collaborate with some people
from a different culture, whether you can speak the same
language or not. Like with music, you know, you don't
need to you can you speak with your instruments and
you will communicate well, and it's a very beautiful thing.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
So yeah, it's it needs to be more connected.

Speaker 22 (40:56):
I think, I don't know, I don't like separation, and
and especially right now, there's so many people, especially in
the United States, that are promoting separateness and it's really
awful because.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
No one is separate. We're all one and we're all together.

Speaker 22 (41:12):
And it's just just a it's a concept and it's
it is total bullshit. So I think it's it's extremely
important that I look to other places and be inspired
and to understand people more. And I think it will
do everyone as some major good definitely, and it will

(41:34):
be better for the planet.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah, there's also that magic and that at peace as well.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
I remember a.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Few years ago being able to go to Thailand and
I was standing in I was standing in a Buddhist
temple that was built in the thirteen hundreds, and this
feeling just hit me that this temple is four hundred
years older than white settlement in Australia, and it's it's
like such a you felt a pace, but you also

(42:01):
felt this connection with the past as well, especially when
you come from a country like this one that is
such a young country.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
Right, I feel you one.

Speaker 22 (42:11):
And because we're about the same age more or less,
we're all our countries are about the same age, you know,
all the colonization and all that, and it's a it's
a real humongous shame to those people who don't go
outside of you know, their own town, let alone their

(42:33):
own cotton or whatever, you know, their own state. To
be able to see a different culture and see how
similar we are, regardless of religious beliefs or the language
that we speak. It's like hell, like, we're all the
same and we for thousands of years, we all have

(42:55):
been the same. Ultimately, when it gets down to it,
we are. You know, there are differences, but that's just
it's a cultural thing and a geographical thing. But otherwise
we're all the same species. And it's a beautiful thing
to know and to get to experience it. And yeah, man,

(43:17):
once I started touring, I got the bug of traveling
and getting to see more and more of the world.
And it's one of the things I hold highest in
my life is the opportunity to travel and experience new
things like that and see new people in places. Like
my wife and I we just went to India for

(43:38):
three months a couple of years ago and it was
life changing and I think about it every day and
I want to go back every day, and it's yeah,
there's just so many reasons why. But it's again, it's
like you you can read about it, you can watch
all you want about it, and it's not until you're there.
It's like you feel it, and it's something that's side

(44:00):
of you already, and it's just very powerful, very beautiful.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Definitely. Now, I know we are running out of time,
but I wanted to ask as well, for the Australian tour,
what kind of set list are you are working on
at the moment. I know a lot of our listeners
out there are very excited to know and it must
be getting more difficult for you guys these days. As well.
Being a band that's been around for twenty four years.

(44:27):
How difficult is it to put together a set list
for a country like Australia.

Speaker 22 (44:32):
Oh, it's not too hard. We're just kind of going like, well,
what do you want to play this time? What do
we play last time? What do you want to play
this time? And we do have a good amount of
songs you know that we can pull from now, which
is super cool. And you know, we have a good
idea of what people want to hear and what they

(44:54):
want us to play. So we're definitely you know, bending
to that big time. And you know, we want it's
not about us, it's about you know, people that pay
the ticket, and uh, we want want them to be happy.
So yeah, I feel like we've got a good blend
of older and newer.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
For the set for Australia for sure.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Awesome.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Well, we'll keep it a secret. We'll keep it a secret.
But yeah, I hope, so, I hope.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
So yeah, Well, as I guess to finish off, what
would you like to say to your Australian fans out
there who have already bought tickets or are about to
go out and buy tickets for this tour?

Speaker 22 (45:37):
Okay, to all of you that have already purchased tickets.
Thank you so much for the support. It means a
lot that you're already on top of it. And for
those of you who have not bought the tickets yet
but are thinking about it or waiting to buy them
at the door, please buy them sooner because my hopes

(45:59):
is that they will. We'll definitely sell out and we
don't want you to be disappointed, but maybe we'll get
lucky if if you don't get one and you get
one at the door, that's great. But and just thank
you for like the genuine love and support for you know,
the past fifteen years that we've been coming to Australia,

(46:20):
and I mean, it means a lot. And there you
all are the reasons why we're able to do this
and why we're coming. And it's a it's a definite
mutual love and ingratitude and thankfulness that we have.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
So just thank you for thank you for being there
for us. We're stuck to be there for you.

Speaker 21 (47:09):
Sing s.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
And U s s.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Well everybody. The Melbourne International Film Festival is about to
roll into town. So we thought today, because the three
of us are all going along to the festival, that
we would all take a look at what films from
this year's festival line up has got us excited, And Kyle,
let's start with you. What films have got you really

(01:00:31):
excited that are screaming at myth this year?

Speaker 23 (01:00:34):
Hey, Well, as usual, you go through the entire list
and like you've got like twenty five different tabs open. Well,
I do of different movies, like, okay, checking this one?
Am I checking that out? But it's the usual thing
of yeah, but there's only maybe three or four that
I'm really excited about. But having said that, there's the

(01:00:57):
two that I think I'm the two that I'm most
excited about above all others is one the Australian premiere
of the Toxic Evanger remake. No, because I've been such
a fan of the original Lloyd Kaufman movies, the Toxic

(01:01:19):
Crusaders animated TV show growing up, and yeah, just finding
out that this is this movie is going to actually
be directed by the lead star of Blue Ruin, who
I actually also really I also really enjoyed that movie.
So just I'm kind of really excited to see this

(01:01:39):
movie and the fact that it's playing in Imax. So
that's probably the number one at the absolute top of
my top of my list. The other one that I'm
really excited for is a Japanese Australian premiere of a
little short horrorrror film that's actually based on a video

(01:02:02):
game called Exit eight. It's also being presented by Umbrellas,
so this is also actually playing at Imax, and the
story of it is well, I don't even know if
there's any kind of story to it, because the video
game that it's based on is just kind of like
a very short puzzle game about being stuck in a

(01:02:26):
subway station and the only way out is to basically
walk down hallways eight different times, but being able to
detect kind of any kind of freaky changes or alterations
to the environment that are happening. And the fact that

(01:02:47):
they've actually made a horror film about this, and from
all the screenshots that I've seen, it actually looks pretty
much identical to the video game, like the actual productions
is nine of the of the movie looks really really
interesting and really like authentic, like one to one translation

(01:03:07):
of the video game. But so I'm actually going to
have to play the game again before before we're going
to see the movie. But I mean, it's only a
it's it's like a one hour, two hour game or whatever.
But yeah, like those are the two that are really
standing out to me. Yeah, definitely, definitely Toxic Avenger and

(01:03:30):
Exit eight. Toxic Avenger. I don't know what to think
of it, but yeah, Exit eight. I'm really excited to
see how they actually managed to translate that into a
into a film.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
And Harley, what films have got you excited for?

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Myficia Well, as soon as Kyle mentioned the Toxic Avenger remake,
that that got me hy just to go and start
booking tickets immediately. I grew up with those movies. Though
you know, probably a lot of people would say, and
your age, you shouldn't have been watching those movies. Well

(01:04:07):
I did, and I loved them. So yeah, so that
that was the first thing I had to book and
then yeah, I kind of I was like you, Kyle,
I have like tab open, tab, open, tab, let's just
start with the genres. Then it's like, okay, now open

(01:04:28):
the film, see what they're about. There's a lot of
stuff in there that took my interest. I've booked for
a few movies, a couple of different ones. I noticed
is a few sort of French and Asian kind of
films in there, which caught my interest, but then I

(01:04:50):
haven't necessarily booked them all because I'm like, yeah, what's
my priority. I did book for a Private Life starring
Jodie Foster, so she's like a psychologist who's acting like
an amateur sleuth or something. And it's bilingual, so it's
French and English, so I thought that was interesting. I'm

(01:05:12):
going to take a look at a film called Enzo.
It's like one of those coming of age films from France. Yeah,
I thought that could be interesting. I've seen a few films,
you know, in the past that kind of remind me
of that, and I just kind of love the way
French cinema does this kind of stuff. Like if it

(01:05:33):
was from America, I probably wouldn't have clicked on it,
but I just like the way the French do stuff.
There's a there were a couple of Japanese films that
I haven't booked because I was kind of like, oh,
do I do I want to see that? Or do
you want to see that? And then you know, times clash,

(01:05:55):
so there's a few things, and there were so many
shorts as well, like I wanted to see the animated
stuff and then all the bizarre little shorts that were
popping up in there. So I think I'm going to
get your list one of those sessions. But there were
a couple of movies, depending on how things go, I
might check out. I'm trying to think Brand New Landscape

(01:06:22):
is one of them. That was from is that Japan
or China? I can't remember now. And there's another one
Black Ox I considered. But yeah, there's quite a few
sort of quirky films in there that I'm weighing up
whether or not to see. So I've created this massive
wish list and now I have to figure what's on

(01:06:44):
what date? How many can I fit in one day?
Am I already seeing something that day? And that's kind
of where some things have dropped off the list because
I already booked for something else, like Private Life or whatever.
I'm also going to see The End, starring Order Twinton
and Michael Shannon, so it's like the End of the

(01:07:05):
World or something, and they're singing and dancing their way
through it. It sounded bizarre that I thought, you know what,
I'm just gonna check that out, just just something different,
And yeah, I don't know I just want to surprise
in there somewhere and just see what that's like. So
I have no real expectation that there were so many

(01:07:25):
little quirky films in there, and a couple of austrained ones.
I was looking at this one. I just like, yeah,
I'm clicking on that. I'm going for that. Yeah, those
are the ones that stood out for me so far.
And now it's a matter of what can I get to.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
What about you, Dave? Ah, Yeah, Look, there was a
few this year. I'll talk about a few that I'm
excited to go and see, and I'll asso talk about
one I've already seen. I've been lucky enough to already
see Eddington, which is the new Ariasta movie starring Wokan Phoenix,
Emma Stone, and Austin Butler, amongst others. And I've got
to say, definitely do yourself a favor and go and

(01:08:08):
see that one, because that is probably going to be
one of my movies of the year. It's for those
that don't know what it's about. It's set in a
New Mexico, a small town called Eddington, and it's in
the early weeks of the COVID outbreak in America and

(01:08:28):
you've got a mayor who is all out COVID afraid,
wants everybody to put on a mask, won't let anybody
in shops unless they're wearing a mask. Then you've got
a sheriff played by Wokane Phoenix who who doesn't care.
He's just basically COVID's not going to come here. It's
not going to kill you. Just go about your everyday business.

(01:08:50):
And that clash over how they feel about COVID ends
up waking up a whole bunch of other stuff between them,
including a story about the mayor with Wakan Phoenix's wife
played by Emma Stone, and it ends up becoming a
full on crime thriller, kind of in the in the

(01:09:13):
vein of kind of like Fargo meets Traffic kind of storyline.
So yeah, starts off really small with a fight over
COVID and becomes a major thing. But it kind of
captures that COVID time period of America. It touches on
a lot of of different things that happened to the
Black Lives Matter movement, the Antifa movement, Kyle Rittenhouse, It

(01:09:39):
kind of touches on all of those things. So, yeah,
that to me is gonna be one of my movies
of the year. The film before I'd seen Annington that
I was most excited about was Keia roach Turner's brand
new movie Beast of War. I'm a big fan of
Keia roach Turner. I've loved what he's done with the

(01:10:00):
the Wormwood horror franchise here in Australia. I loved his
film that he did in America called Sting as well.
So Beast of War I was really excited about from
the very start. It's a shark film, but apparently it's
set during World War Two, so it features as Australian

(01:10:20):
soldiers and Japanese soldiers in a battle against a huge shark.
Other Australian films I was kind of really excited about
as well. I'm I want to check out Sophie Somerville's
new film called Friends and No I'm not saying that
as a deliberate way. That's actually how it's spelled. It's

(01:10:41):
f W E N D S. I love these little
indie films that you don't normally get to see in
cinemas here in Australia. A lot of indie films these
days don't get don't get a screening unless it's at
Cinema Nova or if it's at the Lido or some
like that. So it's good to be able to go

(01:11:02):
along and support those films. So I'll be checking out Fens.

Speaker 24 (01:11:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
I was taking a look at that one too, Yeah,
wondering about it, but yeah, I think I added it
again to one of the many things in my wish
list to see if I put it in.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah, I'm also curious to go and see We Bury
the Dead, which is Zach Hilditch's film about Tasmania being
turned into a military experiment.

Speaker 23 (01:11:27):
I've seen that one as well.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm really excited to go and see that
Went Up the Hill, which is another Ossie kind of
gothic thriller horror from director Samuel Van Grinsvin. So I'm
gonna go and check that out. The one another one
I'm really excited to go and check out is Adrian
or Tager's movie called Westgate, which is one of these

(01:11:53):
films that I think Australians do very very well what
they call a single day film, where it basically follows
a carry there for a single day and looks at
all of the different things that they go through on
that day. This one is about the daughter of a
person that was killed in the Westgate Bridge disaster for

(01:12:15):
people into state. But one of the biggest bridges here
in Melbourne is the west Gate Bridge, and in the
nineteen seventies, or it might have been the nineteen sixties,
I believe, when they were building it it part of
it collapsed and killed a whole bunch of workers who
were working on it at the time, and it was
the I believe it might still be the biggest workplace
disaster for deaths that we've ever had here in Victoria.

(01:12:38):
This is about the daughter of one of those workers
because most of the workers that were killed were immigrants,
so she wouldn't have had many rights or anything like that.
So it's about her surviving in the weeks and the
months after her father's been killed in the Westgate Bridge disaster.
So I'm kind of excited to go and see that

(01:13:01):
as well. Did anyone else have anything else they wanted
to add about myth?

Speaker 23 (01:13:06):
Well, I guess it is good that there's a there's
a handful of Australian films on there. But I know
that we were just talking about before just before recording that.
I guess it's a pity that some of the Australian
films are ones which have well I mean that came

(01:13:26):
out like forty years ago, you know. I mean, I
know there's something special about being able to see movies
like you know, BMX band It's on the big screen
or whatever. But on the other hand, I guess I
do kind of prefer these kind of film festivals. I

(01:13:50):
don't know, I do kind of prefer these things to
have to be to be more new films, you know.
I'm not sure what you guys think of that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Yeah, no, I kind of agree with that as well,
that I grew up loving BMX Bandits, but I've watched
it within the last year, so I kind of don't
feel like I need to see it, which is kind
of disappointing to me. It's like, I'd love to go
and see that on the big screen, but at the
same time, there are so many things to choose from.

(01:14:19):
I'm gonna choose something that's newer or something I haven't
seen because it just makes more sense. I mean, sure,
I do like flashback film reviews, but again, I can
watch it any time because I've got it at home.
So yeah, it's just a bit of a conflict like that,
Like there's some interesting stuff that they're kind of choosing

(01:14:41):
things from the history of film that I haven't seen.
It's one called The Arch and I think it's like
one of the first films from Hong Kong or something
that sounds interesting to me. But at the same time,
you know, I'm like you, I think I'm leaning towards
newer things, Like I could go and find that film

(01:15:01):
elsewhere and do it whenever in my own time, and
they have I think, is it from nineteen seventy nine
or something Beauty and the Beast movie that looks kind
of interesting, But again, as soon as I saw it
was from nineteen seventy nine, it's like, oh, I don't
need to rush to the film festival to see that.

(01:15:25):
Considering there are like, you know, fifty other things on
my watch list, so that is clashing with something else.
I'm gonna probably pick something else.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Yeah, It's like I would yeah, yeah, go ahead, cop.

Speaker 23 (01:15:39):
It's like, yeah, I wouldn't want them to not do it,
I guess, but yeah, I definitely, I'm like you, Holly,
I just I guess I just prefer newer things over.

Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 23 (01:15:51):
I just prefer seeing like newer Aussie films and newer
foreign films over Yeah, something that, as you say, something
i've been I've been able to experience in other ways,
like on on a giant TV screen for the last
like you know, several decades.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
Yeah, And I think it's maybe it's how it's presented
as well. Like I think there's a mindset of film festival.
You're going to see some new films, sometimes from new filmmakers.
That's why like the shorts and things appeal to me.
I want to some of those sound really out there
or you know, just really interesting to some sort of
science fiction ones that I'd love to check out. But

(01:16:33):
so maybe that's just that mindset I've had of I've
always gone to film festivals to see new things from
around the world or whatever. But I don't know if
if it was packaged in some way where it's like
here's a series of films, we'll do it as like
a film marathon. Maybe you know, we serve food and

(01:16:54):
during it or something, so it's a celebration kind of thing.
Maybe that would make it more appealing than just I'm
just going to get to see this old film which
I can access anytime.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
Yeah, Yeah, I was gonna say, I think Monsterfest does
that really well, where they showcase new Australian filmmakers and
they get horror films from around the world that wouldn't
normally get a release here in Australia, but if they
do a retrospective, there'll be a reason for it. Like
a few years ago, D Wallace came out to Australia

(01:17:27):
for Monsterfest, so their retrospective was d Wallace Movies, and yeah,
they showed films like et and and Kujo and films
like that that we may all have on DVD, but
it was different having d there talking about it and
then doing a afterwards. And also if they do show
films quite often it'll be like a movie from the

(01:17:50):
nineteen seventies that may have been banned in Australia at
the time. I was going I say that, yeah, yeah,
so like a retrospect like yeah, whereas I think yeah.
And also anniversary screenings. I mean a few years ago
Monster Fest had anniversary screenings of of Cut and also
Houseboat of Horrors, but they actually got the cast and

(01:18:13):
the crew there to talk about it, so that there
was a Q and a afterwards, So I.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
Think, yeah, I was going to say, like, if you
had members of the cast and crew at VMX bandits,
I would be jumping on that right away and be like, Okay,
this is funny. Let's let's see Nicole Kidden and you know,
dressed up in her in her back year.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
We didn't really wen't really talk about it before. But
one of the things that I think MYTH does very
very well is they have a lot of music documentaries
that I know a lot of people go along to see.
I know Nick Gardener, who's a regular on this show,
often fills out his whole thing by going to see
all the music documentaries, and there's some really really good

(01:18:57):
ones on this year as well, And I guess, yeah,
if you're a music documentary fan, you don't get to
see those in cinemas very often, so that's a pretty
good one to go and do as well. But yeah,
I know the three of us are all going to
be very very active at MYTH this year, so I
guess follow all of our socials because you'll be able

(01:19:19):
to see what we're out and about at MYTH. But
also subcultuur Entertainment dot Com will kind of be our
hub where all of our reviews and interviews are going
to be going up for myth this year, so make
sure you bookmark subcultur Entertainment dot com and check it
out every day during the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Speaker 18 (01:20:00):
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against my the word it is needing more.

Speaker 5 (01:20:23):
Yeah, I'm sitting on top of the world. Left my
mom to too air. Wow time, say sayers. Stop, Sa
Sayer stop, say.

Speaker 8 (01:20:45):
Scuse some mom.

Speaker 9 (01:20:48):
Sleeping not too long.

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
Man tag mos.

Speaker 25 (01:20:59):
Once perfect but now see it was perfect to not.

Speaker 9 (01:21:05):
Me give back.

Speaker 5 (01:21:14):
In this place war.

Speaker 8 (01:21:18):
Somewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
Now, when it's my time, go take me away, take
me away.

Speaker 25 (01:21:29):
Char bomb me.

Speaker 16 (01:21:32):
Char char charm bad.

Speaker 6 (01:21:36):
Give back just is to back my brain.

Speaker 8 (01:21:46):
This is my waystay say.

Speaker 6 (01:21:50):
Jim My.

Speaker 5 (01:21:58):
Really trying the time. When it's my time, go take
me away, Take me away.

Speaker 6 (01:22:12):
From Joss stir out across way.

Speaker 8 (01:22:20):
And has a big away.

Speaker 6 (01:22:31):
Fels I got back.

Speaker 4 (01:22:36):
You go.

Speaker 5 (01:22:37):
To your man back stuck sleeping That got man back
moank you. It's the last call. It's the last call.

(01:23:27):
It's the last car. It's the last call.

Speaker 26 (01:23:35):
The last call.

Speaker 4 (01:23:37):
We're loving.

Speaker 26 (01:23:37):
I'm so old weather pain sol. This is my last call.

Speaker 6 (01:23:43):
This is the last call.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
We're loving.

Speaker 6 (01:23:45):
I'm so father pain sol this is my last call.

Speaker 27 (01:23:50):
Lask call, Hey, cute bid? Why are you looking stupid?

Speaker 6 (01:23:55):
You got a narrow don't you?

Speaker 27 (01:23:57):
Don't you use it?

Speaker 6 (01:23:59):
Thick good?

Speaker 27 (01:24:00):
A bag of love back my perfect.

Speaker 17 (01:24:02):
Picture and maybe loves it appreciation? Why it's so different
when it comes to live? How many more times.

Speaker 24 (01:24:12):
Can I believe before I let go of the fantasy?

Speaker 6 (01:24:19):
Because it seems so good too things when your father
is close to me and when you make love to me.
I'm tired of.

Speaker 26 (01:24:31):
The heart of the house light song because it's.

Speaker 5 (01:24:35):
My last cause.

Speaker 28 (01:24:37):
Cancel pain so less car, It's the best car and
so so pain so less car.

Speaker 17 (01:24:52):
So baby, how we gonna do this? Why you gotta
be so elusive? Just when I thought I've found that
perfect picture.

Speaker 26 (01:25:03):
We be dealing with all types of issues.

Speaker 24 (01:25:08):
So why it's a different when it comes to me,
when it comes to how many more times can IM
ale before let go of the fantasy? Because it's so
damn round to look around to me, when.

Speaker 27 (01:25:24):
You're so close to be to me, when you make.

Speaker 6 (01:25:29):
Lof to me.

Speaker 24 (01:25:31):
I'm tired of the hear at the house night song, because.

Speaker 17 (01:25:36):
It's my last colors call answer pain Soils.

Speaker 28 (01:25:43):
This my last cost, last call pencils pain soils my
best card.

Speaker 24 (01:25:52):
I've been so caught up here all this time inside
of been slowly.

Speaker 26 (01:26:00):
I don't feel like you've been trying.

Speaker 24 (01:26:04):
Can't you see where so divided?

Speaker 6 (01:26:09):
So different?

Speaker 24 (01:26:10):
When it comes to really comes to me many more times?
Can not live before, let go and fantasy?

Speaker 6 (01:26:20):
Sometimes I think then I.

Speaker 28 (01:26:22):
Just need to.

Speaker 6 (01:26:25):
All stand back.

Speaker 17 (01:26:27):
Really, I'm so tired out of her how slight it song?

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
Because it's my last.

Speaker 5 (01:26:38):
Call cancer pain Sols came guess call cancer pain, So
it's my.

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
Best call.

Speaker 4 (01:26:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
As we mentioned earlier in the show, of course, this
week we were saddened by the death of Ozzy Osbourne
and that sparked one of our listeners to write a
question to us. And the person was Barbara from a Broom,
and she wanted to know what deaths have affected us
celebrity deaths, Which celebrity deaths have affected us the most

(01:27:20):
over the years, because she said the Ossy Osbourne one
was really hitting her. She said in her message to
us that she'd been crying for a couple of hours
ever since she'd heard the news and she just wondered
if there'd been any celebrity deaths out there that hit
us hard, Harley, Have there been any celebrity deaths that
hits you particularly hot?

Speaker 28 (01:27:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
There were a few. Actually, two of the first ones
that really took me. I remember, I think I was
still in school at the time Lisa left Eye Lopez
when the news hit that she had died in a
car accident. That, Yeah, it just totally chilled me. It

(01:28:06):
was like, what the hell? And like I even like
I was listening to their music a lot at that time,
so it was really hard for me to kind of
put their music on without kind of feeling something. So
I had to have a bit of a chill out
for a little while there. But one that's really affected

(01:28:27):
me and I hated receiving the news of that one
was Michael Jackson. That's a one I'd grown up with
my whole life, and I got to go to one
of the concerts and it was amazing. Just the work
he did was amazing. And you know still now you
discover things that never got released or I don't know,

(01:28:51):
you just never heard of before, and it's just like, ah,
such a waste there. Yeah, those are like a couple
of the biggest ones that hit me. But I have
to say, now that all the cast of the Golden
Girls have gone, I'm really, really sad. I was lucky

(01:29:13):
enough to see b Arthur when she came out to
Australia with her friend of ours, Phil, who used to
be part of the Subculture team. So yeah, she was
my date for the night and we both enjoyed that
concert immensely. It's just like a one woman show, and yeah,
it was just bread and she did some numbers from
throughout her career and told her story. So when she

(01:29:38):
finally passed, it was like that was a real hit
for me. I think Rue McClanahan, who played Blanche, was
maybe the first to go because she had cancer or something,
or before her was a stelle Getty who was suffering
from dementia as well, so you know, it was a
bit of a struggles. But I'd secretly always been hoping

(01:30:02):
for decades that there was going to be some kind
of reunion with them. More Benny White held on for
a long time and it's only recently that she's passed.
So yeah, and I guess one more I've got to
mention is Adam west of Batman fame. I keep getting
these ideas of, you know, if I could do a

(01:30:26):
movie or something, here's some actors I want to work with,
and now on I list them, they start to drop dead.
So I'm worried if I'm jinxing people's lives here. Actually,
there are a couple more. As a longtime Doctor Who fan,
we had Elizabeth Slaton, who played Sarah Jane Smith, one

(01:30:49):
of the most popular companions of all time. She even
got her own spin off show, which was going strong
in the sort of early mid two thousands. And yeah,
unfortunately she had a cancer issue as well and didn't
complete her final series of her show. And also Caroline John,

(01:31:13):
who was one of her predecessors as a companion, also
died of cancer shortly after. I think, so, yeah, those
are a few that really kind of hit me, especially
when they're so unexpected. That's the big, the big shocker.
What about you, Dave.

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
Yeah, I was going to say that the unexpected ones
are the ones that get you the most. I think.
I'm a huge car racing fan, and I was actually
watching the race when it and Senna died, and of course,
and Senna was everybody's favorite driver that didn't like Michael
Schumacher basically, so I think to be actually watching the
race and to see it happen when I was a

(01:31:54):
teenager was shocking, like in a sense like you literally
watched your hero die on television, which was pretty horrific.
The other two that really got me when I was
a teenager was was Kurt Cobain. I parents will still
say that because I was kind of an emo, gothy
kind of kid. I locked myself in my room for

(01:32:16):
three days when Kurt Cobain died because he was He
was my idol. Like it was, there was no two
way about it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
It was.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
Ever since I listened to that first the first album
of Theirs, and heard him singing about what it was
like at school and stuff like that. There was just
something about his music that that really made me feel
like someone else had been through what I'd been through,
and to hear that he had died, it was an
absolute shock. The other one that got me when I

(01:32:44):
was at high school as well was Jeff Buckley. I
kind of just kind of just got over the Kurt
Cobain thing and started to get into Jeff Buckley's music,
and that was a real shock of course, because Jeff
Buckley really only had one hour them before he died.
He did this absolute brilliant album and then he was
working on his second album, which of course we've had

(01:33:06):
released now sketches of My Sweetheart the Drunk. But yeah,
his was another shock because he was so young. You
just didn't expect that you were going to wake up
to hear that Jeff Buckley had passed away. I'm trying
to think Brian Wilson a couple of weeks ago. It
was a bit of a shock to me because not

(01:33:28):
because we didn't expect it, but the Beach Boys have
always had a bit in my life because I was
one of the first bands that my dad got me
interested in, and my dad and I went and saw
them the last time they toured in Australia, and I
think we'd been expecting Brian Wilson to pass away for
a while, but it was still a bit of a

(01:33:49):
shock when it happened, because you realize that that was it,
the music of the Beach Boys was gone forever, that
we were never going to get anything new from them
after that happened. But the other one too, I think
for film actors there's probably two actors. That really got
me really badly a layer when she passed away because

(01:34:12):
through luck, i'd been on the set of Queen of
the dand in Melbourne when it was being filmed.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Right, I was supposed to be in that as well,
and yeah, to learn that like soon after, it was like,
oh my god, I was really getting into her as well,
Like yeah, to see.

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
To see her on set and what a passionate person
she was. And then a couple of weeks later she
wasn't there anymore, like they she didn't even get to
finish the film. I think that was a huge shock.
The other one to me that was a big shot
was Paul Walker. I loved the well, I still do.
I love the franchise, The Fast and the Furious, and yeah,

(01:34:54):
to have him again, someone so young, but to die
in such a kind of unique way, like this is
a guy who had made the art of driving fast
as something cinematic and he was in a celebrity kind
of driverthon thing and died like it was. And he

(01:35:15):
died on my birthday, which was even more kind of
shocking as well. But yeah, I think you're right. It's
those ones where you don't expect them like with Brian Wilson,
Like I said, we've kind of been expecting for years,
and even with Ozzie Osborne, we've kind of been expecting
that news to come through at some stage. But when
you've got people like a Layer and Paul Walker and

(01:35:36):
Et and Senna and Jeff Buckley, where it just comes
out of nowhere.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
Especially when like, yeah, when you were naming all the musicians,
I was thinking, oh, you know what it's like those
people you listen to so much and you get so
when you like Aretha Franklin, I mean, it wasn't all
that long ago. I guess that she passed, but you know,
she's someone I constantly listen to and still do. And

(01:36:03):
it took me a while to watch the biographical movie
of her as well, just because it's like it almost
feels too soon sometimes when something like that happens. And
when you mentioned Paul Walker reminded me I grew up
loving Bruce Lee. I always watch those movies with my father,
and then discovering Brandon Lee was like amazing. And then

(01:36:25):
he does the Crew film and unfortunately Die is on
set during that just as I'm discovering him. Like I thought,
that was so awful, especially in that family to have
so much tragedy, it really gets to you.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
Yeah, it does. And like even some of them, like
other sports stars too, Shane Warren, I don't think any
of us saw that happen like that saw that it
was going to happen. He was literally calling a cricket
match a few days and then went on a holiday
and died while he was on holidays. I think that
was one that a lot of people certainly didn't ex So, yeah,

(01:37:01):
I think it's the unexpected ones that they get you
the most. The of course, the older, the older actors
and the older musicians. When they pass away, it's always
tragic and it's always sad because you have that realization
that you're not going to hear their music anymore. It
was kind of I think I told the story a
few weeks ago on the show. My first day working

(01:37:23):
in commercial radio, Michael Hutchins passed away just as I
was about to go on air, and that was a
bit of a shock as well, because you were kind
of like trying to find out if it was real
because it was like, he's relatively a young guy. And
then like years and years later, just as I was
about to go on air. I found out that lou
Reid had died. But with lou Reid it was kind

(01:37:44):
of like, well, he's an older musician. But with Michael Hutchins,
it was just a complete shock because, of course, for
those that don't know, he died in an auto asshixiation accident,
so it wasn't expected. It wasn't like he was sick
with cancer or anything like that. It just came completely
out of the blue.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
And we didn't mention Prince as well. Yeah, I was
just like suddenly found in an elevator in his estate,
I think it was. It was just like, wait, what.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
Well he was? He was He did an interview with
Annie maguire live on Triple M. I think it was
only two or three days before he passed away. Like again,
that was another one that you just didn't expect because
he was he did just toured Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
So yeah, and you know, you and I both watch
or used to watch Riverdale and Luke Perry just suddenly.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
Yeah gone, like.

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
Sure, like some of these guys weren't young, young, but
it still seems way too soon for this stuff to happen.

Speaker 1 (01:38:49):
Yeah, and you just reminded me of another one there
as well. I'm trying to think of his name now.
He was in a television show that I used to
watch when I was a I want to say John Goodman,
but I know it's not John Goodman because he's very
very much alive. I'm just trying to look it up
right now. The show was called Eight Simple Rules to

(01:39:12):
Dating My teenage Daughter and John and Ritta. That's right,
it was John Riddo a point. He literally was the
dad in that show and then passed away between seasons. Now,
of course, Kaylee Kokie Oh who was in Big Bang Theory,
she was in it as his daughter, and Katie Segal

(01:39:32):
played his wife in that show, and I remember that
it caused such a problem on set that it affected
them so badly that they all agreed to come back
and do one more season of the show with dealing
with the death of their father and their husband on
the show. So they did one more season where David

(01:39:55):
Spade played a character who had to come in and
pick up the pieces as a family and dealt with
the losing of their husband and father, and a lot
of people said that that actually helped the fans of
the show as well, because so many people were shocked
by the death of John Ritter with how popular that

(01:40:16):
show had become so quickly, that watching a show deal
with grief for the second season helped a lot of
people through what had happened as well.

Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
I didn't know about the David Spade bit. I think
that's a weird call, but.

Speaker 1 (01:40:34):
Look, he did it really well because it was kind
of it was weird because it was it was a comedy.
And as I think I've heard Katie Segal talk about
since then, how do you make a comedy funny when
the whole entire cast is suffering from what had just happened.
And David Spade apparently was a great friend of John Ritter's,
and he actually asked, can I be the person that

(01:40:54):
comes onto the show to try and help men things?
And I think I think he played the uncle. He
was either an uncle or a cousin, but he came in.
And I know I'm not a big David Spade fan
except for him just shoot me. But I thought he
did a really good job on that. He became a
straight laced kind of character with just the odd laugh

(01:41:16):
and did it really really well. And yeah, I know
both Kaylee Kuko and Katie Segal talk about the fact
that that really did help them or recover from what
was a really deeply shocking thing, especially when three of
the cast members were really really young as well, so
they just lost their on screen dad. So yeah, a

(01:41:38):
bit of a weird one to finish on. But yeah,
the death of John Ritter was a big shock as well.

Speaker 4 (01:41:45):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
Yeah, it never gets easy because you kind of sometimes
you grow up with these people too, and you just
almost feel like they're immortal because they're always there and
you can see there, you know, past to work, and
then suddenly you see them now it's like, oh, hang on,
that was a long time ago, wasn't it. So it
can surprise you in some ways, especially you know, when

(01:42:10):
it's someone with a long history like that. But yeah,
I guess it it's gonna teach us something at some point.

Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
Yeah, but uh yeah, well I guess we should pay
tribute now to some of the artists that we've just
talked about. But yeah, if there has been somebody, a
celebrity that's death has really affected you, let us know online.
Maybe we can attribute to a tribute to that person
by doing a list or a best of or something

(01:42:40):
like that. So yeah, let us know online which celebrity
deaths have affected you the most. But sit back and
enjoy now as we play some of the music from
the artists that we've lost over the years.

Speaker 25 (01:43:18):
That Sis Alive scoboy, I had to feel a love
Beto Slive.

Speaker 23 (01:43:28):
But it's all boy, just do this then I'll go.

Speaker 26 (01:43:34):
You gave me more than for more than a fall nor.

Speaker 25 (01:43:51):
Love it since alast time dress must got dreaming? Noways se,
why can't we overcat?

Speaker 8 (01:44:04):
There's a ball.

Speaker 27 (01:44:07):
B the baby's just because I.

Speaker 8 (01:44:10):
Didn't know you at all?

Speaker 4 (01:44:17):
M m.

Speaker 5 (01:44:22):
M kius me.

Speaker 6 (01:44:26):
Please excuse me, kiss.

Speaker 25 (01:44:29):
Me out of this I've made and don't consel Oh
you know a basement.

Speaker 6 (01:44:36):
It's so am cause I know the time.

Speaker 5 (01:44:41):
All on and make your cause so last di did

(01:45:26):
you say no, this can't happen to me? Did you
rush to the phone call the boys SNR.

Speaker 25 (01:45:38):
It's back your mouth saying man, didn't know at all?

Speaker 6 (01:45:50):
Didn't know no, no, oh, didn't know.

Speaker 8 (01:45:57):
I didn't know.

Speaker 5 (01:46:03):
About tarby Charge top chart.

Speaker 8 (01:46:08):
But it comes to this Harvard on.

Speaker 27 (01:46:14):
It it's so hot on the start.

Speaker 6 (01:46:20):
And the memory.

Speaker 8 (01:46:22):
Of my side candy so.

Speaker 6 (01:46:56):
Tea, So.

Speaker 26 (01:46:59):
I don't leave my katy alone.

Speaker 6 (01:47:03):
I don't want nobody else to lor. That's the chest Outkay.

Speaker 26 (01:47:09):
Baby l Street Kevin can wait.

Speaker 6 (01:47:15):
It'd be in just to me, Sir, I would tell
her bring me back to her. It's the chess Outkay
baby l Street Kevin can wait.

Speaker 26 (01:47:30):
Your wonderful incredible and that's you're beautiful. He's mom with you,
simply wonderful.

Speaker 6 (01:47:40):
There's a love for you, girl, it's incredible. I don't know.

Speaker 25 (01:47:46):
If I can't be with you, bro can not go on,
so every night I brain give the Lord you come
from me before I wake.

Speaker 26 (01:47:56):
I wouldn't want to go on.

Speaker 6 (01:47:58):
I can't see you. Fay came hotaclos What good would
help me?

Speaker 26 (01:48:04):
If he aints here from me? I tell them no,
I don't wanna leave my greedy alone.

Speaker 6 (01:48:12):
I don't want nobody else.

Speaker 4 (01:48:14):
To know you.

Speaker 6 (01:48:16):
That's a chance OUTI baby on Street, Davin can wait.

Speaker 5 (01:48:23):
Go if bed just to me this sum.

Speaker 27 (01:48:29):
Would tell him bring me acause to her.

Speaker 15 (01:48:33):
It's a chance OUTI Bhu Street Padam can wait.

Speaker 27 (01:48:39):
I thinkab missing up in.

Speaker 6 (01:48:42):
The clouds for all.

Speaker 28 (01:48:45):
The time I come around.

Speaker 26 (01:48:47):
You've been moving nor I turned it all around. I'm
trying to get back down beating up. Okay, trying to
see nobody again.

Speaker 6 (01:49:00):
That hurts the ain't nobody know it?

Speaker 5 (01:49:04):
But we were.

Speaker 6 (01:49:08):
Heaven be and the tables come on.

Speaker 24 (01:49:11):
Men, leave my creamy on my back.

Speaker 5 (01:49:20):
I don't want nobody got somebody. That's the chest sound okay?
If the tags jun the same, I would tell him
bringing out it's not it's the chance sounds baby hill stream,

(01:49:45):
Heavin can wait. Gaby was not a great man.

Speaker 6 (01:49:51):
Fat won't with other young cras mad.

Speaker 15 (01:49:55):
Oh, going will be raining?

Speaker 5 (01:50:04):
Oh you can be without the dream of me walk
home without dream? I mean that.

Speaker 15 (01:50:12):
Oh, I guess we'll be draining. No, No, I don't
wanna leave my braining alone. I don't wanna mysh you
that's the chest sulky, davy lustreet den.

Speaker 5 (01:50:36):
Can wait.

Speaker 9 (01:50:39):
It being just to me, be sir.

Speaker 27 (01:50:43):
I would tell him bring.

Speaker 5 (01:50:45):
Me God, it's the chest sulky baby La street and
can wait.

Speaker 14 (01:50:57):
Just you want you want to pay about so.

Speaker 6 (01:51:05):
Please leave a yell, please leave us, nor.

Speaker 26 (01:51:15):
Bran as to.

Speaker 18 (01:51:22):
Leave me a.

Speaker 6 (01:51:31):
Run.

Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
It'd be nice and free all the fada to wait
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Turn hello and welcome back to the show. Well, now

(01:59:44):
I want to take a look at the brand new
Smurfs movies that is in cinemas right now. Of course,
it is from director Chris Miller, who has brought us
some of the best animated films over the years. But
I gotta say, I don't know if I'm a big
advocate for this latest Smurf film. I grew up watching

(02:00:05):
the Smurfs, and I know this is going to sound
like a oh he's an old man on an old
man rant, But I grew up watching the Smurf so
I feel like I know a fair bit about the
Smurfs as a cartoon. In fact, they were my go
to on Agro's cartoon connection just about every morning getting

(02:00:25):
ready for school. I also had the VHS's and of
course I collected the BP Smurfs that used to used
to be able to get from VP when your dad
filled up his car or your mom or your mom
filled up her car at the petrol station. Now this
is where I find some problems with the New Smurfs movie.

(02:00:48):
First of all, I'll tell you a little bit about
the plot that I'll talk about the problems. Basically, there
is a Smurf with no name. He doesn't know what
his calling is, and he's voiced by James Corden. He's
called no name for most of the film. Now he
becomes really good friends with Smurfat voiced by Rihanna, and
they kind of start off looking like they're going to

(02:01:09):
try and find a name for him, like find his calling.
Papa Smurf voiced by John Goodman starts to help out
in this kind of journey, I guess, to try and
find out what this Smurf should be called. But all
of that goes to pieces when Razamel, who is Gagamel's

(02:01:34):
brother and they're both voiced by Jp Caralac, takes the
Smurf's hostage in order to try and get a mystical
book that's been kept secret and safe in Smurf Village
for all of these years, because if it gets found
and destroyed, then evil will take over the world with

(02:01:55):
these evil wizards, of which Razamel is trying to become
part of. From there, it basically just becomes a catch
me if you can through different worlds, including our own,
of them trying to of them, trying to get the

(02:02:18):
book back, Rameel trying to get the Smurfs, Gagamel taking
the opportunity to try and kill the Smurfs. It's it
doesn't go anywhere to me. That's the biggest problem with
this film, and it comes with that plot. The other
thing that I do have a problem with with this
movie is that it doesn't feel like a Smurf's movie.

(02:02:41):
It feels like a Trolls movie.

Speaker 4 (02:02:43):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:02:43):
I know a lot of you out there are going
to go, but hang on a minute. You like the Trolls, Yeah,
I did. I like the Trolls movie because it was
different to anything else that was out there. It was
these great little characters and the songs were part of
their faw so to speak. The trolls sing that that
is the thing with the trolls, So therefore you have

(02:03:06):
a reason to have all these hit songs and everything
in it. Whereas with the Smurfs, of course, if you
know the Smurf's going right back, the only song you
would ever hear in the Smurfs was La La La,
La La La. That was the Smurf's song. But you
kind of realized that perhaps this new Smurf's movie, which
I'm sure some forty or fifty year old Hollywood executive

(02:03:29):
has gone, I know what's going to make the Smurfs
popular with the younger generation. Let's bring some music into it.
I knew this movie was going off the rails from
the moment Poppa Smurf was djaying a set that looked
like it should have been at a beefa. It just
didn't fit with the Smurfs at all. Now, of course,

(02:03:49):
if you've done that in a trolls movie, and you'd
had justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick's character djaying at a troll rave,
you would have no problem with it, because that is
the Trolls thing. But it feels like in this movie
that they've just decided, hey, let's Troll's work. Why can't
we do the same for the Smurfs. They also changed

(02:04:11):
the Smurfs folklore a little bit here as well. Now
I'm kind of fifty to fifty on this because I'm
always for a series expanding its universe, and I think
they do that quite well here by introducing the fact
that there are other creatures that are allies to the Smurfs,
and there are also other Smurfs, including a group led
by a brave Smurf called Ken voiced by Nick Offerman.

(02:04:37):
Now that part of it doesn't really worry me, except
for the fact that I don't know why they've got
human names and not other Smurf names like Brainy Smurf
and stuff like that. That bit kind of confused me
a little bit, But I didn't mind the fact that
that they've opened up this world and introduced us to
some of the allies of the Smurfs. The problem I

(02:04:58):
did have, though, is that they suddenly introduced the plotline
that Razumel created Smurf Fat, not Gagomel. Now that is
a big problem for me, because, of course we've seen
in the other movies, and we've also seen in the
television shows that that Gargamel was the brainchild of that.
I don't know why they couldn't have made Gagamel the

(02:05:20):
big bad here. I mean, the guy has been the
big bad in the franchise pretty much since the Smurf started.
You don't need to introduce another big bad, and in
this case, introduce a big bad that feels like you've
borrowed him from a Minion's movie. I mean, there's a

(02:05:40):
little bit of Despicable Me in there as well, and
to me that it's not sacrilege, but it feels like
it shouldn't have happened, like you didn't need another big bad.
And I know they're probably and there was one theme
in this movie that they kind of touched on, but
I think they could have done it in a lot
better way, and that was has Smurfette been a secret

(02:06:04):
agent all this time for Razmel? And I think that
could have worked. That could have been That could have
been the thing that they did with this with this movie,
and that would have worked. And also the whole story
of No Name trying to work out who he is again,

(02:06:28):
that could have been done in a way that was
really powerful for kids, because for a lot of kids
out there these days. They don't know. They've got so
many things coming at them through the media that they
don't always know their identity. You've got kids at school

(02:06:48):
telling you you need to be this, You've got parents
telling you you can't do that, and that. Look, that's
not new, that's that was something that was going on
back when I was in school, of course, Like if
you ever listened to Subcult after Dark, our heavy metal show,
you'll know I've talked about that a number of times.
That was me as a kid. I was falling in
love with this heavy music, and I was having parents, teachers,

(02:07:10):
and counselors telling me that if you were into that music,
it was wrong, it was evil. It meant that you
were depressed and you probably wanted to kill yourself. It
was it was a rough time. And I get that
that kids are trying to find their identity, and that's
a good plot line to have for this film, But
it even feels like that plot line gets treated with

(02:07:32):
complete disdain by.

Speaker 4 (02:07:34):
The end of it.

Speaker 1 (02:07:35):
Like if you if you watch the movie and hear
the name that he ends up giving himself, it's like
completely ridiculous, Like, yeah, I don't know, like it's It's
something that's really passionate for me, I guess because I
saw a lot of my friends go through it. I've
seen a lot of my friends go down the path
of wanting to be involved in the arts world and

(02:07:55):
having parents and people around them telling them that's not
the way to go. So it kind of pains me
a little bit to watch a movie like this that
feels like it's going to start out with a brilliant
line about a brilliant plot of somebody trying to find
out who they are, what their passion is for life,
and then having it kind of become a joke towards

(02:08:17):
the end of the film. Look, even the songs, like
I said before, they don't feel like they should be
in a Smurf's movie. And it's all fine to have
an animated movie and have a big song in it
that that comes like the thing to publicize that film
on radio. And of course you've got the perfect vehicle

(02:08:39):
here with Rihanna playing Smurfat. But Smurfett is not a singer,
like we've never seen that before. So if you are
gonna have Smurfat voiced by Rihanna, then have Rihanna do
a song that's going to be over the end credits,
or over a montage or something during the film. It
just feels out of place here in this universe. But

(02:09:02):
so I know a lot of you are probably thinking, oh,
grumpy or man trying to remember back to what Smurf's
used to be like. But I wouldn't be saying that
if I didn't feel that this film felt completely out
of place. I mean, the last Smurf movies that came
out did well, it's the same. Like I love what
they've done with the tinker Bell franchise, and I grew

(02:09:23):
up listening to Peter Pan on the audio books that
we used to have on vinyl, and of course watching
the Peter Pan movies. But I love what they've done
with tinker Bell, introduced friends with Her and stuff like that.
That's worked brilliantly. It's worked seamlessly. This doesn't work seamlessly.
This feels like they've tried to make the Smurf something
that they're not. So I guess that's why to me

(02:09:45):
it feels so out of place. Kids going to like it,
I guess if they've never seen a Smurf's movie before,
or they've never seen the Smurf's television show. I would
say yes, but I think even kid are going to
pick up that this is very different if they have
watched the television show and things like that as well.

(02:10:08):
So look, go along, check out Smurfs. Let us know
what you think. Look, I don't to be honest as well,
I also don't think this is a film that's going
to appeal to the whole family. I think adults are
going to get bored with it pretty quickly. But look,
go along, check out Smurf. See what you think. Am
I wrong? Am I right? Let us know through our socials.
But yeah, for me, I'm just going to give I'm

(02:10:31):
going to give Smurfs and two and a half out
of five. I just don't think that it fits with
the Smurf folklore at all. It is a general release,
so go and check Smurf's out in cinemas now, but
I'm giving it just two and a half out of five.

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Random all right, welcome back to the show. Well, now
I want to take a look at a new children's

(02:13:56):
film that is in our cinemas. In fact, I should
probably say this is the family film, because I think
this is a film that will be enjoyed by the
entire family. It's called Ilio, and it revolves around a
young boy called Ilo funnily enough, voiced by Jonas Cabribe. Now,
after the loss of his parents, he is forced to

(02:14:16):
live with his auntie Olga played by Zoe Saldana, who
works on a military base in their space exploration section. Now,
life is so bad for Ilio. Not only does he
not want to be living with his auntie, but also

(02:14:37):
gets bullied by other kids that he dreams about being
abducted by aliens. And when I say being dream dreams
about being abducted by aliens, he literally lies on a
beach every day when he's not at school with signs
telling aliens to come and abduct him. Meanwhile, his aunt

(02:14:58):
is working in in an area where it almost feels
like the government do know that there are aliens out
there in that certain people in this film try to
send messages into space and things like that. It also
touches very much so on a space program previously that

(02:15:20):
sent messages into space by sending up a satellite to
send out those messages to people. Now Ilio's dream suddenly
comes true after a particularly traumatic experience at the hands
of a couple of a bullis Bryce played by Young

(02:15:45):
Dylan and Caleb played by Jake Getman voiced by I
should say he is abducted by aliens. He soon finds
himself part of this intergalactic Council because he's lied his
way there, and befriends a young alien called Gordon voiced

(02:16:05):
by Remy Edgeley, who's father, Lord Gregan voiced by Brad Garrett,
is evil and wants to take over the planet. So
from there, of course, we have we have Ilio having
to try and convince the others that he is in
fact a representative for Earth while trying to help Gordon

(02:16:28):
and Ambassador Helix are voiced by Brandon Moon, and face
up to Lord Gregan. At the same time, things go
a little bit awrye when Gordon accidentally finds himself on
a ship headed for Earth. Now, it's interesting because I've
read so many things about this film coming out, and

(02:16:48):
people saying that Pixar's kind of beyond its its peak now.
And while I agree to a certain extent, I have
extent because I am someone who absolutely loved Pickars early movies.
In fact, Monster z Inc Is one of my favorite
movies of all time. I think people are giving Pixar

(02:17:08):
a bit of a bad rap here. I mean, I
loved Onward, which I know is another Pixar movie from
recent times that people seem to have a little bit
of an issue with. But to me, I actually really
enjoyed that film. I kind of like the fact that
Pixar are out there trying to make films that are
a little bit different toward everybody else is making. Like

(02:17:31):
I can't mention any names at the moment, but I
saw another big blockbuster animated movie over the weekend, and
I've got to say that Ilo is a much braver
choice with Ileo. The writers, which and there's a whole
team of them, so I won't go into that, and
even the directors again another whole team of them are

(02:17:52):
trying something different here. I think a lot of the
times when people will seeing a Pixar movie, they kind
of just see it as a family film. But there's
a lot of deeper things going on in this movie,
and I'm sure there are things that kids will sadly
relate to. I mean, look at the character of Ilio here.

(02:18:16):
So often in movies we either see when someone is
adopted by a family member or going into foster care.
It either goes one of two ways. It's either a
happy relationship and that person finds himself fitting into that
family really well, or it goes to the opposite, where
it's almost a horror or thriller where the family have

(02:18:38):
got some sinister plot. This story here between Ilio and
Olga is a lot more believable in that Olga hasn't
done anything to make Ilio not feel wanted. She's gone
out of her way, in fact, try and make him
feel welcomed, even to the point where it looks like
she's giving up on her dream of becoming an astronaut

(02:19:02):
to be there for him. But Elio is so pained
and hurt by losing his parents that he doesn't see that,
and he sees her as the enemy, even just for
little things like if she tells him to clean up
his room. In his brain, he magnifies that, and he's
in her. In his view, she is that evil stepmom

(02:19:24):
kind of character, but she's not. And that is so
natural to what you actually see in society. When you
have relationships like this, you then see the like for me,
that idea that Elio wants to be abducted by aliens.
That shows to a point for me that he's almost

(02:19:45):
can thinking about suicide. He's actually at a point in
his life where he feels that he is better off
not on earth anymore. And I think a lot of
people will watch this movie and miss that subtext. But
I think sadly a lot of children we'll watch this
film and know exactly how Ilo is feeling. In this

(02:20:05):
day and time where bullying follows kids home, with cyber bullying,
I'm sure that there are sadly, a lot of children
out there who feel that this earth would be a
better place without them, or that they would be better
off not being here anymore. It's sad, but I think
it is brave for Pixar to make a movie like

(02:20:28):
Ilio where that is, where that is explored. The fact
that Ilio then feels that he has to lie to
these new people to try and feel important, I think
that just shows how bad Ilo views himself. He is
so eager to be accepted by these other people that

(02:20:50):
he tells a blatant lie which ends up causing a
world of trouble. And I think that is a pretty
powerful metaphor in this movie, that that kids are taught
a perhaps life is not as bad as what you
think it is, and b lying is only going to
lead to more trouble. Is this movie creative? Yeah, it

(02:21:11):
generally is. I don't think it does anything completely different
to what we've seen before. I mean, there's traces of
et in here. If you grew up watching cartoons like
I did, you've you've kind of seen this whole thing before,
like in the Jetsons and and things like that. So
the story is not unique. But I think the character

(02:21:34):
of Ilio in itself is unique. Of course, you're kind
of wondering, what's gonna happen here, What's gonna happen with
these aliens when they find out that Ilio is lying.
What's gonna happen when Lord Gregon discovers that his child
is missing and that's because of Ilio. Yeah, there's suspenseful

(02:21:55):
moments like that, But for me, the most part was
I was wondering how this was gonna resolve for Ilio.
Was he gonna be able to resolve things with his auntie?
Was things going to turn out okay for him? So, look,
this is not one of Pixar's best movies, I will
say that, but there's enough things in this movie to
suggest that Pixar still understand their audience and want to

(02:22:18):
make movies that kids can relate to and learn morals
from that. I think Ilio is well worth a watch
for any family. I am just going to give it
three out of five. But look, this is a film
I think that a lot of families out there are
going to enjoy it together. Go out and check out Ilo.
It is a general release, so it should be screening
in a cinema near you. Well, listeners, the days might

(02:23:58):
be cold in Melbourne at the moment, but Footloose the
Musical has come back for an encore season and we
thought today we would find out a little bit more
about this amazing production that so many of us enjoyed
the first time around by chatting to some of the cast.
And now we're actually going to be chatting to Stephen May,
who's got one of the main parts of this production.

(02:24:19):
So welcome to the program, Stephen.

Speaker 4 (02:24:22):
Thank you very much for having me.

Speaker 1 (02:24:23):
No worries now, Stephen, how do you feel about being
able to bring Footloose back to Melbourne after the first
season sold out in just three weeks.

Speaker 4 (02:24:34):
Yeah, Look, it's exciting to do any show for a
comeback season.

Speaker 34 (02:24:39):
There's especially exciting just to sort of have a bit
more time to think about it again and think about.

Speaker 4 (02:24:44):
Why audiences loved Footloose so dearly.

Speaker 34 (02:24:47):
It was interesting having an audience for the first time
and going, oh wow, this show really does still stand
its test of time, and it has its legacy from
obviously the eighties nostalgia, but just has that legacy of
the story what is relevant to today. So it's nice
to add a few more little sprinkles on top of
the cake, so to speak.

Speaker 1 (02:25:05):
And I know want of season cells out like that.
It's always a great advertising point. But what does it
feel like for you as a performer knowing that so
many people are excited about the show that you're in,
that it basically sold out in an instant.

Speaker 4 (02:25:20):
Yeah, it is always great to play to full houses.

Speaker 34 (02:25:24):
I've certainly had my fair share of ups and downs
with different audiences and different theaters, but that's what we
do it for, you know, that's the show's created, so
the audiences come and see it and give them that
moment of time to have a bit of a you know,
something to escape from, something to entertain, something to uplift them.

Speaker 4 (02:25:45):
So yeah, it's really exciting.

Speaker 34 (02:25:46):
The audiences are really wanting to come back or it's
still just book those seats and to be able to
do it again is yeah, a real treat.

Speaker 1 (02:25:53):
Now, we spoke to Jared before him when we're talking
about what it was like coming into a show as
a newcomer. You're not an newcomer. You're someone who's a
very very experienced actor and have done shows like Greece
previously in the past. What was it like for you
to step into Footloose, a production that is two films
now have been made over the years. What was that

(02:26:15):
like for you to step into a production that was
so well loved and I'm sure you were possibly already
a fan of.

Speaker 34 (02:26:24):
Yeah, it's interesting stepping into the shoes of what people
already have a preconceived idea of. You know, they are
fictional characters, so it's a bit easier to sort of
step into those shoes and create something around what the
script tells us, what the movies do say. And I'm
not going to lie it, Like, I absolutely rewatched the
movie and wanted to see what John Lithgow did and

(02:26:45):
have my own spin on it.

Speaker 4 (02:26:47):
The whole sort of foot loose. It's like everyone goes
off foot loose? Is that Kevin Bacon? Yes, the Kevin
Bacon movie, And so with the musical, it's.

Speaker 34 (02:26:53):
Having that opportunity to, yes, draw from all these wonderful
actors that have played the roles that we played before
and give it our spin. I love the fact that
it's an eighties pop classic film and that it still
holds this kind of really special place for people, and
it's exactly what the musical does. It has those iconic

(02:27:15):
songs in there, but also has this sort of deep
undercurrent story and it's something that I probably took for
granted not knowing too much about it all. I was
too young when I first watched the movie, but watching
it now or now that I'm older, there is really
sort of quite deep and dark undertones of the show,
and it's exactly what draws everybody into the musical, not

(02:27:36):
just the music itself. So it's nice to be able
to sink my teeth into something. Reverend shaw More is
a little older than me that I've sort of was like, Oh,
how am I going to play this? But it kind
of works within the timeline. I'm forty three this year,
and I'm a father as well, and so having the
loss of a child, having these restrictions put on you
in a society things that I haven't lost a child,

(02:27:57):
but I have certainly had loss and I've certainly had
restrictions put on me within society. So it's interesting to
be able to harness that within Footloot.

Speaker 1 (02:28:05):
I was going to ask that we talked to Jared
a little bit about the fact that that Wren in
the musical is a little bit different to what he
is in the film. Did you notice differences as well
with the Reverend in the musical script rather than what
was in the film.

Speaker 34 (02:28:23):
Subtle differences. It's kind of easy. I think with Reverend,
there is this small town and they are he holds
this sort of weight on his shoulders that he should
provide the Lord's word and he should.

Speaker 4 (02:28:36):
Be a guiding the community and being able to set
things in a proper way.

Speaker 34 (02:28:41):
It's you know, we look at a lot of religion
these days and there's a lot of a lot of
dominations and in a small town there, that's kind of
what you can hold on to, and I think it's
it's beautiful that that happens. There's not I can't say
there's huge differences in what the movie. Obviously you get
to sing here, it's a a bit of a difference,
and it's kind of nice that the Reverence sings something

(02:29:03):
in a very different style to what the rest of
the show is. It's not as poppy, it's not as
you know, rock and roll. It definitely is a bit
of a moment for a ballad. Also, the Sophie Weis
gets to sing some songs in the show as well,
and so our characters are Reverend Shaw and buy More.
We play a couple, so we kind of have this
sort of juxtaposition of what's going on internally for Ren

(02:29:24):
but also for our family as well.

Speaker 1 (02:29:26):
Now we know that we have a lot of young
performers that listen to this show. So I'd love to
ask when you sat down to watch the film and
you watch the John Lithgow performance, then what do you
take away from that? How do you approach that character
then of thinking this is my character now in a sense,
how do you go then about making it a little

(02:29:46):
bit different to what John Lithgow did and making that
character your own?

Speaker 4 (02:29:53):
Yeah, you just you had the script.

Speaker 34 (02:29:57):
I think you always start with the script and read
the script more than once, read it multiple times and
see the things that start to jump out at you
and see what you can connect with. You know, I've
done so many different shows before where I'm either playing
a real person or it was an iconic movie. And yes,
people are expecting to kind of get a flavor of
that or a kind of you know, some kind of ism,

(02:30:19):
but you do, you know, have to just bring yourself
to each role. It doesn't matter what you're playing and
what the show is, You're bringing yourself to it every night,
and you're bringing what you have to offer. So I
just sit down with a script and I write down
everything that my character says, that I write down everything
that the other characters say about me, and then I
write down everything where the scenarios are, where are we,

(02:30:40):
what are we doing?

Speaker 4 (02:30:42):
What place are we in?

Speaker 34 (02:30:43):
And sometimes the script doesn't have those answers. You need
to fill in the missing blanks. But definitely just keep
going back to the script listening to the other characters.
You can come completely informed from the script today one
and a rehearsal you can keep finding those things on
the floor with your other actors because you need to
start listening to what the other actors are saying to you.

Speaker 4 (02:31:03):
And there's no point.

Speaker 34 (02:31:03):
Yes, I would learn your lines and figure out what
you're about to say, but it's the energy and the
synergy that you find within a.

Speaker 4 (02:31:09):
Rehearsal room when you're working across other actors.

Speaker 34 (02:31:11):
They may give you a delivery of a line very
differently to the way that you would do it personally,
so you have to listen and respond that way.

Speaker 4 (02:31:19):
Then you can build your character around that.

Speaker 34 (02:31:21):
And yes, iconic people have played the roles and it's
not about copying, but definitely, you know, borrow some things
from them, and there's a reason why that they were
casting the roles in the first place, and so that's
what people were drawn to. And so I think just
sort of, yeah, using a bit of what you can.
Choreographers do it, singers do it. You know, we emulate

(02:31:43):
different sounds, but it's just finding your voice, your body
and the way that you walk in those shoes. And
then yeah, hopefully during rehearsal you have a great director
and they sort of guide you through that.

Speaker 1 (02:31:53):
Definitely. Now I wanted to ask as well. You mentioned
the music before, do you have a favorite track that
from the musical off from the film that you find
that you really really love. Darreed was saying that some
of the ones that he's not even in, he'll go
and stand on the side of the stage because he
wants to watch them night after night. Are there some
that draw you in as well?

Speaker 34 (02:32:16):
Yeah, there's a beautiful trio between vi more Ariel and
Ethel that they sing and they have their kind of
own moment of.

Speaker 4 (02:32:26):
It's I'm terrible that I'm slipping of what the actual
name of the song is.

Speaker 34 (02:32:30):
But they're talking about having to be quiet and they're
being muted and they're trying to find the words, but
they're not allowed to speak out loud. And it's quite
a beautiful moment to see these three characters go through
their journeys together. And I do sort of always put
my ear out for that one listening. I just I mean,
the iconic song is Footloose, and it does actually kind
of ring through all the time. I don't know why

(02:32:51):
I sing at corporate events and everybody goes off on
the dance floor, and I think we sing it two
or three times within the musical because we've got a MEGAMX,
we've got a finale.

Speaker 4 (02:33:00):
Yeah, those two stick out for me at the moment.

Speaker 1 (02:33:03):
Definitely. Now we mentioned before that you've done Greece, You've
also done Rocky Horror, now you've done Footloose. Is there
a musical out there that you haven't done yet that
you would really like to do, or is there a
film musical that you would love to see come to
the stage that you haven't seen on stage yet?

Speaker 34 (02:33:20):
Yeah, I mean there's so many different shows that I
would love to do. I think Waitress would be an
incredible show to see on the Australian shores. And I'd
love to play doctor Palmatter in that. I still haven't
had a chance to perform anything in Lay Miz And
I think that is just one of the shows that
one day who knows one day more as they say, but.

Speaker 4 (02:33:42):
Yeah, and what could we see on the stage.

Speaker 34 (02:33:46):
It's interesting because there's a lot at the moment in
America that I haven't been able to go and see.
Would I want to be in them? And I think
there's definitely a few that I would love to go
and see. And there's some that I haven't been cast
in before, and you know, you go and see it
on stage. So excited to see the Book of Mormon
come back with it all Australian cast predominantly in the leads.

Speaker 4 (02:34:07):
There, And oh gosh, it's a hard one. I've never
done Rent, and I love Rent.

Speaker 34 (02:34:14):
It's so iconic and I don't know, maybe I'm too
old now to be in it, but it would be
a great show to do.

Speaker 1 (02:34:20):
Definitely. I love the fact that so many these days
as well, there are so many movies being made into
musicals for stage that you would never have expected, like
bringing on Cruel Intentions once, like that that must also
be something for you as a performer where you're wondering
what is going to be turned into a musical or
a stage show next.

Speaker 4 (02:34:41):
Yeah, look, I'm not I'm not surprised when it happens,
you know, you kind of go. Of course. I was
lucky enough to do Jersey Boys, and I played Bob Gaudio.

Speaker 34 (02:34:50):
And when it first came out, like the audition brief,
I hadn't really known too much about it, but you
saw the poster and you're like, oh, it's human nature.
And to be able to get to sing the catalog
of the Four Seasons, it was so iconic and it
still rings today. I did it in two thousand and nine,
and what is it, twenty twenty five and I'm still
singing them at events.

Speaker 4 (02:35:08):
People are still recognizing me from the show, you know.
And then a few years ago I also.

Speaker 34 (02:35:13):
Did Carol King's Beautiful of the Musical And to sing
those scores.

Speaker 4 (02:35:17):
Like you just never get a chance to you know,
sing that.

Speaker 34 (02:35:20):
Music, and to be able to do it in a
musical and then do it eight shows a week is
really it's really fun. A lot of the movie musicals
sometimes don't translate, but I think they're, oh, you know what,
I've just seen Gatsby and the Great Gatsby looks extraordinary,
and I think that would be a great one. But
it is exciting that I just sort of and I

(02:35:40):
think it's been out for a while with the Copa
Cabana is a Barry Manilow catalog of songs, and it's
you know, yeah, really really cool.

Speaker 4 (02:35:48):
I say, what's the song that I sang? It doesn't matter.
I've sung a few songs from that show and that
was Yeah, they're really great.

Speaker 34 (02:35:57):
So yeah, it is exciting as a performer to see
what's going to come out, some interesting choices and you go, really,
how's that going to work?

Speaker 4 (02:36:03):
But people do it? What did you two do? I
think they did Spider Man, didn't they?

Speaker 34 (02:36:08):
And they just spent millions and millions of dollars in
Spider Man and we never saw it get off the ground,
really it and he did a short season.

Speaker 1 (02:36:14):
Yeah, the lead actor got really badly hurt too, I think,
if that's correct, in the first in the first week
that it was on. So yeah, it really it really
supped it. But I know you also, Marvel have been
talking about doing some of their films as stage performances
as well, which could be interesting. So yeah, we'll see
where that goes.

Speaker 4 (02:36:33):
Yeah, and it once has come to mind Rocketman.

Speaker 34 (02:36:35):
I mean, I think after seeing the movie and seeing
how that is, it was so musical and it was
so alive that it absolutely could be a stage production.

Speaker 4 (02:36:45):
It would be probably one of the best.

Speaker 34 (02:36:46):
Things to make the costumes for and be able to
have that iconic music being played. Not sure that I'm
a I'm an Elton John, but I would definitely love
to play one of the supporting characters. Maybe one of
his boyfriends or the managers would be amazing to play.

Speaker 1 (02:36:58):
Definitely, Well, Steven, we know that you are backstage at
the moment getting ready orf for I think another rehearsal.
But so we want to say thank you so much
for coming on the show. And to finish off, what
would you like to say to people out there who
are thinking about coming along and checking out this Encore season.

Speaker 4 (02:37:16):
I'd love to know that you're coming.

Speaker 34 (02:37:17):
Check us out on the socials, say you know, hi
to Stephen May Let's say hi afterwards, grab a photo,
but really just come for the for a night out.

Speaker 4 (02:37:25):
It's a decent amount of price for a ticket.

Speaker 34 (02:37:27):
I think they're relatively cheaper than most things going around
were the Athonyum on Colin Street. We're really looking forward
to having the audiences back, and we you know, hopefully
we can extend the season here at the Atheneum. And
you know fingers crossed that it goes on tour. So
if you don't book now, you might miss it. You
might have to come and seas as another state.

Speaker 27 (02:38:05):
I'm working so hard.

Speaker 19 (02:38:07):
I bot you love her here for do tell me
what the guy I'm down to see.

Speaker 8 (02:38:19):
Jumps to the ball and me down?

Speaker 6 (02:38:27):
How the seed the real sot over this time?

Speaker 27 (02:38:36):
Now got come loose one of Louis.

Speaker 8 (02:38:40):
Can't you dun the sun?

Speaker 26 (02:38:41):
Bescus?

Speaker 5 (02:38:43):
These loies pulled me up the mountains, jack get back,
come mounting all way back loose y'all?

Speaker 14 (02:38:55):
Do never mind?

Speaker 6 (02:38:57):
Come bus.

Speaker 27 (02:39:04):
Yuh playing so cool?

Speaker 6 (02:39:07):
O bay.

Speaker 4 (02:39:09):
People?

Speaker 5 (02:39:10):
Let on in your heart me up here.

Speaker 6 (02:39:14):
And a song. Somebody tout you.

Speaker 5 (02:39:18):
Not made a passing and good bye.

Speaker 6 (02:39:23):
I'll troun you too.

Speaker 5 (02:39:25):
You try.

Speaker 9 (02:39:32):
You it only cut loose, but.

Speaker 5 (02:39:36):
Keep you from just start a pasting O.

Speaker 6 (02:39:42):
Say the same by my go mount the monaco.

Speaker 5 (02:39:50):
Goody'll bos that anybody cut?

Speaker 20 (02:39:59):
So what's your feet on the broad, take a hold
the all.

Speaker 16 (02:40:40):
Times are change and times are strange.

Speaker 1 (02:40:43):
Here I come, but I say, Mama, I'm coming.

Speaker 6 (02:40:50):
Oh times come bye.

Speaker 27 (02:40:55):
It seems to be you could have been a better
bready to me, my mom coming home.

Speaker 35 (02:41:08):
You took me in there to go me out theay ahead,
met the side, lost in, found it turned around by
the fire.

Speaker 6 (02:41:19):
And your rides.

Speaker 8 (02:41:22):
You make it bye.

Speaker 5 (02:41:23):
You told me nice, but I can stand to save you.

Speaker 6 (02:41:28):
Bye, my mom coming home home.

Speaker 5 (02:41:36):
I couldn't be right.

Speaker 8 (02:41:37):
I couldn't be wrong, and her so bad.

Speaker 6 (02:41:41):
It's been so god.

Speaker 27 (02:41:45):
My mom coming ball.

Speaker 6 (02:41:50):
Self fish up.

Speaker 5 (02:41:51):
There were both along the right before fall.

Speaker 6 (02:41:56):
But I'm gonna take his time to start.

Speaker 8 (02:42:00):
I just got it.

Speaker 5 (02:42:02):
No, I think your baby sad.

Speaker 6 (02:42:07):
Sad every day we have been.

Speaker 5 (02:42:18):
I don't care about the child. Yes, because mama, Mama.

Speaker 6 (02:42:26):
Coming, not coming, tell.

Speaker 5 (02:43:19):
Me, don't be out and athing go tid lock in
found the time a run out of the file. I'll
take your place of thousands tides very game we have

(02:43:41):
been our don't care about job.

Speaker 8 (02:43:50):
I guess.

Speaker 6 (02:43:53):
Does mama Mama.

Speaker 1 (02:43:56):
And that's it for this episode of Subculture meets the

(02:44:28):
Popcorn Conspiracy. It's been an absolutely massive show, and I've
got to say we've got a massive show next week
as well. I've already recorded some of the music interviews
for next week, but we're also going to take a
look at some of the biggest films that have come
out over the last couple of weeks as well. So
it's going to be a huge show next week. But
of course, if you wanted to be up to date

(02:44:49):
with all of those film reviews as they went online, Harley,
what website should people have been following to see those
reviews as they went online?

Speaker 2 (02:44:58):
The only place you should ever go is www dot
subculture Entertainment dot com. It's your one stop shop for
all your entertainment and pop culture goodness. And of course
you can reach us on the socials. Look for Subculture
Entertainment on Facebook, Discord, Twitter, TikTok. I'm assuming I'm allowed

(02:45:23):
to still say Twitter. Everyone remembers Twitter, right, it's now
excuse reasons. Or you can alternatively look for Subculture Dave
on Instagram and threads.

Speaker 1 (02:45:36):
Definitely, and you want to be on all those socials
on our website as well. Over the next few weeks
because while we're at myth there is going to be
so much going on. There's going to be reviews pretty
much going up as soon as we've seen movies. There
are going to be interviews going up as soon as
we sit down with the cast members and the directors.
There's going to be live video streams coming from Red Carpets.

(02:46:00):
It's going to be absolutely huge while we're at the
Melbourne International Film Festival. So I would recommend getting onto them.
And we've also got a Patreon as well, don't we, Holly,
where you guys can support us and get some exclusive
stuff as well. I know you've been recording a lot
of stuff recently for Halley for Patreon. Holley, so tell

(02:46:20):
us a little bit about what you've been doing for myself.

Speaker 2 (02:46:22):
Yeah, it's all for me self aggrandizing. Yeah, that was
a few more you know, cinema classic reviews. So we
do a flashback segment on Patreon which is full of
reviews of films from well say pre two thousand. Anyway,

(02:46:44):
we've done a lot of the early days of Hollywood. Recently,
Kyle and I just did one for Mac and Me
from the eighties. So if you're a child of the
eighties in your want to revisit some fun old films.
We're going to start covering a bit more of those

(02:47:05):
as well, so we're going to try and cover all
the eras. But yeah, I've been watching a lot of
stuff and I'm kind of under the pump trying to
record all these things and hopefully get David here and
Kyle in on some of them as well to make
it more fun. So yeah, do check it out if
you're at all interested.

Speaker 1 (02:47:24):
Yeah, and I had a live request or basically should
I call it a live threat? Maybe not a live threat.

Speaker 28 (02:47:31):
It was more of a.

Speaker 1 (02:47:34):
Because the other night when I was hosting a Q
and afore I Know what you did last summer, I
said that nobody made teenage movies in the nineties and
the early two thousands, like the casts of Dawson's Creek
and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And somebody said to me
a day to go back and watch some of those
movies and talk about them, because they agreed that there

(02:47:54):
were some great films that for the casts of those
two TV shows appeared in. So I'm going to take
that challenge up. I'm going to take a look at
some of the movies, some of the more popular movies,
but also some of the obscure movies.

Speaker 2 (02:48:10):
That actually I think one we're going to cover, and
I think we should do it together Psycho Beach Party, Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:48:17):
Yes, with Nicholas Brendan. So but there's so many Soul
Survivors urban legends, So yeah, we are going to take
a look at them, because I know Joshua Jackson made
a whole bunch of paranormal kind of horror movies there
at one point that didn't always get released in Australia.
So we're going to take a look at some of
those as well. But challenge accepted. I am going to

(02:48:40):
take a look at some of those ones, but we
better get out of here, Harley. So for now, I've
been Dave.

Speaker 2 (02:48:46):
G and I've been Harley, and until my name changes
or you know, I get told i've been lying, next episode,
i'll probably be the same person. So tune in to
find that

Speaker 5 (02:49:03):
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