Disasters in the Making 01-30-25 -- Trucks & Monsters Living Together - Mass Hysteria!

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Monster Truck Stop, Big Monster, Chuck sar Loud, Monster Chucks
Jump Hi in the sky and they made such a
monsterous sound. Monster Chuck Sucky, Monster Chuck star Loud.

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in the making. How is everybody doing? I'm Brad Schlager,
entertainment writer here at k l r N. One of them,
i should say, the other one is joining me here

(02:42):
is We are about to take you on a trip
down the dark, dingy, scum filled highways of Hollywood. But
as I said, I'm not doing alone because joining me
on the other side of the mic is from screenrint
dot com. Paul Young, Paul, what's going on tonight?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
You can call me Blippy?

Speaker 8 (03:02):
Ah well, I'm I'm gonna call you something even worse
than that after that song?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Who was talking to Rick? For heard the show when
I found the song, and I'm like, who is Blippy?
Who is Blippy? And why does that song have seventy
million views on YouTube?

Speaker 8 (03:18):
Yeah? You've you clearly don't have any young ends in
your life.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, I do not. I am fifty, and if I
have any young's in my life, you can call me
Nick cannon Well to be there.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
To be fair, I have like thirteen of them in
my life and I didn't even know.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Who this was, So yeah, any face, brad Well.

Speaker 8 (03:38):
I mean, here's the thing. If you are a responsible
adult such as ourselves, this is not a fixture in
your life and household. And we've managed to avoid Blippy
from incursion on our TVs and laptops and tablets and.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
All of that. So I come. I come from the
days where my kids watch JoJo's Circus, not to be
confers used with Jojo from Jersey with the Little Girl.
It was made out of clay or whatever little clay
mation Disney show before everything turned woke.

Speaker 8 (04:11):
And yeah, well there's also Jojo Siwa that was out
there that the kids loved. Oh my gosh, I had
to go through that period for.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
About a terrible person human being she is.

Speaker 8 (04:21):
Well, you know, it wasn't up to me. Our youngest
wasn't living with us at the time, the granddaughter.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
So what is it about the young kids group that
like are popular on the Nickelodeon Juniors and the Disney
Plus shows back in the day growing up to sound
like sixty year old five packa day smokers like Jojo
Seawaan and Miley Cyrus. Have you heard Miley Cyrus's voice lately?

Speaker 8 (04:48):
Oh yeah, she sounds she sounds like a four pack
of marble old day. Yep.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, like she's got a piece of sandpaper stuck in
her throat.

Speaker 8 (04:57):
Yeah. I mean, somehow she didches that when she sings.
But other than that, it's.

Speaker 9 (05:00):
Like, yeah, I would like to get a couple of
hobbies if you could.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh, you know, not really so much. My granddaughter has
found party in the USA, and I had forgotten how
deep and gravelly Miley Cyrus's voice really was.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know those little cigarette holders that had the clip
on the top of them, and it was made out
of pleather, that's what That's what carried her cigarettes in
and like a beer cozy and like a Corse light sitting.
She sounds like she just got done with her Thursday
night bowling league.

Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yeah, when she starts talking, I really just picture her
in a car getting pulled over by a cop and
never even removing the cigarette from her mouth and say,
you know, can we step this up? I got places
to bay.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
It's almost like her last name's Boovia.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah. Well, we could go on about the Syrus family
for a very long time because it'd be better in
talking about this movie.

Speaker 8 (06:05):
But still indeed, indeed, yeah, this is a tough one
for a couple of different reasons, but we'll get into that. Well,
what we do here on disasters in to make it,
if you're not familiar, is we go through all of
the particulars of a particular bad title each episode, and
we try to tie that in with the news and

(06:26):
or what's in theaters, and then we also delve into
the creation and where this went to Shrey and damn
with this one, are we going to go deep on
that end of things. But the date today, January thirty,
we're just about to exit the first month of the
year in Hollywood. Not we're just starting to get back
into this cycle. It kind of departed after the COVID

(06:49):
shutdowns and all that. But before that, January was known
as the dumping ground on the schedule for Hollywood. This
is where they would deposit into theaters films that they
have no idea what to do with. In other words,
Paul and I's favorite part of the schedule.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
It's the best time if you really think about it.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
Basically, what goes on here is Hollywood is still riding
the crest of their Hollywood holiday hits. I should say,
the big smash Christmas movies are still going strong, and
or the Oscar Bait Award season films are also coming out.
So that's a thing in between, kind of like running

(07:34):
through the legs of these Titanic titles. Hollywood just like, yeah,
let's spit this crap out that we don't know what
to do with. It's probably gonna lose money. So it's
it's long been known in a time when movies will
be just belched out last for a couple of weeks
maybe and then disappear. And as I said, Paul, and
I usually savor these. These are usually uh.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Over the last ten years or so, Marvel has tried
to own that particular time as a prime time to
seize upon putting one of their films in the theaters,
which is traditionally done fairly well. But like Captain, the
new Captain America, Deep Water Horizons or whatever it's called,

(08:20):
Deep Deep Undercover Boss, what is the actual name for
that film, I just call it Red Hulk. Yeah, Captain America,
not a Captain not America. It sounds like a horn
parody and actually doing his best snow White impersonation on
on on the press tour. But they're releasing that in February,

(08:42):
and it looks like, you know, I was a little
bit psyched for it, to be honest with you. But
you know, just just see the red hole cup on
the screen. But listening to Mackie talk and then listen
to Chris Evans back you up. And I always knew
Chris Evans was kind of a you know, a liberal
turd butt, but he played the character well enough that
he didn't matter right. He played it. He played it

(09:03):
through to form, and Mackie seems to just like be
making it. Chris Evans's Captain America was all about other
people around him and what he could do to defend him,
and Anthony Mackie's Captain America seems to be all about
what he can do for himself and his proselytizing upon
the rest of the world about how they're bad and
he's good and they're only bad because he says that

(09:25):
they're bad, and that that's just boring.

Speaker 8 (09:29):
Man, Paul. It makes it sound like you're calling him
a DEI superhero cap'n d how jared you? But no,
you're he's on the fresh stoor basically saying Captain America
does not represent America.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
He's just kind of backtrack it as soon as it
went out went live, Like, bro, what do you think
people are going to say about that?

Speaker 8 (09:50):
Yeah? How did you not see that going astream? But no,
you're gonna tell me he's not a captain What.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
I mean everybody always knew that Captain America he represented
American values, but he protected the world and their ability
to have the values they wanted to carry. He's just
trying to say that America shouldn't even exist essentially, because
it's a take the captain out of your name, play
a different character, keep playing Falcons. There's nothing wrong with Falcon.

(10:19):
Could have kept doing that.

Speaker 8 (10:20):
Yeah. I didn't understand it either, because they you know,
there's been a history of actors who've played multiple superheroes,
but usually not in the same universe. That's a different
little wrinkle there. I don't know, but Okay, that's just weird.
But yeah, I've got I've really had limited interest coming
into that film, and yeah, now I'm like, don't need

(10:41):
to bother Now, I will say this, I am going
to probably catch snow White because that looks like an
utter disaster. They've started to release trailers and the reaction
to it is hilarious.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
It might be the first streaming film released in theaters
sponsored by Crackle.

Speaker 8 (11:03):
Our dear friend and my co host, Aggie, sent me
a clip of reviews of the trailer, and one of
my favorites was, I walked out on this movie and
it was an airplane flight movie. AD gotcha? Okay, there
we go. This is this is what I got to
chalk up to. But the reason why we bring it
up is because January films. Yes, have been notoriously historically bad.

(11:29):
Just give you an idea of how bad things are.
Paul Blart and Mark Malkop became a hit film in January.
Any other part of the schedule, people would have been like,
what are you doing to us? But there's such a
dark of selections that that managed to be a hit

(11:49):
when it was released because nothing else worthwhile was in theaters.
So it sometime another movie like Hitch. I think it
was January early February of really nothing film. You know,
Will Smith has the job of turning frumpy guys into

(12:10):
cool guys. That's his career. I love movies like that
in Hollywood where they invent these careers. And somehow Hitch
became a hit film. What was the one with Kevin Hart?
He was a professional best man for guys that are
getting married and don't have friends of their own.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Called the best man.

Speaker 8 (12:39):
And yeah, like Hollywood does this every so often, they'll
just invent careers that never.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
The wedding ringer not to be confused with Johnny Knoxville's
The Ringer.

Speaker 8 (12:51):
Or the wedding singer from Adam Sandler, or wedding crushers
from his.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Or the Japanese horror film The Ring.

Speaker 8 (13:00):
But yeah, those are a lot of my favorites too.
What was the other one that Sarah Jessica Parker. Her
career was no, no, that was later see what You
Do Now. Her career literally was how to coach adult
children to move out of the houses of their parents

(13:22):
because apparently there's so many failure to launch recall.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, yes that when that was Matthew McConaughey and Terry.

Speaker 8 (13:30):
She would she would basically prepare twenty seven years. That
was her job. That was actually a career according to Hollywood.
All right, so these are the kind of crap ass
Paul and I knocked skulls together and said, jeez, we
got to come up with a bad January film, and
boy do I got one?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah? You do? You know what I'm I'm I'm a
little heartbroken at this particular one because.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
You got some connected, don't you.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
We do. And we've now we've now started diving into
movies that I used to watch with my children when
they were kids and not adults. So now that's how
old we've become, Brad, and how long I've been doing
the shows. I'm now diving into my children's shows, and
this was the one that I took my kids to

(14:22):
see when my son was nine and my daughter was twelve,
and I honestly remember enjoying having it a good time
watching it because I was with them watching it. Because
the expectations back in twenty and sixteen it was two
sixteen sixteen were much lower, much.

Speaker 8 (14:42):
Much lower, I guess you and I look back on
this finally for different reasons I have. I have memories
of this in the theater as well. This is one
of those titles where I marked it on the calendar
ahead of time, and we'll get into why. In just
a moment, I actually acquired them monsters truck t shirt,

(15:03):
wore it probably to the theater. I went to the
just is the theater where the you buy the tickets
at the snack bar. So I did the same, you know,
geared up and all that. I was like, give me
one four Monster Struck And he looked at me and
he's like, oh, hang on a moment, goes behind the
counter to get the walkie talkie. Yeah ed theater four.
We actually have somebody.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
The crank that up.

Speaker 8 (15:29):
And he's like, oh really, He's like, yeah, we guy.
I just sold the ticket for it. I had the
theater to myself. This was this Saturday on the opening weekend.
Nobody else was in the theater, and so get my gear.
I'm heading up and then there you walk up the
aisle and a guy rips your ticket and points to
it and he looks at my shirt and he's like,

(15:49):
oh my god, monster truck shirt, dude, and he's like
fist bumping me. Had the theater to myself as I
watched this. So this is probably going to be the
biggest title we've done. Where in the making will come
into play, because boy, this.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
One, they're monsters in trucks. Brad, you see what they
did here?

Speaker 8 (16:16):
I'm yes, we're about to see what they did.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
So you know, I mean this movie lost a lot
of money.

Speaker 8 (16:24):
Oh definitely, We're I'm just about to get into that
very factor because this thing, I believe the industry term
would be shit the bend.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Here's why, And truthfully, it doesn't make a lot of
sense on why it did it should have been. I
think it made sixty four million dollars worldwide, and that's
not a bad number. If they had only spent forty
million making it, or even thirty but they dropped like
a ludicrous but one hundred and fifty million dollars just

(16:57):
just making the film, not including marketing cough.

Speaker 8 (17:01):
Yeah, this thing is as misbegotten as it can be.
So the story is this. This is a release from
Paramount movie studio, very famous one owned by an international conglomerate.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Of course, so.

Speaker 8 (17:20):
They had you know, you're you're basically looking at a
case where the studio was losing a crap ton of
money for the parent company. Now what am I talking about? Well,
Viacom came out with their quarterly reports. You know, when

(17:41):
you have stocks on the market every three months, you
have to come out with quarterly figures, basically dumping your
purse out of all the finances of the company, so
everybody knows what's going on. They took a tax right
off on the quarterly report in September of twenty sixteen
to what they had a loss of one hundred and
fifteen million dollars tax right off for a movie that

(18:05):
performed poorly for the studio that they own, which is Paramount.
Here's the rub, here's the As I said in the
thread that I put out on Twitter, this is one
of the reasons why I love Hollywood covering the business
side of the industry. They they took this write off
of one hundred and fifteen million on the movie Monster

(18:26):
Trucks four months before it was released in theaters. Viacom
was convinced this movie was going to bomb to the
extent that it forecast losing a fortune on.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
It and it didn't do well with test screenings like
it Well, you know, they test screen things in Hollywood
just to get an idea of where they're at, you know,
and then they modify based on that, and sometimes they
film refilm entire films or re shooting, and they went
by and had to change the monsters in this film,

(19:04):
like entirely, I would love to see what the original
Monster Trucks look like. It was almost a sonic. The
Hedgehog moment is.

Speaker 10 (19:12):
The way it reads, where there was such a adverse
reaction to the original design that kids were getting scared,
so that created This.

Speaker 8 (19:24):
Is what cracks me up. Though what they put on
screen You're gonna tell me is better because I'm sorry,
but no, it's an amorphous blob with tentacles and a
that face that's not really appealing. And this was an

(19:46):
improvement so what did it look like?

Speaker 2 (19:48):
This is an amalgamation of like he at one point
he calls it a landsquid, which is a great term
for what it looked like. But it was almost lazily done.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
Yeah, and it's I mean, it's gray in color. There's
nothing appealing to it physically. It doesn't have like an
engaging puppy dog face or anything like. Every now and
then it smiles, but it kind of looks like a
drunken uncle. At that point, it's like, yeah, so so yeah,
the so Viacom takes this hit again four months before

(20:24):
is in theaters. This thing came out in January, opened
in the number seven position in the.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Ever and it was ever Martin Luther King Weekend.

Speaker 8 (20:35):
Right, Yeah, I think so not what you'd call a
good opening. It fell just shy of eleven million. So
in the North American run, I think it topped off
at like thirty thirty three million something like that almost
matched that international total box office of sixty something. Understanding

(20:56):
this studio only gets half of that figure because they
split that with theaters as such, so at best paramount
maybe brought in thirty five million against the budget of
one hundred and twenty five million, and then knowing this
movie was gonna bomb, they still dumped like fifty to

(21:17):
sixty million in marketing at this point.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Wasn't in twenty sixteen, wasn't really the time where where
you could dump a movie to streaming, right, I mean,
streaming was around, and it was a thing that people
kind of did when they wanted to release something later
or if it was direct to streaming, like the entire time,
and now they make movies specifically to release on streaming.

(21:44):
This release today would have been specifically released to streaming.
I don't think it ever makes it the theaters like
for no reason. I think they cut their losses. They
don't share the revenue with the with the theaters, and
they try to maximize as the profit return or what
they've got.

Speaker 8 (22:04):
Yeah, I mean back then it would have been dumb.
Straight to video, you know, gone straight to DVD is
the thing at that point in time that was still
DVDs are still active back then twenty seventeen, James.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
But it's still crazy because it's one hundred and fifty
million dollars straight to deep straight the streaming release. That's
a lot of money. Only Netflix is stupid enough to
spend that a lot of money on a on a release.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
Well here is why this thing went astray. Just it's
just amazing to me that this goes on. I still
crack up to this day. So this is Paramount the Studio,
the very magnificent historic studio. And at the time, it

(22:51):
was headed up by president of film Production Goodman, this
guy's name. He wanted to uh he he had idea,
We're gonna throw something in theaters that's gonna launch a
new franchise. We're gonna make a summer blockbuster that everyone's
gonna love, and we're gonna make a series of films.
There's gonna be all kinds of sequels, marketing toys, t shirts, lunchboxes,

(23:14):
you name it. So Adam Goodman, we're gonna do this.
He had one problem though, he didn't have a property,
didn't have an idea, didn't have book or anything like that.
He's like, damn, what are we gonna do. How it's
a great plan if you actually have a movie. So
what does he do? He turns to his son, four

(23:37):
year old, Hey, little, hey, little Goodman, what kind of
movie would you like daddy to make? He's like, I
think these chucks with the big tires are hilarious. Wouldn't
it be funny if a monster druck had a monster
in it? Dad had a light bulb moment. Dad said,
Holy crap, I'm doing this. It's awesome and amazing. I

(24:00):
have my franchise, hires a screenwriter to come up with
a story, and Paramount was just launching its animation division
at the time had just released US I think recently
the SpongeBob movie got good returns. Hey, animation, that's the
way to go. So he pops in with the script,

(24:23):
throws it at the animators with the computer screens and said,
I got monster drugs, put a monster in it. Put
it in theater.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
What was the movie that another kid wrote? Was it Moonfall? No,
it was a It was a Gerard Butler movie. We've
covered it.

Speaker 8 (24:45):
Oh really it hmm that I didn't buy a kid.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, it was a It was an idea suggested by
a child.

Speaker 8 (24:56):
I do recall m Night Shyamalan when he did The
Lady in the Water that everybody hated. This was this
was like a story he and his daughter would tell
with each other when she would take.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Geo. Storm was suggested by one of the producer's daughter. Yes,
Dean Devlin's daughter. He wrote this movie because she suggested
the script. His daughter, Hannah, How did I talk about it, like,
you know, years ago when we were doing.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
About the Oh No, I mean that was one of
my favorite all time episodes because it's one of my
favorite all time shit movies. I love it to death.
I did not know this though, that the daughter came
up with the concert.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yea, and he said, so it goes. Dean Devlin explained
climate change to his daughter Hannah, and she asked why
a machine cannot be built to fix it. He goes,
I can write a movie about that.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
Watch me, honey. Daddy's about to do just that, and
in the process he made an environmental disaster. So yeah,
here's Adam Goodman now with his four year old's germ
of a movie idea, and Paramount dumped a crap ton
into it. It went astray. Gorsh didn't see that coming.

(26:15):
So this was about twenty thirteen when he concocted this
with his boy, got the script. He gets this thing
into production. It's in the pipeline. They're starting to shoot.
It's gonna be live action CGI animation combo up in
British Columbia, which is serving in South Dakota, and after

(26:37):
months of shooting and such, Paramount Board of Directors basically said, yeah,
you know, Adam's kind of screwing the pooch with things here.
We're gonna let him go. And so the guy that
concocted this hole fiasco of a film was out the door.
I think in March of twenty fourteen. Problem, the studio

(27:01):
already sunk a small fortune into this thing. They got
to do something now to try to get their money back. Well,
let's just spend more money. I mean, I don't I
love it. I just don't understand any of it. That's
why I love it. This makes sense, four year old

(27:24):
story idea, one hundred million plus dollars invested in it.
We've got Rob Low, We've got Thomas Lennon, Danny Glover,
they're all appearing in this. We can't turn around anymore,
can't put a stop to it. So they just keep
shoveling money.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Well that's how they that's how they love it. If
some money doesn't fix it, more money must not fix
it too.

Speaker 8 (27:50):
Yeah, So they do the test screenings and the audience
are telling them, yeah, this is a pile of garbage
that we don't want to watch, So we'll fix it.
We'll fix should a post and they read Cobble a
Monster together, and they reshoot scenes, and they spend more
money on this losing venture. And there you go. And

(28:13):
now you got Viacom taking one hundred and fifteen million
dollars right off on a movie that hasn't even come out.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
And and I found some of the original Monster truck
artwork by artist Mariquio Ruez. He's got it on his
website where he's done a bunch of stuff for TV
and animation, And bro, if this is what the original
monster looked like, Holy guacamole. This thing was gonna be

(28:39):
an absolute nightmare. There is some stuff in here from
this film. No wonder kids were like screaming at this.
This is this is unsettling. I'm just I'm gonna tweet
it here in a minute, and you're gonna see it
and you're gonna be like, uh.

Speaker 8 (28:56):
What, Well, we've I guess we have to eventually get
around to talking about the actual movie itself. I'm resisting.
Here's the thing, though, you could see the problematics with
this property throughout this movie. When you watch it, should
you be so brave to do so? There are so

(29:19):
many scenes in here where it's just action, no dialogue,
no plot movement. I think there's no fewer than two
montages of the lead working on the truck with the
monster and stuff, and just stuff happening. Repeated chase scenes
go on in this thing, and action and activity in

(29:43):
the climax takes place, but there's so little to talk about.
It's like, Okay, then they had a chase scene. Ten
minutes later we pick up. Now, you know. It's that
kind of thing that goes on. I'm looking at my
notes and feel rather scant as far as this goes.
But we're gonna soldier through this, Baul. We're gonna come
up with a tangible coaching.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Back in twenty twenty two, Thomas Lennon, the actor that
played the what was the guy's name, the research scientist,
the geologist.

Speaker 11 (30:14):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna say, he tweeted out and it
has since been removed, but he tweeted out he was
technically still under contract for two sequels, so.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
He may they may never cast those, They may never
cast that contract dead.

Speaker 8 (30:34):
Yeah, that's what I was talking about where they wanted,
like a new franchise at paramount the Munster Truck series. Hey,
you want to go see Munster Truck five.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Munster Truck five, that would be like the new Shark Nader. Now, look,
you could do that. Give the rights to Asylum. Let
them turn this into the rightful franchise that should be.
And you know, get it, like eighties pop singer well
past their prime to star as the lead in it,

(31:07):
and an old forgotten nineties action star and those are
your two leads for this film. And they carry the
franchise through Monster Trucks seven or eight, and you just
keep releasing them.

Speaker 8 (31:23):
Uh you're you're really.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Playing like freight money, Brad.

Speaker 8 (31:31):
Yeah, with with a train on it, i e. Monopoly money,
because it ain't gonna be worth nothing. All right? Well, yeah,
this thing, this thing cracks me up. All right. So
we have to start, as any family movie will, at

(31:51):
an oil field. I mean, naturally, what child doesn't love
fracking taking place in South Coda. We're on location at
terror Vacs Industries, the frecking company owned by I swear.
What is Roblo doing in this?

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Nothing?

Speaker 8 (32:12):
What? Really? What was he reading on script? And said, Oh, yeah,
gotta do this.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
He is useless in this movie.

Speaker 8 (32:23):
He he plays the you know, prototypical evil CEO, but
he really doesn't.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
He's just he's just there. He just like I'm gonna
make some money and then I'm done. He's just like
a standard oil CEO. I guess I don't know. That's
what they kind of try to turn him into. He's no.

Speaker 8 (32:44):
I mean, he's says mean things, but they're not really mean.
It's just like, yeah, well you gotta do it because
you did bad stuff in the past, so you're gonna
do No.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
John Hamm from Landman, I can tell you that no. No.

Speaker 8 (32:59):
John him knows how to play a heavy and he's
a gorgeous man too, just like Rob Low, but he
can pull off the battie, is what I'm saying. Rob
didn't bring his own material for this, and I'm just
gonna say it. Maybe maybe he took the movie because
he had a young kid at the time and didn't
want to scare him.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I guess he just has nothing. He has nothing of
substance to do. He doesn't add anything. You almost could
have kept his character to a phone call, right. It
could have been an off screen phone call. That he
had that the guy's having. You know, Jim's having this
conversation with the CEO the whole time, and you can
never you never have to put a face with him,
much less a famous face. I bet you they paid

(33:35):
Rob a fairly decent amount of money. He's probably the
biggest name actors in this film.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
Yeah, but he plays the character basically like the floor
manager in a call center that won't wait. You take
an extra fifteen minutes for long, So bezos, that's about
the meanest he is in this thing.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
And what stand doing in this in a wheelchair?

Speaker 8 (34:00):
Uh, cashing a check? I mean, you want to talk
about nothing, He's yeah, I owned this junk yard and
let me just wheel off camera now.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
I mean if they if they made him gay, they
would have covered three DEI options right and one fail swoop.

Speaker 8 (34:15):
I mean it's pretty much like, yeah, I owned this
junk yard. You want a job, Okay, there's an old
truck if you want it. I'm gonna be over here
now the rest of the movie. Thank you Danny Glover,
ladies and gentlemen, Danny Glover. And it's it so yes,
as I say, we start new oil fields or fracking fields, technically,

(34:35):
if you want to say that gleaming machinery. They're drilling
at night and stuff is going on. Thomas Lennon is
in the I want to call it a laboratory. I
guess it's central headquarters of this place. It's all gleaming
with a lot of TV monitors and him and Robblow
are looking at him camera ostensibly attached to a drill

(35:00):
and it's underwater. There's just bubbles and stuff coming on
screen and they're staring ardently at this like what like
if they strike natural gas is going to change or something.
They're going to see something on camera and.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
They haven't been watching up to this point. But how
does a kid I guess, I mean those wells when
they drill, that pipe is is producing a lot of heat,
and it looks like they just put a GoPro on
the end of the drill bit and they've gone down
what what do you say? They were ten thousand feet
down or something like that, and they're getting ready to

(35:38):
punch through a big, big thing of water and I'm like,
you've destroyed whatever.

Speaker 8 (35:43):
That would probably be them that would be the fracking fluid. Basically,
when you go fracking, what they do is they drill
in and they pump. It's mostly warm, right, but they
pump that in to force the nonatural gas up. Is
the way that works. But as they're doing so, there's

(36:05):
this little flash in front of the camera and everybody
recoils and jumps for a second. Oh my gosh, what
was that? It was a blur? Calm down, Literally, it
was nothing. It was a gray swoop in front of
the lens. You can relax now. But as we come
to find out, this was much more than just a blur.
Paul three creatures have been brought up through the fracking pipe,

(36:31):
I think, is what they're trying to tell us. And
up on the surface a whole bunch of huge hoses
let go spray and fluid all over the place, Mayhem, pandemonium,
running around, shouting, and there's even a massive, and I

(36:51):
gotta say, deeply impressive explosion. There's a shit ton of
production money spent on this scene that really doesn't need
to be.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
It does not. I bet you a third of the
budget went into this explosion.

Speaker 8 (37:09):
I mean you could you know the hoses going off
alone was pretty bad. How about this? Just have the
cap come off of Derek and spray water up and
just say it was natural gas, and we would have
bought it. But no, we have to have this monumental
cloud of fire go off, and we come to learn
three creatures of unknown origin came up. I don't know

(37:33):
how or where. I guess they shot up through the derek.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
But the whole of the derek is what maximum ten
inches wide? It can't be more than that. There's no
way that the sleeve is more than ten inches wide.
So you're telling me that. And they were ten thousand
feet down, so you're telling me that they blew a
hole large enough to send three gigantic land squids blasting

(38:02):
through the air without ripping them to shreds.

Speaker 8 (38:07):
Right, didn't kill them. The being launched forty fifty feet
in the air and coming to a landing didn't kill them.
The explosion didn't kill them.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
First rockslide, but the sheer force of the sheer force
of the pressure. Well, okay, here's the other thing where
he says he makes his comment that everything underground has
like ten thousand PSI on it. I think everything in
this movie is ten thousand. It's like it's got ten
thousand PSI against it. Underground nothing could survive down there.

(38:42):
So as soon as they hit regular gravity or regular air,
wouldn't they just like implode again or blowed up to
like the size of a bar.

Speaker 8 (38:55):
Yeah, we're importing a lot more science and physics here
than are necessary. This is a kids fill him, Paul,
you and your science. Gur It's the same thing that
happens when you catch you know, the fish down in
like in the Marianna's Trench, about twenty thousand feet down
all the water pressure. When you bring them up, they
just you know, burst like a water balloon. You got

(39:17):
to keep them under pressure if you're going to study him.
So this but this is the thing. When we get
little glimpses, little sneak peaks of the creature, a little
gray slither goes on here or there and rob low.
Then he gets upset. This is this is disrupting our
drilling operation. We have a problem. I'm sorry. I think

(39:39):
maybe the explosion would have been the issue. But no,
these creatures are somehow threatening their drilling. Okay, go get them.
So they hire security expert by the name of Burke.
I gotta be honest, I like Burking this one, do
you well? I mean, not as a character herself, but

(40:01):
he was played pretty well. It's a holt.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Mc lanny, McLean, mcclanny, mcallanny, mcallanny.

Speaker 8 (40:11):
Yeah. I've seen him in a few things. He usually
benchment type, but he's directing things here. He's he's basically
a badass and he just you know, I want to
get these creatures. I'm gonna kill him. That's pretty much
his thing throughout the movie.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
He's a stereotype, Oh Claire, he plays the stereotype all
the time. This was dumb. He just said what he's
what's the thing? He says, I'll hurt you. He's essentially
the uh, the wrangler from Jurassic Park.

Speaker 8 (40:42):
Yeah, that's good, it's a good one. He's, uh, you know,
his job is to do the dirty work. I'm gonna
pay you to not know about it, just get the
job done. So apparently they get two of the creatures captured,
but a third one escapes. Burk is gonna find it,

(41:04):
but he's been hired to do. Meanwhile, we meet Tripkohley,
a sullen teenager, you know, as opposed to what aren't
all teenagers sulling these days?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
But dollar dollar store mcgiver.

Speaker 8 (41:21):
He's uh, yeah, he's he's mopey. He has to ride
the school bus. It sucks, and uh, he gets taunted
by I guess the school bully who has like a
tricked out dodge Ram glow paint job and everything is
he four wheel drives next to the school bus and
makes fun of him through the window because yeah, you

(41:44):
got a great truck and a hot girlfriend. What else
are you gonna do? I'm gonna go mock the kids
on the school bus and.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
You know what. Okay, So him and Jan Levy, who
plays Meredith, they're both in their mid twenties. The Hill
point six.

Speaker 8 (42:01):
There's sophomores in high school. Trust me, let's see.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
She's twenty seven, he's twenty six. There is no reason
except for this one scene where he's on a school bus.
There is no reason for these characters to be in
high school. Zero reason for them to be in high school.
You could easily make them go into community college in Dakota,

(42:29):
in North Dakota, and it played the exact same way,
except instead of him being on a school bus, he's
taking public He's faking public transportation.

Speaker 8 (42:38):
All right, Yeah, I mean i I'll lean on this.
Maybe it was explain why he doesn't have a truck
of his own. You know, he's that sixteen year old
that can't wait to get his first truck or something. Maybe,
but like you said, it didn't really matter.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yeah, it's not integral to that. Part of the characters
back story is not integral to the character itself or
the story because it's never addressed. Again, she says something
about studying for a class. Again, could have been a
could have been a community college class. And then they
go and they hit up the kid that whose dad

(43:17):
owns the She says, again, could have been a community
college kid like it, there's no reason for it to
have been in high school.

Speaker 8 (43:28):
Well maybe, uh maybe the it's more identifiable to the
kids this way, Mom, what's community college? Shut up and
watch the monster.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
I guess I mean they pulled. They pulled a nine
O two one oh kind of moment here with the
ages of the people.

Speaker 8 (43:44):
Yeah, it's this. This wasn't necessary. But yeah, his name
is Trip and needs to I guess, needs to get
a job. So of course, like any kid in high school,
he goes to theunk yard. That's where I'm going to

(44:04):
start my career. And this is where we meet Danny
Glover playing Doctor X of the junk Yard and says, well,
if you want, I've got this old pickup trip from
the nineteen forties. Got no engine in it though. Gee thanks,
but hey, you're in a junk yard. What do you
gonna expect?

Speaker 2 (44:25):
This is yours?

Speaker 8 (44:27):
Can't you can't be choosy at this point in time.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Oh my god, say he's in a yellow he's in
a yellow wheelchair. He really was, Professor Malcolm doctor X. Jesus,
I didn't notice he was in a yellow wheelchair the
whole time. You gotta think that they did that on.

Speaker 8 (44:44):
Purpose, Professor Malcolm X.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
You've gotta think they did that. That that on purpose.
That had to be on purpose. And I'm gonna assume
it is and give them kudos for doing something as
subtle as that. And I mean, and that's not catching
it until just now. Well that's that's how you know
you made a quality film with quality jokes. As it
takes you nine years.

Speaker 8 (45:10):
It actually lands a decade later.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
See, I told you it would work, and you told
me I should take that out.

Speaker 8 (45:18):
Well, uh so Drip now is trying to find a
way to get an engine into his truck, and just
like any other kid in high school. He's working at
the junkyard in nine at night. Of course, parents do
they factor into this at all. Well, not really, as

(45:39):
we find out later. So the third monster apparently escaped
and found its way to the junkyard, uh, makes all
kinds of disturbing and scary noises in the dark. So
of course the high school kid goes and investigates these
because like any other movie, white people, here something scary,

(46:00):
you gotta go walk towards it. It's just the way
it happens.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah, that's that's what I do.

Speaker 8 (46:07):
Somebody screamed down in the basement where there's no lights.
I better go check it out.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
That's what my wife makes me do. I should, I
should clarify. Sure, Paul got up. There's some noise. Go
check it out.

Speaker 8 (46:20):
I think a rabbit jackal broke into the basement. Go
get him.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Take this flashlight with you and see what you see.
If you find what am I gonna do?

Speaker 8 (46:27):
If I see something this, you take it in a broom.
That'll take care of everything. So as he's out there,
he encounters the creature. I'm calling it a creature. You
see what I did there, and he gets scared, and
the thing tries to get away and it's slithering around.
Now my first question by actually, I'll ask it in

(46:51):
a moment. They they crash over some things and then
the creature crawls into a middle box of sorts.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
This is a crusher, not not the hotty from Star
Trek dek generation.

Speaker 8 (47:11):
Got good, good clarification there, No, this is actually an
automobile crusher, a hydraulic press.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
The same one that killed Superman and Superman three.

Speaker 8 (47:23):
You're just desperate to talk about any other feature, aren't you.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Look at You're all tie ins. I'm looking for now.
They've all got to be there on purpose.

Speaker 8 (47:31):
Yeah, they're in a junk yard like that movie Steal.
Oh wait, that wasn't a better segue.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Oh my gosh, No, but he wasn't a jug yard
in that movie Welcome to.

Speaker 8 (47:41):
The Dark and uh and his girlfriend was in a wheelchair.
Did they steal the plot of this from Steel? Oh,
my gosh, tell me they did that. I would love
this movie even more.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Oh, I need to interview somebody from this film and
find out.

Speaker 8 (48:00):
Yeah, I got a question. You had a black junk
yard owner, you had somebody in a wheelchair, and you
had the hero become a hero while working at the
junk yard. Where'd you get the plot from? Plagiarizing sob
DC comics. I did not steal it from Steel.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
I swear.

Speaker 8 (48:20):
So. So Tripp is going to help them monster. I
don't do something. But he falls the operating box, you know,
the upper down buttons. He drops it. It makes the
thing go off. It starts pressing down, but it doesn't
kill the monster. Hey, this thing's special.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Well, he yanks it out. He goes in there and
grabs it by a tentacle and starts to pull it
like one of those creepy Crawley wall thing. Do you
remember you used to get him in cereals, honeycombs and
you throw them against the ball and they have a
little octopus. That's what it looked like.

Speaker 8 (48:55):
Yeah, But he ends up breaking the crushing machine in
the process. So I'm sorry. Any Glover is going to
be mad when he wheels out there in the morning
just saying.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Is he is? He gonna be really mad? All right,
that's our show. I appreciate you guys listening.

Speaker 8 (49:16):
If Paul's microphone goes mute for the rest of the show,
you'll know.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
What the thing on Hello fish, Hey, I gave I
gave him the rim shot one rim shot ones.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Any more of these jokes and he's gonna start getting.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
This in college with Sat trumb.

Speaker 8 (49:37):
From Price is Right.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
I mean you just they have pills for that out though,
You'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Monster Monster Puns is the name of this The title
of this episode is monster Puns.

Speaker 8 (49:52):
Well, this is the I guess. It develops into the
meat cute moment between Trip and the creature, and then
he comes to find out there's an oil drum. It
spills and then the creature starts gobbling it up. Oh,
look at that. That's how he sustains himself. Heats oil.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
But they find him living in water.

Speaker 8 (50:17):
They weren't in an oil derrick. They were in natural gas.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
No, they were punching through the oil. He's like, we're
sitting on the largest oil. He goes, we're sitting on
the largest oil feel in the dakotas he said, so
punch through the wagas. But there's like all this water
separating in the field and he's like, oh, it could
be you know, a biosphere and the people down there
are things on there living and he's like, no, punch
through the water to get to the oil.

Speaker 8 (50:42):
Okay, so they did call it a fracking operation.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
I know. I don't think they understood what it is
that they were doing when they wrote, when they wrote
the script for this movie.

Speaker 8 (50:51):
Because the whole time I'm thinking natural gas. I was like,
where did I get this wrong?

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Wait?

Speaker 8 (50:54):
They said fracking.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
But when you frack, you don't drill it. I mean
don't drill straight down, and you drilled an angle so
that you can frack it out and then and then
blow it out the top. Fracking oil is not collected
in the same way as drilling oil.

Speaker 8 (51:12):
No, because it's you're going for natural gas and that's
why you you first, you pump the fluid in in
the lighter gas then gets pressured out and that's how
you collect it. And uh okay, yeah, so they've they
didn't even know what they were doing here. But again,
this is a movie with a monster inside of a
monster truck who's looking for accuracy.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
It's true.

Speaker 8 (51:35):
So okay, so the monster, the creature, drinks oil and
it's then it's happy. He kind of gets a smile
on his face.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Ah Okay, my twenty jeep also drinks oil.

Speaker 8 (51:51):
And trip Now manages to coax him into a garage
where his non operational truck is at and then the
bad guys show up. Burke and his crew are starting
to comb the junkyard with flashlights and everything else, acting
like they own the joint. Like Burke, it's like wait,

(52:12):
it's like, I'm sorry, can you get the hell off
our property?

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (52:16):
You don't know who I am on Brooke, I worked
for Terabac. We own the city, we employ everybody.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
I could get you fired. And they only they only
get there because they go to the police station first.
And and trips mother's boyfriend is the sheriff for that area,
and the cops inside that little tiny town are stupid,
like they're just like they made them as like absolute
morons as they could possibly make them.

Speaker 8 (52:44):
And they and I this is a I didn't understand
this plotlight at all, because if Barry Pepper is playing
the sheriff the mean boyfriend he hates trip did they
even explain that, like why that animosity is in place? Like, uh,
I can't stand the kid. He's like bad mouth in

(53:05):
them all the time. And you know, open your lip
one more time, I'm gonna run you in kind of attitude.
It was always that, it was like, what's going on here?
What is this dynamic all about? And he's always just
he would just pop up and be a problem for
a couple of moments and then disappear.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Yeah, it was. It was a weird because him and
his mom, or his mom and his dad are estranged
or divorced. I suppose that she's dating somebody else, and
and he is a strange from his father, but his
father works on a I guess he's in what they
call those oil guys, the guys with oil hands. I

(53:43):
don't know, roughnecks, rough necks, you go, And I guess
he's a rough neck that works for TERRAVEX.

Speaker 8 (53:51):
Yeah, but I mean is he Because he's played by
Frank Wattley, who's about five four and buck twenty. This
is a guy that runs a computer and turns dials.
He's not roughnecking get out there. But every time we
see him, he's got the full gear on and his
face is all smeared up with oil. I've been pulling

(54:12):
chains all day, That's what I've been doing.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
It's like you said, it's a very weird dynamic that's
never really fully explained that. I mean I guess maybe
he doesn't get along with his new you know, potential stepdaddy,
and that's what he's having a problem with. And there's
supposed to be that sort of uh Nickelodeon style dynamic
going on with the family dynamic. That's what they like
to write. I guess that's what they were going for.

(54:38):
But again, the story that they've they that they have
does not call for that style of human interaction because
it's it's unnecessary. It just it clouds and convolutes the point.

Speaker 8 (54:51):
Well, yeah, I mean it's supposed to have like some
sort of dramatic backstory or something like what's going on there? Now,
this is a truck movie with monsters inside the truck.
We don't need this. This is telenovella nonsense or teenaged answers.
My dad doesn't understand me, so well, I'm going to
what are you gonna do? Nothing? You're gonna go drive

(55:12):
your truck with your little monster, Shut up and go
do it.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
And the dad is completely a completely unnecessary part of
this film.

Speaker 8 (55:22):
Yeah, I mean they needed him for convenience at one
point for the plot sort of, but not really.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
And it could have been his uncle, it could have
been his mom's sleazy uncle that you know they never
see or hear from. And suddenly he hears something about
this monster truck and the kid. He wants to find
the cake because he knows he needs to turn it
in anything but his father. They don't do anything with

(55:52):
that information.

Speaker 8 (55:54):
No, not at all. But there he is, this, this
is going on, the Sheriff's going on. Basically, he's there
for a chase scene. That's about it.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Yeah, and he's pretty good on the chase scene. I'll
give him credit for that. I mean, he came in
at the right time and it was a good X
talking I got it.

Speaker 8 (56:14):
I mean I usually like Barry Pepper, but here is
just he just plays an ass. That's about it. One note,
I don't like Trip.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Got it.

Speaker 8 (56:24):
So the bad guys are, uh, you know, they're nosing
all over the place like they own it in the
junkyard looking for the monster that's now climbed inside of
Trip's truck to hide. And then he starts with his
flippers moving it forward, and then Trip says, oh, I'm
on a guess, I gotta push it. I gotta go
do something, and he's growling and going out or whatever,

(56:48):
and then all of a sudden, the monster starts to
operate the truck and pulls away. It's like, get that kid,
he knows something, and.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Where are you hiding a landsquid and out of his
nineteen fifties dodge.

Speaker 8 (57:04):
Well, I had no engine pul see convenient.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Well he's the so the whole thing's in the engine
in the resid. Like, I feel like I'm fairly a
fairly observant person. I mean, I'm not you know, Jason
Bourne and noticing every you know, exit when I walk
into a room. But I feel like if I'm standing
within three feet of a truck containing a giant underground squid,

(57:31):
I'm gonna see it. You gotta think that thing smells terrible.

Speaker 8 (57:34):
I was just gonna say, if you don't even see it,
the smell is going to be something you're asking about.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
I mean, the dude's drinking oil, he's not brushing his teeth,
he's not eating protein of any kind.

Speaker 8 (57:44):
Well, no, I mean, any kind of gelatinous, aqua based
creature is going to emanate something. When you're on land.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
There's not enough kitty litter in the world, and nothing
inks on the floor.

Speaker 8 (57:58):
This thing is that you're you're gonna notice it. It's
like you're in a garage. It doesn't smell like gasoline.
It smells like load tide. What's going on here?

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Is she gasoline?

Speaker 8 (58:11):
But they make their escape of sorts, and along the
way we have to introduce Meredith. We saw her at
school and she said, Hey, we've been paired with tutoring
of some sort. I guess he needs help. She's gonna help.
She's got flashcards of different colors. And you know, Meredith

(58:34):
is just gonna serve as something of the love interest,
but no real love and emerges. It's more of just
like she hangs out with them and they're they're out
in the truck at night, and he's talking to the
truck at time. She thinks he's talking to him. There's confusion,
and he finally has to let her in on the
fact that I got a monster squid that drives my truck.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
And she's sitting in the cab and doesn't recognize that
there's a giant oil eating squid monster underneath her seat.

Speaker 8 (59:10):
Well, here's something. You're in an old pickup truck from
the nineteen forties. You're barreling down the road. There's no
engine noise.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
He doesn't even crank it, he just gets in and
it starts moving.

Speaker 8 (59:27):
Yeah, you're going to be rolling silent when you're driven
by a giant squid. How do I know this? I've
got an animal planet, but you're Yeah, a nineteen forties engine
has pretty much a distinct sound and feel as you're
driving down the road. But you're coasting at sixty miles
an hour and you don't ask questions. Maybe she's not

(59:49):
the best tutor. I'm just gonna set that up. How
about that?

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Why does your engine sound slashy?

Speaker 8 (59:56):
I mean, I know it's an old pickup truck, but
why does it smell like a cantatuna fish left in
the trunk for two weeks?

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
God? Oh, I've done that before. One of my friends
from college got married. Uh, his brother went and stuck
sardines and all of the his car had hubcaps. It
was like a wasn't a Grimlin pacer is something that

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had hubcaps. And he went and such sardines and all
of the hubcaps and I don't know how long they
were there, but bro, in the Florida summer, those things
are taken.

Speaker 8 (01:00:32):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
That smell was in his car for weeks weeks.

Speaker 9 (01:00:39):
Yikes, Well.

Speaker 8 (01:00:43):
She doesn't have that kind of sensitivity. I guess you could.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Say, well, she does have a horse, so she probably
used to know.

Speaker 8 (01:00:53):
Basically sees this giant monster inside of his truck. She
doesn't freak out and instead says, well, we can always
go to my place, which is a barn with horses
they wheel in and god, this is just painful at
this day.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
There's only one set of parents in this whole film.

Speaker 8 (01:01:14):
You know that, right, Well, it's the thing is like
adults don't exist. They just equipment they need. They can
fix up trucks at a moment's notice, parental supervision, money,
does any of this come into play man?

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
She's not asking him. He has a phone, she's not
calling him all the time. She's not helicopter pairing in him.
No way. It is three o'clock in the morning, get
your ast home. But it's like, you know what I mean,
Like nobody says have questions being asked? Like the daughter
is just she's like, yeah, my dad doesn't come out
in this barn, so you can do You can pretty

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much do whatever you want to. There's a horse right
here in the barn. I can guarantee you dad comes
out here. Actor over there, I see a whole thing
of tools. I thought they were just used yesterday. It
probably comes out there, But we're not going to see him,
are we. You know, see your mother either. You like,
where is everybody in this movie?

Speaker 8 (01:02:12):
That's the way life is is South Dakota, Paul, The
Life of Convenience? Need something?

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
That's there any extras in this film? Even during the
big chain scene downtown, you see very few people.

Speaker 8 (01:02:25):
Yeah there was, there was the mother and the kid
in the diner. I think it was about it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
My restaurant. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:02:37):
Not a lot going on in this burg. But yeah,
So they wheeling in and he starts, you know, using
the tools to modify the truck because he's realized that well,
he's now calling the creature cleverly, creature smart, thank you movie,

(01:02:58):
you saved me a syllable for the rest of the show,
very helpful. He's come to find out that he can
use his tentacles to wrap around the drive train and
operate the truck.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
And he learned that from the creature grabbing a screwdriver
and turning it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:17):
Yeah, and when he grabs something, his suction cups glow
I guess a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
They kind of created them to be like dauphin Sillia.

Speaker 8 (01:03:30):
I guess sure he understands what you're telling him, because
this creature that has lived undergrounded, has never seen a
human before, knows the English language that's convenient, and also
learns how to operate a truck by watching monster Jam.

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So the the monster was inside the cab one day finally,
like three point thirty in the morning, and Trip fell
asleep against the wheel well with the TV on, and
Creech turns and says when he sees a monster Jam competition,

(01:04:13):
and instantly thinks, well, that's what I'm gonna do Sunday.

Speaker 9 (01:04:20):
Sunday Sunday, come to Beaver Downs Forever to see Creech.
Cree She's gonna be jumping his monster trup.

Speaker 8 (01:04:31):
Yeah, okay, that's what I want to be when I
grow up. But he starts carving into the body of
this modifying it so he can fit better and control things,
of course, because that's that's how it works. Real life
is like that. It's easy, you need it, you can

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do it and make it happen. So the next day
they take him out. She gets on a horror Creech follows.
He does burnouts in the grass and all that, and
I guess figures out when to stop, when to go.
He could press down on a pedal and Creature will
know that when the grille opens up, and he could

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see that means.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Go, and then he installs an air compressor to tick
aling so he'll jump in the air. There's no way
the suspension of a nineteen fifties Dodge is supporting all
of what they're doing to it.

Speaker 8 (01:05:33):
Well, no, you don't need it when you have those
monster snow tires that he put on the thing. Where
did he get those?

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
That just showed up from nowhere?

Speaker 8 (01:05:42):
Like all of a sudden, He's just putting on these
gigantic They're amorphous. They're not at regular wheels. I've never
seen these before. They're cool looking. They're very bulbous and
full of tread and everything. But what did they come
off of and how'd you get them?

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
They're not even thirty threes. I mean they're bigger than that.

Speaker 8 (01:06:01):
And you know what, Admittedly the truck looks pretty cool.
I like it. It's in nineteen forties Dodge with his
modifications on it, roll bars all over it's like, all right,
this is pretty cool. This is a pretty bad ass.
I'll go for it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
Oh yeah, I mean I would one hundred percent drive it.

Speaker 8 (01:06:15):
Hell yeah, I mean it's a little beater. But then
he modifies it up and it's like, let's go man,
let's go hunting. So they now figure out that they
can operate, they can get around. Here's a question, Paul,
You've got a truck operated by a monster. Why in

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the hell would you pull into a gas station.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
He had to feed it. They had to feed a
gasoline because it was an oil based product, and they
needed to show the scene. They need to show this scene.
The scene needed to be set up with the green truck.

Speaker 8 (01:06:57):
So this is another ext Then did action sequence? Hey,
no plot, no dialogue. How convenient. The bully pulls up
in the next stall with his truck, his lime, green,
metallic monstrosity.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
That's such an ugly truck.

Speaker 8 (01:07:16):
No bull, it's badass. It's cool. You're jealous of it,
that's all that is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Pauls from that was they should have squatted it to
make it even worse.

Speaker 8 (01:07:25):
But you know, he's in the gas station stall next
to trip and he's reving his engine and then trips
like really and he pulls away, and this upsets the bully.
I expect him to go forward. What the hell was that?
But here's another question that we're talking about. As far

(01:07:46):
as you know, no parents, no explanation of things, everything's convenient.
He feeds creached the gasoline with a credit card. The
tab comes out the four hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
And it's it's the girl's credit card.

Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
I mean, just no one's gonna do it, yeah or
other bucks to feed this thing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Well, and the best part was that he tried to
get out. He like pats himself down, like he's looking
for his wallet, like he was gonna go drop four
hundred dollars. What does she do that? She's got a
four hundred dollars credit limit on her card?

Speaker 8 (01:08:23):
In high school, living Dakota, dad owns a ranch. She's
she's lousy in money.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
I don't know she want And she lives near a
junkyard because she says she walked there. Like, you're not
living in the best area of town. I can tell
you that not if you're living next to a junk yard.

Speaker 8 (01:08:45):
Well, these are questions they were hoping that kids wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Ask who directed who wrote this thing. I'm gonna have
to reach out to their agent, and I got I
have questions.

Speaker 8 (01:08:53):
Yeah, this is not isn't that something I think they
want on their resume.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Mister Chris Wedge Eric Connolly m hmm.

Speaker 8 (01:09:03):
Yeah, this uh, this didn't. This didn't go well for
them career wise.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
I'm guessing.

Speaker 8 (01:09:08):
But he's what else has he got on his cease
safety nun guaranteed Jurassic World? Derek Connolly wrote Jurassic World. Ah,
he wrote Jurassic World Bowl and the sequel, volluing Kingdom.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Wait a minute, wait a minute. And and Chris Wedge
directed ice Age, an epic, which is I like epic.
I think it's a good animated film. But he I mean,
ice Age is great. Fourteen years later he's making monster
truck movies.

Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
Well that was wait wait yeah, because I say they
came out of the what was the Fox animation? Yeah? Yeah,
they yeah, they did that, right, mm hmm h I
guess that maybe they I guess they shuddered out once
they got taken over by Disney. They must as little

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little side segue on our part. They're sorry, folks, We're
just wait just so yeah, he just dropped four yards
into Creature's belly and they come to find out this
means he's no longer controllable creatures driving crazy through town

(01:10:30):
and conservative estimate, I'm gonna go with about two hundred
and fifty to three hundred thousand dollars in property and damage.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
And it's another one of those things that they added
to the story and then never they never circled back
to it, like, Okay, we're learning, you're learning about the creature,
so now you know that gasoline makes him crazy and
he's erratic, and they never use it to their advantage again,

(01:11:02):
like like they were feeding him, you know, kryptonite or
what meth no, I mean bath salts for creatures. It's
like I know that if I take this thing, I'm
going to be super crazy and it's gonna get me
out of a bad situation, but it also makes it crazy.
They could have used that at a later time and

(01:11:22):
say here, Creature, this is all I got for you, buddy,
just drink this up and he just goes on a
rampage and loses his mind on the bad guys. But
it's never addressed. They just I think they almost use
it as a way to as like a climate change preach,
creach preach.

Speaker 8 (01:11:39):
Just an excuse for them to tear us through town.
We needed a monster truck scene, so let's do it.
So for no reason, we see trips truck climbing over
car after car at a dealership, smashing a ship tone
of them. The guy comes out, you can't do that. Well,

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they keep doing it easily. A dozen or so brand
new vehicles were smashed, as well as a couple of
cars on the highway just blasting through them. All. These
are our heroes, by the way, we're supposed to be. Oh,
look at that's happened. No, you just basically made this
guy destitute in his business, as well as ruining the
lives of a number of other people on the road.

(01:12:26):
This is a good thing. But then, well, actually I
guess we have to back up a bit. We jumped
a bit because this is after he went to go
see his dad. Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Yeah, they start chasing him. Yeah, so he gets they
get the gas, he loses his mind, and they go
over to the patch or whatever you want to call it.
And that's but this is he finds his dad and
his dad turns him in.

Speaker 8 (01:12:53):
But I didn't understand this. Why what did he go
have to go see his dad for?

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
He didn't. I think he just wanted to go see
him because he knew thats where he was.

Speaker 8 (01:13:04):
I mean, he he saw my TV during a news
interview after the big explosion and it was like, oh,
there's my dad, who I haven't seen in forever. And
but you know, after the terrorist for town or something,
he looks at the girl who says, yeah, I'm gonna
go see my dad now. But why what? You got

(01:13:26):
a lot going on already right now. So he goes
and beats his dad, who gets off the bus after
his day of roughnecking. Because that's what Frank, way, did
I promise you?

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
Yeah, I'm gonna go make some wings in the microwave.

Speaker 8 (01:13:41):
I'll say this. I like Frank Welly in Swimming with
Sharks with Kevin Spacey. Great movie, hilarious movie. He was
perfect in it. He played a mousey assistants. That's him.
He's not a roughneck is my points. But okay, but
he gets off He's like, oh, yeah, nice piece there.

(01:14:03):
I'm talking about the truck, not the girl, you know
what I mean. And then the uh, they sit in
his trailer and microwaves chicken wings, and then Dad is
squirrely and weasley and turns them into the Tarovacs security guys.
Here comes Burke and his henchmen. I will say this,
I was a little jealous of their trucks, the security guys.

(01:14:27):
They were all tricked out with tactical gear on the
outside and shields on the windows and roll bars all
around it, and just you know, these were these are
pretty bad ass dick swinging trucks that you have to
have when you're on security detail with Burke. So they
get there. But these guys aren't a crack team like
you think they are, because Tripping the girl and the

(01:14:48):
monster manage you get away pretty easily. As well as
the shriff showing up for some reason. Haven't seen him
in twenty minutes, we have to have that conflict were established. Basically,
Trip drives by and the sheriff shakes his fist out
the window. I'm gonna so they leave. Sheriff chases him

(01:15:14):
burning his team are chasing him, and now we're carving
all through town doing nonsense again because we need a
ten minute chasing to burn script here. And we come
to realize now that that creature is basically creative and
can do anything he wants whenever he needs to. So
he goes down an alley where the sheriff is chasing him.

(01:15:35):
But the sheriff loses him because they've managed to climb
up the wall about fifteen feet. What's even going on anymore?
I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
It's like a spider man his truck and he's just
he's like walking on the walls.

Speaker 8 (01:15:54):
Yeah, it's a narrow alley way, and he can reach
his tentacles out and the tires and they can crawl
along the wall. But does the sheriff not have the
ability to tilt his head up?

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
I mean, I guess it's well, I guess he's not
looking up right. The truck's moving at the same pace
he is to the thing. But even so, you got
to figure he'd hear all the metal and the screeching
of the tires against the brick.

Speaker 8 (01:16:24):
Okay, but even when he first pulled into the alleyway
that you know, that's when he climbed up on the
wall up higher. You could see him. It's right there.
I mean, it's it was like two car lns higher.
It wasn't like he was forty feet up and you
would never you know, crane your neck up to seat.
It was like, no, you turn a corners, how's that
truck doing up there? No, Barry Pepper's blind in this capacity,

(01:16:48):
I suppose.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
So.

Speaker 8 (01:16:50):
And he's going slowly through the alleyway and they're climbing
above him for a while, and he gets frustrated, bangs
the steering wheel, climbs out and then the truck drops
and you know, at some other point there was a
garbage truck and Creech could then turn on two wheels
and climb through and then run over people that are
moving and their boxes, like fifteen uaul boxes and they

(01:17:15):
just smashed them all. So these people, their life just
went the cinders. Well done. And Burke is in tow
and they start chasing them. He gets them down a
dead hand alley, but Creach has got it. The two
wheel wells in the front flip up, his tentacles come out,

(01:17:35):
and he climbs up the wall and onto the roof
of the building so nobody could chase them.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
He's just he's jumping from from rooftop to rooftop like
he's a parkourn.

Speaker 8 (01:17:48):
Yeah, they're in fourth gear on the roofs of these
buildings and they just bounce over to the next one
and keep going. And that's when we see the mom
and kid in the diner and he's like, look, mom,
and she says, what are you talking about? Shut up
and get on your eye, leave me alone. Hopping, hopping, hopping,
And they're still didn't Despite all of this, they didn't

(01:18:08):
lose Burke in the sheriff. So then they hear the train.
He's on top of the building. He's like, I got it.
I know what to do. The train's five miles long.
How does he know that?

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
Let me let me start stop to you right there.

Speaker 8 (01:18:22):
I figured you had some input.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Let me stop you right there. There is not a
train in the world that is five miles long, not
even in super flat parts of China. When they can run,
they run like five hundred car trains. It doesn't happen.
And this was a local These were local engines. These
were not big, old, powerful, powerful engines that we used

(01:18:47):
to pull big ol' heavy long trains. The longest train
that we carry over at my job is just under
three miles. It's about fifteen The longest is fifteen thousand feet.
The BNSF that runs out north through the desert. Their
trains can be up to oh most four miles long,
but requires nine engines. This thing had two engines, and

(01:19:09):
there were local engines that were super underpowered. You'd be
lucky if you're going to carry thirty cars with it.

Speaker 8 (01:19:15):
But this was the Montana rail Link Local along with
the e M d MP fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Yeah I saw that too, Gee, Brad, where did you
get all your trade information? Like?

Speaker 8 (01:19:35):
I just love that. Somebody dropped that in on the
plot of the movie, as if that were relevant. Oh
do you know that was the MRL Lupo were using here?
Of course it was what else are they be using?
The Montana South Dakota Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Yeah we can, uh, I mean this way, that engine
that they talked about was made in nineteen eighty so no, no,
But even so, he's like, it's five miles long. We
can put some distance between us and them. That's what

(01:20:08):
he wanted to use it for a distance between them two.

Speaker 8 (01:20:14):
Well, their plan was speed towards the train as fast
as possible and then pull up on the steering wheel
because this will trigger Creach to jump on queue. And
then they managed to time it just when a flatbed
car was going through man.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
The steering wheel thing is ridiculous. It's like a Pillsbury
dough boy tickling effect on him.

Speaker 8 (01:20:39):
But you make jokes pull but it worked. They escaped,
So he jumps on the other side of the train
and Burk and the sheriff pull up, and then they
bang on the steering wheel and then the two of
them proceed to have an argument three feet away from
a surging train. I'm dubious that they could actually have
that convert station.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
No, you help be able to hear yourself.

Speaker 8 (01:21:04):
Leaning into each other's ear and shrieking at the top
of your voice. Maybe, but they're having a conversation. You
shut up your stiple, Sheriff, we own this town. If
you want to get voted next time.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Barbara, please burke.

Speaker 8 (01:21:14):
You haven't seen a voting booth in eight years. I
don't want to hear it. So they get away, and
again point of convenience in South Dakota, they decide to
go to Meredith's hunting cabin that the family has and
they're not using at the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
Well, again, no one's looking for these children. Not a
single soul is looking for these children.

Speaker 8 (01:21:40):
Like it's been days now that they've been in school,
having been to their homes. He did see his dad,
who promptly turned him into authorities, so it's not exactly
like he's been checking in. But yeah, they're now in
the middle of nowhere in a cabin. And then they
come out and find creature is no longer in the truck.

(01:22:01):
He has crawled his way into the water. You mean
the aquatic creature that hasn't been in the water for
four days is going in the water?

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Yeah, I don't shucker. Yeah, but how is this thing
not dried out like a whale? Like you take a
whale and he's sending through, crawling on buildings and driving
around and slashing through junk yards. How's it not just
completely dried up? Well?

Speaker 8 (01:22:25):
Biology is secondarian this entire film, because I'm thinking the
whole time these things lived in a subterranean liquid atmosphere
in the dark. But they could breathe water air no problem.

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
And they lived in the dark. There's no way his
eyes are that that. His eyes are gonna be non existent.
This thing is gonna be blind. His arms will be
working like Ray Charles's feeling stick. That's how he's getting around.

Speaker 8 (01:22:55):
Well, they do glow. We come to find out because
he's in the water and suddenly he looks like an
extra from Avatar.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
I mean, wouldn't it be better had they just created
these these monsters as aliens that landed through a meteorite
in the middle of a fracking operation. And then they
realize when they find the monsters that they're eating all
the oil they have stored up. And then they go
and they try to hunt it down, and that thing
finds oil like it can. It's senses where all the
oil is. And then rob Low's company is trying to

(01:23:25):
keep the monsters for themselves as little oil finding finding
sticks it that that fixes most of the ridiculousness of
what is currently occurring with the monster, because now he's alien,
he doesn't he's not terriforming anything. I could do whatever
I want to with the space creature.

Speaker 8 (01:23:46):
Well, see, I was gonna say that, you're why does
he completely ridiculous?

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
What is he eating? He drinks oil? Why does he
Why have they developed teeth.

Speaker 8 (01:24:00):
In order in order to chew through the shale to
get to the petroleum. I'm just answer. I'm just answering questions,
That's all I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
Oh you know what, I just noticed on the movie
poster the girl is riding a horse behind Danny Glover
in a wheelchair. That feels rude.

Speaker 8 (01:24:27):
That feels rude, that you wish you could do this,
Professor Malcolm X. Oh, well, we have to get to
a climax in this film eventually, I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
So they have to make one up. This film doesn't
have a climax.

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
I was gonna say, this sounds more like a failure
to launch than a climax.

Speaker 8 (01:24:46):
Yeah, it is. This never happens to.

Speaker 2 (01:24:50):
Me this film. The climax in this film is thet
of non existing and it needs a hymns pill h
The fact that you laugh that tells me you've seen the.

Speaker 8 (01:25:01):
Commercials Monser truck sponsored by Bluetoo.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
That's on the side of the truck.

Speaker 8 (01:25:11):
Well, okay, so Creechre's out there swimming, he's glowing in
the dark. There's a heartfelt moment. Blah blah blah, And
I guess meanwhile, we have to go back to Taravac
Systems because there Thomas Lennon has been lording over mom

(01:25:32):
and Dad, who are inside of two big plastic bins,
and he keeps trying to feed him stuff and they're
not eating anything, and he's concerned, and they're moping in
the corner, you know, they're eaching air independent plastic bin
and Thomas Lennon has a moment. He's like, jeez, I

(01:25:55):
don't know. I'm trying to feed you. What the heck
did you eat when you were down there in the
oil shale ding. He tries to give them oil and
they love it and they start sharing it across the ways,
and then they start communicating and he get some one
to do a trick, but then the other one does
a trick because they have a hive mind and these
things are brilliant, and he's making all these discoveries about

(01:26:17):
these creatures, which pisses rob Low right off. He says,
what are you doing? You're falling in love with these
He's like, no, I'm a scientist. That's what he is.
He's a scientist, all right. And that's when rob Low

(01:26:38):
and corks. He's like, well, listen, you're gonna kill these sons.
That's the thing is they keep talking about needing to
kill these creatures and never do well.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
The reason that they want to kill them is because
they think that if the if they think that the
US government finds out that there's an endangered specie or
a new species in that area, that they will shut
down from drilling right right, and they won't be able
to drill them because they say something about the horned
horny toad or the devil horned frog or something like

(01:27:09):
that at one point.

Speaker 8 (01:27:11):
Yeah, but that's Texas, not South Dakota.

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
Yeah, so why would they be Yeah, there's.

Speaker 8 (01:27:17):
Just but again biology, who needs it in this movie?
What am I doing here?

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
Silly me?

Speaker 8 (01:27:24):
So yeah, this upsets Rob Loan. Then again he keeps
Hey and Burke keep talking about eliminating these things, and
yet they never do. But now Thomas Lennon is starting
to come around to the other side. He's having the
red pill, as it were. He now likes these creatures.

(01:27:44):
They're important, they're vital, they're smart, they're interactive. In no way,
are you going to send these to Asia where people
will eat them instantly? No, we have to preserve them.
So turtle soup exactly. I mean, they're eating pangling over there.
They're certainly gonna eat creature a heartbeat, you know that's

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gonna happen. But how do they get Oh that's right,
This movie kind of devised linear thought and you need
to apply it here. Sorry, folks. So the next morning
that they have a heartfelt moment, creature does until they

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he says that I'm gonna get you back home. I
pledge to you to do that this trip. Says this
to him, It'll be it'll be my promise to you,
to which I'm thinking, this is a creature and I
have never seen a human five days ago, who are
you talking to? Nonetheless, it was at this point in
time I've realized to Paul the redesign on the creature

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when creatures sticking out of the water and looking at him,
did you see like his eyes had like a little
bit of a bulge and tapered a little to this
looked exactly like the hood of the truck.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
Oh my gosh, did it really? I didn't. I didn't
catch that.

Speaker 8 (01:29:08):
I was like, I looked at it. I was like, the hell,
what is this? That's the truck. That's what Jat's what
they did. Okay, if you liked, Hey, the kids like
the truck, make the monsol look on the truck, there
would go problem solved. Cgi'd ad bitch done. So he
makes this pledge. Now, the next morning Meredith and Trip

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wake up and the truck is gone. What happened well
over at Tearovac Systems. They loaded Mom and Dad into
an eighteen wheeler and drove by the log cabin where
they were staying. And Creech could sense this because, as

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Thomas Lennon has established, they have a hive mind going on.
These creatures can communicate, and I guess Creech can sense
when they're within the same area code.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
That I guess as long as they're within proximity but close.
But they never say how how much proximity that's gonna be.

Speaker 8 (01:30:12):
Yeah, it's like he's got Spidey since Mom and Dad.
Huh what so he leaves and they have no way
to find him? Paul, Oh wait, yes they do.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Oh I think I just figured out how they have sex.
I'm surprised. I mean, I hate myself for seeing this, but.

Speaker 8 (01:30:32):
I was just gonna say, I don't think you need.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
And it's not the way you would think, not like that.
What was that fella's name that was into the Japanese
tentacle porn that was on on Twitter? That the reporter
what was that? What was that fellaw's name?

Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
Why can I not think of his names.

Speaker 8 (01:30:51):
Didn't I see his face? I can't get his name.
Hang on, I can alex something, just do technacal porn.
His name is gonna come up, Like in the third hit.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
I can Wald, Kurt, I can Wald came for the
first name, So it's a New New York postwriter. I
thought it was going to be that. But I found
an image as we're talking, scrolling through the images from
the film, and there's the one where they first let
out the mom and the dad and they come out.
The dad is gray and he has like external blow

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like protruding blowholes across his head, almost like a like
a V eight engine with the little stacks coming out.
The mom is red and has matching blowholes, except they're recessed.
They're the exact same spot as his blowholes. That's how
they do it. He rolls up over on top of her,

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and that's how you get little creatures. I hate you,
so welcome. I'm gonna get.

Speaker 8 (01:32:00):
I don't need this again, copulating creature images in my head.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
Thank you. You gotta slide right, that's all you gotta do,
which tells me that somebody went so deep into the
evolution of creating these giant blobs.

Speaker 8 (01:32:21):
If only they had worked on the script, but they
did so okay, so creatures chasing them down the street.
They realize there's something going on, and the kids realize
we got to get the Taro rex because of this
is all going on. They meet Rob Lowe, who uh
talks mean to them by making fun of the fact

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she has cat pictures on her phone.

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
And then he and the thing is is that he's
got pictures. He takes pictures of him and Creech while
he's building the truck originally, and his phone is great,
her phone is red. They he takes and deletes all
the photos from her phone and somehow thinks that that
gets rid of all the photos on his fete.

Speaker 8 (01:33:05):
Well it bluetooth.

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
I mean, I know it's twenty sixteen, and it was
we weren't quite into the let's upload everything as we
do at the stage of life.

Speaker 8 (01:33:18):
But yeah, I don't even at this stage this movie
is just it's like, let's just wrap this up, can we?
Absolutely nothing has made sense, nothing matters. He's already pledged
to save the creatures, so let's just get it over
with and save the creature. They figure out there's some

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because Thomas Lennon now has turned over to the good side.
He's red pilled. He wants to help them. There's I
guess one of the apertures from the fracking and oil
drilling whatever they're doing, and this is going to be
the way to return the creatures back to their environment.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
Yeah, they'd have to fall down the vent into the
into a giant water pond and underground pond.

Speaker 8 (01:34:10):
Yeah, they make it sound all important. Basically, it's a hole.
There's a giant.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
Holes, the volcano of water.

Speaker 8 (01:34:19):
We have ponderous chasinges. At one point, trip was about
to go over a ravine, but while the truck is moving,
creech reaches out with a tentacle and pulls them back in.
At one point, a tire falls out, reaches the tentacle,
pulls it back on lug nuts. How do they work?

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
Don't?

Speaker 8 (01:34:38):
And here's the solution. Thomas Lennon is now going to
help the kids and Creach and the mom and dad
that their mom and dad have creached. By the way,
I don't know if we established that, but that's a
very important plot point that those two other creatures are
the parents, because family, because fasten the fear in a truck.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
It's all about family.

Speaker 8 (01:35:03):
So they kidnap mom and dad bring him to car
dealership where Trip's friend works, fat redheaded kid who's dying
for attention. So sure, I'm gonna let you help out
and take two of my dad's trucks, spend the night
retrofitting both vehicles. Why why, Paul, Why No, there's a

(01:35:25):
various valid reason. Well, so mom and dad can occupy
the trucks and operate them, just like Creech, who celepathically
told them how he learned to drive from Monster Jam.

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
I guess, well, remember he still They repo one of
the trucks and the rich kid, and then the other
one is belongs alongs to the kid's father's dealership. But like,
where's the security. There's no security. Just gonna leave your
sixteen year old kid in charge of like, you know,
opening and operator and what dealership keeps all of these

(01:36:02):
custom off roading parts.

Speaker 8 (01:36:05):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
These have wings and side flares and hood flares.

Speaker 8 (01:36:11):
Yeah, this this doves all special order online.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
The trucks looked like they were designed by the same
kid who suggested the plot of the film.

Speaker 8 (01:36:22):
Yeah, the like every vehicle in this film is what
is sixth grader with a d D. Would draw on
his notebook paper during history classes, wouldn't be tripped out,
would make a disc and Peter Green.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
And I wanted to have a wing. And it can
fly and crawl wall and it can climb over walls.
Make it all.

Speaker 8 (01:36:44):
Happen, and so yes, now we have three monster trucks
with monsters in them, and chase scenes and tearing across
the landscape and up mountains and all of that, and
all right, climbax time. Uh Burke, it's the upper hand
manages to get jeez. At some point, trips truck, goes

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into the hole, plunges deep into the water. He's gonna drown.
He's gonna die. Oh my gosh, Paul I can't handle this.
The hero of the movie's gonna die now he's not creature.
Gonna save him, Pull him into the truck, back up
from the depths, back on land, save his life. Happy ending.
Oh by the way, Burke dies.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
Yeah, he's he's sprayed with so much poison that there's
no way he doesn't have, you know, permanent gene alter
in a birth defects in his bloodline for years to come.
His whole generation his whole like generation is screwed.

Speaker 8 (01:37:45):
Yeah, his his truck goes wheels up, poison machine destroyed.
He gets coated.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
But this is this, Yes, doesn't make sense. Nothing of
what they've said up here makes any sense. So we're
this whole process, this whole film takes over, it takes
course over there. What a week? Maybe a week? It
can't be longer than a week. And the scientist says twice, well,
there's event up here that you can have access to

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the pond. But I can get there with my off
road vehicle, but it would take time to build a
road to get the rest of it up there. And
when they get up there, not only they have they
built a full road and they're delivering poison, but they've
set up a whole distribution system and they've moved other

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people up there to operate that distribution system. And it's
got its own generators and power sources and piping and
wiring and electrical systems. Like you just told me it
couldn't be done unless it was with an off road vehicle.
Then I see you up here with a big rig

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just traversing the road like it was nothing. Which one
is it movie?

Speaker 8 (01:39:00):
What exactly so Creature you saved, Trip is saved, the
Creature reunited, and I guess they swim back down ten
thousand feet to their home. I guess happy ending. Uh,

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Trip and Meredith are now in love. We're supposed to care.
They're supposed to be a sequel. Oh wait a second,
I think I have a sequel. I got it. The
poison that soaked Burke didn't kill him. He mutates, is

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that what it was? He becomes the Master, He becomes
the monster villain in the second film, and Trip will
then have to summon Creach back in order to combat
him because only Creech can communicate with the mutant through
his uh telepathy. I mind he turns into.

Speaker 2 (01:40:13):
Kurt iald and we wouldn't get all back.

Speaker 8 (01:40:18):
Well, it's going to get all back skin Amax movie.

Speaker 3 (01:40:21):
Now it's just turned into six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
in a early creepy.

Speaker 2 (01:40:24):
Way, six Tentacles of Kevin Bacon.

Speaker 8 (01:40:28):
Now every episode is going to connect the Ikon Walt somehow.
But this this is essentially our movie. Uh it's called
My Rock. That's what happened. That's what happened. One hundred
and eighty million dollars spent on the idea of a

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four year old this there actually occurred.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
There should be noted there are exactly two black people
in this entire film. Uh, and they're both extras.

Speaker 8 (01:41:01):
Well, Danny Glover.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Three black people. I just found another one, the the
guy that was operating the drill at the beginning. And
then there's and there's an extra that almost gets run
off the road during one of the chase scenes.

Speaker 8 (01:41:21):
Not a not a lot of peo. Oh yeah, the
guy had got mad at the intersection. True good, it's
six minutes of screen time. See we're diverse.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
And the horse is black. There's her horse is black
in this photo, but in the in the other photos,
she's riding a brown horse.

Speaker 3 (01:41:42):
Excuse me, I have an un good authority that we're
now supposed to call that de.

Speaker 8 (01:41:49):
Well, she was on a brown horse when they were
doing their kind of training session with Greech.

Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
Yeah, but her horse in the photo here I'm looking
at is black.

Speaker 8 (01:42:00):
There could be two horses in the stalls, now, Paul,
because remember creatures creeping up when they first got there,
and it was a black horse in the stall.

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
I would like to think that the movie screwed up
more than the I screwed up?

Speaker 8 (01:42:13):
Are you suggesting Monster Trucks had a flaw in its
plot somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
Until proven otherwise?

Speaker 8 (01:42:23):
This movie is called Monster Trucks, it should have been
recalled Oh my gosh, see what I did there? That's
what That's what I'm saying. But this thing is magnificent.
This is The production values in this are way off
the charts.

Speaker 2 (01:42:40):
I'm gonna be honesty. I'm jealous that you have a
T shirt or other swag to go with.

Speaker 8 (01:42:45):
This thing glows in the dark. The logo glows in
the dark. Even I found that out one day. It
cracked me up, but I got fired. I haven't seen
it in a long time. The wife may have thrown
it out on me.

Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
It's story possible. There's a whole series of Monster Truck
uh Monster Truck Monster mod Shop armor. It's a seventy
seven dollars on eBay and it comes with a little
It comes with a little baby creech that you put
inside of the truck.

Speaker 8 (01:43:20):
Oh, I'm sure they had a toy line that they
were going to try to sell.

Speaker 2 (01:43:24):
Oh yeah, a toy side. It's got a little creech. Okay,
the little creature is kind of cool hold life.

Speaker 8 (01:43:33):
I'm not gonna lie Ball's gonna be midnight shopping on eBay. Now, well,
I'm gonna say this, Definitely go out and check this
thing out, because you go, this one hundred dollar movie
that's exactly exactly what it caused the studio at least. Wow,

(01:43:57):
it's it's available for free on Blueto, so the studio
won't make any more money off of you if you
go watch this. There you go. This thing is, this
thing is a marvel. I'm ever going to be amazed
by this. I crack up that this thing happened, and

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that the parent company wrote off over one hundred million
dollars on this film four months before it even came
to theaters.

Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
They're just like, nope, we're out, We're out.

Speaker 8 (01:44:33):
Yeah, we crunched the numbers and we ain't never seeing
his money again. That's magnificent right there. All right, Paul,
why don't you let everybody know where they can find
more of your content around the inner tubes.

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Speaker 8 (01:44:58):
Paul, let you know you were a common I am.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
I willingly give my toilet videos the Chinese.

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Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
Yeah, what are we looking at here? For the thirteenth,
that's gonna be a day before Valentine Today.

Speaker 8 (01:46:16):
You're gonna say a love movie here. I think we're
may have to do a rom com of some sort.

Speaker 2 (01:46:22):
I will not be available that weekend.

Speaker 8 (01:46:25):
Oh okay, okay, if.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
We're doing a rom com, I will not be available.

Speaker 8 (01:46:30):
Oh is that it? Is that your slasher movie?

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:46:36):
Well, okay, we'll hammer it out. We'll noodleists, we'll come
up with an idea, solution and all that, and in
two weeks we'll be back with more disasters from Hollywood
on Disasters in the Making,