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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everyone, and welcome back to Talking You to Sleep
with Dave Mac.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's me.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is episode two of Talking You to Sleep, And
on this podcast, I just aim to keep you company
as you fall asleep, or just keep your company until
you're ready to go to sleep. And I basically do
that by providing a one sided light conversation, nothing too serious,
a conversation that will keep you interested, but not interested
enough to stay awake too hopefully. So what I plan

(00:28):
to do on these podcast is pick a topic and
talk about it with no real research, just like I said,
just having a one side conversation. Last episode we talked
about dreams, and this episode, I'm going to be talking
about movies. Some of my favorite movies, the ones that
I like to rewatch over and over again.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
You know, the kind of movie that you can.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Just put on over and over again, never get bored
of it, those kind of movies. Just a quick reminder
as well, you can actually reach me over on Instagram
on Talking You to Sleep. Just look for the logo
podcast and I'll be there. And on Instagram you can
get in touch with me and tell me whether you're
enjoying the show. Is there anything you'd like to hear
on the show, and you know we're taking into consideration

(01:12):
because you know, I'd really like to know what you
guys think of the podcast. This is all new to
me doing this kind of show. I have actually got
two other shows where I talk about pop culture and
I talk about bizarre histories and bizarre mysteries. Those ones
are a lot more polished and a lot more researched,
not like this one, where it's just me basically providing

(01:33):
a one sided conversation as you fall asleep. It's not
meant to be engaging this one. It's meant to be
interesting enough to listen to, but not interesting enough to
stay away too. And I think I've said that already,
so I won't be saying that again. So before we
get onto tonight's topic, let me just tell you a
little bit of what I've been getting up to tonight.
I'm really going to remember to speak into the microphone.

(01:54):
I keep turning my head away. I'm going to a
new microphone recently. I used to have the blue Yetti
and basically with the blue Yetti you could talk anywhere
and it would pick up the audio. But now I've
got a audio technical mic which stays directly in front
of my face on a boom mic, and if I
turn my head away then it kind of loses the
audio a little bit unless I turn it back.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
So I've got to keep remembering to face the microphone.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
With the blue getty, I didn't have to worry, but
with this one, I have to worry a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
So, Yeah, about my week.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I suppose what I've been up to this week mostly
working boring stuff, boring stuff. But when I've got home,
I've been trying my hand at baking, and believe me,
I am truly awful at it. I am terrible. But
I'm now forty two years old, and I thought it
was time that I know, at least learned how to

(02:45):
do some form of cooking doesn't involve just putting something
into the oven. So I thought i'd start by baking.
And I don't know why, but I picked apple pie.
My grandmother used to make the most wonderful apple pies,
and the page was always kind of soft and soggy.
I know that might sound gross, but believe me, it wasn't.

(03:06):
There were the nicest tasting apple pies I've ever tasted.
I remember going round to the house and there would
be a table full of different flavored pies, and apple
pie was always my favorite. And she'd cut out the
little pastry shapes and what were like birds and put
them on top. Yeah, the really good memories from my
from my youth, memories that I wish I could really

(03:28):
live again, you know, just to have a piece of
that apple pie would be delightful. Anyway, So I decided
to make my own apple pie this week.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I didn't go too good.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
First of all, I didn't have Bramley apples, and I
searched online and it said it doesn't really matter what
apples you have, you can do it with any apples.
So I had some. I think there were cocks apples.
So I die some up. But I didn't stew them
because the recipe I was following said I didn't have
to stew them. I could just put them into the
into the pie dish and then put the pastry on top.

(04:01):
But I also didn't put pastry. I didn't put pastry
on the bottom. I don't know what I was thinking,
but this, this recipe didn't tell me to put pastry
on the bottom. I should have followed my own judgment
and done it.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
But to be totally honest, I didn't have pastry left.
I was totally totally unprepared for this. So anyway, I
cut the apples up. I put a little bit of
brown sugar on there.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I drizzled a little bit of honey.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I put the pastry on top, and I actually pressed
it out myself and rolled it myself. I did quite
a good job with that, and I put it in
the oven. Also cut out some little leaves because of
my job, I'm a butcher and I used to make
the wellington and I used to cut out these little
leaves to go on top, so I already know how

(04:49):
to do that, So I made some little leaves. I
put it on top of the pie and put it
in the oven, and it looked okay. It just didn't
taste okay pastry. I think I did a pretty good
job out, but it just wasn't right. I had a
little bit. My wife had a bit with a lot
of custard. She said it was nice. I think she

(05:11):
was just being polite, But yeah, I look at it
as a failure.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
That one.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
It went in the bin. A couple of days later,
I tried my hand at it again. This time I
put a base on it. I baked it the base first.
What is it called when you sprinkled the rice on
the bottom of the pastry and you put it in
the oven so the pastry doesn't rise. I can't remember
what it's called. Oh, this is going to annoy me.

(05:41):
I think it's called blind baking. I may I might
be totally wrong about that, but I think it's called
blind baking. So I did that first, and then I
took it out. I took the rice out and I
filled it with apples. But I must admit I cheated
a little bit, and I bought the canned apples, so
it was already stewed for me, and I put that
in and then I put the top of the pastry

(06:03):
on and it didn't quite reach, so I kind of
patched it up a little bit.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
It was a complete mess. It looked awful.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
It did not look nice. But I thought, he oh,
it's not about the presentation right now. It's about whether
I can actually cook an apple pie. And it tastes
somewhat decent. So anyway, that went into the oven and
it came out and it was better than the last one.
But the pastry on the bottom stuck to the dish,

(06:29):
and yeah, it wasn't great. So still, even though I
had put the bottom pastry on, I still couldn't get
any on my plate because it was stuck to the dish, which,
by the way, I did butter I did grease it.
So I don't know what went wrong though, but this
apple pie was a little bit better. But on the
third attempt, I moved away from apple pie for some reason,
and I thought, I'm going to make a steak pie,

(06:50):
and once again I cheated. I got some tins of
steak and I got my Felod pastry, this time what
was already rolled out for me, which was a lot easier,
and I put the basin. I did the same thing again.
No actually I didn't. I didn't part bake it, blind
bake it. I didn't blind bake it. I just put
the meat directly into the pastry, put the top on

(07:12):
the pastry, two tins of meat inside, so it was
a really thick filled meat pie, and put it into
the oven for about maybe half an hour. Took it
out and we had it for dinner and it was
really nice success. I did a good job in the end,
even though it wasn't an apple pie. It was a
meat pie. But yeah, that's what I've been up to
this week, trying to trying to get used to bacon,

(07:35):
trying to become successful at it. The last attempt was
pretty good. I think I've still got a long way
to go. I know some people who I tell this
too kind of rolled the rise at me because I
think they find baking extremely easy.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
I don't. But hopefully as I go along, I'll get
a lot.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Better at it and it'll become like second nature and
then I can actually move on to something else. I'm
thinking about making some stewes or castle rolls next. So yeah, yeah,
good stuff. Okay, So tonight's topic, like I said, is movies,
and let's start this off. I've made a few notes
here just so I can keep myself going, you know,
so I can kind of remember what I'm talking about.

(08:13):
There we go, And first of all, I've wrote some
of my favorite movies. And first of all, the ones
that always come to mind when anyone asked me, what
are your favorite movies? The ones that always come to
mind are the Lethal Weapons series. And I know they're
not fantastic, great movies. They're not award winning movies. But
they are some of my guilty pleasures. I love these movies.

(08:36):
I love the action in them. I love mel Gibson
in these movies. He plays the manic cop, the suicidal
cop in the first one, and then as the movies
progress he just becomes like the crazy cop. Danny Glover
is awesome in it as well, and then of course
I do go along.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
In the series. You get all these other.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Great cast members like Leo Getz played by Joe Peshi,
you have Lorna Cole played by Rennie route So, and
there's so many other actors that It was directed by
Richard Donner and Richard Donno always turends to use the
same faces in all these movies, so you'll see a
lot of the same faces that you would have saw
in Superman and that you would see in the Goonies.

(09:15):
A lot of the same actors pop up in his movies.
It's quite cool. But yeah, Leef for Weapon. I've always
loved it ever since being a young child, and I
was watching them way before I should have been. You know,
I believe the first movie is an eighteen I was
certainly not eighteen when I first saw that movie, but
a lot of the movies I watched back then I

(09:36):
weren't old enough to watch, but I did. And yeah,
it's just a really good, fun action movie which I
just absolutely adore.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
And I've had them on.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
VHS tape recorded off TV. I've had them on VHS
tape tape that I've bought, and I've also had them
on DVD, and now I've got them on Blu Ray.
I think I'm gonna stop there. I'm not really one
of these who go into four K purchases, but yeah,
Blu Ray will do for me. Although on the Blu
Ray you don't get the director's cut you do on

(10:10):
the DVDs, so I always go back to the DVDs,
but I own the Blue Rays because I love the
movie so much, so I kind of buy every single format.
I'm crazy like that, like Mel Gibson in Leaf Weapon.
The next movie I've jotted down was one of my
favorite movies from about two years ago. I think it
was was called Green Book and it starts with Vego

(10:31):
Mortrison and he plays a kind of show for slash
bodyguard for this soul singer, and I think it's set
in the nineteen thirties. Maybe excuse me, because, like I said,
I don't research this, but I believe it's sett in
the nineteen thirty So there's a lot of prejudice against homosexuality,
there's a lot of prejudice against race against there's a

(10:53):
lot of racism, and that plays a lot into this movie.
And it really is an awesome story about these to
these two guys, you have an African American piano player.
You'll have to excuse me. I cannot remember the actor's name,
and that is really annoying because this guy is everywhere.
At the moment, I think he is the actor who's
going to be playing Blade eventually for the Marvel you know,

(11:16):
the Marvel Cinematic universe, but I can't. For the life
of me, I cannot remember his name. But then you
have Vigo Mortrison who was driving him around the country
whilst he plays piano. And on the journey they become
friends because at first Vigo Mortrison is a slightly racist
as well, only slightly, And as they're driving around they
become best friends and he has to protect him a

(11:39):
few times and stick up for him here and though
and two people who come from two totally different worlds
become buddies at the end, and it's one of those heartwarming,
really feel good movies that has a really good script
and some really good actors. I absolutely love Vigo Morrison.
Any movie that I see him in, I will give

(11:59):
it a go enough I've heard nothing about the movie.
I remember seeing him for the very first time in Daylight.
That's lone movie, that awful Stalone movie which I kind
of like where they trapped underground, and Vigo Moatson was
in that in a very early role. And then of
course he blew up in Lord of the Rings. Absolutely
love him in Lord of the Rings. And then when
those movies were over, I remember he did a movie

(12:21):
called Hilldalgo where he played a cowboy in a Egyptian race,
if I'm remembering this right, in Egyptian horse Race across
the Desert.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Brilliant.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Film was totally underrated and it didn't make any money
at the box office, but I loved that movie and
then every other movie that he brought out since I've
always watched them. He did Eastern Promises, he did a
History of Violence, which is a very good film, and
he also did a movie called Captain Fantastic, which I

(12:56):
enjoyed immensely. He plays a father and he's got all
these children and they live in the in the wild,
they live in nature, and they live off the land.
And his wife commits suicide and he has to travel
to the funeral, which is in the city, and there's
a whole lot of trouble that goes on when he
gets with the grandparents of the children, trying to take

(13:19):
the grandparents off him because they don't think he's fit
to be a father, and at first you kind of
doubt whether he is, and then at the end of
the movie, you think, though, actually is it actually sounds
very cool to live like this, to live off the grid.
Even though I was thinking that at the time, I
was kind of thinking, as well, I don't think I
could do it. I need my comforts, But I wish
I had that. I wish I had that gunpctionetion to

(13:42):
actually do something like that. And next time my listaff
wrote down Clint Eastwood. I'm not put any particular Clint
Eastwood films because I love absolutely every single Clint Eastwood
film there has ever been made.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
That's a lie. I haven't actually.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Seen every Clint Eastwood movie ever made, but I'm sure
I would like them nonetheless, even though some of his
later ones that he's done, I think there was one
called The Mule.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
I didn't really think much of that.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
But the guy is still directing, and he's well into
his nineties now and he's still directing movies. He hasn't stopped.
He's not retired. He's still making movies. I think he'll
be making movies until the day he dies, and that
will be a very sad day when that happens, because
I love this guy. I used to watch all of
the Clint Eastwood movies with my grandfather when they used
to be on TV late at night, all the spaghetti

(14:30):
westerns and the American westerns that he did, like Pale Ryder,
High Planes, Drifter, and then of course you've got the
Dirty Harry movies as well. I think there were five
of those. Let's see if I can remember them. There
was there was Dirty Harry. I'm not going to be
saying these in order because I always getting them mixed up.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
There's Dirty Harry.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
There was The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, the Deadpool, not to
be mistaken with Marvel's Deadpool, and there was an Oh,
there was another one, and I cannot remember it for
the life of me, and if I try to remember it,
there's going to be a very long pause. So let's
just put that one at one side. But he also

(15:12):
did a movie a couple of years ago called, well
more than a couple of years ago, now it must
be around ten fifteen years ago maybe called Grand to Reno.
Brilliant film, awesome film. I absolutely love that. That's one of
the movies with that rewatch value. You can rewatch it
and rewatch it, or at least I can. I absolutely
love Grand to Reno. And then there's the movie you

(15:34):
did called Escape from Alcatraz, which is kind of like
a true story. Apparently someone actually did escape from Alcatraz.
I keep thinking about doing a episode on this for
Bizarre Tales and Bizarre Podcasts, my other YouTube and podcast channel,
because I think that would be an interesting story. And
the movie is fascinating with Clint Easwood, he's so good

(15:55):
in that movie. He's got that charm, he's got that
wit and that seriousness he brings to it, and it's
really gripping story as well, like a a prison movie. Yeah,
that's an awesome film. And speaking of Westerns, I remember
when He did a Western called Unforgiven with Gene Ackman,
the late Gene Hatman. Now very sad that Geen Harman
passed away recently, but yeah, I remember he did. He

(16:18):
did a movie called The Unforgiven, and he was playing
like an aging cowboy.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
He used to be a really bad cowboy, but his.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Wife cleaned him up and set him straight, and then
she passed away. And one day someone comes for help.
They need to track down these cowboys who have harmed
these women and claims just has to get back in
the saddle because they shot on money, and he has
to go looking for these guys with the help of
Morgan Freeman as well. It's really really great western, and

(16:46):
Gene Ackman, I think in that movie actually steals the show.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
He really is good. In that movie. He plays a
character called.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
I think he's called Little Bill, and he is menacing
as hell, But at the same time, I kind of
understand where he's coming from sometimes when he's just trying
to keep his town safe. But the way he goes
about things isn't great, but you kind of understand where
he's coming from when he resorts to not when he
resorts to violence, but yeah, when he resorts to violence.

(17:16):
You kind of understand where he's coming from, but obviously
violence isn't the answer, so it's a little bit conflicting
when you watch it. But ultimately he is a villain
and he's not a very nice guy. And of course,
I think my absolute favorite Western of Clint Eastwoods was
The Outlaw Josie Wales, and I remember this was my
grandfather's favorite Western as well. The Outlaw Josie Wales is

(17:38):
absolutely brilliant in that movie. And as much as I
love Clint Eastwood movies and I'm a massive fan, I
think a major part of it is because I was
introduced to Clint Eastwood through my granddad. So every time
I watch Clint Eastwood movie, I kind of relate to
my grandfather. I kind of remember my grandfather in that
way and think about the times that I watched these

(18:01):
movies with him. So it brings back all these happy
memories saying that my grandfather also liked John Wayne, and
I've never really managed to get into John Wayne movies.
I do like True Grit and I like the remake
they did with Jeff Bridges, but on the whole, I've
never really been able to get into John Wayne movies.
But Clint Eastwood, Yeah, definitely. And next We're going to

(18:23):
move into sci fi here, and I'm going to talk
about the Back to the Future movies, the trilogy. Man,
these films I love. I absolutely love. Even though sometimes
the time travel doesn't quite make sense and there are
inconsistencies here, and there are plotles. Doesn't matter. Normally that
would ruin a film for me, but it doesn't matter
with me with these films.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
They are so enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
That dynamic between Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox is
just perfect. And just to think that at one point
they cast a different mattermate Fly, they cast It's on
the tip of my tongue. I'm not doing very well
that remember, and things tonight. It's on the tip of
my tongue. I can't remember the actor's name, but they
cast someone else in the role of Martin Attfly, and

(19:09):
I don't think the movie would have worked the same.
And obviously the directors didn't think it would have worked
the same, or they wouldn't have let the other guy go.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
And bring him Michael J. Fox. But those movies, absolutely
love them.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
I remember the first time I ever watched the first movie,
it was recorded off of VHS off Sky one. Now
I didn't have Sky when I was a kid. We
couldn't afford it, so we had to rely on other
people like recording stuff for us and giving us the tape.
And I remember at the time, it must be like
the late eighties. We had a VHS player and it

(19:42):
was brand new, well it was passed down from my grandfather,
but it was brand new to us. And it was
a really really old VHS player and you pressed your
jet button and it was a top loader, and the
lid of the VHS player sprung open with such force
you were scared that your finger we're going to get
taken off. And then you'd slip the VHS player in

(20:03):
and then push the lid back down, and it was
a little bit faulty, so you had to kind of
push it on the right angle, and if you weren't carefull,
it with chew your tape up.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
But we got the gist of it.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
We got the right kind of technique to push in
the lid down and then the movie would start. Every
now and again it would chew the tape up. But
nine times out of ten we had this down. We
knew what we were doing, and that's the first time
I was introduced to Back to the Future. And then
of course when I watched the second one and the
third one, Man, what a.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Treat that was. What a treat.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
But of course, back in those days, I always used
to record the Back to the Future movies off TV,
like I did with all of my movies. Actually, and
later on in life, when I started purchasing these movies
for myself on VHS tape and then on DVD, you
start to notice that the TV do cut a lot
out of these movies. They cut out things that they
don't seem to think I fit for TV, especially of

(20:54):
the broadcasting during the day, and I found quite a
lot of things were taken from Back to the Future
movies and the lethal weapon movies. You know, whatever movie
it may be. They always cut so many parts out
of those movies. And when you watch it on DVD
or VHS I purchased VHS, you realize that there was
a lot more to the movie, and there was a

(21:16):
few more swear words even that you'd missed out the
original time you watched it when it was recorded off TV. Oh,
do you ever remember when you would record a movie
and you would pause the adverts so you wouldn't have
the adverts on your recording. You'd pause the recording as
the adverts came on, and then you had to make
sure that you were the when the program resumed to
unpause it at the right time, And sometimes you didn't

(21:37):
quite make it, and sometimes you did. And when I
purchased certain films on DVD that I'd been watching so
long off of recorded VHS tape, I started to expect
the advert break. I started to kind of think, Oh,
the advert break is going to come here now, and

(21:58):
you kind of remember it. You never forget if you
watch that movie over and over again. But obviously on
a DVD there is no ad break, but you still
feel instinctively, like within yourself, that that ad break is
going to start at any minute, and it's always a
weird sensation when it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Is that just me? Am I strange? I might be strange?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
I don't know, but that's what I always think when
these when I'm watching a DVD that I used to
always watch on VHS back in the day. But yeah,
we've gone off track, back to the future. Awesome movies.
I used to absolutely love the scene where Michael J.
Fox was holding onto the back of the trucks on
his skateboard, and I asked for a skateboard just like
that one. For Christmas, I got a skateboard. It looked

(22:38):
nothing like that one. It wasn't the right shape, it
wasn't the right color, but it didn't matter. I had
loads of fun on that skateboard, just pretending I was
Michael J.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Fox.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Obviously I didn't hold onto any trucks. I really wanted to,
but I didn't because you know, safety first. But yeah,
I used to love just just skating around the front
the house. In the back of the house, that was
like my play area. I didn't really go that far.
And I'd like to say I was a good skateboarder,
but that would be lying. I could go in a

(23:09):
straight line, I could stay on it, I could go
pretty fast, but I couldn't go up any of these
ramps or do flips or anything like that. But I
was pretty I was a pretty good Simpson esque skateboarder,
I would say back in the day. Probably not very
good now. I think I would fall off like instantly
if I put my foot on one. And then, of

(23:29):
course when the sequel came around and we got hoverboards, man.
I just hoped and hoped and hoped that one day
Mattel would bring out a hoverboard, and to this day
they haven't.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
You can buy replicas.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
I keep thinking about buying one myself so I can
put it on my wall, But as of now, there
is no actual hoverleboards. You have those hollleboards over water,
don't you. You can get those kind of hoverleboards, and
they have the the weird skateboard things that are on
two wheels that ride horizontally. Doesn't count. I want an

(24:03):
actual horveryboard. I want to hover on a hoverboard like
Michael J. Fox dining back to the future too. And
I'm still holding out and from one brilliant trilogy to
the next Indiana Jones And yes, I said trilogy. I
know that there's five of these movies, but I don't
count the last two. It's the first three that really count.
And that's where it should have ended with the Last Crusade.

(24:24):
It should have ended the with Harrison Ford and Sean
Connery riding off into the sunset. That is where that
movie franchise should have ended. But obviously they want more money.
They're gonna make more movies. And they know that we're
gonna pay it. Even though I didn't like those Indiana
Jones movies, I do still own them and I will
watch them.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
But in my.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Heart, it's the first three movies that count, and that
is kind of where it ended for me. I look
at the other two movies like an alternate universe Indiana
Jones kind of storyline. I watched the latest one and
he looks far too old to be in that movie,
but to before, the revolve the story around and older

(25:04):
Indiana Jones. So that's quite good. And I remember when
The Crystal Skull came out. When was that? That was
quite a while back now, but I remember even then
thinking that Harrison Ford looks old. And when you go
back to that movie now, he does not look.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Old at all.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
He looks like he's in pretty good shape compared to
what he looks like now. Obviously the guy is like,
you know, aging gracefully. But back then I thought he
looked old, and looking at it now, he just didn't.
He looked fantastic, in fantastic shape. But yeah, the first
Free Indiana Jones were absolutely amazing. I used to remember
playing around in my back garden just pretending I was

(25:39):
avoiding all these booby traps just imagining I was Indiana Jones.
I was just gutted that I didn't actually have the hat,
or the whip or the jacket.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
But imagining imagination was key back then. You had to
use your imagination, and that's all that matters.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
If I could imagine that I was a four foot
Ninja turtle, I could imagine that I was Indiana Jones,
no problem. And I always remember when I got a
little bit older and I got my first PlayStation one
and I played tomb Raider for the very first time.
Absolutely loved those games. I couldn't help like wishing that
it was an Indiana Jones game. I think I would
have enjoyed it a lot more if it was Indiana
Jones I was playing. As of course, later on we

(26:15):
did get multiple other Indiana Jones computer games, but they
never really like entertained us as much as the tomb
Raider games because they were actual good games and the
Indiana Jones games were kind of dull. I believe there
is a brand new Indiana Jones game at the moment,
and it'll be coming to the PlayStation soon if it
hasn't already, and I'm going to be picking it up
when it does. I've kind of lost my mojo for

(26:37):
playing computer games recently, but I think that one will
pull me back in just because I want to be
Indiana Jones, just like I wanted to be in Indiana
Jones when I was a kid. Now moving away from
Indiana Jones. For the moment, let's just talk about ET
for a little bit. This movie I absolutely loved as
a kid. It made me laugh, it made me happy,
it made me cry at the end. It was souch

(27:00):
a emotional journey to watch this movie, and I always
remember it being on at Christmas time, Like I would
go the entire year and not see the movie ET,
and then at Christmas it used to be on.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
It.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's like they almost saved it because it was such
a magical film for you know, the festive time of
the month. And it was the same with Star Wars
as well. I always seem to remember watching Star Wars
movies on Christmas Day, So yeah, waiting for ET to
come out at Christmas was a treat. And for some
reason I never seemed to record it. I think I
was always at my grandmother's house when it was on,

(27:31):
and I didn't have access to a VCR player, so
I didn't get to record it.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
I had access to a VCR.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Player and my other grandparents, but I was at the
wrong grandparents, so I had to just watch it on
TV and then just kind of wish that it was
going to come on TV again for the entire year.
Just seeing them fly in front of the moon on
the bicycles. That that scene was kind of imprinted into
my mind, and of course it exists in every form
of media after that movie come out. It was how

(28:00):
I did. It was shown on TV on you know,
certain movie clips, movie clip programs and things like that.
It's just kind of ingrained into our minds now. But
at the time when you watch that for the first time,
it was totally mind blowing, totally mind blowing. I always remember
being blown away when they brought the Phantom Menace out

(28:20):
the Star Wars movie and there's a certain scene where
they're in this that movie is all about politics, and
it's it's boring in parts, and there's a there's a
scene where they're all in this kind of I don't
even know what you would call it, like a senate
and you see a little group of ets in there,
and it was fascinating to see the first time all

(28:42):
cgied and looking brilliant like more than one of them,
and you think to yourself, Wow, this movie exists in
the Star Wars universe. Et exists in the Star Wars universe.
But we kind of already knew that because in the
movie et Et seems to recognize the little figures of
your and he seems to recognize the child who's dressed

(29:03):
up a j order on Halloween.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
So even back then, in.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
That movie, we kind of got the the the hint
that this was as Shured universe, and Star Wars Phantom
Menace cemented it.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
They made it a fact.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Okay, moving on from Et, we're now going to go
over to Jurassic Park. And to this day, I still
remember when this movie was being advertised at the cinemas
and mc donald's were doing amazing like products with the
Happy Meals. I think they were doing some kind of
plastic cup that you could get with your Happy Meal.
One cup had a Veloci raptor, one cup added t rex.
One cup had a a trisarotops and I remember collecting them.

(29:42):
I wish I still had them to this day, I
considered buying some off eBay, not to drink out of,
but just to own because I'm like that. I'm sat
in a room at the moment full of like nostalgic
memorabilia and pop culture memorabilia, mostly toys, and I've got
a few like old game consoles what I'm stirring at
right now. I've got some VHS tapes that I've purchased

(30:03):
that I used to love when I was a kid.
So yeah, I've totally forgot what I was talking about.
Jurassic Park cups. Yeah, I was going to purchase some
Jurassic Park cups to actually put on my shelf, so
I may actually.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Do that at one point.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
But I remember the adverts being on TV for these cups,
and I remember like going shopping and seeing loads of
different books and toys on the shelves, and agos had
the big t Rex, the big rubber t Rex that moved,
and they had the Jeep and they had these small figures.
I think they were made by Kenna, and it was
just a magical time. Obviously, now they still do Jurassic

(30:37):
Park toys, but maybe it's because I'm not a kid anymore,
but it just doesn't feel the same. I don't feel
like there's that excitement around the toys as there was
back in what was it ninety two, ninety three, early nineties.
I remember such a buzz about this movie. It was massive,
and if I could go back in time and watch

(30:58):
that movie again in the cinema, I would. If they
ever put that movie on at the cinema again, you
know sometimes they do that, they show old movies at
the cinemas. Recently The ad Terminator too, and before that
I went watching Ghostbusters as well again in the cinema.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
If they ever put that on in the cinema, I
will be there because that first Jurassic Part movie holds
up and I would argue and I think everyone would
agree with me on this as well. That is the
best Jurassic Part movie that has ever come out. It's
just just amazing in every single way. I believe the
book is drastically different than the film. So I've been
meaning to read the book. Well, I said read, I'm

(31:36):
going to get it on audible and listen to it
on my way to working back because that's how I
consume my books nowadays. But yeah, I've heard that the
book is drastically different. So I'd like to read the
book just so I know a little bit about the
differences between the book and the movie. But yeah, Jurassic
Part was a massive thing back in the day, and
I remember it so fondly. And of course, one of

(31:58):
my other all time favorite movie is is Batman.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
And I don't just mean any Batman.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
There's a lot of Batman movies out there, but the
Batman movie from nineteen eighty nine starring Michael Keaton and
Batman returns.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Now.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
I remember when the first Batman movie come out, and
I remember being a kid, what was it, nineteen eighty nine,
I would have been seven, and I remember walking through
town and seeing the posters on the on the bus,
on the bus stops, on the bus shelters, and it
was just the bat logo. Now at this time, I
did flick through Batman comics when I was a kid,

(32:33):
so to see a massive bat logo in a new
Batman movie, I was totally sold on this. I wanted
to see this so much, but it was a fifteen
and I wasn't fifteen, and I couldn't go and see it.
So I had to watch news reports about this film
that was you know, blowing up everywhere.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
I had to see all these posters. I did get
the toys.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I remember getting on one day and my dad give
me a brown paper bag and I pulled out this
Batman figure, that Michael eating Batman figure, and I had
a little belt on with a rope attached that you
pulled and you can make him grapple up to like
I don't know, the coffee table. I also got the
Batmobile a little bit further down the line when I
got some birthday money. Good times, really good times. And

(33:15):
then of course eventually it came to VHS. And like
I said before, I watched loads of movies when I
was young that I should have watched. I don't include
Batman as one of those. And I think it was
my uncle who actually bought it for.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Me, and I wore that VHS tape out. I love
that movie so much. I love that movie to this day.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
And I remember when Batman Returns came out and it
was the same old story.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
I couldn't watch the film.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
I was too young still, so I had to wait
for the VHS tape and then one Christmas I got it.
I got Batman Returns, and I think I got Freeman
and a Little Lady as well. Don't quote me on that,
but I think I got Freeman and a Little Lady too.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
But I remember.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
There was something special about that cover on Batman Returns.
I just loved the way it was designed with Batman,
Penguin and the Catwoman the faces just above each other.
Such a simple design, but so effective for a young
man like mine. And even now to this day, I
still get the same feeling that I got as a
kid when I look at that cover. I'm going to

(34:17):
actually buy it on VHS tape just so I have
the cover like in here, because I do have the
DVDs and I have the Blu rays, but it's not
the same cover. They kind of changed the covers as
the years went by, so I'd love to have it
on VHS just so I can look at it.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
I don't have a VHS player.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
I just collect certain VHS tapes that kind of spark
memories in my mind, happy memories. I've also wrote down
here Roger Rabbit, such a good film. I recently bought
that on four K. Now, as I said before, I
don't normally put much money into four K discs. I'm
quite happy with Blu Ray, but I'd heard that this

(34:57):
transfer onto four K was amazing, and it was the
The color is just amazing in four K and the
red dress that Jessica Rabbit was in that scene, you
know what scene. I mean, it is just ruby red,
and I swear to God, in the Blu Ray and
the DVD it's kind of like a pinkish color. I
always remember it being red, but for some reason, it's

(35:18):
kind of pinkish in the Blu Ray and the DVD.
But on the four K it's ruby red and it
looks so gorgeous. But I remember back in the day
when I watched this fora the very first time, and
this was recorded on VHS tape also from Sky TV,
And like I said before, I used to watch it
on that spring loaded VHS player.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
That was dangerous.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
You could take your fingers off with that thing, or
at least that's I will remember it in my mind.
I remember being slightly scurreed of it because it made
such a noise when it sprang up. But yeah, that's
where I watched it for the very first time, on
a badly recorded VHS tape that I put into this
VHS player, risking to get it chewed up. I remember
also having he Man VHS tapes weren't mine. I borrowed

(36:01):
them off my cousins and they let me watch them
for a couple of weeks, and.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Man, I loved he Man. I loved he Man.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
But I remember watching them over and over again on
these VHS tapes and eventually getting slightly bored of them
because obviously they were on during the day as well
on the children's programming, so I used to watch all
of the he Man and the Shera and you know,
all the different cartoons during the day. So then VHS
tapes kind of got pushed to the side. But back

(36:30):
to the future on Roger Rabbit, you couldn't watch every day,
especially if you didn't have Sky TV, So those VHS
tapes got worn out, absolutely worn out. Now I remember
at my grandparents the one with the VHS player, not
the one without where I couldn't record et, but the
one with the VHS player. We had a VHS player

(36:51):
with a remote control. And this was amazing. This blew
my mind. A remote control that you could control the
VHS player with.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
But what control came on a wire and you had
to unravel the wire and like move backwards to get
back to the couch and then you could press play.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
I could have just pressed play.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
When I was actually getting the remote control and you
had this wire like trailing across the front room to
the VHS player. But it was so cool just to
press the play button and have it actually work. It
sounds absolutely insane now to think that that like thrilled
me at the time, but it absolutely did. And of course,
eventually I started buying my own movies. When I got

(37:33):
old enough and I got pocket money, I would go
out and I would buy my own VHS tapes. So
all of these VHS tapes that I recorded off TV,
I bought them brand new because I loved them so
much and I wanted to see the uncut version. And
I had shelves put up in my bedroom above the
bottom of my bed, and I had all sorts of

(37:54):
different movies. I remember the ones that spring to mind
mostly are the Bruce Lee collection, because on the spines
of the VHS tapes it made one big picture of
Bruce Lee, and that was very cool. I used to
love watching those movies. I was mad on Kung Fu
movies when I was in high school. I used to
watch the Bruce Lees. I used to watch the Jackie
Chan and the Jet Lees, absolutely amazing. And I used

(38:17):
to have all the Van Damn movies, all Swartz Nigga movies,
comedy movies. I used to like watching animated Batman, the
animated series where he had a few VHS tapes of
those as well, and Superman and the old Fleisher Superman
cartoons from the nineteen forties, which you could buy in
berging bins for like a pound each.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
I had loads of those, not just Superman.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
You could buy Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Doug, Casper,
the Friendly Ghost, Feel It's the Cat. What else could
you buy? You could buy? You could buy all sorts.
There were all sorts. I think there was one called
Lulu Betty Boop, Popeye, the Sailor Man, and there were
a pound each and they were recorded on these very
cheap VHS tapes, and sometimes they would reuse VHS tapes

(39:04):
that I've been recorded over. And these cartoons gone out
of copyright and they were in the public domain, and
that's why they were so cheap, and the quality was awful.
But I loved finding these old style cartoons that I'd
never seen before. It was really good to actually on
them and have them. And I'm a little bit like

(39:24):
that now at this age. I love watching old timey
cartoon classics and learning about the history of them. I've
just recorded an episode on my other podcasts about the
nineteen forties Superman cartoons, the theatrical shorts, and it was
really interesting delving into the history of those cartoons.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
So yeah, I used to love collecting all those.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
VHS tapes, and like I said, I used to have
them at the bottom of my bed, on shelves on
the wall, and I started to get quite a big collection.
And as you know, VHS tapes they get heavy when
you've got quite a lot of them. And I remember
one night the top shelf fell. It took the second shelf,
and that took the third shelf, and they all fell

(40:03):
on top.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Of me and my bed.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Luckily they only made it up to my waist, but
I can tell you it gave me quite a skur
especially when you fast asleep at four in the morning
and your shelves and all these VHS tapes come crashing down.
But of course when we moved over to DVD, this
wasn't a problem anymore, because DVDs were a lot more light.
Obviously they do gather a little bit of weight as
you get more of them, but they were a lot
more white, and the shelves seemed to stay on the wall.

(40:25):
I remember the very first time I watched the very
first DVD and was just amazed by the clarity in
the picture. And this was on a TV set as well.
I just remember being amazed. Unfortunately, the very first DVD
I watched was Spy Hard with Leslie Nielsen, which unfortunately,
you know, I shouldn't say unfortunately, it's actually a pretty
good film. It's a guilty pleasure, silly, stupid film. But

(40:49):
that was the first film that I saw on DVD
and I was actually blown away with the picture clarity.
So yeah, that was my very first introduce into DVD.
And then once again I started again. I started replacing
all my favorite movies that I had on VHS on DVD,
and I started with Leef for Weapon. Those movies just

(41:09):
they're just so special to me. I'm looking at them
right now over in the distance on VHS tape because
I've still got the VHS tapes over the I've got
the DVDs I've got the four K. No, i haven't
got the four K. I've got the Blu Ray, and
I'm quite happy with that. But yeah, I started replacing
everything on DVD, and eventually, like a couple of years ago,
started replacing all my beloved movies on Blu Ray. But

(41:34):
only the ones that I truly loved, like Indiana Jones,
like Lethal Weapon, like the Alien movies, the Predator movies,
the Back to the Future movies, only the ones that
held a certain place in my heart. I can quite
happily watch a DVD and just being tranced and lost
in the movie, but if it's something that I absolutely love,
then I will upgrade to the Blu Ray. Actually, something

(41:56):
I've started doing now because I've started running out of room.
I've got so many movies. I must have over a
thousand movies, and that is no lie. But obviously these
are the movies that I've collected over many, many years,
because I'm a big collector of physical media. But obviously
it got to a point where I've got no where
to put them and they were taking over the house.

(42:18):
So what I've started doing is slipping them into plastic
sleeves so you can actually buy for DVDs or blue rays,
and you just simply put the disk into the sleeve,
and you put the cover in the sleeve, and where
I could fit twenty DVDs, I can now fit two
Hundred's insane how much space, you actually say. And that's
what I'm doing with a lot of my movies now.
When I purchase them, they go straight into the sleeve

(42:40):
and the boxes go straight into the bin. Many DVD
collectors will be screaming at me right now if you're listening,
because that's not what DVD collectors like to do. But
I just like watching the movies. I like collecting them.
I'm not bothered about them having a presence on the shelf.
I'm not bothered about seeing the spines. As long as
they're in alphabetical order, then that's just fine with me.

(43:02):
I think ever since I can remember, I've been fascinated
with movies. I've loved obviously watching movies. Then as I
got a little bit older, I loved reading about trivia
on movies and learning how the movies were made, learning
all the little inside secrets of the movies. Especially when
the Internet come along, absolutely amazing to get a little
bit of an insight on the movie. Before that, it

(43:23):
was just all books. I would buy books on special
like special makeup effects for certain horror movies. I would
buy books on some of my favorite movies and read
about the production notes and stuff like that. But when
the Internet came, it was game on, and you know,
everything was at your fingertips. And I love going to

(43:44):
the cinema. Absolutely love going to the cinema and watching
some of my favorite films. Some of my fondest memories
are actually at the cinema. I remember, I believe my
very first movie I saw was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
which was released in nineteen ninety and I have I
remember seeing it, but I have no memory of seeing it.

(44:05):
I have a memory of watching that on VHS tape,
but I do know that I went to the cinema
watching that, and I know it was my first movie.
So in a way, I've got a fond memory of
that with no memory existing whatsoever, if that makes sense.
I also remember going watching a Star Trek movie with
my uncle and being so bored out of my mind,
and I remember just curling up in the seat and

(44:27):
falling asleep. That may have actually been my first movie,
maybe because if I could curl up and fit into
a seat and go to sleep, then maybe that would
have been my first movie. But I remember being so
bored in that film, like I didn't have a clue
what was going on. And yeah, Star Trek was never
really for me until I got a little bit older

(44:48):
and I started to appreciate it a.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Little bit more.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
But I've always been a Star Wars kind of guy.
I also remember going seeing His Toy Story for the
very first time, being absolutely hyped to go and see this.
It was kind of like the same feeling I had
for watching Jurassic Park, maybe not as heightened, but it
was still a big thing to.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Go and watch this movie.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
It was the first CGI full movie, I believe maybe,
and it was a big thing. It was all over
the media, it was everywhere on the TV, so it
was a big thing to go and watch this movie.
You had no idea at the time what it would become,
what kind of franchise it would be. I think you
got a little bit of an idea what it was
going to be like when they released the first buzz

(45:28):
Like Your Toy, and it just sold out everywhere and
everyone wanted it for Christmas and you couldn't find them anywhere,
kind of repeating history, just like the Star Wars toys
back in the day. And then, of course a few
years later, when Toy Story two rolled around, I had
a girlfriend, then girlfriend who was actually my wife to
this very day, and I remember being so excited for

(45:51):
Toy Story too, so excited, and we got on the
bus and we made our way to the nearest cinema,
which was about four minutes away by bus. There was
no cinema in our town, and I was convinced I
knew where the cinema was. And we got off the
bus and I remember convincing my wife that it was

(46:12):
just over this wall.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
It wasn't. We got off at the wrong stop.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
We were so far away from the cinema, but I
was convinced, and we climbed over this wall, and we
found ourself in.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
A massive field.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
And obviously I had to I didn't want to. I
didn't want to admit I was wrong, but I had
to just pull my hand up and say, listen, I
think I made a mistake, and I think we've got
off the bus too early. I don't think we should
go trapes in over this field. So, yeah, that's a
memory that's never really gone away, and she still brings
it up to this very day. And it's been quite
a while, you know, it's been since Toy Story two

(46:46):
came out, and it still gets brought up every now
and again. You know, when we're in the car and
I'm directing her to places and we get lost, she said, oh, look,
it's just like the Toy Story too. Experience we had
it still comes up to this very day. Another great
movie experience I had in the cinema was watching the

(47:06):
first Matrix film. Now I'd heard a little bit about
this movie before I went seeing it, and I'd heard
people saying it was absolutely amazing and it just blew
you away, So of course, let's go and see what
it's about. We used to spend a lot of time
in the me and my wife, that is, we used
to spend a lot of time in the cinema when
we were like when we first I nearly say courting,

(47:26):
I'm going to sound like my grandfather. When we were courting,
we used to spend a lot of time in the
cinema watching different movies. And I remember coming out of
seeing the Matrix and being absolutely blown away. It was
the most amazing film I had ever seen. Action packed.
It kind of opened your mind to the possibilities that,
you know, when we might all be living in a simulation.

(47:48):
It just blew my mind in every single way. It
was one of the best movies I had ever seen,
and it was I don't know, it kind of changed
cinema a little bit ever since that movie came out,
and to this day, I remember that I had when
I walked out with that cinema absolutely amazing feeling. It's
so good when you come out of a film or
a movie in the cinema and you're just blown away

(48:10):
by it. When most films you come out and you're
just like, yeah, that was okay, Yeah that went bad.
The Matrix just absolutely blew our socks off. But you
know what, I think some of my fondest memories before
I met my wife and I used to go to
the cinema with my sister, but I never went watching
the same film I used to go with. My uncle
used to take us and they used to go and

(48:31):
watch one certain film, but I always wanted to watch
something different. They used to watch like, I don't know,
they used to be watching I can't even remember what
the films were called that they were watching, but I
remember the ones that I was watching. On one occasion,
I went watching The Wedding Singer. Absolutely loved that movie.
Another occasion, I went watching ace Ventura Repected Heative, and

(48:52):
I'm pretty sure within the same week they brought out
The Mask and ace Ventura and the Mask and Jim Carry,
the actor, was absolutely blowing up at this time, and
I wanted to see whatever movie you was bringing out,
and I remember just having a blast sitting on my
own in the theater for the very first time. You know,
normally I was with an adult, but I was allowed

(49:12):
to go in, buy my own suites from the counter
and going. And this cinema weren't your big posh cinema.
It went't like you MULTIPLEX, weren't these big massive screens.
It was a very old, shabby cinema. I remember the
wallpaper actually coming off the wall when I was sat
watching this movie, you know, on the floors were sticky,
and it just wasn't It wasn't a big grand effr.

(49:35):
But it was so good and some of my fondest
memories just a very down to earth, basic cinema that
I've been there for years, maybe a family owned cinema.
Can't quite remember, but I used to remember going purchasing
the suites, which were reasonable price, not like the prices
you get these days, and just just having a blast,

(49:55):
just watching a really, really good film. So yeah, for
the longest, I've been a massive fan of movies, and
that's probably why I do a little podcast and I
do a YouTube channel talking about movies and cartoons because
I'm so passionate about it. I love them and I
love learning about them. I hope tonight's episode has been entertaining.

(50:15):
I hope it's relaxed you. If you're asleep already, good night,
have sweet dreams. And if you're still awake, I hope
you're feeling relaxed and you can finally fall to sleep
when you turn this episode off. If you're still feeling awake,
why don't you go back and listen to one of
the other episodes, which, at the moment, granted, there's only
one of them, but if you want something else to
listen to, you can go back and listen to that.

(50:36):
And I'll be back pretty soon for episode free. So
until then, sweet dreams, sleep tight, and I'll see you
very soon.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Bye bye. Oh.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
I did say on the other episode that I would
try and incorporate the words sleepy Slumberland into the show.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
I haven't done it.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
We're at the end of the show now and I
haven't done it, So yeah, let's try and fit it
in SOMEWHEREA. I hope you enjoy your in Sleepy Slumberland.
That sounded so dumb and ridiculous. I'm gonna have to
try and fit it in more organically next time, maybe
in the middle of the show or the beginning or
something like that. It's certainly not just attached to the end.
But I did say it. I promised i'd say on

(51:13):
the last episode sleepy Slumberland, good night, all have sweet dreams.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Bye bye.