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187: The Best Things in Life are Hidden · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 8: So, as usual, we like to throw this to the
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  Speaker 8: unsuspecting victim. Rose, I ask you, what blend of coffee
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  Speaker 10: My guess was bubbly, squirty, go-go juice, something like that.
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  Speaker 5: That sounds like mucky mud, but yay.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I told you, you should drink a whole lot
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  Speaker 8: of it and see what happens. Because, you know, knowing
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  Speaker 8: how you normally operate, I really want to see what
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  Speaker 8: happens when you're on a couple of pots of coffee.
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  Speaker 7: I don't drink any caffeine.
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  Speaker 8: There's something wrong there.
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  Speaker 11: She doesn't need it.
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  Speaker 10: Our convention episode where I'm, like, talking, like, 200 miles
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  Speaker 10: a minute.
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  Speaker 5: There's so much going on.
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  Speaker 8: There really was.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a girl holding a dead teddy bear. Like,
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  Speaker 5: I can't even go... I can't even explain it.
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  Speaker 8: Just, you can live the wonder of it on the
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  Speaker 8: internet there, so.
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  Speaker 8: It's a magical experience. Oh, and do you want to... Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I was going to go into this before. Do you
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  Speaker 8: want to tell Fred... She saw the t-shirt sitting there,
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  Speaker 8: and it wasn't so much that I had to explain
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  Speaker 8: the babysitter part of the story as the who's John
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  Speaker 8: Carpenter part of the story.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, do I even remember? Was it from
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  Speaker 5: the movie Halloween? Was that it?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, see, look. Some stuff's sticking up there. Look at that.
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  Speaker 11: She'll be a geek before too long.
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  Speaker 8: We're working on.
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  Speaker 7: It, man.
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  Speaker 12: I know.
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  Speaker 5: By how many episodes do you think I'll be?
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  Speaker 8: You're working on several now, so we'll see what we
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  Speaker 8: can do.
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  Speaker 5: We still have not seen Star Wars, though.
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  Speaker 8: But your story, your epic tale of Star Wars, more
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  Speaker 8: than makes.
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  Speaker 9: Up for it, really.
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  Speaker 10: So John Carpenter is in the movie Halloween.
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  Speaker 8: In spirit? Yeah. Sort of.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, wait, he's the director of it.
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  Speaker 8: There we go.
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  Speaker 6: Or writer, director.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, there we go.
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  Speaker 11: Someone goes out.
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  Speaker 5: So basically when Brad was a little boy, they would
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  Speaker 5: play Halloween a lot.
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  Speaker 10: His babysitter would, or his parents would say, no, I'm
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  Speaker 10: just kidding.
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  Speaker 7: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's how it went.
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  Speaker 10: And so you watched it a lot, his movies.
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  Speaker 5: And so he became your babysitter. Is this a correction?
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  Speaker 8: That's what you do.
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  Speaker 9: You familiarize yourself with someone's work and By that process,
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  Speaker 9: they become your babysitter.
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  Speaker 8: See, a lot of people read the shirt as that, actually.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm okay with that, as long as they're having
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  Speaker 8: fun with that. Like, yeah, me too, he was mine.
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  Speaker 9: A lot of people take it in that way that
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  Speaker 9: they grew up watching horror movies, so in that sense,
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  Speaker 9: John Carpenter was their babysitter. But the real story is
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  Speaker 9: it's just something my mom always said. I don't really
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  Speaker 9: remember him. But at some point, I've always wanted to
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  Speaker 9: retire and then check all the stuff I know and
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  Speaker 9: learned in college and see if any of it's still true.
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  Speaker 9: But I started out by checking out my mom's story.
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  Speaker 9: Is that true? And I look him up because, you know,
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  Speaker 9: moms sometimes have a different version of reality than everyone
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  Speaker 9: in the world. They just have things they say happened
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  Speaker 9: and you go... No.
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  Speaker 8: That's not how I remember it.
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  Speaker 9: But that was something she said, and I looked up
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  Speaker 9: his website, and he grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 13: His parents taught at Western.
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  Speaker 9: I grew up in Bowling Green. My parents taught at Western.
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  Speaker 9: Mom's story is checking out.
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  Speaker 13: And apparently his parents taught music.
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  Speaker 9: And they were friends with my parents, and they would
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  Speaker 9: ask them to come over and hang out, and they'd say, oh,
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  Speaker 9: we don't have a sitter for the boys, me and
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  Speaker 9: my brother. They'd say, John will watch the boys. And
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  Speaker 9: that's so John Carpenter was my babysitter.
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  Speaker 8: John will scar the boys.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what she said. And it sounded pretty plausible
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  Speaker 9: based on he grew up there. He was about the
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  Speaker 9: right age. But she also had this little book that
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  Speaker 9: he had made, like a hand-drawn Vincent Price on the cover.
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  Speaker 9: It was all about horror movies. And it didn't have
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  Speaker 9: the date on it, but it was talking about a
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  Speaker 9: movie coming out in London.
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  Speaker 13: And I looked it up, and he would.
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  Speaker 9: Have been 17. And it was on one of the
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  Speaker 9: old mimeograph things, the blue copy. And so, yeah, that
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  Speaker 9: she had that, I thought, Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 13: And so I'm going with.
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  Speaker 9: And it's kind of a cool thing to say because
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  Speaker 9: his first film is most famous, really. Halloween was about
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  Speaker 9: a babysitter.
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  Speaker 8: The horror of being a babysitter.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and so, I don't know, I guess.
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  Speaker 8: so yeah his horrors inspired the movie his horrors of
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  Speaker 8: being a babysitter was you and your brother probably.
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  Speaker 4: I genuinely feel like there's some like butterfly effect there
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  Speaker 4: like we would not have had the exact product of
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  Speaker 4: like how like the chain of events like him babysitting
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  Speaker 4: you like.
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  Speaker 9: Oddly enough i was a demon child maybe.
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  Speaker 14: He based michael myers on you i think so i
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  Speaker 14: i That's.
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  Speaker 7: A good idea.
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  Speaker 9: And I was obsessed with horror movies when I was
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  Speaker 9: a kid. Just absolutely obsessed. I can't compare my knowledge
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  Speaker 9: of horror with any younger people who grew up with DVDs.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know anything about it. But back then, you
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  Speaker 9: could watch when it was on, and the afternoon horror movie,
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  Speaker 9: you'd have the TV guide and you'd plan for it.
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  Speaker 9: And if you were out somewhere and you couldn't be
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  Speaker 9: there on your horror movie with Oh, it was just crushing.
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  Speaker 9: It was just horrible.
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  Speaker 8: This is a world that kids will never understand. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: it's really sad.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, because things were on, and then they were just,
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  Speaker 9: you never knew if you'd see them again.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: It was like playing an eight-track tape. It might play
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  Speaker 9: this time, but you may never hear it again.
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  Speaker 7: You're like, oh, man. Your song gets cut off, you
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  Speaker 7: have to flip it over.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah. Well, I just did that recently. I bought,
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  Speaker 8: I mentioned this online. Because I've gotten, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 8: I've got this new fancy Blu-ray player, and I've got
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  Speaker 8: a new disc with 40 hours of exclusive stuff on it.
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  Speaker 8: And what am I watching? A VHS tape I bought
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  Speaker 8: yesterday secondhand.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm putting it in, and I'm like, I got
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  Speaker 8: it for pretty cheap. If I can get it to
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  Speaker 8: play once, I got one shot. If it works, I'm
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  Speaker 8: all good. Because you know it's going to, like, by
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  Speaker 8: the time it rewinds, it's going to snap it anyway.
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  Speaker 8: So they weren't really made to last forever. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 8: all I've got to do is get through this thing
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  Speaker 8: one time.
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  Speaker 7: What was it exactly?
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  Speaker 13: I watched Topaz.
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  Speaker 11: What's that?
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  Speaker 8: It's one of the later Hitchcocks. This is a good
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  Speaker 8: entry into the geek activity. So we'll roll on into that.
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  Speaker 8: Topaz is a later Hitchcock. It was those late 60s.
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  Speaker 8: The last couple in the 70s are really different for him,
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  Speaker 8: which I kind of like. Actually, I know some people
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  Speaker 8: don't like those. but I really like Frenzy Frenzy's a
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  Speaker 8: weird modern era of Hitchcock that seems like this weird
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  Speaker 8: juxtaposition of you've got 70s mentality and suddenly he can
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  Speaker 8: use nudity and cursing and you're not used to that
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  Speaker 8: in Hitchcock movies so it's It's very strange seeing that.
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  Speaker 8: So this was right before that. This was, like, late 60s,
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  Speaker 8: I think. It's pretty much all about the Cold War.
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  Speaker 8: It's one of the more slow-paced of his, I have
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  Speaker 8: to say. It's pretty cool. It's, well, you know, it's Hitchcock.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, the worst of his is world's better than
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  Speaker 8: anybody else will ever do. It's good. It's just like
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  Speaker 8: it's not knowing his, like, super high-end, like, tension thriller
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  Speaker 8: kind of stuff. There's a few moments of that, but
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  Speaker 8: there's a whole lot of, like, traveling the world and
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  Speaker 8: going to Cuba and.
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  Speaker 14: You know.
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  Speaker 8: It's, yeah, it's interesting. Actually, do you remember the guy
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  Speaker 8: from Animal House? Do you remember the dean that's always
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  Speaker 8: yelling at him?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: That's probably the most entertaining part is he is, like,
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  Speaker 8: a head honcho in Cuba.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And he's got the full beard. He's got the little,
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  Speaker 8: he's got the little green cap. Like he's just got
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  Speaker 8: the official I'm Cuban outfit on and he's, he's really
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  Speaker 8: good in it. Like again, I, we, we'd seen him,
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  Speaker 8: I think, what was it he was in that we watched?
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  Speaker 8: I think he's in Charlie Baric and a bunch of
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  Speaker 8: other stuff that we went back and saw him doing
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  Speaker 8: all these serious roles that I'm not used to him.
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  Speaker 8: Cause he's still so like iconically animal house for the
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  Speaker 8: rest of my life that watching him like a few
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  Speaker 8: years before doing this really serious performance. And he's, he's
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  Speaker 8: kind of, he's, he's the tension part. He's the one
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  Speaker 8: that's sort of in power and, and when they get
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  Speaker 8: in trouble, it's, it's kind of him that's, that's going to, uh,
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  Speaker 8: going to come down on him. So he, he's really good.
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  Speaker 8: He's probably the best thing to watch in it is,
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  Speaker 8: is that performance. It's John.
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  Speaker 7: Those character actors.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You know, that just make, have like the most memorable
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  Speaker 7: parts of movies.
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  Speaker 8: He's, yeah, he's really good. John Forsythe's in it. And like,
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  Speaker 8: They always used to slap him on the front of
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  Speaker 8: the box, so I really expected it to be all...
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  Speaker 8: It's kind of odd. It's a weird setup. It's just
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  Speaker 8: the layout of the movie is very strange, too, because
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  Speaker 8: it sort of hands the movie off several times. It
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  Speaker 8: sets it up in the beginning, and it's sort of
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  Speaker 8: John Forsythe, and he's working for the government, and then
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  Speaker 8: there's this French agent that's kind of helping our government,
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  Speaker 8: and then it sort of hands the movie off to him,
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  Speaker 8: and then he goes to Cuba, and we follow this
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  Speaker 8: story about him and this girl that he's involved with
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  Speaker 8: in Cuba... And then we start seeing the whole other
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  Speaker 8: backstory there. And then it comes back and it gets
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  Speaker 8: involved in this other guy. There's a weird part in
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  Speaker 8: the middle where it goes with this other French guy
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  Speaker 8: that goes on this little reconnaissance mission.
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  Speaker 11: Too many French characters for my liking.
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  Speaker 8: It's only a little while. Then it goes to Cuba.
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  Speaker 8: And then it's back to New York or wherever. It's
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  Speaker 8: just weird that every 20 minutes or so it switches
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  Speaker 8: its main character and its location and It keeps coming back,
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  Speaker 8: and there's a through line, but it's just set up
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  Speaker 8: different than most movies anymore.
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  Speaker 7: Was it worth the $ 2.
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  Speaker 5: 50?
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  Speaker 8: It was $ 0. 49, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: It could have been more.
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  Speaker 8: Than $ 2.
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  Speaker 2: 50.
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't pay $ 2. 50 for a VHS tape.
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  Speaker 7: At this point. Yeah, even $ 2. 50.
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  Speaker 8: Unless it was a really cool box. Because at this point,
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  Speaker 8: I just like the box art more than anything.
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  Speaker 14: I think my dad said, because we were talking about it,
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  Speaker 14: vhs and vcrs recently he said he got his vcr
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  Speaker 14: back in the day for like 1500 oh yeah they were.
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  Speaker 8: Expensive oh yeah i can't believe that.
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  Speaker 9: I remember the first movie i ever saw on a
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  Speaker 9: vcr was probably like in 85 or 86.
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  Speaker 13: And it was like one guy we.
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  Speaker 9: Knew oh he's got a vcr and it was and
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  Speaker 9: we watched blood simple Nice.
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  Speaker 8: That's a good starter. That's an awesome VH.
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  Speaker 7: I can see that being an awesome VH.
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  Speaker 15: I don't know why, really.
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  Speaker 8: I think even before that, I remember, again, my uncle
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  Speaker 8: had one before anybody else. He was just kind of
• 14:02
  Speaker 8: that guy who was sort of ahead of the curve,
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  Speaker 8: and he kind of liked the tech stuff. So the
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  Speaker 8: only reason he even had one is because he bought
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  Speaker 8: a camera. He bought a video camera, which at the
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  Speaker 8: time was its own big separate camera unit, and you
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  Speaker 8: had to have the... recorder strapped to you it was
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  Speaker 8: its own separate recorder and it had play and record
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  Speaker 8: buttons like an old school tape recorder like audio tape
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  Speaker 8: but it worked on a big giant vhs tape and
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  Speaker 8: then when you wanted to watch it at home there
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  Speaker 8: was a whole separate box that was like your tuner
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  Speaker 8: box more or less so you had two separate boxes
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  Speaker 8: sitting in front of your tv there one with the
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  Speaker 8: tape and the other was just like to run it
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  Speaker 8: into the tv i guess and it was it had
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: a top loader by the way Those were my favorite
• 14:46
  Speaker 8: moments were those breakthrough where you went from the top-loading
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  Speaker 8: VHS to the front-loading. And then they would make a
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  Speaker 8: sign at the store that was like, front-loading. It would
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  Speaker 8: be really exciting. Also, my other favorite accessory that they
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  Speaker 8: upgrade accessory was the... Because for a while when they
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  Speaker 8: first had... Well, you had nothing. You had to walk
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  Speaker 8: over and push play on it. Well, then they had
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  Speaker 8: a wired remote. It was just on a wire that
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  Speaker 8: ran to your... couch, I guess. And they would advertise that.
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  Speaker 8: It would say, Wired Remote.
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  Speaker 7: And by then they had wireless remotes, right?
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  Speaker 8: Well, no. It was a few years. That was coming.
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  Speaker 8: So with that first wave, they were so excited. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: let's face it.
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  Speaker 11: Would you rather have a wired remote or have to
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  Speaker 11: get up and jump?
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  Speaker 7: It's definitely an upgrade.
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  Speaker 9: I would say it's an upgrade.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Their TV area probably looked like the stationery.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's loaded with wires.
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  Speaker 9: It's like that joke when people... lose the remote, and
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  Speaker 9: they say, oh, you ought to just tape it to
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  Speaker 9: the TV. So it defeats the whole idea of the remote.
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  Speaker 9: But the best idea I've ever heard, there was a
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  Speaker 9: guy who embedded the remote in a football. And that
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  Speaker 9: was the perfect ergonomic solution. And you can throw it.
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  Speaker 9: And he had invented a lot of serious stuff, but
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  Speaker 9: that was his big success, was the... The thing I
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  Speaker 9: liked best was he invented a bed with a channel
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  Speaker 9: in the mattress so you can sleep with your arm
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  Speaker 9: around somebody and your arm doesn't go to sleep.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: That's not bad.
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  Speaker 13: Never worked, though.
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  Speaker 11: Didn't take off.
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  Speaker 7: That's an interesting idea.
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  Speaker 8: They never do, really. The good stuff, anyway.
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  Speaker 7: I dismiss. There was like a texture to VHS.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember when you started up,
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  Speaker 4: like right when you put it in, there's that series of.
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  Speaker 7: Beeps that you hear. It's like the beep-boop-beep-boop-beep-boop. Like, I
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  Speaker 7: miss that, definitely.
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  Speaker 10: I miss when it messed up and you had to
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  Speaker 10: use your finger.
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  Speaker 8: Your little movie.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, the movie.
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  Speaker 8: Tracking your little.
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  Speaker 9: Tracking everything. I broke it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: Man, I've got like tons of VHS in my attic.
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: They're probably all like, I don't know. I kind of
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: always thought I should do something with the tape. Because
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: it moves in the most interesting way. If you ever
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: break a tape, it's like it's alive. Or you see
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: one on the road, somebody's run over, and it's just
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: out there going.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: it's like that guy in front of the cell phone
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: store yeah it is it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: Is oh yeah or like that dog in the Banksy
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: movie when the.
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: Great comes up the dog that's a good one yeah
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: I like that dog so yeah I was reliving my
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: VHS days which actually I got it and I'm going
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: is that even hooked up I don't even think I
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: hooked it up last time I moved but surprisingly I
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: did and it worked And I made it through the
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: entire thing.
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: Did you remember how to do it? Like putting it
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: on the right channel and stuff?
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: Did I remember to be kind and rewind?
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: I did and I really expected it to snap when
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: it got to the end.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: Because they were, you know, it gets going so fast
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: and towards the end I think they made the players
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: smart enough to know when it was getting to the end.
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: But before, I mean, it would be running so fast
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: it would hit that end and just snap.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: So, yeah, I was impressed. It played and I got
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: all the way through, and it was a fun time.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I think people are, like, really into VHSs.
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: Like, people are into, like, records.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: Like, you know, they're like, I don't buy CDs.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, true. I don't know if it's as much... Yeah,
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: there actually are. I mean, because you go to... Again,
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: we've obviously been to a lot of conventions lately, and
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: there was. There was a whole section at one of
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: those that was just... Their entire thing was nothing but
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: old VHS. And I think it's more of... I don't
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: know if anybody is hardcore about the technology, because nobody...
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: It was the convenience, really, more than the picture grade
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: at that point. So we just liked the fact, oh,
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: my God, I can watch this whenever I want, like
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: you were saying before, Fred. So it's like the fact
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: that you can just put it in whenever you want
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: is pretty amazing. But I think there's still stuff that
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: was released on VHS that never made it to DVD.
• 19:01
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: That will never make it to Blu-ray.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: I've got one.
• 19:04
  Speaker 13: I want us to do an episode on one of those.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Which one?
• 19:07
  Speaker 13: It's called The Miracle.
• 19:08
  Speaker 16: Interesting.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: You're going to have to pass.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: It around and everybody watch it?
• 19:12
  Speaker 13: Neil Jordan.
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: And it's like his best movie ever, and it's not
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: on DVD. Wow.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: There's a lot of those.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: Is it like before, like late, like before Crying Game?
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: I think it was, yeah. It was back in Ireland,
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: and it's about these two teenage kids. They're kind of
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: boyfriend and girlfriend, but maybe they're just friends. They don't
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: really know. And he's a jazz musician, but he only
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: wants to play if he's getting paid.
• 19:40
  Speaker 13: And his dad is not as good.
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: A musician, and he'd just play to be out there.
• 19:45
  Speaker 13: You don't understand, when I was your age.
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: I would play anywhere, but the kids just like not
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: excited about it. Oh, and there's a circus in town
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: for some reason. And that whole thing of like what's
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: special and what's just boring and gritty and banal is like,
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: you know, the circus is the perfect backdrop for that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: And so they walk around and they make up stories
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: about tourists on the beach in Ireland. And then one
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: of them turns out to have some, you know, Neil
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: Jordan twist, fable thing.
• 20:22
  Speaker 13: And it's like his.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: Hopefully not like, you know, gouge your eyes out like,
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: oh my God.
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: I didn't mean to see that. That was crazy.
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: It is a little like that. Oh, really? It's, what's
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: her name, the girl from Hair.
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: Jay Davidson?
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: No.
• 20:39
  Speaker 13: What is her name?
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: She's not a girl anymore.
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: Beverly D'Angelo?
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: There we go.
• 20:44
  Speaker 13: I don't know what I was going to say.
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: Just pretend like it was that. Yeah, we were both right.
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: The girl from Hair.
• 20:55
  Speaker 13: She was the horse girl in Hair.
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: Oh, I was thinking Hairspray.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: John Travolta? No, the good hair.
• 21:05
  Speaker 13: He's still trying to make that movie.
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: I saw some movie about a mermaid who turned out
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: to be a drug mule.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, on D.
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: It was pretty good. It's pretty good, but the miracle
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: is like that same fable, but it's really good.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: I bet it's really good, because that's like back when
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Neil Ford was like kicking ass.
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he was on this game, and I can't believe
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: it's not on DVD.
• 21:30
  Speaker 13: I keep checking for.
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: It, and Yeah, I think that's what it is. Especially, again,
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: at those conventions, there's so many. I mean, that was
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: that wave of weird underground cult movies and horror and
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: sci-fi and a ton of stuff that they were just
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: cranking and putting out on VHS to make a profit
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: because it was finally kind of hitting where you could
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: do that. And there's so much of it that didn't
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: take off, but there's the hardcore geeks that are just like...
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: So I think it's just finding those little gems in there.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: And for me, it was always the box art. Like,
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: we'd done that whole running series of, like, VHS boxes
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: that just, like, messed you up as a kid. Oh, yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 13: I went to the video store.
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: In the core section, which is.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: By then, it'd be a separate... Like, where I went,
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: it was, like, a separate room. It was all dark,
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: and it was just awful. It was awesome, but at
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: the same time, it was awful.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: It was traumatizing, yeah. So I think it's that stuff.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: I think there's that appeal, more than the, oh, man,
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: I love that picture quality on VHS, but... It was fine.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: I made it through mine.
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: I don't think it has the thing that vinyl has
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: in records.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: It makes that noise.
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: It does have that noise, which sort of like sets
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: up your movie appetite.
• 22:42
  Speaker 13: You start salivating like Pavlov's dog.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: But there is a level, because you'll talk to, like
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: Beau's gone into this several times, where it's like film
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: versus digital. He said the same thing about the vinyl thing,
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: whereas it has... It has a look and a texture
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: to it that is, you know, a loved thing. And
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: it actually is that same thing that people say about vinyl. Yeah.
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: It's been worn and it has that history to it
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: because of that. Because every time you play it, it
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: kind of does something to it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: Like when I was in college, like when a couple
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: broke up, it always came down to the record collection.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:23
  Speaker 13: And I don't think people do that anymore. They don't
• 23:26
  Speaker 13: have that. Have I told this before?
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: I'm like a record that's been played before. Which one?
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: I think it was Bernard Shaw said, every man is
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: like half a dozen records that you've listened to already. But, yeah,
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: I mean, if I went home tonight and started talking
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: about my wife's old boyfriend, pretty soon she'd be going like,
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: I had this. these frank zappa records and i had
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: and the fugs.
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: Well now that just happens if there's like a small
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: movie theater that goes under and all the employees they're
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: just like no no no i ordered this one this
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: we have this print because i got it yeah so
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: yeah i guess that's the only way that still happens
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: since nobody even has prints anymore it's all digital now.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah I still have, like, I mean, we were, like,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: my family, we were a big movie fan, and, like,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: we just, like, all we did was just watch just
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: VHSs all the time. Like, there's still, like, last time
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: I went home, there was, like, a couple of stuff that, like, I'm.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: Like, oh, that's, like, that probably will never be on DVD.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Like, we still had, like, I think the last VHS
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: I got was, like, a gift, and it was Don't
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Look in the Basement.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: Nice.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And, um.
• 24:42
  Speaker 13: Another classic.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, like, they had a cool cover, which I'm sure
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: it was, like, bought at a garage sale.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: And, like, Peach Dragon, like, I haven't seen that at,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: you know, like, a store or anywhere.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: I just remember watching that. Well, it's Disney. They have
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: to vault it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: Just to mess with people. I think they're ashamed of
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: that movie, actually. It doesn't hold up.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, if you're a kid, it's awesome, but I haven't
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: seen it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: I remember when they put it back out, at least
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: on VHS one of the times, and I saw it
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: and I was like, I remember liking this more as
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: a kid. There's a whole lot of singing and dancing
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: and crap in there. I just remember the dragon being awesome,
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: but All this Helen Reddy stuff going on. I don't know.
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: Oh, Helen Reddy. It's hilarious.
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: What I miss about PHS was, well, we lived overseas,
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: so a lot of times people would mail us PHS.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Did you have PAL?
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: I don't know what that is. Damn it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: Or, like, even, like, if you were going to go
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: out and a movie was going to play, you press record,
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: and then you get, like, six other movies.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: Like, that's how I saw.
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: Doc Hollywood for the first time, because it was on
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Day.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: Speaking of classics.
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and then we do.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, what else is on that tape? That one with
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: that guy that got super famous for.
• 25:53
  Speaker 17: What's the.
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: That guy.
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: The really big, the really, Grey's Anatomy.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Okay, there's a guy that's like a heartthrob on that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: Patrick Dempsey.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
• 26:04
  Speaker 11: Can't buy me love?
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: No, he went to.
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: College, and the girl pretended her name was Alex, so
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: she pretended she was a guy, so they gave her
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: a guy roommate, and it ended up being him.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, God.
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: She's the man.
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: No, there's like 40 of those.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what?
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: Orange County. I don't know.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Three's Company. It wishes it was just one of the guys,
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: but it's not.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: You get all these movies, and then you get like
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: half of one that you'd be really into, but like
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: you say, it never plays again on TV. So we'd
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: have all these random movies and commercials.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Forever and ever. You've got to do the math.
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: Oh, and every now and then you'd run out of
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: tape before.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: The end of the movie.
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: And you wouldn't know it until like, I'm watching happiness
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: with my wife.
• 26:50
  Speaker 13: And we get to this.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Fuck!
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: It's done.
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: I grew up.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: This was not until five years ago.
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: I grew up.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Watching Mary Poppins, and, like, to my knowledge, that movie, literally, like,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: it ended on Feed the Birds.
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: Like, that was, like, Feed the Birds, done.
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: And it was just, that was.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: The end of the movie. Like, I put it as
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: a pin, and you're like, well, that's it. And I
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: was like, that was Mary Poppins, that was fun.
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: Somehow. I didn't know, like, I didn't.
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: Know, like, five years later, I discovered, like, there's, like,
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: three more musical.
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: Acts, like, there's a final, like.
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: Oh, you know what? I was watching Scott Pilgrim vs.
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: the World when it came out, you know, originally.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:28
  Speaker 14: In the theater, and the fire alarm went off, like,
• 27:31
  Speaker 14: halfway through the movie. And, like, I was so into
• 27:35
  Speaker 14: it at the halfway point.
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: I was like, that was amazing. I was, like, really upset.
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: You know, the fire alarm went off, and then I
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: went back and, you know, saw it again, and I
• 27:43
  Speaker 14: was like, oh, like, I realized, like, actually that was
• 27:46
  Speaker 14: the best for the movie because the second half didn't really, like,
• 27:49
  Speaker 14: slam dunk it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: And so I think sometimes it's.
• 27:51
  Speaker 14: Good to just arbitrarily cut off a movie at a
• 27:54
  Speaker 14: certain point.
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: Well, I just like for you, Ben, that you found
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: some director's cut in a vault as far as you
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: were concerned. Oh, my God. Wow, this is great.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Like the song about laughing and the chimneys.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: I was like, this is like.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Blowing my mind like knowing this was there the whole
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: time I never knew.
• 28:13
  Speaker 14: I have a home video of me um doing the
• 28:17
  Speaker 14: entire step in time dance sequence chimney roof thing and
• 28:21
  Speaker 14: my diapers step in time it is uh yeah it's
• 28:24
  Speaker 14: pretty hilarious oh my.
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: God Are you going to do that?
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: And Feed the Birds was like the most melancholic part
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: of the movie. It would just end on that note.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: You're like, this is such a downer movie, man.
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: Mary Poppins is this nihilistic.
• 28:36
  Speaker 14: She's lonely, she's feeding the birds.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: And it just ends.
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: That's very French.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: I think it gave me more character, I like to think.
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: The darker, the more, like I was raised, you know...
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: Raised on these dark Disney movies.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I like to think that, you know, it had a
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: good impact on me.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: I don't even remember how, like, the normal version is.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: Because I saw it maybe two times in my life.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Should it flash away or something?
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: Spoiler alert.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: God.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: Typical Disney, you know.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: 63 years later.
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: But we are spoiling this one.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: Ruined that one for me now.
• 29:10
  Speaker 17: Come feed the little birds, show them you care, and
• 29:17
  Speaker 17: you'll be glad if you do. Their young ones are hungry,
• 29:27
  Speaker 17: their nests are so.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Bare, all it takes is tuppence.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: From you.
• 29:40
  Speaker 17: Feed the birds tuppence a bag.
• 29:47
  Speaker 18: Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.
• 29:54
  Speaker 12: It's intermission time. So how about taking a break, get
• 29:58
  Speaker 12: out and stretch a little, and relax before the show
• 30:01
  Speaker 12: begins again. And why not make it refreshment time, too?
• 30:05
  Speaker 12: We have lots of tasty, delicious treats waiting for you
• 30:08
  Speaker 12: at the refreshment center. There's hot popcorn, so golden good
• 30:12
  Speaker 12: and fresh out of the popper. And all kinds of
• 30:15
  Speaker 12: refreshing ice-cold soft drinks. Sizzling hot dogs just bursting with
• 30:20
  Speaker 12: juicy goodness. ice cream so smooth and delicious you'll hanker
• 30:24
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• 30:28
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• 30:31
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• 30:34
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• 30:38
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• 30:41
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• 30:45
  Speaker 19: Does the word Topaz mean anything to you?
• 30:47
  Speaker 15: What is Topaz?
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: A story of espionage in high places.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: A best-selling novel for over a year, The Revelations in
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Topaz shook up world capitals and started a spy hunt
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: that is still going on. From between the covers of
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: this book, Hitchcock has taken intrigue, suspense, excitement, Warm-blooded men
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: and women take risks, make love, face death for stakes
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: that involve the world. And I'm supposed to keep my
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: mouth shut and uncover topaz?
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: At the risk of my own skin?
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: The action is global.
• 31:25
  Speaker 12: Bosco.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Copenhagen.
• 31:28
  Speaker 12: Get your hands down, quick!
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Washington.
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: I gave you no understanding.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: The hell you didn't.
• 31:36
  Speaker 12: You're in this business, you know the score.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: There is a woman in Cuba.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Isn't there?
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: She sometimes works for me.
• 31:44
  Speaker 20: What else does she do for you?
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Overall lurks the mystery of Topaz and nothing is what
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: it seems. A piece of bread can mean death. A
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: broken figurine can mean freedom. In New York's Harlem, a
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: man risks his life to take pictures of what? In Cuba,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: an agent visits his mistress and no one asks why
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: at first.
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: You picked a.
• 32:13
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  Speaker 18: It's part of your problem, you know.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: You haven't seen enough movies.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: All of life's riddles are answered in the movies. And now,
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: on with the show.
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: I remember.
• 35:47
  Speaker 10: The first thing we ever rented was Blockbuster.
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: Oh, nice.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: It was Dick Tracy.
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: Another classic.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: So Dick Tracy.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, God.
• 36:05
  Speaker 10: And Batman with the penguins.
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: Batman Returns?
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: Batman Returns.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: I've heard of that a lot. That was one of
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: my favorite movies.
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: It's underrated, if you ask me.
• 36:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm totally partial to the first group of Batman
• 36:20
  Speaker 10: films with the comedy aspect.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: I know that's me.
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: I think Michael Keaton was the best Batman.
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the thing.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: I really love the Tim Burton movies.
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: It's the Tim Burton movies.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: I did go back After, like, having seen the Nolan,
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: the new Nolan movies, I'm like, yeah, these are, I
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: can definitely see why, like, it's not quite, like, some
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: people would say it wouldn't do justice to, like, the
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: comics or anything.
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: But I still think they're awesome because they're their own thing.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: Like, it's, they're Tim Burton movies.
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: And if you watch them, like, on that level, they're awesome.
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: I still love them.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: Well, it's funny. I mean, we look at that now
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: versus the Nolan stuff. But think about what, I mean,
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: that was the first time you'd seen it other than
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: Adam West, really. I mean, for most people.
• 37:01
  Speaker 11: I grew up watching the Adam West.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, me too.
• 37:04
  Speaker 11: I had that.
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: So that was really serious to me at that point.
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: I was just like, wow, look at this dark, serious movie.
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: And now you look at it and you're like, look
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: at this silly-ass shit.
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: But it's still cool.
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: I met Adam West when I was a kid, but
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: he wasn't my babysitter.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: I saw him at a convention a couple years ago.
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: I didn't follow him closely enough for that to ever happen.
• 37:25
  Speaker 13: Also, I still think.
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: Catwoman was the best thing Michelle Pfeiffer ever did. She's
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: great in that scene. In a lot of her performances,
• 37:37
  Speaker 9: she's pretty good, but it feels kind of like student work.
• 37:40
  Speaker 13: Like she's doing it for a grade.
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: But when she put on that Catwoman suit, she was
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: serious about it.
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: She's very cold and calculated about a lot of roles.
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: And then that one she just totally opens up to,
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: and she's just really at home in it.
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: It's kind of like how the Rocky Horror guy, Tim...
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: Tim Curry?
• 38:03
  Speaker 13: Yeah, Tim Curry.
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: Oh, Tim Curry. Yeah, like you can't really believe him
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: when he plays like a real life role. But if
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: it's something cartoony and over the top.
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: But when he's darkness, he's amazing.
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: People kind of underestimate Jim Carrey and Robin Williams for
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: the same thing.
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: Because they can be cartoons.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: And they can be real.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: When they're real, sometimes.
• 38:27
  Speaker 9: That's some of their best work.
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: Studied, like, was it Juilliard? Like, before he was in
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: the comic, like, he was an actor.
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: They're equally as much to blame, though, because they do
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: that to themselves. Like, they get to that point and
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: they make themselves a joke. And they won't stop, especially,
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: I mean, Jim Carrey really does. But Robin Williams is equal.
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: I mean, you watch him on any talk show. He
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: just acts like an idiot. And I like the guy,
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: but he acts just silly.
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: At this point, I just want him to be like,
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: he's an awesome actor. He can make a movie. He
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: doesn't have to keep, you know.
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: Quit climbing on the furniture on The Tonight Show. Just, like,
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: make a serious movie. Because you can do both, but
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: I've seen so much of the other silliness that it's
• 39:04
  Speaker 8: just like, just turn in those good performances and keep
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: doing that. Because, yeah, he's... And Jim Carrey kind of
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: does that, but everybody's kind of sick of him.
• 39:12
  Speaker 14: It's tough for comedians because after they get exposed, like,
• 39:16
  Speaker 14: their shtick just gets old.
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: And they have to keep doing it. And so unless
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: you can transition.
• 39:20
  Speaker 11: To drama, you're pretty much going to be in and out.
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: Yeah, like, even like Zach Galifianakis.
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: Galifianakis.
• 39:27
  Speaker 11: Galifianakis.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: I don't really want to see him do that anymore.
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: It's all kind of the same.
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: You've got to do something else or shave or move on.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: You know, like something's got to change.
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: They did that with everybody.
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: Like Jack Black got painted in that corner and every
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: role had to, yeah.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Although I will say, I do think, like, I would
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: like to see Jack Black go in the acting role.
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: He has, and he's done some good stuff, but he
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: still falls back into that Jack Black thing. And again,
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: it's just sort of expected of him now, especially in
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: the comedies.
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: The opposite side of that coin, though, is like Earl
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: Brown when he auditioned for There's Something About Mary. Everybody
• 40:08
  Speaker 9: else up for the role of the retarded brother was
• 40:11
  Speaker 9: a comedian. And he went in and he thought, no,
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: I need to just play it straight, and it will
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: be funny because I'm straight. And he said it was
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: the only audition he ever walked out of feeling like,
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: I killed that.
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: Totally. And he got the part, and he did the movie,
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: and it was a huge movie, but he said... it
• 40:30
  Speaker 9: didn't raise his name at all. Everybody just thought he
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: was a retarded guy.
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: He's too good.
• 40:37
  Speaker 13: Didn't do anything for his.
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: Well, especially in that movie, it's so ridiculous for everybody
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: else to be going in there playing it over the
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: top and silly, because it's like, look at what else
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: is going on in this movie. Why do you, especially
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: playing someone who's mentally challenged, go in there and do
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: the same thing? It's just like, That's the funniest thing
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: in the world is to go in there and you
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: be the straight guy. What have you done?
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: He found my movie.
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: It was Happy Together with Patrick Dempsey.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: For all you great Saturday fans out there, you should
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: watch this.
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: It was hard to find because he did a thousand
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: of them. more or less that movie. Young guy, off
• 41:18
  Speaker 9: at college, something.
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't like any of those. I don't like
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: Patrick Gibson.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: I didn't even know he was in movies before, like,
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: Grey's Anatomy. That was the first time I knew who
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: he was.
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: Missing classics, like, Can't Buy Me Love.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, wait.
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: I avoided that on purpose. Those movies, I don't know.
• 41:35
  Speaker 10: Speaking of auditions where, like, you go in and do
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: the opposite, and speaking of what I've been watching recently,
• 41:41
  Speaker 10: Breaking Bad.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Which is It's pretty epic. That's how he played it,
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: and he's phenomenal in it.
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: And when I read that, I was like, wow. I mean,
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: everyone else was like, oh, I've got to be real
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: serious in this year. He's just like, this is the
• 42:11
  Speaker 10: kind of.
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: Play I'm in. He has the part.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:15
  Speaker 9: That's like, who was the actor who turned down Men
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: in Black because he just thought it was the stupidest thing?
• 42:21
  Speaker 9: He didn't get it at all. It was like, what?
• 42:26
  Speaker 13: This is the worst.
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: Script I've ever read.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: That must have been like, movies like that just have
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: to be like, when you read the scriptures, like, okay.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: It's like, and then he shoots the alien with the
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: laser beam.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: There's poop everywhere, and there's a one-liner here, and you're like.
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he thought it was laser cats or something.
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: Just totally.
• 42:46
  Speaker 13: And he owned up to it, too. I forget who
• 42:49
  Speaker 13: it was.
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: But he was somebody like Christian Slater or somebody.
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: And the world dodged a bullet.
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: Or, I don't know.
• 43:00
  Speaker 13: That's probably the wrong guy.
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: That's where you went, man.
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 43:04
  Speaker 14: I don't know who Christian Slater is.
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: He's my closest friend. Please believe me. Not his, like,
• 43:12
  Speaker 8: other more well-known roles. You went for Bed of Roses.
• 43:15
  Speaker 14: Okay.
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: My name is Rose.
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, I watched the movie Bed of Roses.
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: I'm sticking with Purple Pavillion. Actually, I was his babysitter.
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: That explains why he turned out like that. I'll throw
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: some others out there. I did watch another one, and
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: this is, see, there's things that you wouldn't seek out
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: to watch, but when, I won't name that, service that
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: comes to everyone's house now and we all have and
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: we all just take it for granted and watch things
• 43:42
  Speaker 8: on there until they start paying for advertising but we
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: all know what it is um when it comes up
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: on the new releases and you're like all right let's
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: see what this is right that's how you end up
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: watching things like nazis at the center of the earth.
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah nazis at the center yeah yeah wow it's based
• 44:00
  Speaker 9: on a true story.
• 44:02
  Speaker 8: According to the movie yeah that's how it went down Well,
• 44:06
  Speaker 8: I was already kind of worried, but then when it
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: came up.
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: I was imagining it opening like, the Nazis were driven
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: underground into the Earth's core.
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: So you watched it, all right.
• 44:16
  Speaker 14: That would be an interesting twist, is just the idea of,
• 44:20
  Speaker 14: instead of trying to get to the center of the Earth,
• 44:22
  Speaker 14: it's the people in the center that are trying to
• 44:23
  Speaker 14: get out.
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: And take over the world.
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: That would have been like a cool premise.
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: And that's what you get once you watch it. It's like,
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: there's like... an interesting setup, and they come up with
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: a really fun gimmick thing by the end of it,
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: but I'm like, there's a.
• 44:38
  Speaker 13: Lot of problems along the way.
• 44:40
  Speaker 11: Do we really know it's at the center of the Earth?
• 44:43
  Speaker 11: I mean, really?
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: I think we better go find out.
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: Not everybody knows this, but there was a Kentucky vice president.
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: Who was it? Johnson? Richard Johnson. And he proposed to
• 44:55
  Speaker 9: Congress an expedition to the center of the Earth. Yeah,
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: it was Simms' Hollywood Theory.
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: Senator Jones Burns.
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: Did you see that movie with the court? That was awesome.
• 45:09
  Speaker 9: Richard Johnson, and I think his political career was based
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: on people thinking he might have been the guy who
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: killed Tecumseh. They weren't sure, but he was there.
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: Sometimes that's all you need.
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: Name recognition.
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: He was one of the worst vice presidents ever... hard
• 45:26
  Speaker 9: to mess that up but he.
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: Did wow worst vice president.
• 45:30
  Speaker 9: He did seriously propose.
• 45:32
  Speaker 14: He could just be ahead of his time though because
• 45:35
  Speaker 14: john quincy adams proposed that we go to the moon
• 45:38
  Speaker 14: and he was just you.
• 45:39
  Speaker 9: Know wrong place yeah we may eventually go to the
• 45:43
  Speaker 9: center of the.
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: Earth why would be like why didn't we elect jules
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: verne is what i want to know yeah that dude
• 45:49
  Speaker 8: was on top of all of these things.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: I do hope that the government hires Werner Herzog to
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: go along. That's the only way I'll accept that happening.
• 45:59
  Speaker 11: They would all descend into madness, though.
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: They would. Well, this movie... Drag a boat over a mountain.
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: This one, I think that's what sort of really, like,
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: out of sheer curiosity at this point, because then the
• 46:14
  Speaker 8: main star listed was Dominique Swain... And I'm like, and
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: that's the thing. I like her, but I'm like, how
• 46:22
  Speaker 8: the hell does she fit into this Nazis and Senator?
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: I was just like, well, how does that? All right, fine.
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: Now I'm going to have to watch it. And she
• 46:32
  Speaker 8: does some weird stuff in this. She makes like it
• 46:35
  Speaker 8: starts off and it's her and they're in this like,
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: I don't know, some sort of weird frozen environment. And
• 46:41
  Speaker 8: she's got this giant park on and she looks up
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: and she makes this face. It makes no sense. It's
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: the goofiest thing I've ever seen. And I'm like, did
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: she know the camera was on? It seems so out
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: of place. In not just the context of this movie,
• 46:57
  Speaker 8: but like in life. I'm like, why didn't you just
• 46:59
  Speaker 8: make that face?
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: I always thought it'd be funny to do a movie
• 47:02
  Speaker 14: where you only record like 10 times. 15 to 30
• 47:06
  Speaker 14: seconds before and after the take and just make a
• 47:09
  Speaker 14: movie based on those splices.
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: The other things going on, yeah.
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: Tell the actors that, you know, just lie to them
• 47:15
  Speaker 7: and say, yeah, yeah, we got that.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: Just bring it to the premiere and they'll just watch
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: it in horror.
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: Like, what the, no, you said, you said cut, no. Well, that's,
• 47:27
  Speaker 8: that was half of it was just figuring out, and then,
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: and then we get in there and Jake, you see, he's,
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: he's trying, he's holding his own as best he can
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: in this movie. He's a scientist.
• 47:37
  Speaker 11: Is that a sign of.
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: Seniority? And he's been in some stuff, and he's turned
• 47:43
  Speaker 8: in some good performances. But yeah, this one, he's just like,
• 47:46
  Speaker 8: he's sort of along for the ride. I'm sure he's like.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: The staple of sci-fi-related movies.
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: I mean, this is another one of those asylum movies. So, yeah,
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: it's right.
• 47:58
  Speaker 7: Along those lines. Those have their own weird charm to them.
• 48:00
  Speaker 10: You know?
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: Charms, you're putting it nicely.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: It's always knocking off a more famous movie with a different,
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: more generic title.
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: You just have to embrace it.
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: They're the transmorphers kind of guys. Yeah, it's a weird...
• 48:14
  Speaker 8: And here's my main issue with this movie, more than
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: the ridiculous writing and the weird performances. Again, we've got
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: somebody to go to for an example. You've made a movie.
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: When you're making this movie, Scooter, you'd probably want to,
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: I don't know, turn on a light, right?
• 48:32
  Speaker 14: Well, if you're making Nazis in the center of the earth,
• 48:36
  Speaker 14: you know, you may not need lights. Perhaps there's no
• 48:38
  Speaker 14: light in the center of the earth, you know?
• 48:41
  Speaker 11: You've got to think about it logically.
• 48:43
  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 48:45
  Speaker 9: Don't just go around lighting things willy-nilly.
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: It has to make sense.
• 48:49
  Speaker 14: It could be like that saying, you know, philosophy is
• 48:53
  Speaker 14: searching for a black cat in a dark room, and
• 48:56
  Speaker 14: the black cat's not there.
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: Or that was the name of this movie, the alternate title.
• 49:01
  Speaker 8: I like that. I mean, it's not even like there
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: was just, you know, the cinematographer didn't know what the
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: hell he was doing or something. It was like, They had, well,
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: once they go in the center of the Earth, first
• 49:11
  Speaker 8: of all, there's a sun down there. They don't really
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: explain why, and there's almost like this like weird translucent
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: glass coating over it they don't really explain any of
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: the science and i'm using quotes obviously i don't know
• 49:25
  Speaker 8: what's going on there but there's some sort of sun
• 49:27
  Speaker 8: but then immediately within like five minutes they go inside
• 49:30
  Speaker 8: this like compound in the center of the earth like
• 49:33
  Speaker 8: there is i'm sure And then they're just in a
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: big cement building for the entire rest of the movie.
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: And every scene is lit by one bare light bulb
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: sitting in the center of the room. And they're like,
• 49:46
  Speaker 8: some of them are pretty good sized rooms. And there's
• 49:48
  Speaker 8: like one character kind of by the light bulb. And
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: there's other people on the other side. And I'm like,
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: I don't even know they're in the room at this point.
• 49:55
  Speaker 11: Are you sure it wasn't a dogma film?
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: I don't know, but. I'm just like, really? If you're
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: going to go to all this trouble to get a
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: camera and hire actors? And I mean, wouldn't you want
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: to be able to see a little of what's going on?
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: I don't know. There was there was a lot of
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: issues with. And yeah, it's just basic stuff like, yeah,
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: you might want to.
• 50:14
  Speaker 11: They probably spent all their money on Jake Busey.
• 50:16
  Speaker 9: That's true.
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: He's a name.
• 50:19
  Speaker 11: You got to know where you're going to put the money,
• 50:21
  Speaker 11: you know.
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: Now I just have this image of... I'm sure it
• 50:25
  Speaker 7: was one of those movies where it was just the budget.
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: It was just all interiors. You never saw an image
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: of a machine going.
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: In the ground or anything. Hey, there was some fine
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: CGI work by the end of it. Oh, there's some CGI.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: I can just picture from what you said, Jake Ducey
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: getting into some interior set and then like, oh, hang on,
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: let me get the lights and pulling a chain.
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: From the ceiling.
• 50:48
  Speaker 8: And somebody clicks a flashlight and shines.
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: It on me.
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: It's a state of our technology.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Choo!
• 50:51
  Speaker 9: You know, the whole center of the earth thing, I'm
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: afraid I have to tell a story. You can edit
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: this out.
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: I don't care.
• 50:58
  Speaker 9: But Rick Wakeman from the band Yes back in the
• 51:02
  Speaker 9: 70s had an album, Journey to the Center of the Earth.
• 51:06
  Speaker 9: And I remember it, and I remember hearing it, and
• 51:10
  Speaker 9: it was narrated, but it was all fucked up. And
• 51:13
  Speaker 9: I think it's because he couldn't get rights. But, I
• 51:16
  Speaker 9: don't know, it seems like it'd be public domain, but
• 51:18
  Speaker 9: all the names were fucked up.
• 51:19
  Speaker 13: And it's like, why is it just all wrong?
• 51:22
  Speaker 9: Why is everything wrong?
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: He was wasted. What do you want?
• 51:26
  Speaker 9: But here's the thing. We were talking about VHS tapes.
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: He invested heavily in the world's most obscure musical instrument.
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: Oh, God.
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: I don't know that any of them were ever sold.
• 51:40
  Speaker 9: And he put like half a million dollars into them.
• 51:43
  Speaker 9: And they were based on VHS tapes.
• 51:46
  Speaker 15: Oh, God.
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: I might have heard about this.
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: Oh, wait.
• 51:48
  Speaker 13: No, no, no. They were modified 8-track tapes.
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 51:53
  Speaker 13: That's it.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: That's it.
• 51:56
  Speaker 21: Of course.
• 51:56
  Speaker 9: But it was called the Byrotron, and it was to
• 51:59
  Speaker 9: simulate a Mellotron, which was an impossible thing to take
• 52:04
  Speaker 9: on tour. And it's the thing that they do, like
• 52:06
  Speaker 9: Strawberry Fields.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah.
• 52:11
  Speaker 9: And it just has this endless sustain as an organ.
• 52:14
  Speaker 9: But it was a bitch to take on tour because
• 52:16
  Speaker 9: it was delicate and problematic. And this guy invented one
• 52:22
  Speaker 9: using eight-track tapes that would just have, each tape would
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: just have a tone on it.
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: I think I have heard about this thing.
• 52:30
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 52:31
  Speaker 9: And then he had to mess with it so it
• 52:33
  Speaker 9: didn't turn over. He had to tinker with the thing.
• 52:36
  Speaker 9: And he developed one. and started building them, and Rick
• 52:40
  Speaker 9: Wakeman invested in them, except like somebody else in the
• 52:43
  Speaker 9: band would sometimes take a Loggins and Messina 8-track and
• 52:47
  Speaker 9: pop it in, and he'd be playing, and all of
• 52:49
  Speaker 9: a sudden it would be all fucked up.
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: Damn it. I told you to leave that alone.
• 52:53
  Speaker 9: But yeah, it didn't work out because then everything became
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: digital right then, right on the cusp of this thing
• 53:02
  Speaker 9: going on the market.
• 53:03
  Speaker 8: As he sunk his last dollar into it. Yeah.
• 53:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and so the inventor wound up living in a
• 53:09
  Speaker 9: trailer in Florida, and he didn't.
• 53:11
  Speaker 8: Own one of them.
• 53:13
  Speaker 9: And somebody donated one and gave it to him, and
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: he cried. He hadn't seen one for 20 years, but
• 53:22
  Speaker 9: he put so much work.
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: And effort in this. And it was bigger than his trailer.
• 53:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and there's some song by Yes that you can
• 53:31
  Speaker 9: hear it.
• 53:31
  Speaker 13: It's like the one.
• 53:33
  Speaker 9: moment in music history where you hear this.
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: That's mine, damn it.
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: That's mine.
• 53:40
  Speaker 13: It's a song called Don't Kill the Whale.
• 53:42
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 53:43
  Speaker 9: And, like, right in the middle of.
• 53:45
  Speaker 8: It, there's, like, oh, the 70s.
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: I'm going to have to, like, next time I see
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: my dad, ask him about that song.
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: He'll just watch him geek out.
• 53:54
  Speaker 9: I mean, it's right here in a plumber.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and that's the one place you can hear it. So,
• 54:00
  Speaker 9: You can edit all that out, but I was like,
• 54:03
  Speaker 9: I don't have a lot of geek stuff going on.
• 54:06
  Speaker 13: And Matt was like, oh, well, I know something.
• 54:08
  Speaker 8: I was going to turn it over to you now anyway. Oh, uh-oh.
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: You can continue on with that.
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 54:14
  Speaker 9: Let's see. Have I watched anything? I really don't know.
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: I have to write it down because I forget.
• 54:22
  Speaker 8: It's sad that I've gotten to that point.
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: I'm sort of.
• 54:24
  Speaker 9: Like in a geek crisis because nothing's really like hitting
• 54:29
  Speaker 9: the spot for me. I'm not really finding what I'm
• 54:31
  Speaker 9: looking for. And so, you know, I watch Friends with Kids.
• 54:39
  Speaker 14: What?
• 54:41
  Speaker 7: You know?
• 54:41
  Speaker 8: That's your own fault, really.
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: You watch that with your entire family or just your wife?
• 54:45
  Speaker 13: Just my wife.
• 54:48
  Speaker 8: Your kids have enough sense to avoid that.
• 54:51
  Speaker 13: No, I think my daughter had already seen it. Which
• 54:54
  Speaker 13: movie is that?
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: I feel like there's so many movies.
• 54:55
  Speaker 9: It's the one that came out nine months after Friends
• 54:59
  Speaker 9: with Benefits. I looked it up. Nine months after Friends
• 55:04
  Speaker 9: with Benefits, Friends with Kids.
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: It's just epic planning on their part.
• 55:08
  Speaker 7: I feel like there's a whole cluster. This past year,
• 55:11
  Speaker 7: movies that came out like that were like the poster.
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: It's like some people sitting at a picnic table, like,
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: who wants a wine?
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: It's like a bunch of actors.
• 55:19
  Speaker 7: There's a beach in the background. I feel like there's
• 55:20
  Speaker 7: like six movies, and I can't remember which ones.
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: No, I don't bother to assign.
• 55:25
  Speaker 13: And they're all sort of the same actors.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:27
  Speaker 11: Yeah, well, they did that recently.
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: Okay, they did Two Snow Whites.
• 55:31
  Speaker 14: That always happens. Because, you know what my theory is?
• 55:34
  Speaker 11: Because there's always two movies, like Deep Impact and Armageddon.
• 55:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree.
• 55:39
  Speaker 11: Now, I read about that.
• 55:40
  Speaker 14: And apparently there was a script that was floating around
• 55:42
  Speaker 14: Hollywood that was like a disaster-type film about that. And then,
• 55:46
  Speaker 14: of course, that person got rejected and said, no, we're
• 55:49
  Speaker 14: not going to buy your script. And then they just
• 55:51
  Speaker 14: hire people in each of the companies to write a
• 55:56
  Speaker 14: similar story. So I think a lot of this, they
• 55:59
  Speaker 14: double up. There's just some writer who writes a script,
• 56:02
  Speaker 14: and either it's not good or it is good, but
• 56:04
  Speaker 14: they just want to have it be developed in-house so
• 56:07
  Speaker 14: they don't have to actually spend... money to buy it,
• 56:09
  Speaker 14: and then they just develop the properties.
• 56:12
  Speaker 8: Thank God, because then we get not just Volcano, but
• 56:14
  Speaker 8: also Dante's Peak.
• 56:16
  Speaker 11: Right, right.
• 56:17
  Speaker 8: It's a good thing.
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: That was the first, like, PG-13 movie I saw in
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: the theater.
• 56:24
  Speaker 7: It was too intense. For a long time, my parents
• 56:26
  Speaker 7: did a good job of, like, holding me back from, like, violence.
• 56:29
  Speaker 8: And then what happened?
• 56:30
  Speaker 7: And then, like, they just stopped caring. They just let
• 56:34
  Speaker 7: me watch whatever.
• 56:34
  Speaker 14: The thing about Dante's Peak is, like, First of all,
• 56:38
  Speaker 14: Pierce Brosnan is just the perfect geologist.
• 56:41
  Speaker 11: And secondly, geologists are just natural heroes. You know what
• 56:45
  Speaker 11: I mean?
• 56:45
  Speaker 21: Well, sure.
• 56:45
  Speaker 11: If you think about it.
• 56:46
  Speaker 14: If you're going to cast your perfect action star.
• 56:51
  Speaker 11: Jake Beasley.
• 56:52
  Speaker 14: You're going to want to pick a geologist to save
• 56:56
  Speaker 14: the planet.
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: Sure. That would make sense. Didn't also the horrible Godzilla... like,
• 57:04
  Speaker 7: Raffi Broderick was a geologist.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: Like, that's a comment, like, in, like, the late, like, disaster.
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: By the geologists! We need him to get on this.
• 57:12
  Speaker 8: It's such a.
• 57:12
  Speaker 9: It's like how, for a while, in romantic comedies, the
• 57:15
  Speaker 9: guy was always an architect. That was, like, that was
• 57:19
  Speaker 9: the set.
• 57:20
  Speaker 11: It's still that way.
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: Like, I was going to say, actually, I think I
• 57:23
  Speaker 7: saw Prince of Memphis, I think, like, Justin Timberlake's character.
• 57:27
  Speaker 7: He was an architect. Or, no, he was an ad guy.
• 57:28
  Speaker 8: Well, that's what I was going to say. That or
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: always an advertising agent.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
• 57:32
  Speaker 8: It's one or the other.
• 57:33
  Speaker 7: But that's true. It really is architect.
• 57:36
  Speaker 8: Unlike any of those movies, or even TV shows, there
• 57:38
  Speaker 8: was that run of they just need, eh, it's just
• 57:42
  Speaker 8: sort of a job. It's not really going to play
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: too much into this. Well, the architect, advertising agent.
• 57:48
  Speaker 9: The one that really exploited that was Bewitched, because no
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: matter what crazy magic thing was going on, you could
• 57:54
  Speaker 9: always go, it's an ad campaign.
• 57:57
  Speaker 11: People go, oh.
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: They work that in, I don't know.
• 58:00
  Speaker 9: There's an elephant in your living room and Napoleon is
• 58:04
  Speaker 9: right there.
• 58:05
  Speaker 13: It's an ad campaign.
• 58:07
  Speaker 8: I'm pretty sure most people didn't even realize those ads
• 58:10
  Speaker 8: were going on or put together by somebody until Bewitched
• 58:13
  Speaker 8: came along. And they went, hey, wait, we do have
• 58:15
  Speaker 8: a lot of ads going on right now.
• 58:19
  Speaker 11: One movie I just saw, which.
• 58:21
  Speaker 14: I hadn't seen since it came out was Junior, starring
• 58:25
  Speaker 14: Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• 58:26
  Speaker 7: Very good performance by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• 58:29
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry about that.
• 58:31
  Speaker 14: That's the surprising thing about the film, is that it, A,
• 58:35
  Speaker 14: takes itself fairly seriously. It's directed by Ivan Reitman, so
• 58:41
  Speaker 14: he's a quality director. And Arnold Schwarzenegger actually pulls in.
• 58:46
  Speaker 11: I think it's because....
• 58:49
  Speaker 14: He's so masculine that to, for him to play such
• 58:54
  Speaker 14: a feminine character, the balance is just perfect.
• 58:58
  Speaker 11: You know, and there's so much subtlety going on in
• 59:00
  Speaker 11: his performance.
• 59:01
  Speaker 14: I think it's his best performance of his entire.
• 59:04
  Speaker 12: Wow.
• 59:05
  Speaker 11: His entire work.
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: From inside and he's just like yeah like there's a
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: balance there he just kind of comes off as like
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: a normal dude it's it really is like also in
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: twins like it wasn't that i've been riding as well
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: yeah yeah sorry he was really underrated in that.
• 59:20
  Speaker 14: One too.
• 59:22
  Speaker 8: He still gets so much for that So much shit
• 59:24
  Speaker 8: for those.
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that makes me feel elitist because I think they
• 59:52
  Speaker 9: look like idiots.
• 59:53
  Speaker 8: They do.
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: Your family is always saying, like, let's all wear the
• 59:57
  Speaker 5: same color today. And they're, like, they're wet cats right now.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah doesn't that make it just so much more cozy
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 9: i'm gonna go get some other.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: Some more nice warm coffee and yeah.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah it's like the old timey christmas movie where like
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: some sad you know person down his luck looks in
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: the display window like a restaurant it's snowing.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 9: And there's something oh man I was in Indianapolis a
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 9: couple of weeks ago, and they tried to set the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: Zumba world record. They had this huge crowd. I was
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 9: just walking around killing time while my daughter was at
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 9: a college thing, and they had this huge crowd out
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 9: in 100-degree heat.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 13: And they're all doing Zumba.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 9: In Indianapolis of all places. I have a short film
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 9: of it.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: I'm there, like, you can see it behind me.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 9: And I'm like, and I take a nap.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 13: And it's heaven.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 9: Because in heaven, you will find a cool bit of
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 9: shade and take a nap while people are trying to
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 9: set a world record for exercise in the hot sun.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 9: It just made it feel so good that they were
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 9: out there doing whatever that is. I don't know what
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 9: it is.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 8: That's not my heaven. Not in my heaven. There'll be
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 8: no Zumba damage.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 9: I've never heard of it before, and all of a
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 9: sudden I'm surrounded with crazy people doing it.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: I'm still thoroughly convinced it's a toy for a toddler.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 9: I thought it was like one of those vacuum cleaners
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 9: that went around by itself.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 13: But it was faster than a Roomba.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 8: Listen, the upgrade model.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 9: Oh, and I guess this is geeky.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 13: I wrote a segue.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 9: Have you ever written a segue?
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 11: I have in a play.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 9: Holy cow.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 14: It was Electra. It was a sort of strange, modern
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 14: reimagining of Electra.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 11: And the queen is on a segue in that one.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 11: So I just wrote it around. It's pretty fun.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 8: This was Starlight Express.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 11: I wasn't the queen, but backstage, everyone had to go live.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 11: So do you think this is a.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 5: Good investment, the segway? Should we all have segways?
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 9: The guy told me there were like 4,000 used. And
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 9: I'm like seriously thinking about it because it was so fun. Well,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 9: the thing that made it so magical is we were
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 9: at where my daughter's going to go to college. Like
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 9: in back of her area building, there's just like this
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 9: big empty parking lot and there's nothing. But it turns
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 9: out we went to this park she wanted to see,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 9: like White River Park. And we're walking around in it
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 9: and we go to this cafe at the museum and
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 9: there's canals and gondolas. And I look over and it's like,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 9: isn't that your building over there?
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: How did we get here?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 9: And it's like right there. And you can't see it
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 9: from where she's going to be going to college every day.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 9: There's this whole vast natural cheat date romance preserve back there.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: I'm sure all the freshmen knew about it.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 7: They never mentioned it to us.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 20: We've been on tours of this school and looked around.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 20: They don't say, oh, yeah, well, there's the law building
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 20: in the library. There's parking over here. And there's a
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 20: magical fucking kingdom.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 8: Over there you might like.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 13: Nobody mentioned it.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 8: And we go through it on segways. This really should
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 8: be in the brochure.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 14: Maybe it's over at an Indian burial ground or something.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 13: It's something crazy.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 9: And so then I go back to the building and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 9: I look over there and there's like a parking lot.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: And you can't see.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 13: You cannot see it.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 9: And you walk up to this ledge and look down.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 9: And down, there's a canal. And it's thriving with people
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 9: doing stuff.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 13: Then you get back like 20 feet.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: There's nothing.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 9: It looks like an industrial site.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 13: It's bizarre.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 11: The best things in life have to be hidden.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 14: I guess.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 11: Because you've got to be the one to seek it.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 8: Like Nazis at the center of the earth.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 7: Nazis at the center of the earth. The best things
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 7: in life.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 8: Are Nazis at the center of the earth.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 9: I saw that movie, Friends with Kids, and it was
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 9: like somebody trying to do one of those, like a
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 9: Judd Apatow. And your guy at Wild and Wooly told me,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 9: He really liked the movie.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 8: That bastard.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 7: Ben was raving about it.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 9: But I noticed he didn't put his little Creech likes this.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: He's very specific.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 9: So what does that mean?
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 9: He liked it enough to tell me he liked it,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 9: but not enough to commit.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 7: I've learned the difference between Ben.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: Like the other workers there, like, they'll, I think the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: other workers, like, they'll just, like, if they like it,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: they'll just, like, oh, yeah, I'll put a sticker, like, Ben,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: he's very, just.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 7: Like, he puts a lot of thought, even if he
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 7: likes me, I won't be able to deserve a sticker, like,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 7: it has to be special, right?
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's his criterion collection.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: Exactly, like, me and him, like, we bond, like, bonded
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: over our love for the movie Drive, and, like, if
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: you go there, like, there's, like, three creeps.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 7: Like, in the movie Drive, and, like, yes!
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 8: You'll notice he also disappeared after that. He told you
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 8: to watch that movie and skip town.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, it was really okay. It had some
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 9: funny parts, and there are a lot of good actors.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 9: But it was like I suspected. And it's interesting to
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 9: watch a movie like that because it's calculated for... It
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 9: kind of tells you something about the culture, at least
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 9: what somebody thinks popular culture is at this moment.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 8: Those are interesting, because it's weird when you're living in them,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 8: but when we go back and watch these movies from
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 8: the 60s and the 70s and even the 80s, where
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 8: it's a very different thing because you can see what
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 8: they're doing and you see all the strings that were
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 8: at work then that you aren't always as aware of
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 8: when it's a current movie.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and I didn't really feel that aware of it
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 9: as the movie was going along, but then right after
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 9: it's over I look back and it's like, oh, that's just,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 9: they think people want to see something that's smutty but heartwarming.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 9: And also you just know where the movie is going
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 9: as soon as they set it up. You can't look
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 9: the other way and not see how it's.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 13: Going to end.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: It's all right.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 9: But it seems calculated. Also, the woman in it is
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 9: just creepy.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 7: Is it Megan Fox?
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 10: It's a woman that's been dating for 20 years, Don
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 10: Draper from Batman.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 9: Is it?
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: I think that's who you mean.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 9: Really? She's like an actress you haven't seen. Why would
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 9: he be dating her?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he is.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 7: Okay, yes, that's her. And she wrote and directed it. Yes,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 7: that's her. She was in Kissing Jessica Stein or something
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 7: like that.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 8: I actually saw that, yeah.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I couldn't get around her. She's just... creepy there's
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 9: something about her.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 5: That's who Don Draper really is.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: Oh boy oh my god look it up it's been
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: like 20.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 9: Years oh man I wouldn't even do.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 16: Her not even a one time and I'm easy as
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 16: hell I've always thought that Jennifer Westfeld really Don Draper
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 16: well what's.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: His real name Ham.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 9: Something Ham John Ham yeah this is her There's just
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 9: something reptilian about her.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 7: Is this.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 9: And, I mean, I'm sure she's a really nice person,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 9: and if I knew her, I could.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 7: Oh, wait, that's not the... Oh, okay, no. I thought
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 7: that was the.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 9: Girl who's on.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 7: I don't know her name.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: She's on Lost.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: But it's full of, like, the characters on the show
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: just make the weirdest faces, and, like, Julia, like, every
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: time she shows up, she's.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 7: Like, we have to get off this island.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 9: Like, Julia's near.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 7: Her eyebrows are really.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 11: Like, concerned.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 9: Well, that's the vibe I get from her. It's like
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 9: she's had a lot of surgery or something. There's something creepy.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 11: And I don't know.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 9: And I mean, I'll sleep with anyone, but I wouldn't
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 9: do her.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 8: Well, see, it's weird because she's the lead in Kissing
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 8: Jessica Stein, isn't she?
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 9: I knew she got the part by sleeping with the director,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 9: which she must have because it's her.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 8: I remember seeing that they were, they were doing some
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 8: sort of like showing of that movie at the theater.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 8: And I ended up just ended. I had no idea
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 8: what it was and end up going to it and
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 8: it's like that was probably the main hurdle it's like
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 8: I think they were using the gimmick of some sort
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 8: of weird lesbian thing and they thought that was gonna
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 8: rope people in but I'm like that's not really the
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 8: issue with this is her like she's just not Like,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 8: even in that, there's this weird block where you're just like, yeah,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 8: see where the story's going, but I'm kind of not
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 8: on board with her, and I don't even know specifically
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 8: what it was. So it's funny, that was when it
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 8: first came out.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 8: That was a long time ago, and I still had
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 8: that exact same reaction to her.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 13: Yeah, and the guy is great, the guy from Party Down.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: Oh. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 9: Parks and Rec guy. Yeah.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 7: Really funny.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 9: And he's great for that because he's like... good-looking, but
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 9: in a way that looks sort of normal.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: Maybe his nose is a little big.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 13: He has a small mouth.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 9: Like, a proportion doesn't really work.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 8: Well, it throws it off when he wears those shoes.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 8: I draw from life a lot. And I do portraits.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 13: I'm looking at him, and he doesn't fit together.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 9: His hair is too big for his head. And on
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 9: Party Down, he wears those little shirts.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 8: I was going to ask, does he at least wear
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 8: a normal-sized shirt in this thing?
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 9: It's like he's aware of it, and he's playing with it.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 9: And even in the movie, at some point, he talks
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 9: about his nose. From some angles, I think it's okay,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 9: but then other times, it's like, Wow, they wrote it
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 9: for him.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 9: Adam Scott.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 13: But he's really.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 8: I really like Adam Scott.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 9: He's really charming.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 13: And he's really good.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 9: And a lot of people in the movie are good.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 9: It just winds up, it feels calculated. And then there's
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 9: the her issue. That she's just not warm. She's not likable.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 13: She's scary.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 7: I feel like those movies, like those... I don't know,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 7: I guess like you said, like that kind of a
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 7: knockoff epitaph or like the.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: Like you don't like it's too serious to be like
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: kind of an apatow genre but it's like a bunch
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: of friends like eating dinner like it's yeah like I
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: said the cover is then at a picnic table going hey.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 7: Wine glasses yeah and like.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: I was like I feel like those are like always
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: just weirdly miscast and a lot of the performances.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 7: Are kind of forced but there's usually one or two.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: People who are really good yeah but well maybe they
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: like when they get the scripts they themselves aren't taking
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: it too seriously so that might be part of their performance.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 7: There is phoning in.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 9: I think they did really pretty well, but the writing
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 9: and just the storytelling is like so calculated you can't
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 9: get over it. Because it's basically people are trying to
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 9: do something different from traditional relationships. And in the end,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 9: they'll find out what they really wanted all along. It's like,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 9: you know, that make a porno movie.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 14: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like that.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 9: Except it's calculated for, I don't know.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 4: It's like the ending of all those movies is always,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: it's like they're saying, it's like, oh, that's life, isn't it?
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: You know, like, the so-and-so doesn't.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 4: Get together, and they stay with, you know, it's so-and-so relationship,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: and it's, I don't know.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 8: Well, that just sucks.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 22: I still need to see it, though, just because I
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 22: can't remember which poster.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm trying to think. All I can think of
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 8: is that newer one that just had J-Lo and all
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 8: the girls getting pregnant.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 13: Oh, and that guy in it.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 9: It sounds just like that movie.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it sounds exactly like that movie.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, I think that's the better version.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: There needs to be a generic, like I said, the
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: sci-fi original knockoff.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 7: Just, like, Transmorphers, like, New York Friends.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 8: Well, is this the category for the, like, you know.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: It has Velociraptors thrown in for good measure.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 8: Thriller with a strong female lead. This will be, like,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 8: New York Friends. Snarky.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 9: Well, didn't they do that? They did that with Friends
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 9: with Benefits, and.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 13: Then they did the other one.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 7: The Natalie Portman one.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Which I actually saw.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 8: I saw them both, and.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 7: I actually thought.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: I thought the Natalie Portman one would be the better one,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 4: but actually the Mila Kunis just seemed like it was better.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 9: Because you can.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 13: The Black Swan cast.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 8: You guys split up and do the same movie get
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 8: on it and it's because Mila Kunis is completely believable
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 8: being like sexual and Natalie Portman.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 9: Isn't she just doesn't seem like she wants to share
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 9: that aspect of herself with an audience well I don't
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 9: know I really don't know but you.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 22: Know mila you just totally believe it you know yeah
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 22: she seems comfortable but uh natalie portman whenever she goes
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 22: that's sexy you just don't.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 9: Believe it it's like what is she looking at a
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 9: salad what is she talking about i guess.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 14: A little too classy seems to be the performance is
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 14: uh It's when she does the rap video for SNL.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 8: Oh, that's her finest moment. Maybe she needs to play.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 11: A really angry character. I don't know. She kind of
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 11: pulled that one off.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 9: I thought she was just playing brilliant in The Professional.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 9: It's like my favorite thing she ever did.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: She was.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 9: Oh, my God. What a good movie.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 8: That's so good.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 7: That's definitely Luc Besson. He knows his best.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 8: That just sets up your career, though. When you're that
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 8: damn good, that young.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 7: It's just like, oh, shit.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 8: Now you've got to go make freaking Star Wars movies.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 9: I want somebody to tell me something like that I
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 9: can watch.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 4: It's one of those really iconic performances by a kid
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 4: in a movie, like the kid in E.T.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 7: That are just like, wow.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 11: That was an act.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 5: They were the characters.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 9: That's one of my favorite badass action picture things ever.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 8: Well, it's everything about it. That's another one of those.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 8: Gary Oldman is amazing in that movie.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 9: Everything about that movie was so good.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 13: It's awesome.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 10: You're saying they were better than Daniel Radcliffe in the
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 10: first Harry Potter?
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 5: That's my ultimate hit performance.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 8: That whole cast thing.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 9: They were all good when they were babies.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 8: That's what I was going to say.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 9: You go back and watch them when they were little.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 9: That's amazing.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 7: That's one thing that's amazing about the Harry Potter movies.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 7: You watch an.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: Entire cast grow up on screen.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 5: With the best adult actors possible.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 7: It's almost like a documentary. If you just watch them
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 7: all together, it's weird.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but like I was going to say, the first
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: area part would be like, I'd have to actually go
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 4: back and watch it with the sound on. Because I've
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: watched it a bunch of times, but it's been the
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 4: Dear Eater Wizard people, like audio.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 7: I don't know if you all watched.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: It where that guy was.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 9: You can download it on the internet.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 7: This guy named Brad Neely, he's a genius, I think.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 7: He's hilarious.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 4: He did this audio commentary where he narrates the entire movie.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 7: And this voice where he talks like this, and just.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 11: Over and over. Oh, I think I've heard of that.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and me and my friends, we make a tradition
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 4: where we watch it every New Year's with that audio.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 8: We just watch the first Harry Potter on mute.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 4: And it's so hilarious because of the timing. Because his
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: mean cousin or whatever.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 7: right.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 23: Dudley yeah Dudley the narrator guy who calls his character
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 23: beefy weepy and like the scene where like there's a
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 23: scene where he like pops in into the house and
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 23: he has like a ragtime hat on for whatever reason
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 23: and right when that happens like Brad Neely just goes.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 12: Then ragtime beefy weepy jumped in like.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 7: You see him come in with like a ragtime hat
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 7: and it's just.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 8: So funny people have a lot of time on their
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 8: hands yeah I was.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 7: Gonna say like recorded the whole thing non-stop.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 14: My sister and I used to love to just turn
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 14: whatever station we were watching, just turn it on mute
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 14: and do the voices for the characters.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 7: It's so much fun just talking over a movie. I
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 7: think we did that last movie I had a blast with.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 15: That was Melancholia.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: It's a good movie, but we were just trashing it
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 4: the whole time and just talking stupid voices.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 7: We made a happy movie. We made a happy movie.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: That was the main goal, was just to have a
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: good time watching a Lars von Trier movie. Because it
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 4: was a bunch of people, and if you're just with
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 4: a group of friends, it becomes dead silent.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 7: Watching a Lars von Trier movie.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of kills the mood, so we just kind of
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  Speaker 4: turned it down and just drank beers and made fun
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  Speaker 4: of it.
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  Speaker 10: You should do that with the movie I just saw, Shame.
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  Speaker 7: Shame would be.
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  Speaker 8: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Shame is like one of the most bummer movies ever.
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  Speaker 4: If someone just like, get the mystery science theater guys
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 4: on that and see what they do with it.
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  Speaker 8: It's funny how mainstream that's become now. Like, not just,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 8: I mean, they were doing it forever, and then, like, again,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 8: now both halves of that show are still doing it,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 8: but now, like, there's so many cities now where they're
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 8: doing live versions of that, where they just have whoever
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 8: puts it together gets up there and gets on a
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 8: mic and just kind of makes fun of it.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 7: Like, talking over movies. It's great.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 8: It's interesting that it caught on.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 11: They're generally better than the movies themselves.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 7: Exactly. That's the thing. They always watch horrible B-movies that
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 7: you've never heard of.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 5: But do movies take themselves too seriously? Like, what did
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 5: we see in Austin when we were filming your film?
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: We saw Total Rico.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 7: They were doing that?
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 7: Total Rico does have some funny... The original?
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 11: The original. I had no idea what it was.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 5: There was like a sing-along part, a drinking part.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 11: Yeah, they were like.
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  Speaker 9: So, my kid is turning 16 in a couple of days,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 9: and he has a girlfriend now.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 7: Uh-oh.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 9: And the other night, they're getting to know each other's movies, Uh-oh.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 9: And she had never seen Pulp Fiction. And he had
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 9: never seen Phantom of the Opera.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 8: Which version?
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 13: Well, she's a singer.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 9: And it was the movie when they were on long
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 9: car trips they would watch because it went on forever.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 9: So they watch both of them, and I'm in the
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 9: room in and out, and they're sort of curled up together.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 9: on the couch and watching these movies and apparently both
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 9: of them are equally hilarious to the wrong person that's
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 9: great no to her she's watching pulp fiction and laughing
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 9: like every few minutes he's over.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 13: There muttering some this.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 9: And she's laughing yeah.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 7: That movie's a blast.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 9: Well, but then also in places she makes noises like
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 9: my daughter does when she watches an intense movie. But
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 9: it was just funny how both of them became the
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 9: same movie. Phantom of the Opera and Pulp Fiction.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 9: Because they're like boyfriend and girlfriend and they're muttering to
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 9: each other.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 10: To her, probably the experience was about cuddling and they
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 10: were just like images playing on the screen and.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 5: That's how she acts.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 9: I think they actually followed them, the logic of the movies,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 9: and just overhearing Pulp Fiction again, sort of halfway watching it,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 9: I never really did know how good the writing was,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 9: but writing is really good.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 8: It's go ahead oh okay okay.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 9: So what you need to do is watch pulp fiction
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 9: and the professional right back to back yeah that's really
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 9: that would be a fun double wheeler yeah remember on
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 9: vhs tapes you do double features i'll put this one
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 9: on with that yeah.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 8: That is quite a double B.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 4: Which one would I show first?
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 9: I'm a person.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 7: That's showing it too. It's great. I geek out about that.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 7: Do what?
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 9: Oh, it's so much fun.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 8: Probably him.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 5: It's a good lead up movie.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 7: Pulp Fiction is just.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: Like aggressive, outrageous, just crazy all from the beginning to
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: the end.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 7: Professional is more of a I wouldn't say slow burn.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 9: But it unfolds.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 4: It's subdued style, and then it has a really awesome
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 4: action climax.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Wow, I wish I had something like that to
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 9: look forward to.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 9: That's what I've been looking for.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 7: Friends with Herpes Part 2.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 9: Exactly.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 9: Friends with Herpes.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 8: Coming next summer.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 7: Just for the boldness of.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 6: The title, I'm like, wow.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 9: Have you been watching Breaking?
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 7: I wish I had.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 14: Really?
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 9: Should I do that?
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a good question. Should I do that?
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 5: I'm like a butterfly. I don't like violence. I've never
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 5: had a dream with blood in it.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 10: The fact that I like a TV show about a
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 10: drug cartel that's ridiculously violent just means that it must
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 10: be really good.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 7: I have not met one person who does not love it. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 7: I've seen three episodes, and it's been a long time.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 9: But now I'm scared to watch it, because if I
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 9: don't like it, I'm going to feel so alienated from
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 9: my fellow humans.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 8: They won't want to talk to you.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 11: You've got to give it its course.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 14: Some people don't like the first season as much, but
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 14: they really like from the second season on.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 9: I loved The Wire, but the first season seemed a little, like,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 9: cop show conventional to me.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 7: I hadn't seen that.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 13: But then you get into it, and it's like heroin.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. It's like The Wire.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 4: People think it's going to... You can't tell a person
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: who's like, oh, yeah, I love this character. Well, then
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 4: you'll love The Wire, because The Wire is more of
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: like a... It's... it's awesome but it creeps up on
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: you like in a weird like in a slower way
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 4: like you can't walk immediately like Sopranos or something you
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 4: know there's like a hit on every other scene there's
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 4: something intense going on with The Wire it's like more
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: gritty and kind of a documentary style.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 9: You get to know the people I can see someone.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 7: Like if I were to show my friend like the.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 4: First season they'd be like this is just keep watching
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: it's just it's amazing.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 8: Well, I guess we can round this one out. Has
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 8: everybody gotten to an essential geek activity or a movie
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 8: they wanted to talk about?
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: I just want to say, like, I haven't seen anything new,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 4: but I just have been re-watching this past week.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 7: Just movies I already love. Like, I re-watched Blue Velvet, which.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: I'm convinced, the more I watch that, the more I'm
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 4: convinced that that is, like, I put it in, like,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: this category, just where I think it's just, like, perfect movies.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 8: It's pretty damn perfect, yeah.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: It's like, it would go along with like, there's Jaws,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: I think that's like a perfect movie.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: Hook?
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 8: Okay, yes, that's the opposite.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 7: I would say yes to that. I grew up on those, so.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 8: I thought we were setting the standards. Okay, we've got
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 8: Blue Velvet on this end, and then Hook over here.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: Like Jaws, Raiders, E.T., like just, and also I would
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 4: throw in Pan's Labyrinth for me. And also Blue Velvet,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: because all those movies just have this amazing efficiency of storytelling.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 4: There's not a wasted scene or bit of dialogue.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 7: I don't know. I can't imagine.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 4: Usually when I see a movie, I'm like, that was awesome,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: but what if this had happened? And I just don't
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: do that with these movies.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 8: It's great. That one, in re-watching it, I think that
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 8: is such the perfect mixture of Lynch. Because he gets...
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 8: I mean, he started off really weird. He's gotten old
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 8: and weird. But there's this weird middle crossover where it's
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 8: just enough of his weirdness. It's just enough conventional story.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 8: It's just enough of everything. And these amazing performances that
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 8: it all... That's the pinnacle of Lynch right there.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 9: What I think it is, is it's almost like he's
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 9: mating with a Coen brother.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 13: There's something tied about it.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 11: It's much.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, much more controlled than his other crazy stuff.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 9: It's like his style, but with that kind of focus
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 9: and construction.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 4: And also maybe No Country for Old Men.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 7: I thought that was a good one too.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 5: I didn't like that one because.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 7: There weren't a lot of colors in it.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 5: I don't like Oscar films.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 7: There's no colors.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 9: I get sleepy.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 11: I'm not even kidding.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 7: I can see that. It's just like.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 11: Everything's the desert.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 9: Saving Private Ryan. Everything's sort of faded.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it has that.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 4: Saturated, kind of washed.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 9: The thing I hate about Saving Private Ryan is I
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 9: see it quoted so often.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 8: You say that I never see it maybe I'm just
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 8: not recognizing it.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: Like friends not heated but like just debates about like
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 4: I about the Thin Red Line versus Saving Private Ryan
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 4: and while they're like how could you ever think that
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 4: Thin Red Line is a better movie I'm like because
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: it is like I just it's I mean Saving Private
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: Ryan like I look at as if like as if
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 4: it's a from an action standpoint it's kind of amazing
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: like it's just more of a visceral kind of.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 7: I don't know noisy thing but And.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 4: It's, like, just, it's well-directed and everything, but just, like,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: shot for shot, I guess, I'd just rather look at
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 4: Red Lion or just any Malek movie.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 11: The opening to Saving Private Ryan, if you just.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 7: You have to, the opening is amazing.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 8: It's like its own thing. It's its own short film.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you could have just released that as a short film.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 8: Because it's amazing.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 14: The soldiers who stormed the beach, they had to leave.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 11: They were like, this is giving me.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 8: It's too real.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 9: One of those guys lives across the street from me.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 9: He's one of the guys who actually made it. Well,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 9: he wasn't in that first wave. He came up in
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 9: the artillery that was running sort of behind.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 8: Climbing over the dead bodies of the first wave.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but he was there and he went
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 9: all the way to the crow's nest. Aren't that many
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 9: of those guys around?
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 9: He almost fell on my steps one day and I'm like,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 9: to make it through all that, be careful.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 8: Tie on my front lawn. That was the point. It's
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 8: not funny.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: To see that kind of intensity, that kind of carnage
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 4: like filmed it like with a you know war movie
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 4: like that i can't think of.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 7: Another war movie like i feel like he started.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 4: Like a whole new way of looking at war movies
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: like black hawk down and everything that we.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 21: Get now it was a game-changing kind of thing i
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 21: would say it's a game yeah that was one of
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 21: the first times that in a sort of action sequence
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 21: that he was mainly handheld cameras and it had that
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 21: documentary yeah yeah cinema verite feel to it.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 8: Which now we get way, way too much of. But
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 8: at the time, it was groundbreaking. Yeah, it's very amazing
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 8: to think about, especially at that point when we hadn't
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 8: seen that before. All right, anything else for this one?
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 8: I will attempt to do this. I haven't done it
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 8: in a long time because my own crew was kind
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 8: of slacking, so maybe I can throw it to you guys.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 8: I'm going to say something here, and we're going to
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 8: need a big fanfare. You seem like a fanfare kind
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 8: of girl, Rose.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 9: Come on now. Can you do fanfare? What does that mean?
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 13: Noises.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 7: Off.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 9: Uh trumpets uh.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 10: Trumpets i gotta do this on my own why don't
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 10: we have like an orchestra it's like whoa okay you
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 10: do it.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 9: You can you and i sang in harmony once.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 8: That one was good and then since then you guys
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 8: just started slacking yeah we did all right i'm gonna
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 8: say it and then i'll throw it to you guys
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 8: see what you come up with okay kids get out
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 8: your decoder pins
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 8: That's what I want. That's
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 8: what I want every week, guys.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 13: Man, that was the best ever.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 13: Did y'all plan this? That was amazing.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 7: I would be like, uh.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 13: You got to say.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: The woman, male, like, you know, like different tones.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 9: I tried to do that with Greg, but I wasn't
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 9: sure which one to pick.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 8: We both picked the low.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 7: Every week.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 8: Oddly enough, they both picked the high. Very strange.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: Set your pins to V2. Here is the message.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 8: With that, it is time for the Movie Meltdown Secret
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 8: Circle reveal of the next exciting feature. And it will
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 8: be pretty exciting.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 14: Sure.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we're all trying to figure out what to do
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 8: with this movie. So next week, we will be back
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 8: And we will be discussing Bronson. And if you've experienced Bronson,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 8: if not, go watch it now. We're giving you the
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 8: heads up now. If you haven't seen it, it's something
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 8: you probably need to see. So, get on it. Otherwise,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 8: that about does it. We will return next week. Same
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 8: geek time, same geek feed. Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 18: If you take vision through it all that much If
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 18: you reason with destiny Don't I lose my touch, don't
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 18: kill the dream.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 5: Rejoice, they sing, they worship, they're.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 8: All the space.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 5: In a moment of love, they will.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 4: Die for the grace.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 7: Don't kill the whale.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 18: If time will allow, we will get to the game.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 18: In the wake of our new age, just die for
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 18: the grail. Don't kill the whale.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, man, I wouldn't even do.
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  Speaker 7: Her.
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  Speaker 13: And I'm easy as hell.
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