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99: I Don't Wanna Grow Up · Movie Meltdown

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  Speaker 1: The following feature has been rated R by the Motion
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  Speaker 1: Picture Association of America. It is intended for mature audiences
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  Speaker 1: and parental discretion is advised.
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  Speaker 2: It's showtime, folks.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy the show. This is Dan Eckman, you're listening to
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  Speaker 3: Movie Meltdown, and keep kicking ass, guys!
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  Speaker 2: It's time for Sofa Theater.
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  Speaker 4: Jason, Jason, come quick! There's a mystery afoot!
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  Speaker 5: Somebody stuck their fingers in Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Kimmel's pie!
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  Speaker 1: What kind of pie, Jamie?
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  Speaker 4: Poisonberry!
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  Speaker 5: Duncan, come in, Duncan.
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  Speaker 6: Duncan here.
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  Speaker 1: We got a code 484 at Mrs. Kimmel's house.
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  Speaker 2: Affirmative.
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  Speaker 4: Charlie, come in, Charlie.
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  Speaker 3: Code 484 at Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Kimmel's house.
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  Speaker 7: I'm on it.
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  Speaker 4: Still warm.
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  Speaker 8: That means it was hot when someone stuck their finger
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  Speaker 8: in there.
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  Speaker 9: There's only one kid crooked enough to do this, but
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  Speaker 9: young enough not to know it would burn you.
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  Speaker 5: Joshua McDonald. Eric McDonald.
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  Speaker 4: And we know his spot. Yeah, yes I'm on top.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going this hard and no I won't stop. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: yes I'm on top.
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  Speaker 9: I'm going this hard and no I won't stop.
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  Speaker 4: She say, what's up? Let me hear you holler, bitch. Actor, writer, rapper.
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  Speaker 9: Nigga, I do all of it. Lactose tolerant, addicted to cheddar.
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  Speaker 9: And I spend it on a jacket, man.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know no better. Yeah, it's childish.
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  Speaker 9: Can't be no, yeah, I'm fly as a feather. Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: my nigga a piece of bourbon, but my flow keep
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  Speaker 9: it ghetto. Keep my swag up all the more. You
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  Speaker 9: can watch it develop.
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  Speaker 4: Ain't it funny? In a year, I went from different
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  Speaker 4: to Welcome.
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  Speaker 9: To Movie Meltdown Sofa Theater.
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  Speaker 4: Once again, I'm.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm Brian.
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  Speaker 6: I like to skateboard. And I'm Greg.
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  Speaker 8: If you know Derek comedy, you'll get that joke.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, this week's Sofa Theater feature is Mystery Team.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 5: The year is 2009. Director Dan Ekman. The plot, according
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  Speaker 5: to IMDb, and once again, they go straight for the
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  Speaker 5: most identifiable source. A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child
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  Speaker 5: detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
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  Speaker 8: So, spoiler alert if you haven't seen Mystery Team.
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  Speaker 2: Mystery Team.
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  Speaker 5: Because we're going to go into some of the best jokes. So,
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  Speaker 5: I'd advise you right now, go see it. Especially if
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  Speaker 5: you're a comedy fan.
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  Speaker 8: Because, yeah, it's pretty damned awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I realized after the fact I probably should have been
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  Speaker 6: writing down some of the one-liners.
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  Speaker 5: There's too many to keep up with.
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  Speaker 2: There's too many.
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  Speaker 8: If you want that, just get the screenplay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Because, oh, every line.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Where would you like to begin?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I came into this completely blind. I'd heard about it.
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  Speaker 6: A friend recommended it at a former place of employment
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  Speaker 6: recently and didn't know I was even going to be
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  Speaker 6: watching it until a few days ago. So, yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: came into it completely blind, didn't know much about any
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  Speaker 6: of it. So, therefore... This completely took me off guard.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was a comedy.
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  Speaker 6: I had read the IMDB description. Who knows? It could
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  Speaker 6: have been a horror movie starring Danny Glover. Who knows?
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  Speaker 6: Based on some of their... But anyway, yeah, no. Definitely
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  Speaker 6: a comedy.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I would say.
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  Speaker 5: I was asking you earlier if you were familiar with
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  Speaker 5: Derek comedy, which is where they came from. This is
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  Speaker 5: basically the the complete realization of the rest of their
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  Speaker 5: existence up to this point. They started as Sketch Comedy Troop,
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  Speaker 5: and I think they were all going to, like, New
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  Speaker 5: York University. And the reason most people wouldn't know who
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  Speaker 5: they are, they started doing, like, the video version. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I guess Sketch Comedy is, you know, moving into the
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  Speaker 5: new millennium here, so basically all of it became YouTube videos.
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  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: So at that point, I mean, they had a whole
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  Speaker 5: string of Derek Comedy Presents YouTube videos that got millions
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  Speaker 5: of hits. There's one or two that are just pretty
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  Speaker 5: damned amazing and did get a ton of hits over
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  Speaker 5: the years. They sort of built up their reputation like that,
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  Speaker 5: and that's all they'd done outside of... I mean, they
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  Speaker 5: all sort of did independent stuff on their own, especially
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  Speaker 5: our main guy here.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I know that I've recognized them all, and
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  Speaker 6: I've probably even seen some of their stuff online. You
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  Speaker 6: see so much, but I never paid attention to where
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  Speaker 6: it was coming from or who it was.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, a lot of it, yeah, it's... definitely stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Most people had seen some version of, um, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: they just put it out as their own thing, but
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  Speaker 5: then they, I think they ended up on, I think
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  Speaker 5: what the funny or die had a lot of their,
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  Speaker 5: that carried just about all of them, I think. So
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  Speaker 5: it's definitely one that people ran across. And, uh, I
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  Speaker 5: think it did build up a lot of the reputation,
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  Speaker 5: especially Donald Glover. Donald Glover is, is sort of the
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  Speaker 5: main star here. And, and it's, you know, it's a trio,
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  Speaker 5: but he, he sort of steals the spotlight if nothing else.
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  Speaker 8: And, uh, He's pretty damned amazing. To me, he makes
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  Speaker 8: this movie.
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  Speaker 5: The other two are awesome and definitely find their place
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  Speaker 5: within the movie, but he's amazing to watch. It is
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  Speaker 5: amazing that he started just making YouTube videos and within
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  Speaker 5: the span of a couple years was writing for 30
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  Speaker 5: Rock and now stars on Community with Chevy Chase and
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  Speaker 5: all all these other people on a network TV show.
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  Speaker 5: So in such a small amount of time, he's built
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  Speaker 5: up this pretty damn impressive career. And you obviously couldn't
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  Speaker 5: do that without being immensely talented, which he really is,
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  Speaker 5: especially when it comes to comedy. But just in general,
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  Speaker 5: he's pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I was going to say. When you were
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  Speaker 6: listing the description of how he got where he is,
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  Speaker 6: that's the one thing that was coming to mind. And
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  Speaker 6: you just said that talented people who find a way
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  Speaker 6: cream rises to the top i guess is the cliche
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  Speaker 6: but yeah they find a way uh to shine and
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  Speaker 6: people notice it that's all there is to.
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  Speaker 5: It it's yeah i mean it it does show you
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  Speaker 5: really it has changed the whole system at this point
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  Speaker 5: that you can go from youtube videos and you know
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  Speaker 5: next thing you know you've got your own network show
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  Speaker 5: so yeah it's it's pretty amazing how the the business
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  Speaker 5: has changed in just the last couple of decades it's
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  Speaker 5: phenomenally different.
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  Speaker 6: Right um you know you say that i i don't
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  Speaker 6: know his his background i don't know if he's like
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  Speaker 6: formal training or anything like that right and i don't
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  Speaker 6: even know how versed you are on it but i
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  Speaker 6: guess i guess you think that there may be people
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  Speaker 6: out there that just purely are talented and get it
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  Speaker 6: and may i think before you had to have had
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  Speaker 6: that you got to put in your time with a
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  Speaker 6: you know an improv group and you've got to spend
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  Speaker 6: years on stage not making any money and you know
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  Speaker 6: now it you if you're good, you're good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: That may completely have changed by now.
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  Speaker 5: I think all of them were, were sort of good
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  Speaker 5: in their own right. I guess as far as training, they,
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  Speaker 5: they did kind of catch on at a upright citizens brigade,
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  Speaker 5: the theater that's there in New York. And I think
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  Speaker 5: that's where they did a lot of their training. But again,
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  Speaker 5: it's funny to watch. I mean, half of the stuff
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  Speaker 5: that comes into play in this movie, you see like
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  Speaker 5: in its infancy in, you know, stuff they've been doing on,
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  Speaker 5: on the other skits over the years, especially with him.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the joke of half of his is him
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  Speaker 5: doing these crazy characters and voices.
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  Speaker 8: So the fact that they make him this, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, master of disguise where every 10 minutes he's pretending
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  Speaker 5: to be another character sort of works in as its
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  Speaker 5: own joke.
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  Speaker 8: If you're familiar with, familiar with it, with Derek comedy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And it stands alone with, even without that, it stands alone.
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  Speaker 6: I'd wonder when you mentioned a upper citizens brigade, I
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  Speaker 6: know Matt Walsh, that's kind of got a cameo in
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  Speaker 6: it as Derek, Jim from the.
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  Speaker 2: The cowboy.
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  Speaker 6: Right, the cowboy. And then was Geordie the.
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  Speaker 6: Was he Upright Citizen Brigade as well? I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 6: that's where he originated from.
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  Speaker 8: He's part of the third group.
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  Speaker 5: They were saying he's the only other one that that
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  Speaker 5: role was written for, other than the three main leads.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody else they brought in because they were their friends
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  Speaker 5: or they were just good actors, but they wrote the
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  Speaker 5: Geordie role for that guy.
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  Speaker 6: Plus, he definitely, you can tell, was almost probably a
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  Speaker 6: fully realized character before he ever got there. He's that...
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  Speaker 6: good and that well-developed and you could watch convincing yeah
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  Speaker 6: you could watch an hour of that character and never
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  Speaker 6: get bored i think.
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  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure he's rung me up at the quickie
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  Speaker 5: marshmallow that guy is.
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  Speaker 8: A real guy yeah oh shut.
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  Speaker 4: It It's the mystery team!
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  Speaker 6: What is up, you guys?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Jordy. What's buzzing, cousin? Staying cool, fool.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, hey, I got a new gum flavor for you.
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  Speaker 8: It's a watermelon whirlpool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, put it in your mouth.
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  Speaker 5: Eat it.
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  Speaker 4: That's so boss. It's on me.
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  Speaker 8: Neato.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, I haven't seen you guys in a while. You
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  Speaker 6: guys used to come in here all.
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  Speaker 8: The time back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: You guys would solve a crime, and then you would
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  Speaker 1: come in here, and I would give you free ice cream.
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  Speaker 8: And we're still doing it.
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  Speaker 6: You guys are still solving crimes, and sure enough, I'm
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  Speaker 6: still right here.
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  Speaker 8: We are doing it.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I think is so different about what they do,
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  Speaker 5: is it's so reality-based in a way, which is funny
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  Speaker 5: in this movie, because... they sort of exist in their
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  Speaker 5: own little world. They, they really, they do sort of
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  Speaker 5: create their own existence.
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  Speaker 8: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: It puts this comedy in a very different group than most,
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  Speaker 5: but at the same time, they, they've got sort of
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  Speaker 5: this hard edge to it. Like it, you know, most things,
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  Speaker 5: especially comedies today are very dumb and play, you know,
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  Speaker 5: play very low brow where this one has the moments
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  Speaker 5: of that.
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  Speaker 8: No doubt about it.
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  Speaker 5: You think, but at the same time, it like gets
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  Speaker 5: to the point of, of just like sadness at points where,
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  Speaker 5: where you have, you know, Jim telling him, don't be
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  Speaker 5: like me.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 8: I'm, I'm pretty sad.
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  Speaker 5: Or you see Geordi, like just like living vicariously through
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  Speaker 5: these little kids and like wishing he could be them,
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  Speaker 5: you know, wishing he could be as cool as them,
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  Speaker 5: even though he's, you know, he's been older than them
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  Speaker 5: the whole time and he's had all these chances to
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  Speaker 5: do something with his life, but he sits there sort of,
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  Speaker 5: you know, ruining the day that, you know, he, he
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  Speaker 5: stayed at the quickie mart there and has spent his
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  Speaker 5: entire life kind of wasted trying to sell him the
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  Speaker 5: opposite story. But you feel this like really sad, right?
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  Speaker 5: He's just such a sad character and they definitely work
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  Speaker 5: in that, that level of, realism, like almost painful realism
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  Speaker 5: in the middle of like these ridiculous situations that I
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  Speaker 5: think that is, is something that sort of sets them
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  Speaker 5: above a lot of other, especially sketch comedy or, or
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  Speaker 5: movies that try to do like ridiculous comedy at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: There, there, there were some, uh, poignant moments when you,
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  Speaker 6: when you talk about that, especially when you speak of
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  Speaker 6: Geordie and I know we're talking about a minor character
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  Speaker 6: or so much at the beginning, but I guess when
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  Speaker 6: you have that deep of a character in just a
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  Speaker 6: few scenes, I guess it, it sticks out. But, um,
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  Speaker 6: he's someone that is wishing to be someone who these people,
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  Speaker 6: they want to, they know themselves, they want to be
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  Speaker 6: somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You know, the, um, Charlie, he wants to be, is
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  Speaker 6: that his name that wants to be on the football team?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, see you at practice. He says to the rest
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  Speaker 6: of the, the, uh, the, the football team. And, He's
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  Speaker 6: almost acting the same way Geordie does when he's trying
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  Speaker 6: to put his hand into the go mystery team later
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  Speaker 6: on from behind the counter. No matter how low you
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  Speaker 6: think you are or lame, you might even realize that
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  Speaker 6: in that self-realization moment, and you're wanting to be someone else,
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  Speaker 6: there's a lot of times somebody just hoping they could
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  Speaker 6: be you or what they think you are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So it, there's more than just a gross out moments
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  Speaker 6: and silly and silly bits in this movie. There's actually
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  Speaker 6: some substance to it.
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  Speaker 5: So, and again, something that I give them credit for, well,
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  Speaker 5: first and foremost, just writing the writing in this is amazing.
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  Speaker 8: Like it, every line is just, not only is it hilarious,
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  Speaker 8: but it's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: The attention to detail, like the, the level, because they're,
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  Speaker 5: you know, uh, Again, hopefully you've already seen this. If not,
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  Speaker 5: we're kind of ruining a lot of what's going on here.
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  Speaker 5: So definitely go watch it. But so much of it
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  Speaker 5: is based around the fact that they still kind of
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  Speaker 5: think they're kids.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I know when you were younger, the whole town,
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  Speaker 1: myself included, was very amused by you and the mystery kids.
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  Speaker 6: Mystery team, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Mystery team. People used to call us heroes. And it
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  Speaker 1: really razzes my berries when people don't take us seriously.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look how big my magnifying glass is.
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  Speaker 8: Your head's big. Put that down. That's enough. You're an
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  Speaker 8: adult now.
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  Speaker 5: Act like one. There really is this level of where
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  Speaker 5: they really believe that there's still these seven-year-olds that are
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  Speaker 5: out there. And they've grown up over the years, but
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  Speaker 5: it's like they haven't really grown up. So there's them
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  Speaker 5: sort of dealing with that. And that's the part of
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  Speaker 5: the writing that I think is kind of, once again, impressive.
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  Speaker 5: Because not only is it bits and one-liners, but... they
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  Speaker 5: do bother to put in like this character development. Like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it could have very easily been nothing but,
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  Speaker 5: you know, stupid little skits stolen from their YouTube videos and,
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  Speaker 5: you know, pieced them all together, but it's not. It's like,
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  Speaker 5: they really do bother to, to show, you know, over
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  Speaker 5: the space. We start off with them still kind of
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  Speaker 5: living that child lifestyle, but there's several scenes in there
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  Speaker 5: where they're sort of like breaking down and like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to do this anymore. Or, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to not be around you guys. And
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  Speaker 5: there's two or three scenes where, it's kind of played
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  Speaker 5: for laughs, but at the same time, there is a
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  Speaker 5: message of, of them fighting growing up and fighting, having
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  Speaker 5: to take on adult responsibilities. And part of that is
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  Speaker 5: being separated from each other.
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  Speaker 8: They're, they're this little.
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  Speaker 5: Team of kids that, you know, you do hit that
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  Speaker 5: point when you're out of high school and all of
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  Speaker 5: a sudden you're whoever, all your group of friends is
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  Speaker 5: now gone. And, and it rarely sticks together after that fact,
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  Speaker 5: everybody sort of parts ways. And that's a lot of
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  Speaker 5: times the last you see of these people. So it
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  Speaker 5: is sort of something that's, hard to deal with. It's
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  Speaker 5: this coming of age story for these guys that really
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  Speaker 5: should have grown up a long time ago. Right.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they, they still value, um, they truly value innocence
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  Speaker 6: as a defense mechanism.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: That's, that's really what, I mean, they, you know, they
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  Speaker 6: still like chocolate milk and drink chocolate because it, it will,
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  Speaker 6: it tastes better than white milk or regular. So, and,
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  Speaker 6: and that's not just because of a taste. It's, it's that, um,
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  Speaker 6: if we don't acknowledge that we have to grow up
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  Speaker 6: or that we're growing up, we'll never have to do it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Um, I mean, yeah, Jason Donald Glover really lives in that.
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  Speaker 5: Like the other two are starting to, you know, realize
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  Speaker 5: sort of make plans past, you know, graduation. And it's like,
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  Speaker 5: he really like delusionally is kind of like tricking himself
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  Speaker 5: into like, if I just don't, you know, don't make
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  Speaker 5: those plans. If I don't, you know, make any adjustments
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  Speaker 5: in my life, then I can live like this forever.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And actually the reveal is later, you know, the two others,
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  Speaker 6: his buddies reveal, Hey, we're just playing along, you know,
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  Speaker 6: to keep the group together. We thought you knew that
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  Speaker 6: this really wasn't real. And, um, obviously Jason didn't get it.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: So, but they still kind of live in that world too.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, they're just slowly making adjustments as they go,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: but it's, yeah, it's amazing how all three of them
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: really do sort of convincingly pull off this like seven
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: year old mentality for guys that are probably in their
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: mid twenties easily.
• 17:06
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Right. And that's hard to do too. It's like performance wise,
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of people that don't, there's so many
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: little subtle things in lines here and there that just
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: You wouldn't be able to pull off unless you were
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: kind of skilled and able to tap back into that.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know that it's giving them– I mean,
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: you could start rattling off some of them, but I
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: don't know that that's giving them any– you know, we
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: can sit around for an hour and go, dude, what
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: about this line? What about this? And, yeah, I mean,
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: they're all funny, and I'd love– I want– I want
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: that moment of showing it to someone else and them
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: realizing and laughing at that. Because that's the payoff. I mean,
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: it's a good story. You do see, you say, you
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: have an arc of character development within the movie. And
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: that's showing that they know how a movie should go.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: But at the same time, they're wildly talented with good comedy.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah. And it's all within the group. It's like they
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: wrote everything. They're all, I think, contributors on the writing side.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: Everybody like, yeah.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Score.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: Donald did the score.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Um, the other guys like the art director. So, I mean,
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: everybody has like, I mean, it really was like they
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: kept doing these YouTube videos only it became, you know,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: like a budgeted project at this point. And it, Again,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I give them credit for really like they, they put
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: this Derek comedy group together and basically everything they made
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: over the years, everything they made off, you know, advertisements
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: for people going to their website or anything, man, performances,
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: anything they did, they didn't divvy it out to the group.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: They didn't like go, okay.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: You know, cause number one, they were like, you know,
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: people are going to squabble for stupid money and that
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: ruins the group. But on top of that, it's like,
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: we need to do something better with this. We need
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: to put it towards something. So everything they made over
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: the years, they saved up to put into the financing
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: of this movie. And it was years and years in
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: the making. And that's, again, impressive on that level, too. Again,
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: most people aren't that talented and have a sense for business.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: But on top of that, I have just this lack
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: of greed. They really weren't worried about... I mean, it
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: wasn't that much money anyway. You know, you don't make
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: much either doing stand-up or skit comedy or, you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: even hits off a website. It's like, you know, we're
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: not making much. But what we're making, we want to
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: put towards something. So that's kind of a selfless version of,
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: you know, this group of people that you don't see
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: a lot either.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Well, and, you know, when you put it that way too,
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: you know, I did notice, you know, with credits are rolling,
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: I said, wow, he's actually the executive producer on this.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Like you said, they put up their own... money really
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: to get this done and so therefore if you like
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: that kind of stuff they're making the money on the
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: DVD sales back end anyway. If you like it, go
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: buy it. That's the way, obviously, they're putting their talent
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: and their money back into their craft. Those are the
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: kind of people that if you like it, you definitely
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: need to go buy. And that probably just sealed it
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: for me. I mean, Not that I'm going to sit
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: around and watch this a hundred times.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Okay, maybe portions. There might be certain parts of scenes
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: that I don't want to see again. But that's just,
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: I get a little queasy sometimes.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Well, that's the thing that is so weird about this,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: because it's one of those, I mean, one of my
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: favorite YouTube videos they ever did, and obviously because I
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: referenced it in the intro there, is about a character
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: pooping his pants. Now that's, again, that's very lowbrow and
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: actually is not at all the type of comedy I
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: usually respond to. And that's why I know these guys
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: are kind of skilled at what they do because normally,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: I mean, there's a million YouTube videos out there of
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: some idiot in his basement, like pretending that he's funny,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: thinking that he's funny and talking about poop and fart jokes.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: And I'm not entertained with any of those. So the
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: fact that they can take stuff that's as guttural as
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: a lot of this is, and actually be clever with
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: it and sort of appeal to you on that, on
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: that seven year old kid level where you're like, you know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: you're laughing at somebody for pooping their pants.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: But at the same time, there's just.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Such well-written lines, such good delivery.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: It's just amazing.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: And that, that's again, why I think they're so talented
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: is the fact that they can take something that's that
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: dumb and kind of make it smart. And at least
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: in the delivery and the, in the way that they
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: present it, make it better than that. You know, that's,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: It's a weird combination, I have to say, and they
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: don't disappoint on those kind of gross-out jokes in the
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: movie either.
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: You know, I actually thought of this during the movie.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: I thought, wow, this done wrong could be dumb and dumber.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Very easily could be. And I know a lot of
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: people like that movie, and I know that there are
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: good parts, there are scenes that that's they stick with
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: you and they're pretty good scenes but there's a lot
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: of it that's just complete throwaway yeah a lot of
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: scenes that people love still that i don't get that
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: love those scenes i i think well that's just it
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: wasn't the funny the first time it's still not um
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: this they make that reveal of of innocence repeated over
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: and over and over that same joke of is i'd
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about. Can you explain?
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: What is it? I'll pay you, but I'll pay you
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: five bucks if you can tell me what it is.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: There's a.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: We'll just say it. She's a stripper. And she tells
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: him for 20 bucks he can do something. And yeah,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: he retorts with, I'll give you five to tell me
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: what that means.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: That....
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: Yes, it's funny, but they make that same premise of
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: a joke repeatedly, really in every scene.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: But.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: It works every single time.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: They find a way. Again, because it's not really the
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: same joke. It's that premise.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: But they find a way to be clever and sort
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: of make it a different twist. And there's just times
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: when you don't see it coming still. You're following along
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: with whatever they say. And they'll hit you upside the
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: head with something so ridiculous. Right. And so, yeah, just
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: completely oblivious to what's going on in the real world.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Like, guys, I think we just had sex.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: No, the one that kills me.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: One of the characters starts doing the finger and the
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: whole maneuver. Right.
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: You know, he's mimicking sex with his hands. I think
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: we all know how that works.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: And our boy Charlie goes, he's trying to play along
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: like kids do.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: You try to act a little older than y'all. You
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: try to act like you know what's going on. So
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: he starts elbowing.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: He's like, yeah, yeah, poker in the eye. And the
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: first time I heard that, I almost... i almost hurt.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Myself i was laughing so hard because again i thought
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: he was going with that that maneuver that most kids
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: do and he was gonna actually you know just play
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: along with yeah and i know what should yeah oh
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: that that line is so just so caught me off
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: guard and it's still so funny oh.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: My god oh man.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: So yeah there's there's Again, I think there's something to
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: this that just works, and that's what I noticed. It's
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: funny you brought up the dumb and dumber thing, because
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: that's what I was thinking. I was like, this really
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: fits within a style of comedy, and the Farley brothers
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: definitely have a style of comedy. They're one of those
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: that sort of found their niche, and I think they
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: are actually talented.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: They've got a lot of, and they're sort of skilled
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: at structuring stuff and finding ways to put bits together
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: into a bigger picture and make it work Again, it's
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: not my favorite, and there's definitely moments that are great
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: in their stuff, but there is a lot of stuff
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: that is just that guttural humor, and that's it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: There is no other level to it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: It really is just you're laughing at that, the most
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: base level of comedy. And that's fine, and that's what
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: I've noticed with this and with all comedies. It's like
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: there really is just a style, and you either get.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: It or you don't.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Right. it's sort of what we were talking about on
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: the show itself lately is, you know, there's, you know,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: people find certain things funny and it's one of those,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: you either get it or you don't. And you can't,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: you can't make somebody like something. It's like, you're, you're
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: either a fan of comedy or you're not, which is
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: hopefully a pretty broad term and people will find something
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: that they like. But even then it's like, you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: especially like lately we've found people like the Farley brothers
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: that create their own little universe and like, all their
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: characters and their sense of ridiculousness all sort of work
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: within the same set of rules. Or you look at
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: even something like Judd Apatow's done where, I mean, all
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: of his are sort of in the same universe and
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: you have these same guys. And again, it sort of
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: ties into this too of, of guys that kind of
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: don't want to grow up and are dealing with that.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: So he's definitely found a very serious, you know, note
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: to play on all of his movies. So it's, But
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: it is one of those you just sort of click
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: with a certain type of comedy or you don't. And
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I think this is one of those, I mean, if
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: you get what they do, if you like it, you'll
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: kind of be where I was and just be.
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: Like, man, this is awesome.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: And I really am impressed with everything that goes on
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: in this movie and pretty much everything they've done. Right.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: And, you know, it never felt– it's paced well because
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: it never– Was it maybe an hour 40, something like that?
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: It's like an hour, yeah, a little over an hour
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: and a half. Yeah, it never felt slow. It never drugged.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: The scenes never went on longer than they needed to.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: It doesn't feel like... It doesn't feel like.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Like a Saturday Night Live movie?
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: Right, right. I mean, exactly. That's probably the case in point.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: Saturday Night Live movies... Um, they, they're like, I can,
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: you can just see them sitting around the writer's table going,
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: how are we going to push this to 90 minutes?
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: Over and over and over.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: That's what they've done for years is let's take a skit,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: basically the, you know, five minute YouTube videos that these
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: guys were making and then stretch it out through an
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: hour and a half.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: And you feel it on those. I mean, you, you're,
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: they're grueling sometimes.
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: It's yeah that's they just have to work so hard
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: to make it a feature film where this doesn't feel
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: like that and i think it wasn't directly not that
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: i don't think i've seen these specific characters i think
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: it was an idea they had with that concept of
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: making it a movie and just taking you know their
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: style of comedy and adapting it onto these characters so
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: i think that helped them right off the bat.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: Sure yeah and i guess that it helps it helps
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: i guess if you're making those short films and uh
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: writing writing those that when you need filler to throw
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: in an extra character, you can do that fairly easily.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: Like Matt Walsh's character, that really is an unnecessary character
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: in the film. It does help the plot a little bit,
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: push it along, but it's very funny. And it pushes
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: that time filler if you need to ratchet it up
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: a notch.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: I always.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: When I watch movies, I'm like, okay, why is this
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: character here? Especially if they're taking up more than five minutes.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Are they really pushing anything? Or are they just funny?
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: And sometimes people throw that in, but he definitely was
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: a plot character. It definitely helped in a few spots
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: you needed to move things along. But at the same time,
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: you don't see, oh, well, they just threw that in
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: as a favor or something like that.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, none of it felt like just like inserts, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: because there are ones in those other type of comedies
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: that are just like, Here's a character we all know,
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: or here's an actor that we're friends with, and we
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: wanted to work him in doing this crazy character. And
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: it's like, I never got that with this. And I mean,
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: they probably know people. They could have done that. You know,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: they've gotten pretty popular over the years. So it's like
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: they probably could have roped in some of their friends
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: and probably recognizable people. But it's like, to me, it's
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: like they didn't want to force it in there, I'm assuming,
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: because nothing that they put in there, everything feels like
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: it is tied to the plot.
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: And all the performances feel kind of natural with where
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: they are and what they're doing. It doesn't feel like
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: they're just hammering in funny characters, again, just for a
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: little bit here and there.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: I thought about this thinking about it as well. Again,
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: forgive me. I just, you know, first time through in
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: just a few minutes after watching it. Was it set?
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: I tried to look at the license place. Was it
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: was that New Hampshire?
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Or do you know?
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: I'm not even sure.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: I think I recognize the license plate as being New
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Hampshire's license plate, which kind of, at least for me
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: being Midwest, that Midwest South line area.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: I always feel like we're midway right it's that new
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: hampshire feels like it's almost a um a protected area
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: like you're good there's there is a certain amount of
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: innocence that's going to be in a smallish town in
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: new hampshire and That's almost like those characters couldn't exist
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: in most cities. You know, the principal's not going to
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: let them play their games, and the guy at the
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: bowling alley's not going to let them play their games
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: with them, that they really are these mystery squad kids.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: And New Hampshire seems like the kind of place where
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: it's far enough removed and maybe a little bit, you know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: left of center, a little bit oddball enough that, okay, well,
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: they're okay. We're going to let them do their thing,
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: and they'll grow up eventually.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: I'm not saying that it couldn't happen here, but it
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: seemed a little bit more believable. I was like, oh, okay,
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: New Hampshire.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: They could get away with that there.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: And they're often like a little closed off suburb looking area.
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, definitely in that little world. I mean,
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: they don't look like they, you know, they're on their
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: bikes all day long. So, it's like they don't really
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: leave that little circle that they're constantly in. So, I mean,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: between the playground and the school and, you know, the
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: quickie mart, it's like they don't ever– enter into you
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: know a world that people would call them on that
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: ever especially since people they've been doing it since they
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: were little kids so everybody in that area just know
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: oh that's those guys so everybody just sort of you
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: know humors them more or less and i don't know
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: it definitely is something that it sort of plays to
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: that it it kind of goes along with the innocence
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: because it is there's there's a lot of things that
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: i think are kind of cool because they're also sort
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: of this like They tap into this nostalgic thing with
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: everybody being kids.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: Because they're almost living in a world that they shouldn't
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: even understand. They're living in like a little rascals world. Right, right.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Where there really is like, you know, all the kids
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: are riding bikes. And I'm like, well, that's almost a
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: time gone. I mean, kids now, you know, are sitting
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: inside playing video games all the time. So even that
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: world is sort of disappearing on some level.
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Even then, they've got the stand out front, you know,
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: where they're, you know, mystery soft.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: Like a lemonade stand.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: And they're carrying around walkie-talkies when every other kid in
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: the world has a cell phone, you know.
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: So, I mean, they are sort of living in.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: This nostalgic world that's like almost the 50s, you know.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: It's like they're drinking chocolate milk and they're riding their
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: bikes and, you know, everything's, you know, kind of set
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: in this. Especially their language. I mean, everything they say is...
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: is just so kiddified, but not, like, annoying. Like, it
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: really is sort of out of a Little Rascals skit,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: where they're, like, delivering lines that only work in that world,
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: but they're all three of them. But, you know, all
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: the conversations make sense and work within their world. And
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: then it's even more funny when it's sort of juxtaposed
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: with the real world, because then they get to a
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: world where people are like, ah.
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: Fuck, it's the mystery team! And, you know, they're like, ah,
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: what are you fuckers? What do you call them?
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: The.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: The mystery tards.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: And people you know are pulling out guns and they
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: just have to deal with drugs and strippers and it's
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: like it's so funny watching them jam these completely wide-eyed
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: characters into what is also you know the real world
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: you know it is set in today so you know
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: they have to sort of not only butt heads with
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: all these real world characters but at the same time
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: still sort of maintain their innocence.
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: Like, they don't ever really crack. Until the end, you
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: get a little bit.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Right. But for the most part, they still, like, completely
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: exist in their level of innocence. And, like, even when
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: they're dealing with people that are using bad words and,
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: you know, they're dealing with things that are kind of harsh,
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: you know, especially when they're solving a murder, for God's sake. Right.
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: That's even funnier that they get hired to solve a
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: double murder.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: So... Yeah, it's just funny watching that level of innocence
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: having to deal with the real world.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: Well, I got this, and I actually hesitated for a
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: minute there, but now that you've led up to it,
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: I actually hesitated to bring it up, but I think
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: it's good to bring it up now. During it, I
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: kind of got the feel of Blue Velvet.
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: You know, where there's a certain layer of This is
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: our town and this is how we live and this
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: is who we are. And then one thing flips you
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: on your ass, basically. And then you keep delving down
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: deeper and deeper. And he has a hundred chances to say,
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: you know what? I'm going to go to the police.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: I'm going to get out of it. I can get
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: out of this right now. But no, I'm going to
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: go to the drug dealer's house. I'm going to go
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: try to buy cocaine from the drug... No.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: No.
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: And both of those characters almost... They just repeatedly throw
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: themselves back into it over and over and over for
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: chasing something. I mean, both of them are chasing a girl.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Both of them are solving murders. Well, crime.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: And....
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: And the places that they go and the things that
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: they reveal about their town, about what's going on around
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: town that they never had any clue was happening.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: And in a course of two days or whatever it is,
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: they both have completely changed themselves. And so, I don't
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: know if it was intentional, but you could almost see
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: almost a direct parallel between the two films.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: It definitely draws from that same, definitely with the small
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: town and the innocence, but it is funny how, yeah,
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: the this one thing happens that sort of catches them
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: off guard and sends them on this chain reaction of, yeah, being...
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: just thrown into this underworld of, of stuff that, you know,
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: at least in this town, probably always was going on.
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: There's both of them. I mean, that level is always there.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: It's really the characters that are sort of innocent and
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: don't bother to venture into that world. But I mean, the,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: the seedy side of that, you know, town that they
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: live in has always been there. It's just, yeah, they,
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: they choose to live in their own perfect little world
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: until they're sort of thrust into this.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: That's, that's kind of cool. I hadn't thought about that one.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: And yeah. And it's, Like you say, it's thrust upon them,
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: but they continue, almost like a drug, to keep going
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: back to it. Every one of these characters has a
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: reason why they're the Mystery Chain and why they have
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: to solve this. Just like in Blue Veldt, he has
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: his reason why he wants to uncover everything, and he
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: won't let it go. They both are trying to get
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: back to that moment of... I want to go back
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: to the way it was. And I, and they know
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: that they can't, but they're, you know, and they keep
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: going deeper and deeper that maybe if I can clear
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: this up, maybe if I can clear the tomorrow, everything
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: will be okay. And it will all be over with.
• 36:19
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: We promised to hand this case over to professionals, but
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: if something happens in the meantime, auxiliary walkie talkie.
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: Now be careful with this.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: It's two good report cards in the summer's allowance.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: It's fur the best, Jason.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Personally, I'm glad we're going to the police.
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: We're not going to the police.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: What?
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: But you just told Kelly we would.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I told Kelly that we would hand this over to professionals.
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: What does it say on our sign?
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: Missing kitten professionals.
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: Oh my God, I just got that.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: We're keeping evidence from the police, okay?
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: We could go to jail for that. Of course, that's
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: not going to happen.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: That's not how the real world works. As they slowly
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: get thrust more into the real world.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: There is no mystery machine. They're not meddling kids.
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: Well, they are meddling kids.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: They are meddling kids, but not in the same way.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: They're not going to reset and do it all over
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: again like Scooby-Doo.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the episode doesn't start anew every day. They actually
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: have to deal with getting shot and their lives changing
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: and people's parents getting killed.
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: I mean, there are.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: Actual consequences in this one that you aren't going to
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: get in an episode of Scooby-Doo.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: No, I was afraid from the first scene, I was
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: afraid we were going to get some kind of cheesy
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: Scooby-Doo reference, and I applaud them for not going there,
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: because it would have ruined it.
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: Well, even, I mean, in general, they could have gone
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: that route.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: It could have really been an over-the-top, just mimicking, you know,
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: like episodes of Scooby-Doo. I mean, it could have been
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: like the live-action version of Scooby-Doo, because that sort of
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: played with, you know, all the conventions of the old
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: cartoon series, and But to me, this never really goes there.
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: It actually finds its own level of consciousness.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: It actually really does exist in its own little, like
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: the other type of comedies, it sort of finds its
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: own place and doesn't really, and that's what I usually
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: call out most comedies for, especially modern comedies, I bitch
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: about it a lot, that most of them just have
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: no originality to it, especially the more dumb ones, when
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: you get stuff like Epic Movie and Disaster Movie. Oh, God.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: There's nothing original to it at all. All they're doing
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: is mimicking other movies. Right.
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: And this could have very easily been one of those that.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Like, let's make fun of Scooby-Doo and, you know, our
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: gang and just do, like, nothing but little, you know,
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: sight gags that are just completely ripping off that stuff.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: A collection of scenes that sort of tie together and
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: sort of make a movie, but. really are just hey
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: let's do a funny bit about this.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah so to me this actually more draws on
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: the the inspiration of them it draws from sort of
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: the bigger picture and you know the the nostalgia of
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: it or what those type of things were going for
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: you know initially but none of the specifics it actually
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: takes you know they they write their own material they
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: actually come up with Their own, you know, it's not
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: like the mystery itself is all that creative or, you know, confusing.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: There's no big, you know, spoiler reveal of, you know, dun-dun-dun,
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: who was it? Who did it?
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, M.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: Night Shyamalan might have fucked it up. if he grabbed it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 12: Yeah, really.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: But.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: That's neither here nor there. Yeah, I don't know where
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: we're going with this.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: Well, it never goes down that route. It always sort
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: of finds its own way to be original and still
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: play with the conventions of all the stuff that we've
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: sort of grown up on. I think that's probably the
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: most impressive thing about it is just the level of
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: consciousness that they kind of had when piecing this together
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: and able to create their own characters, their own universes,
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: And still play on all those, you know, tropes that
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: we're used to and, you know, what they're kind of
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: making fun of, but do it in an original way.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: You know, I kind of, I assumed that the, I'm sorry,
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: the main character.
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: Jason.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jason.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: I expected him to be the one that was going
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: to decide and come himself to be the person that says, guys,
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: we need to stop being who we were and actually
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: evolve into real adults. I thought from the beginning that, oh,
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: he's going to be the one that has this epiphany,
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: I suppose. And the two characters that you think are
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: never going to be you know, the boy genius and.
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: The strongest boy.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: In the world that neither of them have a clue
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: that you realize, oh, they've actually figured some shit out
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: already and they've actually taken steps and they're not, again,
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: they say they're playing a role, whereas he actually really
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: believes that he's still the seven-year-old super sleuth. So that
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: actually threw a curveball with me, too. Like you said,
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: I think where I was going with is the of
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: is they didn't follow.
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: Really, any other... Right, where do you think it would go?
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: Except for maybe Blue Velvet.
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: Not very directly, though.
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: Not directly, no.
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: Just sort of thematically.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: Right, right. Not a bad movie to follow.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: No, no, definitely not.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: And they didn't get quite as crazy as Lynch does,
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: especially further into his career.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: They play it pretty straight. But I think that's another
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: thing that helps.
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: them in general and this movie specifically is they also,
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: as they were coming up, I mean, again, you see
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: a lot of stuff, you know, online and it's usually
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: very camcordery, you know, it's, it's always just, again, some
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: idiot holding the camcorder and that's, you know, that is
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: your visual style where, um, Dan Ekman is, is the
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: director and he has worked with them through, I think
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: just about all their skits over the years. And I
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: think he's just visually very talented. I think there's a
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: lot of shots, in general, just the whole color palette
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: of choosing the fact that not only, I mean, it's
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: funny enough that they all kind of have their own
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: uniform that they wear day in and day out, but
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: also that each one has their own color and they, they,
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: you know, their shoes always are that color.
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: Their bike is that.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: Color, like straws, their straws, or when they're pouring their
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: chocolate milk, they each have the specific color. So the
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: fact that he worked that in and sort of used
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: it visually on a lot of really cool shots along
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: the way. Um, there's trying to think several others. There's
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: just the one where they're, they're getting ready to take
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: the murder case. And there's like they're going back and
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: forth and they're sort of fighting. Oh, we can't do this. And,
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: you know, Jason's trying to explain to him that, you know,
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: this is what they've been waiting for and this will
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: make them legitimate. And the whole time the camera sort
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: of circling around them and moving. And, and again, it's
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: just really impressive the way that he shot it, especially for,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: you know, guys with very limited budget, very probably limited equipment.
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: I mean, you know, I trying to think of that.
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: I think they were shooting like digital.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: I think it was like one of the, the red
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: cameras and, But even then, I mean, that's compared to
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: studio money. That's, you know, a drop in the bucket.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: And I think this looks equally as good as most
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: studio movies I've ever seen. And, you know, again, visually,
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: just some of the shots he does that shot of
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: him on.
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: The baseball field.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: Where they have their big argument, and it pulls back,
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: that's amazing, like, I was just like, wow, this shot
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: would not be in a lesser movie, I mean, if
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: this were just a stupid comedy, you wouldn't get, somebody
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: wouldn't take the time to, to envision that shot, to
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: set up that shot, to, you know, to make sure that,
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: that everything was right, and, and to get it in
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: the movie, I think that, that, again, is, is something
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: that is to their benefit, is, is having a talented director,
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: and I think This is really kind of his first
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: real movie. He's done short films and he's done their
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: skits over the years. But I think as a director,
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: I really kind of want to see where Dan Ekman
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: goes after this because I think he's got skill.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: I liked when you're talking about specific shots, one that,
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: and you say, well, didn't take from Lynch. Actually, I
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: think this one seemed a lot like something that Lynch
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: would do in the beginning when they're setting up and
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: you've not yet really been introduced to the team yet.
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: You see their stand out in front of the house.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: It's going over and you can tell that this looks
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: like it's written by a seven-year-old. They're advertisements for who
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: they are and what they do. And they're going to
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: bring you into the house and show you even more.
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: And the bell to call attention up to his room
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: is tied to a string from the stand. And instead
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: of just going up to the house or panning up
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: to the house, they actually shoot up the string to
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: the bell. And they didn't need to do that. But stylistically,
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: I was sold. I was like, there's going to be
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: more than just... A goofy comedy or whatever I was
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: in for at that moment is like, well, they're going
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: to take some time with some of these shots.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, and it sort of ties into the
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: story that it really kind of what you were saying
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: with the blue velvet.
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: It really is like following the string up into the plot.
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: It's like it really.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Again, if you want to get that artistic about it,
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: I give this guy credit.
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: I think it definitely has.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: just visuals that, that are way above and beyond what
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: a normal comedy would get. Even, even most comedies. I mean,
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: you look at some of the bigger names making stuff,
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: they're still visually is not where they, they, you know,
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: bank on it. It's usually pretty static and, and, you know,
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: pretty standard framing of stuff. And I think he actually,
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: It's not constant. It's not to the point where you're
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: distracted by it, but I think there are several moments
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: in this where he sort of steps back and wants
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: to put a little more artistry into it and wants
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: to actually get a creative shot and just sometimes a
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: beautiful shot that really seems almost out of place in
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: this silly movie, but again, that shows that there's a
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: talented director there, and I kind of want to see
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: what else he ends up doing.
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: Obviously, it's pulled off much better in a movie that um,
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: that all of that ties together where you almost have
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: a theme that you're carrying through that, a series of
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: shots or something like that. Those obviously, and not just
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: done for the sake of, wouldn't it be cool if
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: I did this shot, you know, that, that, that gets
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: gimmicky and anything like that. And these, these weren't, weren't
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: doing that, but they, like you said, when they're bringing
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: you into, into the room with, with the string, for instance, it,
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: it's more than just hey, wouldn't it be neat? I
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: think it actually does, okay, now we're ready to see
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: this as well. Or like on the baseball field, that
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: shot as well, it gives you more of a sense of,
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: this is bigger than just this little tiny moment of
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: we're on a little baseball field. Actually, when they were
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: running up to shoot that scene, I even thought, why
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: are they going to this location? And you couldn't get
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: that shot without them being there. And I think it's that,
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: I don't know, to me it's that scale of how
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: you see that shot that's kind of like, their world
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: is a little bit bigger than what they've seen already.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: And I think it's also like that it comes right
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: at the point where Donald Glover's character is sort of like,
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: you know, really kind of breaking down and starting to
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: realize that his world's falling apart. And it pulls back
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: and it really does, like it just makes him seem
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: really small. And I think he's starting to realize that, yeah,
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: that this bigger world that he's suddenly like thrown into.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: And it does, again, it's way more artistic than you
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: would expect in something like that. a silly comedy like this.
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: And that's not totally just stuff we're reaching for, because
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: I did hear that they do a lot of behind
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: the scenes and commentary and stuff, and Donald Glover actually
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: says when they were talking about that scene, it's like
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: they also specifically, I mean, it could have been anywhere.
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: It does definitely play into their little suburb that they're
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: on a little league field, more or less. But he
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: said it's also kind of poignant that they're in the
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: middle of a little league field having this argument and
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: having this whole breakdown of the relationship because, you know, that's,
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: that's where kids are sort of forced to grow up.
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: It's like you're, you're thrown into the middle of, you know, this, this,
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: you know, all the action and, you know, all the
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: heartbreak and the, uh, the horrible situations that kids are
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: sort of put into on, on a little league field.
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: So it's, it is one of those that, you know,
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: they did kind of purposefully do a lot of this stuff.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: And it is something that they took into account when,
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: when writing these scenes and when setting up these shots,
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: that it is, you know, a little more thought put
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: into this stuff than, than you would expect on, on
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: something like this. Right.
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: Then an average comedy.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: There was something that I thought was extremely unrealistic in
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: the movie and it, and it threw me for a
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: loop and actually took me out of the movie for
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: a moment. The fact that he asks, um, the, I
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: guess it's the lawyer, the, the, the, the, the man
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: that the, uh, Kelly is staying with.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: Um, He asks him to use his phone charger to
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: charge up the drug dealer's cell phone. And I thought,
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: there's no way in hell they're gonna have the same
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: phone charger because i i live in the same household
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: and we have you know.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: No phones unless you have the exact same model right
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: the same charger.
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: Right you could but you could go into the cell
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: phone store tomorrow and buy the same model phone it's
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: going to be a different it's going to be a
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: different charger. So there's no way in hell that that phone.
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: Well, he was just using that as a ploy anyway.
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: So with him, I didn't, you know, you would, you
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: would expect him to say that the, the unbelievable part
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: is that the guy didn't call him on it.
• 49:43
  Speaker 8: No, what are you talking about? You can't use my charger.
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: Your phone's not going to fit that. That was the unbelievable.
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: You're probably right. But that moment kind of took me
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: out of it there.
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: So, uh, just moving the plot along.
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: They needed something.
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: Got any plans tonight, honey? Going out, maybe a party
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: with girls there?
• 50:02
  Speaker 12: Yuck, Mom.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, hey, Dad.
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: Where you going all dressed up like that? Union meeting
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: about to strike. Can't believe they sold the lumberyard to
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: this Holden and Charles.
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: Knowing full well that's the only thing keeping this town alive.
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: I'm going to get put out of work by these assholes.
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: Daryl.
• 50:18
  Speaker 10: Hey, Dad.
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: Mom wants me to go to a party with girls there.
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: Can you say gross?
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: I can say disappointed.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: This is one of those that, yeah, I talked about
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: the comedy style and I think that is something that's
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: very specific too. I think it's something that you do
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: have to kind of tap into because it's one of
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: the few genres that I think is that specific. I think,
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: you know, if you're into action movies, you can watch
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: an action movie and it's pretty much across the board.
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: It's like, if it's a good action movie, you're going
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: to like it. Or most people that are into action
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: movies are going to like that. Or even if it's
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: a bad action movie, if there's a good scene in there,
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: you'll get it and you'll be like, oh, that was
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: pretty awesome. Or same thing with like, you know, horror
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: is a pretty broad genre and you can be like, oh,
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: you know, I like, you know, most horror movies and
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: you can watch it.
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: But comedy is so.
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: Specific that, There are such different types of comedy and
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: such different styles that it really is something that.
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: You have to click with it.
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: And I think this is one of those if you
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: don't get what they do. And it's something you'll know
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: in the first five, ten minutes, I'd say. By the
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: time you get into the plot, if you're annoyed with
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: what it is they're selling, if you have a problem
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: with them selling, pretending like they're seven years old and living,
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: you know, denying the fact that, you know, they're, they're grownups.
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: It is something I can see some people not having
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: patience for and not being able to, to suspend that,
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: you know, the disbelief and just go, okay, I'm going
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: along with their style of comedy. That's something that I
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: think is very hit and miss more so than other
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: genres of movie. And it is, yeah, it's something that I,
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: it is one of those, I guess you'll have to,
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: you know, take it upon yourself to watch it and
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: see if, If it is something that you're okay with.
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: But if so, I think it is one of those
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: you're going to, if you're okay with it, you're going
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: to be, you know, just completely taken with it and
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: be impressed with what it is that they do.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think, I don't think even if someone's
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: listened at this point that that I don't think there's
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: really any way to spoil it other than if we
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: were just to start listing the jokes.
• 52:22
  Speaker 8: Well, I can do that too. Here's my favorite.
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: But, you know, because the plot really, I mean, it's okay.
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: I mean, it works. I'm not going to knock it
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: for anything. It pushes, just like any other comedy, it
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: pushes everything along just fine. Like I said, there is
• 52:40
  Speaker 6: a development of character, which is what you need in
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: a story.
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's that kind of stuff that's more impressive.
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: I think the plot itself is very basic, but I
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: think they knew that going in.
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: It's a simple group of characters.
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: It's probably ridiculous to overcomplicate this story about basically seven-year-old.
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, you could very easily be telling the same
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: story with them being seven. It's not like any of
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: this is, other than the character growth. I think that,
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: you know, the writing on the jokes and the character
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: growth is the part that is more impressive and above that.
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: But yeah, the plot itself is not meant to be very.
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: Right. I guess what I was getting at is a
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: lot of times you can see in a comedy why
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: a scene is written. That they write a scene just
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: for one joke.
• 53:28
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: Or just for a series of jokes, a setup.
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: And.
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: I think all of these scenes, I think there's like, okay,
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: we have this scene. Here's our basic skeleton of a plot.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: Now let's write it. And they put in what they
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: thought was funny. They put in the funny lines that
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: these characters would make in real life situations. I mean,
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: they really, they developed characters. They had an idea of
• 53:51
  Speaker 6: who these characters were and then let them react to
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: the situation. And their reactions were funny because they were
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: such odd characters to begin with. So therefore, it's that
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: reaction and what they would say, it's funny because of that.
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: And not because, hey guys, we've got this funny joke.
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: How are we going to cram this into this movie?
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: I never felt forced.
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: These ten bits and string them together into a plot. No, definitely.
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: And I think it is that. I think because they...
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: they really developed these characters. And it is amazing that
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: these weren't, you know, like something, or maybe they'd been
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: doing them in versions over the years, but the fact
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: that they feel like they put a lot of time
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: into figuring out who they were, and more importantly, how
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: they interact with each other. Just like the little running
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: gag of when they all decide to blurt out what
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: they think the answer to this little situation is. There's
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: a running gag there, and they hit it over and
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: over again, and it's still funny, but also it's funny
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: because it's fitting. It really does play to these characters
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: and the way that these characters are working within this situation.
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: I think that, again, that is probably the more impressive
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: part of the writing, is the structure of the whole
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: thing and how they.
• 55:03
  Speaker 8: they fit the characters.
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: Into it and not build it on these, these gimmicky
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: characters or these gimmicky bits. I think it is more the,
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: the structure of the, the whole comedy. And I think
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: that's what they started out with was a grand idea,
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: not just individual bits that they're working. And again, that,
• 55:21
  Speaker 5: that really separates it from a lot of comedies out there,
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: especially in the last 10, 15 years. I think we've
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: seen a, a downslide on comedies and that's why we
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: don't do a whole lot of comedies on the show.
• 55:32
  Speaker 8: Usually it's, it's hard to find good ones.
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: And why, when I watched this, you know, for the
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: first time, and I knew of these guys for a
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: long time, but I just ended up watching it, you know,
• 55:40
  Speaker 5: a month or so ago and was like, we need
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: to watch this. Like it's better than all those other comedies.
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: It really, you know, we, we need to draw attention
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: to it and make sure, you know, people know that
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: it's out there and, and see some of the other
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: stuff that's going on in this, because it's, it's just
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: way more impressive than most comedies. Sure.
• 55:58
  Speaker 6: And I, I, you know, you, you'd, mentioned Apatow earlier
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to say that he's definitely perfect by
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: any means but he does and I've mentioned it a
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: couple times those characters are fairly well realized by the
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: time he writes this and and Yeah, he may be
• 56:15
  Speaker 6: using the same actors over and over and cranking them out.
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: But at the same time, and I think, actually, I
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: believe he's getting better over the years.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: But there's more of a real story. You take out
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: the jokes, and it's a halfway decent drama most of
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: the time. And you can really see a person evolving
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: over the course of the story and you know, scenes
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: are actually used correctly. Not that I wanted to take
• 56:42
  Speaker 6: the show in a different direction, but I don't want
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: to knock. I don't want to want this to come
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: away that like we're knocking him again. I think he
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: has evolved and I think he's does is doing some
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: better writing and better work.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: Um, not that any of the older, cause I loved
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: freaks and geeks and that was, I think one of
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: the first things he ever did.
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: Um, I think I was just used anymore as an
• 57:02
  Speaker 5: example of, of somebody who sort of created like their
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: own little comedy universe. And, and, He's directing some of them.
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: He's producing some of them. But all of them sort
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: of seem like they're the same sense of humor and
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: the same characters. Even if it's actors playing different characters,
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: they all could sort of exist in the same universe.
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: And I think this is sort of like the first
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: stage in that because I think they could go on
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: and do other comedies and completely different characters, but they've
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: sort of nailed their sense of humor.
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: You'd know it was one of their films. Yeah, you could.
• 57:34
  Speaker 8: Go into it.
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: Just having seen this movie and nothing else they've ever done,
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: and realize, oh yeah, it's these guys. And once again,
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: if you've got their comedy in this movie, you'd probably
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: be fine to watch anything they do from here on out.
• 57:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah.
• 57:47
  Speaker 5: I think the only thing that probably hurt this movie,
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: and they've gotten pretty good response, they've gotten a lot
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: of response from people online who've known who they are
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: from their videos over the years, and they've gotten a
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: pretty good response just from like, independent film kind of,
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: you know, there there's, you know, again, the internet for
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: all its downfalls, there's, there's also some, some camaraderie out
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: there and some people that do, you know, use it
• 58:10
  Speaker 5: to spread the word about stuff and kind of get
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: behind people that deserve it. So they've definitely got that.
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: But if there's anything I was going to say that
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: almost was sort of, um, I don't know, sort of
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: has hurt them in the long run.
• 58:22
  Speaker 8: I think the title.
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: Very much.
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: It misleads you or, or is also kind of like,
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: something that you're going to get confused.
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: I got confused.
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is one of those that it could very
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: easily be confused with Mystery Men.
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: Ben Stiller.
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: And then you also get into, or even the sound
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: of it, it doesn't sound like they're doing the Scooby-Doo gang.
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: Which even then, if you found something that sounded more
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: like that, it would be misleading, but it would at
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: least lead you sort of down the right road. Where this,
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: to me, almost feels like, and there's already, we discussed
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: this on the.
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: The kick-ass episode.
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: That one in itself sort of lost out, I think,
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: in popularity because people really did group it in with
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: all those which Mystery man is one of those that
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: all of those that sort of you know playing on
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: the hey let's do a funny comedy about people trying
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: to be superheroes right and i think you know that
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: that hurt all of those because kick-ass had a little
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: more to say than that and we're sort of going
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: in a different direction but it got grouped in with
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: all of the other, I mean, there was, you know,
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: 10 different ones that have come out in the last,
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: you know, 10 years. So it's, it's, you know, very
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: easily that movie got lost in with those.
• 59:33
  Speaker 8: I think this just by the confusion of.
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: The title, I think has gotten, has gotten again, probably
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: just to general people, to people that at one time
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: would have been wandering around a blockbuster and wouldn't have
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: known to pick it up. Now, I guess they're red
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: boxing or Netflix, you know, And it's even easier to
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: get overlooked there because you don't even have a box
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: to pick.
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: Up and look at at this point. Especially with all
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: the crappy remakes that companies try to churn out when
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 6: another movie's in the theater. Because they know that somebody's
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: going to be going to Redbox on Friday night or
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: something like that. And the one they want's not there,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: but they're going to see 18 of the different other...
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: You know, 2012s that they made over, you know, knockoff
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 6: versions of it. I don't know why you'd want to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: knock off because the other one was so bad. Why
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: would you knock off? But there are a lot of.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: Of those cheap made versions that sound like it, you know,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: paranormal entity, paranormal, like, you know, what you're really.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: I saw one at Redbox, actually, that's a knockoff of Twilight.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 8: And it looks like a knockoff. And I was like,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 8: that's what they're banking on.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 8: You know, the good one's gone. If you want to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 8: call that the good one.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 10: Right, right.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: The one I want is gone, if that's what you're
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: looking for. And I'm, oh, well, let's try this.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 8: It's only a buck.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll admit, I can remember movies. I can remember
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: movies by what the cover art looks like.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah, me too.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: And my wife always says, I can read ten times
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: faster than you. How can you go so quickly at
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: the movie store? I know it by the box. I
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: don't have to read the title.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: It's like kids with their cards. Again, nostalgia-wise, need it,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: got it, need it, got it. It's like you can
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: flip through that entire aisle and be like, there's five
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 5: of those I haven't seen.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: That's how bad. That's the level of geekdom. Exactly.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 6: And there's a lot of movies that I don't know
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 6: the title of, but I know the movie based on
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 6: how the cover art looks. That's just... But for me,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 6: the parallel would be I go to the store and
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go buy laundry detergent. I can't tell
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: you what laundry detergent we use. And there's a kind
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 6: that my wife, she swears by. And I'm the one
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 6: that does the laundry. But I could not tell you
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: what company. What smell, what scent, what color. I just
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 6: don't have the capacity to remember that or it's not
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 6: important to me.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 8: Because you're storing all the movies.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: Because I'm storing all the movies.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 8: Exactly.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: But, you know, my father, I'll tell him the name
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 6: of a great movie. You need to go check this out. And, obviously,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: it's not there. And he gets, you know, Paranormal Entity
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: instead of Paranormal. You know, not that he would get that.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: But that's along the lines. And that's what they're hoping for.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: They just want those mistaken rents. You know, or the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: people are like, okay, I saw this. I liked it.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: This is going to be like it. And the cover
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 6: art to this and the name has that feel of, oh,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 6: this is a ripoff of another one.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, definitely the title. The cover art, again,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: it's just sort of, it's not descriptive enough to pull
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: you in as to what it actually is.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 8: And it would be hard to do anyway.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: This is almost a tough sell because it exists in
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 5: its own little world. It really, you do have to
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: buy into them living in this reality that they're seven
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: years old. Right. It is a hard thing to sell.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: It's even harder to slap on the front of a
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: DVD box. So I give them credit that that's a
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: hard thing to do.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 13: It is.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: But I think, yeah, if there's anything like trying to
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: tell people about this movie, they immediately either don't know
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: what you're talking about or mistakenly think that it's something else.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: I think that, which actually it wasn't even up until
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: like a couple of weeks before shooting, it wasn't even
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: Mystery Team. They were, when they wrote it and all
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: through the pre-production, it was Mystery Gang and And I
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: think there they said they actually did, potentially somebody wrote
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: them and was like, at some point in one of
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: these Scooby-Doo things, they refer to themselves as the mystery gang.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 5: If you don't want to get in some sort of
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: legal trouble or some sort of cease and desist letter
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: or somewhere down the line that's going to come back
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: and haunt you, you probably should change the title. I
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: think they should have just found an entirely different title,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: something that's not, even if it's something ridiculous, something that
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: would stick out more and would actually draw you more
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: to the originality of this movie. They really should have
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: found something more original title-wise But again, I mean, it
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: fits once you're into the movie.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 8: It makes sense once you're into the movie.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: But just as a consumer or dealing with people who
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: don't know that much about movies or don't pay that
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: much attention to new stuff coming out or online comedy
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: or all these other little niches that know who they
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: are and would understand, I think that would be a
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: harder thing. But again, they found pretty good success through
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: the little network of geeks that kind of appreciate this
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: kind of stuff and want to.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: spread the word about it.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: So I think, you know, they're still doing okay, but
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 5: I think that's something that I noticed early on. I
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: was like, that could come back to bite you in
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: the ass, that you could be mistaken for a slew
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: of other movies that are way worse and less impressive
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: than what they're trying to do here.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 6: There's parts of Mystery Men that I still, and there
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 6: are so many people that knock that movie out. And
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 6: there's some parts that I still find very, very funny.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 8: There are moments.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: Again, it's like a lot of the other comedies we've mentioned.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: It's far from perfect, but it's got moments that are
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 5: actually funny. And it is one that was probably more
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: pieced together. It is one of those that Ben Stiller
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: was thinking, hey, wouldn't it be funny if there was
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 5: a guy who was a superhero that did this? Now,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 5: how do I build a movie around that? That's, I think,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: the difference between what they were doing versus what a
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 5: lot of comedies.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 8: Try to do, especially.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: since everything is so skit oriented, you know, which is
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: so funny that that's what they were built on is
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: comedy skits and five minute YouTube videos. And that's not
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: what they did here. They did something original and, you know,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 5: with a 90 minute timeframe in mind.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 8: From the get go.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: And it, I think it makes a difference. I think
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 5: it is something that sets them apart from most other companies.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 6: I think I, and you met, you mentioned, um, I
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 6: think this is a little bit off. So you mentioned
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 6: kick ass as well. I, I think it suffered from
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 6: title as well.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 8: Definitely. And just marketing in general. They really marketed that thing.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 6: And I think the problem was, especially in the marketing,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 6: just in the construction of the film, it almost didn't
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: know what it was. Because it was kind of a comedy.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 6: It was kind of a coming of age. It was
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 6: kind of a... a slasher. It was kind of, and
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 6: you could almost see shifts in the movie. Like all
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: of a sudden, wait, how did we go from a
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: comic book movie to something that, you know, you're seeing
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: a John Woo film where everybody's just to shoot them up.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 6: And so stylistically it was change, change, change, change. And,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 6: I can get past that. But there's a lot of
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 6: people that can't. They don't know how to. Dude, you
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 6: should see this. What kind of movie is it?
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 6: And you're going to. They may be going in expecting
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 6: one thing and get something totally different. And so that was.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 6: They set them. They set themselves up for this. I
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 6: loved it. I mean, I walked out of there thinking
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 6: that was a really good movie. I was thoroughly entertained.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 6: But there were a lot of people that I talked
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 6: to that they had no idea how to pen it down.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: I think that's what it is. I think within the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 5: context of the movie, it all kind of works. I
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 5: think they knew what they were doing and kind of
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: knew a way to make it flow from one to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 5: the other. They played a lot of different cards in
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: that movie.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 8: So it is something.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 5: Even to the point where they're almost canceling themselves out
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 5: somewhere down the line.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 8: And that's up for argument with a lot of people.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 6: That's not what this episode's about.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 10: No.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 5: But I think it is one of those things that, yeah,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: within the context of the movie, it does sort of
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: work while you're watching it. But it's dealing with the marketing.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: It's something that's really hard to market. Something that doesn't
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: fit into one little niche. Something that... that does jump
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 5: back and forth or something that, that does things kind
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: of unconventionally like this movie today does. I mean, it's,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 5: it's very unconventional in the way that it approaches the
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 5: characters and even the situation itself.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 8: It's, it's different.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 5: So much like, you know, kick ass in a lot
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 5: of movies we've seen that were mismarketed. I think granted
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 5: this one they were doing on their own. They don't
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 5: have a marketing machine. They don't have millions of dollars
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: thrown at it. So I won't, you know, I won't
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 5: fault them for any of that that I will with
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 5: some of the bigger projects out there. But I just
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 5: want to point out, yeah, that's something that I think
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 5: could have hurt them and was just something I saw
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 5: going in earlier because I think I'd heard the title
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 5: several times and heard about the movie and wanted to
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 5: go find the movie I was hearing the description of
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 5: or hearing the director talk about and then got there
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: and went, wait, was that the title of the movie?
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: So it is something that I think could, you know,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 5: was kind of to their detriment.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a throwaway enough of a title.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 6: There's no tangible word that if you hit it into
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 6: a Google search, you're going to bring up the right
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 6: movie every single time.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: So, yeah.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 8: It's definitely worth seeking out.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I definitely, there's going to be several people,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 6: there's going to be a lot of people that I
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 6: won't recommend it to just because I don't think they're
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 6: going to get it.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 6: But the people that are going to get it are
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: going to have the same impression I am. That, that,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 6: there's something else it's not just your average comedy there's
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 6: there is it they did a fantastic well i'm not
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 6: going to say fantastic they did a really good job.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: That's it yeah i mean it's it's grazing fantastic i
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: mean there's a lot of impressive stuff going on here
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 5: and and once again you have to get it or
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 5: or not but i think for those that do it
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 5: it really is you know more impressive than most comedies
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: which is why and this is something i don't normally
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 5: do with movies but i'm actually going to tell you
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 5: where to get it it is one of those that
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 5: it's an independent movie and these guys were doing it
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 5: out of their pocket and really kind of do need
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 5: support so i you know under those circumstances i'll you
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 5: know i don't care i'll plug it so it's uh
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 5: yeah it's Derek comedy.com. And that will take you to
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 5: all of their stuff, but you can hit on like the,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: you know, the merchandise button there and it'll take you
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: to the site where you can get it. I think
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: you can even get signed copies from, I don't know
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: if it's all of them or just, you know, certain members,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 5: but either way it's, yeah, it's, it's, you know, if
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 5: something you've rented and want to get, uh, I'd say
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: go through them and make sure that, you know, all
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: the money goes to them because again, they, they, they
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: put it, you know, they did all this, themselves from
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 5: day one. And I think that's impressive, especially for as
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 5: good as it looks. I mean, you would not know
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 5: that to look at it. It's, it's impressively just, you know,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 5: visual wise, it doesn't play like a cheap independent movie.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 8: It's actually well put together.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 6: Well, I think that that's one. I think they know,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 6: I think they know how to use a camera, whoever,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 6: you know, they, They know how to use a camera.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 6: They knew what they were going for. They didn't write
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 6: above their budget.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 5: Which is a key thing to learn when doing an
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 5: independent film and small budget movies.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 6: But you still got plenty. They still were able to
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 6: use what they had. And so therefore, you want to
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 6: see those kind of people like, okay, we saw what
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: you did with that. What can you do with a
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 6: little more? I like that. Don't write above. They may
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 6: have some kind of epic tale to tell that they're
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 6: going to need a big budget for. Maybe they don't.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 8: Maybe they do.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe they don't. But they used what they could.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 6: And it doesn't suffer from... Um, like you said, a
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: look of low budget at all. I don't know what
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 6: the budget was, but I'm sure it wasn't.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 8: It was pretty minimal.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: I mean, considering what, what they had to do, it's
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: impressive that it, again, it never really looks shoddy. It's always, yeah,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 5: I think is as impressive as most studio movies. So
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 5: that's impressive in its own right, right there.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: But, I don't know, I'd say to wrap it up,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 5: I think this is something that, the more I thought
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 5: about it as we finished the movie and sat down,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 5: sort of ties to possibly us. Because these are, you know,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: kids that are having trouble dealing with growing up and
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 5: taking on adult responsibilities and having a real life.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 5: Before we sat down to watch the movie, would you
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 5: like to discuss what we did? The hour-long discussion we
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 5: had about nostalgia.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 8: And toys and movies. A good 45 minutes was based on.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: Uh, rehashing of every star Wars movie, discussing moments, elements,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 6: things that the two of us had never really talked about, I.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 5: Guess, together about pot points and errors along the way.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: Um, And, you know, I showed my son had a four.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 6: He had to stay home this week.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 8: He was stuck there with you.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 6: He was stuck there with me. And what did we do?
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 6: We watched Star Wars. All of them. And I tried
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 6: not to feed him anything. And I edited out a
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 6: few things like burning mannequins that no one wants to see.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: And we went on for quite a long time discussing,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 6: you know, his impressions, our impressions of problems we had, um,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 6: what would, you know, obviously like any geek does, what
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 6: would have made it better. But more importantly, we, we
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 6: discussed toys and how you play with them and how
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 6: you play with them at a child as a child
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 6: and how you cherish certain things. And, um, yeah, it definitely,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 6: I think it does tie in with this film of
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 6: there's part of me that will not ever let that
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: kind of stuff go.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: I can't do it. Um, I would cut people out
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 6: of my life before I would cut certain broken toys
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 6: out of my life that they're going to exist. I'm
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 6: always going to need a basement or a large closet
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 6: to store them. And it's not like some toy geeks
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 6: that have everything, but, um.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 8: You know, it's, it's the nostalgic ones.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, it really is the ones that you had
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 5: feelings for as a kid that you were like tied
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 5: to as a kid that, It kind of played an
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 5: important part in your life. Right.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 6: Any kid that grew up eating the same breakfast cereal
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 6: and watching the same cartoons as me, especially a boy
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 6: that likes Star Wars, knows what just the sight of
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: an AT-AT or the AT-AT toy does to you. It
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: was the holy grail of toys to me. We were
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 6: discussing it. It's such a poor design from a militaristic standpoint.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 8: But God damn, it's awesome.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: That's not the point.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: And it's just not wanting to push beyond that. I
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: guess to tie it into the film is you don't care.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 6: Forget about reality. I'm going to stick with this thing
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: that's working because it makes me happy.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 5: And that's kind of yeah it was funny because i
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: didn't think about it while we were sitting there we
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 5: just sat there forever going okay we're gonna have to
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 5: start the movie eventually we need to stop talking about
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 5: star wars and transformers and all these geeky things we
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 5: were talking about right and then i started the movie
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 5: and i'm midway into it and i'm watching this and
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 5: i'm just like it really i mean it does tie
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 5: into we're making fun of these kids you know they
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 5: won't grow up they act like they're seven years old
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 5: after we had an hour-long discussion about ad ads and
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 5: In Optimus Prime. And I was just like, well, okay,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 5: how much can we make fun of him? How much
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: can we laugh at these characters? Because there's part of
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 5: me that's always going to be that seven-year-old little kid.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 5: And he's delusionally fooling himself. And, you know, you're also
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 5: dealing with the sad characters that don't want to grow up.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 5: Part of them, that is me, too. It's like, there's
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 5: part of me that is Geordi. That is sometimes like, fuck,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: how the hell did I get here? I was just
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 5: that 15-year-old kid. And, you know, I took this.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 8: Job and now... shit, I'm an old man and I'm
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 8: still doing the same thing I was doing.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 6: And I think we all keep this job until I
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 6: kill myself. I'm living the dream.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 5: And I think we all deal with that. I think
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 5: there is, again, there's an element of truth to what's
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 5: going on here. And, and, They're playing it to the extreme.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 5: They're playing it for a joke, but at the same time,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 5: at the heart of this, there really is that element
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: of childhood that none of us want to get rid
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 5: of and none of us want to let go of
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 5: and grow up and have adult lives. We're kind of
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: forced to by time more than anything.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 8: I don't know. I just thought it was funny that
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 8: it came about after we sat there.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 6: There are parts of my.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 6: That if you actually ripped them totally from my body,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 6: I would probably have to hospitalize myself. I don't know
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 6: how I would cope day in and day out with
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 6: a lot of things. I have to... I'm not talking
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 6: about items or getting out toys. I don't do that.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 6: But it's... I know they're there, almost like a security blanket.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 6: Even just the memories. I know those memories are there,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 6: and damn it, you're not going to take those from
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 6: me because I really will. You may as well give
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 6: me a lobotomy.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 8: And I think that's kind of what tied into this.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 5: I thought that was kind of cool, that that's sort
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: of what Jason's going through in all of them, but
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 5: more him because he doesn't want to go, period. Right. And, yeah,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 5: it was just sort of funny that it really does
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 5: sort of tie into real life in a scary way sometimes.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 6: As I reveal more of myself.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 8: Oh, that's what we do.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 8: Peel back the wounds.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: They're there.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 5: Look at our damaged childhoods. So, yeah, I figure that's
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 5: a good way to round it out is... Just how
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 5: it ties to us personally.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 6: Showing me how lame I really am? Is that what
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 6: you're trying to tell me?
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 8: I was the Geordie in that scenario.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, Lord.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 5: So, yep, with that, we will wrap up Mystery Team
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 5: and take a break and be back with the rest
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: of the show.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 12: I'm the last of a dying breed, meaning that I'm
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 12: not afraid to try a new thing Can't see me,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 12: best to get yourself some Vizine Toe tagger, motherfucker, no jokes,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 12: why these other niggas walker walker Other rappers try and
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 12: go and get over You want that hood shit, best
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 12: to go and call Hover I was a good kid,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 12: backpack on my shoulder 98 test score in my Thundercat
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 12: folder My cousin was older, my mama used to wake
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 12: up Drive me to his school, cause his school was
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 12: much safer But I slipped up and accidentally told the
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 12: teacher Now I'm going to a school where I get
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 12: beat up Because I ain't get down with them other kids.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 12: Probably because I talk to white and I got a
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 12: dad who's there. Mama could have taken so to place
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 12: and got us out of there. Guest room, now the
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 12: six of us splitting one with a restroom. Now I'm
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 12: going to the school called Rockbridge. School up the neighborhood,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 12: we trying to buy a house in. There's not a
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 12: lot of black kids, so I stick out like a
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 12: sore thumb with some bad acne. But really, what I
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 12: want to know is why I never fit in right.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 12: Like a fat dude getting on a packed flight. Even
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 12: when I make friends in the hallways. I'm wishing I
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 12: was someone else always, but I'm happy that that.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 4: Shit happened to me.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 9: Cause it taught me most important is to do me.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 9: Cause everybody hates you till they love you. Facebook niggas,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 9: same niggas that would shove you. Cause nobody was jockeying
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 9: my style. Cause I had a high voice, they called me.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 8: Faggot, ate my.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: Let's all go to the lobby. Let's all go to
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 4: the lobby. Let's all go to the lobby to get
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 4: ourselves a treat.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 8: The children had a party. Alan and Anya and Terry came.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: They were invited.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 8: The children were having such fun. That is until Abigail
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 8: and Orville and Smedley dropped in. They weren't invited. They
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 8: were dead. It's too bad nobody ever told the children.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 12: Children shouldn't play with dead things.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 5: So when we originally had our discussion about Mystery Team,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 5: I had no idea this next segment was coming up. Actually,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: within a few minutes of us finishing, I logged on
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 5: and had a message from Dan Ekman, director of Mystery Team.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 5: So yeah, he was actually up for doing an interview,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 5: which was awesome on his part, and we're glad to
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 5: get a chance to talk with him. So it's time
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 5: for Focus on Dan Ekman. Well, I'm kind of fascinated
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 5: with where, you know, we use the term movie geek,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 5: you know, lovingly on our show. So I'm always kind
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 5: of fascinated where people sort of get into that, what
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 5: their infancy of movie geekdom is. So what were you
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 5: into film-wise as a kid?
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: Well, when I was, like, really young, it was, like,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: Conan the Barbarian was, like, my jam. Then I think, like,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: Apollo 13 kind of became an obsession. almost too much
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: to the point where I went to base camp thinking
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: I wanted to be an astronaut, but really it was
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: just that I loved Apollo 13. And then it was
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: when I saw Boogie Nights and I was like, oh,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 3: that's what I want to do. That's what I want
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 5: That's a pretty wide.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 10: Array of film.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty all over the map.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 5: I appreciate that. I am as well. I like when
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 5: people have a lot to draw from.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 5: So at what point did you, you know, I guess
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 5: around that time, how old were you when you started
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 5: seriously working towards making film?
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 3: Taking it seriously, probably somewhere around like seventh or eighth grade.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: And as a freshman in high school, I made a
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: short film that like starred my brother. That was really bad,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: but kind of got me going on it. I've been
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: kind of consistently making shorts and stuff all the way
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: up until now, basically.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: Were you still Super 8, or had you moved into
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: video at that point?
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, it was video. It was video. It was DVD.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: On that point, that first one I edited with, like,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: I guess, like, deck-to-deck or whatever the right term is, but, like,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 3: across VTRs and then And then I went and took
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: a film class while I was in high school over
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: the summer. And there they taught us on black and
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: white 60mm reversal film. And that's how I first, like,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 3: learned to really edit was on what's called a Steenbeck.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know how familiar you are with all this stuff,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: but you literally kind of, like, the same piece of
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: film that, like, went through the camera also gets, like,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 3: well it gets developed but there is no negative so
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: you actually like you physically kind of cut and splice
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: that and then that's the same piece of film that
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 3: goes through the projector and you really kind of get
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 3: a whole sense of like the actual process and so
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: I feel strongly that people should learn that way even
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: though you know I don't know that's kind of an
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: old school attitude maybe for someone of my generation but
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: even though I do everything digitally now of course and
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: have ever since that program but I don't know like
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: it makes you kind of actually know what you want
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: to do, which I think is important, as opposed to
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: just kind of like finding it later.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 5: You ended up at NYU. Is that where you met
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 5: the guys from Derek Comedy, or had you known them
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 5: before then?
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 3: No, that's where I met the guys from Derek Comedy. Maggie,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: the girl from Derek Comedy, had gone to my high school,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: and we met senior year. She stage managed a play
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: that I directed, and then we were both going to
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: New York to kind of go to college and She
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: wanted to be a producer, I wanted to be a director.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: So that was a good combination.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 5: Were they originally planning on shooting things? I mean, had
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 5: it started out as just a comedy troupe that then
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: worked its way into shooting film, or had it always
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 5: been planned as like a video project?
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: It was kind of a combination thing. It was like,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 3: it was a much larger group called the Wicked Wicked
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: Hammer Cats. Yeah, it was this much larger, far too
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 3: big group. where we were doing these kind of like
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 3: monthly shows where the style was kind of very openly
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 3: ripping off Mr. Show with Bob and David. And where
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: like all the sketches would kind of transition into each other.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 3: So it would be like a stage sketch and then
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 3: the characters would run off of the stage and then
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 3: the projection would come up and it would run onto
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 3: the screen. You know what I mean? So we were
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 3: doing these kind of like mini short sketches. They'd be
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 3: like between five and ten every month at NYU in
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 3: like oh three oh four and that's kind of how
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 3: we all got together and then we broke off uh
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 3: as the five of us and just started doing video
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: stuff it.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 5: Is interesting how you know you were kind of still
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 5: appreciating the the old school form of learning film when
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 5: you so much of what you came from not only
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 5: was digital what was you know was YouTube, you know,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 5: it kind of launched your career, basically, YouTube.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 3: It definitely did, it definitely did, but I mean, we
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: always kind of brought, I guess, a kind of old school,
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: or I don't know what old school, definitely not by
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: our content, but I mean, we kind of tried to
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: bring in more, I guess, cinematic quality to the stuff that,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: at least the kind of stuff that was going on
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: on YouTube at the time. There was kind of a
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: mentality of like, eh, it's the internet, who cares? And
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, it's Come on, let's just do
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 3: it like we would if we hadn't. So that was
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 3: kind of how I came about it.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yours was always a step up from the normal
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 5: stuff you would find on YouTube.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 10: Oh, thanks, man.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: Even in the early days, yeah, it was definitely a
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 5: noticeable difference.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 5: Before we get into the full Mystery Team movie, I
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 5: did want to ask you, you also worked with Blue
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 5: Man Group. I just... Well, my first question is, can
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 5: you direct Blue Man Group? Really?
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 4: Or is it.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 5: Or are you just capturing Blue Man Group?
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: It depends on what it is that you're doing.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: But, yeah.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's, like... There's, like, all these rules that...
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: They're almost like laws of physics, basically, when it comes
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: to Blue Man Group, where, like, you can never see
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: only two Blue Men in a show. You have to
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 3: either see one or three... They can't high-five each other.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 3: There's all these established laws of Blue Man. So you
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 3: have to kind of work within it. But I did
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: a big range of things. So sometimes it was just
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: capturing and then kind of editing the music and stuff.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: But one time we were setting up our tour. Me
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: and Dominic from Derek, we used to kind of come
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: on as a second on my team there. Well, we
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 3: went to, it was like some big stadium or something.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 3: We were like rehearsing for a week. And it was
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: like a hockey rink, but there was no ice in there.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: And we got rollerblades. And we had cameras. And we
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: just rollerbladed around while they rehearsed and got a bunch
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 3: of cool shots. And it was like really fun. That's
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 3: kind of more in the capturing sense. But then, yeah,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: there was like these kind of video pieces that would
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: play during the show that, yeah, you could direct. I mean,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: it was tough for sure.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 5: Can you interact with them like normal human beings?
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. No, that took me a while to get over, but,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: you know, seeing a blue man, like, eating a sandwich,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: checking his email. Yeah, oh, yeah, no, no. But there
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: is all these rules about, like, in public, like, if
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: any of them smoke, like, they can never be seen
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 3: in the blue smoke hangar. They can never, they can't
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: ever talk. uh in it but yeah oh i i
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: got i'm and sometimes i would shoot like just like
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: their heads and the whole body would just be like
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: some some dude in sandals it got it was it
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 3: sometimes that was pretty funny it's really like some of
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 3: the behind the scenes crap that i have is on
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: my computer it's really pretty funny that's pretty awesome shit
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: that i would never be allowed to show anyone but.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 5: They're like the characters at disneyland exactly exactly there's definitely
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 5: like a kind of lore there that they keep up.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 5: Can't cross that line.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 5: Well, then I did want to get into, you know,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 5: I guess your first full length feature was, was mystery team.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 8: Yep.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 5: So was that, and this was one we, it's weird that,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 5: you know, normally I, I had no idea we were
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 5: going to do this when we had, we had our
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 5: movie discussion about it, you know, earlier in the week
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 5: and had no idea at the time. So this is
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 5: actually kind of interesting cause I can, some of the
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 5: things that we raised at the time, I can actually
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 5: ask you about, um, One of the things I just
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 5: wasn't sure about was, were they pre-existing characters? Had they
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 5: been in skits? I don't think I'd seen skits.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 3: No. No, no, no. They were completely original. Actually, Donald
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: had written on spec an Encyclopedia Brown. I think it
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 3: was just an outline. I don't know if he actually
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: wrote the full script. It was Encyclopedia Brown, kind of.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: A little too grown up. But he's still doing that.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: And that didn't go.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 5: And we were.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: We had written another feature of Derek that we were
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: going to make. Or, well, rather, we went out to L.A.,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 3: tried to get it funded in the kind of more
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: traditional way, and didn't get any biters. And we were like,
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: fuck it, we're just going to do it ourselves. And
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: then we kind of fell out of love with the idea,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: and so we were swipping on ideas. And when we
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: bought this one up, we all just immediately jumped on it.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: We were like, oh, yeah, it's going to be three
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 3: of them. It's going to be like a master of disguise.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: And then a bunch of stuff kind of came out
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: of that early conversation. And that's kind of where it
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: went from there. But, no, they weren't big things. Thank
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 3: you for asking. I didn't want to pick different characters.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 5: Kind of, yeah, amazing just in general how well fleshed
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 5: out they are and how much they had it worked
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 5: out as far as how they, not only how they
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: conduct themselves but how they interact with each other. It's
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 5: pretty impressive that they hadn't been working on them, you know,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 5: years and years ahead of time that it fell into
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 5: place as quickly.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, we did write it toward, you know,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: the strengths of the performers and the way that they
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: kind of are good at interacting, which we knew, you know, Well,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 3: in the writing room, it's like the three guys playing
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: the three guys are the ones doing the writing, so
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: it was pretty, you know, we could kind of do
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: a lot of improv in the writing room and then
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: just kind of like, oh, that was great, let's write that,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 5: It's also, was there, it's so weird because it almost
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 5: feels like it's, especially those characters feel like they're almost
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 5: set in a different time. Was there a specific time
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 5: frame or, like, reference that you were going for as
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: far as, you know, what they're what their mindset was
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 5: based from?
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, sure. I, like, the idea, I think, was
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: that they were, they think that they're kind of like
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: kids from the 50s. They're not, like, that ridiculously stupid.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: They don't actually think that. They just kind of, like,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: read those things and, um, just kind of, like, believe
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: in that kind of, I don't know, almost, like, leave
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: it to beaver-esque world that clearly doesn't exist and never
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: existed even back then. But, um, Yeah, I mean, we
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: were kind of going for, like, an anachronistic kind of
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 3: 50s kid, like, hardy boys kind of vibe.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 5: I said it felt like a, sort of like a
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 5: Little Rascals vibe, which.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Little Rascals, totally.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 5: Our gang thing, which is weird, because it's like, it's
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 5: not even like they're stuck in their childhood, because their
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 5: childhood would have been, like, the early 80s, right?
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: Right, that's what I mean. It's like... These kids were
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 3: clearly watching things like Little Rascals and stuff, being like,
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: that's what kids are! So, yeah, no, it's not like
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 3: they're just, you know, into He-Man and stuff like that.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: Time period-wise. They're into things from the wrong time period.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 5: As far as the story structure, again, I think it's impressive,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 5: you know, that there really is a structure to the
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 5: story itself.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 8: And this is one.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 5: Actually, my co-host, when we had the discussion, brought this
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 5: up that it hadn't occurred to me, but was there
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 5: any specific movie or movies you sort of structured it after?
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 3: Not directly. Why did he think there was?
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 5: He came up with one that actually is kind of interesting,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 5: and I just wondered if there was something in mind
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 5: ahead of time, or if it's just.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 3: I'd love to know what it was.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 5: It's... Yeah, it's interesting, because the more he talked about it,
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 5: I was like, wow, it does sort of fall into play.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 5: And it seems like a very odd choice, but he
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 5: tied it to Blue Velvet. That's interesting.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 10: As a character that's kind of wide-eyed and innocent, that
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 10: gets sucked into this underworld that's kind of always been
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 10: in their town, but he's neglected to acknowledge it, and
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 10: he's doing it more or less for the girl. He's
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 10: trying to impress her and win favor with her and gets.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 5: Many a time he could have saved himself and gone
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 5: to the police, but he never does. He always goes
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 5: deeper into the scenario.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: You know, maybe sub-sub-consciously. I mean, I honestly think at
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: least a good number of the group hasn't seen Blue Velvet,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: but I mean... Not intentionally, but yeah, I can totally
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 3: see the parallels there, actually. And it's funny you say that,
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 3: because I've been currently talking about Boo Velvet a lot,
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 3: but yeah, that's funny. Yeah, I can see that for sure.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 5: You wouldn't think that from those two movies, but the
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 5: more you went on, I was like, well, yeah, there's
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 5: a lot of similarities.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 4: That, you know.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: No, that's actually a really good point. That's kind of cool. No,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 3: it wasn't intentional in that regard.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 5: No, I mean, and yeah, it's very different as far
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 5: as actual, you know, there's nothing taken from it ever.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 5: It never even feels like, yeah, I can see how
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 5: half the crew probably hadn't even seen it, you know,
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 5: and still have it come off very original. But it
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 5: was just interesting. Sort of what I love about, you know,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 5: film lore, as it were, too, is how much you
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 5: can pull like parallels from. stories that are so different,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 5: but you find, like, this truth between the characters.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: Well, once we found the, or once we kind of, like,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: landed on that premise, it really felt like it was
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 3: a very organic way to kind of go with it,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: and we kept kind of figuring out, being like, has
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: somebody made this movie already? Like, somebody has to have
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 3: made this movie already, right? Because, I don't know, it
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: felt like it was such a, like, clear way to make,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: you know, way to go with that premise. I don't know.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 5: Well, I think that's, again, on just the story structuring,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 5: what we found was kind of impressive is the fact that,
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 5: especially coming from the background that you guys did, that
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 5: it wasn't a strung together bunch of skits. It wasn't
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 5: like we started off with five skits, now how do
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 5: we work it into a movie? A lot of things,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 5: and we reference the SNL movies, that feel like they
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 5: were almost doing that. They're working in characters that everybody
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 5: loves just to get a 90-minute run time. Where you
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 5: guys don't, it feels very, you know, like a whole picture.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 5: Like you really did start with a whole story arc and,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 5: you know, fleshed it out from there.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we had to kind of fight that instinct, too,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: you know. But, yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. That's
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: something that we fought hard to try and achieve.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 5: As far as your visual style, who came up with
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 5: the sort of color palette that comes into play, especially
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 5: the character-based, you know, each character sort of having their
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 5: own color?
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 3: Um the actual like the fact that each one was
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: kind of red green and blue yeah i don't remember
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: who specifically um came up with that i feel like
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 3: we all we all just kind of like inherently were
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: like well of course they have to each have their
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: own color like um so i feel like that that
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 3: was kind of a group vision or i honestly don't
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: remember who exactly um that came from but then Yeah,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I pushed it to kind of keep it
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: consistent across the aesthetic.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 5: You make great use of it. I mean, just the
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 5: shot with the bikes as they roll up. Yeah, some
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 5: of that stuff is really well done just visually.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we had to paint those
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 3: bikes special. And they kept getting chipped. We had to
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 3: repaint them. But yeah, I don't know. We just felt
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 3: like they needed to have such a clear uniform and...
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: kind of primary colors and have them really pop. And
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: we searched for, like, Jason's shirt over and over and
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: over again, not finding the right one, you know. So, yeah, yeah. Like,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 3: the idea is, I think, that they kind of have, like,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 3: almost like the Batsuit. Like, they have, like, a closet
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 3: full of those clothes, basically. But I feel like that
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 3: stuff came from almost, like, the first conversation. But anyway,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 3: that's fine.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 5: But, yeah, that's, yeah, it kind of, again, it tied
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 5: into their characters of being very, set in their ways
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 5: and in their own little world that they do have
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 5: sort of a uniform that they put on every day. Yep.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 5: And then as far as just the other visuals, was
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 5: there anything you set out to do? I mean, I
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 5: guess you were probably a little more limited in, like,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 5: YouTube videos, so once you got this chance to do
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 5: sort of whatever you want, did you have anything visually
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 5: that you tried to do with this film?
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, camera-wise, I wanted to shoot it really
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: kind of like from their perspective, like the way that,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 3: I wanted to shoot them the way that they see themselves,
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 3: if that makes sense.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 3: So I kind of wanted to give them a little
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 3: bit more of like an epic feel and kind of
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 3: like evoke, I don't know, kind of like some of
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 3: those kind of 80s kind of adventure, like kid adventure movies, like,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know, like Back to the Future and like
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 3: some of the stuff that kind of Spielberg was doing
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: in his early days, stuff like that.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 5: Because, yeah, I mean, there's, again, I brought it up
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 5: on the show, but it's definitely very different. And, again, from,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 5: you know, standard comedies that are shot today, usually anything
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 5: that falls in that category is pretty static and boring.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 5: And you get to something like you're shot on the
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 5: baseball field that's just, like, amazing to look at. So it's, yeah,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 5: it's very different from what you normally see in that
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 5: type of, especially in a comedy these days.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 3: That means a lot, man, because on set it got
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 3: really rough, and the crew kept constantly being like, come on, man,
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 3: it's a comedy, just coverage, coverage, coverage.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 13: Whoa, please, please.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 3: So it means a lot that, you know, you're actually
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 3: picking up on that.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, there's definitely a lot of shots that
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 5: sort of show a little bit of artistry to it
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 5: that you don't necessarily get, especially when you're just trying
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 5: to shoot coverage of stuff.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 5: The only thing I thought maybe... you guys have, and
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 5: I was going to see if, you know, you've dealt
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 5: with it more than anyone, probably, as far as the
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 5: response from people, I almost had, I know you guys
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 5: had to change the title pretty, you know, right up
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 5: to the, right before you started shooting, but even since then,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 5: have you had trouble with title recognition? It just seems
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 5: like it, because even when I heard it, I heard
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 5: you talk about it, I wanted to see it, and
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 5: then I would think of the title and wait, wait,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 5: is that the right movie? Is it something that you've
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 5: feel like has been a problem? Is, is just having
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 5: people have name recognition with that title in your movie?
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: Um, I mean, there's definitely been people who think it's
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 3: called Mystery Men.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: And, um and it was it was originally supposed to
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 3: be called mystery gang yeah but that where there was
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: a clearance issue with that from going scooby-doo um but
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 3: um I mean, maybe it does have that problem, but
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 3: I haven't been too aware of it, frankly.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, I mean, you've gotten such good response just from, again,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 5: the movie geeks of the world, the people that are on,
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 5: you know, that are on the internet and they're into
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 5: online comedy and that are into, you know, even shows
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 5: like we do. I mean, I think those people have
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 5: all found it because they were either already familiar with
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 5: you or, you know, just because they've heard good buzz
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 5: on it. But I'm just, you know, normal people who,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 5: I think you said, like, would be picking up boxes
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 5: back in the day at the video store, now they're
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 5: just flipping through a Redbox or other Netflix queue, and
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 5: it's harder to kind of get a hold of people's
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 5: attention when, especially, yeah, when you've got a title that
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 5: they don't know what to do with.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's kind of the double-edged sword of
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 3: making an independent movie, is, like, you have complete creative
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: freedom to not be told what to do by a
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 3: marketing department, but then you have no marketing department to
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 3: make sure that it will be marketed right. So, you know.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 5: I think I still, yeah, we went into a thing
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 5: on Kick-Ass, how badly marketed that was. I think you
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 5: guys still fare a lot better, and I think it's
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 5: because you didn't have, because I think they almost fell
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 5: into that, where they did the movie completely independently, but
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 5: then somebody took over and started marketing it wrong. Whereas
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 5: I think even your grassroots version still came out a
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 5: lot better. I think you'll still get a lot better
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 5: response from people than having... somebody who doesn't know what
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 5: it is you're doing, you know, try to market it.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that was definitely a big challenge for
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 3: us in general, was, like, it's a movie, because, like,
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: people kind of, when we were trying to get it
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 3: sold and stuff, they were like, well, there are these
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 3: scenes in there that could play in a kid's movie,
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: but then there are these scenes that really couldn't play
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 3: in a kid's movie. And they're like, so who is
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 3: it for? Is it for kids or is it for adults?
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: And we were always like, It's for adults who once
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 3: were kids, which we kind of assumed was all of them, but,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know, you know. So that kind
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 3: of disconnect, the kind of, the difficulty of just kind of, like,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 3: it's not, you don't hear the title and then, like,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 3: see a scene and then immediately just get it was
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: kind of tough. You've got to kind of warm up
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 3: to it. It's like, the whole idea that it's, like,
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: these G-rated characters in an R-rated world, And it kind of...
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 3: And they're not even G-rated. They're almost like live-action cartoon
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 3: characters in a fucked-up, R-rated kind of... I don't know
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 3: about real, but realer world than they live in.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 5: Definitely.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 3: It takes a little while to kind of wrap your
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 3: head around, I think, if you're not already kind of
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 3: on board.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's what I said in our discussion, is
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 5: that it really does... It's something you kind of have
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 5: to click with or you don't. Either you don't get
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 5: what you guys are doing... Or you get it and
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 5: you love it. It's not a lot of middle ground
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 5: with what you were doing.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 3: We've found a lot of people who, like, the first
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 3: time were like, huh? I guess I kind of thought
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 3: about it. And then, like, once they know what it is,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 3: they can kind of go back and enjoy, like, on
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 3: the second year, and they can enjoy it more. Because
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 3: they're like, oh, I know what we're doing now. I
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: can kind of kick back and have fun with this.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 3: Whereas if you're just kind of trying to figure out, like, well,
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 3: what's going on here? Tell me what this is immediately.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 3: We don't completely do that with that, which I'm sure
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 3: wouldn't have really flown... if we had been doing it
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 3: with a studio.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you've really got to kind of have a little
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 5: faith flying into it because it is almost like until
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 5: she comes to give them the double murder scene. It's
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 5: like that far in before you really kind of get
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 5: their level of consciousness. You almost do have to have
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 5: a little patience.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in theaters, because having taken it on the theatrical
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 3: run and having to kind of take it by hand
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 3: to all these different cities and sitting in on a
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: ton of screenings, A lot of times, like, unless it's, like,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: an audience who, like, really knows our stuff, it's, like,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: it's when they get to the strip club that they're, like, oh,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: that's what this is. That's what this always was. Okay.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 3: And then they're more on board.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 5: Well, the strip club wins them.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 4: Over, you know.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. The strip club wins anyone over.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, usually.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 5: That's how it goes. Well, I know you said you
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 5: were working on a new movie. I'd actually just... said
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 5: I was kind of interested to see where you were
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 5: going from here. So can you tell us what it
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 5: is you're working on?
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 3: I can and I can't for some silly reason. They
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 3: don't want to announce. They want to announce it themselves,
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 3: and we're just kind of locking down our final cast member.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 3: So I can't say exactly what the project is, but
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 3: it's a made-for-TV feature. I'm really quite excited about it. Um,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 3: it's not written by any of the Derek folk, but, um,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: it is co-produced by, um, Maggie and DC from Derek.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 4: Interesting.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 5: So is it, is it comedy oriented at least, or?
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an action comedy, actually.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 3: It's a teen action comedy. That if I were to
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 3: tell you the title, you would immediately be able to
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 3: figure out the, like, it has the opposite problem of,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 3: or as, it doesn't have that problem the mystery thing
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: has where, like, you hear the title and you'll immediately go, oh,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 3: I know what that movie is.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the network will love that.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 3: Which I'm kind of feeling comfortable.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 5: Network will love that.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm quite enjoying that element of it right now,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 3: you know?
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 5: It's, yeah, got to be a big change for the
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 5: last couple of years. Yeah. Easily being able to market yourself.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Also, not having to do it all ourselves, the
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 3: marketing side. Yeah. Hello, Chang. That's, actually, just to kind
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 3: of focus on the, because, like, You know, I'm in
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: it to make the movies. I'm not really wanting to
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 3: be a distributor. And so having to kind of spend
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 3: a year and a half at distribution school was taxing.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 5: Well, that's another one we were so impressed with, is
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 5: how much you guys did this completely of your own.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, just saving up your own money for years
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 5: just to put this movie together. That's something impressive that
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 5: you don't see with a lot of people as well.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 5: So it's cool that you... did that but at the
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 5: same time i can see why you don't want to
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 5: do that every movie for the rest of your lives.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 3: No no no yeah it was a means to.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 5: An end it's a foot in the door yeah that's how.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 3: We always saw the internet we always thought like that's
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 3: what we were always saying it's a means to an
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 3: end it's funny just like being at sundance that year
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 3: because everyone was like talking about like oh digital distribution
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 3: and the internet that's the way the future we're like
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 3: We're done with the internet. We want to try and
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 3: get into, like, brick and mortar places. We want to
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 3: get ourselves into more traditional places. We've been doing digital
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 3: for years.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 7: Exactly.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 3: We're trying to, like, swim upstream, basically. Or swim against,
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 3: or whatever the right word is for.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 5: That. Well, it definitely worked, at least so far. We'll
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 5: see where it goes. Are you planning on continuing more
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 5: direct comedy projects, or is Donald getting too.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 5: Is Donald getting out of control at this point? I mean.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 3: out of control. Oh, Donald's never been in control.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 8: Well, that's true.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 5: He's ridiculously talented. It's amazing that he's, that he's kept
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 5: it in check this long.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 3: No, he's, and I remember, like, when we were in college,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: it was like a joke. It was like, it's a
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 3: countdown until Donald's famous. That was, that was, like, kind
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 3: of the running joke. But he's such an uber talent. But, yeah, no, definitely.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, we're kind of, like, working in kind of, like,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 3: smaller Derek groups at this point. Like, I just did
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 3: a kind of like giant, I guess you'd call it
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 3: a short film, but it's kind of a web series
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 3: for Jason Bateman and Will Arnett's company that Dominic was
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 3: involved in, and this film I'm doing right now, Maggie
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 3: and DC are co-producing, and hopefully going to make a
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 3: feature for like a Donald starring vehicle that maybe DC
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 3: will write. Actually, uh... my problem indeed be also are
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 3: adapting bbc of the novel couple of them sleep and
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 3: never had to do that is amazing we've been adapting
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 3: it into a feature but i don't know we we
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 3: are definitely going to be a little bit for sure
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 3: we're not going to keep doing the short uh... that
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 3: we have time uh... we're all the kind of but
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: that is that uh... we have all the way to
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 3: the floor but i do not like but i can
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 3: agree with you to put out tons and tons of
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 3: content every week or whatever like we'd rather kind of
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: like build on stuff and have each kind of thing
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 3: we put out maybe kind of uh be uh step
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 3: forward from the previous stuff and so we um we
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 3: don't mind if we go a long period of time
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 3: between projects and it's like oh my god they just
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 3: made a short what the hell You know what I mean?
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 5: That's kind of where we're at. Yeah, it's better to
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 5: put out quality work than just crank out, you know,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 5: crap all the time.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 3: That's how we feel about it. But, I mean, we've got, like,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 3: on the sketch front, we've got literally probably 50 sketch
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 3: ideas that we're really excited about and want to do.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 3: Just don't have the time or cash flow. Because, like,
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 3: at this point, all of our sketch ideas are, like,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 3: ridiculously huge and expensive.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 5: Of course, you know.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 5: You have to one-up the last one, so, you know.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 5: By the 50th one, it's going to be a multi-million
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 5: dollar sketch.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, if any of us ever get that rich,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're going to see, we're going to be
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 3: spending our money not on speedboats, but on really, really
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 3: stupid shit for the world to watch.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 5: I'm up for that. That sounds like something I.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 2: Can get behind.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 3: It's going to be pretty fun. It's going to be
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 3: pretty fun.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 5: Well, I gave a plug for Mystery Team, but in
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 5: case there's a better one, if you want to tell
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 5: people the best place for them to go and find it,
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 5: I don't mind plugging things that I think are really
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 5: that good. So, yeah, go ahead and tell them where.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: To find it.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 3: Well, the best place to find it online would be
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 3: just to go to mysteryteam-movie.com, where you kind of have
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 3: a link out to all the different places you can go. to.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 3: You can buy it on Amazon. Our official store is
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 3: at the Busted Tees where you can get the signed
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 3: copy signed by all of our members. If you want
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 3: to get the actual DVD, I think you can get
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 3: it on Netflix. You can rent it at Blockbuster. You
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 3: can buy it at Best Buy. You can get it
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 3: at Walmart, Target, pretty much anywhere. But yeah, that's... Oh,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 3: you can also get it on iTunes. You can get
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 3: it digitally on Amazon and a lot of places.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 2: Very cool.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 5: But, yeah, I guess, like I said, I really am
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 5: interested to see where you go. I think you show
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 5: more promise than most people coming out of the Internet,
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 5: so it's really good to see you moving on and
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 5: getting more projects because I kind of want to see
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 5: where you go as far as your visual style. Well,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 5: I do want to thank you for talking to us,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 5: and we're definitely getting it out there and trying to
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 5: get more people to view it that haven't seen it
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 5: so far.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 3: Thanks, man. I really appreciate you guys going out on
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 3: a limb there. It really means a lot.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 5: No problem. Yeah, I just saw it like a month
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 5: or so ago and was like, okay, we're rearranging the schedule.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 5: We need to get this in here. It's like we
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 5: really need to talk about this and kind of get
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 5: that out there to people because I think it's, again,
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 5: there's so few good comedies out there that I really
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 5: kind of wanted to spread the word about it.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing you guys' discussion about it.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 5: Hey.
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• 1:49:53
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• 1:49:54
  Speaker 8: I'm harder than a consonant.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 4: And that's because I'm flyer than the mothership. You ostrich.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 8: I'm awesome rich.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 9: Call a bitch.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 4: Fresher than my lozenges.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 9: The problem is you in the danger zone like Kenny Loggins.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 4: It's I'm fly. I'm tight. They say I'm sick.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 3: Day right.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 4: You think you good. I swear I put your shit
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 4: to bed.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 5: Good night. One minute left to top off the evening
• 1:50:17
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• 1:50:18
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• 1:50:19
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• 1:50:20
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• 1:50:39
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• 1:51:00
  Speaker 4: Woo-woo!
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 7: It's part of.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 3: Your problem, you know.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 8: You haven't seen enough movies.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 3: All of life's riddles are answered in the movies. And now,
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 3: on with the show.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 11: I got this.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 4: Money baby I wanna spend it on you.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 11: I got this Sunday baby I wanna spend it with
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 11: you We can do what you like Promise that I'll
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 11: be true I got this money baby I wanna spend
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 11: it on you.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 8: All right, we are back. And we've kind of got feedback.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to do a full-fledged feedback on this one.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 5: We're definitely playing with the basic structure of the show,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 5: as you might have noticed.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 8: So we're starting to.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 5: Change things up, and we'll still be back with the
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 5: full crew, or in theory, I don't know. Some of
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 5: them were supposed to be here today, and they disappeared.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 5: They might be dead.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 8: They need a cell phone charger. Yeah, he's off charging
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 8: his phone somewhere in a ditch. I'm not really sure, really.
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 5: So hopefully we'll have live characters for you next time out,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 5: because some of them just sort of disappeared.
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 6: Hopefully those guys that pissed on his car aren't... room
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 6: or something who knows.
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 5: Oh maybe he exploded a vermin in their front seat
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 5: but either way um yeah so that was yeah something
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 5: we're gonna work in some of these episodes as we
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 5: go on it and just do episodes based around the
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 5: movie and not the full-fledged movie party that we have
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 5: here every once in a while so we'll spread those
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 5: out but i still there's a lot of movies i
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 5: want to work in that you know that we're going
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 5: to tie in and maybe a smaller group as we
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 5: go along so this was a the first of many
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 5: of those as we christen this new section here, uh,
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 5: the ongoing, uh, experimental sofa theater. But this one I
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 5: did see, and this isn't even a full flinch feedback.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 5: It was something that showed up on our, uh, on
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 5: our Facebook wall, which I just noticed this past week.
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 5: But I thought, I thought if anybody would appreciate it,
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 5: it would be you. So this was on the wall,
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 5: which once again, if you're not following us, Hey, you know,
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 5: befriend us on Facebook and, uh, We're on the Twitter
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 5: as well. So if you're not, we've actually started getting
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 5: a lot of people just randomly adding us on Facebook,
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 5: which is kind of cool.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 12: Good.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 5: It's not just me attacking people as it was in
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 5: the beginning. So now I don't even do anything and
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 5: there'll be four or five sitting there.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 8: So that's kind of cool.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 6: It's got to make you feel good.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 5: It's good to know at least we're, well, I don't
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 5: know if they've heard of us, but maybe we're just
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 5: perplexing them with whatever our little icon is on someone
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 5: else's page.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 8: And they're like, what the hell is that?
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 6: And then they add it.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 8: I'll take that, too. Hey, you know, that's how you
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 8: get new people.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 6: Even if it's just people friend collecting, that's always fun, too.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 8: We'll take that, too. Sooner or later, they'll see one
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 8: of our posts and go, they watched what? Shark Depots?
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 8: What the hell?
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 8: And that's how, you know, you sucker people in.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 5: So, this time, we heard from Sam, and he posted
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 5: on the page, because of you guys, I freaked out
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 5: at my local used DVD store when I came across
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 5: a copy of The Apple.
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 8: Thought you'd like to know. So that was somewhat directly
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 8: related to you personally.
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 8: You pointed out that we needed to watch the Apple.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 5: So I thought, yeah, that I needed to mention that
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 5: while you were here because you've changed this guy's life.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 6: At the video store. I'm proud that he's at the
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 6: video store.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 6: That even if you're not renting, you've got to go and.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 8: Go scam some used DVDs.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 6: Something, yeah.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 8: That's sort of where it's come.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 5: I mean, now you don't go to rental stores, but
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of used DVD stores out there that
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 5: have sprung up in their place. So that's kind of
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 5: the closest thing you can get. You still get to
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 5: wander around and flip it over and look at the
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 5: back and look at the horribly done video boxes usually.
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 8: They're still doing that, mind you.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah. There's a couple of them I've seen lately and
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 5: I'm just like, wow, how can you fuck... I mean,
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 5: they'll be a perfectly good one-sheet poster and then when they,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 5: for some reason, they've always done this when they go
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 5: to VHS and now when they go to DVD, they
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 5: decide to pieced together this new version of giant slapped-together
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 5: Photoshop heads of the people that are in it, usually.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 5: I'm just like, oh, how can you take what was
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 5: like a cool artistic idea and then just slap stars'
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 5: faces on there with the title?
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 6: It hurts me. Like I said earlier in the episode,
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 6: I know the movie by the one sheet or by
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 6: the box. Don't rehash it and put it in a
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 6: new box.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 6: Give me that original one so I know without reading,
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 6: because I hate reading.
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 8: Reading? We don't encourage that on the show.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 6: I just look at pictures.
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 8: That's why we watch movies.
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 6: That's why we watch movies. I'm sure there's better books
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 6: out there. I'm not going to read them. Reading.
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 3: So, anyway.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 6: Good for you.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 8: So, yeah.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 5: I wrote back and said I've made it feel like,
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 5: you know, I've made a difference in the world.
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 8: We've changed Sam's life.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 6: Hopefully Sam's seen the apple.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 8: Or at least hurt us enjoy it enough to get
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 8: a good one watch out of it. I would get
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 8: repeated watches out of it.
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 5: I'm going to continue to show that movie to people
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 5: because it's amazing.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 8: It needs to be.
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 6: I'm still impressed that they made it in 1980.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and then it got made, period. Just looking at it,
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 8: I'm just like, wow, somebody gave them money to do this.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 8: That's awesome.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. So, yeah.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 6: And why there aren't late night Rocky Horror-like cult followings
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 6: for the Apple.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 8: They're missing it.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 4: They are.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 8: Fucking midnight show at the Apple.
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 6: People dressed. Never mind. We'll have them. We can sell them.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 5: Actually, the other day I saw there was a, I
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 5: went to somewhere where I won't go into because we'll
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 5: probably cover it next week. But I saw somebody with someone.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 5: They were doing face painting at this event. And there
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 5: was somebody that had one, and it looked sort of
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 5: like a triangle. And for a second, I went, are
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 5: they wearing a BIM mark?
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 6: Nice.
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 5: It was actually a badly drawn triangular-shaped spider web. I
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 5: guess they're going for some sort of Halloween theme here. But, yeah,
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 5: from a distance, I thought they had a BIM mark
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 5: on it. I was like, oh, shit, it started. Soon
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 5: we'll all be under the BIM influence.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 8: The BIM way of life.
• 1:57:56
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• 1:57:59
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• 1:58:04
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• 1:58:18
  Speaker 8: Okay, kids, get out your decoder bins.
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 5: Do it.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 6: Do you want me to do it? I'm just not
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 6: versed in that. I expect you can just splice in
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 6: someone else doing it.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 8: That'll just confuse people. All of a sudden, Roger sprung
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 8: up out of nowhere. And Misty did some sort of
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 8: crazy beatbox number. We'll get to that in a minute.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 6: Or not.
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 8: It's time for the Movie Meltdown Secret Circle reveal of
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 8: the next feature. And maybe we'll just leave it at that.
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 8: Next week will be our epic....
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 2: 100th episode. 100.
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 8: Monumental that we've made it this far.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 6: Triple digits.
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty damn impressive as far as I'm concerned.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 6: You're in a separate tax bracket then.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 8: Wait, I have to pay taxes?
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, you're making so much money off of this podcast.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 5: I can't even afford to buy a new microphone, for
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 5: God's sakes, which some of these sound terrible.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 8: I realize that, guys. But, yeah, there's no more money
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 8: in the lack of funds, so I don't know what
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 8: to tell you, but.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 5: Somehow, with the taped together equipment here, which I'm not kidding,
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 5: there's masking tape on our equipment right now.
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  Speaker 6: If I turn my head too far to the left,
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  Speaker 6: I lose one ear.
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  Speaker 5: So, yeah, with the drawbacks and hardships that we have,
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  Speaker 5: we've made it to 100 episodes.
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  Speaker 4: Yay.
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  Speaker 8: Especially with this crew not killing each other.
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  Speaker 5: That's all an impressive feat as far as I'm concerned. So,
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  Speaker 5: it's also timely as ever that this also hits on
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  Speaker 5: our Halloween episode.
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  Speaker 8: So, this will be our amazing... scary creepy creepy creepy.
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  Speaker 6: Episode expect a couple of people on the show to
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  Speaker 6: be hopped up on candy i.
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  Speaker 5: Would i'm sure there will be candy and i'm sure
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 5: somebody if not everyone will eat way too much way
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 5: too much yeah if i know our crew and i
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 5: do we like candy and we like self-indulgence so yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Giggle fits followed by sugar crashes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah it's that's gonna be the most scary thing
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  Speaker 5: on this uh Creeptastic episodes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, but yeah.
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  Speaker 8: In the following week, well, we'll just have to see.
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  Speaker 5: I think I can go with The Shadow Knows, but
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 5: then it'll make people think we're going to watch The Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if anybody's on board for The Shadow,
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  Speaker 5: although we have referenced it several times lately, but not yet.
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  Speaker 8: I'd be up for it at some point.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, as I said last time out, we're sort
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 5: of mixing it up and we're not going to tie
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 5: ourselves down to a two in a row because Lord
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 5: knows what's going to happen between now and then. And
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  Speaker 5: so we'll, we'll tell you next time out and we
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  Speaker 5: might throw out some possibilities, uh, for the future, but yeah,
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 5: we don't even have anything set at this point. So
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  Speaker 5: I will probably put the word out once again on
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  Speaker 5: Facebook and Twitter as to what we're watching somewhere down
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  Speaker 5: the line, just to let you know if you want
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  Speaker 5: to watch it ahead of time. So look for it
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  Speaker 5: on there. Otherwise, um, you know, Halloween three next week,
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  Speaker 5: Halloween three, the wonderful Halloween, episode, including an interview with
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 5: Tom Atkins.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: We'll see what he thought of Halloween 3. I still
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 8: haven't made up my mind yet.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to have to sit down and really try
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  Speaker 5: to figure out what's going on in this one.
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  Speaker 8: How come there's no Michael Myers?
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  Speaker 6: How come there's no Jamie Lee Curtis?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm not complaining about that part. I had my
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 8: fill of her. I don't know. Somehow I was not
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 8: a fan. She's awesome in the first movie. Again, the
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 8: first movie's awesome, but yeah.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 6: She still considers True Lies to be her best movie.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 8: She's terrible.
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  Speaker 6: She said that's when she really could be an actress.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Was in True Lies.
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  Speaker 2: God.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 5: Again, for as many good things as Cameron put together, I.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 8: Don't get True Lies.
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  Speaker 6: Wasn't Tom Arnold the best thing in that movie?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he really was, and that's kind of scary. What
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 8: does that say about a movie when Tom Arnold's the
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 8: best thing in it? So, yeah. Anyway, sidetracked.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 5: So, as far as music, and you may have noticed,
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 5: we were playing some Childish Gambino, which is actually the pseudonym,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 5: the rap name, if you will, for our star this episode, Mr.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 8: Donald Glover.
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 5: He also, aside from the fact that He's a ridiculously
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 5: talented comedic writer working on 30 Rock, is an actor
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 5: on Community, making movies, hanging out with Derek Comedy, but
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 5: he's also a rap star. What the hell can't he do?
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 5: It's kind of frustrating, really. Renaissance man. Renaissance man. He's
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 5: still practically a kid, and look what all he's accomplished.
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 5: It kind of pisses me off, really. Yeah.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 6: Here i'm talking about ad ads.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 5: It's a good thing i i think he's he's pretty
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 5: damn impressive because yeah i i'm still kind of praising
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 5: him quite a bit in this episode but i think
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 5: he deserves it so yep childish gambino is his rap
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 5: name and uh all the rest of them have just
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 5: been his his solo work but uh they he did
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 5: do one that was a mystery team themed song with
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 5: guest rapping by mc chris You can't go wrong. I mean,
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 5: between the two of them, that's got to be awesome.
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 5: So that's how we'll go out.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 8: Otherwise, that about does it. We will return next week.
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  Speaker 8: Same geek time, same geek feed. Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 9: Bye.
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 5: Bye.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 11: Yes, it is.
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 8: A crime is a crime.
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 4: From the tiniest marble that rolls down a storm drain
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 4: to an autographed baseball that rolls down a storm drain. Now,
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 4: who's doing this?
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 8: I'm in.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 4: I'm in.
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  Speaker 8: To the storm drain.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 5: No, Charlie.
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 4: No.
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 7: I gotta take a stand. Nigga, that's who I be. Nigga,
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 7: that's who I am.
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 4: I gotta take a stand. Nigga, that's who I be.
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 7: And I hope that you understand.
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 4: I'll be riding forever.
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah!
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 9: Child is Campino. Hot as the bottom Reno. Niggas that say,
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 9: what he know? Give me five like I'm Tito. I
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 9: never touch tequila. I burst it out by Gino. I
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 9: keep a lightsaber like I fuck around with Greedo. It's
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 9: time to be a grown up. Nigga, get your own up.
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 9: See a nigga roaming, riding on the promos. Damn, this
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 9: beat is so nuts.
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 4: Thank you, MC DJ.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah, my mouth is nasty. Like I gave a DJ.
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 9: I don't give a fizz up. These niggas, they're out
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 9: of this up. This nigga is off the is up
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 9: like walking out of a prison.
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 4: Mommy, I see the vision. You're fucking with ambition.
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 9: Casino money like Navajo. Their money's since Geronimo. My money
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 9: cousin Lado, though. Beat me on that up 13.
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 8: Call me Mr.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 4: Masturbate.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 8: Tighter than your jerking grip.
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 9: You looser than some turkey meat.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 4: Haters need to listen up.
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 9: My attitude's a prostitute who broke cause she don't give
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 9: a fuck.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 4: Good morning. I got to take a stand. Nigga, this
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 4: is who I be.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 7: Nigga, this is who I am. I got to take
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 7: a stand. Nigga, this is who I be. And I
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 7: hope that you understand. I'll be riding forever. I'll be
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 7: riding forever. I'll be riding forever. I'll be riding forever.
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 4: I'll be riding forever. I'll be riding forever. I'll be
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 4: riding forever. I'll be riding forever. The game is a fight.
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 8: What?
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 4: Okay. Oh, shit. What?
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: What?
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 14: A crime so all criminals better hold up I'll be
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 14: riding forever like a vampire on a bus like a
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 14: roller coaster tester I'll.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 4: Be riding till I bust I got.
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 14: My magnifying glass my bike matches my cup watch my
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 14: sneakers eat pedo you can dine on the dust whatever
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 14: it is we can handle but we really don't do
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 14: murder fuck our suspects gather clues then we break for
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 14: a cheeseburger no shit Sherlock mad like Murdoch if there's
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 14: a mystery going on be in it like.
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 4: Robin Williams chilling good morning being normal This comedy movie.
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: It was not fun to make at all. It was like,
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: so when you're sitting in your living room, yucking it
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: up or in the theater or, you know, you're saying, oh,
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: with your little friends, you.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 4: Know, oh, this is so funny.
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 8: It's not funny.
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: We started making this five years ago. We're still trying
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: to get shit right.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 13: I'm going to get some cheese.
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 4: It's from Crafty.
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  Speaker 2: This show is a production of Movie Meltdown, produced and
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 2: edited by Brian Renfro, featuring contact music performed by Tamara Deering.
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 2: To help support the show, email producer at moviemeltdown.com for
• 2:07:41
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