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Bullied Nostalgia: The Chipmunk Adventure · Bullied Nostalgia

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Yo, what's good fans? It's your boy chance here, and
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you're blocked into another episode of bullying nostalgia.
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And then if you've been following the show, you already
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know what we're about. We take those memories, those
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embarrassing, cringey. Oh my God, why did I ever think
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of that kind of moments and flip them?
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You hear me? I hear you.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. So many.
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Of our favors to watch. Oh look, now they're being
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bashed. I guess.
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That's what we should expect on the Bullied Nostalgia Podcast.
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As Chance so eloquently said before the drop, we're the
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Bullied Nostalgia Podcast and we revisit the movies and TV shows
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we loved from our childhoods only to tear them apart like
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diamond filled chipmunk dolls as adults.
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I'm Tim and well, you've already heard from Chance.
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We're joined by John and Kai. What?
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A weird obsession with diamond filled chimpunk dolls.
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If you somehow stumbled onto our podcast and this is your first
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time with us, yes, Chance always talks like that.
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We do a monthly podcast and we have a pretty deep back catalog.
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At this point, there are almost 50 episodes available for you to
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peruse that range from Canadian TV shows for kids to Earnest,
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Scared, Stupid. For those of you a few episodes
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deep thinking this show can be better, please e-mail us
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Lastly, if you're a die hard and have been with us through thick
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and thin, you can spread some bullied nostalgia love with some
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of our merch found by searching Bullied Pod on redbubble.com.
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Speaking of our merch, in celebration of our upcoming 50th
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episode, I added a new design to our available shirts.
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And John, I also took down heavy eggnog, making you the only
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owner of that shirt in the world.
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Oh my goodness, the value. Sky.
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I thought it was already priceless, but now it's
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something else. The reason for taking it down,
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it was just we were making too many sales.
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No, you're the only owner in the world I.
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Wonder why nobody bought that? Does that mean people have been
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buying our other shirts? Yeah, it's scary.
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I. Wonder why someone would wear
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that heavy eggnog shirt? Dad, what's her best selling
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shirt? Oh, the best selling shirt is
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definitely nicotine colored glasses.
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But yeah, we're slowly adding to the library and if people have
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any quotable quotes or things that they want to add to the
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merch store, anything that shows up on this podcast is fair game.
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Oh my goodness, Tim, I'm looking at your new shirt.
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Oh, this is fun. Thank you.
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Yeah, for our listeners, there's Lex Luthor's Tinder account on a
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shirt, and it outlines his age. I never knew Lex was 41 years
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old, but it does say that he likes money, power and Mozart
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and dislikes animals and children.
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Common knowledge Common. Knowledge.
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Yeah, that's pretty good, Tim. That might be my favorite design
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yet. Thank you.
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Honestly, every time I go through an episode I'm like, oh,
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that could have been a T-shirt. That could have been a good
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quote. We're slowly building up.
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Lists of things that we could do, but they all look terrible
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on shirts. Yes, I showed Kai the other day.
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I have a list of probably 50 quotes from episodes of our
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podcast. They're all very funny, but a
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lot of them I don't know how to make into a T-shirt.
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So we'll see. We got hung up.
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You can. Also do like mugs and stuff.
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What would big mug? I don't know of anything we've
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said, but I really want a mug that says World's greatest mug
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on it. Done.
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I'm sure that exists already. OK, well let's jump into today's
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episode. The movie we watched today was
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one that is very near and dear to my heart.
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It is 1987's The Chipmunk Adventure.
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Before we talk about what the movie is though, what are
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initial thoughts? Had people seen this movie
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before? Did you remember it?
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Did you enjoy your viewing? Yes, I've seen this movie
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before. I think we owned the DVD event
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when I was younger, but this movie is ups and downs families.
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I had no recollection of watching this movie and I
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generally say that that was a good thing.
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It was good that you didn't remember it.
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Or what did that mean? Yeah, if I had seen it.
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Good thing I forgot it. Yeah, as Chance has kind of
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inferred, a lot about this movie has not aged well, but I'm sure
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we'll get into that stuff. I can't help but love this
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movie, though. There's so many things that I
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absolutely adore about it, so it's one of those things where
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I'm willing to look past some of the problematic stuff.
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John, do you have a hot take before we get into it?
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Oh yeah, without giving too many spoilers away, I do remember
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watching this movie a lot. Enough that I feel like maybe we
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owned it on VHS in the big case. But yes, there's a lot of fond
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memory that goes along with it, and now watching as an adult, I
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feel like I'm able to appreciate or criticize things in a
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different way. Yes, we did own this VHS and
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chance is also correct. When I got married I upgraded to
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the DVD and I gifted the VHS to a friend.
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So the DVD probably still exists out of On the Farm, which means
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that we had to find some way of watching this digitally and
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there is not very good options out there on the Internet.
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Right now, 800 ads. To be clear, the website where
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we watched it, what was it? Every minute and a half you had
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to watch an ad. It was 2 minutes, 2 minutes.
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OK, Yeah. It's free.
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On Billy Billy with no. Ads.
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Oh nice. I do also have an ad blocker.
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Yeah, it's too bad to find out that there was a way I could
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have watched this without seeing the same Walmart Ad 40.
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It was really bad. It was a lot of ads.
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It was a lot of ads. OK, there's too many the.
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First surprise for me watching this as an adult was the
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realization that most of these songs are original songs and a
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lot of them are really good. A lot of them slap.
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I don't agree with you, OK. OK, even the girls and boys of
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Rock'n'roll, you didn't like that.
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I think the music is fine, it's just the chipmunks have the most
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grating voice in the world. Yeah, that's kind.
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Of with regular human voices that song would sound great.
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With chipmunk voices it sounds really bad.
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OK, well that's kind of the point.
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That's their whole shtick. Yeah.
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Maybe you have a badge? Dick.
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For those who don't know, Alvin and the Chipmunks, whether TV
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shows or movies, incorporate a musical component.
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So this movie's music felt like they had come up with an album
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and then had to somehow make the movie fit that album, but do it
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in a really poor way. So it's a lot of really odd
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lyrics for these little chipmunks to be singing to these
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adult women or these chipettes to be singing to snakes when
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they are in Mexico. They are singing to adult to
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women. I like you to hold me tight.
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You are too divine. If you want to be in someone's
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arms tonight, just be sure the arms you're in are mine.
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I like your lips. I like your eyes.
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Do you like my hips to hypnotize you?
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So that was the song, the infants or the small shoulder?
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Yeah, very odd. Chipettes, which are the girl
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chipmunks, sing to some snakes. Give me a clue.
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Tell me what I need to do to get lucky with you.
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Getting lucky, getting lucky is really what it's all about.
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I mean, to be fair to the chipmunks, they aren't really
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children, and they aren't really chipmunks either.
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I don't really know what they are.
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For all we know, it's fine. Balls of play DoH.
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Yeah, they kind of look like an unfinished Muppet.
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Kai, you're proposing that this distinction between adult and
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child doesn't really apply to them, but.
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We don't know what vast storage of years of knowledge these
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aliens have because. They're like a.
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Trillion years old. Along with the fluffy.
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Yeah. I mean, they kind of look a
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little similar. They do like a sub.
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Species. The subspecies.
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It's like how? Ants.
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Will have drones or soldiers. Exactly.
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So the most famous song sung in this movie and one that is not
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an original for this movie is the one sung by Miss Miller who
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sings Witch Doctor and I have a sneaking suspicion that some
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people did some homework or some studying.
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So does anyone want to tell us why that song is in the movie?
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Can't you take this or me? I did not study this.
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Isn't Witch doctor a month song? Kind of, yeah.
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So what happened was a guy named Ross Begdesarian sang the song
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Witch Doctor back in the 1950s and he wanted to give a fun
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sound in the background so he speed up his voice to make
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himself sound funny for the Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang.
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And it had this weird high pitched sound when he speed it
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up. So he thought it would be funny
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to make songs entirely in that voice.
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That's where he burst the concept of the Chipmunks, so in
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1958 used a synonym for his own name, calling himself Dave
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Seville. He created a band called Dave
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Seville and the Chipmunks where he got way more notoriety and
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fame altering his voice than he ever did as a traditional
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musician. So the song Witch Doctor is
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actually, if you want to get real technical, the first Alvin
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and the Chipmunks song. Weird, weird, Weird.
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So yeah, he created them back in 1958.
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And you guys, there is so much chipmunk stuff, like all the
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research, you could do a ton of deep dives.
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We could do an entire season on chipmunk content.
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So I'm not going to go too deep into it in case we ever revisit
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something else this Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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I don't want to do what I did with the sequels to Land Before
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Time, where I did all my research and burned through it
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all in Land Before Time 3, only for us to go back to that well
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over and over again. Do you know why they switched to
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Alvin and the Chipmunks instead of Dave Siddell?
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I think it was just overtime they took the focus more and
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more off of him. Like a John Arbuckle Garfield
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situation. Yeah.
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A lot of the other things too, like the Ghostbusters were very
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famous when I was young, but then they got their own cartoon
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series called The Real Ghostbusters and a couple
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seasons in it was renamed Slimer and the Ghostbusters.
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They would find out what was actually popular about these
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properties and shine the light on that.
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Realistically, Dave's character was just the straight man, and
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so he became less and less necessary as time went on.
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For people that have an understanding of what Alvin and
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the Chipmunks is, if they've never heard of it before, is it
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a cartoon? Is it live action?
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Oh well, you know what we haven't done at all is we
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haven't done a summary of this episode.
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So, chance, do you want to tag in and tell us what the Chipmunk
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Adventure is? Sure, I can do that.
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The chipmunk adventure stars are 6 protagonists, Calvin,
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Theodore, Simon, Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor, two
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different trios, boy chipmunks and female chipmunks.
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They are approached by two villainous ne'er dwells, Klaus
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and Claudia, who are essentially getting diamonds across the
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world and getting their money and using these six children to
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be their Gopher without realizing it, and they tricked
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them into doing this by staging a race around the world.
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However, partly through, the chipmunks realize their
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situation and then have to defeat Klaus and Claudia before
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they continue on in their villainous crimes.
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To be clear, these six childlike chipmunks are anthropomorphic.
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They wear clothing, glasses, have hairstyles.
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But everyone else in the movie apart from a pet dog who acts
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like a regular dog and doesn't talk English, everyone else is
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human beings and no one really treats the chipmunks like
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they're different. It's not like, oh this is weird,
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the chipmunks just are treated like regular human kids.
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I don't even know if they're referred to as chipmunks other
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than a title like they are the chipmunks and the chip ads.
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I don't think anybody ever says, oh, look at those chipmunks.
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That's an interesting point, John.
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They aren't like the other animals in this world.
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Like there's a Penguin, there's a lot of Penguins, but even
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though they can make snowballs, that is the closest thing that
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they are to anthropomorphic. Like you said, there's a shark.
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There's various creatures in the world, but none of them can
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speak or wear glasses. So it does beg the question,
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what are these creatures and if they are chipmunks?
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Chipmunks, how old do they live? Like 5 years?
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Six years typically, and they're quite small.
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These creatures are the size of small children, so they must
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they. Don't have tail.
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At least they don't have right. They aren't chipmunks, whatever
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these things are. They've been lying to us.
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They have my number one note in my notes list.
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It just says do not look like chipmunks in all caps.
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Maybe it's like like the Transformers arrived and this
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was the way they were able to camouflage.
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Oh, look at that normal chipmunk child.
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Yeah, of. Course.
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In real life, there are chipmunks walking all around us
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and we have no idea. Yeah.
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Is that the implication? I think this really more begs
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the question who the real villains of this movie are,
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right? Klaus and Claudia have been
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fooled just like the rest of us. Yeah, I think the chipmunk trio,
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Alvin, Simon and Theodore, I think they make for a really fun
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collection of personalities. I agree.
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Alvin likes to get into trouble. He's always seeking attention
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and excitement. Simon is kind of the intelligent
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one, but also sarcastic. He tends to say what the
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viewer's thinking and all the worst stuff happens to him.
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Or Theodore is just like a little cute butterball.
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Cute, but kind of useless otherwise.
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And a poker. And I actually thought, I don't
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know why this came to my mind. I was explaining the movie to a
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friend and I was like, I don't know.
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The Chipmunks are kind of like Bart Simpson, Martin Prince, and
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Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons. That would actually be a fun
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lineup though. Can you imagine if they did
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Simpsons episodes about those three together all the time?
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I mean, it's been out for a long time.
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They probably have. You know there.
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Might have been an episode where they went camping together.
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Ralph is one of my all times from Simpsons, so that does
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speak really highly of Theodore. He's just a little porker who
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just can't get the food that he wants at any given time.
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Honestly, Simon was my favorite. He was hilarious and I couldn't
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help but laugh at everything going wrong to him.
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He's like the responsible one who seems to get all the
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consequences of his brother's actions.
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He's such a stick. It's like if Leonardo got pied
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in the face every time he. Yeah, and I think you hit on
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something there, John. There's a lot wrong with this
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movie. It meanders in some weird ways.
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There's a lot of stuff that if this movie were made now, would
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straight up be considered racist.
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These creatures, whatever they are in some weird ways with the
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music, but 100% Simon, Theodore, and Elvin in this movie are all
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very funny and very fun to watch.
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I might be romanticizing this a little bit, like I'd have to
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watch some of their other stuff nowadays, but I think that this
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movie does those 3 the best of any movies that have come out.
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All three characters are very likable for different reasons.
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Yeah, I thought that was a hilarious moment where they're
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traveling between these different countries and in this
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one country, Theodore, the most simple minded one, gets elevated
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to God like status for a time. And then Alvin and Simon are
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forced to worship and follow his commands, which I thought was
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just like a really fun way of positioning the characters.
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Yeah. Did you guys notice anything in
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the quality of animation? I thought it was surprisingly.
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Good, I actually had a note about that.
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I liked a lot how active everyone was.
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They were very expressive. The chipmunks, of course, have a
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lot of movement. But like, I just liked.
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Looking at Klaus and Claudia the whole time, it was almost a
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different animation. Style for the humans.
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Yeah, Klaus and Claudia look so slimy and just the worst, but
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they look so good. We're doing it.
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Yeah, it was really good. I already mentioned that the
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character designs are a little unsettling.
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They look very. Strange, I would argue bad.
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But the emoting that happens, the character expressions and
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stuff that the chipmunks were making, I was just blown away at
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how good the animation was. And I was like, there's
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something going on here. And sure enough, this blows my
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mind. It all comes back to 1 moment,
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one pivotal moment in the 80s. If I could remind you guys, take
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you back to the Black Cauldron. If you remember, Don Bluth got
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really upset that the animators at the time were not trying new
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ideas. And so he said, OK, I'm going to
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start my own studio. If anybody wants to come with
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me, let's go. Do that.
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And so a bunch of the young artists left Disney and created
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Don Bluth's animation Studios. And that really derailed Black
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Cauldron. Black Cauldron was in limbo.
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It took something like 6 years to make that movie and then by
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the time it came out, it was a huge flop.
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And so Disney has to unload their art department.
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They fire most of the the artists and where do they go
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this movie? Alvin and the Chipmunk.
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Yeah, that is wild to me. I was like, there's no reason
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why the animation is this good. I just couldn't wrap my head
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around it. It turns out it's because it's
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Disney animation, just not under the Disney umbrella.
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Just really cool. This movie is such a strange
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situation to me because I can see stuff that's glaringly bad
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about it, but then also there's so many unusually strong
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redemptive qualities that I just really love.
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Yeah, I have a couple facts left, but is there anything
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anybody wants to talk about? It was a really weird choice to
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put them in hot air balloons because I don't know if you guys
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know this, but hot air balloons are really hard to fly.
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And there no way to control where they go you.
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Can control where they go. Essentially wind changes
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direction at different elevations.
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So in order to go a consistent direction, you need to manage
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your height in which direction the wind is blowing.
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And so with the Coriolis effect, usually in the northern
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hemisphere you can only head east.
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Usually in the southern West there is a lot of room where you
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can, it's just a lot more difficult and a lot slower.
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I plotted the points as best as I could and they go 51,433
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kilometers in this movie. Checking normal hot air balloon
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flight, 40 kilometers is what I understand to be fast. 10
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kilometers is what's used for commercial flights.
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There's no speed limit to hot air balloons because they just
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go as fast as the wind can. But if they were going 40
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kilometers an hour, it would take them 53 days.
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To be fair, there is a longest flight light record for hot air
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balloons that goes 40,000 kilometers and that took 21
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days, which means that on average they were going 80
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kilometers an hour. So maybe, but it would be very
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difficult for them to get anywhere on a hot air balloon.
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Well, the hot air balloon is just the beginning of the
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problems with Klaus and Claudia's plan.
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They decided to give dolls full of diamonds for these chips to
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deliver. In a pirate ship shredded by
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sharks, these might be the most complicated drop off points of
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all time. I like the one that was in a
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blade of a windmill that takes some precision hot air
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ballooning. I want to point out that they
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show up to the House of Klaus and Claudia and they have dolls
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for them. I guess they made a whole bunch
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of dolls overnight. But then they fly Cuba and some
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ancient man who's like, take this doll that looks exactly
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like your friend. Where did he get that doll from?
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Did he make it? Did everyone make dolls?
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Because the point of the kids is to have Klaus and Claudia get
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the stuff because they can't deliver it.
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So they didn't deliver the dolls to everyone else.
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Everyone had to make their own dolls.
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The chipmunks are world famous because they're hideous freaks
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and everybody is so confused. You do make a good point chance
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that for people to exchange their dolls with these dolls,
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how did they get the plans to make those dolls?
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Or who shipped those dolls to them?
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Maybe Klaus and Claudia sent a whole bunch of empty dolls
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because that would go under the radar.
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Imagine going to the post office.
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I would look like to ship 80 boxes of empty dolls, 80 boxes
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of dolls to 80 different locations.
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In the midst of this big enemies master plan, it seems like
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there's another enemy in the midst, a guy named Jamal who
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sends his hench men to try and get these dolls.
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But it's revealed at the last moment in this movie that
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Jamal's actually a police detective, and these are good
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guys who are chasing the kids with their golden teeth and evil
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smiles. It's just like, what?
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Why? Whoa, whoa.
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Why is gold evil? What decides if someone has an
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evil smile? You think the movie was trying
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to imply that those were good guys all?
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Along well, I'm just saying if you can't look past their smile
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or their dental work, that seems like a you problem.
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Chance is it a me problem? I'm on your side, jawed.
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They did seem pretty aggressive also.
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They were really weird about it. If I was an Interpol agent and I
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saw some kids who have some diamonds, they've diamond dolls
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in their hot air balloon. If I saw them get off their hot
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air. Balloon go into.
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The water I don't know, I would check in the hot air balloon for
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the other diamond dolls and just wait on the surface OK and not
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go down to the shark infested. Water.
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I understand that, but what if in?
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School, an air tank and scuba gear so that he could go down
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underwater and not see any of the evidence.
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You said what if I saw some kids get out of a hot air balloon?
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Now I understand what you're saying, but what if instead you
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saw some weird anthropomorphic aliens climb out of a hot air
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balloon? And I would not get anywhere
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near them. I would not go into.
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The water seems like a dead trap.
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Sorry man, it's aliens. I'm not a doing this.
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There was another set of characters, the Penguin family.
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Oh my gosh, this. May be the most useless side
26:10
plot of all time. I guess it's about the Chipettes
26:15
finding their conscience, but they're captured by this Arabian
26:20
Prince who's like 6 years old or 8 years old and.
26:23
Then Eleanor decides she wants to eat a Penguin.
26:26
Sandwich, yes. So as it's part of a pre
26:32
marriage gift, they get a Penguin that's been kidnapped
26:36
from its parents. And we know this because the
26:39
Penguin has a necklace with a picture of its parents in it,
26:45
who took that picture of these Penguins and put it in that
26:48
necklace. I was going to.
26:49
Say that some poacher was like, Hey.
26:52
You know, be really funny. What if we took a?
26:55
Picture of this Penguin's family kidnapped it and then made it
26:59
wear the picture. You're right, that is really
27:06
funny, right? So dumb.
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So anyways, the movie spends a good 15 minutes trying to rescue
27:15
this baby Penguin back to its parents.
27:17
No relation to the bigger plot, but they do get to sing a song
27:21
about motherhood. Yeah, well, we don't know if
27:24
they have mothers where they come from.
27:27
Tim, I'm getting the vibe that you're we're in some rose
27:30
colored glasses. I already identified that
27:33
there's a lot of problems with this movie.
27:35
That doesn't mean I don't still love it.
27:37
I feel like Dave, that human who's kind of their adopted dad,
27:44
he calls them sons, but they call him Dave.
27:49
That is a step dad thing to do for sure.
27:55
He really took a back seat in this movie.
27:57
He was hardly in it. My favorite thing?
28:01
Is when Dave sees a boy with a red shirt walk past him and he's
28:06
like. That looks like my son.
28:08
He runs halfway across the city and then when he ends up at a
28:11
location where 2 hot air balloons fly away, he's like
28:14
man, I guess he wasn't here. The guy is so committed to
28:18
searching for his son in a location that should not have
28:21
him, and then the moment that he sees something weird happen, he
28:25
was. I guess it wasn't true.
28:27
John, I cannot get over your statement about how he calls
28:31
them son and they just call him Dave.
28:34
Legit, that really does feel like he's trying to give dad
28:42
energy and they're just like, no, you're not our dad.
28:47
Someone made the comparison earlier to John Arbuckle and he
28:51
does have that same kind of patheticness to him.
28:56
Oh, John Arbuckle. Another side plot is that
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Claudia has a pet dog that doesn't really like Klaus.
29:05
So these are the two villains. It's a very pampered little dog,
29:09
and every time we go to see Claudia and Klaus, Klaus and
29:14
this little dog have some kind of interaction where they show
29:18
how much they hate each other. It never really pays off.
29:21
It's just for the kids who are really bored of bad guy talk.
29:26
Stupid mod ha ha ha which? To be fair, I feel like is a
29:34
thing that happened in cartoons in the 90s.
29:38
Whenever there's some kind of heavy plot conversation or the
29:41
adults are talking and kids under 8 wouldn't understand the
29:45
dialogue, the cartoon movie has someone being silly in some kind
29:50
of way so that the adults can listen to the plot and the kids
29:53
can watch the funny cute animal people have thoughts about Miss
29:58
Miller, the babysitter of the chipmunks did like the.
30:01
One conversation she has with Dave, I think that's funny.
30:05
I just. Came to check up on the boys
30:07
like can I? I don't know, can you?
30:10
Yeah, because they're out on an adventure and she thinks that
30:13
they're with Dave. Dave, get some sleep.
30:16
But Dave thinks. That they're with her.
30:18
Has anyone seen the live action chipmunk movies?
30:21
I saw the first one. Sure I did when I was younger,
30:24
but I. Think I've probably seen one.
30:26
Tim, have you binged them? I would have taken chance to see
30:31
the first one in theaters. I remember going to see it at
30:36
the Lyric Theatre in the mall. Beyond that, maybe I saw the
30:42
second one too actually in all honesty.
30:45
But they pale in comparison to this.
30:49
Yeah, I was doing a quick Google search of them and they're
30:52
Rotten Tomatoes scores in their four live action movies range
30:57
from 10% to like 21%. That is worse than I expected
31:05
you to say, actually. Yeah, I just pulled up Chipmunk
31:09
Adventure on Rotten Tomatoes and it's sitting at a clean 75.
31:16
That means you could add up the scores of all of the live action
31:21
Chipmunk movies and not. Oh my goodness, I'm doing that
31:26
right now. Oh my goodness.
31:30
They got the scores of 16/10/21 and 28.
31:35
Totalling 75. That's incredible.
31:40
With your powers combined. This movie became fractured and
31:46
then the live action movies were made.
31:48
They split up the Infinity Stones who had to be sacrificed
31:53
to get the Soul stone for this. A good question or Penguin?
31:59
Which Penguin had to be sacrificed for this movie?
32:04
So John, you were correct. Production delays in this movie
32:08
resulted in a number of additional stops in the tour
32:12
around the world being cut. And that means the songs from
32:17
each of those stops still made it onto the film's soundtrack.
32:22
So if you're chance and you're like, how can I get more
32:25
chipmunk music in my life? OST, there's lots more there.
32:31
I've seen some people use an image from this movie as like a
32:35
reaction image, which is wild to me.
32:38
I've seen images from this movie before.
32:41
This movie was not a success. We only know that it made $6.8
32:48
million at the box office. We don't know what the budget
32:51
was, but we do know that that was considered a flop for
32:55
whatever it did cost. And I think that that's probably
32:58
straight up because this was a Disney animal information studio
33:02
doing the work It probably did balloon and cost.
33:07
The only saving grace to this movie is that when it made its
33:11
way to VHS, it sold very well. It did well enough.
33:16
And in the home market, it opened the door to be able to do
33:20
the modern garbage chipmunk movies that John already
33:24
mentioned. All right, let's wrap it up.
33:27
AI chance, What did you think about this movie?
33:30
I watched this movie as a kid, so it was weird seeing things I
33:33
recognized. It's like wasn't a super
33:36
pleasant experience. I put this as a three or A2.
33:40
If I put it as a three, I'm required to call it a good
33:43
movie, which I don't think it is.
33:45
Today I'm going to give it a two.
33:47
I agree with John that Simon is probably the most.
33:50
Fun character in the movie. He's a line.
33:53
He's like, park the balloon next to the fountain and crash into a
33:56
tree and he goes, like I said, park it in the tree.
33:59
It's a fun joke. I usually like his dialogue
34:00
dialogue. But the music is so grating and
34:05
for as much as I like the animation and Klaus and Claudia,
34:08
the movie is weirdly racy at times and just uncomfortable to
34:14
watch. But I mean, you were gonna look
34:17
for something to make fun of. I think you would have a gay old
34:19
time. Kai, what about you?
34:21
Yeah, it doesn't do anything better than other movies.
34:25
Go watch something else. If I were to fix this movie,
34:28
there would be a lot that I would need to do.
34:31
You'd need to get rid of all the race stuff, fix up a little bit
34:34
of the loose ends with the characters.
34:35
I do think Simon is great. Theodore fills his role, but I
34:39
think everybody else is just kind of there.
34:41
And then finally I would make the music less annoying to
34:45
listen to. John.
34:48
This movie has a lot of really cute moments and fun ideas, and
34:54
I think it came out at a time when stories didn't really have
34:58
to make sense. People weren't really critically
35:01
thinking, or maybe I wasn't critically thinking because I
35:04
wasn't an adult yet, but ridiculous evil villain plots
35:09
that don't make sense and ridiculous police plans that
35:13
don't make sense, and nothing really makes sense, but
35:17
everyone's OK with it. I think that's kind of fun.
35:20
So I like that this movie just does whatever the heck it feels
35:24
like, and it's really silly and it's really dumb, but I had fun
35:28
watching it. Emily fell asleep.
35:32
Thank you for adding that. Yeah, I mean, I've made my
35:35
stance on this movie pretty clear, actually.
35:39
John, you stole a ton of what was going on in my brain.
35:44
So all I'll really say is that I think I disagree.
35:47
Kai, if you take away all of the weird stuff about this movie, it
35:53
kind of becomes a nothing movie. I actually like that it makes no
35:58
sense that the characters have no rationale behind what they do
36:04
and the science and the logic is all out the window.
36:08
This is one of my all time favorite 80s animated movies
36:13
simply because it is so weird. Pretty much what you said John.
36:18
I appreciate that. They're just like, you know
36:20
what? These are the rules of our
36:22
universe. No ones going to tell us
36:24
otherwise. Let's just have fun with it.
36:27
I do love this movie across the board.
36:30
The movie doesn't age well, but there's something special about
36:35
it that I still absolutely love. And you can tell that care was
36:40
put into it and that still holds up.
36:43
So yeah, you can say whatever negative stuff you want about
36:47
this movie. I acknowledge it and I agree.
36:50
But also, I would watch it again in a heartbeat.
36:54
So just some housekeeping stuff before we go for today.
36:59
Our 50th episode is right around the corner, so we're trying to
37:04
do as many fun things as we can to celebrate it.
37:08
A friendly reminder that we have a pull up that is a head to head
37:13
battle to help us figure out what the community's favorite
37:17
episodes were. So feel free to hop on that a
37:21
couple times and choose your favorite episode.
37:25
Our next episode is our Christmas episode and we will be
37:31
doing Miracle on 34th Street. I'm honestly not sure how it's
37:37
gonna go. This is probably the most
37:40
serious movie we have tackled for the podcast and so that will
37:46
either go very well or not at all.
37:52
Yeah, well, and to clarify, there was a 1947 movie of the
37:57
same name, but we're watching the 1994 version.
38:01
That's correct. This is our nostalgia, not our
38:04
great great great grandparents nostalgia.
38:07
This is our nostalgia, not the aliens who are pretending to be
38:12
chipmunks Nostalgia. You know where people can.
38:15
Watch that, do you? I'm looking it up.
38:18
OK. Disney Plus.
38:20
OK. All right, lookout for weirdos
38:24
who are trying to trade you the opposite gender chipmunk dolls
38:29
for the ones that you're trying to give them.
38:31
Raise Beethoven. Don't forget to breathe in and.
38:35
Out adventure, Jamie. Hold on, I was gonna say, have
38:40
you seen my childhood? Well, thanks everyone for tuning
38:46
in and we'll see you next time for Christmas Times.
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Bye, bye, bye. Bye.