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Ep. #181 - Jupiter Ascending
Transcript
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Tonight we watched Jupiter Ascending, the story of a dog man and a lady who loved him.
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Spoiler alert, they fall in love.
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And she controls bees.
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Hey everyone, and welcome to The Flophouse.
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I'm Dan McCoy.
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Hey guys, it's me, Stuart, that guy from The Flophouse.
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And your last name?
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Wellington.
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And it's me, Elliot Kalin, bon vivant, man about town, star of stage, screen, and screen
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stage.
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Stuart, I enjoyed that you identified yourself from the thing that they're listening to right
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now.
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You might remember me from such podcasts as this one, which you downloaded.
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Channeled some Troy McClure there.
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Welcome to The Flophouse.
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I'm Stuart Wellington, parentheses, The Flophouse.
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I don't have that many credits, guys.
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That's how they list them in backstage.
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How are you going to buy stuff at the Star Wars store if you're all out of credits?
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I'm out of space credits?
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I don't know.
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I'll have to, I don't know, melt a hundred people down into a brick of space juice.
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Yeah, to have your youth liquid to exchange for moon bucks.
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Thanks for the primer on the exchange rates in space.
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Or the Bathory emulsion or whatever they call it.
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This will all make sense later, folks.
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Dan, explain what this podcast does.
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This podcast comes out of your music player.
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Functionally what it does is we talk about a bad movie.
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Functionally what it does is it gives you something to listen to while you're cleaning
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your house.
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Sure.
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Or filing a tax return on the subway, jogging.
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Don't file a tax return on the subway.
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That's sensitive information.
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If you have a nonsense fetish and you need something to masturbate to.
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You're jerking it.
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Yeah.
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The thing is, I was thinking about the same thing.
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So we're brothers in stupid perversion.
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Stupid perversion would be a pretty funny movie.
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It's like a dumb and dumber porno.
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Yeah.
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There's a guy who's really into clown shoes.
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He's got a clown shoe fetish.
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Oh, they're just dumb perversions.
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Not clowns.
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Just the shoes, please.
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I guess that's better than just dumb guys who are pervert.
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Because I think a lot of the internet's filled with those guys.
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I'm really into sea anemones that have been dipped in red paint.
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What is sexy about that?
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I don't know.
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Blame my family.
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It just does it for me.
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It's just something I'm really into.
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It's the way I'm wired, I guess.
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I was a kid and that was it.
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I was masturbating once when a bat flew through the window.
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Ever since I've had to dress up like a bat to get off.
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To fight crime and then jerk it over the criminal's eye.
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Perverts are a superstitious and cowardly lot.
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Just gets my engine going.
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I also, by the way, get turned on by the soundtrack of Real Steel.
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I just happened to be listening to it once and it just did it for me.
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Yeah, it just clicks.
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I just hit puberty at the exact time that Real Steel was released in theaters.
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At the exact time that the soundtrack to Real Steel was released in stores.
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Speaking of clicks, I get weirdly turned on by the Milo Minara comic strip Click.
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It was a sex comic strip comic.
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Oh, I guess that's not that weird.
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It's not as weird as getting turned on by, like, Beetle Bailey.
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Although, even then, I was totally assuming you were going to say Beetle Bailey.
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Let's say Fred Bassett.
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Or getting turned on by High and Lois.
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Let me tell you.
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Lois, she really settled into married life.
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So did High.
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That's a McIlf, a mother from comics I'd like to find.
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I'm in character right now, guys.
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That's not, I'm not speaking.
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In character as what?
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I'm not speaking.
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Dan McCoy, the weirdo?
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Dan McCoy.
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I'm speaking as a guy who gets off on High and Lois.
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Oh, I see.
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Yeah.
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Oh, man.
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What if Lois was with the mom from Marvin?
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Oh.
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Sure.
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Hot stuff.
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I didn't realize Lockhorn could get into this.
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I have a weird thing for Rose from Rose is Rose.
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Well, Rose is a little girl.
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Wait, Rose is the girl?
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I thought she was the mom.
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I thought the mom had a different name.
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Is Rose the mom?
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Dan, explain.
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I thought Rose was the girl.
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We need to get Slylock Fox on this one.
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I know that mom.
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I know that every once in a while the mom imagines she's a biker lady.
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Yeah, she has a Rose tattoo when that happens.
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So maybe she's Rose.
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Oh, like a play of the same name.
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Yeah, Angry Anderson.
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Isn't that a Tennessee Williams play, The Rose Tattoo?
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You're thinking of a streetcar named Rose from Golden Girls.
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Okay.
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So, we said this was a movie podcast.
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Did we say that?
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It's actually a gibberish podcast, but eventually we get around to movies.
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Which we'll do tonight, and the movie is...
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Jupiter Ascending, starring Channing Tatum and...
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LaCunis.
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And...
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Eddie Redmayne.
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And...
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Sean Bean.
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And...
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Uh, That Lady from Orphan Black.
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And...
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A Bunch of Squid Guys.
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And...
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That Lady from Luther.
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And...
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One of the Gargoyles from TV's Gargoyles.
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And...
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Um...
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Uh, Jupiter?
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And...
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Uh, the guy who plays Howard Stark's butler on, uh, Agent Carter.
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I did it.
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And...
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Um...
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Fuck.
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And...
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Uh, I think there's a surprising lack of fucking in this movie.
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And, I think...
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Not that surprising, I guess.
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You're both forgetting the true star of the movie.
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A lady's butt was in it?
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There isn't one scene where he's in a lady's butt.
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The true star of the film, a pair of humble rocket shoes.
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That's right.
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Which steal the show by being used in every action scene.
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Saves the day.
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Would a rocket crocodile wear these shoes?
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Rocket crocodile has a jet pack, but maybe he has shoes as a backup.
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Rocket crocodile watching this movie would be totally, uh, confused as to who to root
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for.
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Should it, should he be, uh, rooting for the Flying Dinosaur Men or the Rocket Shoes?
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I gotta say, if I'm imagining a Rocket Crocodile movie, it's basically this movie...
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You are imagining it, because it doesn't exist.
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It's basically this movie, only not boring.
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Like, if there's a not boring version of this movie...
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Like, a lot more nudity, and I believe I said that Danzig did the whole score.
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Yeah.
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But, uh...
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So, it's like heavy metal across with this movie.
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Which is already kind of heavy metal-y.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, well, this movie is kind of like, it's like, here's what this movie is.
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I think one you got, I think maybe it was Stewart, compared it to The Fifth Element.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yep.
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Which it is, it's like, The Fifth Element...
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This is more like The Third Element.
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And very, like, if someone read a lot of, like, Larry Niven novels, and, like, Cord
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Wintersmith's...
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David Niven?
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...Instrumentality of Mankind stories, and, like, smashed them all together, and, like,
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then watched Flash Gore in the movie, and was like, oh, I'll just do that.
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Yeah.
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Like, it's a very, it's, this is a, this is a science fiction, space opera, campy movie.
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Yeah.
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So, uh, let's, let's summarize this whole big old plot of it.
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Let's summarize...
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Let's summarize Proust, guys.
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Well, uh, Proust did his first book, Wrote About, Wrote About, Proust did his first book,
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Wrote About, Wrote About, he wrote, oh, Time's Up, remember that bit?
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Yeah.
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It's the bit you were just talking about.
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Classic.
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So we, uh, it's...
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So the movie begins...
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Things get off to a good start with a voiceover.
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Yeah.
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Because, you know a movie's gonna be good when a character starts explaining who they
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are to you in voiceover.
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We know that Mila Kunis is a, she's a young lady who is the daughter of a Russian woman
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and an English astronomer.
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Mm-hmm.
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And one day when her mother was pregnant, out of nowhere, as I guess happens all the
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time in Russia, a bunch of hoodlums burst into their apartment...
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Violent goons.
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...stole a telescope and a computer and some money and shot the father.
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And shot, you know, the elder, uh, wait, no, hold on, the, the butler from The Elder Tony
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Stark.
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Exactly.
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And the mother...
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And you think he might pull of the crow later on, but he doesn't.
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He's dead.
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Yeah.
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The original Jarvis is gone.
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And he, so, uh, she illegal immigrates to America in a shipping container that is left
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open, I guess, so they can get lovely sea breezes on the, on the crate ship, uh, and
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Mila Kunis is born in that shipping crate.
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She returns, she, they arrive and I guess they have some cousins who live in Chicago
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and they are together.
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It's like she's born and immediately is a commodity, Elliot.
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That's what that represents.
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Wow.
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It's deep.
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Yeah, continue.
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That's deep.
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So we cut ahead to, we are now on an alien planet somewhere that looks like Frank Gehry
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designed all the buildings.
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There's blue sand and there's three evil space siblings, Eddie Redmayne, this lady and this
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other dude.
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A couple of space Downton Abbeys.
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Yeah, who basically, their names are Balaam, Kalik, and Titus.
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And they're talking about how they, they should inherit this thing and, uh, they inherited
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different planets from their mom and Balaam got Jupiter and Titus got something else.
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And, uh, they want earth.
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Earth is the thing that they want and it's, we find out later, I'm not going to, I'm not
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going to do what the movie does, which is like make you know it.
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You know exactly what this movie is about, but they wait a long time to confirm it.
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But they own planets and they harvest the planets by killing everybody on it and turning
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them into like youth fluid, which they then bathe in and it makes them young.
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And they, there's a, but like Stewart said, while we're watching, they have a bunch of
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Lazarus pits.
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Yeah.
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And let's, I mean, let's back up and say that this is a movie directed by the Wachowski
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siblings.
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So they're basically, uh, recycling the humans as batteries idea from their matrix films.
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And let me tell you, but humans as a life forces, these batteries, youth forces are
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not included.
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Oh boy.
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Oh no, wait a minute.
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So there aren't little burger shaped, uh, UFOs popping around.
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No, Don Amici's not in it.
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Yeah, they were, they are burger shaped, I guess.
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Yeah.
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Well, they're not adorable.
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Did they not have a scene in that where, where one gets trapped between two pieces of bread?
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and a fat man almost eats it.
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That's why I said burger.
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It's essential.
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I haven't seen that movie since it was in the theater.
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This is when the one gives birth
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and it gives birth to a little baby robot.
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Yeah.
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They're helping a building not get torn down
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so they're basically like
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Shabadoo, whatever.
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I like Shabadoo too.
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They're like, well, we could get
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flying alien baby burgers.
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Robot burger aliens.
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I guess we could get bikini car wash.
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I don't know which one would be better.
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There's all these options.
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You got aliens, that's the top option.
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You can't afford that.
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Then you go to the second best special effect, boobs.
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And then you got break dancing.
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And beyond that,
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really, you just have a bake sale.
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That's how you save a building.
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If you had an alien bikini break bake sale.
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Oh boy, I would pay
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upwards of, I don't know,
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$50.
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What if schools
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got all the money they needed and the Air Force
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had to have a bikini robot break bake sale
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to buy a bomber?
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If I could only have a bumper sticker
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that expresses that sentiment in some way.
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Well, just go to Cafe Press and type in that
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and then pay me for the
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intellectual property rights.
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$400 please.
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Wow, okay.
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It's an expensive bumper sticker but it's worth it.
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When people see it and they go,
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what?
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All the car crashes are going to be starting
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as people look at it and then do a double take.
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Lose control of the wheel.
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I think we found our new Max Plan
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piece of merch, actually.
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Is that bumper sticker?
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Let's get it going.
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Jesse Thorne on the horn.
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Thorne on the horn.
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That's his new show.
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Jesse Thorne tells you about what different
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animal horns that he's collected
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during his exotic trips abroad.
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During his many years
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as a safari guide.
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This is either from a narwhal
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or it fell out of a staircase.
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Or it's a French horn.
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I don't know.
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I shot up
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an orchestra.
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I don't really know
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horns. This is either
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a French horn or
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a trombone. I don't know.
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Now this is something I got in the deepest wilds
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of Laos. It's candy corn.
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But I pronounce it candy ca-horn.
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So it sounds like horn
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is in there.
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I'm a crazy person.
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It's me, Jesse Thorne,
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head of Max Fun.
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We've libeled him.
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I can prove in court that
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he collects candy corn.
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So,
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the movie.
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There's this whole
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universe where
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humanity is actually a species
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that's existed for many, many millennia.
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Like a billion years.
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And they've expanded to all these different planets
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where they've genetically modified their own genes,
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I guess, so that they can live on those planets.
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But the original humans,
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the O.H.'s, if you will,
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they are
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now super rich,
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wealthy aristocrats,
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except there only seems to be...
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The aristocrats!
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Except there only seems to be
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three of them in the house of Abraxas.
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Or Abrasax.
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Wait, which one is it?
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It's Abrasax, but I thought they were saying Abraxas,
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like the eye of Abraxas.
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Yeah, it's like a big brass axe that they have on the wall?
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Yeah, Abrasax.
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Only one.
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Or it's Abrasax, like it's a saxophone bra.
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Oh, I thought you meant Saxabras.
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They took the sexiest instrument
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and applied it to the sexiest body part,
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the boob, for the Brasax.
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Science has long
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sought the sexiest body part.
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That's what it's called.
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In our search for the sexiest body part,
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we narrowed it down to
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the boob, the butt,
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and the nose.
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Now, we're pretty sure we can eliminate the nose.
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That might be a margin of error.
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But we need to test it.
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Also, the little fold around your mouth
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when you smile,
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how is that? Is that in there?
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Now, some say that the brain is the sexiest body part.
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Those people are wrong.
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Look at that brain. It's gross.
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It's like a big gray mush.
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I don't want to.
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Now, let's show you a boob.
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Even alone, solo.
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It's still got the stuff.
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Now, imagine a three-boobed person,
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as you might find in space.
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Now, remove one of those boobs.
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Now, we're at what we call boob classic.
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Just two.
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Three boobs. Why, that would imprint my brain
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early as a child and stay with me forever.
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Great. It's what we call a stupid fetish.
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Stupid perversion.
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Oh, that's right.
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Anyway, Mila Kunis.
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It is one of...
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Is she...
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You keep saying Kunis.
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Is it Kunis?
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I don't know.
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Mila Kunis.
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I've never met her.
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She's never told me what her name is.
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Anyway, Mila Kunis.
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Maybe there's a YouTube video of her
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saying her name somewhere.
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She's living her life as a janitor.
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She uses the fake name of one of her clients
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who we see in her underpants
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to...
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That's the most memorable thing about it.
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...to make a plan to sell her eggs
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to make money to buy a telescope
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like her dad once had.
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But when she's at this person's house
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hiding in the closet,
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a bunch of aliens come along
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and try to kidnap that woman.
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She takes a picture of it
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and then they zap her with an amnesia ray
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and she wakes up and everything's fine.
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She goes to...
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That's the funniest bit in the movie.
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Where she starts taking a picture?
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Yeah, she sees aliens attacking her friend
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and her immediate reaction is to hold up her iPhone
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and try and snap a shot.
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It would be funny if she was trying to take a selfie
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where she's making a duck face
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with these aliens behind her.
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She goes to the clinic where she's going to sell the eggs
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and it turns out, uh-oh,
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it's a front.
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It's a front for the aliens that were trying to get to her
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when they were going after that other woman.
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Luckily, she's saved by a little guy
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named Channing Tatum,
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a.k.a. Cain Wise,
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a dog man.
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Oh, did we mention the character's name is Jupiter Jones?
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Some kind of outer space blaxploitation.
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By the way, as far as I'm concerned, there's one Jupiter Jones
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and he's the head of the three investigators
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along with Pete Crenshaw
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and Bob Andrews.
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Now, if you don't know the three investigators,
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imagine the Hardy Boys,
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but imagine that they're imprinted by...
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that they are a
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branded Alfred Hitchcock production.
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Brandon was involved.
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They're a branded Alfred Hitchcock thing.
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Like, Alfred Hitchcock slapped his name
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on a bunch of shit back in the day.
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Oh, yeah. Alfred Hitchcock's shit
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was the premier brand of shit.
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But if you enjoy...
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Alfred Hitchcock's shuttlecocks.
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Alfred Hitchcock's
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hitchhiking thumb extenders.
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If you're an 11-year-old boy,
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I suggest that you seek out the adventures
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of the three investigators,
[16:58]
the premier boy detectives of my youth.
[17:00]
Anyway, Jupiter Jones. That's all I'm saying.
[17:02]
If you're an 11-year-old boy, go to sleep, dude.
[17:04]
This show's on way too late for you.
[17:06]
And it is inappropriate.
[17:08]
What?
[17:10]
We're going out live right now to America?
[17:14]
Imagine. Imagine the terribleness
[17:16]
if that was true.
[17:18]
It would be very frightening.
[17:20]
Anyway, we've already seen this guy
[17:22]
fight a bunch of alien bounty hunters or whatever.
[17:24]
And here's the great thing that is both...
[17:26]
Here's when you know this movie is both
[17:28]
stupid and kind of fun
[17:30]
is that the designs for these
[17:32]
characters are like if someone
[17:34]
was doing a
[17:36]
big-budget remake of a crappy
[17:38]
Italian 80s science-fiction
[17:40]
action movie. Which itself is like a knockoff
[17:42]
of a Star Wars.
[17:44]
All the bad guys have eye patches
[17:46]
and shoulder pads and are all
[17:48]
like...
[17:52]
That's a good impression
[17:54]
of someone dubbing
[17:56]
aspects from Italian.
[17:58]
I love that when you're dubbing an Italian movie
[18:00]
they also have to dub the non-verbal
[18:02]
shit.
[18:04]
Because they don't know if sound was recorded on the set.
[18:06]
It's not like they're dubbing it just for language.
[18:08]
In most of the old Italian movies
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they didn't record sound on set.
[18:12]
So that's why even great Italian movies
[18:14]
have shitty voice dubbing in them.
[18:16]
That's why even movies that are in English
[18:18]
like the Spaghetti Westerns...
[18:20]
That's also partly because
[18:22]
when they're making a lot of the Spaghetti Westerns,
[18:24]
the cast spoke the same language.
[18:26]
So you have to dub half the cast anyway.
[18:28]
And their mouths were full of spaghetti the whole time.
[18:30]
That's true.
[18:32]
Because they had to carbo-load
[18:34]
before every shot.
[18:36]
It's just the Italian way.
[18:38]
Marathon filmmaking, they called it.
[18:40]
The director was always like,
[18:42]
Mangia! Mangia!
[18:44]
On every set, Sergio Leone's mama was going around
[18:46]
shoving spaghetti into Clint Eastwood's face.
[18:48]
Clint, you've got to eat!
[18:50]
You're wasting away!
[18:52]
Sergio Leone.
[18:56]
I'll finish this scene right now.
[18:58]
No one makes a marinara like you.
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There's two kinds of men in this world.
[19:02]
Those with loaded guns and those
[19:04]
who dig.
[19:08]
There's a bunch of battles
[19:10]
between these crazy bounty hunters
[19:12]
and our male hero of the movie
[19:14]
who is kind of the Han Solo
[19:16]
and Chewbacca combined.
[19:18]
Yeah, he's Barf, the mog.
[19:20]
His name is Cainwise and he is a
[19:22]
genetically-engineered man-dog soldier.
[19:24]
He used to have wings, but he lost them
[19:26]
because he went crazy and he bit somebody.
[19:28]
I found the cure for wings, but I lost them.
[19:30]
I found the cure for a peach,
[19:32]
I found the cure for not flying,
[19:34]
but I lost it.
[19:36]
Nobody found it.
[19:38]
He got his wings cut off.
[19:40]
But now he can fly even better
[19:42]
because he's got...
[19:44]
Red Bull?
[19:46]
No, because he's got...
[19:48]
Rocket boots!
[19:50]
He's got rocket shoes
[19:52]
and he uses them all the time.
[19:54]
Even when they don't really help him,
[19:56]
he's just floating like a half an inch
[19:58]
above the ground.
[20:00]
but he'll get he's gotten katie is captured like three or four times and
[20:03]
every time they like book it is given those right one keepers are going to get
[20:06]
hit the same way that uh...
[20:08]
the first was so much you know in the in the first uh...
[20:11]
time to get a little later man fought the vulture in the old comics
[20:15]
it's roman jail in the end is this a shot of vulture in jail still in his
[20:18]
vulture costume
[20:19]
but take his flying suit away do it so you do it because there's an old man
[20:22]
like because it is totally harmless without his vulture soon
[20:27]
but if they're always like
[20:28]
came wise can is the super best fighter in the universe because he has rocket
[20:32]
shoes
[20:32]
should we
[20:33]
you know like
[20:34]
impound those man
[20:36]
we've been running shoes on
[20:38]
i heard those are a myth
[20:41]
uh... and his special device with that he is is to throw on things that makes
[20:44]
holes in them
[20:46]
which i guess you just call it a bomb in real life today you know these are
[20:49]
extended so he's protected and it turns out
[20:52]
he's a former soldier he's working for
[20:54]
titus abracex abracex triton titus androgynous who is the youngest of the
[21:00]
three siblings i guess
[21:02]
uh... meanwhile uh... he takes so he takes milk unit there's a big space
[21:06]
battle in chicago
[21:07]
where there's space ships space planes flying around shooting each other
[21:10]
uh... piloted by naked aliens and
[21:14]
got shot up like a mugget and these space planes like have their wings move
[21:18]
around in different sections and are detached and retouched
[21:21]
and uh... this what this fight goes on for a long time over
[21:25]
the almost totally deserted streets of chicago this is one of america's biggest
[21:30]
cities
[21:31]
there is nobody on the streets
[21:33]
nothing they're blowing up buildings
[21:35]
they're flying low over the streets
[21:37]
you never see people running on like
[21:39]
it's like chicago imposed a curfew a curfew right before
[21:42]
this movie takes place in another in an alternate reality where everyone in
[21:46]
chicago has to be in bed like by nine thirty
[21:48]
yep we gotta get home in time to watch friends
[21:52]
maybe the movie is set during friends fever
[21:55]
is there anything in the movie that doesn't make it the nineties aside from her
[21:57]
iphone that she used to take a picture with
[21:59]
no it's probably the nineties
[22:02]
and uh... and also this being a
[22:04]
a wachowski film
[22:05]
uh... everyone looks like they just came from a rave
[22:08]
yep
[22:09]
which is not to say the design in this is not bad and there are a bunch of
[22:12]
scenes in this with costumes
[22:13]
that i would dare say are
[22:15]
even tarsem-ish
[22:17]
no it's great it looks like uh... they have real interesting designs again like
[22:21]
the fifth element and those costumes it was that woman's name i don't remember
[22:24]
like the fifth element it looks like a bunch of weird european sci-fi comics
[22:29]
which is a thing i don't love it's real moebius
[22:32]
i love their visuals
[22:34]
their visuals are fun even if i can't necessarily like sit down and read that shit
[22:39]
sure yeah
[22:40]
you're not that into the history of the meta-barons but you sure like looking at
[22:44]
them
[22:45]
everyone looks like uh... ledron drew it or painted it
[22:49]
anybody? ledron james
[22:50]
yeah ledron james
[22:53]
the uh... the uh... comic book artist turned basketball player
[22:57]
turned comic book artist because he wasn't that good at basketball
[22:59]
so uh...
[23:01]
channing tatum takes her to a farm run by sean bean
[23:05]
what kind of as his friend stinger a peenie
[23:08]
wait is that really? apparently according to wikipedia his last name is a peenie
[23:13]
yeah and he's surrounded by beehives wait so that's what you're talking about and not his name is
[23:18]
a peenie? it sounds like a bee is stinging his penis
[23:22]
stinger a peenie
[23:25]
maybe that's how he got his name i don't know his house is covered in beehives there's bees
[23:28]
everywhere and
[23:30]
kane and stinger get in a fight because stinger blames kane for getting him into
[23:33]
trouble
[23:34]
and i guess exiling him to earth i don't know but it turns out the bees all
[23:39]
obey mila kunis's jupiter's orders
[23:42]
turns out that's how they know she is
[23:45]
royalty
[23:46]
why is that? bees were genetically designed to recognize royalty
[23:51]
because what other way would you have a recognizing royalty than to hope they
[23:54]
wander into a huge bee farm and just have a cloud of bees flying around them
[23:59]
uh... it turns out that
[24:01]
they explain a bunch of the bullshit backstory and uh... it turns out that
[24:05]
this movie is filled with explaining bullshit backstory yes a lot of times
[24:09]
it's delivered by aliens who are totally like wake up sheeple people are
[24:13]
stupid yeah they're great they're very condescending or it's delivered by eddie
[24:17]
redmayne going
[24:19]
talking like this
[24:20]
yeah very low
[24:22]
like this
[24:23]
i'm a lover and then i'm yelling and now i'm back like this
[24:26]
like a meatloaf song or he's like a walking space meatloaf
[24:30]
or it's delivered by sean bean and then it sounds convincing i think that's in the
[24:34]
background of one of the scenes
[24:37]
yeah sean bean actually does a does a pretty good job of delivering the exposition
[24:41]
they uh...
[24:43]
but she gets captured by the bounty hunters she gets taken to the palace of
[24:47]
kalik the sister of the siblings
[24:49]
uh... who explains that she is the genetic reincarnation of the mother of
[24:54]
the brass axe kids
[24:56]
uh... and a brass axe
[24:59]
wait did we do that again? you did that bit already
[25:01]
we literally talked about brass axe
[25:04]
brass axe
[25:05]
is that a thing? no
[25:07]
i mean there's brass statues that have asses i'm guessing
[25:10]
this shows how much i forget what we do on the podcast literally
[25:14]
within the course of one podcast i forget what we've said already yes
[25:18]
uh... it doesn't help that you've had how many beers? shut up whoa dude take it
[25:23]
fucking easy mom
[25:25]
i'm your mother guys and i care about you just because i'm a guy who's
[25:29]
younger than both of you doesn't mean i'm not your mom
[25:32]
that checks out
[25:34]
man or monster that's what mom stands for and i think you're a monster
[25:39]
oh man
[25:41]
there's a whole bunch of stuff
[25:43]
they she gets rescued by this spaceship
[25:46]
that i'm not sure they're like space police or something i don't really get
[25:49]
why they're helping her out but it's this spaceship that and there's let's
[25:53]
get one thing straight
[25:54]
this movie is full of crazy aliens and until they start explaining the
[25:58]
backstory they're just thrown crazy alien designs you have one or two
[26:02]
there's like these luchador doom bot guards and there's like flying dragon men
[26:07]
there's elephant faces there's squid faces there's like rat faces
[26:11]
there's all sorts of crazy stuff
[26:14]
it's this would be a more fun movie if it was just different aliens walking on
[26:17]
screen just introduce themselves then leaving
[26:21]
because here in the ship like a weird like like a saturday night live uh...
[26:25]
sketch but it's just like
[26:27]
just aliens just aliens ringing the doorbell walking in saying hi there's one woman
[26:31]
who's an alien who just has huge ears
[26:33]
there's another guy there's a bunch of aliens with huge ears i think there's a race of them
[26:36]
but like her only alien characteristic is that she has these enormous ears
[26:40]
there's uh...
[26:42]
these guys who have just little bits of metal stuck to their faces there's this
[26:46]
woman who looks like this fedka vodka robot there's a couple of those
[26:49]
there's so much like
[26:51]
the designers on this went crazy and there is
[26:53]
no unifying aesthetic whatsoever
[26:56]
there's like
[26:57]
some of it looks like it's taking place in firefly
[26:59]
sometimes it looks like it's taking place in like ender's game
[27:03]
sometimes it looks like an anime
[27:05]
sometimes it looks like yeah an anime like macross or some crap
[27:08]
there's a robotech totally looks like fucking macross there's a bunch of gundams
[27:12]
flying around yeah i expected the bad guys to blow up the uh... good guys using
[27:17]
some kind of and there's a long pop song
[27:20]
weapon thing like in
[27:21]
macross sometimes they they're in rivendell like there's all sorts of places
[27:25]
and there's a long scene that is explicitly
[27:27]
a reference to uh... brazil because terry gilliam literally shows up at the
[27:31]
end of it for no reason
[27:33]
they take her okay now they take her
[27:35]
to prove that she's a queen and get the title for it that she's royalty
[27:39]
which is a long sequence that's a satire on bureaucracy they've got to get all
[27:43]
this paperwork all over the place led by some robot
[27:46]
and then it ends with terry gilliam literally giving them the title
[27:49]
and then she makes a joke she makes reference to how they need a twenty
[27:52]
three b stroke six
[27:54]
uh...
[27:55]
that's the right one right yeah
[27:56]
from uh... form and it's like
[27:59]
what like it's like them so they hired somebody else to direct the movie for a
[28:02]
scene and they brought in someone who's just like super goofy
[28:05]
to do anything it's like we took we all talked about how like that
[28:09]
probably is the most entertaining scene in the movie it just feels like it's
[28:12]
different from a different movie well the tone i wish this movie the tone of this movie was
[28:15]
like
[28:16]
sillier it's a pretty silly movie yeah
[28:19]
kind of
[28:20]
but like the the the soundtrack is always like
[28:22]
ha ha ha
[28:25]
and every time you see a planet or a ship or whatever
[28:29]
the movie stops for a moment
[28:31]
it's a like act because like
[28:33]
you're gonna be pretty blown away by this gaze upon my works audience yeah
[28:37]
well that's the thing and despair like it's it acts like we've never seen
[28:41]
spaceships or
[28:43]
robots or whatever in a movie and like we're gonna be super blown away by the
[28:46]
stuff that we've seen before but also any movie where a dog man is protecting
[28:51]
the cleaning lady queen of the universe
[28:53]
named jupiter himself a serious and i think at times they are trying not to
[28:57]
take themselves to seriously like
[28:59]
they are aiming i think for the kind of pulp fun that like star wars provides
[29:03]
sure but there's still something about them that has to be like
[29:06]
cool you know
[29:08]
like a like a
[29:10]
i think maybe they're trying for the kind of thing they had with like speed
[29:12]
racer i guess it's like daddy's fifth that's exactly what i was
[29:17]
that's exactly what i was about to say which is like speed racer was another
[29:20]
movie that was savaged by critics
[29:22]
but i really thought speed racer is kind of brilliant in some way because
[29:26]
thing about speed racer is it was
[29:28]
just super hyper crazy like some like they were throwing everything at the
[29:33]
screen
[29:34]
and i can understand how that's over the critics
[29:37]
i guess i have that rotten tomatoes shoes
[29:40]
but that's the sort of thing that is not gonna work for everybody some people are
[29:43]
gonna be like this is hyperactive i don't like it i'm not into it
[29:47]
but at least
[29:48]
it moved it moved quickly and this uh... film slows down
[29:53]
a number of such long periods of just like people standing and trading
[29:56]
position even the action sequences are
[29:59]
really
[30:00]
Confusing and not well choreographed and a lot of like when one of the problems with when your spaceships are always changing shape is like
[30:07]
It makes it that much harder to see what's going on and figure out what's happening and the effects are so
[30:14]
Cartoony that like it the character the characters just don't look like they're all on the same plane of reality and things like that like
[30:20]
Some effects in it work really well
[30:23]
Some don't work that well and unfortunately in the big action sequences like geography is just thrown right out of the window
[30:29]
You don't know where people are suddenly someone will be falling down a hole suddenly
[30:33]
Someone will be exploding
[30:34]
Someone will be flying through a thing and there's something smashing over there and like you're up too close to really tell what it is
[30:39]
and then like a lizard monsters just
[30:41]
Watching and not taking part and then there's like an exploding Sun or something like that
[30:46]
And then a thing falls through a grav dome like, you know, it's
[30:50]
No, you're right. I too often the action sequences fall into the trap of just like
[30:56]
Forward forward forward not enough setup. So you don't really you don't really understand the environment that well. Yeah
[31:03]
You don't understand the stakes of it now just to make a long story short Titus shows up again. He kidnaps
[31:09]
Jupiter he almost tricks her into marrying him because she is gullible
[31:14]
But dog band comes back and saves her at the last minute
[31:18]
They go and they confront Eddie Redmayne who was the real big bad who and they know
[31:25]
Oh, no, that's not as they go back home. Eddie Redmayne has kidnapped
[31:29]
Her family this the sister just kind of disappears from the movie. Yeah, Titus disappears from the movie, too
[31:35]
Well, it's like she's good
[31:36]
She's gotten out of a bath in her with her butt showing like her purposes at that point
[31:41]
but it's weird because you'd think these are these three feuding siblings who I guess in theory would be have like having like
[31:47]
Machiavellian schemes against each other and Jupiter Jones is what they need because she's inherited the earth because she's the genetic
[31:53]
Reproduction of the Queen. Yes
[31:57]
Meek Jones
[31:59]
But like once she's out of the clutches of one sibling, they don't show up again. It's set up in a very like
[32:06]
quest style
[32:07]
I guess where it's just the what and now the adventure of Khaliq's palace and then there was the adventure of the of the
[32:14]
woeful wedding and now the adventure of the blowing up Jupiter place like this they don't you want these characters to be like
[32:23]
Double crossing each other and coming back again, but instead I guess maybe it's a more innocent storytelling structure. But anyway, it's a risk
[32:30]
They go back home. Yeah, it's
[32:34]
Using their right LA. Yeah, basically. Yeah, kind of like just going from one place to another. Yeah
[32:40]
episodic structure
[32:41]
Okay
[32:41]
Eddie Redmayne has kidnapped her family and he says
[32:44]
Give me the title deed to the earth or else I'll kill your family and she
[32:48]
Knows he wants to harvest the earth and use it to make youth juice
[32:52]
But she totally almost slam it now
[32:55]
So long for her to realize like wait a minute if I save my family
[33:00]
Billions of people will die like it takes her a long time to get a shocking amount of time and maybe and like I want
[33:06]
To believe that the character is just being cunning and like tricking him into bringing her to where he she wants to be
[33:12]
But no, it seems like she doesn't realize it to the last minute
[33:15]
She's just right now remembering that she watched Star Trek 2 and just like oh the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few
[33:21]
What Spock was saying? We're like when she's about to marry Titus like she agrees to do it really fast and then
[33:27]
She's like, wait a minute. Should I not marry you? Maybe you're not honest
[33:34]
It's she's a very she's not at the brightest bulb of the bunch. Yeah, which is too bad because nor does she have rocket boots
[33:41]
She doesn't but here's the thing
[33:43]
I know you're a real hero
[33:44]
This movie has found a following among like female science fiction fans of a certain type and it means I wish
[33:50]
there was a stronger female character at the heart of it because even though it she's technically the hero until the end when she is
[33:57]
Hitting Eddie Redmayne with a pipe while he lies down on the place
[34:00]
When he's already done around her Mike Hagar moment like up to that moment. She's doing a lot of like
[34:06]
Bumbling into trouble and then Channing Tatum saves her basically. Well, and she like actively pursues
[34:14]
Channing Tatum from a very early point in the movie. Why not? Come on. She sees him with his shirt off. He's got a dog
[34:20]
Yeah, she can only assume he's got some kind of weird doggy lipstick penis. He's gonna
[34:26]
Would be horrible she wouldn't be into that
[34:28]
I don't know. She's got one of those stupid perversion dogs don't have a corpse. No ducks do it sounds like dogs like dog tails
[34:35]
Yeah, that's why
[34:38]
It's where it's the the the beagle ducks or the duck boys that boys in Beagle Town
[34:44]
Beagleburg
[34:45]
It's a reverse of ducktails that I'm working on called dog tails
[34:50]
Opposite of ducks and dogs it is according to fucking Karl Barth
[34:55]
Invented the opposite. They coexist ducks are mostly in harmony
[35:04]
There's not they could they could have been like the bandit bats, you know or something like that too hard to draw what about the thief
[35:12]
Thanatopsis is and they're all William Cullen Brian
[35:16]
Stealing
[35:19]
Student
[35:21]
So, but I wish that milk uses I wish Jupiter Jones was like smarter and stronger basically
[35:27]
Yeah, and it wasn't so much like yeah, I'm gonna do this. Wait, that was a bad idea
[35:31]
I hope rocket boots dog face comes in but I hit and she falls in love with him pretty quick
[35:37]
But he's like no. No your royalty and I'm just a splice. I've been genetically modified
[35:41]
This is terrible, but they get over that pretty quick
[35:44]
Anyway at the end she's on Jupiter
[35:47]
he comes and saves her by like smashing his ship through the dome of the gravity place that makes everything go boom a lot and
[35:54]
there's a big explosions and stuff and they escape and Eddie Redmayne falls down the pit to nothingness forever and
[36:01]
At the end of it, they've used alien technology to wipe everyone's memories except for Jupiter Jones
[36:07]
She's back to being a humble janitor who's also queen of the earth
[36:10]
Her family gives her a telescope as a present and she has managed to get dog face his wings back
[36:16]
And so so he's a bird dog and since he doesn't need wings anymore. Guess what? He gives to Jupiter Jones
[36:22]
Rocket boots rocket boots and they fly. She's a threat
[36:26]
They fly over the Chicago skyline
[36:29]
Lovers from space which would have been a better title than Jupiter ascending. Yeah, so
[36:34]
So what do we like about this movie? I liked a lot of the design elements. Yeah the rocket
[36:38]
Costumes the
[36:40]
Actually don't want like I kind of like the background
[36:43]
I just felt like they came up with a background and didn't make a movie. Yes to go along
[36:49]
Yeah, the ideas in the story are good
[36:52]
They seem like a solid foundation for I don't know a video game series. I mean there's something about
[36:59]
Humanity as like earth has one outpost of this larger Empire where they
[37:05]
Where they've they in their quest for immortality
[37:08]
They've lost all sense of morality and they kill millions to keep themselves alive longer
[37:14]
But it's all like they keep talking about it in cap like market capitalist terms
[37:18]
But we never see it as a market like that
[37:20]
We never see them really like buying or selling the youth ratings human futures the only everyone
[37:26]
Yeah
[37:26]
kind of
[37:27]
Everyone in the movie is either one of these Abraxas dynasty brats or works directly for them
[37:33]
Is it or is this one ship of policemen like there's not a it's like they built the pieces of a world
[37:39]
But then they didn't fill in the gaps and that's a symbolized best for me by the space battle over the empty streets of Chicago
[37:45]
Mm-hmm. Let me tell you I've walked around Chicago at night
[37:47]
There's a ton of people on the streets and they are eating meat like nobody's business. Yeah, this raggy guy
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Oh, I've walked around the streets of Chicago
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Chicago town. Yep, but I've never walked around it alongside a clown
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Don't you come with me?
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And you'll see a world of pure Chicago nation
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They'll be blues played with electric guitar
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white guys singing happy blues
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If you want to hear shitty blues
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Chicago is the place to catch it. If you want to eat a dog with a sport pepper
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Hog butcher to the nation city of big shoulders
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Call Sandburg everyone. Let's hear it from calls everybody. This is nightclub singer
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So, I think we're there already but final judgments
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This is a good bad movie a bad bad movie or a movie between Carl Sandburg and Andy Sandberg
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Well, Andy Sandberg is still living. It's cross-country
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Years old I was just double-checking
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But I assumed he was dead
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Yeah, so and believe Annie Sandberg would take a skeleton and just you know, just throw it to the ground
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Just jump on it shatter it. It would be a bunch of bone. Hey, Carl Sandburg died in 1967. All right. Yeah, okay
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So that's what we wouldn't fight. So final judgments. Yeah, so Andy Sandberg
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I give this one for Sandburg's
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See, what do you got to say about this movie?
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Yeah, there's a movie that I wanted to kind of like and I did not I think this is a bad bad movie
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Yeah, I am with you. I desperately kind of liked it and there's I even liked a lot of elements
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There are a lot of elements fifth elements even sure in it
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But it yeah, it doesn't I would there's even a lot of like throwaway dialogue where they just make references to shit
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But it just it doesn't matter. I will say if you took this movie
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you cut out most of the plot
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and it was just seen after scene of craziness
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it would be a better movie i would like to give it a simpler plot with more
[40:07]
interesting characters yeah if you don't introduce a flying a race of flying
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lizard men uh... and then don't actually show them fighting anybody until the
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very end of the movie
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but there's little touches in like the bad guy any red man has this torture bed
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that's just like
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a ton of little spinning knives and things that come at your face like some
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kind of evil dentist chair like if there's more stuff like that you will
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use it like that over the time that uh... it's just a drama yeah it's like
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i wish it was more over that it feels like they wanted to make a really over
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the top science fiction movie
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but they kept like
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reigning it in for fear that it would seem
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too silly
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and i wish they'd embrace the silly of it more
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yeah this could have been a really great silly
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sci-fi movie and they just
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i'll say this for me this time this hovers around
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good bad territory but not quite
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i listen to bullseye
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for the moment when jesse asks an artist an insightful question
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and the artist goes
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and pauses
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you can hear in the pause
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that he is reassessing his own work
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in light of the question that jesse just asked
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uh... so
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now we move on
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to what to a very popular segment of this
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recommendations
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that's the least popular one
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uh... it's letters from listeners
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don't skip so fast hey stewart elliot let's make it last hey stewart elliot
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it's letter time
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letter time
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for us
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it's our time for letters
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our time to read them
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our time to need them our time to need them with a k this time like doe
[45:34]
oh no
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the letters here they go
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from dan's mouth
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to your house
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uh... also other things that rhyme with that
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in so many episodes this is the first time i've seen elliot struggle for a rhyme
[45:52]
usually i rhyme the same exact words i went off the reservation
[45:56]
an internal rhyme usually he has but this time
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texas and taxes kaylen over here
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maybe i want to do some free verse songs
[46:07]
this is more of a letter song slam look if the guy in the luminaires can rhyme
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canal
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and chinatown
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i can do whatever yeah if madonna can rhyme come on come on let's get to it
[46:20]
strike a pose there's nothing to it
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vogue
[46:23]
i think that you do whatever the fuck you want at that point you can't get
[46:26]
yes you've wrote a songwriting that's what my poetry teacher told me
[46:32]
madonna really opened the door
[46:34]
uh... letter number one
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time to have some fun
[46:40]
with letter number one letter number one
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we're almost done with the song about letter number one for you
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and you and you it's the first
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tone up letter number one
[47:23]
okay it's time alright uh... tons of fun oh jesus number one
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tomorrow uno
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normally i'm faking being annoyed but now
[47:33]
anyway take it easy dude
[47:34]
alright let's go into the first letter
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a brawl sax
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this is from henry last name withheld portrait of a serial killer is his last name
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i was listening to my favorite podcast the flop house when i was struck by an idea
[47:51]
the hosts are so talented
[47:52]
and the show's premise i'm blushing the show's premise
[47:57]
so compelling that the show should
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nay must be adapted to the medium to which the flop house has devoted itself
[48:05]
i present to you
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flop house
[48:07]
the broadway musical
[48:10]
the curtains open on dan alone in a squalid tenement apartment
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dan alone
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this awful movie will never end
[48:20]
if only i could watch it with my only friends
[48:24]
hip-hop beat kicks in
[48:25]
and stew and elliot repel down onto the couch while spitting rhymes
[48:30]
now i'm very busy and i don't have time to write the rest
[48:34]
i'll let you guys take care of the details and wrap it up well i think that's how steven
[48:37]
sondheim does his shows
[48:39]
attend the tale of sweeney todd and then there's some more after that
[48:45]
we'll split the money sixty forty and you can divvy up your forty percent however
[48:48]
you like
[48:50]
you should probably give elliot less since she's smaller and doesn't need to
[48:54]
eat as much
[48:54]
sincerely henry last name
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it's terrifying
[48:58]
you've seen him devour papa's dinner
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uh... imagine a velociraptor
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uh... i think maybe he was hit on the head with a brick
[49:12]
that's me eating chicken
[49:15]
i like this idea of flop exclamation point yeah on broadway yet
[49:20]
starring and i know that it's not those have been revealed
[49:23]
uh... who who's gonna play you didn't get a list as well uh... i'm not going to
[49:28]
write johnson even guessing for you uh... surveyors leo norbert leo but
[49:33]
so you know it would be normally a bus
[49:35]
for stew i'm getting thinking you jackman
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okay and i think that's a better and for me
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uh...
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wallace on should be available
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uh... while
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to allow not even a musical performer
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uh... say
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uh...
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who's the lead singer of uh...
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band
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who can make a sprawling
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you know yeah like
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of so you know what you're saying is that you have to be played by a guy who's
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famous in other things
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and that he would bring a non-broadway crowd to the plot shouldn't actually
[50:14]
doesn't make sense again i guess you jack so like uh... one of those who do
[50:17]
you know both of the blowfish with the other ships
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uh... who even though the original and playing me the entire band to be in the
[50:25]
blowfish uh... one of those uh... john poppers yeah playing me john poppers
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from monica
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uh... so this next letter no no i would be played by a kid everyone knows that
[50:37]
yeah you can you can be played by jake lloyd is jake lloyd available? jake lloyd was just arrested
[50:42]
wasn't he? you'll be played by a kid. a kid can get arrested? no he's a grown man. i watch problem child
[50:48]
you're played by that
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that fun house fun home kid even though she's a lady
[50:52]
i could totally be played by a lady definitely
[50:55]
yeah well it's gender blank casting
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gender blank casting? yeah fill in the blank with the gender
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junior blank casting
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dear robert j floppenhybers j robert floppenhybers
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supplose
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supplose
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supplose if you will dan i think is it time for you to hand over the letter reading duties
[51:16]
i think that ten strikes and you're out elliot
[51:20]
i think that the joy that you get from this sort of thing says no it's not
[51:25]
now i'm starting to worry about your health
[51:28]
i went through the whole first letter which is very long that's true without any
[51:32]
who could read two letters in a row? you didn't have to re-write it all
[51:35]
suppose a deranged millionaire offered you each seven thousand dollars to write a
[51:40]
screenplay that's not very much
[51:45]
i'm a deranged millionaire but i'm also a cheapskate
[51:49]
weirdly lucid about my finances
[51:53]
it's a scrooge mcduck figure doesn't want to pay uh... too much
[51:57]
uh... suppose a deranged millionaire offered you each
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seven thousand dollars to write a screenplay for a sports movie
[52:04]
mary flop and steve last name withheld so i think that we're supposed to
[52:08]
supposedly there's no question there
[52:12]
as non-sports people
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what our sports movie might be well mine would be about curling
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because i did it once
[52:20]
stole it from what? have you ever curled?
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no but i uh... wait you were going to say curling? yeah
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oh weird
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well as someone who has curled i'm gonna take it
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and it would be called
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curl it up
[52:33]
and it would be about it's basically major league but for curling right? no it's
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step up
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but for curling uh... so there's like a girl who's like a real
[52:43]
prissy curler and then there's a guy from the streets curling
[52:47]
and they have to get together do a curling team that wins yeah
[52:50]
now i remember that when i was in uh...
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little league the big attraction the kids version of major league
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the biggest attraction
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for me
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uh... as a uh... a junior baseball player by the way my specialty was
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getting walked
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because
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i knew that no one at that age was a good pitcher so i'm just like i'm just
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gonna stand here and i'm gonna get walked i'm just gonna stand right in front of the
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catcher it worked every time
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uh...
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so uh... the main attraction for me i like the way you were really cocky about it as a kid too
[53:22]
you'd get hit
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and you'd walk and you'd be like or like that's a different thing getting hit yeah i wasn't getting hit by the pitcher
[53:29]
i wasn't leaning in no it's funnier to me if you lean in and get hit
[53:32]
or they'd throw four balls and you'd walk and then you'd just be like
[53:35]
doing finger guns at the pitcher just like woooo
[53:39]
the opposing team coach is like oh shit he figured out our weakness that we're kids
[53:43]
and we're not good at this
[53:45]
good job belly itcher now i'm on first base
[53:50]
only three more bases to go one quarter of the way home
[53:56]
he represents the cycles of life in rural america idiot
[54:01]
hey mom get dinner ready i'm home soon you know the story was going to go
[54:05]
somewhere else but now that i'm talking about it i realize that it's a better
[54:09]
sports movie it's about a guy who just specializes in getting walked
[54:13]
yeah a walker texas baseball player
[54:16]
what was the story you were going to tell no i was just going to say that the main
[54:21]
attraction to me
[54:22]
in playing little league was after every game win or lose we would go get snow cones
[54:27]
i mean you could skip right out of the middle of it wow the blandest of frozen desserts
[54:33]
like when you're a kid
[54:34]
when you're a kid snow cones are magic it's like one step up from like just really cold
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orange slices
[54:42]
after every game the coach would give us a handful of ice chips it's like a sherbert
[54:47]
or something who cares cool yourself down kids
[54:49]
you got all hot and bothered putting your mouth rubbing on your face i don't care
[54:55]
after every game the coach would let us stick our heads in his freezer for a couple seconds
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and oh man was it cool
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no but i was i was going to say that my sports movie would be about a lonely snow cone vendor
[55:10]
who finds love
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i mean it's ancillary to sports
[55:20]
what do you got stuart
[55:21]
after every game he'd give us a pretzel
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just split between all of us
[55:28]
i mean i was just going to do something about a topless beach volleyball team
[55:32]
well that's a great idea for a movie
[55:36]
that's a movie
[55:37]
all right what would you call it bikini ball volleyball bikinis i guess topless bikini
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volleyball
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i think it would be spike exclamation point there's boobies
[55:47]
there's boobies part of the title or that's what it says on the box like it's called spiking
[55:54]
it and then the slogan is there's boobies
[55:59]
you gotta tell the video writers that's why i need you around elliot you gotta you jazz
[56:04]
up my shit
[56:05]
yeah he jazzes up your shit so uh this next letter it's the poops you don't poop that's
[56:13]
the secret to jazz this next letter is titled elliot is an idiot
[56:18]
i take issue already
[56:21]
sorry if this is late but i just wanted to say that elliot caylan is a moron he can't
[56:26]
tell the difference between old world monkeys and new world monkeys how's this for a clue
[56:31]
fuckface
[56:32]
earned very well old world monkeys don't have prehensile tails and new world monkeys do
[56:40]
also old world monkeys live in africa and new world monkeys don't jesus it's like he
[56:46]
has i know the difference between the old world and the new world it's like he hasn't
[56:49]
even dedicated his life to the intricacies of anthropology in conclusion elliot sucks
[56:54]
dan rules stewart drools but in a sexy way so it evens out yours in the internal brotherhood
[57:00]
of dan heads darth conant
[57:02]
how's that so that guy that guy's earned his snow cone after that burn now yeah yeah i
[57:09]
hope the coach took him out for more for an italian ice after that one now here's the
[57:14]
thing i thought anthropology was the study of human civilization oh boy darth conant
[57:19]
you got burned maybe i'm wrong and maybe it's the study of all apes or primates or what
[57:23]
have you primates and also old world monkeys in europe they can live in asia so it's not
[57:31]
even a pun because apes are already primates whatever idiots you don't know the difference
[57:39]
between different types of monkeys i'm gonna have to side with the letter writer on this
[57:43]
one i'll allow it so uh this last letter oh the final letter goes like this i feel like
[57:50]
i must preface this letter no by saying that i'm neither a friend of mads michelson nor
[57:56]
a drunken horse trainer so i hope this letter does not immediately disappoint i'm a writer
[58:01]
which means i work from home while caring for my two sons three years old and 18 months
[58:06]
for a time the youngest would only sleep when in the car as a result we took a lot of long
[58:12]
car rides and i entertained myself by listening to podcasts yours is one of my favorites thanks
[58:17]
buddy thanks the other day my oldest boy was humming a song and randomly shouted this
[58:22]
is my favorite song i assumed he meant a bob dylan tune is a current obsession of his yeah
[58:27]
kids love bob dylan oh he does like bob dylan yeah apparently or one of the many i what's
[58:34]
the i said never mind i just kind of think of a specific band i couldn't or one of the
[58:38]
many nursery i assumed he meant cnc music factory i assumed he meant the miami sound
[58:44]
machine or one of the many nursery rhymes we listened to together but no when i asked
[58:51]
which song he excitedly answered the letter song and yes your podcast was playing at the
[58:57]
time this means two things number one ruined his taste of music forever i can no longer
[59:03]
listen to your podcast with my three-year-old around as i do not want him telling his friends
[59:07]
about the great ding dong ripping scene in castle freak though as he doesn't want those
[59:12]
kids to find out on the streets to the playground you learn about castle freak though as i write
[59:18]
primarily horror fiction i'm sure he will eventually find stuart gordon's oeuvre on
[59:22]
his own when he's much older and number two elliot is a better singer snippets of this
[59:27]
guy's life elliot is a better singer than you give him credit for that's a good writer
[59:31]
by the way slowly teasing it out elliot any plans to record an album i think you'd be
[59:37]
a hit in the toddler age group thanks for a great podcast keep them coming lisa last
[59:41]
thing with hell wow a real push pull for you this uh letter's gone yeah there's a it's
[59:46]
been an emotional you break them down and you build them back yeah yeah it's the regular
[59:50]
full metal jacket or something the uh i will say my son likes it when i sing to him but
[59:56]
i don't make up songs for him and i should be doing that i mean you're his dad if he doesn't
[1:00:00]
Like it then I feel like there's a there's a real serious problem. I don't want my dad singing to me
[1:00:06]
You're not a babe. You're not a little uh, i've been called a babe
[1:00:09]
But uh, but I don't I need to make up more songs for him because right now i'm mostly singing. Uh,
[1:00:15]
you know little kid songs or
[1:00:17]
Right now you're mostly singing danzig, which is not. Yeah. Yeah mother
[1:00:22]
He goes mama and i'm like, it's not take it easy. Come on kid. Don't don't step on my song here
[1:00:27]
But mostly i've been singing him lately, uh leatherwing bat
[1:00:31]
the uh
[1:00:32]
English folk song or I guess maybe it's an american folk song that uh, peter and paul and mary have on their kids album
[1:00:38]
It's about a bat. I assume uh, it's about a variety of different animals who tell you
[1:00:43]
How uh how lost loves have made them what they are today?
[1:00:48]
All right, but he likes a lot song
[1:00:49]
I sing while i'm changing his diapers to keep him from putting his hand in his own poop
[1:00:53]
You're singing that song about how charlie gets stuck on the mta
[1:00:56]
Yeah, we do actually yeah, we do sing on that a lot
[1:00:59]
kid songs
[1:01:01]
Yeah
[1:01:01]
All right
[1:01:03]
They grew up so fast. Whose songs do we sing him?
[1:01:07]
uh
[1:01:09]
Oh and fuck like a beast. Yeah. Yeah, that's it
[1:01:11]
So, uh, those have been letters from listeners. Oh, man, okay if you write letter, maybe you're one of them
[1:01:19]
I don't know one of you
[1:01:21]
Letters fuck off guy. Wow, this nobody said anything
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Calm down the guy's gone. Dan put down that broken bottle
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His car is gone. I just get worked up. All right
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I don't want anybody looking at me funny. I heard I heard he left town dan from the local sheriff
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All right
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So she's the sheriff
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Yeah, I shot the sheriff
[1:01:46]
Really that's why that guy's bugging you about love legit. I left the deputy alone. Okay, I couldn't pronounce it
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Yeah, I was like, I can't pronounce it not worth wasting a bullet on
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Um, so this is the part of the podcast where we recommend
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Movies that we actually liked. Okay. I'm like jupiter ascending. Okay. What do you got stewart?
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I'm gonna recommend a movie. I swore I swore I recommend on an earlier but I swore I would never recommend
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God strike me dead
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Long time recommender first time recommending this movie. Anyway, it's called the big chill
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So i'm, uh, there's a lot of a lot of buzz out there about a horror movie starring one of those duplaces
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called creep
[1:02:36]
So i'm gonna recommend the tlc song
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I got excited when I heard that because I thought they were talking about an older movie from 2004 called creep
[1:02:43]
Which I liked a lot and I swore I recommended it, but I haven't so i'm going to recommend it
[1:02:47]
Anyway, so not the duplex one. No, I haven't watched that yet, but I want to uh, the one i'm recommending is called creep
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It's directed by christopher smith the guy who directed, uh previous recommendation
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black death
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And severance severance. Sorry
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Leverage, uh black death was the movie also starring the bean machine. Yeah sean bean the bean machine
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uh, and it is a
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creep is a movie where franke potente
[1:03:20]
Gets uh harassed and stalked in the by a creep in the subway by
[1:03:26]
Uh what seems like a normal creep and then that normal creep totally gets murdered by an actual super underground creep
[1:03:33]
And the movie is kind of like don't worry about you
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You're watching a movie called creep and there's a bloody subway car and you know, it's gonna be terrible. Um,
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But it's kind of like, uh the movie that I wish
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Uh midnight meat train had been if it hadn't had all the shitty cgi blood
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Um, I gotta say I kind of enjoy midnight meat train. That's kind of a fun. Yeah, it's all right
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Um, it's not as good as creep. So go as good as creep
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But
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It does not live up to the title midnight meat train, which is a fantastic title
[1:04:03]
Yeah, like there's a band called the exploding eye orchestra
[1:04:07]
It's not they're not as good as their name. We saw the trailer for midnight meat train together
[1:04:12]
Yeah before another more rambo, I think
[1:04:14]
Yeah, I forget which one of us was like trainers. I was like snakes on my penis
[1:04:20]
We may both have said that
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Uh midnight meat train. Yeah, I think that might have been parallel thinking parallel joke
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uh
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i'm gonna recommend um
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Two movies that you should watch
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instead of uh, jupiter ascending if you want
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campy space operas
[1:04:39]
Why not make it a double feature of flash gordon and barbarella?
[1:04:43]
Those are much more fun
[1:04:45]
Campy space are operas. You don't like barbarella. Yeah, it's all that stuff with the dolls that are trying to bite her skin off
[1:04:51]
That's genuinely terrifying. Yeah, it's too scary
[1:04:54]
Uh, so elliot's a wuss but the point is call me wuss
[1:04:58]
If you want there's something about the sea that commands wusses to go to it
[1:05:03]
Uh, this is my book. Moby wuss. There's just something really fun about uh, you know flash gordon
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takes the same, uh old time space opera stuff that uh,
[1:05:12]
George lucas, uh turned into star wars, but takes it more literally since flash gordon was an old old property and you know
[1:05:20]
It's got a flop house connection since we all wrote a flash gordon comic
[1:05:24]
But uh, which is now has recently been collected. So go buy an omnibus. Yeah
[1:05:28]
Uh, but uh, it's actually got a great performance by brian blessed in the middle of it. Sure
[1:05:34]
And uh, if you want like a weirdly sexy, uh campy
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space
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Opera, why don't you see barbarella? It's not weirdly sexy at all
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It's just normal. It's weirdly sexy about it
[1:05:45]
Is just taking her clothes off all the time and having sex with well
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but also like they put her in like in our orgasmatron where someone plays the piano when she
[1:05:54]
Has an orgasm as a result of it stewart shaking his head like totally
[1:06:00]
Sex every night. I thought you were gonna say make it a double feature flesh gordon and flesh gordon, too
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Uh, but for my money, uh more fun stupid science fiction movies
[1:06:14]
Billy it I will also recommend the movie that is kind of like what I wish jupiter ascending was
[1:06:20]
Which is also a stupid science fiction movie that is campy at much of the time. Uh, this is a movie called the visitor
[1:06:27]
Uh, which listeners of the doug loves movies episodes that I was on?
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uh may remember me talking about it's from 1979 and through the whole movie while I was watching and I was like
[1:06:38]
this feels like a science fiction giallo movie except
[1:06:42]
It's got it's set in the united states
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and it's got an all-american cast and the cast is like john houston and mel ferrer and glenn ford and shelly winters and uh,
[1:06:53]
and lance henriksen like there it's all the it's this weird cast full of people and it's a movie about a
[1:07:00]
there's a oh and uh, frank o'neiro appears in it as some kind of space jesus and
[1:07:06]
they explain that uh
[1:07:08]
Satan is an evil alien who was turned into a flock of birds
[1:07:12]
And has scattered his descendants around the earth and now the newest one who has his power is this evil little girl
[1:07:19]
who this secret organ conspiracy is trying to
[1:07:23]
Give her a brother and she is both evil
[1:07:26]
But at times is also just kind of a girl and uh doing wants to do girl stuff like go ice skating
[1:07:32]
and uh
[1:07:32]
there's this and the whole time I was like this feels like
[1:07:35]
An italian movie and it turns out everyone behind the scenes who made it was italian. But uh, it's got this weird. It keeps
[1:07:41]
Hovering back and forth between good bad movie and movie
[1:07:44]
I kind of like where there's a bunch of really goofy scenes and there's a lot of it doesn't make sense
[1:07:49]
but then there are scenes that are like
[1:07:52]
Really ominous in a powerful way and the soundtrack is awesome
[1:07:55]
The soundtrack is great great in it and there are a lot of beautiful shots in it
[1:07:59]
There's this scene where there's an evil truck that's about to kidnap her mom that like
[1:08:04]
Well, there's
[1:08:06]
Kind of except the truck is full of bad people the truck itself is i'm sorry the truck itself is doesn't have a goblin
[1:08:12]
But uh, and she is wearing sunglasses in the in the back seat this girl
[1:08:16]
purely so that the truck's headlights can be reflected just in one lens of the sunglasses as if she is
[1:08:23]
Projecting this evil force out of her eye in the form of this truck and like it's a beautifully shot
[1:08:29]
Scene and like the shooting in it is gorgeous a lot of time
[1:08:32]
but then you also have
[1:08:33]
Shelly winters as this
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Maid character who works for john houston who is this alien god type figure who just kind of walks around all the time
[1:08:40]
John houston's great in that movie. He spends most of me just walking around
[1:08:44]
And looking at things and shelly winters just slaps the girl at one point like it's super campy
[1:08:50]
But yeah, the music is great in it and there's a but there's a scene
[1:08:54]
Set at an ice skating rink where she just kind of casually commits mayhem for no reason just because why not she's a kid
[1:09:00]
And there was something very strong about it. There's almost no dialogue in the scene. So the visitor it's a weird movie
[1:09:06]
You're gonna laugh at it. And other times you'll be like, oh that was neat
[1:09:11]
Stewart sound like you've seen this movie. Yeah, I may have I can't remember if I recommended it but a flop house listener actually
[1:09:17]
uh
[1:09:18]
I I don't remember the the listeners name offhand, but was kind enough to say apologies, please
[1:09:25]
Uh was kind enough to leave a copy of the blu-ray at uh at charlene's for me. Oh, whoa
[1:09:30]
I have watched it a couple times and I had to record it off turn of classic movies. Like I said, it's great on blu-ray, dude
[1:09:35]
It's available. I believe on amazon prime right now, actually. Oh, okay
[1:09:40]
Check it out
[1:09:41]
It's not gonna be as crisp though. You want it crisp?
[1:09:44]
Like a fresh like an apple like an apple in the yellow pink lady apple
[1:09:48]
I should also mention that kareem abdul-jabbar and sam peckinpah make cameos
[1:09:53]
Except sam peckinpah all of his dialogue had to be re-recorded because he was super drunk. Mm-hmm
[1:09:58]
Like me
[1:10:00]
Anyway, moving on to the final segment of the podcast,
[1:10:04]
which is saying goodbye.
[1:10:06]
Wait, wait, I thought recommendations
[1:10:07]
was the final segment.
[1:10:08]
So it's, uh, what's next?
[1:10:10]
Saying goodbye, why is it sad?
[1:10:15]
Makes us remember the good times we had.
[1:10:20]
Muppets take Manhattan.
[1:10:22]
Yeah.
[1:10:23]
Look at the Muppets take Manhattan.
[1:10:24]
How come when Elliot sings a song,
[1:10:25]
he doesn't explain where the song he just sung is from?
[1:10:27]
Because it's just coming from inside my head.
[1:10:30]
Wait, he's been making those songs up all along?
[1:10:33]
I thought those were, uh, brill buildings.
[1:10:35]
Yeah, old Tin Pan Alley stuff.
[1:10:38]
For the Flophouse, I've been Dan McCoy.
[1:10:40]
Hey, you know me.
[1:10:42]
I'm Sluke.
[1:10:42]
I'm Tin.
[1:10:43]
He's Dan with OPP.
[1:10:44]
Hey girl, it's Elliot Kalin saying goodbye.
[1:10:47]
Good night, everyone.
[1:10:48]
Explosion.
[1:10:50]
Jupiter ascended.
[1:10:51]
Shh, shh, shh.
[1:10:53]
What kind of stuff do we have to do tonight?
[1:11:04]
Podcast.
[1:11:05]
Dan, did you remember to download those ads?
[1:11:11]
And what about the letters?
[1:11:13]
Did you meow-low those ads?
[1:11:16]
Stewart got possessed by the ghost
[1:11:19]
of not-dead singer, Meelo.
[1:11:22]
That is more of a Bob Seger thing.
[1:11:24]
Dan's got the ads to download and he's gonna read them.
[1:11:28]
And I read them right here for now,
[1:11:30]
because he's got, that's Meelo.
[1:11:31]
You start real slow and then you go back like this
[1:11:35]
for no reason and then you're back to slow again.
[1:11:38]
That's Meelo.
[1:11:40]
I was doing that in one time.
[1:11:40]
Elliot, that was a treat-loaf, thank you.
[1:11:43]
A treat Williams, if you will.
[1:11:46]
I won't.
[1:11:47]
He can stay in my movie box and not in my room.
[1:11:51]
What?
[1:11:52]
If treat Williams is in my room,
[1:11:54]
then I would be too distracted to do anything else.
[1:11:56]
Yeah, you'd wanna be making out with him or?
[1:11:58]
I just wonder why he's there.
[1:12:00]
I'd be like, shouldn't you be substituting somebody?
[1:12:04]
Three.
[1:12:05]
We should mention the rocket shoes.
[1:12:06]
Two.
[1:12:07]
No.
[1:12:08]
Yeah, we're not gonna mention the rocket shoes.
[1:12:11]
We're gonna get into this whole thing.
[1:12:12]
Tonight we watch Rocket Shoes, the movie.
[1:12:14]
We're gonna be walking home and be like,
[1:12:16]
doi, we forgot to talk about them rocket boots.
[1:12:22]
Hello, buddies, I'm Travis McElroy.
[1:12:24]
And I'm Andy Boltz.
[1:12:24]
And we're the hosts of Bunker Buddies.
[1:12:27]
We're a podcast where we're amateur survivalists
[1:12:29]
and we talk about things like the apocalypse.
[1:12:31]
And we talk about zombies and preparedness.
[1:12:34]
What are you gonna wear when it's the apocalypse?
[1:12:36]
And you have no idea if you don't listen to our show.
[1:12:38]
It comes out every Wednesdays on maximumfun.org
[1:12:41]
and on iTunes.
[1:12:42]
Sometimes we try weird foods or we talk about where to camp
[1:12:45]
or how to avoid getting eaten or any of these things.
[1:12:48]
Yeah, so listen to us because it might just save your life.
[1:12:51]
We'll see you in the bunker.
[1:12:52]
Bye.
Description
Will the guys who liked Speed Racer also enjoy the Wachowski sibling's most recent critical flop, Jupiter Ascending? Meanwhile Elliott debuts his new bumper sticker, Dan boringly digresses about The Three Investigators, and Stuart explains why, when incarcerating someone, you should really take their rocket boots.Movies recommended in this episode:CreepFlash GordonBarbarellaThe Visitor
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