Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I
Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike. Today we are going full nostalgia.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the VHS tape, the most
Speaker 1: expensive VHS tapes of all time, and the last movies
Speaker 1: to ever be released on the video home system from
Speaker 1: different genres. Again, nostalgia will be the death of me.
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Speaker 1: movies from the Dustroe Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike
Speaker 1: Movie Podcast. The VHS Tape was developed in Japan and
Speaker 1: released in nineteen seventy one. We got it here in
Speaker 1: the United States in nineteen seventy seven, because we're always
Speaker 1: a little bit behind Japan. They're always limiting in the future.
Speaker 1: But it was dominant in the nineteen eighties, in the
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties and fizzled out right around the mid two thousands.
Speaker 1: I just associate watching VHS tapes with my childhood. It
Speaker 1: all goes back to I didn't have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of friends when I was a kid. My friends were
Speaker 1: the VHS tapes that I would borrow from family and
Speaker 1: friends because again, unless we were buying them at a
Speaker 1: garage sale or the flea market. All talk about my
Speaker 1: favorite place to go as a kid, Traders Village in
Speaker 1: Grand Prairie, Texas. We were there every Sunday, and I
Speaker 1: would always flock to all the people selling VHS tapes
Speaker 1: because that was the only place that we could afford them.
Speaker 1: We weren't affording those Walmart prices because they were overly priced,
Speaker 1: and different movies had different prices. Obviously, a movie like
Speaker 1: The Lion King was going to be more expensive, but
Speaker 1: then a lower tier movie like the straight to VHS
Speaker 1: movies would be a little bit cheaper, like a goofy movie.
Speaker 1: That's why that movie was so accessible is because they
Speaker 1: didn't price that the same as they were pricing a
Speaker 1: Lion King. They priced a little bit cheaper so people
Speaker 1: like me would have access to it. And I love
Speaker 1: going to Traders Village and going to the people who
Speaker 1: were selling used VHS tapes, and I would watch those
Speaker 1: movies all the time at home. I also associate the
Speaker 1: VHS tape with the best day ever at school and
Speaker 1: what day was that? It was movie day. And kids
Speaker 1: today don't have this. They have no idea the joy
Speaker 1: that you would get when your teacher would haul in
Speaker 1: that giant tube television and it was the combo rack
Speaker 1: where you have the huge TV on top and the
Speaker 1: thing was shrapped down. It was on there much like
Speaker 1: you would shrap down cargo now in the back of
Speaker 1: your F one fifty. That is what we were doing
Speaker 1: to these giant Zena TVs or whatever brand your school had,
Speaker 1: probably like a Phillips or something, but they were huge
Speaker 1: and massive. If they were fancy, you'd have the combo
Speaker 1: that on the left side of it had the VHS
Speaker 1: and on the right it would have the DVD slide,
Speaker 1: but that was like a low way. Later oftentimes it'd
Speaker 1: be the big TV on top, and then there'd be
Speaker 1: a middle shelf below it and that where the VHS
Speaker 1: tape would be, well the VCR, and your teacher would
Speaker 1: roll that thing in and you were probably set up
Speaker 1: to watch whatever Disney movie was out, even if it
Speaker 1: was like a really old bad movie, which is where
Speaker 1: I was exposed to some classics. Like the first time
Speaker 1: I ever watched The Sound of Music was in my
Speaker 1: elementary school music class, so I got that too. So
Speaker 1: shout out to the Wakasati Independent School District for really
Speaker 1: helping me shape my taste in movies early on. But
Speaker 1: I truly believe there's something to actually having physical media
Speaker 1: and having to put something into a device to play it.
Speaker 1: Like this sound just brings back a lot of memories
Speaker 1: for me, and we don't have that anymore because we
Speaker 1: just open up a streaming service and hit play. There's
Speaker 1: no rewinding, there's no tracking, there's no having like kind
Speaker 1: of okay picture quality, and there's also just kind of
Speaker 1: a warmth to watching a movie on a VHS tape.
Speaker 1: It kind of has like this warm, fuzzy feel and
Speaker 1: now it just feels like you're thrown on a file,
Speaker 1: which is all fun because it's so much easier. So
Speaker 1: they could take that away at any time, but they
Speaker 1: can't take away your physical media. So let's get into
Speaker 1: this list. It's coming to us from CGC, which is
Speaker 1: a grading company. So if you have comic books. If
Speaker 1: you have sports cards or memorabilia, you send it to
Speaker 1: them to be graded, which I've learned about them through
Speaker 1: some comics that I own. If you watch this show
Speaker 1: on YouTube, you can see I have a couple of
Speaker 1: graded comics on my wall, and you see that CGC
Speaker 1: at the top, letting you know that is legit, that
Speaker 1: somebody looked at it verified it. They verified the condition.
Speaker 1: So you send it in and you get a grade number,
Speaker 1: whether it's all. You very rarely get a ten, but
Speaker 1: you probably get maybe a nine point nine and nine
Speaker 1: point five. And depending on how highly it is rated,
Speaker 1: that is how much you can sell that thing for
Speaker 1: and how much it is valued at. And again these
Speaker 1: are sealed copies. They have to be in pristine condition.
Speaker 1: These are the most expensive ones that have ever been graded.
Speaker 1: At number ten is The Return of the Dead, a
Speaker 1: sealed copy sold on this list at eighteen thousand, seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. Obviously, this movie was very essential
Speaker 1: in the eighties for zombie movies. Not one of my
Speaker 1: favorite zombie movies of all time. When it comes to
Speaker 1: who I like from the early era of zombie movies,
Speaker 1: I'm more of a George a Romero guy from the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. But if you can get your hands on
Speaker 1: a sealed copy of this one, it is eighteen thousand,
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty dollars in your pocket. At number
Speaker 1: nine is First Blood, which had a graded copy valued
Speaker 1: at twenty two thousand, five hundred dollars. A sealed copy
Speaker 1: of this VHS sold for that price added auction in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. This is a movie I associate with
Speaker 1: my childhood because it's one of the only ones that
Speaker 1: my dad and uncles could agree on. This movie came
Speaker 1: out in nineteen eighty two, so anything in that genre
Speaker 1: that is Sylvester Stallone or John Claudevaden dam I feel
Speaker 1: like I watched without even trying as a kid, because
Speaker 1: anytime I would go over to my uncle's house, that
Speaker 1: is what they were watching. Because at that time my
Speaker 1: family was still learning English, and the way we learned
Speaker 1: English was by watching movies. So with a movie like this,
Speaker 1: you don't really have to know the language one hundred
Speaker 1: percent to get what is happening. If you see a
Speaker 1: dude like Sylvester Stallone on screen with a gun shooting
Speaker 1: down people and running and chasing from people and trying
Speaker 1: to kill people. You don't exactly need to know that
Speaker 1: language to understand that concept. So I think that is
Speaker 1: why a lot of my uncles, even my aunts for
Speaker 1: that matter, gravitated towards movies like this. They were also
Speaker 1: just massive in the eighties, and a lot of what
Speaker 1: I was exposed to in the early nineties was a
Speaker 1: lot of things that were kind of left over in
Speaker 1: remnants of the eighties. Because I have two older siblings
Speaker 1: who would be considered an eighties kids, so a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that were essential in their early childhood
Speaker 1: I learned from them. One of those being first Blood.
Speaker 1: At number eight is Ghostbusters, that had a copy cell
Speaker 1: for twenty three thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars. The
Speaker 1: wild thing about Ghostbusters whenever it was first released on
Speaker 1: VHS back in the eighties, it's sold retail for seventy
Speaker 1: nine to ninety five, And I think we forget that
Speaker 1: sometimes how expensive movies were, because that was the thing
Speaker 1: whenever TV came around, and then whenever VHS came around,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, now you can watch it at home.
Speaker 1: We have to charge a lot of money for this,
Speaker 1: And at first they were not as accessible as they
Speaker 1: later became. When you could just go to Blockbuster or
Speaker 1: just buy a copy at Walmart, it was seen as
Speaker 1: kind of a luxury, as you see with Ghostbusters being
Speaker 1: eighty dollars. And now when we rent a movie digitally
Speaker 1: at home for twenty dollars, I can't even do that
Speaker 1: because that's like the first run. Whenever a movie finishes
Speaker 1: its theatrical run and then you can own it on
Speaker 1: digital for the first time, it's usually twenty bucks. I
Speaker 1: usually end up waiting until it's like that five six,
Speaker 1: seven dollars range, and then I feel like most people
Speaker 1: now wait until it's on a streaming service that you
Speaker 1: already pay for. But could you imagine going to the
Speaker 1: store now to pay eighty dollars just to watch something
Speaker 1: at home. So that is also how we've seen a
Speaker 1: shift in the movie industry where they could make money
Speaker 1: like this, and a lot of films did see a
Speaker 1: second life from these home video sales because if a
Speaker 1: movie didn't do so well at the box office, but
Speaker 1: then Bam was a hit on VHS tape, it could
Speaker 1: make its money back. Movies now do not have that benefit.
Speaker 1: You can't really make that money back on streaming, because
Speaker 1: in the era of streaming, that throws residuals out of
Speaker 1: the way, that cuts off a lot of that back
Speaker 1: end money. But this is a case where not only
Speaker 1: was Ghostbusters super successful in theaters, I think it made
Speaker 1: almost three hundred million dollars by the end of its
Speaker 1: theatrical run, and then Bam with a eighty dollars VHS
Speaker 1: and then later in twenty twenty two selling a copy
Speaker 1: for twenty three thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars. This
Speaker 1: is gonna have me by the end of this list,
Speaker 1: going to a good will and see if I can
Speaker 1: just find a sealed copy of anything, But that one
Speaker 1: is at number eight. At number seven, a copy of
Speaker 1: Rocky sold for a record twenty seven thousand, five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: This was back in February seventeenth, twenty twenty three. This
Speaker 1: was one of the only known factory sealed copies of Rocky.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing you have to do now, if
Speaker 1: you want to make some money like this in twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty years, you have to think what could be
Speaker 1: of value now sealed that I could go back in
Speaker 1: thirty years and take to somebody or put it online.
Speaker 1: At one of these auctions and sell, and you just
Speaker 1: have to buy that thing and have the willpower not
Speaker 1: to open it. Because if you in the eighties went
Speaker 1: and bought this copy of Rocky and just kept it
Speaker 1: in a box anytime you moved houses, you made sure
Speaker 1: you took that, you'd have an easy almost thirty grand
Speaker 1: that is crazy. Next up on the list at number six,
Speaker 1: a copy of The Terminator, So for thirty two thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars back in February twenty twenty two, you're
Speaker 1: going to see a lot of this stuff happened recently
Speaker 1: because post COVID memorabilia just kind of shot up. Everybody
Speaker 1: realized they had stuff at home, and we got more
Speaker 1: nostalgeric thinking back on good times. This this is now
Speaker 1: would be the time to sell if you had anything
Speaker 1: thirty or forty years old, But again it has to
Speaker 1: be sealed. Terminator was released not only on VHS but
Speaker 1: also on Beta Max in nineteen eighty five, which I
Speaker 1: don't really remember that era. I remember Laser Disc a
Speaker 1: little bit only because I went to a school district
Speaker 1: that was, you know, not the richest of school districts,
Speaker 1: so we never watched anything on beta or laser disc,
Speaker 1: but I did see them because it was so old
Speaker 1: that some people still had them available. I think one
Speaker 1: teacher was like, let me pull out this huge disc
Speaker 1: and like, what is that? That is a giant CD.
Speaker 1: And whenever Terminator first came out back in nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 1: they did not think this movie would be successful, but
Speaker 1: it went on to be a number one movie at
Speaker 1: the box office, made almost eighty million dollars worldwide, and
Speaker 1: then somebody made a lot of money off of it
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two by selling their sealed copy for
Speaker 1: thirty two thousand, five hundred dollars, getting into the top five.
Speaker 1: Next up is Jaws. A sealed copy from nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: three sold for thirty two thousand, five hundred dollars in
Speaker 1: a heritage auction sale on June ninth, twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: This movie just celebrated its fifty year anniversary. It was
Speaker 1: the first ever summer blockbuster. The whole reason we have
Speaker 1: big movies come out in the summer like we do
Speaker 1: now is because what Steven Spielberg did with Jaws fifty
Speaker 1: years ago, and since then, it's become my favorite season
Speaker 1: of the entire year. This season, in particular for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, has been a fantastic summer blockbuster season, and
Speaker 1: despite everybody loving Jaws, it had great critical response. Jaws
Speaker 1: almost bankrupt Steven Spielberg and his entire crew. The film
Speaker 1: went massively over budget because of the filming issues, because
Speaker 1: of the props, but luckily it all worked out. Why
Speaker 1: because of the back end, because of these VHS sales.
Speaker 1: Because the movie didn't come out on VHS until nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty MCA Home Video put it out so that we
Speaker 1: could finally enjoy this movie at home, because that wasn't
Speaker 1: a thing. Also, back in when movies were coming out
Speaker 1: in the seventies, you couldn't go watch a movie in
Speaker 1: the theater and then eventually in like six months have
Speaker 1: it at home. You had to wait three years to
Speaker 1: watch the Jaws at home. And because of that, Jaws
Speaker 1: has now ended up as one of the top five
Speaker 1: most expensive VHS tapes of all time at number four.
Speaker 1: The Thing, not the Thing from Fantastic Four, No, the
Speaker 1: John Carpenter movie The Thing. It sold a sealed first
Speaker 1: edition copy of the nineteen eighty two movie on October
Speaker 1: thirty first, twenty twenty two, for whopping thirty seven thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. The Thing was not a success when
Speaker 1: it came out in theaters. But the thing No pun
Speaker 1: intended that gave it its second live was its home
Speaker 1: video release. And that's what shows you that sometimes when
Speaker 1: people go see a movie in theaters, they can hate it.
Speaker 1: But then when it's released to everybody who can watch
Speaker 1: it at home, maybe you have some people a little
Speaker 1: bit more open minded, maybe they're in a better headspace
Speaker 1: so when they sit down to watch this movie. So
Speaker 1: initially this movie was a bomb and now has turned
Speaker 1: into a cult classic, which has happened with a lot
Speaker 1: of movies. Just because you don't do well in theaters,
Speaker 1: you can find your audience somehow, because sometimes movies are
Speaker 1: just released at the wrong time, or they're put in
Speaker 1: a position to fail where they don't have the promotion,
Speaker 1: or they go up against another really big movie. And
Speaker 1: the Thing now is a classic and a copyfore it's
Speaker 1: sold for a record amount of money at number three.
Speaker 1: Hey you guys, we have the goodies. A sealed and
Speaker 1: certified copy of this movie from nineteen eighty six sold
Speaker 1: for fifty thousand dollars in a heritage auctions on June ninth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. They must have just had a massive
Speaker 1: sale in twenty twenty two. This movie goes beyond classic.
Speaker 1: If you told me The Goonies was your favorite movie
Speaker 1: of all time, I just know we be good friends.
Speaker 1: It's not my favorite of all time. I don't even
Speaker 1: know that I would put it in my top ten.
Speaker 1: But if you love this movie, I probably love you
Speaker 1: because it's just a piece of American history, so much
Speaker 1: so that the Library of Congress preserved this movie in
Speaker 1: the United States Film Registry in twenty seventeen. And that's
Speaker 1: like the biggest honor. Only movies in there that have
Speaker 1: really just etched themselves into American film history belong there.
Speaker 1: And that means maybe nothing on surface level, but that
Speaker 1: means kind of if everything else went away, we lost
Speaker 1: all other movies, but could only hold onto the movies
Speaker 1: in this registry. That is how impactful these movies would be.
Speaker 1: That would be like if we had to leave Earth
Speaker 1: and only take a certain amount of movies with us,
Speaker 1: we would take the movies in this registry to show
Speaker 1: how our culture has evolved over the years in film,
Speaker 1: and The Goonies has it all. It has action, it
Speaker 1: has adventure, it has romance, it has great characters, it
Speaker 1: has great music. Could easily make the argument that the
Speaker 1: Goonies and the movie coming up at number two are
Speaker 1: just perfect movies. And if Aliens came down and said
Speaker 1: show me your best movie, I would say, maybe start
Speaker 1: with the Goonies, or maybe start with number two. Because
Speaker 1: at number two, which sold for seventy five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: at an auction back in twenty twenty two, again it
Speaker 1: was a sealed and graded copy of this movie It
Speaker 1: is Back to the Future Man seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: That is a lot of money for a VHS tape.
Speaker 1: Just imagine the pressure. I know CGC puts them in cases,
Speaker 1: but just the pressure to even grade something like that
Speaker 1: where you're like, okay, even if I make because you
Speaker 1: know how hard it is to keep shrink wrap on something,
Speaker 1: especially VHS where it has like the corners, it has
Speaker 1: to be perfect. But this movie was not only a
Speaker 1: success in theaters because it made over three hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty million dollars at the box office, it was also
Speaker 1: so successful when it came out on VHS in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty six. This was another movie that costs seventy nine
Speaker 1: to ninety five whenever it came out, which is one
Speaker 1: of the more higher priced video cassettes. But even though
Speaker 1: it had such a high price point, Back to the
Speaker 1: Future became the first movie to sell four thousand, five
Speaker 1: hundred units almost half a million units at that price point,
Speaker 1: and became the most rented cassette in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 1: Why do I just love the word cassette? It just
Speaker 1: feels good to me. So not only was it super
Speaker 1: successful and popular when it came out in theaters, but
Speaker 1: then everybody had to own it and watch it at home.
Speaker 1: At number two is Back to the Future, but at
Speaker 1: number one the most expensive VHS tape of all time
Speaker 1: sold back in October twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, when
Speaker 1: somebody found a sealed copy of the first release of
Speaker 1: this movie, which is next to impossible. It was sold
Speaker 1: through Golden for an incredible one one hundred and fourteen
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, the most expensive VHS tape of all time.
Speaker 1: What do you think it is? At? Sci Fi originally
Speaker 1: came out in theaters in nineteen seventy seven, grossed over
Speaker 1: seven hundred and seventy five million dollars at the box office.
Speaker 1: Can you guess it? Well, it is none other than
Speaker 1: Star Wars, a new hope. The unusual thing about Star
Speaker 1: Wars is it didn't have a traditional rollout to home
Speaker 1: video because twentieth Century Fox actually delayed putting it out
Speaker 1: on VHS because they wanted to make more money from
Speaker 1: it in theaters. They were also concerned about the technology
Speaker 1: at the time. They were like, should we focus more
Speaker 1: on laser disc? Is this going to be what the
Speaker 1: future is? So what they did instead was released small
Speaker 1: clips through weird media products. They didn't have a traditional
Speaker 1: VHS release because they were holding out on it, but
Speaker 1: everybody was like, yo, we want to watch Star Wars
Speaker 1: at home. So they finally released it in nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: but it was only available for you couldn't buy it yet.
Speaker 1: Obviously that caused chaos because then people would go rent it.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't take it back. You had video rental places
Speaker 1: going rogue and just selling people a lifetime rental for
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. So it just created this huge mess
Speaker 1: where people were stealing copies, pirting copies, they were going missing.
Speaker 1: And finally they had an official release to Star Wars
Speaker 1: on VHS in nineteen eighty two, and people ate this
Speaker 1: thing up. And if you had a seal copy like
Speaker 1: this person who sold it back in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: and if it's in mint condition, but you could make
Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars the most expensive VHS
Speaker 1: of all time. Star Wars a New Hope. So now
Speaker 1: to close out the episode, let's say goodbye to the
Speaker 1: VHS format and talk about the last ever VHS movie released.
Speaker 1: It was in two thousand and six. The VHS was
Speaker 1: officially dead when A History of Violence came out. Vigo
Speaker 1: Mortensen plays an ex hitman turned quiet town family man.
Speaker 1: The movie also stars Ed Harris in one of his
Speaker 1: more sinister bad guy roles. It was the last ever
Speaker 1: major Hollywood movie to be released in VHS format, even
Speaker 1: though some Disney enthusiasts say that it was actually the
Speaker 1: Disney Pixar movie Cars, because in February of two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, Disney released a copy, but it was only
Speaker 1: through their Disney Movie Club, so it wasn't available for
Speaker 1: everybody to purchase. But if you're going technically by a technicality, Cars,
Speaker 1: mister Kachow was the real ever last VHS tape made
Speaker 1: came out in two thousand and seven. I also have
Speaker 1: some of the last movies released on VHS from different genres.
Speaker 1: For horror, it was Saw Too Man. Sometimes when I
Speaker 1: think about Saw watching that first one, I think, Man,
Speaker 1: that was only like ten years ago. But the first
Speaker 1: one came out in two thousand and four and came
Speaker 1: out in two thousand and five, twenty years ago. But
Speaker 1: that was the last ever major horror movie to be
Speaker 1: released on VHS tape. For comedy, it was Just Friends,
Speaker 1: which was the movie with Ryan Reynolds, which I remember
Speaker 1: this being one of the movies we rented from our
Speaker 1: local video rental store in Waksahatchie. I think it was
Speaker 1: just called the Video Store, but we didn't rent it
Speaker 1: on VHS. We rented it on DVD. This place was
Speaker 1: so old school. You would walk up and take this
Speaker 1: little almost like a mini poker chip or is this
Speaker 1: mini tab that was hung up on the wall on
Speaker 1: literally a hook, and you would take that tab up
Speaker 1: to the counter and then they would pull that movie.
Speaker 1: And I remember doing that for Just Friends, which is
Speaker 1: the comedy with Ryan Reynolds, back in a pretty good
Speaker 1: era of comedies. But he gets friend zoned and he's
Speaker 1: like a bigger dude and then gets ripped up. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was Ryan Reynolds in a fat suit, and I
Speaker 1: believe he had braces, which I find a fence from
Speaker 1: on multiple levels as being a former big guy and
Speaker 1: a person who wore braces for a very long time.
Speaker 1: Probably couldn't make this movie today, but at the time
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. He tries to get back with his
Speaker 1: high school crush and then he has his new girl,
Speaker 1: who was played by Anna Faris. Somehow this movie makes
Speaker 1: sense as the last one to be released in the
Speaker 1: comedy genre on VHS. The last war movie released on
Speaker 1: VHS was Jarhead. This was a movie that I should
Speaker 1: not have watched as young as I did. I was
Speaker 1: probably thirteen, maybe twelve years old whenever I watched Jarhead,
Speaker 1: a movie that really doesn't have a whole lot of action.
Speaker 1: It's more about the psychological scars of war, so I
Speaker 1: probably didn't even get it as a kid. The last
Speaker 1: drama romance released on VHS was Pride and Prejudice with
Speaker 1: Kiara Knightley. This was a movie that we read the
Speaker 1: book in probably middle school, maybe junior high, and then
Speaker 1: watched the movie, So this was definitely a movie day
Speaker 1: type film. If there was ever a book turned into
Speaker 1: a movie, that was definitely happening. We were gonna read
Speaker 1: it and we were gonna watch that movie. The last
Speaker 1: sci fi action movie released on VHS was Dwayne the
Speaker 1: Rock Johnson's Doom, and this was in February two thousand
Speaker 1: and six. I never played the video games, so I
Speaker 1: didn't really have a whole lot of attachment to this movie.
Speaker 1: It just seems like one of those in the list
Speaker 1: of mid movies that the Rock did in the two
Speaker 1: thousands before he really found this groove, before he really
Speaker 1: became a famous action star. The last adventure movie released
Speaker 1: on VHS was The Legend of Zoro, and the last
Speaker 1: superhero movie to be released on VHS. This is a
Speaker 1: good one. Fantastic four in two thousand and five, and
Speaker 1: we got a Fantastic four movie in two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: we got one in twenty fifteen, and we just got
Speaker 1: one last month in twenty twenty five. So pretty much
Speaker 1: every ten years we get a new Fantastic Four movie.
Speaker 1: And I'll leave you with this. My favorite thing from
Speaker 1: back in the day of watching a movie on VHS.
Speaker 1: It really goes back to watching Disney movies. I think
Speaker 1: that is what I watched the most, and it was
Speaker 1: whenever all of the trailers play it and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, I gotta fast forward through all of these,
Speaker 1: which is something we don't have to deal with anymore now.
Speaker 1: Our equivalent of that if you watch on a streaming
Speaker 1: service and you don't pay for the act free version,
Speaker 1: you have to sit through commercials, but you watch all
Speaker 1: the trailers and then Disney finally hits you with this,
Speaker 1: and it just feels magical because you know the show
Speaker 1: is about a start, and no all our feature presentation.
Speaker 1: Take me back for just one day. I'd do it
Speaker 1: all different. I'd watch way more movies. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: come back and give a spoiler free movie review of Together.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review
Speaker 1: of Together, starring real life married couple Alison Brie and
Speaker 1: Dave Franco. I'm actually a fan of both of these actors.
Speaker 1: Alison Bree since way back in Community. She was also
Speaker 1: really great and glowed. Dave Franco, have been watching him
Speaker 1: since super Bad, also great in twenty one Jump Street.
Speaker 1: A lot of great twenty tens comedy movies from Dave Franco.
Speaker 1: But what this movie is about. They play a couple
Speaker 1: who has been together for about ten years. He is
Speaker 1: an aspiring musician has been trying ever since they've been
Speaker 1: together to make it big, but he just quite hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten there, just got dropped from his label. She just
Speaker 1: got a job as a small town school teacher. So
Speaker 1: they are moving away from the big city upstate New York.
Speaker 1: He's kind of leaving behind his dreams. They've been kind
Speaker 1: of on the fringes of their relationship, not really connecting
Speaker 1: emotionally or connecting physically, and they're almost hoping that this
Speaker 1: move is going to save everything. But again, he just
Speaker 1: feels like I got a hold on to this career
Speaker 1: that I'm building, and she just wants to move on
Speaker 1: and be with him. So that is kind of the
Speaker 1: premise of this movie. They moved to a small town
Speaker 1: where it seems like everything is quiet and comfortable. It's
Speaker 1: out in the country. The small town vibe is really
Speaker 1: showcasing the cinematography. I love a good aerial shot of
Speaker 1: some trees that really kind of puts you into a
Speaker 1: small town horror movie like this and you just get
Speaker 1: this really grand scope that I was a fan of.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of really great shots that were
Speaker 1: just establishing all the scenes in this movie, a lot
Speaker 1: of big zoomed in moments, especially from like behind them.
Speaker 1: It just kind of gave me feeling of like a
Speaker 1: classic horror movie, which is really what this movie is
Speaker 1: at its core. It is a body horror movie because, well,
Speaker 1: you see it in the poster, you see it in
Speaker 1: the trailer. They encounter something that has this weird curse,
Speaker 1: and then their bodies just kind of keep sticking to
Speaker 1: each other, so it becomes the ultimate thing to bring
Speaker 1: them together and they try to uncover exactly what is
Speaker 1: going on with their bodies and why each of them
Speaker 1: are starting to go crazy. Which this movie sounded like
Speaker 1: it was going to be right up my alley, especially
Speaker 1: coming off of one of the best body horror movies
Speaker 1: of all time last year with The Substance. I wanted
Speaker 1: more of that. I wanted gruesomeness on the poster they
Speaker 1: put Horror Movie of the Year, So my expectations were
Speaker 1: way up there, wanting it to be on the level
Speaker 1: of something like The Substance, and I didn't quite get
Speaker 1: that I really believe this movie stood in its way
Speaker 1: so much, and they were really trying to paint this
Speaker 1: backstory in this mystery read all that was kind of
Speaker 1: hidden in this town and going on. They even opened
Speaker 1: up with that that I felt like it was a
Speaker 1: detriment to the movie because they kept over explaining things,
Speaker 1: which I believe Alison Brie and Dave Franco do have
Speaker 1: great chemistry, obviously being married. I think both of them
Speaker 1: are good actors, but it almost felt like some of
Speaker 1: the dialogue was so forced and their characters were being
Speaker 1: a little bit too analytical at times, trying to just
Speaker 1: paint this backstory where I just wanted them to experience
Speaker 1: these things and show us more of that gruesomeness, because
Speaker 1: that is exactly what was just lacking in this movie,
Speaker 1: more of those moments that were supposed to churn your stomach.
Speaker 1: I wanted to leave this movie disgusted, and I did not.
Speaker 1: I got something different, though, and I don't think that
Speaker 1: is bad. I got a story about two people trying
Speaker 1: to navigate these waters where one of them really wants
Speaker 1: to make this relationship work, and question are they really
Speaker 1: doing the right thing and exactly what are they fighting
Speaker 1: for if you've invested ten year in a relationship, is
Speaker 1: it only worth keeping because you've invested those ten years
Speaker 1: If you were trying just so hard to make things
Speaker 1: work and forcing it, do you really love the other
Speaker 1: person or are you just comfortable? Because this movie is
Speaker 1: about a couple who maybe shouldn't be together, forced to
Speaker 1: come together. So I think the overall metaphor and overarching
Speaker 1: message of what they were trying to say, they got
Speaker 1: that through. But it's a horror movie, and I wanted
Speaker 1: more of the horror elements because that is great. I
Speaker 1: think to make a horror movie that has a little
Speaker 1: bit more substance, I'm all here for it because I
Speaker 1: enjoyed both of these characters. I thought what they were
Speaker 1: going through was really interesting, maybe even relatable to some people.
Speaker 1: It just never really reached its full potential. And the
Speaker 1: horror imagery was fantastic when it was there, but to me,
Speaker 1: it was just few and far between. So for me,
Speaker 1: this was a case of a movie that overpromised and underdelivered,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be holding it to that high of
Speaker 1: a standard if they did. Put that at the very
Speaker 1: top of the poster. If you call yourself horror movie
Speaker 1: of the year, and you use that quote. A lot
Speaker 1: of movies have done that in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: I think Long Legs did it last year. Long Legs
Speaker 1: lived up to that potential now that I think about it.
Speaker 1: They're both neon movies, so maybe they just get any
Speaker 1: review that calls them horror movie of the year. That's
Speaker 1: what I just got to start saying in my reviews,
Speaker 1: horror movie of the year. I'll say that for every
Speaker 1: horror movie. Maybe that's what I need to do to
Speaker 1: get my reviews picked up, because oftentimes I call movies
Speaker 1: butt drenching that are really stressful. But I don't think
Speaker 1: movies to do is I want to put that on
Speaker 1: their posters. Although I would have known what I was
Speaker 1: getting into more if I would have seen together butt
Speaker 1: drenching Movie of the Year, as heard on Movie Mike's
Speaker 1: Movie podcast. Put that on a poster. And I do
Speaker 1: still love Alison Bria Dave Franco. I think they should
Speaker 1: do more movies together. They have worked together in films
Speaker 1: in the past. I think there's an entirely different level
Speaker 1: of chemistry when it's two people who have been together
Speaker 1: and married for so long that that just comes across
Speaker 1: so natural. So even though their characters in this movie
Speaker 1: kind of have conflicting feelings about each other, you can
Speaker 1: still tell how much chemistry they have together naturally, and
Speaker 1: that really sold this story. I'm all for horror movies
Speaker 1: with the message, but you also have to deliver on
Speaker 1: the elements of horror. So for Together, I give it
Speaker 1: three point five out of five Bus Saws because as
Speaker 1: soon as I left the theater, I thought, I have
Speaker 1: never seen a more three point five out of five
Speaker 1: movie because it was so close there it Maybe just
Speaker 1: a couple of more scenes could have made me love
Speaker 1: this movie and reached that four. Because to me, a
Speaker 1: four I have to love parts of it and then
Speaker 1: maybe not like some other parts. Four point five is
Speaker 1: I really love a lot of it, but there are
Speaker 1: just a couple of things that keep me from fully
Speaker 1: committing to a five. A three point five is like
Speaker 1: there was just nothing about it that I completely loved.
Speaker 1: I was so close to being there, but still so strong.
Speaker 1: I've never met a more three point five out of
Speaker 1: five movie than Together. It's time to head down to movie.
Speaker 1: Mike Treylar, Paul is Pixar cook or is there something
Speaker 1: else going on here? Is it a lack of originality?
Speaker 1: Are we tired of the same animation style? Is there
Speaker 1: new movie? Hoppers gonna be the one to get them
Speaker 1: back on top? That is what we are here to
Speaker 1: talk about today. Hoppers is coming out in theaters on
Speaker 1: March twenty six, twenty twenty six. You have Bobby moynihan,
Speaker 1: John Hamm among this cast. What this movie is about.
Speaker 1: It's about a group of scientists who discover a way
Speaker 1: to mind hop into robot animal bodies. So essentially they
Speaker 1: are able to take your mind, or your consciousness at least,
Speaker 1: and put it into a very cute, cuddly creature, and
Speaker 1: then that creature can go out into the world and
Speaker 1: not only interact with these animals, but be able to
Speaker 1: speak their languages. I think this is something we probably
Speaker 1: all thought of as kids, and I think that is
Speaker 1: what Pixar is good about doing. At least they were
Speaker 1: early on of creating ideas like what if you could
Speaker 1: do this? What if toys had feelings? What if cars
Speaker 1: had feelings? And obviously Disney and Pixar are no strangers
Speaker 1: to animal movies, but what if humans could go into
Speaker 1: these bodies and interact with other animals. So that is
Speaker 1: what we are here to talk about. We'll get into
Speaker 1: what Pixar has been doing so far in the twenty twenties.
Speaker 1: I have a theory on who the bad guy is here.
Speaker 1: But before we get into that, here's just a little
Speaker 1: bit of the Hoppers trailer. We've done it, Mabel, after
Speaker 1: years of work. This revolutionary technology gives us unprecedented access
Speaker 1: to the animal world. We put this into this. So
Speaker 1: let me get this straight. You created a fake animal, yes,
Speaker 1: which makes the other animals think you're an animals. Yes, guys,
Speaker 1: this is like Avatar. This is nothing like Avatar. Be careful.
Speaker 1: What hey, how you do? I understand you? So this
Speaker 1: got me there. So this movie is about a character
Speaker 1: named Mabel. She finds out that this construction company wants
Speaker 1: to tear down this local animal habitat, so she uses
Speaker 1: this technology to take over the body of a beaver
Speaker 1: in order to fight back. So Mabel is a huge
Speaker 1: animal lover and wants to use technology to place her
Speaker 1: consciousness into this robotic beaver to uncover the mysteries within
Speaker 1: the animal world and beyond her imagination. So what you
Speaker 1: see in the trailer is she realizes she's a beaver.
Speaker 1: I love the shot of the beaver running and everything
Speaker 1: else kind of going frantic behind her. It feels a
Speaker 1: little bit fresh for Pixar, and aside from the humans,
Speaker 1: which I think Pixar humans are always gonna look like
Speaker 1: Pixar humans, and I think that is just there. This
Speaker 1: is our animation style, this is what characters look like
Speaker 1: in a Pixar world. You're not really going to change
Speaker 1: a whole lot there, because if you do, then it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like Pixar. But when it comes to the
Speaker 1: animals here, they look fantastic. The fur on the bear,
Speaker 1: the fur on the beavers looks so lifelike. And sometimes
Speaker 1: Pixar isn't as photorealistic as other animated movies. But I
Speaker 1: think the animation team crushed it here because I feel
Speaker 1: like I could jump into this trailer and touch all
Speaker 1: of these animal creatures and they would be as soft
Speaker 1: as they look on screen. So I think that is
Speaker 1: a big win here, because I think something that people
Speaker 1: have been criticizing in these Pixar movies lately is the
Speaker 1: animation just kind of all looks the same. And I
Speaker 1: do think there are some factors here because a lot
Speaker 1: of Pixar animators all went to a very famous art
Speaker 1: school called cal Arts. If you've listened to the episode
Speaker 1: I did with the creator of Lee Low and Stitch,
Speaker 1: Chris Sanders, he went there, he met a lot of
Speaker 1: other famous people, or at least people who went on
Speaker 1: to be famous, and they all learned this cal Arts
Speaker 1: animation style that is very specific. It's very simplistic. I
Speaker 1: would say the best example of that are recent movies
Speaker 1: like Luca and Turning Red, which some people think has
Speaker 1: just kind of simplified the character design and has maybe
Speaker 1: created a little bit too of a unified look where
Speaker 1: none of these movies look as exciting. They look more
Speaker 1: like Disney Plus originals, and they look like something you
Speaker 1: would want to pay money to go see in theaters.
Speaker 1: If you don't have a great character design or a
Speaker 1: boarding character design that doesn't translate into other sales that
Speaker 1: you need for animated movies, it doesn't make people want
Speaker 1: to buy a popcorn bucket, a big old cup in
Speaker 1: the movie theater, or even beyond that, the toys at
Speaker 1: Target and Walmart and t shirts. If you just have
Speaker 1: very unmemorable characters that kids aren't really good to attach
Speaker 1: themselves to, or even adults aren't going to attach themselves
Speaker 1: to And I think that is another issue here. But
Speaker 1: is it the animation style, is it Pixar or is
Speaker 1: it the overarching company of Disney? And I think we
Speaker 1: forgot that. Disney acquired Pixar beat on May fifth, two
Speaker 1: thousand and six. Pixar at the time was valued at
Speaker 1: seven point four billion dollars. The deal made Steve Jobs,
Speaker 1: who he didn't start Pixar, but he did acquire Pixar
Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty six. In two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: it made him the largest individual shareholder, and that's where
Speaker 1: he made a lot of his money. But if I
Speaker 1: were to make a movie about the downfall of Pixar
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenties, and if I was going to
Speaker 1: have a place of villain, I think it would be Disney,
Speaker 1: not only with Pixar, but also with what we're seeing
Speaker 1: with Marvel, where I feel like they're less focused on
Speaker 1: making things that are dynamic, unique and creative and out
Speaker 1: of the box and more focused on just things that
Speaker 1: are going to make them money, which I get. Movies
Speaker 1: are a business. That is what they are in the
Speaker 1: business of doing, putting out big blockbuster hits that translate
Speaker 1: into ticket sales, translate into merch sales, but most importantly
Speaker 1: into people wanting to visit Disney in California and Florida,
Speaker 1: which is a major thing. Sometimes we forget that as
Speaker 1: people who love movies, that they can oftentimes just be
Speaker 1: commercials for their Disney properties. If we look at all
Speaker 1: the Pixar and Disney movies they put out since twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: which obviously the pandemic is going to throw a lot
Speaker 1: of things off here, they have been very unmemorable. Onward
Speaker 1: came out on March six, twenty twenty. That was the
Speaker 1: last movie in theaters I ever saw that year. Soul
Speaker 1: came out in December of that year, but it was
Speaker 1: a Disney Plus only release, and then the next year,
Speaker 1: this is where they really started to shift and started
Speaker 1: just putting things out on Disney Plus. But I feel
Speaker 1: like this is where their originality just really started to lack,
Speaker 1: and that war on us as Disney and Pixar fans.
Speaker 1: Luca came out in twenty twenty one Disney Plus only.
Speaker 1: I will say I did enjoy Luca, and I think
Speaker 1: the animation style was specific to telling a story like that.
Speaker 1: I think it fit, but overall, when you look at
Speaker 1: the characters and look at the animation design, it's not
Speaker 1: as bright and vibrant as some of the other things
Speaker 1: inside of the Pixar world. Turning Red was also a
Speaker 1: good movie that came out in twenty twenty two, also
Speaker 1: just on Disney Plus and then later they tried to
Speaker 1: push it out in the theaters. Also a great story,
Speaker 1: but I think the animation was just fine, and just
Speaker 1: fine was not good enough to make that movie a hit.
Speaker 1: Light Year came out in June of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: which there was a whole other reason that people were
Speaker 1: upset about this movie. I think that maybe was a
Speaker 1: little bit too ambitious, but again, they weren't trying anything
Speaker 1: completely original. They were just trying to make a standalone
Speaker 1: movie still in that toy story world. I just don't
Speaker 1: think light Year was probably the best person to make
Speaker 1: that with. They should have made a woody movie that
Speaker 1: would have crushed. It would have made people happy. It
Speaker 1: would have been less of them having to explain why
Speaker 1: he's not voiced by Tim Allen, why it's not about
Speaker 1: the toy, why it's actually about the person that inspired
Speaker 1: the toy. It was all just confusing for people. But
Speaker 1: that movie did not do well for them. Elemental again
Speaker 1: was just a middle of the road movie, and that
Speaker 1: one just didn't really have a lot of hype going
Speaker 1: into it. The story was fine, and fine again is
Speaker 1: not good enough. I think some people unfairly maybe didn't
Speaker 1: watch that movie or just didn't even know when it
Speaker 1: came out. Did much better when it went to Disney
Speaker 1: Plus than it did in theaters, But I think overall
Speaker 1: that story was just fine at best. Inside out too,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a no brainer, going back to their
Speaker 1: pool of great movies from the twenty tens, that movie
Speaker 1: did well. Was a billion dollar movie for them. And
Speaker 1: the sad thing is to some people who say they
Speaker 1: want to see new original ideas and then they put
Speaker 1: out a sequel to a very beloved movie, then they're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're not going to get another original for a while,
Speaker 1: because whenever they make sequels, that's when they're making all
Speaker 1: their money. And then Elio came out earlier this year
Speaker 1: in June. Its numbers were pretty dismal, and that'll probably
Speaker 1: come out on Disney Plus probably towards the end of September,
Speaker 1: even though they haven't announced that yet. But if you
Speaker 1: look at all these movies, you start to see a theme.
Speaker 1: And yes, the pandemic throws off the twenty twenty year,
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one year a little bit, but that
Speaker 1: bled into twenty twenty two. But what I see is
Speaker 1: not what made Picksar so memorable in the beginning. If
Speaker 1: you think back to the first Toy Story movie, you
Speaker 1: think back to A Bugs Life, you think back to
Speaker 1: the first Cards movie, which was right around the time
Speaker 1: that Disney bought them, Monsters Inc. Finding Nemo, the Incredibles.
Speaker 1: All of these movies had great stories, great character designs
Speaker 1: that all look different from each other. But what does
Speaker 1: Disney like to do. They like to make things that
Speaker 1: feel like they're all a part of the same brand.
Speaker 1: They all have this synergy. So now everything since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty has started to look the same. Out of all
Speaker 1: those movies I mentioned there from the twenty twenties, they
Speaker 1: all look like they could be made by the exact
Speaker 1: same team, by the exact same people, And I think
Speaker 1: that makes a animated movies seem interesting. And then you
Speaker 1: see on the other side of animation, with movies like
Speaker 1: Transformers One, the New Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles animated movie
Speaker 1: into the Spider Verse, where they're being so much more
Speaker 1: ambitious with their animation. As you can tell, I love animation,
Speaker 1: and I feel like out of all styles of filmmaking,
Speaker 1: there is a whole other world that we can explore here,
Speaker 1: because I feel that it is a world where there's
Speaker 1: so much room for creativity. We haven't seen the best
Speaker 1: animated movie yet. I think we should be getting the
Speaker 1: best animated movies right now in the twenty twenties, and
Speaker 1: I just haven't seen that because they're relying on their
Speaker 1: properties at work. We're going to get a Toy Story five, six, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: and ten because they continue to do well and we
Speaker 1: still are curious about those movies. I'll still go end
Speaker 1: up seeing those movies, but we're not going to get
Speaker 1: anything completely different as long as Disney says, these are
Speaker 1: the movies we need to make and this is what
Speaker 1: they need to look like, and we're gonna put out
Speaker 1: movies like Ilio, not really market it a whole lot,
Speaker 1: not really give it a fighting chance, and then use
Speaker 1: that as an example of Look, we tried to give
Speaker 1: you an original movie, but you didn't go support it.
Speaker 1: So here you go, here's Car sixty seven, and what
Speaker 1: do you know? We lost Nemo again and we have
Speaker 1: to find him for the sixteenth time. Is there a
Speaker 1: solution here? I don't think so. I think we support
Speaker 1: the things we want to support. I'm never gonna tell
Speaker 1: anybody how to spend your money when it comes to
Speaker 1: watching things in theaters. Go watch the things you want
Speaker 1: to watch, but just know that your money carries a
Speaker 1: lot of way to it in the decision making of
Speaker 1: what gets greenlit, what continues to have SEQL after sequel,
Speaker 1: and what movies and ideas they deem aren't worth the
Speaker 1: time or money. But that being said, I do think
Speaker 1: Hoppers is a step in the right direction. I think
Speaker 1: the story is interesting, and even though there's not one
Speaker 1: character I think will be the new poster child for Pixar.
Speaker 1: I do think it's gonna give people a reason to
Speaker 1: go into the theater and not feel like you could
Speaker 1: just wait and go and watch it on Disney Plus
Speaker 1: whenever it is about three or four months old. And finally,
Speaker 1: just because I've been rattling off all of my passionate
Speaker 1: thoughts about animation, I did wonder if I could put
Speaker 1: my brain into an animal like this and then go
Speaker 1: live in their habitat be able to speak to them.
Speaker 1: I don't want no funny business though. That was the
Speaker 1: one problem I had with picking this animal, because animals,
Speaker 1: well they're animals. They're to do things that you don't
Speaker 1: want them to do, whether you do it or not,
Speaker 1: So no funny business involved. I would want to be
Speaker 1: my favorite animal of all time on Orca. I've loved
Speaker 1: orcas ever since I was a kid. I still want
Speaker 1: to go well watching up in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1: I think that would be amazing just to be able
Speaker 1: to see an orca in the wild, not at SeaWorld,
Speaker 1: even though that is where my love of these animals
Speaker 1: did develop. SeaWorld not a great place for them. Ever
Speaker 1: since I saw Blackfish, I was like, I can't support
Speaker 1: the place. That documentary did change me a lot. But
Speaker 1: I've also seen a lot of other great documentaries about
Speaker 1: orcas that do give me hope, and that also just
Speaker 1: show you how smart a animals they are, Like they
Speaker 1: mourn they're dead, and they're just incredibly resourceful. Even that
Speaker 1: one summer where they were crashing boats and terrorizing some humans,
Speaker 1: I was still team Orca because I was like, humans
Speaker 1: had to have done something wrong. Somebody killed an orca
Speaker 1: and they wanted vengeance. Number two would probably be an owl,
Speaker 1: just because I feel like they're very majestic. I identify a
Speaker 1: lot with them being nocturnal. Misunderstood. I didn't get attacked
Speaker 1: by one a couple of years ago on a run
Speaker 1: because I was out very early in the morning. I
Speaker 1: was wearing a white hat, so I was convinced they
Speaker 1: thought I was a rabbit or something. And again, I
Speaker 1: love owl so much, I'll put that blame on me.
Speaker 1: And number three would definitely be a cat, because like cats,
Speaker 1: I am very independent. I will come to you only
Speaker 1: when I need a little bit of love. I may
Speaker 1: bite you, I may scratch you. Ultimately, I do love you,
Speaker 1: even though I probably don't say it every day. Bonus
Speaker 1: points for being able to lock myself. But again, Hoppers
Speaker 1: is coming out in theaters on March sixth, twenty twenty six. Geez,
Speaker 1: And that was this week's edition of Movie Lin Tramer
Speaker 1: Bar and that is gonna do it for another episode
Speaker 1: here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta
Speaker 1: give my listeners shout out of the week. This week,
Speaker 1: I'm going over to X and shouting out Melody Smith,
Speaker 1: who commented on a post I made about last week's episode.
Speaker 1: Kelsey and I talked about Project Hail Mary. She read
Speaker 1: it for her book club, has now gone and watched
Speaker 1: the trailer in full and looking forward to that movie
Speaker 1: coming out next March. Melody said, I highly recommend listening
Speaker 1: to Project Hail Mary. The audio version is great. Melody,
Speaker 1: I never even thought of that, And to be honest,
Speaker 1: I've never listened to a book on audiobook. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. My brother is super into listening to biographies
Speaker 1: and he tells me about it all the time. I
Speaker 1: guess may maybe it's a time thing for me, because
Speaker 1: when I see that a book is like sixty eight
Speaker 1: hours on an audio book, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: could bring myself to listen to it. And also sometimes
Speaker 1: when I listen to things, I tend to zone out,
Speaker 1: so I feel like I would kind of forget things.
Speaker 1: If I were going on a long road trip, I
Speaker 1: would definitely do that, because I do enjoy listening to
Speaker 1: a bunch of podcasts. When I do that, and I
Speaker 1: really allow myself to get into that world, and that
Speaker 1: is where I do my best listening but Melody, I
Speaker 1: do think that's an interesting thing. But I'm really going
Speaker 1: to push myself to read that book because I am
Speaker 1: determined to read and finish a book and go see
Speaker 1: that movie in theaters. That is my goal. But Melody,
Speaker 1: I appreciate looking out. If it gets grim there and
Speaker 1: I think I'm not going to be able to finish
Speaker 1: this book, we're getting closer to that movie coming out
Speaker 1: in theaters, I'm like, all right, I got to speed
Speaker 1: this thing up and listen to the audiobook. I will
Speaker 1: do that. So I appreciate that message. Thank you, Melody,
Speaker 1: Thank you right now for listening wherever you are in
Speaker 1: your car at the gym. Thank you for not listening
Speaker 1: to an audiobook and listening to this podcast. And until
Speaker 1: next time, go out and watch good movies and I
Speaker 1: will talk to you later