Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome to Mini Crush Friday Special Edition Mini Crush.
Speaker 1: What is it today? Though? I know this joke is
Speaker 1: getting old, Chuck, but really, truly, what day is it?
Speaker 1: Is it Thursday? Okay? In reality? Yeah, and this come out.
Speaker 1: You been experiencing a time distortion effects in your quarantining? Uh,
Speaker 1: not so much, because you know, kiddo is still doing
Speaker 1: her uh today a week morning meetings with her little
Speaker 1: pre kaid group. Yeah, so we're sort of on a
Speaker 1: schedule of trying to be a little more school e
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday and a little bit more relaxed Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday. That makes sense, That makes sense. Um. Update,
Speaker 1: I guess last time we talked, I think I told
Speaker 1: you about how I wasn't going to have my kid
Speaker 1: for a while, and we sort of compromised, and we're
Speaker 1: doing two weeks with mom, two weeks with me, and
Speaker 1: now we're thick of two weeks with me. Um. And
Speaker 1: she has a weekly uh skype caller zoom call with
Speaker 1: her school as well. UM. And then she has this
Speaker 1: other like little kids kind of play group that she
Speaker 1: does projects with and so that's how I kind of
Speaker 1: mark the time. But it's a lot easier to do
Speaker 1: that when she's here, to your point, than it is
Speaker 1: when she's not, because it's like work stuff, it's not
Speaker 1: always on a schedule. A lot of it's just kind
Speaker 1: of willy nilly, crazy phone calls and troubleshooting and figuring
Speaker 1: things out on the fly and stuff. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't have a job. And I'm certainly not complaining
Speaker 1: because we've got great jobs. But we've never had job
Speaker 1: where it was like, well it's Saturday and Sunday, I'm
Speaker 1: not doing anything for work, you know, exactly. For sure,
Speaker 1: we do stuff whenever we need to do it, exactly,
Speaker 1: and uh, even our recording sessions, we usually have a
Speaker 1: bit of a schedule, but for this we kind of
Speaker 1: just do it. You know. As as we start running out,
Speaker 1: we start to like schedule more recording. So so the
Speaker 1: reason that you're hearing a Friday many crushes because well
Speaker 1: there's a global pandemic everyone and things aren't always the smoothest. So, uh,
Speaker 1: my recording unit took a big ship yesterday. It is
Speaker 1: literally being sent away in the mail. I've got this
Speaker 1: new thing that were it's working well, but I had
Speaker 1: a guest book yesterday afternoon when this was all going down,
Speaker 1: and I just emailed them and I was like, listen, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta push this a week just because I don't
Speaker 1: feel up to trying to figure all this out right now.
Speaker 1: But look forward to next week. Cole Stratton. Cole is
Speaker 1: one of the co founders of s F Sketch Fest,
Speaker 1: along with Janet Varney, and I think there was a
Speaker 1: third co founder. But he's an improv guy and a
Speaker 1: comedian and just a really nice, great dude. And so
Speaker 1: Cole and I and a big time movie buff. So
Speaker 1: Cole was going to be on next Friday to talk
Speaker 1: about his favorite movie, searching for Bobby Fisher. Is that
Speaker 1: the Chess One? That is the Chess One? Yeah? Great movies,
Speaker 1: like a He's like a child prodigy. Is Jodie Foster right?
Speaker 1: Isn't she his mom? Is she? I think Jodie Foster's
Speaker 1: his mom. I can't remember. I saw it when it
Speaker 1: came out on time. I did too, for sure, and
Speaker 1: I was, you know, like a little kid. So it's
Speaker 1: been a long long time, but I quite enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I remember it was a little sad, but I need
Speaker 1: to check that out again. Yeah, it's Cole's favorite movie,
Speaker 1: and Cole has great taste, So I'm very much looking
Speaker 1: forward to UH to renewing my love for that film.
Speaker 1: So look for that next Friday. I thought to get
Speaker 1: started here since there's a now robust Red Dead redemption
Speaker 1: to UH community and the movie Crushers, I thought i'd
Speaker 1: update everyone here. At four nine years old, I bought
Speaker 1: my first headset, NOL, what are you gaming with with Crushers?
Speaker 1: Not with Crushers, although I would, but I am. I
Speaker 1: bought a headset so I could play with Adam Pranica
Speaker 1: and Ben Harrison A Friendly Fire and the Greatest Gin.
Speaker 1: So uh, it's my very first experience playing any online game,
Speaker 1: Adam and I. I've done it like four times. Adam
Speaker 1: and I had a little two man posse one night,
Speaker 1: and it was my very first experience in dude, I
Speaker 1: had the best time I've ever had playing a game.
Speaker 1: It's really fun. So you're doing like the squad kind
Speaker 1: of situation, like the Red Dead online stuff where you're
Speaker 1: that's right, and uh, we just had so much fun.
Speaker 1: We were like it was basically the things we did
Speaker 1: were like if we were two twelve year boys what
Speaker 1: they would likely do. Like, we've gotten some fights. We
Speaker 1: shot a bunch of people. Then I was like, man,
Speaker 1: let's go to a saloon. We went to a saloon.
Speaker 1: We got drunk. Uh, we dynamited bodies. We I mean,
Speaker 1: we did all the little fun twelve year old boy
Speaker 1: things and just had a blast. But did you match
Speaker 1: your virtual whiskey shots with real whiskey shots, because that
Speaker 1: would be taken to the next level. I was drinking wine,
Speaker 1: he was drinking whiskey. I think. Okay. We just had
Speaker 1: so much fun and it's such a great escape right now.
Speaker 1: And it feels like I've never played these games with
Speaker 1: a headset, but it's you know, it's like you're in
Speaker 1: the room with them. Well, Chuck, I got a wreck
Speaker 1: for you, buddy. I've been playing this game called Borderland's three.
Speaker 1: It's the third one, uh in a series that I've
Speaker 1: been in Fano since the beginning. It's this very cartoony
Speaker 1: kind of shooter kind of looting. You're like, it's like
Speaker 1: a treasure hunter type game, but it looks like a cartoon.
Speaker 1: It's really cool and it has a great online capability
Speaker 1: where you can literally play the actual story game with
Speaker 1: other people, which is its not just like a special mode.
Speaker 1: You can like get someone to help you use a
Speaker 1: higher level than you to help you beat a boss
Speaker 1: you can't beat and stuff. And I actually have been
Speaker 1: playing with some listeners, uh I throughout my my PlayStation
Speaker 1: handle on stuff that I want you to know, and
Speaker 1: I've had a handful of folks, so I reach out
Speaker 1: and I've been meeting some folks and playing video games
Speaker 1: with people randomly, and it's just kind of like having
Speaker 1: a delightful phone call with someone you've never met while blasting,
Speaker 1: you know, mutants in the waste lands. Well let me
Speaker 1: ask you this though, how I wouldn't mind doing that.
Speaker 1: But how do you know that the person requesting to
Speaker 1: play with you is a movie Crusher Because they give
Speaker 1: you a message when they send you a friend request,
Speaker 1: and you have to accept it. You can deny it
Speaker 1: or just ignore it, you know. But if if it's
Speaker 1: someone saying, hey, I heard your thing on Movie Crush,
Speaker 1: big fan, or they'll say who they are, maybe someone
Speaker 1: from the community page, and then you'll know it's legit um.
Speaker 1: And I've accepted maybe six or seven of them, and
Speaker 1: I haven't played with everybody yet because I'm not always on.
Speaker 1: But um, it's been a lot of fun and your
Speaker 1: head and talking to them and hanging out. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just have a little earbud that just came with
Speaker 1: my my controller is just a little one earbud thing
Speaker 1: with a mike. But it works great. And um the
Speaker 1: game is actually on sale right now for thirty bucks.
Speaker 1: Um and if you have space on your machine, I
Speaker 1: really think you'd like it. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: It's it's well written. It's very funny too. I have space,
Speaker 1: I'll check it out. Um, yeah, I might do that.
Speaker 1: Let me consider whether or not I want to throw
Speaker 1: out my handle totally totally. I think I might, but
Speaker 1: let me think about that. Uh yeah, I will say
Speaker 1: this though, this has also been my first experience, like
Speaker 1: I said, online gaming, and so I've now been exposed
Speaker 1: to I think they called them grievers and Red Dead
Speaker 1: redemption maybe that's what they're called period online, but basically
Speaker 1: people who just seek other real people to kill for
Speaker 1: no reason. Oh, I don't know about this phenomenon. Chock.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you've never have you ever played Red Dead online? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: is is this like a this is a online gaming
Speaker 1: phenomenon or is it just a Red Dead thing. I
Speaker 1: don't know this term. Oh, I'm well it may be
Speaker 1: the term may be exclusive to Red Dead, but basically
Speaker 1: it's I'm sure it happens everywhere. It's where someone just
Speaker 1: comes up and kills you for no reason. You're a
Speaker 1: closed game. You're not in a closed game with your friends.
Speaker 1: You're in like a larger world. You'll see somebody ride
Speaker 1: up and you'll see their name. There is no benefit
Speaker 1: to killing anyone. You can't steal from them, you can't
Speaker 1: take their horse, you get no experience points. It's just
Speaker 1: to be a dick. Why does it let you do
Speaker 1: it that? That's so crazy they would even let you
Speaker 1: do that. It's the Old West. I think other games,
Speaker 1: I think, Uh, what's the one? Grand Theft Auto? I
Speaker 1: think was pretty famous for having a very bad community
Speaker 1: that did things like that. Um, but I'm getting killed.
Speaker 1: Like I was fishing the other day, fishing, I turned
Speaker 1: around and a guy tackled me and beat me to death.
Speaker 1: Holy ship, dude, that's intense, which means I lose all
Speaker 1: my fish, I lose my horse. I have to go
Speaker 1: find my horse. Uh, it's just shitty and then um,
Speaker 1: so I've set up this trading operation making money, and
Speaker 1: the online version is very, very difficult. Uh it's not
Speaker 1: like the story version where you can make a lot
Speaker 1: of dough pretty fast. So it's a grind and there
Speaker 1: are all these different things you can do. You can moonshine,
Speaker 1: you can bounty hunt. But I started a trading business,
Speaker 1: which means you have this constant loop of hunting, giving
Speaker 1: your stuff to your campkeeper, getting him materials, letting him
Speaker 1: craft it. And then you take this ship and you
Speaker 1: sell it and it takes a long long time. And
Speaker 1: these sales runs are very stressful because people can attack
Speaker 1: you and steal like two three sessions worth of hard work.
Speaker 1: And last night I was in my wagon. I was
Speaker 1: delivering a long distance delivery. I was very stressed out
Speaker 1: because they're playing the stress music and you know, any
Speaker 1: second now, some dude could just come along and be
Speaker 1: an asshole. And I got close to my destination and
Speaker 1: this guy wrote up on me and I'm just freeze
Speaker 1: and I go and I stop, and he's circling me,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this guy is totally fucking with me.
Speaker 1: It's nighttime during the game. I can't see anything. I'm
Speaker 1: on a windy road and then this guy Nol pulls
Speaker 1: out his lantern and leads me to home. I deliver
Speaker 1: my goods, which takes you out of the game for
Speaker 1: a minute for the transaction. I come back from the transaction,
Speaker 1: he gives me a thumbs up and rides away. Who
Speaker 1: is this good Samaritans, I don't know. Just a genuine
Speaker 1: act of kindness, which you do not see in this
Speaker 1: game very much. It was I really needed that, That's
Speaker 1: all I'll say. Dude. I was about to say, why
Speaker 1: would you subject yourself to this anguish and torment? Like
Speaker 1: it just sounds like a nightmare. Uh, it sounds very stressful.
Speaker 1: That being said, though, Chuck, I'm gonna get back into
Speaker 1: it because I have it and it's still installed and
Speaker 1: it's a massive install and I've been clearing space, but
Speaker 1: I didn't delete that one acause I never finished it.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get back into the game. Maybe you'll
Speaker 1: maybe you'll let me posse up with with you and
Speaker 1: the in the gang. I'd really love that one of
Speaker 1: Adams friends join the other day and we literally had
Speaker 1: a four man posse. And then you've got a little
Speaker 1: you know, you've got strength and numbers at that point, totally,
Speaker 1: we could be the mass, the band of marauders that's,
Speaker 1: you know, wreaking havoc across the land. I don't want
Speaker 1: to do that, I know, Chuck, I don't either. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be there. We're not black hats where
Speaker 1: we're white hats. Yeah, you have these emots that you
Speaker 1: can like give thumbs up and wave and like I've
Speaker 1: gone up to someone and it's a little tense because
Speaker 1: you're like, are you gonna shoot me? And and I
Speaker 1: waved at the guy and he pulled out a shotgun
Speaker 1: and shot me in the face. It's just so and toxic. Well,
Speaker 1: I downloaded that, Uh, what is it? War Zone? Call
Speaker 1: of Duty? War Zone? They made it free. And the
Speaker 1: people that play those games, a a lot of them
Speaker 1: are really shitty and racist and sexist, and you can
Speaker 1: just hear everyone talking and there's just like you can't
Speaker 1: turn them off. And I I thought I had closed
Speaker 1: the game, and I still had it opened in the
Speaker 1: background and realized that. And I was hanging out with
Speaker 1: my kid and some friends, my my roommates and uh,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, just this like filth just
Speaker 1: started spewing out of my team. I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: And the thing is like, she's she's in, she's online,
Speaker 1: she knows, she knows this stuff, she knows these people.
Speaker 1: I was just shocked though, but she's like, yeah, those
Speaker 1: are the trolls. Dad, you gotta you gotta watch out
Speaker 1: for them. It's I mean, I knew the gaming community
Speaker 1: could be very, very bad, but UM experiencing it first
Speaker 1: and it's been pretty disheartening. That's all I'll say. All Right,
Speaker 1: So let's move on from Red Dead talk. Noel, I
Speaker 1: like I promised we're gonna start all of these quarantine
Speaker 1: minis with that thread I put out on March thirty one,
Speaker 1: what positives are you experiencing during this lockdown? Because I
Speaker 1: think that helps us all feel better to to learn
Speaker 1: what the crushers are doing that's bettering their lives. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna go here with Matt Cliff says. I love
Speaker 1: that I'm seeing a massive wave of appreciation shown to uh,
Speaker 1: working class folks who keep the world in motion in
Speaker 1: one way or the other. Totally. That's been really nice
Speaker 1: to see. Man, Chuck, I was so wrong about Bobby Fisher.
Speaker 1: It was not it was not her at all. You're
Speaker 1: thinking a little That's exactly what I was thinking about,
Speaker 1: was another movie about a little gifted kid. So sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to derail. Please continue. I just had
Speaker 1: to put that out there so people don't like totally
Speaker 1: harass me about it. Uh. Karen Weber says, my introverted
Speaker 1: daughter's current contentment. That's fantastic. That's the thing. A lot
Speaker 1: of people are right at home in this situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. I might have read that one last week,
Speaker 1: but that's worth another read for sure. Let me see here. Um,
Speaker 1: let me scroll down, because I definitely read some of
Speaker 1: these before. Why is my internet connection sucking? Is it sucking?
Speaker 1: I'm plugged into the ethernet? Should I? I'm I'm afraid
Speaker 1: to just mantle my wife. Don't do it now, don't
Speaker 1: do it. We'll lose the feed. Chuck. Let me see here.
Speaker 1: Jessica Foley says teaching online from home with a three
Speaker 1: year old and an eighteen month old as one heck
Speaker 1: of a challenge, but I'm very grateful for all the
Speaker 1: extra time with them. That's great. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: when when my kid first started this from this whole thing,
Speaker 1: this whole crazy thing, like we just frantically were asked
Speaker 1: by her amazing teacher, by the way, who's just the coolest,
Speaker 1: most badass woman I've ever met, to meet her at
Speaker 1: the Decatur Library and she just dropped this massive packet
Speaker 1: of like papers on us, and it was just like daunting.
Speaker 1: We were both just like where, what where do we start?
Speaker 1: It was just like this total desperation move where she
Speaker 1: was trying to take care of her kids but also
Speaker 1: hadn't really planned it out yet, and it was sort
Speaker 1: of like, you know, here is this just and we'll
Speaker 1: figure it out as we go. And now we've transitioned
Speaker 1: all to online learning where there's a lot more accountability.
Speaker 1: She gets help. She you know, it's easier to check
Speaker 1: it and check off when she's finished something, and it's
Speaker 1: all packeted out in the days of the week. So
Speaker 1: that's been great. But it really has been like a
Speaker 1: you know, building the car as you drive, a kind
Speaker 1: of situation transitioning like this. Yeah, everyone's doing the best
Speaker 1: I can. Brandy McDonald is says, getting more creative with
Speaker 1: our meals since we can't run out to the store
Speaker 1: for an ingredient. Brandy, I'm with you there. This reminds
Speaker 1: me of the old days when I was so broke
Speaker 1: I just had to make meals out of whatever was
Speaker 1: in the house. And uh, it definitely ups your chef game.
Speaker 1: I think we actually just did a really cool interview
Speaker 1: for stuff that I want you to know about, uh,
Speaker 1: kind of behind the scenes kitchen stuff and also the
Speaker 1: restaurant business during the Corona Times with Hugh Atchison and
Speaker 1: um Richard Blaze, who are two amazing chefs that do
Speaker 1: do do podcasts with us, and they talked a lot
Speaker 1: about like you know, how to maximize your pantry and
Speaker 1: like really a lot of it. People are scared to
Speaker 1: cook because they don't know where to start or they
Speaker 1: think they're not any good at it. But it's all
Speaker 1: about like get good at one thing, learn how to
Speaker 1: see her a piece of fish, learn how to cook
Speaker 1: a steak correctly, and then you just build on that
Speaker 1: and like the Hugh described it as like a lego.
Speaker 1: You you have all these little pieces that you can
Speaker 1: then put together into whatever you wanted to be. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know there was. It was a neat conversation
Speaker 1: that'll be out in a week or so. That's very
Speaker 1: cool and big shout out to the Wild Alaskan Seafood Company.
Speaker 1: I joined that service and I am getting a delicious
Speaker 1: uh river caught all natural salmon from Alaska shipped to
Speaker 1: my door. Wow, it's delicious. I need to get in
Speaker 1: on that. That sounds wonderful. It's good. It's good service.
Speaker 1: So far U A. Blaze is going to be on
Speaker 1: movie Crush by the way, at some point we're hooking
Speaker 1: that up. He is a sweet, sweet guy. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna really enjoy talking to him. Can't wait. But I'm
Speaker 1: a I've seen every single episode of every Top Chef season,
Speaker 1: so I'm a massive, massive fan. Let me see here.
Speaker 1: Richard Mouse says, I'm a truck driver, so there's been
Speaker 1: a few less idiots on the road. All right. I
Speaker 1: guess you gotta look for the ray of sunshine where
Speaker 1: you can find it. Jessica Gangara, great name, says My
Speaker 1: husband and I have been coming up with fun ways
Speaker 1: to have a date at home, and today we celebrated quarantine.
Speaker 1: O ween, that's fun, that's great. That's out about that.
Speaker 1: We were gonna have a little Christmas but then I
Speaker 1: bailed on it because I didn't want to get all
Speaker 1: that ship out again, right. I like Quarantina ween my
Speaker 1: my my kid is really into cosplay and anime now,
Speaker 1: and she's got all these wigs and costumes, so every
Speaker 1: day's Quarantina Weeen with her. She got these cookie contact
Speaker 1: lenses that make her eyes look like hypnotist spirals. It
Speaker 1: really weirds me out that she loves it. She's so
Speaker 1: into it, man, and she does her own makeup, and
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of her. She's getting really creative and
Speaker 1: interesting with these little kind of side hobbies that she's into.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool to see. Yeah, that's awesome. My friend's
Speaker 1: daughter is like Levinish and she has gotten into special
Speaker 1: effects makeup and can do some of the most legit scars,
Speaker 1: face scars and stuff that I've seen. It looks really
Speaker 1: really good. Mm hmm, it's very cool stuff. I used
Speaker 1: to do this sort of homemade version when I was
Speaker 1: a kid. Did you ever do that with Rubbert cumment?
Speaker 1: Rubbert cument? And then one thing that kids are using
Speaker 1: now to is uh, tissue paper. You can use tissue
Speaker 1: paper and rubber cement. It's and then because you can
Speaker 1: paint it with like you know, just lipstick or and
Speaker 1: and and make it look like a bruise using eyeshadow,
Speaker 1: and she's got this whole crazy palette and does all
Speaker 1: these different textures you can do like a cat I
Speaker 1: and all of the little things. Because kids these days,
Speaker 1: guys sound like an old man, have access to so
Speaker 1: much information. If they want to figure something out and
Speaker 1: their Internet savvy, which they are, they can done. No.
Speaker 1: I mean we had to. Uh we had to get
Speaker 1: lessons from real life humans and uh by a magazine
Speaker 1: that might have some sort of step by step or
Speaker 1: just learn it on our own knoll. Yep, exactly. You
Speaker 1: know us the greatest generation Generation X. Yeah, what are you?
Speaker 1: You're a millennial, right, Yeah? I think so. I'm eighty three.
Speaker 1: I think I'm a borderline. I'm like an elder millennial. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it breaks down these days, but
Speaker 1: I know I'm solidly gen X in every way. Let
Speaker 1: me see here. Genesis Chapman says, I've been asked to
Speaker 1: build a treehouse by my daughter, and since she is
Speaker 1: almost twelve, but I'd almost given up on getting to
Speaker 1: do that. For that's fun. That's a great way to
Speaker 1: look at it. It's an opportunity, you know, all right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna finish up with Dan Maynard. And this is
Speaker 1: certainly a common refrain, but Dan really puts a pen
Speaker 1: on it here with his situation. Uh and he's of
Speaker 1: course an old friend. Dan says, getting to spend time
Speaker 1: with my daughter, I probably spent more time with her
Speaker 1: over the last uh ten days than I have over
Speaker 1: the last year. Is that possible? I think that's true
Speaker 1: for a lot of folks. Man, you know that's great,
Speaker 1: Dane that I am glad you hear that, my friend.
Speaker 1: So Noel, We're gonna start out every episode with those
Speaker 1: because we like to warm the old cockles here. One
Speaker 1: love a warm I love a warm cockle, Chuck. It's
Speaker 1: like a It's like a hot toddy, you know, just
Speaker 1: just warms you from from head to toe. Have you
Speaker 1: noticed that the bird songs are much more pronounced now
Speaker 1: that we're getting into spring and there's less traffic and
Speaker 1: less pollution. It seems like, you know, I mean, I've
Speaker 1: definitely been seeing articles about that. But even here in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I sit outside and I feel like the birds are
Speaker 1: just going nuts, like in a beautiful way. And you
Speaker 1: know how I feel about birds, But I do enjoy
Speaker 1: their songs, but it's yeah, it's been neat to see.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to get too into
Speaker 1: it the weeds about it, but like some people are saying,
Speaker 1: like it turns out humans were the virus all along. Well,
Speaker 1: sure it's the Earth correcting, you know, kind of course
Speaker 1: correct though the Earth is definitely not mad at this situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw. I think it was one of the movie
Speaker 1: crushers in fact, posted the uh you know Catalina Island
Speaker 1: off the coast of Los Angeles. Yep, there in the
Speaker 1: nineteen twenties. Apparently they were buffalo that they brought over
Speaker 1: for a film shoot. They left him there because they
Speaker 1: didn't feel like taking him back, and the the legendary
Speaker 1: Catalina buffalo just lived up in the hills this whole time.
Speaker 1: The Catalina buffaloes are now on the beach nol pick
Speaker 1: from down to Rome. That sounds wonderful. And I heard
Speaker 1: this may not have been confirmed, but I heard that
Speaker 1: there were all of a sudden like dolphins and the
Speaker 1: canals in Venice. I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 1: I would like it to be true because it sounds
Speaker 1: like some weird like cyberpunk future ship, you know, like
Speaker 1: but uh, definitely something's happening like that all around the world.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting. All right, now we're gonna move on here.
Speaker 1: I asked the movie crushers I wanted to talk musicals
Speaker 1: for a minute, and I just asked, basically, what's your
Speaker 1: favorite either number or favorite moment from a movie musical?
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I've like a lot of movie musicals. Um,
Speaker 1: I would say my top three are as far as
Speaker 1: the numbers in the movie is or It's a Hard
Speaker 1: Knock Life and Annie. I love that so great. I
Speaker 1: would say number two would be maybe from Chicago, the
Speaker 1: one I can't remember the name of the song, but
Speaker 1: it's and we're all the different women in jail are
Speaker 1: talking about their crimes. That one's great. Oh that is
Speaker 1: a good scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah, where they're kind of
Speaker 1: telling their backstories. YEA, so much fun. And then my
Speaker 1: favorite all time of course is uh is the big
Speaker 1: number from Lame Is and the most recent real live
Speaker 1: singing adaptation with with Anne Hathaway crying real tears and
Speaker 1: singing real words. I dreamed a dream. Just Time Gone
Speaker 1: By gets me every single time. Not that snot was
Speaker 1: not c G. I chuck, that was real. That was
Speaker 1: a real, real emotional snot oh like, no, dude. That
Speaker 1: musical is such a big one for me. I saw
Speaker 1: it when I was a kid, like on Broadway with
Speaker 1: my mom, and it's just resonated with me so much.
Speaker 1: Like the it's so powerful, the anthemic kind of quality
Speaker 1: of all the big gang vocals like on the do
Speaker 1: you hear the people saying in the movie just saying
Speaker 1: it out loud? Giving me kind of shivers right now? Honest, Yeah,
Speaker 1: think if you've got another one and tchime in whenever
Speaker 1: you feel like it. But we're gonna go with Paul
Speaker 1: Stanfield make him laugh from Singing in the Rain and
Speaker 1: Bohemia from Rent. All right, that's a good one. Daisy
Speaker 1: Christina a brew one of our old pal says Gene
Speaker 1: Kelly and Donald O'Connor during doing Moses Supposes and Singing
Speaker 1: in the Rain fun, joyful, silly and kind of hot.
Speaker 1: I need to see Singing in the Rain because I've
Speaker 1: always I've always written it off as like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I need to see way more classic
Speaker 1: movies like that. But it's apparently just really lovely and
Speaker 1: funny and then the heartfelt and just a beautiful movie.
Speaker 1: I really need to see it. I'm all about it.
Speaker 1: Let me see here, Stephanie, Uh del Culva Cardinal. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's a great name. The time warp sequence, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: what else can you say about that? Then it's wonderful
Speaker 1: from Rocky Horror. Yeah, I have never seen Rocky Horror
Speaker 1: pictures show from front to back in my life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've never seen it. It's really good. I've seen little
Speaker 1: snippets and clips and you know, numbers and stuff, but
Speaker 1: never sat down and watched the whole movie. It's great,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's got great songs. It's it's just
Speaker 1: can't be fun. Uh. Tim Curry is just fantastic. It's
Speaker 1: it's really really good. Oh here's here's your old buddy
Speaker 1: here Nolu, one of the old pals, Trish Laughterhouse Gilbreath
Speaker 1: says head Vig singing Wig in a Box. That's my favorite.
Speaker 1: So I actually Midnight Radio is my favorite song and
Speaker 1: that whole film, but that's that's mine. That was just,
Speaker 1: you know, such a big movie for me and musical.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it like actually on Broadway, but I
Speaker 1: saw I saw Community theater group do it, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, the the show version is all on a
Speaker 1: stage like a rock show, and like the movie is
Speaker 1: obviously way more you know, set changes and stuff. But uh,
Speaker 1: such a purely wonderful piece of of of of musical theater,
Speaker 1: for sure. I don't know if I could pick a
Speaker 1: favorite song from that. I love him. Also much Origin
Speaker 1: of Love is so good. Oh yeah, uh man, I
Speaker 1: mean what with the main song angry inch? Is that
Speaker 1: what it's called? That one's fucking balls to the wall solid.
Speaker 1: I'm so bummed he didn't make it to that Athens
Speaker 1: forty watt thing because they he did all of those
Speaker 1: with an amazing band, and it was they closed with
Speaker 1: midnight radio and he crowd surfed dressed up. He did
Speaker 1: not do the whole dress up thing. He does a
Speaker 1: tour every now and then called the Origin of Love
Speaker 1: Tour where he does the full get up. He he
Speaker 1: he was totally just punk rock as hell. Man. That
Speaker 1: guy belts it out and was just pumping his fist
Speaker 1: and stage diving and it was it was incredible. I
Speaker 1: love it, man, And that is one of my genuine
Speaker 1: life regrets that I could not go to that I
Speaker 1: hate it, but maybe it we'll get a re Dux.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, get another chance. Maybe. I I have no
Speaker 1: doubt about him. For j c MG, we will be
Speaker 1: knowing some j c M for a minute. He's uh,
Speaker 1: he's a good dude. Old friend. Greta Mansfield is with
Speaker 1: me the Cell Block Tango from Chicago, that's the one.
Speaker 1: She's seen it in London and New York in the
Speaker 1: movie version, she admits is also equally bindeth stick. Every
Speaker 1: one where does somebody say smush or something like that?
Speaker 1: This is Chicago, not smush. What is it the word
Speaker 1: which lipshits? So I can't you put me on the spot.
Speaker 1: I can't think of But but that's the song, right
Speaker 1: is where they're talking about like different beats in time,
Speaker 1: and each of those words kind of represents like the
Speaker 1: story they're using the sum up eats that they're kind
Speaker 1: of backstories. Yeah, it's pretty great, really really good. And uh,
Speaker 1: I love the movie. I've seen I've seen it on
Speaker 1: Broadway and I've seen the movie many many times Broadway once.
Speaker 1: Let me see here. I'm gonna read this even though
Speaker 1: it's not quite um it's animated. Ko Kittleston says, not
Speaker 1: really one for musicals, but several of the songs from
Speaker 1: mo Wanna really make my spirit hum. We've been listening
Speaker 1: to a lot of Moanna in the house. I love
Speaker 1: mo Wanna so good. It is great. It's squish by
Speaker 1: the way, swish squish. Uh. Emily did not know that
Speaker 1: that was Dwyne Jnson Joyned the Rock Johnson until yesterday.
Speaker 1: How crazy is it, how versatile that dude turned out
Speaker 1: to be. I think he's great. Man. Have you seen
Speaker 1: the new Jumanji movies with Jack Black and The Rock
Speaker 1: And they're just great, Chuck, They're wonderful. They're really funny.
Speaker 1: There's a whole body swapping situation that goes on where
Speaker 1: like the kids go into the game and like the
Speaker 1: female character ends up in Jack Black's video game character's body,
Speaker 1: and so they have Jack Black has to play like
Speaker 1: he's a teenage girl, you know, and the Rock is
Speaker 1: like the nerdy kid is in the Rock, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's just wonderful. They're really good, both of them. They're
Speaker 1: they're they're they're really great movies. That's pretty cool. Um.
Speaker 1: You know he bought a place in Atlanta. I think
Speaker 1: I heard that The Rock and when I say he
Speaker 1: bought a place in Atlanta. He bought a gigantic mansion
Speaker 1: and acreage and horse farm outside of Atlanta. Wow, because
Speaker 1: he's here so much shooting, He's like, I want to
Speaker 1: stay in the house with my horses. Totally. I I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he was a horseman. I did neither.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm assuming he's a horseman. Otherwise he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have bought a horse farm. But those are probably some
Speaker 1: big horses that can support that massive human. Was that
Speaker 1: like a Clydesdale the real thick ones a good draft
Speaker 1: horse for sure. Uh, let me see her TEENA achiever
Speaker 1: Old friends has Singing the Rain as the winner for me.
Speaker 1: I can watch the entire movie over and over and over.
Speaker 1: Ashley Lee says, either your song or elephant medley from
Speaker 1: Mulan Rouge. I love Mulan Ruge. I thought it was great,
Speaker 1: you know, I did, um, I I really liked Romeo
Speaker 1: and Juliet when I was younger. That's no, no, no.
Speaker 1: The bas Larman one there was that was his first
Speaker 1: big one. I think it was. It was strictly ballroom.
Speaker 1: I think was his first which I haven't seen, which
Speaker 1: I've heard is great um. And then he did Romeo
Speaker 1: and Juliet, which I loved because the soundtrack it was
Speaker 1: just like a perfect movie from my brooding teen angst
Speaker 1: you know period. And I really did like Mulan Rouge,
Speaker 1: but I never was one of those people that like
Speaker 1: just really you know, fanned out over. They did a
Speaker 1: showing of it at the Plaza or little Art House
Speaker 1: theater in Atlanta. Recently with there's this great queer publication
Speaker 1: called Whoosy and they do these like big you know,
Speaker 1: everyone dresses up and like it's like an event, and
Speaker 1: they did that for Mulan Rouge recently. It's it looked
Speaker 1: like a lot of fun. It sounds fantastic. Of course,
Speaker 1: Greece is in here, uh Margharita Saramago. One of our
Speaker 1: old palace has Greece lightning. Yeah, you know, it's slightly
Speaker 1: problematic in a couple of parts, but still a good film. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. That's rights. Is is it racist e stuff
Speaker 1: or sexisty stuff? I can't remember. I think there's some
Speaker 1: like uh, some like borderline sexual. Yes, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: Like you know her I said yes and their mouth
Speaker 1: said no kind of thing. That's right. I want to
Speaker 1: say I saw a reboot of it on Broadway with
Speaker 1: Rosie O'Donnell and that they actually took some of that
Speaker 1: stuff foult. They kind of like re refabed it a
Speaker 1: little bit. Tell me more, tell me more. I think
Speaker 1: that's the song. If I'm not, I think here, I
Speaker 1: know that's that's summer Summer love or summer Summer. That's
Speaker 1: a different song. Summer summer. It is drift in summer nights,
Speaker 1: summer nights, summer nights nights. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta thrust
Speaker 1: your hips when you do that. Hua. Oh I did
Speaker 1: not table You can't. You can't see it, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was very small thrust. Old friend Cary Nelson says
Speaker 1: strictly Ballroom Last Dance Competition sequence Love is in the Air.
Speaker 1: You should check it out, no one, you'll like it.
Speaker 1: It's a good movie. Oh, I would love to Heather
Speaker 1: Keenan says if I were a rich man from Fiddler,
Speaker 1: of course. Yeah that's a classic, of course. Uh. Diana
Speaker 1: andrews intro to La La Land when traffic has stopped
Speaker 1: and everyone starts dancing on the cars. Yeah, that was great,
Speaker 1: really really good. Was not a massive fan of that
Speaker 1: movie as a whole old but some of the individuals,
Speaker 1: sequences and songs were incredible, like the one where they're
Speaker 1: in Griffith Park and like floating around and stuff. That
Speaker 1: one's really great, and the traffic one's great, and it
Speaker 1: felt like it fell apart a little bit. I don't
Speaker 1: really care about the characters, but some of those moments
Speaker 1: and the music is wonderful. Yeah. In fact, Tanya Cox,
Speaker 1: I have a very good friend named Thanny Cox, but
Speaker 1: this is not her. This is the Australian version. She
Speaker 1: mentions that La la lancing up Griffith Observatory. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Let me see here, Let's do a couple of more.
Speaker 1: One of our oldest pals, Kristen Bits, a guy, says
Speaker 1: falling slowly from once. Yeah, that's ah, not exactly a
Speaker 1: musical musical, but I would give it a nod as
Speaker 1: a musical. Right. It was a full on Broadway show,
Speaker 1: I guess, so, I guess it is. Well, they know
Speaker 1: the Broadway Show is an adaptation of the movie. Like
Speaker 1: the movie is way less music than the Broadway Show,
Speaker 1: and it's much more like a movie where they play
Speaker 1: songs that they play diegetically, like in the movie. But
Speaker 1: the Broadway show is great. They did it at the
Speaker 1: this local theater company here in Atlanta that my mom
Speaker 1: is one of my mom's most kind of successful uh
Speaker 1: Protege's students. Um moved back to Atlanta recently and played
Speaker 1: the lead and so we got to go see it, uh,
Speaker 1: and it's it was really good. It was yeah, like
Speaker 1: the band is all actually on stage with like violins
Speaker 1: and accordions, and you know, there are characters in the
Speaker 1: show and it's I really enjoyed it very much. I
Speaker 1: was in one of my YouTube music rabbit holes the
Speaker 1: other day and I came across uh Eddie Vetter and uh,
Speaker 1: the guy from Once Cheeze and I feel like a dummy.
Speaker 1: I can't remember his name now, and they he had
Speaker 1: him on stage at a Pearl Jams show and they
Speaker 1: did the two of them did Falling Slowly and it
Speaker 1: was really really good. Yeah, he was in a band
Speaker 1: called the Swell Season. I can't remember his name now either,
Speaker 1: but really talented guy. I do love that song. It's
Speaker 1: it's got one of those little musical motives that almost
Speaker 1: is like sing songy, like, you know, it's a little
Speaker 1: simple and on the nose, but it's it's so effective
Speaker 1: and like the way it pairs with the lyrics and
Speaker 1: the little key changes at the end. It's a really
Speaker 1: really powerful song. Good stuff, I agree. All right. Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll finish up here with of course Dirty Dancing. This
Speaker 1: is from Jill Sordouf Venden The Time of my Life
Speaker 1: from Dirty Dancing Again. I would not say that's a musical,
Speaker 1: but that is certainly great classic classic number. Have you
Speaker 1: seen that? Yeah, I haven't seen it all the way through,
Speaker 1: but that's credited like as Uh, it's not like a
Speaker 1: band or a singer. It's like the gal that was
Speaker 1: in the movie, right, like the Gal Well that they
Speaker 1: don't sing it, old man, it's just a dance number. Um,
Speaker 1: but doesn't she sing it? The real things? Who sings
Speaker 1: the hit version? Yeah? I want to say, and this
Speaker 1: is pulling it completely out of my butt hole that
Speaker 1: it was one of the Righteous Brothers and uh, Warren Jenner, no,
Speaker 1: not great cheesy actor The Time of my Life. It
Speaker 1: was a big hit like a radio let's see, oh
Speaker 1: some of My Love. That was certainly a very big
Speaker 1: deal for him because he was, uh, he was well
Speaker 1: past the time where he thought he was ever going
Speaker 1: to have a hit song again. I think Bill Medley
Speaker 1: and Jennifer Warrens. Jennifer Warrens, right, Warrens, Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: not Warrens. And it was Bill Medley, a righteous bro.
Speaker 1: He was a righteous bro. Yeah, he did unchained melody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the Righteous Brothers. I always forget that that's the
Speaker 1: Righteous Brothers. I always just think of it as the
Speaker 1: ghost song. But Bran Bran ghosts with the with the
Speaker 1: pottery where they're making a sexy pottery, you know, ghosts Potter,
Speaker 1: you're messing with me, chet if there's something weird on
Speaker 1: your potter's wheel, who you gonna call ghost potter? Is
Speaker 1: this a Harry Potter reference? I'm confused. I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I ain't fraid to know. Mugs. All right, this is
Speaker 1: going downhill fast. No, no, no, let's keep it going.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it going. Let's we need the explosion at
Speaker 1: the end, you know, like when they pushed the car
Speaker 1: off the cliff. It's the most satisfying part, that's what. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, now we're gonna finish up today with a
Speaker 1: little stream this where we talk about what we've been
Speaker 1: watching lately. I'm still on Dev's. I love that show
Speaker 1: so much. It is getting better and better to me,
Speaker 1: and I've said it before, but it is just right
Speaker 1: up my alley man Alex Garland style that his style
Speaker 1: of sci fi, his style of design, uh and set
Speaker 1: set design and uh in wardrobe, but the real world
Speaker 1: stuff mixed with this really high concept design. It's all
Speaker 1: just Chuck Bryant City. It's a really subtle, smart show
Speaker 1: to start with until you're on it now. I started
Speaker 1: the first episode and I have to admit, like I
Speaker 1: got a little distracted because it really does demand your
Speaker 1: full attention. You can't really passively watch it, um because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff going on very subtly behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. But then there's a really massive moment in
Speaker 1: the first episode. I'm not gonna spoil for anybody that
Speaker 1: gets your attention to snaps it right back, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's really really good. But I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that it's gonna like it's gonna build to
Speaker 1: something really fucking interesting and weird, and I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. Well. I will say that this is a
Speaker 1: kind of show where, uh, it's so dangerous because you
Speaker 1: you it's got to end great. It can't not end great,
Speaker 1: and that's a real risk when you're watching a show
Speaker 1: like this that you invest so much in. If it
Speaker 1: lets you down in the end, it's just such a
Speaker 1: big disappointment, like a lost scenario, get like, it's a
Speaker 1: classic example. It's well, it sets up a central mystery
Speaker 1: that it really has no real plan on delivering on,
Speaker 1: you know, or it becomes clear this I don't think
Speaker 1: he would do that. His movies are so great, um
Speaker 1: or at least x Makina was so so great. And
Speaker 1: the other one, the the one that was based on
Speaker 1: the book Annihilation. Yeah, those were both phenomenal and they
Speaker 1: totally deliver on their promises. I think. Yeah. And Nick
Speaker 1: Offerman to me did the impossible, which was I was
Speaker 1: fully able to remove Ron Swanson from my head. It
Speaker 1: took a minute because it's hard when someone is such
Speaker 1: a character like that, but uh, he did a really
Speaker 1: good job. I think he totally pulled it off. He's great, agreed. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I've been just started watching the new season
Speaker 1: of Ozark. I think we are three and uh, this
Speaker 1: is a show I love from the beginning. I love it,
Speaker 1: love it, love it, and um, I really like the
Speaker 1: expanded world here in season four with the casinos and
Speaker 1: more characters coming in and more cartel election. Yep, I'm bommed.
Speaker 1: I finished it too quickly. I was so into it.
Speaker 1: I burned through it like in a day and a half.
Speaker 1: It's so good, dude, I'm and now I've got to
Speaker 1: wait another like fucking year. You know. That's one thing
Speaker 1: I do kind of like about the traditional HBO release schedule,
Speaker 1: where you gotta wait a week because you can't just
Speaker 1: ruin it for yourself. And then you know, even then,
Speaker 1: I'm always bummed that I gotta wait like a while.
Speaker 1: But now I'm like, I really have to wait a
Speaker 1: while because I watched them all so quickly. Um what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah for sure, Um,
Speaker 1: I definitely. I watched the thing uh the other night
Speaker 1: for the first time in a while, the classic John
Speaker 1: Carpenter kind of body snatcher, you know, body horror marooned
Speaker 1: on a frozen wasteland kind of thing. It's a very
Speaker 1: good Quarantine movie. I didn't even think about that when
Speaker 1: I watched it, uh, And it's just great the creature
Speaker 1: effects by Rick Baker. Uh. Just hold up, man, you
Speaker 1: can't get that kind of visceral ness out of c G. I.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just it's gotta be a thing. It's
Speaker 1: gotta be like a rubbery, gross, blood spewing thing, you know,
Speaker 1: And and it is full of those, full of those
Speaker 1: that one um been been keeping up to date with
Speaker 1: Better Call Saul, which my dude, it gets so good.
Speaker 1: There's a sequence in the last episode, not the most
Speaker 1: recent or one of the most recent too, that was
Speaker 1: just had me. I watched the episode immediately a second time.
Speaker 1: It was, yeah, I can't wait. I need to I
Speaker 1: need to just set aside some time. And it's intimidating
Speaker 1: when a show was on season whatever, like five or six, uh,
Speaker 1: and you're starting from scratch. But I need to give
Speaker 1: Better Calls all my time because I was the biggest
Speaker 1: Breaking Bad fans. So I'm sure I'll love it. I
Speaker 1: always described Better Call Soul is like a less depressing
Speaker 1: Breaking Bad. It's a little more fun and like it's
Speaker 1: definitely got some steaks, and it's got some intense moments
Speaker 1: and some you know, real bad characters and bad stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's just I forgot how bleak Breaking Bad is
Speaker 1: with all the like drug abuse, and like the math community,
Speaker 1: it gets really fucking depressing. Um, but this one doesn't
Speaker 1: doesn't do that. It's just more like action and the
Speaker 1: legal kind of you know, courtroom drama and stuff. It's
Speaker 1: it's really really great. Well, and Odin Kirk is great.
Speaker 1: He was the levity and breaking Bad so I imagine
Speaker 1: with him as a centerpiece that it's got a little
Speaker 1: more light to it, you know, for sure. But he
Speaker 1: acts his ass off. Man, he is a genuine actors
Speaker 1: actor like, he's fantastic. Yeah, it's been really cool to
Speaker 1: see his career over the years, especially if you were
Speaker 1: at the age I was where Mr Show was kind
Speaker 1: of happening when you were in college and sort of
Speaker 1: kind of right in my wheelhouse. To see where he's
Speaker 1: he's gone since then, it's been awesome. I love that guy,
Speaker 1: all right, Noel, I think let's spank this one on
Speaker 1: the bottom and send it out into the ether for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You got it, and uh, we're going to record another
Speaker 1: one ran for this but until that time, I'll see
Speaker 1: you in a second, and I'll see everyone else on Monday.
Speaker 1: Have a good weekend. Bye. Yeah. For more podcasts for
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