Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to Minny Crush with Noel and me. Man, Chuck,
Speaker 1: you almost had like a rap kind of quality of me.
Speaker 1: He's like, Hey, everybody, welcome to many crushed with a
Speaker 1: Knol and me orchestra hit. Well, I'm old school, so
Speaker 1: mine would go more like, uh, well, my name is
Speaker 1: Chuck and I'm here to say I'm gonna crush it
Speaker 1: out with Noel in a movie kind of way. That's
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, orchestra hit. You know that sound class?
Speaker 1: Is that the Uh yeah, I think I know what
Speaker 1: you mean. It sounds like an entire when when Yeah,
Speaker 1: Originally it was on this sampling synth called a fair Light,
Speaker 1: which you might have seen, has like a little touch
Speaker 1: screen early touch screen with green letters and numbers on it,
Speaker 1: use a little pen and it was actually a sample
Speaker 1: from Shastakovich's Rites of spring and has said has sense
Speaker 1: been through many many iterations, but the original orchestra hit
Speaker 1: was from one of those big stabs in the rights
Speaker 1: of spring Boy. And then it's been on just hundreds
Speaker 1: of hip hop songs since then, Oh dude, and and
Speaker 1: now it's coming back actually like I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're into like grimes at all, but she uses it
Speaker 1: lots of this like hyperpop stuff like one hundred gets
Speaker 1: like all this weird like uh kind of meme culture
Speaker 1: type music uses it a lot. It's definitely back in
Speaker 1: a big way. Well, I'll tell you what we'll do now,
Speaker 1: since people probably it's hard to do that sound as
Speaker 1: a human being, So maybe if uber producer Seth can
Speaker 1: insert one of those right here, that'd be great. I
Speaker 1: was great, what am I saying? Wow? And maybe uh,
Speaker 1: just throw a throw eight o eight in there so
Speaker 1: everyone knows that classic beat. You know. I've been being
Speaker 1: super prolific lately, Chuck. I think we played a little
Speaker 1: bit of the Sparkle Girls song. It's a big hit
Speaker 1: already with the movie. It's a bob. Yeah. Well let's
Speaker 1: it's not it's not quite there. Yeah, the video will
Speaker 1: becoming sooner. Keep a lookout. But I've been making I've
Speaker 1: been buying all these like old seventy eights and like
Speaker 1: forty fives and like weird like junk records at the
Speaker 1: thrift stores and just starting songs by like sampling weird
Speaker 1: little parts and then building a song around it, but
Speaker 1: I've become obsessed with um. If you do any thrift
Speaker 1: store mining and Georgia you you will will probably come
Speaker 1: across these very regional Christian country records you don't talking
Speaker 1: about where It's like they all look the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a family band. All the men are wearing
Speaker 1: matching whites, and women all have these big hair dues
Speaker 1: and they're posing in front of some sort of picturesque,
Speaker 1: you know, Sylvan scene. And yeah, they all have names
Speaker 1: like the Christian Echoes or something. And I've been loving
Speaker 1: again and they happened to be by a creek bank
Speaker 1: under an oak tree. That's exactly right. And the funny
Speaker 1: thing is is like they're all from like Smyrna or
Speaker 1: some kind of more rurally part of Georgia, but near Atlanta,
Speaker 1: near enough that we've ended up with these because they
Speaker 1: probably only made like a hundred of them. Sure you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I mean, I love it. It's
Speaker 1: such a neat little treasure hunt it is. I love
Speaker 1: that little niche. Uh So, no, I saw you yesterday.
Speaker 1: I r l again at the office you wandered by
Speaker 1: and nol I have to let everyone know once again.
Speaker 1: Soft shorts. Uh. Yeah, that's I was wearing soft shorts yesterday.
Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you I have pivoted I what
Speaker 1: you can wear. There's something against that. Well, I just
Speaker 1: heard you touting the hard pant and I have still
Speaker 1: yet to see a hard pant. Well, you know, chuck
Speaker 1: the thing. I forget that. Other people sometimes wander through
Speaker 1: that office, and so I thought I was safe from
Speaker 1: the prying eyes of look you lose, such as yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm there every Tuesday, my friend, and I also need
Speaker 1: to tell everybody about uh the Uh, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: solve the mystery of the beheaded parrots. Knowledge was me?
Speaker 1: It was you? It was you, Yes, But I asked
Speaker 1: you about it, and you seemed indignant. I know, I
Speaker 1: was playing it off pretty good. Oh you literally said, well,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know anything about that, nol. Well, why don't
Speaker 1: you tell everyone would happen? Yeah, holy sh it. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: I should have played it out longer. Maybe the mystery simmer.
Speaker 1: But oh this is gold. Oh my goodness. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I went to the office over the weekend with my daughter.
Speaker 1: Uh there's another funny story writ up in this too.
Speaker 1: But I go to my desk. I'm looking for something,
Speaker 1: and there we have these little squishy ball parrot things
Speaker 1: and you know what, I'm talking stress relievers, but they
Speaker 1: look like little parrots. And on my desk, lined up
Speaker 1: like serial killer style, there's like six of them, and
Speaker 1: they're little parrot faces have been like cleanly snipped off
Speaker 1: with clearly like a scissor of some sort, and they're
Speaker 1: placed in front of them, lined up, you know, in
Speaker 1: a row. It's like a scene out of like seven
Speaker 1: or something like, but with cartoon squishy parrots. So you
Speaker 1: want to know how that happened? Well, how did that happen?
Speaker 1: I was pacing the office on my on my phone
Speaker 1: call and I picked up one of those squishy things
Speaker 1: and I was squishing it and and I flicked his
Speaker 1: little head off by accident, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: that came off very easily. And then I put it
Speaker 1: on your desk and put the little head in front
Speaker 1: of it, the beheaded head. And then I thought, man,
Speaker 1: these things are everywhere and nobody gives a shit about
Speaker 1: them because they're still in the office, and so I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna do a little art installation slash Godfather message
Speaker 1: and uh, I beheaded what like six or seven of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think you. Maybe you don't follow me on
Speaker 1: Instagram or you didn't. I didn't see it. I did
Speaker 1: a whole story about it, and I said something like,
Speaker 1: came to the office for the first time in a
Speaker 1: while and arrived on this murder scene on my desk,
Speaker 1: and then I said, what kind of monster would do this?
Speaker 1: I feel threatened. Oh boy, I can't believe I missed that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure miss that. You. Yeah, it was done
Speaker 1: the stories. Wow, Oh my god. I actually thought it
Speaker 1: might have been Nathan, who's our social media guy. He's
Speaker 1: a bit of a prankster, but he hadn't been in
Speaker 1: the office at all in like months, and he didn't
Speaker 1: know anything about it, but he loved it. He was
Speaker 1: a fan of your work, twas I twas. I wow, okay, wow,
Speaker 1: it was really really really quickly. This is a movie
Speaker 1: related In the same trip. I was digging around in
Speaker 1: my desk after being, you know, terrified by that whole scene.
Speaker 1: I found this package under my desk that hadn't been open,
Speaker 1: and you know, we get a lot of mail at
Speaker 1: the office, and I don't know how I missed it,
Speaker 1: but it was from like two thousand seventeen. It was
Speaker 1: from my ex girlfriend, a woman who I dated from
Speaker 1: like fifth grade until I was like nineteen twenty years old,
Speaker 1: like this was my first love kind of, and it
Speaker 1: was his package from her, unopened, like yellowed the box
Speaker 1: kind of, and I'm holy shit, how did I miss this?
Speaker 1: And so I opened it up and it's like ten
Speaker 1: really pristine, beautiful, awesome, high quality DVDs some of my
Speaker 1: favorites in my collection over the years that I just
Speaker 1: she had ended up with and she sent back to me.
Speaker 1: One of them was a Criterion Memento, the really cool
Speaker 1: one that looks like a like a notebook. Notebook. Um,
Speaker 1: the first two seasons right there, only two were two
Speaker 1: of the British Office, Uh, the Anton Corbin Directors series
Speaker 1: music video DVD, and my personal favorite is not Think
Speaker 1: you Can't even Get It Anymore Wonder Shows in That's
Speaker 1: a nice old treasure troue. It was so cool and
Speaker 1: like a little Christmas card from her, like talking about
Speaker 1: our family, she's got kids now and stuff. But I
Speaker 1: immediately hit her up on Facebook and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, I don't know how I missed this,
Speaker 1: And it was so thoughtful and uh like most of
Speaker 1: my other DVDs I've either gotten rid of or sold,
Speaker 1: and these are like pri posh, pristine condition, not a
Speaker 1: scratch on them, all the inserts and everything. Fully there.
Speaker 1: Love it. What a great end of the story. And
Speaker 1: now you're having a secret affair. Yes, also true. Alright, nol.
Speaker 1: So what we're doing today is we are um, we're
Speaker 1: not doing any little mini segments because we have a
Speaker 1: very special guest coming in to play pop quiz hot shot, uh,
Speaker 1: and also to talk about a little thing this person
Speaker 1: has been working on in way of promotion. And then
Speaker 1: we're gonna finish up with a little stream this with
Speaker 1: this human and I think that that will probably take
Speaker 1: up our whole episode, so I didn't bother with any
Speaker 1: other segments. I really hope it's Dennis Hopper, just not
Speaker 1: Dennis offered that would be great because he is he's
Speaker 1: quite dead. Oh that's right. That would be weird and
Speaker 1: be very weird. So we are going to admit now
Speaker 1: into the room, Noel, are very special guests that you
Speaker 1: don't even know, ladies and gentlemen. John Hodgeman, Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: I know my Chuck. What are you doing dude, just
Speaker 1: joining my my Beard my favorite Beard club soon. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: we're all gray and black Beard. Eid. I'm in a
Speaker 1: great I'm a great moved check. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: why a lot. There's a lot going on. It's a
Speaker 1: hard time challenging moment for and it's a challenging moment
Speaker 1: in our in our democracy. Are representative democracy? You said it.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with a continuing moment of reckoning with our
Speaker 1: national moral conscience. Yes, and we're all being we're all
Speaker 1: really having our natural and chemical mood stabilizer stockpiles tested
Speaker 1: by these times. Yeah. But I I'm telling you, I
Speaker 1: just get the pangram on the spelling bee on the
Speaker 1: New York Times Crossword website. So I'm very happy. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: things are looking up? Is this live? Is going out? Live? Well,
Speaker 1: not live? I mean how podcasts work. You record them,
Speaker 1: but we're live with each other. No, I understand. Have
Speaker 1: you done the spelling b yet today? No? Is that
Speaker 1: Is that some sort of like trophy you get for
Speaker 1: being really good at the New York Times cross Word No,
Speaker 1: it's a separate it's a separate game within the New
Speaker 1: York Times cross Word constellation of nerd distractions extended universe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: verse and it's spread. It's spreading. It's spreading like an infection.
Speaker 1: A little bad, bad choice of words, people are it?
Speaker 1: U was the perfect choice of words. It's look, this
Speaker 1: is this is the disease you want to catch. Spelling
Speaker 1: b get that, stay home, stay safe, do word game,
Speaker 1: spell more, spell better. Emily would be good at that.
Speaker 1: She's a great speller and was a in her school,
Speaker 1: a champions spelling Bee um person. But I I don't
Speaker 1: think she went on to like County or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But I'm a notoriously poor speller, and now I'm always
Speaker 1: having to ask her and she always nails it. What
Speaker 1: about you know? Are you a good speller? I once
Speaker 1: got to the semifinals in a spelling bee of indeterminate
Speaker 1: grade origin. I have a very distinct memory of making
Speaker 1: it out of the stage and then whiffing on a
Speaker 1: particular word which I don't remember. But I'm fine. I
Speaker 1: would not say I am superior. Look, I'm middling best.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not getting well. I do get paid
Speaker 1: by the New York Times because I write the Judge
Speaker 1: John Hodgman column once a week in the New York
Speaker 1: Times magazine. But I don't get a bump for for
Speaker 1: for talking up the spelling Bee on a podcast. It's
Speaker 1: just this is something that my wife Catherine got me into,
Speaker 1: and it's just being passed by hand to hand toward
Speaker 1: nerds everywhere as a way to not to take a
Speaker 1: break from the news in the full knowledge stres an
Speaker 1: English teacher. Right, so, yes, that's correct. Her personal details
Speaker 1: you want to reveal about my life? Check sure. She's
Speaker 1: a lovely human, that's true. That's nothing private about that information.
Speaker 1: She's good at scrabble, right, So this is a scrabbly
Speaker 1: type game. I just I'm just gonna put it out
Speaker 1: there so people can listen to this. If you haven't
Speaker 1: done Wednesday's spelling be this will be all new to you.
Speaker 1: The deal is you have you get one too. It's
Speaker 1: not you don't have. You're not tested on how to
Speaker 1: spell words. You get one to three six seven letters
Speaker 1: and you try to make as excuse me, one to
Speaker 1: three seven letters. You try to make as many words
Speaker 1: out of those letters as possible. It's boggle. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you have to use there's one letter you have to
Speaker 1: use in every word, okay, and that's the center of
Speaker 1: this little you'll see when you go there. I know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Yeah, it looks like it looks
Speaker 1: like a little honeycomb. And the middle and the middle
Speaker 1: cell is the letter you have to use is to
Speaker 1: count to all the others. So the pangram is when
Speaker 1: you use all seven letters. And you nailed that. I
Speaker 1: just just as you would admit me into the zoom room.
Speaker 1: So I want you to take a pen and paper,
Speaker 1: you guys, okay, and write down these letters. Well, hold on,
Speaker 1: I've got I've got I've got i've got a thing.
Speaker 1: I've got a pen and paper special for this. Is
Speaker 1: very excited because he just started writing with terrestrial instat
Speaker 1: I just learned to write. I just learned to write.
Speaker 1: Hang on one second. You can never seen somebody so excited.
Speaker 1: I'm typing it all right, I really. He's literally leaving
Speaker 1: the room everyone to go get it this podcast off
Speaker 1: the rails. Uh all right, well you I'll tell everyone
Speaker 1: why you're here. You're here to play for a couple
Speaker 1: of reasons. You're here to play a new edition of
Speaker 1: Pop Quiz Hot Shot, which is fun. Um. But before
Speaker 1: we do that, and after we do the next thing,
Speaker 1: with this pangram, we're going to talk about your your
Speaker 1: TV show Dicktown. Yes, which here, let's just hold on that,
Speaker 1: all right. Just write these letters down. And if you're
Speaker 1: and if you're listening, play at home, right, if you're
Speaker 1: listening at home, if you're driving and listening to this
Speaker 1: right now, take your hands off the wheel, grab a
Speaker 1: pen and paper, accelerate and write these letters down. That
Speaker 1: is bad advice. No, don't do that, Do not do that,
Speaker 1: all right? What do we got? Seven letters? D yes, I, yes,
Speaker 1: E mm hm C h U C K d I
Speaker 1: E die Chuck die Happy Halloween is all a bit
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no do It's in keeping with the
Speaker 1: bit we just discussed before you joined. John Chuck did
Speaker 1: sort of a very maccab murder scene kind of threatening
Speaker 1: thing on my desk at the office where he beheaded
Speaker 1: a bunch of stress balls shaped like parrots and lined
Speaker 1: them up into like seven style. So got your getting
Speaker 1: spooky in the studio, all right? Are we really doing this? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just write this down? D I E right, M O
Speaker 1: L see. And those are the seven those are your
Speaker 1: seven letters. And see is the letter that has to
Speaker 1: be used when you're making words, and then what are
Speaker 1: we supposed to sit around and play this in silence
Speaker 1: for ten minutes? This is perfect. I thought this was
Speaker 1: a fun game for you, this good podcasting away at
Speaker 1: the end of all, at the end of the at
Speaker 1: the end of the episode, or whenever I am muzgered
Speaker 1: off this stage or get the hook. I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: like molded? Could you do molded? You know what? I
Speaker 1: didn't get that one? No, real good job. No, you
Speaker 1: couldn't because it doesn't have seen it. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: That's okay, that's so cold cold? Did that? Is that
Speaker 1: a thing? Though? But cool is you couldn't do molded anyway?
Speaker 1: You could just do mold. No, you can. You can
Speaker 1: use the letters more than one. You can. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the key to it. Oh, okay, I got You'll let's
Speaker 1: leave this alone and I'll reveal it. I'll reveal the
Speaker 1: pangram that I got. And so what is what is
Speaker 1: the pangram? When you do what? Now? When you use
Speaker 1: all seven letters in one word? I thought you had
Speaker 1: to use all No, no, no, you just build. You
Speaker 1: build as many three letter words, don't count four letter words.
Speaker 1: You get one point five letter words. The longer the word,
Speaker 1: the more points you get. So you can't do two
Speaker 1: or three letter words, asked to ask me four or more.
Speaker 1: And if you make a word that uses all seven
Speaker 1: letters at least once, that's got a pangram and you
Speaker 1: get a bonus. Well maybe when this episode comes out
Speaker 1: on the Facebook page, we will take submissions for listener answers.
Speaker 1: And because I'm going to reveal it at the end
Speaker 1: of this episode, I'll spoil it. And so far that
Speaker 1: I found, I found seventeen words so far, and I
Speaker 1: just had a good run of them. I can't find
Speaker 1: it anymore, but I have something like ninety three points total.
Speaker 1: But to hit the genius level, which is your goal,
Speaker 1: like the gold, you have to hit two D points.
Speaker 1: It's very high point levels. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: words that I have not gotten yet, so amazing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's the thing to do to distract yourself. What's another
Speaker 1: thing to do to distract yourself? Listen to a podcast.
Speaker 1: Listen to a podcast, or watch a TV show. So no,
Speaker 1: while you stepped away for a minute, I told everyone
Speaker 1: John was going to play pop quiz hot Shot, but
Speaker 1: he's also here to promote his television show that he
Speaker 1: does with David Rees called dick toown Yes, And if
Speaker 1: I may just set up the show John before we
Speaker 1: chat about it, please. It is a wonderful animated show.
Speaker 1: That is the premises. John and David are two former
Speaker 1: enemies from high school. David was your bully and you
Speaker 1: are now grown up the middle aged men and Dickstown, Richardsville,
Speaker 1: North Carolina, and you solve crimes for you solve small
Speaker 1: mysteries for high school students, Allah Encyclopedia, Brown as a team,
Speaker 1: and David's kind of your muscle, and you're kind of
Speaker 1: the brains. And you live on this fun house boat
Speaker 1: which I really want to live on in real life.
Speaker 1: And it's a great, really fun show sort of Archer
Speaker 1: style animation. If I may say that, you should say
Speaker 1: that because it's it's created or you know, it's our
Speaker 1: Our producing partners are animators are Floyd County right there,
Speaker 1: and it's right there in Atlanta, Georgia, and they are
Speaker 1: the the creators of Archer. So tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about it. Um. I watched it on Hulu, which
Speaker 1: you can just dial up by typing in Dicktown. But
Speaker 1: tell us where you can find it and how this
Speaker 1: was created and just give us a little backstory. Yeah. So, Uh,
Speaker 1: David Reese is our friend. Uh. He is the creator
Speaker 1: of the political clip art cartoon from the two thousands
Speaker 1: called Get Your War on Um that was ran in
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone. Was a huge, huge catharsists every week, Uh
Speaker 1: for those of us um suffering under what we thought
Speaker 1: was going to be the worst presidency of all tim Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then uh, David turned to the crafts. He became
Speaker 1: a professional artisanal pencil sharpener. Uh. And he wrote a
Speaker 1: book called How to Sharpened Pencils. And then he went
Speaker 1: on TV to host a show for two years called
Speaker 1: Going Deep with David Reese, which explored the same thing
Speaker 1: it showed. It showed you how to do the simple
Speaker 1: things you think you already know how to do, like
Speaker 1: sharpened pencil or tire shoes or freeze you know, make
Speaker 1: some ice cubes. But by going into a very deep
Speaker 1: dive on the history of those things and the manufacturer
Speaker 1: of those things is really fun, very fun show. David's
Speaker 1: just He also does a great show called Election Election
Speaker 1: profit Makers, Election Makers, Yeah, the po the election theme podcast,
Speaker 1: which is very funny, cathartic that he does with our
Speaker 1: friends Starley Kine and John Kimball look David and like
Speaker 1: me is a a person of many trades, a person
Speaker 1: who has many enthusiasms and chases all of them, often
Speaker 1: to the confusion of people who would like to like him.
Speaker 1: It's a good way to say yeah, like no, no
Speaker 1: one no like. He's like me. He's a person who's
Speaker 1: brand is fucked like no one knows like I have
Speaker 1: a podcast, Judge John Hodgman. I write books Medallion Status
Speaker 1: out down Paperback. I do this column for the New
Speaker 1: York Times magazine. Sometimes I act in stuff. I forget
Speaker 1: all the things that I do and then, but the
Speaker 1: one thing I am that I do not forget is
Speaker 1: that David and I having known each other for twenty
Speaker 1: years and finally got together to create a project together,
Speaker 1: and that is Dicktown. This short form animated show that
Speaker 1: ran on f x X is anthology show Cake and
Speaker 1: now is archived all ten episodes at Hulu. And what
Speaker 1: Chuck said was true. Uh. It is a funny cartoon
Speaker 1: someone in the Archer style, someone in the Scooby Doo style, uh,
Speaker 1: in which I play a private detective who named John Huntsman,
Speaker 1: who used to be boy detective Encyclopedia Brown and yeah,
Speaker 1: in this town called Richardsville, North Carolina, which the locals
Speaker 1: called Dicktown Richardsville, get it. Uh, My hunchman used to
Speaker 1: was famous for solving mysteries in town for his little
Speaker 1: friends and sometimes helping at the police. Uh. But now
Speaker 1: my character has grown up and failed to thrive, And
Speaker 1: I'm a sad middle aged man living on a shabby
Speaker 1: house boat in college town Lake and I'm still the
Speaker 1: only clients I can get our teenagers. Still, it's really depressing.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, David Reese, as you mentioned, plays my former
Speaker 1: arch nemesis slash bully in high school, who also has
Speaker 1: failed to leave town. He's now in his middle age
Speaker 1: and he's still living with his parents, and I have
Speaker 1: hired him to be my driver because I do not
Speaker 1: have a driver's license for reasons that get explained later on.
Speaker 1: And the episode is a little bit of a mystery
Speaker 1: and um, and he's the only person I still know
Speaker 1: in town, and he becomes my driver and my hired
Speaker 1: muscle and my unlikely friend as we solve mysteries for
Speaker 1: all these Dicktown teens, some of whom were played by
Speaker 1: teens at the North Carolina High School for the Arts.
Speaker 1: Others were voiced by people we know like Jean Gray,
Speaker 1: zach Alifanakis, Kristin Shawl Griffin Newman from The Tick, John Blazer.
Speaker 1: Not all these people played teenagers, they also played other
Speaker 1: adults in Dicktown. None were played by you. But if
Speaker 1: this podcast has the sway you say it does and
Speaker 1: people go because because because right now we're on the
Speaker 1: we're on the tipping point of whether or not we
Speaker 1: get picked up for another season. So and what and
Speaker 1: what they're it's a weird thing they're doing is they're
Speaker 1: trying to see if people are watching this thing. So
Speaker 1: that's going to be the decision making process. Are enough
Speaker 1: people watching it? So because it because it aired as
Speaker 1: part of and we're very happy that it aired as
Speaker 1: part of this great anthology series Cake. But that's over.
Speaker 1: Now it's sitting there on Hulu and we're really you
Speaker 1: know it did, And because everything's going on in the world,
Speaker 1: not a lot of people have had a lot of
Speaker 1: brain space for an eleven minute a funny, distracting cartoon.
Speaker 1: Now I feel like we need it more than ever.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say this bit dot Lee b
Speaker 1: I t dot l y slash Dicktown d I c
Speaker 1: K t O w N. We'll take you right to
Speaker 1: the Hulu page and you can you can check it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's Um, I think it is perfect for
Speaker 1: right now. And I'm not just saying that because you're
Speaker 1: my friend and David's my friend. It is, uh, David,
Speaker 1: David is also your friend. Yeah, I thought I was
Speaker 1: your friend. All right, we'll hear both of my friend
Speaker 1: more than one those your best friend joke. That's that's
Speaker 1: what's important. That's fine, it's fine, it's fine. It's fine.
Speaker 1: So I completely understand my best friend is my wife. Um,
Speaker 1: so it is. It is a great chow for right
Speaker 1: now because it is about ten minutes long per episode,
Speaker 1: so you can blaze through the season and the time
Speaker 1: that you can watch a medium length movie. And uh,
Speaker 1: I just love I'm a big fan of that format.
Speaker 1: I thought, like the I love Children's Hospital for that reason,
Speaker 1: like the ten to fifteen minute show. Is it really moves,
Speaker 1: it's tight, it's I was. I was really impressed that
Speaker 1: you got the pilot work done, uh, in inside of
Speaker 1: a ten minute episode, and in fact, you've got the
Speaker 1: pilot work done inside the first like ninety seconds. I
Speaker 1: feel it's very efficient. And for those of you listening
Speaker 1: don't know what I mean, the pilot work is. It's
Speaker 1: it's very tough to write a pilot because you have
Speaker 1: to set up the whole world so that everyone knows
Speaker 1: what's going on, but you still have to make an
Speaker 1: entertaining show with the story arc and still wedge in
Speaker 1: that information in an organic way. And you guys, really
Speaker 1: it was it was great. I mean it was bing
Speaker 1: bang boom done onto your first case. The opening scene
Speaker 1: of the pilot was something that I had been thinking
Speaker 1: of personally for a long time because I had been
Speaker 1: at the time we started thinking about this idea. Uh,
Speaker 1: David really wanted to do something about two private detectives
Speaker 1: in the houseboat because he's a big Simon and Simon person.
Speaker 1: I think there they were a house book. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of houseboat detectives. I mean, definitely, you know Crockett,
Speaker 1: Sunny Crockett lived on a houseboat in Miami, Vice famous
Speaker 1: literary detective Travis McGee did. I was really into Encyclopedia
Speaker 1: Brown at this time because I was reading it with
Speaker 1: reading those books with my son and If and If
Speaker 1: you're of a certain generation, you know exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. If you're not, you might not know. The
Speaker 1: Encyclopedia Brown was like sort of the archetypal boy detective
Speaker 1: in these chapter books written by Donald J. Sobol and
Speaker 1: the nineties thing it went back to this. The seven
Speaker 1: of the first ones came out in the rebooted and
Speaker 1: he wrote he wrote dozens and dozens of them, little
Speaker 1: short books, each containing about seven or eight little mysteries.
Speaker 1: And usually it was Encyclopedia Brown working for a local
Speaker 1: kid uh to get something back from bugs, meaning the
Speaker 1: local bully who had stolen it, like some collectible sword
Speaker 1: or something, or like a jar of Nichols or whatever.
Speaker 1: And and at the end of every little mystery bugs me,
Speaker 1: you would say, you you've got nothing know on me.
Speaker 1: Encyclopedia make like a tree and go away, to quote
Speaker 1: Biff Tannon. But Encyclopedia go like, oh no, not so fast, Bugs,
Speaker 1: I have solved the mystery. And then it says at
Speaker 1: the bottom, if you would like to know the solution,
Speaker 1: turned to pay sixty five and you turn it Bay
Speaker 1: sixty five to get the solution and explains like what
Speaker 1: like how Encyclopedia Brown knew where bowling balls were manufactured,
Speaker 1: and therefore Bugs couldn't have gotten that tenpin set or whatever.
Speaker 1: Like the whole thing about, like the baby couldn't have
Speaker 1: been sitting on the roof of the car because it
Speaker 1: would have been still hot from running or whatever. See. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: though in real life, bullies don't really respond to logic,
Speaker 1: he would have just gotten a beat down every single time.
Speaker 1: Exactly what I was thinking when I'll be reading this
Speaker 1: to my son, because every every one of these solutions
Speaker 1: be like when confronted with the when confronted the evidence
Speaker 1: of his guilt, Bugs confessed and gave the jar of
Speaker 1: the jar of teeth back or whatever. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's like, Lapedie, You're so right. I would I would
Speaker 1: always change the endings like and when confronted with the
Speaker 1: evidence of his guilt, Bugs mean he punched Encyclopedia Brown
Speaker 1: in the nose. So the entire the first the opening
Speaker 1: scene of the pilot, is that happening, like the final
Speaker 1: athartic release of that idea, Because you know, John Hunchman
Speaker 1: is a grown up now, he's living in a world
Speaker 1: that he doesn't recognize. He's been hired by a teenager
Speaker 1: to steal a mysterious attache case back because that's always
Speaker 1: a trope, and that mysterious atta case back from the
Speaker 1: sleazy used hot tub dealer named Zeb and Zeb's tub yard,
Speaker 1: and it opens with him explaining to Zeb, well, look,
Speaker 1: I give me the acta shad case. I I showed you.
Speaker 1: I you know, I told you all the evidence that
Speaker 1: starlings aren't native to the United States, and the sun
Speaker 1: came up at six o three this morning. And Zeb goes, no, thanks, no,
Speaker 1: And he doesn't he doesn't push, he doesn't push Hunchman
Speaker 1: down because that's when David Purfoy comes in and pushes
Speaker 1: him into a hot tub. And it's really disappointing for
Speaker 1: Hunchman that the logic did not save the day once again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's just so much fun, man, I really
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Um, thank you you and David like you
Speaker 1: can tell your how and a lot of fun. It
Speaker 1: sounds like that you are in a room together and
Speaker 1: improvising and kind of cut cutting up a little bit,
Speaker 1: which really adds to the life of the show, I think,
Speaker 1: And you know, it's just a lot of fun. Matt
Speaker 1: Thompson our producer at Floyd County was like, you have
Speaker 1: to get in the room together. You know, most most
Speaker 1: animated shows, you're you know, you've voiced them on your own,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know when I when I do
Speaker 1: voices for Ducktails, for example, not only am I in
Speaker 1: a room by myself, but the people who are giving
Speaker 1: me a vocal direction are across the country, so you know,
Speaker 1: we One of the great things about dick Town was
Speaker 1: most of the people we hired were local and available
Speaker 1: to come into New York and David and I this
Speaker 1: was a time when we could be in rooms together.
Speaker 1: David and I could you know, record together in the
Speaker 1: same room and really riff off each other. But also
Speaker 1: we could be there with the with the actors across
Speaker 1: the way to play with them in the room as
Speaker 1: well across the glass. You know, you guys, are you Uh,
Speaker 1: you're genuine cracking each other up at times, you can
Speaker 1: tell and uh, that just adds a lot to it.
Speaker 1: David's really great, Um, he really he. I don't think
Speaker 1: he when you know him in real life, he's such
Speaker 1: a sort of reserved guy. And uh, the way he
Speaker 1: carries himself and the way he carries a conversation, but
Speaker 1: to hear him go big, it was a lot of
Speaker 1: fun and yeah, well, I mean and not that. That's
Speaker 1: one of the pleasures also of election profitmakers, because when
Speaker 1: David gets worked David can be really low key and
Speaker 1: you know, very very you know, cool for school. But
Speaker 1: when he gets worked up, he gets so loud and
Speaker 1: it's so funny. And he was a high school bully, Like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he was. He was. He kind of pushed his friends
Speaker 1: around and he feels really bad about it. Uh, and
Speaker 1: he's spent a lot of time trying to make amends.
Speaker 1: But in this case, I'm like, you gotta lean into that.
Speaker 1: That's your that's your brand on the show. That's leaning
Speaker 1: into the brand that's in the show. And you know,
Speaker 1: I brought in all this encyclopedia brown baggage. But David
Speaker 1: really wanted the show to be set in a very
Speaker 1: specific place, which is North Carolina. He's from Chapel Hill,
Speaker 1: so a lot of the characters and the customs and
Speaker 1: the storefronts are based on people he knew or and
Speaker 1: or nos in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and it gives
Speaker 1: it gives the show a very very specific field and
Speaker 1: you know. Uh. The my character's dad, Mr Huntman. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's played by the great Stephen Tobolowski from you know,
Speaker 1: groundhog Day and the Files Needlehead ned um, and he's
Speaker 1: so good at it. But the vocal patterns are based
Speaker 1: on the dad of David's best friend from Chapel Hill. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mr Kimball, John Kimball's dad who is a banker and
Speaker 1: just kind of tells, you know, son, yesterday, I bought
Speaker 1: a new washcloth and I used a visa card to
Speaker 1: purchase it and it was it was really a very
Speaker 1: smooth transaction. And lady at the store was so nice.
Speaker 1: And it's just Steve Tobolowski like kills it as my dad.
Speaker 1: It's so sweet and funny. Yeah, man, it's really good.
Speaker 1: Um ten minute episodes. You can blaze through a season.
Speaker 1: You can find it on Hulu. Uh bit Doutley Slash Dicktown.
Speaker 1: We want John and David to be able to make
Speaker 1: more of these. Um. I want to do voice I
Speaker 1: do voices John, So I'm you know, yeah, if we
Speaker 1: get if if, if the if, this podcast, as I
Speaker 1: expect it will single handedly saves Dicktown. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: a very big role. And Okay, I guess I gotta say.
Speaker 1: I was googling Dicktown and and a Wikipedia entry came
Speaker 1: up for Dicktown, New York, which is apparently a ghost
Speaker 1: town in Putnam County in New York. And according to Wikipedia,
Speaker 1: it was named as such because a large share of
Speaker 1: the early settlers were named Richard That one, yeah, really
Speaker 1: really quickly, John, Do you know the Adam apology of
Speaker 1: why detectives are referred to as dicks? Yeah, well that
Speaker 1: was That's another reason that we called it Dicktown. We
Speaker 1: mainly called it Dicktown because there's a song by They
Speaker 1: Might Be Giants that I wanted to use as the
Speaker 1: theme song, but we didn't have time. We didn't have
Speaker 1: we didn't have the the length of episode to even
Speaker 1: have a theme song. But you can't keep Johnny down.
Speaker 1: There's a reference to all the dicks in this Dicktown,
Speaker 1: can't keep Johnny down. But so then I retrofit, like
Speaker 1: we retrofitted Dicktown as a name to Richardsville. And also
Speaker 1: to the fact that it's a show about detectives, so
Speaker 1: you know, private dicks. I think that just goes back
Speaker 1: to a time when dick was a less offensive term
Speaker 1: when dick was not thoroughly associated with male genitalia, but
Speaker 1: instead instead it could be a shortened form of detective.
Speaker 1: I guess it kind of plays that way. I think
Speaker 1: that's what it is, or or it could be a
Speaker 1: person's name, like Dick cavitt Um. I'd like to bring
Speaker 1: dick back, you know what I mean, bring that dick back. Oh.
Speaker 1: According to the Internet, it says that the term dick
Speaker 1: meant to watch, like to dick. Interesting. The dick came
Speaker 1: in turn from the Romani language of the Gypsies that
Speaker 1: were dick the i K, which meant to look to see.
Speaker 1: So a dick is a watcher or a looker. Do
Speaker 1: you have the Internet of this whole time? Well, I
Speaker 1: just want I I never really thought to look it
Speaker 1: up as part of the quiz. Is this part of
Speaker 1: the quiz that makes me look? That's coming? I can't
Speaker 1: wait to check out Dicktown. Though this sounds like, yeah, everyone,
Speaker 1: everyone weird animation. In my life, everyone look at or
Speaker 1: dick Dicktown. Please. I'm also a big fan of the
Speaker 1: expression dicking around or dick around with or just dick
Speaker 1: with um, so you know I'm on board fully dickering
Speaker 1: is a Northeastern phrase for bargaining or haggling. Hickory dickory duck.
Speaker 1: And there is, uh, there's a show I think on
Speaker 1: the History Channel. There was a show called Downy's Dickering.
Speaker 1: You told me about this, chuck. You told me about
Speaker 1: Downey's Dickering. Didn't you know these guys in Central Maine? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: I told you about the Main cabin Masters. Oh Main
Speaker 1: cabin Masters was the one you have to check. I
Speaker 1: still have to check them out. Downy's Dickering is this
Speaker 1: crew of of guys in central Maine who make their
Speaker 1: living going through the want ads, the local want ad
Speaker 1: think called on Uncle Henry's advertiser, and finding odd jobs
Speaker 1: that they do for money. But then they'll barter things
Speaker 1: to buy stuff of other people and then barter that
Speaker 1: to get others like they're dickerers, basically trading up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're trading up. And um as as a sometime resident
Speaker 1: of the state of Maine and and a fan of
Speaker 1: that state, I decided to watch it. I'm like, why
Speaker 1: was there only one season? Why didn't they make thirty
Speaker 1: five seasons of this? Like American Pickers or whatever, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, within one, within fifteen minutes, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: because these guys are terrible. These guys are these guys
Speaker 1: there's one. There's one of them you kind of like,
Speaker 1: and the rest of them you kind of like worry about. There.
Speaker 1: So they're so authentically Central Maine, just like live by
Speaker 1: the skin of your tooth type people. They're just like
Speaker 1: it's like when they tried to make professional poker players
Speaker 1: into star athletes, Like they're they're weird looking, marginal people,
Speaker 1: sunk shifty, yes, sunken cheeks and rat tails. Like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to this guy's not kind of go
Speaker 1: on a poster on my son's room like Chris Elliott
Speaker 1: on Ship's Creek. Yeah, exactly, exactly. All right, John, you're
Speaker 1: ready to play the game. I'm ready to play the game.
Speaker 1: All right. So this is a game called pop Quiz
Speaker 1: hot Shot. It's become the new movie Crushed Sensation. It
Speaker 1: is a game that has played on a timer, which
Speaker 1: makes it a little challenging, and uh, the whole goal,
Speaker 1: here's just have a little fun. It's hard to find
Speaker 1: a timer these days, I know, and so I keep
Speaker 1: the time and here's how it works. No, one's going
Speaker 1: to keep score. That's usually challenge in and of itself.
Speaker 1: Not anymore, Chuck, not anymore. I received this stenographer's spiral
Speaker 1: notebook in the mail from movie Crush fan Christie, who
Speaker 1: have become pals with, and it actually has a handy
Speaker 1: split column design. Look at that where she helped me
Speaker 1: positive negative. This is for a different game, uh more,
Speaker 1: for a hole's kind of scenario, but it's still it
Speaker 1: still applies here. It's got a little chain that you
Speaker 1: can attach a small pen to. Um. I've never seen
Speaker 1: that before. I think that Christie out speaking, but it's
Speaker 1: really lovely. And when I went in earlier and grabbed
Speaker 1: a pen, accidentally grabbed a non functioning pen. It's a
Speaker 1: stylist for like a you know, tablet. So you gotta
Speaker 1: go get a real pen real quick. You see. You
Speaker 1: explain the rules and I'll be back in a jiffy. Okay.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of a running gag that Noel has
Speaker 1: a very hard time keeping score of even the simplest
Speaker 1: of games. I can see why, and I think it's
Speaker 1: as evidence the fact that the one thing it seems
Speaker 1: like that was keeping him from keeping score correctly was
Speaker 1: a line drawn down the center of age. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm I love a stand on notebook. They're great. So
Speaker 1: here's how it works, dude, is we have ten questions, yes,
Speaker 1: where you have to name three movies for each for
Speaker 1: a possible thirty points. So one point you get partial points.
Speaker 1: So if you name two out of three, you get
Speaker 1: two points in each round. Can you give me an
Speaker 1: example of this, so it'll be like, name in ten seconds,
Speaker 1: name three movies with the word night in the title. Okay,
Speaker 1: And if that were the case, uh, could you use homonyms?
Speaker 1: Give me an example? Well, could I say Dark, Knight Rises,
Speaker 1: Dark Night, and Nightbreed? Yes, okay, because Night you would
Speaker 1: get all three points for that Night Breed is the
Speaker 1: Clive Barker movie to night as in Bedtime Night. Whereas
Speaker 1: we're very lenient because we like our friends to to
Speaker 1: do well and to feel good about I just want
Speaker 1: to follow the rules. Yeah, yeah, you're fine. So no,
Speaker 1: are you ready? More than I've probably ever been for
Speaker 1: anything ever in my life. And we're also lenient with
Speaker 1: you know, if you're saying one as the timer is
Speaker 1: going off, we like to give it to you. And
Speaker 1: like I said, we're we're a friendly crowd here. I
Speaker 1: shall do my best, so John, Yes, this is this
Speaker 1: is There's no theme to this one. These are just
Speaker 1: random questions about movies. In ten seconds, Name three music, biopic,
Speaker 1: main characters. You don't have to name the movie, just
Speaker 1: the main characters. Music by the main characters. Johnny Cash,
Speaker 1: Elton John Um, Freddie Mercury. Okay, I started you off easy,
Speaker 1: three points as hard for me. Actually the movies are
Speaker 1: Walk the Line, Rocketman, and Bohemian Rhapsody. Okay, And can
Speaker 1: I just say rocket Man is a really good movie.
Speaker 1: It's really good. And Paron Edgerton is amazing as Elton John.
Speaker 1: It is not it's a it's an incredible Essentially, it's
Speaker 1: a jukebox musical of Elton John songs. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's it's not just reproducing concerts or whatever. It's
Speaker 1: like interpreting the songs and ways that are really awesome.
Speaker 1: It's great. It's great, and I'm a huge Elton John fan.
Speaker 1: So right at my alley. All right, John, you did great.
Speaker 1: All right. Check they're going to get progressively more difficult. Okay,
Speaker 1: name you should do good at this next one. In
Speaker 1: ten seconds, John, name three film noir movies, the Maltese
Speaker 1: Falcon double indemnity. I don't know if Key Largo would count.
Speaker 1: Um oh, I don't think he Largo counts. I think
Speaker 1: it counts. It's film noir. Okay, well here, let's see.
Speaker 1: I want this to be accurate. I think you got
Speaker 1: three out of three. But that's idea. From the art.
Speaker 1: It sure looks like a la to me. Largo is
Speaker 1: American film noir. Criky, big time, three out of three.
Speaker 1: Wikipedia says, until from the poster alone, I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's got the vibe. I couldn't remember the plot. I
Speaker 1: thought maybe it was just Bogarten book I'll go to
Speaker 1: the Beach, and it was one of their It was
Speaker 1: one of their beach their Beach Blankett musicals. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: they just dick at the ocean. That's right. They just
Speaker 1: dick that ocean. They dick at the ocean. They dig
Speaker 1: it all. Look at the they dick at the ocean.
Speaker 1: They dig it all of the memorable sites of the
Speaker 1: Florida Keys. They dick it. Ernest hemming Way's house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they dick at each other. They dick dick at each other.
Speaker 1: They can't stop dicking each other. Okay, Jeffrey doing great
Speaker 1: so far, John right in ten seconds, name three movies
Speaker 1: starring or even featuring actor Tim Robbins. Um, this is
Speaker 1: a weird one. But War of the World's Um, Uh,
Speaker 1: Bull Durham and um, all right, what was the the
Speaker 1: one where he was a phony folk singer politician Bob Roberts.
Speaker 1: Bob Roberts was Bob was all I could remember. Surprised
Speaker 1: you didn't leap right for the Hudsucker Proxy. Yeah, feels
Speaker 1: the very John. That's one of my favorite movies. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know why I had that. I'm
Speaker 1: having more and more lapses. Le's put it that, you
Speaker 1: know what I've rewatched recently that I just think is
Speaker 1: the best as the player. Uh. That was the one
Speaker 1: that kind of the followed up on Bull Durham and
Speaker 1: launched Tim Robbins into a different place. Yes, and of
Speaker 1: course we miss perhaps his most popular movie of all time,
Speaker 1: The Shawshank Redemption. Oh right, a Shawshank Redemption. That's a
Speaker 1: very famous, one, very famous movie. Very probably already know this, John,
Speaker 1: But I found out recently this in a pitch meeting
Speaker 1: that almost every single piece of Stephen King intellectual property
Speaker 1: is optioned at all times. I can't think of the
Speaker 1: one that isn't. Well, I just mean even ones you
Speaker 1: haven't heard of or don't know about their in turnaround
Speaker 1: or they're filed away somewhere. And to find a piece
Speaker 1: of Stephen King, I p that isn't is like a
Speaker 1: needle in a haystack, or like, you know, some sort
Speaker 1: of treasure of the Sierra Madre or whatever. Can I
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, can I say something so? I'm a
Speaker 1: big Stephen King fan. I'm particularly a fan of the
Speaker 1: novel Coujo. I've never seen the movie and I never will.
Speaker 1: The novel is one of the best. It's just straight
Speaker 1: up piece of literary fiction. It's great. Anyway. I was
Speaker 1: talking about this back when I was promoting a book
Speaker 1: that has called Vacation Land that has a lot of
Speaker 1: Maine in it, and um, some someone his friends with
Speaker 1: one of his sons, not Joe Hill, showed him this
Speaker 1: article and he sent me a paperback copy of Coujo
Speaker 1: with a really nice thank you note written in it,
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm gonna option that thank you note turned
Speaker 1: into a movie. There you go. You got to be creative. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's no one's got it. No one's I'm the only
Speaker 1: one who has it. You go to get the rights
Speaker 1: and you're like, ah, dream Works has it. Oh no,
Speaker 1: all right, that was the only one you've whipped on
Speaker 1: so far. Thank you, John Hodgman. Stephen King movie. It's like,
Speaker 1: what why? How did that? You didn't get my permission
Speaker 1: to use my Name's like, sorry, DreamWorks says, we got it.
Speaker 1: I think the best part of that movie is when
Speaker 1: Stephen King hobbles you. Thank you, John Hodgman. The Story
Speaker 1: of a Thank You Note Written to a fan starring
Speaker 1: Mike Perbigli as John Hodgins. What why oh all right? John? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Question for you're letting Stephen King play himself. He's not
Speaker 1: that great in act. I mean he was actually pretty
Speaker 1: funny and it chapter two. But for Biggs all right
Speaker 1: show where he plays the the redneck guy with all
Speaker 1: the plants growing on his body, that one's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can I write the screenplay? No, John Lane, he's doing that?
Speaker 1: What Oh he's good though, of course, John Millene's good.
Speaker 1: Mike Perbili is good. Okay, Number four in ten seconds,
Speaker 1: John Name. Three movies starring or featuring Susan Surrandon Bull Durham,
Speaker 1: The Witches of Eastwick and the The X Wives Club?
Speaker 1: Is she in that one? No, she isn't. Goldie Hawn.
Speaker 1: It's called First Wives Club. First Wives Club, Yeah right,
Speaker 1: I mean get the name of the movie, right, alright,
Speaker 1: only stared, only stared at that poster going up and
Speaker 1: down the stairs five times a day. And Writers has
Speaker 1: literary agency for seven years. First Wives Club based on
Speaker 1: the writers as clients book First Wives Club, Bette Midler,
Speaker 1: Goldie Hawn and someone else Diane Keaton. I think yeah,
Speaker 1: probably that. Uh. We also would have accepted The Hunger, right,
Speaker 1: of course you would have accepted Dead Man Walking. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Oh yeah, isn't David Bowie and The Hunger? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And isn't it quite bad? I've heard it's quite bad. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's a great piece of uh yeah. In nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: sort of lucky, erotic horror, erotic vamp a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was heavy duty, like um, what's the what's the
Speaker 1: word of like Venetian blind Shadows movies? Well, it's early
Speaker 1: Tony Scott, which is was that Tony Scott? I believe
Speaker 1: that that is based on a novel by Whitley Strieber,
Speaker 1: who also wrote the novel that became the movie Wolfin
Speaker 1: and since since then is primarily known as a alien abductee.
Speaker 1: He wrote a book called Communion about his recovered memories
Speaker 1: of being abducted by alien since he was a kid.
Speaker 1: And that's how he's known now. Interesting career pivot. What's that?
Speaker 1: What's that? Chat? Nothing? That was community? Communion is a
Speaker 1: great book. Communion is a great book and a very
Speaker 1: strange movie starring Christopher Walking. Yeah, Chris Walking. That's right.
Speaker 1: Give me Francis Sternhagen. I can throw Communion in there.
Speaker 1: I can throw it. And I forgot the other movie
Speaker 1: that she was outland Francis Sternhagen. She saw her and
Speaker 1: something I couldn't believe. She's still stir Start hanging it up.
Speaker 1: I'll look at up player alright, Question five, John, Yeah,
Speaker 1: in ten seconds, name three movies that feature alien spacecraft.
Speaker 1: Uh Star Star Trek, the Motion Pictures Star Trek to
Speaker 1: the Wrath of con Star Trek three, The Searchery Spark.
Speaker 1: See that was smart. That was smart, well played, well played.
Speaker 1: See that's that's the way you do this game. If
Speaker 1: you can find an angle, you gotta play the angle.
Speaker 1: I'm always looking for the angle. I'm always dicking the angles.
Speaker 1: I'm always digging for the angles. Got a dick for
Speaker 1: those angles. The thing is a guy like you, John,
Speaker 1: a guy like our dear friend Casey Pegraham. You wanted
Speaker 1: to display your movie trivia prows, so you do. You
Speaker 1: dig deep, But that's not the best way to go
Speaker 1: in this game sometimes, that's right. Alright, Question six, Mr Hodgeman,
Speaker 1: and ten seconds, name three black and white movies. Can
Speaker 1: I use ones that I've already used? The Man who
Speaker 1: Wasn't there? Uh, the Maltese Falcon and Key Lardo Boom. Alright,
Speaker 1: you're back again gaming the system back he never left.
Speaker 1: It's he left twice. He left two on the table,
Speaker 1: Strangers in Paradise and Down by Law Stranger than Paris,
Speaker 1: Stranger than Paradise. And I've never seen either of those
Speaker 1: great movies. I just rewatched Down by Law for the
Speaker 1: first time, probably since I was fifteen years old, and
Speaker 1: it's I miss those old Jarmish movies. All right. In
Speaker 1: ten seconds, John, name three movies featuring non muppet puppets,
Speaker 1: non muppet puppets, The Happy Town Murders. Um. Well, now
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Wait
Speaker 1: a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Do we
Speaker 1: have a challenge. I mean, like I said, the Happy
Speaker 1: Town murders, but I think that they're Henson. I think
Speaker 1: they're Henson. No, it was his son and it had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with Henson. And I think it got
Speaker 1: they got mad instead got in trouble. Was it Brian Henson,
Speaker 1: but he's the CEO of Henson. I don't think they
Speaker 1: got mad. But maybe it wasn't him, but it was
Speaker 1: it was somebody connected with Henson that it was not sanctioned,
Speaker 1: It was not you know, it was so they used
Speaker 1: that name my trailer. My question is, and I think
Speaker 1: this is a this is a I'm not gonna I'll
Speaker 1: take my one point and I'm not I'm not going
Speaker 1: to work the ref It was Brian Henson, by the way,
Speaker 1: But if I said that, if I said the Dark Crystal,
Speaker 1: would that count or no? That would count? Because I
Speaker 1: don't consider not talking right, You're not talking about muppets
Speaker 1: what you consider muppets. We're not talking about what you
Speaker 1: consider m up It's you're talking about the Muppet characters
Speaker 1: famous from the Muppet Show, right, not characters from the
Speaker 1: Jim Hinton Workshops. So I could have said the Dark Crystal.
Speaker 1: I could have said Labyrinth. Yes, meet the Feebles. That's
Speaker 1: actually not whatever whatever whatever. I was robbed. Everyone knows
Speaker 1: no one point the one point for happy right, Alright,
Speaker 1: rephrase that in the future. Name three movies with puppets
Speaker 1: that do not star the muppet characters. What if where?
Speaker 1: First of all, we're not gonna use it in the future,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna retire that one. Hey, don't you dick
Speaker 1: at me? I see you dicking at me. You're gonna
Speaker 1: you see are you digging me? Rolling my eyes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm dicking you. Are you digging me? Digging at the ceiling? Alright,
Speaker 1: get at the floor number eight? In ten seconds, don't
Speaker 1: get salty, now, are you salty? Not at all? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm concentrating, Okay, in ten seconds. Motherfucking that's just that's
Speaker 1: a vocal warm up. Motherfucker. Cocksucker, messed up my whole
Speaker 1: all right? All right? In ten seconds? John, Name three?
Speaker 1: And this is subjective, but I'm going to be very lenient.
Speaker 1: Name three movies well known for their soundtrack. Raiders of
Speaker 1: the Lost, PARC Star Wars, Harry Potter The Sorcerer's don't okay,
Speaker 1: I know nothing about Harry Potter, but I think I
Speaker 1: have to give it to you. They're all John Williams soundtracks. Okay,
Speaker 1: I I'm going to give you all three of those.
Speaker 1: The minor quibble, I would say those movies are well
Speaker 1: known for their score. Uh, but that's okay. Looking more
Speaker 1: for Rushmore Magnolia and Batman bo Batman, Batman because the
Speaker 1: Prince that one Prince song bat Dance. Yeah, it's what's
Speaker 1: just known as like because it was a Prince album.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's even love it or hate it,
Speaker 1: it's definitely people remember the Batman soon. Now that I
Speaker 1: understand the question, I would I would say what I
Speaker 1: would have maybe come up with if I were smart, was, Oh, Brother,
Speaker 1: where art thou? Sure? Dazed and confused? Um it's another
Speaker 1: oh and uh the Big Chill? Yeah, yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1: Now you get three either way? Alright, three three the
Speaker 1: right way, three the right way. We're gonna count the
Speaker 1: score because those those were sold as soundtracks, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So what about something like The Lion King where it's
Speaker 1: like a combination of like songs and also score pieces,
Speaker 1: And I think any Disney animated film would be well
Speaker 1: known for their soundtrack. The most part The Jungle Book,
Speaker 1: For God's sake, Jim v I P I reached the
Speaker 1: top and had to stop, And now you're gonna get
Speaker 1: sued by Disney. I love the Jungle Book. It's still
Speaker 1: my favorite song. Wise, all right, John, in ten seconds,
Speaker 1: No comment on colonialism here in ten seconds, Name three
Speaker 1: movies directed by David Lynch, Dune, Uh, Razor Head, and
Speaker 1: Blue Velvet. Great, good job? Yeah, what's the one? Wild
Speaker 1: at Heart? That's the one I was my brain, my brain.
Speaker 1: It may be you know that you're right that my
Speaker 1: brain wants to go obscure because there's like I have
Speaker 1: a animal reflex to impress, get get weird pulls. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I think that's that's the trick of this game is
Speaker 1: and we've talked about it before. It's hard to clear
Speaker 1: your mind. But also try and think of every movie
Speaker 1: you've ever seen the same time. Yeah, exactly, But you're
Speaker 1: doing great, thanks friend, But I'm having fun than Casey.
Speaker 1: All right? Finally, John, number ten, number ten in ten seconds,
Speaker 1: Name three movies starring former alumni of Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: Sure um stripes, Caddyshack, Um Meatballs, Ah see you locked
Speaker 1: in on Bill Murray, very smart way to go. You're
Speaker 1: good at this game. Thank you. To see what I
Speaker 1: would try to I would immediately be flooded with every
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live Alumnni. That's ever the screen. Yes, and
Speaker 1: what you need to do is just hone in on
Speaker 1: one who did a bunch of movies? Yes? Can you now?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you one chuck
Speaker 1: from this package, all right because I also have a timer. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know you do in ten seconds? Now? Aim three
Speaker 1: Will Farrell movies go? Uh? Downhill? Uh? Anchorman and Anchorman two?
Speaker 1: Al Right, Downhill? We you, Oh, Julie Louis, drive us
Speaker 1: some money. I didn't collects on. I didn't see that.
Speaker 1: But I did see Forest Masure and that was a
Speaker 1: movie on the show that we dissected. By the way,
Speaker 1: have you seen that? No? I haven't seen it. That's
Speaker 1: its great, that's the movie that Downhill is based on.
Speaker 1: You would love it. It's right up your alley. It's really, really,
Speaker 1: really good. Is it a comedy though I thought it
Speaker 1: was more like a disaster kind of No, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a very very dark social satire comedy. I think
Speaker 1: it's Swedish. It's terrific, Like it's literally like taking it
Speaker 1: beat for beat and making it like American or I
Speaker 1: think that's what that's not. That's not unusual people do that.
Speaker 1: It's not but I I had heard of that, and
Speaker 1: that seemed like more like an art film, and this
Speaker 1: Downhill seemed like one of those thrown together Netflix. It's
Speaker 1: sort of I'm sure that it was marketed that way. Yeah, so, John,
Speaker 1: if you have time to stick around for another ten
Speaker 1: minutes or so for stream this, I don't ever want
Speaker 1: to go away. This is the portion of the show.
Speaker 1: Why are we talked to this? By the way, you
Speaker 1: got twenty six points to justify my use of the solids.
Speaker 1: I feel like there should be an asterisk because I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like my sound track answers were
Speaker 1: not high talking about the muppet question, Oh well, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'll keep it then, because I feel like
Speaker 1: now I feel like my John Williams answers were all
Speaker 1: b as. They were not high quality answers. So subtract
Speaker 1: three no, no that I already circled the number. It
Speaker 1: stands all right, Then I can't in and you can't
Speaker 1: walk it back. Yeah, the spell is locked out of thirties. Great,
Speaker 1: nice job's done, thirty out of thirty. Nobody, It's true.
Speaker 1: Although I haven't gotten one of these yet. I've just
Speaker 1: been like the the second Banana scorekeeper. I kind of
Speaker 1: want to get in the hot seat. One of these
Speaker 1: will be in my medal. All right, here we go. No,
Speaker 1: you're ready for this. No, we don't have time, we
Speaker 1: have tense. Do you give me one. Let's go. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Name three movies the Gene Wilders in Willy Wonka or
Speaker 1: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Uh see no evil? Hear
Speaker 1: no evil? Uh? The other one? Yeah, you got that
Speaker 1: one us. Now, now that's a definite asterisk. I I
Speaker 1: reject that. Wow. Yeah, that's a deep cut. That's a
Speaker 1: later Richard pryor Pryor where they're blind and they're both
Speaker 1: blind and deaf or something like that with my mom
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and I think it had
Speaker 1: boobs in it and it was really Wonka and the
Speaker 1: Chocolate Factory? Was that ause me? The book? Is Charlie
Speaker 1: the movie? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, alright? Zero. Do you hear
Speaker 1: that Trump was gonna do a Willy Wonka asked type
Speaker 1: of stunt when he emerged from the hospital after Corona
Speaker 1: he was gonna like, look golf feeble and then rip
Speaker 1: off his shirt to reveal a Superman uh emblem. Tell
Speaker 1: me you're kidding or they decided not to do it,
Speaker 1: But apparently it's a It's something that was actively discussed.
Speaker 1: I know that that was reported. That feels a little
Speaker 1: a little fetched far to me, but maybe so I
Speaker 1: like to believe it. It It seems like the kind of
Speaker 1: thing seems like anyway, why aren't talking politics? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, John, When does this come out? This comes
Speaker 1: out Friday? Oh no, no, no, two weeks right by
Speaker 1: the way, everybody, this is the first election cycle that
Speaker 1: I've ever been an act of volunteer in. I do
Speaker 1: phone banking, I do text banking, I do letter writing.
Speaker 1: Get your people, help them to vote. Go to I
Speaker 1: will vote dot com. Make sure that they all understand
Speaker 1: wherever they are in your world, whatever state or comm
Speaker 1: will they're in, what their deadlines are, what their options
Speaker 1: are in terms of voting. Make a plan to safely
Speaker 1: and securely and and early, which is probably not a word,
Speaker 1: vote tomorrow, and also donate some of your time. If
Speaker 1: you can't donate some of your money, it's really important.
Speaker 1: Created a couple of days ago, they have our local
Speaker 1: arena fitted out with voting machines, and it took me
Speaker 1: longer to park that did to vote. You know what
Speaker 1: great is that? The the NFL arena, it's the basketball
Speaker 1: are the NBA arena? Yeah, the NBA. Who NBA opening
Speaker 1: up those stadiums, those stadia for voting. It's like three
Speaker 1: hundred three boots, I think. And that's the greatest. I
Speaker 1: can't believe. That's really stepping up. Thank you. And I
Speaker 1: can't vote there because I'm decapp County residents, so but
Speaker 1: I'm going tomorrow. It's great. Early voting is the best. Okay, everyone,
Speaker 1: this is a stream this where we talk about what
Speaker 1: we've been watching lately. I will go first. Uh. The
Speaker 1: other night, Ruby and Emily and I Uh. Ruby says Hi,
Speaker 1: By the way, John, she was quite fond of you
Speaker 1: and remembers you. I want to come and visit you
Speaker 1: guys again. You have such a nice guest bedroom. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She uh. Anytime like your voice comes on, she goes,
Speaker 1: that's John. Yeah, how's her little how's her little backyard?
Speaker 1: School going. It's going great. It really is going great,
Speaker 1: big success. But the other night we watched Parren Norman,
Speaker 1: the great great um stop motion animation, sort of her
Speaker 1: first little scary movie that she's seen, and it was wonderful.
Speaker 1: It was such a fun movie. It was highly recommended
Speaker 1: by the movie crushers. I loved everything about it. It
Speaker 1: was funny, it was heartwarming, it was a little bit scary,
Speaker 1: just enough for her age. I think, uh, slightly above
Speaker 1: her pay grade, but I know we all agree that,
Speaker 1: you know, a year or two above the pay grade
Speaker 1: of a child watching movie watching is of a good thing.
Speaker 1: And she was fine. She she got a little scared occasionally,
Speaker 1: which meant a little little snuggle on the couch, but
Speaker 1: she never wanted to turn it off. And we just
Speaker 1: had a great, great time watching Para Norman. So we
Speaker 1: watched that and then nol. I've been watching or We Emily,
Speaker 1: and I've been watching I May Destroy You. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: about halfway through season one and boy, oh boys, it great, wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful show. Wait for the finale. It'll knock your socks off.
Speaker 1: It's uh, I'm gonna use it. I'm gonna drop have
Speaker 1: a drink everyone. It's psychedelic, like the way that it's edited,
Speaker 1: the choices, the way it kind of like show. It's
Speaker 1: of perspective, it's all about like that's the thing to
Speaker 1: going back to detectives. I love that the show feels
Speaker 1: like a detective story in some way, where she's like
Speaker 1: on the hunt for this perpetrator, but it becomes much
Speaker 1: more than that. And it's got comedy. It's got beats
Speaker 1: of absolute drama and existential terror, and then it pivots
Speaker 1: so quickly to like the other things without ever seeming
Speaker 1: forest or stretched. And I just think it's a genius
Speaker 1: work of She's amazing cinema. Makayla Cole wrote, created, wrote, directed,
Speaker 1: stars great casts all the way around. It's voices that
Speaker 1: you don't hear enough of these days, and it's really
Speaker 1: really terrific. Highly recommended, and it just started ships Creak
Speaker 1: by the way, I shall take that recommendation and thank
Speaker 1: you for stealing my recommendation. What Ship's Creek? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so good. I just started it myself. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I didn't glom onto it right away because I
Speaker 1: love all the cast. I'm such a Cris guest fan.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, I've watched a couple episodes and
Speaker 1: didn't continue. But with all the buzz lately, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try it again, and I'm obsessed. I just
Speaker 1: think they're lovely characters. I mean, they're despicable at first,
Speaker 1: but then you grow to love them. It's great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely a Hodgman come Lately on that one. Um.
Speaker 1: I people in my life we're telling me to watch
Speaker 1: Should's Creak forever and then same here. Finally, finally, you know,
Speaker 1: after six seasons, I was like, maybe I'll watch this,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this is the greatest thing,
Speaker 1: you know, in many in many ways, I think for
Speaker 1: what I hope people find in dick Town, which is
Speaker 1: to say that it's a it's a concept comedy, right, um,
Speaker 1: but the concept kind of falls away pretty quickly and
Speaker 1: becomes a character comedy. And the characters are each of
Speaker 1: them really really likable, and you know, like it's a
Speaker 1: town versus gown, like outside outside Richie's come to this
Speaker 1: hard bitten town and in Pennsylvania is supposed to be
Speaker 1: I can't even remember, yeah, like right, yeah, exactly, in
Speaker 1: in somewhere in North America, and it's sort of like
Speaker 1: the their cultural clash. But as as you pointed out,
Speaker 1: and all like the Fai, the famil, the rich family
Speaker 1: are all very likable and and you know, especially now
Speaker 1: that they're down on their luck and the local people
Speaker 1: are all very likable and you just enjoy hanging out
Speaker 1: with your friends with this movie, Starry, with this TV
Speaker 1: show and um uh Dan Levy the co creator with
Speaker 1: his dad Eugene. He plays a character named David, and
Speaker 1: he and Emily Hampshire, who plays the woman who runs
Speaker 1: the motel. What's her name? Yeah, she's good. Twila. No, no,
Speaker 1: that is his actual sister who plays Twilight. That's also interesting.
Speaker 1: Oh that's I forget the name of the uh. Well,
Speaker 1: she's great and a tough and a tough role as
Speaker 1: sort of the the straight character. Um yeah, the straight person.
Speaker 1: That's a tough that's can be a tough bag in
Speaker 1: a broad comedy like this, and she does a great job.
Speaker 1: Hang on, I'm gonna I gotta Emily Hampshire. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember the name of the actor. That's pretty respectable, right,
Speaker 1: totally known as bus Fiber. But Stevie, that's right, Steve.
Speaker 1: Because of Stevie, I was gonna say, Sydney, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess that, right. She's so dead panned because she's sort
Speaker 1: of the voice of reason, you know, like like like
Speaker 1: calling out all of the bullshit of everyone else's character.
Speaker 1: But she herself is also kind of a fish out
Speaker 1: of water because she doesn't make sense in this world.
Speaker 1: She's so smart and sharp and snart, and her relationship
Speaker 1: with with Dan Levy's character David is is incredible to follow.
Speaker 1: It's so fun completely. Yeah, I think part of the
Speaker 1: fun for me too is seeing, uh, seeing Eugene and
Speaker 1: Dan together clearly having a good time, like father and
Speaker 1: son working on this show together, and uh, it's just
Speaker 1: it's sort of gives me good good heart feels like
Speaker 1: that about this show. It took me by surprise. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's got The cast is amazing, obviously, Catherine o' harriet,
Speaker 1: Uh legend, what's his name? Chris Chris Elia Telliott, Emily
Speaker 1: is so creeped out by She's like, he always looks
Speaker 1: so gross and dirty and everything. He's inspiration. I couldn't remember, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: the everyone's great, but let me just say something, Gen Levies,
Speaker 1: can I swear on this? Yeah, it's fucking hot in
Speaker 1: the show Jude. He looks amazing. We were talking about
Speaker 1: that last night. I was like, what is this guy taken? Like?
Speaker 1: He looks he looks better than he's ever He's he's slim, healthy,
Speaker 1: his suits are incredible. I mean his hair, his hair
Speaker 1: is and it's like it's it's one of It's sort
Speaker 1: of like when comedians get pumped and you're like, you're
Speaker 1: kind of breaking the code, dude, Like you know what
Speaker 1: who we're talking about. No, there are lots lots of
Speaker 1: comedians have gotten pumped. You don't know who I'm talking
Speaker 1: about at all. Kumal is like freaking me out, man,
Speaker 1: Like his jeat Meal instagrams are just like, whoa, I
Speaker 1: can't handle you anymore. I'm thrilled by his personal journey
Speaker 1: and it's had to undertake in order to be in
Speaker 1: a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. That's why he got that jacked.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I know, I get it, man,
Speaker 1: It's it's just it's just a little off putting when
Speaker 1: he used him being the schlubby I T guy or
Speaker 1: But the thing is that it is a little charged
Speaker 1: when a comedy person starts to look good do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? It totally is, especially if they
Speaker 1: just sort of looked average or kind of you know,
Speaker 1: like me, like Dumpy nerd or whatever, Like if I
Speaker 1: got jacked, people be like, I like that. I don't
Speaker 1: like that version of John Hodgman. But Eugene levy Man,
Speaker 1: I can't cannot deny that guy looks great. It's more
Speaker 1: wardrobe than anything. I don't know. If he looks like
Speaker 1: he's it looks great. Compare him to the best in show.
Speaker 1: He's not beefed up, he's slimmed down, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got that. He's got that, he's got
Speaker 1: that paleo glow. You know what could he and he
Speaker 1: I mean, how old is he He's got to be
Speaker 1: late sixties, right, he's nine seven? Wow, didn't really surprised.
Speaker 1: Fantastic for ninety seven. There was a really great like
Speaker 1: it was his birthday recently, and there was like a
Speaker 1: kind of you know, zoom thing of all this comedy people. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it was just delightful. And you know they're all
Speaker 1: just throwing accolades at him. And I think it was
Speaker 1: Jason Biggs that sort of joked that that he thought
Speaker 1: this was an in Memorium video. You know, of course
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a see seventy three. Can
Speaker 1: you believe that? Incredible? Yeah, he looks great. Annie Murphy
Speaker 1: as as Alexis the sister is also incredible. And you
Speaker 1: know it's like they're they're all these incredible Canadian actors
Speaker 1: and they're just these hidden treasures, like they're just up
Speaker 1: there in Canada making TV like crazy. We never watch
Speaker 1: it because we're jerks. Now we get to see all
Speaker 1: these incredible actors. Yeah. The reason I hadn't watched it
Speaker 1: because you made Canada. No, there were too many seasons.
Speaker 1: It was it was too daunting. I was, God, do
Speaker 1: I want to tell cold something that has whatever, like
Speaker 1: a hundred episodes. Look, sometimes culture asks you to pay
Speaker 1: attention to something that you've slept on, something that's that's
Speaker 1: that you know it's probably pretty good, but you just
Speaker 1: haven't gone around to it. And sometimes culture offers you
Speaker 1: two choices, uh, six seasons of a thirty minute sitcom
Speaker 1: like Ship's Creek I Know where this is going? Or
Speaker 1: one season a total of a hundred and eleven minutes
Speaker 1: of Dicktown. It's the it's the short animated Ship's creak
Speaker 1: of today, but not least slash Dicktown. Don't sleep on it.
Speaker 1: Go dick it. Yeah, dick it in in a night
Speaker 1: like Dickie gets some pop some popcorn, you know what
Speaker 1: you know. And I love to dick it. I love
Speaker 1: to dick it on a Saturday morning because no shame
Speaker 1: in that job, you know what I mean. I like
Speaker 1: to dick it on a Saturday morning, Like to dick
Speaker 1: Dicktown on a Saturday morning. Because it's a cartoon. Get up,
Speaker 1: you get your your cereal, and you watch some cartoons
Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning. Not for you. Just get Dicken. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just get get to Dicken. Not by the by the way,
Speaker 1: as you can imagine, unlike the Judge John Hodgment podcast, Uh, Dicktown.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a PG thirteen. There's some swear words,
Speaker 1: some adult themes, like like fear of mortality. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it definitely has some. There are f bombs. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: guess it's rated. I guess it's rated m A for mature,
Speaker 1: but I would say probably like you're fifteen year old,
Speaker 1: could dig it, yeah for sure. Yeah, you can dig
Speaker 1: it with part of your family. Not for ruby. Also
Speaker 1: not for ruby. This is an anti streaming recommendation. Cora
Speaker 1: line too scary, too scary for how old is she?
Speaker 1: She's five, too scary. Even saw it when she was
Speaker 1: about nine. On the yeah good ten, Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say I would have said ten, but not good nine
Speaker 1: good John. Are you familiar with with Wonder Shows? And
Speaker 1: I am familiar with Wonder shows? And yes, yeah. At
Speaker 1: the beginning of the episode, all this whole story about
Speaker 1: how I got this mystery box of DVDs in the
Speaker 1: mail from an ex girlfriend and that was one of
Speaker 1: my prize DVDs that she returned to me, and uh.
Speaker 1: I proceeded to watch some of it with my eleven
Speaker 1: year old daughter. You know, it's a very dark sense
Speaker 1: of humor, and I forgot how dark it goes. And
Speaker 1: there were a few where I was just like skip
Speaker 1: this one, okay, and now, okay, this one's okay skip.
Speaker 1: But she loved it. I watch a lot of TV
Speaker 1: with my son, and he's got very good taste. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of the movie that really surprised me
Speaker 1: that he loved. I can't, I mean, hang on a second.
Speaker 1: Is he into the dark humor? The dark memes? Things
Speaker 1: like no, no, I mean like, I'm like, he loves
Speaker 1: oh brother, where arn't that he loves that movie? Amazing?
Speaker 1: It's really surprising. And then you know there's he's like
Speaker 1: every fifteen year old. He's just you know, just binging
Speaker 1: the Office and then going back and starting from the
Speaker 1: beginning the Office, ENFC Office, Hold, Duke Parks and Wreck
Speaker 1: three times through. I think he's working on, uh, what's
Speaker 1: the one he's working on now, one of one of
Speaker 1: that universe movies, Emily. I think it's um, Kimmi Schmidt again.
Speaker 1: So that's what he likes to do for TV, but
Speaker 1: for but for movies, he's got pretty pretty and he
Speaker 1: loved watching Eye Claudius with me when he was eight,
Speaker 1: and there was some that was probably the one where
Speaker 1: I was like, um, yeah, you know what a Roman
Speaker 1: orgy is? Right? Just I figured you've got the internet,
Speaker 1: you probably know. It's like, Dad, can I make another
Speaker 1: recommendation because I just wanted I just watched the season finale.
Speaker 1: I know that's it's not everybody's cup of tea. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed Lovecraft Country. Did you watch that Craft Country?
Speaker 1: I have not seen it yet. I mean it's um,
Speaker 1: have you seen it all? You know? I keep talking
Speaker 1: about this with people. I did not get into it
Speaker 1: as much as I would have liked, and I watched
Speaker 1: two episodes, but I keep hearing that it picks up
Speaker 1: a little later and that it gets real kind of disturbing.
Speaker 1: So I kind of want to check it out again.
Speaker 1: I wanted to like it very much, and hearing this
Speaker 1: from you cenches it for me. I'm going to give
Speaker 1: it another Gum. I think that it's really worth watching. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's very episode it's very episodic more than it is
Speaker 1: successful as an arc. So each individual episode, some of
Speaker 1: them are you know, really really really amazing, and some
Speaker 1: of them are less, so you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like they're trying out a lot of different things. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not like when I when I watched the first episode,
Speaker 1: I was blown away. I loved it and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like Watchmen. This is a piece of pulp
Speaker 1: entertainment that has real social engaging with real social issues
Speaker 1: in a really interesting way, and the whole thing is
Speaker 1: going to be airtight and perfect, which Watchman was and
Speaker 1: it was one of my favorite TV shows of all times. Um,
Speaker 1: Lovecraft Country is is not that. Lovecraft Country is not
Speaker 1: a tight Lovecraft Country has. I think by the second episode,
Speaker 1: I was like, this just seems like a corny adventure show.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's what where it lost me a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, what what happened to the to the
Speaker 1: perfect like air tight nine dimensional chess game that I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna be watching. This just seems like
Speaker 1: an episode like there's one where they go go into
Speaker 1: the basement of a museum to get uh, to get
Speaker 1: a mcguffin out of a a well or whatever, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is like Hercules the Legendary Journeys. And
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute. I liked well, I
Speaker 1: didn't like Curriculus. I like Zeena a lot, but I
Speaker 1: was like, wait a minute, that's that's its strength, Like
Speaker 1: it's a it's a corny supernatural show about black nerds,
Speaker 1: depicting black nerds like black pulp fiction fans in the fifties,
Speaker 1: Like you know, the main character is a guy who
Speaker 1: loves sciences as a black Korean war vette who loves
Speaker 1: science fiction, loves horror novels, and people people of color
Speaker 1: who love that stuff don't see adventure shows. Corny adventure
Speaker 1: shows like Curriculus, the legendary journeys or raided as a
Speaker 1: lost ark were they're the stars very often that Once
Speaker 1: I realized that, I was like, oh yeah, I'm on
Speaker 1: board for this. Just fun, it's it's fun, it's weird,
Speaker 1: it's disturbing. Every now and then you'll have an episode
Speaker 1: that just blows your mind in terms of what it's
Speaker 1: what it's telling you and teaching you about the experience
Speaker 1: of race in America, and then every other episode it's like,
Speaker 1: we have to make the sunshine and cast a spell
Speaker 1: at this time, and so like the greatest I loved it,
Speaker 1: love Craft Country, check it out, all right, I'm definitely
Speaker 1: gonna check it out. All right. We gotta move it along, guys,
Speaker 1: because Nolan I have to record another one after this.
Speaker 1: But John, thanks for stopping in to play the game.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Everyone watch dick Town. You can dial it
Speaker 1: up on Hulu, google it, find out how you can
Speaker 1: best watch it. And uh, perhaps the movie crushers will
Speaker 1: step up enough to put it over the top and
Speaker 1: you guys will get to make some more Those are
Speaker 1: really hopes. And then Chuck, you can be in a voice.
Speaker 1: You can be a voice in it. Hey, either way.
Speaker 1: I want you guys to make more and it's it's
Speaker 1: a fun show and no will make you the star,
Speaker 1: the new star buddy. Yeah. Wait, I'm gonna recast myself.
Speaker 1: You will be the lead. I'll take it. I will
Speaker 1: do you proud, John, Always a pleasure hanging out with you, sir.
Speaker 1: This is lovely and I'm surprised. Just just quick audition,
Speaker 1: just say this. Wowie mcgawey. Can you say wow? It's
Speaker 1: one of our catchphrases. And Dick too, Wowee mcgowey, Wowey mcgawey.
Speaker 1: Wowie mcgowey. You know what a lot of range. I
Speaker 1: like it. You're in all right, let me try mine
Speaker 1: wo get wow wee mad hagawey go beef. No, alright, Chuck,
Speaker 1: you got your chuck, you got the job. I got
Speaker 1: the job. Well, thanks for dicking this episode, everybody, and
Speaker 1: it's been a real pleasure. Well, you don't dick a podcast,
Speaker 1: you audio Dickett. Yeah, thanks for audio dicking this podcast, right,
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Speaker 1: Bryant and Meel Brown, edited and engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson,
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