Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: welcome to Movie Crush. Many Crush. Nol is in his basement.
Speaker 1: I am in my basement. We are not. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: definitely not that. But Chuck, I don't have a basement now,
Speaker 1: I know. I'm like, I can't afford a basements. That's
Speaker 1: your bedroom, right, that's my bedroom? Yeah? Is that your it?
Speaker 1: Is that your like studio room too? I guess I'm
Speaker 1: sitting at my desk with all my studio stuff, surrounded
Speaker 1: by my my toys. You're getting out of your bedroom, though,
Speaker 1: aren't you? Maybe? Come on, Nold, don't just stay in
Speaker 1: there and that's depressing. Oh I'm not. I cook a lot, Chuck,
Speaker 1: and I play video games in my living room and
Speaker 1: I've been playing board games. You ever played the board
Speaker 1: game Pandemic? Really pretty appropriate right now? Learned to play
Speaker 1: it with my daughter right before, not right before, but
Speaker 1: you know, maybe three or four months before all this
Speaker 1: stuff went down, and it really taught us how these
Speaker 1: things can spread. It teaches you about vectors and how
Speaker 1: it can spread across you know, borders, through travel and
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and really interesting game. We played it
Speaker 1: the other day. It felt a little on the nose,
Speaker 1: but it was fun. It's a fun game. It's a
Speaker 1: cooperative game, which is nice. Yes, you know, I played
Speaker 1: Pandemic for the first time about I guess it was
Speaker 1: last fall, um and I did not enjoy it because
Speaker 1: of the situation of uh, I don't want to say
Speaker 1: too much here. It just didn't work out with the
Speaker 1: people I was playing with. Let's just say that because
Speaker 1: they were dummies. Were they doing a bad job? No?
Speaker 1: I think the cooperative aspect was lost on some of
Speaker 1: the players and it became more of a I figured
Speaker 1: out the best way to do it how I say
Speaker 1: to do it. Oh, that's no gay, it's no good
Speaker 1: at all. And in the spirit of working together and
Speaker 1: helping each other and giving a good, good advice, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know you could take it. It's sort of like
Speaker 1: have you ever been done an escape room, Chuck? I
Speaker 1: have done that once with Janet Varney in a bunch
Speaker 1: of people. It was there that one asshole in the
Speaker 1: group that thought they knew the best way and and
Speaker 1: wouldn't shut up about it. No, it was great fun
Speaker 1: because it was me and my buddy Scotty, who's been
Speaker 1: on the show, and then Janet and her great boyfriend
Speaker 1: Brandon and then most of the cast of her TV
Speaker 1: show UM or some of the cast of her TV
Speaker 1: show UH that she was doing here in Atlanta, so
Speaker 1: we um doing it with a bunch of actors was
Speaker 1: fun and a bunch of funny comedians was fun because
Speaker 1: Janet is a is a producing taskmaster, like she she
Speaker 1: knew the best way, so she was the leader. But
Speaker 1: in a great Janet varney, you just love her to
Speaker 1: death sort of A that's great. I did it once
Speaker 1: and there was the problem in particular, was this this
Speaker 1: this this one uh participant was very vocal about you know,
Speaker 1: this way, this is how we do this is the
Speaker 1: order we do it. But she was always wrong and
Speaker 1: continued to push as though she were right. And everyone's
Speaker 1: getting frustrators, like you got this type a personality and
Speaker 1: they're like trying to corral all of us, but you're
Speaker 1: an idiot. Yeah, Janet is the best type of type
Speaker 1: a uh. She she was wonderful and so much fun
Speaker 1: and all I felt bad because Scotty and I just
Speaker 1: cracked jokes the whole time and did not offer a
Speaker 1: lot except support. You know, well, that's all sometimes that's
Speaker 1: that's a that's an important role in the squad. We
Speaker 1: got out of court. We escaped that goddamn room. I'm
Speaker 1: glad to hear it, Chuck. We didn't die in there.
Speaker 1: I know I would have missed you because you know
Speaker 1: that in the escape room. Oh yeah, exactly, it's like
Speaker 1: saw movies. The walls closed in on you and they,
Speaker 1: you know, lasers dissect you. You've seen that movie Cube,
Speaker 1: member qube remember Cube? Sure? I saw that movie. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed Cube. There's a new one on Netflix now that's
Speaker 1: called The Platform that people are saying is kind of Cube.
Speaker 1: As I've heard of Spanish film. I'd like to watch it.
Speaker 1: I heard it was pretty pretty good. I'll check out
Speaker 1: the Platform. No, it looks like your hair is long
Speaker 1: because of your hoodie. M hmm. I'm in full unibomb remo, Chuck.
Speaker 1: And you didn't even comment. Did I shave my fucking head?
Speaker 1: You know, Chuck, I didn't. It's the lighting makes it
Speaker 1: just look like you're maybe balding a little bit. Let
Speaker 1: me see the sides. I see it now. It looks good.
Speaker 1: It looks good. Yeah. I got bored the day and
Speaker 1: I was a little hot. So it's like, you know
Speaker 1: what it's coming off. I you know this, now's the
Speaker 1: time to do it. Grow a stash, do that weird
Speaker 1: hairstyle you and always wanted to try, but we're too
Speaker 1: afraid to trot out in public. Now is the time
Speaker 1: everybody try out that new personality. Alright, No, here's what
Speaker 1: we did. Uh. We decided to do a little quarantine hiking,
Speaker 1: so Hiku theater quarantine style. And these are pretty dang good.
Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen these, go check them out. Everyone.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start out with Melinda Backo, one of our
Speaker 1: old friends, says this, we still have to work at
Speaker 1: hospitals in publics. Wash your hands people. Okay, good one.
Speaker 1: That's a good cautionary Haiku. It is our oldest to pals.
Speaker 1: Rebecca Robes says this, Hulu and Netflix, Amazon and early releases,
Speaker 1: nothing left to watch? Yeah, yeah, that's I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're streaming all day every day, I would I would
Speaker 1: find a way to break that streaming up. Take a walk,
Speaker 1: you know, do some burpees or something you know you
Speaker 1: need to make you need to make that, make those
Speaker 1: services last. I have a beef at these early releases
Speaker 1: that chuck. They're really expensive. They're like twenty five bucks
Speaker 1: to watch the movie one time a small screen. I
Speaker 1: think the rationale from them is you get your it's
Speaker 1: cheaper than a bunch of people go into the movie,
Speaker 1: so UM will release it as if it were in
Speaker 1: the theaters, and you're still getting a deal because it's
Speaker 1: cheaper than two people going to a movie. That's a
Speaker 1: good point if you're and you know, you could conceivably have,
Speaker 1: you know, your whole family watch it. No, get eighteen
Speaker 1: people together. Well, never mind, Yeah, that's that's bad advice. Alright.
Speaker 1: Let me see here. Dylan Thomas, our old friend and
Speaker 1: master poet, says, being essential means not getting to stay
Speaker 1: home even though you should. I'm sorry to hear that, Dylan.
Speaker 1: Stay safe. My friend Vanessa Lopez, one of our oldest friends, says,
Speaker 1: what day is today? I'm gonna try shower beer. Should
Speaker 1: have bought zoom stock. Everyone's zoom and nol. It's true,
Speaker 1: all these zoomers. You know. My daughter's h's very sad situation.
Speaker 1: My daughter's pre k was shut down and they laid
Speaker 1: off the staff and all those sweet little kids head
Speaker 1: no uh nowhere to go, and so the parents got
Speaker 1: together and they got their two teachers, um Respecca and
Speaker 1: Mr James, and we set up with their Venmo and
Speaker 1: the parents are all chipping in for two days a
Speaker 1: week to do they have their morning meeting every day
Speaker 1: and they're having their morning meeting now on Zoom and
Speaker 1: getting to watch Ruby with these other little kids in
Speaker 1: their houses interacting again is everything. That's wonderful, dude, it's
Speaker 1: the best. She's got. This like children's class. It's called
Speaker 1: like I think I told you, Like some of her
Speaker 1: friends are members of the High Faith, which is kind
Speaker 1: of like a inter faith kind of you know, it's
Speaker 1: a religion, but it's also just sort of a philosophy.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's very very nice. All the kids that
Speaker 1: are part of us are just lovely, really well behaved,
Speaker 1: really thoughtfully to do a lot of stuff in the community.
Speaker 1: They do a lot of like you know, community service
Speaker 1: and volunteer work. And uh, she you know, it is
Speaker 1: religious and we're not religious parents. We don't push that
Speaker 1: on her, but she she likes it. Were the community
Speaker 1: aspect of it. Um And they do this thing they
Speaker 1: call it children's class that they'll do like crafts and
Speaker 1: you know, different projects and all these kids working together
Speaker 1: and they've continued doing that over Zoom and she loves it.
Speaker 1: She's really it's just all the kids are the best.
Speaker 1: And also her teacher is doing Zoom meetings three times
Speaker 1: a week just to make sure the kids are keeping up.
Speaker 1: Because initially she just gave us this pile of paper
Speaker 1: in this folder, which again she she met us out
Speaker 1: of the library. It was very like you know, the
Speaker 1: dead drop of schoolwork, you know, like getting it, you know,
Speaker 1: like tuck and roll. Uh, And it was just a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, like there was really no rhyme or reason.
Speaker 1: It was all kind of like just it seemed like overwhelming.
Speaker 1: And so she's been like really keeping the kids on track.
Speaker 1: And there's some school there's some online components as well,
Speaker 1: but really appreciate any teachers that are you know, really
Speaker 1: staying after their kids, you know, and like and make
Speaker 1: sure that this is there's some normalcy maintained during this craziness. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And you know, Noel, I've talked a lot about growing
Speaker 1: up religious and how I have uh got to college
Speaker 1: and turned my back on that stuff and I poopoo
Speaker 1: it a lot, but you know what I was had
Speaker 1: a lot of great times in church youth group growing
Speaker 1: up and looking back, it really um it was good,
Speaker 1: clean fun, kept me out of trouble, kept me on
Speaker 1: the straight and narrow until I got to college and
Speaker 1: became a complete derelict. Yeah, yeah, I I I enjoyed
Speaker 1: the youth group stuff as well. You can eat as
Speaker 1: many tacos as you as your heart desires, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and that's they have tacos and youth group.
Speaker 1: They had tacos at our youth group. Yeah, we had
Speaker 1: taco night. We didn't have taco night. Cool parties and stuff.
Speaker 1: You're missing out. Uh, just don't get caught making out
Speaker 1: with a girl. Man, oh boy, big trouble. Shame the
Speaker 1: hell out of you. Yeah, dude, it was the worst. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the downside. But man, we don't need
Speaker 1: to go down that whole, do we. No, we do not.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do some more hik in here. Rob
Speaker 1: Toulson says, stuck at home from work, caught up on
Speaker 1: stuff you should know, need more, Josh and Chuck, thank you,
Speaker 1: that's sweet. I love it. Let me see here. Uh.
Speaker 1: Matthew Fober says this. I live on a farm, a
Speaker 1: farm in haiku MAUI far from anyone. Geeze, that sounds great.
Speaker 1: Live on a farm and fucking Hawaii. Know, dude, I
Speaker 1: don't think I told you this. That is amazing. And
Speaker 1: then then there's a reason I'm telling this now. Did
Speaker 1: I tell you that I talked to Todd Rundgren on
Speaker 1: the phone for a solid hour? What? Yeah? Wow? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Does he live on a farm? He lives in Hawaii?
Speaker 1: Oh god? What did you talk about? Lots of stuff?
Speaker 1: Are we doing something with him? Can you talk about it?
Speaker 1: I really want to, I can't. I really want to. Um,
Speaker 1: I really want to make it happen. But he's got
Speaker 1: a real cool idea. That's awesome. You know. I got
Speaker 1: hooked up via email to Bonnie Prince Billy Um, one
Speaker 1: of my all time heroes on planet Earth, and I
Speaker 1: emailed him and told him that I wanted to get
Speaker 1: him a movie crush. But I also said it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, man, if you ever had a hankering to
Speaker 1: do anything in the podcast world, I said, it could
Speaker 1: be performance, it could be something on songwriting, it could
Speaker 1: be whatever the funk you wanted. I was like, we
Speaker 1: would be interested in that. Awesome. I have not heard
Speaker 1: back that's okay. He's a he's a he's an odd cat. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's also one of my favorites. Guy. I love that guy.
Speaker 1: Love that guy. Yeah, but he did tell me to
Speaker 1: email him. So I did get an email from him saying, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: hit me up. And when I hit him up, I
Speaker 1: haven't heard back. So that you know, everyone's busy right now.
Speaker 1: He's got a small baby. Oh he does. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that he does. He's got a little one. Um,
Speaker 1: all right. Jeff Noel, one of our old friends, says this,
Speaker 1: if I get this thing, I'm totally gonna die. Stay
Speaker 1: away from me, and then he notes that he's super
Speaker 1: high risk. So Jeff, be especially careful of my friend.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you are. Yeah, um, yeah, yeah, but you've
Speaker 1: got something on that. No. No, just that it's so
Speaker 1: scary because it's it's so like, you know, the statistics
Speaker 1: are so misleading. It's hard and like you know, you'll
Speaker 1: see stories about young people dying and uh, you you assume, oh,
Speaker 1: I guess everyone's uh fair game, but it really typically
Speaker 1: is more immuno compromise people or people with like a
Speaker 1: pre existing health condition. But then you think maybe it's not.
Speaker 1: Maybe we just don't know enough about the thing to
Speaker 1: make the right assessment. But the key is not to
Speaker 1: overread and not to overthink it and just to kind
Speaker 1: of like just do the things you can do and
Speaker 1: control the things you can control in your own life
Speaker 1: and not let it eat you alive, you know, because
Speaker 1: it will if you really just keep reloading that you know,
Speaker 1: count of like cases and in the news and all
Speaker 1: of that stuff. You know that's right, and you know, um,
Speaker 1: everyone needs to do the right thing right now. But
Speaker 1: you should also know that if you are uh not
Speaker 1: high risk, and if you are, um, then you have
Speaker 1: a a I think it's like four percent chance of
Speaker 1: living even if you get it. So people need to
Speaker 1: keep that in mind. Um. And obviously if you're high risk,
Speaker 1: that is super scary and our thoughts are really really
Speaker 1: really with you. But um, but uh, if you're not
Speaker 1: high risk, don't don't live in fear that the boogeyman
Speaker 1: is going to come and kill you. You know, same
Speaker 1: with children, Like I think we've seen a very small
Speaker 1: handful of cases where children you know had a hard
Speaker 1: time and that was largely because of him, you know,
Speaker 1: compromised you know, children, that's obviously a thing. Um, but
Speaker 1: typically I think children are not being affected. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's not something that we're seeing like a ton of
Speaker 1: cases with children. It's mainly adolescents and then adults. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you, man. Uh. Let me see here. Our
Speaker 1: oldest of friends, Kristin Glenn Kister says this, hubs is essential.
Speaker 1: Not much TV binging here, work from home with cats,
Speaker 1: cats as cowal eyes. I wonder if she means she's
Speaker 1: just playing that movie on repeat. That's enough to drive
Speaker 1: anybody insane. Uh. Nick Kelly says this, I just want
Speaker 1: the gem. I don't like to run outside. I missed
Speaker 1: the treadmill. Yeah, and that's that's tough stuff. Nick, I
Speaker 1: know that people that are gym rats are are having
Speaker 1: a tough time. Our oldest friends, Gail the danger Ovencuent
Speaker 1: says this, don't cough on money. Money is gross already.
Speaker 1: I'm not asking twice. Yeah, Luckily is It's a largely
Speaker 1: cash free world we live in these days. I'm not
Speaker 1: touching any dollar bills. Yeah, even even drug dealers take venmo.
Speaker 1: Now that's good. That is good to know. Let me
Speaker 1: see here. Amina A stem Ire says, Mandalorian, is that
Speaker 1: Amy Sadaris killing this wig h That is Amy Sadaris.
Speaker 1: I heard uh Rosario Dawson is on the next season.
Speaker 1: I saw that too. I also saw an article my
Speaker 1: buddy Kevin Uh sent me. He's in this really fantastic
Speaker 1: band I think you'd like a lot Chuck called um
Speaker 1: Kyle Kraft and Showboat Honey there on sub Pop, and
Speaker 1: he reached out to me a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: UM as a fan of the shows, and we've become,
Speaker 1: you know, normal human friends and stay in touch a lot.
Speaker 1: But he sent me this article about how Werner Herzog
Speaker 1: apparently doesn't find dogs cute. Of course he doesn't. What
Speaker 1: could be cute about an animal that licks its own
Speaker 1: butt hole exactly? He's like, that is not the word
Speaker 1: I was used to describe it. Talk, Oh man, I
Speaker 1: love and stuff. All right, We're gonna move on from
Speaker 1: the high Cus just because we're we got a clock
Speaker 1: here that we have to abide by, because no, you've
Speaker 1: got other work to do. I got some stuff I
Speaker 1: can push it around. Chuck, You're you're my priority, oh man.
Speaker 1: But we are going to move on regardless of all,
Speaker 1: because I just asked for positives that people have in
Speaker 1: their life right now, because um, things are weird right now,
Speaker 1: but there are positives, like I am getting and you know,
Speaker 1: we get to work from home some as it is,
Speaker 1: and so I'm I'm a dad that gets to spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time with my daughter anyway. So it's
Speaker 1: not like I've worked forty hours a weeknd in office
Speaker 1: and I see her in the morning and at night
Speaker 1: and that's it. But having said that, I'm getting to
Speaker 1: spend with my daughter right now and my wife and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm cooking again and like we're going on family walks
Speaker 1: every day in the evening and it's really been kind
Speaker 1: of great in a lot of ways. What about you, Uh,
Speaker 1: the music stuff has been great, Like I'm I'm rediscovering
Speaker 1: how much I love doing and how kind of good
Speaker 1: I am at it. And not to like to my
Speaker 1: own horn anything. It's just a when you get uh
Speaker 1: your chops back or your mojo back from a thing
Speaker 1: that you used to do that you kind of let laps. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a really empowering feeling. Uh, not that I'm like
Speaker 1: great or anything, but like I enjoy it and I
Speaker 1: find it fulfilling and just working on this silly song
Speaker 1: we were doing together. Like it's not not it's not silly.
Speaker 1: It's just like you know, it's it's a very quick
Speaker 1: turnaround kind of like project or it's one. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's been just really really wonderful and um that and
Speaker 1: and just you know, cooking a lot. I've been trying
Speaker 1: a lot of new recipes getting I've I've always been
Speaker 1: a fan of cooking, but I've been doing a lot
Speaker 1: of like Indian stuff and trying to like make my
Speaker 1: food like go as far as possible to like not
Speaker 1: waste anything and like freeze things like make soups and
Speaker 1: freeze parts of it and you know, save it for later.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, just that feels good too. When you
Speaker 1: live like a good frugal kind of thoughtful life where
Speaker 1: you're not being wasteful, that's a good feeling too, totally. Things.
Speaker 1: I think I think people are doing that right now
Speaker 1: all over the place, paying attention to how much toilet
Speaker 1: paper they use, taking you know, into consideration waste like
Speaker 1: they have never before. And that's a great, great positive thing.
Speaker 1: All I'm gonna say is, thank god I have a
Speaker 1: biddat because we ran on a toilet paper about two
Speaker 1: days ago and they don't have any anywhere around here.
Speaker 1: It's nuts we have, like we were down to one
Speaker 1: box of Kleenex. Is it still the thing with the
Speaker 1: toilet paper? Yes, dude, yes, When is that going to change?
Speaker 1: I don't know by now that it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: I guess so. But like I went to Publix the
Speaker 1: other day, I went to Kroger the other day, just
Speaker 1: a quick walkthrough, and the shelves are just decimated. There's nothing.
Speaker 1: There's no hand sanitizer, there's no uh, you know, Lisol disinfectant. Supria.
Speaker 1: Been using instat cart a little bit of the grocery
Speaker 1: delivery tree, and and it lets you browse available stock
Speaker 1: and nothing. You search for toilet paper, you search for lisol,
Speaker 1: it gives you, like other recommendations. How funny is it
Speaker 1: when you search for toilet paper and it serves you
Speaker 1: up with paper plates? Like, come on, give me a break. Yeah, read,
Speaker 1: You're gonna get you wiping your ass with paper plate soon,
Speaker 1: I think. So. All right, let's start off some positivity here.
Speaker 1: Noel dan Floyd says, I run it to go only
Speaker 1: Bakery as the sole employee, and I had my most
Speaker 1: profitable march ever in four years. Uh. Not only is
Speaker 1: a community coming out to make sure I can pay
Speaker 1: the bills, but people are also looking for treats to
Speaker 1: lift their spirits while stuck at home. That is great,
Speaker 1: Dan oh man, I really appearing that people are trying
Speaker 1: to save these small businesses. Man, my wife's one of
Speaker 1: them scary stuff out there right now. Uh, let me
Speaker 1: see here, Kristen A Satterly Pomazle is that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it, top band old pal says this. I've had
Speaker 1: time to reach my sixteen year old daughter teach sorry,
Speaker 1: how to drive a manual transmission. That's fun. That is fun.
Speaker 1: I still don't know how, Noel, Seriously, I've never had
Speaker 1: occasion too. I've never even known anyone that had one. Well,
Speaker 1: what am I gonna just go seek out a manual
Speaker 1: car just to learn? Like I've never have been around
Speaker 1: to one of those cars. You know, that is exactly
Speaker 1: what you need to do, knowl You know, why is
Speaker 1: it about the apocalypse? It's it about in case of
Speaker 1: an emergency, you should be able to drive a car.
Speaker 1: All right, you're right, You're right. I'm not gonna shame
Speaker 1: you for it, but everyone needs to learn how to
Speaker 1: drive a stick shift, and you could probably really funk
Speaker 1: up a transmission and still get that car going. You know,
Speaker 1: you could do some emergency after all, you could do
Speaker 1: some gear grinding, I imagine, and get it going. But
Speaker 1: it's a plus. It's fucking fun man driving. I bet
Speaker 1: it is. I bet it is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I miss it. Karen Webber says my introverted daughter's current contentment.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. Yeah, for introverts and germophobes. Well, for
Speaker 1: germophobes it's super scary. But for introverts and agoraphobes, imagine
Speaker 1: that you're you're doing a little bit better than the extrovert.
Speaker 1: It's true. I'm sort of a combo. I'm sort of
Speaker 1: an extroverted introvert, so I can make both of them
Speaker 1: work pretty well. But I do like being around people.
Speaker 1: I don't like being completely alone for too long. I
Speaker 1: enjoy people's company. I'm a bit of a mix of both. Um,
Speaker 1: I am an extrovert and I certainly love being around people.
Speaker 1: But if it really came down where I never could
Speaker 1: leave the house again, but I could have all the
Speaker 1: stuff that I like, that would be okay. Same same
Speaker 1: though the staying home part doesn't bother me at all.
Speaker 1: It's the forced isolation and the idea that I have
Speaker 1: to question whether it's okay to go outside or like,
Speaker 1: you know, I've had a friend over and we stayed
Speaker 1: on the porch and sat across, you know, seven ft
Speaker 1: apart from each other and just had like a little
Speaker 1: porch drink. But even that I'm questioning is that stupid?
Speaker 1: You know? And I'm trying to be even more thoughtful
Speaker 1: about that. But um, it's the uncertainty that bothers me.
Speaker 1: I like staying home. I quite enjoy my house and
Speaker 1: all my cool stuff that I have. You got a
Speaker 1: nice looking room. No, I would want to be there
Speaker 1: with you. I appreciate it. You're and you're invited anytime,
Speaker 1: my friend, you could do some man loving. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: And now it's the time to try new stuff, right,
Speaker 1: I completely agree? New haircuts, new uh positions? Sure you
Speaker 1: got uh, Magan, Carol Winner old friends says. I've talked
Speaker 1: with people I haven't spoken within years, and I'm getting
Speaker 1: more creative with my cooking, talk to my neighbors more
Speaker 1: in the past two weeks. And I've talked to you
Speaker 1: the whole year before and I'm getting better entertaining my daughter.
Speaker 1: That is great, Megan, I love hearing that really quickly.
Speaker 1: Just want to just give you guys an apocalypse recipe.
Speaker 1: You can take a box of powder macaroni and cheese,
Speaker 1: and if you saute separately another pan some garlic and
Speaker 1: onions and maybe a little chopped red pepper or any
Speaker 1: other little ships you have laying around, and then you
Speaker 1: make the mac and cheese, and then you and maybe mushrooms,
Speaker 1: like some sauteed mushrooms with garlic and a little bit
Speaker 1: of olive oil. Toss that in, oh, bacon, also you
Speaker 1: need bacon. Then you toss that into your powdered mac
Speaker 1: and cheese, add a little bit of milk, and you've
Speaker 1: got yourself fancy mac and cheese. That's good stuff. No,
Speaker 1: I love it. Fancy mac and cheese. And you know,
Speaker 1: if if you're baking it and you had some other cheese,
Speaker 1: like some manchego or smoked gouda, to kind of put
Speaker 1: it that on top, get a little crustcoing, yep, kind
Speaker 1: of have that crustinal that's a good idea. Chuck for
Speaker 1: bread crumbs, yep, yep, yep, some some panco or some
Speaker 1: panco Talian Italian bread crumbs. Yeah, that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Oldest of pal Rebecca Robe always loved reading what you
Speaker 1: have to say. I've spent more time with my husband
Speaker 1: in the last month than the whole last twelve years
Speaker 1: we've been together, and we actually like each other. Who knew. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great, you know with marriage and stuff that it's uh,
Speaker 1: there's an ebb and flow. Emily and I are having
Speaker 1: a great time. We've also gone at it a couple
Speaker 1: of times. And it's just the nature of the beast
Speaker 1: when you're when you're trapped with folks and it's all
Speaker 1: good everybody, you know, give give everyone a break and
Speaker 1: know that there were going to be some tough times
Speaker 1: through all this, but that too shall pass. H Kelly
Speaker 1: Butler Olson just bought my first house. Kind of a
Speaker 1: great time to pack and moving clean, to build furniture.
Speaker 1: Not a lot else to do in my free time. Also,
Speaker 1: I still have my job in a paycheck, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: And my birthday is tomorrow, so I think I posted
Speaker 1: this yesterday, so that means today's your birthday, Kelly, So
Speaker 1: happy birthday. It's my brother's birthday too. Very cool. So
Speaker 1: if it is indeed April one, you share a birthday
Speaker 1: with the best big brother in the history of the world.
Speaker 1: Vanessa Cashman, one of the Vanessa Squad, says, I have
Speaker 1: time to organize and get two things I've been putting
Speaker 1: off because I feel like there's never time, you know.
Speaker 1: And all that's been a big one is people have
Speaker 1: time now and they're doing things they they are uh,
Speaker 1: weren't able to do or didn't think they were able
Speaker 1: to do, Like even though they may have had the time,
Speaker 1: it's hard to make the time, but now you have
Speaker 1: the time. Well, and also like social stuff. I'm obviously
Speaker 1: I'm a very social person and I go to a
Speaker 1: lot of events and a lot of like concerts, and
Speaker 1: I love going out with friends and hanging out the
Speaker 1: bar and happy houring and all that stuff. Because you
Speaker 1: realize there's this certain fomo thing, this trap that we
Speaker 1: fall into, or it's like I gotta go to this thing,
Speaker 1: I gotta do this thing, I gotta go to the thing.
Speaker 1: And now with all that kind of stripped away, it
Speaker 1: really makes you realize how superfluous a lot of those
Speaker 1: things are and how it's really nice to just be
Speaker 1: able to like take time for yourself and just stay
Speaker 1: home and like do some cooking or work on the project,
Speaker 1: and not always feel like you're pulled in ten different directions.
Speaker 1: All that, At least for me, that's been my experience,
Speaker 1: and I've been liking that aspect of it. I think,
Speaker 1: after all this is over, I'm not just gonna immediately
Speaker 1: while out and go to every concert and all the
Speaker 1: bars all the time. I think I'm going to have
Speaker 1: a renewed appreciation for this kind of solitary time. Honestly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think hopefully what happens is we all come out
Speaker 1: of this a little bit better in some way. And
Speaker 1: if and if of the people in the world come
Speaker 1: out of this five percent better, that's pretty huge. You know,
Speaker 1: what's the math on that? Chuck five better? That's all? Uh?
Speaker 1: I want to know if total percentage of betterness? What
Speaker 1: what is it? From Anchorman? Like seventy of the time
Speaker 1: it works every time or whatever? That's great. I can't
Speaker 1: remember the percentage. I don't know how. Jonathan P. Zapansky
Speaker 1: says this playing Dungeons and Dragons online with my godson.
Speaker 1: That's nice. Uh, Coon's the old danger of and says this,
Speaker 1: I get to see Mark a lot more Marcus her husband,
Speaker 1: who is also wonderful. So that's awesome. And since I'm
Speaker 1: still newish as manager at a restaurant, Oh Coon's, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that was going on. Well, I'm glad to
Speaker 1: hear that because your previous job was there were some
Speaker 1: problems there. So I'm really really glad to know. Um,
Speaker 1: newish as a manager restaurant. I've had my first go
Speaker 1: at crazy business or not usually busy this time of year.
Speaker 1: This plast weekend was bonkers and actually handled it well.
Speaker 1: So it's been a big confidence boost. That's huge. That's huge,
Speaker 1: And you get a little win like that and you
Speaker 1: feel yourself you know, that's always really nice. Well, somebody
Speaker 1: just broke into the studio. Do you want to come
Speaker 1: in and say hi? Now you gotta come in on
Speaker 1: the side that microphones turned off? Hi. Hello, Just get
Speaker 1: up here real quick and just say hi to everybody
Speaker 1: hid right there? Hi? How are you Ruby? Ruby? Since
Speaker 1: you just broke in? Um, we're talking about positive things
Speaker 1: about being all locked up here during the virus. What
Speaker 1: what one big fun thing have you had happened? What's
Speaker 1: been fun for you watching watching TV? What have you
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching p J mask? Has that been a good thing?
Speaker 1: Have you liked having mommy and daddy around all the time? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You got anything else to say? Because I gotta kick
Speaker 1: you out because we get a finish. Do you want
Speaker 1: to say goodbye everybody again? Bye? All right? Goodbye? Okay?
Speaker 1: That was fine. The kids. The kids love peg A mask,
Speaker 1: Chuck ste Eden's. Eden's sister a Stella is actually right
Speaker 1: around the same age as Ruby. She loves some p
Speaker 1: J mask. It is to be loved. It's great. It's
Speaker 1: a little superhero kids protecting their city. I heard that
Speaker 1: little door creaking up, and I was like, kind of
Speaker 1: who that is? That was? That warmed the cockles of
Speaker 1: my cold dark heart. I know, Nol, you don't have
Speaker 1: your daughter right now. Maybe I'll just you and Ruby
Speaker 1: can FaceTime? Hey, you know I can. It's it's all good.
Speaker 1: We should do We should do like a zoom with
Speaker 1: like the kids. It would be fun. That would be fun.
Speaker 1: We should do that. Uh, Jamie Erman says, time with
Speaker 1: my wife. We've been married for almost twenty years and
Speaker 1: we never get tired of each other. I'm with you, buddy.
Speaker 1: I Uh, Emily and I are best bud. So it's
Speaker 1: it's good to be in quarantine with your best friend.
Speaker 1: It is the best. Let me see here, uh, Tessa,
Speaker 1: see Aaron's thinking about how the environment is benefiting. Boy, Tessa,
Speaker 1: you are on the ball. There Have you seen all
Speaker 1: this stuff? No, yeah, the stats about the emissions going
Speaker 1: down and people not being on the roads, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're so caught up in like how it's affecting us
Speaker 1: that we're not even thinking about that. Let'st I want
Speaker 1: to hear more about this, Chuck, give me some stats.
Speaker 1: I love this. Well. I don't have any stats, but
Speaker 1: I did see things like the canals in Venice or
Speaker 1: Italy are running clear for the first time in a
Speaker 1: long time. Dolphins, Dolphins are in the canals, right, Dolphins
Speaker 1: are in the canals. Um. You know, Emily talked early
Speaker 1: on about this. It's almost like the the Earth had
Speaker 1: a fever and with self correcting or something. And I
Speaker 1: don't get too metaphysical with that kind of thing, but um,
Speaker 1: it is interesting. It's an interesting little thought experiment to
Speaker 1: think about. You know, it really is humans with the
Speaker 1: disease Knoll. Yeah, you know, and there's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's gotten so prevalent that that's almost become like sort
Speaker 1: of like a oh, you're so deep thinking, like you know,
Speaker 1: like it's it's definitely something that what we've thought about
Speaker 1: before in the past. But like it's true, dude, it's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, industry is a rapacious, horrible thing for the planet,
Speaker 1: and it feels like more now than ever, like people
Speaker 1: just polity Asians just don't care at least the ones
Speaker 1: that are actually making the decisions, and all the rollback
Speaker 1: of e p A guidelines. I mean, maybe this is
Speaker 1: something of a course correction. I don't know. Again, I'm
Speaker 1: like you, I don't know if I can ascribe some
Speaker 1: kind of greater meaning to it, but it certainly seems
Speaker 1: to happen at the right time, and politically, it seems
Speaker 1: happening happening in an interesting time to maybe course correct
Speaker 1: some of the crazy political fucker we've been dealing with.
Speaker 1: You know, Well, no, that's a great segue, my friend,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna finish up and by the way, we're
Speaker 1: gonna that positive stuff is so great. We're gonna keep
Speaker 1: doing those every time we record and reading more of those,
Speaker 1: because it really is is wonderful to see So we're
Speaker 1: gonna leave that up. Add your positives right now to
Speaker 1: the movie crush page, and we're gonna finish up Noel
Speaker 1: uh with something not really political. But I asked everyone
Speaker 1: what fictional movie president would be the best one to
Speaker 1: get us through this tough time and why So if
Speaker 1: you've got one, name it. But I'll let you think
Speaker 1: if you need some time and read some of these.
Speaker 1: Do you know one? Um, I always really liked the
Speaker 1: president for Independence Day. Well, there's a bunch of people
Speaker 1: here talking about Bill Pullman. Yeah, Bill Pullman, that's the one.
Speaker 1: He just had a I like the cut of his jib,
Speaker 1: and he was a very human president. I like, you know,
Speaker 1: he could relate to to the real people. I think,
Speaker 1: so Bill Pullman isn't everyman, and it was kind of
Speaker 1: nice to see. Uh. Even though I didn't really love
Speaker 1: that movie, he was. He was good. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: start off with Richard Marcel says Jed Bartlett from the
Speaker 1: West Wing, so smart and so committed to the public good.
Speaker 1: And and is that Martin Sheen? Yeah, yeah, I've never
Speaker 1: seen that show. People love that show, swear by it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I know, I maybe I'll check it out. You know,
Speaker 1: I have my Errand Sorkin issues. He's yeah good. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, just too. I like writing that sounds
Speaker 1: realistic and believable, and his always sounds like writing to me,
Speaker 1: Like no one talks like people talk on his shows
Speaker 1: and movies. But I get it. He's doing the errand
Speaker 1: Sorkin thing. It's fine, It's true. He's very starkiny. It
Speaker 1: all sounds like it was, you know, coming from the
Speaker 1: mind of Aaron's Orkin. Yeah, totally. William Amy says. Michael
Speaker 1: m A says Michael Douglas and an American president because
Speaker 1: he weighs difficult decisions carefully and weighs on him when
Speaker 1: those decisions decisions lead to death. Boy, that'd be nice.
Speaker 1: Another vote from Vanessa Lopez for President Bartlett from West Wing.
Speaker 1: Jeff Morris says Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. I like it. Uh, let me see here.
Speaker 1: Zack Shooting says might not be the best, but as
Speaker 1: far as comedic presidents go, Terry Crews as President Camacho
Speaker 1: and Idiocracy would have been such a good one, such
Speaker 1: a prescient movie as it turned out. Yeah, old friend,
Speaker 1: Christopher Steiner says, don't remember what movie, but Morgan Freeman
Speaker 1: was the president in one, and he could make a
Speaker 1: Sharknado apocalypse sound calming. That was is uh? I think
Speaker 1: Deep Impact, right, that sounds right. It was either that
Speaker 1: or the other one about the asteroid, Uh Asteroid the movie.
Speaker 1: I think it was steep Impact. Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: So these there there were a few like parallel disaster
Speaker 1: movies that came out around the same time. You had
Speaker 1: like Armageddon and Deep Impact, and then you had like
Speaker 1: I think they were like two volcano type movies around
Speaker 1: the same time. I don't know, it's a thing that
Speaker 1: you see and uh and Volcano Volcano exactly the movie
Speaker 1: the ride. Uh. Yeah. You gotta wonder if that's just
Speaker 1: like something in the air. Is there is there knowledge?
Speaker 1: Is it sort of like you know, reverse engineering, like
Speaker 1: you know, a product and then coming out with at
Speaker 1: the same time to compete with the other one or
Speaker 1: what do you think you think it's just as a coincidence, Well,
Speaker 1: no one. I've actually thought a lot about this, believe
Speaker 1: it or not. I predicted the comeback of the disaster
Speaker 1: um uh, way way way way back when it happened.
Speaker 1: There was one that came out. I can't remember which
Speaker 1: the first one was, And when that came out, I went,
Speaker 1: holy sh it. The disaster movie was such a staple
Speaker 1: of seventies cinema, and I was like, I bet you anything,
Speaker 1: there's going to be an onslaught of these things now,
Speaker 1: And sure enough there was an onslaught. So I think
Speaker 1: what you said is sort of all those things you
Speaker 1: said are correct. I think studios are developing things they
Speaker 1: hear about, like the new hot thing. Uh, the first
Speaker 1: one that came out did well enough, and so they
Speaker 1: start a race to get their projects out, and there
Speaker 1: are only so many disasters to befall. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a couple of volcanoes, You're gonna have a couple
Speaker 1: of meters. There wasn't. I don't think like a towering
Speaker 1: Inferno type of thing. Is that where you're escaping from
Speaker 1: the building that's collapsing. Is that the deal? Yeah, Towering
Speaker 1: Inferno was a seventies movie. And these seventies disaster movies
Speaker 1: just had these huge, huge casts, like you know, ten
Speaker 1: or twelve big stars in them. Um uh, Posidon Adventurer.
Speaker 1: They actually remade that. I think that was the one
Speaker 1: where the boat the ship flipped upside down and everyone
Speaker 1: was trapped in it. Yeah, Titanic, that was great, But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you there was room for more than one
Speaker 1: person on that fucking door. Door. She didn't love him
Speaker 1: that much, and really she had he'd be able to
Speaker 1: splay out on the door. Come on, man, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: I had sex on that door. It was really they
Speaker 1: had sex in a tiny model t I seriously, they
Speaker 1: were in the backseat of a model Tea and they
Speaker 1: couldn't fit on that goddamn door. It's ridiculous, Chuck, it
Speaker 1: made no sense totally. You know, tanks the whole movie's credibility.
Speaker 1: Liam Isaacson says Stephen Colbert and Monsters versus Aliens. Uh,
Speaker 1: here's one of the lines. I didn't see that movie,
Speaker 1: but this is pretty funny. Okay, someone set the terror
Speaker 1: level to code brown because I need to change my pants.
Speaker 1: That brown is in poopnoll. Yeah, I got it. My
Speaker 1: last name is brown. Okay, I get it. Did you
Speaker 1: ever get that? Yeah? Really poopy pants? Brown? Yeah, old
Speaker 1: old brown, old brown town. The brown sound you know. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: not really. I'm making all these up myself. But did
Speaker 1: you really get teased or you just making Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not really. Well brown is uh Ween says, U uses
Speaker 1: the word brown as a positive. It's it's sort of
Speaker 1: the vibe of being ween, like you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: I love it, pawn brown. Mm hmm. I watched an
Speaker 1: episode uh Matt Sweeney. You know the guitarist Matt Sweeney.
Speaker 1: Of course, he has a show called Noisy on YouTube
Speaker 1: that he did for a while. He may still be
Speaker 1: doing it. Well, it's Noisy is the I thought Noisy
Speaker 1: was a larger thing. It's a vice thing. And he
Speaker 1: just does this thing where he plays guitar with other
Speaker 1: cool guitarists and about it. Yeah. Yeah, I saw his
Speaker 1: one with Dean really get great. Yes, that one is
Speaker 1: great because he talks abo. He gets really into like,
Speaker 1: you know, to drug addiction and stuff and they talk
Speaker 1: about like how you know they were high on purkose
Speaker 1: set all the time and this little farm out in
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania and ship like I mean, really gets heavy. Um.
Speaker 1: Dean is such a great guitarist and very underrated, under underrated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's great. He's fucking phenomenal, And I don't think people
Speaker 1: realize until uh until you, while seeing him in live
Speaker 1: certainly helps. He's he's amazing. I've been to New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: I hung out there and all. So it's sort of
Speaker 1: a little bedroom community like outside of Philly or where
Speaker 1: where it's just one of the little small uh you know,
Speaker 1: philadel or a, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Um, we're sort
Speaker 1: of famous for these little small townships and and hamlets,
Speaker 1: and New Hope is just one. It's on a river.
Speaker 1: It's very lovely, very slow and small town. And uh,
Speaker 1: I went there and I went to the record store
Speaker 1: to buy a record, and fucking Gene Ween was working
Speaker 1: behind the counter the day I went in there. Chuck,
Speaker 1: I am pretty sure. We just got an email for
Speaker 1: stuff you I want you to know from John ham
Speaker 1: But my my, my computer is glitching right now and
Speaker 1: I can't get the email to open. But he spells
Speaker 1: his name j O n H A m M. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty unusual spelling and a pretty unusual name. What
Speaker 1: do you think is the real John HAMM? I would
Speaker 1: love that. I'm gonna read a few more of these
Speaker 1: and tell me if that email comes up, pre read
Speaker 1: it and if you can read it on the air,
Speaker 1: then god damn please do so all right, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you do that. I'm gonna read it a
Speaker 1: few more things. Uh, Carly Marie sp says, a vote
Speaker 1: for Dave. He had this ability, uh to see through
Speaker 1: the political bullshit and do the right thing. Yeah, still
Speaker 1: got the movie Dave. I think that was Kevin Klein.
Speaker 1: Courtney Hoover says the American President Michael Douglas, and then
Speaker 1: followed closely by Kevin Klein's Dave. That's because they're likable
Speaker 1: dudes in real life. Lauren Duke says, Jordan Peel makes
Speaker 1: a great president, especially with his anger translator Luthor. Oh
Speaker 1: that was great on on Key and Peel. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a really good sketch. Richard C. Anderson says Robin Williams
Speaker 1: and man in the year. He wasn't about political parties.
Speaker 1: He had a sense of humor in a level head.
Speaker 1: Robert Paulson our old friends as President Merk and muflely
Speaker 1: because it would be entertaining um. Terry Crews from idiocracy again,
Speaker 1: that's from Julio Casada, one of our old friends. Tyler
Speaker 1: King also says Terry Crews. I haven't seen that in
Speaker 1: a while I forgot he was in that Let me
Speaker 1: see here. Uh, Marios, Alexander Rothside's old pal, says Harrison
Speaker 1: Ford an air Force one, because well, Harrison Ford, get
Speaker 1: off my plane. That's sort of the precursor to get
Speaker 1: off my lawns. Get off my plane. Another vote for
Speaker 1: Bill Pullman from Nick Kelly. Uh, have you read that
Speaker 1: email yet? Nol. I'm trying, dude. I can't possibly be him.
Speaker 1: There's no way. It's too good, it's too good to
Speaker 1: be true. Hey, it's possible. I've met the man. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I've actually my buddy of mine. Uh. He's
Speaker 1: apparently really good friends with somebody who owns eight Arm,
Speaker 1: that really cool restaurant near the office. Um, and he
Speaker 1: hangs out there a lot when when he's in town.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, not not eight Arm. It's um the
Speaker 1: book House, the book House pub over there. He hangs
Speaker 1: out the pots apparently hangs out there. Boy, what am
Speaker 1: I gonna get? John him on the show? Uh? We
Speaker 1: see Kelly cutch in tally, says President David Palmer from
Speaker 1: twenty four. He's great in a crisis. Everyone loves Martin Sheen.
Speaker 1: That would have been my second choice. Actually, Dennis Haysberg
Speaker 1: in twenty four He was awesome season of that. It
Speaker 1: was good stuff. It was a cool idea. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously it wasn't truly real time. They took
Speaker 1: some liberties with that, but they did a good job
Speaker 1: to keep it, keep the clock ticking and like the
Speaker 1: steaks really palpable. You know. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: was a really good show. I totally agree. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: And that was before the big explosion of the best
Speaker 1: TV ever. So it seemed like the best TV ever,
Speaker 1: you know dad at the time, and people lost their
Speaker 1: ship for that first season of that show. Plus no,
Speaker 1: it was it was It really was early days of
Speaker 1: like movie stars making the leap to TV if you
Speaker 1: think about it, you know, key for Sutherland, that was
Speaker 1: a big was one of the first ones for sure. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I used to be there were TV stars and
Speaker 1: there were movie stars and never the Twain shall meet
Speaker 1: in the in the TV The TV people said all right,
Speaker 1: you can come in, but you're not allowed to stay.
Speaker 1: And you know what they did, They stayed. They stayed.
Speaker 1: They invited him in. You never invite him in, and
Speaker 1: you don't invite him in Vampire Rules. All Right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna finish up here with old friend j j Urbino.
Speaker 1: He says, uh, debo or debot from Fifth Element, Tiny lister?
Speaker 1: All right, that's it? Was it? The President's Noel? Did
Speaker 1: you get that email open? You know, I'm might come.
Speaker 1: I'm having email troubles. Uh, surely it's not. It's not
Speaker 1: the the Ham. Have you seen that episode of Toast
Speaker 1: of London where he becomes obsessed with John Ham? Oh?
Speaker 1: Have you seen Toast of London? Chuck? I have not?
Speaker 1: Oh god, It's on Netflix and it's delightful. It's got
Speaker 1: Matt Barry. You know Matt Barry. I do not Matt Barry.
Speaker 1: Is this uh right? This renaissance man British comedian slash musician.
Speaker 1: He has actually several amazing albums that are like not
Speaker 1: comedy albums. And he's um, he's in the new season
Speaker 1: of You in the Shadows, big booming voice. You know,
Speaker 1: he plays this has been actor named Stephen Toast in
Speaker 1: London and um, it's a very tongue and she kind
Speaker 1: of like absurdist, kind of you know that British humor.
Speaker 1: And there's an episode where he becomes obsessed with John
Speaker 1: Ham and it's called Ham on Toast, it's the name
Speaker 1: of the episode. I couldn't recommend it highly enough. I
Speaker 1: think you would absolutely love the show. Yeah, he's terrific.
Speaker 1: You love those uh those British shows and all. I
Speaker 1: like it very much too. Alright, we're gonna finish up
Speaker 1: then today everyone, thank you for your presidential uh input,
Speaker 1: and stay safe, be kind to one another, and be careful.
Speaker 1: Chuck and Nol signing off. Yeah. For more podcasts for
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