Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season three ten, Episode
Speaker 1: five of Dirdly's Guys iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Who is that this? Why this this here?
Speaker 3: Whre?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: This this is economy?
Speaker 2: Why this this here?
Speaker 1: Is a podcast where we take a deep back into
Speaker 1: a very sure consciousness. I just got it at a
Speaker 1: second hand store. It's very comfortable. Anyways, It's Friday, October
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: A banger of days. National Civic Day, shout out to
Speaker 2: everybody who has no idea how the government or anything works.
Speaker 2: National Black Cat Day, shout out to all the owners
Speaker 2: of black cats, myself included, and our very lustrous guesses. Well,
Speaker 2: National Frankenstein Friday. Don't know what that is. It's also
Speaker 2: National bread Stick Day, so you know, holler at your
Speaker 2: stick bread and National American Beer Day.
Speaker 1: Frankenstime Friday, the day that the events depicted in the
Speaker 1: Monster Mash actually like historically took place.
Speaker 2: Maybe canonically, yeah, I don't know, but yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: always the Friday before or the last Friday in October
Speaker 2: for whatever.
Speaker 3: I had labor questions about the opening of Monster Mash
Speaker 3: this year, where it's like, is he compensated for working
Speaker 3: in the lab late one night, One night is self employed.
Speaker 2: You great. I know that the guy who wrote that
Speaker 2: song he had like a daughter who he tried to
Speaker 2: like launch a NEPO baby pop star career with. And
Speaker 2: it was like it was a music video. My friend
Speaker 2: made the music video and it's heard Henry Wingler and
Speaker 2: it was like all about like there's a bunch of
Speaker 2: horses and anyway, what god, yeah, the sentence there were
Speaker 2: a bunch of horses. There's like the opening scene of
Speaker 2: the video is like the main you know, the lyric sis.
Speaker 2: The singer she's like at a like she's at a
Speaker 2: horse stable and like Henry Winkler Club comes out all
Speaker 2: like perplexed. She's like, honey, we got to get the horses.
Speaker 2: Moonshadow hasn't been fed, and it's like this weird, very
Speaker 2: poor opening, and then like there's a music.
Speaker 1: Video from the like what year was this taking? This
Speaker 1: was like two thousand oh okay, so it was like
Speaker 1: a belated launch. She was like all right, now that
Speaker 1: this song has officially made it, and everybody is like
Speaker 1: wondering what day in history it happened on, for instance,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe we can launch this into something.
Speaker 3: Now does that Are we to believe that it's it's
Speaker 3: possible that Henry Winkler owed Boris Bobby Pickett a favor,
Speaker 3: and if so, what could it happen?
Speaker 2: What went down there?
Speaker 3: Does Boris Bobby Pickett know something about Henry Winkler that
Speaker 3: would lead him to have, like to have to be
Speaker 3: in this because if it's mid two thousd Henry Winkler,
Speaker 3: like he's back. He was the dad in Holes.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like pre arrested development post holes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was like it was kind of an in between
Speaker 2: you know, it's a bit of a lean period. I
Speaker 2: think it was right before he like we fully re
Speaker 2: embraced Henry. But anyway, wow, so he was just like yeah,
Speaker 2: hell yeah, fuck it, I'll do it. Yeah, my shadow
Speaker 2: is hungry. Fine, I can, I can, I'll kill that line.
Speaker 1: Anyways, Uh what what a what a story to kick
Speaker 1: us off with.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, if I find the video, it'll be
Speaker 2: in the footnotes. Trust this.
Speaker 1: Frankenstein Friday? Is that what it is? Frankenstein Friday?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So is it?
Speaker 1: I want it must be the last Friday before October.
Speaker 2: Thir last Friday of October Frank Stein Frank.
Speaker 1: Sean, Well, my name is Jack O'Brien. I forget where
Speaker 1: I am just generally.
Speaker 2: Aka what rice?
Speaker 1: It's built in my pants while I was on the ride,
Speaker 1: not wooter ice. I swear it's not pissed. It's just
Speaker 1: waater ice. That is courtesy of First Blood five two.
Speaker 1: We can't move on from this, can we? Aka writers,
Speaker 1: We're still on the fact that I ghost pissed my
Speaker 1: pants on a child's ride.
Speaker 2: That was very scary.
Speaker 3: I was not brought up to speed on that.
Speaker 1: But oh, you didn't read your daily briefing, you Jamie
Speaker 1: lost this daily briefing presidential daily briefing.
Speaker 3: I don't feel I feel like I know and I
Speaker 3: and if I don't know, how I'm thinking of it
Speaker 3: is better?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yah yeah, and that shorts on. Yeah. On the
Speaker 2: by the way, ghost, it's a good thing. Abba.
Speaker 1: We're not from Philly, I guess because Waterloo does wit
Speaker 1: yeah if it's wood Loo. Anyways, I'm throwing to be
Speaker 1: joined as always by my co host, mister Miles Gras.
Speaker 2: Yes, my name is Miles Gray aka oh kiss me beneath.
Speaker 4: My lace, sick eyesight, teach me to keep my eyelids close,
Speaker 4: leave yours open and look at me, stay and meet
Speaker 4: my wide eyed glance. Eyeballs now touching, so kiss me.
Speaker 4: Shout out to sybodoor Jolly on the discord. Yes, you know,
Speaker 4: Durante was on earlier and was talking about how, you know,
Speaker 4: having some kiss chemistry issues with dates and just say,
Speaker 4: you know what, we probably can't go on any more
Speaker 4: dates because the chemistry is off. And I, you know,
Speaker 4: she's talking about being honest with people, and I had
Speaker 4: to say, shout out to my high school girlfriend and said,
Speaker 4: stop keeping your eyes open when we make out, and
Speaker 4: you need to hire those lessons. So shout out to
Speaker 4: you making that.
Speaker 2: Eye to open. Yeah, yeah, with eyes wide open.
Speaker 1: And I like the added lore from this song that
Speaker 1: you were doing that because you were trying to kiss
Speaker 1: eyeballs with the person. You're trying to touch open the
Speaker 1: eyeball with them, which is very very intimate, painful, painful,
Speaker 1: and not very sexy.
Speaker 3: I found it helpful, like, yeah, they're to have to
Speaker 3: articulate if someone asks you, like like they're the back
Speaker 3: of an eighteen wheeler, how am I doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And and I and I usually am like great, but
Speaker 3: then every once in a while, I'm like, how are
Speaker 3: they doing? And and the this was in like the
Speaker 3: last year where it was like, I don't know how
Speaker 3: you're getting your tongue to be flat, but that's not necessary.
Speaker 3: Someone making their tongue flat like like it had suddenly experienced,
Speaker 3: you know, like it was like thirty feet you know, subterranean.
Speaker 3: It was just flattened. It was really interesting. Yeah, So
Speaker 3: so I feel I also improved at giving feedback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and your feedback was just to clarify here, don't
Speaker 1: have such a flat tongue, weird.
Speaker 2: Keep that ship to yourself. Homing.
Speaker 3: First of all, you're being disgusting.
Speaker 1: This whole thing, this whole act is making me sick.
Speaker 2: Miles.
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
Speaker 1: one of the very faces on Mount Site Moore, one
Speaker 1: of our favorite guests, one of your favorite guests. Emmy
Speaker 1: nominated writer, artist, comedian behind many of the most acclaimed
Speaker 1: podcasts like Ghost Church, Bechtelcast. She is the New York
Speaker 1: Times best selling author of the New York Times best
Speaker 1: selling book Brod Dog.
Speaker 2: He's Welcome.
Speaker 1: The New York Times best selling author Jamie loved.
Speaker 3: Okay, missus Joey chest Nuts yesting on an open fire.
Speaker 3: It's at Santa University. Oh you know who's going to
Speaker 3: be making a little appearance this year in Santa University.
Speaker 3: That's from A Zombie's and Boni thirteen Like, as if
Speaker 3: I could know just what you think it couldn't better?
Speaker 3: What do you think it couldn't get better? That that? Really,
Speaker 3: I'm so happy to be back.
Speaker 2: I'm so happy to have you. It's funny too, like
Speaker 2: there's so many you know, this get this show is
Speaker 2: merely a stepping stone and a place people pass through
Speaker 2: onto greater things, and for many people that become as
Speaker 2: successful as you. A lot of times listeners are like,
Speaker 2: oh shit, it's beef. Jamie hasn't been shown. No, Jamie is.
Speaker 2: Jamie's doing quite well and promoting a New York Times bestseller.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know, there's there's.
Speaker 3: Other things happening, and I mean not to mention the beef.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, the beef is ugly and we don't
Speaker 1: talk about it, but the beef is.
Speaker 3: But but we put aside our differences.
Speaker 2: Well absolutely, and you know we begged you, Yeah, we
Speaker 2: begged you to come back because like, help us, we'll
Speaker 2: do anything. You're so mad at us. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: I think this is the first time you've been back
Speaker 1: since becoming a New York Times bestselling author.
Speaker 2: I believe so thank you.
Speaker 3: For saying it so many times.
Speaker 2: It's dope. It's the dopest thing to say about anybody
Speaker 2: that you know, your time's best selling obviously, Jamie Loftus.
Speaker 2: Thanks got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been. It's been. This year's been all over
Speaker 3: the place. That was a high. That was a good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Good.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We're very happy for you, proud of you and
Speaker 1: excited to have you back on the daily. Get I
Speaker 1: get to know you a little bit better in a moment.
Speaker 2: First, a couple of.
Speaker 1: The things we're talking about. Five nights, five night at Freddy.
Speaker 2: Have you guys heard about this?
Speaker 1: Is this right?
Speaker 5: They're spending five five night at Freddy's, five knighte Freddy.
Speaker 5: I honestly, I I'm like so stoked for five night
Speaker 5: at Freddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I got a text to be like flower you know,
Speaker 3: killers of the Flower Moon this weekend, queen, and it's like, well,
Speaker 3: it's more of a five night at Freddy weekend for me.
Speaker 3: Killers the Flower Moon. That's a November project. But I
Speaker 3: have to you know, see is October. I already saw
Speaker 3: Saw X. I gotta see Five Night at Freddy. I
Speaker 3: got to see that fifth night. I'm hanging in for
Speaker 3: the fifth night.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: The reviews are in and they are bad. I had
Speaker 1: a friend I have tried not to learn what five
Speaker 1: Nights at Freddy is. Five knight Freddy, five Night Freddy.
Speaker 1: I had a friend be like, it's the latest nightmare
Speaker 1: on ELM Street movie right, even, I know that's not correct.
Speaker 1: But now that you're saying five knife Freddy, I mean,
Speaker 1: who who's guy with five knife on his hand? Five knife?
Speaker 2: Ready? Right? I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: All that plenty more. But first, Jamie, we do like
Speaker 1: to ask our guests, what is something from your search history?
Speaker 3: Okay, so something for my search history is a guy
Speaker 3: I'm just completely enamored with, move Over Joey Chestnut. Monty
Speaker 3: Revolta is who has been on my mind. I have
Speaker 3: either of you heard of Monty Revolta. I was really
Speaker 3: desperately trying to write a last minute Halloween profile of
Speaker 3: Monty Volta, but he tragically does not seem to know
Speaker 3: how He's the internet very well.
Speaker 1: But like I.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I forget if we ever talked about this
Speaker 3: on TDZ. But I worked at ant at the Haunted
Speaker 3: hay Ride last year in Griffith Park. Yea, yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: and it was a very you know, meaningful experience to me.
Speaker 3: I have a lot to say about it today, and
Speaker 3: I went back because the one thing that I didn't
Speaker 3: get to do while I was at the hay Ride,
Speaker 3: as like, in addition to like being treated like a person,
Speaker 3: was I never got to see I never got to
Speaker 3: see the like main stage huge show which is this
Speaker 3: lounge undead lounge singer named Monty Rivolta. Oh wow, he
Speaker 3: is the star of the hay Ride. I never got.
Speaker 3: I never even knew what he looked like until I
Speaker 3: looked him up, because he's kind of I'm not going
Speaker 3: to say he's a diva because I don't know what
Speaker 3: he's like. But he didn't fraternize with the other scare actors.
Speaker 3: He wasn't around Oh Manty's scare actors.
Speaker 1: God him learning so much just ambiently try to.
Speaker 3: Keep up with these industry tonic sides that I'm like,
Speaker 3: they're called scare actors, they're called scared.
Speaker 2: The characters at Universal Halloeen hor nights.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's some high rant stuff. We couldn't afford
Speaker 3: that kind of that kind of vocabulary. But yeah, that's
Speaker 3: like every every scare actor would you know, you would
Speaker 3: see Monty's banned and Anty's band would kind of like
Speaker 3: not well, at least one of them was like kind
Speaker 3: of swinging swinging his dick around about his proximity to Monty,
Speaker 3: and there were some really but but I never got
Speaker 3: to meet Monty. I never had to see him perform.
Speaker 3: Then I went back this week because I just had
Speaker 3: to know, you know what changed since last year. It's
Speaker 3: like visiting I never I have no love for my college,
Speaker 3: like I would never return, but I would. I will
Speaker 3: go back to the hair Ride every year as if
Speaker 3: I graduated from Reunion and Monty unbelievable like I was.
Speaker 3: I couldn't stop smiling. My friend took a picture of
Speaker 3: what I looked like looking at Monty and it was like,
Speaker 3: he's so, he's funny, he comes out of a coffin
Speaker 3: in the beginning. Oh why he's got little jokes. He's
Speaker 3: physically huge, He's like nine feet tall, he's every oh
Speaker 3: it was he's he closed the set on. I will
Speaker 3: always love you, and at one point adjusted the lyrics
Speaker 3: to I Will Always love Gohole and I it really
Speaker 3: hit for me. I love Monty Revolta. I love his website.
Speaker 2: His website is so bizar legendary.
Speaker 1: It is good. It is so good.
Speaker 3: Monte Rivolta and his band of the Living Dead. It
Speaker 3: was made in you know, a angel fire.
Speaker 2: Look at his clients. He's working with everybody who's doing
Speaker 2: a freaky fucking thing in the South Lane.
Speaker 3: Oh he doesn't give a ship. I mean well, he
Speaker 3: and he also the Herson Reptile Show. You know, Monty
Speaker 3: Rivolta in his Undead band are going to be there.
Speaker 3: I am like the.
Speaker 1: Winchester Mystery House.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Love the kid CBGB's for like Haunted novelty bands. He
Speaker 3: played the Winch I just like, I think he's so
Speaker 3: cool and I I kind of love that he is
Speaker 3: sharing his beautiful art. I cannot figure out what his
Speaker 3: government name is, to save my fucking life.
Speaker 1: I just love what I'm seeing that somebody. Blake Johnson
Speaker 1: played Monte Ravolta in Monte Ravolta Acting Dead twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: I've seen, yeah, I've seen Blake Johnson, and I you know,
Speaker 3: it could be true. I just it doesn't fit his
Speaker 3: vibe whatsoever. Interesting this nine foot man singing I will
Speaker 3: always love Gohole. I'm like, that can't be a guy
Speaker 3: named Blake Johnson.
Speaker 1: I'd lose it.
Speaker 3: I don't understand. I don't know. I've been trying to
Speaker 3: I've been trying to figure him out. I was like,
Speaker 3: maybe I could shadow him for a night, but he
Speaker 3: just crickets crickets, wants nothing to do with me and.
Speaker 1: Lay Deadson maybe, but Blake Johnson come on exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: I wonder if he's changed, because I wonder how much
Speaker 3: crossover there is between this and like hot dog eating
Speaker 3: specific because there's a guy who I'm I would now
Speaker 3: consider not a friend but like a heightened acquaintance. This
Speaker 3: guy Crazy Legs Kanti who that is like now his
Speaker 3: government name he had it changed, and like maybe Monty
Speaker 3: Revolta just was like, this is my life. I'm making
Speaker 3: this and dreadlocks. Crazy crazy Legs most certainly.
Speaker 2: Does love those dreadlocks.
Speaker 3: Also like a really like really really tall, uh physically
Speaker 3: imposing person has a huge Marx Brothers collection.
Speaker 1: Interesting guy, I feel like you have a type really
Speaker 1: tall not a real human.
Speaker 3: In reality men who are tini and hate me.
Speaker 2: This guy went to Johns Hopkins Jamie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like super smart, got like lived in l
Speaker 3: A for a while, like really really a fascinating man.
Speaker 3: I went to the after party, the like hot dog
Speaker 3: eating after party, and and like was chatting with him
Speaker 3: for a while, and I was like, how people are amazing.
Speaker 3: I have hope for humanity because you know this is possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could look like an Adam Durwitz like impersonator,
Speaker 2: wear a fedora, and just crush the competitive eating scene.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. He spoke at my New York book release show
Speaker 3: and was telling this story that I was like, what
Speaker 3: are you talking about. You're sharing everybody.
Speaker 1: Like like your like new friend that gets invited.
Speaker 2: To the wedding, like.
Speaker 3: Milletant feminist. But he was like telling a story about
Speaker 3: and like he you know, he was really cool. But
Speaker 3: he was like, yeah, I was getting ready for this
Speaker 3: mayonnaise eating contest and I was doing it at this
Speaker 3: girl's house. Because you don't want to be eating mayonnaise
Speaker 3: at your house, like, but you do want to be
Speaker 3: eating it at a girl's house. He's like me, legs, right,
Speaker 3: So I was like, why would you eat it at
Speaker 3: your girlfriend's house? He's like, well, she wasn't my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: It was casual, Like whoa, I don't put you know,
Speaker 1: crazy legs doesn't put labels on things.
Speaker 2: That's called it's a mayon a'se side piece. That dip over.
Speaker 3: Life is beautiful.
Speaker 1: I love So I've been ever since he said Monty Revolta,
Speaker 1: I've been trying to figure out what that is. It
Speaker 1: like that, So he's a lounge act, like a lounge
Speaker 1: singer who is like themed Halloween themed? I am I stupid?
Speaker 1: Is there an obvious reference there?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Is Monty Revolta referencing something?
Speaker 3: Not that I can tell? I forget, Like I I
Speaker 3: went with somebody and he had like all these ideas,
Speaker 3: he had all these pitches for what it could be
Speaker 3: a reference to. He was like, is it Mars Volta?
Speaker 3: Like that would be weird.
Speaker 1: A Mars Vulta from the early two thousand.
Speaker 3: That would be a very Blake Johnson to do that
Speaker 3: sounds like a Blake Johnson. That it was a huge
Speaker 3: Mars Valta. Guy, I can't figure out what it is.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 3: I also can't really tell how long he's been doing it.
Speaker 3: But I do know that he plays weddings, and that
Speaker 3: is really lighting a fire under my ass to considered
Speaker 3: that to get married before he gets too huge. And
Speaker 3: I can't, you know, get him for weddings anymore.
Speaker 1: Because the Band of the Living Dead would suggest that
Speaker 1: his wordplay is fairly straightforward. But Monty Revolta, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Travolta is the closest thing I get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm waking, but like Monty Travolta, manty, like Johnny Travolta,
Speaker 1: Monty Ravolta, who.
Speaker 3: I'll ask him if he ever answers my fucking email.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to hear from him on November fifth,
Speaker 3: Like it is like talking to it does remind me
Speaker 3: of like, you know, come July twelfth, Joey chest Night,
Speaker 3: everyone is you know, temper, He's left everyone's mind temporarily
Speaker 3: and then you can get him on the horn, right,
Speaker 3: but you know, June, forget it. July fourth, don't even try.
Speaker 1: Like trying to get get on the phone with my
Speaker 1: accountant during CAx season Swish, thank you from way Downtown.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: keep talking to Jamie Loftus we'll be right back, and
Speaker 1: we're back, and Jamie is back on the show, and
Speaker 1: we are about to ask you, what is something do
Speaker 1: you think is overrated?
Speaker 3: So this it does kind of dovetail with the Haunted
Speaker 3: hay Ride discussion hyper specific conglomerates, because no one I
Speaker 3: know worked at the Haunted hay Ride this year. Because
Speaker 3: of this, like there is a Haunted hay Ride and
Speaker 3: Haunted attraction specific conglomerate which acquired the Los Angeles Haunted
Speaker 3: Haride and like kind of I don't know, not to
Speaker 3: sound like gen X about it, but like they sold
Speaker 3: out and now it's fucking corporate. It's sponsored by Hulu.
Speaker 3: There's all this shit there, you know. And so yeah,
Speaker 3: this company Thirteenth Floor, which is a great you know,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna acquire a bunch of Haunted hayrides, you'd
Speaker 3: better be called thirteenth Floor. Yeah, but they they, like
Speaker 3: as far as I could tell, lowered the wages of employees,
Speaker 3: acquired all these things, sold a bunch of sponsorships to Hulu,
Speaker 3: jacked up the prices so it cost fifty bucks to
Speaker 3: go on a hay ride, you know, And and and
Speaker 3: we can only hope they're compensating Monty Rivolta and his
Speaker 3: Band of the Living Dead fairly, but I just I
Speaker 3: take real, real issue. I feel like they're you know,
Speaker 3: if there was still if it was still a mom
Speaker 3: and pop population operation, it would still be equally unsafe.
Speaker 3: You would be taking your life in your hands by attending,
Speaker 3: but you know it would cost twenty dollars and be fun. Well,
Speaker 3: not that it wasn't fun. It was very fun, but
Speaker 3: it does. It's unsettling to go to a local haunted
Speaker 3: hay Ride and feel that it has gone corporate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, true, especially like the wonn of Griffith Park, like
Speaker 2: it had like this you know, homeliness to it. But
Speaker 2: I guess now by thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group. I mean
Speaker 2: it was like, are they owned by a venture capital?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 3: Right, Like it has to be someone sucking the fun
Speaker 3: out of everything. It was still great, but I was here.
Speaker 3: I was in a hay Ride alumni text group, and
Speaker 3: most people who went back, they were like, I got
Speaker 3: put in. It's there. It sounds ridiculous to read the text,
Speaker 3: but it's like, you know, someone I worked with last
Speaker 3: year was like, well I quit today. They put me
Speaker 3: in skeletons, and I was told I could do a stunt,
Speaker 3: but then I couldn't do a stunt, so I walked
Speaker 3: out on all the skeletons and I was like, good
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like this could just be the entire
Speaker 1: episode is talking to you about your experience with these
Speaker 1: haunted houses, like that the local haunted house market has
Speaker 1: come up a little bit as like we've been talking about.
Speaker 2: Like buying the haunted house Instagram. Yeah, we've been talking
Speaker 2: about the market, like.
Speaker 3: Pete Davidson and Colin Jo's buying a boat, you guys
Speaker 3: buying a haunted house together.
Speaker 1: So just like that level of like the Instagram activation
Speaker 1: things like I took my kids to like Bubble World,
Speaker 1: I think it was called, and it was just like
Speaker 1: a bunch of balloons, but it's like a whole thing
Speaker 1: designed around Instagram that seems to be like from about
Speaker 1: the same level of like employee and thought put into
Speaker 1: it as a haunted house, but just like not around Halloween,
Speaker 1: and like they just fill in an old ralphs and
Speaker 1: stuff like I'm just curious what it was like in
Speaker 1: the guts of the haunted house industry.
Speaker 3: It seems like, I mean based on how my boss
Speaker 3: last year behaved. He was he had he had he
Speaker 3: had just about fucking had it with this with this corporation,
Speaker 3: and and would start to say there the last night
Speaker 3: on Halloween night twenty twenty two, uh, he was dressed
Speaker 3: as legless. From most most nights he would wear you know,
Speaker 3: like a black shirt and black pants because he was
Speaker 3: at work and he wasn't he wasn't a scaracter. He
Speaker 3: was like the actor coordinator, but the but he was
Speaker 3: growing increased because and he had been in the haunt
Speaker 3: business for years. He would come around and like he
Speaker 3: was a super nice guy. He'd come around and like
Speaker 3: show you pictures of like him and his husband working
Speaker 3: haunts in the mid two thousands, and then he's like,
Speaker 3: then i got the leg injury and now you know,
Speaker 3: I'm happy to be working in a curatorial rolelah blah
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, and like super super cool guy.
Speaker 1: Love that level of professionalism and like dedication.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was great.
Speaker 3: And he ended up quitting and not coming back because
Speaker 3: he was being you know, micromanaged and like told that
Speaker 3: he was being too easy on actors. He was giving
Speaker 3: us too many breaks and like just he was being
Speaker 3: nice to us, and so by the end he like
Speaker 3: made a whole speech to everyone on Halloween night dressed
Speaker 3: as legless. Not related to the speech, but certainly enhanced it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: He was like, I am leaving this business. This season
Speaker 3: has broken me, and I am like and like he
Speaker 3: just he was done. They had gone corporate. He had
Speaker 3: had it and uh and there were so many injuries
Speaker 3: that like we weren't allowed to talk about. It was
Speaker 3: really I and then he said he was like, my
Speaker 3: husband and I may move to Europe. I was like,
Speaker 3: wasn't that bad? Or was that like an unrelated plan.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: He gave Eisenhower speech about the military industrial complex, like
Speaker 1: on the way out, he was like, this whole industry
Speaker 1: is fucked.
Speaker 2: Rotten, and you're wondering why I'm dressed because gon door
Speaker 2: has no king like what stuff.
Speaker 1: But it does also sound because another kind of related
Speaker 1: at that level, like world that I find super interesting
Speaker 1: in addition to haunted houses, is like ren Fair, right,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like ren Fair. Like ren Fair, people
Speaker 1: might just as well like segue right into Haunted Hayaride
Speaker 1: acting totally, but I.
Speaker 2: Feel like the Renfair is a little more debauched, though
Speaker 2: behind the.
Speaker 3: Scenes it is certainly horn horny air. Like I went
Speaker 3: to my first Renfair this year, so I can't I
Speaker 3: can't speak to the culture. Yeah, like I can't, but
Speaker 3: it seems like there's got to be a similar Like
Speaker 3: there's a real theater kid showing a barn energy to
Speaker 3: the hay Ride, which I feel like the company, like
Speaker 3: the corporate interlopers, kind of take advantage of because it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: if these people get injured, they're not going to say
Speaker 3: anything because it feels like we're doing community theater and
Speaker 3: we have to all finish it together. And I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: we should sue these likely your capital.
Speaker 2: You didn't you get like a promotion last year. I
Speaker 2: remember I was following your tweets because someone like busted
Speaker 2: their knee or some ship like a right, Jamie, you're
Speaker 2: the fucking star tonight.
Speaker 1: Oh that's busted their head and we are using the
Speaker 1: passive voice into what happened to their head. And just
Speaker 1: for legal reasons, there's nothing that Jamie had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with it was not working to work her way up.
Speaker 3: I certainly what if I yeah, what if I was
Speaker 3: doing it all about.
Speaker 1: Eve just saying you are a huge Tanya fan.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I was murderers. I was cast as murderners too,
Speaker 3: wow r Yeah. And I was like, you know, I
Speaker 3: was like a substitute, and I was intended to play
Speaker 3: a different part every single night because there were so
Speaker 3: many injury Yeah, and there were so many injuries, and
Speaker 3: like COVID was going around that there was always going
Speaker 3: to be like I was looking forward to being like
Speaker 3: and now I'm a spider and now I'm a chainsaw clown.
Speaker 1: But I only ever got to be.
Speaker 3: The murder nurse because the first night, yeah, the other
Speaker 3: murderers like fell off of a platform and hit her
Speaker 3: head and was taken away in an ambulance and she
Speaker 3: still came back.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, you have you have to like
Speaker 3: I don't know, I was trying to be as like
Speaker 3: undercover as I could be, but like you should sue
Speaker 3: these guys. And she was like, no, you know, I
Speaker 3: got to finish out this season strong. We're a family here.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh no, they're family, You're not
Speaker 1: family to the Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I was I was the only I was
Speaker 3: the sole murder nurse. I went through I went on
Speaker 3: the the murder Nurse no longer a part that is
Speaker 3: played within the hay Ride.
Speaker 1: It was retired there to hire your number. Not going
Speaker 1: to get better than this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's such a like.
Speaker 1: That that it feels like one of the things where
Speaker 1: the entire charm is that it is like slapped together
Speaker 1: by unprofessional people, and for it to be taken over
Speaker 1: by like private equity, it's.
Speaker 2: A real bummer, Like this is fun. You can do
Speaker 2: this for half the price and get twice the people
Speaker 2: in Like when private equity takes over the whole Carney circuit,
Speaker 2: I feel like that's when we're really fucked.
Speaker 3: There's a blog that I would read in high school
Speaker 3: and still read now in every post called Diary of
Speaker 3: a carnyt blogspot dot com. And he shares very similar
Speaker 3: views to you on that point where he's just like,
Speaker 3: we used to be a proper country.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're ascribing these views to me.
Speaker 2: Hit many.
Speaker 3: It is a bummer, I mean. And that's not to
Speaker 3: advocate for the old way of doing things, because it
Speaker 3: really did seem to you know, like because at the
Speaker 3: at the hay Ride, it was like a lot of
Speaker 3: you know, guys in their forties and teen age girls,
Speaker 3: which would play out the way you would imagine, and
Speaker 3: it really grows. So it was good that we had,
Speaker 3: you know, a good supervisor old legalists to to. You know,
Speaker 3: he would regularly just move the forty year old guys elsewhere,
Speaker 3: like you'd be like, oh, there's we've got an issue
Speaker 3: with a werewolf. We're gonna move him to the maze.
Speaker 3: Like strategic, very strategic, I know, playing to type disgusting.
Speaker 1: What's what's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Jamie, Oh, women's hockey. This is something that's been on
Speaker 3: my mind recently. I know, I was excited to tell
Speaker 3: you about Miles, So I I have been thinking about
Speaker 3: I was with my dad over the summer and he's
Speaker 3: a hockey writer and he was on the Bechdel Cast
Speaker 3: after asking for years because every couple like a once
Speaker 3: a year, he'd be like sort of throwing his hat
Speaker 3: in the ring as a potential guest on the show.
Speaker 3: And then he's like like he just like you know,
Speaker 3: jam slap Shot was written by a woman.
Speaker 1: Did you know that? Did you know that?
Speaker 3: And there's a woman in.
Speaker 1: The movie as well. And those brothers they have long hair,
Speaker 1: so you.
Speaker 3: Could say they're challenging the binary a little bit, those
Speaker 3: Hampson and so this year, finally I was like, Caitlin,
Speaker 3: my dad, he won't stop until we cover, until we
Speaker 3: cover slap shot. It would improve my day to day
Speaker 3: life if we just let him cover slap shot. And
Speaker 3: I thought he did. You know, it was great. Slap
Speaker 3: shot does not hold up particularly well, is in fact
Speaker 3: written by a woman. But we were talking about on
Speaker 3: the show how there's like no movies at least about
Speaker 3: women's hockey, or at least popular movies about women's hockey,
Speaker 3: And so I was thinking a lot about just the
Speaker 3: idea of girls slap shot. And then when I got
Speaker 3: back to California, I was like, well, is there even
Speaker 3: like what is there?
Speaker 1: And so?
Speaker 3: And it's it's there's not much. But there's two places
Speaker 3: that I've been checking out, including this pickup team in
Speaker 3: Seami Valley.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they got a good rink out there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Ooh it's the Isoplex.
Speaker 2: I was was, Oh, seem Valley's now in Isoplex.
Speaker 3: Is in ISO?
Speaker 2: Wait? Did that change the original ISO? The original Isoplex
Speaker 2: used to be in like North Hills, like West Hills area,
Speaker 2: like off the four or five. Yeah, yeah, and their
Speaker 2: club because I was all, you know, I was in
Speaker 2: the socow hockey scene. Their team was called the Wolves,
Speaker 2: and Isoplex was like one of the nicest newer ranks,
Speaker 2: but I didn't know that they had rebranded or moved
Speaker 2: or whatever. They like the rinks. The further you go
Speaker 2: out of like Maine, La County, they're very they're they're
Speaker 2: much nicer than what we have. I played at Pickwick
Speaker 2: in Burbank.
Speaker 3: Oh is that even still there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like they shoot that. They they always like use
Speaker 2: that place to shoot any like skating scene, like in
Speaker 2: the office, like when like they were like ice skating there,
Speaker 2: like they shoot it. There's so many are like filmed
Speaker 2: in that rink, but it's just a very shallow pool. Now.
Speaker 3: The Isoplex was beautiful, and so I was like trying
Speaker 3: to go to these women's pickup games because there's a
Speaker 3: lot of like cod teams, but there weren't a lot
Speaker 3: of just like specifically women's teams. And I finally made
Speaker 3: it up this week. I'd been like texting with this
Speaker 3: woman and it was like we're having a difficult time,
Speaker 3: and I was like, why am I having difficulty communicating
Speaker 3: with this woman, and it was when I got there.
Speaker 3: It's because she's like my mom's age. She like the
Speaker 3: team was. It was like people in their like mid
Speaker 3: to late twenties through their mid to late sixties, like
Speaker 3: all playing together, play together every week, play well, no no,
Speaker 3: which is which I think is important for the older
Speaker 3: players to They can't.
Speaker 5: Play exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: And so I just have been I don't know, and
Speaker 3: just talking to them about like everyone had driven minimum
Speaker 3: an hour to be there because there are so few options,
Speaker 3: and I just, man, I had the best time talking
Speaker 3: to these ladies. And they had a you know, they
Speaker 3: have like a bar at the rink too, so you
Speaker 3: could just go and hang out afterwards. Crack a la bat.
Speaker 2: Yeah there's some molten. They really have labat blue.
Speaker 3: They had a la bat Wow. Yeah yeah la bat
Speaker 3: on tap, yeah, on tap. It was really cool. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm you know, it took me, you know, thirty years,
Speaker 3: but I finally understand the appeal of this little game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, now there's a professional league that's starting up too,
Speaker 2: the Professional Women's Hockey League, And I know, I don't
Speaker 2: think LA has a team, but they do on the
Speaker 2: East Coast and in Canada.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, did your dad put a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on you to play like growing up?
Speaker 3: Uh No, there was one significant push, but then he
Speaker 3: saw me skate and he was like it's a non starter.
Speaker 3: But when I was at the pickup game there. When
Speaker 3: I was the pickup game, they're like hurting for players
Speaker 3: because it's so of far out that they're like, can
Speaker 3: you skate? I was like, no, no, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3: I can't play with you, but but maybe on a
Speaker 3: long enough timeline, I'll try it, because yeah, it's like
Speaker 3: it's a no check. There is no checking in these games.
Speaker 3: And so that's when I could maybe I could stand
Speaker 3: in place for yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, just just park it on the blue one.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hockey was a big sport at my high school. Like
Speaker 1: I went there, you know, moved to Massachusetts halfway through
Speaker 1: high school from Kentucky, you know, a place where basketball
Speaker 1: is the only sport that matters, to this place where
Speaker 1: I like I truly had not encountered hockey being a
Speaker 1: serious sport anywhere outside of a Disney movie.
Speaker 2: And like when and everyone was like, god, the hockey
Speaker 2: players are.
Speaker 1: So cool, so hot and one of my friends, one
Speaker 1: of my friends like used a loophole to get onto
Speaker 1: the freshman hockey team even though he was a junior
Speaker 1: and didn't know how to skate. And so when you
Speaker 1: said just like stand there, like he just like kind
Speaker 1: of glided out onto the ice and then like took
Speaker 1: a like swipe at someone and fell over and they
Speaker 1: were like, all right, man gets.
Speaker 2: That was truly a heavy Gilmoreo put the slap shot
Speaker 2: on that guy breaking a glass.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Michael, Wow, yeah, what a time. Let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll come back and cover
Speaker 1: some news. And we're back and we're just gonna get
Speaker 1: right down to right down to it. Five night Freddy's
Speaker 1: video game movie that did not was not aware that
Speaker 1: I had a sense based on the poster. It was
Speaker 1: something it was a movie based on something based on
Speaker 1: video game and it's like spooky Chucky, did you guys?
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is I'm bummed that the movie sucks because
Speaker 3: it was Chuck could really use the good pr right now,
Speaker 3: ye there, Did either of you play it? I never
Speaker 3: played it, but I remember that was the first video
Speaker 3: game I ever saw, like play through YouTube.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, okay, I've I never played it, but when
Speaker 2: we were both working at Playboy Jamie, when I was
Speaker 2: doing video there, there was like a video series with
Speaker 2: two playmates that are gamers, and I remember I had
Speaker 2: to like produce a shoot with that, and I was like,
Speaker 2: what the fuck? And I was like, oh, this game
Speaker 2: is fucking freaky. But I'm not into horror as a
Speaker 2: like a genre, but I have seen it played and like,
Speaker 2: at the time, this was like the biggest shit, Like
Speaker 2: I think it came out in twenty fourteen, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like a you know, huge, huge, like indie game.
Speaker 1: Mm, yeah it was.
Speaker 3: I didn't even realize it was an indie game because
Speaker 3: of how like, yeah, that was the first time I
Speaker 3: had ever like encountered that as a thing that happened
Speaker 3: and thought it was isolated. And then you know, obviously
Speaker 3: have never stopped seeing it. But it's I mean, Haunted
Speaker 3: Animatronics a great idea, and the guy who invented the
Speaker 3: Chuck E Cheese animatrons very racist, like don't don't fuck
Speaker 3: with this guy. However, however, there he uh, at least
Speaker 3: up as as recently as a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: still had this warehouse in Florida, where the animatronics were
Speaker 3: once made, and was really trying to capitalize on the
Speaker 3: success of five Night Freddy, and because he basically lived
Speaker 3: in uh, you know, like haunted Animatronics Palace, so he
Speaker 3: started like selling the like five Night Freddie birthday party
Speaker 3: experience with his like scary old animatronics, and it seemed
Speaker 3: to be somewhat successful at some point.
Speaker 2: I mean, like the real the diehard fans are like
Speaker 2: they fuck. I mean, it's there's a reason why it
Speaker 2: became a Blumhouse film. It's because definitely there is an audience.
Speaker 2: There's an absolute obvious for it.
Speaker 1: Producer Victor is noting that there are multiple three hour
Speaker 1: lore documentaries about five Night, five Night.
Speaker 3: Five Night Freddy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Freddy, what could that possibly mean?
Speaker 3: That's that's so interesting.
Speaker 2: Well, that's like a big thing that like as the
Speaker 2: reviews come in, like there's a whole debate where some
Speaker 2: people are like it's not really for casuals man, like
Speaker 2: if you don't funk like, or some people are like.
Speaker 1: There's not enough for vision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is wild, Like I'm and I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's interesting following the reaction because, like anything when you
Speaker 2: have a huge like when a fandom gets to that
Speaker 2: point where now like a Plumhouse or major studios like, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's see if we can make money off of this.
Speaker 2: It's always interesting to see how like inevitably the fans
Speaker 2: will be disappointed. I think it's just generally what's always
Speaker 2: gonna happen, Like it's there's only a few instances where
Speaker 2: you have something with like a huge mega following take
Speaker 2: that next jump to like major film distribution, and it
Speaker 2: be you know, palatable.
Speaker 3: I was kind of I was positive because I didn't
Speaker 3: see I kind of forgot it was coming out until
Speaker 3: I they showed the trailer at saw X and I
Speaker 3: was like, damn, they got Hutcherson. And my friend was like,
Speaker 3: I don't think that's hard to.
Speaker 1: Do, but.
Speaker 2: What did you just say? Yeah, damn, Josh's what like
Speaker 2: twenty twelve, Yeah you need something.
Speaker 3: I did see Josh Hutcherson getting into a very quiet
Speaker 3: argument with his girlfriend in front of a restaurant near
Speaker 3: my house once, so it is like not that hard
Speaker 3: to get Hutcherson. But but I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe I just like went twenty twelve brain for a second,
Speaker 3: where like, oh my damn they got Hutcherson. Five night
Speaker 3: Freddy is huge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's bigger than Hunger Games.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's something about the minds of people who are like
Speaker 1: scared of animatronics I guess, or like into I don't know,
Speaker 1: because the writer of the original indie game also like
Speaker 1: a right wing person.
Speaker 3: God, what is it with animatronics and being a piece
Speaker 3: of shit?
Speaker 2: I think because they're like techno slaves or some shit.
Speaker 2: Probably you know, oh yeah, it's like I make them
Speaker 2: do what I say, and I can make you in
Speaker 2: my like I don't know. That's probably some weird god complex. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: on some level. But hey, I would love to see
Speaker 2: where the where the woke animaznic.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, there's certainly woke animatronic fans, but I right, right,
Speaker 3: but we're not technically minded unfortunately, right right.
Speaker 2: Right right, you're just there for the commentary.
Speaker 1: We are topping out for five nights at Freddy's. We
Speaker 1: are topping out on metacritics. So the overall metacritics score
Speaker 1: is twenty nine, an average of twenty nine, and we're
Speaker 1: topping out. Usually usually you will get like one or
Speaker 1: two that's like, hey, I actually enjoyed this because I
Speaker 1: was like, my meds are dialed in or something, you know,
Speaker 1: like so like I sometimes I just enjoy the hell
Speaker 1: out of them. Like one of my favorite film going Expirits,
Speaker 1: was Die Hard for for no reason other than I
Speaker 1: was just in a good, good movie. Right place in
Speaker 1: your life, Yeah, good place in my life. Loved that
Speaker 1: movie the first time I saw it, and then I
Speaker 1: watched it again, I was like, oh, this is bad,
Speaker 1: right right right, But like this is at we're topping
Speaker 1: out at two out of five stars. Most of them
Speaker 1: are lower than that average, and this like not all
Speaker 1: reviews are in, but it's it seems pretty dismal, and
Speaker 1: everyone's saying it's boring. Yeah, it's not boring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean even like the fans, Like there's a
Speaker 2: guy who would like stream it on YouTube, like this guy,
Speaker 2: Jack Septic. Guy, like his review is like it is
Speaker 2: not great, sort of like the nice person and a
Speaker 2: lot of people were like, you made a lot of
Speaker 2: five nights at freddie content. But again I think that's
Speaker 2: where like you see a lot of you know, other
Speaker 2: other fans come in and be like it's just people
Speaker 2: aren't gonna understand it. It's not for normies. But then
Speaker 2: this guy who like plays the game a ton is
Speaker 2: like just felt rushed in some spots. Other parts it
Speaker 2: just was very normal, like did not feel like is
Speaker 2: you know, original as like the game the original idea
Speaker 2: is itself.
Speaker 1: So you see the trailer, You're like, oh, they got Hutcherson,
Speaker 1: but they but they Like now I'm kind of embarrassed
Speaker 1: because Hutcherson knows like what I'm into, and like they
Speaker 1: did such a bad job with the lore that now
Speaker 1: like I'm like, they shouldn't have done this to Hutcherson.
Speaker 3: Or us or Matthew Lillard, you know Matthew they got
Speaker 3: they got Lillard, That got Lillard, I.
Speaker 2: Mean Mary Stuart Masterson, you.
Speaker 3: Know, kind of a star studded cast. I was really
Speaker 3: impressed with the cast. I love that they got Lillard.
Speaker 3: I feel like Lillard played the game. That's my guess
Speaker 3: is that Lillard was into it. Hudgerson, we don't. I
Speaker 3: don't know of his hobbies. I don't know.
Speaker 2: His agents were like, hey man, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: say yes to this. We got bad news.
Speaker 3: You have to be the lead of five Knight.
Speaker 1: Freddy, You're five knighte Freddy because you're five Freddy.
Speaker 2: Your knife, your knighte Freddie. Because nobody was fucking with
Speaker 2: Journey to the Center of the Earth too.
Speaker 3: Oh god, he was in that. Uh it's a bummer
Speaker 3: that we would eat at the same realm in place.
Speaker 3: It's like when I saw Taylor Lautner at a bar,
Speaker 3: I go too, and you're.
Speaker 1: Just like, this is this sucks recently.
Speaker 3: It's like five years ago, so I think that.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but I mean like post like super high
Speaker 2: Twilight Peak.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And it was like a place where you
Speaker 3: get like, you know, three dollars backwash. I'm like, why
Speaker 3: the hell is Taylor Latner here drinking three dollar backwash
Speaker 3: with the pleabs?
Speaker 2: Was he doing the thing where he had his back
Speaker 2: to the bar looking out at the bar?
Speaker 3: He was holding court. He was holding court. It was
Speaker 3: really cool, Like he bought rounds, he was holding court.
Speaker 3: He had no issue with you knowing he was drinking
Speaker 3: backwash at the bar, which is cool. That's a cool quality.
Speaker 3: He was with I think his girlfriend now his wife
Speaker 3: also named Taylor. That's not very cool. I don't think.
Speaker 1: Wait he married a Taylor.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now they're the Tailor's Lotner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's incredible. Should we talk about the Britney Spears
Speaker 1: memoir the audio book?
Speaker 2: Have you got Williams? Yeah? I I've just slowly seen
Speaker 2: some like excerpts get sort of elevated to the top.
Speaker 2: But obviously I think the big one with the release
Speaker 2: of the audiobook was everyone sharing the clip of Michelle
Speaker 2: Michelle Williams doing an impression of Justin Timberlake doing a
Speaker 2: black scent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's what It's a lot.
Speaker 2: Have you not heard it? No, Jamie, For someone who
Speaker 2: is so online, I'm like, James, this is old hat
Speaker 2: for Jamie, I'm sure. Okay, So I was.
Speaker 3: I was trying to. I was like, let's see how
Speaker 3: long I because I was like I want to read it.
Speaker 3: And I also was waiting for an episode of Chelsea
Speaker 3: Devonte's podcast about it. It was like, and then I'll engage.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, just one excerpt, you know, like this is
Speaker 2: one loose line that's like blowing up where she's first
Speaker 2: of all, like Britney Spears is talking about why she
Speaker 2: was fucking with in Sync over Backstreet Boys. She's like
Speaker 2: in sync, like they listened to hip hop, like they
Speaker 2: seem more oriented towards that kind of culture where the
Speaker 2: Backstreet Boys felt very white. I'm just gonna we'll just
Speaker 2: play this clip really quick because there's all.
Speaker 3: White guys from Florida and yeah, like the same guy.
Speaker 2: Let's not forget Chris with his techno dreads either, but hey,
Speaker 2: let's focus on this Skylark. So but yeah, this is
Speaker 2: a this is one of the excerpts here, just talking
Speaker 2: about this time where he met another famous R and
Speaker 2: B musician.
Speaker 1: So the other thing, like a lot of people are
Speaker 1: pointing out like this seems Michelle Williams is a five
Speaker 1: time Academy Award nominee. People are like, why is she
Speaker 1: doing this? And then they're listening and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: she's the best that has ever done this before. She's
Speaker 1: killing it. She's doing a great job. So yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a little sample of that, and it's an anecdote
Speaker 1: that a lot of it's caught a lot of people's attention.
Speaker 6: His band in Sync was what people back then called
Speaker 6: so Pimp. They were white boys, but they loved hip hop.
Speaker 6: To me, that's what separated them from the Backstreet Boys,
Speaker 6: who seemed very consciously to position themselves as a white group.
Speaker 6: In Sync hung out with black artists sometimes I thought
Speaker 6: they tried too hard to fit in. One day, Jay
Speaker 6: and I were in New York going to parts of
Speaker 6: town i'd never been to before. Walking our way was
Speaker 6: a guy with a huge, blinged out medallion. He was
Speaker 6: flanked by two giant security guards. Jay got all excited
Speaker 6: and said so loud, oh yeahches, Genuine, what's up, homie?
Speaker 6: After Genuine walked away, Felicia did an impression of Jay.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, boches bosches Genuine.
Speaker 3: Jay wasn't even embarrassed.
Speaker 1: Wow, I like the there's like a YadA YadA pass that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they had an interaction, but it kind of
Speaker 1: suggests that Genuine just he did that and Genuine just
Speaker 1: walked away.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It was like, oh my god, the fuck is that?
Speaker 3: The abrupt switch after the like the audiobook pause before
Speaker 3: Genuine walked away, Like you're.
Speaker 1: Just oh my god, after walked away.
Speaker 3: She's a professional's good professional. That alarming. I'm looking forward to,
Speaker 3: uh to reading that book or probably more likely listening
Speaker 3: to it. Celebrity memoirs are meant to be listened.
Speaker 2: To, especially oh yeah, because I'm pretty sure what Britney
Speaker 2: spears personally was like I want Michelle Williams to narrate
Speaker 2: this like, this is why this is happening.
Speaker 3: Very weird, very weird. How do they know each other?
Speaker 2: Dialed in so well?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 2: What better person to lend your voice to have their like,
Speaker 2: have them lend their voice and have Michelle Williams do
Speaker 2: the Britney Spears book so good, James get the egot.
Speaker 3: She will this is her grammy, Yeah, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 1: There's I mean, there's all sorts of there's also the
Speaker 1: story that Britney Spears almost got what was the famous
Speaker 1: role that she almost oh the Notebook, the Notebook, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she almost was cast in the Notebook.
Speaker 2: She was like in the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was between No, she was in the final two,
Speaker 1: between her and Rachel McAdams, and like they like Scarlett
Speaker 1: Johansson all these other people had tried out and they
Speaker 1: were like, Britney Spears is like fucking nailing this really
Speaker 1: absolutely like an amazing actor.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, there's like her audition tape is avail.
Speaker 2: I think they camera tested with with Ryan too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I always want.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know that there were a number of
Speaker 3: extenuating circumstances in Brittany's life that.
Speaker 2: U but I was her.
Speaker 3: Her movie career was like a non starter, and up
Speaker 3: until recently you couldn't even get Crossroads, Like you couldn't
Speaker 3: even stream it until recently. Even though that was like
Speaker 3: an early Shonda Rhime's script.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't realize that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was like one. I think it was like Shondai.
Speaker 3: One of Shonda Rhime's like first produced scripts ever was
Speaker 3: the Britney Spears vehicle Crossroads. And she's so good in it,
Speaker 3: and she's so charming and like she's a good actor,
Speaker 3: and it's like there it worked out for Mandy Moore
Speaker 3: many more kind of dropped music and started this is
Speaker 3: us singer. I still don't know what that show is about,
Speaker 3: but damn, she would have been cool in the notebook.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's what Shonda Rhime's. Also, didn't she do Princess
Speaker 2: Diaries too? That was like another.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, shout after Crossroads?
Speaker 3: Yeah right yeah, pre Crossroads. And if I'm recalling, I
Speaker 3: know I know too much of Shonda's filmography. I think
Speaker 3: it's just shy of It's like the year before Grey's Anatomy.
Speaker 3: She did Princess Diaries too. Royal Engagement, Yep, sure enough.
Speaker 3: It is true. It is true, but I'm like, what
Speaker 3: is Shonda's relationship with Britney? Is there one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know, We don't know, right what could
Speaker 2: have been you know, true if she was Meredith Gray, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, but then it's like we would have been
Speaker 3: I mean, and again this is like not even taking
Speaker 3: into account what happens later in Britney's career, but like
Speaker 3: we would have we would have not gotten some really
Speaker 3: solid Britney albums if she if she had gotten too
Speaker 3: far into acting.
Speaker 1: So yeah, when she talks about it, she's like, you know,
Speaker 1: at a certain point, I decided to stop auditioning and
Speaker 1: just record, just drop classic albums on you all, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: if we.
Speaker 3: Got because if we got like if we got Brittany
Speaker 3: in the Notebook, we may not have gotten Blackout, And
Speaker 3: that would have been challenging for me.
Speaker 1: As a youth.
Speaker 3: That would American culture, that would have been pretty hard.
Speaker 1: America's bad right now, Think America's bad right now? Try
Speaker 1: and picture this counterpack. But yeah, and also she he
Speaker 1: has a quote like in one of the articles I
Speaker 1: read about the Notebook thing that she was like it
Speaker 1: was just mentally too difficult, like I just embodied the
Speaker 1: character and like trying out for that character like got
Speaker 1: to me so like she was almost like too meth
Speaker 1: for to to like actually pursue acting because it was
Speaker 1: just like too painful for her, which sounds like a
Speaker 1: great actor, Like, yeah, let's make it happen. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's funny too, like because Justin Timberlake does not come
Speaker 2: out looking good in this too. Like she talks about
Speaker 2: how like she became pregnant like with his child and
Speaker 2: then you know, have an abortion and things like that,
Speaker 2: and then like now it's funny to see the pr
Speaker 2: machine move in Justin's direction and they're like, Justin Timberlake
Speaker 2: is fine. He's actually just focusing on being with his
Speaker 2: family like amid the noise.
Speaker 3: But it's also like pretty well documented that his family
Speaker 3: does not like him. So cool, I hope. I'm sure
Speaker 3: they're really enjoying spending time with you on this your
Speaker 3: fiftieth cancelation. I was trying to I was trying to
Speaker 3: think of, you know, like because of SAG rules, I'm
Speaker 3: like I have to think of like a Halloween costume
Speaker 3: I can wear, and I have a lot of I
Speaker 3: can pretty close to replicate the justin Timberlake denim outfit.
Speaker 3: And so I'm trying to put something together like recently
Speaker 3: Disgrace Denim boyfriend. But but it's getting the hat together
Speaker 3: because then I, you know, and then I was just
Speaker 3: gonna put you know, tears, streaks, some snotch like that
Speaker 3: recently disgraced Denhim boyfriend.
Speaker 2: That's a freak one for everything. You got to get
Speaker 2: those gradiated like those gradient shades.
Speaker 3: Too, Oh my god. Yeah, like the yellow, the freaky
Speaker 3: late nineties blue blockers everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Yo, it's so wild like that that outfit.
Speaker 2: There's like how there's like tutorials on how to make
Speaker 2: the Disgrace Denim boyfriend outfit. Like it's like how to
Speaker 2: make your denim Britney and Justine. Good lord, what a time?
Speaker 1: What a time?
Speaker 3: I mean, great, great, horrible man great outfits. Brittany, God
Speaker 3: bless her, She's a bet.
Speaker 2: Keep on dancing those knives, girl.
Speaker 1: Or don Jamie. Such a pleasure having you as always? Yeah,
Speaker 1: where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: The same old places. Instagram at Jamie christ Superstar, Twitter
Speaker 3: at Jamie Lofts, help listened to Bechdel Cast, read raw
Speaker 3: Dog and and and stay safe out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is there a work a media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 3: I wanted to shout out Marsha Belsky really quick. She
Speaker 3: tweeted about it yesterday, but she was arrested at the
Speaker 3: Capitol this week. She was protesting with if Not Now
Speaker 3: calling for a fire and kind of shared her whole
Speaker 3: kind of experience of what that was like. And you know,
Speaker 3: some criticism of Bernie Sanders in particular, and I just
Speaker 3: it's very informative thread and she's the fucking coolest. So
Speaker 3: that is a work of media that I found inspiring
Speaker 3: and cool this week.
Speaker 1: There you go, Miles, Where can people find you? What's
Speaker 1: the working media you've been enjoying?
Speaker 2: Find me on Twitter, Instagram, everywhere else. Let's see yeah
Speaker 2: yeah at Miles of Gray. Also follow us on our
Speaker 2: basketball podcast, Miles and Jack Got Mad boost like ninety
Speaker 2: Day Fiance and Trash TV. We'll check on my other
Speaker 2: podcast for twenty Day Fiance Sophia Alexandra. And if you
Speaker 2: like you know true crime, check out The Good Thief,
Speaker 2: the new true crime show I'm doing. But it's all
Speaker 2: all eight episodes are out. Let's see a tweet that
Speaker 2: I like I don't know if I have any tweets
Speaker 2: because I haven't been on there recently, but I just
Speaker 2: started watching The Bear. Oh so I just I was like, Yo,
Speaker 2: what the fuck is going on here? Yeah, it sounds
Speaker 2: like people are right. That shows it's it's worth watching.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so far I'm enjoying what I'm seeing. Yes,
Speaker 2: chef am I right behind is Joel McHale that much
Speaker 2: of a dick. I've only like seen this like one
Speaker 2: flashback scene where he's like maniacally being like you fucking suck.
Speaker 7: Suck, suck your slow fast man really like embodies the
Speaker 7: like your mind at the at its least healthy, or
Speaker 7: at least my mind it's least least healthy.
Speaker 1: It's just like I feel like he's a great stand
Speaker 1: in for that.
Speaker 2: Right, what the fuck do you think you did?
Speaker 1: It's like so mean, it's like kind of comical. It's
Speaker 1: it's pretty incredible, right The Bear.
Speaker 2: The Bear.
Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore.
Speaker 2: O'Brien, I haven't really.
Speaker 1: Been looking at Twitter for the past three hours. Thank you,
Speaker 1: my bloody Valentine. That I think that's the name of
Speaker 1: the slasher film that I recently watched that is fun
Speaker 1: hot Garbage from like nineteen eighty one eighty two, and
Speaker 1: it is shot in a town in Canada. You like,
Speaker 1: it's this like really run down town. They shot it
Speaker 1: on location. I think probably because like they lived there
Speaker 1: and but you really get a sense of like the
Speaker 1: town from the movie about a slasher who comes out
Speaker 1: around Valentine's Day and starts cutting people's hearts out the best. Yes,
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Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
Speaker 1: that we think you might enjoy it. Miles, what song
Speaker 1: do you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: I guess what. We're gonna have the link to that
Speaker 2: Henry Winkler music video because I found it. Uh hell yeah,
Speaker 2: the opening is wild anyway, a.
Speaker 1: Song that is also about monsters or is it about Portoh?
Speaker 2: Is it Monty Coded It's it's called Puddles and wishing Wells.
Speaker 2: Oh no. And you know, I'll let y'all check the footnotes.
Speaker 2: You can watch the full ninth video that came out
Speaker 2: in two thousand and nine. It was actually two thousand
Speaker 2: and nine, it turns out. But anyway, the music that
Speaker 2: I think we should go out on is this.
Speaker 3: Manti Revolta's rendition of I Will Always Love Cool.
Speaker 1: His wordplay is truly level band of the Living Dead.
Speaker 2: They're going out on an LA band called the Altons
Speaker 2: A L t o n s. And they're like, you
Speaker 2: know a band that's around now. They're from LA, but
Speaker 2: they their shit sounds like you've discovered like new forty
Speaker 2: five records, like if like Motown was like in LA.
Speaker 2: Like it feels like West Coast like sixties seventies soul.
Speaker 2: It's really dope and they're really talented and like they
Speaker 2: got the esthetic really down. And this track is called
Speaker 2: over and over by the Altons A L t O
Speaker 2: n s.
Speaker 1: Oh right, well, we will link off to that in
Speaker 1: the footnotes for Daily is the production of ByHeart Radio.
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Speaker 2: That is going to do it for us this morning
Speaker 2: back on Monday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll tell you what is trending, what was trending
Speaker 1: over the weekend, and then on Tuesday for a special
Speaker 1: expert guest episode, so we will talk to y'all then,
Speaker 1: have a good weekend.
Speaker 2: Stay safe Byeye