Speaker 1: Good A, Peter Helly he welcome to you Ain't seen
Speaker 1: Nothing yet The Movie Podcast, where I chat to a
Speaker 1: movie lover about a classic or beloved movie they haven't
Speaker 1: quite got around to watching until now. And today's guests
Speaker 1: comedian actor Josh Thompson.
Speaker 2: The first rule of fake Club is you do not
Speaker 2: talk about fake club now. It was you afraid of
Speaker 2: you broke my heart. I admire your luck, mister Bond,
Speaker 2: James Boss.
Speaker 1: Me haven't any right now.
Speaker 3: You ain't seen nothing yet.
Speaker 1: Josh Thompson is a comedian actor writer from New Zealand
Speaker 1: who has been absolutely killing it of late, from the
Speaker 1: Monkey reboot on Netflix where his pigs he stole the show,
Speaker 1: to his appearance on Dwayne the Rock Johnson's bio series
Speaker 1: Young Rock, as well as his turn as Satan in
Speaker 1: Wellington Paranormal. Everything Joss is doing is turning to gold.
Speaker 1: About the pleasure of working with Josh on the KeyWe
Speaker 1: panel show Seven Days on the New Zealand version of
Speaker 1: the project, and also on How to Stay Married, where
Speaker 1: Josh appeared in an episode as con and I have
Speaker 1: to say that episode which we shot in a car
Speaker 1: park at a supermarket with Tom Budge was so much
Speaker 1: fun to shoot.
Speaker 4: The three of us laugh fight loons.
Speaker 1: The whole day, and I'm surprised we got through any
Speaker 1: scenes at all.
Speaker 4: Right now, Josh could be seen.
Speaker 1: In cinemas in the brand new feature film How to
Speaker 1: Please a Woman. The film has a fantastic cast, including
Speaker 1: Sally Phillips, Tasma Walton, Alexander England, Eric Thompson, Cameron Daddo,
Speaker 1: Ross Hammond, amongst others. It centers around an all male
Speaker 1: cleaning company that begins offering cleaning and sex for its clients.
Speaker 1: It looks very, very funny. Josh's our first guest from
Speaker 1: across the Ditch. He's generous, kind, talented and bloody hilarious
Speaker 1: and I'm bloody stoked to be hanging with him today.
Speaker 1: Good a.
Speaker 2: I'm Josh Thompson. My three favorite films are Star Wars.
Speaker 4: I got a bad feeling about this.
Speaker 2: Top Secret and Into the Dragon, Don't think feel And
Speaker 2: up until about three hours ago, I had never seen
Speaker 2: toy Story. You got friending me. You've got a friend in.
Speaker 1: Me, Damn straight, you have a friend in me. Oscar
Speaker 1: winner Randy Newman, and thank you for helping bring a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of new friend into everybody's life from Woody
Speaker 1: and Buzz, the Slinky, and yes.
Speaker 4: Even missed a Potato Head.
Speaker 1: If all great movies showed life from a different angle,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five's toy story.
Speaker 4: Is surely up there with the best.
Speaker 1: The genuine game changer in cinema. It launched the studio
Speaker 1: that set a new standard for animation. It really is
Speaker 1: hard to remember life before Pixar arrived on the scene,
Speaker 1: but how they did. When Andy receives a new Spaceman
Speaker 1: toy for his birthday, it sends his much loved toys,
Speaker 1: led by the dependable cowboy Woody voice by Tom Hanks,
Speaker 1: into a tailspin. Are they about to be replaced? Who
Speaker 1: is this new stranger and the box he landed in
Speaker 1: bolst the Spaceman Buzz light Year played by Tim Allen
Speaker 1: in these himself to the rest of the gang. It
Speaker 1: brings an envious side of Woody he never knew actually existed,
Speaker 1: which leads both he and his new enemy down a
Speaker 1: very dangerous road.
Speaker 4: And the House and.
Speaker 1: The Pizza Parlor directed by a problematic genius, John Lassida
Speaker 1: from a story by him and Pete Doctor written by Andrews.
Speaker 1: Stan Joe ramp Alex Soucklau, problematic, Joss Whedon and Joel Cohen. No,
Speaker 1: not that, Joel Cohen, Josh Thompson. If I was the
Speaker 1: pull of string in your back, what would it say.
Speaker 2: To a close location? And that's about it. That's enough
Speaker 2: fifty radius and nothing more here be learned by me
Speaker 2: a drink before we pull that things.
Speaker 1: Out of control. First of all, great to see you, mate,
Speaker 1: and thanks for doing this. I appreciate your busy man
Speaker 1: a lot on your plate, so thank you most to
Speaker 1: be here. And why hadn't you seen Toy Story by now? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: I never really thought about it before, but I guess
Speaker 2: it's a complicated thing. I think I was at when
Speaker 2: is it ninety six, ninety five, ninety five? Right, So
Speaker 2: then I that's me pubescence. I think I was transitioning
Speaker 2: from a child to you know, a disgusting high school kids.
Speaker 2: So then I was like Toy Story a bunch of toys. No,
Speaker 2: I'm moving into a different area of movie, right, I've
Speaker 2: done that. So there's a bit of that, there was
Speaker 2: a bit of there's a bit of like pet people
Speaker 2: are So there was so much talk about it, and
Speaker 2: I kind of weirdly have a weird thing where I
Speaker 2: don't like to get told what's good. I'd be like, no,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what's good about forty years after everybody
Speaker 2: else has founded it. It's quite good, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: And there was a lot of talk about the CGI
Speaker 2: and like how amazing was something like because it would
Speaker 2: show the boy and it would show them that, you
Speaker 2: know the trailer, there would be the boy and then
Speaker 2: there'll be the toys. And I was like, there's not
Speaker 2: that much difference, Like I can tell which one is
Speaker 2: a human, like that doesn't really look like a real human.
Speaker 2: So it was a bit a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 2: And weirdly, I just come hot off a my cousin
Speaker 2: brought me a Lion soundtrack and on cassette tape and
Speaker 2: I played it so much. I loved it all. I
Speaker 2: like Circle. I was like, because I grew up on
Speaker 2: a farm right in the South Islands, I'll be walking
Speaker 2: around singing Circle of Life at the top of my
Speaker 2: lungs like all young farm boys do. And in the Southland,
Speaker 2: New Zealand, Nah, yeah, and just like going at that
Speaker 2: And and there's that one with Jeremy Irons. What's this
Speaker 2: that the Scar, that song that's the Scar sings.
Speaker 1: I've only blind King once and that was the very
Speaker 1: first episode of this podcast with Tom Right. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: long ago did you say it? Well, twenty midway through
Speaker 1: twenty twenty this podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've only seen it about five years ago.
Speaker 2: But it's just so weird. But so I ruined that
Speaker 2: tape that like that Jeremy Irons that be prepared. It's
Speaker 2: such an incredible his performance is so amazing, the way
Speaker 2: he's all consonants and stuff. And I'll be dancing around
Speaker 2: the herding the sheep. Let's just let listen, like really
Speaker 2: getting like a very special chart, and and then I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, there's the next one. So I didn't
Speaker 2: even see that. But then the next one came out
Speaker 2: and it was Toy Story and instead of Alton John,
Speaker 2: and like two different but you know, there's a Elton
Speaker 2: John soundtrack. And then there's like the soundtrack of the musical.
Speaker 2: It's some guy called Randy Newman, and I was like,
Speaker 2: who's this guy? And he's like some sort of you
Speaker 2: know sort of it's just a big man at a piano,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I'm the only big man at
Speaker 2: a piano around here, my friend, and I don't know,
Speaker 2: I was, I just I just like, no, not for me.
Speaker 2: I'll watch it later on when all the kerfuffles died down,
Speaker 2: and I sort of had a plan. I haven't. I've
Speaker 2: barely seen any Disney movies because I always heard the
Speaker 2: parents watched it a gazillion times with their kids. So
Speaker 2: I thought, when I have kids, then I can run it.
Speaker 2: You run my life by watching it ten thousand times. Right,
Speaker 2: It's well a complicated answer. I appreciate it, and I
Speaker 2: thank you. But I so I was twenty in ninety five.
Speaker 2: I think I'm about five or so years older.
Speaker 4: Than you are.
Speaker 1: And I I actually remember seeing it by myself, and
Speaker 1: like you, I had heard.
Speaker 4: So there's so much buzz about it.
Speaker 1: Part of the part and remembering this is you know,
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs and Apple and you know, like like he was,
Speaker 1: this is kind of launching to help.
Speaker 4: Kind of kind of.
Speaker 1: You know, help sell computer ware in a way and
Speaker 1: hardware like this is.
Speaker 4: A lot of the story. Yeah, yeah, Steve Jobs had
Speaker 4: a lot to do with Pixar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh what that's right. Yeah, So there was a
Speaker 1: lot of buzz about it. I went and saw it
Speaker 1: by myself, and I was like, oh wow, like this
Speaker 1: is yeah, this is a game changer. This this animation
Speaker 1: I was. I was more blown away. Even though I
Speaker 1: could tell the difference between the boy and the toys Josh.
Speaker 4: Like like you could. I was still very impressed with
Speaker 4: what I was seeing and.
Speaker 1: Have continued to be And it's been amazing to see
Speaker 1: the evolution of those that animation and the craftsmanship of
Speaker 1: those films. But we're going to talk about Toy Story
Speaker 1: much more in depth. I want to, I really want
Speaker 1: to know what you thought of it. But you have
Speaker 1: mentioned three excellent films.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Let's start with the Goat the King. Star Wars.
Speaker 1: It's really I mean, I'm a I'm a massive Star
Speaker 1: Wars fan. I don't officially put it in my top three,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of embarrassing that I don't. But but
Speaker 1: we had we had Adam Christie, a great, very funny
Speaker 1: Canadian comedian, and he just made the point and it
Speaker 1: kind of made me feel embarrassed I hadn't put it
Speaker 1: in my top three. He goes, why does everybody avoid
Speaker 1: puting Star Wars in it in the as their favorite film?
Speaker 1: Everyone's favorite film in Star Wars. Let's as all move
Speaker 1: on and like you know, you know, put other films
Speaker 1: in front of those Star Wars everything begins and Andrew
Speaker 1: star Wars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean I even did you know? I
Speaker 2: did like film papers at university and they would all
Speaker 2: talk about what their favorite films were, and I was
Speaker 2: the only one that said Star Wars with an electri
Speaker 2: were about eighty people. And everyone went quiet, and I
Speaker 2: was like, I would be doing a disservice to myself
Speaker 2: and the film if I pretended it It wasn't the
Speaker 2: most affecting film that I ever saw growing up, probably
Speaker 2: affected me to this day. And I because I watched it.
Speaker 2: It was I think it was a VHS that we
Speaker 2: borrowed from someone else. It wasn't taped off the TV,
Speaker 2: and so it was start to finish, and I and
Speaker 2: and it was at a time when my parents didn't
Speaker 2: get home till five point thirty, so I would walk
Speaker 2: home from the country school across a bunch of paddocks,
Speaker 2: avoiding animals and strange farmers, and then I would end
Speaker 2: up at home and I would put the tape on
Speaker 2: and I and it was the perfect amount. I had
Speaker 2: enough time to get home, feed the chickens. For real,
Speaker 2: we had chickens, and then it wasn't there are hungry chickens,
Speaker 2: and they did, and then.
Speaker 1: I would chicks.
Speaker 4: Then I'll masturbate and then.
Speaker 2: Stuff to do. I've got stuff to do. But there's
Speaker 2: no one else on the farm. I'm there by my stuff.
Speaker 2: My older brothers were, you know, were away like left left,
Speaker 2: it's were they know. There's some some sort of some
Speaker 2: sort of form of bad parenting go anyway, I was
Speaker 2: alone on a farm and I would put on Star Wars. Oh,
Speaker 2: my brother's are boarding school this right, I put on
Speaker 2: Star Wars and I watched the whole thing and I watched.
Speaker 2: I did that for about two years, and I used
Speaker 2: to be able to go through the entire movie audio soundtrack,
Speaker 2: just making the entire thing by myself, even like the
Speaker 2: RTD two there I can't do that. But like like
Speaker 2: the jar, the jar was everything like and like, and
Speaker 2: I thought it would be quite a cool trick to do.
Speaker 2: But I think my parents got quite concerned and then
Speaker 2: they kind of like had the tape for all once
Speaker 2: you just you know, what's this one's called labyrinth. So
Speaker 2: then but I I became yeah, it was. I became
Speaker 2: incredibly fascinated by it, all that all that world building,
Speaker 2: any any sort of magazines, magazines, behind the scenes. All
Speaker 2: that stuff, to me was what movies were about. Was
Speaker 2: like using anything you can, like the amazing sound effects,
Speaker 2: the miniatures, the force perspective, all that sort of stuff
Speaker 2: to sell magic. I was like, this is what movies are.
Speaker 2: And I spent so much my life trying to do
Speaker 2: that stuff because I've done some directing and writing stuff
Speaker 2: as well. Instead of learning how to tell a story properly,
Speaker 2: which is what would have been a better thing to do,
Speaker 2: I just can't focused on like special effects.
Speaker 1: Wow, and it has it has served you well?
Speaker 4: Did the Eye?
Speaker 2: Was it? Was it?
Speaker 4: The Eye?
Speaker 2: Was it?
Speaker 1: Also? You know, growing up on a farm and the
Speaker 1: first character we meet is is a farm boy who
Speaker 1: then goes on to be the most important person in
Speaker 1: the galaxy. Did that play a part obviously?
Speaker 2: You? Yeah, maybe subconsciously, maybe deeper, on a deeper, deeper level.
Speaker 2: I just even now I'm almost too scared to watch
Speaker 2: it now because as soon as those blue words come up,
Speaker 2: and as soon as that big spaceship comes out, and
Speaker 2: I just I'm taken away in that big space ship
Speaker 2: and then an even bigger one comes and keeps going
Speaker 2: going and going and going and going going, and I'm
Speaker 2: just like, what is happening? What is going on?
Speaker 1: So is Star Wars in episode four and New Hope?
Speaker 1: So that's your Is that your favorite of the Are
Speaker 1: you just saying Star Wars kind of.
Speaker 4: Four?
Speaker 2: And I did go through and try to watch them
Speaker 2: all in order, including some of the animated series, and
Speaker 2: and I got quite fatigued. Yeah, there was there was
Speaker 2: a lot of sort of space admin in the first
Speaker 2: three and.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of there was a lot of
Speaker 1: space admin.
Speaker 2: I mean, and people always people always give ju j
Speaker 2: O a bed. I mean, he has this place, you know,
Speaker 2: like I mean, there's kids love him like the kids. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I found him deeply annoying. I will admit that.
Speaker 1: But I also I'm tired of this, you know, the
Speaker 1: Star Wars discourse that goes online. You know what, you know,
Speaker 1: my favorite favorite Star Wars that I enjoy watching, whatever
Speaker 1: the one is that I'm watching at that time. I
Speaker 1: love being in those worlds, like I thought was good.
Speaker 1: It wasn't amazing, you know, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: I loved being in that world there are some episodes
Speaker 1: that were stronger than others. I love the Mandalorian, I
Speaker 1: cannot wait for Obi Wan and I just cannot wait
Speaker 1: to be in that world.
Speaker 4: And even a bad Star Wars film.
Speaker 1: And I only really think maybe maybe the Attack of
Speaker 1: Clients is the one that I've I think failed, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's just that one's very heavy of
Speaker 2: like no subtext, Like there's just so much of him
Speaker 2: walking around and going, I'm so angry right now. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you can act that, you can do something else. That's
Speaker 2: what makes acting so cool. Yes, we get it, like
Speaker 2: you don't say it's such a strang shock to go
Speaker 2: from that, from like the the you know, the wet
Speaker 2: of Harrison Ford to like, does someone walking around saying
Speaker 2: exactly what they're thinking?
Speaker 1: Oh no, and he's got such a he's cut such
Speaker 1: a rough time aiding Christiansen.
Speaker 4: Fault not his fault. Nobody could act those those words.
Speaker 1: It's Harrison Ford said to George lu Because you can
Speaker 1: type this, you can't say it, you know, like you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: YEA love Star Wars. Always welcome to talking about Star Wars.
Speaker 1: Top Secret is another film that I had on VHS.
Speaker 1: It's funny you mentioned that Star Wars. I've never watched
Speaker 1: a Star Wars that was taped off the TV. It
Speaker 1: just occurred to me when you mentioned that yours wasn't
Speaker 1: taped off the TV either, because I usually I remember
Speaker 1: having top secret and I can almost remember where the
Speaker 1: pauses were and the ads were almost at the end
Speaker 1: of the edge they came on. But Star Wars was
Speaker 1: was always very clean. There was no like red Roostrap.
Speaker 1: I can remember halfway through a scene the top Secret
Speaker 1: for those who don't know the Zucker Brothers, and it's
Speaker 1: you know, pre naked around the Flying High period Flying.
Speaker 2: High as well. Yeah, it's it's so dense and it's
Speaker 2: such a like because we had it taped from VHS,
Speaker 2: so I've never actually seen I've never seen the start.
Speaker 2: I've only seen it from like one minute and by
Speaker 2: the town when we found the remote and I found
Speaker 2: a you're taking over Mum's cooking shot. He's taking over
Speaker 2: Mum's cooking shot.
Speaker 4: You know, like you have a labored top secret, do
Speaker 4: not tape over.
Speaker 2: You better believe it. And I think I think one
Speaker 2: time I saw Dad push it down and I dove
Speaker 2: towards the tape over, Mum's cooking to do another. Stop
Speaker 2: sinking you mad man? Yeah, it's it's so and just
Speaker 2: like it's so densely laiden with jokes that are all
Speaker 2: so incredible, like you could say it to anybody who's
Speaker 2: seen it, and you know, like the guy on the phone,
Speaker 2: let me know if his condition changes, he hangs up,
Speaker 2: he says he's dead. Do you where they go?
Speaker 1: One always I always loved was the when he's meeting
Speaker 1: you know, haven't we met before?
Speaker 2: What are you drinking? But even like it's it's so
Speaker 2: there's so it's also silly, but like just like learning humor.
Speaker 2: Like there's the shootout and the and the thing, and
Speaker 2: there's windows, right, so one guy like smashed the window
Speaker 2: and he shoots out of it, and the next guy
Speaker 2: there's not there's not one unbroken window to smash. He
Speaker 2: struggles to find one he can smash the shoot and
Speaker 2: especially then he shoots out of it. And then this
Speaker 2: guy goes to smash it and it doesn't break and
Speaker 2: it bends his gun, and then he tries a sledgehammer,
Speaker 2: and then like then there's another one when that's smashing
Speaker 2: it and it does naughts and cross it's like it's
Speaker 2: just it's just like a perfect way to learn progression
Speaker 2: of humor. I thought it was just so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you and you had moments like Nick Rivers,
Speaker 1: like Belkilm was first film A Yeah, you had like
Speaker 1: Nick Rivers and the he's he's the room man's I
Speaker 1: forget her name, but yeah, this it still sounds like
Speaker 1: a bad movie. And they slowly look to the camera
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, like learning different styles of you. It's
Speaker 1: not all the same joke. There are visual you know,
Speaker 1: there are this clever, witty you know, one line is
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's so many things.
Speaker 2: There's message the Peter cushion with the magnifying glass and
Speaker 2: his eyes and takes it away and I just happens
Speaker 2: to be really bad the entire time. And then you
Speaker 2: realize the whole scenes filmed backwards. They're not speaking seedwish
Speaker 2: sweedish like, and then you're like it's it's increating, you know.
Speaker 2: Then there's like stuff I never got until I watched
Speaker 2: it like later, like it's I get to gift in
Speaker 2: prison and it's this massive jackamer with a fest on
Speaker 2: it called the Anal Intruder.
Speaker 4: Just this is lawyer or something.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's so.
Speaker 1: Good anally truly became I think like a joke that
Speaker 1: I almost forgot that it came from top secret. Actually
Speaker 1: I did forget, but like whenever, like there was a joke.
Speaker 1: You know, I went to an all boys, you know,
Speaker 1: Christian Brothers College, you know, so there was always jokes
Speaker 1: like that going on, and there's always the angling Drudi,
Speaker 1: and I completely forgot that that came from top secret.
Speaker 1: I mean Nigel in the in the cow suit and
Speaker 1: like getting getting taken from behind, he's the face and
Speaker 1: the why are we always as a bloody rush?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, but like they're mapping out like he's drawing
Speaker 2: on the in the dirt with a stick, and then
Speaker 2: it comes across the little miniature of a cow, and
Speaker 2: then it's a whole miniature of a castle, and then there's.
Speaker 4: A train.
Speaker 2: So good, it's so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen top Secret, track it down however
Speaker 1: you can and we Bruce Lee has come up a
Speaker 1: couple of times, and I think the dragon may have
Speaker 1: been maybe the second time it's come up. If you
Speaker 1: were you always a big Bruce fan, well, always.
Speaker 2: Big Bruce fan, big through partial to martial arts stuff,
Speaker 2: but in particular this one. And I think there's when
Speaker 2: you know, when I could afford to buy my own
Speaker 2: VHS tape, I went and bought like the wide screen edition.
Speaker 2: I'd seen the other one, and so much I'd seen
Speaker 2: on TV was cropped to four by three, So I
Speaker 2: mean I saw the wide screen one. You can actually
Speaker 2: see what he's doing with the nunchucks because it's like
Speaker 2: that big, big wide cinema CinemaScope or that big, big
Speaker 2: wide you actually see what he's doing. But usually when
Speaker 2: you see on TV, it's just his face going. But
Speaker 2: like you can actually see his hands. It's like it
Speaker 2: was incredible. You know. It's got a young Samo Hung
Speaker 2: doing a lot of acrobatics at the start. But there's
Speaker 2: a couple of sort of weird references to New Zealand
Speaker 2: and it. There's a guy named Bolo excuse me my
Speaker 2: parsision bolow Jung, I think, and that's his character name.
Speaker 2: He changed his name to his character name after the movie.
Speaker 2: He's a really muscular guy. I con't mean if you've
Speaker 2: seen it, but he's a big, musty guy.
Speaker 1: I've seen. My recall is not amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not the big bear, but he's the big
Speaker 2: bad guy's big muscular henchman, right, and the big the
Speaker 2: bag guy goes blow and then Bowler walks up and
Speaker 2: says and then and then and then fights. Now in
Speaker 2: the Simon language, bolo means ball bag, so it's it
Speaker 2: was very funny. So if you if I'm not saying
Speaker 2: on but like anytime anyone goes and you allow, it's
Speaker 2: a very good time. The other great highlight is there
Speaker 2: is a Kiwi character in it.
Speaker 4: And what is his name?
Speaker 2: I write it down because is that he fights a
Speaker 2: guy he's called Parsons from New Zealand, and I remember
Speaker 2: watching it. We're in a Bruce Lee for it's the
Speaker 2: most exciting thing. And he's on a boat and this
Speaker 2: key guy's are Bully and he's beating up guys on
Speaker 2: the boat and Bruce Lee sort of doesn't challenge him,
Speaker 2: and he tries the key. He keeps trying to get
Speaker 2: him into a fight, and he has a famous slane
Speaker 2: where he goes, he goes.
Speaker 1: Wants your style.
Speaker 2: This is the Key guy, by the way, and that
Speaker 2: is a very good impersonation. The entire movie filmed without sound,
Speaker 2: so like they dubbed it all afterwards, which you can tell,
Speaker 2: you can tell, but this guy he goes once to
Speaker 2: your style and then Brusley says the out of fighting
Speaker 2: without fighting, and the keeping guy goes the art of
Speaker 2: fighting without fighting, and then he gets on a little boat.
Speaker 2: Brusley sees where it's gonna have a little boat on
Speaker 2: the sorry Bruceley sees is going to have a fight
Speaker 2: with him on the tiny boat behind this ship that
Speaker 2: they're on. The key guy gets on the boat and
Speaker 2: then Brusley lets out a rope and then he gets
Speaker 2: dragged behind the ship and the boat actually sinks. So
Speaker 2: apparently what in real life is it was actually an
Speaker 2: Aussie guy actor who did the sound for it, and
Speaker 2: then the producer thought he didn't sound keep you enough,
Speaker 2: and they got some guy that dub over it who
Speaker 2: doesn't sound anything like in New Zealander, anything like an
Speaker 2: Australian would have been fighting. It sounds nothing like it's
Speaker 2: the out of fighting without fighting. It's so funny, it's
Speaker 2: so bizarre and so shot and such a for like
Speaker 2: the hopes are so high. He's a New Zealander. He
Speaker 2: gets called in New Zealand and then you hear him
Speaker 2: talk It's so disappointing because.
Speaker 4: We're always so.
Speaker 1: In Australia here. We were always so excited to hear
Speaker 1: Australia mention, even just questioned. But the idea, you know,
Speaker 1: the feelings we got that rain man had to you know,
Speaker 1: come to Melbourne, Australia that gets a quantus flight just
Speaker 1: had us buzzing for years.
Speaker 2: Even Olivia, Newton, John and Greece was like, way, they're
Speaker 2: in a hold in Australia that's fairly close to New Zealand. Enough.
Speaker 2: That was enough for us, That was enough. But to
Speaker 2: hear someone singled out and then hear the worst ze
Speaker 2: on accent ever committed to film history. Yes, the turns
Speaker 2: Day's Aussie guy was he was a martial artist who
Speaker 2: then do you know the brand Zogs it's like a
Speaker 2: goggle swim.
Speaker 4: Were sort of okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: He later began that brand.
Speaker 2: Apparently when they were filming that, when the boat started
Speaker 2: filling up, the crew were like, oh god, there's a
Speaker 2: hole in the boat, and he started yelling at don't worry,
Speaker 2: I'm from Australia, I can swim. They just filmed him
Speaker 2: in a boat that's thinking and he just got into
Speaker 2: the water and had to swim.
Speaker 1: There you go, I've got some Yeah, Josh, let's let's
Speaker 1: get into it. I'm busting to know. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to ask you a flat out It's Toy Story, directed
Speaker 1: by John Lassiter, written by a whole bunch of pixture
Speaker 1: creators to actually go on and you know, like write
Speaker 1: a lot of the massive, massive Pixar films. I peak,
Speaker 1: Doctor ends up riding Up and inside Out and more
Speaker 1: recently Soul and and Andrew Stanton Wrights Finding Nemo. So
Speaker 1: it's really the talent involved is amazing. But did you
Speaker 1: enjoy highest gracing film Toy Story?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean yeah, I thought it was. I
Speaker 2: felt like a perfect picture, Like it was just kind
Speaker 2: of had it all.
Speaker 1: It was tight.
Speaker 2: It was so good to see a picture that, you know,
Speaker 2: a film that wasn't three days long, and it was
Speaker 2: just great like that, just funny, and then the chase
Speaker 2: scenes and the action and the you know, it was
Speaker 2: really relatable, like feeling like you're losing not on the
Speaker 2: scene anymore, like not so yeah, like not.
Speaker 1: Being replaced is being replaced. I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: this movie has such you know it mainlines, you know, emotionally,
Speaker 1: you know, from the from the absolute get go, like
Speaker 1: we know straight away, even that movie of the song
Speaker 1: you Got a Friend in Me by Randy Human, who
Speaker 1: for me really only exists in Pixar films. I know
Speaker 1: he's had a long career before Pixar, but for me,
Speaker 1: it's like, really it begins and end ends with with
Speaker 1: a Pixar with Randy Human. But he like, that's that song?
Speaker 1: Does it actually does it? It's like some movies just
Speaker 1: find that right song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And this one
Speaker 1: it's almost a character in itself, but it's almost like
Speaker 1: it's it's telling you the story really and and you
Speaker 1: they do so well.
Speaker 4: They did the work so.
Speaker 1: Economically as far as you feel, you know, the relationship
Speaker 1: between Andy and Woody from the get go. There's a
Speaker 1: little scene with the you know, the cardboard cutouts, which
Speaker 1: is beautiful, and that's really it. That and the song
Speaker 1: and your own connections with your own toys.
Speaker 4: You are there straight.
Speaker 2: Away, I mean, and I take it all about everything
Speaker 2: I though about rounding you like it really it hit
Speaker 2: me quite hard. And also there's a there's a shot
Speaker 2: when they're like it's Andy's feet and what his feet
Speaker 2: it's just their feet in the foregun by sitting on
Speaker 2: a chair and their feet are hanging over the end,
Speaker 2: and the cheer is spinning around yep, and it goes
Speaker 2: around and around and just that, like now I've got
Speaker 2: kids of my own, Like anytime I see like a
Speaker 2: grown up, you know, the poster for Logan yeahh is
Speaker 2: like a Logan Logan Wolverine, and it's got a little
Speaker 2: girl's handhelding his big gnarled hand like that movie at
Speaker 2: that poster, not the movie, and gets broke down like
Speaker 2: I can't. I've got I've got to tell you on
Speaker 2: before I'm about to cry at any point.
Speaker 1: Yes, So anytime I see anything little dix to like
Speaker 1: a big thing, it was really really touched me most
Speaker 1: of these tiredness.
Speaker 4: No, You're exactly right.
Speaker 1: I became eighty percent more emotional, if not more, if
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent seriously watching movies post you know,
Speaker 1: once you have kids is a different experience, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of joyous. You kind of do kind of you know,
Speaker 1: lean into things. I've cried in movies with the Rock,
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, because his kids something up
Speaker 1: to his kids, and I'm just like, you know, oh
Speaker 1: my god, what am I doing? But this is great
Speaker 1: at the same time, and I'm embracing it. But yeah, this,
Speaker 1: this is this just feels like it's got all the emotions.
Speaker 1: I think one of those really good, really early is
Speaker 1: it lets you know that it's this. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: jokes for adults, Like the jokes are really smart, you know,
Speaker 1: And when when? When? What He's going to going around
Speaker 1: and getting everdy ready for the announcement and then the
Speaker 1: party is going to be there. I think mister head says,
Speaker 1: you know, the toddler's playing with him. He just three enough,
Speaker 1: it's on my bucks ages three, and I'm not supposed
Speaker 1: to be baby sitting princess drawers.
Speaker 4: So this is kind of the idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's aware, and also the idea that we you know,
Speaker 1: it plays on the idea that we all probably at
Speaker 1: some point thought, do our toys come to life when
Speaker 1: I'm not in the room, I'm.
Speaker 4: Not with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I did, and I yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I don't. I mean I probably thought they were
Speaker 2: alive a lot. I used to think people used to
Speaker 2: live in the television when we turn it on. That
Speaker 2: just acted out for us. That was up until about
Speaker 2: two years ago.
Speaker 1: There was a famous ad in the Strada shop was
Speaker 1: on New Zealand. There's a kick Cat ad where these
Speaker 1: people at an atm and they there was people in
Speaker 1: the atm like having a kick Cat and they accidentally
Speaker 1: kind of put the wrapper of the kit Cat into
Speaker 1: the twenty dollars note and so the people at the
Speaker 1: atm received this KitKat wrapper.
Speaker 4: So I always had this idea that there were people
Speaker 4: in the atm.
Speaker 2: There's so many like nostalgic moments for like those little
Speaker 2: soldiers and how they had that imperfect molding, like the
Speaker 2: little sort of the little sort of circles on the
Speaker 2: back with the plastic mold would like poke out of
Speaker 2: the thing and it would just be sort of slightly
Speaker 2: imperfect the.
Speaker 4: Detail in that.
Speaker 1: And apparently the creators, you know, they they basically nailed
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, not through their feet and they can
Speaker 1: go JC on a spit. They they nailed like planks
Speaker 1: to their feet. They get the motion of that. Oh
Speaker 1: really right, Well that was like I remember what I think.
Speaker 1: I remember watching it for the first simon thinking oh
Speaker 1: this is this really early on I thought this is great,
Speaker 1: but I think it actually was that the box of
Speaker 1: the Army Man that I thought, because they were certainly
Speaker 1: toys that I one of the earlier toys that I
Speaker 1: remember playing with a lot. And he's had the different
Speaker 1: kinds of slightly colored you know, the the Aussi soldiers
Speaker 1: the key were green.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Germans were like a blue, kind of a blueish.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I've a bit color blindes. I may
Speaker 1: got the golors a little bit wrong.
Speaker 2: And then you're gradually are quite a few from like
Speaker 2: your mates ones accidentally, and you're like, I got a
Speaker 2: bazika from Brian.
Speaker 4: But those that that whole you know, military mission.
Speaker 1: They go on to kind of get the sound speaker
Speaker 1: down there in the in the downstairs. It's so great.
Speaker 3: Sergeant Establisher, recon post downstairs, Cold Red.
Speaker 2: You know what to do?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, all right man you ready code red repeat
Speaker 3: We are cold re time playing Charlie Execute.
Speaker 2: But when the paratrips, because I used to build like
Speaker 2: little Hanky, I'd like buff them out in my window
Speaker 2: with like Hanky's like, so the paraship so good.
Speaker 1: I've liked the little touches of having, like even the
Speaker 1: board games which you don't really play apart but operation
Speaker 1: kind of in the background.
Speaker 2: Battleship. It's a great like when they're lowering out all
Speaker 2: the monkeys and they were need more monkeys. We need
Speaker 2: more monkeys to get down there. That's the whole barrel.
Speaker 2: It's so good. That's but also something really dark, like yes,
Speaker 2: like when that hang on there's an exo skitch early
Speaker 2: on his drawer and he pulls out and you know,
Speaker 2: the excess draws a gun and what he pulls out
Speaker 2: a gun and that's really cute. But then later on
Speaker 2: when the they think he's betrayed them as it pad
Speaker 2: potato Head holds up the exo skitch and it's got
Speaker 2: just drawing of a noose.
Speaker 1: There is there is like a kind of a grim undertie.
Speaker 1: I mean the way they all turn on me, like
Speaker 1: who has been there kind of fearless leader and the
Speaker 1: kind of a good friend, like he's a pretty happy,
Speaker 1: kind of go lucky guy. Uh and they just turn
Speaker 1: on him on a on a you know, based on
Speaker 1: it's basically, you know, one somebody's word against the other.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's the is it the phone? I
Speaker 1: think the phone kind of says or the card, the
Speaker 1: remote control car. He kind of said, no, you know,
Speaker 1: he he doesn't say he makes enough noise, and then
Speaker 1: they translate it, you know, so they translate as wood.
Speaker 4: He basically got rid of buzz.
Speaker 2: It's a metaphor for social media. It's a it's a
Speaker 2: metaphor for Johnny Depp, Amber Herd trp like it's all
Speaker 2: just his I.
Speaker 1: Was not expecting the death Herd Triver come up in
Speaker 1: that conversation about toy story.
Speaker 4: I must I must be.
Speaker 1: I've heard, I've heard thinking about Amber heard and Johnny
Speaker 1: Depp when it was just about pistol and boo. You know,
Speaker 1: that's why I feel like I want to cut off
Speaker 1: my knowledge of their of their lives. I mean, and
Speaker 1: you know we meet said, you know, across the road
Speaker 1: and he what a piece of work.
Speaker 2: Josh, what about Like, yeah, now this again the c
Speaker 2: G I that there's the little there's the baby and
Speaker 2: the cot and there's Andy who I almost found him
Speaker 2: as disturbing looking as said, like said like I had
Speaker 2: a missing tooth and like a scull on. But there's
Speaker 2: something I wasn't ready for. The because the animate the
Speaker 2: movement's incredible. In the animation, there's some good textraal stuff.
Speaker 2: But every now and then, like the eyes are quite
Speaker 2: terrifying or something. I just I remember I haven't seen
Speaker 2: it until Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well literally in this podcast, everyone and I reminds, I
Speaker 1: remind somebody reminder sorry, our audience, that I'm always talking
Speaker 1: to somebody who is processed. He's still processes this film.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, you will probably feel differently with better or
Speaker 1: worse about this film in forty minutes time. And yeah,
Speaker 1: tomorrow or next week you may make feel differently. And
Speaker 1: you watch it with your kids at some point imagined
Speaker 1: did you watch it? You watch it by yourself or
Speaker 1: did you watch it with the kids.
Speaker 2: I watched it by myself. Yeah, I'm gonna I wasn't.
Speaker 2: My kids still get scared by stuff. Although it's very
Speaker 2: The CI guy is very reminiscent. There's a thing called
Speaker 2: Coca Melon, which is this massive kids thing that it
Speaker 2: all looks very similar to that sort of thing, and
Speaker 2: they're very used to that. Wheels on the bus go
Speaker 2: around and round gets played so much in my house. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so I think. But I've done heaps of kids animation,
Speaker 2: and like you know, there's a claymation one called Kiddy
Speaker 2: and Low that I've done, which is really speaks to
Speaker 2: toddlers and stuff. It's almost got like a bluey vibe younger,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I couldn't wait to shut it
Speaker 2: to my four year old daughter, and she's like breaked
Speaker 2: out by the way the skin moves the clamation of
Speaker 2: the picture's skins, so she starts screaming. The episode is
Speaker 2: like three minutes long, and like one minute and she's screaming.
Speaker 2: We have quite looked at a lot of Daddy's work here,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I wanted to watch it first make sure
Speaker 2: it was okay, because God, this is the Sids kids,
Speaker 2: SAIDs toys are the mutants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and even even if you noticed, but
Speaker 1: the carpet in Sid's house is basically the same hexagon
Speaker 1: shape as that in the Shining.
Speaker 4: That was a lovely time.
Speaker 1: Again, yeah, said is is? I mean, yeah, he's pretty much.
Speaker 1: I guess he's the villain of the story, isn't he. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think there's where he tapes the
Speaker 2: cracker to the soldier and blows them up. It's quite
Speaker 2: a big explosion. Yeah, if you even noticed, like that
Speaker 2: soldier got blown I'd say thirty meters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he got the job done.
Speaker 1: He knows what certainly did, but it is it's important
Speaker 1: that we see that because then when, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: later on when Woody and Buzz under his hostage, there's
Speaker 1: real jeopardy.
Speaker 4: We we know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this kid doesn't muck around.
Speaker 2: The and the and the crackers that get strapped to
Speaker 2: Buzz is sobic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like six times bigger. I know, it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's great. It's interesting to us reading a bit about
Speaker 1: it that that Woody, because I was watching it going, oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot that wood He has this kind of bit
Speaker 1: of a jerk kind of personality. Yeah, you actually think
Speaker 1: you're the Buzz light Year.
Speaker 2: Oh all this time I thought it wasn't act.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, look it's the real.
Speaker 2: Buzz light Year. You're mucking me, aren't you. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 2: no no no no, both looking alien.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And in the earlier drafts he was even more a
Speaker 1: bigger jerk, like he would like really he would like
Speaker 1: you really like take the piss out of Slinky, and
Speaker 1: you know, he would call it names and he was
Speaker 1: just and that was driven by apparently Jeffrey Katzenberg kept
Speaker 1: on saying make it. I want it to be meaner.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be so you know, I want
Speaker 1: teenagers to come over. They're gonna be put off. I
Speaker 1: was just about toys, but I wanted to be meaner,
Speaker 1: and he was equating kind of meaning with cooler, and
Speaker 1: so that they broke towards that, and then they did
Speaker 1: a screening and everyone just said, well, this movie sucks.
Speaker 1: This is not getting released like this is this is horrible.
Speaker 1: Who's going to like this film? He got toys that
Speaker 1: are and they're mean, Like this doesn't make sense, and
Speaker 1: and and Katzenberg said to somebody, why isn't this film working?
Speaker 1: And he said, because this is not the film John
Speaker 1: Lassida actually wanted to make. He actually made it with
Speaker 1: I Think a good heart, and he and you have
Speaker 1: kind of taken them in a different direction. So they
Speaker 1: kind of they they said, it didn't actually take that
Speaker 1: much to kind of correct it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Tom back and does rework some of those things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get mister Hanks to while you're shooting Castaway, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna you get time off that island. If you
Speaker 1: get a microphone to you in the FedEx package, do
Speaker 1: you a sandwich? Tom?
Speaker 2: Oh, Sorry, that's right.
Speaker 1: Originally it was actually and because I mean, you understand
Speaker 1: what they because they need to go. I think pick
Speaker 1: Doctor said that they do. You know, as you know, Josh,
Speaker 1: you've written so much and you've been in so many
Speaker 1: movies and and and TV shows that there needs to
Speaker 1: be the hero's journey.
Speaker 4: So you do need you do.
Speaker 1: He does need to go, as Peter Doctor said, from
Speaker 1: selfish to selfless. You know, yes, you can't get your
Speaker 1: selfless all the way through.
Speaker 4: That it needs to be a journey.
Speaker 1: But I think I think it's enough that when we
Speaker 1: see him be such a great guy and great friend
Speaker 1: and a great leader, and then it's the threat of
Speaker 1: Buzz coming in that he almost discovers this, Like I
Speaker 1: said an intro that that he wasn't even aware was there.
Speaker 1: This this envy and jealousy and it drives him in
Speaker 1: a moment of madness, and we got to know he
Speaker 1: gets it straight away, and that's important. But we see
Speaker 1: him commit this kind of act of you know, of
Speaker 1: horror in a way pushing you know, and you know
Speaker 1: he didn't mean to push, just wanted the umping down
Speaker 1: to the side where.
Speaker 2: I think you're right, it's such an amazing job of
Speaker 2: Often when I see a film, I'll be aware of
Speaker 2: what's happening, like like I know that I'll be like, Oh,
Speaker 2: this is where it's gonna be a real deck, and
Speaker 2: he like starts being a real deck and it's like ah,
Speaker 2: and then it's very jarring. It's just like I was
Speaker 2: kind of enjoying until they started being he could this
Speaker 2: one sort of slowly crept up and then you go, ah,
Speaker 2: he's actually a of a debt. I mean, really really
Speaker 2: well handled. I don't, I mean, I don't. I mean
Speaker 2: it's a very beloved film. But I had a lot
Speaker 2: of questions about toys sentience, like when it first came up,
Speaker 2: when the soldiers were doing their mission and then a
Speaker 2: ball rolled past them and they all jumped out of
Speaker 2: the way, and like I was like, oh, is the
Speaker 2: ball going to talk to them? And then the ball
Speaker 2: didn't talk to them. I was like, which toys? Which
Speaker 2: toys are talking?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well both.
Speaker 1: Peep's interesting in that area because she is like ceramic
Speaker 1: and goes like a lamp set in the in the
Speaker 1: sister's kind of room. She's the one that's not I
Speaker 1: guess technically a toy.
Speaker 2: To well she's very grown up. I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 2: That It's just I was sort of the sort of
Speaker 2: the only the only female in the cast.
Speaker 4: She sent me. Yeah, voice slu.
Speaker 2: The soldiers or soldiery the potato goes are big like
Speaker 2: bo Slack.
Speaker 1: Voiced by Annie Puts from Ghostbusters. And and I think
Speaker 1: I think it was John Lassida's wife who said to him,
Speaker 1: probably stop sexually harassing stuff. But also next next time,
Speaker 1: if you're into a sequel, you need to have a
Speaker 1: stronger female.
Speaker 4: Character like.
Speaker 1: Jesse. Another a cow girl gets introduced in Toyster. Spoiler
Speaker 1: no spoilers, no spoilers. I wanted to point out I
Speaker 1: mentioned in the intro Joel Cohen, who kind of co
Speaker 1: wrote this film, and people might go, oh, Joe, come on,
Speaker 1: he wrote this, This is well, I love the Carmen brothers.
Speaker 1: Not the same bloke. There are there's another Joel Cohen.
Speaker 1: He writes, like he wrote the Garfield movies. And you
Speaker 1: may remember the first Garfield movie, Bill Murray isn't And
Speaker 1: anyone's like, why why is Bill Murray doing doing a
Speaker 1: Garfield movie? He thought, because he basically doesn't have a manager,
Speaker 1: and it's really hard to get on the Bill Murray
Speaker 1: and he'll just and he basically just heard that Joel
Speaker 1: Cohen has written a Garfield movie and agreed.
Speaker 4: Just based on that.
Speaker 1: And then he's on seat guard. This doesn't seem as sharp,
Speaker 1: is why am I here? And realize somebody told him, No,
Speaker 1: that's not where's Ethan? That is really good, really good.
Speaker 2: So Buzz thinks he's a toy and it's he's got
Speaker 2: a great journey as well. It sees him goes through
Speaker 2: and he doesn't know that he's a toy and until
Speaker 2: he sees this commercial at Sid's house TV.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I feel it, Buzz is actually the heart
Speaker 1: of the movie. To be honest, I think for a
Speaker 1: long time, if you ask me, without having you know,
Speaker 1: before I watched it last night, I would have said,
Speaker 1: surely Wood is the heart of the movie. But I
Speaker 1: want to I kind of think maybe Buzz is because
Speaker 1: he's got his massive journey and and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: at that moment, you just you know, and please go
Speaker 1: on interrupted your point. But the at that moment he
Speaker 1: realizes is the most I think, the most kind of
Speaker 1: gut wrenching moment of the film.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well absolutely, and then followed up by like
Speaker 2: how they got to him basically being drunk in a
Speaker 2: bar a ka, you know, being is wearing a dress
Speaker 2: and had a tea party and being drunk.
Speaker 4: Marie Antemante, I think was there, that's.
Speaker 2: Right, And what was he called like missus missus nesbit
Speaker 2: a drunk confiding scene. It's I mean, it's it's it's brilliant,
Speaker 2: it's brilliant. I was got confused because he thinks he's
Speaker 2: real as a space stranger and eventually learns that he's not.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of him, right, but he still knows
Speaker 2: to be a toy around Andy, So he if he
Speaker 2: really thought he was a space ranger, why is he
Speaker 2: not space ranging around the humans? Why does he say?
Speaker 2: Why does he drop and become animate around humans? That's
Speaker 2: what a toy does, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I guess I guess, like that's that's his
Speaker 1: body functioning as as like he doesn't necessarily control that,
Speaker 1: like he hasn't really very weak because well he hasn't
Speaker 1: been around. He's basically come from He's basically come from
Speaker 1: the box. So this is and in his mind, he's
Speaker 1: come from out of space. You know, in the box
Speaker 1: is space like a ship like a spaceship. So that's
Speaker 1: his rocket, and he's come from another planet, but he's actually,
Speaker 1: in actuality, he's actually come from from Walmart. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: when he when and he is in the room, he
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily, you know, even though he might think he
Speaker 1: may want to, and he may, he can't.
Speaker 4: That's not who he is.
Speaker 1: He's actually he's a toy. He's still a toy like
Speaker 1: the others are a toy. So he's he's going to
Speaker 1: react the same way, whether he should have maybe realized
Speaker 1: or yeah. I mean it's a very interesting point. And
Speaker 1: I'm not yeah, because I guess the others aren't.
Speaker 2: They're knowingly they're knowingly dropping, like they literally tell each other,
Speaker 2: watch out someone's coming. Drop yes, watch out someone's coming.
Speaker 2: You got to stop. He's just I don't know why
Speaker 2: is he doing? It doesn't matter that That was sort
Speaker 2: of I struggle with that throughout the film, and then
Speaker 2: I was like, do all the toys go through this process?
Speaker 2: Do they all come out and thinking they're a springy
Speaker 2: dog or a does did he think he was a
Speaker 2: cowboy for a period of time or is it just
Speaker 2: this one anomaly?
Speaker 1: Yes? He hasny podcast at gmail dot com. You can
Speaker 1: get on the speak pipe and there maybe let us
Speaker 1: know your your views. Why doesn't Buzz or why does
Speaker 1: Buzz play along if he doesn't believe that he's just
Speaker 1: a toy? Just Thompson asking a big questions, probably big question.
Speaker 2: Probably thirty years too late.
Speaker 1: Well, I haven't I haven't heard that raise, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I mean, haven't you. I don't talk about toy story daily.
Speaker 2: An't you a big toy story?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But how do you bring it up all the time?
Speaker 2: I was just always bringing up toy store New Zealand
Speaker 2: le are known as the toy Story. Yeah, Peter Buzz,
Speaker 2: how this was?
Speaker 1: I can tell you this about the toy story. It
Speaker 1: was based on a short film from nine to eighty
Speaker 1: eight that John Lessen made called.
Speaker 4: Tin Tin Toy.
Speaker 1: It was and that Yeah, and so it was originally
Speaker 1: going to be the character in their Tiny which is
Speaker 1: like an old antiquated toy. Tin Toy was going to
Speaker 1: be a buzz light Year, and then they realized now
Speaker 1: they wanted it to be a flashy something a bit
Speaker 1: flashy represented the new and there's also kind of there's
Speaker 1: two things going on as far as originally they Jim
Speaker 1: Carrey was going to be Buzz and Paul Newman was
Speaker 1: going to be Woody, and the idea behind that was
Speaker 1: like Jim Kerrey representing New Hollywood and Paul Newman representing
Speaker 1: old Hollywood. The only reason it didn't happen is not
Speaker 1: too expensive. Paul Newman ended up playing Doc in the
Speaker 1: Cars franchise, which are you. I'm sure you'll get to
Speaker 1: at some point at last last movie he made before he's.
Speaker 2: Passing, and they already had a newman, you know on
Speaker 2: the books. He kind of random to be confused to
Speaker 2: new men. Paul Newman ends up singing, You've got a
Speaker 2: friendly man. That's kind of that.
Speaker 1: And also buzz light Year was originally going to be
Speaker 1: called Luna Larry and they changed it to Tempest, which
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to fit. They decided they inspired by Buzz Audron,
Speaker 1: they Buzz Lightyear, which is the right move, absolutely the
Speaker 1: right move.
Speaker 2: Because Tim Toy, because I know, because I know that
Speaker 2: there's so much I was looking for, like little Headen
Speaker 2: Easter eggs or something that there's a there's a bunch
Speaker 2: of scenes in front of a bookcase. Yes, and from
Speaker 2: a boot called ten Toys.
Speaker 1: I think all those stories they are Easter Eggs, So
Speaker 1: they're all based on either short films that the some
Speaker 1: of the writers had done, or people within Pixar had done.
Speaker 1: Pixar movies are always chock full of Easter eggs. One
Speaker 1: in case, I forget to mention it later, but Sid
Speaker 1: ends up appearing as a cameo in I think Toy
Speaker 1: Story three. He's a garbage man and the only way
Speaker 1: you can well, it kind of looks like him as
Speaker 1: an adult, but he's wearing the skull T shirt, so
Speaker 1: that's that's his journey three round, so you need to
Speaker 1: go ahead. He goes to three minutes the garbage run.
Speaker 2: It's just a close up of a scarf. I get it.
Speaker 2: I get it. Another one I think, I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's an It was probably know what. But when
Speaker 2: they sell the house, the name of the real estate
Speaker 2: firm is Virtual Realty, just looking about like virtual reality,
Speaker 2: and I was like, okay.
Speaker 4: It's a nice touch.
Speaker 1: Actually, when when he's written Andy's so, Andy's written his
Speaker 1: name on the soul of wood his shoe that I
Speaker 1: think the D is back to front, the D or
Speaker 1: the end is back to front. And then when he
Speaker 1: writes it on buzzes sole of his shoe. He spells
Speaker 1: it the right way rounds. Just a nice progression of age.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I saw something that and I thought
Speaker 2: that he looks at his foot, Yeah, Buzz looks at
Speaker 2: his foot and then say something. And I was like,
Speaker 2: something's probably happening here and you've missed it, the idiot,
Speaker 2: Yeah you would. He is going to bring it up
Speaker 2: in front of everybody and you're gonna be shamed.
Speaker 4: So you need to talk.
Speaker 1: Did you, Josh, were you watching it? Were you distracted
Speaker 1: during that moment? We are, We're you're on your phone.
Speaker 2: Josh, I'm not on trial here. I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm not going on screens. Everybody. Look, life is happening screen.
Speaker 4: Look at the biggest.
Speaker 2: I was watching it on my phone.
Speaker 1: Well, Dave O'Neil did admit to me that he wrote
Speaker 1: he was Shrek on his phone for this pot.
Speaker 4: So I'm glad you found a TV.
Speaker 1: I did like the way they do very economically again,
Speaker 1: because this is like an eighty Like you said, you mentioned,
Speaker 1: like great to watch a film that is actually under
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, it's like eighty four minutes or something. Very economically.
Speaker 1: They the way they replaced they show that the threat
Speaker 1: of Buzz, you know, from the posters to the drawings,
Speaker 1: and then that great shot they have of the Doner
Speaker 1: cover actually yeah, on the Doner cover, the camera from above,
Speaker 1: this panning up. It's it's so good, it's so well done.
Speaker 1: We talked about picture obviously come up a fair bit.
Speaker 1: They are giants, but we're also just just in storytelling
Speaker 1: the idea of the jeopardy and I think and the steaks,
Speaker 1: and I think this movie does it so well. Like
Speaker 1: if you take when when Buzz and Wood you get
Speaker 1: caught in his room, like there are so many attempts
Speaker 1: to get out of trouble, and like they're all thwarted,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's so it's it's so good, Like
Speaker 1: I think the first attempt is to try to get out,
Speaker 1: and they do it well because it's there's always a
Speaker 1: physical attempt, and it was also an emotional attempt, like
Speaker 1: they try to get and the dog, the dog is there,
Speaker 1: you know. And then and then Buzz finds out that
Speaker 1: he's actually a toy in that moment we've gone to
Speaker 1: briefly discuss, which is such a you know, and then
Speaker 1: finding out like season he's made in Taiwan, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so, it's so beautiful. And so he's getting drunk,
Speaker 1: so he's battling this emotional issue. What he's trying to
Speaker 1: work out the physical way of getting out. And then
Speaker 1: the second attempt is when they find a way to
Speaker 1: get a crusty I think it is a slinky. That
Speaker 1: slinky comes over to them, and then the slinkys.
Speaker 2: With the slight an incredible throat, incredible throat. I couldn't
Speaker 2: make that throat.
Speaker 4: No, it's for a toy as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's start a documentary. I just say
Speaker 2: I shouldn't bring it up. But I couldn't make that throw.
Speaker 4: I think I think it's a point worth making.
Speaker 1: And and and then that's when the toys turn on
Speaker 1: body and it's so it's I mean, I think it's
Speaker 1: very funny. The way he's trying to pretend that he's
Speaker 1: giving high fine, he's just got the arm. The fact
Speaker 1: that the buzz is literally broken.
Speaker 4: Hey what.
Speaker 2: Oh am, I glad to see you guy.
Speaker 3: I know you come back, Woodie.
Speaker 1: What are you doing over there?
Speaker 3: The long story ball explain later here Cat's.
Speaker 1: I got it?
Speaker 2: Would he he got it? Would he go and sleep? No?
Speaker 2: Just just tie it on to something. Wait wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 2: I got a better idea.
Speaker 4: How about we go.
Speaker 2: We'll take stupid pills this morning.
Speaker 3: Have you forgotten what he did to Buzz and now
Speaker 3: you want to let him back over here?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no no, you got it.
Speaker 2: You got it all wrong with dad. Buzz is fine,
Speaker 2: Buzz is right.
Speaker 1: Here, he's with me.
Speaker 3: You are a liar him not Buzz. Come over here
Speaker 3: and just tell the nice toys that you're that you're
Speaker 3: not dead just a second, Buzz, will you get up
Speaker 3: here and give me a hand? Ah, that's very funny, Buzz,
Speaker 3: This is serious.
Speaker 2: Woody, where'd you go?
Speaker 4: He's flying? Buss ain't there?
Speaker 1: Oh? Hi, Buzz?
Speaker 3: Why don't you say hello to the guys over there?
Speaker 2: Ore you fellows to infinity and beyond.
Speaker 3: Hey look it's Buzz.
Speaker 1: Hey Buzz.
Speaker 3: Let's show the guys our new secret best friend's handshake.
Speaker 3: Give me five man, So you see we're friends now.
Speaker 2: Guys, aren't we? Buzz you Bud, give me a hug.
Speaker 1: I love you too, See it is Buzz.
Speaker 2: Now give me at the lights, potato. Wait just a minute,
Speaker 2: what are you trying to pull? Nothing? Who is disgusting.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, what you think I swear for
Speaker 3: that jury, I hope said pull your voice box out?
Speaker 2: Yeah free, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Help us, lets you out.
Speaker 4: No one.
Speaker 2: It's like, come on, let's get out of it.
Speaker 1: And this is what pick I do so well. They
Speaker 1: do it so well in particularly in Finding Nemo. They
Speaker 1: just crime characters into the ground like they make it.
Speaker 1: They they they make it easy for themselves. They make
Speaker 1: the odds insurmountable.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen Finding Nemo, but I hear that's about
Speaker 2: someone trying to find Nemo.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure where you heard that, mate.
Speaker 2: Wow, I don't spoil it for me. I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to it.
Speaker 1: Then Buzz is in is in that crate and you
Speaker 1: think and then yeah, and then the other way around,
Speaker 1: well I think wood he's in the crate and Buzz
Speaker 1: is pushing the cry. You think, okay, it's free, and
Speaker 1: then the toolbox falls on him. It's like never, it's never,
Speaker 1: never any And then later on when they're when they're
Speaker 1: they're chasing the car and they're on the remote control
Speaker 1: car and you think they're gonna make it, and then
Speaker 1: the batteries run out, and then the match and then
Speaker 1: they realize the cargoes pass and it blows out the match.
Speaker 1: Like it's just constantly making it impossible. Just when you
Speaker 1: think there's an out, Pixar do it so well. They
Speaker 1: just it's not happening.
Speaker 2: It's so creative. And I think probably my biggest laugh
Speaker 2: was when I think the dog may have woody in
Speaker 2: his mouth. They're chasing behind the truck. Buzz is on
Speaker 2: the truck holding wood with his hand, and the dog
Speaker 2: has got what his feet, I think, and Buzz jumps
Speaker 2: onto the dog's head and grabs his eyelids and pulls
Speaker 2: them straight up like two stretchy socks, and I lost it.
Speaker 2: I was not expect that. I felt so viscerally disgusting.
Speaker 2: I got to hear the sound.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got good laughs out of I felt they
Speaker 1: played with perspective really well, like the I like, because yeah,
Speaker 1: you're in close when there's the chase going on and
Speaker 1: they're trying to get back on the van, and you're
Speaker 1: really close, and it's like you're watching Fury Road, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you watch his car, you know, his car chase,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it feels like a heist movie. And and
Speaker 1: then you pull back and you just see this tiny
Speaker 1: toy in the middle of the road. It's so and
Speaker 1: they do it in really smart moments.
Speaker 4: I think. I think it comes home really well.
Speaker 1: I think considering you know what's going to happen, like
Speaker 1: if you're honest with yourself, there's no surprises in the end,
Speaker 1: you know, buzz and what are you going to get
Speaker 1: back to Andy?
Speaker 2: I guess that's what makes them drawing it out so
Speaker 2: much fun. Yeah, you know what's going to happen, but
Speaker 2: like you just don't expect it's going to happen. When
Speaker 2: the car drives past and the match gets blown out
Speaker 2: and I was like, because I was like, they're gonna
Speaker 2: light the match, They're gonna like the rocket, They're gonna
Speaker 2: like I can't wait to that and thing. I think
Speaker 2: I might have remembered a bit of that from the
Speaker 2: trailer and then plight out. I was like, what are
Speaker 2: they gonna do?
Speaker 1: And it's kind of the art and what makes such
Speaker 1: a work of genius. I think that that we completely
Speaker 1: know that this is the this is the kid's film.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course they're gonna make it, but as
Speaker 1: as you're watching, you're gonna go, oh, they man, I
Speaker 1: make it they can make it. Yeah, there is craft
Speaker 1: and skill behind them making us feel that way.
Speaker 2: I mean, I really, I mean I think I have
Speaker 2: heard it called the perfect film or I mightn't even
Speaker 2: knowother toy story, but like it's such a good example
Speaker 2: of a tight, classic story, well told with great pace. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe a few too many mister potato head bits falling
Speaker 2: off gags.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one too many.
Speaker 2: I was like, I swear to God to knocked off again.
Speaker 2: But then but then made up for by like really
Speaker 2: like every now, and then I was like, don't do
Speaker 2: another one. And then like, it's a missus. It's a
Speaker 2: missus potato Head and this says jeez, a bit of
Speaker 2: shade going to put off his mowe. And then I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, that's what. That's a good one. But yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of.
Speaker 4: It, and you will meet Missus potato Head in the.
Speaker 2: Oh really, yes, well done, ncentering you stuff. I saw
Speaker 2: you're getting all right, You're about to lean into you
Speaker 2: leaned forward towards the microphone. Potato.
Speaker 1: I've got some fun facts, Josh, I love, I love
Speaker 1: a fun fact. Billy Crystal was also offered the role
Speaker 1: of Buzz Like you said no said no and then
Speaker 1: said it was his biggest regret of his career. And
Speaker 1: once the movie came out, and John Lastadter called him
Speaker 1: at his house a couple of years later, and his
Speaker 1: wife answered and said John Lasts on the phone. He
Speaker 1: took the phone and just said yes, and he was
Speaker 1: calling to offer him the role as Mike Wazowski in
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was the second film that came out
Speaker 1: of Pixar. You may have clocked the name Combat, Karl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, years ago? Who is that?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't actually I'm not who it was, but
Speaker 1: I can tell you it's combat. It's basically G I Joe.
Speaker 1: But they did not give a mission for G I
Speaker 1: Joe to be used.
Speaker 2: Was he the guy that lifted up the back of it?
Speaker 2: He was the musty? Was he must one?
Speaker 1: He was one of gets playing basically Oh really yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah Carl, Yeah, And I'll tell you the sergeant
Speaker 1: was who.
Speaker 2: Who all the ali emery?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, the little Jacket always like basically always
Speaker 1: plays that role.
Speaker 2: The only the only man who's ever played that role.
Speaker 1: He's he's so good. I mentioned I thought it was
Speaker 1: really lovely.
Speaker 2: He did it in a very it was weird it
Speaker 2: was lovely and soft. It was still that guy, but
Speaker 2: it was it was like it wasn't Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 2: all the built up frustration and hatred. Yeah, he didn't
Speaker 2: get another movie.
Speaker 1: He didn't go full full middle jacket. It's percent off
Speaker 1: John Ratzenberger, who I'm not sure. I haven't watched the
Speaker 1: many recent Pixar films, and I should because they're all
Speaker 1: you're always learned something and feel something in a Pixel film.
Speaker 1: But John Ratzenberger Kick Claven from Cheers playing Ham and
Speaker 1: basically appears I think, up to a point in every
Speaker 1: Pixar he's almost a good luck has he Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's good. While a Sean played Rex while Sewan you
Speaker 1: might know, I think from The Princess Bride. Oh, the.
Speaker 2: Probably my favorite. I don't know if it's yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's got like out there in the world,
Speaker 2: if he's regarded as a jarge Banks. But I was
Speaker 2: like a real soft site for the dinosaur.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, the dinosaurs are I think, well, what's the coolest.
Speaker 2: One to like? Because when I go into the real world, Peter,
Speaker 2: I want to say, like I like, and they don't.
Speaker 2: Everyone to go, oh that's a jab Banks character, you idiot.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good question. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: if you sat with the army, guys, I think it's
Speaker 1: a pretty good round. It's think it's good. Jim Varney
Speaker 1: plays Slink I love Jim, Yes, and Don Rickles plays
Speaker 1: mister potato Head. So it's probably why.
Speaker 4: Be suggesting new new game. I got another line, guys,
Speaker 4: I got another line, and I got another lining.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's just get it and then you can go yeah,
Speaker 2: just wait, mate, we're rolling.
Speaker 1: Rickles got another one that's going to cost us another
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty grand.
Speaker 2: There was one, so I was having this sort of
Speaker 2: extential crisis about toys gaining consciousness during it. But there's
Speaker 2: also the one that during that that final chase scene
Speaker 2: with the rocket, and I think it was just before
Speaker 2: they let the rocket that he was driving with the
Speaker 2: remote control car and he was driving the controller. But
Speaker 2: when he let the rocket, he just dropped it and
Speaker 2: then they took off. Yes, And I'm like, is that
Speaker 2: the car. You can't that's part of the car that
Speaker 2: might be his liver or something. You know, you can't
Speaker 2: just leave part of the toy back. He's going to
Speaker 2: get driven over. I don't know what there is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can't even control himself. Like it's a car that
Speaker 2: has to be driven by that controller. So if you
Speaker 2: drive over it, that car is just going to be lost.
Speaker 4: You've killed You've killed one of your own.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what you're doing well.
Speaker 1: And it's also you could argue that, you know, the
Speaker 1: soldier the combat car that gets blown up, like there's
Speaker 1: very little you know, remorse, you know for him, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did like the mutant toys. I think that's it's
Speaker 1: a nice Yeah, it's a nice kind of toys.
Speaker 4: Can be rebirth when.
Speaker 2: You put that, is it Janey's hidden a vice?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not nice?
Speaker 2: A vice and just turn it around.
Speaker 1: I was like in his bedroom, I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: his parents.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not sure what's going on with his parents,
Speaker 4: to be honest.
Speaker 2: Wow, there's that really strange, Like you see sort of
Speaker 2: a wide shot of Sid's mum. I think you hear
Speaker 2: a few times. And then there's one but where where
Speaker 2: Buzz sees the ad. You go into this room and
Speaker 2: suddenly it's very dark. There's a there's I think a
Speaker 2: male passed out in a chair. There's like strewn cans
Speaker 2: around as if that if it's like maybe some is
Speaker 2: this some horrific alcoholic Is this a home that is
Speaker 2: very dark to be part of us?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't need any sid spin offs to be honest,
Speaker 1: it's a very dark It's a very dark place.
Speaker 2: Yea.
Speaker 1: Since well, speaking of parents, and his dad does not appear.
Speaker 1: He does not never mentioned in any of the toy
Speaker 1: story films.
Speaker 2: Is it right?
Speaker 4: And basically what it was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily a conscious decision to make you know
Speaker 1: him fatherless.
Speaker 4: It just it was.
Speaker 1: It was they wanted to kind of cut down the
Speaker 1: amount of human characters because they were aware, as you
Speaker 1: actually pointed out, it's cheaper, it's cheaper. But also they
Speaker 1: were aware they weren't as they were tougher to draw
Speaker 1: and tougher to have in. So yeah, that's why you
Speaker 1: know a lot of human characters. I think it works
Speaker 1: for the like seeing the story told mainly from the
Speaker 1: angle of the toys is really fun, but it is
Speaker 1: they were hard of the draw, so they just went, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's we don't need him for the story. So he
Speaker 1: can either he can either be no longer on the
Speaker 1: scene or maybe he's away on work or.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also kind of think, you know, subconsciously, it adds
Speaker 1: an emotional level that you know, is doesn't have a
Speaker 1: father on the scene, and these toys come arone a
Speaker 1: little more to him. Maybe there's you know, you know,
Speaker 1: fatherly figured type thing. Maybe I don't know if Ham
Speaker 1: or Rex, you know, the perfect father figure. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think it works nice nicely. The they
Speaker 1: went they had troubling toy story toys. This is hard
Speaker 1: to believe because a lot of Pixel Pixel's wealth has
Speaker 1: actually been built up by toys, particularly actually the cars franchise.
Speaker 1: I think they made more in in in retail than
Speaker 1: they have in cinemas. That's what I keep on making
Speaker 1: those films, which it's just okay to be honest, but
Speaker 1: has Broke and Mattel both said no. They said no,
Speaker 1: we're not, we're not, we're not. Really, they had eleven
Speaker 1: months to get the job done, and we can't get
Speaker 1: that done a job done in time. And so a little,
Speaker 1: a little Canadian company called think Way Toys took the
Speaker 1: job on, but they did refuse. Pixel wanted them to
Speaker 1: make also the the Mutant toys, and they just went, nah,
Speaker 1: we're good, be.
Speaker 2: Easy to make you just make just the off cuts.
Speaker 1: Those together, I tell you, nearly steals the show is
Speaker 1: the alien and the Alien. I was gonna say, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: When the claw the claw claw, I love that, man,
Speaker 2: I love it. And then even like all the little
Speaker 2: details is like the door finding the way out. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: he's been selected.
Speaker 4: They've been selected.
Speaker 1: That needs to be like the groot of the movie. Also,
Speaker 1: Barbie said no, he's a Mattel the Barbie whoever does
Speaker 1: Barbie said no to letting them in the first movie,
Speaker 1: But then they saw it and they loved it, and
Speaker 1: they Barbie and Ken both appear in future Toys stories.
Speaker 2: Who did the Star Wars figures? George like is famously yes,
Speaker 2: packing all his money from the figurines.
Speaker 1: Good question, and because those are the toys I play
Speaker 1: with the most. Like I had a green suitcase full
Speaker 1: of Star Wars. It was just and I will walk
Speaker 1: around everywhere. You must have been the same on a farm, Wow?
Speaker 2: No? I yeah. I had a neighbor who had a
Speaker 2: x wing, like a large one that figures in and
Speaker 2: I just became big best friends to get to his
Speaker 2: xwing basically, and it was the greatest. I would walk
Speaker 2: across paddocks in the rain and through the mud, and
Speaker 2: I'd get that sweet X wing and have a great
Speaker 2: time with that. You also had some great Masses of
Speaker 2: the Universe toys.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was the other thing I had. Yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, I mean it was it was a smallt ward.
Speaker 2: I had weird nothing knockoffs. I think I had a
Speaker 2: range of g I Joes that were called like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, like BA Brian's or something was a terrible
Speaker 2: They were awful, awful. But I did have one original
Speaker 2: Bob Effet, which I weirdly went and buried in a
Speaker 2: paddock and I can't remember where I buried it, and
Speaker 2: I actually spent some time trying to dig it up
Speaker 2: because I found out recently it is the most sought
Speaker 2: after Star Wars figurine, and I think one sold on
Speaker 2: eBay for like one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, the
Speaker 2: one that most recently sold.
Speaker 4: But was it in the box?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean my ones covered and basically been eaten
Speaker 1: by sarlac.
Speaker 4: That's what it is. Actually, it's literally in the sarlac.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, But but just the thought of it,
Speaker 2: it's kind of I guess it's kind of like it's
Speaker 2: like Fargo, like how that tourist went looking for that
Speaker 2: buried suitcase, and that imagine they're going to find me
Speaker 2: digging holes around my desperately. If it all, if it
Speaker 2: all goes baily, if I get cast and they getting
Speaker 2: more help me digging holes.
Speaker 1: I love I love the other somebody like being finding
Speaker 1: it You've got a Bubba fet berry somewhere and being
Speaker 1: really passionate about you finding it and then realizing you
Speaker 1: hadn't actually kept it in the box. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: I thought it was in the box. This is six
Speaker 1: years of my life. I've just wasted, wasted. Yeah, Josh Thompson, Mate,
Speaker 1: you have a movie that's coming in Aussie and New
Speaker 1: Zealand cinemas called How to Please a Woman. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: go on, tell me tell me a little bit about it.
Speaker 4: The trailer looks very funny.
Speaker 2: It's very it was very fun it was. It's a
Speaker 2: what is it? It's a it's got the amazing Sally
Speaker 2: Phillips from British Dungeon's Diary and she's got an amazing
Speaker 2: came on VP as a finish Prime minister and you know, acting.
Speaker 1: Royalty and also got a lot of that party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the Smack the Pony, which is
Speaker 2: an incredible BBC sort of sketch series. It from a
Speaker 2: long time ago anyway, So she she plays a woman
Speaker 2: who who doesn't really know how to ask for what
Speaker 2: she wants. She's got unhappy marriage and then she feels
Speaker 2: very invisible. And then she sees a furniture moving firm
Speaker 2: and decides to help it, saves it from from a
Speaker 2: dunderzee by it. You know what, you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: not good at selling a movie that I'm in. But
Speaker 2: she realizes she can make a lot of money by
Speaker 2: getting these guys to offer sexual services also or clean
Speaker 2: your house or both. Yeah, and so yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: it's a big old, fun, raucous tale of sexual reawaking, reckoning.
Speaker 2: I guess it's it's got a real sort of sexual
Speaker 2: revolution vibe about it. Actually, they cast me as a
Speaker 2: candy and.
Speaker 1: Any sex scenes, I yeah, I just not into it.
Speaker 2: Spoiler the movie. I was really flocking through the pages
Speaker 2: looking for some sex scenes for me, but no, I
Speaker 2: you can see the tiny bit of in the trailer.
Speaker 2: I do some form of erotic dance and yeah, that
Speaker 2: was my first day on set, just turned up, Hi, Hello, Hello,
Speaker 2: here you going. And then I took off my clothes
Speaker 2: for half a day. And that was interesting because the
Speaker 2: crew didn't know if I was trying to do it
Speaker 2: humorously or if my attempt at being sexy was sadly funny.
Speaker 2: So like everyone, it was so awkward for everybody. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've gyrated for hours, but it was.
Speaker 2: It was so bizarre, like if you've.
Speaker 1: Like I was, really, I haven't gyrated for minutes or second.
Speaker 2: The powerless work that I was putting in was like
Speaker 2: I was, I don't know what was going on. Like
Speaker 2: the sockets of my hips were self lubricating at one point,
Speaker 2: and I remember I was really going for it. I
Speaker 2: locked up and I saw just the focus puller. This
Speaker 2: poor woman was just her eyes were so dead, so
Speaker 2: blazed over, almost you know, like a shark sized black eyes.
Speaker 2: When they said cut, they rolled back. It's like thank god,
Speaker 2: but it was, Yeah, it was. It was incredibly fun
Speaker 2: like you know, Eric Thompson, Cameron Daddo, Ryan Johnson, Alexander
Speaker 2: like an incredible Tasma Walton and yeah, she's she's got
Speaker 2: incredible scenes in it. She's incredible, Caroline Brazier, Haley Mcaleney
Speaker 2: Hailey is incredible. It's it's it's a good it's a
Speaker 2: you know, it's a great. It's a very honest look
Speaker 2: at you know, sexuality in your middle age and like
Speaker 2: how to get what you want. And it's really fun.
Speaker 2: You go get a group of friends together and get
Speaker 2: very drunk and go and see it and just yell
Speaker 2: abuse at everybody.
Speaker 1: A great cast Ozsie and key Week cast coming together,
Speaker 1: getting sexy, getting the laughs done, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: just great to be in cinemas.
Speaker 4: And Young Young Rocket fun to do.
Speaker 2: Young Rock was great. It was.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm doing selling TV.
Speaker 1: Series and I'm all telling Dwayne Johnson's job.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, and like incredibly one everyone's read
Speaker 2: one for and it was it was a great thing
Speaker 2: to be part of. It was just awkward because it
Speaker 2: was during the height of the pandemic. Both series I
Speaker 2: got casts and and I was like, how exciting, And
Speaker 2: then I had to leave my wife with a one
Speaker 2: and three year old for two months by yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and because I had saited what's been one month in quarantine?
Speaker 2: Two weeks there two weeks back, and I lost my
Speaker 2: mind in quarantine, and so I spent a month in quarantine,
Speaker 2: lost my mind, and then was just on the on
Speaker 2: the Gold Coast and Bristman, feeling very guilty that I
Speaker 2: was able to sleep and maybe have a few cocktails
Speaker 2: at the beach. So my wife would be like, you know,
Speaker 2: you go. Anytime that I had a bad day on set,
Speaker 2: it was her day was much worse, So it was
Speaker 2: hard to complain. I'd be like, oh, you know, they
Speaker 2: brought me a flat white I wanted along black. She's
Speaker 2: just carvet and spew and feces, and this is an
Speaker 2: awful I really didn't have a chance to wind down.
Speaker 1: So whenever you're watching Young Rock and you see Josh
Speaker 1: in one of your scenes, just remember his wife was
Speaker 1: at home in New Zealand looking after and then both
Speaker 1: their kids, but they were one year old an interview and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I had problems too, So let's.
Speaker 4: Mate this This movie comes with homework.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you doing it, is you know with
Speaker 1: that said, it is the shortest film anyone's done on
Speaker 1: this podcast.
Speaker 2: Is that really?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think I think I think this this is even
Speaker 1: shorter than the Castle, so you may maybe a new
Speaker 1: record here. So you have the shortest one roving man,
Speaker 1: it says the longest one with Gone with the Wind.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you watch you actually between between that and
Speaker 1: and Gone with the Wind, you can actual probably watch
Speaker 1: two other movies, but you can watch Toy Story two
Speaker 1: other movies and still not be finished Gone with the Wind.
Speaker 1: But mate, great to see you. We had so much fun.
Speaker 1: I was saying, courage people to you know, I mentioned
Speaker 1: it in the intro, but you did a hilarious episode
Speaker 1: of How to Say Married? One of my favorite days
Speaker 1: on set of Anything I've Done. You and Tom Budge
Speaker 1: on set the fuck we laughed that day, Josh?
Speaker 4: That was that was.
Speaker 2: We have it on on and ongoing gag where me
Speaker 2: and Tom aren't allowed to do anything without asking Pete first.
Speaker 2: So years from then we're still like any time to
Speaker 2: us get cast, were like, did you run there by Pete?
Speaker 2: It would be very weird and joke that keeps going.
Speaker 1: Follow follow Josh on Instagram and occasionally you will see
Speaker 1: a comment for me saying was this run by my people? Congratulations?
Speaker 4: But I'm just sweet that I.
Speaker 1: Didn't hear about this before you know fine, the idea
Speaker 1: being as soon as you come on to one of
Speaker 1: my shows and How to Say Married, I basically own
Speaker 1: your career and.
Speaker 2: I certainly felt like throwing your weight around that set o. Sorry, Josh,
Speaker 2: I do last around here.
Speaker 1: Well you really remember that, you really burned it into
Speaker 1: your memory, because that was scarily accurate.
Speaker 2: Lisa on the other costume in front of everybody, tried
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: She can't with me, You really really can't. But it
Speaker 1: was genuinely one of the most fun days I've had
Speaker 1: on any production having you on board, and it's been
Speaker 1: great catching up with you today, mate. So yeah, go
Speaker 1: see How to Please a Woman, watch a Young Rock
Speaker 1: and think all of those things we spoke of earlier
Speaker 1: and anything Josh gone from Seven Days the project in
Speaker 1: New Zealand. Get behind it and mate, we'll chat again soon.
Speaker 1: Just just run things by me a bit more next time.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, mister Helly, I apologize. You're going to see study.
Speaker 1: You got, you got, you.
Speaker 2: Got briend whatever happens at.
Speaker 1: Least, Yes, that was Josh Thompson. Go see his film
Speaker 1: How to Please a Woman. It looks fantastic and really
Speaker 1: a lot of fun hanging out with him and reminiscing
Speaker 1: about Toy Story. I love that movie so much, and
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you do too. I want
Speaker 1: to thank obviously Derek Casway Studios, and everyone at iHeartRadio,
Speaker 1: including Alex who has helped me from time to time
Speaker 1: when I can't quite get into Castaway Studios. It's much appreciated,
Speaker 1: and also everyone listening. If you want to like and
Speaker 1: subscribe and rate the podcast on iTunes. Oh, it was
Speaker 1: just a five star rating. Yeah, but a lot a
Speaker 1: couple stars in your mouth. Is that how it works?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's much appreciated. It keeps the
Speaker 1: algorithm moving, and yes, we appreciate it. Next week on
Speaker 1: the show, A very funny man, a very good friend,
Speaker 1: Sam Torton. Have you seen Sam live, You'll know how
Speaker 1: funny he is. He's been on all the TV shows,
Speaker 1: including the Project and many many others. Usually we have
Speaker 1: a problem or he has done all of them basically,
Speaker 1: and he's going to be doing to change your pace
Speaker 1: from Toy Story, Kramer versus Kramer, doesn't Hoffman Meryl Streep
Speaker 1: go head to head in a custody battle for the ages.
Speaker 1: It's a classic. It it's very different than the toy story.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see and hear what Sam
Speaker 1: thinks about Kramer versus Kramer next week. And you ain't
Speaker 1: seen nothing yet until then. Keep safe by for now,
Speaker 1: And so we leave old Pete save Van Sult, and
Speaker 1: to our friends of the radio audience, we've been a
Speaker 1: pleasant good name.