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Speaker 1: Uh well, hope we are thrilled to be joined in
Speaker 1: our third seat by him of this show's destruction. A
Speaker 1: brilliant comedian, writer, actor many a successful stand up album,
Speaker 1: the Blake album Stuffed Boy Live from the Pandemic, some
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Speaker 1: Glass to Blake Wexler always started on Billboard. Please welcome,
Speaker 1: the hilarious, the Chaotic. He's riding a recumbent bike in
Speaker 1: short shorts and his plumpers are on full display. It's
Speaker 1: Blake Waxler. This is Blake Wexler aka the Birthday Bay
Speaker 1: aka Born Bjorg aka the Flat birth a Kage against
Speaker 1: the Machine aka the C Section Star. It's great to
Speaker 1: be here. I turned yesterday, Oh dadratulations three days ago. Whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm riding it out. Yeah on the recumbent bike. You
Speaker 1: a C section baby? Yeah, the C Section Star baby,
Speaker 1: that's me. Look at that. That'll be trademark by Monday.
Speaker 1: And Mama promise. Mama said, cut it out right, get
Speaker 1: this thing, they get it out of my body. The
Speaker 1: belly of the beast. Yeah, as it's colloquialt referred to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me you guys, Hey, thanks for being here. Blake.
Speaker 1: How are you holding up after the Philadelphia Eagles You
Speaker 1: probably heard about this did lose in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: It came across my radar and I am journaling and
Speaker 1: handling this in a very mature way. Just because they
Speaker 1: lost one game doesn't mean all the nice memories from
Speaker 1: along the westbolutely are invalidated. Yeah, the real Super Bowl
Speaker 1: ring is the friends we made along the way. I agree,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a ring of friendship and we're all
Speaker 1: holding hands around one one holding call just because Yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean you can't eat the poopoo anyway, Yeah
Speaker 1: I can't. I couldn't agree more. It's there there. What
Speaker 1: did horses go away just because we lost the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: They're still around, They're still exactly our streets, and someone
Speaker 1: has to do something about this. It's true, clean losing
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl does not make the horse poopoo any
Speaker 1: less delicious, so I can agree. Yeah. Before we get
Speaker 1: to any of that ship though, Amy, we like to
Speaker 1: ask our guests, what is something from your search history?
Speaker 1: I like that you call the rest of your show
Speaker 1: shit good real professional stuff. Thanks for tuning in again bullshit? Um.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Well, this weekend, I'll be in Oregon. My
Speaker 1: Portland show is sold out, but there's still some tickets
Speaker 1: for Salem and if you're crazy, mc Minville a lovely
Speaker 1: little town you can go to a winery and then
Speaker 1: see some comedy. Um. Yeah, both about an hour outside Portland,
Speaker 1: So I got you guys covered. Um. And then a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks I'll be in Alameda in the East
Speaker 1: Bay at the Alameda Comedy Club. And then I have
Speaker 1: a new clip up on YouTube. I haven't seen it
Speaker 1: because I don't want to look at the comments, but
Speaker 1: I hear it's great, so you should watch it. Give
Speaker 1: it all thumbs up. I did it. I was at
Speaker 1: the show, so I remember it. But yeah, give it
Speaker 1: a thumbs up. Maybe leave a nice comment if I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what's going over there, but yeah,
Speaker 1: and my whole specials up on YouTube too. If you
Speaker 1: want to see more, and you go to Amy Miller
Speaker 1: Comedy dot com for da if you want to see
Speaker 1: if you want to see, your search history is just
Speaker 1: Amy Miller stuff. No, I've gotten so much better. I'm
Speaker 1: really growing up. I can't. I just can't be bothered
Speaker 1: with what people are. Although I was on the New
Speaker 1: York Times TikTok yesterday, I have to encourage people to
Speaker 1: see this because it's maybe the dumbest piece of media
Speaker 1: about comedy I've ever seen in my life. Like, it's
Speaker 1: just about what water bottles people have on stage. It's
Speaker 1: like the most that's hard hitting journalism. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. And then I did read some
Speaker 1: of those comments, because you know, TikTok comments are hilarious
Speaker 1: a lot of the time, like even if you're getting roasted,
Speaker 1: you're like, these kids are so fucking funny. But you
Speaker 1: know there were people that were just like, why aren't
Speaker 1: people using reusable water bottles. I'm like, I I just
Speaker 1: took the bottle that they handed me at the taping, right,
Speaker 1: I didn't like call ahead to Comedy Central like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need a clean canteen on stage. It's just it's
Speaker 1: the most insane thing. It's literally just about water in comedy, dude,
Speaker 1: Are they trend chasing? Are they like? Oh, I feel
Speaker 1: like they just gave one kid like a TikTok assignment
Speaker 1: and he was like what about this? Right, It's like
Speaker 1: he doesn't know anything about stand up, but he's just
Speaker 1: noticed that we have water bottles sometimes and has a
Speaker 1: bottled water company ever reached out to you and been like,
Speaker 1: we would love you to influence for on our behalf
Speaker 1: because I know kind of makes sense. It seems like
Speaker 1: an everybods in community falling down on the job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it's happened to other people. I might not be
Speaker 1: is enough or according to this piece, I don't drink
Speaker 1: enough water, maybe because they do clip out like the
Speaker 1: Robin Williams special where he has like seventeen bottles of
Speaker 1: water on the stage and they're like some comedians move
Speaker 1: around a lot and they get really thirsty. I'm not
Speaker 1: exaggerating this piece, by the way, but I don't move
Speaker 1: at all, So I think one bottle is probably good
Speaker 1: for the whole half hour. Like, there you go. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's wild, you have to go check it out.
Speaker 1: I mean, no wonder these teams are so depressed about
Speaker 1: climate change because all these comedians are not using reusable
Speaker 1: water bottles. They're just chugging seventeen bottles of water on stage,
Speaker 1: throwing them away, And look what it's done to our planet.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't hear for a good time, Amy
Speaker 1: not to watch you destroy the planet Earth. Well, what's
Speaker 1: wild is in the last six months, I've been doing
Speaker 1: a new bit about plastic bottles, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you cut me, You cut me too Earth early with
Speaker 1: this clip. Let me let's do a follow up in
Speaker 1: a couple of months when that's when that's been taped.
Speaker 1: So wild, the New York Times TikTok needs to get
Speaker 1: up on their ship. I'm disappointed, and they're really trying.
Speaker 1: All right, what is something you think is overrated? Radical honesty? Like, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I think I think that we
Speaker 1: can sometimes like put a lot of value on being
Speaker 1: like honest for the point of being on for the
Speaker 1: sake of being honest, And like, I don't I'm fine
Speaker 1: with white lies, and like I would honestly rather have
Speaker 1: someone be nice to me. I'd rather have you been nice.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like when people have a personality
Speaker 1: like I just tell it like it is and they're
Speaker 1: just mean, Yeah, I'm not into it. I think it's overrated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lot, it's a lot of energy to be
Speaker 1: around those. Yeah. Yeah, for your little experiment, I have
Speaker 1: to like just gird myself for like the most uncomfortable
Speaker 1: thirty minutes of my life, you know, like that exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it can be pretty selfish, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like you're, yeah, you're you're kind of pushing that
Speaker 1: on someone else without necessarily their consent or they're asking
Speaker 1: for it. I love it in small doses, though too.
Speaker 1: I don't like, I don't think I could pull it
Speaker 1: off as a as a lifestyle, like a twenty four
Speaker 1: hour lifestyle. But having like this kind of came up
Speaker 1: when we were talking. There's that the Cut article about
Speaker 1: like new rules of etiquette, and one of them was like,
Speaker 1: don't tell people who you think they look like. And
Speaker 1: that's a perfect example. That is great advice for you. However,
Speaker 1: if you have a look alike about me, I want
Speaker 1: to know what it is desperately, even though I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna like it, I'm I like that is an amazing
Speaker 1: little glimpse into like how people see you when they
Speaker 1: first see you. That like you'll never be able to
Speaker 1: get other than that way, and it's like uncomfortable and
Speaker 1: I don't want to know it all the time. But
Speaker 1: I also have no idea like how people perceive me,
Speaker 1: So like somebody who's practicing radical honesty, it's good to
Speaker 1: like get get next to them for fifteen minutes. If
Speaker 1: you're in the mood, you know, what, is there one
Speaker 1: that sticks out in your mind of like a look
Speaker 1: like that you got that that made you happy? John
Speaker 1: Mayer made me happy. That's a good one, and then
Speaker 1: Walton Goggins made me unhappy. I got Walton guns right.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a big ego boost and other times it's
Speaker 1: it's crushing. I'm like, yeah, oh yeah, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be I changed my whole life once someone told
Speaker 1: me that I was a thing. It's irreparable damage. And
Speaker 1: I think it's that thing of like you remember the
Speaker 1: bad comments so much more than the good ones. It's
Speaker 1: like one radically honest comparison to somebody you don't want
Speaker 1: to look like. And yeah, you're on a whole new
Speaker 1: life trajectory. Walton Goggins was not is not a bad
Speaker 1: like looking guy or anything. It was just like the
Speaker 1: it was a character that this person was like saying,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you so remind me of them, and
Speaker 1: like you look exactly like them, and it just wasn't
Speaker 1: wasn't my favorite. So well, I don't see it if
Speaker 1: Oh my god, thank you so much. Bring up every
Speaker 1: episode now, just so people can from like vice principles
Speaker 1: and I think, just okay, this guy okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a good name though, amazing name. Yeah, like such a
Speaker 1: Civil War soldier who died on the battlefield. Just incredible.
Speaker 1: I was born to die on the battlefield, like a
Speaker 1: Civil War battle. And this is all getting edited out,
Speaker 1: but that's good. It's good. It allows me to get
Speaker 1: to know you better. Mason. Mason wants something you think
Speaker 1: is underrated, elastic in waste bands and socks, Okay, because
Speaker 1: like it was I found out recently. It was invented
Speaker 1: in like the thirties and forties. And I can't imagine
Speaker 1: waking up every day and having tie my underwear on
Speaker 1: and clip on sock garters and there's like nothing better
Speaker 1: than I like tall socks and like that feeling when
Speaker 1: you have a sock pulled all the way up is
Speaker 1: just awesome. And I just feel like I haven't appreciated
Speaker 1: that enough. Yeah, it's just they invented a thing that
Speaker 1: hugs you. Yeah, and we take it for granted. But
Speaker 1: like you know, it wasn't that long ago in the
Speaker 1: thirties and forties when underwear literally had button and tie
Speaker 1: buttons and ties on it. Yeah, it's amazing. It seems
Speaker 1: these are my regular suspenders, and these are my underwear
Speaker 1: suspenders and yeah, yeah, everything is just held up by
Speaker 1: a series of clips. Yeah, that's amazing. The thirties and
Speaker 1: like before that, Yeah, you see a lot of belts
Speaker 1: and strange undergarments that look like you were in traction
Speaker 1: like clothing. Yeah. Yeah, it also makes probably a little
Speaker 1: down the road for you, but it makes getting your
Speaker 1: kids dressed much easier. Getting kids dressed must have been
Speaker 1: a night like that's why they just all wore like
Speaker 1: a burlap sack back in the day. What, Perry, what
Speaker 1: is something that you think is underrated? I'm also going
Speaker 1: to go with a clothing item. Okay, So, and I
Speaker 1: came to appreciate it recently because I just turned fifty
Speaker 1: a few months ago and I remember back, probably when
Speaker 1: I was Mason's age, somebody said, never skimp on anything
Speaker 1: that separates you from the earth. And I've realized recently
Speaker 1: that shoes and good shoes are way underrated. I want
Speaker 1: to shoe with it, Like when I take it off
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I don't feel like
Speaker 1: my back and my feet my legs are gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: killing me. But I you know, I would maybe generalize
Speaker 1: and just say anything that separates us from the ground,
Speaker 1: that's a mattress exactly grounded. Um No, I think it was.
Speaker 1: It was somebody that had way more money than me,
Speaker 1: and he was talking about like why he bought a
Speaker 1: really expensive car, so was justifying that He's like, anything
Speaker 1: that separates me from the earth, I'm going to spend
Speaker 1: a lot of money on so that it's it's reliable.
Speaker 1: But I come to appreciate it with just like shoes,
Speaker 1: I just wanted shoes that don't hurt. I just lost
Speaker 1: a sneaker auction this morning, So I agree with you
Speaker 1: trying to get trying to get those Jordans threes. The three.
Speaker 1: The three is the white cement threes that they drive me.
Speaker 1: I saw that. I saw that and I was like,
Speaker 1: I Justin superser, Justin, Justin, Justin gets ever gets you
Speaker 1: every the only person who actually gets like wins the sneaker. Oh, Justin,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Justin what's the address? Man? Yeah, you're just
Speaker 1: gonna need to wear fourteen pairs of socks because he
Speaker 1: wears like five size is bigger than any of us.
Speaker 1: I love it. All Right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. And we're back and yeah, So
Speaker 1: Malcolm X's daughter, Elyatashabez filed notices stating her intention to
Speaker 1: sue the FBI, CIA, MYPD for conspiring to assassinate her
Speaker 1: father the like. There was a Netflix documentary that pointed
Speaker 1: to the fact that two of the people who were
Speaker 1: convicted of the of assassinating her father were not there
Speaker 1: that day and so that they were eventually like the
Speaker 1: the Innocence Project and a local DA I believe reopened
Speaker 1: the case and you know, Muhammed Azi's and Khalil Islam
Speaker 1: were cleared because there were just so much evidence that
Speaker 1: they again were not there that day, weren't present or
Speaker 1: murder the The keypiece of evidence that seemingly inspired the
Speaker 1: new suit surface last year, and it is a letter
Speaker 1: written by a now dead NYPD officer who confessed that
Speaker 1: he had been compelled by his supervisors at the New
Speaker 1: York Police Department to coax two members of Malcolm X's
Speaker 1: security team into committing crimes, meaning they were in jail
Speaker 1: during the event, allowing law enforcement agencies to murder Malcolm X,
Speaker 1: which like, does sound like how police forces seem to operate.
Speaker 1: Sounds very familiar. Yeah, like falsely accused and imprisoned somebody
Speaker 1: so that you know, like I again, the details aren't
Speaker 1: all there about like police officers walked up and like
Speaker 1: pulled the trigger, but it seemed like they were told
Speaker 1: this was going to happen. They didn't stop it. They arrested,
Speaker 1: according to you know, this letter from an NYPD officer
Speaker 1: who was like, yeah, just wait till I'm dead and
Speaker 1: then you can release this. But they arrested parts of
Speaker 1: a security team that would make it difficult for him
Speaker 1: to be murdered. And then when it happened this officers
Speaker 1: threatened to resign, but a supervisors told him that they
Speaker 1: would charge him with false crimes if he did, which
Speaker 1: again seems to be there m in this case. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a mess. I just I remember when the article
Speaker 1: came out about two of the three assassins being cleared
Speaker 1: due to all of this evidence. The New York Times
Speaker 1: article just like really seeming weird to me because like,
Speaker 1: so it contains the sentence, nor did it uncover a
Speaker 1: police or government conspiracy to murder him. But then later
Speaker 1: it says mister Vince's reinvestigation, conducted with the Innocence Project
Speaker 1: in the officer office of David Chanie, a civil rights lawyer,
Speaker 1: contended with serious obstacles. Many of those involved in the
Speaker 1: murder case, including witnesses, investigators, and trial lawyers, as well
Speaker 1: as other potential suspects, did long ago. Key documents were
Speaker 1: lost to time, and physical evidence such as murder weapons
Speaker 1: were no longer available to be test to, which again,
Speaker 1: like just that's super convenient for the police to lose
Speaker 1: all that shit. Yeah, they are the custodians of that evidence,
Speaker 1: but right like lost to time, Like who will somebody
Speaker 1: in time lost them? It's just lost to time. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and blame time on this one. Pass well,
Speaker 1: you know, as what happens in Marvel movies, a portal
Speaker 1: opens up and just and then the evidence it gets
Speaker 1: lost in the space time continuum, and you know what happens.
Speaker 1: And then so on top of all this ship there's
Speaker 1: this part of the New York Times article that's like
Speaker 1: buried down, you know, five six paragraphs. Time prosecutors notes
Speaker 1: indicate they failed to disclose the presence of undercover officers
Speaker 1: in the ballroom at the time of the shooting, and
Speaker 1: police department files revealed that a reporter for the New
Speaker 1: York Daily News received a call the morning of the
Speaker 1: shooting indicating Malcolm X would be murdered. So there were
Speaker 1: somebody who's like, hey, this is happening. They had undercover
Speaker 1: officers there in like in the ballroom and managed to
Speaker 1: like convict to people who weren't even there somehow, and
Speaker 1: like didn't disclose that they were present for it. Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's a lot about her. Undercover officers
Speaker 1: m works. But you're an undercover officer, you're in a ballroom,
Speaker 1: somebody dies, don't you then like out yourself as a
Speaker 1: police and start investigating the situation right away if you're surprised,
Speaker 1: unless you're right, Yeah, it's very suspicious. I'm glad that
Speaker 1: she's bringing this case and yeah, I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see where it leads. Probably not in the New
Speaker 1: York Times at least not until there's like irrefutable reporting.
Speaker 1: But so that's I think, I don't know, hopeful news
Speaker 1: that people will continue to get to the bottom of
Speaker 1: this ship. May justice be served? Yeah, in uh well,
Speaker 1: speaking of served, Starbucks has a secret weapon and it's oil.
Speaker 1: Trans was a serve honest, Yeah, justice being served in
Speaker 1: the assassination of MALGAMEX and then turning it over to Starbucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great. It's it was. It was a transition as
Speaker 1: smooth as olive oil, as olive oil blended into your coffee,
Speaker 1: which is apparently a thing that Howard Schultz saw some
Speaker 1: Italian people doing in Italy and was like that, we're
Speaker 1: going to do that, and it's my idea. Essentially, Supposedly,
Speaker 1: the olive oil creates a velvety, smooth, rich texture, with
Speaker 1: the buttery, round flavors imparted by the olive oil perfectly
Speaker 1: pairing with the soft chocolate e notes of the coffee.
Speaker 1: I don't know which coffee they're talking about there, because
Speaker 1: I've not tasted many soft chocolate e notes and Starbucks
Speaker 1: coffee rarely soft hard cigarette, but hard burnt asque cigarette.
Speaker 1: But maybe like if you have you ever accidentally eaten
Speaker 1: like just the darkest unsweetened chocolate that like you can't
Speaker 1: like your mouth just revolts and like just starts spitting
Speaker 1: it out like that. I can see that maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit, But I don't think of them as soft
Speaker 1: chocolate e notes by any stretch. Well maybe either talking
Speaker 1: about the frappuccino m M, yeah, the moca, they're soft
Speaker 1: and chocolated when you put just a shitload of chocolate
Speaker 1: ice cream, yea chocolate syrup soft. Yes. So Howard Schultz
Speaker 1: visionary in his third term as the CEO of Starbucks,
Speaker 1: this is the thing that like these CEOs who like
Speaker 1: luck into having great success and then you know Eve
Speaker 1: and people start treating them like human beings again, and
Speaker 1: then they're like, actually, the person who I picked to
Speaker 1: succeed me is a maniac, and I'm going to come
Speaker 1: in and take that job back over. So he's in
Speaker 1: his third spell as the CEO, but we need him because,
Speaker 1: as he said, this is a transformational moment for the company,
Speaker 1: which will they will bring together an alchemy of nature's
Speaker 1: finest ingredients I mean, that's poetry, alchemy of nature's finest ingredients.
Speaker 1: Here's what I will say. And let me preface this
Speaker 1: by saying that I don't know anything about cooking or
Speaker 1: making food or anything that you can consume. I'm famously,
Speaker 1: very very bad at it. But I am really good
Speaker 1: at eating food and enjoying one of the best thank you,
Speaker 1: and enjoying tasty food. I don't see how the flavor
Speaker 1: of olive oil could. I just feel like it wouldn't
Speaker 1: compliment the soft chocolate notes of like of a good coffee.
Speaker 1: And maybe I'm very wrong about this. I'm here for it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. I'm here like I am. I
Speaker 1: if I see olive oil in like a dessert at
Speaker 1: a restaurant, I'm always going to choose that dessert, like
Speaker 1: I actually love. I had a gelato in Italy that
Speaker 1: was like lemon olive oil basil, and I still think
Speaker 1: about it. Oh my god, your bogies are just like spiking.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm sorry. This is who I have dessert.
Speaker 1: Even know this was an option for like for drinks,
Speaker 1: for for desserts. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think because
Speaker 1: it's not like salty but it kind of gives you
Speaker 1: that like savory note that you want. It was like
Speaker 1: a little something sweet. And and when that bulletproof coffee
Speaker 1: trend happened, I love trendy stuff, so I tried that
Speaker 1: for a while. And like the butter and coffee combo,
Speaker 1: I kind of dug like a little bit of fat
Speaker 1: in your coffee is kind of nice. Yeah, milk shouldn't
Speaker 1: be the only fat that we're consuming our coffee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we should be putting ice cream. Also, thank you, Finally
Speaker 1: someone's at it. Yeah, I actually have done that where
Speaker 1: I didn't have any because I'm a big old baby. Also,
Speaker 1: I think everyone's just learning that I am actually really
Speaker 1: bad at eating food and I have horrible taste. But
Speaker 1: I love the like whatever brand like coffee Mate, like
Speaker 1: liquid non dairy coffee creamers that are just like so
Speaker 1: sweet and it's like not even real. It's like chemicals
Speaker 1: made in a lab. But I that's why I have
Speaker 1: to drink my coffee adding so much of that. But
Speaker 1: I didn't have any of that one time, And but
Speaker 1: I did have vanilla ice cream, so I just added
Speaker 1: a bunch of vanilla ice cream to my coffee. How
Speaker 1: was it? And it was brave with me. Thank you.
Speaker 1: It is here, so many temperatures in one cup. I
Speaker 1: was yeah, was it good? Ye? It was it good. No,
Speaker 1: it did not get well because it's not as good
Speaker 1: as the coffee Mate is just like molecularly structured to
Speaker 1: the second, like a drop like enters the coffee, it
Speaker 1: immediately mixes at the perfect rd you know, exactly beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's both that and climate change, Like we really have
Speaker 1: to trust the scientists. Yeah, I don't know. I like
Speaker 1: I have lost my nerve on coffee mate. I was
Speaker 1: drinking so much coffee mate for a long time and
Speaker 1: then I was just like, I have this is probably
Speaker 1: bad for me. Are so up? Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: can't stop. Teeth started falling out. Yeah, it's a but
Speaker 1: but it is. I well, I like my coffee black,
Speaker 1: which is why I'm like even entered hating the notion
Speaker 1: of the olive oil thing, because that's about as like
Speaker 1: sweet as I'll take it. But my dad, Caitlyn used
Speaker 1: to mix. He used to scramble eggs. Yeah, my dad can.
Speaker 1: He used to scramble that coffee meat stuff in with
Speaker 1: our eggs, which sounds really fucking gross, but it's actually
Speaker 1: because you know how it tastes good when you get
Speaker 1: a little bit of maple syrup on your eggs. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if it like turned them into like a cloudy like
Speaker 1: cotton candy style, like you know, just because there's like
Speaker 1: so much scientific engineering in that that like you just
Speaker 1: like heat that and suddenly it turns into the alien
Speaker 1: spaceship from Nope, it's just like this beautiful like yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: that's I won't try that, but I admire your dad
Speaker 1: Caitlyn's bravery. Yeah, so shout out to my dadit your
Speaker 1: dad's name is Caitlyn, or if you have multiple Caitlyn's
Speaker 1: in your life and there's the dead Caitlin and then
Speaker 1: the other Caitlin's, just based on how you were saying it.
Speaker 1: But can it be both? Yeah, I mean this is
Speaker 1: based on an actual Italian trend that Haward Schultz saw
Speaker 1: and so so like it's probably it probably can be good,
Speaker 1: you know. It's just this doesn't seem to be the coffee. No.
Speaker 1: I think you're right though, Like you're right, the Starbucks
Speaker 1: are not the right hands for this, Like I would
Speaker 1: trust it at intelligence. Yet, even though I do think
Speaker 1: intelligency is very overrated, I would trust olive oil coffee
Speaker 1: more in their hands. Yea intelligence Ya seems about right
Speaker 1: for you. Like I just I admire, like the consistency
Speaker 1: and specificity of your taste. When is coffee being gonna
Speaker 1: step up their game and start putting? I don't know,
Speaker 1: coffee being. No one ever talks about coffee bean, is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Everyone's like, oh, Starbucks, this, Starbucks that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so true. And I feel like coffee being because
Speaker 1: I think they peaked in two thousand and six, like
Speaker 1: every celebrity was always getting coffee being in two thousand
Speaker 1: and six. Yeah, and then they fell into over That's
Speaker 1: what happened. God bless Dunkin Donuts. Yeah, Ben Affleck, I'm
Speaker 1: a living for that. By the way, I'm so here
Speaker 1: for all of that partnership. Yeah, it's it's cute, it is.
Speaker 1: It's I kind of fell off Ben Affleck for a
Speaker 1: minute until he got back together with Jlo and Duncan.
Speaker 1: Oh man, he should not fight his roots. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they just say with regards to the you know, exchange
Speaker 1: of ideas between Starbucks and Italy as a nation, like
Speaker 1: star Starbucks takes their ideas. Italy does not want to
Speaker 1: take any of Starbucks. They did. They flopped big time
Speaker 1: over there, so you can't imagine. Yeah, why would you
Speaker 1: ever got in Italy? Right, it's truly like you just
Speaker 1: want to see all of the American tourists in Italy.
Speaker 1: You go, you go to the Starbucks. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like shocking to see a Starbucks in another country. I
Speaker 1: feel like, all right, Russell Crowe is the Pope's exorcist,
Speaker 1: so prepared, it's about time, thank you. So this is
Speaker 1: the trail dropped I recommend. Yeah, I mean I actually
Speaker 1: don't like you. You could totally miss this, I will
Speaker 1: tell you. The important thing is that he does say
Speaker 1: if you have a problem with me, take it up
Speaker 1: with my boss, the Pope. But there's also so like
Speaker 1: our writer JM kind of did a dive into this
Speaker 1: because this is based on a real character, as like
Speaker 1: all the exorcism movies are like this based on actual
Speaker 1: events in the spookiest year nineteen eighty seven, and this
Speaker 1: person is like a real like he created the NBA
Speaker 1: of exorcists, like and you know they've got like a
Speaker 1: team yeah, yeah, it's it's like the official League of
Speaker 1: Let let me see if I can find the name
Speaker 1: of it. But like it's he's like, you got to
Speaker 1: be a certified exorcist, the League of Extraordinary Exorcist. Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: but he so. In addition to being like Pope John
Speaker 1: Paul the seconds number one bottom bitch exorcist, he is
Speaker 1: also like a like a right wing political commentator or
Speaker 1: like cultural commentary commentator. The movie portrays him as like
Speaker 1: a superhero battling demon children, but in real life he
Speaker 1: has blasted the evils of nightclubs, Harry Potter, and yoga,
Speaker 1: which he claims yoga. I'll read some direct quotes for
Speaker 1: you from this man. Practicing yoga brings evil, as does
Speaker 1: reading Harry Potter. They may both seem innoculous, but they
Speaker 1: both deal with magic, and that leads to evil. Yoga
Speaker 1: is the devil's work. You think you are doing it
Speaker 1: for stretching your mind and body, but it leads to Hinduism.
Speaker 1: All these Oriental religions are based on the false belief
Speaker 1: of reincarnation and then, oh goodness. In Harry Potter, the
Speaker 1: devil is at work in a cunning and crafty way
Speaker 1: he is using his extraordinary powers of magic and evil.
Speaker 1: And then this is my favorite. My advice to young
Speaker 1: people would be to watch out for nightclubs because the
Speaker 1: path is always the same. Alcohol, sex, drugs and satanic sects.
Speaker 1: Sex and sex, yeah, sex sects, the path. That path
Speaker 1: is always the same. It's all. I feel shorthanded because
Speaker 1: I didn't do a nightclub I've done. I've done three
Speaker 1: of those things and never got invited to the Satanic sect. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I did all these things. Yeah, yeah, nothing, nothing, I
Speaker 1: just say so. His name is Father Gabriel amph Morph,
Speaker 1: which sounds to me, you know, in like exorcism movies
Speaker 1: where someone's being possessed and then like the demon or
Speaker 1: the devil is speaking through the body that they're possessing,
Speaker 1: and they're like, like, Jessica isn't here anymore. This is
Speaker 1: a morph Like, Yeah, sounds like his name sounds like
Speaker 1: only a more. If you would like to leave a
Speaker 1: message for Jessica though, just just let me know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Amrth is definitely like a the name of one of
Speaker 1: the like dementors from Harry Potter. Like, I think that's
Speaker 1: why his feelings were hurt by Harry Potter is it
Speaker 1: just feels like the most evil name possible exactly. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's the m Night Chamalan twist at the end though,
Speaker 1: is that they need an exorcist for the exorcist tess
Speaker 1: or did you see the trailer, because that seems to
Speaker 1: be what's at stake. The pope's exorcist gets possessed by
Speaker 1: the devil. Western civilization falls the type shit. So wow,
Speaker 1: that's beautiful. Yeah, I was I was thinking what if
Speaker 1: he Yeah, he's he's a he's possessed and that's why
Speaker 1: he's so good at exorcisms because he's like a demon
Speaker 1: talking to other demons. Yeah, he's like, I need you
Speaker 1: all to leave the room. It's like a form of exorcism,
Speaker 1: just like that, like Angel or Blade. Like they're like
Speaker 1: vampires or part vampires, and that's why they're so good
Speaker 1: at like their job. They know the m takes one.
Speaker 1: Actually yeah, hey, cop and criminal are one and the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it all goes backs are evil, that's right. A cab
Speaker 1: includes the popes exactly. I also love how like there's
Speaker 1: just rampant and don't love but like there's rampant pedophilia
Speaker 1: going on in this organization for decades and they think
Speaker 1: Harry Potter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean and then also
Speaker 1: like of course it's like yeah, then there's progressive people
Speaker 1: that have issues with the Harry Potters. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of that thing of like, yeah, we all agree the
Speaker 1: government's messed up. Which way are you talking about the Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have to make up satanic sects in order to
Speaker 1: distract from what they're doing exactly. Yeah, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: the Pope's Exorcist is coming to a theater near you.
Speaker 1: We'll probably be seen by way too many going I
Speaker 1: gonna have to like be anti horror movie podcast now,
Speaker 1: I like I don't want to, but like I think
Speaker 1: Jamie one time was on here and was talking about
Speaker 1: the conjuring movies being based on like just the worst humans. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're like really yeah creepy. Yeah, she knows more about
Speaker 1: it than I do. But yeah, there's it's always bad,
Speaker 1: but I mean it makes sense. So, like, have you
Speaker 1: guys met anyone that, like you would think Dabbles and
Speaker 1: Exorcism were conjuring? Yeah, my best friend, Yeah, I mean Dabbles,
Speaker 1: we all dabble a little, we're all kind of time exorcists. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've dabbled in the satanic sex. I haven't but like
Speaker 1: to throw yourself into it as the career. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I dabble in satanic sexx. Yeah, it's all in together.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just a big stew of good times.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that if I make that my full
Speaker 1: time thing, do I stop loving it? You know, it's
Speaker 1: like it's once it becomes your job. Let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break, we'll come back. We'll talk about mushrooms, and
Speaker 1: we're back. And the trailer for Tetris just came out.
Speaker 1: I had heard that they were making a Tetris movie.
Speaker 1: I could not fathom what that was going to be.
Speaker 1: The wong. If I had to like guess that someone
Speaker 1: was like pitching a Tetris movie, my guess would be
Speaker 1: it's set in Russia in nineteen eighty nine, and you know,
Speaker 1: the obviously the fucking you know, they're dealing with like
Speaker 1: the fall of communisms about they know the Soviet Union
Speaker 1: is going to go down, but then from the sky
Speaker 1: blocks slowly start coming down, and they're like slowly at first,
Speaker 1: yeah at first, and then they're like, oh shit, momentum, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta find a perfect spot for them blocks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my and that's the cliffhanger. Yeah, they find him.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite block in the Tetris universe, Because
Speaker 1: there's flat there's flat Boy, who is just a total
Speaker 1: fat Well, flat Boy was the most badass one because
Speaker 1: you always set your ship up for flat Boy exactly
Speaker 1: if you can just get that flatboy to right in
Speaker 1: that What a feeling that to me? That was the
Speaker 1: first time I fucked. Yeah. Yeah, the sexual like undertone
Speaker 1: this conversation or telling a lot to me about like
Speaker 1: why I was so into Flatboy. Yeah, you put that
Speaker 1: flatboy like right in that crevice and you're yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the whole thing goes all at once. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's like kind of how I've organized my life
Speaker 1: since then. It's like just like build up a bunch
Speaker 1: of shit and then like hope for a big payoff,
Speaker 1: it all comes together at the last second, Oh no,
Speaker 1: the flatboy didn't come. Just waiting for that flat piles
Speaker 1: and piles of oh no, where's the flat boy? By
Speaker 1: a whole professional career as well, has been put backing
Speaker 1: myself into a corner and praying that something a one
Speaker 1: out of a million chance would happen. Will happen, and
Speaker 1: so far not so good. Flatboys many a washed up
Speaker 1: comedian is sitting on a park bench that they live
Speaker 1: on right now, go ahead, and I just never got
Speaker 1: a flatboy. She did that flat some day, my flat day,
Speaker 1: My flat boy will come. So it sounds like it
Speaker 1: has less in common with that pitch. You just made
Speaker 1: I feel like that. That was also kind of what
Speaker 1: they went with for like Battleship. I think they were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: so we gotta do battleship. Let's aliens come and you
Speaker 1: gotta like sync them by guessing with the with our battleships. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's that also had yeah swinging a mixed Yeah. Some
Speaker 1: people liked it, some people. So this is more This
Speaker 1: is more in common with Argo and the new Air
Speaker 1: Jordan movie where it's like International inflex directing it. Well,
Speaker 1: Ben Affleck is is directing the Air Jordan Invention movie,
Speaker 1: and they wish Ben affleck was directing this because it
Speaker 1: does feel like they were like what if Argo where
Speaker 1: the stakes were game Boy? Yeah, instead of the freeing hostages,
Speaker 1: the stakes were you get to play Tetris on the
Speaker 1: game Boy. It's not about the Russian inventor of the
Speaker 1: game so much as it is about the Dutch video
Speaker 1: game design miner who bought it and introduced it to
Speaker 1: Western audiences. He has to like travel behind the Iron
Speaker 1: curtain in order to like get so get the rights
Speaker 1: to the theme to their national anthem, because isn't that
Speaker 1: their national anthem that's playing in the in the then
Speaker 1: then N and then N and then and then and
Speaker 1: uh that then then then I thought that was I
Speaker 1: thought that was a Russian national anthem. You can see
Speaker 1: that very easy, highly possible. Yeah. I starts speeding up,
Speaker 1: which taught us to, you know, be wary. I just
Speaker 1: got a gun to the audience fast. You'll never get
Speaker 1: a flat boy. Yeah yeah, actually the Russian version that
Speaker 1: there is no flat boys. Yes, yeah, yeah, they're all
Speaker 1: equally sized. Yeah yeah. But it's the story of like
Speaker 1: him basically licensing Tetris. It seems to be the sounds fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like contract law and it reminds
Speaker 1: me of this like analysis that Malcolm Gladwell, my king,
Speaker 1: but the only person who I go to when it
Speaker 1: comes to intellectual discourse. Yes, recommendation on private jets to
Speaker 1: take absolutely yeah. He was on the low lead express
Speaker 1: play lugs, but he did do he did do a
Speaker 1: story about like he he likes to read those CEO
Speaker 1: biographies and he's like when you actually look at how
Speaker 1: they tell the story, it's like this heroic singular CEO's
Speaker 1: hero's journey through like the heart of darkness to like
Speaker 1: everybody tells me can't do it, and it's only his
Speaker 1: idea and like he you know, triumphs over evil to
Speaker 1: increased shareholder value or whatever the fuck, and like when
Speaker 1: you actually look at what they do, it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: like a series of very mundane and predatory decisions that
Speaker 1: they make. They find one thing that they can exploit
Speaker 1: and then exploit it over and over and over again
Speaker 1: until they're billionaires. It's just like very wrote and mechanical
Speaker 1: and like uninteresting, but they find ways. Like there's a
Speaker 1: whole section of your local bookstore that is these retcond
Speaker 1: stories that like turn the narrative of how this person
Speaker 1: built a unnatural, immoral amount of wealth, like turned it
Speaker 1: into like a hero's journey. And that's what this sounds like.
Speaker 1: Like the guy did have to go back like make
Speaker 1: friends with the inventor of tetris and you know, get
Speaker 1: get interrogated by some Soviet diplomats, but in the end
Speaker 1: they were like, we kind of like this guy, well,
Speaker 1: we'll let him have the have the rights because that's
Speaker 1: how business work. And they're turning it into like this
Speaker 1: spy thriller where he like steals it, you know, Jesus,
Speaker 1: I imagine because there's sometimes there's a premise so boring
Speaker 1: that you're like, well, if they're making it, it's gotta
Speaker 1: be good, right, you know, right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because there's not the only thing that's holding it together
Speaker 1: at this point is the IP of Tetris, which I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe we live in that world now where that alone
Speaker 1: is enough to sell the movie. But I can't imagine
Speaker 1: that it's not like really good, like at least as
Speaker 1: a script, Like it's like, oh no, this is a
Speaker 1: fun thing because we're missing something. We're missing because there's
Speaker 1: definitely something there. There's no way it can't be that.
Speaker 1: It sounds it sounds so boring. Dog. I mean, I
Speaker 1: would I would say that about like movies where the
Speaker 1: thing is getting made with no IP attached, But like this,
Speaker 1: I feel like, probably like there's been rumors of a
Speaker 1: Tetris movie for a number of years, and like I
Speaker 1: feel like the assignment came before the movie, before this premise,
Speaker 1: like they were like, all right, Tetris is a thing
Speaker 1: that everybody cared about. That. Like, I've never been so
Speaker 1: aware that my brain was being rewired as I was, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it did to it, but like
Speaker 1: when I would play Tetris on the game Boy and
Speaker 1: then like close my eyes hours later and I would
Speaker 1: see Tetris. I would see Tetris and I would play
Speaker 1: Tetris in my head and I'd be like, this can't
Speaker 1: be healthy. I certainly have other thoughts, like I hungry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the it's that being on a boat and skiing
Speaker 1: are the only things that have ever like rewired things
Speaker 1: so much that like I closed my eyes and I
Speaker 1: can't undo whatever that did to my brain. Yeah yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's but but but the thing is is they're definitely
Speaker 1: taking multiple pitches. You know, they're taking a lot of
Speaker 1: pitches with this, like Tetris ip and so I imagine
Speaker 1: for them to choose the most boring sounding one that
Speaker 1: they're like, oh no, this is this is there's something there. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like they're doing a clean sweep through my child,
Speaker 1: like Mario is coming out in a like six months
Speaker 1: then Tetra. It's just like a clean sweep through, like
Speaker 1: the things that I cared about at age seven to eight.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, they're just coming through weird. Al Yankevic
Speaker 1: just had a movie that was Yeah, that was big
Speaker 1: for me at that period. What actor is going to
Speaker 1: play crash Bandicoot? Do you think that's the question, because
Speaker 1: is he gonna take that too? Sorry? What are you
Speaker 1: gonna say, Blake? I don't I don't remember, but I
Speaker 1: think it was. Oh no, I do so I believe
Speaker 1: there was like maybe as a someone who wants to
Speaker 1: come off as intelligent and fails almost unilaterally. But I
Speaker 1: remember there was one movie I don't remember the name
Speaker 1: of it, but it sounded so fucking boring and it
Speaker 1: won all these awards. All every smart person was like,
Speaker 1: this is a genius movie. And ever since then, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be tricked again. If a movie sounds boring,
Speaker 1: it must be to what Matt was saying, it must
Speaker 1: be a brilliant film. So I will not go out
Speaker 1: on a limb and say this will be bad, because
Speaker 1: I can't be fooled again. I won't be publicly fooled
Speaker 1: about this, but it's gonna suck. Well, what's the movie
Speaker 1: you're referring to? Specifically? You know what would be make
Speaker 1: great podcasting is if I remember the name of it.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, do you remember, don't even remember what happened,
Speaker 1: didn't Yeah, you just remember the sensation of being like,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be boring as shit. Was it the Constant Gardener?
Speaker 1: Because we've talked about this, we're talking about the constant Gardener.
Speaker 1: It sounds boring as ship, but it's not at all
Speaker 1: about constantly gardening. Yeah, it's not about somebody who just
Speaker 1: is really into gardening. No, it's it's about like, uh,
Speaker 1: what the fuck was that about? There's like a pharmacooal
Speaker 1: and stuff. Yeahay, intrigues happening in Africa? Is it's in
Speaker 1: Africa somewhere, And there's a song that's like yay yah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: I knew we were gonna end up end up with
Speaker 1: this story sing this song from right. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep talking, but I want you to do that under
Speaker 1: me talking. I think that's gonna like give kind of
Speaker 1: a fun, like it's a big spiritualist vibe. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the thing that I object to is, sorry,
Speaker 1: the hero of this story is not like a person.
Speaker 1: It is just a lawyer story of capitalism as it happened, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's a it's a bummer. Like it
Speaker 1: makes sense because we are in a country where the
Speaker 1: mainstream media treats the destruction of a seven to eleven
Speaker 1: front window as more serious than the like violence done
Speaker 1: to black bodies. So like it makes sense to me
Speaker 1: that this is just like where they think our values are.
Speaker 1: And maybe they're right, but it's just I don't know.
Speaker 1: Human stories used to be bigger than like a story
Speaker 1: of how Tetris got licensed. And yeah, you know, if
Speaker 1: if somebody told me that this end this ends up
Speaker 1: being really good, I wouldn't be shocked, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean here's the thing. Brands, that's all we got now,
Speaker 1: dog thank you, like thank you, wake up and smell
Speaker 1: the Folgers coffee specifically or Blue Bottle. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: because the brands there are there are there are Overlords Bottle, Liberal,
Speaker 1: Blue Bottle. You know, like the brands are they are
Speaker 1: our overlords, they are our bosses. They are fires because
Speaker 1: I drank black Rifle coffee to exactly to let people
Speaker 1: I know I finished sentences, or I respond to people
Speaker 1: finishing sentences by saying fuck yeah brother, yeah exactly. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a way, it's your lifestyle. It's everything
Speaker 1: is brands here, so you know you gotta get with
Speaker 1: it start, you know, brand brand, You gotta get good
Speaker 1: brand brain. I got brand brain, and I'm cool with
Speaker 1: brands now, that's right. Another brand story feels like it's
Speaker 1: working from the same currency of like what if people
Speaker 1: do thing to brand? And by the way, we are
Speaker 1: recording this on Friday, so if important news has happened
Speaker 1: over the weekend, doesn't matter nothing. Another spy balloon okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: I also just realized we're off on Monday, so oh man, yeah,
Speaker 1: sorry if yeah, if we've missed a bunch. But we're
Speaker 1: talking about this, it's going to be great work anymore.
Speaker 1: He wants to work, and that is what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to work anymore anymore. Thank you, Blake. There's
Speaker 1: also the Winnie the Pooh horror movie that we talked about.
Speaker 1: It was basically Winnie the Pooh's copyright lapsed after one
Speaker 1: hundred years after the first so they can so anyone.
Speaker 1: It's up for grabs, it is, but it's only the
Speaker 1: first book, which only included Piglet and Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 1: and no Tigger. It's it's Seinfeld without Kramer. So yes, okay,
Speaker 1: Tiger was Cramer. That was true. It's airtight. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: red shirt because that was actually a Disney addition to
Speaker 1: the branch who is just butt naked. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it could be. But so basically, a UK filmmaker who
Speaker 1: until recently worked for an electricity supplier full time while
Speaker 1: making micro budget horror films on the side, happened upon
Speaker 1: this idea and realized that the Winnie the Pooh copyrite
Speaker 1: was gonna lapse. Made this movie. It's called Winnie the Pooh,
Speaker 1: Blood and Honey. It is. I'm okay with this. Actually
Speaker 1: apparently it's very bad. Apparently not good. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: people are saying it's amateurish, sloppy and quote embarrassingly bad.
Speaker 1: But this is who who's saying that. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: depends which ones because at this point, it like I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if if all the like the ones
Speaker 1: that are like Marvel, the ones who are bought out basically, yeah,
Speaker 1: are just like Disney told us to say it was bad, right, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The same filmmakers are also working on horror takes on
Speaker 1: Bambi and Peter Pan. So it feels like this is
Speaker 1: the opposite side of the coin of like Hero's Journey,
Speaker 1: where the hero is the acquisition of the rights to
Speaker 1: distribute Tetris on Game Boy. This is the opposite where
Speaker 1: it's like the ultimate violence that you can do in
Speaker 1: our like cultural mindscape is to make Winnie the Pooh
Speaker 1: a real edge lord sick fuck. Yeah, you know, like
Speaker 1: this is the ultimate meaning yeah, Winnie the Ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not saying no. I feel like this is a
Speaker 1: bummer because, like, I think there could have been an
Speaker 1: interesting horror movie based on the fact that, first of all,
Speaker 1: each character in the Winnie the Pooh universe definitely represents
Speaker 1: a different like mental imbalance. Sure sure, Like so there's
Speaker 1: something interesting there. There's also like Pooh is a glutton,
Speaker 1: is depressed, seems high you or is suffers from depression.
Speaker 1: Piglet definitely suffers from like anxiety, like anxiety, Tigger Tigers
Speaker 1: a tweaker. Yeah, or you know, he's like just manic. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true, he's so yeah Cramer. Yeah. But and then
Speaker 1: there's also like the idea, So I guess the premise
Speaker 1: of this is that Christopher Robin returns to the hundred
Speaker 1: Acre Wood like as an adult and like Pooh and
Speaker 1: Piglet have gone feral and like murdered all the other characters,
Speaker 1: and like this idea of like children's imaginary imaginary friends
Speaker 1: and like the imagination of children like that, like being
Speaker 1: abandoned like that that is examined to great effect in
Speaker 1: like Inside Out and Toy Story three or four, like
Speaker 1: the toys being abandoned but never dying and just like
Speaker 1: existing perpetually at the bottom of like a landfills stuck
Speaker 1: in place. Yeah, is like dark and interesting and has
Speaker 1: been handled well. But this feels like they just like
Speaker 1: turned it into an exploitation film. It's like a few
Speaker 1: degrees away from just doing parody porn, which I'm I
Speaker 1: think is fine. You know, if you're gonna if you
Speaker 1: never said anything else, Yeah, yeah, there's nothing wrong. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm great friends with people who make the best parody
Speaker 1: porn over at Wood Rocket. They do great. They did
Speaker 1: the Simpsons born, they did what do they do? Rug rats?
Speaker 1: Which is a strange choice, but it wasn't they weren't
Speaker 1: hard to do. Yeah, hard to do, but I thought
Speaker 1: a wire act, right, But it was a brave choice.
Speaker 1: So but you know, so like making the you know,
Speaker 1: lapsed ip, you know, horror film of child things, seems like, okay,
Speaker 1: have you considered making a sketch? Right? Try that first?
Speaker 1: Start with a sketch? See? How too long does this
Speaker 1: have to be? Yeah? You do get the sense that
Speaker 1: they were asking that as they set out to make
Speaker 1: this movie, like, how long does it like for a feature?
Speaker 1: How long you? How long we talking here? Yeah? Ten minutes?
Speaker 1: To get a distribution it starts. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: start with a number, and you tell me if it's
Speaker 1: higher six, seven, ye, well, surely it can't be nine.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, kill kill all day. Oh no, all right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeitgeist, please
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