Fandom Fables
Welcome to Fandom Fables, the podcast where four passionate hosts dive deep into the enchanting realms of nerd culture! Join us on a thrilling journey through the vast landscapes of fandoms, where we explore the tales, triumphs, and tribulations that make being a fan so extraordinary.
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Fandom Fables
S3 Episode 14-Cinema Showdown
What if the aches and pains of aging came with a comedic twist? Join us on this hilarious episode of Fandom Fables, where we kick things off debating the perfect catchphrase to introduce our show. From there, we share personal stories about the trials of getting older, complete with a nostalgic nod to playing hacky sack. An improvised 911 call scenario, enhanced with voice effects, brings humor to our everyday struggles and sets the tone for a fun and engaging conversation.
Ever tried to appreciate a dated movie classic? We dive into the quirky world of "Earth Girls Are Easy," discussing the challenges of enjoying its humor amidst its historical significance. Caleb shares his struggle with the film, originally recommended by Chad, while we all reminisce about the performances of a young Jim Carrey, Jeff Goldblum, and Damon Wayans. A quick sidebar about watching movies at work and a detour into "RuneScape" questing strategies adds an unexpected layer of office adventures to our discussion.
Lastly, we explore the emotional depths of "What Dreams May Come," reflecting on its portrayal of depression, loss, and the concept of soulmates through the lens of Robin Williams' performance. We then shift gears to dissect Jordan Peele's "Nope," debating its social commentary and the intriguing concept of a "bad miracle." Wrapping up, we take a heartfelt look at "Lars and the Real Girl," highlighting Ryan Gosling's unique bond with a sex doll and the community's role in supporting his mental health journey. Don't miss this rollercoaster of emotions, laughs, and film critiques!
No, that is how I want to say it. Good morning. Good morning adventurers. Welcome to Fandom Fables.
Speaker 3:Where Then I say it and then I'm here with Yo, yo, yo. How about Skinny penis?
Speaker 5:Good morning adventurers.
Speaker 3:I'm your MC, mixmaster Chad and blah blah blah, Get the fuck out of here with that dude. How about you let Chad do it the way he wants?
Speaker 5:to do it. No, I'm trying to make fun of him, just to make it cooler. It's going to be cooler than that. Anything's going to be cooler than that.
Speaker 3:I think you just put your own flavor on it and do your own. Thing man, you know what I mean. You got this. It's easy as you want. I know I ain't got nowhere to be.
Speaker 4:Three, two.
Speaker 1:Niner Good morning adventurers. Welcome to Fandom Fables where Batman is not even a superhero. True, I'm your host Chad. We got.
Speaker 3:Skinny Penis here.
Speaker 5:Scott, also Skinny Penis, but a little longer.
Speaker 1:You're good man, Alright, just redo that part then yeah, just let me fucking do it again. One more time no no no, just that specific part, just that specific part.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, we'll cut all this out and we'll snip it together where you would just introduce us.
Speaker 5:You did the good morning adventures thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 5:I can do it again, and we like the Batman, is not really a superhero.
Speaker 3:Or Batman doesn't even really exist, don't wait for me to say my name.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I forgot, dude, I don't talk until I'm introduced. That's my thing. Let's do it, baby.
Speaker 3:Woo, I'm sorry you got somewhere to be. I totally forgot about that man.
Speaker 5:I'm fucking up. We got plenty of time. We're not redoing the whole thing, I'm fucking up.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're fine. No, we got plenty of time, we got plenty, so we're not doing the whole thing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, just say I'm chad and with me is I'm chad, and with me is french scott and caleb, because nobody wants to say anything. Hell, yeah, I like that better, bro, let's talk it under my part. Yeah, that works.
Speaker 3:Let's use that. Let's do it. I'm fine with that. How's the week? Anything new?
Speaker 4:bro, the week's been kind of ass, I'm not gonna lie. Both are. You know. The truck obviously took a poop ski. We're having to walk everywhere. But what's cool is the kids are not in school anymore, so that's fun. A lot more time for adventures and shit nice, nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just. You know, I'm getting old, right, Feeling it. Feeling it in the shoulders, in the back, in the wrists, arms, knees, it's wow. You know what I mean? I could have got hit by a train and just walked it off as a nine-year-old, but goddamn man that is kind of crazy to think about.
Speaker 3:It's like slipping the wrong direction for half a second hurts you know, what I mean Like not even like completely falling on the ground, just like a loose piece of something on the floor that you didn't expect to slip out from underneath you, and your leg shoots out like a fucking three feet from underneath you and you're like whoa.
Speaker 5:You know what I've been learning? Your groin cracks. You're like I didn't even know there was a bone there, because I'm 38 now and I'm not old old. But what I realize is that saying, if you don't use it, you lose. It is true Like I used to play hacky sack with a guy who said the only reason he played hacky sack was so he kept moving like this because he was like 38 at the time and I throw out my back, my knees all the time and I don't play hacky sack anymore.
Speaker 4:maybe I should play hacky sack and hacky sack is kind of fun, bro, to be honest, yeah, you're not wrong. You are not wrong and friends, what you're talking about, I feel. Feel that 100%, because I remember being a kid dude falling out a goddamn tree onto a cinder block and I just got up and I was like I'm cool, but yeah, now I get out of bed too fast and I'm like, oh God, I'm going to die now probably. I think I'm dead.
Speaker 4:I'm going to die now, probably I'm gonna flex and bust out of here.
Speaker 5:No I laid on the floor thinking I was going to die and called 9-1-1 for kidney stones what?
Speaker 4:how did that go like the the 9-1-1 call? Were they like helpful or?
Speaker 5:no, it was. It was basically. I just yelled upstairs to my wife and said i'm'm fucking dying Call 911.
Speaker 3:All right, we'll go ahead and patch in that 911 call right here.
Speaker 2:Help me. Help me. My husband says he's dying.
Speaker 5:What's wrong with him, ma'am?
Speaker 2:He's holding his stomach and says it hurts.
Speaker 4:Hold on. Hold on Start over. Start over who wants to be the dispatcher Wait?
Speaker 1:Wait, wait.
Speaker 4:Hold on, give me one second when is it the megaphone effect or whatever? Hello.
Speaker 5:With the echo you've got to tone it down just a little. I can't. It sounds awesome, but not so much echo.
Speaker 1:It sounds like you're just shopping mall. Hello, there you go. Hello, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah no, do the hell the high one dude hello hello, hello yeah, that was yes this is the oshkosh police department.
Speaker 6:What is your emergency?
Speaker 2:help me. Scott has fallen, fallen and he can't get up.
Speaker 6:I'm sorry, did you say your name was?
Speaker 2:Scott. No, the Scott has fallen. He's my husband. He tells me to call him the Scott.
Speaker 6:Oh, can you describe the nature of your husband's issue?
Speaker 2:His belly hurts really bad and it's not the poop. He says it's not the poop, says it's not the poop I think it might be the poop.
Speaker 6:Have you asked him to poop?
Speaker 2:he tried, it didn't work. He's. He's laying on the floor on his side. He says he's dying.
Speaker 6:Call you do you see any blood in the immediate area? I?
Speaker 2:don't know. I really didn't look at him. I've been upstairs mostly. I didn't even come down to check on him while he was crying. I didn't come down until you guys got there in real life.
Speaker 6:So your husband's dying and you did not go to check on him?
Speaker 2:I was pretty sure he was okay. You guys should get here right now.
Speaker 6:Alright, we're gonna sell, uh, we're gonna send over officer dinkle duds. Uh. Badge number two, two, three, five, niner, um, I called out an apb as well for scott fucking shaley, a known terrorist in the oshkosh region, with a bounty to kill billionaires and destroy the pyramids Beyond guard officer units suspect could be deadly.
Speaker 2:Just don't hurt the dogs.
Speaker 4:That was a wild conversation, Scott.
Speaker 3:That was sick. That sounded so real and not at all recorded right now in the podcast. Just that was.
Speaker 4:It sounded so real and not at all recorded right now in the podcast just live so real that sounded so real wow yeah, it's crazy that you had that recording too yeah, how would you get it?
Speaker 3:you know, all right, no one cares how was your week, chad? I'm just kidding, I thought that would. I thought I thought that would sound good on air.
Speaker 1:I didn't mean anything by that.
Speaker 2:Scott, I love you.
Speaker 5:I immediately fell back. I really feel like you keep that because at the exact moment I say my wife loves me and if you cut to that fucking or right after or before, I think that'll suck.
Speaker 4:All right, fuck it, nobody cares, I'll do that, I'll do it.
Speaker 1:My wife loves me. Nobody cares, I'll do that, I'll do it.
Speaker 2:My wife loves me, nobody cares, all right nobody cares.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, oh man, I don't know. You know living. I'm in limbo man, I'm in fucking limbo, right now, what do you got to do today, man?
Speaker 3:You got to go for like a sleep thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got to go have a sleep test so they can tell me.
Speaker 3:Get like sleep apnea or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, that's what they're gonna tell me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nobody wants you to die in your sleep, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'm going to have that.
Speaker 3:Well, good luck falling asleep when you're forced to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's gonna be kind of fucked up.
Speaker 3:That is gonna be a little weird. I hope they give you drugs, because I don't know if I could do it.
Speaker 4:Are you guys going to put on a movie or something? They're going to watch the TV.
Speaker 3:Get all those carts they used to roll in in high school with the TV and the VCR on it.
Speaker 5:They're going to say Chad, fall asleep while you normally do. For me, that would be masturbating and then closing my eyes.
Speaker 1:You're like get ready for the show.
Speaker 4:Alright, if you guys want to mat me sleeping, I need moisturizing lotion and a VHS tape.
Speaker 1:I'm going to need you to bring one of your hot-ass nurses in here to take care of me before I pass out.
Speaker 4:Fucking, sort me out, lady. I couldn't do it bro. I could not just go in there and just like fall asleep.
Speaker 3:All right, we're going to hook you up to a bunch of things and we're going to lie you down in this thing, that's definitely not your fucking bed that you lie down in every single night, and then we want you to just fall asleep on command Is that cool.
Speaker 4:Can you do that?
Speaker 3:There's probably three old guys with clipboards standing over you and every time you move your, Worst comes to worst. You'll just get a CPAP machine.
Speaker 1:Subject did jerk off before he went to sleep. He should fall right asleep. You got insurance dude.
Speaker 3:Yeah, move your mic stand, I can't fucking see you dude, Move your thing, man.
Speaker 4:This is weird. I hate this.
Speaker 3:I feel like we're not talking to each other anymore or something. Man, this is weird. Move your shit dude.
Speaker 5:I can't believe you guys. Look at each other in the eyes when you're talking to each other.
Speaker 3:You don't.
Speaker 5:It makes sense I seldom look at you, guys, while I'm talking to you.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah, I get that.
Speaker 5:That to you, Right? Yeah, I get that. That is something I kind of just zoned out, but I would prefer to look at you guys In this moment. I saw them look at you. I look at French the whole time.
Speaker 4:Even when I'm talking to Scott.
Speaker 5:I'm still looking at French. I think I look at Caleb more than anyone.
Speaker 6:I look him in the eyes like Caleb.
Speaker 5:I look at French a lot.
Speaker 1:Am I being a good boy, Caleb?
Speaker 3:Wait. So back to the insurance. You got insurance, Chad, oh yeah, so you'll get a CPAP machine and you'll just have to wear a mask when you go to bed. Yeah, fuck that Dude, it's whatever. My dad, that's what he does now. That's his life, and he says it's like he doesn't even wear it anymore.
Speaker 5:They have really comfortable models or whatever. Am I insane that they have a fucking Bluetooth CPAP, that you don't have to wear a mask anymore? Am I crazy?
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's like a nose one.
Speaker 5:Is it like an implant Some?
Speaker 4:kind of implant.
Speaker 1:Bluetooth.
Speaker 4:CPAP. I'm pretty sure it goes in your nose or something.
Speaker 3:So you're going to have to pay some sort of small deductible, and then you'll get to live longer, sweet.
Speaker 1:I saw a commercial. You know what I mean Pay us money so you don't have to die.
Speaker 3:It is fucked up, yeah it's fucked up. Move to Canada someday.
Speaker 1:Dude, I would love to. I can too. I'm not a fucking.
Speaker 4:In the bush.
Speaker 1:We could live off grid, fuck down.
Speaker 4:In Canada.
Speaker 1:Toronto, where all the drugs are legal. Well, vancouver, wherever the fuck it is, might want to start a cult.
Speaker 5:And If we did start this cult, what would? What would the cult of Caleb Be called the cult of Caleb?
Speaker 1:It'd be called the cult of Caleb, it'd be called Flash, it would just be called Caleb. It would be called Cock, right, mike? Yeah.
Speaker 4:Something like that the cult of Caleb, the cult of Caleb Cock.
Speaker 3:I like it. It'd be COC.
Speaker 4:I've really been thinking about it a long time for just living off-grid. That's my idea. I want internet and shit it a long time for like just living off-grid.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's like my idea. I want like internet and shit, though I want internet.
Speaker 4:But that's the thing, dude.
Speaker 3:It's so easy Starlink or what yeah.
Speaker 2:Starlink Fuck yeah.
Speaker 4:I mean obviously as long as you still have some sort of income. But like you know, they have generators. Me the um solar panels are super easy to come by like electricity, like off-grid is like just, and it's so fucking easy now compared to what it was 20 years ago. You know, obviously everything is expensive, you know. But like I mean at my job I can catch a sale for a you know 5500 generator for you know 800 bucks. You know that fucker will run your that thing, will run my house now you know $800.
Speaker 4:You know that fucker will run your. That thing will run my house. Now you know, I mean, granted, they're loud and shit.
Speaker 3:My microphone smells like meatballs.
Speaker 4:As it should. My microphone last time smelled like Eric's ass, so that's better.
Speaker 3:Thank you for that, Eric.
Speaker 5:No, you're off the grid living you know, farming for your food, harvesting your own animals, selling your body for money sounds great to me, but that's the thing.
Speaker 4:But like you don't necessarily like, off-grid to me implies like off of the water grid, off of the electrical grid, off of, like you know, having to buy a fucking house for three hundred thousand dollars. But like, if you're like kind of close, like within half an hour to a town, like as long as you still like have a job and shit, some sort of income, like you can still go get food from the store you know you can't call yourself off the grid if you're going to work at a nine to five.
Speaker 6:You can't.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it is. You are a poser, you're a fucking poser. You are not off the grid, I have clocked in like twenty five500 hours of off-grid YouTube watching.
Speaker 1:You just don't want to pay rent. I'm a professional, that's exactly what it is. You don't want to buy off the grid? Yeah, I do not want to fucking pay rent.
Speaker 4:It's hard out here, bro, it's fucking expensive.
Speaker 1:You think any piece of land out there is free? You're fucking nuts. No, absolutely not.
Speaker 5:Somebody's going to make you pay dude, no matter is uh, it's a commune right where you have like five or six different families that basically just liquidate every fucking thing they have. Yeah, and they all pool. If you say it's religion purposes, exactly and um.
Speaker 4:So at that point everyone just goes in, buys you know whatever, 15, 20, 30 acres of land, and then you live on there on like a camper, like so you know something disposable that's temporary, a tiny until while you build your commune, like different houses for everybody and shit, and then like eventually, like you know, the the goal is to like grow your own food and shit and hunt and all that kind of crap.
Speaker 5:So I think the key, caleb, is you need to purchase land that is good soil to grow stuff on, yeah, and good for grazing for for animals I already got an idea. Make it good for great yeah, we got good soil.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just get good good soil don't get shitty and use.
Speaker 4:Campers are so fucking cheap too. I was looking at those all day today. So campers depreciate in value insanely fast, like the second you fucking buy them yeah bro, as soon as you leave the lot, your hundred thousand dollar camper is now an eighty thousand dollar camper by next year.
Speaker 5:This fifth wheel, yeah. So these campers are good campers that they undervalue because of the fact that the fifth wheel camper requires a fifth wheel hitch.
Speaker 4:Yeah yeah, do you guys know what fifth wheels are? So they're basically like the one that comes up and and over, yeah and uh, you know. So those campers are like super fucking nice. They're always very large, but those ones are even cheaper than everything else because, like, you need a three thousand dollar like addition to your truck to pull the motherfucker, so, like those things are super cheap and as long as you have one of those, or no access to one of those, you can get a super nice camper for like 1200 bucks. You know like a 2010 that sleeps eight.
Speaker 5:You know like dude, it's fucking crazy. Go on facebook marketplace. Yeah, don't plan on moving it, park this fucker on caleb's land. Come live in our commune. You know, yeah, call to caleb.
Speaker 4:You know we're friend cock cock of caleb, join the cock. Yeah, dude, I'm telling you, I, I like, and I don't know if it's gonna fucking work, but like I at least want to goddamn try it, because like, the system is so absolutely fucked right now for, like the like, we're not middle class anymore, we're all lower class. You know what I'm saying. We're one fucking one mishap away from being homeless and like, for me it's my, my fucking truck taking a shit like I, I struggle to get to and from work. Now, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:And like most of most of america, is in that same boat get to and from work already. Yeah, I don't like. If I'm being honest, I don't like going well, I mean, just like the truck itself. Oh yeah, the truck had it's own fucking schedule. You know like Are you going to have the truck? No, I need the truck. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:Like that kind of thing.
Speaker 5:One vehicle between two people and four kids Just think of how healthy you would be if you jogged To and from work.
Speaker 4:Bro, I've been walking everywhere. I'm down 15 pounds already.
Speaker 5:No, I'm saying you have to run To work. That's not happening.
Speaker 4:I will die before I get there.
Speaker 5:I did that at one point in my life. That's when we'd go back to what we were talking about earlier, where you don't even think about it when he's younger. What you could do, I would run to work before work and then work all day long.
Speaker 4:And then walk home, run home.
Speaker 5:And then before work and then work all day long and then walk home, run home and then run home, and and that wouldn't be a thing it's like now. That would fucking kill me. I wouldn't even make it a quarter of the way yeah, it's, it is.
Speaker 4:It's crazy. I would same thing, but now, as an adult, I work my eight hour shift and I need to take a fucking hour rest in the napping chair. You know what I mean? It's fucking crazy, dude. Even when we were like in our 20s man, I remember we would go out to the bars. We'd be out fucked up till 4 30 in the morning, rolling to work at 6 30 in the morning and work a 10 hour shift, you know, and then go back out that night and party some more.
Speaker 5:You know, like it was wild I think that's the 20 to 30 switch. But we we're here for something else, aren't we? Didn't? We have a homework assignment yeah.
Speaker 4:So we had to, uh, we had to skip the last episode's topic because I had some family come into town, you know, from minnesota and whatnot, so I wasn't able to be there. So our lovely friend, tech guy um, sat in, you know he's. He's missing, being being around the podcast and stuff. So we had a good time, uh. So we decided to, um, you know, add that episode to this week. Uh, and we did have a homework assignment where we each pulled hats or, excuse me, names out of a hat for various movies that we were going to choose for each other to watch. Uh, who wants to go first? If you want to list who picked your movie and what movie you were tasked to watch, well, you and Chad should probably go first, so Chad can walk out if need be, since he's on a schedule today the time crunch.
Speaker 5:I think we're good though 4.30?.
Speaker 3:I'm going to be there until 7.
Speaker 5:Alright, let's cut that out, I think, caleb. I think we're good though 4.30?. I'm going to be there until 7. All right, let's cut that out, I think, caleb.
Speaker 4:I think you should go first because you said you loved your movie, I'll go first. Okay, so my partner was Chad. Chad picked my movie and he picked a movie for me that was titled Earth Girls Are Easy. Now I'm told that this is a cult classic movie. I, however. I, however, have never heard of it prior to watching this movie, and I fucking struggled to get through this film I I'll be honest Like I thought it was fucking dog shit.
Speaker 4:But I think it's just because I saw the cult classic movie 30 years later. You know what I'm saying. Like not that it. I bet that if I would have seen it 20 years ago this movie would have been hilarious.
Speaker 5:What was revolutionary about that movie? Why was it cult classic?
Speaker 4:So one of the big things is the cast, so two of the main characters were shit. What's his name?
Speaker 3:Come on now. Oh my God, how am I having there's Jeff?
Speaker 4:Yeah, Jeff Goldblum.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:Drew, no, not Drew Carey. Jim Carey, different Carey and then it was one of the Wayans right.
Speaker 1:Jim Carey was in this, damon Wayans.
Speaker 4:What's that, damon Wayans? Damon Wayans yeah, so they were the three aliens that are kind of above Earth and they don't speak English or anything, but two of them are just trying to get some poontang. So they're like scanning Earth and they see this very attractive Earth woman sunbathing and they're like when does this take place? Can you set the scene for us In space? That's where the scene is at. They're on their spaceship.
Speaker 3:Oh gotcha, okay, we're not that far yet yeah.
Speaker 4:So they're in like this little spaceship and they decide they're like, hey, I mean, this is a hairless woman, not as good, but she's still okay. So they go to earth and they like fuck up something, and they end up landing in her swimming pool and you find that her and her doctor husband are having issues because she like straight up found that the husband was cheating on her. So she ends up like meeting these aliens and they find a way to turn human and then like for all three of them, like this was their prime they were like 23 and very good looking, you know. So they like go out to the clubs and all these chicks are trying to bang them Because they got really long tongues and shit.
Speaker 3:Okay, where does all this take place?
Speaker 4:What's the?
Speaker 3:timing setting here.
Speaker 4:I feel like it felt 80s it's early 80s, mid 80s. They spent a lot of time at the mall and shit.
Speaker 3:I felt like it was California.
Speaker 5:California sounds legit, los Angeles. You said the name, jim Carrey. He's one of these aliens.
Speaker 3:He's like a main part. Yeah, dude, this was after Fire Marshal Bill, but before.
Speaker 5:I don't even remember Jim Carrey in this. I remember the movie, I don't remember him.
Speaker 1:A lot of people don't remember. Jeff Goldblum either.
Speaker 4:Yeah, jeff Goldblum was like the captain alien, and then the wayan and jim carrey were the wayan, the?
Speaker 6:what's his name? I think it's damon damon damon wayan.
Speaker 5:All I imagine, all I remember about this is the spectacle of, uh, just the giant woman. That's it there is no giant woman I thought this was like uh, no, dude, no no giant woman, there's just a regular woman, 50 foot woman attack of the 50 foot woman. There's a 50 foot woman, isn't there?
Speaker 4:yeah, that's not what this is.
Speaker 1:This is easy oh, geez, you're going fucking I mean, but like, so what was?
Speaker 4:I guess technically the woman was larger because the spaceship is like fucking small and I think it's like a. This was one thing I actually thought was cool about this movie. So the spaceship is like fucking small and I think it's like a. This was one thing I actually thought was cool about this movie. So the spaceship was like small enough to fit in the uh, the, the or swimming pool and for these like aliens to get in and out. They would step in this portal thing that would make them bigger and then they would get out of their ship. So, like, in an attempt to save space, they made everything smaller and then put like a shrink ray on the fucking spaceship to make the person get smaller, to get in the ship and stuff. I thought that was kind of cool. It's like the tardis man. Yeah, it reminded me a lot of that. Like uh, what is that movie? Uh, mini, where they like shrink everybody down to have a honey, I shrunk the kids no, it was a newer one with matt damon.
Speaker 5:Uh, where they they shrink everyone down to like be super small so they have a smaller carbon footprint, the office kind of stuff where they they should yeah yeah I just saw I don't remember what it was called, but like I like that kind of stuff, so I thought that was a cool idea.
Speaker 4:Downsizing, no, yes, downsize me. Yeah, that's it. So overall I really struggled with this movie. There were a couple parts that were kind of funny, but for the most part all of the humor just went right past me, and I think it was just because it's obviously a really older movie and I missed it in its prime.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. Like I could, I can definitely see why people enjoyed this film. It's just like why did you? It was hard for me because I, I just I didn't think you have seen it and I figured, I thought it was fucking hilarious.
Speaker 5:I absolutely did not see it, so that was did you go back and re-watch the movie that you loved 20 years ago?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:I did, and how was it?
Speaker 1:Still, it held up.
Speaker 4:One thing I did also enjoy Is that, whoever that chick is, she looked really fucking good in a swimsuit, like she was hot In Earth.
Speaker 3:Girls Are Easy. She was really hot in that swimsuit.
Speaker 5:You know the whole time he said Earth Girls Are Easy. I was All right. I got to see now she was really hot in that swimsuit. You know, the whole time he said Earth Girls Are Easy. I was thinking Attack of the 50-Foot Woman for some reason, fucking weirdo. Yeah, no, that wasn't the one that would have been an even weirder movie to tell you to watch.
Speaker 4:I don't remember that chick was in quite a few stuff back then too. She normally plays like a mom figure, though I feel Like later on in her career.
Speaker 1:I honestly can't picture her face right now.
Speaker 5:Those guys walked around looking like that. They didn't look normal At first.
Speaker 3:they looked like the furry aliens. At first they looked like the furry people, but then they like.
Speaker 5:Then it looked like Jim Carrey and Jeff Goldblum.
Speaker 3:And then it looked like literally Jim Carrey and Jeff Goldblum and Damon Wayans yeah, yeah, but when they were 20. Right yeah, when they were so young. Okay, caleb, can you tell our listeners where you watched that movie At work? In my office, there's no. How are you supposed to enjoy a movie when you're at work? There's no way it's impossible.
Speaker 4:I enjoy all sorts of shit while I'm at work right, obviously yeah but like I hope my boss doesn't hear me they will don't snitch that guy you should fire caleb snitch he's watching movies at work.
Speaker 5:I mean, get rid of this guy. What's he doing?
Speaker 4:time theft, 60 attack or whatever in RuneScape.
Speaker 5:RuneScape. I fucking got the flour, the milk and the egg for the baker boom.
Speaker 4:First quest done first quest done hell yeah, so for for some backstory. That is accomplishment, because scott said, hey, I'm not gonna look up where anything is and, like the quests in um, the quests in runescape leave a lot to be desired for like information about what you're doing no, no what.
Speaker 5:I looked further. I asked the guy again and he told me it was all to the northwest. So it helped out a lot he said northwest. He gave me a fucking direction.
Speaker 3:I got there hell yeah, went to the moon and, and it is northwest too, now that I'm like painting a picture in my head yeah, all those things can be found northwest.
Speaker 4:Everything's northwest dude, northwest Chad do you want to Chad?
Speaker 3:hey, do you want to?
Speaker 4:Yeah, Chad.
Speaker 5:Are we going to do back-to-back pairs or should we hop between? What do you think?
Speaker 3:I think that would convolute things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll do mine.
Speaker 3:I think for.
Speaker 1:My movie was what Dreams May Come. I believe Caleb gave me that, that they could. Yeah, I'll do mine. I think, for my movie was uh, what dreams may come? I believe caleb gave me that right, yeah, that was my pick well, first off, what did you think of?
Speaker 3:why'd you, why'd you pick earth? Girls are easy for him I told you.
Speaker 1:I thought he hadn't seen it and I thought maybe he'd like it. I liked it. I'm sorry, I didn't like it, bro. I I'm so sorry I felt, bad.
Speaker 4:I was like man I know, my boy champ picked this movie specific for me and after I watched it I was just like I fucking hate this movie.
Speaker 3:Chad, I did see that movie. I did, and it was probably back in 2005. I think it was still properly aged for 2005, and I enjoyed the fuck out of it All right.
Speaker 1:Awesome, yeah, 2005, and I I enjoyed the fuck out of it all, right, awesome, yeah, cool. Well, you know I let's be honest here I can't really uh take what you say on movies really to heart, because you know I really love uh.
Speaker 4:Well, listen, hear me out, dude I really fucking love transformers bro yeah, all those movies okay and you just think they're all shit yeah, yeah, I hate it like we're not even on the same fucking level. That's true. Yeah, so you know I, and that's okay people can have different tastes and shit.
Speaker 5:You know I'm not mad about it. I love that dividing line and you guys should define it more.
Speaker 4:I love it yeah, I love those.
Speaker 1:You should hold me we did never, let me go only if you paint me like one of your.
Speaker 4:French girls.
Speaker 1:Hey Vader.
Speaker 5:Or the really predator way. I said it that one day when I was like I just want to paint little girls, what the fuck.
Speaker 3:Cut that out.
Speaker 1:Get that out of there. That was too predatory.
Speaker 3:That was the line and it was crossed.
Speaker 4:We should not draw, that I'm just going to make a compilation, while the fucked up shit Scott says that I have to edit out. This is going to be called.
Speaker 1:Scott's Oopsies. Either way, on the same note, man, I'm going to keep giving you movies until I find one that you like, that I like.
Speaker 4:Yeah, dude, I'm down, I'm absolutely down.
Speaker 1:That's my way of figuring it out.
Speaker 4:Tell us about what dreams may come.
Speaker 1:Oh man, it's pretty wild um that me up for a second. Yeah, let's hear about the come bro. Well, you know, it's kind of a weird movie for me man.
Speaker 4:I don't think I've ever seen Robin Williams like that, like a real serious role, yeah, like what I know there's.
Speaker 1:yeah, well, you know serious, like you said, man. Okay, I tend to like stray away from Robin Williams movies that I know he's going to be serious in Because that's not Robin. Williams for me. Dude, I don't usually like that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4:No See what.
Speaker 1:I'm no see, see what I'm saying like I don't usually like that man and you like animated.
Speaker 3:I like the animated right right, right, right.
Speaker 1:You know I like robin williams, as you know, the funniest man alive, and so it was a little weird at first. But, you know, once I kind of figured out what was going on, which, believe me, didn't come until the very end. Because it's a pretty intricate. It's about a man, his wife and his two kids, I believe. She gets in a car accident, they get in a car accident, the two kids die, and then you know Robin Williams dealing with that his kids dying and you know the car accident.
Speaker 1:He ended up off in himself. So it was just their mother left and you know she naturally went into depression because you know her fucking family's gone. They're all dead. So what's?
Speaker 4:the whole movie, then I think I think it was him and the kids died and she killed herself, I think. If I remember, I thought robin williams was the main character he did kill himself.
Speaker 1:No, she was still alive. Oh, okay, the whole time, so wait.
Speaker 5:That's the spoiler, that's the big spoiler at the end is that she's actually alive, or what? What?
Speaker 1:I'm not even done talking about it.
Speaker 4:I can't remember the movie. Let him talk about the beginning first.
Speaker 1:Jesus Christ, you didn't see it.
Speaker 5:I don't remember it at all. It's been too long. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, it's pretty drawn out, man, but if you sit and pick apart everything that's happening because they don't fucking tell you what's going on at all, you kind of got it are left to to figure it out yourself. There's certain people that after so after robin williams kills himself, he's kind of haunting his wife, which is kind of fucked up. Once you figure it out, you know the movie is basically about death man it's about depression and death and suicide.
Speaker 4:See, that's the thing. We do have very different takes. I have a polar opposite view of what that movie is. To me, that movie is through and through a love story about soulmates dude.
Speaker 1:It is about soulmates. You're right. You're right. But the things I took out of it were you know, say you are a ghost or your soul does live on man, you sit around and and haunt your significant other. You're it's almost like you're doing her a disservice man. I feel like it's uh not letting her go. You know what I mean yeah just gonna sit and fucking dwell on it.
Speaker 4:That was like the kind of like the. The whole point of the movie was his journey, accepting that he's dead and then when he gets into heaven, I think the heaven explanation was super fucking cool how like heaven is like. It's not like a place where everyone goes together. It's specific to you.
Speaker 4:You know, yeah, yeah, yeah like and because the whole thing. And then he like the painting I don't know how to explain it, the art style, you know where? Do you remember hook the movie? Hook, yeah, yeah, it was like not digital effects, but it was like like everything was a painting and it was fucking crazy cool looking. I don't know how they did that shit, but but I feel like at the time that was the most beautiful thing that I've seen in a movie long time, back then.
Speaker 5:Like Mario, where they're jumping into paintings.
Speaker 4:Kind of. It's hard to explain. I don't know how to Do you know how to explain it? What I'm talking about? Not really Everything. Felt like he was in a painted environment okay, okay, you know what year did this movie come out?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 4:It's like late 90s yeah, I think probably late 90s, early 2000s, somewhere in there 98, something like that everything does seem to come out in 1998.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so I was probably like 13 years old watching this movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my interpretation of the movie is probably and you know it touched a lot on depression and, and you know, how you should deal with it and what it actually is for some people, you know, and what I I got out of that part was, like you know, depression is hell. In the in that movie, that was his hell. He was depressed, you know, and some people see it that way. There's no way back from hell. Do you think that you know what I mean?
Speaker 5:and robin, williams of real life, like took away too much of that movie I think robin williams was fucked up before all of that.
Speaker 1:No, that's why he was so fucking funny dude, he just kept covering it up. Most of the time, people that are funny as fuck like that that's they probably got some underlining shit going on. Man, look at farley belushi. You know those are two of the funniest motherfuckers I ever met in my life and they both found themselves to a early grave.
Speaker 5:I guess it's ironic more than anything, huh chris farley broke my heart I love that guy yeah so that was a, it was a good movie.
Speaker 4:It was fucking sad, dude yeah, yeah, it really was like it had me thinking about a lot of shit dude, so chad if you had your five significant other, the fucking you know, sometimes being depressed, all that shit bro for me the movie hits a little bit harder as an adult, because I've obviously lost a child, you know, and like in that film he gets two people that kind of help him through his journey in heaven to like uh, to like be more okay with what happened and kind of realize that like hey, she'll be here eventually.
Speaker 4:And after a while you find out that these two helpers were actually his dead children kids, yeah like his children that have been, you know, so like that, those specific scenes where it's like I got a fucking chance, I can, I can see her again you know what I'm saying, you know like that was kind of wild for me too most would interpret that uh, where he was as hell, but it's more like fucking purgatory yeah because you know where you're gonna go, like but that was kind of their explanation.
Speaker 1:Is that it wasn't either alive or you're fucking, yeah, yeah but they kind of explain it too that like so it's.
Speaker 4:It's kind of like the like home is where you make it kind of statement, where like the uh, or you like to see homos naked, whatever, but like they explain it, that like it's it how christianity says heaven is is a lot different from what it is in the movie. In the movie, like your heaven is specific to you, so like whatever makes you happy and like things that you find beautiful and like you have to kind of like will your heaven into existence. So at the time, like he hasn't really like accepted that he was dead or that he's in heaven, or that he deserves happiness without his wife, you know, and eventually, like his kids, kind of help him understand, like hey, this is your forever.
Speaker 4:Like what do you want it to be, you know, and that's when all the painting shit happens and it looks all cool and shit you know.
Speaker 5:So that's the movie is. Robin Williams is dead, he's in heaven and the movie is him creating his own heaven he's in heaven and the movie is him creating his own heaven, kind of sort of there's.
Speaker 4:There's one other thing, man, yeah, and like what I was talking about with soulmates is that at the end they, they, so his wife eventually makes it into heaven or whatever, and it's not like you're in heaven forever. So the movie ends with robin williams getting reborn as a baby. Because in this movie it says, like after you die you come back and when you have a soulmate situation, it's a very rare thing to have and as soulmates you will keep being reborn and every time you'll end up finding your soulmate once again, Now that you say that I remember this movie more.
Speaker 4:I'm a sap for that fucking lovey-dovey bullshit. I'm not gonna lie boys, it's good, I'm a sucker. It was for that kind of shit, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:I watched it with my lady I wish she did.
Speaker 4:She like it, she fucking loved it. It's just, it's a weird ass movie, because why is robin williams in that role? You know?
Speaker 1:liked how they were like portraying you. We've all lost people to suicide. People are friends of they're gone. I didn't like how they made it seem like that's If you're religious, you're going to fucking hell. You know what I mean.
Speaker 5:But that's how it is. No dude, it's fucking not. No, I mean, if you're religious, how the fuck do you know? I'm just saying, if you're religious, that's bullshit. I think it's bullshit, it's not a lie. If you, if you believe in Christianity, you're going to hell.
Speaker 1:But what if you know? What if your hell isn't? It's not has nothing to do with God. Maybe your hell is just a really bad place. You go when you die and not. There's not bad to offer yourself. I mean it is, but you don't need to see it that way. I just thought that was bullshit.
Speaker 5:Chad. The Jesus-Satan struggle is much related to the Republican-Democratic struggle, Is it?
Speaker 4:So you didn't want me to talk about religion in that one, but we're going to cover politics and religion and religion at the same time yeah, I don't think this is a good uh rover going down, so yeah, we're gonna stop right here.
Speaker 5:You see, I just laid it out like, hey, we could talk about everything right now so what dreams may come give it a rating chad?
Speaker 3:What dreams may come Give?
Speaker 1:it a rating Chad Nine out of ten.
Speaker 3:Nine out of ten.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it was really fucking. It made me think a lot.
Speaker 4:What was yours, caleb. Oh God, I feel so bad.
Speaker 3:Do it, just give it a fair rating.
Speaker 4:I'll give it like a 6.5 out of ten.
Speaker 3:There's going to be a time when I have to shit on you as well. I think that's a fair score for what it's being generous he's.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say a three for him.
Speaker 4:That's what I thought you would have said I was initially gonna say a three, but there were, like, my overall disdain for the movie wasn't the whole movie. There were parts of it that I really enjoyed. Just overall, I didn't care for it there's a gap.
Speaker 1:There's a generational gap here.
Speaker 4:Yeah yeah, and I and I, I 100 think it's just because I saw the movie too late. You know what I mean. Like it like if I saw it around the same time. French did, I bet I would have fucking well, go with that yeah, at least that's. That's the explanation I'm having you know because generally I I don't dislike movies, but I just I really struggled well at some point it's like it's it hurts to watch, like watch.
Speaker 3:Watching a movie that's from the 40s in the early 2000s it was just like yikes. You know what I mean? This doesn't age well. So what a movie in the 80s looks like right now, in 2020, it's comparable, yeah.
Speaker 4:All right, scott and Frenchamundo. Which one do you guys want to go first? I?
Speaker 3:don't know, Odds are even Shaylee.
Speaker 5:I choose odds.
Speaker 3:And that means you want to go first. Odds is good.
Speaker 5:Odds and I'll take first.
Speaker 3:Odds and he'll take first Boom.
Speaker 4:Hey, what about the Dungeons and Dragons dice Nice, let's see what is this.
Speaker 3:That's a five. Let's see what is this. That's a five.
Speaker 4:That's an odd. That's an odd, so Chad's going first, or.
Speaker 6:Scott. I don't know why I said Chad Scott.
Speaker 4:That's me Bathroom break Beep.
Speaker 3:Bleepity, bleepity, bleep no-transcript.
Speaker 4:Like 15 mil. That's slated to be like one of the best godzilla movies ever made, jesus. So I'll take odds.
Speaker 3:What did we get?
Speaker 4:Oh, we got a five.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you're going first as hell, all right, I guess third as hell, whatever well, um, I was given the privilege of watching nope, fuck and uh nope's a film that was directed by Jordan Peele, and there's a lot of controversy with him directing movies really pointing out race issues His Us and, I think, his other one. That was called Get Out Were the two before Nope, so it was his third, and Get Out and Us were spectacular. They were great movies. I think one was better than the other.
Speaker 3:What did you think of Get Out?
Speaker 5:I thought Get Out was better. Get Out was better than Us.
Speaker 4:The other one confused me.
Speaker 3:Us where they have doppelgangers. Yeah, I don't know. I thought it was a cool horror movie.
Speaker 4:It was good for sure, it just was very confusing. They didn't really explain the twist at the end that well.
Speaker 5:Yeah. So I mean, in most of his movies we've seen that he has kind of like a prerogative. Most his movies we've seen that he has kind of a like a prerogative.
Speaker 5:Uh, he wants to to point out an issue, usually a race issue, which which is, I mean, he's a black man, so he should be, uh, more than welcome to do that you know it's been two weeks since I watched this movie and my brain is a little slow on it, so what I what I really liked about this movie is everything that he didn't talk about. Uh, I think this movie would have made a much better book, because it seems like in books they really go into detail on the things that movies lead out. Jesus, fucking Christ, leave out. Sorry, I'm just disappointed in my inability to say words, right.
Speaker 3:And not to mention, it literally breaks the movie down into chapters chapters.
Speaker 5:You know, one thing that I mainly liked about this movie was the thought of a bad miracle. Um, in the very beginning, when the monkey is tearing apart somebody, there's a shoe just that that is just standing up all on its own, it's. It's kind of like an easter egg of the movie, like did you notice the shoe standing up? And then, even later, joop has the shoe standing up In his shrine, and the theory of a bad miracle Fascinates me. Things that that helped you, that weren't great, or that happened that made things worse the bad miracle.
Speaker 1:Bad miracle. I guess I never thought of it that way. If it's bad, how is it a miracle?
Speaker 5:Well, the shoe that just stood up on its own made Jupe. Focus on the shoe and not look the monkey in the eyes. Some would say gotcha. Much like in the movie where the ufo later learned that is actually the alien, the main character, oj uh, daniel kal, which is Jordan Peele's favorite actor. So he says his favorite actor, he was in Black Panther.
Speaker 2:What's the movie about man man.
Speaker 5:What's the whole thing about from the beginning, I'm doing an awful job at this, guys.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry too, man no you're cool.
Speaker 5:No, I, I really am doing a horrible job because I have the whole movie laid out in my head, but I'm focusing on what I wrote a week ago that I forgot all about and I'm messing this all up. So, hey, nope, from the very beginning, all right. So they start you off. It's oj uh and his father, and his father dies from shit falling out of the sky and nobody knows what happens. So then they flash to oj running the company by himself, and his sister pops in who's m. She's played by kiki palmer and she is a very flamboyant, super flamboyant girl and I think she did a horrible job. I did not like her acting, but OJ is a very quiet guy, very quiet guy, and you see it right away he's trying to tell people to watch out for the horse and he's saying it so quiet that nobody hears him.
Speaker 5:It's actually ridiculous how quiet he's trying to tell people to watch out for the deadly horse. Anyway, he gets fired from his job after Kiki Palmer Goes up there and talks about the family history. And the family history is where their family line was the Jockey that rode the horse In the first snippets of film when they pieced it together To look like a horse riding and it Flashes back to them at the house and OJ's like talking about dad dying or whatever. He wants to go in all alone. Kiki says yeah, let's smoke some pot. They go in together. They play some loud music. Their horse runs away that night and OJ goes out there and sees the aliens somehow or he catches a feeling of it.
Speaker 5:And what bothers me about this movie is it's two hours and 15 minutes long and there's just so much of nothing. To me it's a great movie if you condense it. If you were to condense this movie, I would have loved it. Two hours and 15 minutes long way too long. And the sky shots are beautiful. I love Glenn Glenn from the Walking Dead.
Speaker 5:I mean his whole story in this film is amazing, but it's not told. His story is not told. You have to piece everything together yourself. He's the child star actor in the beginning who doesn't get killed by the monkey because he doesn't look the monkey in the eye because of the shoe that was just magically balancing on its own, and in the end he thinks he can capture this alien, which they also leave out. All this untold story. I think the best story is what they didn't fucking tell. The story is about glenn. Who. Who is he in the movie?
Speaker 4:he is he's like a rich rancher or something. Right, he's jupe jupe, he's uh.
Speaker 5:His actual name is steven yoon uh, and there is so much left out about his story, like so he from a child star actor that where he's not killed, he then somehow starts to run a western ranch western theme ranch where people come there all the time because obviously he's making some money. And then he finds out that this alien is eating horses and he thinks that he can feed it horses and somehow make a spectacle of this alien is. Come here and watch this alien eat these horses. It's just the movie's so poorly put together and what everything I just said to you. He doesn't even fucking say you have to, you have to put everything together yourself.
Speaker 5:I think jordan peele is a great director and the movie was good. I love bad movies, but if I honestly had to say it shouldn't have been so long, you should have told more of the stuff that I wanted to know about, like even the, the photographer at the end, the one who's supposed to capture the shot, like he's meant to be something so much greater than everybody there and his long drawn out voice talking shots. All they did was annoy me. It just annoyed me.
Speaker 4:I did. I didn't understand why was Steven Ewan even in that movie.
Speaker 5:Well, no, it's, it's. It's the spectacle, it's a. So that chimp in the movie represents the alien in a way, how Hollywood thinks that they can tame a wild animal and make money off of it. And the whole thing is then how M and OJ and the angel the hardware guy thought that they could then do the exact same thing as to.
Speaker 4:Oh, with the alien.
Speaker 5:Okay, but Joop was really the one trying to do the exact same thing.
Speaker 4:So he didn't learn from his past ones. So he was the one who didn't look at the monkey in the eyes, so he survived. But at the end he was trying to film the alien and that's like he died, right, he died looking straight up at the alien. So that's why, if he would have just not- avert been paying attention okay okay
Speaker 4:now I get it, because that dude for me, like when I seen that movie I did not put that shit together. I was like why the fuck do they keep showing about the stupid monkey on the show? And it felt like there was two stories running concurrent to each other and the one just didn't make sense why it was there at all. But now it makes fucking perfect sense. I really appreciate you explaining that, because I was just like I didn't get it. I was like am I missing something here? And yes, I did. I did in fact miss it. That's wild.
Speaker 5:I thought the aliens look cool like the spaceship and shit. No, if I had five thumbs I would put two and a half of them up. I really enjoy the movie and I like b movies. I I like bad movies, but I expected a lot more out of this one, so I kind of it was kind of a letdown I there was a lot of hype that I heard what do you think?
Speaker 4:french?
Speaker 3:what do I think? Yeah, um, I just like weird shit, man. You know I like stuff about the, the weird and unknown. So that was just like a, you know, just like a time pillar for me before I went to bed one night and uh you liked it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it wasn't anything like crazy spectacular special to me. I was asked to think of a movie on the spot in five seconds and that was, for some reason, the first one that came to my mind oh yeah, that's the same thing I think when I think of the movie.
Speaker 5:I told you to watch french, because I just watched it last night. Yeah yeah lars and the Real Girl.
Speaker 3:Well, it's got Ryan Gosling. I don't really know any of the other actors, they're all very unfamiliar to me, but Ryan Gosling's the main takeaway. He's one of two brothers. His other brother lives in the main part of the house with his wife, which would be, uh, lars's stepsister and he's shut off in the garage, shut away from society.
Speaker 3:He's kind of just this like awkward, shy guy. I mean you, you all know ryan gosling. I mean this, this is, you know, pretty much par for the course. So far, right, except, like you know, everyone wants every like, everyone likes this guy, everyone wants him to get out and socialize and do more shit and like all he does is go to work and come home and just kind of shut himself in. I think. Think he goes to Sunday, maybe every once in a while or something. There's this girl that goes to church and fucking works with him, tries hitting on him and shit, and I don't know he is not open to it, he is not having it, but anyway, he all of a sudden becomes way more open when he gets a package delivered to his garage, right, because that's where he lives, and he lets his brother and his stepsister know that his girlfriend's in town and they're all fucking excited and pumped for him. Because here's this awkward, like socially awkward guy and he's got a fucking girl over, let's go, and then, but it's a doll.
Speaker 5:It's like a package that's, but it's, it's, it's, it's a doll it's like the package it's a, it's a sex doll, so like yeah, he's like, oh, his buddy at work was looking at it like six weeks prior, yeah, and he, he was just listening in the movie. You know, he was just listening yeah you could custom make them anything you want yeah, um the uh, yeah um the uh.
Speaker 3:Sorry, I lost my train of thought there. Give me one sec. The fuck was I saying?
Speaker 1:his package arrived, he was letting his parents know that his woman was in town.
Speaker 3:He just told his sister-in-law so he's all pumped because, uh, because his package has arrived that he's been waiting for, and you know, everyone's all fucking happy because he's just like socially awkward as shit and like, is he gay? Like I think they even hashed that out in the beginning Like no, I'm not gay, you know. And yeah, come to find out. It's this fucking doll. And you know which shocks absolutely like everybody, like his brother's, pissed because, like his little brother's, like losing his mind, like what does he fucking do about this? And you know, his, his stepsister or the brother's wife or whatever, you know she's like, well, I don't know, you know she's. And uh, anyway, they go to like a psychologist or a family therapist and she's like, go along with it. You know, like that's his girlfriend if he says it is.
Speaker 3:And uh, yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of things that go on in the movie, like it's a sex doll, obviously, and uh, like people can see that and are aware of that, and but like, in the initial shock, like you know, like the little, you know, like the ladies that knit together in and the initial shock, like you know, like the little, you know, like the ladies that knit together in a circle and shit. Like you know, like you see their reactions as he like rolls her into a wheelchair, into a church and shit. And like you know, the, the, the girl that he basically like shooed away or or, uh, like said no to or the one that liked him, that he didn't show any interest to right, like you know he, she sees him with the fucking doll and she's like holy shit, I've been fucking one upped by a goddamn doll.
Speaker 3:He'd rather want a doll than me. So it's just. There's just a lot of funny. It's not like sexual at all. He doesn't have sex with her. That should be noted right, right away, right off the bat. He doesn't have sex with this doll, it's. It's more of like I don't know. It's got all the range of emotions in there. Right, it's a movie that'll make you. You know it's.
Speaker 3:It's a semi jeer, a tear jerker, almost right, it'll make you, it'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry, it'll make you fucking angry. It's, uh, it's got all the range of emotions and that's so strange to say about a movie where ryan gosling dates a sex doll.
Speaker 4:It's, it's fucking you know what I mean when he plays it, when he put it like that. That does sound genius bro right like it's. You wouldn't expect that out of that kind of a movie, but it's really heartfelt you know, do you feel that way because of ryan gosling, or is it like anybody could have happened to the doll? Like, do they?
Speaker 3:anybody could have played that role in that movie would have felt exactly the same to me, because you know they, they really uh, uh, label this guy as socially awkward. You know they, they really hammer that out like in the beginning, right like he lives in this garage.
Speaker 5:You know what I mean like it didn't have to be ryan gosling, but it's pretty cool that it was him and you know it was more about the community that just didn't reject him for suddenly saying hey, this is my girlfriend and write him off as a crazy. They, they just all accepted. I mean, like throughout the movie, there's points where his sex doll has like her own schedule. People are picking her up and taking her places. What? Yeah, because they've all accepted her as a person to try to help the character of Ryan Costner.
Speaker 4:Does it have a happy ending, boys?
Speaker 5:Well, yeah, french, tell them the ending.
Speaker 3:The ending is they like man? I don't know. I feel like it shouldn't be spoiled. It's still kind of a recent film With really good reviews. You want to find out what happens to the sex doll at the end? Go watch the movie, folks.
Speaker 5:We told you the whole movie, folks, I'll watch it.
Speaker 4:We didn't say the whole movie, I just said you'll laugh, you'll cry. Told you the whole movie.
Speaker 3:Folks, I'll watch it, I'll watch it I didn't say the whole movie, I just said you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll do this and that.
Speaker 6:No, that's fine yeah.
Speaker 3:That's why I worded it like that. I didn't want to give away anything specific about this movie. You know what I mean. I basically gave the outlying themes and elements of this movie and why I liked it and why I thought it was good, and then, if the viewers would like to then go see the movie and decide for themselves if they like it or want to see it, rather than me just spoiling it, so this is a newer.
Speaker 6:Ryan Gosling film.
Speaker 4:It's like 2007, right.
Speaker 3:No shit, when I say newer, it didn't come out like fucking last month, right.
Speaker 1:It's free Caleb.
Speaker 6:Compared to all the movies that we just listed.
Speaker 3:This is the newest of all of those movies, right? Well, actually, nope, nope, literally just came out last year, yeah, nope.
Speaker 5:Nope was good, though, as much as I hated it. It was good Just condense it.
Speaker 3:All right, fuck it. You guys aren't going to watch a movie about a sex doll. The doll dies. Okay, the doll dies. Oh, watch a movie about a sex doll.
Speaker 4:The doll dies. Okay, the whole dies. Oh yeah, well, I was gonna watch it.
Speaker 3:Thanks a lot how do you do it?
Speaker 4:no problem so because that that's kind of one thing I wondered, so like from how you're explaining the movie, like there could be two routes. There could be the route where, like they try to humanize this doll, so like the happy ending would be ryan gosling, like people finally accepting his love with this doll.
Speaker 3:It's not raunchy, it's not gross, it's not anything like that. It's more of like a wholesome heartfelt type of movie.
Speaker 6:You know what I mean. It just happens to have a sex doll in it.
Speaker 5:You know what I mean? It really the fuck it is.
Speaker 3:It's more about mental health than anything.
Speaker 5:I had. Yeah, I don't want to spoil everything.
Speaker 1:It's spoiled already. I said, fuck it. Yeah, I threw caution to the wind. I just said, fuck it, I'm going to take them home. Dude, look at this, take them home. I'm going to turn that P into an E, all of them.
Speaker 4:So it says gaming world. That would be cool, it's a gaming world, see if anybody notices I don't know, the movie sounds good, man, it's like an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes. I know how much we rip on those guys, but you know it's just what I see, man. They're not always wrong, though you know what I mean. Sometimes they hit it.
Speaker 5:They're pretty wrong sometimes though.
Speaker 4:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 5:They're awful.
Speaker 3:I saw the 87 and I was like all right, hell, yeah, let's go, let's do this. And I was pleasantly surprised, you know.
Speaker 5:I cried for probably 45 minutes yesterday.
Speaker 4:Because of the doll dying.
Speaker 3:No, just because of everybody taking care of this guy, who's definitely mentally ill. Yeah, it was more about the community coming together to help this guy. That you know, they all know and watch grow up.
Speaker 4:Essentially, that is actually cool because I feel like like at least now people would just like shit on a person instead of like, hey, can I help you? You know what I mean like right that is, that's cool man I it. It sounds interesting.
Speaker 5:There's a moment where he brings his sex doll to a party and it's like, all right, somebody's going to come up to him and be like here you're fucking with a doll, blah, blah, blah. You expect that and it doesn't really happen. There's two guys that come up to him like, yeah, but she does anything you want.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's a lot of those dude. I fucking laughed so I can't remember what parts they were, but I laughed so fucking hard. At least at two points in that movie. At least in two points, that's good.
Speaker 5:Yeah, uncontrollably at that I just think it's odd that it's not his brother that helps. It's, you know, the, the stepsister is the one who ultimately opens up all the avenues to make him better, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's the brother that's hard-headed and doesn't know how to approach, how to help his own brother.
Speaker 4:It's his wife In the end, you know he just feels, awful about how everything went down and it's really something uh magical it really is I'm so intrigued that a movie about a sex doll is magical, and I feel like those are the type of movies that, like the writer, whoever came up with that idea like when you can be made to feel something about something that you generally would not ever feel about ever, like that's fucking cool to me. Good writing, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely yeah. You're not wrong, dude, how they incorporated mental health into it and all of a sudden it became a really fucking serious movie instead of one that was like ha ha, this guy's dating a sex doll, you know what I mean. Fucking pervert. Yeah, like I said, it wasn't gross, it wasn't raunchy, it wasn't. It was none of that. It was literally none of that, which is kind of what I, I, I you know.
Speaker 5:What's funny, though, is I watched this last night with my family, and both my sister and her sister, or no sister sorry, I said that wrong. Both my wife and her sister thought that I was watching this some perverted movie just because he got a sex doll. They judged me immediately and I'm like this is a. This is a family healthy movie right here.
Speaker 3:Shit, I'm about to look up the rating right now did they finish it?
Speaker 5:yeah, I made them finish it. I said I'm watching this movie for homework.
Speaker 4:At the end of it, where they did, they change their, their tune uh, crystal didn't.
Speaker 5:Her sister did.
Speaker 3:She said this was actually a pretty good movie no pg-13 Yo look, look, she got the fishnets and the knee high, fucking leather boots. So, she like at first. She comes dressed up like that, like all fucking scantily clad and shit. Everyone's like.
Speaker 5:But then they dress her more appropriate.
Speaker 3:Yeah, pg-13, by the way.
Speaker 4:Well, I think it was a pretty, uh pretty cool. It was kind of fun to hear, like the, the discrepancy some people had or the agreements you know it was. It was a fun, fun little project, I think. Um, do we want to do the community question of the week?
Speaker 3:So for last week we had one response out of Discord from Miller Time and to nobody's surprise he said that. Well, first of all, the question was what do you like to collect?
Speaker 4:And Miller Time guess it in your head right now Do you have it.
Speaker 3:It's baseball cards. Okay, yeah, yeah, I can see that. Yeah, miller time said baseball cards. That makes sense more than anything I've heard this whole year. So baseball cards, you know that and hockey cards I feel like that's such a niche group of people at this point. You keep doing you brother.
Speaker 4:Love you miller, and thanks for responding to the community question we did actually have one that just responded a couple hours ago. Oh, I don't even know who this guy is, his name is johnny. Bravo, uh. He said mechanical keyboards, specifically prototypes and first drafts. The more unrefined, the better whoa what?
Speaker 3:yeah, okay, I take that back.
Speaker 4:That's niche that is, that is so incredibly niche.
Speaker 3:Thank you, johnny. Bravo for putting that. I know that guy. He's uh, he's a, he's a guy I met off rathgar's server actually. Oh cool, um playing eve that space game. You know that space game. Eve yeah yeah, yeah, and I convinced him to hop on OSRS, and now he's addicted, so and now forever the world has changed, bro, for real. Johnny Bravo sends me, like you know, like weekly updates. I'm like because I like vicariously leveling through him, since he's like a level one.
Speaker 4:Oh, he's the other guy that started around the time I did right yeah, okay, okay, cool, I think so because I remember you saying, um, that, like you were, you were happy that you convinced me, and then there was, like one other person that you convinced to play, as play as well, yeah, bro there's a bunch of people at this point like keith.
Speaker 3:Keith is a guy who's came back. I mean, this is not his first time playing, but keith is back now. That's super cool. You know, scott's created his own account. Uh, chad's on his. I'm not sure how often chad's on, you know, with his uh, given his his recent uh turn of events. But, um, yeah, man fuckingRS, that shit slaps. And Miller Time and Johnny Bravo. Thank you for responding to this week's community question. Well, actually that would have been last week's. Fuck it, don't cut it. I said what I said, deal with it. I said what I said, deal with it, and we like it. This week's community question is if you had an extra set of arms, what would you use them for?
Speaker 5:And my side community question is if you had an extra set of thumbs, would it be better than an extra set of arms?
Speaker 4:Ooh, like a dual-sided question, I like it.
Speaker 3:All right, leave your responses down in the Discord Community Question of the Week channel. I look forward to reading your responses, possibly even shouting them out next week.
Speaker 4:Thank you for another fun and exciting episode of Phantom Fables. We'll catch you on the next one. See you, phantom Fables.
