Operation : Crusty Sock

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[00:00:48] Someone's going to be like, yeah, and then Dracula said this.

[00:00:55] What a great time to be alive.

[00:00:57] It is indeed.

[00:00:57] It's 48 Minutes Dogs Barking.

[00:00:58] My name is Jason.

[00:00:59] This is Brian.

[00:01:00] We are hanging out in the chalet with a nice little whiskey.

[00:01:04] Yeah, more the single barrel Jim Beam, which I find really smooth.

[00:01:10] It's a lot smoother than a lot of other whiskeys I've had lately.

[00:01:13] Yeah, it's refreshing.

[00:01:14] Thanks for hanging out with us.

[00:01:15] Thanks for tuning in last week to the wonderful interview we did with Travis Keller and Joe Cardamone.

[00:01:20] What a fun time.

[00:01:21] Boy, we had just such a good time.

[00:01:22] Boy, it was so fun.

[00:01:24] I'll never be as cool as anyone from L.A.

[00:01:26] Well, yeah, that's kind of written in the stars, brother.

[00:01:29] I'm sorry.

[00:01:30] Thanks, thanks.

[00:01:30] I hate to tell you.

[00:01:31] I looked up your birth chart.

[00:01:33] Yeah.

[00:01:34] Well, I was saying by dint of the fact that we're in St. Louis, that's just not going to happen.

[00:01:38] Yeah, I looked at your astrology chart, and it says you'll never be as cool as someone that works at a bookstore.

[00:01:44] Sorry, homie.

[00:01:44] Off of Sunset Boulevard.

[00:01:46] It's just the way it is.

[00:01:47] But what a weird week.

[00:01:49] Last week, we talked about the gentleman who took out a UnitedHealthcare CEO in the streets of New York.

[00:01:57] Well, he's supposedly been caught.

[00:01:59] I have my own theories about that, but that's a whole other episode.

[00:02:03] The hash rounds do be that good, though.

[00:02:05] They really do.

[00:02:06] So the gentleman in question, Luigi Mangione.

[00:02:10] Every time I hear the name, I just think Linguini Manicotti, and I don't know why.

[00:02:16] Cartoons hate her, writes a great sub stack this here.

[00:02:21] The headline, America has a hunk again.

[00:02:24] It says, after the shocking murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, not to be confused with tech mogul Brian Johnson,

[00:02:30] who, by the way, is attempting to reach peak hunk in his 40s by sucking the blood from his son.

[00:02:39] America got our answer to our hunk dearth.

[00:02:41] Thompson's murder, a 26-year-old man, peak hunk age, named Luigi Mangione.

[00:02:46] Truly, being a hunk isn't just about looks.

[00:02:49] It's about mass hysteria.

[00:02:52] America has that now in Luigi, at least on Twitter, where someone has even created an account called Luigi Crave

[00:02:58] to post hot Luigi pics and updates.

[00:03:02] There's a lot of Mangione mania on Blue Sky 2, but it's much more boring, less thirsty.

[00:03:08] And they're milkshake-ducking him.

[00:03:11] So, for those of you not familiar, the milkshake duck refers to an old tweet, you know, that there's...

[00:03:16] We'd love to...

[00:03:18] We want to introduce you to the milkshake duck who loves milkshakes,

[00:03:21] and then 10 minutes later you find out the milkshake duck is racist.

[00:03:26] And so they're doing that because apparently he listened to Joe Rogan.

[00:03:29] I don't know that that's enough to cancel a man.

[00:03:31] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:03:33] His politics or his ideology or whatever seems kind of all over the place.

[00:03:39] Very weird.

[00:03:40] I mean, he just seems like a normal person.

[00:03:44] I hate to tell this to you, Jason, but not everyone has defined leftist feelings and ideology.

[00:03:54] No.

[00:03:54] There's a lot of people...

[00:03:55] I work with people that have some very confusing, sometimes conflicting opinions that run the gambit of all...

[00:04:02] Right, from...

[00:04:02] Well, that's very much a far-left-of-center opinion, followed up by a very right-of-center opinion to, like,

[00:04:09] that's a hella libertarian-ass opinion.

[00:04:11] I bet you know where the age of consent lies in every state, if not every county in every state.

[00:04:17] Well, I mean, look, America is a land of contrasts, right?

[00:04:20] I think that's what we're really getting at.

[00:04:23] Well, Ken Klippenstein got a hold of the supposed manifesto that Luigi Mangione had on him, moment of his arrest.

[00:04:31] Ken Klipperstein put it on his substack, much like he did with the J.D. Vance files, because the man does not fear fucking anything.

[00:04:38] So the full thing is as follows.

[00:04:41] To the feds, I'll keep this short because I respect...

[00:04:43] You gotta read it in the accent.

[00:04:45] To the feds, I...

[00:04:47] I'll keep this short because I do respect what you do for our country.

[00:04:53] To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone.

[00:04:59] This was fairly trivial.

[00:05:00] Some elementary social engineering.

[00:05:02] Basic CAD.

[00:05:03] A lot of patience.

[00:05:04] The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and to-do lists that illuminate the gist of it.

[00:05:09] My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering, so probably not much info there.

[00:05:15] I do apologize for any strife or traumas, but it had to be done.

[00:05:18] Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.

[00:05:22] A reminder, the U.S. has the number one most expensive healthcare system in the world,

[00:05:28] yet we're ranked roughly number 42 in life expectancy.

[00:05:31] United is the, indecipherable, largest company in the U.S.

[00:05:36] Buy market cap, only behind Google, Apple, Walmart.

[00:05:39] It has grown and grown, but has our life expectancy?

[00:05:43] No, the reality is, this, indecipherable, has simply gotten too powerful,

[00:05:48] and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit

[00:05:51] because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.

[00:05:53] Obviously, the problem is more complex, but I do not have space,

[00:05:57] and frankly, I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument.

[00:06:01] But many have illuminated the corruption and greed,

[00:06:05] e.g. Rosenthal Moore decades ago, and the problems simply deranged.

[00:06:09] It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at the play.

[00:06:14] Evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.

[00:06:19] Evidently, wow.

[00:06:21] So Moore, I am guessing he means Michael Moore in the documentary Sicko.

[00:06:25] That is kind of where I am going to, that is where I went with it,

[00:06:28] because Michael Moore, if you really go back,

[00:06:31] because that documentary is like five years old now, at least.

[00:06:35] Sicko?

[00:06:36] Sicko.

[00:06:36] It came out before I worked at Blockbuster.

[00:06:39] Oh, wow.

[00:06:40] So this point is at least 15 years old.

[00:06:45] Jesus, nothing has changed.

[00:06:46] And so they started looking through his online history.

[00:06:49] This is, this is...

[00:06:51] I'm sorry.

[00:06:55] Go ahead.

[00:06:58] Max at Meyer Descent.

[00:07:00] Oh boy.

[00:07:01] Tweets May 22nd.

[00:07:02] Do any of you r***hards have a PhD?

[00:07:05] I have questions.

[00:07:07] Which shows you just like how fucking weird Twitter is,

[00:07:11] because this person only got eight responses,

[00:07:14] two retweets and 11 likes, but got 74K views.

[00:07:19] Right.

[00:07:19] And Luigi at Pep Maggione responded with,

[00:07:25] yeah, and then quote tweeted himself with,

[00:07:28] pretty huge dick.

[00:07:29] With the D capitalized.

[00:07:33] But apparently he went silent on social media between May and December.

[00:07:38] Armand Domoluski at Armand Doma on Twitter saying here,

[00:07:42] seems like the shooter had some sort of mental breakdown about six months ago

[00:07:45] and totally vanished.

[00:07:47] Adding him, hey, you know, nobody's heard from you.

[00:07:49] Your parent, your family's looking for you.

[00:07:51] I need you to call me.

[00:07:53] Hey, man, I need you to call me.

[00:07:55] I don't know if you are okay or just in a super isolated place and have no service,

[00:07:59] but I haven't heard from you in months.

[00:08:02] You made commitments to me for my wedding.

[00:08:04] And if you can't honor them, I need to know so I can plan accordingly.

[00:08:09] Oh, shit.

[00:08:10] I'm sorry.

[00:08:11] I have to go.

[00:08:12] Yeah.

[00:08:12] I have to do.

[00:08:13] I have to start the class war.

[00:08:16] Sorry, man.

[00:08:17] Can't be your best man.

[00:08:18] Previous engagement.

[00:08:19] Sorry.

[00:08:21] But yeah, apparently he was an avid Goodreads person as well, which I am.

[00:08:25] And I'm kind of like, okay, this kind of tracks.

[00:08:27] But one of the last books that he marked as read and reviewed

[00:08:31] was Ted Kaczynski's book, Industrial Society and Its Futures.

[00:08:35] He gave it four stars.

[00:08:37] Although he did criticize it.

[00:08:39] This is a quote from this review, January of this year,

[00:08:43] clearly written by a mathematics prodigy.

[00:08:45] Reads like a series of lemas on the question of 21st century quality of life.

[00:08:50] It's easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic in

[00:08:55] order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies.

[00:08:58] But it is simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern

[00:09:03] society turned out.

[00:09:05] He was a violent individual, rightfully imprisoned, who maimed innocent people.

[00:09:09] While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy Luddite, however,

[00:09:16] they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.

[00:09:21] A take I found online that I think is interesting.

[00:09:25] Quote,

[00:09:25] That peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere, and at the end of the day, he's probably

[00:09:30] right.

[00:09:31] Oil barons haven't listened to any environmentalists, but they feared him.

[00:09:35] When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive.

[00:09:41] You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism.

[00:09:46] It's war and revolution.

[00:09:47] Fossil fuel companies actively suppress anything that stands in their way, and within a generation

[00:09:52] or two, it will begin costing human lives by greater and greater magnitudes until the

[00:09:57] earth is just a flaming ball orbiting third from the sun.

[00:10:00] Peaceful protest is outright ignored.

[00:10:03] Economic protest isn't possible in the current system.

[00:10:06] So how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is

[00:10:11] justified as self-defense?

[00:10:13] These companies don't care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids.

[00:10:17] They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any

[00:10:23] qualms about burning them down to survive?

[00:10:26] We are animals, just like everything else on this planet, except we've forgotten the law

[00:10:30] of the jungle and bend over for our overlords when any other animal would recognize the threat

[00:10:35] and fight to the death for their survival.

[00:10:37] Violence never solved anything is a statement uttered by cowards and predators.

[00:10:42] Woo, baby!

[00:10:44] Yeah, not hard to find some purchase in that rhetoric.

[00:10:46] Looks like he's also read books on back pain like Crooked, Outwitting the Back Pain Industry,

[00:10:51] and Getting on the Rudder Recovery by Katherine Jacobson-Raymond, and Back Mechanic by Dr.

[00:10:56] Stuart McGill.

[00:10:57] Twitter user Morgan Sung quote tweeted,

[00:11:00] This one from OzSK1,

[00:11:02] Are we really supposed to believe that this young, clearly wealthy Ivy League student got

[00:11:05] screwed over enough by a health insurance company to execute their CEO?

[00:11:09] Something seems off.

[00:11:10] To which they quote tweeted,

[00:11:12] With a photo of the x-ray of Magione's back with four screws in it, and the three things

[00:11:19] on Goodreads that he read about back pain, and saying, I mean, yeah.

[00:11:24] Yeah.

[00:11:24] Sometimes it's that simple.

[00:11:26] And of course, people immediately when they saw even the masked photo, had violently epic,

[00:11:31] the introverted hater.

[00:11:32] There's a real chance he's hot, and sadly, they were right.

[00:11:36] He's a fairly attractive man.

[00:11:39] Mm-hmm.

[00:11:40] Italian excellence.

[00:11:43] Exactly right.

[00:11:44] We got people saying free Luigi.

[00:11:46] Yeah.

[00:11:46] The local printing press, possession press, run by Kenny Snarczyk of the excellent Doom

[00:11:55] metal band Fister.

[00:11:57] Fister, yeah.

[00:11:58] It released a free Luigi shirt with his manifesto statement on the back.

[00:12:03] Sick.

[00:12:04] Sick.

[00:12:04] Yeah.

[00:12:04] Yeah.

[00:12:04] And of course, people using the character of Luigi from the Luigi games to kind of make

[00:12:11] memes and t-shirts.

[00:12:12] There's one with Luigi, the character from Mario, with a pistol and a silencer and a hoodie,

[00:12:18] and then it's the Luigi's Mansion font, Luigi Magione.

[00:12:22] Yeah.

[00:12:22] So funny thing, the backpack that they found full of Monopoly money is a peak design, like

[00:12:28] everyday backpack.

[00:12:30] Okay.

[00:12:31] And it's the 30 liter version, and it's kind of like the Heather Gray.

[00:12:36] And it's sold out everywhere.

[00:12:38] Can't you believe it?

[00:12:39] Yes.

[00:12:39] I can believe it.

[00:12:40] Absolutely.

[00:12:41] Same with the multiple types of coats that he was seen wearing.

[00:12:43] I haven't verified all this, but my understanding is that the McDonald's employee that ratted

[00:12:48] him out not only did not get the money because they called 911, not the tip line.

[00:12:54] Oh, no.

[00:12:55] They also got fired for using their phone on the job.

[00:12:58] No.

[00:12:58] That's what you get.

[00:12:59] So yeah, Wagey, maybe you should stick to making the fries there.

[00:13:04] Put the fries in the bag, motherfucker.

[00:13:06] Yeah.

[00:13:06] Like, really?

[00:13:08] God damn.

[00:13:10] Talk about fucking up.

[00:13:12] Fucking up the bag.

[00:13:14] Absolutely.

[00:13:15] You don't even get that 60K, and you ratted out.

[00:13:18] Which was probably the whole reason that they ratted about to begin with.

[00:13:21] Yeah.

[00:13:21] You're working at McDonald's, you see this guy, and you're like, 60K is fucking wife-changing

[00:13:27] money, man.

[00:13:28] Let's go.

[00:13:29] The fact that...

[00:13:30] I knew it.

[00:13:30] I fucking called it.

[00:13:31] I said, there's no way the NYPD is going to pony up this money.

[00:13:36] They're going to find some way to not pay this person, and I hate being right.

[00:13:40] Well, apparently a lot of times when there's like a cash reward, it rarely gets paid out.

[00:13:45] So don't ever do that.

[00:13:47] Yep.

[00:13:47] But if you ever see someone at McDonald's eating a hash brown, and it looked like someone

[00:13:53] that murdered a CEO who, let's be honest, probably deserved it.

[00:13:59] No, you didn't.

[00:13:59] Yeah.

[00:14:00] You didn't see anything.

[00:14:00] Yeah, it's the same thing when you see a single mother stealing something at the grocery store.

[00:14:05] No, you didn't.

[00:14:05] Doesn't look like anything to me.

[00:14:06] Yeah, exactly.

[00:14:09] Mangione's popularity did hit a peak that included multiple crypto coins being made.

[00:14:16] This one, my favorite, Luigi slash Soul on the radium.

[00:14:21] This is Deck Screener, and look at that.

[00:14:23] Peaks at like 11 a.m. yesterday, and then ever since, it's just been coasting on down to zero.

[00:14:30] And this isn't the only one.

[00:14:31] There's so many.

[00:14:32] But this is the one that I think is probably the funniest.

[00:14:35] You're looking at 348k in volume all the way down.

[00:14:42] We're down to, as of right now, it was such a precipitous drop.

[00:14:46] I think its peak was somewhere in it.

[00:14:48] It wasn't even a fraction of five cents, but now it's not even a fraction of a single.

[00:14:55] One eight hundredth.

[00:14:56] Yeah.

[00:14:56] Or eight hundredth of a penny.

[00:14:58] I don't know.

[00:14:58] Fuck, man.

[00:14:58] I don't know.

[00:14:59] I forgot how to do math so I can remember Lord of the Rings mythology.

[00:15:04] Well, from one good thing to a thing that maybe is not so good based on how you feel about it.

[00:15:09] Chris Chan was in the news the other day.

[00:15:12] Those of you not familiar, go back to an older episode of ours, Christine Weston Chandler.

[00:15:16] Behind the Bastards called Chris Chan the most trolled person in the history of the internet.

[00:15:20] Yes, probably.

[00:15:22] I mean, there's really not a lot of competition.

[00:15:24] Free from jail, out on her own, doing things, has a sweetheart.

[00:15:29] Oh, a Julie?

[00:15:30] A Julie by the name of Flutter, who hangs out with Christine and is their beau.

[00:15:35] And during a live stream where Chris Chan is, of course, playing the Shadow Hedgehog Collection thing that just came out.

[00:15:42] Sure, yeah.

[00:15:42] I'm a little scandalized by this because it only runs at 30 frames per second.

[00:15:48] Eh.

[00:15:49] I'm sorry.

[00:15:50] One of my favorite games ever, Bloodborne, still only runs at 30.

[00:15:53] So, you know, that's fine.

[00:15:54] So, this is during an official CWC stream.

[00:15:58] This video, courtesy of Tamimi, this is just an excerpt from that live stream.

[00:16:04] It's very bizarre.

[00:16:05] So, listen if you can hear what we're pointing out here.

[00:16:08] I'm sorry.

[00:16:09] Chris Chan looks like someone from, like, a community college production of Natural Born Killers now.

[00:16:18] You're not wrong.

[00:16:19] I don't think we talked about this, but the body cam footage of the police officer.

[00:16:23] You know what?

[00:16:23] I don't think we did.

[00:16:24] I think we had it and we scrapped it one day.

[00:16:26] Because it felt, I think for me, I just felt too uncomfortable.

[00:16:28] But that is, you sent it to me.

[00:16:30] I think I watched, like, the first five or so minutes.

[00:16:32] I'm like, this is too unsettling.

[00:16:34] Yeah, they're getting arrested and it's like, they're talking about how Sonic is there punching the cops.

[00:16:40] If you feel anything, that's Sonic.

[00:16:42] He's my husband.

[00:16:44] And the cop is just like, the fuck is going on here?

[00:16:47] And, of course, as soon as this is happening, there are trolls across the way filming.

[00:16:52] Those are just some trolls from the internet.

[00:16:55] As Christine is being walked out in handcuffs.

[00:16:58] The cops don't believe her at first.

[00:17:00] They're like, what?

[00:17:01] Okay, yeah, you're internet famous.

[00:17:03] Yeah, yeah.

[00:17:04] So, yes.

[00:17:04] Upon her release, they started streaming under CWCville Guardian.

[00:17:09] A series of weird videos.

[00:17:12] The thing that I wanted to get at was that...

[00:17:14] The Chris Chan mythology just runs too fucking deep, man.

[00:17:19] It really does.

[00:17:20] And all of it's upsetting.

[00:17:21] Yes, all of it is very upsetting.

[00:17:24] So, during a live stream, a Twitch user had sent a question in.

[00:17:29] And this is one of those things where you pay a couple bucks and you get the question read out.

[00:17:33] And then Christine would respond to it.

[00:17:36] And the question was about a child.

[00:17:39] When are you going to announce the child you're having?

[00:17:44] Which seems like someone who's on Twitch and following them and, like, trolling them again.

[00:17:50] But, of course, they respond.

[00:17:52] Well, sometime in the summer when the child is born.

[00:17:55] Which implies that, A, the person asking the question knows something very intimate about Chris Chan's life.

[00:18:01] And, B, that Chris Chan heard this and was like, oh, yes, this is actually a thing that happened.

[00:18:05] They did later say, no, that's not a thing that happened.

[00:18:10] It happened in a different dimension.

[00:18:14] Because...

[00:18:14] Great.

[00:18:18] Amazing.

[00:18:18] But there's no actual child that's going to be coming from this.

[00:18:22] Absolutely bizarre.

[00:18:24] I highly recommend you watch Tem Mimi's, Chris Chan's latest updates are terrifying video.

[00:18:29] It is 40 minutes long.

[00:18:31] And just like you said, it's fucking upsetting.

[00:18:34] I can't imagine watching it.

[00:18:36] If you watched most of it, you were a sick man.

[00:18:39] I watched it more than once.

[00:18:41] Everything I read, like you said, everything I read about Chris Chan, I get more and more upset.

[00:18:46] Speaking of being upset.

[00:18:48] Great.

[00:18:50] Marvel Rivals is the new video game that's out this past couple weeks.

[00:18:54] It actually came out maybe about a week ago, I want to say.

[00:18:56] Because I was very hyped to play it after we recorded with Travis and Joe.

[00:19:00] It's great.

[00:19:01] It's an Overwatch killer.

[00:19:03] It's 33 different Marvel superheroes.

[00:19:05] You can get them all.

[00:19:06] And there's a lot of sexy ladies on there.

[00:19:08] Well, according to Dexerto, the headline, Marvel Rivals Data Miners Shocked by How Detailed Heroes 3D Models Are.

[00:19:16] That's never good.

[00:19:17] Nope.

[00:19:18] Because if you remember when Overwatch came out, one of the first things that happened was Overwatch started trending on Pornhub.

[00:19:26] Independent animators got the models and started making all the different characters from Overwatch fuck each other.

[00:19:32] Great.

[00:19:32] Yeah.

[00:19:33] Excellent.

[00:19:33] Yeah.

[00:19:34] So, apparently, Jack Keck got a hold of these, started posting them.

[00:19:39] There's some great ones already.

[00:19:41] But my personal favorite was Fugtrup.

[00:19:43] It's a guy on Blue Sky, formerly of Twitter, who was a big fan of May.

[00:19:48] Now, of course, May and Squirrel Girl have kind of the same body type.

[00:19:52] And so, in a series of posts earlier today, there's May eating noodles while her date looks at a photo of her with a dick in her mouth.

[00:20:01] And then the second post, Fugtrup posting heeheehee, it's May looking annoyed while her date looks at a phone with the naked Squirrel Girl model on it.

[00:20:12] Great.

[00:20:13] Lovely.

[00:20:16] I can believe that DARPA funded this with the internet because it is a weapon.

[00:20:23] The Infinite Gooning Project, yeah.

[00:20:26] Project Krusty Sock.

[00:20:28] Yeah.

[00:20:28] The minute digital porn people got a hold of Overwatch, it was a huge hit.

[00:20:33] And I have a feeling we're days away from seeing some real fun stuff.

[00:20:39] Fantastic work, everyone.

[00:20:40] No notes.

[00:20:41] Let's just make all the weird, sexy cartoon stuff.

[00:20:45] You know, I mean, it doesn't matter anyways.

[00:20:48] Like, the sperm isn't going to be viable in a couple generations because of all the plastics and our food.

[00:20:55] So, empty those balls, boys.

[00:20:56] Yeah, empty those balls because it's not going anywhere.

[00:20:58] It's not going anywhere useful.

[00:21:00] Your progeny will have to fuck for water.

[00:21:03] Yeah.

[00:21:04] So, I mean, you know, might as well.

[00:21:05] Yeah.

[00:21:05] At this point, what's the point of doing anything?

[00:21:08] So, my favorite Squirrel Girl related thing that kind of ties into all this is that Squirrel Girl in this game is voiced by Maya Vantraub, who was going to play her in another Marvel series and that got canceled.

[00:21:21] But she's played Squirrel Girl a bunch of times.

[00:21:23] But she's also best known as the cute girl in the AT&T commercials who had to, like, shut down comments on her Instagram because it got really creepy and weird.

[00:21:33] And I'm like, oh, great.

[00:21:35] They have the Squirrel Girl nude 3D model.

[00:21:38] What is her Instagram going to sound like now?

[00:21:40] Because every line from Doreen, a.k.a. Doreen Green Squirrel Girl, is about nuts.

[00:21:47] And I'm like, oh, fuck.

[00:21:50] She's going to go even more of a hermit mode now.

[00:21:53] We're really doing great.

[00:21:58] What's this here?

[00:22:00] Oh, here's another one.

[00:22:02] It's the Hulk curb stomping Jeff the Shark.

[00:22:06] It's from the Fat Bear crew.

[00:22:08] Jeff the Landshark.

[00:22:09] People do not like Jeff the Landshark as a character.

[00:22:12] I think he's fun because he's from West Coast Avengers and it's just he's a silly character.

[00:22:17] He's friends with Deadpool.

[00:22:19] I guess you know what that means.

[00:22:20] It's time for Crypto Scam of the Week.

[00:22:22] You're listening to 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking, the podcast.

[00:22:26] And now it's time for the Crypto Scam of the Week.

[00:22:30] Here at the Cointelegraph, Stephen Cata writing,

[00:22:33] The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued a pastor,

[00:22:38] accusing him of promoting a $6 million crypto Ponzi scheme to 1,500 people, including some who attended his church in Washington state.

[00:22:47] He was picked up by the Spokane police.

[00:22:50] That is Francie Obdano Pinillo charged with fraud and misappropriation as part of what the CFTC claimed was a multi-level marketing scheme.

[00:23:02] So he is a pastor at a Spanish church in Pasco, Washington.

[00:23:07] He claimed to his congregants and others through social media that he operated a trading platform

[00:23:14] that rewarded users through, quote, high performance crypto trading.

[00:23:18] He promised 35% return.

[00:23:21] So he claimed to be the CEO of Solanify, Solano Partners Limited, and Solano Capital Investments,

[00:23:29] and he said had developed a Solano ecosystem in which he traded Bitcoin, Ether, Tether, and other crypto on behalf of clients.

[00:23:38] He promised them they'd get monthly profits of up to 34.9%,

[00:23:42] which they were told used a bot and other software for trading.

[00:23:46] Other things like a staking service for Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, USDT, Dogecoin,

[00:23:51] was also offered through a service known as Solanify 2.0 that, quote, guaranteed profits to customers.

[00:23:59] This is according to the official complaint.

[00:24:02] Defendant, in this case the pastor,

[00:24:03] offered customers a guaranteed referral fee.

[00:24:07] 15% is a profit that's generated by your referrals available to be withdrawn to your destination wallet on Mondays.

[00:24:15] Every time your referral invests or reinvests, you will again win that commission.

[00:24:21] All of these representations are false.

[00:24:24] There was no automated program.

[00:24:25] There were no customer accounts.

[00:24:27] There was not trading taking place or profits generated,

[00:24:29] and Defendant was misappropriating all digital and fiat assets customers transferred to Defendant.

[00:24:37] Not only did he not even bother doing any of the things he said he was going to do,

[00:24:41] he's like, nope, he just took the money and run it.

[00:24:44] And you got to understand,

[00:24:45] he's talking to people that English is probably not their first language.

[00:24:49] The CFTC called them unsophisticated customers.

[00:24:52] These are people that are not people who trade in digital assets.

[00:24:56] These are people who don't have any idea what the fuck DeFi even means.

[00:25:00] Yeah, this is the CFTC also continuing.

[00:25:03] Defendant solicitations were almost exclusively in Spanish,

[00:25:06] which permitted him to abuse his position of trust as a pastor.

[00:25:12] Double shitty.

[00:25:13] One, getting people in on a crypto scheme.

[00:25:15] Two, abusing the fact that you are a man of God to do so.

[00:25:19] Fucked up, baby.

[00:25:21] God.

[00:25:21] I think this is probably the second or third preacher we've covered in this segment.

[00:25:25] Yes, yes, because it keeps happening.

[00:25:27] Seems bad.

[00:25:28] It's an abuse of trust.

[00:25:30] Listen, God really wants you to buy a Jesus coin.

[00:25:34] Oh, Lord have mercy.

[00:25:36] If we can just get a couple KOLs on Jesus coin.

[00:25:42] We can get CT.

[00:25:45] We can get Mr. Beast on this.

[00:25:47] I think we really could do something.

[00:25:51] Everyone's going to go to heaven.

[00:25:53] They got the ultimate KOL, and that's Jesus Christ.

[00:25:57] But absolutely the real thought leader.

[00:26:00] If I'm going to take an abuse of trust from a pastor,

[00:26:03] I'd rather it be this than abusing children.

[00:26:06] But, you know, it's kind of.

[00:26:08] It's a wash.

[00:26:09] Yeah.

[00:26:10] Neither one's good.

[00:26:11] No, neither one's good.

[00:26:11] I'm trying to think of what the movie doubt was about a crypto scheme.

[00:26:17] They found a key ledger.

[00:26:19] It would be called FUD, first of all.

[00:26:21] They found a key ledger in his locker.

[00:26:24] Oh, no.

[00:26:26] They found a cold wallet.

[00:26:34] Holy shit.

[00:26:38] Give me Paul Schaefer on line one.

[00:26:41] I got an idea.

[00:26:45] Oh, God.

[00:26:46] I was wrong with Paul Schrader.

[00:26:47] I can't say Paul Schaefer.

[00:26:49] I mean, we call it Paul Schaefer.

[00:26:50] He might throw.

[00:26:51] He might kick us a couple of balls.

[00:26:52] He might, yeah.

[00:26:52] Not a fan of that.

[00:26:54] Pastors abusing their power in any way is not great.

[00:26:56] But especially when you're, like, taking people for their fucking money.

[00:26:59] Isn't there something specific in the fucking Bible about that?

[00:27:03] Jesus kicking the money lenders out of the Discord channel.

[00:27:08] Render unto CZ what is CZ's and to me what is mine, you know?

[00:27:12] Well, our main topic this week is something I haven't thought about in a very long time.

[00:27:16] But I was reminded of this.

[00:27:18] A couple weeks ago was Thanksgiving.

[00:27:20] And Thanksgiving is traditionally the day that the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 does.

[00:27:26] A marathon of their films is called the Turkey Day Marathon.

[00:27:29] And that is because 30 some odd years ago, when they first premiered on KTMA, their first episode aired on Thanksgiving.

[00:27:37] And so every year since then, they've done a marathon of episodes.

[00:27:41] This year, they did a live stream on YouTube.

[00:27:44] And one of the things that was shown was a promo for a series of tapes that they would send out.

[00:27:52] Now, it was $30 a tape for a 40-minute tape.

[00:27:54] I'll tell you how long ago that was and how fucking expensive that was.

[00:27:57] It was the blooper tape called MST Poopy.

[00:28:00] And then there was the other one, and it was like the MST Scrapbook tape.

[00:28:04] And you can get both tapes for $40 if you call it just during Thanksgiving.

[00:28:09] Well, one of the skits that they did during that reminded me they had a similar bit that they did for a website that they used to run called Timmy Big Hands.

[00:28:19] Do you remember Timmy Big Hands, Brian?

[00:28:22] No.

[00:28:23] This is one where I'm pretty in the dark here.

[00:28:26] I think you explained it a little bit to me a couple weeks ago or after Thanksgiving.

[00:28:32] I kind of missed this one.

[00:28:33] I wouldn't expect you to have seen it unless you were a diehard Mystery Science Theater person.

[00:28:38] Like, has every episode on tape kind of guy.

[00:28:40] I mean, I was at that time, but I was not online like that.

[00:28:45] I mean, this is still dial-up early DSL days.

[00:28:48] I mean, I was like someone that I would go stay at a friend's house on Friday night.

[00:28:52] You know, we'd go skateboarding after school, and then we'd have family video and rent some weird VHS tapes like American Ninja 2 or The Stuff.

[00:29:02] And then, like, wake up in the morning and, like, eat breakfast while watching MST3K.

[00:29:09] Yeah.

[00:29:09] So, I mean, that was like a routine thing for us.

[00:29:14] So, I was a big MST3K fan, but maybe not in the same way that you were.

[00:29:20] I think it was also because being just a touch older, you know, I was setting up VCRs to record it whenever it would come on Comedy Central.

[00:29:29] I'd be like getting the timers right.

[00:29:31] So, Timmy Big Hands was the year 2000.

[00:29:35] So, that would have been after the movie came out, Mystery Science Theater 3000, the movie, which was just an extended episode with a bigger budget.

[00:29:43] And this was at a time period where Joel Hodgson had left, and it was really the main three guys who had been there since pretty much the beginning.

[00:29:53] That was Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy.

[00:29:56] Three very funny guys in their own right who have each written several great books.

[00:30:02] They're still doing riff tracks to this day.

[00:30:07] They have not been involved with any of the reunion stuff, none of the Netflix episodes.

[00:30:12] They weren't invited.

[00:30:14] And so, they've kind of gone off and done their own thing.

[00:30:16] And I feel like Timmy Big Hands was maybe a look into their thought process, you know, while this was all happening.

[00:30:25] So, the website will be very familiar to anyone who has checked out some of these other sites that we've been talking about.

[00:30:31] Brunching Shuttlecocks, those kind of things.

[00:30:33] 2000-era websites where it's essays.

[00:30:37] You know, it's just a bunch of good writing.

[00:30:39] Paul Chapin, even, a Mystery Science Theater alum, wrote a great bit called Inside Timmy.

[00:30:45] A bit of a riff on Davos in the year 2000?

[00:30:50] It's kind of strange.

[00:30:51] Saturday.

[00:30:51] Went to a trilateral commission shindig last night.

[00:30:55] That's one of the best perks of being part of the Davos crowd like I am now.

[00:30:58] In my old life, back with the sad, bitter citizenry, everyone's all freaked out and weird about the trilateral commission.

[00:31:06] Oh, the trilateral commission.

[00:31:08] Oh, does it even exist?

[00:31:09] Oh.

[00:31:10] Well, of course it exists.

[00:31:11] And I have to tell you, in the context of Davos, they're just a bunch of swell guys.

[00:31:15] And women, of course.

[00:31:17] You're not going to keep Margaret Thatcher out of the trilateral commission.

[00:31:20] And it goes without saying that their commissioned candy men's drive raises millions every year for the less fortunate of Davos.

[00:31:28] It's amazing how much that reads like an MSC3K bumper.

[00:31:32] Oh, yeah.

[00:31:32] There's a voice, boy.

[00:31:34] There's just...

[00:31:34] The bottom line is, no 12 million yet, but if networking is ever going to produce, Davos would be the place, wouldn't you think?

[00:31:42] So, yeah.

[00:31:43] Yeah, that's this really tight, funny writing.

[00:31:45] The site was really only active for about maybe a year, maybe a year or two, which you wouldn't think would be all that impressive.

[00:31:55] But honestly, it was because as influential as these guys were for Mystery Sites Theater, they were just as influential this site.

[00:32:01] So, we talked about Brunching Shuttlecocks, right, about how there was reviews.

[00:32:05] Well, here is a review of guys who are about 5'8", 5'9".

[00:32:13] God damn it.

[00:32:14] It's amazing.

[00:32:15] I can feel this as an MSC3K bit already.

[00:32:19] Yeah.

[00:32:21] Sex appeal, 1 out of 5 stars.

[00:32:23] Availability, 4 out of 5 stars.

[00:32:26] Practicality, 2 out of 5.

[00:32:28] Trading value, 1 out of 5.

[00:32:32] There's a whole section of the website devoted to syrup ads, which was a very specific Minnesota thing.

[00:32:39] Because they had a fake company that they used as kind of their cover, Techno Berry Farms.

[00:32:48] Arcane syrup laws may force you to purchase certain other watered-down and, well, stale brands of syrup.

[00:32:54] And you should, because after all, it's the law.

[00:32:56] But thanks to some stopgap litigation, we here at Mod Foods are able to offer you a second supplementary syrup you can enjoy in whatever quantities you like.

[00:33:06] You see, while the Department of Flavor statute requires you purchase 12 quarts of their stuff, it does not stipulate how much of the other brand you're required to consume.

[00:33:16] And while they have a tight grip on all the current syrup production, they don't have it on syrup produced before midnight of June 15, 1964.

[00:33:25] They have a series of games.

[00:33:26] And one of the interesting ones to me was the ultimate sequel to the ultimate first-person killing experience, Kill a Guy 2, Into the Maelstrom.

[00:33:35] Oh, excellent.

[00:33:36] I loved Kill a Guy 1.

[00:33:38] Yeah, Kill a Guy 1.

[00:33:39] We are relying heavily upon the fine folks at the Internet Archive to have Ruffle fix all the old Flash because such is life.

[00:33:50] This is loading like it would have loaded back in 2000.

[00:33:54] You gotta wonder.

[00:33:55] Ah, jeez.

[00:33:56] Ah, jeez.

[00:33:56] Ah, yeah.

[00:33:57] In the meantime, while that loads, I guess this was the time for websites with specific voices.

[00:34:03] Yeah, or just, like, a voice.

[00:34:06] Tons of writing.

[00:34:07] I mean, this was, you know, Style Projects, Something Awful, iMockery.

[00:34:13] Oh, yeah.

[00:34:14] X Entertainment, Sean Baby.

[00:34:16] Hmm.

[00:34:17] I mean...

[00:34:18] Oh, yeah.

[00:34:18] Sean Baby, Old Man Murray, any number of review sites that they review one specific thing.

[00:34:24] Yeah.

[00:34:24] I mean, this was the era of the funny essay.

[00:34:27] Yeah.

[00:34:28] And we're not talking McSweeney's here.

[00:34:29] We're not talking about David Sedaris.

[00:34:31] We're talking about, like, actually funny.

[00:34:32] Yeah.

[00:34:33] Yeah, this ain't me talk for you one day.

[00:34:36] This is Jeff Kaye writing in Leet speak.

[00:34:39] One of the many recurring essay bits was Bill Corbett.

[00:34:43] And it's Traveling with Bill, where he's talking about going to Lamont, South Dakota.

[00:34:51] The legendary Lamont love of wayfaring strangers goes back to the mid-1800s, he says, when it was the first town to specialize in souvenir coffee mugs, even though there wasn't even a town there yet.

[00:35:04] The mugs were made of hard-packed, baked prairie clay and simply read,

[00:35:09] Here!

[00:35:10] Scratched in with a piece of twig or fingernail.

[00:35:13] Fingernails didn't last long those days, reminisces bunch bunch.

[00:35:17] People didn't eat much gelatin.

[00:35:19] So that gave rise to a slightly sharpened twig industry boom.

[00:35:24] Lamont sprung up around it and the tourists naturally followed.

[00:35:28] What to see?

[00:35:29] Go swimming, boating, fishing, or duck following on Camel Lake.

[00:35:34] A large, spring-fed body of water in the exact shape of a camel.

[00:35:39] Or, so says retired leech farmer Otis Falcus, whose family used to own the land before it was seized for back taxes.

[00:35:48] Actually, it's completely round.

[00:35:49] It doesn't look a blessed thing like a camel, says Falcs.

[00:35:53] Right before the state took it, my brother and me named it that just to poke him in the damn eye.

[00:35:59] Also, the Hubcap Museum, which boasts the world's largest collection of both pre- and post-war caps, as curator Scooter Smith calls them.

[00:36:08] An informative and surprisingly risque film strip about the history of caps narrated by the late Charlie Weaver is shown hourly.

[00:36:17] Finally, stay at the Waldorf Astoria, the fanciest guest house in town, modeled after the legendary New York Hotel.

[00:36:24] Well, even better, says owner Mamie Tillerson.

[00:36:27] There, you don't get my famous egg-tomato mini-marshmallow casserole free in the morning, she chortles.

[00:36:34] Plus, here you get two, sometimes three cats in a room.

[00:36:37] There, you can only get one.

[00:36:39] Cripes, I've even heard sometimes you don't get any cat at all.

[00:36:46] Amazing.

[00:36:47] It really just...

[00:36:48] It sings, baby, yeah.

[00:36:49] How much it really feels like a monologue from MST3.

[00:36:54] You'd hear it as a bumper, you'd come in and out of a commercial break, yeah, for sure.

[00:36:58] These guys just, they kept writing.

[00:37:01] It's amazing.

[00:37:01] They just kept writing and writing and writing.

[00:37:02] Really fun, really good website.

[00:37:04] Obviously, it's not around anymore because things went wrong.

[00:37:08] They somehow found a way to not make money off of a website with traffic in the early 2000s.

[00:37:14] Well, my favorite bit about that was that a year after it was created, the guys put the site up for sale on eBay.

[00:37:22] It shows how naive they were.

[00:37:25] So Mike Nelson, in an interview, did say,

[00:37:27] It was fun.

[00:37:28] It was successful for what it was.

[00:37:30] We got unbelievable press and we're really proud of the product.

[00:37:34] But it was a really bad time to start a website and we just couldn't.

[00:37:38] We had all our separate things going on.

[00:37:40] We were producing it together, but in the end, it ate up too much time and wasn't making any money.

[00:37:45] So we had to fold it.

[00:37:47] We thought about perhaps turning it into a book or doing this or that, but it was just too complicated by that time.

[00:37:54] So we just folded it down.

[00:37:56] Now, the one lasting legacy that I think the site did have, aside from Kill a Guy, which is a lot of Newgrounds shit would take the Kill a Guy concept,

[00:38:07] was the Clip Arts, which was a comic that they created for this, which was Clip Art Comics.

[00:38:13] And they added dialogue balloons.

[00:38:15] Well, this was maybe a year or two before David Rees started Get Your War On with Clip Art.

[00:38:22] That kind of, you know what I mean?

[00:38:24] Like David Rees and these guys do kind of share a sensibility of the absurd and kind of the extreme and doing weird shit.

[00:38:33] So I feel like, I don't know if David Rees would ever cop to that or even if it ever entered into his mind as an influence.

[00:38:41] Sue Generous? Is that the word I'm looking for?

[00:38:43] Yeah, yeah.

[00:38:44] Sue Generous?

[00:38:45] There we go.

[00:38:45] Yeah, it sprung fully formed.

[00:38:47] At the same time, boy, there's a parallel thought there, isn't there?

[00:38:50] Clip Art, Jerk City was Clip Art.

[00:38:52] You know, like there's a lot of things that are kind of woven all together.

[00:38:56] And I think that's neat.

[00:38:58] Don't you, Brian?

[00:38:59] That's pretty sick.

[00:39:00] A great example of the kind of area that we don't have.

[00:39:03] I mean, you know, it'd be nostalgic.

[00:39:05] I know.

[00:39:05] As a fault, but it feels like, oh, yeah, this is something.

[00:39:09] I miss reading like really funny, like direct essays on the internet.

[00:39:16] Yeah.

[00:39:16] Yeah, because what you get nowadays is individualized sub stacks.

[00:39:19] While those are good, I will always recommend guys like Ed Zitron or Taylor Lorenz or, you know, or Luke O'Neill.

[00:39:28] Garbage Day.

[00:39:28] Garbage Day.

[00:39:29] There's a bunch.

[00:39:30] And you can get them delivered to your inbox, but it's just like reading them in your email is not the same as going to a website.

[00:39:36] I really just miss the like good humor essay.

[00:39:40] Stuff like Ed and Ken Klippenstein.

[00:39:43] Oh, yeah.

[00:39:44] You know, so many people write really great long form on there.

[00:39:47] Max Reed.

[00:39:47] Yeah, I mean, you could go.

[00:39:49] Oh, yeah.

[00:39:49] There's no shortage for that.

[00:39:51] But I just miss like the tight under a thousand word bit.

[00:39:55] Again, I don't have the answer to it.

[00:39:57] I'm not even sure if I want to see try and see people revisit it.

[00:40:02] But I do miss it.

[00:40:03] Well, I mean, we talked to Buddy Head last week and we talked to Travis of Buddy Head last week.

[00:40:08] And he did say, you know, we're going to try to bring the website back.

[00:40:11] But I really think what's going to happen is that people like me are going to sign up for the zine and get it in their inbox.

[00:40:17] Just the same like I do with everything else.

[00:40:19] It's becoming weirder and weirder to try to get like an actual one place and have a thing happen.

[00:40:27] Now it's all these other voices are coming to you and you have to opt in.

[00:40:32] That, I think, is the main bit where you have to seek them out and say yes.

[00:40:38] And then they come to you versus I know there's at least one writer on this site that I like.

[00:40:43] I'm going to show up on that site and see what's new.

[00:40:46] And oh, maybe I've never read something that Jim Mallon wrote.

[00:40:50] Of course, if you listen to Mystery Science Theater 3000, you've read everything that Jim Mallon wrote.

[00:40:54] But you get what I'm saying.

[00:40:55] Right.

[00:40:55] Maybe there's a new voice that I'm going to discover.

[00:40:58] It's you kind of have to know what you want and then ask for it, which is the worst way to get it.

[00:41:04] I think the best you can get is like a drill or a Rory Blank.

[00:41:10] I think that is as close as I can find.

[00:41:14] Her name's escaping me right now.

[00:41:15] And it's shameful because she's so nice and sweet to me.

[00:41:18] The woman that wrote Priest Daddy.

[00:41:20] Oh, Patricia Lockwood.

[00:41:21] There we go.

[00:41:21] Patricia Lockwood.

[00:41:22] I apologize, Patricia.

[00:41:23] Patricia.

[00:41:24] We should have her.

[00:41:25] I should ask if she wants to come on.

[00:41:26] Oh, absolutely.

[00:41:28] I tried.

[00:41:28] You know what?

[00:41:29] Fuck Virgil, Texas for a lot of things.

[00:41:32] But I told him I had dinner with Patricia Lockwood.

[00:41:37] I asked her when you're in New York City, would you go on Comptown?

[00:41:40] Hmm.

[00:41:41] And she said, absolutely.

[00:41:42] Okay.

[00:41:43] Or something along those lines.

[00:41:44] The affirmative answer.

[00:41:45] Okay.

[00:41:46] I DMed Virgil, Texas on Twitter when we were still mutuals on there.

[00:41:51] Motherfucker didn't even read it.

[00:41:52] Hmm.

[00:41:53] You fucked up, Virgil, Texas.

[00:41:55] Yeah.

[00:41:55] Everything else you did.

[00:41:56] Fine.

[00:41:57] I'm fine with it.

[00:41:58] Yeah.

[00:41:58] You're dead at Rebel Girl.

[00:42:01] It's like Rebel Girl 7 now?

[00:42:03] Isn't that what we're up to?

[00:42:03] Anyway.

[00:42:04] I don't know.

[00:42:04] Well, I guess that means it's time for something gross, Brian.

[00:42:08] Yeah.

[00:42:08] Oh, baby.

[00:42:10] It's time for the Shock.jpg.

[00:42:11] And now, the moment you've all been waiting for.

[00:42:16] Shock.jpg.

[00:42:19] This one is honestly pretty vanilla, but it's called Unexpected Insert.

[00:42:25] It's hosted on Run the Gauntlet.

[00:42:27] And you'd think it'd be a little bit more extreme, but I don't know.

[00:42:31] Here it is.

[00:42:32] It begins with a basic setup.

[00:42:36] I've seen this before.

[00:42:38] A young woman has a large...

[00:42:40] Many times down at the Nickelodeon.

[00:42:42] A young woman has a large object inserted in her rectum.

[00:42:48] So, you think it is a small object, but it winds up being an entire mold of not only a massive prick...

[00:42:58] So, to put in perspective, this woman, she's sitting behind it.

[00:43:03] She looks like of a normal height.

[00:43:05] It goes to the center of her chest.

[00:43:07] Yeah.

[00:43:08] When you're seeing this full...

[00:43:10] So, it's at least like two and a half feet.

[00:43:12] Right.

[00:43:13] It's a massive prick.

[00:43:14] But then, my favorite detail is that the silicone mold...

[00:43:19] Whoever did the silicone mold had the person's hand in there holding the prick upright.

[00:43:24] And so, the hand also has gone inside with...

[00:43:28] It's too much.

[00:43:29] It's too much.

[00:43:30] It's too long, and then the fist is too...

[00:43:32] And then the hand is too wide.

[00:43:33] Bad Dragon wouldn't put this in a production.

[00:43:36] They might, actually.

[00:43:37] Who knows with them?

[00:43:38] They got fucking ovipositors and shit in there.

[00:43:42] I saw this one, and I was like, really?

[00:43:44] Run the Gauntlet?

[00:43:45] This is it?

[00:43:46] It's all you got?

[00:43:46] It's all you got?

[00:43:47] Well, I mean, they've got like baseball bat in the ass, and I'm like, this is it?

[00:43:51] This is it?

[00:43:52] I hate to say that.

[00:43:54] And that really shows you how fucking desensitized...

[00:43:56] Desensitized.

[00:43:57] Yeah, when it's like...

[00:43:58] When you're like, I saw this on Style Project 20 years ago.

[00:44:01] Come on.

[00:44:01] Give me something new.

[00:44:02] Well, that's...

[00:44:02] I was like, this is familiar.

[00:44:04] Probably is.

[00:44:04] It probably...

[00:44:05] We probably did see it on Style Project.

[00:44:07] Style was like, oh my god, check this shit out.

[00:44:10] And now it's been so long.

[00:44:11] We're like, yeah?

[00:44:12] Okay.

[00:44:13] Yeah.

[00:44:13] And?

[00:44:14] So?

[00:44:16] What else you got?

[00:44:17] Yeah.

[00:44:18] But I mean, like you said, it's a very large toy.

[00:44:22] And it's going in the ass.

[00:44:24] And it is slimy.

[00:44:25] It's all gooey.

[00:44:27] Yeah, it's just...

[00:44:28] That's not in the Bible.

[00:44:29] No, clearly not.

[00:44:31] The other detail is like, oh, that's like a shower curtain, so they're like in a tub or something.

[00:44:38] The look on her face is like, okay, good.

[00:44:40] I'm done with this.

[00:44:43] When it finally comes out, I was like, oh, all right, this thing's over, right?

[00:44:47] Boy, still better than working retail.

[00:44:52] God damn.

[00:44:53] You're not wrong either.

[00:44:54] I think that's the real problem.

[00:44:56] We have sold our souls.

[00:44:57] What have they done to us?

[00:44:59] Well, on that note, it's time for the Breath Mint, Brian.

[00:45:02] It's time for your mom's favorite part of the show.

[00:45:06] It's time for the Breath Mint.

[00:45:09] Brian, do you want to start us off with the Breath Mint this week?

[00:45:12] Yeah.

[00:45:13] Boy.

[00:45:14] Photographed a couple shows.

[00:45:15] Last three shows of the year.

[00:45:17] Most likely, Saturday I photographed Better Lovers over at Del Mara Hall.

[00:45:22] Yeah, yeah.

[00:45:22] They had Cloak Room, Spy, and the fantastic Gouge Away.

[00:45:28] Gouge Away was the one I was so excited about.

[00:45:30] Oh, they were so fucking good.

[00:45:32] Yeah.

[00:45:32] So fucking good.

[00:45:33] Oh, I couldn't fucking believe it.

[00:45:34] It was like...

[00:45:35] It was like somewhere between seeing like Priest and like Mannequin Pussy live.

[00:45:41] Ooh.

[00:45:41] The vocalist Christine just has a really amazing energy.

[00:45:44] The band has a great vibe.

[00:45:47] They sound fucking great.

[00:45:48] And Spy, you know, when I hear Bay Area punk rock, I'm like, okay.

[00:45:54] Yeah.

[00:45:55] But they fucking brought it.

[00:45:56] They brought the fucking...

[00:45:57] They had the juice.

[00:45:58] Those boys were on the scissor up.

[00:46:00] They crushed it.

[00:46:02] Cloak Room.

[00:46:02] Doing like the...

[00:46:04] So I kind of had this thought the other day where I'm like, I wonder if like all of these

[00:46:08] dudes that play in hardcore bands that play in a band that's classified as hardcore but

[00:46:13] doesn't sound like hardcore.

[00:46:14] It's like this whole thing of like...

[00:46:16] Yeah.

[00:46:17] Can't really be like a sex pest anymore.

[00:46:20] You know what?

[00:46:21] I'll buy a delay pedal.

[00:46:25] You're not wrong.

[00:46:26] Yeah.

[00:46:27] I can't really harass women that are waitresses at the place I'm a line cook at.

[00:46:34] So I'll just...

[00:46:35] You know what?

[00:46:36] GHS has a sale.

[00:46:38] I'll buy one of their delay pedals.

[00:46:39] God damn.

[00:46:40] That's what it feels like.

[00:46:41] I don't think you're wrong.

[00:46:43] That's the funniest part is like...

[00:46:45] I can't harass women anymore.

[00:46:46] I'll just...

[00:46:46] What's a pedal board?

[00:46:48] Yeah.

[00:46:48] What's a...

[00:46:49] Okay.

[00:46:49] Sure.

[00:46:49] Yeah.

[00:46:50] Okay.

[00:46:50] Cool.

[00:46:50] I can have three different distortion pedals.

[00:46:52] All right.

[00:46:52] Whatever.

[00:46:53] I have something to...

[00:46:55] I need something to distract me from my inherent desire to annoy women.

[00:47:00] I'm going to do it with pedals instead.

[00:47:02] Yeah.

[00:47:03] But Cloak Room, fucking killer.

[00:47:06] Just like we'll have a hardcore band wanting to do like weird heavy shoegaze.

[00:47:09] Oh, yeah.

[00:47:10] Totally my fucking jam.

[00:47:11] Oh, yeah.

[00:47:12] Again, all the bands are great.

[00:47:14] Better lovers musically, not entirely my fucking thing.

[00:47:18] But a great thing about hardcore music is even if you don't like listening to it on the record,

[00:47:24] usually watching it being performed live is a million times more awesome.

[00:47:27] Amen to that.

[00:47:28] I was kind of like, oh, yeah.

[00:47:29] This song is actually really fucking awesome to watch be performed in front of you.

[00:47:34] Listening to it while driving, like, this is fine.

[00:47:38] This is like...

[00:47:38] I'm not...

[00:47:39] It kind of feels like I don't want to mow the lawn.

[00:47:41] Dad.

[00:47:41] Dad.

[00:47:42] Music.

[00:47:43] But...

[00:47:44] Like, seeing it live was like, oh, shit.

[00:47:46] This fucking rules.

[00:47:47] Yeah.

[00:47:48] It's a vocalist from Dillinger Escape Plan.

[00:47:51] Oh, fuck yeah.

[00:47:52] He fucking is so loud.

[00:47:54] Like, he almost doesn't need a microphone.

[00:47:57] That guy, yes.

[00:47:58] He fucking crushed it.

[00:48:00] Loved it.

[00:48:00] Like, just loved every second of their set.

[00:48:02] Unfortunately, I was also incredibly tired.

[00:48:04] And also had just come from a younger co-worker's birthday party.

[00:48:09] And when I say younger, I mean people in, like, their late 20s.

[00:48:11] Oof.

[00:48:12] Which, you know, as a guy who's 38 is, like, realizing, like, oh, wow.

[00:48:15] I am getting old because I can't keep up anymore.

[00:48:18] I can't hang.

[00:48:19] I can't hang with someone who's turning 29.

[00:48:22] Well, it didn't help that, like, someone was like, I'll buy a round of shots for everyone

[00:48:25] that's drinking.

[00:48:26] I was like, okay.

[00:48:27] And I guess because I'm the elder.

[00:48:29] And I'm also, like, the person in management that people respect.

[00:48:32] I got to choose.

[00:48:33] And, of course, you know, I'm a piece of shit.

[00:48:34] And I'm like, oh, you know what?

[00:48:36] The first shot of night should be Rumpelmint.

[00:48:38] There you go.

[00:48:39] Let's go.

[00:48:39] The bartender had a heavy hand.

[00:48:43] And it was more like a triple in these rocks glasses than a single.

[00:48:47] Oh, boy.

[00:48:48] Yeah.

[00:48:49] Yeah.

[00:48:49] So I was, you know, it's 10.

[00:48:51] I'm like, all right, I'm ready.

[00:48:52] I'm ready to go home.

[00:48:53] Yeah.

[00:48:54] You're flying.

[00:48:54] I kind of wish I would have stayed for a little bit longer.

[00:48:57] But the set was great.

[00:48:59] Yeah.

[00:48:59] What a great fucking show.

[00:49:01] So that was the last thing I'm photographing at Del Mar Hall this year.

[00:49:04] 105.7 The Point had their ho-ho show of bands that they don't play.

[00:49:09] Shame on you.

[00:49:10] I mean, they actually probably play A.O.L. Nation and France Fernand.

[00:49:13] They do.

[00:49:13] But there's been a lot of times when 105.7 The Point has sponsored shows in St. Louis.

[00:49:17] Like, I've never heard you fuckers play yayayas.

[00:49:19] Or the Wombats.

[00:49:20] That was the only time I ever saw them.

[00:49:22] And that was one of those 105.7 shows.

[00:49:25] It was $10.57.

[00:49:26] You go see them at Pops, right?

[00:49:28] British touring band from Liverpool coming here for the first time.

[00:49:32] Room was only half full because The Point promoted the show but never played anything from that record.

[00:49:38] Yeah.

[00:49:39] Which was a fucking shame because the Wombats rule.

[00:49:42] Anyway.

[00:49:43] Yes.

[00:49:43] Many such cases.

[00:49:45] Many such cases.

[00:49:46] Exactly.

[00:49:46] Many such cases.

[00:49:48] So, Tuesday night was AWOL Nation.

[00:49:51] Mm-hmm.

[00:49:51] Not a fan of their music per se but great live band.

[00:49:54] I felt a little bad that All-American Rejects were across town over at the factory and definitely cannibalized that show.

[00:50:02] Yeah.

[00:50:03] There were some moments where you could tell like this dude, the vocalist, seems like a very sweet person but was maybe a little disappointed that the room was about 300 people short of what it should have been.

[00:50:16] Yeah.

[00:50:17] Yeah.

[00:50:18] There were some moments where I'm like, oh, I feel bad for these guys.

[00:50:22] Like, they're getting paid.

[00:50:24] Like, whatever.

[00:50:25] Sure.

[00:50:25] But it's not the crowd it should have been and it's nobody's fault necessarily except for whoever decided to put All-American Rejects at the factory at the same time.

[00:50:35] Some guy from Live Nation, who knows?

[00:50:36] I never really cared for All-American Rejects.

[00:50:38] I don't either.

[00:50:40] So, I don't get that.

[00:50:40] I don't get it.

[00:50:41] All-American Rejects was like the cool band for orchestra and band chicks that had no personality.

[00:50:46] Oof.

[00:50:46] I can tame multitudes.

[00:50:48] But last night was Franz Fernand.

[00:50:51] Oh, yes.

[00:50:51] And that was a nice one.

[00:50:54] Let's take a step back.

[00:50:55] One of the cool things about these Ho-Ho shows is that they're usually like a local opening if there's not tour support.

[00:50:59] Yeah.

[00:50:59] Tuesday night was Mount Joy, who are a great little indie band here.

[00:51:03] I've seen them a few times.

[00:51:05] Or Hot Joy.

[00:51:06] I'm sorry.

[00:51:06] Mount Joy is a touring indie band who's worth a listen.

[00:51:10] Hot Joy here from Screwy St. Louis.

[00:51:13] Great little indie rock band.

[00:51:14] I saw them open up for Foxing a couple months ago.

[00:51:18] Great fucking show.

[00:51:20] That was a great show.

[00:51:21] They put on a great set.

[00:51:23] They sounded phenomenal.

[00:51:24] Really cool.

[00:51:25] It's just like cool to see a local band just absolutely crush playing the pageant like that.

[00:51:30] So kudos to them.

[00:51:31] And last night was Star Wolf, which is like the local disco funk revival indie band here in St. Louis that are getting a bit of a name for themselves.

[00:51:42] They sounded also phenomenal.

[00:51:45] Had some, as me and my date spoke at length, you can't have a guy come on and play saxophone and half-ass it.

[00:51:53] Yeah.

[00:51:54] Like, listen, we're asking a guy to play a reed instrument.

[00:51:57] We can't be fucking around.

[00:51:59] They had no problem fucking crushing it.

[00:52:02] It was super stoked.

[00:52:03] They killed it.

[00:52:04] And Franz Ferdinand, a band to me that as their set went on, I realized how many songs they have as far as stuff that I know.

[00:52:12] And couldn't remember.

[00:52:14] Like, oh shit, that is a Franz Ferdinand song.

[00:52:16] Right.

[00:52:16] Like, their first three songs, like, they burned up some of their heaters.

[00:52:19] And I'm like, that's really weird that they came out and, like, burned up three of their really great, like, one of their top tier songs.

[00:52:24] Like, oh, it's because they've got, like, ten other songs that have the same fucking energy.

[00:52:30] The same, you know, they hit, they permeated the culture just as much, if not more.

[00:52:35] And I was like, damn.

[00:52:36] They really did have, they really, not just did, but do have some songs.

[00:52:40] They played some stuff off their new record.

[00:52:42] Sounded great.

[00:52:43] New record.

[00:52:44] Seems like it's going to be a fucking jam.

[00:52:47] So I'm looking forward to that.

[00:52:48] I think it's coming out next year.

[00:52:49] Really put on a master class of just how to entertain a fucking crowd playing rock music.

[00:52:54] And I feel like that's a lost art.

[00:52:56] The vocalist, whose name escapes me at this very moment, really has this insane energy.

[00:53:03] His hairline's starting to recede, which, you know, not to fault him, but some of my foes of him, he looks like if Chairman Mao came from the UK.

[00:53:14] That's Alex.

[00:53:15] Alex, yes.

[00:53:15] Yes.

[00:53:16] Super good.

[00:53:17] I could tell they switched up some of their arrangements.

[00:53:19] My date, who is a huge fan of Transfer Now, was actually kind of like, oh, yeah, they kind of switched up.

[00:53:24] Like, this is being played at like a noticeably faster beat.

[00:53:27] And it wasn't because like the drummer counted in too quick kind of thing.

[00:53:31] Right.

[00:53:31] This is like, they decided like, you know what?

[00:53:33] Actually, this song needs to be like 10 BPM faster.

[00:53:35] And they've been around.

[00:53:36] They've been around for like 22 years and they only have five albums.

[00:53:41] Which means to me that like they really are like, OK, we got to get the best songs out.

[00:53:47] It is wild to think that their first record came out 20 years ago.

[00:53:50] Yeah.

[00:53:51] Yeah.

[00:53:51] They only have five records.

[00:53:53] The crowd was going nuts.

[00:53:54] St. Louis crowds do not have a reputation for being like lively.

[00:53:58] Yeah.

[00:53:59] And I can't say this was a super lively St. Louis crowd, but it was livelier than most.

[00:54:04] Yeah.

[00:54:04] They really seem like they once.

[00:54:08] I want to say like halfway through the set, like it was like a switch flipped.

[00:54:11] The crowd got a little bit more engaged.

[00:54:13] Just like, oh, wow.

[00:54:14] It was almost like this retrospective of their career.

[00:54:17] It felt like they played like, oh, shit, man.

[00:54:19] Everything they did had like two or three fucking killer songs attached to it.

[00:54:24] Wouldn't surprise me.

[00:54:25] I mean, considering how many songs are just baller ass great off their first album alone.

[00:54:32] The first record is full of great shit.

[00:54:33] The second record is a killer.

[00:54:35] Their latest stuff, Audacious.

[00:54:37] Some of the stuff that's coming off the Human Fear.

[00:54:40] Human Fear.

[00:54:41] Yeah.

[00:54:41] Yeah.

[00:54:42] Just, you know, wow.

[00:54:44] What a great band.

[00:54:46] Like, and I don't have to walk away from too many shows like, wow, okay.

[00:54:49] That's something special.

[00:54:51] Like the Sieges.

[00:54:52] Like, wow.

[00:54:53] They played everything from, they played every era of their career.

[00:54:56] There was no, really no lulls.

[00:54:58] Which is so hard to do.

[00:55:01] Oh, yeah.

[00:55:01] Where it just felt like pretty consistent.

[00:55:02] They don't really have like a lot of slow songs.

[00:55:04] So you don't have, it's not like seeing back where it's like, oh, cool.

[00:55:08] It's all like the upbeat songs.

[00:55:09] And then we have to do something off of, you know, Morning View or whatever the fuck it's called.

[00:55:13] Mellow Gold.

[00:55:14] Oh, come on, man.

[00:55:16] Mellow Gold.

[00:55:16] I would love Nightmare Hippie Girl.

[00:55:19] Not Mellow Gold.

[00:55:20] Sorry.

[00:55:20] I'm thinking of something else.

[00:55:22] One of them.

[00:55:22] Sea Change.

[00:55:23] Sea Change.

[00:55:24] Thank you.

[00:55:24] Yeah.

[00:55:24] I mean, I've only gotten to see Beck live once and it was.

[00:55:29] So I'm going to go on a little rant here, folks.

[00:55:31] Please do.

[00:55:31] So the record that Beck won his only Grammy for is basically outtakes and unused material from Sea Change.

[00:55:41] And that's why it's basically the only good record he's released in the last 15 years.

[00:55:46] Because it's shit that he wrote in like 2002, 2003.

[00:55:51] People don't know this.

[00:55:52] But yeah, that's why it's because most of those songs were sitting in a vault in like Nashville for best part of the last like 20, you know, whatever so years.

[00:56:05] Because for me, if he was going to win a Grammy for any album, it would have been Midnight Vultures.

[00:56:09] But again, that's just because.

[00:56:11] I don't know.

[00:56:12] I mean, I think Sea Change was Grammy worthy.

[00:56:16] I thought Odalee was Grammy worthy, too.

[00:56:18] But that's a whole nother, you know.

[00:56:19] I think probably everything he released up to and including Sea Change was probably worthy of such accolades.

[00:56:28] Yeah.

[00:56:29] I think Sea Change is a phenomenal record.

[00:56:30] It has a couple songs that drag a little more.

[00:56:33] I think as time goes on and some other songs, I think, get better with time.

[00:56:36] Golden Age.

[00:56:37] What a great way to start a record.

[00:56:39] Paper Tiger after that.

[00:56:40] Yeah.

[00:56:41] Just a lot of really great acoustic guitar work from Mr. Smokey Hormel.

[00:56:46] Just, yeah.

[00:56:47] And Smokey Hormel, a great session guitar player.

[00:56:50] Also did, I think, almost all the acoustic guitar on Johnny Cash's last like two or three records.

[00:56:56] Makes sense.

[00:56:57] So shout out to that dude for just being a fucking goat of the acoustic six string.

[00:57:02] But yeah, like I don't know if I want to see Beck.

[00:57:06] That's why I didn't cover Evolution Festival here in St. Louis.

[00:57:09] Because Beck was one of the headliners.

[00:57:11] And I'm like, I want to see Beck like 15 years ago.

[00:57:14] I don't want to see.

[00:57:15] Like, I could probably handle Guerrero.

[00:57:17] Yeah.

[00:57:18] Yeah.

[00:57:19] I think that was probably his last genuinely fun record.

[00:57:22] There's so many great little records.

[00:57:23] The fucking Game Boy Remix record is so much fun.

[00:57:28] Yeah.

[00:57:29] I forgot about that.

[00:57:29] Yeah, you're right.

[00:57:30] Yeah.

[00:57:30] What do you got, man?

[00:57:31] Oh, man.

[00:57:32] I started to kind of catch up on my movie list for 2024.

[00:57:38] And so I saw a pair of good movies over the past week or so.

[00:57:43] First and foremost is a movie called Cuckoo.

[00:57:46] Ah, I've heard this.

[00:57:47] It's fantastic.

[00:57:48] It takes place in the German Alps.

[00:57:50] Is this the Hunter Schaefer movie?

[00:57:52] Hunter Schaefer is the lead.

[00:57:53] Yes.

[00:57:54] She's so good.

[00:57:54] She's amazing.

[00:57:55] Hunter Schaefer is kind of the black sheep of the family.

[00:57:59] She's tagging along just until she can get enough money to go back home.

[00:58:04] The family's kind of moving into this resort town.

[00:58:08] But then, of course, as horror movies or thrillers often do, things start getting weird.

[00:58:15] I think it's right up there with long legs for a movie where maybe the trailer tried to tell you it's a different movie.

[00:58:26] That's not to say it's a bad movie per se, but it's definitely something where it might not be what you're expecting.

[00:58:33] It's not necessarily a slasher.

[00:58:36] You know, it's not a traditional horror movie.

[00:58:39] It's more of a psychological thriller.

[00:58:42] It's more of a bad seed, Rosemary's Baby type of thing where it's just kind of there's a thing happening and you don't know what it is.

[00:58:51] And it's unsettling.

[00:58:52] And there's a bunch of great stuff.

[00:58:54] I really think that, A, Hunter Schaefer just knocks it out of the fucking park.

[00:58:59] Very much.

[00:59:00] I kept thinking about, because as the movie goes on, Hunter Schaefer continues to accumulate all these different wounds from all these different situations she finds herself in.

[00:59:09] And by the end of the movie, it's like bandaged head and like arm in a sling and trying to get away from the escalating tension of the movie.

[00:59:18] And I was like, OK, this is an interesting thing.

[00:59:22] Right.

[00:59:22] Yeah.

[00:59:23] But it's also got kind of a very British sensibility in that it's a film not necessarily about an outside force, but it's something some force of nature that's kind of coming back at us.

[00:59:35] Without going into spoiler territory, I can't really do too much beyond that.

[00:59:39] But it's a really good time at the movies.

[00:59:42] It's a five bagger for sure.

[00:59:45] The sound design.

[00:59:47] They really get some interesting things happening.

[00:59:51] There's a couple of scenes.

[00:59:52] Hunter Schaefer is a bass player.

[00:59:54] She's working on a piece with her headphones on.

[00:59:57] And something unsettling is happening behind her.

[01:00:00] But all you hear is the audience is what she's working on.

[01:00:03] Kind of got these really great moments.

[01:00:05] They play with sound.

[01:00:07] Woods at night.

[01:00:08] You know, very classic stuff.

[01:00:09] It does feel like a movie kind of out of time.

[01:00:12] Kind of feels like a movie you would have seen out of the 70s almost.

[01:00:16] Highly recommend it.

[01:00:17] It's atmospheric and creepy.

[01:00:20] And then by the end, it's almost an action film.

[01:00:24] Oh, wow.

[01:00:25] Okay.

[01:00:26] There's a moment that's happening during a shootout.

[01:00:31] Again, without giving too much away.

[01:00:33] Because I really think you should see it.

[01:00:33] Yeah, it sounds really fascinating.

[01:00:35] I saw you put it on the Plex.

[01:00:36] Yes.

[01:00:37] I know I'm going to have to watch it.

[01:00:38] Speaking of things you have on the Plex.

[01:00:40] Oh, yeah.

[01:00:41] I did watch Alien Romulus.

[01:00:43] That's just a movie that gave up.

[01:00:45] Like, yep, we ran out of script.

[01:00:47] All right, bye.

[01:00:47] It's the ending credits.

[01:00:48] Well, you had a thing and you're getting there.

[01:00:53] Oh, we're done.

[01:00:54] Yeah.

[01:00:55] Oh, okay.

[01:00:56] Yeah.

[01:00:56] Huh.

[01:00:57] Yeah.

[01:00:58] Hmm.

[01:00:58] Yeah.

[01:00:59] Interesting.

[01:01:00] Yeah.

[01:01:01] There's been, again...

[01:01:03] Legacy sequel.

[01:01:04] Not necessarily a legacy sequel.

[01:01:06] My main complaint with movies.

[01:01:08] No one can write anything anymore.

[01:01:09] I've been saying this, I think the entirety we've been doing this podcast.

[01:01:12] Yeah.

[01:01:13] You know what?

[01:01:14] Say what you can say about Bo is Afraid.

[01:01:17] It hadn't ended.

[01:01:18] It had an ending.

[01:01:19] It had a meaningful ending.

[01:01:20] A very definitive ending.

[01:01:22] Like that, you know, like at least stuck that landing narratively is a good ending.

[01:01:28] Mm-hmm.

[01:01:29] Yeah.

[01:01:29] It just, it had me for so much of the movie.

[01:01:33] It was so much fun.

[01:01:34] Yeah.

[01:01:35] So many great characters.

[01:01:36] What did you think of the android character?

[01:01:38] Loved him.

[01:01:38] Yeah.

[01:01:39] I thought that was really great characterization and really great acting.

[01:01:42] Yeah.

[01:01:43] What did you think of the CGI Ian Holm face?

[01:01:46] Not so much.

[01:01:47] Yeah.

[01:01:47] I didn't, didn't.

[01:01:48] I love Ian Holm.

[01:01:50] Yeah.

[01:01:50] Everything he's in, pretty much amazing.

[01:01:52] Yeah.

[01:01:52] And what, you know, Bishop, that's who he originally played.

[01:01:56] Ash.

[01:01:56] Sorry.

[01:01:56] Bishop is Lance Ederson.

[01:01:58] I am not as familiar with the alien movies as that should be in the recent.

[01:02:02] I'm just too busy talking about the director, the editor's cut of Alien 3.

[01:02:07] I know.

[01:02:08] Sorry, guys.

[01:02:09] This is my hill to die on.

[01:02:10] I know.

[01:02:11] Super fan Ken did tell me like, yeah, you should see it.

[01:02:14] I'm like, I've seen it.

[01:02:14] What the fuck?

[01:02:16] He's almost as big an alien fan as me.

[01:02:19] And he disagreed with me on a number of points about Romulus.

[01:02:22] And I said, well, I think you're wrong.

[01:02:24] I think it's a fun movie.

[01:02:25] I didn't take it too seriously.

[01:02:26] There's enough callbacks to the other films that don't.

[01:02:30] I think it trades a little too much in nostalgia at some points, but like, it's nice to feel

[01:02:35] like things are interconnected.

[01:02:37] Yeah.

[01:02:37] Because this takes place between the first and the second movies.

[01:02:40] And so like, it's supposedly this is 20 years after the Nostromo.

[01:02:45] And that means it's 37 years before Aliens.

[01:02:48] But at the same time, it's like, well, it's inconsequential because nothing really matters.

[01:02:53] And so like, the tension kind of fell out of the movie after that.

[01:02:57] I also, there's one thing in Alien Romulus that pissed me off more than anything else.

[01:03:03] The weird tall man vagina?

[01:03:04] Tall man vagina was fine.

[01:03:06] That didn't bother me because that was straight out of Alien Resurrection.

[01:03:09] And like, okay, yeah, you're doing a thing.

[01:03:10] It's fine.

[01:03:11] No, it was when the android kills the alien is like, get away from her, you bitch.

[01:03:17] First of all, how dare you remind me of a better movie during your movie?

[01:03:21] That's that's cardinal sin number one.

[01:03:23] But number two, shut up.

[01:03:25] Just to stop talking.

[01:03:26] Cut that line and you're done.

[01:03:28] I think it would have been much more interesting without that line.

[01:03:30] Yeah.

[01:03:31] Again, fun movie.

[01:03:32] Yeah.

[01:03:33] Wish I had a better ending.

[01:03:34] I do agree.

[01:03:35] Kind of an inconsequential story, but it's a fun one.

[01:03:37] Yeah.

[01:03:38] And again, good characterization.

[01:03:40] It's not trying to do a lot like Prometheus was.

[01:03:42] You know, it's not it's not trying to.

[01:03:44] Well, here is all the different dots we're getting.

[01:03:46] No, no, no, no.

[01:03:47] This is a thing that happened.

[01:03:49] Here's a bunch of people that it happened to.

[01:03:51] And here we go.

[01:03:52] We set up a situation and we let that situation unfold.

[01:03:55] And that's the movie.

[01:03:56] Speaking of situations that unfold, though, a movie that I saw that I was equal parts annoyed

[01:04:03] and enjoyed was a movie called Saturday Night.

[01:04:07] It is a very heavily fictionalized version of what happened the night of the premiere of

[01:04:17] Saturday Night Live.

[01:04:18] I can't imagine anything more navel-gazy.

[01:04:20] It is extremely navel-gazy.

[01:04:22] It is a.

[01:04:23] Wow.

[01:04:24] I'm Lauren Michaels.

[01:04:25] Yeah.

[01:04:26] Look at look at how many ropes I can show up in my own mouth.

[01:04:29] Wow.

[01:04:30] Six.

[01:04:30] Six.

[01:04:31] How about seven?

[01:04:34] You and I bond a lot of times about our mutual love of Willem Dafoe.

[01:04:38] Willem Dafoe is wasted on this movie.

[01:04:40] Same with one of my favorite character actors, J.K. Simmons, also wasted on this movie in

[01:04:46] small, forgettable parts.

[01:04:48] J.K. Simmons plays Uncle Miltie.

[01:04:52] Okay.

[01:04:52] Okay.

[01:04:53] The one memorable scene he has.

[01:04:55] Are you early or are you dragging?

[01:04:57] Well, yeah.

[01:04:57] It's in that same energy.

[01:04:59] And he's doing this sleazy, you know, nightclub act thing before the show goes on.

[01:05:06] He's talking to the girls and the guy who plays the Chevy Chase character, because it's

[01:05:11] not necessarily Chevy Chase.

[01:05:13] It's like an amalgamation of Chevy Chase and like two other guys.

[01:05:16] He's trying to fuck with.

[01:05:19] And J.K. Simmons, of course, is having none of this.

[01:05:23] It culminates in what was supposed to be like this big clapback line.

[01:05:27] If you want my comeback, you're going to have to scrape it off your mother's teeth.

[01:05:32] Eh.

[01:05:33] Really?

[01:05:34] That's the kind of sophomoric level of humor you're going to find in Saturday Night.

[01:05:38] Now, for the most part, from start to finish, the movie is they're trying to create this

[01:05:44] sense of anxiety, kind of like how Birdman did or kind of like how Uncut Gems did, but

[01:05:50] there's a lot of fake one shots.

[01:05:53] You know, they're doing these really complicated.

[01:05:55] Everything's moving through a scenario, kind of like the Copa scene in Goodfellas or any

[01:06:00] number of one shots, right?

[01:06:01] Well, they're trying to recreate a number of these one shots.

[01:06:04] A few of them are really great as they're going through the backstage area.

[01:06:08] You're following, for the most part of the movie, you're following the Lorne Michaels

[01:06:11] character who's kind of a dickhead.

[01:06:14] I guess that's just historically accurate.

[01:06:17] That's what I understand.

[01:06:18] And you're following the Lorne Michaels character as he's kind of encountering various situations.

[01:06:23] And it's, you know, it's about a 90 minute movie and it supposedly takes place 90 minutes

[01:06:28] before airtime.

[01:06:29] A lot of lookalikes, soundalikes that are kind of doing an interesting bit of hagiography.

[01:06:35] Here's a Belushi lookalike.

[01:06:37] He's going to do or die trying.

[01:06:39] Boy, he wants to be a real Brando.

[01:06:41] Like, Belushi was not a Brando.

[01:06:43] Fuck you.

[01:06:44] It's self-aggrandizing.

[01:06:46] It's very self-mythologizing.

[01:06:48] There's a lot of background gags.

[01:06:50] There's a box on a table that says colon blow.

[01:06:56] And I'm like, that sketch happens 20 years later.

[01:07:00] There is no fucking way that they had that idea.

[01:07:04] Yeah.

[01:07:06] 1970s.

[01:07:07] I'm starting to understand why this was instantly panned.

[01:07:10] It's so self-serving.

[01:07:12] It's very much building up the legacy of what a great show Saturday Night Live was from the start.

[01:07:20] The guy they have played, George Carlin, is probably the most accurate because he's like,

[01:07:26] what the fuck is this?

[01:07:28] I don't know what I'm doing here.

[01:07:30] What the fuck does this mean?

[01:07:32] The guy who plays Paul Schaefer is sitting there dicking around playing Elton John while

[01:07:37] they're trying to write a scene.

[01:07:38] The guy who plays Chevy Chase is great, but they also lean in on like, yeah, Chevy Chase

[01:07:44] was a dick.

[01:07:45] And now, from all the stuff I've heard about people who worked with him on Community, like,

[01:07:51] well, maybe that wasn't too far off.

[01:07:54] I mean, I knew that as a teenager.

[01:07:57] The reason like Chevy Chase has a real sporadic career, if he's got a buddy all of a sudden

[01:08:04] working with these people, then he can get work over there.

[01:08:07] Once he burns that bridge, you know, chills out.

[01:08:10] And then, you know, it's just like a cycle.

[01:08:12] And they have some great performances by actors whose names I don't remember, which is unfortunate

[01:08:19] because they really do a great job of doing.

[01:08:20] Like, the woman who plays Jane Curtin kills it.

[01:08:24] The woman who plays Gilda Radner is fantastic.

[01:08:27] But what's really fucking weird is that there's this frenetic pace throughout the whole movie,

[01:08:32] right?

[01:08:32] Everything's falling apart.

[01:08:33] It's like the night before a stage production.

[01:08:36] Everything's fucked up.

[01:08:37] They didn't record the dress rehearsal, so they have to go live or else they're not going on

[01:08:44] at all.

[01:08:44] If they don't go on, it's a rerun of Johnny Carson.

[01:08:48] Johnny Carson calls Lauren and is just like shit talking him.

[01:08:51] And so there's this mounting pressure that the movie gives you.

[01:08:54] And then all of a sudden, towards the end of the movie, the pressure just drops out of

[01:09:00] the film.

[01:09:00] Lauren goes down the street to a bar to go to pick up Belushi.

[01:09:05] And Belushi's not there.

[01:09:07] And then he sees Belushi in the bee costume skating at the Rockefeller Center skate.

[01:09:14] You know, the ice rink there.

[01:09:17] Yeah.

[01:09:17] And it's like there's a big detour before the climax of the film.

[01:09:22] I'm like, there was no reason for this.

[01:09:24] This might have actually happened.

[01:09:26] This might be real.

[01:09:28] Right.

[01:09:29] Then again, all of this might be bullshit.

[01:09:31] Who the fuck knows?

[01:09:32] The only person who knows is Lorne Michaels, and he's not talking.

[01:09:35] Not someone I also trust to be a reliable narrator.

[01:09:39] There's that too.

[01:09:39] Yeah.

[01:09:40] Aaron Sorkin style.

[01:09:41] There's a ticking clock.

[01:09:43] There's a lot of things going wrong.

[01:09:45] It's an ensemble cast.

[01:09:47] So it's got a lot of that stuff going for it.

[01:09:50] You know, if you can kind of forget that the show is now in its 50th year, you might think

[01:09:55] for a moment that they might not get on the air.

[01:09:57] Yes, I can understand that kind of tension, even with the conceit of knowing that this

[01:10:02] show has bounced between relevancy and irrelevancy probably a dozen times.

[01:10:07] Yeah.

[01:10:08] I'm of the thought that the last time Saturday Night Live was funny was, I also have a handful

[01:10:13] of random skits, probably Robochomo with The Rock.

[01:10:18] I think really when...

[01:10:21] Or Meet Your Next Wife.

[01:10:23] Yeah.

[01:10:24] See, even those...

[01:10:24] You know what I'm talking about?

[01:10:25] Yeah, I do.

[01:10:26] I feel like, okay, all right.

[01:10:29] But even then, it's like, it's so few and far between, whereas there was an era between

[01:10:35] Phil Hartman joining and Will Ferrell leaving, there was a consistency.

[01:10:42] Anyway, that's Saturday Night, not a bad movie per se.

[01:10:46] I will not say it's a bad movie because it really gets you, especially if you've got any

[01:10:51] kind of love for Saturday Night Live as a franchise, if you've got any love for Chevy Chase or Gilda

[01:10:57] Radner or any of these famous names, even the guy who plays Paul Schaefer, who's sitting

[01:11:01] there dicking around playing Tiny Dancer in the back.

[01:11:04] There's just so many tiny little moments that are kind of fun and tense, like I said.

[01:11:08] And even though you know the outcome, even though you know that this show is actually going

[01:11:12] to be a hit, you kind of get caught up in it.

[01:11:15] It's really well done in that regard.

[01:11:17] Like, you can get this vibe going.

[01:11:19] And for that, I'll say, yeah, it's worth watching.

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