Beantown Podcast - Quinn Predicts the Plots of Dune and Dune Too

Episode Date: March 8, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE in advance of the Academy Awards to write the plots for both Dune and Dune 2 (in case they needed it; idk haven't seen either)

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Thursday, March 7th, 2024, season seven. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn. I am the key grip the showrunner the show director of ceremonies or we got the Oscars on Sunday really snuck up on me In days of yore here in the bean town podcast we used to do Oscar specials with good friend of the show Ryan Austin Ligon and one of these days we're gonna resurrect it But you know when it started I was, that was the peak of my, when the show started

seven years ago, was the peak of my movie expertise, if you will, movie pass and going to movies multiple times a week, especially in the winter and, you know, living in Baltimore, not having a ton of friends, all that fun stuff. Now it's like I go to the theaters maybe three, four times a year at most, and two of those times is usually just hanging out with family along for a free ride. So it's not on my radar. Although I did watch Waiting for Guffman last

night, Christopher Guest's first film from the 90s, And I've seen it before, but it had been a long time. So I took half an edible as I am known to do and just zoned out and man, some of those songs at the end in their production just totally killed me. I have probably listened to the Stool song. It legit eight to 10 times in the last 24 hours. It's Thursday night at 6 p.m. It's ridiculous. It's so good. And you have to watch it too. You can't just listen to it and be like,

oh, this is kind of a catchy song because it is. You have to watch it. If you don't know, it's Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, Parker Posey, and Chris Guest all on stage doing choreographed dances with stools. And Bob Balaban conducting the orchestra and he's really into it. That's my other favorite thing about that movie that I'd forgotten about. It plays on your expectations and that you know it's like community theater and so you just kind of assume the orchestra is gonna be really bad and that would kind of be funny in a joke if the orchestra is bad. The orchestra absolutely kills it in this movie. They're so good it's ridiculous. I think there's definitely more instruments in on the recording than

there are that you could possibly play based off of the actors in the film but it's fun nonetheless. A listener discretion is advised when you're listening to the meantime podcast. Number one, we'll give you some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. Speaking of objectively terrible,

we are in the deep throes. Throes is that T-H? Throes, I think so. Yeah, throes. We are in the deep throes of apartment searching and I won't get into all the nitty gritty details of everything that's been going on, but we've seen probably six or seven places now. The only reason I wanted to mention this outside of it just being miserable for us for the last 10 days or so, is I think all apartment searches are. I think unless you are a billionaire, every apartment search is miserable. But I wanted to just briefly share a cautionary tale. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this,

because I want to get to Super Tuesday. I want to get to our trivia, which is Super Tuesday related. And then I want to talk dune and dune too, something I was going to get to last week that I just ran out of time for. And haven't prepared for tonight, which may be good, may be bad, I don't know. But we'll be helped out because I'm drinking one of my penultimate escapists from Temperance,

an American Ale IPA. With a little shot of, not a full shot, maybe three quarters of a shot, a wild turkey sprinkled on top, a little boiler maker. I was reading about boiler makers before this. Apparently you're supposed to chug it if you do that. And that doesn't sound chugging a boiler maker IPA Doesn't sound that interesting to me. It sounds like my stomach would explode. So we're gonna take it slow with some sips here The cautionary tale I wanted to tell I'm gonna do the TLDR version too long didn't read

It's basically that you know Monday Rachel found this great apartment You know is basically that Monday Rachel found this great apartment. We do the thing where we do a fresh scan every day to see what pops up, contact immediately all the places we like. This is not our first rodeo. I will go out in a limb and say we are very good at apartment hunting. We make time, we go see things, we respond immediately to hire managers, property managers, whatever. We're good at this.

So we find the spot Monday morning, find out, hey, Tuesday afternoon, they're doing a group showing. It's a very clearly going to be a competitive place based off of its location and a good price and it checks all of our boxes that our must haves for us in this search. So we were like, okay, let's do it. You know late afternoon on Tuesday Rachel's at work. So I go And it is competitive. There's probably I think there were four other Ladies on this tour with me. I'm taking a FaceTime and Rachel were like watching all of it. It you know checks all of our boxes Get all the information to apply so we do apply literally walk out of the apartment into the alley afterwards and gather

up all the things we need for the application on my phone and send it to Rachel and she sends it over along with her stuff. So then, basically 24 hours pass and they've been super responsive. They have questions for us about random things and we're just you know Giving them responses shout out to Rachel because they kept emailing just Rachel and and Rachel would respond back Including me on the email and then they would email back and be just Rachel's like I guess they really don't want me to be part of this But whatever we finally

Like yesterday afternoon Before our application had been approved, which is a hundred dollars by the way Get a Rachel gets a message again. This is all through Rachel and then just handed down telephone wise to me that the landlord is insisting that they put in a Clause in small very small fine print in the bottom of this lease saying that, you know, we, the landlord have the right to get you out of this apartment for no reason at any point in time with 90 days notice, which I was actually talking to another realtor today,

he's like, oh yeah, I've seen that both 60 days notice. So these people are more kind to us with 90 days. But basically, if you don't not follow what I'm saying, that basically means that they could tell us five days after we move in, hey, in 90 days you got to be out. And then we'd have to go through an entire apartment search again. And one of the reasons we really are moving right now

is so that we don't have to move this time next year when we're going to be getting married. No one wants to get married and move at the same time. So I was like, well, if they're insisting that this clause goes in their last second, the chances of us making it through a full 12 months without being told we got to move out, and this, you know, it could happen in the middle dead of winter for God's sake plus getting our whole lease renewed for another 12 months and You know having this clause while we have this clause hanging over our heads the chance of all that going right and just ignoring this Red flag that popped up the last second is seems small

There's really no way to know but it seems like the landlord is slapping that in there last second. Like, I don't know man. So, of course we get approved. We dropped the hundred, and then you just got to make the call, or it's like this is your dream spot location, and you're checking all your boxes, but you're constantly going to have this clause living over your head, where it's like they could literally tell you in June, hey, we sold this place, so you got to move on in September, and it's like they could literally tell you in June, hey, we sold this place, so you gotta move on in September. And it's just, wasn't worth it. So that was so tough. Here's the cautionary tale. Check your lease, the whole thing.

Even the lead and radon testing attachments that seem innocuous upon first glance, because you've seen it a million times before INN OC Uo us I think innocuous Because man they are sneaky so Thankfully, it's not our first lease. I've probably signed what six or seven leases at this point in my life But just brutal man. So back to the drawing board

If anyone out there in beanantown is listening and has a sweet apartment for under $2,500 a month, let us know. BeantownPodcast at yahoo.com again, it's BeantownPodcast at yahoo.com. Okay, let's keep plowing ahead here. One other thing of note, just cause I've been getting the email notifications into our inbox. Most action our email inbox has gotten in years. These bags, these tote bags, they are being shipped and they are being received.

I got a notification just this afternoon that one of them was received. They didn't tell me who it was, so just if you're out there in Beanland, email us, tweet at us at bean town cast let us know let us see a picture Because no I don't have a can't you know put a picture on the website and say oh This is what it looks like because I didn't vet my vendor That my vendor got to write that down. That's a great great terminology. Look. I don't want to give I Don't want to give anything away in terms of horse names for this year, but that is coming up soon here,

like a month, two months, something like that, Kentucky Derby. So we'll see if that makes the list. I also had a, there was a great, we were having some wine, went to a comedy show last Saturday night and I was with some friends friends and I have no, I don't have any context for this and I remember how it came up. It's just a three word phrase and it's a play, a play on something we all know, right?

We all know that, you know, toy drive, right? Offices, companies do it, you know, donate to kids at Christmas time, whatever. What if you did a sex toy drive? This is some, I think where sex toy drive fits in well is like something they would talk about at CPAC that Joe Biden is doing this Christmas. Of course, it's not even Christmas, right? It's the holiday season, right? They can't say Christmas.

Joe Biden won't let us say Christmas anymore. Instead of toy drives for local kids, he's him and the immigrants from Mexico are establishing or organizing a sex toy drive to infiltrate our schools. Dude, Florida is going to ban sex toys or something like that. There's probably enough of like a weirdo lobby in Florida, the weirdo lobbyists. I'm thinking people that live in hotel rooms, like in the Florida Project, I'm thinking that kind of crowd would presumably lobby hard to keep sex toys around, but they might vote to remove them from schools.

So that's sort of where the line could be, the fence. They might ride, if you will. But anyway, sex toy drive. If anyone wants to throw that into a comedy sketch, I give you my blessing, because I think it's a great idea. One other thing before we hit Super Tuesday, which is going to be both this week on the campaign trail check-in, as well as our trivia, which we might, yeah, we'll get to.

Usually I save my trivia for the end, but this ties in well with this week on the campaign trail. And then we'll finish up with Dune and Dune II predictions, which we'll get to in a second here. I did just lastly want to mention that onbeantompotguest.com for the February Pleasure of Tullathon fundraiser. Thank you again to all who donated over $400 record-breaking, all that fun stuff this year. We have updated our homepage to include our Wall of Champions. And so if you donated to the show this year,

you met our threshold, you can see your name featured in Bright Lights, basically Broadway without all the flashiness and gildedness. The BeanTownPodcast.com wall of champions, go check it out, BeanTownPodcast.com. Thank you to everyone who donated. Yeah, close the book on the pledge drive last week. And if you were in our Topaz Elite Club and you do not yet have your tote bag, just be

on the lookout. It might happen like what happened to us with some stuff. We, so we have not gotten mail in this apartment in the entire complex for, or like our pod for probably, it was probably like a three week stretch. And it started coming back about a week ago, which is good news but There was a whole three week backup that had not yet been delivered and Even today I was talking to a friend on the street and I was like, yeah, we didn't get mail for three weeks is coming back now

But it's just the new stuff. What happened to the old stuff. They're holding it somewhere. Why aren't they delivering it? We don't know where they're holding it somewhere, why aren't they delivering it? We don't know where they're holding it. Finally today, actually, when I got home from that walk, like 20 minutes after speaking it into existence, the size of this bundle of mail that was sitting on the floor in our mailroom was enormous. And we were able to find a couple of things, although I still have one thing that never showed up, a debit card that I ordered never came through. Oddly enough, I got the separate thing with my pin in it, but no actual debit card to activate, so that was fun. But also got our Valentine's Day from friend and supporter and grandparents of the show, Dave and Sal. I think they probably sent that over a month ago, and it just came in today. So a gigantic pile.

If you're listening to this, if you're in our apartment complex, if you can hear me upstairs, there's a, we said listener discretion is advised, right? There's a shit ton of mail downstairs and some of it was handwritten and seemed very nice. So yeah, we needed like a pony express stopgap or something but just brutal. The buzzer was like not working for the USPS master key or whatever but why wouldn't you just buzz if you're the mailman? They just gave up and stopped trying. So pretty frustrating. And the amount of times we complain to our management company, man, it's not not this isn't one of those things We're just like this is why we're moving out like not that big of a deal, but I can pile it on

I can have my reasons okay super Tuesday this week on the campaign trail super Tuesday was two days ago and No big surprises There were a lot of states. There's like 12 states or something like that, but a lot of states, there's like 12 states or something like that, but basically things went the way we thought they were gonna go. From NBC News, five Super Tuesday takeaways on a big night for Biden and Trump. Takeway number one, Biden faces fewer speed bumps, but he lost the American Samoa caucus to entrepreneur Jason Palmer, not Jesse Palmer, but not Carson Palmer. This was Jason Palmer.

So American Samoa, there were fewer than 100 votes cast, but a big blow for Biden in the American Samoa region, if you will. Nikki Haley, who we now know much more about now barely made a dent. She won Vermont, which was her second after Washington DC, but it didn't do too much and spoiler alert She's out. She's gone Number three meddling pays off in California Adam Schiff's on opportunity the race for the late Diane Feinstein's Senate seat and took it. So I guess he's running for Senate.

I don't really remember. MAGA makes a move in North Carolina. Let's see, what does that even mean? Oh, Trump endorsed Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, who won the GOP primary for Governor Tuesday. And Democrats nominated Attorney General Josh Stein for governor. So that should be fun.

And then finally, all red, not like GOP is all red, like a guy's name, all red, A-L-L-R-E-D, one word. Tackles the opposition in Texas. He's a former NFL linebacker. One of the Democrats prized recruits of the cycle. And he's running against Senator Ted Cruz, who somehow is still in the Senate. But yeah, All Red won.

Who did Colin All Red play for in the NFL? How old is this guy? I don't even know. Colin All Red. Oh, he's already a U.S. representative. Interesting, from Texas. He's only 40 years old. He was a linebacker for the Tennessee Titans.

He left football to pursue his JD at Cal Berkeley. Then he worked in the Obama administration. Wow, what a guy. Looks like he was an undrafted free agent in 2006, signed with the Titans, waved for the season, but re-signed in 2007, waved again, promoted to the active roster at the end of 2007, made a regular season debut. He appeared in 32 games and 46 tackles, so he was, you know, a benchwarmer warmer but he got in there so played basically handful of games for the Tennessee Titans and now he's trying to

unseat Ted Cruz so good for you Colin all right that is this week on the campaign trail but we're not done with Super Tuesday we have a trivia quiz for you from NPR and that's gonna be coming up right after we give a shout out to our brief shout out to our sponsors Of course, they're good friends at home pride Oregon when you need your home inspected in central, Oregon Or maybe a lease inspected hey steve's not a lawyer He doesn't have the JD that Colin all red has but he's seen a lease or two. I Imagine in his time home inspections lease inspections, I don't know, haircut inspections, take your Cuts

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It's a multiple choice quiz. It looks somewhat lengthy. 10, 12 questions, something like that. Maybe 10. I did not vet this. I just was looking for a super Tuesday information and I figured let's just look at it now. So these are all multiple choice. I'll give you the, the you the responses we have to choose from as we go through it. Nikki Haley is suspending her campaign. Will she be Trump's running mate?

And the choices are, it's not impossible, but seems highly unlikely. She says no. C, Trump says no. Or D, all of the above. So these are basically pulled from quotes. Again, A a it's not impossible. It seems highly unlikely B She says no C Trump says no D all the above I'm gonna go with all of the above because I think that's what it is and it is

So Nikki Haley said no Yeah, dee-dee-dee-dee, okay, so we're one for ten Okay Let's see who we just mentioned Jason Palmer, the guy who won American Samoa. So who is Jason Palmer who beat Biden American Samoas Democratic caucus? Your choices? A, a Baltimore entrepreneur and investor B, an American Samoan C, chaotic good or D, former governor of North Dakota. I think I might have given this away already. I don't know other than what I've come across today. I'm pretty sure he's an entrepreneur. So a Baltimore. That was first garage been

cut out of the day. I was I was monitoring and I saw it started to get choppy but I got a little bit aggressive and thought I could get through this quiz but I was wrong. So I didn't go back and look at where exactly we got cut off but yeah Jesse yeah, Jesse Palmer, not Jesse Palmer. Jason Palmer is a Baltimore entrepreneur and investor. Apparently he aggressively campaigned in American Samoa, but he did not make a visit. What does that even mean? You're sending out like MailChimp marketing campaigns to how do you even get a list of people in Samoa? That's crazy, man. One thing I said when I got cut off was that he's kind of got a

Rod Bogovitch type haircut, so that's got a boat well for his chances in Illinois. Plowing ahead here to question number three. So while we're on the topic, oh we got this one, where is American Samoa? And it's a a on the island of Hispaniola B between Hawaii and New Zealand excuse me see off the Alaskan coast or D in the Atlantic Ocean certainly it's B between Hawaii and New Zealand this is kind of fun today we're playing trivia together usually I'm trying to stump the buff the listener but today we're going at it together. We're three out of ten so far. The beer and the whiskey combo hasn't thrown us off our game, but maybe it's going to get tougher. Speaking of that, maybe you all heard about this, but I

did not. It's the first time seeing this. Where did, in quotes, Uncommitted, so it's the title of something, get several thousand votes yesterday? There's a picture of, you know, a flyer. It says, Vote Uncommitted, Presidential Primary. Although I hate this because I was going to have to take a guess before I saw this image. But there's an image of a faint outline of the state on this flyer, and so I know it already, so you do your best to see if you can get it. A, Michigan, B, Minnesota, C, North Carolina, or D, American, Samoa. Take your guesses now. I unfortunately saw that the answer was Minnesota.

It's an outline of it. So there you go. Minnesota, uncommitted. It's a campaign for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Also had a good showing in Colorado and in Michigan. Okay. Number five, I actually don't know this one. I don't wait. No, I do know this one because we just read about it. That's a shame. Spoiling everything. What state did Nikki Haley win? I would not have known this before we started a Colorado B Washington DC C American Samoa or D Vermont

This is kind of tricky because she did win Washington DC, but it's not a state But they gave it as an option so confusing but the answer is Vermont And NPR is being cheeky so they say oh she also went non-state Washington DC earlier this week nice. Thanks Forgot that it wasn't a state. Here we go number Six I don't know this at all did Minnesota rep Dean Phillips drop out of the race Yes, not yet or a yes be not yet see who and I was going with my gut. I would say see who

But I'm gonna go with not yet be oh he did our first one wrong Democrat Dean Phillips dropped out. Oh, he was running for president. I thought it was some low-level city councilman Race but Dean Phillips is actually was running for president if you've ever heard of him not me Number seven on what social platform did Taylor Swift exhort her minions to vote? A, X, B, TikTok, C, Instagram, D, Threads. I feel like the only possible answer is Instagram. I feel like Taylor Swift fans don't care about Twitter.

TikTok I could see, but I've never really heard about Taylor Swift and TikTok. And Threads, is that an Instagram knockoff? Like Twitter for Instagram? I don't know. I'm gonna say Instagram. I can't imagine anything else. Yes, it was Instagram. There we go. Okay, we got three left here, something like that. Next up, I don't know if anti-climactic is the right word, said what state's democratic party chair.

This is a total guess. A, Maine, B, American Samoa, they love Samoa in this NPR quiz. C, Vermont, D, Iowa. I'm gonna guess Maine because Iowa already happened, we've already talked about American Samoa and Vermont. Maine is kind of a new one, so I'm gonna guess a Maine. No, it was Iowa We're falling off a little bit here

Okay, this is This is number nine our penultimate question Super Tuesday matters to Republicans, but why I hate using but why that way it's so like Doesn't make sense. So the question is, Super Tuesday matters to Republicans, but why? A, every Republican candidate who has won Super Tuesday has gone on to be the nominee. B, every Republican candidate who has won Super Tuesday has gone on to be president. That can't be right. C, every Republican candidate who has won Super Tuesday has been over 80 years of age, no way. Or D, every Republican candidate who is one Super Tuesday

has been a Libra. So it's got to be A or B. I know I said B, which has gone on to be president. Sounds wacky, but maybe there's something to that. But my gut is go with the simple one, which is A. Every candidate who is one Super Tuesday has gone on to be nominee. That's my guess.

There it is. OK, that is true All right, and then our last question which of these is not a closely watched race a Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey in California for Senate be Dean Phillips and Jason Palmer in Alabama for Senate Didn't we just oh I thought Dean Phillips was running for president. This is so confusing Didn't we just, oh, I thought Dean Phillips was running for president. This is so confusing. C, Mark Robinson and Josh Stein from North Carolina Governor or D, all of California's 52 congressional seats. Well, Dean Phillips is out, so I guess I'm gonna guess Dean Phillips and Jason Palmer. There it is.

Yeah, it says, yo, it's not even a real race. NPR trying to be tricky. Very, very tricky. So that was an 8 out of 10 for us here live on air. Let us know how you did. Go ahead and email us, bean top podcast at yahoo.com or find us on threads. Show's not on threads. I've never been on threads. I don't really know what it is, but maybe you'll find some bean heads there. I don't, I don't know. I don't really care. All right. Last up here. I want to get through this last week. I didn't so Dune is a book by Frank Herbert. I think Coleal's uncle maybe and Justin's dad probably and they made a movie out of it with Timothy and a bunch of other no names like Zendaya from Euphoria and I don't know probably Jason Momoa and probably the guy who plays Anton

Chagur in No Country for Old Men, Javier Bardem. What do we think? Was he in Dune? Not sure. I think Oscar Isaac Definitely died in the first one right, but we're gonna get to that Here's the thing with Dune so Dune 2 both films. I believe they're directed by Denis Villeneuve who you might know from Enemy the Jake Gyllenhaal movie prisoners Hugh Jackman Paldano

Hugh Jackman, Paul Dano, Blade Runner, sequel, those are all Denny Villeneuve, he's French-Canadian films. One of my favorite directors solely for his cinematography. What else did he do? Now I'm drawing a blank because I love his films. I don't think I'm completely caught up. Well, obviously I'm not. Because I haven't seen Dune. Or Dune 2. He's also done... oh yeah, I can't believe I forgot this. He did Sicario and then Arrival. And then I think we're caught up. Just do. Yeah, there aren't any other ones. But I love Prisoners. It's a fantastic film. And I would watch Enemy again, one of these days I watched it in college and just didn't get it. But I know people really like it. And I like Jake Gyllenhaal, although this whole new Roadhouse remake with Jake Gyllenhaal and Colin McGregor. I don't know, man, I'd

rather see Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor, but I wasn't the caster, caster and Pollux, right? A couple of stars. So Dune 2 came out last week and while everyone's concentrated on X and threads on, you know, the fleshlight popcorn buckets, and if you don't really know what I'm talking about just just do yourself a gigantic favor and just move past it. Just forget that I put those three words together flesh fleshlight popcorn bucket just completely just ignore it don't rewind don't think about it. Enjoy the rest of your life never having joined that pop culture sensation. I've never read Dune.

It wasn't really on my radar as a kid and I don't know if any of my family members ever read it when I was growing up. I don't remember knowing anything about it, but it's like a science fiction classic from what? Like the 60s or 70s, something like that. And then, you know, there's, they've they've made it you know movies and probably TV shows I don't know but but nothing that was really on my radar until This you know most recent filming out sequel came out last week here's so I

Was gonna basically predict what happened in dune if I was doing this right way, I could have come in with some show notes and actually done like a full script and cast it and all that stuff. But here basically here's what I know about Dune and Dune too. And here's what I think is gonna happen in both of them because I haven't seen either except for the trailers. Nor have I ever read the book. Let's just put it this way. I'm not familiar with the source material outside of a few nuggets. So basically, you got Timothy Chalamet.

He's like this young prince. He wears this weird thing in his nose. He's got like a sword, but it's in the future. So they have advanced technology, but they kind of don't. Doesn't make a lot of sense And his dad is Oscar Isaac. He's like the the spice lord of this. They're basically on Tatooine And then Daya is like his GF

But he's not allowed to date like me when I was growing up. And also she's, you know, well, she's black. So she's got to be some sort of, you know, in this kind of futuristic world to have the narrative of like, we're a thousand years in the future and explore different planets, but also like we're still stuck in Jim Crow era. Like she's definitely a second class citizen. And so they're not supposed to be together. And like Oscar Isaac, the dad is not like, you know, he's he's actually he's kind of like a cool dad. So he's not coming out and actively saying, Oh, I hate her, I don't like her. But he kind of, you know, to her face, but kind of in private to Timothy, he's basically saying stuff like,

I don't know, you sure? Like there's a lot of fish in the sea or worms in the sand or speaking of that. So they're on the sandy planet. There's these big worms. These things mean business. They're just like giant tube tubules. And they're not really on anyone's side.

They just kind of wreak a lot of havoc. And they just kind of mess stuff up side. They just kind of wreak a lot of havoc and They just kind of mess stuff up. That's sort of their thing. They don't really have much of a character arc They're partially sentient but partially not and You can also ride them But they don't fully understand because you the amount of leather you need for a saddle that size We haven't seen those sorts of industrial

Advancements in our you know 2024 technology, but I think this is a year like 4255 or something. So maybe it's just how would you get a cow that big? Timothy's mom is probably played by, I don't know, someone cool and British like Rebecca Ferguson or something. Maybe she, in some scenes she has an accent, in some scenes she doesn't. It's an artsy choice. And there's Jason Momoa who's like the bodyguard of the prince and the prince's son and he's really good at hand to hand combat. He's going to kind of train you. There's Javier Bardem who's like a mysterious kind of spice merchant that rolls into town one day selling spices and stuff.

And their whole economy is based off of spice. And I don't know if it's all spice or nutmeg or mer, my RHH or RRH, one of those two, probably two Rs, right? You wouldn't put two H's next to each other. It doesn't make sense. It's not necessary. Yeah, so mer. I'm going with Mer. I'm locking in Mer. Their whole economy is based off of this Mer. And so basically, this bad guy comes to town, I'm envisioning, you know the bad guy from Mad Max Fury Road the all those like I was gonna say bionic people albino people

This guy's really fat And he he drives one of those cool cars from Mad Max Fury Road even though it's futuristic. It's kind of cool It's like steampunk Just said you know what it's like, you know, you need to belt your swallow or something it but it's just lingering and It's like steampunk. Just said, you know, it's like, you know, you need to belt your swallow or something, but it's just lingering. And it's like, hey, you're telling your body like, Hey, pick a side one way or another. Like, let me belt or let me swallow. I had that for like 10 seconds. It was the worst. So basically, in DOOM one, there's a, you know, colonizers are coming to steal the spice. Think like Steven Lang's character from Avatar.

And you know, they got to rise up and Oscrisic is secretly sick. He's got cancer, but he can't let, you know, the kingdom know that because he doesn't want to come across as weak. And so Timothy's got to train up. And Timothy's kind of like this immature little brat, kind of like in Beautiful Boy with Steve Carell, except he's not a drug addict. He's a spice addict. And he's supposed to be training with Aquaman,

but he wants to spend all his time riding worms with Zendaya, which is not a euphemism. It actually happens, I think, per this screenplay. And the whole time you're thinking like Javier Bardem's a bad guy, he's kind of mysterious, he's Javier Bardem, but then when this Uber villain, I think his name is like Rick or something, I don't know, he's probably played by like the voice of Josh Brolin, which is why he's hosting SNL this week is Josh Brolin in Dune.

I don't even know. But that would make sense. Jot, let's say Josh Brolin is a bad guy, Rick. And at the very end, it's like, you know, he, so Josh Brolin kills Oscar Isaac, you know, he, He spiesifies him to death. Ice Spice, Ice Spice is in Dune too. Hang on, we'll get there. Another Zandias, like Spunky Friend.

You don't see a lot of spunk in the silver screen these days, so that's kind of Ice Spice's niche. If her acting is as good as her stage presence, then we are in for a real treat. And at the very end, you know, Josh Brolin is, he's fighting Timothy Chalamet, even though they have laser guns, it's a sword hand to hand combat, because it, you know, dramatic that way. And they're fighting like the edge of like a big cliff and the worms are going crazy and so everything's kind of blowing up and shifting. It's like very tectonical. And at the very end it's Josh Brolin's got

Timothy B. He's got the dagger and Javier Bardem comes out of nowhere and saves Timothy and you know kind of they fall to one side Timothy and Bardem who turns out you know he's actually a good guy and then Rick falls to the other side and then if there's a big chasm and so you know that's kind of the cliffhanger for option one. And so that's sort of that's sort of how Dune 1 ends. And now there's, you know, a two-year gap, three-year gap, whatever it is.

Now you get Dune 2. Two mini dunes. Two dunes. Dune, uh, Rific. And really don't, I have no idea what happens in Dune 2. I'm gonna just assume that my, you know, premonitions of what occurred, the screenplay for Dune 1, I'm gonna assume that's like 90 to 95% accurate, because you can't get all the details right. So basically Dune 2 starts and it's three

years in the future. There's the book, there are two Dune books, I think there's just one. There are two Dune books. I think there's just one. So maybe there's some creative directive liberty. Liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. We got a pause. We're going to lose our garage band here. And OK, so Dune 2 opens. And spoiler, the spice is gone.

Oh, no. What do we do? And so basically it's kind of like at the end of a new hope where you don't see it off screen but the Rebel base has to relocate. So you've got, you know, the Timothy Chalamet is the king now and he's not sleeping with Rebecca Ferguson, like his mom, right, it's not an edipist thing. But I mean, she's, she's a high quality babe. And it's kind of like inferred that there's

some weird stuff going on implied, but you don't really see it. It's a director's cut. Because we're supposed to like Timothy Shalamy and usually we don't like guys who sleep with their moms. In traditional Western media, I'll say, I'll qualify, quantify it that way, qualify. I don't know, one of those two. So basically, it's like the rebels at the end of New Hope, they got found out by Rick. And we don't really get a lot of backstory on Rick in terms of where he got this huge army

or, you know, what he wants. I guess he wants the spice, right? But so basically Dune 2 opens and they're like, you know, this really not like Hoth, cause it's a rip-off, but this really kind of like rocky planet. Like there's not a lot there but rocks. And there's not really any spice that you can see so far

And I'll also mention that You know, so they they went to this new planet Zorb Zorb Tron, you know for and Zendaya Came with him too But like their relationship has been on the rocks. And it's getting three years have passed. And you're like, oh, what happened? I thought they were solid. And it turns out, Timothy's been really

overwhelmed and overworked by the responsibilities of being Spice Lord now. And Zendaya is like, oh, you got to give me more time. Need more attention. It's like that Chelsea girl from Love is Blind. It's like, you know, you went out to a bar for an hour. Who are you with? Yada, yada, yada.

So that's kind of how it starts, where like, you know, Zendaya had come with him kind of in secret, but now she's out. Like, she's done a huge fight. Not like a permanent breakup, but you're like, oh God, what's gonna happen next? And then there's Javier Bardem, you know, who saved Timothy at the end of the first dune. But you were still not like 100% sure where his motives lie, and he's nowhere to be found, which is a creative choice I just made right now, as are all of

these. But I don't know, I have no idea how I'm gonna tie that one up so yeah he's he's he's out of the picture for the start of this film for sure oh Jason Momoa he's just kind of like muscle like like you know guys in the wire standing on corners driving on SUVs he's just the muscle so he's not really he doesn't really have that much to do I don't think he's really that good of an actor so it kind of it kind of fits. So basically, stuff is just not going that well on Zoro Batron 5 or whatever I'd call this planet.

Everyone's kind of depressed. And people kind of start to question Timothy's leadership capabilities, because there's no spice. And they're like, what are we doing here? And there's definitely going to be kind of a leader of the, there's like a schism in the Timothy kingdom, if you will. And there's definitely going to be like his opponent,

leader of the party, kind of the revolutionary party. Could be played by Russell Brand or something. I don't know, he's kind of out of the spotlight right now. But you know, someone kind of slimy like that, who you're, it's very clear like, oh, we're not gonna root for this guy. We're gonna root for Timmy, even though he's addicted to Spice.

And so we're gonna, you know, we're gonna kind of pan off camera. Still, you know, nothing from Rick yet, Josh Brolin. But basically, so you're gonna see Zendaya She's kind of wandering meandering if you will through you know kind of trying to find herself and She keeps throwing up and you're like oh god. What's going on eventually you learn she's pregnant. Oh my god And it's like was it Timmy's hopefully because it can't afford to really introduce any more major characters right now. But she falls into a cavern. Oh my God. You know, she's she's ambling through this wilderness, these rocks, and she falls into a crevasse, if you will. And you think,

oh my God, she's really stuck. She's in danger. What's gonna happen? Well, who shows up to save her ass ice spice and so the two of them get to talk and you know ice spice saves her and ice spice reveals that hey maybe this plan isn't so bad after all maybe Zorbatron 5 if you dig under the surface a little bit has he has even better spice it's still called spice but it's even better spice than you know what original the original planet called Dune has and so but then you know Zendaya's like oh my gosh I get to go back to Timothy I got to tell

him like this could save you know say change everything change our fortunes but ice spice is like no like you don't need no man it's a very like feminist like you know positive you know agenda and they're like you know ice spice like they're super racist too. But Zendaya is like, no, I have to go back. And so I suppose like, well, let me come with you. And so, you know, they come back to the community. They, you know, people are, you know, even though they're pretty racist, like, you know, Rebecca Ferguson, even like, they're happy to see Zendaya and it's like, you know, she's one of the family, whatever. And they're like, oh, who's this ice spice? And Zendaya's like, oh, this is ice spice. Turns out, and so they share the news about, you know,

if you drill down a little bit, it's like fracking, basically. There's some really high quality spice. It's different spice. It's better spice, but it's still called spice underneath the surface. And so they go through like a whole industrial revolution. And you know, it's like a 30 second music montage Didn't even look is notorious for his music montages if you've ever seen

You know, Sicario for example where they're you know tunneling under the wall Emily Blunt's like wiping sweat away from her her eyes Josh Brolin is like oh man This is some tough work and he's like lifting weights and running on the border, stuff like that. It's set to the final countdown. So big music montage turns out, oh, what is happening? The Timothy's radar is detect. Oh, no, here come a bunch of enemy ships.

It's Josh Brolin. It's Rick. And he's bringing a whole crew. And and it's like how do they find us? What's going on? What do they want from us? Turns out ice spice total double agent like she came across and die and then Zendaya let her right back to Timothy and and Momoa and Rebecca Ferguson and you and all these good guys. And even the Russell Brand character is not with Rick.

He's not a bad guy in that sense. But he's just pretty unhelpful and kind of like cowers away when it's time to rise up and fight. So basically, there's a big invasion, a big battle part two. But it turns out not only is there spice, you know, under this, these rocky crags, there's also worms covered in metal armor and Timothy the whole time knew that not that these were there, but he

didn't know about the spice. I don't really, I haven't figured that part out yet. But this whole time, Timothy and Momoa have been training an army of metal covered worms. And so even though the like foot soldiers are crazy outnumbered by you know, Rick's invading army, it seems like they're going to be toast. All you know, these crazy metal worms come about to nowhere. Oh no, here's what it is. You figure out at the very end that the whole time Bardem's been off screen. We haven't heard from him apparently he's Timothy put him in charge of going underground and chain and training these metal worms and

so apparently Javier Bardem didn't mention that there is better spice down there until just now but Javier Bardem didn't mention that there is better spice down there until just now, but you got all these metal worms, you know, it's like when the light is darkest and you know, Rick is kicking ass in his armies of, I don't know, I'm thinking like, you know, the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz and Margaret Hamilton. I'm thinking, you know, Rick's army isn't much of those things, like with the blue faces, because those things freaked the crap out of me when I was a kid. I hated the flying monkeys.

But they just get their asses kicked by these metal worms, and it's awesome. And at the very end, everyone's happy. No one dies. Except for maybe Javier Bardem. I could see him dying, but also not. You know who's going to die? Mamoa, for sure. He's going to die right before Bardem, I can see him dying, but also not. You know who's gonna die? Momoa for sure.

He's gonna die right before Bardem comes through in the clutch, you know, comeback moment. Momoa is gonna die and it's gonna be pretty emotional because I don't know, maybe he, I don't know. I was gonna say maybe he got with Ice Spice. Well, Ice Spice is a bad guy, but turns out Ice Spice was like, she got played by Rick, Josh Brolin, the only character in this show who has a name other than their actor's name, I guess.

But then Ice Spice, when she found out that Josh Brolin, Rick wanted to invade, that's what he was using Ice Spice for, is to find the location, she regrets it. She's like, oh no, I didn't want anything bad to happen to Zandaya and Timothy and all that stuff I just want you know thought you know He said that they were friends and they were trying to send a message And I didn't know what sent a message meant and so you know she she is siding with Timothy now and You know she falls in love with Did I just say Mo Mo was gonna die? Yeah, I guess they could fall in love

But then my mama died so I guess it's kind of sad. And then, uh, was one other character I wanted to account for and I can't remember. I don't know. And basically at the end, uh, you know, Timothy, uh, throughout the film and kind of the more quiet moments, Timothy has, has gone into his listening chamber where he can listen to pre-recorded tapes from Oscar Isaac before he died in Dune 1, where it's like, son, if you're listening to this, here's these five leadership qualities from Harvard Business Review that you need to work on. And so it's kind of emotional.

It's a way for Oscar Isaac to get paid for Dune 2, 2. But basically, at the end, Timothy stands up in front of his kingdom and all the better spice. And Rick is dead We didn't really cover that but obviously he's died He dies judge Bolin and Timothy like holds up his sword because I saw that in the trailer And everyone else holds it up and you know drums are playing Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum To do any Who doing it? No, we knew who done it. Although I guess I

Spice being a double agent was kind of a sneaky one And That's pretty much how it goes. I was getting something on my teeth So there you go That's the plots of dune one dune two that one I would say is more like an 80 to 85 percent chance of happening because the metal worms I don't know if I feel good about that. And also the whole film takes place outside of Dune.

And so it's like, would you call a movie Dune 2 if they weren't on Dune, if they were on Flawed Corn 5 or whatever I call it. These are questions that your director kind of has to answer, not really me, so much as a podcaster. But there you go, that's the plots to Dune 1, Dune 2. Now I'm going to go out there and not watch it in theaters,

because I just have a busy month. But I'll see it on my home television one of these days. Let us know in the comments, or by subscribing to the Bean Town podcast, wherever you listen to your podcast, or by emailing us, beantownpodcast.ahoo.com. If you've read the book, if you've seen the films, how close are we? Two percentage points off, five percentage points off, whatever it is, let us know.

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