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Episode Date: September 2, 2024

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Oh my God. Up next. She was in high school in that show. I'm talking about, this is a reboot where she's an adult and it's about her having- It's the new Raven, because they did make the reboot. Right. Called Raven's House. Raven in the house. Raven in the house. Dude, what was it called? Wasn't it just Raven? I thought it was uh... Did anyone watch the reboot? That's so Raven. And was

it even what was it on was it on Disney? It was on Disney. Um. Because the iCarly reboot was on Netflix and they got a little inappropriate. Raven's Home. Raven's Home. It's it's not worse than I think the worst reboot title is Fuller House. Yeah I saw that pop up on Netflix yesterday and I was like why? Fuller House. Why. I saw that pop up on Netflix yesterday and I was like, why? Fuller House. Why? They should have, I'm surprised they didn't go with the title I recommended which is More Filled House.

Yeah, I really liked that and I thought that they were going to because it seemed like they were on board. And it, I feel like it feels at least more grammatically correct than Fuller House. Oh 100%. No one's gonna think- More Filled House. More Filled House is 100% the correct one So whatever they went with what they went with but you guys have us and all of our wonderful ideas right here

We don't need to branch off to to Netflix Although we would not complain if we had to if we were given a budget Yeah, and solely had to create a a show or something like that if we were to create a show or something like that? If we were given a large sum of money and said, make a show from Netflix or Amazon or Hulu or... If we could get some billionaire benefactor to help fund our channel. Dude, that would be fucking tilt.

I know. Rupert Murdoch. Come on, hey. He's coming through and giving us a couple million to make some quality content. I wanna see some sketches. Okay Rupert, we'll get those sketches right out. Of course, buddy.

I like he's like sitting in a wheelchair with a cat on his lap. But in an evil way, not in like a cute old man way. He's got like a pearl as an eye, like a giant pearl. With a scar going down Man good old Rupert but speaking of Rupert Murdoch We went and saw a certain movie that he wrote and directed. Well, he did not write and direct this movie. What?

also, I It was like two podcasts ago or so. I made a mistake and said that the director of Fuckin do this time. I said the director of cellblock 99. Oh fuck Directed the school shooting daily wire movie and I was incorrect. I have no idea where I got that information I'm so sorry to have lied to our whole audience. It wasn't purposeful. And if it was, you can't prove it. So, but anyways. That was a good response. Right?

Yeah. Who did direct it? Some idiot. How did you attribute that to the wrong subplot 99? I have no fucking clue. I think I was watching some video essay about the school shooter movie, like a year, no, no, like two, three years ago, and then something in that movie,

something in that video essay made me tie those two together. So then you're on a street connected. I don't know how, I don't know why, I don't know how, it doesn't make any any sense to me I'm sure the director of cell block 99 was watching and he went oh What I didn't do that shit. I didn't make that shitty movie. I made Don't just don't don't do the other one because you're gonna you're gonna say the wrong movie bone

Tom Tomahawk, it's Tommy Hawk. I was about to say it Tommy Hawk bone collar bone collar the bone collar now you're thinking a shock collar okay which is a good movie as well I like that but good movie or shock collar which is what we wore on several or the Mario Party drunk drunk Mario Kart drunk Mario Kart that shit hurt really bad the alcohol helped numb the pain, but fuck that hurt. But what didn't hurt was the good movie we saw. We saw Alien Romulus. We did. Matt and I, as we said one podcast ago, we were going right after that to see Alien Romulus, and we did in fact go and watch Alien Romulus. And I know that there has been mixed reviews online. Some people saying it's good, some people saying it's a bad and a rehash, blah, blah, blah,

and the world is waiting with bated breath to hear both Matt and Ryan, me, our opinions on the new Alien Romulus movie. So we're about to give it to you. Give it to you good, give it to you hard, give it to you the way you like it. That's right, you know, you have all these professional movie critics on YouTube saying their thoughts, but you don't care about that.

You wanna hear Matt and Ryan's opinion. My opinion, it was good. My opinion, fantastic time in the theater. Can I change mine? My opinion, it was good. My opinion, fantastic time in the theater. Can I change mine? My opinion, fabulous. No, fabulous sounds a little too, let me change. No, that's fine. No, no, no, no, no.

You can say fantabulous. Okay, I thought Alien Romulus was fantabulous. You can put that in quotes, they're gonna put that in quotes when they're like, number one movie in America. Like on the poster. alien fabulous super mega super mega show I wish they would but I really really really had a fucking blast I and I guess this is from my perspective coming into this movie I've seen I saw

the first alien movie for the first time very late in life. I saw it probably when I was already in my 20s. I don't remember much. And then I saw Alien 2 before Alien 1. So I'm not the biggest Alien fan. I've only seen each movie one time. Aliens? You know, Aliens. Aliens is two, right?

Yeah, because there's Aliens and then Alien 3 or some shit like that. They should just put shit like that. I haven't seen three. I haven't seen Alien versus predator Requiem I saw the first one So like I guess suffice it to say I haven't watched these movies time and time again I'm not I don't think we're the biggest fans of the alien franchise Not in terms of our enjoyment of the films but in terms of like our knowledge of the Alien universe we both appreciate and like Prometheus and I like Prometheus a lot and

Alien Covenant which I need to rewatch give a rewatch because we saw that in theaters Do we see that together in theaters? We saw I thought we saw Covenant definitely right right I know about Prometheus. I need to give another watch I liked Covenant, and I really liked Prometheus. I also need to give that another watch because it's been a super long time I saw that one in theaters really liked it And I like there were there were some spoilers Just throwing that out there, but there was some skip to this time code if you're watching That's right Luke and if you're listening Luke Can you give him the time code to go to to skip spoilers just just tell him 30-minute

This isn't something you can throw up text for you actually have to you have to think of the audio listeners as well, buddy Well, it might be different based on if there's ads and youtuber ad free version on patreon or streaming service Just skip we can't do that? Skip ahead. Should we even talk about spoilers then or should we just kind of meander around certain things like for instance, I'll give you an example, Matt. While some thought the last 20 to 30 minutes ruined the film,

I thought it sent the movie over the edge into me adoring it even more than I did before those last 30 minutes We can't go into detail about those 30 minutes detail, but a lot of okay. I mean okay go We can't if we can't give because of fucking ads and stuff if we can't give no I got a safe spot I got it, and it's not good for us. I got it spoilers. I got it Okay, just go skip to after. I got it. Okay. Just go, skip to after the first ad break. Okay.

You know? Like just skip ahead, you'll see. We won't talk about it after the ad break. Yeah. We'll talk about it until the ad break. And if you don't want to hear spoilers, just, yeah. But yes, really, really fantastic film. I don't get scared very much by movies because I'm a strong masculine man.

Of course. But this one did have me on the edge of my seat many times throughout the film. I was like, ooh. For those who are like, oh, who just know it as the new Alien movie, yes, this is the new Alien movie, Alien Romulus. The story is that there is a mining planet

that our protagonist works on and their life sucks. They have a I guess sibling so to speak not blood relative more in more in terms of their emotional connection with an Android androids are very popular the Alien franchise, you know the last iteration that people loved was I was about to call them Mark, but it's not it's Michael Fassbender. It's not Mark Fassbender.

It's Marcus Fassbender, but. It's Michael Fassbender who, I can't remember the name of his guy, but I thought he did a fantastic job as the android there. It just clicked. But in this movie, if I can, I gotta get the actor's name,

cause he does deserve praise. He was fantastic. He played the android in this current one, and it just clicked dude Andy his name was and okay It is Andy. Okay Android Andy. Oh, I want to get the name of the actor. That's what I okay alien Let me let me at least have the IMDb pulled up so we can give proper credit to where credit is Yeah, he was great, and he hasn't been a much he did he was like probably the Johnson Davey Johnson David David John Johnson He probably could also be called Davey Johnson. I think he wanted to I think he should rebrand as that but Really really really good performance. I think he gave the best performance in the whole film. Yeah, I agree. I

Think everyone gave a decent performance I don't I don't remember There being a moment where anyone's acting or anything took me out. I think it all was pretty in line with keeping me invested, with keeping me, as Matt said, on the edge of my seat. So basically the protagonist and Andy, they're in need of a better life because on this mining planet you're essentially forced to work by the big corporation until you die essentially. They give you a certain amount of time that you need to work for them just extends and extends and extends until you die of some disease from the mines or die of old age or die of some injury

so they're not living the best life they're working for some shitty company and they want out but not only them they're a ragtag group of friends because they seem close but a little A little rocky though. Yeah, a little rocky. Comes up with this plan that there's this space station in orbit that has old equipment that we could sell for a lot of money. It's abandoned. Yeah, so. And it has fuel that they can use to get on,

to zip their little asses off that planet to go to a much better star system. At a place where they can only dream of seeing the sun and sunsets because on this mining planet, there's so much fog and waste and shit. I think it's tidally locked so they can't, they're like on the dark side of it or something.

I thought it was because of the environmental hazards, like the fog and stuff, that's why they could never see the sun. Oh, mayhaps. Remember they just breached that and then they see the Sun for the first time coming up out of the that was A cool thing goes from the took off. I like that So that's the plot of the film and of course you can know you should know by now in an alien movie once they get On that space station. It's an abandoned space station. Yeah, yes an abandoned space station in orbit that is set to

Yes, an abandoned space station in orbit that is set to Crash into what I like about this is that the planet that they're on has rings Oh school epic the the space station is gonna crash into the rings of the planet And so they have a timer to get on this ship get what they need to get and get out And of course on the ship there's some scary things some critters. Maybe an alien or two yeah, and that's what they deal with. So that's the premise of the film. And now you know that Matt and I generally liked it, but now we can go into a little bit of the details.

The cinematography, wonderful. The shots, beautiful. Acting was fantastic from everyone. Also the effects were really great. They did a lot of practical effects, didn't they? I think Luke was saying something about that. All of it was practical, essentially, besides of course, like, the outside environment and space,

and then of course, the... When they're like jumping from wall to wall. The old Android that's from the first Alien that they had to They had to use not AI, but they they had the CG and a dead actor's face Oh, I didn't know that the the guy we talked about it after the movie I didn't know you're like something's wrong with his face. Was he from the original? No, I was I was saying something was wrong with Andy's face Oh, like cuz he looks like he got stung by bees on his eye.

Okay. Like, it's just like. Did he? No, it just, I, well yes, to me it looked like it. Okay, but I didn't notice that at all. But other than that, like, effect of the CGI, bringing back the dead with CGI, it was like, whatever. You can kind of mind wipe it to be,

oh this is like an Android technology and it's like an holographic face maybe. But that being the only case of bad CGI for me, like everything else as you said was practical. Like the crawlers, they're on like remote control things, like the little spider creatures that they have. That's, I didn't know that, that's crazy. The aliens are like dudes in suits, I think.

And then the, I don't wanna rush to the ending so soon, even though it's my favorite part of the movie, just because of, I thought it was a fun little, I don't know, I always categorize Alien as a, of course it's a thriller, but it's a haunted house movie. Going from room to room, getting jump scared. Getting jump scared, you're being hunted by this one, almost seemingly invincible creature that has a second

mouth within its mouth, it has a tail that can pierce you. It's got a second mouth within its mouth. It has a tail that can pierce you and... It's got a hydrochloric acid. ...and kabob you, has spit that like seeps through the hull of like industrial ships. It's a terrifying creature. Very scary. And that's like, I think that's my favorite part of the first Alien. I like it typically when it's just one.

I was a little kind of like ugh when they started pouring in all the other Aliens on the ship all at once. I thought they were only gonna have to contend with like one after the aftermath or something like that. Spread quick. Yeah. But from what I've gathered, and Alien heads probably are rolling their eyes

I'm not big into the franchise But what I gathered is like their purpose is to reproduce as quickly as possible and they just go crazy reproducing their purpose is essentially to be and create the perfect life form and The the big one the big alien Really fucking scary design. The xenomorph. Sorry, the xenomorph. Because then there's the chest bursters, the crawlers,

and then the tried and true xenomorph. The xenomorph is what I'm talking about. And I loved the aspect of their escaping from it and they're getting really far on the space station away from it and it's just hunting them. It's not leaving them alone. And I felt like a real genuine spooky terror. And for people that don't like horror movies,

I'm a person that doesn't like horror movies. While there were like scary moments, I think there was, for for me there was only like one Jump-scare that like made me jump. Oh, I got like it's not a movie. That's trying to make you jump every five seconds Yeah, there's little things like they'll turn on the computer and will make a loud noise and stuff But like but that's just your sensory issues. Yeah, I think I got jumps good thrice Okay, if I remember correctly Mine was at the very end. Yeah, that got me good.

We'll get into it later, but, or maybe we can just get into it now. Let's just get straight into it, man. Cause, you know, I recommend seeing it. I don't wanna like say too much of the story, of course. And you know, we gave you a spoiler warning. This is gonna be the more big spoilers. Then we'll talk more about, through the podcast,

about other topics and stuff, and we won't just talk about the new alien. We'll talk about politics, guys, you love that. Everyone's favorite. So the ending, classic alien, they, some at least, escape and they think they're safe. Lo and behold, they're not. I thought that was the end of the movie.

Yeah. They're taking off on the ship, I'm like, oh, great. There is a intense birthing sequence that happens, and then after that birthing sequence, because previously in the film, they introduce, if you have seen Prometheus or Alien Covenant, they introduced the substance that I think is from the xenomorphs or generated from them

called the black goo. In those movies it was used as more of like a doomsday weapon. Right, that's what the guy drinks at the beginning of Prometheus. Yeah, and in this movie they reference that it could be used as a weapon but it could also be used as like a cure-all, and you know, the magical cure for all ailments,

like paralysis and cancer and like all. It like accelerates like your growth or, I don't remember, but it was something where it's like, it's something with your DNA and. It's like a. Oh, what are those? Robitussin. What do rich people get that poor people can't get for their health?

Adrenochrome? No, no, no, it's like something that's not FDA approved, it's not adrenochrome, Matthew. What's it for? It's just like the fix, a bunch of shit, they just give it, I'm trying to remember what it is. I know that exists. You recommended it to me, actually, at one point. What? You were like, oh, have you ever heard of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah?

Hold on. Hold on. It's not ozempic. No, no. I'm going to go ask Luke because he's smart. Cool. And I'll talk about the birthing sequence a little bit. She opens her legs and blood sprays out of her pussy everywhere and her stomach is

huge and she's screaming. Why? Because she injected herself with the black goo because she was dying, she had been injured and she's pregnant so she as a last resort injects the black goo into herself but what it does is it starts growing her baby and I guess fusing it with the xenomorph DNA. And next thing you know, that little sucker is growing quick and goes through all the trimesters in about five minutes, blasts out of her pussy and they think it's like a xenomorph thing

and this pod opens. Lo and behold, it's a little white baby and they're like huh huh and uh this little white baby begins to grow and get bigger and it's a basically like a hybrid of a human and a xenomorph and it's really fucking scary it is this like it grows really quick and it has like super long oh fuck sorry I had a moment stem cells oh stem cells I was just gonna say the black it was like Oh! Oh fuck. Sorry, I had an aha moment. Stem cells. Oh, stem cells, god.

I was just gonna say the black goo is like stem cells on crack. Yeah, can fix the broken. God, I wish stem cell shit was legal. Yeah. Could regrow everything. But I was saying that the hybrid of the xenomorph and the human,

how it grows, it accelerates, its growth is accelerated and it is very quickly Becoming super lanky and terrifying and it kind of looks like the guy from the beginning of Prometheus. It was like the same What's it called? It's it's a direct call to Prometheus. It's the director this whole movie Acts as a love letter from my point of view to like the alien franchise in whole that's people's complaint But it's like in my opinion because a lot of people say it's like a rehab It's too much of a rehash I didn't mind that like to me that that doesn't detract from the movie It's you and I haven't seen the alien movies that much and we're not like, you know

I don't know maybe it's to like someone who Loved those films and have seen them many times they they could see it as eye-rolly of like, oh, they reference this, they reference that. And maybe some of those references I didn't catch because I'm not as big of a fan of those movies, but the references that I did didn't stick out as eye-rolling. The one that stuck out to me the most, of course,

was the get away from her, you bitch, which is a callback to aliens when Ripley is trying to protect little girl from aliens. That made me a little eye rollish. That was the only thing though. I was like, whatever. Even that, but they do set it up earlier in the film with him saying that, it's not like an excuse,

it's like when he's fighting with the mullet dude, the mullet dude says something in a similar vein of like get away from her, whatever. And so he's kind of, it's a very loose thread that they're basing it off of. But to me, that one part didn't take me out of the film and go oh, oh, what the hell? Some guy in the front row did.

Cheesy. But speaking of the mullet guy, it's actually fun fact because they did all of the practical effects. The only CG they did was the British actors because they didn't want the rest of the cast to be around British people. They didn't know how to get their teeth

as goofy as possible. Yeah. So they had to use CG to one, place the British actors safely on set with the American actors and to also give the American actors who are playing more British inclined roles fake CGI teeth. Right, right.

Which I think looked fine. I didn't even notice they were CG. Yeah, they looked fantastic. They looked really good. But that final scene that you were running ahead and talking about with the birthing and then the xenomorph and alien hybrid I Love that whole sequence. I thought it was like a

I'm using perfect loosely. Of course, nothing's perfect, but I thought it was a perfect kind of Creature feature ending like I really enjoyed the hell out of it. I think it's because it's something that, from my recollection at least, they hadn't done before. I like felt fun and new and it was also like, we're used to how the alien looks, so we're not as terrified of it anymore,

but this thing had more of a, more of a, like a, what, what, what's that? Uncanny Valley? Yeah, it was that uncanny valley term, especially with that shot where it's Andy's reaction, then it cuts right to the silent shot of the creature just staring and observing. Dude.

Which was such a good introduction to the monster too. That thing was legitimately like, the design of that monster was so scary. Like it actually freaked me the fuck out. And the way that it kept like evolving and changing. Like growing like super fast. It just like, that ending was just a fun time in the theater and like not the type of fun,

because I don't know, a lot of people describe stuff as fun where it's like, oh, there were explosions, and there was action and stuff. A lot of the times I find explosions and all that stuff in movies boring. You'll just kind of watch and like, okay, when is this gonna get done so we can get to the furthering of the plot?

This was done where I thought that it wasn't at the disservice of the plot. They both worked well together. I was as interested with how this character is going to get out of this situation as I was with just the idea of this xenomorph human hybrid. Like what does it do? What does it have similar, like what does it do what does it have similar like what are the similarities of the humans what what in its what from the humans is it getting that makes it more of a like a predator yeah predator not to be confused with the pre no no no no no no no no never but yeah just like I loved the design of that last creature.

I thought it was just a fun fucking idea to end the movie on. And for me, it ended the movie with a bang. And I told you this after the film. If they hadn't had that sequence, if they had like gotten out and like maybe there was a little kerfuffle with like a crawler or something on the ship. That's what I thought was gonna happen. Like it would have been like fine, but This really just the way it ended with that fun

wonderful little sequence really Really made me go out of theater and go that whole film was just a rather splendid good time you had tears in your eyes of joy, and I haven't seen that in a while and Overall I give it a big ol Matthew thumbs up. Oh, yeah I'd say this is definitely I recommend to go see we saw in an IMAX Not like a I don't think it was like a true IMAX now It's a big screen and they're like it's IMAX. It was yeah, it's a big screen and the sound I thought the sound was wonderful. Yeah, I thought the sound was really good. I do I do think this is a movie that's worth seeing in theaters just because the totally the sound design even like we were praising a bunch of the other aspects, but like the set design and sound

design. I think so many of the departments on this film knocked it out of the park. Yeah, I really and you and I are big. We're big analog heads, so of course we love the futuresque technology. All the whirring and the like, I really like the crackling of the screens coming out, like it just all worked out. I loved how it was like. The sound is so good in this film.

I think it's like, I think that they made all the technology, it's futuristic, but it's really retro and I feel like that's because in the first Alien movie, they made stuff futuristic but it was still super retro because that was what they had at the time. And I feel like, I like that they kept with that. Because in Prometheus, which takes place before Alien,

I believe, it's like newer technology. And I believe that Ridley Scott has said that the reason that Prometheus technology looks more clean and whatever is because it's actually a, an excursion that is taking, what is his name? Roland, starts the W something. Whalen. Whalen, sorry.

Whalen is going on that trip himself and he's funding it and of course he's gonna he's gonna prioritize comfortability. Have the best tech. He's gonna have the best tech. And do you think that these like these kind of low grade workers are gonna be given the best tech.

No. They're given all this like beeps and boops and old types of ships that are years and years old that should probably not be around anymore. So I buy it. Yeah it's great but yeah I think it was fantastic and go see it. One of my favorite movies of the year for sure fo show Granted, I don't think too much No What else have we like this year? We really we really had fun with I'm not gonna say it's like a great film like this is but I we did have

a lot of and I'm gonna use the word fun. We did have lot of fun with a Kong versus Godzilla yeah that was fun I wouldn't know it's not it's not a it's a different a different type of fun yeah you know it wasn't an incredible movie but but it was fun almost just fun it's a popcorn movie ad read sorry you were trying to say you were trying to say I read and I wanted to talk and, sorry. You were trying to say ad reads. Ad reads, just go Luke, just cut to the ad reads. And I wanted to talk and say something, but you were trying to go to ad reads.

But we can go to ad reads. Just go. Now? Now? We already went to ad reads. Really? We have to, we're so late, they're gonna yell at us. Oh.

Oh shit, we are so late. They're gonna yell at us. Oh, oh shit. We are yeah Wait, wait, wait, hold on one second. I'ma leave finish but where jumpers jump and I know you've probably seen us on tik-tok You know the two Filipino boys talking about conspiracy theories So if you guys like conspiracy theories ghost stories unsolved mysteries and just fun facts give us a listen I guarantee y'all you'll learn something new every episode. We got over 6 million followers on TikTok, over 400,000 subscribers on YouTube, and each one of them will tell you you got one of the best podcasts in the world. So we got Mandela effects, we got rap theories, and we got our own personal stories that y'all

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Because we didn't mention her really. And she's the protagonist, she's the main character. Oh fuck, people are gonna think we're misogynist. Because we gave all the credit to Andy. Yeah. Fuck. Well, I um. Her performance was leagues and bounds

above what I expected. She did a good job. She did a fantastic job. I feel like she's gonna be a, cause she was in Civil War and you're like, oh who's this new actress? I like her as an actress. I think she's gonna be one of those actresses

that blows up and everyone knows her name. Like the next Jennifer Lawrence. Yes, and I even think, even including this movie, I still don't think she's had her role yet, you know? It'll be in the Super Mega project that we do whenever we get a Netflix show. I think the standout definitely was Andy's actor, who I already forgot the name of, but he's on... David? David something.

Anyway, guys, I'm sorry if we spoiled anything, if you skipped after the ad break and you heard us say the actors names. David Johnson. David Johnson. Sounds like a fake name. I know, that's why it's hard to remember. It's like David Johnson. But yeah, yeah, that's all. Yeah, that's all.

Thank you guys. It's like the movie review show is real. I know. You know? All you movie heads can go, oh fuck yeah, get that out of your mouth, get the movie review show is real. I know. You know? All you movie heads can go, oh fuck yeah, get that out of your mouth, get the microphone out of your mouth, don't do that again, don't do it again dude. Don't put it down dude, pick it back up, we have to record. No, it's upside down dude, flip it back around and,

dude you can't do that, it's expensive. Stop dude! Look dude, you're breaking things! Are you okay? Can you chill? You can't expect me to act normally when you're yelling at me. I'm not yelling at you dude. You're acting a fool right now. You're not yelling with me. Why would I be yelling with you? That doesn't make any sense dude. You sure as hell not yelling with me why would I be yelling with you doesn't

make any sense to you sure as hell yelling at me you're throwing a tantrum of course what do you do when a child misbehaves kill him mmm yep call the herd yeah kill him leave him in the woods what's that fucking Viltrum I quote what oh what's another What's another 200 years? I'll just make another one. It's when um

The leader of the Viltrumites essentially is beating the shit out of his son. I don't know what the Viltrumites are. Oh never mind. What's that from? So like Amish? Invincible. Oh Invincible 2? What? This is invincible 1? This is the show invincible. Sorry. I'm thinking of the invincible animated. Yeah Yeah, has Stephen Yeun in it. It has a lot of voice actor has JK Simmons plays Mr.. Viltrum I the main character is a Steven Yeun

Is that the one with like the he has has, it's almost like, it's animated and it's like yellow suit with like the white round eyes. What am I thinking of? That is invincible. He has the blue and yellow suit with the white round eyes and the hair popping up on top. We did a ad read for that show. What?

Back on Super Mega Cast, we did one singular ad read where we had to like advertise that show right before it came out. Well all I have to say is the show was a hit, so I'm not saying that we were the reason Like advertise that show right before you come. Well all I have to say is the show was a hit, so I'm not saying that we were the reason, but if you follow the connections it seems to be pretty clear.

They say, you know, correlation is not causation is what they say in statistics, but I think that that's a lie and I think that the whole field of statistics is pseudoscience. But look at the connection. I mean it has nothing to do with the fact that it's a Robert Kirkman. Banger? Joint?

Robert Kirkman is always like, I find that whenever he writes, like, because I haven't read invincible, but I read the Walking Dead. And then, you know, I watched the show, and how do you write the Walking Dead? He wrote the graphic novel. Oh, okay. Yeah, or a graphic or the original? Yeah, work. And then the same thing with invincible, I believe was a thing beforehand. But it seems like he's always like very, he's very try hard. He's like, yeah, and then this woman gets,

gets taken advantage of in the zombie apocalypse, and then she gets her eye shot out, and then she gets taken advantage of again. Like it's just. You seriously just gonna spoil our script? It's just, it's just like he goes very above and beyond script. It's just like he goes very above and beyond of to show the cruel nature of the apocalypse in The Walking Dead. Whereas if you know the show tones it down to a degree and focuses more on the fun zombie violence. And I feel like, I don't know, it's, I almost feel like Robert Kirkman, his writing is all, it's the same thing with

the boys graphic novel where it's like yeah every, every superhero is a piece of shit that's maiming and raping and killing and then in the show it's like yeah there's some superheroes that are bad, but some of them have good qualities and we're not trying to overdo it here. I like when they pull back. Because it feels like in graphic novels, they always just, pfft. Well, because graphic novels, you know,

they don't have anyone to, like, above them. Essentially, they can do whatever they want and make it as fucked up, but the shows. Like, a show, this happens. Network television, so they have to kinda be as fucked up, but you know this happens network television So they have to kind of be like okay. We got a tone it back. You can't homelander eats a baby Does that happen? I think that happens at the graphic novel He just eats a baby and it's so I've been skill again helped write it

We'll see if they include it in the show. They're heading for their last season, the boys. Season five will be their final season. I need to see the boys, I've heard it's good. And I've seen, you know, it was the classic gif of a homelander and everyone's like clapping around him and he's like smiling. That's from the season before this last season. I would say overall, I like the boys. I do feel like, I do feel like

there are, there are, you feel the lulls. You feel the lulls? There are lulls that you feel in the show. L-U-L-Z? Like, times where it feels like from episode one to the finale, all the progression happened in the episode before the finale. Oh yeah, yeah.

It has that type of problem. I think there are a lot of fun ideas and I think as I said overall it's a great show. I just, it always comes down to a pacing problem with stuff like this. That's how I kind of felt about Better Call Saul while it was airing, when it was live. But then when you go and.

Yeah. You watch it, did you re-watch the whole thing? I re-watched the whole thing from start to finish in a pretty quick- So give me Dr. Matthew's prognosis on Better Call Saul as a second watch. Dude, honestly, as a second watch? No, dishonestly. You want me to lie? Okay. Uh, dude, I think they should have cast a Chinese man.

That's not a lie. Black or Chinese. Black or Chinese. I do think that on my rewatch, when it wasn't split up by years between seasons, like when COVID hit, or just, I remember I watched the first episode of Better Call Saul the night it aired in my friend's college dorm room.

That was a decade ago. And then we watched the finale at my place when it aired last year. You watched the premiere with, in college? When did it premiere Better Call Saul? 2014. Did it? Or it was 2015, 2014 or 15.

For some reason I thought that we started like the wing night, no. That was in like season two. Was it still Better Call Saul that we were having wing nights? Yeah, it still Better Call Saul that we were having Wing Nights? Yeah, that was Better Call Saul. I remember we were watching a show at like our old

apartment. Better Call Saul. That was like season two. Good Lord. That show lasted a while. Yeah, that's what I'm saying is like you kind of get, you lose a lot in the time between and I think from a rewatch where I just kind of blew through it all at once,

it's so much better. Like I actually, when I finished Better Call Saul for the first time, I thought it was good and I was like, that's a great show. But when I really just went through the whole thing, really enjoyed it. The ending. I still think the Chuck arc is my favorite arc in the show

and I've only seen it once so I haven't seen the second watch but I think that the show is best whenever Chuck is on screen with Jimmy. He's a fantastic actor. Those two are so good. They're so good together. Michael McKean? Yeah, Michael McKean.

So good. He's in Spinal Tap, he's in a bunch of older stuff, I need to see, but he was cast perfectly as the older brother who's kind of more successful in condescending but not in like a Mean way on purpose but more in like he's just very smart and Wants what's best for his brother. I think a lot of people don't Give enough credit to casting directors because a project can be made or broken by the casting.

And I think that Vince Gilligan's team, whoever he has as his casting director, always has done such a fucking great job. Oh yeah, yeah, I can't think of anyone who, I'm trying to think through Breaking Bad and through, yeah guys, there you go, you can check off your bingo board, we talked about Breaking Bad this episode. I can't think of anyone that was miscast

or like shittily cast. No, I, you know who has a big problem with casting, I feel, and I don't wanna talk about a lot of the projects because it involves more so child actors, cause you can, I don't know, my thing is with Netflix, I feel like Netflix has a problem with its casting directors and just really not hitting the mark.

They hit the mark once with Stranger Things and being able to get all those, I feel like they knocked it out of those, I think. And Narcos, but in terms of like, more specifically with Stranger Things, because I'm aligning it to child actors in their projects. They really did a good job with every single one.

Except for Fenn Wolfhard. Except for Fenn Wolfhard. But then in other projects, again, I don't want to name the projects directly because I don't want it to come off that I'm bullying children. I'll say one. Death Note.

Death Note was very bad. That was a weird casting choice. But the Willem Dafoe was perfectly cast as like. Yes, but Light. Yeah Dafoe was perfectly cast. Yes, but light Yeah, the wolf brother, but that they got the the knockoff wolf hard. Yeah. No, no not wolf heart So the brother wolf brother I'm not that's mean Like don't he's not the knockoff. I was just I was being a little he's not in as much stuff

This is brother. I was being a little but I think Alex is a greatoff. I was just I was being a little he's not in as much stuff as his brother I was being a little but I think Alex is a great actor. He was in Most notably I would say my area Terry right hereditary Also, say naked brother. That's good, too Can't beat the naked brothers band. No, no wasn't it isn't it is it Nathan and Alex? Who's the other wolf? It's not Nathan Wolf. There's Alex Wolf and Margaret Wolf.

Yeah, I think it's Margaret. OK, OK. But so like, I don't know, there's just been a a thing with Netflix shows where their casting is very hit or miss. And when they hit, it's's good but when they miss it's WHAA! You had a little nip slip but when they miss it's

Such a big miss Right then you don't know who to blame if it's like oh Are they just getting directors attached on the certain projects that are just doing the job of a director and not putting a lot of thought and care into the project because they're just there to do their job? Because you'll get a director who really cares about a project or you get a director who's just doing a director's job.

Which there's nothing wrong with just doing your job in the entertainment industry, but you can definitely tell when a director has their hand and shows some care in the direction of an episode or a series or something. I think something to consider too is budget, you know? Like if they don't have a high budget, casting- The shows I'm thinking of have a big ass budget. Let me look up the budget of one of the shows I'm thinking of.

What are you thinking of? Luke and Bleep? I mean, you could say it. I don't think Netflix- You said it's a- No, no, no, wait, wait, wait. I wanna be on on good terms with Netflix For when we make our Netflix original And if Netflix were to cast Ryan McGee and Matt Watson in something I think that would be an incredible casting choice Interesting what what's the what's the budget brother the budget The budget for the show was $120 million.

It is an effects-heavy show. I don't care. I'm going to talk about it. It's the Avatar live-action thing that Netflix put out. And again, nothing against a lot of the actors put in, but I do feel that that specific project felt very rushed and the casting in some ways was a bit misplaced. And I'm not gonna name names because then that would lead to like direct harassment. I know that our fans would probably send them letters in the mail, death threats. You don't wanna be a young actor in here.

No, no. Look, I know it's like, oh, what are the chances that they'd be listening to y'all? Stop thinking everyone's listening to you. But we know how it is. We'll go into the dark corners of the internet to find fuckin' opinions about us. Oh, it's awful.

So. Like opinions about, it's a very unique position to be able to have thousands of opinions of you on the internet and access to them. It's something that humans were never meant to have and it is dangerous for the brain. Well, you're a millionaire. It comes with the job then. Not even close. But, actually someone- Well you're a millionaire, it comes with the job then. Not even close.

Actually someone, for those who, because I still see that, it's like they're millionaires. Matt and I have never come close to being millionaires in this venture. Not even quarter millionaires. We have never come halfway, a quarter, so I just wanna stop seeing that confusion. Well yeah, because a lot of people get mad because they think that we're really rich and they're like the rich youtuber thing isn't A joke when it's real it's like like you like you were comfortable not really at the moment

No, not at the moment, but it's like we have to grind a little more. We make a living that other otherwise in another era would be deemed as impossible and unreliable. Right, and we're so aware and grateful of the privilege we have to be able to do this. And speaking you liked those ads. I know they did Ryan. Good. They were.

Good, and they better be supporting. They were. Oh it's not. And they are. Okay. Well you know when they support these corporations, it supports us. Guys, consume. Just consume, consume, consume.

You love it, you want this product, you wanna buy this product, you wanna enroll and sign up in this membership, you want to. You wanna buy a T-shirt with the product logo on it? Guys, I got my Mint Mobile T-shirt. You know Ryan Reynolds has gotta be selling merch for Mint Mobile.

Oh, he do. He probably has like a mint mobile tattoo on his back a whole back piece of the mint mobile logo like Steve Oh's monster logo yeah just as the mint mobile logo Steve Oh just had it just got a penis tattooed on his face sorry it's not Steve Oh that has the monster is it no that's Rob Deardec who has the monster tattoo really doesn't he have like wasn't it Rob Deardec who has the giant I thought you're the one who told me that No, I don't remember Rob Dyrdek having the monster tattoo It's totally plausible though I can see him you're talking full back piece like entire back. Oh my god

Okay Luke show the audience this Robert Dyrdek back piece. It's something, how much money to do that? That was maybe I'm gonna say over a thousand below two thousand.

No, I'm asking you. How much money would you take to do that? To yourself? Oh! To get the full monster logo back would you take to do that to yourself? Oh. To get the full Monster logo back piece? I don't know. Yeah, that's a hard one. Because part of the- I don't want to accept too low.

Because my brain goes for, I don't, in my head, I don't go for the lowest I do it for. My brain works, I'm like, what can I get, what can I get out of this? Like how much could I get out of this? And then you go, you know, you negotiate it lower, but. What's the lowest you take? A million.

What? Why a million? Just give me a million dollars. It's like, we're not actually gonna give you a million dollars. This is just a hypothetical. Like the guy that owns MattWatson.com, and I asked him if the domain was for sale and he's like, Oh, I can sell it and I was like, great. What are you thinking?

He said, a million dollars and I said, are you fucking kidding? So guys- He's one of the ones that thought that you were a millionaire. Exactly, yeah. And he's like, he can afford this. A million dollars for MattWatson.com? Guys, please help me fund this. He's gonna start an Indiegogo soon. We finally did it guys We raised a million dollars so I can buy Matt Watson comm crazy crazy Yeah, that's baggy dude you had a little nip slip earlier and uh

Audio listeners didn't get to see it. But sometimes the nip slips happen happen happen live on the live stream They do they did it happen sometimes the nip slips happen happen live on the live stream. They do they do It happened recently that nip is just fucking poking out saying hello world. I'm sorry Hello world, it's a nip that they're seeing It's Ryan's nipple What song is that? Hello world is a song that we're singing Come on you're happy. You got some soul in you man.

Yeah. Yeah. I wish they'd get at shows, you know, those classic rock and soul bands from the 60s and 70s that still perform rock and soul. I much prefer rock and roll No, I like rock and soul myself, but I wish to you know appeal to modern audiences because usually at those concerts It's just old people go into it because they liked the band when they were young Like the Grateful Dead they need to have like a guy that's young, like the Grateful Dead, they need to have like a guy that's on stage near the edge of the stage so he's not center focus with a with a microphone stand and he just throws in a yeah oh every now and then to kind of modernize the music.

So that's I have an interesting question for you. For someone like, well, some of them are dead unfortunately, but it's like, for the Beatles who are still alive and they want to perform, they'd get a shit ton of people that would come, but what would their audience look like? Do you think enough, because the Beatles are timeless, you'll always see younger people kind of like getting into the Beatles, like I never tried these, have you ever listened to the Beatles?

Yep, me in 2021. I think that uh That's when I discovered the Beatles Cuz you I remember you always kind of had a stick up your butt about him for a little bit like you just were Like it's just that that that college music snob pretentious like oh the Beatles and then just you know I one day I was just I was like yeah fuck it. I'll listen to the Beatles and I did and I was like You don't like the Beach Boys. I love the Beach Boys. Okay, good good good I thought you didn't like the Beach Boys for some reason well. I don't like

the the politics within the Beach Boys, and I'm not talking like political I mean like between them, there's some nasty stuff that happened. And I really like Brian Wilson a lot. And you know, they split, Mike loved Brian Wilson. It's a whole, there's a movie about it with Paul Dano. But uh.

Did it come out like within the past like five years? Uh huh. Okay. Great, love the Beach Boys. But I think a Beatles audience would be mixed, more old than young, but I think that it audience would be mixed, more old than young, but I think that it would be a lot of parents bringing their younger, not kids,

but they're like 18, 19 year old kids. Yeah, like who's going to go see an Elton John concert? Cause he still probably sells out huge ass arenas. How do these older musicians, and is it just from like a they are above a name and a title at this point they are like their own genre yeah they're an icon they're their own genre because their name their name is essentially the genre of which they perform, right? So it's like, how much does that carry over to a new audience?

Like you see, I don't know, like Michael Johnson fans. Right, are you saying like with newer audiences as time goes on, like is Michael Johnson and the Beatles and Elton John just going to like stop becoming as big as it is. Yeah. Because it seems timeless, you know, because it's like the radio always will play it, you know. Everyone knows the songs.

But is it also timeless to us because we still grew up in that generation that was very big into like Beatles mania, Beatles fever. Yeah. And now the modern generation of parents were born kind of with us. So now for parents that are our age and then their kids are growing up, is there's of course just gonna be

more of a generational. They're gonna be showing them Britney Spears instead of Michael Johnson. I love Britney Spears, dude. It's great. Britney Spears I would fall asleep to almost every night. Really? Fall asleep, oh yeah. Fall asleep to Britney Spears?

Baby, baby, one more time. I didn't peg that one as like a sleeping type of music. My loneliness is killing me and I, I must confess, I still believe, still believe, if I'm, well when I'm not with you I lose my mind, give me a sign, hit me baby one more time. So good. God, classic dude. Toxic, I remember I was on a road trip and I had some headphones in I was listening to

my sister's iPod and toxic came on and I was drawing in the backseat and I'm I I think I replayed that song like 12 times in a row dude, I like There this, you know, they're the new the new heads. There's Olivia Rodrigo Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Rhone. They will never replace Britney Spears to me. Never. Ashley Simpson?

Are you pitting women against each other? Yes, that's exactly what we're doing. And we'll never stop. We will never stop. No matter how hard you try. But I don't know, it's just like, Britney Spears is one of those ones where, like to me, Britney Spears is timeless.

I love her sound and I love her delivery and her lines and stuff. Well part of it, okay, part of it also, something that makes them timeless is not just the music, but their image, because if Britney Spears never did any kind of public whatever, she only sang and did concerts and was never seen in the public,

I don't know if she would be as timeless, but because she has as well, she had that kind of mental health crisis. She shaved her head. Right, in the early, mid-2000s. And then she was taken advantage of by her family and son and loved ones and friends. And she dated significant others.

Timberlake, right? Was it Justin Timberlake? Yeah, so it's like all of that stuff, everyone's watching and it like cements this person in history. Well, even more so than today, and I know like artists and whatever have complaints about like parasocial relationships,

because parasocial relationships within that genre and just those artists are always gonna be just bad and unhealthy, blah, blah, blah. But like nothing to me will like, I don't think it'll ever be as bad as like the Britney Spears era where they were just like, really like hounding this not even 20 year old, you know, trying to get like upskirt shots when she's coming out of a car,

like filming her, of course, she would have these mental breakdowns sometimes in public. And there's an you know, when you're a big name, it news is gonna travel. But it's just like, Britney Spears is like just another one of the shining examples of just like the fucking sad, unfortunate story of fame when it comes to specifically female entertainers. 100%.

And I think that it was really brutal back then as well because people don't care as much about paparazzi shit anymore. It was really brutal back then as well because people don't care as much about paparazzi shit anymore. I feel like the whole paparazzi and TMZ type, I mean TMZ's always gonna be popular. They're still annoying people at airports. But I feel like back in the early and mid 2000s especially,

like paparazzi were much more, I think more people paid attention and they were very vicious with what they did and they still are. But it's like back then I feel like more people paid attention to paparazzi before everyone was really on the internet. It's always grimy but back then it was like a griminess that I feel like most people condoned in that era. And I feel like less people condone that TMZ type of infiltrating someone's life today. Well, because it was on like,

I mean you still have these magazines, but you had those magazines that would just be about gossip about celebrities. You know, the Inquirer and shit like that still exists. And TMZ of course is still around doing what they do. People Magazine. But there's just something, you're right, there's something about that early 2000s, mid 2000s era

of celebrity worship combined with the paparazzi and TMZ culture that was just insane. Yeah, it was just insane. Yeah, it was brutal. Because I don't know if people care as much about celebrity movie star gossip as they did back then that they do today. Today it's more about influencers. Yeah, and it's also, you and I are the Britney Spears

of today. Oh, of course. And I think that also the attention span I feel like has sped up so much that now it's, I feel like back then things would be much what? I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah?

Because I wanted to talk to you. What, what? Hold up. I gotta get the carbonation out otherwise it'll you know start coming up sure sure sure Asian stomach my pop I caught myself doing something last night what when I caught myself doing it I had to stop and take a hard long look at myself like what kind of person am I am Am I really turning into this? Does this say more about me or the culture? Well, I was watching a YouTube video and in the middle of it I notice,

wait a second, holy shit, am I really doing this? I had my thumb pressed down so it would automatically just be playing in two times speed. I've started watching stuff on like two times speed. Me too. And I'm like, cause regular speed now sounds a lot like this when people talk. Our attention spans are just getting fucked.

And that's, and I think that's bad. I think I need to force myself to not watch it two times and like to just watch it normal speed and probably not watch as like stop going to like TikTok. Cause TikTok I think is training my brain to just want that five seconds of like Vine started it and then TikTok came in and what? Damn it China.

You know we gotta start making these episodes like two minutes max if we wanna stay relevant because these hour long podcasts, these kids don't have the fucking you know mental capacity to keep up with it. They need, that's why we need clips from the podcast that go BOMB You know yeah, and we have a tick tock account and yes binkin bong. I was hoping that the subtitles go boom

boom maybe with some confetti ooh, that's good, and then we could talk about a Something that they could throw up on screen that people And then we could talk about something that they could throw up on screen that people would be like, I know that! Skippity toilet. Skippity toilet! Remember skippity toilet? Wow! I don't know.

That's a good clip. Maybe that'll attract people. It's a good clip for socials. Clip that one. Might make people do the opposite. Why? I don't know. No, that one's gonna do numbers.

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and I wanted to find a way that I could fit myself in. No, no, go ahead, Jay, I'm sorry. Just wanted to say that we're very thankful for everyone supporting us and Matt wishes he could talk more, but he just can't. Love you, bye. My only exposure to money ball was when I was on tour at an Airbnb I had to share the

I'd share the bed with Ben Beale and It was like hey, we got a big day tomorrow. Let's get some sleep. We're exhausted He insisted on watching money ball to fall asleep. It's a good movie. He put it on