Never Seen It Podcast

     

Welcome to the Never Seen It Podcast, The only podcast called Never Seen It That's worth listening to.

     

And with us tonight.

     

Mr. Daily Dares, Mr. Filipino Grisgio, Mr. Alex Calo is here with me.

     

The solo colle collection.o brother.

     

Due to some misaligned schedules this week.

     

It's just the two of us.

     

Hey, it's the holiday season.

     

People are doing stuff..

     

A little out of whack since you've been from Japan, like mentally.

     

Abs

     

I feel like, I mean, we're going to we'll probably end up talking

     

about it hopefully soon on our Japan recap.

     

Yeah.

     

Or at least a very least we'll adjust for our subscribers and like our listeners.

     

We're going to discuss the movie Perfect

     

Days, which will touch on the Japanese, our Japan trip

     

and, you know, and some other Japan subjects matter.

     

Nice.

     

I can't wait to get into that.

     

I want to hear all about the trip.

     

Yeah, I, yeah, but I've been telling everybody ever

     

since I got back from Japan, the jet lag

     

didn't affect me going to Japan.

     

I kind of like, I'm already a night owl, but because I

     

have been a night owl forever, I go there and I'm a morning person.

     

I get up at like, 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock

     

in the morning and I'm up and about doing stuff, you know, and then..

     

But mentally, are you still in Japan mentally?

     

Oh, mentally, yeah.

     

Absolutely.

     

I'm like, trying to figure out ways.

     

I'm still like, like having things pop up on my Instagram feed and like stuff that I want to do.

     

And like, I'm already plugging them into my Google map just for the stuff that I want to do next time.

     

And I see that our friend of the show Edura is currently in Japan.

     

Oh, yeah. following his stories.

     

We've been talking.

     

He showed me this thing of this.

     

He's like the next time he comes to Japan, he he wants to do this.

     

It's, I guess it's a photo op, but like, or you

     

can do like video and they

     

every year or every two years, I don't know when they do it,

     

but they do this explosion background thing with literal

     

explosives and you could take video that's awesome.

     

Or a picture of it and you like, and there'd be people like taking their

     

wedding photos of like an explosion in the back.

     

I love that.

     

I told them that I want to dress up as bomberman.

     

There's such a cool factor to Japan,

     

it seems, that you just, it's a certain vibe.

     

You just don't find in the..

     

S. as much.

     

I don't know.

     

I've never been, obviously, but

     

It's a cool factor.

     

This, with Japan, getting lightly

     

into it, I think that I don't think that they try to be cool.

     

It just like, there's just something about their culture that when you.

     

I saw a video recently that says, from a fashion

     

guy, he was like, wear your interests?

     

And like, he's a huge fan of Snoopy.

     

Yeah.

     

He's a big fan of Snoopy and the Peanuts gang.

     

And he like, he saw in the background of his office.

     

It's just like a bunch of like peanuts and Snoopy stuff and, you know, on those stuff he wears.

     

And like he's like, he even to the point where he will

     

like, he'll tailor his looks to like maybe Snoopy,

     

like, like looking like Charlie Brown or like that color scheme or

     

like, you know, Linus or even like the puffer jacket Snoopy that's kind of gotten popular.

     

He has that look

     

he'll like put on clothes out and look like that.

     

So, yeah, that's kind of..

     

When you were out there, Alex, did you, did you see any signs that said, keep Japan weird?

     

Or is that more of an American thing?

     

It's That's more of like an American thing.

     

And it makes sense because America's so boring.

     

You're not wrong about that, my friend.

     

You lost a lot of the spark...

     

You know what I was thinking the other day, and not to get too off topic, but

     

I like that there's drunk or treat stuff.

     

We just Halloween here.

     

But, like, I hope that's not the only experience that kids are having these days.

     

Like, the act of going on into the streets

     

and asking strangers for candy is like a long- hell American tradition..

     

So I think that needs to be kept alive and well.

     

Oh, yeah.

     

I mean That was kind of part of the charm and weirdness of what used to be America, right?

     

It's a right of passage of childhood in America.

     

I love that.

     

I still consider Halloween still one

     

of the very few holidays that's about community

     

Yeah.

     

Or at least they try to, with like a huge intent

     

of like f focusing about community. because it's one

     

of the few outward facing holidays, right?

     

It's like where you don't, you don't, it's not just about having

     

people come in, although they have hardies and stuff like that..

     

It's one of those things where you open like a few holidays where

     

you literally open up your doors to strangers, you know, and give away stuff.

     

Whereas like, you look at Thanksgiving or Christmas,

     

it's also like inward facing type of deals, right?

     

Where you don't, you're not really truly opening up your doors.

     

You're opening up your doors to familiars

     

but and there are people who like kind

     

of do and organizations that do

     

try to give away, but it's so much of

     

it is so much me, me, me, gimme, gimme,

     

gimme, where like Halloween is like, here, here's some free candy.

     

Here's like, hey, you want to hang out and get your various

     

on its surface, but it's not.

     

Because they' forced it. like, you know, look at like

     

patriarchy, Western society, Christianity has demonized

     

the holiday as its evil thing when

     

it, like apparently, there are Christian roots

     

to the holiday in a way.

     

Christian pagan roots, I believe.

     

Christian pagan roots, yeah. from Ireland and stuff.

     

Yeah.

     

Anyways.

     

But yeah, you know, yeah, if you're a kid in America

     

yeah, Halloween is, is, like I said, it's a rite of passage.

     

You just, you have to get out there with your friends.

     

You're going to build.

     

I still have memories of Halloween outings with friends.

     

Yeah.

     

Those are precious.

     

And even even when I got older.

     

Yeah.

     

Going to house parties.

     

Egging like friends.

     

Oh, house party, yeah.

     

Yeah.

     

Yeah.

     

Yeah.

     

Like, I remember, like, remember all the all the soul

     

dis that bannedld districtistrict?

     

I do remember..

     

I vaguely remember Soul District.

     

And they, for a few years, they would throw parties at their house.

     

Nobody's partying anymore, by the way.

     

Yeah, nobody parties anymore.

     

I actually talked to like some of my coworkers and they're all in their 20s.

     

And like, I asked a few of them.

     

I was like, when was the last time you went to a rager?

     

House party rager.

     

And like, oh, when were you in college?

     

I was like, I don't count college parties because like college

     

parties, that's like this organized chaos with like frat

     

people and everything. a sorities.

     

I'm talking about like just some stupid fuck abouts hang out.

     

Just hanging out.

     

Like having a party, having some beers, like a keg

     

people coming over.

     

And then maybe there's a fight that breaks out.

     

Who knows?

     

But that's kind of part of the...

     

You know what?

     

You know what messes me up about all that?

     

It's that thing that he says at the end of the office.

     

I don't know if you ever watch The Office.

     

Ed Helms's character.

     

He's like, it sucks that you never realize that you're in the good times when you're in it.

     

It's always after the fact.

     

Yeah.

     

Got to keep that in mind.

     

Yeah.

     

That's conscientious.

     

So of the now.

     

Absolutely.

     

Anyways.

     

And speaking of the now, we are,

     

you have something planned for us tonight.

     

I did.

     

I wanted to talk about the 20266 movies that I.

     

I watched 51 movies this year, by the way.

     

How do I find the time, right?

     

But of those 51 movies

     

13 of them were 2026 movies.

     

And I wanted to talk about my favorite and my worst from this year.

     

And I want to just say the worst one, let me just

     

start off right off the bat with the worst rated movie I watched this year.

     

And I don't know if you got a chance to see this out, Alex.

     

Maybe you saw some of this in Japan.

     

I don't know.

     

The Super Mario Galaxy movie.

     

I watched that back in August, and I gave it one star on Letterbox.

     

because here's the thing..

     

I thought the first one was a blatant cash

     

grab, which it was, but it was a fun cash grab.

     

This movie, the Supero Mario Galaxy movie,

     

was somehow an even bigger cash grab than the first one, and

     

I'm just watching this with my kid and I'm like, what is going on here?

     

There's literally no story.

     

They're just fapping around

     

and it's just an excuse to sell merch,

     

to keep selling more Mario merch.

     

And I'm like, man, like, was where was the funness from the first film?

     

I have some thoughts about that.

     

Did you see it?

     

Did you watch it?

     

I I haven't seen it..

     

I saw the first one.

     

I enjoyed it.

     

It wasn't like mind-blowing.

     

It wasn't earth shattering.

     

No.

     

No, it was fun, though.

     

It wasn't continuity moving as far as like the video game goes,

     

you know, let's to be fair.

     

It's a game that is meant to just like,

     

like, like snowball into more games and other things.

     

And that's that's the nature of Nintendo.

     

It's like, I don't know, just creating stuff

     

just to be able to say that they have a new game,

     

you know, they are trying, I guess, to push innovation

     

but to be fair, it's a platform game

     

and a lot of the plat, especially now that

     

they use like the 3D, like third person sort

     

of like platforming style.

     

Yeah.

     

You can't really, you're not

     

turning, you're not going to have like, what is that Last of Us kind of graphics

     

or not turning it into like, it's it's basically.

     

Mario is an avatar that can be placed onto any sort of

     

game format, whether it be like a puzzle game,

     

whether it be a flat platformer, it could even be a racing game,

     

obviously, because of like, you look at Super Mario Kart and

     

you look at Super Smash Brothers.

     

It's that's it is what it is.

     

It's just an avatar.

     

Both great games, but then when it comes to the narrative, I'm just like, yeah, I don't know.

     

There just wasn't really.

     

There was a story, obviously, but it just felt so

     

surface level.

     

And I thought, like, oh, maybe we're going to get more development of Luigi's

     

since he's kind of cast through the side in the first movie a little bit.

     

And we didn't get any of that.

     

It was just like.

     

I agree. stuff happens and it's bright and colorful

     

and flashy and the kids love it and it's like, well, maybe that's the point, but

     

That's part of the point, but they've

     

forgotten that adults are watching these films with their kids.

     

Right.

     

And they need to make these movies

     

for adults as well to give them a reason to

     

want to like sit through it again.

     

Otherwise, you know.

     

And here's the thing, right?

     

When those kids get older

     

they're going to want to see their films evolve.

     

And you look at like a film series like Toy Story.

     

It was created with the intent of like,

     

you know, kids being able to enjoy it.

     

However, Pixar put into their films a reason

     

for adults to love it.

     

And we loved it.

     

And we wanted to see the up progression in the storyline.

     

Now, are they doing that with Super Mario?

     

I haven't seen the second one, but you're saying it't I think so.

     

No.

     

No, there's no emotional core to it.

     

It's all like I said, very surface level

     

And that's why I was disappointed.

     

I was like, you could have you did that in the first movie, I felt somewhat.

     

But anyway, so that's super Mario galaxy

     

in a nutshell, you know, one of my lowest rated movies.

     

I'll do one more of my lowest rating and then I'll move on to more positive movies.

     

The Bride.

     

Did you see the bride?

     

I have not.

     

I want to

     

Yeah.

     

But I did not enjoy this movie.

     

This is the Maggie Gyllenhaal direed this starring

     

Christian Bale and Jesse Buckley, both great actors, you

     

know, Jesse Buckley coming off a great win from doing Hamet.

     

Obviously, Christian Bale is Christian Bale.

     

And it's basically

     

it was kind of marketed as like Bonnie and Clyde,

     

but with Frankenstein and the bride with like a

     

very, I guess you could call it feminist bet, you know, feminist,

     

maybe that's not the right phrasing, but that's sort of a vibe, you know,

     

of of a female character.

     

And Jessie B Buckley, by the way, is a great actress.

     

She carried this movie really well.

     

Christian Bale felt like he was just kind of there, and it was the pacing was weird.

     

It was like slow and there was like a subplot

     

involving Annette Benning's character who's like kind of like the mad scientist type of character.

     

And she's the one that kind of brings Jesse Buckley

     

the bride to life and all that.

     

But I don't know.

     

The movie just kind of meandered and it was kind of long.

     

And I was like, it took me two days to watch it because I was like, I got to take it.

     

I'm tired.

     

It's late.

     

I'm going to take a break.

     

I'll come back to this tomorrow.

     

I did.

     

And it still felt super long and I only had like an hour and a half left.

     

The story.

     

Judgingging from the

     

promotional stuff, it seemed like. interesting.

     

It looked interesting, but it also seemed stylized.

     

Very stylized.

     

And I have trouble, like, with those kinds of films.

     

You know, I'm always so on the fence, especially when things are, like, very stylized.

     

Now you look at a film like, say, Romo and Juliet, and Baz Lermann's version

     

Like, you know That's the example. you look at that film.

     

Baz Lerman did a great job with adapting

     

that film, with at that

     

time, the 90s stylization.

     

There were also, during that time, people kind of questioned that.

     

You know, this It's like, oh, just the modern retailing.

     

It's like, no, they still use the same dialogue.

     

They don't they don't go off and change the style of the delivery.

     

It's very Shakespearean

     

when it comes to the the delivery of the dialogue.

     

So, and it's just the weapons and

     

the settings and how they relate

     

some of the stuff into that era's

     

sort of, what do you call it, the

     

Aest Zeit aesthetic, the zegeist the time.

     

Yeah.

     

So, yeah.

     

And it worked.

     

You know.

     

It worked.

     

It worked.

     

Yeah.

     

It's pretty bold to say, we're going to do Romeo and Juliet

     

with guns and we're still going to keep the Shakespeare pros, but we're

     

going to do it with guns in a modern setting with violence and hyperviolence and all action and stuff.

     

They wouldn't do that now.

     

They wouldn't make it movie be like that now.

     

That would be way too bold, I think.

     

You think so?

     

You don't think they they try to do that?

     

Well, I feel like if they did it, it would be under an indie label.

     

It wouldn't be.

     

Honestly, like, they did Hamlet and they constantly do it redo Hamlet.

     

They even did Hamlet on, what is that?

     

Grand Theft Auto?

     

I didn't know that.

     

Yeah, they They used the video game to do.

     

They had it on Mo for a little while.

     

I think you could still watch it somewhere, but it it's

     

like, it's very much Hamlet played out

     

in Grand Theft Auto Auto.

     

And I'm open to watching a story like that.

     

I think that's cool.

     

I just, and I thought I thought that the

     

bride looked cool and I thought, hooking you go wrong with Jesse

     

Buckley and Christian Bale, but it just didn't do it for me.

     

I thought it was too weirdly paced.

     

I didn't fully understand what they were going for

     

you know, narratively.

     

And I don't know, I was expecting Bonnie and Clyde and I got something completely different.

     

I had that feeling, though, that, you know, especially

     

with the Guillermo del Toro version of Frankenstein being released.

     

Like right before it, that, you know, you have

     

this sort of the bride that leans

     

into Frankenstein's monster, that storyline.

     

And I think people may have been like, are they just trying to cash in on that?

     

And I, you know, a lot of people say that sort of stuff, but I don't think it's that, that

     

much of a like sort of conspiracy

     

of sorts, you know, I think it's just people, it's just happenstands., you know?

     

But at the same time, like I said,

     

when you're trying to do aesthetics for aesthetic sake,

     

or, you know, it's very treacherous waters.

     

No, I agree.

     

Yeah, I agree.

     

I think the bride felt way more style versus substance.

     

And also, I to admit, you know, it's possible.

     

I just, at the end of the day, wasn't the right audience for that movie.

     

You know, like sometimes you got to recognize

     

maybe I just wasn't the demographic.

     

I don't know.

     

For sure, but, you know, gave it a try.

     

Disappointed.

     

Yeah.

     

It is what it is.

     

Can I mention my worst?

     

I didn't get to watch a, I haven't been able to watch a lot of films in the theaters.

     

Any a lot of new ones.

     

Right.

     

Most of us stuff has been like kind of stuff that has come

     

out within the past year and a half, two years

     

that we've watched for the podcast.

     

Like you said, most of the movies you watch these days are for the show.

     

It's kind of the same way with me.

     

Most of my days, when I watch stuff, it's because I'm watching pro wrestling.

     

And that's crazy because people are logging 400 movies in one year, bro.

     

How do you find the time?

     

Yeah.

     

So anyway.

     

But yeah, let's hear your worst of.

     

Well, I only got to, like, my worst film that I've seen so far.

     

is Masters of the Universe.

     

Masters.

     

I briefly mentioned this.

     

Yeah.

     

Yeah..

     

Okay, so I as an age..

     

Did you grew up with that show, the toys and all that?

     

Yes, I grew up watching that show.

     

Yes.

     

I grew up buying the toys.

     

I will say this.

     

I enjoyed the toys a lot.

     

I thought they

     

were cool looking in.

     

You know, they were fun.

     

I know the names were kind of questionable for some, you know?

     

So was one of them being, like the poorly

     

chosen name Visto.

     

But Fisto.

     

I've never heard of Fisto.

     

Yeah, Fisto.

     

He was like this, he had this huge gauntlet of a fist.

     

Yeah, look at a, pull up a picture of this guy.

     

Check out Fisto.

     

Yeah

     

And, yeah, so

     

the promise of a new version of

     

Masters Vener sounded cool with me as

     

a live action version anyways.

     

Because the 80s version with, and it starred Dolph

     

Gut Lundgren as Prince Adam slash He-Man was

     

released.

     

Yep, there's Fisto. uh, Yep.

     

Wow.

     

He's leaving nothing to the imagination.

     

He's gonna fist you.

     

Yep.

     

Oh, is this in the movie That's the movie.

     

Oh, they didn't give them little tiny pants.

     

They should have gone all the way.

     

Yeah, the little Mini.

     

A little Mini.

     

Wow.

     

Yeah.

     

Yeah.

     

No, but they, you know, they tried to make them look more like

     

a rebel force than anything.

     

It's kind of a cool design.

     

It is.

     

It is.

     

I think I feel like the character design of

     

a lot of the characters and even the way they

     

did Skeletor was really cool.

     

Like I thought it stayed true to the

     

original one, but it made it feel more sinister and dark

     

However, the story left...

     

Okay, here's my thing.

     

The original Masters of the

     

Universe fil, live action film.

     

Yeah.

     

It was on the predication that it takes

     

place on Earth, right?

     

And nowhere in the cartoon

     

did it ever take place on Earth?

     

Never.

     

Never once.

     

Never once.

     

There may have been like little side quests here and there,

     

but for like holiday films or holiday specials

     

you know, but there was never, ever any

     

sort of storyline where the characters

     

mainly were in on Earth or it had any sort

     

of even knowledge of Earth

     

you know?

     

And I thought they weren't going to do that with this film.

     

I thought I had hope that

     

they would do something that was like insillier?

     

Is that the word?

     

Insular?

     

Insular to. the master of theire's Eternia

     

world and have

     

faith enough in the story in the whatever

     

it is, in the mythology, that

     

to not have to rely on having it

     

be at least partially based on Earth, right?

     

And I feel like they did that and it just made the

     

movie feel that like

     

they were like trying to make them some sort of connection.

     

And I get that.

     

I get that they are trying to make some sort of connection to people

     

make it more relatable to like regular people like us.

     

Because

     

you know, most people don't who are going to go watch this film.

     

This is an older property.

     

This is what, over like almost 40 years old?

     

Yeah.

     

And

     

like trying to get a younger audience in kids

     

in their, like, say their early teens, to like

     

their 20s, to care about this property

     

is something difficult, especially this is, it's already a

     

cartoon that was like, oh, it's just a cartoon made to sell

     

toys because that's basically what it was.

     

you know, but they lean too heavily on

     

that, like try to like, get everybody to like it.

     

And by doing so, it

     

failed to connect with a lot of people.

     

Even people, it alienated a lot of

     

like fans of the the product

     

of He-Man and the Masters of Univer, including myself.

     

I didn't really enjoy it at all.

     

I thought it sucked.

     

I mean, it looked cool.

     

But then they also leaned heavy, like into the

     

Guardians of the Galaxy style comedy

     

But does, like, whoever, like James Cudd knows how to do that.

     

And he's good at that.

     

But I don't think anybody really knows how

     

to do that style of comedy without making it seem so like

     

like forced, you know?

     

Yeah.

     

It sounds like it was a weak script.

     

It was a pretty weak execution.

     

Yeah.

     

Yeah.

     

And it leaned too much.

     

Like I said, once again, they leaned too much into when He-Man

     

slash Prince Adam is sent to earth, he

     

like, becomes so earthling, so

     

you know, like the way he looks at things, like,

     

they go into this whole thing where they, he's,

     

he's trying to become this like really good employee and he

     

learns about all these HR tactics on how to deal with employees.

     

And then he utilizes that to like get

     

his army to like, and I'm like, this this is so stupid.

     

You're getting, you're using HR tactics to HR

     

tactics to get your ass, your army in Eternia to become better, like a team.

     

I'm like, this is so contrived.

     

And and then they also go into the scene where they have Skeletor.

     

He's like a gym bro.

     

Yeah, that's dumb.

     

They should have gone full fantasy for campy with it.

     

Dungeons and Dragons, that movie.

     

I watched that came out last year, but I watched that recently

     

and this year, and I was like, this is great.

     

This is exactly the kind of tone that I was expecting.

     

Yeah, some people just lack the faith that people understand that.

     

And also

     

it's that one, it's that one idea of like, don't be afraid to be crazy cringe.

     

Don't be afraid to, like, just do what,

     

what is going to make an awesome movie.

     

Don't try to play to the lowest comedy denominator.

     

Because they't like at the very end of the

     

day, they may not even care in the first place to even watch

     

your film, let alone give it a chance.

     

Yeah.

     

I think you can make a movie good

     

and still be camping ridiculous at the same time.

     

And I think Dungeons and Dragons, the movie was like a perfect honor

     

Am among these specifically because I there was another one that came out years ago.

     

But like, that was the perfect balance of

     

comedy, action, fantasy, and campiness as well, you know?

     

So, and by the way, it had emotional heart.

     

So I don't I don't know if it did Master of the universe, was there any, what was the emotional core there?

     

Was there anything?

     

I To be quite honest, I was so checked

     

out of the film, like 30 minutes into it.

     

I was like, like face palming myself so many times.

     

Even to the point where like I had to stop

     

watching it just so I could like reset and then get back into it again.

     

And I found myself constantly like, you know, drifting off and like doing other stuff.

     

I was like, oh, I better go watch this film.

     

Because I want to watch it.

     

And I'm committed to I was committed to finishing the film because I have a love for it.

     

And, you know, it's funny is like the person, they

     

did do a reboot of Masters of the Universe,

     

like not too long ago, maybe like five, ten years ago

     

And it was written and directed fighting none other than Kevin Smith.

     

It was an animated..

     

Oh, really?

     

It was an animated TV series on Netflix,

     

but the story that he puts forth on that show was great.

     

It was way different from what they had put into the show, but it was more..

     

Adult themed.

     

Yeah.

     

You know?

     

Well, Kevin Smith is a good writer.

     

He's a better writer than a director, and he's a huge nerd, so I think it helps to.

     

They should have had him write this movie.

     

But

     

What the hell?

     

what can you do?

     

Wow.

     

What was another bad movie?

     

Do you want to do another bad movie?

     

Do you want to go into the better movies that you watch this?

     

Let's get into the better movies.

     

Okay, do you want me to go next?

     

So I'll say my favorite movie.

     

Yeah, go ahead.

     

I'll go I'll do two off the bat.

     

Big one and a small one.

     

First big one, Project Tail Mary.

     

We did an episode on that.

     

I loved it.

     

I love the book.

     

The book was so good.

     

The book made me cry..

     

The movie made me cry, too.

     

The book way more than the movie.

     

But, yeah, who would have thought that you could do a

     

first contact story and be that emotionally heavy

     

and still like have all the silliness and stuff that comes with that.

     

So that was my favorite big movie of this year.

     

I want to watch that again and whenever it comes out on streaming or whatever.

     

And then a smaller movie that I recently watched, that

     

was really good, that I was like pleasantly surprised was the

     

invite with Seth Rogen and Edward Noran and

     

Olivia Wilde and Penelope Cruz.

     

It's about a couple who invites over their neighbors for dinner and all hell breaks loose

     

when their neighbors reveal that they want to do a

     

little, I guess it wouldn't be a menage Tis, because that's three people.

     

A Men Quattro?

     

I don't know.

     

I don't know that would work.

     

But yeah.

     

But that's not even the main part of the story.

     

The main part of the story is Seth Rogen's character and Olivia Wilde's

     

character in their marriage, falling apart in real time because they can't even get anything right.

     

They can't even get an invite to sleep with this couple right.

     

They mess that up spectacularly, spectacularly.

     

And that was that was such a well-w, like, it almost felt like a play.

     

A lot of people were saying, like, this felt like a watching

     

a play.

     

But like, it wasn't boring.

     

It was constantly engaging and it's all just people talking in rooms.

     

And I was like, surprised at how good how much I enjoyed it.

     

I was like, and Olivia Wilde directed it credit to her for directing.

     

She didn't write the script, but she did direct it.

     

And I don't know if you ever saw Don'torry Darling, but that movie was a mess.

     

So it's nice that she came back with a much better movie

     

that was the invite.

     

No, I think Olivia Wilde is a back on track.

     

I think there was a little bit of controversy

     

from what I hear about her treatment of other actors.

     

Oh, really?

     

I don't know.

     

I can't remember.

     

Clearly I've heard

     

stuff about that.

     

And that's like rumor and hearsay and I don't want to get into that, you know?

     

I mean, even Edward Noren has his history.

     

He has.

     

Oh, absolutely.

     

Did you seen Booksmart?

     

That was Olivia Wilde.

     

She directed Booksmart.

     

No, but I will say, like, I think my

     

two favorite films of the year, one of them, which also stars Olivia Wilde.

     

I don't know if you're done.

     

I'll you now go on.

     

That was pretty much all I had.

     

I just wanted to do a big movie and a small movie.

     

Okay.

     

And I enjoyed those two very much and I recommend them.

     

My two films, like and you know me.

     

I love smaller films..

     

You know, I like like that sort of stuff.

     

And I'm a huge fan of Gregoraki and I want Your Sex is what am I

     

I know that like..

     

Olivia Wildles in that?

     

Mm.

     

She plays the female female lead.

     

Nice.

     

She's great.

     

Also sorry as Charlie XEX.

     

Really?

     

Yeah.

     

Is that kind of a stunt cast or what does she do good?

     

Oh, I I don't know.

     

Like, she was played a small role.

     

I don't think it was like a stunt cast.

     

I think it was.

     

I kind of feel like Charlie XCX in that film

     

portrays.

     

Yeah, there's Wow, she looks so different.

     

Yeah.

     

It's She plays a very, very

     

different charity. type?

     

Yeah, definitely.

     

That's interesting.

     

But she's, she's great.

     

Like, she's great in that film.

     

It's a really funny, funny movie.

     

It stars, um, what's his name

     

The son of..

     

He was in in Magnolia.

     

He was in Punch Drunk Love.

     

Paul.

     

What's what's?

     

Yes.

     

Seymour Hoffman's son.

     

That's Philip Seymour.

     

Oh, yeah, that's his son.

     

He was in the Long Walk.

     

That's the movie we' seen him in.

     

Yeah.

     

He's great in that film.

     

That's funny.

     

And, uh, what's his, what's his name?

     

He's the guy from Hamilton.

     

Oh, even Johnny Knox.

     

David Diggs.

     

David Diggs.

     

Oh, yeah.

     

He was.

     

Wow, what a cast.

     

He plays great.

     

He's like, it's funny.

     

Yeah.

     

It's like a lot of these, the bigger names have smaller roles.

     

Like even James DuVall, who's in

     

Doom Generation and a lot of Greg Irai's older films.

     

He's like has this really tiny role in in I Watcher Sex.

     

And it's a really funny movie.

     

It's a great critique on like Gen Z

     

and they like we

     

discussed before, like nobody likes to go out.

     

Nobody It's all predicated on like spending money if

     

like you do go out, you know and everything has to be planned.

     

So there's like there's no like sort of spontaneity

     

and then also it's like this sort of like everybody's like so

     

concentrating on concentrated on like career, you

     

know, or like moving up that like, you know,

     

one, they don't have the time to like have sex.

     

So it's like, you know, they kind of put it off, you know, and Got to make time for it.

     

And it's also like this thing where it's like becomes transactional, you know?

     

It becomes this thing.

     

And I don't and I was watching this video they were saying like

     

like, like sex these days has

     

become more transactional in a way, not even like,

     

like in a sort of like, um.

     

Like, uh, like sort

     

of prostit prostitution sort of sense.

     

These are a sex worker sort of sense

     

But like, even in like, just

     

our personal lives, because what can I get out of, how

     

can I get sex from this person?

     

Do they get do they gain anything?

     

Do they, you know, it becomes.

     

And it's becomes that that's sort of

     

way.

     

And like, what they bring

     

up to question is like sex for actual pleasure.

     

Like, like for an actual enjoyment.

     

And that's, you know, and, you know, there

     

is that sort of like there's like traumas that people go through and everything

     

that people use it, use sex for that sort of thing.

     

And

     

and that that's a whole array of different questions

     

that like come up in like the film.

     

But overall, it's such a great

     

story.

     

And it's really funny.

     

It's really, really funny.

     

I need to watch it.

     

Yeah, the Empire was funny, too.

     

You can make a funny movie that revolves around sex without being awkward.

     

Yeah.

     

You know.

     

It doesn't have to be a sex romp type of the 80s.

     

And we did Doom Generation on this show.

     

That was a very horny movie.

     

And there's lots of sex in that movie.

     

Definitely it was.

     

That would never happen today.

     

Yeah, yeah.

     

No, I keep saying, I really don't think it was.

     

I really think that, yeah, we've kind of regressed a little bit

     

as a society, quote unquote, when it comes to this sort of thing, right?

     

And now they're doing movies about that.

     

Well, we do have somebody in our chat.

     

HLP is in our chat.

     

Oh, And he he left

     

he says, you need to earn X amount spend for

     

the date, et cetera, et c, et, to consider the date.

     

And I don't necessarily agree with that.

     

There, like, There's still the like here's the thing.

     

Like, a lot of the people

     

like, have, you know, relationships, get

     

into relationships simply because they are,

     

they're charming, they're, you know, and then they, you know what I mean?

     

And, you know, they're, they have good personalities

     

and they, you know, they're, they're who they are, aligns with the other person.

     

I don't, I think that is slightly

     

a factor for only for the people who are shallow.

     

But there's quite a bit of people out there who aren''t that way.

     

You just kind of have to look

     

and be willing to get out there.

     

And I think a lot of times, too, people are too scared.

     

That's another thing about the whole Gen Z thing.

     

Nobody wants to go out.

     

Nobody wants to make the connection anymore face to face.

     

They're too afraid or they just don't feel confident in meeting people face to face

     

in real life that that that they

     

have this presumption that it is about money.

     

It is their status in society.

     

How many times have we seen like seen a couple together and like, how did that person go?

     

a fat person?

     

All the time You know what I mean?

     

It happens all the time.

     

All the time.

     

And I don't think that.

     

And that's the thing.

     

I really don't think that's the case when

     

it comes to like, you know, when it comes to income and

     

like your status in society, people

     

like people.

     

I've had that happen to me.

     

You got to put all that aside to have fun, man.

     

The broest people can throw some ragers.

     

Yeah.

     

Like you said, like, have you ever been to a ranger?

     

Sometimes a ranger is just like, let's all pitch in 20 bucks and we'll buy a we'll buy a keg.

     

We'll fucking make a night of it.

     

Yeah.

     

Yeah, yeah.

     

Or even, it doesn't it' even have to be that.

     

It's like,

     

let's.

     

Or a fucking 36 pack of Bud lying and you drink them in the desert.

     

Or that's, yeah, or like drive out to the desert, have several

     

cars of friends and hang out and you know.

     

And that's looking work.

     

I think just people don't, they're

     

afraid of, and then they're also like so caught up with like, again,

     

with like their career, like, I, I have to get up in the morning or I

     

have to like, so they have the same face so they don't get as drunk or like

     

you know, they're afraid of these sort of like consequences of

     

like being cast out in society for being that

     

person when like people are already those people simply

     

because they are just stupid people or they're bad people

     

who like, you know, they're they're racist or capitalist..

     

I think we tend to overthink things because

     

we see what people's lives are like on social media and we compare

     

ourselves to them and we think, I'm not living like that person.

     

Is there something wrong with me?

     

You know?

     

But yeah, you can't, you can't think that way.

     

You have to do whatever makes you feel pleasure.

     

As long as you're not hurting anybody

     

And as long as it's perfectly consensual, there is nothing wrong with

     

just having fun with someone and Absolutely.

     

That's it.

     

You know what I mean?

     

Absolutely.

     

I mean, did hookup culture die?

     

I don't know.

     

I don't know.

     

I was there a part of that, but it sounds like it's kind of on the downslope, you know?

     

No, I I hear stories

     

of like, it's actually becoming more common, I think. simply

     

because of the whole idea that nobody that's that's the thing.

     

Gen Zers are like like supposedly, supposedly

     

less committal.

     

And so they're accepting except more accepting hook upup culture.

     

However, that's starting to

     

change as far as, because people are seeing that, that

     

the hook of culture is that whole thing that transactional thing

     

where it's like, it seems more

     

like, what can I get out of this person to get this sexual act?

     

Right.

     

And, you know, it, I don't know.

     

It's it's very, very interesting

     

to see where that's leading.

     

Sorry, that was my, uh, I have the firefighters driving by too, so I wasn't sure.

     

But anyways, I don't want to get too far into

     

it, but my second, and I will leave it at this as my second choice because we already discussed it last week

     

My second favorite of the year is a

     

Teenage Sex and Death at Cat Myiasma.

     

Like, I love that film.

     

I love that film so much.

     

It's like, I orderedered it, I pre-ordered

     

it for the Blu-ray and I can't

     

wait to be able to watch it over and over and over.

     

Yeah, it's it was just such a fun movie.

     

It was it was a fun movie.

     

It was.

     

It was layered.

     

Lots of layers.

     

Yeah.

     

And again, once again, we're going to get into the whole

     

like sex culture thing, but it's like, I don't want to talk too much with it because

     

we already talked to me about it in the previous episode, so I'm just going to say, put it at that.

     

That's one of my top films of here.

     

Those are good picks.

     

I noticed some similar themes about intimacy and

     

just relationships and just interpersonal stuff and both movies, that one and I want Your Sex.

     

And even obviously the invite, I really recommend the invite.

     

I really recommend it just for like

     

the sort of relationship dynamics are very

     

relatable, especially to a couple of old heads like us who have been

     

through marriages and stuff in our own lives..

     

And here's the funny thing is like it's

     

kind of, it's kind of telling about like where

     

we are as a society when you have all these films that

     

like really discuss, you know, sex and

     

interpersonal nature of it.

     

And

     

you know, like the traumas that people go through and like

     

sexuality as far as like gender and sexuality, you know.

     

And notice all those stories aren't coming from the big studios.

     

They're coming from smaller storytellers.

     

They're not backed by the big tentpole fucking corporate owned major

     

studios?

     

Because the big tentpole studios want

     

to proliferate patriarchy.

     

Yeah, and you know what?

     

And they used to be a little bit more diverse in representation

     

as far as men versus women and just like what it means to

     

be a woman and a man, like big studios used to talk about and touch on those subjects

     

And romance stories, love stories, rom-coms,

     

even, but that's kind of like gone away.

     

And it's taking smaller studios and smaller creators and

     

storytellers to do those stories.

     

We could get into who owns the studios and media.

     

But I don't want to get into that.

     

Yeah

     

I think I think that's the top are top and worst of 26.

     

I think I think that will suffice, right?

     

Yep, I think so.

     

I'm kind of questioning it only because like we

     

rarely ever, we never just do two people on the show.

     

I''s at least four of us.

     

There's at least three.

     

We've had shows where we had three.

     

You, me and Arnold.

     

Yeah.

     

And Arnold is always great because he knows something to..

     

He always sw his hips. swivels his hips, and he's got that.

     

That Arnold perspective.

     

I call it Arnoldisms.

     

Yeah.

     

You know what I mean?

     

And it's been a whole, it's become a whole thing with those studentsoos meter and all that.

     

Well,ways, I's I think like I think you put it correctly

     

it was he's kind of representative of the every man.

     

Yes.

     

Like I don't I don't want to He shouldn't worry about, oh, I don't know.

     

I don't have the same kind of taste as you guys in.

     

I'm like, you don't have to.

     

Or like he too much.

     

He too much about intellectualizing films.

     

And I think it's it's not a

     

like a flaw.s in reality.

     

I think I think way too much about like the

     

meaning behind teenage death, sex and death my

     

asthma more so than I should.

     

You know what I mean?

     

Or like, what's the hidden, what's

     

the hidden meaning behind Muhamman driver?

     

Oh my God.

     

We got to do that.

     

Hunter wants to do that.

     

Yeah.

     

Yeah.

     

We got to do that.

     

I need to re-watch that anyway.

     

I want to watch all three of the LA trilogy,

     

the Mohan Drive, Moss Highway.

     

Well, we already did In Empire.

     

Empire.

     

Lost Highway.

     

I want to see Blue Velvet, too.

     

I hear that was a very kind of a controversial lynch movie.

     

I mean, it's when it was like highly rated ones

     

Yeah.

     

I think tomorrow, you might be

     

able to, if it's in your area, I think they're doing screenings

     

of Wild at Heart, of Nicholas Cage film.

     

Oh, that's another one.

     

The The Lynch.

     

Nicholas Cage film.

     

I need to watch the entire Lynch Library.

     

I haven't done that, and I need to do that.

     

There's actually a movie that I discovered that Lynch did that I did not know he did.

     

I can't remember the name of it, but it's just like a like there's like a

     

All I can remember is like there's a guy on a lawnmower.

     

A guy, not a lawnmower, man.

     

Not lawnmower, man.

     

He didn't do that one.

     

I could see David Lynch to unlock that day.

     

Yeah, I need to watch the rest of his library.

     

I have it pulled up.

     

Let's see.

     

Do You don't remember the name of it?

     

No.

     

I think I...

     

The Elephant Man?

     

No, Elephant Man, I've seen.

     

I've seen that one.

     

That came out.

     

That was the one of the earlier films.

     

It?

     

I think it's a straight story.

     

A Straight story.

     

What is this about?

     

Oh, I see the guy in the lawnmower.

     

I't that.

     

You're right.

     

He did that.

     

Yeah, retired farmer and widower Alvin Stra learns

     

one day that his distant brother, Lyle, has suffered a stroke and may not recover.

     

Alvin'sed he still, but his brother lives in Wisconsin while

     

no car, no driver's license, he has the idea of making

     

the trip on his old lawn mower, thus a picturesque

     

and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

     

That does sound really interesting.

     

I never heard of this.

     

I never heard it never either.

     

I never heard of it either.

     

Yeah, we should just do the whole lynch lawyer.

     

I'd be down, make that a series, just do the lynch, the entire David Lynch library.

     

I would love that.

     

Arnold the great artist, too.

     

Arnold would be struggling.

     

That's part of the show.

     

I know, right?

     

The snoozemeter would be through the roof.

     

Forget it.

     

I kind of wonder when it'll be

     

the point where he even is like, I can't do it anymore.

     

Or then he converts to a lynch fan.

     

He goes either way.

     

He's like, I don't want to do any more lynch films.

     

I'm sorry, guys.

     

I'm not watching

     

Or he's like, I get it now.

     

I think I think he could.

     

I think David Lynch was such a respected

     

and loved director and storyteller for a reason.

     

Yeah.

     

Like, he told weird stories, but it resonated with people.

     

Yeah.

     

Even if it's not straightforward and it's like no 3X structure or whatever.

     

He clearly did something right.

     

Yeah.

     

Yeah.

     

You know what I mean?

     

You know, it's funny.

     

I saw a video comparing George Lucas and David Lynch.

     

I think I may have seen the thumbnail for that video.

     

Yeah.

     

So And it's really interesting because like they talked about

     

how they both started off on the same path.

     

Yeah.

     

But then there was a point where they diverged

     

Hugely.

     

And they started off with their like magnum

     

opus of this really like interesting independent

     

film where they did they created

     

their vision and it was weird and it like was

     

but it was like something like that I saw, like they said,

     

again, there was about David Lynch She's like, do the

     

weird and like cringy and you

     

know, offputting things that or do do your vision basically.

     

Well, no, regardless of what it like it is and do it your way because

     

they said, in the video, they said that greatness

     

is often more much closer to things

     

being unpalatable at the time than

     

they are to being moderate or, you know, just good.

     

Good.

     

I think that 100 years from now, people will still be talking about David Lynch movies.

     

I don't think anybody's going to be talking about Mario Space Odyssey movie.

     

A 100 years from now.

     

You know?

     

Nobody's going to be talking about Masters of the Universe.

     

No, no.

     

That'll be a a footnote. in history. just

     

I don't even think Masters of the Universe as a toy franchise

     

is as big as it used to be with..

     

It's still big with like people who grew up

     

in that era, but like I don't know very many people kids

     

that love messes the Venus.

     

Nowadays, it's like Fortnite and like Minecraft and skibbity toilet.

     

If anything, if they were going to, if Masters of the

     

Universe was going to get big, they'd have to make it like as a downloadable pack for Fortnite.

     

And I want to say no shade towards Minecraft.

     

I love Minecraft.

     

I only know this because I have a nine-year-old, so you know what I mean?

     

That's what he's going to know.

     

He's going to look at masters of the universe.

     

You're like, what is this?

     

Which is fine.

     

You know, different generations have their thing.

     

I mean, like curiosity, if that helps helps the franchise,

     

then I guess, you know, if, if, yeah, whatever.

     

HLP is in the chat and to answer your question,

     

we have not done a racerhead, but I actually, I would be down to do

     

every Lynch movie, including a Racerhead, which is a movie that I still think about.

     

I watched it well over a year ago

     

maybe two years ago, and I still think about that. movie.

     

And that tells you something about the staying power of David Lynch.

     

So But yeah, let's do it.

     

I think we'll do it.

     

And even if it drives Arnold crazy, we'll sprinkle in a good Arnold movie movie here and there.

     

You know what I mean?

     

I'm I'm the one

     

writing the schedule now.

     

Yes.

     

Yeah, we'll do like Eraseaser Head and then like Fast Furious to 2.

     

And then like Inland Empire, Lost Highway,

     

and then we'll do like, what's another Arnold movie that you would love?

     

John Claude movie or something.

     

John Wick.

     

John Wick.

     

I love John Wick.

     

I love John John Wick.

     

I'd watch it again.

     

But I think we've all seen it.

     

We all can't say we't we've never seen it, so I think that might be out of the question.

     

Yeah.

     

Yeah, so we'll leave it up to you to program our

     

schedule and Arnold will We'll have to join us or die.

     

No, I'm just kidding.

     

We love you, Arnold.

     

Well, that's the whole point of the show, right?

     

He's like, he's never seen a lot of our the movies that we we watched.

     

And neither have I. I did a video about this the other day.

     

So many interesting

     

even uncomfortable movies like Serbian film.

     

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

     

I'll never watch that again.

     

Yeah.

     

But we had a good discussion.

     

Yeah.

     

Isn't that the value of doing this show?

     

Well, that's the value of art in general.

     

I think that's the whole point.

     

Like when

     

that's what this show is about.

     

It's about like having discussion about, you know, having the, what is it?

     

There's another word for that.

     

Anyways.

     

The discourse?

     

The discourse, yeah.

     

Like, creating the discourse in,

     

you know, whether like people agree or disagree.

     

Obviously from social media, there's people like,

     

I'm going to like a comment of love.

     

Somebody was like like clowning you, Adrian,

     

for making that making that call like that Glenn Powell video.

     

He said, what did he say?

     

I don't I don't watch enough movies.

     

Yeah, this guy doesn't watch enough movies like like slow down or whatever.

     

Dude, and you're right.

     

I only logged 51 movies this year.

     

But listen, I'm a child of the 90s, man.

     

I grew up peak, peak, Hollywood movies of the 90s.

     

So I think I kind of know what I'm talking about as far as what makes

     

a great actor, you know?

     

So These days, I honestly, I don't know.

     

And I honestly don't think it takes much to

     

distinguish what a good actor, who a good actor is

     

and what, like, and not saying that he's a, like, not a good actor.

     

He's sufficient.

     

Exactly.

     

That was my whole thesis.

     

Yeah.

     

And by the way, you could go back 30 years and you could say, oh, this guy was the Glenn Powell of the 80s.

     

This guy was Glenn Powell the night.

     

I don't know anybody off the top of my head.

     

I don't know.

     

Eric Roberts, maybe?

     

I don't know.

     

No.

     

Every generation has a Glenn Powell.

     

I'm sure if you go back all the way to the beginning of film, Well, you'll find a Glenn Powell.

     

And here's the thing.

     

And I saw something about this, about acting

     

and everything, how like jobs are getting less and less.

     

Corey?

     

No, I don't.

     

Corey Corey Feldman.

     

No, not even him.

     

They' great, like character actors at the very least,

     

if not like that's true. were pretty charismatic.

     

But here's the thing.

     

With a lot less, like, I

     

guess in LA, there's fewer and fewer commercials

     

being shot out there in L.A., even though in California,

     

even though California has had that tax

     

thing thing going on, the tax incentive.

     

Right.

     

But I guess it only applies to films and some television..

     

And you're seeing a lot, even you're even seeing much less like reality

     

television being shot in California and being all moving out of state

     

And what's happening is because

     

all of that's not happening, there's less and less people who

     

are middle class actors who can be actors.

     

And, you know, during the day and just make living off of residuals

     

you know, that like you're

     

not, you, you're feeding fewer and fewer day actors doing,

     

getting jobs and a lot of these kind of

     

Glenn Powell types getting roles that are just kind of middling.

     

You know, they're not even that, they're not, they're sufficient,

     

they're proficient at what they do, but they're not, they're

     

not moving the needle in any sort of, meaningful way.

     

Like you said in your video, like, there's there's less of the Jim Carreys.

     

There's less of the, you know, these character actors who.

     

Marlon Brandos.

     

Marlon Brandandos, you know?

     

Like, even like a person like Keanu Reeves.

     

And by the way, Keanu Reeves was kind of just a pretty boy in the 90s.

     

Yeah.

     

It's only until later that people are like, oh, we love Keanu.

     

He's not that great of an actor, but he's a good person.

     

Yeah.

     

So we love him.

     

And it's like, that's fine.

     

But in the 90s, he was just, he was kind of like a Glenn in a way, in a way.

     

In a way.

     

But then then you start to see like, okay

     

now where you see where he is, where he thrives, like the kind of roles that he thrives.

     

Yeah.

     

And you see, like he was in the movie called Good Fortune recently.

     

And I watched that on my flight to Japan and I

     

thought that was actually, it wasn't like mind blowing,

     

but because now he's kind of been, I

     

don't want to say pigeon hole, but he's like, you know, he has his, he's

     

stereotyped into that, when he does comedy, he has this surfer boy thing.

     

He's found his niche.

     

He's found his niche.

     

He can do action

     

but he's, but here's the thing.

     

He's really good at it.

     

And he's like, not doing just good at it.

     

He's like, he plays those characters so well that they become iconic, right?

     

Yeah, I agree.

     

Then he plays that also.

     

He plays the character in good formune, the way

     

he plays like his character in Bill and Ted, this surfer, boy, California

     

And he plays, he plays an angel whose only

     

task is to stop people from driving and texting.

     

You know, you can't do any other.

     

I love that.

     

Like Guardian Angel stuff other than doing that.

     

And he's like.

     

Oh, Aziz Anzari directed that movie.

     

Yeah, yeah.

     

And then Seth Rogan's in it it.

     

It's not Seth Rogan's in every comedy, it seems.

     

But he's, it's great.

     

It's a really funny movie.

     

It's not

     

nice.

     

I gave it a three, I think, on Letterbox, but yeah.

     

Oh, look at that.

     

Yeah.

     

Even our buddy, Kyle

     

Mson.

     

Of burn cycle.

     

He was the reason why I found

     

found out about good fortune was through him because Aziz

     

had tapped him to do something for the film.

     

He wouldn't disclose what, but like, he's like,,

     

you know, like at the time he was like.

     

Oh, this was the movie that Kyle said he worked on?

     

Yeah.

     

Oh, exactly.

     

And he was like, if it makes it into the film, I'll let everybody know what it was.

     

And did it make it into the film?

     

Do we know?

     

Well, because he didn't disclose what it was.

     

He just kind of like.

     

It probably is left on the cutting for cutting room editing.

     

That's too bad.

     

Yeah.

     

Well, yeah.

     

Damn.

     

You know, like I said, though, like, you have less and

     

less actors who can be like, have middle

     

class jobs as actors and that's it and raise families

     

and they're all like, now they can't even have

     

a career in acting as just.

     

The economics of being an actor these days is just not there unless

     

you already have a nice nest egg built up, you know.

     

fortune a day actor and

     

have another job, which is also has to be

     

a part-time job where you could ask for time off.

     

Right.

     

Which is becoming more and more difficult because like who can have

     

a day, like a day job and like ask for time off whenever they can.

     

It's tough, man. in

     

the creative world or even creative adjacent

     

world, you kind of have to be your own little island of content, you know,

     

you have to have the funnel and build a brand and drive people to

     

you know, clicks and make sales and all that.

     

And you got to do what you got to do to make money.

     

It's tough.

     

Yeah.

     

I remember back in the day, this was even in the late 90s,

     

early 2000, early 2010s.

     

When I was booking shows, a lot of these

     

bands that I would book, they would have day jobs and some of them would be

     

working for record stores, including the popular amoeba records in Hollywood

     

And the cool thing about Amoeba Records was like, it

     

was one of those few part-time jobs where you could like hold it down.

     

And if you were in a band or you're an actor or whatever and you

     

needed time off, you could like, hey, I time off to go on tour.

     

They would let you because they knew that was that was

     

kind of like part of the game.

     

Like these people working records.

     

This is what they all what they know, you know?

     

So Exactly.

     

HLP says so the stereotype of only rich kids can do

     

are, that's in the unfortunate reality, silly poor people, areches from the rich people, you know type of thing.

     

Most of those rich kids suck at art.

     

Not all of them.

     

Not all of them.

     

Some of them.

     

I would say most of them suck at art.

     

Yeah.

     

Most of them are like...

     

I mean, here's the thing.

     

I know some people.

     

I'm not going to name any names, but I know people who went into

     

art school who suck that art, but they got people

     

that they knew to help them get into art school.

     

Oh, yeah.

     

I came across a great video the other day day.

     

He said, he said, what was he?

     

He said?

     

He was like a person, a mediocre person who is in motion will

     

do better than a creative, talented person who's's standing still and doing nothing.

     

Something along those lines, Basically the point saying, like, you

     

would be surprised that people who are just barely good at something who

     

are getting ahead because they're just doing it. doesn't matter how good they are.

     

They're doing it.

     

And you're talented and you're smart and you're creative, but you're sitting on your ass.

     

You need to get off your ass and do it because look what that guy's doing.

     

And he's not even as good as you are type of thing.

     

I don't know if that makes sense, but, but I think

     

I also don't think it really applies to what I was trying to

     

get at, but yeah, that is a good sentiment.

     

Well, you know what I mean?

     

I'm like the rich kid who's just mediocre but he's

     

doing it is is doing better already than

     

That's what's the time.

     

That's what you're mind.

     

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

     

I get it.

     

You come up with these analogies based on doom scrolling because that's all I do with my time, apparently.

     

Like you said, everything you do is

     

on vibes and questionable memory.

     

I need to work on that.

     

Yeah.

     

I'm always the one that has to remind you of that you said.

     

And you're like, oh, yeah, I did say that.

     

I'm going to make it my 2027 goal.

     

What do they call that?

     

Goals.

     

I don't know that...

     

your resolution.

     

My resolution, thank you. is this work on

     

better memory, Better management of my time and my schedule and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

     

I don't want to ever do a resolution.

     

It's a soft resolution.

     

I'm soft launching it now.

     

Yeah, no, I get it.

     

Anyways, well, you know what?

     

I get it.

     

That was a nice nice little coverage of what we watched this year.

     

I think we're good there.

     

Alex.

     

What do you want to plug anything really quick?

     

Yeah, I think so, too.

     

I'm trying to do a video

     

on utilizing some of the

     

video that I shot in Japan.

     

Oh, yeah.

     

Revolving around Japanese

     

soft vinyl toys, sofubi

     

like the kind of

     

Japanese kaiju monster toys, you

     

know, it's been a passion of mine for ages, but I never really

     

like got fully committed into it,

     

but obviously the trip to Japan, let me see if I could

     

share a little video of it it.

     

Let me see.

     

I to have some video.

     

Sorry, let me.

     

So for context, where is this?

     

So this is in Akihabara.

     

Let me just turn out the audio on this, so I'll mute it

     

So this is from this place called Mandarake Ko.

     

It's in Akihabara, and it's a

     

Well, this is the the little mall that it's in.

     

And it's like this store where

     

a lot of like cool toys and art

     

toys and vintage toys.

     

But this one specifically sells...

     

a lot of Japanese kaiju

     

toys and like vintage soft

     

soft vinyl, soft plastic toys that are like very, very valuable.

     

I wanted to say I have some that I could show

     

you immediately on my shelf, but I don't want to stand up and grab it.

     

But anyways, this is like part of this is one of the stores that's in there.

     

This store was like a

     

what do you call it?

     

3D printing thing.

     

And they they would allow people people to come in and like they

     

could create all these things and they would like sell them through the

     

What do you call it?

     

The The store, through their store.

     

Let me see.

     

I'll try to grab another video.

     

Yeah, this is one of the toys that I got.

     

What is that?

     

It's a

     

Neo 1.

     

It's from, I can't remember what series it's

     

from, but I just, I looked at it and I was like, Dan, that looks really cool.

     

And it's at a good at a pretty decent price.

     

Don't Don't think about those zeros.

     

That's in Yang.

     

That's in Yen.

     

Yen.

     

But, yeah, it's really, like, they sell a lot of.

     

It's a finely curated shop.

     

I'm trying to piece together a video talking

     

about Mandarake Coco and the culture of

     

soft vinyl.

     

Obviously, it's going to be a very short

     

form, but with the amount of video that I took.

     

But I think that it's

     

an important part of pop culture, especially

     

you know, like Japanese

     

like DIY culture because there's a lot of like artists who

     

make their own toys still these days and they they don't really get

     

a lot of shine in the art world

     

but it's a very niche sort of thing.

     

But yeah, it's it's something that I love,

     

and I'm hoping to get that really soon.

     

At least at least at the time of like when we do our Japan

     

recap and discussions of when they finally discuss perfect days.

     

Nice.

     

Do you want to plug your socials really quick?

     

Oh, yeah.

     

And you can find me at Daily Dares and all the socials.

     

You You can look up a Collectible Galaxy also.

     

We should shout on Justin just to open a little online

     

retail store Ghostner.bcel.com?

     

Yeah, I believe.

     

Yeah.

     

That's some cool stuff stuff on there.

     

Go check that out.

     

Yeah.

     

Love it.

     

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Any final words, Alex, tonight?

     

I don't have any, so there you go