This is not don't expect to be press put on your life fast, Dannias
time. Straight from use you'll find me Surmich side cost hi Eron. Welcome
to side Quest the episode as we do in between our classic adventures. I'm
Steve Weverlle and joining me today is Robert Bevan. Hello, friends, Robert
Bevan of Critical Failures, fame myself of I'm a guy who plays Brandon fire
Master on the podcast. Yeah. Speaking of podcast, We've got a convention
coming up. If you listened to this, you'll either listened to it the
day before the convention or the week after the convention. So some of what
we say might be entirely redundant or like or eighteen years after the convention.
Yeah, we might all be dead and you're listening to this and wishing you'd
made better choices with your life. Son, I love you, I love
you t Jack. So, yeah, we got a convention coming up.
Are you prepared for this in any way? Bevin? Oh not really?
I mean all right, I guess I'm all right. I got it.
I got my ticket for I'm a playing ticket, and uh, I rented
a car and I got my hotel room sorted out, So the bare necessities
I am prepared for. However, everything else conrelated, i'm willfully I'm under
or unprepared for. Like I got a message on my own Discord channel,
So I'm looking forward to your get the game you're running on Saturday morning?
What? Yeah, that's something we're doing differently this year. We've been scheduled
to do kind of individual games, and because Drew's in charge, it's definitely
scheduled. We can't just wing it like we always do. Well, maybe
this will teach Drew why I shouldn't be running any games. A valuable lesson
in trying to control Robert Bevan, not control just like expectations just or suggest
he doing a fit that hard. I keep saying it again and again.
And running a game. It takes a set of skills that I do not
have. Well I don't have them either, and I've got to run an
actual live game with an audience. Yeah that'll problem suck too. Yeah,
well that's something you can look forward to. Authors and Dragons come ONNY three
in Portland, Oregon. Have you got your tickets yet? If it's after
the con, that's a redundant question. You can still give money, but
We're not going to do another con especially for you. I should probably make
that clear now. If we do a con in twenty twenty four, its
definitely specifically for you. Yeah, but you have to buy another ticket for
them. Yeah, I'm excited. I've got I've got my costume. Well,
I've had to buy some new gold shorts. The other ones were basically
it was, you know, there's there's obscene in a funny way, and
there's obscene and we should you know, probably call an official kind of way
you should wipe better. Yeah. Well, yeah, probably those shorts were
definitely heading in that direction. So there'll be brand new shorts, hopefully less
less likely to just suddenly dissolve in public. Hey, I had a good
run with him, Yeah I would. I wouldn't to free conventions. They're
probably probably like ninety percent bud light, but it's point ah. Yeah,
So I'm mostly ready. I've kind of got my game planned. I've got
my fan game planned as well, and bringing a Hero Request with me.
I'm just gonna play Hero Request with people a classic Hero Requests set as well.
So that's a little bit of cultural significance there. Well, I'll get
in on that action because I haven't ever played, so I'll finally know you
experienced the joy of playing Dungeons and Dragons without the need for tedious things like
imagination and improvisation, just delightful miniatures and rolling dice. Yeah. Excited,
I'm excited. Will you be bringing your Jews for a costume this year?
Yeah, that's probably gonna take up like half my space on the plane.
I think I got one carry on bag, and so I might bring like
eight books or something and the costume and some extra underwear and there you go.
You could wear a costume on the plane. Now, I'm already gonna
get a random bag checked enough. It would be comfortable, right. That
seems like a comfy I mean, if it was that and nothing else maybe,
But yeah, summer. We always have these conventions in the summer,
and I choose to cover as much of my body as possible. I feel
like you're doing robes wrong if you're wearing like a full outfit underneath. Yeah,
but no, it's been specifically requested by the fans that I wear things
underneath. Reasonable, I suppose. And I'm not deep in Dungeons and Dragons
law, I don't know what wizards wear. Underneath their robes. They may
wear cargo shorts and the Creatures and Cabins T shirt for a liner undoubtedly.
Ah So, okay, you're even very excited for the convention as we are,
or the conventions already happened, and you're you're still excited because it because
it was great and everything went well and there were no problems, and you've
all got three three months left in your sentence. Nobody died, that's the
important thing. Oh, christ, I hope I have not chink stamp.
If you listen to this as before the con don't die, that'd be a
real fucking bummer. Yeah. And if you don't, then, you know,
Steve sounds like a psychic. Yeah. I don't want that kind of
responsibility. Well, it's a good thing. You're predicted nobody would die.
Always see, I thought you meant if they did die. Oh no,
you didn't. Well, the God's over and everybody is dead. Okay,
Well I think I've cursed the con enough. Now, what we talk about
on today's side quest sad news. You've probably all heard them about by now.
We're not very good at being particularly on the with side quest. This
is probably a couple of weeks ago by time you listen to this, but
Paul Reuben aka pee Wee Herman sadly dad at the age of seventy after battling
a long illness. Yeah, that blows. Yeah. I wanted to bring
up because I know you're you're a big fan of him. Yeah, I
am. Pee Wee pe Wee Herman and Ed Grimley we're look, I don't
know, I really loved them when I was a kid, and yeah,
I don't know. I want to I don't want to say influence on me
because I don't know what characteristics I've carried over from them, But it's just
my first experience that I recall is just weird and funny, and I can't
pinpoint why, but it absolutely is, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
it's it's like, all right, look like they're characters. But when
I think characters, I think of characters in uh, like in a story
or something. But there's no story. They're just there and they're weird,
you know. Yeah, I mean it had to be a sea change in
entertainment, right m I mean, it's it's definitely kind of we look at
the kind of cartoons we got now for the people who grew up with that.
Maybe Herman was basically the SpongeBob SquarePants of his time. Yeah, it's
kind of just delightful, innocent man child who's just lives in a very weird
world and is just very enthusiastic about it all. That's just it, though.
I mean, whatever world is in there's Pue's Playhouse, there's Pewe's Big
Adventure. Those are different worlds. You can take the character and put them
in any world and he's weird, everyone else's kind of normal, and that's
just it. That's but he will remain a constant. Yeah, we didn't
have kind of I mean to me, at the time that Peewee's Playhouse was
happening. I think in England Britain we'd really only just let the children out
of the chimneys, so we weren't spending we weren't spending a lot of money
on the kids entertainment back then. I think we basically at the time you
guys had Peewee Herman, we had either a notable child molester or the options
were either there or a puppet so unintentionally frightening that you might just choose the
child molester anyway. Yeah, we're still kind of like low budget, very
like wobbly sets, and you can see the the zipper on the on the
bear. You wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, but no,
Peewee. Herman was kind of setting a bold new standard in terms of just
how things. I look at it now and it kind of it holds up.
So I'm sorry, Sor are you not familiar with Pews Playhouse? Yeah,
yes you are, Yes you aren't, Yes, I am. Okay,
so I'm comparing this to to British TV of the Tame. Okay,
okay, we weren't operating at that level. I think everybody learned some some
lessons from that, Like you know, you can have you can you can
have a bear costume that somebody hasn't left in a puddle outside of a of
an alleyway, you know, outside of a bar. I'm not saying it's
like, you know, it broke the mold for production values across the board.
I'm just saying, when you're talking about specifically kids entertainment, what we
were doing at the time nowhere nowhere near that level of quality. I think.
Dam I'm not sure. I don't know how much of that comes down
to production value. I mean the pubis playhouse set. Yeah, I'm sure
it doesn't compare to whatever you pulled out of a dubster over there, but
it wasn't it was you know, this wasn't high tech stuff. These were
hastily made puppets and things. And but you know, the characters that worked.
I mean I remember these characters, remember the voices. I remember,
Oh my god, Cowboy Curtis would go on to be Morpheous and that's always
fun to go back and look at. Yeah. I don't think I can
think of a single children's entertainment that went on to be a major Hollywood actor
from my my time coming from Britain made you like, you know, crime
statistic, yes, hood actor no Ah, Yes. But I didn't know,
because I think the character is so iconic. I didn't know that Paul
Ruben was in like other stuff. Yeah, yeah, he had some parts
here and there, and I mean that's a I didn't care as much about
Paul Rubens as I did Pee Wee Herman. Like, I don't know,
man, I mean, if it's at other stuff, I'll see it and
I'll say, that's that's Paul Rubin. That's I'm happy he's still didn't work,
But I don't know, I'm not I'm not excited about it. Hey,
I mean he does a fine job. Yeah, that's what I was
surprised about. He does do a fine job. He was in Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, which the movie movie. Yeah, he was in Mystery Men,
which is still kind of an underrated classic. Agreed. He was in
Flight to Navigator, one of my favorite movies. Well, he was pee
Wee Herman and that. Yeah, yeah, he was basically doing that voice.
But yeah, no, he was in He was in some classics.
I wonder if he wasn't a he wasn't a one of those superhero TV shows.
I think it was Gotham. It was spam, like one of the
villain's fathers or something. I don't know. I never watched it, but
I saw his name. He would do well in Gotham. Goffham was It
was a weird theatic kid experience. Yeah, that was my kid was into
that for a long time, obsessively into it. He had a strange recurring
role in a few episodes of the Blacklist, which I think you haven't seen.
I have not seen that. I was like genuinely entertained by who was
like, Wow, I'm glad to see Paul Rubens. And he's kind of
weird. Kind of weird was why he was good at Yeah, and that's
true, but he's also kind of a good slimy character. He played it
well. Yeah. I'm kind of wondering that if he never did Pee Wee
Herman, would he just be like a really notable that guy from movies?
He'd be like, ah, it's that guy. Possible. I like that
guy, yeah, but I mean so much care ah, Like I wonder
what would have happened if, you know, Phil Hartman had stuck around,
like because he was instrumental in building the pee Wee Herman character, I believe.
Oh that's interesting. Yeah, I think there was elaborating Hollywood gossip there.
Like yeah, I think there because I don't think pee Wee Herman,
oh man, I should have done my research before coming on here. But
I think it was like a stage act. What have you ever done that?
All? Right? Yeah, but there's something I care about. I
think it was like a stage act, like not uh kind of like ostensibly
for kids, but absolutely not. There's a lot of dirty, adult adult
jokes thrown in like kind of like shingles, except nowhere near that level of
filth. But yeah, I think it was Paul Rubens and uh and uh,
what did I just say? Phil Hartman like working together? I should
I should look Phil Hartman from being the best thing about The Simpsons. Yeah,
and just having one of those classic great voices, which I guess Paul
Ruben did as well. So oh, all right, here you go.
Here He and Paul Rubin wrote the screenplay for Peewee's Big Adventure. That's fun,
There you go that and that movie kind of change my life. That
was I love that so much. I've got to say. I saw the
most recent Peewee movie where they used the aging technology on him, and it
was fun and it was charming. But I've never actually seen Peewe's Big Adventure.
Whoa we have to put it into that, I know. I feel
like it's that made it sound like you've got to take me out back and
shoot me to that click clack. I saw the most recent one too.
It was it was fun and yeah and charming, but it didn't have quite
the same magic. It felt like it had like it had we magic in
it, but it felt like I don't know. This is what's expected,
this is what we have to There was no It was from that time of
remakes and pseudo sequels where they were just very much treading familiar ground for the
streaming market. Yeah, I'm happy they did it because it was funny and
and it was a lot better than Big Top Peewee, which I did not
care for. Us a controversy. This has not got to be quite the
gold plated remembrance of Paul Reuben. What was your problem with picked up Peewee?
I just thought I was born okay, phone, I forget there's something
more controversial than that. I was expecting, you know, you know,
sequels whatever, I don't even know it counts as a sequel. But the
second Peewee Herman movie, I thought, you know, all right, yeah,
sequels or second movies in the series are gonna let you down. But
but but Peewee's not gonna let me down. No, I mean, what
was the age that was the aged sequels letting people down. There was none
of this multiverse ship. Back then. You had one great movie, one
awful movie, and then a follow up movie with different actors. That's what
we got back then. That was the standard. So I guess we can't.
We can't hold it against him from not from not bucking the formula.
I guess few people did. Yeah, man, it's hard to talk about
with you because you haven't seen the magic that is Peewee's Big Adventure. I
feel like it's such a warmly remembered part of most of the writers coming up
in my generation and memorable too that I probably know more about it than most
movies I haven't seen that way. The one wedd was someone with the truck
a lady and she large March, Large marchesterly terrifying yet and yeah, of
course there's all sorts of just clipped chokes going in this age of clipped content
with your tiktoks and your whatnot. Yeah, there's a there's a few Peewee's
flying around. There's all right. I think this might be my favorite now
if there's so many. But one of my favorite scenes was, like,
you know, he loses his bike, gets sold, and he's he's having
a neighborhood meeting in his basement to get to the bottom of this, and
he's presenting evidence and whatnot, and this this guy in his basement leans over
to whisper to another guy, so I think, and Peewee freaks out out
him. He says, isn't this something you could share with the rest of
us? Amazing Larry? And that is the only time we see amazing Larry.
There's no context for why he's called a basic Larry. Ah, there
you go. He's born a wonderful, memorable character who wasn't even a character.
Ah. What did we all have such opportunity? I've been I've been
coming up with Steve names for years now. I don't think it topped amazing
Larry, wonderful and we can't talk about your childhood hero about also talking about
some of his legal controversies. Yeah, that's another what if question? What
if that hadn't happened, What if he hadn't gotten called Jack and I having
a porno theater. You know what I'm gonna say. If you're if you're
going to a jerk off theater and you jerk off, I think that's acceptable.
I think it's like, oh no, he went to a he went
to a stripper joint and he looked at some boobs. It's like, that's
what you're supposed to do, That's what he's there for Yeah, but are
you supposed to jack off of the strip club? No, but you asked.
But I think in certain theaters there's just a nun, there's just a
guy with a mop saying like, what's going to happen? I spend I
spend a lot more on mops than most theaters. And that's just the reality
of my of my business model. There was there was some other controversy too,
but he was cleared from it, and so he just had like a
vast, vast porn collection. Yeah. I mean again, I can't I
can't really fault the man, and we were all on the intoe it.
Now we've all technically got like an infinite porn collection. So it feels a
little bit like it feels a little bit like jerking off in a glass house.
Well, no, I think he collected like vintage porn and stuff.
I'm not sure exactly. Well classy yeah, well, well now I feel
a bit common personally. Yeah, but I'm not really seeing any of that
kind of It's very popular, I guess right now, somebody who's even remotely
famous comes back into the Stoppler with even a smudge on their character. But
the Internet to just dog pile and try and score some outrage points. But
it's not happening with Paul Ruben, and I'm glad. I mean, if
if the crimes were different, like you know, if he was beating his
kids or something, then yeah maybe, But I mean he was jerking off
of the theater, in the jack off theater. Yeah. Not real victims
there, no, Yeah, except except John Q. Public who had less
in their life. Later, I thought you were going to say, John
Q. Mop have a that's that guy was Keptain Floyd. Yeah, he
knew what he signed up for. Uh yeah, So that's it's refreshing.
He's being remembered very fondly. And again as as a foreigner, he's kind
of he's not part of our kind of cultural heritage. But even I kind
of I guess, just from interacting casually of Americans all this time, how
sort of I guess important he is to the context of American entertainment. And
I do think there's a lot of there's a style right now, well not
right now, for a few years now of these like innocent man babies who
are just hyper enthusiastic, and that's all got a stem from what he was
doing. Right, What are you talking about specifically. I'm still thinking a
SpongeBob every time I look at SpongeBob. Now, I think it's just kind
of modern day peewee, right, Yeah, I can certainly see some influence
there. Yeah, and all the other ones might very well just be SpongeBob
knockoffs. But I had to start somewhere. It seems to me it may
have started with Paul Ruben. Oh, it does sort of. The whole
jack off ear thing does change the context, now, doesn't it. When
you remember, like the a popular character is an actual human being. It's
never it's always a little bit like seeing the strings, isn't it. Where
do you see that the christ what do they call it, the mug shop
with him with his goatie. Yeah, I was just seeing him like not
pee wee herman anytime. There's a little jarring at first. Ah, Yeah,
well I wouldn't. I never would have guessed had it not been pointed
out to me that he was the minion character in Buffy and the farting character
and mystery Man. Oh yeah, I just knew that both of those things
going in, so I don't know. Well, it was a pleasant surprise
for me. Yeah, both great movies, both great characters. So tell
everyone about your doll. I have a pewee Herman doll. I think I
think it's been on before. I think I've shown it. He said to
me before the starts, like, are we doing video for this one?
And I said, I, We're not doing video for this one. He's
I don't have to whip out my pee wee Herman dolly, and I said
whip out It sounded I don't think there's any way you could say I do.
I'm going to expose by people. I'm going to show people by peewee
about how you put it, it sounds like an offense. That's just me.
I don't know. I don't know if it's just inheritent deface, but
I mean, no, I have one, and if we were going to
do a video, it would only be natural for me to pee wee have
adult Ah. There's no way to say that. That isn't isn't the sex
crimet. I'm sorry, but what a legacy. I was quite surprised he
was seventeen. Certainly didn't him for Ammen's suffering an illness for the last five
years of his life. Was so very youthful looking dude, Ah, yeah,
what's Sam looking at pictures now? And agree he haswer me Johnna,
but uh no, like he looks better than I look at seventy. Yeah,
well I'll be dead at seventies. I would have been dead for like
fifteen years at that point. He's definitely looking he's looking bad at me now
and it's been a couple of weeks. What should he says to you?
There? The clock's ticking there. Oh wait, you're younger than me,
though, well not out much. That's that's not quite like everyone's going to
die at the card prediction. It's like, if you guys want to put
money on that I've treated my body like a rental car with you know,
you can you can put some fairly good odds on that I'm not outliving.
Peewee. Well that that is false you Oh yeah, I phrased that wrong.
That makes me sound like I'm some kind of undead gul, which I
might be, you don't know. Only real way to find out if I'm
a ghost and artist to come to Offers and Dragon's Card twenty three, Portland,
Oregon. Is Steve really alive? Is he a ghost? Is he
a zombie? And when we to find out come up and shake my hand
and my cold, undead hand. Well, we did a side quest.
Everybody's kind of where everything's really busy prepping for the con Even with Drew's iron
love of Excel sheets and organization, putting a can together as being a hard
work. It's been a lot of organization, and we've got to a stage
where we've got like a load of cool guests, we've got a load of
cool events. There's like, there's no I don't know what people typically expect
from a convention, but everyone's like, is there going to be a panel?
No, there's not gonna be a panel. Panels are boring. If
you want to talk to the writer about writing, I fucking talk to them.
We're one step closer to get rid of the pels, get rid of
the panels. I think we're all it's all shows. There's quizzes and live
shows. That's pretty much it. All right, When we get rid of
all that shit, we'll be more steps closer. Whether it is just us
crowding in your garage, watching you drink bud life, well, I mean
you can drink too, yeah, well yes, you talk experience. Look,
the the concept of Bevitt Cod was like, you know, go into
the con and saying, you know what, this is the part I really
enjoy and if we could strip away all the other stuff, it would be
perfect. And that was just hanging outside the hotel, drink your beer and
talking to people. Yeah, just getting drunk while people watch you, not
watch me. We are interacting that they're gonna be watching you as well.
I mean I'm not asking for the blindfolded. Yes, they can have their
eyes open as we talk. It defends how populate it is. Gets you
might like, go super diva, but look at me. Well, I
drinking by but law you look at you, look at the floor. Yeah,
i'd some dat reached out on the discord. Sounds like I've already bought
a book. So are you going to be can you like, can you
can you do photos to sign and charge for them? It's like we are
not charging for photos, kind of can't. It's like I gotta be there
just sort of in the middle of the room. I guess we've got one
newer to neither. Yeah, just like you can have a photo. It's
fine. I might be you know, I might be semi conscious. Take
as many photos as you want. Yeah, I'm not going to hunt you
down with an invoice later. Yeah, please do I can, we can,
we can hang over it. I'll I'll put the pieces together of what
happened that night. Yeah, please please do photo documentary. Entire fee is
really useful. I am excited. I'm nervous. I got my flights,
I got I'm always a little bit nervous. I am. You might not
think kit to hear me on the podcast, I'm something of an introvert for
about deal about seven beers deep, then annoyingly the opposite. But yeah,
no, it's quite nervous. It's always great to see people, but you
know, there's pressure to be like an actual human being and not my strong
suit. I don't know you and I go into this with different strategies.
I don't feel that pressure. Well, you want to end master of standing
standing in a circle of people watching you drink bud light. That has never
ever happened. It's not a side show. If I'm standing there, Remember
it's because I am talking to people. You are a side chick, not
just be drinking bud light. It's not that's not the event. I feel
like that's the core of the event. I feel it's the foundation of the
event. All right, I need, I need. It's some video this.
I did a video of a crowd of people standing around me. None,
nobody's talking, nobody else is drinking. It's just be alone, drinking
bud light amongst a swarm of observers. And maybe they're jotting notes down in
their little books. You made that sound like some kind of Victorian vivisection.
Yes, that's no. You made it sound like that. It can be
you know, well, you know, listeners, reach out. If that's
what you want from Orphans and jackets con, that's what we'll deliver. We'll
have a little amphitheater. You can all sit quietly in the shadows taking notes.
Well, Bevin just sits there on a throne of bud light. I'd
turn up for that. Bevin Khan, No, Bevin Khn, I make
the rules. That's not that's not what's happening. All right, Okay,
I'm curious about going and what are rules of Bevin kun. First rule of
Bevin your drink and we're talking, we have a good time. Oh okay,
well it seems fairly manageable. Is there's the second rule of Bevan car
no, that was it? All right? Okay, I just imagine you
in a fight club scenario. I'm talking about it like, that's fine.
It would kind of be like fight club, but instead of fighting, there's
just you know, talking and drinking beer in a sweaty basement, so everybody's
still shirtless. Obviously I had halfway through like an angry Italian man or come
down or what I can see that happening. Ah. Yeah, I'm a
little nervous. I'm always a little bit nervous about these things, not just
the short Smite explode. We got a few, we got We're appearing in
a couple of games. Now there's My game, which you were in.
There is the Salty Bastards game, for which we appear as both Jawcer and
stan One. I'm sure there's another game too, Well, maybe there's not.
Maybe there's only two. Oh, that sounds better. I know that
Gibby's doing a live game, which he didn't actually know about until a couple
of days ago. So that's going to be fun. I know the feeling,
uh yeah, that that might actually be my fault, my fault in
Gibbey's case. I think definitely my fault. I told him problem. Yeah,
he was under the impression he was doing what we're all doing, which
is kind of a sit down, non stage game with a couple of fans
and just hanging out with people. But no, I may have misrepresented that
to him. He is going to be on the stage doing an actual audience
led live games. So fuck you, Gibbey. I guess sorry that dead
air. Oh sorry, I thought I lost you there for him, and
I was checking my connection I was given. I was giving Gibby a chance
to mentally respond that did the work. I don't know. I won't know
till later. I'm not actually a psidekick. There was a bit we were
doing. We'll find out if that's true or not if anybody dies in the
convention. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want this kind of dark power responsibility
personally, but if I must take it, I will. I don't know
either, but somebody scheduled me to run a game, you know, Well,
I guess anything that happens now is it's Drew's fault. We got Judie
Black running a guest game, which should be fun because we've got a pretty
mean guest roster this year. Amy Lendon, who's the narrator, and actress
behind a lot of Drew's stuff, and also Jeff Hayes, who's the narrator
behind a lot of Matt Dinneman stuff. I figured joining in a games so
I'll have some actual people who professionally talk and not just us slurring our way
through bizarre scenarios. So that will be interesting. Yeah, depending on how
much they've had to drink, they might be slurring as well. Well.
Well, hopefully we should get them to that stage really, otherwise they're going
to make us look bad and that's not cool. It's our convention, right,
Yeah, if they're going up there anything less than eight beers deep,
that's kind of a fuck you two us. I think I will take that
personally. Yeah, you're going to see all the old OG guys in the
Salty Bastard's game and in my game as well. I've got a lot of
the OG cast. You're also going to see Quest for Competence headed by John
Hartness. I hope you've been keeping up of that. And I think Rick
can't make it, which is a real shame because Rick is Rick was.
I think him being Kane kind of I think set the tone for the podcast.
I do, I do believe that. When everybody was finding their feet
and working their character out, Rick was, Yeah, I'm just going to
be the most obnoxious Prick I can be, and that really kind of set
the tone I think for the entire podcast. So a bit bummed out.
Rick's going to not going to be there, but he is, I think,
phoning in for a couple of games, so we will. Yeah,
because you mentioned Salty Bastards, he will be running that game. Yes,
I would assume so, but via via internet connection. So be prepared,
dear listener, for technical difficulties. I was going to say we live in
the future now, but yeah, it's probably gonna be more technical. We
live in in a future, don't mean we're prepared for it in any sense.
Yeah, it's going to be running Salty Bastard games. He should be
appearing as moved Face Eater in Quest for Competence, my personal favorite character of
the new series. Moog Face Eater does what it says on the tin.
You know, if you're thinking what kind of man is moog Face Eater,
then you don't know Rick. So yeah, lots of exciting stuff. So
I am again I'm assuming this podcast is going out before the can in which
case you can share in my excitement. It was after the carn you can
just saying, actually, Steve, I was there and you were wrong about
everything? Or aren't you the one that posts? Yeah? But I never
know what I'm going to do, all right, I'm not a very good
psychic. I can't even I assume that most psychics know what they're going to
do the next day. All right, we've talked about can, We've talked
about Paul Rubin normally psychcast. We do a little bit of media catch up,
Bevan, have you watched any media? Let's see what I've been watching.
H Yeah, all right, I just finished season two of Only Murders
in the Building. Jesus Christ. He's not very good at nad culture,
are you have? I do like a learlier than Steve Martin and Martin Short
in their fucking eighties. Yeah, doing a murder podcast. They were so
charismatically mainstream for so long. I can't I can't possibly think of them as
counter culture. I'm really glad they're still doing stuff. I'm actually a really
big Steve Martin fan. Sure, who wasn't, Yeah, I've been One
of my favorite movies is l A Story. Yeah, one of my favorites
is The Jerk. It's a good one, and Mark sure as well.
I don't know why they stopped making movies with him, because it was just
like it was quite a free year period when he was in every movie,
and then he just wasn't for ageous and it seems like we were short changed
there, Martin short changed, if you will, nice, Yes, feel
good about that one. I don't know. Both of them were in like
these like nineties romantic comedy bullshit that I never wanted to see anyway, So
like, even when they were in movies, I didn't watch them. But
it's it's nice to see them again and something that I want to see.
Yeah, I should watch that. That's got two of my I guess component
act comedy actors growing up. I don't know why I haven't watched it.
Am I just a contrariant? Maybe? What is this? So like main
Street? Everybody's talking about it. Yeah, it's a murder thing. Everyone
likes murder of things. You can't you can't walk into a crowd without rubbing
shoulders with somebody who gets off listening to serial killers stories these days? Yeah,
but this is like a comedy show about that like, I'd never heard
of this outside of Hulu ads for it is pretty popular. No, I
mean serial killer stuff is like ludricrously popular. No, I get that.
Yeah, I'm under the dating apps at a minute. And every time I
was like, say, hey, what do you like doing, it's like,
oh, I like listening to stories about children being murdered. Well,
okay, if one person had said to me that, I'd thought that would
be a red flag. But considering every other woman has said that, I
just I assume it's just just what we do. Now, Oh, it's
a red flag if you say it, I'm sure. Oh, it's definitely
a red flag if I say. That's why I don't tell them. I
don't listen to it. Baby, I live it. I'm not doing well
on the dating apps, to be fair. But yeah, only murders in
the building. I should check out. I really should. It sounds delightful.
I'm just being miserable, Bevin. Have I watched anything else? Maybe
I don't. Nothing nothing jumps out at me. Have you watched the latest
season of The Witcher? Now? I watched the like the first three episodes
of the first season, was really bored. Well, they made the mistake
of doing it in a weird chronology, which is a shame and like with
like there's high school play settings and stuff. Yeah, you know what,
I think they spent a lot of money on Henry Cavill, who's doing a
lot of the heavy lifting with charisma there, and that's still going on.
It's like the supporting cast. There are a couple of really good ones,
but there are a lot of people who are just kind of like, all
right, who can we afford now that we bought Henry Cavill. And there's
a little bit of controversy surrounding this because Henry Cavill, apparently, despite not
looking like one in any sense, is a big old fucking nerd, and
he's well into the law and the video games and the books. And he
kept on writing notes for people, you know, saying, you know,
I'm like the big Hollywood star in it, and I love what we're basing
this on. Could we make it a little bit more like the books?
And there was. Bizarrely, their response has been fuck you, Henry Cavill.
So he's not going to be in season four that if there is a
season four, because the writers strike and a lot of bad will has kind
of tainted it. But I was watching season free and ha ha, I
was watching a HEAs in Free, and you know, there's monsters and there's
swords and there's magic, so it's my jam and I kind of enjoyed it.
But I was surprised how much again heavy lifting Henry Cavill was doing on
sheer charisma for a character who doesn't really say much because he's kind of a
Clint Eastwood with a sword. Yeah, and they spent a lot of time
just not focusing on his character. I don't know who he pissed off,
but he pissed off someone. He's definitely pissed off someone. He's no longer
Superman, he's no longer Whitcher, and I don't know. I thought he
was delightful in both roles. So unless something truly horrible comes out about him
later, like he was jerking off in a jerk off theater or there's a
collection of very classy pornography, but yeah, for now, I'm not terribly
excited, infused, or even faithful that season four of The Witcher will happen.
I wasn't even excited about season three, but it was okay, there
you go. I wasn't either. I know you weren't never excited about anything.
Ah, you really how much bad this podcast would be if you just
fucking watched some stuff. Look, we have other people in this podcast,
and you guys all like that bullshit. I like other things, And yeah,
this is why we did an entire season of podcasts and fucking Revolutionary Girl
out in her Yes, that was the most in depth podcast we've ever done
for a cartoon that maybe five people have watched. That's yeah. I don't
know. I guess I'm picky about what really really mad, really moves me.
Now, I'm not denying that Revolutionique is special. Maybe we should do
one on Twin Peaks, because you like Twin Peaks, right, Like Twin
Peaks, I don't. I don't think I can get through season two though.
Why no, you've got to give that time. No. I rewatched
it with my son recently, and you know, after after you find out
who the killer is, like the rest of it. No, no,
no, I thought you. Yeah, season two there's just a black hole
in the middle of it. You can you can ignore about ten episodes of
season two. O you're talking about the recent one. Yeah, because the
problem wasn't just a they didn't that they solved the killer issues, that they
got rid of David Lynch. Yeah, they didn't bring him back until the
end, and the end was great, and there was like just nothing going
on. It was just like these long empty episodes. Yeah, because they
got rid of creative genius behind it and oh shit, this is harder than
it looks. And yeah, I know this isn't gonna be the popular opinion,
but I didn't care much for season three either, not to the depths
of which I disliked the majority of season two. But yeah, all right,
interesting David Lynch, Yeah, with fun, quirky characters. And then
there's David Lynch let off the leash, and that's too much David Lynch for
me. I think you're kind of right, except I like David Lynch after
Leash a little bit. I like him after David Lynch. He's a had
Season three. I get because originally, like twin Peaks, was kind of
a parody of drama of its time, and season three well that in the
in the series, the series within the series, Invitation to Love, Yeah,
it knew what it was doing. Season three does as well. It's
just it's a parody of a different style of television, and it's darker and
more violence, and yeah, it's it does it does revisit the charms of
the original occasionally in quite an emotional way. I thought, oh, absolutely,
I don't hate it. It just you know, those are the bits
that I enjoyed. And then so we say we're not going to do a
podcast going through every episode of this program then including the movie Firewalk with Me.
I like that too, see that. I think that wrote her.
That was like the limit in that direction that I want to go. Well,
Firewalk with Me. Yeah, yeah, because that was that was hard
going. Yeah, that was that was intense. It was intense and weird.
And who is it who played Laura Dad? Sorry, Laura Palmer?
Laura Palmer? Oh, crap escapes me. I'm going to say her actual
name. No, it's a Laura Dern, which was the woman in Jurassic
Park. Right, Yeah, she shouldn't be in that movie. That's confusing,
Cheryl Lee, Well, all right, I just looked it up too,
Yes, okay, yeah, that that income from my brain that came
from Google. She was, I know, she was a little bit old
to be playing a seventeen year old, but she was intense. Yeah,
that was a great movie. Maybe we don't need to do a podcast and
we've just kind of we've visited the highlights here, you know, eulogy to
Paul Ruben, you know, like that, that could work. We don't
have to see the whole series, like watch Firewalk with me and we can
talk about this series or whatever during it. Well, that's what we do
about the movies, basically, is ever then that's like we do crappy movies
that we don't really care about. That's not entirely true. We've done Evil
Dead, We've done Hawked the Slayer. Yeah, all right, I didn't
care. Well, you don't care about a la of things. Maybe you
need to adjust your attitude, Bevin mhm. Or maybe not. It's part
of the formula now. Anyway, My point is Paul Reuben's dead, and
that's sad. But he had a long wide filled with vintage pornography and left
the less could any man ask for to die on a pyramid of high quality
pornography. I guess the side quest of this side quest has been about the
cart. It's either happened or it hasn't. Either way, I hope you
are there, or I hope you're going to be there. It's can shutings
can. Yeah, I hope you hope you went there and you are alive,
or you will go there and you will live there. You go,
I've put out into the universe. No ill intent. Oh I'm excited.
Yeah, I hope. I hope. All that too good? That's very
sincere bevith All right, well this has been it's been a limited cast side
quest because everybody's busy prepping for what's going to be a hectic week for everyone.
Holy shit, or has been a hectic week for everyone, Holy shit?
And yeah, thanks for tuning in. R AP Paul Reuben Rip Authors
and Trainings Card twenty three. All right, pee wee pe we Oh my
god, hashtag that shit right now. Man, your genius is wasted because
you don't pay attention to anything. No, I don't think it's wasted because
of all the places I'm masturbated. Well, if there's one thing we've learned
from poor Reuben, it's not well I actually no, we've learned the opposite.
It's definitely it's not how you masturbate, it's where you masturbate. I
was going to say, and yeah, no, I was gonna say the
opposite, it's not where you masturbate, it's how you masturbate. But no,
Paul Rubens is sadly no longer living proof of the opposite of that.
So I don't know what a formula is bevin yeah to success. I've been
jerking off in all kinds of ways, and I just don't know if I
have the answers. Ah, damned if you do, Damned if you don't.
Like if I got caught now, nobody would care because I'm not famous
enough. Every single masturbate react is imbued with the tragedy and the relief that
no one cares. And on that philosophical high point, we will say good
night to you, good night, goodbye, goodbye friends,