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lovely people with me, so let's get started. Gibbie, introduce yourself.
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my latest to come out, The Final Girl, is the penultimate Shingles at
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of a Shingle series and a singles with a content warning because we needed one
before the end. So that's your little teaser for today. Unpopular opinion.
Yes, content warnings can work even in a Shingle. I'm like, that's
that sort of reminds me of the line from from Deadpool fourth Wall Break Inside
a fourth Wall Break that's sixteen walls. I'm basically trying to see how much
I can do that has never been done in one fucking fire. No,
there's maybe like a dead Pool and there's just that liar's like whispers like that
guy's on fucking fire as he runs by. I love that Movie's that's that's
a classic. I do love that movie. I did too. So it
is a popular opinion here on this podcast that Deadpool is pretty fucking awesome and
we love it. But tonight we're not here for that. We're not here
for what most people agree on. We're here to share each other's deep,
dark, dirty, unpopular opinions, particularly if they are not shared by the
other members of this lovely side quest. So I'm gonna lead it off because
I know what's coming. I think musicals are awesome. Yes, go go
musicals. One of my favorite movie is this Mulan Rouge. I did musical
theater, Go Figure. I did a musical episode of Authors and Dragons.
I think you're great. But somehow I think there is a rebuttal coming,
so please, it's beautiful. There's no rebuttal per se it's more of like,
uh, there is no form of of of art lower than a snake's
asshole than musicals. It is I I every time I bring this up a
nerd conversations because they trust me. I am surrounded by you, theater dorks,
and it is it everywhere I go. And I love here's the thing,
you know, I'm in the same nerd spaces. I love that you
love it. I truly truly do. But every time I try to say
it's not for me, I got the wah hold on show, let's see
it. Let me hear y right there. It is so when I'm like,
oh no, no, no, no, you understand, it's not
that I haven't seen them. I've seen countless musicals. I've been forced through
many musicals and I and I've tried men many other musicals, and it's just
like it. It just withers my soul every single time I am forced to
sit through one of these things, because nothing angers me more than one antiquated
music. Even if it's in modern music, it's still that still has that
same antiquated like yeah, bulls, I hate it. It drives me crazy.
Shut the fuck up, get through the plot. Stop singing stop singing,
and then God damn it, God's above and below. Every single successful
show's got to have the musical episode. Yay, we're gonna sing of dance
people. It's like the one time I hated Star Trek. Thank you you
maybe hate Star Trek, Fuck you, Buffy, suck it all the musical
episodes. Scrubs, my beloved scrubs click next, Moving on. I hate
the musicals because it's just it's just not for me. It's not my music,
it's not my styles on my scene. And again I love that you
love it, I truly do. I just well, good cats are evil
anyway. It's okay. I've got three of them. I've their little help
the Legion of Dead, but in my backyard, and we'll beg to differ.
The cats are saints. Fuck off, you know, no no,
no, no no, Like I just do not care for the art form.
I plaud the art form. I plaud the people go into it.
The stock is my wife's musical theater person in high school. She's sang dance.
She doesn't thing, she's she's actually at a show right now, putting
on the Alice in Wonderland play the musicals in the spring and we're gonna go
see the play. And I like plays. I just loathe musicals because it
just ruins. Get that fluffy ass out of there, because they know cats
are being assholes. What can I say, No, it's it's okay there
people I like. I don't like all musicals. I don't like musical as
a genre. You know, none of can do any wrong. I there
are musicals that that are absolutely do no wrong for me. When I was
little, well before I was born, my mother got to see Richard Burton
and Julie Andrews on Broadway doing Camelot, and so she she bought the album
as soon as it was available, and I grew up listening to that.
So by the time I was four or so, I knew every word of
every song on Camelot. And then later on I discovered Jesus Christ Superstar and
learned every word to every song on that album, not just every word,
but every nuance. And when somebody sings it, like the recent John Legend
version that was on television, it was good, but it wasn't right because
it wasn't the one that I know to my soul. So I like some
musicals, some some just leave me kind of cold, like like if I
watch I like to watch Brigadoon because the music is good and the dancing is
fantastic. But if you pay attention to the story for more than twelve seconds,
you're gonna get so frustrated. The story makes no sense whatsoever. It's
so irritating. But the music is beatiful and the dancing is sublime. So
I just watch it for the for the music and the and the dancing,
and try to ignore the fact that the story makes no sense at all.
And when I was a younger, angrier, nerd, I would try to
convince you that you're wrong and you're a bad person, and you're and and
all that. Ship. As I've gotten older, a little bit more tour
about no just no just just opinions in general, unpopular things in general.
It's one of those like this is just how I feel. I'm not going
to try to convince you otherwise. Now it could be fun to have an
argument, which is hopefully why we're here, you know, But to argue
and have fun, They're perfectly fine, and know that it's it's I never
want to be hurtful, you know, Like it's like you know, being
I'm never mad. I don't ever ranch about a person for what they are.
It's what they choose. And musicals there's a porch life choice just through
and through you know. Well, it's just like it's like being an author,
like is it feeding exactly? Is it feeding your is it feeding your
family consistently on a thing or is it just like it's a prestige thing that
you do on the side because it's like, we work very hard. I
know that feeling. So uh I again, I hear a couple of musicals
and there's a song or two sure, like with the one from Camelot by
the Sword enter Lord's Song. I remember hearing that as a child. I
was like, oh, that's kind of like it evoked that kind of mythical
fantasy thing inside of me and I enjoyed that. Uh. I mean,
camel I'm sorry, but Camelot is pretty God tears when it comes to musicals.
Like, you know, if they could just stop all that singing,
if they could just stop all that singing and tell a story, it's great.
I'm in future king and it's right, and that's what I want to
hear. I don't need I can't hear you are because I'm a Lancelot Stan,
which just gets me into many arguments with some of my friends, like
Natania Bear. Okay, but no, I mean I actually put Camelot the
musical in my book with the vampires, and the vampire is obsessed with watching
Camelot because he's the son of King Arthur or grandson of King Arthur. But
that's neither here nor there. Oh it's like, okay, for example,
like everything like Donny's like that bastard, he should die. You get you
get the Rted comedy, like like way back when South Park the movie was
basically a musical because the guy who loves it loves musical theater, and so
there's a lot of songs, but they're all very very raunchy, very randy,
very dirty, very wrong. I like that that's a new Q or
don't know that one. I've heard a couple songs of Book of Mormon.
That's like, I chuckle, But again it's I haven't heard the entire thing,
and it's I again. I told the story before. I when in
high school, I wanted to be an actor, What's what I wanted to
do? And I went to musical theater and I went to theaters like classes,
and I took them. And the lady who ran it, I won't
name her name, bitch, she like she she's she taught my wife for
many years. She only used this as cheaply like unpaid labor to build flats
and sets while she trained her actors on the side. And every time we
try like hey, we're gonna get like an acting class or like improv or
something like, hey, build flats. And when we weren't building flats,
we were watching musicals, because that's what that's how she got our grades.
We watch musical. It take like a twenty twenty question test to see if
you're paying attention to the musical. And that's how she got her a's.
And the rest of the time you just painted and built and that's all I
did in musical and like, well you kind of thanks. You kind of
ruined the experience for me. And then like some trauma. Oh there's no
yeah, oh maybe it's you. Well there's that, but there's no there's
also I just I this this music, it's just you ever hear something just
wrong and it just it just you can't explain why. It's like do not
big No, So you meet somebody that'd be nice, but like, I
can't date this person. They something's wrong here. It's that's me and musicals.
Hey, we can shake hands with your friends, we can walk in
the same direction. It's never gonna happen. It's just never gonna happen.
I had. I took acting one o one in one of two my first
year of college, mostly because I'd done a little theater in high school and
enjoyed it. Uh my feelings about Fiddler on the Roof notwithstanding, but we
don't talk about we don't talk about Fiddler. But uh but anyway, I
took acting one oh one, and the very first day of class, I'm
sitting in the in there with I don't know forty other people, and the
teacher starts calling the role. Well back then, my last name started with
a bet, So I was like the second or third person he called,
and he he calls out the first person, he calls out the second.
He suddenly stops and he looks at the paper, and he looks around the
room, and he runs to the piano and he starts at the lowest end,
and he just scales all the way at, you know, all the
way up, and then he starts playing Misty, which is the song that
I was named for, and I'm like sitting there going, oh God,
just murder me, just put me through the floor. I was so like,
and normally I don't mind people knowing what my name is from, but
right then it was like, that is the last thing I ever wanted to
happen. I'm in a room full of strangers and you're making me absolutely stand
out. I hate it. And that was when I knew that I really
was not an actor. So I spent the best semesters working backstage and I
loved it. Ah. See, the Leo over here is like arow I
actually went into theater to overcome, believe it or not, crippling anxiety and
shyness. And I kind of do the same thing that some people like David
Bowie and a few others do, is that when I'm on stage, I
just put on a mask and I found it very like soothing. And the
other fun fact is my name is only Rachel because that was the first thing
they could think of because I was supposed to be Joshua and oopsie they read
the helter zun wrong. Yeah, my parents used to dance to the song
Misty when they were dating, so I know romance. I'm looking into puppy.
For those who are listening to this, so previously in this episode,
my cat Griff was in my face for about five minutes. And now we've
got a lovely pepper. What's the pupper's name, Gebe? This is Stella.
Oh so we've had Stella and Griff both photo bombs. So you should
totally watch us on the youtubes if you want to see adorable animals. And
we have a stuffed pant eater. Yes, I love. Oh yeah,
you get to nerd. I've got a platypus back here. It's the closest
thing I have to a pet. Allergies in my house mean that I don't
have animals. Oh A long time ago. Yeah, but she's been one
popular opinion. Snakes are awesome pets. They were like one of the most
awesome apartment pets ever. So low maintenance, scary, low maintenance. Oh
my gosh, I loved that snake. She was a blast. But one
summer the air conditioning went out, and so while we were waiting for somebody
to come fix it, we had all the doors and windows standing open to
build crossbrees so that we would not die in our in our hot box of
a house, and the heat woke her up enough that she managed to get
out of her enclosure and disappeared. So I'm assuming she got out of the
house because the coal house was standing open. But either that or she's dead
in a wall somewhere. But oh, that's horrible. But yeah, I'm
hoping that she got out. But but yeah, she she left us.
So but she was fun while I had her. She was a grand pet,
really easy to easy maintenance and no trouble at all, and you know,
cool with playing with me. Whenever I wanted to play with her,
she'd just go all around my hands and stuff. So because you're warm,
those snakes love to wrap around mammals. Yep. My my roommate, he
had a bino Burmese python named Slim that would just sit around the neck until
we got to be six feet long, and he would still sit on your
neck, but you would still feel like he's like any day now, I'm
just gonna choke in each other, you know. But he was he was
He was cool. You know, I don't I don't hate it's spiders as
pets. I know people that have them, and I have like a one
fan and Melody she's cool and she's got her it's still creepy as fuck to
me, and I I can't. I can't endorse this message. I'm I'm
now so we have no snake haters in this We're all like, yep,
no, we actually like snakes. Thanks so cool. I actually like spiders.
I don't. I don't squish spider. I don't want one as a
pet because they just seem too hard to keep up with. But I want
spiders in my house because they eat things like mosquitoes and cockroaches and flies that
I don't want in my house. Right, But I'm not going to touch
them or love them, or they can eat randon. We can cohabitate,
but we ain't friends. Well, stay in your corner, stay out of
sight. It's one of those scenarios like I and don't stay on my don't
get on my ceiling on bed at night because now you got to die because
I lastly, I like, just nah, big no, it's like an
alien face hugger. Can't can't deal with that. My son has a phobia,
and so if he if there are if there are spiders that are too
big in the house. I will catch them and put them outside with an
admonition that they must live outside. They don't get to come in the house.
And I know my neighbors think I am absolutely over the wall because I'm
out there going this is where you live. You can't come in the house
anymore. And I'm just standing there with a cup, and they're going,
what is she talking to? Hey? I had a conversation with an asiatic
giant cockroach every day for two weeks because we had an agreement that I would
turn on the light and he would skid atle and then he could have anything
when I wasn't in the room. I didn't care because the big ones don't
carry diseases. As I was helpfully explained, the little ones you have to
worry about, so you want the big ones that are absolutely terrifying. But
uh yeah, yeah, I talked to that cockroach every day, like hi,
skippy. My wife talked to this one praying manus every when he would
come to visit every single day at the exact same time it's spot. She
talked him like, look at you. No one's murdered you, aren't you
a good little boy? Mike? It's a fucking mantis. She's like,
shut up having a conversation, all right, go back to business. Okay.
So what we've established is we disagree on musicals, but we're kind of
okay on talking to insects and well talking to animals. That's I think that's
that's that's fair. That's a fairly standard thing. But like you know,
when when you come into like you know, like I'll you know, not
trying to steer this, but when it come into like nerd culture, you
know, I you know, grew up. We all grew up in our
different ways. We all come to nerdism in our own avenues. We don't
have to come the exact same route. So mine was more of a securitist
route because you know, my my super religious and then angry and seeno filic
step dads like didn't all it was all Satanic panics. So it was it
was fantasy based, get the fuck out of here, you know kind of
thing. So by the time I got into this that I was kind of
like secretly hiding it was kind of like I missed the boat on certain things.
So when like the my nerd shirpas later in life tried to get like,
oh, this, You've got to try this, you gotta try this,
And I'm like, no, thank you, like what's wrong with you?
And like almost got a gatekeepy kind of way, like when they showed
me Rocky Horror, like, wasn't this the greatest thing you've ever seen?
Them? Like, we're back to musicals people, Well, but I'm used
to an example that was that was a waste of my time. One it
was a musical and too, I'm but I'm pretty sure that guys like they're
trying to use sexual relations like no, I'm pretty sure Frank and Furter like
forced himself onto people and they said no, He's like no, come on,
you like it and then like they kind of does sexual awakening. No,
that's date rape U. So it just didn't sit well with me,
you know, like no, you could you could say like it's kind of
like when you write the character like oh, they went through a horrible tragedy,
but now they're better for like or you know maybe not maybe not,
you know, you know. Uh So that that would never sat well with
me. Was people say Wizard's first rule, read this book. I'm like,
I don't like it, and they're like, oh my, but it's
it's Wizard's first rule. Like I've read every derivative thereof so when I went
back to this one, I'm like, it just didn't do it for me.
Be there already. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Rocky Horror was our
date movie for you said, so, yeah, yep, we would.
My husband, well, he wasn't my husband then he was my boyfriend.
But he he would get he would put the cassette tape. For those of
you who are very young, we listen to music on these little plastic things
that had tape inside and they rolled past heads that that interpreted the signals on
the tape and shot it out through speakers. It was amazing. But anyway,
he would put the cassette in and we would we would get halfway through
the musical by the time we got to the theater because it was that far.
It was up in Charlotte and we're in rock Hill, And so then
we'd go see the movie and we would have a blast, and we went
with a bunch of friends, so the car was just packed with people,
and then we'd get in the car and turn the tape over and listen to
the whole other side on the way home. It's just about the time we
got home was the end of the of the cassette. So but yeah,
that was our date movie. And it's Rocky Heart. It's not something you
can watch on DVD. It is not for home viewing, and it is
it. It's for it's for watching with a big group of people and being
absolutely out of control with So I'm a Newton bitter, says the introvert.
I would like to counterpoint that I do, indeed watch Rocky Horror picture on
DVD at home by my lonesome and just in honor of you, Ghibby.
My beloved son, otherwise known as the artist known as Erg has never seen
Rocky Horror, has never seen Rocky Horror, and he asked, So this
Sunday night, we're doing pizza and watching Rocky Horror as a family as one
does. Yeah, you're gonna yell all the stuff, right, I'm gonna
yell toilet paper and throwing. Before I joined the Air Force in the mid
nineties, uh, my college friends up at Frostbrook State they were the nerd
group and I found them and like they were the gamers, they were the
magic players, the D and D folks, and I found this and they
all and like a couple of them had a house off campus and that was
a basically everyone's crash place. You know, it was so any to give
you point, there's anying between like eight to eighteen nerds in this house at
any good point, just doing something, I think. But yeah, exactly.
So when I said I had not seen Rocky Horror, there was like,
oh my god, Rocket Horr. And they went and got the Rocky
Horror tape and they're playing it and I'm sitting there like, and then when
it got to the point we're all doing the time wheph, they're all jumping
up and doing the time warp where they're dow the thrusting part in my fucking
face. So it's an entire roof Well these nerds like, don't you get
it? And I'm like, and I'm like, I hate all of you,
and I you deserve loneliness. You are bad people. I mean I'm
not I don't truly think that, but I'm just angry at this time because
it's like, why you ease me in? I mean, if you're gonna
go balls deep into the ass, tackle it first, I mean, Jesus
God, like, you know, they just just went straight in and did
like there was no there was no foreplate. You know, Rocky Horror is
not. You gotta warn somebody. You gotta warn them, motherfucker before you
like spring this show. I plan on watching the horror on my son's face.
Oh my godness. This is a family tradition in a way, because
go figure my first experience watching Rocky Horror picture show. You want to hear
bad it was edited for television. I'm so ashamed to admit it. And
yes, I watched it with my parents. And thus the tradition of the
car House continues, and my children and my children's children shall watch Rocky Horror
at home with pizza, and it shall be glorious. My son try to
show him something good, and I'm like, hey, this is Lord of
the Rings's like, I'm bored, but watch anime, like you little shit,
all right, have fun? You know I can't. He's trying to
show him something cool, Like he's this kid who lies. He is not
a Marvel kid despite growing into this. It's like he doesn't. He's not
for world. When we were kids, there was Flash Gordon, Star Wars,
Star Trek and Highlander and that's it, you know, like Danne,
but it's not the way it is now. The top twenty movies weren't fantasy
movies. You know. It's like, you know, you get the occaional
of everything stories, you get the occasional like labyrinthor you went to that section
in Lightbuster, that special B movie section of fantasy, right, and you
just kept picking the new one and everyone looked like you're the one person taking
this out right, you know, and you found your nerve people through that.
But like, so he's grown up in a world that didn't have He's
always had a Marvel or a Potter or a franchise that's beloved, you know
that everyone knows. So it's like his his generations. Like I'd rather just
go watch old anime, like this isn't this. I don't need this because
I live in a world of fantasy. It exists everywhere constantly. So like
it's I'm trying to breach that gap between he and I, and uh,
it's a pain in the ass. So it's it's little victories. Have to
show them a movie like Elite a Battle Angel because it's kind of anime inspired,
you know, it looks kind of cool. It is anime man inspired,
right, you know with the giant eyes. I'm trying, and I'm
trying to get him like, well, I mean I've seen the anime obviously,
but he hasn't, uh, And I'm trying to get him to watch
what is it? A Pacific Rim Robots versus right, you know, And
it's like, that's not an unpopular opinion, that's but one of my good
friends. Actually it is because a lot of people don't like Pacific Rim.
We are the true chosen ones who love it, right, Like Gypsy Danger
exactly, I should explain to like the rocket ignites on the fist when it
punches the thing. It's so cool, you know. He's like, I'll
think about it. I just love that it's the voice of GLaDOS as the
computer. And I'm like, right, two pilots entering the jagger. I
I just and then you see, oh it's the guy from Torchwood. Oh
it's Ron fucking Pearlman. It's like a geek chasm and it has the best
It hasn't watched Torchwood is the doctor Who's spin off I've never see. Sorry,
I'm I'm not a I've tried it is. That's not my cup of
tea. I know, take my nerd card. I am not a Hooviyan
don't okay, no one tell British accent. But I don't like a lot
of doctor w I did like Christopher Eccleston as it, which is an unpopular
opinion. Apparently he's like my favorite doctor. But but yeah, I like
American sci fi better. Yeah they lost me with Matt Smith. I loved
for Eccleston. I love David Tennant. Somehow Matt Smith, I just I
lost interest and and I said different one. But man, in the House
of the Dragons, there are some things that I feel that I am ashamed.
No, I'm not ashamed of him, let's be real. Yeah,
that's a popular opigion. I don't like the dragon. You put a white
wig on him? And sure, yeah, I didn't care for a House
of the Dragon. I that's that's and I got into. Actually it was
one of the fans at A and Econ I met the first year Greg Drews
fround, the tall guy, and we were arguing back and forth. He's
like, what don't you like about it? I'm like, it's safe.
I've seen everything they showed me. I've already seen in Game of Thrones,
they have shown me nothing, but at least it so far hasn't. And
oh god, like it's not an unpopular opinion. What is the eighth season
of Game of Thrones? Why did they? And I had it's seven and
eight. It's there's a moment during the Battle of the Bastards. No,
we're gonna watch the last season together, right, There's a moment where John
Snow is fighting in the Battle of the Bastards and it's shot beautifully, gorgeous
scene, gorgeous battle. But then he gets knocked down. All these hail
of arrows come in and you can see the outline of the arrow is going
around because his fucking plot armor is so strong that arrows refuse to hit him.
Lanth prone on the ground and that it just back from the dead.
You can't die. Oh my god. It just irked me, Like that's
supernatural physical plot armor. I can see it. It's like a bubble around
while the arrows refused to hit it. I'm like, it was supposed to
be a tense scene, Like that's bullshit. I did the same thing in
Rings of Power, another thing that I ended up watching. And I'm watching
Galadriel and I'm going and there's a volcano exploding. I'm like, thank god,
she's a literal plot armor, Like you can see the volcano exploding around
and she's in her armor, and it's just like it might as well say
plot on it. Yeah, that's that's another one of those shows. When
I watched that, it's like, like again, I'm I'm the asshole for
saying eh no, oh no, no, I'm with I'm with you on
that. It's and what makes me so mad is that it's used as we
don't like strong women. I'm like, that is not true. Okay,
look at the show Arcane, Our Cane, Thank you. That's my go
to and everyone loves it. It has it's a masterpiece. With that,
it is masterful. It is. It's a masterpiece. It's beautifully written,
and it has incredibly complex female character. It is not that. It is
the fact that you made Galadriel so unlikable. It doesn't matter what is under
her armor. It's the fact that she has this thick layer of asshole armor
on. I'm sorry guys staring at me like, how dare you be smirched?
Galass I said the same thing, And maybe it's because I'm a dude
who happens. Yep, definitely white. Uh. When I said it,
it came across as like, oh, you're just one of those guys.
I'm like, I know, I'm a writer, and this is bad writing.
You took a character like she's supposed to be marching bravely towards whatever,
and she's like, leave her man behind. We got a mission to do
that. They've been marching with three hundred years. I'm like, maybe you
don't leave your men behind to suffer and die if you want to endear me
to the audience. But she's so driven. I'm like, no, this
is this is bad writing. And it's okay to have some negative points if
to be suner balanced, but there's so much of it. Is it just
she was written to be I do good because good is good, and that's
not a very compelling one. Well, it's one of those scenarios where she
she got down. And the only cool character in the entire show was the
guy who was the transition between Elf and Orc. He was in the halfway
change. I can't remember his damn name. Yeah, from going back to
Game of Thrones, he looked he looked he looked like evil Data, he
looked like evil Data anyway, Evil Data Data, Evil Data And he's like,
no, but we prefer the name UB. She's like, I won't
stop until I have killed every single one of your spawned, but you will
live last to know that they are all down. I'm like, what,
so, genocide that's what you're talking about, these people who you're making to
beat the villains who like, listen, we're being killed because we're ugly and
we live in the dark and people hate us. You want to murder us
when we just want to be free. She's like, yeah, well you
stop. She's not a hero anymore. Yeah, you stop making them in
a hero And like, I'm not saying you gotta be like I'm a Peladin.
They don't have to be like that. They're not ugly, do right?
But jenocide for reasons? Yeah, I kind of an asshole that hating
on Rings of Power might be an unpopular opinion at this point. In some
ways it is. God, did you ever wonder though, how on earth
did they spend a billion dollars on a show and still make it look cheap?
Yeah? Oh, I mean that's well, that's that's all the Marvel
movies these days. Season four, it sees me, this whole fourth move,
fourth wave, what do they call it? Not arc season face,
phase four everything everything, Yeah, but at all everything looks like it's shot,
like we have three except Guardian it's just a good one and like and
but everything's everything's on one giant green screen wall. And it irks me because
it looks fake. It looks cheap. It looks like they're fighting the putty
monsters from Power Rangers constantly, you know, Like, and I don't I'm
not trying to like be that guy, but like when I see the trailer
for the Becoming Marvel's movie with you know, Captain Marvel and and and uh
miss Marvel and Photon, Like I love the Photon character from the comics.
It's one of my favorites. But look at this. I'm looking at this
trailer. I'm like, it looks like they're punching the Power Ranger villains.
It just looks. It's really bad. When I'm a comic book stand and
I'm like, who's the villain other than like future missus Loki, I mean
the actress, not the character. She's she's engaged to the Lukes. Yeah,
now Loki. On the other hand, somehow managers do not look cheap
because it's set. They build it, it looks like and they minimize they
said it so that you don't need a lot of CG. And the CG
that they do is consistent and beautiful. And I watched it before episode it's
great. I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion to say that show is
good, and a lot of recent Marvel has been I'm I mean, it's
been a little ship. Problem with Marvel is that it's done the same thing
that Star Wars did. If Star Wars, if you were not a a
absolute dead to the ground Star Wars fan, eat, breathe, you know,
shit, star Wars nothing but start. Yeah, if if that was
not your thing, then then fandom kind of rolled over you because it be
first it was three movies, and then it was three more movies, and
then it was TV shows and books and comics and and god only knows what
else. And I you know, I was looking at it going I don't
know where to go with all this, this is this is too much for
me, and so I backed away from Star Wars for years until in fact
it took me like I think season see the season three of the Mandalorian was
out before I even bothered to watch it, and I only did because my
son insisted that it was a space western more than Star Wars and that I
would like it, and he was and he was right. I did because
it was not the same thing that was getting thrown at me from you know,
Top Speed, and Marvel's kind of doing the same thing. Now they've
the students have figured out that there are enough people that loved all of the
comic books and all of the characters and all of the storylines that they're just
yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that. But for the people who were
not into it at the time, like I was into one comic book character
when I was a kid, and that was Green Arrow, And so you
know, I had I had like five comics I could pick up and and
and he was always with Green Lantern anyway, so you know, there was
there was really not much. But for the people like me who who are
coming at it from the movies and going, okay, I want to get
into this. Let me see, all of a sudden, it's like you're
standing at the bottom of a hill and there's an avalanche of rocks coming at
you. Because yeah, and you just want to run away. So,
you know, I feel like maybe they went a little too fast at throwing
everything at us at once instead of they did have the whole flood content mandate,
and of course the vanity Fair articles came out about it was they wanted
constant content flood to try to win the streaming wars at the start of the
pandemic, and uh, they were really over quantity rather than quality, and
it was pretty obvious. Yeah, there's the I forget the name of the
studio. There's a giant studio in Georgia which is basically Hollywood East where Marvel's
got this compound where it's just this giant wall of green screen and sets and
things like that. It's like a volume, right, But that's where they
film a lot of their shit now because they can film it in three weeks
to six weeks, and then the fax the next six the next six months,
and they can have a movie out by the next year, as opposed
to like taking a year or two to make the product. Because like,
when I go back to it was like, I'm not again, I'm tri
being shitty. When I watched The Winter Soldier when it shot on location and
it looks great. They shut down the overpass and George just so they can
have this awesome knife fight and Black Widow s thumbs down, and like Captain
America and Buck, you're doing the shield ting ting that's the knife fight.
And it looks really because it's shot a location. It looks great because it's
it is great. But then to just kind of fast forward to like the
last person actually think I care is James Gunn because The Guardians still blows me
away because it's got so much pathos, it's got so much heart. It's
it opens with death, it ends with death, and it ends with joy.
I mean it is. It is more than just a comic book movie.
It's a it's a real personal story and that. But that shows the
only Marvel movies that are actually have a full finished script before they start filming.
They are the same gun Ones. He was the only one who insisted
on that as part of his contract. Marvel's been sitting on the X Men
since they bought Fox like six years ago, and they haven't done it.
And like the Last Saving Grace, like no offense to the Marvels coming out,
you know, I wish it well, I'm not gonna see it.
I'll see it. But I haven't seen anything except for Regardians of the Galaxy
in the theater. I'm waiting for everything for Disney Plus because I don't care.
I don't care anymore, but I think you had brought out popular opinions.
I will see I will see Deadpool when that comes to the theaters,
because that's been consistently good. You know, Ryan Reynolds is a fan,
and he's got the clout, and he's got the humor, and he he
has enough creative drive that these are always entertaining. They're shot on smaller budgets.
They're a lot more fun. They're goofy and can you get you Jackman?
Yeah, exactly, you know, And he's it's because when you talk
about Star Wars, this is an unpopular opinion, like it's my favorite franchise
because I grew up with it. The first movie I ever saw in the
theater with Star Wars my grandfather when he took me when I was two and
a half to go see it because he wanted to see it. And you
need an excuse. So in nineteen seventy seven he says, I'm taking the
boy to see Star Wars. You know, like so just the big noise
in the loud and like that it blew me. It so it blew me
away. It just blew me. I was I was a literal infant in
there and they took me. But my dad wanted to see Star Wars.
The only good and this is the unpopular opinion, the only good Star Wars
movie is Star Wars a New Hope because it is a beginning, middle,
and end. It follows the ring. Hang on, oh, hang on,
hang on, hang on because Empire opens great, Oh my god,
this like forty five minutes of us Hall thing fucking fantastic. Cloud City's boring,
Degaba's boring. It is not poor rig oh room. Sorry, now
the first time you see it, the first time you see it, oh
my god, Yoda's cool. He's a puppet like that. But upon rewatch,
it's the thing you skip because you just jump to the embry fights Vader
because everything, yes, you do and you do the exact same thing a
Jedi Yoda that way, Oh I just did you do the exact same thing
of Jedi? You watch Tato Weine, skip everything until because fuck those muppets.
Fun Empire. It's the classic second movie it's the Yeah, it's got
a great ending, it's got a great opening grading and very bit happy in
the middle, argue that Yoda is an amazing character and the performance he is
the first time you see it. After that, I have watched, for
fuck's sake, my daughter made me watch that movie every single night for a
year. I have seen this movie be three hundred and sixty five times minimum.
I am never said it, and I never fast forward through Yoda every
time. Nope. It's like, here's the thing. If I'm the Empire
and there's I'll come back hit a pit for someone. Just say Empire to
me later and I'll come back. And I have another funny rant. I
have this avoid saying that word so that we I want to. They have
these things called spaceships and bombers and these little muppets running around. Oh dude,
I'm just gonna carpet bomb the force. There is no planet or these
little my favorite sucking things that has muppets in space the whole damn time fucking
walks. You will not them in their little furry face when the one dies
like and the one jumps on it. Good fuck you. You didn't desert.
You're all cannibals anyway, and animals, I will give you that.
But they were animals, God damn it, sure most of them are.
That's how they lure you in. Uh, you know, like it's and
at the end, Luke and Luke and Vader have a great battle and I
really go and toss him down the reactor shaft and fantastic beginning, an end,
great middle sucks safety with Empire. Star Wars follows the actual like like
Joseph Conrad story circle to a t perfect correctly, No, because I'm off
the Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness. Sorry, Joseph Campbell, my bad,
but you know you know what I meant. I love Heart of Darkness.
Yes, actually it's great book. That's your turn, you know.
Now. I will say that Lord of the Rings second movie was The Two
Towers is so much better than a second movie should have been that it's actually
my favorite of the three. I love the Gibby change, all right.
So so, uh this shirt I'm wearing, This shirt I'm wearing is designed
by my friend Sandy Butcher. She's an author and artist. She's fucking fantastic.
I just she's Dutch. No, it's a it's a cyber geisha girl.
Oh I saw the hordes for that. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
And she is She's Dutch, and so we talk and we talk all the
time because hes got a big time your friend. Anyway, she's my go
to she's with my art friends, she's my bouncing creative people off of things
like that. But we just had this argument today because she her and her
husband yesterday went and saw the Extended Uh Fellowship. Tonight is to Towers,
tomorrow is Return to the King and their local theater. And I said,
man, I could not sit through that. She's like, why, because,
like, I can't skip the salmon froto scenes because I only want to
follow I only want to follow Aerra Gorn and crew on the way to Helm's
Deep. I only did the actual heroes of the story and the whole damn
point of it. Mister called Gimli, Aerra Gorn and legalists and Helm's Deep.
No get the salmon Frodo scenes too. God, you people, they
are the everyman. They are the representation of the reader. They are a
part of the story. Boring, Yeah, they're boring, Cgi Gollum.
I liked it when it was makeup Gollum. When they were showing the Transition
and Return to the King, you saw him again that halfway. If you
put that in the movie, great, I know they we're trying to prove
their CGI fantastic. It doesn't hold up. It's part of it does,
part of it doesn't. Like Extended Fellowship is my favorite because it again follows
that circle. It's fucking perfect. I love it to death. They hand
whittled every single thing and riven down. It looks fucking great. But the
movies two and three, a lot of green is green and it is janky
as ship and it does not look good. But Fellowship is the one that
holds up to me. Now, I love to like. I lo Two
Towers because I like Helm's deep, and I love the writers of Rohan right
because it's like, look to my coming at dawn on the third day,
and girl, it takes me. It takes me three days, but I'll
get there. It's a lot of ramp up. But but then and also
in the in Return of the King, you have the lighting of the beacons
and that I go to pieces every single time. I don't even have to
be paying attention to the movie. I'm be in the kitchen making dinner and
I hear the beacons are lit. Gander calls for eight, and I start
crying like a baby. It's just every time nerds and Rohan will answer yeah,
and Rohan will answer and Rohan it gets me too. It's like it's
but it's one of those like I watch that and Return to the King,
I still kind of skip around a little bit. I'm not gonna lie.
There's nine endings in that fucking movie. And when it comes down, so
they do a lot of endings, and when when when Eric Gors like for
Frodo and he charged it, it looks like there's like nine guys left and
all of like Gondor and Rohan together to tackle, like it looks kind of
janky, Like I get he got the oscar for that, because that's the
culmination of everything. He should have gotten it for Fellowship, he should have
gotten it for two towers. Return of King was my weakest. Okay,
it's not bad. It's just the weakest playing field. So it won.
I don't remember that year. I remember he won. My I'm glad he
got it good, you know, hobbit Trig. We can we can we
have a popular opinions grip that they ship. Yeah, I think we've seen
the first one when someone says goblins. Don't talk to him about goblins.
Look, he's over there. I'm doing my pose. I'm doing my I'm
thinking about a bad memory pose, and they gotta do the flashback like,
oh my god. It's almost like photos Oscar tear. It's like Gedland.
Yes, unpopular opinions are fun. It's like when I told what I don't
like the Dark Knight, they get mad at me, like you don't like
the Dark Like, no, it's a great jock. I know what do
you not like about the Dark Knight? What? Okay, here's okay,
very this is very simple your opinion. But I would like to Heath Ledger
is amazing, full stop. No, there is no Evander Butts. He
is a fantastic joker. Whenever Batman is on the screen in the movie,
he's the least interesting thing, and he never acts like Batman. He's always
reacting to things instead of investigating and doing. There is never a moment in
that movie where he is proactive. He's always reactive, and the guys in
the hockey paths are more interested. Also, is also the birth of the
Bad Voice. That's where that movie started, or that that thing started,
that that joke, Harvey Dent, Harvey Dent vastly more interesting, Joker vastly
more interesting. Everything that's going on, vastly more interesting, Michael Kane interesting
because Batman the animated series was always great because Batman and the villains were equally
interesting. Right, That's my point, and it's so in this movie.
Any movie, though. Can you think of any Batman movie where Batman is
as interesting as Batman begins the first one, because it's it's the origin story,
it's learning, he is growing, It's it's focused on Batman doing everything
and he's like learning and changing, fighting ros I'll cool. I find that
vastly more interesting than the other. Downside is it's obviously Joker's fantastic, but
he's not an agent of chaos. Everything needs to stop saying that. There's
nothing chaotic about his Every action he does in that movie is meticulously planned down
to the second. He is not chaos. He is order pretending to be
chaos right over and over and over, like when the busses all pull out
of the exact time times of just he has that bank vault sea right times.
It just in time to pull in the last place. That's not chaos.
He's not running around just shooting wickedy WICKEDI woo no orderticulous. He's now
it's it's order to create chaos. But he is not chaos. But yet
we got a bunch of fucking cosplayed dorks. I asked me about my scar.
Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. It's like that and
the Jack Sparrow thing that that just died for. Every time you go to
a convention like I hmm pecking to get original, tell how you feel.
I just did. Yeah, I lost some fans today. I know that.
I'm okay. I'm okay. I would argue, though, that compared
to a lot of the Batman movies we've had, the Dark Knight is it's
crafted beautifully. It's got a fantastic villain. I do like Christian Bale.
I can see what you said about it. He's a little he's sort of
the Batman filling the place for the story of the Joker. When you're writing,
you have a character that is kind of like your smart ass, fun
character, and the other character is supposed to be like the straight man or
woman or person, Like, what do you mean by that? I don't
understand. Could you explain it to me? So the other person could be
side whacking, so someone else can be Han solo. Like the reason Will
Turner works so well or Jack Sparrow works so well in the first movie is
because Will Turner it's his story and Jack Sparrow is the Han solo character that
looks cool because Will's the naive idiot. Then when they flipped it at me,
the Jack Sparrow centric and it got boring. My point is Batman is
that guy in the in the dark night. He's there, Like, what
do you mean by this? What's going on? Who's that over there?
What am I doing? Why am I signing? Like this? Rachel does?
Rachel? I made a spreadsheet. I made a spreadsheet of like and
I have it somewhere and I'll show it. I want to see the spreadsheet.
Every it's every Batman movie or it's like Origin story, Ready to give
up being Batman for a girl, fights the villain and like the same repeating
pattern, like it's every fucking Batman. Not the most original, but I
mean, but I'm talking like I'm not talking. I mean the the the
Burton Ones, the Nipple Batman, the Schumacher, this Batman like they all
follow the same rising like in a rewatch. Then I thought I would the
movie. God, no, we don't want to talk about the movie.
But I'm like hopef only he could have had a good movie. And Michael
Keaton I enjoy his Bruce Wayne a lot. I felt bad for him.
He's going to give up for Vicky Vale and and Valcimra is gonna give it
up. I wants to give up being Batman for Chase Meridian. George Kloone
was gonna give it up, give it up, quit being Batman for I
want to say, Claudia Schiffer was the actress, but she really did have
any many lines were adel I don't give a shit. I know way too
much about Batman and Robbin for my own good I loved Michael Keaton's Batman.
Well, for one thing, it was we hadn't had anything like that on
screen at the time, and so and it was so over the top and
so comic bookie looking, and so that was fun. And of course Jack
Nicholson, I mean, in a popular opinion, I don't care for Jack
Nicholson's Joker, Young Jack there's one Jack Nicholson movie I really like, and
that's it. The rest of him just kind of like it's always the same
guy doing the same thing. I like one flu with the Kooker's Nest.
That is a phenomenal movie. That's the thing Jack Nicholson. Most of the
time he is careful to He was careful to choose roles that could allow him
to be Jack Nicholson, you know most most of the time. The movies
that he didn't succeed in are the ones where he tried to be somebody else.
Edward Norton, I feel the same way. I don't like that man
at all talking about my fourteenth cousin there. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. I give who doesn't know the who do you think you
are? Like genealogy thing revealed it. Edward Norton and I are fourteenth cousins.
Well, when I lived in Columbia, Maryland, his grandfather and mister
Ralph established that thing. I lived there for a while and I knew this
girl that like dated him in high school and got kiss him in high school
play because that was her claim to fame because she went to high school with
Norton when he lived in Maryland, so well, and see, I don't
care for him at all, or I can't say I don't care for him.
I am no my family. Now, he does not strike me as
somebody that I would get along with at all in real life. And I
don't tend to want to see his movies. But Primal Fear, I love
Primal Fear. That's a great movie, and he's amazing in it. And
the Italian Job. He's amazing in the Italian Job. And so you know,
there are there are movies that I will watch he did because he was
contractually ordered to you know that, right, the Italian Job. Yeah,
he literally was like it would cost more money for me not to do it
than to do right right he played. I can't watch that when that one's
over. That one's over my threshold. Yeah understand, but but I understand
that he did an amazing job in it, you know, So I can
I can watch care. I can watch actors who that I don't personally think
I would like in real life, because that's the wacky thing. I'm not
going to meet them, so it doesn't matter if I would like them in
real life. I'll let you know if we ever have a family reunion.
That's what I felt about when I when when Captain Marvel was hit, When
Captain Marvel hit. I love Bree Larsen in so many roles. I've grown
up watching her, Like The United Setara, she was amazing, you know,
Scott Pilgrim, like Kong Skull Island. I had fun with that movie,
you know, twenty one Jump Street, and I'm when I'm watching Captain
Marvel, like, this isn't working for me. If it was a it
was a it was a it's fine movie. It was like superhero movie.
The movie. It didn't blow me away, it didn't disappoint me. It
just kind of nothinged me, which is like favorite Marvel movie. It's it's
like it's like when you get a three star on your book and that hurts
more than the one or the five, because at least the three stars like
they eh, you know, I'm like, and that's yeah, and that's
it just kind of nothing to me because it's like, I, Okay,
I see the slant you're coming from, what you're trying to do. I
think they missed the mark because this is something in writing I think we can
agree on, or maybe we can't. I don't know uh setting up,
it's easier to make the guy look stupid and goofy to win them over.
Because in the Marvel movies, for example, Tony Stark, he's a playboy's
an asshole, but this is the worst thing you see me do. Or
he like he tries to learn to fly and bounces into the ceiling and knocks
himself out floor gets two shots of the butts and they're like, I'm a
mighty uh good. Or it gets hit by a car. Captain America,
he doesn't know what fondue is black panthers like, look at your shoes,
like I never freeze. Oh he totally froze. They're all making fun of
him. They may don't get me started about Peter Quill, who's just a
moron right Oh oh see, I have the unpopular opinion that I do support
Peter Quill, and I think he was just no no, no, no
no. I like Peter Quill, but he's portrayed as a manchild. But
my point is, but then when they do something cool and her, you
beat them down and you laugh with them and at them. But the reree
large and character lease in this Captain Marvel has the Vin Diesel syndrome. You
can't laugh at them. They're never the butts of the joke when all these
other male characters are. And I know that sexist to say, but you
see this repeating pattern, which is I think why I liked Valkyrie so much
in ract right, because she kind of broke that stereotype. But it's the
one girl action figure syndrome that has always been sure since. So this is
what I grew up with, is that the female character had to always be
rescued or had to be perfect. They were never allowed because if they had
any mistakes, ever, it was just dog piling savage of how the dumb
woman did it. So I get that they're a little over protective at times.
I'm tracking that, but I'm also going to slightly disagree, and this
is why, and this because the corporate over correction I am understanding, but
when you have someone like you know, my favorite character in all the MCU
is Wanda, because I think she is the perfect character. Like I've seen
her at her highs, at her lows, at her tragedy, at her
funniest, at our best, at her worst, and I've seen her character
assassinated because the writers didn't talk to each other, right right, that's that's
yeah, yeah exactly. But she was a great villain. But what we
got a little bit later like Wonder Woman. When that movie hit, it
hit very well, and because there's a great scene where she's I know everything
about the world, old baby, and then then she's walking into the dress
store she's like, I can't fight in this, and then she walks out
tearing the sword and shield and turn her right back around. You're laughing at
the character, not with her, You're laughing at her. And then later
on she's like, well, like knock this shit out, and like it's
it's cool you are she can have flaws and foibles and be more relatable.
That was also a period to me, Yes, one of the very few
good DC EU movie. Sure, I like Aquaman too, I just like
I like, I like bro Aquaman. I'm sorry, Aquaman is fun.
I did love. It's like a Saturday Morning cartoon. It is one hundred
percent dumb, and I love it. I though, have watched the trailer
for Aquamanto and I'm like, I don't give a ship. I don't care.
Yeah, it's kind of like the Flash. I'm like, I don't
care. The CGI looks so bad. I saw it. It's a movie.
That's that's that's that praise you don't want to hear. It's like I
came out of quand why did I just spend I'm glad I waited for Disney
Plus on Quantum Mania because it's like it's just one of those like I tried
to here's here's my I find Paul Rudd about as exciting as buying towels.
That's what Paul Rudd does for me. He does nothing for me. Now
people love Paul Rudd, and there's funny, you know, Yeah, I
don't care either way, but I kind of love when he's an asshole,
like when you added into an ensemble. He's great. When he's the main
course doesn't work for me. It just never does, is it. Adam
Scott, the guy from Parks and rec Yeah, then I prefer him because
I think he he has the same incredible likability, but he has that range
where he can turn and you think, no, he could be a serial
killer. And I kind of live for it. When he was a demon
in the good place, like he was, yes, and it's like he
can play sweet or just turn on the devil and like he a very versatile
actor, and like I do enjoy that as well. Here's a fun unpopular
Does anybody else watch Breaking Bad? Besides me? I am unpopular opinion.
I haven't seen it yet, and my husband's like, how could you have
not seen Breaking Bad? I loved Better Call Saul. I did not watch
Breaking Bad. I've never watched Better Fall Saul. But it's one of this
if you ever get around to watching it. This is something I tell everybody
all the time. It is a wonderful, wonderful one of the best things
of television ever made. The caveat is the acting is so good it hides
its mistakes because it is one contrived plot point to the next. This guy
happened to be in this spot to see this time, and the happened the
DEA agent who's his brother in law was the one who's gonna bust him,
so he just he happened to be the one there so he could call his
wife and make him leave. It's it's soap opera level plot, but with
brilliant acting that hides the soap opera level plot. Now, I just pissed
off a lot of people listening like that is our great show? I stopped.
I think that if you look good enough acting, it's like, basically,
you can have a storyline good enough that it doesn't matter if you have
a shitty actor in it. It kind of carries over or flip side.
You can have acting so good you don't give a shit, and then you
can occasionally have something where everything is so bad it becomes magnificent. And I
think that's a specific grim where everything is so bad it's magnificent. The plot
is ridiculous. Witch Hunters, Oh my god, hanslow Gretel. Witch Hunter
is another one of those fucking fantastic jery and the director's cut. I love
that movie. We should do it at the movie sometime, are you kidding
me? We can see now over it. The best death scene that I've
ever seen was in Breaking Bad when Gus died. Yeah, that was amazing.
Like I hadn't watched it, but I said, my husband was watching
it, so I heard heard a lot of it because he was watching it.
And I heard this, this this coming, and I was like,
I gotta watch this. You'll forget it's fourth season. I'm not giving any
details away, but but I got up and I watched the whole from that
point all the way to the end of the episode and went, I have
never that is amazing. And of course Jean Carlo Esposito is is Jean colers
Posito. Yeah, Marvel, if you're watching, if Jonathan Major's doesn't work
out, you could just dub in car have you when was the last time
many of you went back to rewatch once upon a time and you forget that
John colers Posito was the magic Mirror. He was the magic mirror. Yes
he was right, Genie wasn't He was the genie that then got gene They
got caught in the magic. He became the magic mirror. His backstory was
he was a genie that got put in the magic meror or you go back
you find out Bucky Winter Soldier was the Mad Hatter. Right, there's all
these marvel alum like way back while you're like, oh my god, I
had a crush on the Evil Queen because snow White on Captain Hook, can
I say? And the well, of course the Evil Queen like Captain Hook
is like he's like that kind of like he's amazing. Well, it's that
same figure that like like a lot of Okay, take this as it's intended
with a good humor that nerd girls are catniped for, which is the David
Tenant lanky I'm kind of gay, kind of straight, kind of like piraty
kind of thing, as a fucking bisexual married to a Britain who has a
completely designated type of Yes, give you all your accolades and I get till
dark haired, green eyes give me a British accent. Hello, I'm waiting
for you, okay, And I is nerd girl bait and I live for
it. I'm aware, Like I said, David Tenant, that guy Loki
of Charlotte, Yes, Beneda cumberbat. Yeah. These are all on my
hall pass list, along with Noel Fielding from The Great British bake Off hosting.
Because yes, I never got past the first season of Once upon a
Time because I got sick to death of the evil Queen winning every time at
the time, because I was so thankful evil boiler alert. It's because it
was set up that it was literally the curse was set up that way that
she got her happily ever after, and I think that's amazing. It was
just it it was just frustrating to me. I need evil to lose in
the end. I need them to be, but not. By the end
of the first season. Every time I saw snow White, I can't.
I kept looking like I growed up Elliott from E T. It bugged me.
The Bunny and Zootopia a lot, not a lot of people can pull
off the short hair look, and she, unfortunately is not one of them.
So it's it's just she just looked like Elliott from EAT. I kept
chuckling, Elliot, pull them up side young Elliott, young Henry Thomas and
her. You're gonna go, oh, they're related. I see it,
Jennifer Godwin and Elliott Thomas. Now I'm gonna have to oh God, hold
on, now get just look just Elliott e T and Jennifer Guy when I
got the short hair and it's Henry Thomas. Thomas was just in the fall
of the House of Us Her. So I love that show. I did
too. Oh my god. We we normally in my house, we will
we will not binge things. We will watch one episode and then move on,
and then another episode the next day will drag it out, because that's
just how we are. We binge the hell out of that in like three
days, because we couldn't. We couldn't stop. And so I wasn't allowed
to binge it because my wife, she's in the other room. My wife
has not watched TV. She is an actual academic, she's a teacher.
She's always working. She'd rather read philosophy and journals and notes and become a
better human being. And I'm watching garbage television. So I applaud her.
But she heard it from the other room, started walking in and sitting down.
She had her phone and she's looking. But she's been teaching Poe for
twenty five years in teaching, you know, and she's an English teacher,
and she loves she knows Poe backwards and forward more than any other one else
I've ever met. So she's like, oh, that's from that, that's
from that. I had a polsmic. Are you doing this whole the whole
time? Because we're gonna watch it? Let's watch it, you know,
And then my husband and but she sat down. I wasn't allowed to going,
do you have another Moore anthology? Do we not? Missy? We
do? We do? It will be coming out to soon. I don't
have a date. But that's what I was about to say. If you
could slide the data. But that has a lot including mine. Yep,
yep, it's all. It's all rewritten Poe thoughts and ideas and and really
great story. It's some really fabulous stories in that anthology and for everybody to
see it, including R. E. Car's story. Wait, it's the
over No, it's the it's the the bitcoin thing. N f T not
n f T. Yeah, non punchable transced that's it. I could remember
Transcendence and I couldn't remember the first part. So but yes, so that
will be coming out soon eventually from false fop books. Yeay, but yeah,
I did. I did this getting. I did the same thing to
my husband when we were watching The Usher. I would be like, oh,
that's a little piece from hot Frog. Hot Frog is a story they
don't normally do, and and he'd just go because, you know, he's
like fine, whatever. Well, she was like she was like the pim
character Mark Hamill. Love Mark Hamill. Like he was like, She's like,
he's from that shitty novel he wrote, and it's it was the worst
book I've ever read, you know, like the Poe novel about the people
that travel around the world. You know, so yeah, yep, Arthur.
It did get trashed by critics, which drove him to drink and have
a cat, which is what most authors do. Speaking of drinking and having
a cat, I think it's about time for all of us to tip back,
cool drink and sit on these wonderful, unpopular opinions. I think I
might go watch The Empire Strikes Back and not skip, just skip the middle
bits, just like off and then the fight, and then you can skip
all the middle Nope, yeah, and then he can pause. He says,
I love you, I know, and you can keep that endure the
family tradition of watching Rocky horror at home. I'm impressed, and I think
I'll I'll go watch something with my fourteenth cousin and it just for you,
Misty, thank you, thank you. But not the original incredible Hult,
because god no, the angly one. No no, no, no no
no, not the angly one that's Eric Banya. This is the Marvel one
that oh yeah, yeah, okay, it wasn't horrible, it was it
was just kind of great. Well, here's the thing. Neither was Black
Widow was very ad. That was very med too. I'm not discounting that.
You know, there's they have they've had. Sadly, they've had more
med than great. And if you put thirty projects, Cardies is fantastic.
Well, I'm gonna go listen to Jesus Christ Superstar and sing all the parts
as loud as I can, so you should record it. And because I
know how much he loves music, and I will go burn my wife's music
to Oklahoma and I'll feel very just as good. So I feel no guilt
on the flames. Your poor jut is dead. Now it's fucking funny because
now he's dead. Buck them. And on that note, bye bye,
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