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But, as I said, cosplay Chris joins me this week to discuss
Radioactive Man Go. We'll be back next week for another episode of season nineteen,
but for now and Dwano, hope you enjoyed my chat here discussing Radioactive
Man with the legendary Kysla Chris. But how was New York? I saw
that you did a movie tour and you did all the touristy stuff. What
did you get up to besides meaning Zach of course. Yeah, so I
did the press junket for everyone in part two and like that film was getting
thrashed unfortunately, But I'm a big fan of his work, especially with like
Batman and all that stuff, so it was great, but it went too
quick, man. I was there for four nights and then had to fly
back, so the jet lag was bad. It was really bad, and
I was trying to sleep on the plane coming home, and it's cool,
like it's not a pay gig, but they cover flight. Accommodation was business
class with Cathay Pacific, which is great. And coming home, I'm like,
all right, got the flatbed, I'm going to sleep and I'll be
fine. I'll listen to some four fingered discount. I'm trying to listen to
you guys. And we had the worst turbulence and I'm like, this is
awful. So I'm like, screw it. I'm just gonna stay up and
just listen to you guys. So these guys usually put me to sleep.
Why is it not working this time? Ah? Man? You were?
You were also you had an episode with the guy that had the big collection.
You had a few animation cells and Michael, I remember I was drifting
in and out of that one because it was just like, you guys just
talk shop and shit, it's great. Well that's what I try to do
with Guess and going. I just we recorded an episode yesterday. We just
started season nineteen, and we sort of discussed about interviewing and I feel like
when you're interviewing, because you interview as well. You don't interview, you
just chat. I think that's the best way to do it. Yeah,
because and I said, I love that moment where you realize with like a
big name guest or whatever, where you realize, oh shit, you've asked
me a question. You can tell they've never been asked before. Yeah.
Yeah. When you stump them, they're like, oh good one, You're
like, yeah, fuck, because sometimes they use our good question as a
way to sort of de stall time. But you can tell when they say
good question, when they actually meant that's a good question. Yeah, yeah,
yeah exactly, and they give you little pat on the back. What
landmarks did you see? Have you been to New York before this trip?
That was my fourth time. Yeah, So my dad used to work for
Corners and I used to work for Corners too before I well, during when
I started doing all this. So I went there when I was a kid,
then went there in my twenties two more times. But yeah, like
did the home alone hotel like for av log on my second channel. Then
we did like Central Park and just Time Square all the touristy stuff, and
again, like we had so much stuff to do activities wise. With Netflix,
it was on behalf of Netflix Australia, so you like we had like
one day to like do all touristy stuff and have time to ourself. Apart
from that, we were just on the on the go the whole time.
Man. So like we had the press junk at the screening like the premiere
and then before you know, it was time to fly home. So they
contact you say we're going to pay for your flight's accommodation, all that good
stuff. But you've got to do what they tell you to do when you
get that kind of thing a sort of so like last year I did Rebel
Moon Part one and that was in Japan, so it's the exact same thing,
like, hey, we want you to come back for part two.
We're going to do it in New York this time. Like they do have
a schedule, but because they're not paying you, they don't expect a certain
thing socials wise, like in terms of posting, and we want, you
know, three stories and one main newsfeed post if that makes sense. If
they are paying you, then they'll probably give you a list of what they
want, hashtags all that stuff, like deliverables and like I review. I've
got my main channel causplay Chris, and then I've got just Chris Stanley,
which is just movie reviews and all that. And I always try to be
honest, even though because tomorrow night my fiance and I have the premiere of
Furiosa here in Sydney, so like Hamsworth, George Miller and all that are
going to be there. But you know, I still will give an honest
opinion even though you get an invite, I still think you need that healthy
balance, if that makes sense. Is there a fear though, of giving
a bad review that you might not get invited back? Or have you found
it that doesn't really matter? If anything, that's not my problem. It's
like you guys have to understand it's subjective. I can still have an opinion.
Just because you've gifted me something doesn't mean I have to abide by the
rules. And when I do my reviews, if something's negative, I'm not
bashing it. I just try and be like this didn't work for me,
and I'm not like this is shit, the person shit, this is awful.
It's just like, hey, this didn't work for me. So you
know, I always try and have a fair kind of balanced opinion. But
at the same time, there's no such thing as a perfect movie man.
So yeah, I used to be a lot more scared of doing that,
but now I find your audience respects you a lot more. If you're like,
hey, I did get invited, but this still isn't a perfect movie,
but you'd be polite about it. You're like, these were just my
negatives. These are my gripes, but overall, you know, it's still
pretty damn good. So I think that needs to be addressed a lot more
these days instead of just pandering because you got an invite. Like the buzzword
these days is shill. Everyone thinks you're a chill. Well, they're your
thoughts. What you just described heed to describe those films, was that your
thoughts walking out of the Simpsons movie, because I think that's how most Simpsons
fans felt. It's like there were negatives. I mean, it was good,
but there's a lot of things I would have probably wish were a bit
better. Yeah, it was kind of It was like when when it finished,
because it was a big deal. We were in year we just graduate,
so it was two thousand and seven when it came out. Yeah,
yeah, so I graduate. I finished you twelve or two thousand and six.
I think we were about the same age. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I graduated two thousand and six, and I remember when the credits rolled,
it was like that episode Itching Scratchy and Poochie's Home is like, well,
what did everyone think? It was? Like, it was actually pretty
good for how the series was starting to sort of decline and kind of go
downhill in terms of like not not to say it was like getting bad,
but it just wasn't what it was in the golden era. And I remember
back remember the Cheese TV days. Of course it I'm the guy that helped
relaunch the Chefs TV social medias with Jayden Ryan Oh christ will be all right,
yeah, yes, so it's safe to say you Cheese TV. Yeah.
I remember like the Boys announced it on Chief TV that a movie was
being made, and then Disney Adventures would been like, yeah, movie's happening.
I'm like, guys, it feels like it's been like ten years everyone's
been saying a movie's happening. Then it finally came out. I'm like,
I think that's the best Simpsons movie we could get in the in the age
we are in now, like two thousand and seven. I think that's the
best we can get, and I actually really liked it. Look, it
could have been so much more worse, but I'm glad they brought back the
older riders for it, and I think that's why it was pretty decent.
I think if they remade, if they've made a second one, I think
now they would pander more to the hardcore fans of like the Golden Era,
more so because I think they've now finally acknowledged and accepted. Okay, I
mean the first ten years we're the best, and I think though in that
weird period of going we're still good. We're still good and trying to sort
of just be there who they were at that point. Now, I feel
like a new movie would be more pandering to what we grew up on and
they My big thing was I wish I had a back Hank Scorpio as the
villain because he had the same voice actor. Yeah, I say it's the
same voice actor the guy that voices Marlon is it Marlin Broding Nemo Brooks?
Yeah? Yeah, Like can you imagine if they brought back Conan to co
write it, and is John Schwartzwelder is still alive. He's still alive.
Yeah, I don't think he waits for the show anymore though. No,
he's like I picture him being like mister Burns when he's got the casino and
he's got the beard and he's on the type rider with the long fingernails.
Do you know that he bought a booth from the diner that he used to
go to the right Simpsons and put it in his house so that he can
feel like he was in his little zone. That's so cool. I remember
that. My me and my two best mates talk about that all the time.
And one of my mates, Luke, who I'm getting married next week
and he's on our groomsman and thanks Man. Yeah, Luke told me about
that. He's like, yeah, he used to go on that diner every
day chain smoke. And then I think that were they getting rid of the
booth or they were refurbishing the din. I'm not sure, but all I
know is that he took it to his house and I thought, that's so
fucking awesome. It's so good. I love that. Do you have anything
from your childhood for me? Though? And I never got my hands and
I'm still so sad and bitter about it to this day. But there was
a time where we have time zone. It's now called laser Quest or something
here in Jalyn, but we had time zone right the arcade and they had
the Simpson's Arcade machine there, and it was always the same machine there forever,
forever, and then just sort of disappeared one day and I was like,
oh, man, I used to spend so many hours of my childhood
playing his machine. And then I went to a mate store who was had
like a pop culture T shirt store, and I went there and he had
the machine. He bought it from Times and they didn't want it anymore,
and I said how much do you want for it? He goes eight hundred.
I said, all right, cool, let me just go talk to
my wife about it. And see, I wanted to own kind of like
George and Sidefad the Froggy Machine. I wanted to own the original Arcade that
I actually used to play, right, And I went back there two days
later he sold it to somebody else. He goes, oh, well,
I didn't know if you're going to come back all night, and I just
sold it. I was like, man, I spent the whole weekend begging
to my wife. She finally agreed to it. Now it's not there,
Oh damn. I just love to I would love to own the actual Simpsons
Arkae machine that I played when I was a kid, you know. Yeah,
yeah. We had Tilt at our local Westfield and they had an abundance
of Simpson games. They had like pinball machine, so I had some other
specialty ones and I always remember like the movie themed pinball machine or like arcade
games. I remember the Simpsons the Adams Family pinball machine like from the movie
Ye Star Trek was a big one fish tails Yeah yeah, yep, yep.
But like I've I've got my Simpsons Issue one comic from when I was
a kid, and yes it does smell like my grandpa and it comes with
like the poster and everything. And then these two I repurchased off eBay.
So this is issue forty eight and then issue fifty. And the reason why
I rebrought these two is because, like it's nostalgia. But I remember my
dad and I went on a road trip from Sydney up to the Gold Coast
and I had these two issues and they kept me company the whole ride through
and they were like the illustrations always great there's always something going on in each
frame, and they got lost just throughout the years. And yeah, I
found them on Eban. I just wanted to again, just that nostalgia and
just was like that was a fun road trip with my dad and I and
I read them now and I'm like, man, these still hold up.
They're pretty good. Yeah. I feel the comics are so underappreciated because they
just sort of pull the pin on them m. Yeah. Yeah, actually,
especially the Halloween ones as well. You've read some of them now,
an you think these are just they're just as good as the episodes. Yeah,
I'm like, why did you make this a comic and not an episode?
Yeah? There must have been a different staff or something. I'm thinking,
how can these guys write good stories but the actual shows declining? Jesus,
these are really good. I've got my whole collection down here. I'll
try to show you. I'm not sure if you can see it. That's
all my comics down there. They're are my records up. But I collect
vinyl soundtracks. That's my thing. We all have a thing, right,
hang on, you'll get a kick out it. Collect vinyl soundtracks too,
But for like a night re olm Street, Robert England who signed to Chrism.
He goes to Chris from DJ Freddy. That's so cool, I am,
I've got that. But I've got like the re releases from Mondo.
Yeah, I because the original one that's not from eighty four, that was
a German release and I think eighty nine or ninety. But the OG one
is like super hard to find. Before we were talking about the guest you
had on who has the collection. He has the animation cells. And this
is one thing I regret selling years and years ago. I bought an animation
cell from the Lemon Tree episode and it's the very first frame when Bart's on
the skateboard just cruising down the street before he finds the wet cement and it's
it was, yeah, the first couple of frames in and it was signed
by Nancy Cartright and like this is when I was still living at home and
I was like strap for cash and I'm like I had it framed in UV
glass and everything, and some bloke from the Blue Mountains came down and bought
it who was a collector, and he was really sweet, he was really
nice and excited about it. I'm like, man, I should have held
onto that because it's those pivotal moments that make these cells more expensive, and
obviously the more characters in it, like you've got the whole Simpsons family and
one cell, like that's that's worth a motza. But because the Lemon Tree
episode is so iconic, Yeah, I just that was the one that got
away for me. Imagine owning this the cell of the lemon Face. That
would be iconic. Yeah, that or shoe Colder boy. I think it
all shake harder boy. Yes, I think the lemon Face would just be
the best. Wh Who would have thought, you know, they made that
episode like ninety five or something that twenty years later the lemon Face would become
one of the most mean things of all time. You know, I still
think one of the and like we're obviously touching on the episode, and I
think it's one of the best memes every And I don't know if you saw
it, so you know that have you been up all night eating cheese?
Scene? Marge comes out and it's the goggles with rain years eyes in him,
and she goes, have you been up all night doing nothing? And
it's just the goggles staring at her. That's all that to me. We
usually cover that favorite moments that to me is one of the most iconics Simpsons
moments in general, just the real ascid. But I just thought the ah
oh ah yet all this left of his undies, that just makes total sense
exactly. Yeah, what would be your earliest memories of The Simpsons do you
think? I? Dude, I honestly remember year two when I was in
Grade two and coming home and like you know, like back in the day
primary school, you're in your school uniform right until you have a shower before
bed, Like you just come home, you're still in your uniform. I
remember sitting like this close to the TV, eating dinner and watching The Simpsons.
I was one of those kids that could watch The Simpsons and South Park
when I was in primary school, so I'd like watch the episodes, especially
South Park, come to school the next day and like fill the kids in
on what happened, like the ones who couldn't watch it. So that was
definitely my earliest memory. And I told my fiancee I was gonna tell this,
so I'd come out with some crazy facts and my dad would be like,
where did you learn that? I'm like the Simpsons, And Dad's like
huh. So my fiance and I met on Tinder and like, we just
talked for a bit, but then we stayed in touch on Instagram. And
she'll contest this. In my bio had said I got most of my education
from the Simpsons. That was my Tinder bio. So many of us who
grew up in the nineties, it was like we learned so many pop culture
references and actual facts and celebrities. Well, for example, Mickey Rooney.
I had no idea who Micky Rooney was, but I learned who he was
from the Sims. Neither exactly. I'm like, who's this old guy that's
staying Jimminy Jillicus. But did you find what's the thing that you feel like
you learnt from the Simpsons that still you used to this day? For me,
I remember going to school and it's the episode Trios of Horror six,
the three D one three D Homer and Frank draws the three D cube on
the chop board with the two squares and he draws a little Homer in the
middle. I went to school the next day and Drew's cube and the kids
were just flabbergas and they could not believe how did you draw this three D
thing. I was like, well, it's a little secret. It was
the Simpsons, well one of the kids like whoa, well, slow down,
egghead. And because of that that memory, I've always wanted to get
that little scribble tattooed on me. So the plan is I'm going to go
to America at some point in a couple of years. And I spoke to,
oh shit, who's the David Silverman, the animator, David Silvman is
gonna draw it on me, and then I'm gonna get a tattooed. Oh
that is bad. That's yeah. I In terms of like what I learned,
it was mostly like American history, like stuff that we wouldn't know here
in Australia, but like it just translates to something different in America. But
also you know, like you know American wars, presidents, stuff like that.
And again just drop these like facts to my dad, like useless pub
trivia, and Dad's like, wait, they wouldn't have taught you that in
primary school. IM like no, no, no, no, watched it
last night at the Samsons And Dad's just like, so wait, we're spending
all this money on school for you and you're learning more from a crude TV
show and I'm like, yeah, I was like, shit, okay,
but yeah, just obscure things like that. And also, like you said,
like celebrities and stuff like that. Yeah, just the most random things
ever, and those are embedded in my brain more so than what I learned
in school. Like I don't want to know about Pythagoras. I want to
know more about Mickey Rooney exactly. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like The
Simpsons introduced me to horror with the trios of horror episodes. Do you feel
the same, Yeah, I yeah, I feel like because like I got
into Freddy through like Freddy Krueger, Like through my mom. Mum would always
tell me about Freddie. Then I go to the VHS store where my parents
would go grocery shopping, and I'm like, I don't want to and They're
like, well, go look in the video store and we'll come get you.
That's what we all did. It was the fucking hangout. It was
the best time of the week, getting a hangout in the video store.
Yeah. Man, And like I've said this before another podcast. I don't
know about you, but Australian VHS horror covers from like the eighties were hardcore.
They didn't hold back. There were some horrific stuff on those covers.
We always say the podcast you walk down the store as a kid, and
it's like, I've never seen the movie, but I remember the cover.
The cover was just just captured your imagination. You think, what the fuck
is this movie about? But because the covers, because covers are a thing
anymore, really are they? Because the physical media is dying and the poster
art on streaming service is always changing. But I can remember, for example,
Evil Dead too, that skull cover that's just embedded in my brain.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and like it had a human eye
in it, and I'm like, oh, that's really like, hang on,
here's one that'll take you back down memory lane. Hell Raiser. Yeah
yeah, yeah, like the shit that's on the back of that one that
Yeah, it's always like you'd see if I cover and go, this looks
scary? Do I dare look at the back because the back's gonna be worse?
Yeah? Yeah. Man. So I definitely think with Treehouse of Horror,
especially the ones where they acknowledge like Freddie Jason Pinhead, like the Shinning
episode where Moe's like the Guls and I a little concerned that the project isn't
moving forward, and he's like, oh, I crying out loud, and
then they come in and grab him and all that. And then I remember
the couch gag with Freddy and Jason and they actually got Robert England in to
do the voice, and I just kept playing that over and over, and
we have the photos somewhere. The Nightmare and Evergreen Terrorist episode. I remember
pausing because Dad takes I remember Paul and getting the old disposable camera and taking
photos of the screen of Willy with the rake and the sweater, and like
half the screen is black and you just see the bottom of Willy. So
I'm a big wrestling fan right when I was a kid, and I thought
that I would take photos of my little poloid whatever, not poloid, but
just like wind up camera of the TV screen during a wrestling pay per view.
You take photos and tell my friends that I went to the event.
So I'm sitting there and fucking taking all these photos of the TV. Get
them developed. I'm so exciting, tell my friends I went to the event.
And they're all just blurry black half, you know, can't make out
shit. And I'm like ah, man, I'm glad you I wasn't the
only one. I love that. Just try and pull one over them.
That's great. Yeah, the good old tube tellies man, and then the
oh yeah you would like for probably for all the relics you've got, what's
just good for old school video games? Yeah, and I remember when the
DVD started to roll out, like obviously, when they started with season one
in that gray box set. I always remember constantly going to Big w to
see when they're on special and just buy them all up. And then I
got to season seven and I couldn't find the regular box version. It was
Marge's head and I'm like, okay, I'll grab this one. This is
gonna do my OCD and I hate this and yeah, it's just the bane
of my collecting existence. Well, I remember when they first released those,
they were only available in the head shapes first, and then after all the
outrage and people gone, they look stupid on my shelf, they re released
them in the boxes. So us, being the fools we are, we
then bought the second set of the exact same thing, but just because the
cover looked better. Yeah. Yeah, and they rely on people like us
because they're like regardless of how angry they are, they're still gonna buy it.
Who cares. Yeah, I feel like a lot of outrage online is
all fake. Anyway, do you get like comments on your videos of just
fake outrage? Sometimes I do. I try to limit how often I look
at comments on my videos, especially if I know it's going to be a
topic that's going to stir people up. So, like I did my Rebel
Moon Part two review. I gave it a three and a half out of
five, I'm like, yeah, this is far from perfect, but like
the end battle sequence I really liked. And anyway, everyone's blasting the film,
so I haven't. I've left that video. I haven't gone to the
comment section. I'm like, I'm good because a lot of people comment as
if you are telling them how to feel. They don't realize that you're just
telling them how you feel. And you know, movies are subjective. The
Simpsons is subjective, you know, it's media is subjective. So it's okay
to like something that some people just can't fathom them. They they go to
the lowest common denominator and they'll be like, well, you know, your
your eyebrows are weed, your noseweed or you know your parents are fuck because
you've got that opinion. I'm like, what, Yeah, it's especially when
it comes to like comic book films, man, like you got to you
got to tread very carefully. You don't want to angry the crew. Well,
I've learned, especially with The Simpsons, if you post anything that's post
season ten, you're in trouble. Yeah, and especially like whether it be
your page or like rock Bottom or Copyr Hypoglobal Mega Nat, like someone will
post a meme. Actually I posted a photo so you know Universal Studios in
Hollywood they've got the Simpsons land. Yeah, my mates and I went there
twenty twelve and it's where the quickimart is and there's an illustration of Millhouse.
I think he's like graffeiting or something on the side and anywhere me in front
of him, and I'm yeah, and I'm facing him, and I kid
you not the way it's framed up perfectly, it looks like Millhouse has cut
my leg and he's performing fullatio on me. And we didn't mean to do
that. I just got the they got my mates got the photo and I'm
like, oh my god, it looks like Millhouse is going to town down
there and I just posted it like as a laugh on one of the pages,
and everyone was like saying, you know, Predator and all that,
and I'm like, oh, okay, I got it. The no no,
no, Chris Hands is going to show up in a man This isn't
good. The thing is, so if you I don't know, it's just
you post anything season ten. They just feel like you're opposed. Like are
you just saying you're like the Simpons because you like the Simpson because you want
to get in their goodlie souse. You got to a podcast, And I'm
like, it's okay to like things post season ten. You do understand that,
right, It's okay for people to like anything something that you don't like.
That's what they can't seem to understand is just because you don't like it
doesn't mean it's bad. It means that you don't like it. No,
that's it. And I still haven't watched it. Yeah. Look, I
don't watch much new Simpsons these days. It's more or less like just having
the time to sit down and watch it. But I do want to watch
the episode. I watched Simpson Theory break it Down the other day of the
episode how Larry the Barfly died. Okay, yep, have you watched that
episode yet? No? Is it available on Disney Plus yet or do you
just pirate it? I don't know, man, Like I'm assuming it just
went out live like on regular Telly over there. But yeah, she was
brief breaking down that episode. I'm like, that actually sounds pretty well written.
So I feel like I need to invest a bit of time and you
know, playing catch up. But like, because I'm so narrow minded and
a child of nostalgia from the nineties and stuff like that, and like it's
my comfort food from like season four to season I actually go to twelve because
I remember back in the day, we had the bootleg foxtail box with the
Dodgy sim card you put in yeah, yeah, and every Saturday and Sunday,
man from nine to twelve, Fox say the Simpsons Marathon, And like
my ritual on Saturday morning was go to tennis halfway through the marathon and tennis
was literally like a five minute walk down the road and then come back and
catch the last episode before it hit midday. And then you know, the
days just started and just like and then when the Olympics were on and they
had that massive marathon Simpsons FanFest. Mate, one of the highlights of my
childhood. Mate, that was like we were spoiled, absolutely spoil like you
could just go away, do something, come back and just it's just plain.
It was so good. I've still got VHS tapes of me recording that
marathon. That's so good. Oh man, I remember the Oprah special and
Homer's like upro oupro chat. Fuck man, I'm so glad you remember.
We must have watched the same shit, because I've still got that Channel ten
to a marathon on a Friday night in like nineteen ninety five, and I've
still got the videotaped me recording it. And I was hosted by two people
from Neighbors and that was sort of like the chief TV guys before this,
right in between the episodes, and they aired that opera skit for the first
time during that that marathon. So that's why you probably we probably watched it
at the exact same time one hundred percent. Man, Yeah, I think
so. Yeah, And oh man, what else was there? There was
a few other spellers. Yeah, I remember the Oprah one because Dad taped
that one for me. Oh do you remember when they were it was a
big huha, and they're like, you know, r rated Simpsons. The
one went Homer and Margin naked trying to get home. They edited at nine
point thirty in stand of seven thirty. Yeah, yeah, And mom and
dad were like, you can't watch that one. I'm like, come on,
Lynn, please be a friend and you're mean and I'm like, come
on, man, and you watch it. And he went, ah,
it's actually not that bad at all. No, it wasn't. It was.
It was good. It was a good episode, especially when Home is
getting dragged up the glass. Yes, I remember they on the trailer for
that, they had like when Noah in front of in the front of everybody
at the football field and they're covering themselves, But on the ad it just
had big sensored marks in front of it. I was like, holy shit,
we gotta see him naked, but of course you don't. Yeah.
Yeah. And then the Simpsons movie came out and we saw Bart's doodle.
I'm like, what, I don't have to feel about that. I was
like that, I feel a bit uncomfortable, like the whole I remember the
whole audience in our cinema. It was a nervous laugh it's like, if
you laugh at this, something's wrong with you. I remember, though,
when the movie finished, I know you said, there was that sort of
awkwardness of I think it was good, but I remember when I watched it
for the first time, there were people standing up and applauding it. And
I'm thinking, I'm not going to do that, But there were people applauding
the movie. I think they just felt that they had to because it was
the Simpsons and have just been lifelong fans, and we waited so long,
that was the thing. We'd waited so long, hadn't we for that movie.
Yeah, it just seemed like forever it was in development, in development,
which it was like it was in development health for quite some time,
because I think they went through a fair few writers, did they in a
fair few iterations of the script? Is that correct? Yeah? It went
fair a long time like that. I think that's why they brought in the
originals in the end. I'm like, Ah, these guys seem to know
what's up. They wrote the Golden ear. Let's just get those guys in.
I mean, that's the smartest thing you can do, man, because
now more so they're fully aware that the Golden Era will always be the best.
That's why it's the Golden Era. But yeah, I think the jokes
landed pretty well. I just like it's just little things that stick out to
here that you know, you still it's just like, you know, I
was elected to lead, not to read just President Schwartzenegger, and I don't
know, just very very funny, like even like the whole Tom Hanks thing,
you know, tussle my hair, mister Hanks. I feel like that
movie was the first half an hour was really solid, and then appeared with
the epiphany of Homer just sort of just dragged for me, and then when
they finally got to Springfield, it became good again. So I feel like
there's goes about ninety minutes. I feel it there's about fifty minutes of good
quality content in there. Yeah. When he has the whole existential thing with
the lady in the hut and all that, I'm like, yeah, okay,
Like I kind of equate that to when he has the chili and he's
high as a kite with the coyote. Yeah, I'm like, but that's
because he had a chili. Like he's a bit crook, but he'll come
good. Yeah, that's when it definitely did dip. But also I think
it was very sweet when Marge leaves the tape for him and she says,
you know, I tape this over our wedding thing, and I was like,
oh, that really hit me in the fields. I'm like, I
kind of haven't felt that way before whilst watching The Simpsons, and I'm like,
that was some pretty good writing. I like that. Yeah, that
was the first time I remember watching feeling genuine emotion, going oh shit,
And you could feel it in the cinema too. Everyone was sort of going,
oh man, you could sense the saddness in the room. Yeah,
but something that's not sad. Radioactive Man, an episode that I chose for
us to discuss because you know, you were you are you still Cosplay Chris
or you are now Chris Stanley, what's the deal? So on? So
I got the main YouTube channel Cosplay Chris, and I just changed my name
on Instagram to kind of like broaden the horizon, so it's just Chris Stanley
Official. But yeah, still Cosplay actually did a shoot yesterday as Christopher Reeve
Superman, which is fun, but yeah, just try and like, so
I should have like started the second channel ages Ago Man, like just keep
the build videos separate from the talking videos with like movie reviews, entertainment news
stuff like that. So yeah, like, this is definitely one of my
favorite episodes because the idea of a beloved comic book character. It's like is
if Batman was coming to shoot here in Sydney. That's a massive deal.
And I think just everything that goes on in that episode is comedic genius.
The way Springfield carries on knowing that Hollywood is coming to their town, just
little things, the way Wigham and the mayor carry on, you know,
it's just great. I feel like this is what would happen. Sydney's a
big city. This is what would happen if Hollywood came to Geelong, smaller,
smaller than Sydney. You know, this is like, holy shit,
it's hollywoods coming. But I love the way they flipped the script here.
What's the world to do with this? With the Hollywood guys being the good
guys and Quimby and like Springfield being the villains. Essentially, Yes, that's
correct. And also this was the first hang on, I've got my trivia
here. This is the first episode to be digitally colored. Yeah, I've
got that my notes too. I thought, I remember watching this as a
kid, feeling this looks different. There's something about this that feels not off,
but just different to the other episodes. And it's because this is the
only one in cool season. Yeah it does. Till season twelve, they
didn't do it again, so it always just stood out to me, going
what's going on here? But that's why digital coloring and they ye had season
twelve and they did it full on from season fifteen. I think that's when
I made the switch, and like to this day, my two best mates
to know, like we'll just be like we will say something and it's just
like, yeah, it's real, and then my mate Peter'll be like real
accid. My quote that I use all the time in real life is just
going to put my shoes on whatever Nikola says, are you ready? And
are you and your undies in the living room with slot cars. I tried
to be not all the time, but yeah, like it. It's definitely
like one of the most quotable with my mates, Like we'll again just be
like look at my range or just like E usually just tape a bunch of
cats together. There are so many elements of this episode that I appreciated more
as an adult than I was a kid, Like the crusty like you just
said, with the range. As a kid, I didn't get whatever,
it's just crusty being crusty. As an adult, I'm like, that's so
fucking good. Yeah, Like when I was a kid, I thought he
said rage rag and I'm like, yeah, you don't look that angry,
like I'm pitchy. You're happy, prusty. I don't know what's going on,
but yeah, just also just how just what kind of what it says
about Hollywood as well, and you know when a big budget thing comes to
a small town and how the town can change, and like you said,
it flips the switch where Hollywood, the Hollywood people are the good guys,
and Springfield turns into like not grubby, money hungry. But you see the
way Quimby carries on, Wigan carries on. You know, if there's an
animal that's snooting around just set, we'll have it wiped out, we'll have
it extinct, and shops increasing their price. It's kind of like you know
when it's a long weekend and all the petrol prices go up. Even snake
upped these prices. That's amazing it did. Yeah, exactly. I was
going to bash you apparently, except I feel like this episode though, as
a kid, whopped my idea and perception of what Hollywood was, because I
finally visited in twenty sixteen and I got there and I was like, this
is not what I expected, very disappointed. Well, we rocked up on
Hollywood Strip at about two pm in the afternoon, and the first thing I
saw when we got it we went quite on the proper strip, we're all
the Chinese theater and stuff, was we're a little bit further down and we're
going to have the car, and the first thing I saw was a homeless
dude pissing on a street sign. That was the first thing I ever saw
in Hollywood. Welcome to Hollywood, baby, Yeah, exactly right. Yeah,
it's basically I felt then how the kids felt when they arrived at the
World's Fair. You know the wad fur No no, no, yeah,
the wardfur. Did you at least walk away with some wigs? I tried
to find some know what I walked away was with less money. Because Nikolas,
she's one of she's a patsy. So we'd walk down the street,
and I'd say, right, everyone's gonna want you to take a photo of
you with them for money. I said, don't do it. Don't go
do that, Chewbacer, don't do anything. The first thing she does goes,
hey, this guy's gonna snake, let's take a photo. I'm like,
oh, Nikola, it's gonna cost us fifty dollars and yeah. You
never go near those people. And then the rappers hanging out handing out their
demo discs and you grab it and then they're like whoa, oh, whoa,
where's a donation? And then they start threatening you were like, oh,
what have I done. I've told the story on the podcast numerous times.
When Nicola thought would be a good idea, because this is all on
our honeymoon, a good idea to walk from the main Las Vegas strip to
the old one. And when you're doing that, that's a fair walk,
isn't it. Yeah? Fuck oth it is and it's hot. And we
get about halfway right and there's this guy, I assume homeless, I don't
know, but wrap a demo disc, right, but he just walks up
to us out of nowhere from the shadows, and he was just in my
ears. I thought he said, can I show you photos of my baby?
I was like, yeah, sure, cool dude, whatever you reckon.
But he pulls out his phone and I don't know what he actually said,
but he starts playing this demo rap on his phone. What do you
think? I said, Oh, it's cool here. Yeah, yeah,
I'm taking donations. Okay. I remember thinking at that time, I don't
actually have any cash on me right now, there is no one around.
I'm probably about to die. That's what I remember thinking that moment. I
remember looking at seeing nobody, going, we're in here, and he followed,
and the entire time he walked with us for about five minutes, just
rapping this song in my ear. I could feel his breath on my ear
and the smell, and eventually we saw this little bar. Just ran straight
in there, and the guy in the bar goes, yeah, they know
they can't come into these places, so they just go away. I'm thinking,
holy shit, welcome to America. Yeah, man, you've got to
have your wits about you. Yeah. That that happened in Venice Beach and
then also in New York when they were hanging out the discs and I still
have it I'm like, if I'm gonna give this man this money because my
life is being threatened, I'm gonna keep this disc. And his name was
Swaggy Jeff. And I've still got the disc and Dad found it in storage
one day and Dad's like, mate, who's bloody Swaggy Jeff. And I'm
like, oh, told him the story and he put the disc in and
it's just obviously like wrap And Dad's like, this is fucking awful. Mate,
you've got a bit of Perry Como or something to play. I'm gonna
google it. Swaggy Jeff. Swaggy Jeff the most handsome hustler from the Bahamas.
He has three Oh, Swaggy Jeff sold me a CD on the sidewalk
in New York City. That's that's a Reddit post. There you go.
It comes forward and I really want to find him. The only thing is
the city only had one song on it. I can't believe that's on Reddit.
That's amazing. Yeah, that's from ten years ago. Yeah, we
got to find Swaggy Jeff. If you're out there listening, Swaggy, get
in touch. But yeah, radioactive man, though, what were your first
thoughts rewatching? Did you rewatch it for this review, or you just go
one based off memory because we've just watched it so many times already. No,
No, I've got it on my laptop here and I rewatched it the
other morning. Chloe and I were actually watching it and having coffee in bed,
just playing catch up. But again, it's just the little things,
man, Like just the fact that Barton Millhouse are wearing hats and they never
wear hats at the beginning, and it's just like they most fixed their air
conditioning. And also the little bit where where Skinner's like radio Man, radioactive
man, stupid. I don't know why I could hear that, but anyway,
Yes, and then the hats once again. Yeah, it's definitely one
of those episodes that sticks in the back of my mind. But also,
like you said that, the Easter eggs, like when they up their prices,
signage, things that are just peppered throughout that episode. There's always something
to look at in every frame. I think it's one that sort of just
taps into my my nerdy self, especially with comic book Guy going to the
nerd obsessive to find out who's in who's gonna be cast as radioactive Man.
Just takes me back to the glory days of the internet. Prince in that
chat room. I don't know whether it's supposed to be Princes, but it
sure as how it looks like a really weird version of him, right,
yeah, yeah, I also love he's like comic book guys little and you
hear his shoes squeaking on the floor. Yeah. I always, even as
a kid, I was like, that's I'm young, but that's Prince.
Like, why is Prince in a movie gossip chat room? Maybe it was
their way of dissing him for not doing the episode, and now they're going
to do the Return of Leon Kompowski the Michael Jackson episode. Oh right,
I didn't know they were going to do that. Yeah, they wrote a
sequel and it was going to be Princess said of Michael Jackson, and Prince
agreed to do it. Blah blah blah. They wrote the script. So
the script is out there somewhere, and I'm pretty sure that the writers have
put screenshots of online somewhere on Twitter. But basically, he read the script
and said he didn't like a few things and got his I think he's chauffeur
to like rewrite the script. For him or something, and they're like,
we're not having this, and then he just pulled out. So I think
they were just angry about that. Oh my god. I had no idea
about that. And because I know Michael Jackson went under an alias, he
didn't get credited as much Jackson did. John J. Smith was John Something,
wasn't it. Yeah, yeah, some sort of alias. But I
had no idea that Prince was gonna come in for like the follow up episode.
I didn't even know there was going to be a follow up episode.
Yeah, I'm kind kind of glad they didn't makes Michael Jackson want stand out
more even though the episode doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't Oh what's been turned
down by the actual creators of the show. Alig basically came out and said
and in twenty nineteen that they're taking it off of any streaming services because and
add of syndication, because they feel that Michael Jackson used it to groom children.
Oh what to be like, Hey, I was in the Simpsons type
thing, like he came to usk, came on the show, and like
he would have put that episode on when he was grooming kids. So now
they've just yep, the episode's gone from history. Oh man, I had
no idea about that, because didn't they didn't they do that with a few
other episodes that were a bit I wouldn't say problematic, But depends on the
country. I know, in the I'm pretty sure thirty minutes of a Tokyo
wasn't allowed over there when it was originally out. I remember that. Yeah,
yeah, there's a couple others, but anyway, but yeah, anyway,
I feel like this episode they're radioactive. Man. Do you feel like
it would have benefited from more celebrity cameos? Because I tend to prefer when
they keep it more Springfield and Springfield celebs like Randy and wolf Castle. But
I feel like this episode might have been one where you could have sort of
gone down the home at the bat Rap with more celebs coming in. I
don't know, what do you think? I think so? I think because
the inclusion of Hollywood coming to town they're filming a movie, I think that's
when it could have given the writers permission to just go ballistic and have an
array of cameos. Same with the episode with Kim basing at, Alec Baldwin
and Ron Howard. That's a pretty big lineup, but I definitely think they
could have gotten away with it. But at the same time, you run
that risk of it being too much of a distraction and taking away from the
core characters. It's called the Simpsons because it's about the Simpsons and also Springfield,
but I think it could have been an opportunity to have the cameos,
like that's their excuse to go ham and have an abundance of cameos, special
guests like celebs voicing and coming in to do bit parts and stuff like that.
So it's kind of yeah, it's a double edged sword. I think,
like too many, it's a distraction, but also you know, have
them peppered throughout. I think it could work. Man, what about you,
Well, it's funny that you brought it Ron Howar, because I was
thinking the exact same thing that maybe bring in a director to play the director
role. Not necessarily get actors, but have the director be somebody. I
thought, because Ron Howards hilarious, I thought him being him playing that role
would have worked. I think, ah, dumbassy, was it run?
How would you have done it again? Yeah? Exactly, like obviously like
Mickey Rooney, but like Mickey Rooney's Mickey Rooney. Like, I feel like
there's only a certain demographic of people that would instantly be like I know that
person. And then obviously you know rain Year is you know Springfield celebrity.
Yeah, I don't know, Like I directed, that would have been great,
Like imagine if like they actually had not seniors spilled bettergla, they had
actually Steven Spielberg come in, And I was thinking the same thing. It'd
be so cool. I feel like Spielberg will be up for it too.
He's like a fun guy. I feel like he'd be like a secret fan
if they ask him. He's like, I actually have a confession. I'm
the biggest Simpsons fan ever. Like you just like there are those celebrities that
have weird obsessions or not weird, but you wouldn't pick it from their personality
type. Wasn't George Clooney a fan of South Park and that's why he voiced
Sparky the dog, the gay dog. Yeah? Yeah, so that was
legit him him he did the barking. Yeah, that's amazing. I know,
right, but I'm pretty sure because he was George Clooney at that point
and South Park was sort of just starting he probably thought. His agent probably
went, Okay, you can go on the show, but you're not going
to be George Clinton. You can be something else. He's like, right,
I'll be the gay dog if I have to. But at the end
of the day, though radioctive Man as an episode, I feel like this
is a it becomes a Mialhouse episode, doesn't it, And how he manages
to cope with the instant fame of being a child star, and it's kind
of like a reflection on how parents push their kids to become stars and then
live vicariously through them. It's what Luan and Kirk do here. He's like,
I don't want to audition, and she pushes it. He gets the
role, and of course we see them enjoying the fame all the money that
comes with it, and he's like, I don't want to do this.
She can't hear him over her jacuzzi suit, Millhouse, baby learning a drug
dealer. Keep her aware. Man. Whenever you see Phil Hartman like Lionel
Hearts and Troumicclure just makes me so sad. Oh Man, like we when
because a lot of people that I talk to and I'm like, yeah,
Phil Hartman and I and they're like, yeah, like he doesn't do much
these days, and I'm like, oh, buddy, I have something to
tell you. Everything he was in and like even jingle all the way,
just like, oh, Howard, this cookies are so good. Just he's
he was just so good man. And again like even though it was like
little bits where it be trou McClure or Lionel Hearts or even just other little
obscure characters, it was just so damn good. But going back to Millhouse
becoming the star. I respect the writers forgeting it to Millhouse and not Bart
and having it be a character that isn't in the immediate family. But then
also that way Bart learns that famers and everything, like Millhouse has already learned
that right off the bat. He's like, I don't want this, like
obviously Kirk and LAWANDU. But Bart sees it through Millhouse and is like,
maybe this worked out pretty well because this isn't exactly what's cracked up to be.
I think it was also nice that Bart wasn't jealous of Millhouse. He
just sort of worked out a new way to get involved in the film with
that having to sort of try and sabotage Millhouse's position. Yeah, what did
he say to Lisa? Lisa gives the big speech and he says something like
yeah, I'll just suck up to him or something like that. Love lot
of people do with God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When
he goes in and sees Millhouse and the director comes and he's like, again
it again, I got it again. Like I say that quote all the
time of the podcast, when I say again again and again it again,
and then someone else is like, we did it. It's done. Yeah.
As a kid, I always thought I was a Bart, But the
more older I get, I feel like I was definitely a Millhouse. Well
do you feel like you're a Millhouse or a Bart? I was a Bart?
Yeah. So primary school I was a shithead, Like I was always
going to the principal's office. I so, I actually this sounds so bad.
I bit a kid on the arm after Bart did something similar once and
I got sent to the principals. I was, And that's when mom and
dad were like, I think we've made a mistake letting him watch the Simpsons.
And yeah, I was a bit of a feral child in primary school.
Soon as as soon as I hit high school. It was I was
like a little nerdy kid, but yeah, I was definitely a Bart like
absolutely, and I actually I actually told a teacher to eat my shorts in
grade three. Man, what about ass Ah? Yeah, man, it
didn't go down well. But like, you know, looking back on it,
like, and my mum was the type she wouldn't call it the Simpsons.
I don't know if your parents were this, but it's a very I
realized it was a very common theme. Mom would be like, oh,
you're not watching the Bart Simpson Shower, are you? Mom? Simpsons?
Well? See, I wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons until I was six
because it's the famous iconic story I've always told on the podcast of Triosopara One
bad dream house, the family get possessed, make it gets a knife out
of the kitchen draw. I went and did the same thing, walking to
the lande with the family, had a knife in my hand. And that
was the end of me watching The Simpsons for several years. So not good.
It's funny though I'm a parent now, wow, So I always say,
what was mum worried about? You know, the Simpsons? Isn't that
bad compared to what they watch these days. The Simpsons isn't that bad.
But I now watch the Simpsons, and particularly I was talking with Guy yesterday
about the Itchy and Scratchy cartoons. I now watch it and go I'm not
sure whether I want Elliott to watch this yet, because Elliott, my son's
nearly six, so he's kind of old enough to know about it. But
my daughter's three nearly four, and she can't quite differentiate the different difference between
what's real and what's not. So if she's watching Itchy and Scratchy and Scratches
getting his head cut off and blood squeating it everywhere, I think it's too
much for her. I don't know what are your thoughts. It's a tough
one because actually, Itchy and Scratchy was my dad's favorite part of The Simpsons.
Every time an episode was on, in the episode like Dad would laugh
like the creepy old uncle. He'd be wheezing and slapping his knee. And
I was young, so I don't know, Like, obviously I'm not a
parent, but I'm at that age now where I can look back and be
like, okay, like watching Itching and scratch and be like if I had
a child, Now there was maybe similar age to either your son or your
daughter. I'd be like, as goofy as this is, and it's stylized
because it's a cartoon. Maybe there's a time and a place for this.
I think I think gonna wait till he's maybe seven. I don't know,
Yeah, And I always I don't know why. When I was younger,
like really really young, and I just started watching it, the one Itchy
and Scratchy episode that terrified me. And it's the stupidest episode when Scratchy gets
the ants put on his head and goes up through into the TV and Elvis
is like, ah, this show ain't no good. Like that just scared
me. I don't know why. Just weird things like that that scare you
as a kid. You look back and you're like, what was wrong with
me? I used to be terrified of My favorite movie is ET, But
as a child, I was terrified of it. I was back now and
go, what the hell Brendan's ET? I don't know, Like mind you
that that shot where he like flares up and screams and all that, that's
like the one that terrified Yeah. And also when he's in the ditch dying,
I'm like, that's horrifying what happened to him. I remember when she
the mother comes in and takes the kids out, and he was like mom
and starts screaming and crying because you're taking the kids away from me. I
was like, that fucking haunted me. Man. Yeah, it was a
bit like when you think about watching that as a kid, You're like,
that's heavy, Like that has a lot of heavy themes in it, Like
it's not just about, you know, a boy's relationship with an alien who
becomes his best friend. I'm like, there's a lot of heavy themes in
this. Do you find though, talking about like relating to characters? I
find the older I get I was discussing with guy yesterday as well, the
older I get I relate to characters that I've never used to. So as
a kid related to the kids. Obviously, as you old, you relate
to Homer and whatnot. But I find now as a parent, even though
these guys aren't necessarily parents, Like Mo, for example, I relate to
the anger and bitterness that Mo has to the world. It's like he's like
a stress ball that I can live vicariously through. And Grandpa like shaking the
fist of the cloud. Do you find that you've had moments like that?
Now? Where has it happened to you with Grandpa kind of thing? Yeah?
Yeah, I there are times like where I'll just get so cranky over
the most trivial thing, and I'll make sure no one's around when it happens
because I get very embarrassed and I'll have my episode and then be like what
was that all about? I'm like, how old am I getting now that
I'm like reacting way Whereas back in the day, like early twenties, like
fine, Now it's like little things all, like you know, making sure
I get stuff done during the day, like you know, around all the
errands and stuff like that, and also planning a wedding as well, like
that's like a stressful thing in itself. And you know, because Chloe's from
South Africa and mum and dad live in Mauritius. So Mum and Dad arrived
here a few days ago, My sister in law and brother in law are
coming here tonight, so it's all happening and it's kind of like Christmas vacation
when the whole family's over and it's a full house and everything's happening because my
parents live like fifteen minutes down the road, but I'm there like nearly every
second day because I've got my workshop there where I do a lot of work.
You know, we get like an Etsy order or something, so it's
just all flat chat. All systems go until next week so and then all
of a sudden it's over, and then it's just been all little things,
man. So I definitely relate to Mo and Grandpa for sure. And I
also like, obviously when you're a kid, you relate to the kids.
But then when you find out that you're now older or around the same age
as Homer and Marge, you're like, oh what, Yeah, no,
I never thought i'd get to this, because I was saying to Nicola the
other day, when we were like five or six, our parents were the
same age and they seemed fucking old man. And now we are that to
our kids. You know, they must look at us and go, they're
old people. I don't feel old, but I'm old man. Yeah.
And it's like that meme of the parents from Rugrats when you realize you're the
same age as them and you're like, oh my god, I'm I'm feeling
DP pickles. This is crazy, not good at all. No, no,
no, see I find myself relating to Mow and Grandpa more and more
often. Yeah, one hundred percent. Man, And like, oh man,
I don't know if it's a problem down in Geelong, but our biggest
problem at the moment is little shits on those four thousand dollars e bikes at
the moment that are like fanging a on paths and everything. And we've got
a dog, We've got a little English Couga spaniel. Like they're doing like
fifty k's on these little bike paths and like it might just take our dog
just to veer off to go smell something clip him. And I get so
angry, and I'm like, was I have this obnoxious when I was a
kid? And I'm like, no, it's definitely the children's fault. It's
definitely the children who are wrong. I knew I was getting old when I
started getting annoyed by people's haircuts. Oh but mind you like some of the
like mullets and the broccoli haircut. Come on. I look at him like
what are you doing, buddy, and Nicholas like you're just old. Yeah
that's true. Did you have the ball cut when you were a kid.
I had the Nick Carter part down the middle. I had that too.
I had the frosted tips as well, but Mum insisted I had a bowl
cut when I was a kid, and I think that didn't help with bullying
in high school. In primary school, she's like, oh, you look
a door where I'm like, if you say that, I must like I'm
like Nelson, I'm like, I feel like punching myself. Well, was
anything il you want to talk about? Radioactive man? Before? We aren't
getting to your cosplay. I've covered all the good bits, right, I
think, like, yeah, I think that's pretty much it, Like obviously
like that you can go on and on about the jokes and all that.
I just love, like Millhouses, is this a real X ray machine?
Brilliant? Good question. We'll look into that. It was a great voice
for that character, wasn't it. Ah Yeah, yeah, I just But
then I also love because that's Hanka's area when he's like I'm telling you we're
sixty three years old and he's dead. It's just that gets you so many
times in memes as well. It's just like, hey, we should get
that person. They're dead. Ye just also like, wow, look at
that ed. Okay, this place must be hot. They don't even have
big advertising, all the correct spelling. I think for me, this standout
scene though, is definitely the acid scene. That's the one that stuck with
me the most. I don't know about you, what's the what's the one
scene that you met with the most? Ah, it's the acid It's the
acid scene, but also just the last shot of rain year after he's put
the goggles on and he's like oh h and he just sits there like a
little schoolboy prepped for his doom and he gets smashed away, and then obviously
the ah oh, and then Krusty being like, I want to talk about
this coffee. It's kind of like when he comes at the end of Who's
Mister Burns? Part one? He's been a runa for six weeks? What
have I missed? You know? Exactly? Exactly? Yeah, Yeah,
definitely the acid scene. And I think just anything just with filming, and
just also like Ralph and the boys on set, pestering the teamsters place,
painting horses and cows and all stuff like that. It's just like again like
going back to my mates and I quoting it like we'll be having a slow
day, saying we'll just be like so lazy and surly it's so good,
like Homer's relating to the teamsters. It's just me now, Like getting paid
to do nothing seems like the dream. It's oh man, Like some people
on movie sets, they just I'm like, why, why are you?
What are you doing? That's what my wife says to me usually on a
day to day basis. I've got to ask. Those POGs behind you hanging
there are not only POGs, they are Simpson's Tasos. Oh my god,
the Tazos. I used to have the fucking purple that you put them in.
And I'll move the camera up so you can kind of see. Can
you kind of see them? There we go Star Wars ones, Yeah,
I can see them, There we go. POGs are sort of in there.
They're the Tazo's in there as well. Just yeah, trying to move
around. That's my vinyl collection, yep, yeah, love it. A
lot of crazy crap on the walls. Also the trading card wall over there,
see the trading card wall. The entire wallpaper is just nineties trading cards.
Oh that's so sick. We actually just had a card shop open like
two kilometers down the road. It's a tiny little shoe box, but they've
got mostly like Pokemon Yu Gi Oh basketball, but they had an unopen Mint
Batman nineteen eighty nine box of cards and bubblegum, and I'm like, I
took my father father in law in there the other day and I'm like,
what that gums like? And it's like when Milhouse bites the gum and it
breaks his snaith. Yeah, yeah, oh, I got you unboxing out
and you channel will be good views though, right, surely one hundred percent,
But then you get people that are just like, why did you open
it? It was mid yeah, just like like it'd be like comic book
Guy when he's the collector trying to like keep Lucy Lawless in mid condition exactly.
I remember because we got a second separate channel. I called it nerd
Daddy. I do videos with my kid unboxing stuff every moe. He's like
a baby, and we get so many people with unbox like Funko Pops take
him out and play with him. My son when he was like want to
be like bashing him around, and the comments are like, why are you
taking it out of the box? It's not worth it any thing anymore.
And I'm like, I don't care. It's a fucking toy. I'm playing
with it. He's a kid. Let him enjoy it. Yeah, it's
like live vi carously through him because you're clearly never gonna take your shit out
of the box. So this is what it looks like out of the box.
This is what it looks like when you do what what was originally intended.
Trying to look around because I've got a lot of crazy crap on the
walls too. But this was found the other day. I made the mine.
Found this at a flea market. The rings from the Billy Zane Phantom
some shit you're keep in the box. Yeah, I'm like, I had
them when I was a kid, but you found them for five bucks at
this flea market here in Sydney. I'm like, dude, can you please
grab them for me? Like that's that's it, because like, yeah,
just other little things. I don't know if you remember the McFarland toys back
that was so great. I love the world of Springfield figures. I look
back now and think, fuck, I wish I had collected those. Oh
yeah, I used to have the diorama of Krusty Burger. We bought that
in New York when Dad took Mom and I had the Krusty Burger one.
And this is so obscure. I remember when Red Rooster did their kids meals
and they had the Simpsons. You collect them and put them on the couch.
Do look over there, you see it? No, don't tell me.
Oh my god, I've got the Red Rooster box as well, you
magnificent bastard. That is amazing. I've got three of the boxes still pushed
out that it is flat, flat packed. Wow, that is impressive,
because no one goes to Red Rooster anymore. No one really went to Red
Rooster in the first place. I remember there were like maybe five times in
my life, and every time it was always really slow, so we never
went back. But I remember the rooster rolls were always delicious, just the
chicken rolls. And I found this coupon box. We've gone through the garage.
We're cleaning out the garage the other day, and I found this box
of coupons that I just know I didn't keep them old coupons, and it
was Red Rooster and it was two rooster rolls for five dollars, and I
was like, what a time to be alive? That was. It's like
moon Bige, just like we don't get that anymore. We found I found
Hungry Jacks bouches as well, and it was two whoppers for three dollars.
Can you imagine two whoppers for three dollars? Oh, it's a bargain,
I know, right, And I have great memories of name. We'd always
we'd go to her house on school holidays and that meant we'd go to Hungry
Jacks. So we'd always get the two for three dollars. What would be
to walk down Hungry Jackson? Nan? So whatever I see Hunger Jackson to
think of school holidays Nan space oh Man, Yeah, that that's that's prime
like childhood memory. And then like the six week school holidays that was the
best. But getting back to those figures from Red Rooster, I feel like
in Australian I've only learned this recently. Australia had a lot of collectibles,
usually assigned to some sort of junk food, but Simpsons collectibles that we could
collect over the time. That's whether it be the Tazo's those things, remember
the little I've got them in here somewhere either over there, the little motion
cards that came in the c ceds. Remember CC's were a thing with the
Simpsons for a while. I lived on CC's when I was a kid,
and I think that's why I was a little bit of a chubber when I
was a kid. And I do remember those those, yeah, particular ones.
I remember they did something similar for when Batman and Robin came out.
They had the plastic kind they had a little film cell. Oh my god,
I love it. You've got an inventory of like my childhood in your
room right there. That's that's amazing. The plans for me on the Nerdaddy
channel is to show all this shit to my son from when I said,
this is when I was a kid, and that's going to be the channel,
just me just get bringing in all the nineties useless shit. Yeah,
yeah, absolutely, I oh god, I do actually want to get the
issue one of radio Active Man and just have that framed, just because it's
such a good looking cover too. It is it really is. Yeah,
I've got my first edition like you've got the other Simpsons comic because the other
side is the divisional Fantastic four covers and of Homer coming out of the ground.
That's the back of it, right. Well, that's the thing I
always got confused with. I'm like, is that the proper issue one or
the one of Homer coming out of the ground? Is that the proper issue
one? Homer coming out of the ground is the issue one? But I
thought the back of the back page of that was that is it? Not?
No? No, this one right here? You want a nostalgia trip
mate, one of my favorite shows of all time, love dinosaurs? Yeah,
yeah, I want to start a podcast on dinosaurs. You should because,
like again, it's nostalgia, man. But yeah, this one says
Issue one Special Collectors Edition. But then I see the other one with Homer
coming out of the ground, Like, which one came first? The one
Come of the Ground definitely came first, I'm pretty sure, but I could
be wrong. I always under the assumption it was the first one. But
who knows. This one has like a really good this one has a really
good Bartman storyline and it comes with a poster as well, which is really
cool. But yeah, let's promote your stuff before we before we wrap up.
So basically, you still do any cosplaying things, So what do you
putting more energy into these days. So like, I've got a few side
hustles apart from YouTube, because you can't always rely on YouTube. So I
have an Etsy store where I sell a lot of my props because I have
silicon molds where I can make resin castings and copies of all these pieces.
So a lot of them are like, you know, Freddy Krueger busts,
Michael Meyer's stuff, a few Batman pieces, Hans Moleman. Oh, yes,
so Hans Moleman. So I sculpted a hyper realistic bust of Hans Moleman
back in twenty seventeen. I've still got the mold for it. I actually
want to recast it in translucent flesh tinted resin, do all the things.
I add all the wispy hairs one by one. The eyes are custom made
and they're all blood shot and just disgusting. But I actually want to get
like a child sized mannequin and sculpt Hans's body and make a full statue of
Hans with a little sad daffodil. And yeah, I sculpted that, and
I was actually really proud of that one. It got a lot of attention
and a lot of people were just like, what the fuck is that thing?
And I'm like, it's Hans more Man. I'm like, I want
to like spray something on it that makes it smell like a peanut. Yeah,
so yeah I did that, Like you know, the Big Les Show.
I sculpted Sassy years ago, and I've still got the mold for that.
And I showed Jared I forget he surnamed the creator, and he's like,
mate, that's so cool. So I got the thumbs up from him.
So I sculpt a lot of like obscure background characters. I love doing
stuff like that, but mostly it's been like horror Batman stuff. So but
also now I've got the second channel just called Chris Stanley, where I just
do like movie reviews, collectible reviews. Like so this is really nerdy,
but yes this morning put up an unboxing video. So this right here is
a vintage knife and this is actually the knife they used on the original Freddy
Krueger glove. So they actually used tomato knives that were made in like the
sixties, seventies and eighties, so originally it's like that, and then they
took the handle off, turned it upside down, and I found one in
Mint condition. So I did an unboxing video that people respond well to that
on the second channel because I do a lot of horror and like a lot
of prop stuff as well, so cosplay, Chris, I keep it build
stuff and costume stuff like if I'm wearing something. But the second channel,
which I do a lot more frequent uploads because you know, there's always movie
news, movies to review stuff like that, So putting a lot of effort
into the second channel just to get the momentum going, because it's hard man,
Like you know how it is just to keep fresh, keep ideas fresh,
but also grow that audience. Well everyone's just doing it now, which
makes us just so hard to stand out. I've had this discussion with Guy
the other day about rewatch podcasts and how it used to be so easy to
start to rewatch podcasts, but now every person who starred in the show is
now doing a rewatch podcast of the show that we're in, and they're just
stealing all the attention. It's like, let us have something please. Yeah.
Yeah, And I've kind of like thought of it. I'm like,
maybe I should go back and like revisit stuff for stuff like that, but
yeah, you it just people just do that, and it just they get
the views and everything, and look, it shouldn't always be about the views,
but when you put in all that work and effort, it definitely does
help. Oh that the views matter, because that's how you get press junkets,
that's how you get all expenses paid trips mate the views. Yeah,
yeah, that's it. That's it. So yeah. Look, I've definitely
had some great opportunities from the cosplay world as well. I've been fortunate enough
to work in the States, the Middle East, of all places cosplaying,
which is crazy. Do you find it's a different audience with the two different
channels or do you think a lot of them have sort of come over you
Are you finding new fans through your second channel. I'm finding new fans through
the second channel absolutely. Like when I announced on the main channel that I
started the second channel a year ago, actually, you know, a few
sifted over, but others just stayed for the cosplay stuff, which is fair.
And I feel like if I continued that and uploading movie reviews cosplay stuff
in the one channel, it gets confusing for your audience, like what are
you doing? Whereas if you're doing all talking stuff movie related stuff, then
people know what they're subscribing to, so I think that again, I should
have done it years ago, but you know, better late than never.
So yeah, how hard is it to get people because you've got three hundred
and seventy five thousand subscribers to think on your main channel? Is that right
something around there? How hard is it to get even ten percent of them
to come over to a new channel. It's hard, man Like, it's
really hard. And you've also got to be at the mindset. Some people
are going to just be like this isn't for me, and you're like,
yeah, fair enough. But then that's when you build up that new audience
that are there because they know exactly what they're getting, and you know they'll
you know, watch most of the videos that you upload each and every time,
so it's good and you know, you build a good little community.
You know, you have your people that always comment, and then you get
newcomers. They'll be like, hey, man, I just subscribe today.
Good stuff, you know, greetings from Canada or Portugal or Brazil, and
you're like that's awesome, man, like, welcome, that's very very cool.
So you never know, like what the algorithm is going to bring you
and then there are those videos that you don't put any effort into and it
does so well, and then you do a banger of a video where you
put your heart and soul into it and it gets bugger all views and you're
like, I don't know what's going on. What's good? Is new?
Do you have a second guess yourself? Oh? All the time. All
the time. I second guess myself. I compare myself and I saw a
quote a few months ago. I'm like, man, I got to keep
remembering that. Don't compare your five months journey to someone's five year journey.
So yeah, there are some people on YouTube that are friends of mine and
I'm like, man, they just have to fart on camera and it just
explodes, like it just and but you're also like, they've been doing that
channel for quite a long time, so it's and again like it's it's a
lot of effort, a lot of effort, man, thinking on your feet,
coming up with fresh ideas. But I love it. I love doing
the second channel because I feel like there's a lot more that I can do.
Whereas opposed to doing a cosplay build or like a custom collectible, it's
expensive, it's very expensive to do. It's a big edit and that's why
when I announced a second channel, I said things are probably going to be
spaced out more on the main channel now because like my last one was a
Batman custom collectible from a month and a bit ago, but we're about to
put a Superman one up, so you know, as long as you're transparent
with your audience, it's like, guys, obviously that's not going to be
as frequent, but I'm still doing cosplay stuff in the background, but obviously
want to work more on reviewing movies, entertainment news and doing press junkets and
stuff like that. I love doing that. Like that trip to New York
that we were talking about last month was great, and yeah, it definitely
builds up your confidence, your people's skills and stuff like that. And reviewing
film is hard. A lot of people look at it and be like,
you've got to sit there and talk about a movie. I'm like, it's
actually it can be hard, especially trying to get all your thoughts and feelings
out without having to edit the video and be like, damn, I should
have said this, should have said that, and also not being afraid to
have an opinion. That's against everyone else's. Like when everyone's in a certain
mindset of how good or bad a film is and yours might be different,
you get scared to upload that video in fear of backlash. But that's when
you've got to be like, man, if someone has something bad to say,
they're the one with the problem. Usually someone would just be like,
oh, man, that sucks. You didn't enjoy it. Hopefully we can
agree on it next time. I'm like, man, if everyone was like,
YouTube would be an easier place to be on. And some people are
just like, I'm unsubscribing your fuck. I don't agree, And I'm like,
announcing your unsubscribing is like a Karen announcing you just lost the customer.
I can't go on our iTunes reviews because we've got like thousands of five star
reviews on there, but occasionally people on to check at one start and there'll
be something like, been listening to this show for years and now there's ads
on there. I'm not listening to ads, And I'm thinking, so,
I've given you years of free entertainment, but you don't want to have to
but you don't have to pay for Yeah, if you want this show to
continue going we need to put some ads in so that I can survive financially.
Yeah, how dare you? How dare you? I'm unsubscribing? What
what? Yeah? Exactly like or like you do like a sixty second integrated
ad on a YouTube video and people lose their minds. I'm like, sorry
if I'm just trying to earn an extra bit of quid, because it's very
hard and temperamental being on YouTube. Yeah, are you earning a living through
this? Now? Is this your job? Ah? It is? But
not only YouTube, man. I could not rely on YouTube obviously because things
are more spread out on the main channel, so that revenue goes down there.
Revenue did build up a bit on the second channel, and then it
kind of tape it a bit. But again, you've got to keep the
momentum going, build up the subscribers, and then you know, eventually the
regular views definitely do come. But obviously I've got Etsy, my Etsy store,
and then campaigns like social media campaigns, stuff like that. In July,
I'm going up to Warner Brothers Movie World to do a talk on batsuits,
which will be fun. So you know, that's a nice little bit
of pocket money, and you know, I'm in my element. But there
are a lot of times when studios pr companies kind of try to take advantage
of, like not just maybe like other creators and they're like, hey,
we'll send you this if you do this for free, and I'm like,
no, I don't want that product. No, So it's like but also
like, you know, that is a cool product, But at the end
of the day, like I'm putting effort into this and I need it'd be
nice to get compensated financially because I could be focusing my energy somewhere else where
there is a compensation involved or earning something from it. And unfortunately, a
lot of new creators or novice creators that are still fresh to doing campaigns unfortunately
get taken advantage of. And it sucks because there are some talented people out
there, you know, building stuff or you know, doing tutorials or you
know even you know, make up tutorials and stuff like that, like really
talented people, and they unfortunately just get taken advantage of sometimes because they think,
oh, it's X, Y and Z, which is a big studio,
I'm working with them, Da da da, and they'll just keep they'll
keep pushing and pushing the friendship. So yeah, you've got to kind of
have your wits about you. I find too, when you're a content creator,
when you align yourself with a brand, I just suppose have a Disney
where we've worked with Disney before because they have the Simpsons on Disney Plus and
things like that. Now, when you're a content creator that relies on support
from your listeners on Patreon and things like that, when you align yourself with
big brands like Disney, a lot of people just assume they must be making
money. Then if Disney's working with them, that's not the case. Disney
might chuck you some money or send you some a free subscription to Disney Plus
or something. But just because you're aligned with the big brand doesn't mean that
you shouldn't support these guys because they're probably still doing it tough. Yeah.
Absolutely, And sometimes it can be the biggest studios that are the biggest tied
asses and it's not a dig it's just facts. That's just how it is
sometimes. And then you have other studios that aren't as not well established but
not as bigger or popular, and they're just like name your price. I'm
like, wow, that's really refreshing, and they give you creative freedom.
They're like, we want you to have your own voice. It's got to
be you. We don't want to give you a script, but obviously,
like if you want to type something up, shoot it to us and just
make sure you're hitting all the right talking points. But you've got to make
sure it's all about you, otherwise your audience will see straight through and be
like, what are you doing your shill When it comes to editing your videos.
See I hate the cliche editing of many YouTube videos of logs where it's
the quick cutaways, the zoom and the zoom outs they're random, and then
cutting back to you talking normally. How are you with that? Because I
just can't see myself ever bringing myself to doing that, even though I know
that's exactly what the algorithm wants. I just don't think I could ever do
it. How are you with that? I try and keep it as real
as possible, like I always try and just be me, Like, obviously
there is a bit of heightened energy, but I want people to get excited
or just have a good time watching my videos, and if they get a
laugh out of it, that's alsome. I always try and be goofy self,
deprecating, humor, all that all for that, Like, I love
making people laugh. I think that's the best feeling in the world in terms
of like you know, when like someone does a vlog and they put their
hand over the lens and then it cuts to something else, I'm like,
ah, that's not really me. I try and keep it as real as
possible, but I get a bit like my my brain's got so much going
on, and then it kind of trips over my words. So I do
fumble a lot. So I do have a lot of jump cuts, especially
with like a movie review. I do sometimes stutter, so like, you
know, thank God for jump cuts. So I like with editing, I
try and keep it as real as possible. Like when I unbox that knife
yesterday, I try and try to keep it as raw as possible because there's
a big deal for me. I've been after this knife for fourteen years and
it's all like come to this. I try to, you know, just
try and like maintain my excitement but also just be professional, but like keep
it real. Like when you're unboxing this thing, people want to be in
there be as if like they're they're there they're amongst it, they're involved.
But yeah, with I did some vlogging in New York. Again, try
to keep it as real as possible and try and keep it funny as well.
Like I do so many Simpson references in my videos. It's not funny
and I rely on a lot of Simpson references. And some people with the
comments will be like, that was very good. I'll do a cutaway to
a clip, or like if a film's bad, I'll be like, you
know, these are my thoughts, and then it cuts to crusty and he's
like, what the hell is that? Just stuff like that. I felt
the Simpsons is one of those things that if you grew up in the nineties,
you'll always be able to find a friend. If you're a fan of
the Simpsons, you'll always have a Simpsons moment that you can sort of bond
over one hundred percent man and like because of these groups on Facebook like Yours,
rock Bottom, Compy, Hypoglobal, MegaNet Obscure, there's Obscure Simpsons moments
stuff like that. It's crazy how many people out there have really just relished
the Golden Era and everything and just how beloved and how protected it is it
is crazy and like people you wouldn't expect as well, like people you'd be
like, you look like a lawyer, and then they'll start quoting like Season
six back to front. You're like, did not pick that, not at
all? No, all right, man, Well, it's been a joy
to have you on. Let's plug it your Etsy store before you go,
and we find you on Etsy. So it's just called props by Chris on
Etsy. And you know there's a bit of horror stuff, a bit of
comic book relay stuff like Batman stuff, stuff like that YouTube. The main
channel is Cosplay Chris a little bit slow there at the moment, like the
uploads are spread out a lot more. But the second channel, which has
more frequent uploads, is just called Chris Stanley And you'll see my melon in
the thumbnail little avatar logo there. But yeah, man, thank you for
having me on. Like I said, I'm actually like a really big fan
of you, and guy kept me company on my plane ride home from New
York last month, so it was actually really good to see a few good
laughs on the plane by myself. So I probably looked like a crazy person.
What's been love to have you on, mate, And hopefully we have
you on the show again in the near future. Absolutely, man, thank
you so much and all the best. As I said, everybody in an
absolute legend of a man Nay cosplay Chris, I know you're gonna love your
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