Speaker 1: Stephen Presley joins us every single Friday. I find him
Speaker 1: on Instagram at thunder Pop TV. YouTube is the same handle.
Speaker 1: Let's just jump right into it. One of the stories
Speaker 1: that's come up several times on the show. We've discussed it,
Speaker 1: but we haven't discussed it with you, Steven is the
Speaker 1: Sydney Sweeney bar of soap where they took bathwater that
Speaker 1: she bathed and put a drop of it into a
Speaker 1: bar of soap. Doctor Squatch is doing it great, great
Speaker 1: marketing ploy. Love it. People will buy it. It's funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's clever. She's busy too. I mean
Speaker 2: she's making all the money. She's supposed to do a
Speaker 2: Barberella remake that was reported recently. So yeah, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what I mean. Would people go for Chris Hemsworth's
Speaker 2: Jim Sweat and a jar Trisha?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean, I.
Speaker 4: Huh, he's flipping it around to see if somebody else.
Speaker 4: I mean, I love thor that I'm still a little
Speaker 4: grossed out by Sweat.
Speaker 2: Now, I'll tell you what if I was at the
Speaker 2: gym and someone offered me Margot Robbie's warn gym socks
Speaker 2: and not to be pervy. I would take them because
Speaker 2: they gotta be worth some money. Yeah, I'll take those socks.
Speaker 1: You'll take being labeled a creep to get that few
Speaker 1: bucks for the socks.
Speaker 4: Yes, Like the chick who sold Prince Harry's underwear when
Speaker 4: he was in Vegas that night.
Speaker 3: People pay thousands of dollars for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's going to be some people kicking around ideas
Speaker 1: when they after the success of this Cindy Sweeney thing,
Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, what can we do with our celebrity?
Speaker 1: You know, what can we do? Yeah, to get it
Speaker 1: out there. The floodgates are open.
Speaker 3: I have one I can think of one, Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3: You know, he's known for being super sexy when he
Speaker 3: eats things. When he's chewing.
Speaker 4: He could chew up food and spit it out and
Speaker 4: then have that mixed up into a bar of see.
Speaker 1: Or you can just get people that can pretend they're
Speaker 1: baby birds and just spit it into a bag and
Speaker 1: then they can eat it like a bird does.
Speaker 4: It's a gross item that has to be presented in
Speaker 4: a pleasant, delightful package. So I think chewed up food
Speaker 4: in a baggie is not. I think a bar soap
Speaker 4: is a good vehicle.
Speaker 1: Would I would take Anne Hathaway's discarded chapstick tube.
Speaker 5: I would do Britney's tears soap?
Speaker 1: Oh nice?
Speaker 3: Oh god.
Speaker 1: There's going to be more and more of these things
Speaker 1: coming along.
Speaker 3: That way, yes, and they're going to be a grosser
Speaker 3: and groser.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the girl that's been out there celling her underpants
Speaker 1: for five years is like, what the hell? I've been
Speaker 1: doing this for years and no one knows who I am? Right,
Speaker 1: So moving along, I know that Jamie and Trisha are excited.
Speaker 1: I wasn't such a huge fan as they are of
Speaker 1: the Pee Wee Herman documentary which is streaming.
Speaker 5: Now, what do you mean you weren't a fan?
Speaker 1: I really wasn't.
Speaker 3: I never got into people any of the good stuff
Speaker 3: growing up.
Speaker 1: The whole I didn't understand and the whole pee wee thing,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just didn't get it. I wasn't very smart.
Speaker 1: I'm not very smart. I just I didn't get it.
Speaker 3: It's hilarious.
Speaker 2: I mean remember the Alamo Peewee stop at the Alamo
Speaker 2: in San Antonio?
Speaker 1: So iconic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, remember miss why Vaughn would pull the entire giant
Speaker 4: thing of hair, spray out of her boobs and spray
Speaker 4: her giant beehive hairdo just little stupid things like that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know what a lot of people don't
Speaker 2: know this too. That the TV show The Pee Wee's Playhouse,
Speaker 2: Cyndy Lauper doing the theme song.
Speaker 3: Show like I do. Remember that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you go back and watch it on YouTube,
Speaker 2: you will say, oh, there she is, I hear a voice.
Speaker 5: Phil Hartman was on that show. Yeah, Samuel Jackson, h
Speaker 5: Lawrence Fishburne. Oh, I just made the big mistake, didn't
Speaker 5: He would punch you if he was here. Oh my god,
Speaker 5: that was That was a famous mistake mixing those two
Speaker 5: guys up. Yeah, it was from a journalist and I
Speaker 5: just did it.
Speaker 1: You know what? Maybe you know what though? To make
Speaker 1: you feel better, people me JB all the time, not
Speaker 1: the thing. What's d Dub's documentary all about? What's the story?
Speaker 1: Is a good It's really good.
Speaker 2: And he did all of his interviews for this right
Speaker 2: before he passed away, so they got these really interesting
Speaker 2: stories from him. So he went to he started his
Speaker 2: training a drama at cal Arts and get this, there
Speaker 2: were ten arts students or ten drama students while he
Speaker 2: was there. That included David Hasselhoff, Paul Rubins, p Wee Herman,
Speaker 2: and Kay Segal from Mary with Children. You think of that,
Speaker 2: three out of the ten students go on to become
Speaker 2: pop culture icons. I mean the numbers aren't bad. If
Speaker 2: I have a kid that wants to go to acting school,
Speaker 2: I might consider cal arts.
Speaker 5: Kay Sagal had a singing career too, because we interviewed
Speaker 5: here once. This is before I met was working with you, Sandy.
Speaker 5: She she put out a record. She's a good singer forever.
Speaker 1: I thought Katie Sago and the chick from the B
Speaker 1: fifty twos were the same person, that same hair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought they were the same person. Yeah, Tricia, why
Speaker 1: do you love pea up so much?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: It takes me right back to my freshman year in
Speaker 4: high school when Peewee's Big Adventure came out and we
Speaker 4: all went to the theater and were watching it and
Speaker 4: it was just hilarious. I think it just hit at
Speaker 4: the right time. It was just I don't know, we
Speaker 4: just everybody thought it was hilarious. It was kind of
Speaker 4: a bandwagon, but it really was funny, and there were
Speaker 4: sequels after Big Adventure.
Speaker 3: Right, Steven Worth her like two or three Peewee mobies.
Speaker 2: There's at least two more because he did Big Top
Speaker 2: Peewee later. Yeah, that was without Tim Burton. Tim Burton
Speaker 2: actually made that first film with him, and they did
Speaker 2: a Netflix movie maybe eight years ago.
Speaker 1: That was I remember that that. Paul Rubins really tried
Speaker 1: to shed the pee Wee Herman character and did a
Speaker 1: really good job of it. Remember he was in the
Speaker 1: movie Blow with Johnny Depp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how That's how he started. He wanted to
Speaker 2: be more of an avant garde kind of indie artist, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then he joined Groundlings after he had a relationship breakup.
Speaker 2: He started realizing he had this strengthen comedy.
Speaker 1: H But it's good. It kind of fixes his image
Speaker 1: after his death.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's some I mean, there's some real interesting
Speaker 2: I don't want to give away too much, but I
Speaker 2: mean you're gonna find find out some things that you
Speaker 2: did not know about Paul Rubins. He actually comes off
Speaker 2: even more likable in this documentary after you watch it.
Speaker 2: In his interviews, and he's a funny guy even when
Speaker 2: he's not Pee Herman.
Speaker 5: I mean, what what he did that took him down,
Speaker 5: you know, in a porn theater. Yeah, yeah, it's on
Speaker 5: today's standards. People would laugh that off. I think, let's
Speaker 5: just you know, I mean, everyone's putting it out there online.
Speaker 5: It's just it's nothing, you know, there was no victim. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think though it was so shocking because it was
Speaker 4: pee wee. It was a childlike figure two, which elevated it.
Speaker 4: It made it even you know, more of a big deal.
Speaker 4: But you're right, today people would be like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steven Presley, our guest. Find them on Instagram at
Speaker 1: thunder Pop TV and also on YouTube with the same handle.
Speaker 1: Steven's always great about letting us know what's going on
Speaker 1: at the movie theaters, the promotions, the popcorn buckets, the freebies,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And you say that AMC is employing
Speaker 1: a new strategy this summer, Yeah, if you want to
Speaker 1: call it that.
Speaker 2: So, the the big wigs, the suits that AMC get
Speaker 2: together and had a meeting recently and to decide, you know,
Speaker 2: the brain power, what is something we could do to
Speaker 2: improve the experience for moviegoers this summer at AMC theaters.
Speaker 1: And this is what they came up with.
Speaker 2: More commercials before the movie.
Speaker 1: Stop it, come on.
Speaker 2: They're adding at least adding at least one more long
Speaker 2: run commercial before each movie to generate more revenue for
Speaker 2: the theater. I mean, are we that far away from
Speaker 2: a time when we're going to have a had to
Speaker 2: pay premium for an extra cost to have no commercials
Speaker 2: doing your movie at the theater?
Speaker 5: I mean, I get I get that if they're trying
Speaker 5: to increase revenue, but this is a ticket we've paid for.
Speaker 5: This is not podcasting.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: That astounds me when people complain about the ads on
Speaker 5: a podcast and I'm like, how do you think this
Speaker 5: gets paid for?
Speaker 1: Right? Right?
Speaker 5: But the movie ticket I've paid pay Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: so I shouldn't have to do that.
Speaker 3: And people purposely wait to try in time coming to
Speaker 3: the movie for right when it starts so they don't
Speaker 3: see commercials and previews. I love the previews myself.
Speaker 4: But the straight up commercials, yeah, that's I mean, I
Speaker 4: understand there's a need for it, but I don't know
Speaker 4: why they think that's going to attract more people.
Speaker 1: I don't you know what, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, how they came up with that in the brain trust, but.
Speaker 1: They, I mean, think about is the movie theater experience
Speaker 1: kind of peaked out, like it's really gotten good. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you remember going to the movies when we were
Speaker 1: in our twenties and you sat in those little tiny
Speaker 1: chairs with the right in front of you and your knees.
Speaker 1: We're hitting it. Now every theater's got the yeah, the blanket, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they've upgraded the food and some have weight staff that.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're really kissing your ass at the movie theater.
Speaker 3: They do.
Speaker 1: How much more do you need to the movie experience?
Speaker 2: Massage during the movie.
Speaker 5: I think it's funny we went from the Peewee story
Speaker 5: to how to make the movie theater experience better. That's
Speaker 5: what he was trying to do. Yeah, poor guy, that's
Speaker 5: a different kind of theater, very different.
Speaker 1: But so that was really their answer is more give
Speaker 1: the people more commercials.
Speaker 5: Give them more commercials, you know, I mean, what what
Speaker 5: do you guys think would improve the theater experience?
Speaker 1: I just said, I don't know if you can. I
Speaker 1: think they've peaked. I mean it's.
Speaker 3: Pretty pretty big right now.
Speaker 5: What more do you want?
Speaker 1: Right The food's good, it's expensive. I mean, they're not
Speaker 1: going to lower prices because that's how they that's how
Speaker 1: they make their money. That's one of the I call it,
Speaker 1: you know, a certain experience. There's certain things you do.
Speaker 1: They got youa you know, JB and I went to
Speaker 1: a Texas Stars game the other night. How much you
Speaker 1: pay for that beer? Thirteen bucks? Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably they gotcha.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they know. It was pretty insane.
Speaker 1: It's part of it. You're just gonna pay too much.
Speaker 1: It's the way. And if you don't like it, you
Speaker 1: don't go, or don't drink beer or whatever they got you,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna pay.
Speaker 4: That's like the people who take who go to the
Speaker 4: fancy movie theaters with the recliners and stuff and don't
Speaker 4: order anything but water. And I'm like, oh, but you're
Speaker 4: not doing it right. Like the drinks and the food
Speaker 4: and all of that. That's part of the experience. And
Speaker 4: you know when you get there that you're gonna be
Speaker 4: shelling out so much.
Speaker 5: I mean, I would rather pay less for less than
Speaker 5: good experience.
Speaker 3: An okay experience.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because we have a friend that likes to make
Speaker 5: to go to ipick and it's a big production. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I get it if you love it, but we
Speaker 5: we walk out of there after movie and drinks for
Speaker 5: a couple hundred bucks. What just happens.
Speaker 2: You went to a movie and that's that's how much
Speaker 2: it costs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean you really can't leave the house
Speaker 1: without spending one hundred dollars. It's just the way. I mean.
Speaker 1: Another one of those gotcha places is the rodeo or
Speaker 1: the fair or six any of those places. They're just ballgames.
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