Speaker 1: Hello there, and welcome back.
Speaker 2: What is this place as connected disconnected?
Speaker 1: It's connected reached the number that has been disconnected.
Speaker 3: Hello there, and welcome back to the disconnected. I have been,
Speaker 3: we'll say, kind of busy over the last six months,
Speaker 3: and I've been wanting to come back with some interviews
Speaker 3: that are a little more short formed than what I
Speaker 3: used to do quite often. And some of the things
Speaker 3: that I want to highlight is other YouTubers that I
Speaker 3: feel like people should be watching for film and or
Speaker 3: physical media, and one of them is my friend Chuck Here.
Speaker 3: I'll just say it right off the bat, everybody, before
Speaker 3: you hear another words, you go click on the button
Speaker 3: to subscribe, go over to his channel, open that in
Speaker 3: another tab, and then when you get done here learning
Speaker 3: all about them, go put twelve of those videos in
Speaker 3: your watch later playlists and enjoy them. Chuck, thanks for
Speaker 3: hanging out with me tonight.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you. I really appreciate it. I say before,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm very honored that you even give me reach out,
Speaker 2: and you know, offered or asked me to do this interview.
Speaker 2: And beyond here, I never would have imagined in a
Speaker 2: million years I'd be doing stuff like this, so thank
Speaker 2: you so much.
Speaker 3: Well, I got like a main thesis that we're going
Speaker 3: to talk about that I mentioned in the very first
Speaker 3: time I reached out, and we'll get to that in
Speaker 3: a little bit. But first, I feel like people got
Speaker 3: to know you before we get into the head of
Speaker 3: your stuff. So how about you tell people about who
Speaker 3: you are as a person before we get to the
Speaker 3: film stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm one of the older guys on here. For all
Speaker 2: the people I've seen them doing physical medeia on YouTube,
Speaker 2: I realize I'm one of the old guys. I just
Speaker 2: turned fifty back in March. I do have two kids
Speaker 2: at you know, ten and almost fifteen, so that's you know, crazy.
Speaker 2: But you know, I've always had a thing for movies
Speaker 2: since i was a little kid, you know, younger than them. Honestly,
Speaker 2: just and I talk about it on a video, which
Speaker 2: I think is when I probably got your attention. Just
Speaker 2: kind of my quote unquote origin story. I just I've
Speaker 2: was my mom, do you take me to the movies
Speaker 2: as a kid on a regular basis? And I just
Speaker 2: kind of grew up with that. And you know, I
Speaker 2: grew up in during the eighties, which to me was
Speaker 2: such a great time to grow up in the videos era,
Speaker 2: so you know, movies on a weekend was a big thing.
Speaker 2: And I just it's funny because I talk about in
Speaker 2: the video. I never thought I was a collector, but
Speaker 2: I guess over time I was collecting it, I realized.
Speaker 2: It wasn't until like twenty twenty one I realized, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm a collector now, even though I had like a
Speaker 2: thousand some movies at that point, but I was just
Speaker 2: buying liked it, you know. So it's that's kind of me.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love I don't have any particular genre.
Speaker 2: I like pretty much movies or movies.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I love Oscar Winners, I love schlock and everything in between.
Speaker 2: I you know, I even talked about adult films on
Speaker 2: my channel for Aching Over, of course, but you know,
Speaker 2: to me, in films film, good, bad, and everything in between.
Speaker 2: That is one of the reasons why I wanted to
Speaker 2: talk to you, because there's so many people that do
Speaker 2: this that they seem to buy only one type of
Speaker 2: thing or only watch one type of thing. And yeah,
Speaker 2: we all listen everybody that does this. We all love
Speaker 2: horror movies, but we all can't just talk about horror movies.
Speaker 3: All the time because it gets so and when you
Speaker 3: can go specifically in your channel to three three different
Speaker 3: videos and get three starkly different genres, it's somebody that
Speaker 3: I want to be able to talk to because they
Speaker 3: clearly enjoy a lot of different things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is something I had noticed when I first,
Speaker 2: you know, started watching other media collect physical media collectors,
Speaker 2: that the majority of it was you know, horror cult
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, which I guess is the easy thing
Speaker 2: to really talk about. I mean that's the widest ranger
Speaker 2: you know people not people are going and talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, the nineteen twenty seven Wings Oscar Best Winter,
Speaker 2: Best Picture, that's side of the film. So yeah, it's
Speaker 2: definitely the comfortable aspect, I guess, And which is you
Speaker 2: know how I really what got me in because I
Speaker 2: talked about on that video. It was the Friday the
Speaker 2: thirteenth box set from Scream that came in. I was like,
Speaker 2: cause I love Friday the thirteenth. It's like, Okay, this
Speaker 2: comes in, I'm gonna talk about. And before that, it's
Speaker 2: like I was listening to podcasts and it's like I
Speaker 2: really want to do something, you know. I started with compbook.
Speaker 2: I'm a big combo cooking for a while and I've
Speaker 2: been listening to combo podcasts and I found movie podcasts,
Speaker 2: and these guys are all talking about this stuff and
Speaker 2: it's really cool. I'm like hearing these conversations. I'm not
Speaker 2: really having them with them, but I'm in my mind
Speaker 2: kind of going back and forth with these guys and like,
Speaker 2: how do I do that? How can I talk to
Speaker 2: somebody or you know, talk about what I like? And
Speaker 2: I at the time, I didn't really have the ability
Speaker 2: or knowledge or no how er equipment to put together
Speaker 2: a podcast, and I always wanted to do something like that.
Speaker 2: And then when YouTube came along and started watching that,
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm sorry seeing some of these guys
Speaker 2: like you know, Christian Hannah, Horror Pizzol, all these guys,
Speaker 2: and I was like, that's really cool. I could do that.
Speaker 2: I just don't know how. But when that boxes, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is this is, this is I'm gonna take the
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do this. Of course, you know at that time,
Speaker 2: well I should have known there's everybody's going to do that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's that big thing, But you know, I
Speaker 2: want to put my take on it as best they could,
Speaker 2: and those early videos are rough. I'm moving for a laptop.
Speaker 2: They got the fish either's. I'm still working, not that
Speaker 2: my videos are like high class now, but I'm still
Speaker 2: either all from a phone. I'm still doing the basic
Speaker 2: kind of editing this to get by, you know, but
Speaker 2: that was kind of my thing. And then after a
Speaker 2: while is because start off with just okay, here's the
Speaker 2: movies I got, and then I started what I want
Speaker 2: to talk about this. I like these movies, and you know,
Speaker 2: this is my chance to you know, branch out. I
Speaker 2: thought it'd be interesting too because Vinegar Syndrome had you know,
Speaker 2: were slinging four K adult films like who does that?
Speaker 2: And these are classics. I mean they're in their film
Speaker 2: Like I talked about my very first vide about that
Speaker 2: just because it's born doesn't mean you can't be good, right,
Speaker 2: and you know, so I'll do this and see how
Speaker 2: it goes. And surprisingly some of those got you know,
Speaker 2: really big views, which I don't know I says about
Speaker 2: everybody else, but you know, uh like even because I
Speaker 2: did on a mini series I call it's like cinema
Speaker 2: after dark is what I kind of call it.
Speaker 1: And it's funny.
Speaker 2: I think my highest uh, my most popular video is
Speaker 2: me talking about Felicity. It's got like over so many
Speaker 2: thousands of years, which blows my mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Flicity is a classic. Yeah, just and simple. The
Speaker 3: the minute ago, you just said, uh, going to the
Speaker 3: movies with your mom. Do you feel like she treated
Speaker 3: that as just like a fun thing or did you
Speaker 3: feel like it was important to her?
Speaker 2: I think in some ways a little booth, but not
Speaker 2: like important like I want to teach him, but movies.
Speaker 2: It was more like she was just she was a
Speaker 2: single mother. It was just me and her, and uh,
Speaker 2: it was something for she and I do. And that
Speaker 2: a movie theater was when I lived in Michigan, was
Speaker 2: like a block away from the house, so we could.
Speaker 2: It was in walking distance. So it's like every Friday
Speaker 2: Saturday night we walk to the movies. And it was
Speaker 2: a single movie, a single screen theater. Wow, like an
Speaker 2: old theater from what she tells me. And I don't
Speaker 2: remember because I wasn't paying, but she said there was
Speaker 2: like a dollar you know ticket. Somebody was really cheap,
Speaker 2: so I doubt it was like probably first run. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but because I saw Star Wars there, you know,
Speaker 2: I saw Raiders, The Lost Start, a lot of these
Speaker 2: classic tron you know, all the movies in you know
Speaker 2: that little theater. Uh. I remember we'd go across the street.
Speaker 2: They had like a fish and chicken restaurant. I can't
Speaker 2: know what it's called, but that's what we do. But
Speaker 2: that was kind of the regular thing. And again not
Speaker 2: thinking anything of it, but I would have seen these
Speaker 2: movies and as a kid, they would kind of leam
Speaker 2: onto me and I would just you know, back then,
Speaker 2: obviously you had no home video. They wanted to be
Speaker 2: all you saw the movie that was it is all
Speaker 2: in your mind from that point. And I would play
Speaker 2: these movies out as a kid, you know, just being
Speaker 2: the characters. I would buy the novelization so I could
Speaker 2: relive the movie and I would read that. That's how
Speaker 2: I learned to read at such an early age, because
Speaker 2: I was a prolific reader, and it was because of
Speaker 2: those and I would could hear the characters voices in
Speaker 2: my head. I would read them out loud in those voices,
Speaker 2: and that's how it entertained myself. And it just it's
Speaker 2: like I got a bug without really knowing I was
Speaker 2: getting it. It wasn't one thing she was doing. She
Speaker 2: just took me in. That was it. And then of
Speaker 2: course we had HBO. I would see movies at that time.
Speaker 2: HBO played the same movie like five times a day,
Speaker 2: so you did see all the times. So that's why
Speaker 2: I saw a lot of those. Yeah. And then I
Speaker 2: went to the library and I found books on like
Speaker 2: universal horror films.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I learned about you know, Boris call Off, Lawn Chaney
Speaker 2: and all these classics. And that's kind of how that started,
Speaker 2: just learning about somewhat of a history of film, you know.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 3: Uh the novelizations is a part of the pun, but
Speaker 3: like a novel thing for a lot of people in
Speaker 3: this community. Yeah, hear a lot about them. Did you
Speaker 3: did you mostly stick to ones that you'd already seen
Speaker 3: the film for did you branch out to ones that
Speaker 3: were brand new to you?
Speaker 2: I think I primage primarily stuck to what I knew
Speaker 2: because I wasn't looking for anything and this, Oh it's
Speaker 2: Star Wars, we get that, or you right, Starbucker or
Speaker 2: stuff like that. Uh, So that's primarily what it was.
Speaker 2: I mean I had a few I think I got
Speaker 2: like Conan and the Barbarian Bad and see the movie
Speaker 2: because Mom would let me see Conyan that's too much.
Speaker 2: But I remember having that book. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I actually read it though, but I remember having the book.
Speaker 3: Do you remember like the first novelization that got you
Speaker 3: into it?
Speaker 2: Oh? Man, I want to say probably with Star Wars?
Speaker 2: Nice because as a kid, I was born in seventy.
Speaker 1: Five, so you are the demographic.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was a Star Wars was my sweet spot.
Speaker 2: I mean, as a kid, that was the first big
Speaker 2: thing I remember was you know, I was born just
Speaker 2: before Jaws came out, you know, but yeah, star Wars.
Speaker 2: I remember that Christmas, you know, probably not the only
Speaker 2: I didn't get the mail away none of that stuff.
Speaker 2: But I don't remember hav any Christmas of Star Wars stuff.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Star Wars was my thing up until, you know,
Speaker 2: probably eighty forty five, and you know, it helped me
Speaker 2: through some dark times.
Speaker 1: That is great.
Speaker 3: First theatrical experience do you do you have like fond
Speaker 3: memories of that very first one?
Speaker 1: Do you remember it? Man?
Speaker 2: I can't. I couldn't tell you my very first theatrical experiences.
Speaker 1: I have some.
Speaker 2: I have a couple of movies that I have very
Speaker 2: fond memories of one of my most fond memories and
Speaker 2: this has to do with my dad. And I've talked
Speaker 2: about this a few times on my channel also. But
Speaker 2: my dad, you know, him and my mom weren't, you know, together,
Speaker 2: It was a mutual thing, it was anything like that.
Speaker 2: But he and I were never really close. But I
Speaker 2: don't remember one specific Saturday, he took me out, we
Speaker 2: had lunch. He bought me this little die Cast Buddy
Speaker 2: and Falcon, which was so cool. I really love that.
Speaker 2: But hit me see Flash Gordon and Yeah and that
Speaker 2: to that day. I love that movie to this day.
Speaker 2: And just like last year, I got to take my
Speaker 2: son to see it in the theater, which was like,
Speaker 2: really you know, full circle experience for me. And it's
Speaker 2: I almost get emotional talking about now because it was
Speaker 2: so cool to think, you know, that my dad took
Speaker 2: me to see that, and then I was able to
Speaker 2: take my son to see it. So it's really cool.
Speaker 2: And he loved it too, which was awesome, you know,
Speaker 2: and we both love clean.
Speaker 1: Did you find a die Cast Star Wars thing for
Speaker 1: one of the new movies?
Speaker 2: If I wanted to, I could not afford it at
Speaker 2: this time, as opposed to nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3: The new ones that are only like fifteen dollars because
Speaker 3: they're cranking out cheap shit for the new movies. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's it's so cool to to just hear how so
Speaker 3: many of us had all these different experiences with theaters
Speaker 3: at not necessarily the exact same time, but like formidable
Speaker 3: experience is that will shape memories that you can relive
Speaker 3: with your own kids, that you are looking back on
Speaker 3: and say, you know, when I watch Star Wars now,
Speaker 3: this is one of those core memories that I go
Speaker 3: back to and like can feel the air that I
Speaker 3: felt that day, or smell the nasty ass popcorn and
Speaker 3: this tiny Michigan theater that you went to. What were
Speaker 3: the audiences like back then in this tiny Michigan theater?
Speaker 2: Pretty civil? I don't really call any again as a
Speaker 2: little kid, am I really focusing? Man? It's they could
Speaker 2: have been chaos for all I could remember, But I
Speaker 2: don't want to call any you know, unrealized every was
Speaker 2: pretty much come in, you sat down, you watch the movie.
Speaker 2: It was all pleasant, you know, obviously know it was
Speaker 2: on a phone. No one was screaming, people were in
Speaker 2: on time. What's my biggest cut team, especially now that
Speaker 2: you have reserve seats, I think you should you know, which,
Speaker 2: actually that's probably why they come in Lake as they
Speaker 2: figured their seats always there.
Speaker 3: Well, that we're showing twenty five minutes of previews first, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, that is so Yeah. We went to see
Speaker 2: Superman the weekend and IMAXI. Yeah, the movies schedule to
Speaker 2: start twelve forty five was probably like one ten is
Speaker 2: all previous.
Speaker 1: Just when we went to.
Speaker 3: When we went to F one, I timed it because
Speaker 3: I was curious because these last two times it felt
Speaker 3: extra long. F one had thirty two minutes of things
Speaker 3: before the movie started.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, that's crazy. You know, I love a good
Speaker 2: you know, watching trailers. I love trailers. But you know,
Speaker 2: there's the point where let's get the movie, right, I
Speaker 2: am me, it's spend money. I'm spending. Let's get to
Speaker 2: the movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah that you know, we're seeing four trailers and then
Speaker 3: they're playing a couple of ads. They're doing like three
Speaker 3: things for the theater. You're already in. You don't need
Speaker 3: to sell me. I'm here, right, yeah, exactly, exactly. Uh
Speaker 3: so let's get to your channel, like what, uh, what
Speaker 3: do you tell people your channels about what what is
Speaker 3: the mission statement.
Speaker 1: Of your channel?
Speaker 2: That's a damn good question because the missions date was
Speaker 2: basically just me getting off my ass and doing something right.
Speaker 2: It's really what it was. Like I kept saying I
Speaker 2: want to do this, I who want to do it,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of my catalyst just to do it.
Speaker 2: And over time it's it's kind of just been like
Speaker 2: I said. First, it was just you know, hey, I
Speaker 2: got this cool thing like you talked about before, and
Speaker 2: I'm you know, which is how it started. But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get a little bit better. I've never
Speaker 2: found myself of being a good reviewer. I don't know,
Speaker 2: because I'm not the harshest critic unless it's completely awful,
Speaker 2: you know. So I don't know how I can't get
Speaker 2: all the technical specs like a lot of people do,
Speaker 2: you know, with color grading, I was like, this looks good,
Speaker 2: so I know, you know, but I tried to do that.
Speaker 2: But I also in some cases away from just like
Speaker 2: new releases, I've tried to get more to you. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: like I have some VHS stuff I'll look back and
Speaker 2: just kind of, you know, here's what I had a
Speaker 2: kind of a memory. I went through some uh my
Speaker 2: collection of TV sitcoms, and you know how I like
Speaker 2: those I talked about recently, I did a little video
Speaker 2: on two movies about the driving because all the driving,
Speaker 2: and I talked about those, you know, and again, you know,
Speaker 2: I kind of do these more adult films because who
Speaker 2: else to do with knows and just talk about them
Speaker 2: because they're still films, and you know, I basically just
Speaker 2: kind of me just talking to somebody, hoping someone's listening
Speaker 2: to my opinions or my thoughts. And this recollections because
Speaker 2: that's kind of the things I gravitate more to, yeah,
Speaker 2: is you know, the discussions of the film and how
Speaker 2: did it make you feel? What's you know, what do
Speaker 2: you like to do you have a memory of it
Speaker 2: that sticks with you or you know something along those lines.
Speaker 2: You know, I have a video I talk about the
Speaker 2: Last and Aeric Version, which is my favorite eighties film,
Speaker 2: and I talk about, you know, my history with it,
Speaker 2: my love of Diane Franklin, which I have an autograph
Speaker 2: picture of it right here under my last American version poster.
Speaker 2: But those kind of things, you know, that just what
Speaker 2: resonates with me and hopefully doesn't resonate with you, can
Speaker 2: you you know, relate those kinds of things. That's and
Speaker 2: also I'm just still trying to figure out as I go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm trying to think of new things. What
Speaker 2: can I do? And I'm surprised I've been able to
Speaker 2: make it as long as I have.
Speaker 1: You do great stuff show and that that.
Speaker 2: Means like because I'm never quite sure. I mean, I
Speaker 2: I I would feel I see everybody else's you know, stuff,
Speaker 2: and it's like so good, so polished. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 2: doing what I can and I'm proud of it. I'll
Speaker 2: be wrong, but I'm like, I'm also I'm the I'm
Speaker 2: the old guy coming in here and trying to keep
Speaker 2: up with these you know, younger guys. You're just doing
Speaker 2: all flashy and hell ustims have they have time to
Speaker 2: do this stuff? I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I wish, I believe me.
Speaker 3: Uh, some of these people that do literally a video
Speaker 3: every day, I want to like take outside and strangle
Speaker 3: and just beg for them to give me some of
Speaker 3: their free time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The most ideal with that was my son because
Speaker 2: every now and I have my son on the videos
Speaker 2: with me. Chris, you know, which I try and push him,
Speaker 2: and he's kind of He's more music guy. He loves
Speaker 2: his music and a gamer, but he'll you know, I
Speaker 2: think he'll watch what mus to hang out with me. Well, well,
Speaker 2: we've had a couple of videos. I'm here with him
Speaker 2: talking stuff like I had him his first time he
Speaker 2: saw me Able to tell cop. You know, Keewe's big
Speaker 2: adventure the original Super marber Is because he's a big
Speaker 2: Super mar bergst fan, which he absolutely loved. By the way,
Speaker 2: he loved that movie that was so cool, which I
Speaker 2: also love because he's not jaded. Everything him is like
Speaker 2: he was entertaining. It's fun. I'm not it's fine. You know,
Speaker 2: he's not comicacurate, but it was still fun as hell.
Speaker 2: He loved it. But we also have, for instance, of
Speaker 2: shared love of all things Titanic, which was as a
Speaker 2: kid when he was real little. He I don't want
Speaker 2: to change it off too much, but he said heard
Speaker 2: about it. I said, well, you know what this is
Speaker 2: and he said, no, I just heard it. I explained
Speaker 2: to him. But he got fascinated right away. He was
Speaker 2: probably like six or seven, and he he got the
Speaker 2: movie out the ninety seven Titanic and watched it as
Speaker 2: a seven year old three hour movies. Not he watched
Speaker 2: all the extras and I mean he was as fascinating.
Speaker 2: He will watch me over and over again. So no,
Speaker 2: and he least did the research. He's read. You know,
Speaker 2: he and I were reading a night to remember. He
Speaker 2: just it was like the one thing we really on.
Speaker 2: That was how we started learning how to read. I
Speaker 2: take him to We saw the four K three year
Speaker 2: restoration anniversary. We did videos on talking about that release.
Speaker 2: But for the anniversary this year, I decided we would
Speaker 2: watch every theatrical Titanic film. Wow, and we did it.
Speaker 2: I was like weekly count down up to the anniversary,
Speaker 2: starting with like nineteen thirty, like a German version of Titanic,
Speaker 2: which we just sit down and watch it and you know,
Speaker 2: him and I just discuss it and have a few
Speaker 2: laughs or whatever. And it's also a time for he
Speaker 2: and I us to hang out, which is what I
Speaker 2: love doing anything. And you know, if he gets some
Speaker 2: kind of exposure and enjoys the film even better. So
Speaker 2: but that's something we did. That's, you know, the one
Speaker 2: thing I was able to put in a can and
Speaker 2: like you know, have it set up to release, you
Speaker 2: know weekly, that's the one I'd be able to do that.
Speaker 2: And that's like I record it and then I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna try it, end it tomorrow. If
Speaker 2: I get it and pushed out, maybe the next day.
Speaker 2: It's on the fly. It's very hard to you know,
Speaker 2: pre plannety thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, believe me, I know.
Speaker 3: Unbeknownst to you, these last couple of answers have kind
Speaker 3: of been the perfect transition. So I kind of want
Speaker 3: to get into the main thing that I really wanted
Speaker 3: to bring up here.
Speaker 1: That is when I you know.
Speaker 3: When I'm scrolling through my subscriptions feed and I see
Speaker 3: that there's a new Chuck video. The main thing I
Speaker 3: always think back to is this feeling of desire for community,
Speaker 3: desire for I mean literally, like you just said, somebody
Speaker 3: to bounce these things back off of. And what's crazy
Speaker 3: is so many people that look at others that have
Speaker 3: like a YouTube channel or a podcast, they think you're
Speaker 3: just able to talk to all these people about that's
Speaker 3: pretty cool. The reality is a lot of this is
Speaker 3: very isolating, and not even just on the creative side,
Speaker 3: but in twenty twenty five, loving movies is somehow a
Speaker 3: little isolating. Obviously, like going to the theater, you're not
Speaker 3: conversing during the movie or anything like that. But even
Speaker 3: making the conscious effort to go to a theater is
Speaker 3: not something that like a huge number in the population
Speaker 3: is doing in twenty eighty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very I agree with me, even myself, I said,
Speaker 2: we went like to the theater to see Superman. That's
Speaker 2: firstly I've been in a theater theater in years now.
Speaker 2: I go to the drive in regularly because yeah, one
Speaker 2: it's cheaper, well and also, you know, Chris and I
Speaker 2: have your you know, annual passes, so it's free. That
Speaker 2: makes something as much easier. And I just love the
Speaker 2: driving experience because they're especially have a small drive in
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of regulars, the same people when
Speaker 2: you see every day you can talk about these kinds
Speaker 2: of movies, and that's well, I love the driving experience
Speaker 2: so much because they there is that you know, that
Speaker 2: community that's there. But yeah, that's I didn't, really, like,
Speaker 2: I said, know what my thing was until I said,
Speaker 2: late in my twenties, you know, run somewhere when I
Speaker 2: was getting all these movies, and because I just liked
Speaker 2: the movies. People like, oh my god, you've seen every
Speaker 2: movie ever made. No I haven't, but thanks anyway, I
Speaker 2: get that all the time. It's not true. Or you
Speaker 2: own every movie. No I don't, but you know, uh yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like I never you know, all my friends, which
Speaker 2: are great, but they're all gamers. Yeah, they love board
Speaker 2: They what they have what I have in video or movies,
Speaker 2: they have in board games. Shelves full of board games
Speaker 2: and sitting around the head, you know. And that's it.
Speaker 2: So I've got nothing, no one to really discuss. And
Speaker 2: I still when I was watching the videos on YouTube
Speaker 2: and I see people, all these different people talking and
Speaker 2: I would you know notice that some would you know
Speaker 2: talk to other people and other channels and they bounce them.
Speaker 2: It's like it's a little comunity, which thought was kind
Speaker 2: of cool. And I just, like I said, me and
Speaker 2: just wanted to get out there and talk about it somewhere.
Speaker 2: Maybe no one's listening, but I'm getting it out for myself.
Speaker 2: Maybe someone's listening. That's great too. I just, you know,
Speaker 2: wanted to discuss. It's all bothering and who do I
Speaker 2: talk to you about that? We've got no one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I hear, I said, I hear a conversation. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm having a conversation back and forth with someone who's
Speaker 2: not listening. But I'm it's like they're saying something I
Speaker 2: can chime, Oh yeah this, Oh yeah, I don't talk
Speaker 2: about here. I can't agree. But you know who do
Speaker 2: I talk you here?
Speaker 1: Just no?
Speaker 2: But my wife will like whatever, I gotta go. She's
Speaker 2: not gonna listen. I forced my kids and they just
Speaker 2: you know, they try, but yeah, that's you know, what
Speaker 2: I've really enjoyed is, you know, I watched these other
Speaker 2: YouTubers and I've got a sense of other community. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't I've interacted with a few here and they're
Speaker 2: just like comments, which is to me, is cool. If
Speaker 2: they've even acknowledged me, that's awesome, you know, my little
Speaker 2: small you know channel, that's cool. And I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: I like, I like them lut because it's I feel
Speaker 2: like it's I don't want to say, like a save
Speaker 2: space sounds stupid, but you know it's you can just
Speaker 2: say what you want and it's okay. You know, you
Speaker 2: can laugh a while. You know your life. You're just like,
Speaker 2: no one's gonna like go, oh, what do you do?
Speaker 2: Because my problem I see a lot too, is you
Speaker 2: have elitists on both sides.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, times, you know.
Speaker 2: You have the the people who are like, oh, I
Speaker 2: like these high end movies and other stuff is trash,
Speaker 2: and the other people who love the trash and the
Speaker 2: other stuff is to touch just crap. You know. I'm
Speaker 2: still were in that middle, and I can like it
Speaker 2: all and that's what I enjoy. We talked about, you know,
Speaker 2: so many channels are just a lot of horror cult based.
Speaker 2: It's hard to find anything well rounded. And that's what
Speaker 2: I try to be to meet everybody some of the people,
Speaker 2: please do I like to just make everybody happy. If
Speaker 2: you're gonna, you know, whatever they I can find that
Speaker 2: they're enjoying. It's not just horror, but it's something, you know,
Speaker 2: I may talk about, you know, great horror, you know
Speaker 2: video Nasty Women, and then I talk about the Wizard
Speaker 2: of Oz nex so right, yeah.
Speaker 3: And then Vinegar Syndrome, Classic adult IRONICAX.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. Check out my sext world. It was
Speaker 2: in honor of Kate Procker's passion, which was great because
Speaker 2: I love Kate Procker.
Speaker 3: So the the community side, this is where I feel
Speaker 3: like a hypocrite because I, uh, I do a lot
Speaker 3: of my my quote watching. It's most of it is
Speaker 3: listening because I'm working and so I can't keep the
Speaker 3: eyes on the screen and the paperwork. Sadly, but I
Speaker 3: really want to try to force myself to maybe not
Speaker 3: comment on every single one because it doesn't always require that.
Speaker 1: But at least give give that sort of feedback.
Speaker 3: A lot of people don't understand when you're doing this,
Speaker 3: you know, five videos in a row, and you may
Speaker 3: be out of that whole thing, get like two comments.
Speaker 3: It's not necessarily discouraging, but the fact that you can
Speaker 3: reciprocate some of that energy back and just say, hey, Chuck,
Speaker 3: this is great.
Speaker 1: I had a story like that. And that means a
Speaker 1: lot to people like you and I that are doing these.
Speaker 2: It really does. And that was the thing about the
Speaker 2: you know, because I put a lot of dada, I
Speaker 2: don't want to get comments on them. And and when
Speaker 2: I do this like the same people, which is cool.
Speaker 2: I mean I always at the end of the video
Speaker 2: is always say, you know, leave a comment or just
Speaker 2: say hi. I'll always take hi. That's kind of my thing.
Speaker 2: And this is something yeah, but yeah, I had a thought.
Speaker 2: I lost it.
Speaker 3: Sorry, leaving a comment, telling a story, sharing shared experiences.
Speaker 2: Maybe oh man, it's totally blank see this, it happens
Speaker 2: at all. I just like that it went there, and
Speaker 2: I don't remember what I was going to say.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say, yeah, you are right.
Speaker 3: One of the first videos that I discovered for you,
Speaker 3: it was I don't know, there's something just so personal
Speaker 3: and relative about the way that you were speaking it.
Speaker 3: You could tell that it was not rehearsed. It was
Speaker 3: not something. Go ahead, I'll let you get get.
Speaker 2: The thought back to that. You know that video, that's yeah,
Speaker 2: one of the ones I got a lot of comments
Speaker 2: on people will you know like because the one you know,
Speaker 2: my or just to worry what will lasts for you?
Speaker 2: Has been about And that was that point because at
Speaker 2: that point it was, like I said, I was at
Speaker 2: the end of last year. I realized I was about
Speaker 2: turn fifty, yes, and you get there. A lot of
Speaker 2: things are you were in a theory head and I
Speaker 2: just wanted to and I realized I never talked about well,
Speaker 2: what I'm doing, why am I here, or where I
Speaker 2: come from? And that's what that was, just to put
Speaker 2: it out there as like, yo, it's a long video,
Speaker 2: you know, if anyone wants to hear your ramble for
Speaker 2: that long. But I got a lot of good feedback
Speaker 2: from it, which was great, you know. And then I
Speaker 2: have some videos but you know, I think this is
Speaker 2: a pretty cool topic, and then you know nothing, and
Speaker 2: then you get weird stuff like I like talked about
Speaker 2: before Felicity and it's got like sixty something, you know,
Speaker 2: a thousand views. I'm like, wow, okay. Or like I
Speaker 2: did a video just talking about the the steal book
Speaker 2: for Body Double, and you know, and I got in
Speaker 2: and you know, I was talking about how much of
Speaker 2: this movie and within like a day it shot up
Speaker 2: to over like a thousand. It was like, wow, okay,
Speaker 2: So now my personal anywhere near that, but you know.
Speaker 1: Still, yeah, and that's that's the thing.
Speaker 3: So many of these things, like you could talk about
Speaker 3: just things that we're all used to necessarily, but even
Speaker 3: just throwing in a comment as feedback or sharing a
Speaker 3: shared story can literally change the way that your your
Speaker 3: week is going sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And that's something I will try to if
Speaker 2: I'm watching you know, other videos and they're talking about
Speaker 2: you know, uh, some of their you know going like
Speaker 2: for instance, like was Christiane horror or planingh or you
Speaker 2: know Born of Your Rat I watched they do a
Speaker 2: lot of nostalgia videos, you know, bring up the beach,
Speaker 2: and that's really cool because that stuff I remember and
Speaker 2: I will comment, hey I remember this, or hey I
Speaker 2: had that in my collection too. Is pretty cool. That
Speaker 2: kind of thing and anytime they respond back and that's cool,
Speaker 2: you know, or you know a couple of times they've responded.
Speaker 2: You know, I did a video on Twines on the
Speaker 2: movie talking about that and I got some response on that,
Speaker 2: which I thought was cool and commenting and that's really cool.
Speaker 2: It's a great VideA to let you got that because
Speaker 2: there was a whole talk about where that DVD was
Speaker 2: still active now because of the Warner brother rot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this little comments I get is always cool.
Speaker 2: I've had a couple people talking about, you know, some
Speaker 2: of their stories with some of the films I've talked
Speaker 2: about or movies, which is anything you're sharing with me
Speaker 2: is great. And like I said, they just want to
Speaker 2: say hi, that's cool too. Any kind of engagement I'll take,
Speaker 2: you know, and I've been lucky. I haven't got anything
Speaker 2: negative to this point, so that's always a plus. Everything's
Speaker 2: always been very positive, and you know, that's a great feeling.
Speaker 2: I really do like it anytime I get I'm not
Speaker 2: a person that I tried to be a person that's
Speaker 2: watching you know, every five get he likes it. I
Speaker 2: got how many clicks I got, you know, but it's
Speaker 2: still cool. You know, it's I don't want to say
Speaker 2: your church for gratification, but in a lot of ways
Speaker 2: it is. It's it is nice.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not necessarily gratification, but even just to
Speaker 3: show that people care in a way, yeah, definitely it matters.
Speaker 3: It's an emotional connection. And the reality is it's very
Speaker 3: one sided until the viewer takes that extra step to say, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm here and I like what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Chuck, that's absolutely you know, actually absolutely right. And I've
Speaker 2: looked looked that that way, but you're right, it's very
Speaker 2: one sided. And and yeah, it's it's definitely a great
Speaker 2: feeling when you do get that comic I said, you know,
Speaker 2: when you reached out to me, I was like blown
Speaker 2: away because I'm like, I, for one, you know, I
Speaker 2: was lucky because your email got took my junkmail, so
Speaker 2: I almost didn't see and then I was like, is
Speaker 2: this for real? Because I didn't think it was for
Speaker 2: real at first. And I'm like, you must talk to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean you know, so, I mean yeah,
Speaker 2: And that was like that blew me up. You know,
Speaker 2: this is like so cool. You know, I again thank
Speaker 2: you for having having me again. But yeah, that's it
Speaker 2: really was. It meant a lot. And you know, I
Speaker 2: think that my you know, personal story or whatever could
Speaker 2: reach out to somebody and and and actually to a
Speaker 2: people comment on that video, and I really appreciated that.
Speaker 3: Well, uh, I've got a couple other bigger ones, but
Speaker 3: I want to like just get get the the nerves
Speaker 3: out for a moment. So I'm gonna go through some
Speaker 3: real quick questions. No discussion here, just off the top
Speaker 3: of your head.
Speaker 1: Uh. Top three favorite movies of all time?
Speaker 2: My top favorite movie probably The Empire Strikes Back. I say,
Speaker 2: Smoking a Bandit, Nice man? Maybe Gone with the Wind?
Speaker 1: Oh, interesting choice? Interesting? All right? Uh?
Speaker 3: One movie that you've never seen in the theater that
Speaker 3: you would pay almost anything to see a rep screening.
Speaker 2: For Ooh, man, let's see, because I see a lot
Speaker 2: of them wow, is it talk? Because I've I've managed
Speaker 2: to see so many of them. I'm gonna say Last
Speaker 2: American Virgin, I don'te know what happened, but I'd love
Speaker 2: to see that because I love that movie so much.
Speaker 2: I would love to see that on a theater screen.
Speaker 2: But I mean, as far as the big ones, I've
Speaker 2: seen them all.
Speaker 3: Right, So other than the Last American Virgin, the one
Speaker 3: that you wish you could have been there on opening night.
Speaker 2: Ooh, probably the original Star Wars.
Speaker 3: Cultural moment right there all together.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's that's a good call.
Speaker 3: The movie that you are most dying to show your
Speaker 3: kids that you haven't yet.
Speaker 2: M Well, for my son, I think I really want
Speaker 2: to show him in the Breakfast Club, especially at his
Speaker 2: age right now. My daughter, I don't know yet.
Speaker 1: She's it's a good call. Go to snacks for a
Speaker 1: movie theater.
Speaker 2: Well, the obvious is popcorn, but I do like a
Speaker 2: good at the drive on, Like I get a uh,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, it's still good. I can't remember what
Speaker 2: it's called. That's it nice?
Speaker 1: Nice? Uh.
Speaker 3: This is what I'm going to say, is the last one.
Speaker 3: And we're gonna go kind of long on this one
Speaker 3: because I really want to hear this one for you.
Speaker 3: What do you want for your YouTube channel, Chuck? Look inside?
Speaker 3: What do you want for the future. What is something
Speaker 3: that you feel like would be exactly what you've been
Speaker 3: searching for and doing this.
Speaker 2: I would like, if possible, to be able to have
Speaker 2: more moments like this, you know, being able to reach
Speaker 2: out to other YouTube tours and I mean and just
Speaker 2: have that kind of you know, back in before being
Speaker 2: able to have the conversation. I have not never done
Speaker 2: a live stream or anything like that. I don't know
Speaker 2: if I'm quite set up or have the kpabillity, but
Speaker 2: I see a lot of those. I think always fun
Speaker 2: to watch when you have a bunch of people get
Speaker 2: together and they talk, and I love that that kind
Speaker 2: of thing. I would love will do something like that,
Speaker 2: have more people just are right able to put more
Speaker 2: stuff out that people are going to connect with, whether
Speaker 2: it just be you know, uh, talking about something that's
Speaker 2: maybe obscure they don't know about it and introducing to
Speaker 2: it or to sharing you know, stories, uh, their experiences,
Speaker 2: you know what it means to them, or you know,
Speaker 2: going back and forth on that kind of kind of
Speaker 2: thing and just Uh, like I said, keeping engagement, I
Speaker 2: don't if I really have a long term plan. These
Speaker 2: kind of things I never plan. I just kind of
Speaker 2: because I don't want to. I guess I don't want
Speaker 2: to be the person that I want to make this
Speaker 2: channel huge. I want to be a big media superstar.
Speaker 2: I'm realistic about that. I'm just here, Yeah, I'm just here,
Speaker 2: you know, to talk to whoever wants to listen about
Speaker 2: these movies and whatever, you know else, like you know,
Speaker 2: my and that and it. If that interests you, if
Speaker 2: that pleases you, it makes it happy, then that's that's
Speaker 2: it for me. I'm you know, whether I I have
Speaker 2: like I just checked, like six hundred and six followers,
Speaker 2: which wow, Okay, when I first started this, I figured
Speaker 2: I didn't expect to get ten. Yeah, you know, but
Speaker 2: the fact that I got that many describers bulls of
Speaker 2: my and I'm grateful for every one of them. And
Speaker 2: if I'm entertaining you, and that's all I ever get,
Speaker 2: that's great too. As long as if I'm maintaining those
Speaker 2: people and they're following me and they're enjoying what I'm
Speaker 2: seeing or what I'm showing, then I feel accomplished. You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I spent most of this talking about that
Speaker 3: connection to what what makes you feel good when people
Speaker 3: try to connect with you. So if we get I
Speaker 3: don't know, four point three million views on this video, uh,
Speaker 3: and everybody watches and says, I love Chuck, I want
Speaker 3: to go get closer to them. What kind of comments
Speaker 3: are are you looking for? What makes you? What makes
Speaker 3: you feel the most gratified?
Speaker 2: I think anytime I've had people's you know, just again
Speaker 2: say I like what you do? You know? Or you know, hey,
Speaker 2: I remember that I had this kind of fond memory
Speaker 2: of this movie too, where I remember I've had a
Speaker 2: couple of comments for certain moves where peopleill give me
Speaker 2: their big long story of their memory, which I think
Speaker 2: is so cool they share that with me, you know,
Speaker 2: those kind of things. You know, how whatever it is
Speaker 2: that I'm talking about, how it affects you or it
Speaker 2: whatever memory it may bring up, and you're willing to share.
Speaker 2: I love to hear that. And that's the kind of
Speaker 2: connections I like, you know again, sharing those experiences. What
Speaker 2: makes you know these things so special to you? Why
Speaker 2: why they're so special to me? It's why I'm sharing
Speaker 2: with you, you know, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: I will say everybody that's watching this, since at the
Speaker 3: beginning I told you to subscribe and you already did. Obviously,
Speaker 3: when this ends, go before you go watch one of
Speaker 3: his videos, Go watch the movie the Last American Version,
Speaker 3: because most people have never seen it. Somehow it's still
Speaker 3: very underseen. And then go find a random Chuck video
Speaker 3: that has nothing to do with Last American Virsion, And
Speaker 3: just to confuse new viewers, go comment something about you
Speaker 3: watching that movie and your thoughts on that movie under
Speaker 3: all of his under all of his videos.
Speaker 1: It would be incredible.
Speaker 2: That would be great. I love that.
Speaker 1: Actually, Chuck, thank you so much for doing this.
Speaker 3: I genuinely hope that we see those six hundred numbers
Speaker 3: bump up by by hundreds more. You are just such
Speaker 3: a kind person that is clearly doing things for you know,
Speaker 3: the right reason, just wanting to share who you are
Speaker 3: in a time where, let's be honest, a lot of
Speaker 3: these a lot of these relationships that are almost turning
Speaker 3: into parasocial relationships, are losing the humanity out of this,
Speaker 3: and I think that is what brought me to you.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of your conversations are simply human and
Speaker 3: in these content forward days, I think a lot of
Speaker 3: those videos have lost their soul and you are bringing
Speaker 3: that up.
Speaker 2: Thank you, and real quick, you know, I just want
Speaker 2: to ask you, now, yeah, what how did you find me?
Speaker 2: On what exactly what drew you to me in the
Speaker 2: first I'm really curious And now.
Speaker 3: Well, there's actually a really incredible happenstance here is. I
Speaker 3: looked through my subscriptions feed. Before I watch things, I
Speaker 3: add them to my watch later so I can watch
Speaker 3: them all during the day at work. But the other
Speaker 3: thing I do is just because I watched so much,
Speaker 3: I always get recommended things. And that video was recommended,
Speaker 3: and it was in my watch later playlist, and it
Speaker 3: was something I was going to get to in like
Speaker 3: the next four days or whatever, because I'd never seen
Speaker 3: any of your videos before. And then, serendipitous, I don't
Speaker 3: know how this happened, one of my subscribers emailed me
Speaker 3: and said, you should watch this video by somebody else
Speaker 3: that I watch named Chuck, And I was like, I've
Speaker 3: already got it saved.
Speaker 1: This is incredible. I will bump it up.
Speaker 3: And so I made sure to focus on that and
Speaker 3: that first one I made sure to watch it literally
Speaker 3: like on a break from work, so I could sit
Speaker 3: and just oh, yeah, like this is great. I love
Speaker 3: that he is getting this personal and I knew that
Speaker 3: that literally that moment that I wanted to email you
Speaker 3: and try to get you on here because people people
Speaker 3: need to hear your voice, they need to hear your stories.
Speaker 3: You're you're somebody kind of like myself that is raising
Speaker 3: a couple of kids, that is doing their best to
Speaker 3: share movies with a generation that's kind of turning their
Speaker 3: back on movies and doing that in a way that
Speaker 3: is creative on YouTube as well. And I again, I
Speaker 3: appreciate that you don't just cover one genre. I appreciate
Speaker 3: that you are not like nostalgia bating everything because that
Speaker 3: it's a little grading on my opinion. But I love
Speaker 3: that you're just here for positivity and that's that's something
Speaker 3: that I've gotten. We'll say chastised before because I don't
Speaker 3: like shit on movies.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's not fun. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: things I like.
Speaker 2: Actually, you know, really, I did it. My last most
Speaker 2: recent video was my thoughts on the New Superman movie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I had to do it like three times because
Speaker 2: the first two I was like going on a tangent about
Speaker 2: all the negative social media about how people wanted to
Speaker 2: do to fail so badly. I'm like, yeah, what are
Speaker 2: we even doing? Why does people? Why do people? I
Speaker 2: don't get it, you know, But I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: it's get too dead upos I how do we do
Speaker 2: it three times and a third time? Basically is as
Speaker 2: plain as possible, because it was just like, yeah, but
Speaker 2: I mean that I don't like that either. I mean
Speaker 2: I find people will just watch UF and just yell
Speaker 2: rage review for whatever reason and again for clicks or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I said, I'm not the harshest critic. I
Speaker 2: get that. You know, I'm going to watch stuff. It's
Speaker 2: why it's hard for me to review. Like I've said before,
Speaker 2: is I don't know if I'm getting a good review.
Speaker 2: I just know what I like, and you know this
Speaker 2: is it looks good than me. I'm enjoying it. You know, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's works, It's so yeah. I try to say its
Speaker 2: positive as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's frustrating when you see all these people that do
Speaker 3: the constant rage reviews and you notice, hey, they're all
Speaker 3: just over that monetization time limit. Look at that, they're
Speaker 3: all like twelve minutes. Amazing. How do they always do that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's a weird situation. And the reality
Speaker 3: is film analysis, like proper film analysis, film criticism is
Speaker 3: very difficult, and most of these people cannot do it whatsoever.
Speaker 3: It's mostly like, yeah, the acting was fine, and I
Speaker 3: will be completely honest all my shows every week that
Speaker 3: I do on my Thursday night show. That's kind of
Speaker 3: what I stick to because I'm trying to get through
Speaker 3: it in like forty seconds. But if I really wanted
Speaker 3: to break something down like I could, it's just it
Speaker 3: takes a lot of time to do something really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I know, I just I don't want
Speaker 2: to waste the time on the video. I man just right,
Speaker 2: and I want to be as I said my thoughts
Speaker 2: to you. If I'm doing review, I try. I want
Speaker 2: to be as I said, as genuine as possible to
Speaker 2: my heart, my honest feelings, straightforward, not just I don't
Speaker 2: want to cycle analyze because not everything also, not everything
Speaker 2: need to be psycle analyzed, not at all. A movie
Speaker 2: can just be a movie and you can just have
Speaker 2: fun with it. It doesn't have doesn't have an agenda.
Speaker 2: That doesn't have to mean they can just be damn
Speaker 2: good and just fun. That's it, and that's why I
Speaker 2: try and keep that as much as possible.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of that, if anybody wants a damn good
Speaker 3: and just fun channel, please go to subscribe to Chuck.
Speaker 3: Like I said at the beginning links in the description below, Chuck,
Speaker 3: keep doing it. I know that sometimes it can be discouraging.
Speaker 3: I want you to keep going. You are important in
Speaker 3: this community, and oddly enough, even though it can be
Speaker 3: sort of disjointed, sometimes it is absolutely community and you're
Speaker 3: a part of mine.
Speaker 1: So thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. AMI's a lot. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: All right, Chuck, we'll talk again soon. Have a good
Speaker 3: night you too. Thank you for listening to the Disconnected podcast.
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Speaker 1: Thank you,