Mini Crush #114: Friday Special Edition

pre kaid group. Yeah, so we're sort of on a schedule of trying to be a little more school e Monday through Friday and a little bit more relaxed Saturday and Sunday. That makes sense, That makes sense. Um. Update, I guess last time we talked, I think I told you about how I wasn't going to have my kid for a while, and we sort of compromised, and we're doing two weeks with mom, two weeks with me, and now we're thick of two weeks with me. Um. And she has a weekly uh skype caller zoom call with

her school as well. UM. And then she has this other like little kids kind of play group that she does projects with and so that's how I kind of mark the time. But it's a lot easier to do that when she's here, to your point, than it is when she's not, because it's like work stuff, it's not always on a schedule. A lot of it's just kind of willy nilly, crazy phone calls and troubleshooting and figuring things out on the fly and stuff. Yeah, I mean,

we don't have a job. And I'm certainly not complaining because we've got great jobs. But we've never had job where it was like, well it's Saturday and Sunday, I'm not doing anything for work, you know, exactly. For sure, we do stuff whenever we need to do it, exactly, and uh, even our recording sessions, we usually have a bit of a schedule, but for this we kind of just do it. You know. As as we start running out,

we start to like schedule more recording. So so the reason that you're hearing a Friday many crushes because well there's a global pandemic everyone and things aren't always the smoothest. So, uh, my recording unit took a big ship yesterday. It is

literally being sent away in the mail. I've got this new thing that were it's working well, but I had a guest book yesterday afternoon when this was all going down, and I just emailed them and I was like, listen, man, we gotta push this a week just because I don't feel up to trying to figure all this out right now. But look forward to next week. Cole Stratton. Cole is one of the co founders of s F Sketch Fest, along with Janet Varney, and I think there was a

third co founder. But he's an improv guy and a comedian and just a really nice, great dude. And so Cole and I and a big time movie buff. So Cole was going to be on next Friday to talk about his favorite movie, searching for Bobby Fisher. Is that the Chess One? That is the Chess One? Yeah? Great movies, like a He's like a child prodigy. Is Jodie Foster right? Isn't she his mom? Is she? I think Jodie Foster's his mom. I can't remember. I saw it when it came out on time. I did too, for sure, and

I was, you know, like a little kid. So it's been a long long time, but I quite enjoyed it. I remember it was a little sad, but I need to check that out again. Yeah, it's Cole's favorite movie, and Cole has great taste, So I'm very much looking forward to UH to renewing my love for that film. So look for that next Friday. I thought to get started here since there's a now robust Red Dead redemption to UH community and the movie Crushers, I thought i'd

update everyone here. At four nine years old, I bought my first headset, NOL, what are you gaming with with Crushers? Not with Crushers, although I would, but I am. I bought a headset so I could play with Adam Pranica and Ben Harrison A Friendly Fire and the Greatest Gin. So uh, it's my very first experience playing any online game,

Adam and I. I've done it like four times. Adam and I had a little two man posse one night, and it was my very first experience in dude, I had the best time I've ever had playing a game. It's really fun. So you're doing like the squad kind of situation, like the Red Dead online stuff where you're that's right, and uh, we just had so much fun. We were like it was basically the things we did were like if we were two twelve year boys what they would likely do. Like, we've gotten some fights. We

shot a bunch of people. Then I was like, man, let's go to a saloon. We went to a saloon. We got drunk. Uh, we dynamited bodies. We I mean, we did all the little fun twelve year old boy things and just had a blast. But did you match your virtual whiskey shots with real whiskey shots, because that would be taken to the next level. I was drinking wine, he was drinking whiskey. I think. Okay. We just had so much fun and it's such a great escape right now.

And it feels like I've never played these games with a headset, but it's you know, it's like you're in the room with them. Well, Chuck, I got a wreck for you, buddy. I've been playing this game called Borderland's three. It's the third one, uh in a series that I've been in Fano since the beginning. It's this very cartoony kind of shooter kind of looting. You're like, it's like a treasure hunter type game, but it looks like a cartoon.

It's really cool and it has a great online capability where you can literally play the actual story game with other people, which is its not just like a special mode. You can like get someone to help you use a higher level than you to help you beat a boss

you can't beat and stuff. And I actually have been playing with some listeners, uh I throughout my my PlayStation handle on stuff that I want you to know, and I've had a handful of folks, so I reach out and I've been meeting some folks and playing video games with people randomly, and it's just kind of like having a delightful phone call with someone you've never met while blasting, you know, mutants in the waste lands. Well let me ask you this though, how I wouldn't mind doing that.

But how do you know that the person requesting to play with you is a movie Crusher Because they give you a message when they send you a friend request, and you have to accept it. You can deny it or just ignore it, you know. But if if it's someone saying, hey, I heard your thing on Movie Crush, big fan, or they'll say who they are, maybe someone from the community page, and then you'll know it's legit um.

And I've accepted maybe six or seven of them, and I haven't played with everybody yet because I'm not always on. But um, it's been a lot of fun and your head and talking to them and hanging out. Yeah. Yeah, I just have a little earbud that just came with my my controller is just a little one earbud thing with a mike. But it works great. And um the game is actually on sale right now for thirty bucks. Um and if you have space on your machine, I really think you'd like it. It's a lot of fun.

It's it's well written. It's very funny too. I have space, I'll check it out. Um, yeah, I might do that. Let me consider whether or not I want to throw out my handle totally totally. I think I might, but

let me think about that. Uh yeah, I will say this though, this has also been my first experience, like I said, online gaming, and so I've now been exposed to I think they called them grievers and Red Dead redemption maybe that's what they're called period online, but basically people who just seek other real people to kill for no reason. Oh, I don't know about this phenomenon. Chock. Oh yeah, you've never have you ever played Red Dead online? No? No, no, is is this like a this is a online gaming

phenomenon or is it just a Red Dead thing. I don't know this term. Oh, I'm well it may be the term may be exclusive to Red Dead, but basically it's I'm sure it happens everywhere. It's where someone just comes up and kills you for no reason. You're a closed game. You're not in a closed game with your friends. You're in like a larger world. You'll see somebody ride up and you'll see their name. There is no benefit to killing anyone. You can't steal from them, you can't

take their horse, you get no experience points. It's just to be a dick. Why does it let you do it that? That's so crazy they would even let you do that. It's the Old West. I think other games, I think, Uh, what's the one? Grand Theft Auto? I think was pretty famous for having a very bad community that did things like that. Um, but I'm getting killed. Like I was fishing the other day, fishing, I turned around and a guy tackled me and beat me to death.

Holy ship, dude, that's intense, which means I lose all my fish, I lose my horse. I have to go find my horse. Uh, it's just shitty and then um, so I've set up this trading operation making money, and the online version is very, very difficult. Uh it's not like the story version where you can make a lot of dough pretty fast. So it's a grind and there are all these different things you can do. You can moonshine,

you can bounty hunt. But I started a trading business, which means you have this constant loop of hunting, giving your stuff to your campkeeper, getting him materials, letting him craft it. And then you take this ship and you sell it and it takes a long long time. And these sales runs are very stressful because people can attack you and steal like two three sessions worth of hard work. And last night I was in my wagon. I was

delivering a long distance delivery. I was very stressed out because they're playing the stress music and you know, any second now, some dude could just come along and be an asshole. And I got close to my destination and this guy wrote up on me and I'm just freeze and I go and I stop, and he's circling me, and I'm like, this guy is totally fucking with me. It's nighttime during the game. I can't see anything. I'm on a windy road and then this guy Nol pulls

out his lantern and leads me to home. I deliver my goods, which takes you out of the game for a minute for the transaction. I come back from the transaction, he gives me a thumbs up and rides away. Who is this good Samaritans, I don't know. Just a genuine act of kindness, which you do not see in this game very much. It was I really needed that, That's all I'll say. Dude. I was about to say, why would you subject yourself to this anguish and torment? Like

it just sounds like a nightmare. Uh, it sounds very stressful. That being said, though, Chuck, I'm gonna get back into it because I have it and it's still installed and it's a massive install and I've been clearing space, but I didn't delete that one acause I never finished it. So I'm gonna get back into the game. Maybe you'll maybe you'll let me posse up with with you and the in the gang. I'd really love that one of Adams friends join the other day and we literally had

a four man posse. And then you've got a little you know, you've got strength and numbers at that point, totally, we could be the mass, the band of marauders that's, you know, wreaking havoc across the land. I don't want to do that, I know, Chuck, I don't either. I don't want to be there. We're not black hats where we're white hats. Yeah, you have these emots that you can like give thumbs up and wave and like I've gone up to someone and it's a little tense because

you're like, are you gonna shoot me? And and I waved at the guy and he pulled out a shotgun and shot me in the face. It's just so and toxic. Well, I downloaded that, Uh, what is it? War Zone? Call of Duty? War Zone? They made it free. And the people that play those games, a a lot of them are really shitty and racist and sexist, and you can just hear everyone talking and there's just like you can't turn them off. And I I thought I had closed the game, and I still had it opened in the

background and realized that. And I was hanging out with my kid and some friends, my my roommates and uh, and all of a sudden, just this like filth just started spewing out of my team. I'm like, oh my god. And the thing is like, she's she's in, she's online, she knows, she knows this stuff, she knows these people. I was just shocked though, but she's like, yeah, those are the trolls. Dad, you gotta you gotta watch out

for them. It's I mean, I knew the gaming community could be very, very bad, but UM experiencing it first and it's been pretty disheartening. That's all I'll say. All Right, So let's move on from Red Dead talk. Noel, I like I promised we're gonna start all of these quarantine minis with that thread I put out on March thirty one, what positives are you experiencing during this lockdown? Because I think that helps us all feel better to to learn

what the crushers are doing that's bettering their lives. So we're gonna go here with Matt Cliff says. I love that I'm seeing a massive wave of appreciation shown to uh, working class folks who keep the world in motion in one way or the other. Totally. That's been really nice to see. Man, Chuck, I was so wrong about Bobby Fisher. It was not it was not her at all. You're thinking a little That's exactly what I was thinking about, was another movie about a little gifted kid. So sorry,

I didn't mean to derail. Please continue. I just had to put that out there so people don't like totally harass me about it. Uh. Karen Weber says, my introverted daughter's current contentment. That's fantastic. That's the thing. A lot of people are right at home in this situation. Yeah, I love it. I might have read that one last week, but that's worth another read for sure. Let me see here. Um, let me scroll down, because I definitely read some of

these before. Why is my internet connection sucking? Is it sucking? I'm plugged into the ethernet? Should I? I'm I'm afraid to just mantle my wife. Don't do it now, don't do it. We'll lose the feed. Chuck. Let me see here. Jessica Foley says teaching online from home with a three year old and an eighteen month old as one heck of a challenge, but I'm very grateful for all the

extra time with them. That's great. I mean, you know, when when my kid first started this from this whole thing, this whole crazy thing, like we just frantically were asked by her amazing teacher, by the way, who's just the coolest, most badass woman I've ever met, to meet her at the Decatur Library and she just dropped this massive packet of like papers on us, and it was just like daunting. We were both just like where, what where do we start?

It was just like this total desperation move where she was trying to take care of her kids but also hadn't really planned it out yet, and it was sort of like, you know, here is this just and we'll figure it out as we go. And now we've transitioned all to online learning where there's a lot more accountability. She gets help. She you know, it's easier to check it and check off when she's finished something, and it's all packeted out in the days of the week. So

that's been great. But it really has been like a you know, building the car as you drive, a kind of situation transitioning like this. Yeah, everyone's doing the best I can. Brandy McDonald is says, getting more creative with our meals since we can't run out to the store for an ingredient. Brandy, I'm with you there. This reminds me of the old days when I was so broke I just had to make meals out of whatever was in the house. And uh, it definitely ups your chef game.

I think we actually just did a really cool interview for stuff that I want you to know about, uh, kind of behind the scenes kitchen stuff and also the restaurant business during the Corona Times with Hugh Atchison and um Richard Blaze, who are two amazing chefs that do do do podcasts with us, and they talked a lot about like you know, how to maximize your pantry and like really a lot of it. People are scared to cook because they don't know where to start or they

think they're not any good at it. But it's all about like get good at one thing, learn how to see her a piece of fish, learn how to cook a steak correctly, and then you just build on that and like the Hugh described it as like a lego. You you have all these little pieces that you can then put together into whatever you wanted to be. Um, I don't know there was. It was a neat conversation that'll be out in a week or so. That's very cool and big shout out to the Wild Alaskan Seafood Company.

I joined that service and I am getting a delicious uh river caught all natural salmon from Alaska shipped to my door. Wow, it's delicious. I need to get in on that. That sounds wonderful. It's good. It's good service. So far U A. Blaze is going to be on movie Crush by the way, at some point we're hooking that up. He is a sweet, sweet guy. Yeah, you're gonna really enjoy talking to him. Can't wait. But I'm a I've seen every single episode of every Top Chef season,

so I'm a massive, massive fan. Let me see here. Richard Mouse says, I'm a truck driver, so there's been a few less idiots on the road. All right. I guess you gotta look for the ray of sunshine where you can find it. Jessica Gangara, great name, says My husband and I have been coming up with fun ways to have a date at home, and today we celebrated quarantine. O ween, that's fun, that's great. That's out about that.

We were gonna have a little Christmas but then I bailed on it because I didn't want to get all that ship out again, right. I like Quarantina ween my my my kid is really into cosplay and anime now, and she's got all these wigs and costumes, so every day's Quarantina Weeen with her. She got these cookie contact lenses that make her eyes look like hypnotist spirals. It really weirds me out that she loves it. She's so into it, man, and she does her own makeup, and

I'm really proud of her. She's getting really creative and interesting with these little kind of side hobbies that she's into. It's pretty cool to see. Yeah, that's awesome. My friend's daughter is like Levinish and she has gotten into special effects makeup and can do some of the most legit scars, face scars and stuff that I've seen. It looks really really good. Mm hmm, it's very cool stuff. I used to do this sort of homemade version when I was a kid. Did you ever do that with Rubbert cumment?

Rubbert cument? And then one thing that kids are using now to is uh, tissue paper. You can use tissue paper and rubber cement. It's and then because you can paint it with like you know, just lipstick or and and and make it look like a bruise using eyeshadow, and she's got this whole crazy palette and does all these different textures you can do like a cat I and all of the little things. Because kids these days, guys sound like an old man, have access to so

much information. If they want to figure something out and their Internet savvy, which they are, they can done. No. I mean we had to. Uh we had to get lessons from real life humans and uh by a magazine that might have some sort of step by step or just learn it on our own knoll. Yep, exactly. You know us the greatest generation Generation X. Yeah, what are you? You're a millennial, right, Yeah? I think so. I'm eighty three. I think I'm a borderline. I'm like an elder millennial. Yeah.

I don't know how it breaks down these days, but I know I'm solidly gen X in every way. Let me see here. Genesis Chapman says, I've been asked to build a treehouse by my daughter, and since she is almost twelve, but I'd almost given up on getting to do that. For that's fun. That's a great way to look at it. It's an opportunity, you know, all right, We're gonna finish up with Dan Maynard. And this is certainly a common refrain, but Dan really puts a pen

on it here with his situation. Uh and he's of course an old friend. Dan says, getting to spend time with my daughter, I probably spent more time with her over the last uh ten days than I have over the last year. Is that possible? I think that's true for a lot of folks. Man, you know that's great, Dane that I am glad you hear that, my friend. So Noel, We're gonna start out every episode with those because we like to warm the old cockles here. One

love a warm I love a warm cockle, Chuck. It's like a It's like a hot toddy, you know, just just warms you from from head to toe. Have you noticed that the bird songs are much more pronounced now that we're getting into spring and there's less traffic and less pollution. It seems like, you know, I mean, I've definitely been seeing articles about that. But even here in Atlanta, I sit outside and I feel like the birds are

just going nuts, like in a beautiful way. And you know how I feel about birds, But I do enjoy their songs, but it's yeah, it's been neat to see. I don't know. I don't want to get too into it the weeds about it, but like some people are saying, like it turns out humans were the virus all along. Well, sure it's the Earth correcting, you know, kind of course correct though the Earth is definitely not mad at this situation. Yeah,

I saw. I think it was one of the movie crushers in fact, posted the uh you know Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles. Yep, there in the nineteen twenties. Apparently they were buffalo that they brought over for a film shoot. They left him there because they didn't feel like taking him back, and the the legendary Catalina buffalo just lived up in the hills this whole time. The Catalina buffaloes are now on the beach nol pick

from down to Rome. That sounds wonderful. And I heard this may not have been confirmed, but I heard that there were all of a sudden like dolphins and the canals in Venice. I don't know if that's true or not. I would like it to be true because it sounds like some weird like cyberpunk future ship, you know, like but uh, definitely something's happening like that all around the world. It's very interesting. All right, now we're gonna move on here.

I asked the movie crushers I wanted to talk musicals for a minute, and I just asked, basically, what's your favorite either number or favorite moment from a movie musical? And uh, you know, I've like a lot of movie musicals. Um, I would say my top three are as far as the numbers in the movie is or It's a Hard

Knock Life and Annie. I love that so great. I would say number two would be maybe from Chicago, the one I can't remember the name of the song, but it's and we're all the different women in jail are talking about their crimes. That one's great. Oh that is a good scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah, where they're kind of

telling their backstories. YEA, so much fun. And then my favorite all time of course is uh is the big number from Lame Is and the most recent real live singing adaptation with with Anne Hathaway crying real tears and singing real words. I dreamed a dream. Just Time Gone By gets me every single time. Not that snot was not c G. I chuck, that was real. That was a real, real emotional snot oh like, no, dude. That

musical is such a big one for me. I saw it when I was a kid, like on Broadway with my mom, and it's just resonated with me so much. Like the it's so powerful, the anthemic kind of quality of all the big gang vocals like on the do you hear the people saying in the movie just saying it out loud? Giving me kind of shivers right now? Honest, Yeah, think if you've got another one and tchime in whenever

you feel like it. But we're gonna go with Paul Stanfield make him laugh from Singing in the Rain and Bohemia from Rent. All right, that's a good one. Daisy Christina a brew one of our old pal says Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor during doing Moses Supposes and Singing in the Rain fun, joyful, silly and kind of hot. I need to see Singing in the Rain because I've always I've always written it off as like, you know, I don't know, I need to see way more classic

movies like that. But it's apparently just really lovely and funny and then the heartfelt and just a beautiful movie. I really need to see it. I'm all about it. Let me see here, Stephanie, Uh del Culva Cardinal. Wow, it's a great name. The time warp sequence, Yeah, I mean, what else can you say about that? Then it's wonderful from Rocky Horror. Yeah, I have never seen Rocky Horror pictures show from front to back in my life. Yeah,

I've never seen it. It's really good. I've seen little snippets and clips and you know, numbers and stuff, but never sat down and watched the whole movie. It's great, and you know, it's got great songs. It's it's just can't be fun. Uh. Tim Curry is just fantastic. It's it's really really good. Oh here's here's your old buddy here Nolu, one of the old pals, Trish Laughterhouse Gilbreath says head Vig singing Wig in a Box. That's my favorite. So I actually Midnight Radio is my favorite song and

that whole film, but that's that's mine. That was just, you know, such a big movie for me and musical. I haven't seen it like actually on Broadway, but I saw I saw Community theater group do it, and it's like, you know, the the show version is all on a stage like a rock show, and like the movie is obviously way more you know, set changes and stuff. But uh, such a purely wonderful piece of of of of musical theater, for sure. I don't know if I could pick a

favorite song from that. I love him. Also much Origin of Love is so good. Oh yeah, uh man, I mean what with the main song angry inch? Is that what it's called? That one's fucking balls to the wall solid. I'm so bummed he didn't make it to that Athens forty watt thing because they he did all of those with an amazing band, and it was they closed with midnight radio and he crowd surfed dressed up. He did not do the whole dress up thing. He does a tour every now and then called the Origin of Love

Tour where he does the full get up. He he he was totally just punk rock as hell. Man. That guy belts it out and was just pumping his fist and stage diving and it was it was incredible. I love it, man, And that is one of my genuine life regrets that I could not go to that I hate it, but maybe it we'll get a re Dux. Oh yeah, get another chance. Maybe. I I have no doubt about him. For j c MG, we will be knowing some j c M for a minute. He's uh,

he's a good dude. Old friend. Greta Mansfield is with me the Cell Block Tango from Chicago, that's the one. She's seen it in London and New York in the movie version, she admits is also equally bindeth stick. Every one where does somebody say smush or something like that? This is Chicago, not smush. What is it the word which lipshits? So I can't you put me on the spot.

I can't think of But but that's the song, right is where they're talking about like different beats in time, and each of those words kind of represents like the story they're using the sum up eats that they're kind of backstories. Yeah, it's pretty great, really really good. And uh, I love the movie. I've seen I've seen it on Broadway and I've seen the movie many many times Broadway once. Let me see here. I'm gonna read this even though

it's not quite um it's animated. Ko Kittleston says, not really one for musicals, but several of the songs from mo Wanna really make my spirit hum. We've been listening to a lot of Moanna in the house. I love mo Wanna so good. It is great. It's squish by the way, swish squish. Uh. Emily did not know that that was Dwyne Jnson Joyned the Rock Johnson until yesterday. How crazy is it, how versatile that dude turned out

to be. I think he's great. Man. Have you seen the new Jumanji movies with Jack Black and The Rock And they're just great, Chuck, They're wonderful. They're really funny. There's a whole body swapping situation that goes on where like the kids go into the game and like the female character ends up in Jack Black's video game character's body, and so they have Jack Black has to play like he's a teenage girl, you know, and the Rock is like the nerdy kid is in the Rock, and uh,

it's just wonderful. They're really good, both of them. They're they're they're they're really great movies. That's pretty cool. Um. You know he bought a place in Atlanta. I think I heard that The Rock and when I say he bought a place in Atlanta. He bought a gigantic mansion and acreage and horse farm outside of Atlanta. Wow, because he's here so much shooting, He's like, I want to stay in the house with my horses. Totally. I I didn't. I didn't know he was a horseman. I did neither.

I mean, I'm assuming he's a horseman. Otherwise he wouldn't have bought a horse farm. But those are probably some big horses that can support that massive human. Was that like a Clydesdale the real thick ones a good draft horse for sure. Uh, let me see her TEENA achiever Old friends has Singing the Rain as the winner for me. I can watch the entire movie over and over and over. Ashley Lee says, either your song or elephant medley from

Mulan Rouge. I love Mulan Ruge. I thought it was great, you know, I did, um, I I really liked Romeo and Juliet when I was younger. That's no, no, no. The bas Larman one there was that was his first big one. I think it was. It was strictly ballroom. I think was his first which I haven't seen, which I've heard is great um. And then he did Romeo and Juliet, which I loved because the soundtrack it was just like a perfect movie from my brooding teen angst

you know period. And I really did like Mulan Rouge, but I never was one of those people that like just really you know, fanned out over. They did a showing of it at the Plaza or little Art House theater in Atlanta. Recently with there's this great queer publication called Whoosy and they do these like big you know, everyone dresses up and like it's like an event, and they did that for Mulan Rouge recently. It's it looked like a lot of fun. It sounds fantastic. Of course,

Greece is in here, uh Margharita Saramago. One of our old palace has Greece lightning. Yeah, you know, it's slightly problematic in a couple of parts, but still a good film. Yeah, that's right. That's rights. Is is it racist e stuff or sexisty stuff? I can't remember. I think there's some like uh, some like borderline sexual. Yes, that's right, that's right. Like you know her I said yes and their mouth

said no kind of thing. That's right. I want to say I saw a reboot of it on Broadway with Rosie O'Donnell and that they actually took some of that stuff foult. They kind of like re refabed it a little bit. Tell me more, tell me more. I think that's the song. If I'm not, I think here, I know that's that's summer Summer love or summer Summer. That's a different song. Summer summer. It is drift in summer nights, summer nights, summer nights nights. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta thrust

your hips when you do that. Hua. Oh I did not table You can't. You can't see it, but it was. It was very small thrust. Old friend Cary Nelson says strictly Ballroom Last Dance Competition sequence Love is in the Air. You should check it out, no one, you'll like it. It's a good movie. Oh, I would love to Heather Keenan says if I were a rich man from Fiddler, of course. Yeah that's a classic, of course. Uh. Diana andrews intro to La La Land when traffic has stopped

and everyone starts dancing on the cars. Yeah, that was great, really really good. Was not a massive fan of that movie as a whole old but some of the individuals, sequences and songs were incredible, like the one where they're in Griffith Park and like floating around and stuff. That one's really great, and the traffic one's great, and it felt like it fell apart a little bit. I don't really care about the characters, but some of those moments

and the music is wonderful. Yeah. In fact, Tanya Cox, I have a very good friend named Thanny Cox, but this is not her. This is the Australian version. She mentions that La la lancing up Griffith Observatory. It's fantastic. Let me see here, Let's do a couple of more. One of our oldest pals, Kristen Bits, a guy, says falling slowly from once. Yeah, that's ah, not exactly a musical musical, but I would give it a nod as a musical. Right. It was a full on Broadway show,

I guess, so, I guess it is. Well, they know the Broadway Show is an adaptation of the movie. Like the movie is way less music than the Broadway Show, and it's much more like a movie where they play songs that they play diegetically, like in the movie. But the Broadway show is great. They did it at the this local theater company here in Atlanta that my mom is one of my mom's most kind of successful uh

Protege's students. Um moved back to Atlanta recently and played the lead and so we got to go see it, uh, and it's it was really good. It was yeah, like the band is all actually on stage with like violins and accordions, and you know, there are characters in the show and it's I really enjoyed it very much. I was in one of my YouTube music rabbit holes the other day and I came across uh Eddie Vetter and uh, the guy from Once Cheeze and I feel like a dummy.

I can't remember his name now, and they he had him on stage at a Pearl Jams show and they did the two of them did Falling Slowly and it was really really good. Yeah, he was in a band called the Swell Season. I can't remember his name now either, but really talented guy. I do love that song. It's it's got one of those little musical motives that almost is like sing songy, like, you know, it's a little simple and on the nose, but it's it's so effective and like the way it pairs with the lyrics and

the little key changes at the end. It's a really really powerful song. Good stuff, I agree. All right. Uh, we'll finish up here with of course Dirty Dancing. This is from Jill Sordouf Venden The Time of my Life from Dirty Dancing Again. I would not say that's a musical, but that is certainly great classic classic number. Have you seen that? Yeah, I haven't seen it all the way through, but that's credited like as Uh, it's not like a

band or a singer. It's like the gal that was in the movie, right, like the Gal Well that they don't sing it, old man, it's just a dance number. Um, but doesn't she sing it? The real things? Who sings the hit version? Yeah? I want to say, and this is pulling it completely out of my butt hole that it was one of the Righteous Brothers and uh, Warren Jenner, no, not great cheesy actor The Time of my Life. It was a big hit like a radio let's see, oh

some of My Love. That was certainly a very big deal for him because he was, uh, he was well past the time where he thought he was ever going to have a hit song again. I think Bill Medley and Jennifer Warrens. Jennifer Warrens, right, Warrens, Yeah, you're right, not Warrens. And it was Bill Medley, a righteous bro. He was a righteous bro. Yeah, he did unchained melody. Yeah, that's the Righteous Brothers. I always forget that that's the Righteous Brothers. I always just think of it as the

ghost song. But Bran Bran ghosts with the with the pottery where they're making a sexy pottery, you know, ghosts Potter, you're messing with me, chet if there's something weird on your potter's wheel, who you gonna call ghost potter? Is this a Harry Potter reference? I'm confused. I don't understand. I ain't fraid to know. Mugs. All right, this is going downhill fast. No, no, no, let's keep it going.

Let's keep it going. Let's we need the explosion at the end, you know, like when they pushed the car off the cliff. It's the most satisfying part, that's what. Yeah. All right, now we're gonna finish up today with a little stream this where we talk about what we've been watching lately. I'm still on Dev's. I love that show

so much. It is getting better and better to me, and I've said it before, but it is just right up my alley man Alex Garland style that his style of sci fi, his style of design, uh and set set design and uh in wardrobe, but the real world stuff mixed with this really high concept design. It's all just Chuck Bryant City. It's a really subtle, smart show

to start with until you're on it now. I started the first episode and I have to admit, like I got a little distracted because it really does demand your full attention. You can't really passively watch it, um because there's a lot of stuff going on very subtly behind the scenes. But then there's a really massive moment in the first episode. I'm not gonna spoil for anybody that gets your attention to snaps it right back, you know.

So yeah, it's it's really really good. But I have a feeling that it's gonna like it's gonna build to something really fucking interesting and weird, and I'm looking forward to it. Well. I will say that this is a kind of show where, uh, it's so dangerous because you you it's got to end great. It can't not end great, and that's a real risk when you're watching a show

like this that you invest so much in. If it lets you down in the end, it's just such a big disappointment, like a lost scenario, get like, it's a classic example. It's well, it sets up a central mystery that it really has no real plan on delivering on, you know, or it becomes clear this I don't think he would do that. His movies are so great, um or at least x Makina was so so great. And the other one, the the one that was based on the book Annihilation. Yeah, those were both phenomenal and they

totally deliver on their promises. I think. Yeah. And Nick Offerman to me did the impossible, which was I was fully able to remove Ron Swanson from my head. It took a minute because it's hard when someone is such a character like that, but uh, he did a really good job. I think he totally pulled it off. He's great, agreed. Uh. And then I've been just started watching the new season of Ozark. I think we are three and uh, this

is a show I love from the beginning. I love it, love it, love it, and um, I really like the expanded world here in season four with the casinos and more characters coming in and more cartel election. Yep, I'm bommed. I finished it too quickly. I was so into it. I burned through it like in a day and a half. It's so good, dude, I'm and now I've got to

wait another like fucking year. You know. That's one thing I do kind of like about the traditional HBO release schedule, where you gotta wait a week because you can't just ruin it for yourself. And then you know, even then, I'm always bummed that I gotta wait like a while. But now I'm like, I really have to wait a while because I watched them all so quickly. Um what I'm trying to think? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah for sure, Um,

I definitely. I watched the thing uh the other night for the first time in a while, the classic John Carpenter kind of body snatcher, you know, body horror marooned on a frozen wasteland kind of thing. It's a very good Quarantine movie. I didn't even think about that when I watched it, uh, And it's just great the creature effects by Rick Baker. Uh. Just hold up, man, you can't get that kind of visceral ness out of c G. I.

You know, it's just it's gotta be a thing. It's gotta be like a rubbery, gross, blood spewing thing, you know, And and it is full of those, full of those that one um been been keeping up to date with Better Call Saul, which my dude, it gets so good. There's a sequence in the last episode, not the most recent or one of the most recent too, that was just had me. I watched the episode immediately a second time. It was, yeah, I can't wait. I need to I

need to just set aside some time. And it's intimidating when a show was on season whatever, like five or six, uh, and you're starting from scratch. But I need to give Better Calls all my time because I was the biggest Breaking Bad fans. So I'm sure I'll love it. I always described Better Call Soul is like a less depressing Breaking Bad. It's a little more fun and like it's definitely got some steaks, and it's got some intense moments and some you know, real bad characters and bad stuff.

But it's just I forgot how bleak Breaking Bad is with all the like drug abuse, and like the math community, it gets really fucking depressing. Um, but this one doesn't doesn't do that. It's just more like action and the legal kind of you know, courtroom drama and stuff. It's it's really really great. Well, and Odin Kirk is great. He was the levity and breaking Bad so I imagine with him as a centerpiece that it's got a little more light to it, you know, for sure. But he

acts his ass off. Man, he is a genuine actors actor like, he's fantastic. Yeah, it's been really cool to see his career over the years, especially if you were at the age I was where Mr Show was kind of happening when you were in college and sort of kind of right in my wheelhouse. To see where he's he's gone since then, it's been awesome. I love that guy, all right, Noel, I think let's spank this one on the bottom and send it out into the ether for tomorrow.

You got it, and uh, we're going to record another one ran for this but until that time, I'll see you in a second, and I'll see everyone else on Monday. Have a good weekend. Bye. Yeah. For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, visit the I heart radio, app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.