Mini Crush #143

Is that the Uh yeah, I think I know what you mean. It sounds like an entire when when Yeah, Originally it was on this sampling synth called a fair Light, which you might have seen, has like a little touch screen early touch screen with green letters and numbers on it, use a little pen and it was actually a sample from Shastakovich's Rites of spring and has said has sense been through many many iterations, but the original orchestra hit was from one of those big stabs in the rights

of spring Boy. And then it's been on just hundreds of hip hop songs since then, Oh dude, and and now it's coming back actually like I don't know if you're into like grimes at all, but she uses it lots of this like hyperpop stuff like one hundred gets like all this weird like uh kind of meme culture type music uses it a lot. It's definitely back in

a big way. Well, I'll tell you what we'll do now, since people probably it's hard to do that sound as a human being, So maybe if uber producer Seth can insert one of those right here, that'd be great. I was great, what am I saying? Wow? And maybe uh, just throw a throw eight o eight in there so everyone knows that classic beat. You know. I've been being super prolific lately, Chuck. I think we played a little bit of the Sparkle Girls song. It's a big hit

already with the movie. It's a bob. Yeah. Well let's it's not it's not quite there. Yeah, the video will becoming sooner. Keep a lookout. But I've been making I've been buying all these like old seventy eights and like forty fives and like weird like junk records at the thrift stores and just starting songs by like sampling weird little parts and then building a song around it, but

I've become obsessed with um. If you do any thrift store mining and Georgia you you will will probably come across these very regional Christian country records you don't talking about where It's like they all look the same. Yeah, it's like a family band. All the men are wearing matching whites, and women all have these big hair dues and they're posing in front of some sort of picturesque, you know, Sylvan scene. And yeah, they all have names

like the Christian Echoes or something. And I've been loving again and they happened to be by a creek bank under an oak tree. That's exactly right. And the funny thing is is like they're all from like Smyrna or some kind of more rurally part of Georgia, but near Atlanta, near enough that we've ended up with these because they probably only made like a hundred of them. Sure you know what I mean. I mean, I love it. It's such a neat little treasure hunt it is. I love

that little niche. Uh So, no, I saw you yesterday. I r l again at the office you wandered by and nol I have to let everyone know once again. Soft shorts. Uh. Yeah, that's I was wearing soft shorts yesterday. But I gotta tell you I have pivoted I what you can wear. There's something against that. Well, I just heard you touting the hard pant and I have still yet to see a hard pant. Well, you know, chuck

the thing. I forget that. Other people sometimes wander through that office, and so I thought I was safe from the prying eyes of look you lose, such as yourself. I'm there every Tuesday, my friend, and I also need to tell everybody about uh the Uh, well, I'm gonna solve the mystery of the beheaded parrots. Knowledge was me? It was you? It was you, Yes, But I asked you about it, and you seemed indignant. I know, I was playing it off pretty good. Oh you literally said, well,

I wouldn't know anything about that, nol. Well, why don't you tell everyone would happen? Yeah, holy sh it. Wow, Okay, I should have played it out longer. Maybe the mystery simmer. But oh this is gold. Oh my goodness. So yeah, I went to the office over the weekend with my daughter. Uh there's another funny story writ up in this too. But I go to my desk. I'm looking for something, and there we have these little squishy ball parrot things and you know what, I'm talking stress relievers, but they

look like little parrots. And on my desk, lined up like serial killer style, there's like six of them, and they're little parrot faces have been like cleanly snipped off with clearly like a scissor of some sort, and they're placed in front of them, lined up, you know, in a row. It's like a scene out of like seven or something like, but with cartoon squishy parrots. So you want to know how that happened? Well, how did that happen?

I was pacing the office on my on my phone call and I picked up one of those squishy things and I was squishing it and and I flicked his little head off by accident, and I was like, well, that came off very easily. And then I put it on your desk and put the little head in front

of it, the beheaded head. And then I thought, man, these things are everywhere and nobody gives a shit about them because they're still in the office, and so I'm just gonna do a little art installation slash Godfather message and uh, I beheaded what like six or seven of them. Yeah, I don't think you. Maybe you don't follow me on

Instagram or you didn't. I didn't see it. I did a whole story about it, and I said something like, came to the office for the first time in a while and arrived on this murder scene on my desk, and then I said, what kind of monster would do this? I feel threatened. Oh boy, I can't believe I missed that. I'm not sure miss that. You. Yeah, it was done the stories. Wow, Oh my god. I actually thought it

might have been Nathan, who's our social media guy. He's a bit of a prankster, but he hadn't been in the office at all in like months, and he didn't know anything about it, but he loved it. He was a fan of your work, twas I twas. I wow, okay, wow, it was really really really quickly. This is a movie related In the same trip. I was digging around in my desk after being, you know, terrified by that whole scene.

I found this package under my desk that hadn't been open, and you know, we get a lot of mail at the office, and I don't know how I missed it, but it was from like two thousand seventeen. It was from my ex girlfriend, a woman who I dated from like fifth grade until I was like nineteen twenty years old, like this was my first love kind of, and it was his package from her, unopened, like yellowed the box kind of, and I'm holy shit, how did I miss this?

And so I opened it up and it's like ten really pristine, beautiful, awesome, high quality DVDs some of my favorites in my collection over the years that I just she had ended up with and she sent back to me. One of them was a Criterion Memento, the really cool

one that looks like a like a notebook. Notebook. Um, the first two seasons right there, only two were two of the British Office, Uh, the Anton Corbin Directors series music video DVD, and my personal favorite is not Think you Can't even Get It Anymore Wonder Shows in That's a nice old treasure troue. It was so cool and like a little Christmas card from her, like talking about

our family, she's got kids now and stuff. But I immediately hit her up on Facebook and I was like, I'm so sorry, I don't know how I missed this, And it was so thoughtful and uh like most of my other DVDs I've either gotten rid of or sold, and these are like pri posh, pristine condition, not a scratch on them, all the inserts and everything. Fully there. Love it. What a great end of the story. And now you're having a secret affair. Yes, also true. Alright, nol.

So what we're doing today is we are um, we're not doing any little mini segments because we have a very special guest coming in to play pop quiz hot shot, uh, and also to talk about a little thing this person has been working on in way of promotion. And then we're gonna finish up with a little stream this with this human and I think that that will probably take up our whole episode, so I didn't bother with any

other segments. I really hope it's Dennis Hopper, just not Dennis offered that would be great because he is he's quite dead. Oh that's right. That would be weird and be very weird. So we are going to admit now into the room, Noel, are very special guests that you don't even know, ladies and gentlemen. John Hodgeman, Hello, Hello, I know my Chuck. What are you doing dude, just joining my my Beard my favorite Beard club soon. Yeah. Man, we're all gray and black Beard. Eid. I'm in a

great I'm a great moved check. Let me tell you why a lot. There's a lot going on. It's a hard time challenging moment for and it's a challenging moment in our in our democracy. Are representative democracy? You said it. We're dealing with a continuing moment of reckoning with our national moral conscience. Yes, and we're all being we're all really having our natural and chemical mood stabilizer stockpiles tested

by these times. Yeah. But I I'm telling you, I just get the pangram on the spelling bee on the New York Times Crossword website. So I'm very happy. Oh wow, things are looking up? Is this live? Is going out? Live? Well, not live? I mean how podcasts work. You record them, but we're live with each other. No, I understand. Have

you done the spelling b yet today? No? Is that Is that some sort of like trophy you get for being really good at the New York Times cross Word No, it's a separate it's a separate game within the New York Times cross Word constellation of nerd distractions extended universe. Yeah, verse and it's spread. It's spreading. It's spreading like an infection. A little bad, bad choice of words, people are it? U was the perfect choice of words. It's look, this

is this is the disease you want to catch. Spelling b get that, stay home, stay safe, do word game, spell more, spell better. Emily would be good at that. She's a great speller and was a in her school, a champions spelling Bee um person. But I I don't think she went on to like County or anything like that. But I'm a notoriously poor speller, and now I'm always having to ask her and she always nails it. What

about you know? Are you a good speller? I once got to the semifinals in a spelling bee of indeterminate grade origin. I have a very distinct memory of making it out of the stage and then whiffing on a particular word which I don't remember. But I'm fine. I would not say I am superior. Look, I'm middling best. I'm not. I'm not getting well. I do get paid by the New York Times because I write the Judge John Hodgman column once a week in the New York Times magazine. But I don't get a bump for for

for talking up the spelling Bee on a podcast. It's just this is something that my wife Catherine got me into, and it's just being passed by hand to hand toward nerds everywhere as a way to not to take a break from the news in the full knowledge stres an English teacher. Right, so, yes, that's correct. Her personal details you want to reveal about my life? Check sure. She's a lovely human, that's true. That's nothing private about that information.

She's good at scrabble, right, So this is a scrabbly type game. I just I'm just gonna put it out there so people can listen to this. If you haven't done Wednesday's spelling be this will be all new to you. The deal is you have you get one too. It's not you don't have. You're not tested on how to spell words. You get one to three six seven letters and you try to make as excuse me, one to three seven letters. You try to make as many words

out of those letters as possible. It's boggle. Yeah, but you have to use there's one letter you have to use in every word, okay, and that's the center of this little you'll see when you go there. I know what you're talking about. Yeah, it looks like it looks like a little honeycomb. And the middle and the middle cell is the letter you have to use is to count to all the others. So the pangram is when

you use all seven letters. And you nailed that. I just just as you would admit me into the zoom room. So I want you to take a pen and paper, you guys, okay, and write down these letters. Well, hold on, I've got I've got I've got i've got a thing. I've got a pen and paper special for this. Is very excited because he just started writing with terrestrial instat I just learned to write. I just learned to write. Hang on one second. You can never seen somebody so excited.

I'm typing it all right, I really. He's literally leaving the room everyone to go get it this podcast off the rails. Uh all right, well you I'll tell everyone why you're here. You're here to play for a couple of reasons. You're here to play a new edition of Pop Quiz Hot Shot, which is fun. Um. But before we do that, and after we do the next thing, with this pangram, we're going to talk about your your TV show Dicktown. Yes, which here, let's just hold on that,

all right. Just write these letters down. And if you're and if you're listening, play at home, right, if you're listening at home, if you're driving and listening to this right now, take your hands off the wheel, grab a pen and paper, accelerate and write these letters down. That is bad advice. No, don't do that, Do not do that, all right? What do we got? Seven letters? D yes, I, yes, E mm hm C h U C K d I E die Chuck die Happy Halloween is all a bit oh no, no, no do It's in keeping with the

bit we just discussed before you joined. John Chuck did sort of a very maccab murder scene kind of threatening thing on my desk at the office where he beheaded a bunch of stress balls shaped like parrots and lined them up into like seven style. So got your getting spooky in the studio, all right? Are we really doing this? Yeah? Yeah, just write this down? D I E right, M O L see. And those are the seven those are your

seven letters. And see is the letter that has to be used when you're making words, and then what are we supposed to sit around and play this in silence for ten minutes? This is perfect. I thought this was a fun game for you, this good podcasting away at the end of all, at the end of the at the end of the episode, or whenever I am muzgered off this stage or get the hook. I'll tell you what, like molded? Could you do molded? You know what? I didn't get that one? No, real good job. No, you

couldn't because it doesn't have seen it. I'm so sorry. That's okay, that's so cold cold? Did that? Is that a thing? Though? But cool is you couldn't do molded anyway? You could just do mold. No, you can. You can use the letters more than one. You can. Yeah, that's the key to it. Oh, okay, I got You'll let's leave this alone and I'll reveal it. I'll reveal the pangram that I got. And so what is what is the pangram? When you do what? Now? When you use

all seven letters in one word? I thought you had to use all No, no, no, you just build. You build as many three letter words, don't count four letter words. You get one point five letter words. The longer the word, the more points you get. So you can't do two or three letter words, asked to ask me four or more. And if you make a word that uses all seven letters at least once, that's got a pangram and you

get a bonus. Well maybe when this episode comes out on the Facebook page, we will take submissions for listener answers. And because I'm going to reveal it at the end of this episode, I'll spoil it. And so far that I found, I found seventeen words so far, and I just had a good run of them. I can't find it anymore, but I have something like ninety three points total. But to hit the genius level, which is your goal, like the gold, you have to hit two D points.

It's very high point levels. There are a lot of words that I have not gotten yet, so amazing. Anyway, that's the thing to do to distract yourself. What's another thing to do to distract yourself? Listen to a podcast.

Listen to a podcast, or watch a TV show. So no, while you stepped away for a minute, I told everyone John was going to play pop quiz hot Shot, but he's also here to promote his television show that he does with David Rees called dick toown Yes, And if I may just set up the show John before we chat about it, please. It is a wonderful animated show. That is the premises. John and David are two former

enemies from high school. David was your bully and you are now grown up the middle aged men and Dickstown, Richardsville, North Carolina, and you solve crimes for you solve small mysteries for high school students, Allah Encyclopedia, Brown as a team, and David's kind of your muscle, and you're kind of the brains. And you live on this fun house boat which I really want to live on in real life. And it's a great, really fun show sort of Archer

style animation. If I may say that, you should say that because it's it's created or you know, it's our Our producing partners are animators are Floyd County right there, and it's right there in Atlanta, Georgia, and they are the the creators of Archer. So tell us a little bit about it. Um. I watched it on Hulu, which you can just dial up by typing in Dicktown. But tell us where you can find it and how this was created and just give us a little backstory. Yeah. So, Uh,

David Reese is our friend. Uh. He is the creator of the political clip art cartoon from the two thousands called Get Your War on Um that was ran in Rolling Stone. Was a huge, huge catharsists every week, Uh for those of us um suffering under what we thought was going to be the worst presidency of all tim Yeah. Uh. And then uh, David turned to the crafts. He became a professional artisanal pencil sharpener. Uh. And he wrote a

book called How to Sharpened Pencils. And then he went on TV to host a show for two years called Going Deep with David Reese, which explored the same thing it showed. It showed you how to do the simple things you think you already know how to do, like sharpened pencil or tire shoes or freeze you know, make some ice cubes. But by going into a very deep dive on the history of those things and the manufacturer

of those things is really fun, very fun show. David's just He also does a great show called Election Election profit Makers, Election Makers, Yeah, the po the election theme podcast, which is very funny, cathartic that he does with our friends Starley Kine and John Kimball look David and like me is a a person of many trades, a person who has many enthusiasms and chases all of them, often to the confusion of people who would like to like him. It's a good way to say yeah, like no, no

one no like. He's like me. He's a person who's brand is fucked like no one knows like I have a podcast, Judge John Hodgman. I write books Medallion Status out down Paperback. I do this column for the New York Times magazine. Sometimes I act in stuff. I forget all the things that I do and then, but the one thing I am that I do not forget is that David and I having known each other for twenty years and finally got together to create a project together,

and that is Dicktown. This short form animated show that ran on f x X is anthology show Cake and now is archived all ten episodes at Hulu. And what Chuck said was true. Uh. It is a funny cartoon someone in the Archer style, someone in the Scooby Doo style, uh, in which I play a private detective who named John Huntsman, who used to be boy detective Encyclopedia Brown and yeah, in this town called Richardsville, North Carolina, which the locals

called Dicktown Richardsville, get it. Uh, My hunchman used to was famous for solving mysteries in town for his little friends and sometimes helping at the police. Uh. But now my character has grown up and failed to thrive, And I'm a sad middle aged man living on a shabby house boat in college town Lake and I'm still the only clients I can get our teenagers. Still, it's really depressing.

And meanwhile, David Reese, as you mentioned, plays my former arch nemesis slash bully in high school, who also has failed to leave town. He's now in his middle age and he's still living with his parents, and I have hired him to be my driver because I do not have a driver's license for reasons that get explained later on.

And the episode is a little bit of a mystery and um, and he's the only person I still know in town, and he becomes my driver and my hired muscle and my unlikely friend as we solve mysteries for all these Dicktown teens, some of whom were played by teens at the North Carolina High School for the Arts. Others were voiced by people we know like Jean Gray, zach Alifanakis, Kristin Shawl Griffin Newman from The Tick, John Blazer. Not all these people played teenagers, they also played other

adults in Dicktown. None were played by you. But if this podcast has the sway you say it does and people go because because because right now we're on the we're on the tipping point of whether or not we get picked up for another season. So and what and what they're it's a weird thing they're doing is they're trying to see if people are watching this thing. So that's going to be the decision making process. Are enough

people watching it? So because it because it aired as part of and we're very happy that it aired as part of this great anthology series Cake. But that's over. Now it's sitting there on Hulu and we're really you know it did, And because everything's going on in the world, not a lot of people have had a lot of brain space for an eleven minute a funny, distracting cartoon. Now I feel like we need it more than ever.

So I'm going to say this bit dot Lee b I t dot l y slash Dicktown d I c K t O w N. We'll take you right to the Hulu page and you can you can check it out. Yeah, I think it's Um, I think it is perfect for right now. And I'm not just saying that because you're my friend and David's my friend. It is, uh, David, David is also your friend. Yeah, I thought I was your friend. All right, we'll hear both of my friend more than one those your best friend joke. That's that's

what's important. That's fine, it's fine, it's fine. It's fine. So I completely understand my best friend is my wife. Um, so it is. It is a great chow for right now because it is about ten minutes long per episode, so you can blaze through the season and the time that you can watch a medium length movie. And uh, I just love I'm a big fan of that format. I thought, like the I love Children's Hospital for that reason, like the ten to fifteen minute show. Is it really moves,

it's tight, it's I was. I was really impressed that you got the pilot work done, uh, in inside of a ten minute episode, and in fact, you've got the pilot work done inside the first like ninety seconds. I feel it's very efficient. And for those of you listening

don't know what I mean, the pilot work is. It's it's very tough to write a pilot because you have to set up the whole world so that everyone knows what's going on, but you still have to make an entertaining show with the story arc and still wedge in that information in an organic way. And you guys, really it was it was great. I mean it was bing

bang boom done onto your first case. The opening scene of the pilot was something that I had been thinking of personally for a long time because I had been at the time we started thinking about this idea. Uh, David really wanted to do something about two private detectives in the houseboat because he's a big Simon and Simon person. I think there they were a house book. There are

a lot of houseboat detectives. I mean, definitely, you know Crockett, Sunny Crockett lived on a houseboat in Miami, Vice famous literary detective Travis McGee did. I was really into Encyclopedia Brown at this time because I was reading it with reading those books with my son and If and If you're of a certain generation, you know exactly what I'm

talking about. If you're not, you might not know. The Encyclopedia Brown was like sort of the archetypal boy detective in these chapter books written by Donald J. Sobol and the nineties thing it went back to this. The seven of the first ones came out in the rebooted and he wrote he wrote dozens and dozens of them, little short books, each containing about seven or eight little mysteries.

And usually it was Encyclopedia Brown working for a local kid uh to get something back from bugs, meaning the local bully who had stolen it, like some collectible sword or something, or like a jar of Nichols or whatever. And and at the end of every little mystery bugs me, you would say, you you've got nothing know on me. Encyclopedia make like a tree and go away, to quote Biff Tannon. But Encyclopedia go like, oh no, not so fast, Bugs,

I have solved the mystery. And then it says at the bottom, if you would like to know the solution, turned to pay sixty five and you turn it Bay sixty five to get the solution and explains like what like how Encyclopedia Brown knew where bowling balls were manufactured, and therefore Bugs couldn't have gotten that tenpin set or whatever. Like the whole thing about, like the baby couldn't have been sitting on the roof of the car because it

would have been still hot from running or whatever. See. Unfortunately, though in real life, bullies don't really respond to logic, he would have just gotten a beat down every single time. Exactly what I was thinking when I'll be reading this to my son, because every every one of these solutions be like when confronted with the when confronted the evidence of his guilt, Bugs confessed and gave the jar of the jar of teeth back or whatever. Oh my god,

it's like, Lapedie, You're so right. I would I would always change the endings like and when confronted with the evidence of his guilt, Bugs mean he punched Encyclopedia Brown in the nose. So the entire the first the opening scene of the pilot, is that happening, like the final athartic release of that idea, Because you know, John Hunchman is a grown up now, he's living in a world

that he doesn't recognize. He's been hired by a teenager to steal a mysterious attache case back because that's always a trope, and that mysterious atta case back from the sleazy used hot tub dealer named Zeb and Zeb's tub yard, and it opens with him explaining to Zeb, well, look, I give me the acta shad case. I I showed you. I you know, I told you all the evidence that starlings aren't native to the United States, and the sun

came up at six o three this morning. And Zeb goes, no, thanks, no, And he doesn't he doesn't push, he doesn't push Hunchman down because that's when David Purfoy comes in and pushes him into a hot tub. And it's really disappointing for Hunchman that the logic did not save the day once again. Yeah, I mean it's just so much fun, man, I really enjoy it. Um, thank you you and David like you

can tell your how and a lot of fun. It sounds like that you are in a room together and improvising and kind of cut cutting up a little bit, which really adds to the life of the show, I think, And you know, it's just a lot of fun. Matt Thompson our producer at Floyd County was like, you have

to get in the room together. You know, most most animated shows, you're you know, you've voiced them on your own, you know, and you know when I when I do voices for Ducktails, for example, not only am I in a room by myself, but the people who are giving me a vocal direction are across the country, so you know, we One of the great things about dick Town was most of the people we hired were local and available to come into New York and David and I this

was a time when we could be in rooms together. David and I could you know, record together in the same room and really riff off each other. But also we could be there with the with the actors across the way to play with them in the room as well across the glass. You know, you guys, are you Uh, you're genuine cracking each other up at times, you can tell and uh, that just adds a lot to it. David's really great, Um, he really he. I don't think he when you know him in real life, he's such

a sort of reserved guy. And uh, the way he carries himself and the way he carries a conversation, but to hear him go big, it was a lot of fun and yeah, well, I mean and not that. That's one of the pleasures also of election profitmakers, because when David gets worked David can be really low key and you know, very very you know, cool for school. But when he gets worked up, he gets so loud and it's so funny. And he was a high school bully, Like, yeah, no,

he was. He was. He kind of pushed his friends around and he feels really bad about it. Uh, and he's spent a lot of time trying to make amends. But in this case, I'm like, you gotta lean into that. That's your that's your brand on the show. That's leaning into the brand that's in the show. And you know, I brought in all this encyclopedia brown baggage. But David really wanted the show to be set in a very

specific place, which is North Carolina. He's from Chapel Hill, so a lot of the characters and the customs and the storefronts are based on people he knew or and or nos in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and it gives it gives the show a very very specific field and you know. Uh. The my character's dad, Mr Huntman. Uh. He's played by the great Stephen Tobolowski from you know, groundhog Day and the Files Needlehead ned um, and he's so good at it. But the vocal patterns are based

on the dad of David's best friend from Chapel Hill. Uh. Yeah, Mr Kimball, John Kimball's dad who is a banker and just kind of tells, you know, son, yesterday, I bought a new washcloth and I used a visa card to purchase it and it was it was really a very smooth transaction. And lady at the store was so nice. And it's just Steve Tobolowski like kills it as my dad. It's so sweet and funny. Yeah, man, it's really good. Um ten minute episodes. You can blaze through a season.

You can find it on Hulu. Uh bit Doutley Slash Dicktown. We want John and David to be able to make more of these. Um. I want to do voice I do voices John, So I'm you know, yeah, if we get if if, if the if, this podcast, as I expect it will single handedly saves Dicktown. You're gonna have a very big role. And Okay, I guess I gotta say. I was googling Dicktown and and a Wikipedia entry came up for Dicktown, New York, which is apparently a ghost

town in Putnam County in New York. And according to Wikipedia, it was named as such because a large share of the early settlers were named Richard That one, yeah, really really quickly, John, Do you know the Adam apology of why detectives are referred to as dicks? Yeah, well that was That's another reason that we called it Dicktown. We mainly called it Dicktown because there's a song by They Might Be Giants that I wanted to use as the

theme song, but we didn't have time. We didn't have we didn't have the the length of episode to even have a theme song. But you can't keep Johnny down. There's a reference to all the dicks in this Dicktown, can't keep Johnny down. But so then I retrofit, like we retrofitted Dicktown as a name to Richardsville. And also to the fact that it's a show about detectives, so

you know, private dicks. I think that just goes back to a time when dick was a less offensive term when dick was not thoroughly associated with male genitalia, but instead instead it could be a shortened form of detective. I guess it kind of plays that way. I think that's what it is, or or it could be a person's name, like Dick cavitt Um. I'd like to bring dick back, you know what I mean, bring that dick back. Oh. According to the Internet, it says that the term dick

meant to watch, like to dick. Interesting. The dick came in turn from the Romani language of the Gypsies that were dick the i K, which meant to look to see. So a dick is a watcher or a looker. Do you have the Internet of this whole time? Well, I just want I I never really thought to look it up as part of the quiz. Is this part of the quiz that makes me look? That's coming? I can't wait to check out Dicktown. Though this sounds like, yeah, everyone,

everyone weird animation. In my life, everyone look at or dick Dicktown. Please. I'm also a big fan of the expression dicking around or dick around with or just dick with um, so you know I'm on board fully dickering is a Northeastern phrase for bargaining or haggling. Hickory dickory duck. And there is, uh, there's a show I think on the History Channel. There was a show called Downy's Dickering. You told me about this, chuck. You told me about

Downey's Dickering. Didn't you know these guys in Central Maine? Oh? No, I told you about the Main cabin Masters. Oh Main cabin Masters was the one you have to check. I still have to check them out. Downy's Dickering is this crew of of guys in central Maine who make their living going through the want ads, the local want ad think called on Uncle Henry's advertiser, and finding odd jobs that they do for money. But then they'll barter things to buy stuff of other people and then barter that

to get others like they're dickerers, basically trading up. Yeah, they're trading up. And um as as a sometime resident of the state of Maine and and a fan of that state, I decided to watch it. I'm like, why was there only one season? Why didn't they make thirty five seasons of this? Like American Pickers or whatever, And I'm like, oh, within one, within fifteen minutes, I'm like, oh, because these guys are terrible. These guys are these guys there's one. There's one of them you kind of like,

and the rest of them you kind of like worry about. There. So they're so authentically Central Maine, just like live by the skin of your tooth type people. They're just like it's like when they tried to make professional poker players into star athletes, Like they're they're weird looking, marginal people, sunk shifty, yes, sunken cheeks and rat tails. Like, no, I don't want to this guy's not kind of go on a poster on my son's room like Chris Elliott

on Ship's Creek. Yeah, exactly, exactly. All right, John, you're ready to play the game. I'm ready to play the game. All right. So this is a game called pop Quiz hot Shot. It's become the new movie Crushed Sensation. It is a game that has played on a timer, which makes it a little challenging, and uh, the whole goal, here's just have a little fun. It's hard to find a timer these days, I know, and so I keep the time and here's how it works. No, one's going

to keep score. That's usually challenge in and of itself. Not anymore, Chuck, not anymore. I received this stenographer's spiral notebook in the mail from movie Crush fan Christie, who have become pals with, and it actually has a handy split column design. Look at that where she helped me positive negative. This is for a different game, uh more, for a hole's kind of scenario, but it's still it still applies here. It's got a little chain that you can attach a small pen to. Um. I've never seen

that before. I think that Christie out speaking, but it's really lovely. And when I went in earlier and grabbed a pen, accidentally grabbed a non functioning pen. It's a stylist for like a you know, tablet. So you gotta go get a real pen real quick. You see. You explain the rules and I'll be back in a jiffy. Okay. So it's kind of a running gag that Noel has a very hard time keeping score of even the simplest

of games. I can see why, and I think it's as evidence the fact that the one thing it seems like that was keeping him from keeping score correctly was a line drawn down the center of age. You know, I'm I love a stand on notebook. They're great. So here's how it works, dude, is we have ten questions, yes, where you have to name three movies for each for a possible thirty points. So one point you get partial points. So if you name two out of three, you get

two points in each round. Can you give me an example of this, so it'll be like, name in ten seconds, name three movies with the word night in the title. Okay, And if that were the case, uh, could you use homonyms? Give me an example? Well, could I say Dark, Knight Rises, Dark Night, and Nightbreed? Yes, okay, because Night you would get all three points for that Night Breed is the

Clive Barker movie to night as in Bedtime Night. Whereas we're very lenient because we like our friends to to do well and to feel good about I just want to follow the rules. Yeah, yeah, you're fine. So no, are you ready? More than I've probably ever been for anything ever in my life. And we're also lenient with you know, if you're saying one as the timer is going off, we like to give it to you. And like I said, we're we're a friendly crowd here. I shall do my best, so John, Yes, this is this

is There's no theme to this one. These are just random questions about movies. In ten seconds, Name three music, biopic, main characters. You don't have to name the movie, just the main characters. Music by the main characters. Johnny Cash, Elton John Um, Freddie Mercury. Okay, I started you off easy, three points as hard for me. Actually the movies are Walk the Line, Rocketman, and Bohemian Rhapsody. Okay, And can I just say rocket Man is a really good movie.

It's really good. And Paron Edgerton is amazing as Elton John. It is not it's a it's an incredible Essentially, it's a jukebox musical of Elton John songs. It's a it's a it's it's not just reproducing concerts or whatever. It's like interpreting the songs and ways that are really awesome. It's great. It's great, and I'm a huge Elton John fan. So right at my alley. All right, John, you did great. All right. Check they're going to get progressively more difficult. Okay,

name you should do good at this next one. In ten seconds, John, name three film noir movies, the Maltese Falcon double indemnity. I don't know if Key Largo would count. Um oh, I don't think he Largo counts. I think it counts. It's film noir. Okay, well here, let's see. I want this to be accurate. I think you got three out of three. But that's idea. From the art. It sure looks like a la to me. Largo is American film noir. Criky, big time, three out of three.

Wikipedia says, until from the poster alone, I mean it's it's got the vibe. I couldn't remember the plot. I thought maybe it was just Bogarten book I'll go to the Beach, and it was one of their It was one of their beach their Beach Blankett musicals. Yeah. And they just dick at the ocean. That's right. They just dick that ocean. They dick at the ocean. They dig it all. Look at the they dick at the ocean. They dig it all of the memorable sites of the

Florida Keys. They dick it. Ernest hemming Way's house. Yeah, they dick at each other. They dick dick at each other. They can't stop dicking each other. Okay, Jeffrey doing great so far, John right in ten seconds, name three movies starring or even featuring actor Tim Robbins. Um, this is a weird one. But War of the World's Um, Uh, Bull Durham and um, all right, what was the the one where he was a phony folk singer politician Bob Roberts. Bob Roberts was Bob was all I could remember. Surprised

you didn't leap right for the Hudsucker Proxy. Yeah, feels the very John. That's one of my favorite movies. I don't know, I don't know why I had that. I'm having more and more lapses. Le's put it that, you know what I've rewatched recently that I just think is the best as the player. Uh. That was the one that kind of the followed up on Bull Durham and launched Tim Robbins into a different place. Yes, and of course we miss perhaps his most popular movie of all time,

The Shawshank Redemption. Oh right, a Shawshank Redemption. That's a very famous, one, very famous movie. Very probably already know this, John, But I found out recently this in a pitch meeting that almost every single piece of Stephen King intellectual property is optioned at all times. I can't think of the one that isn't. Well, I just mean even ones you haven't heard of or don't know about their in turnaround

or they're filed away somewhere. And to find a piece of Stephen King, I p that isn't is like a needle in a haystack, or like, you know, some sort of treasure of the Sierra Madre or whatever. Can I be like, yeah, can I say something so? I'm a big Stephen King fan. I'm particularly a fan of the novel Coujo. I've never seen the movie and I never will. The novel is one of the best. It's just straight

up piece of literary fiction. It's great. Anyway. I was talking about this back when I was promoting a book that has called Vacation Land that has a lot of Maine in it, and um, some someone his friends with one of his sons, not Joe Hill, showed him this article and he sent me a paperback copy of Coujo with a really nice thank you note written in it, and uh, I'm gonna option that thank you note turned into a movie. There you go. You got to be creative. Yeah,

that's no one's got it. No one's I'm the only one who has it. You go to get the rights and you're like, ah, dream Works has it. Oh no, all right, that was the only one you've whipped on so far. Thank you, John Hodgman. Stephen King movie. It's like, what why? How did that? You didn't get my permission to use my Name's like, sorry, DreamWorks says, we got it. I think the best part of that movie is when

Stephen King hobbles you. Thank you, John Hodgman. The Story of a Thank You Note Written to a fan starring Mike Perbigli as John Hodgins. What why oh all right? John? Yeah? Question for you're letting Stephen King play himself. He's not that great in act. I mean he was actually pretty funny and it chapter two. But for Biggs all right show where he plays the the redneck guy with all the plants growing on his body, that one's fun. Yeah. Can I write the screenplay? No, John Lane, he's doing that?

What Oh he's good though, of course, John Millene's good. Mike Perbili is good. Okay, Number four in ten seconds, John Name. Three movies starring or featuring Susan Surrandon Bull Durham, The Witches of Eastwick and the The X Wives Club? Is she in that one? No, she isn't. Goldie Hawn. It's called First Wives Club. First Wives Club, Yeah right, I mean get the name of the movie, right, alright, only stared, only stared at that poster going up and down the stairs five times a day. And Writers has

literary agency for seven years. First Wives Club based on the writers as clients book First Wives Club, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and someone else Diane Keaton. I think yeah, probably that. Uh. We also would have accepted The Hunger, right, of course you would have accepted Dead Man Walking. That's a good one. Oh yeah, isn't David Bowie and The Hunger? Yeah? And isn't it quite bad? I've heard it's quite bad. Well,

it's it's a great piece of uh yeah. In nineteen eighties, sort of lucky, erotic horror, erotic vamp a lot of Yeah, that was heavy duty, like um, what's the what's the word of like Venetian blind Shadows movies? Well, it's early Tony Scott, which is was that Tony Scott? I believe that that is based on a novel by Whitley Strieber, who also wrote the novel that became the movie Wolfin and since since then is primarily known as a alien abductee.

He wrote a book called Communion about his recovered memories of being abducted by alien since he was a kid. And that's how he's known now. Interesting career pivot. What's that? What's that? Chat? Nothing? That was community? Communion is a great book. Communion is a great book and a very strange movie starring Christopher Walking. Yeah, Chris Walking. That's right. Give me Francis Sternhagen. I can throw Communion in there. I can throw it. And I forgot the other movie

that she was outland Francis Sternhagen. She saw her and something I couldn't believe. She's still stir Start hanging it up. I'll look at up player alright, Question five, John, Yeah, in ten seconds, name three movies that feature alien spacecraft. Uh Star Star Trek, the Motion Pictures Star Trek to the Wrath of con Star Trek three, The Searchery Spark. See that was smart. That was smart, well played, well played.

See that's that's the way you do this game. If you can find an angle, you gotta play the angle. I'm always looking for the angle. I'm always dicking the angles. I'm always digging for the angles. Got a dick for those angles. The thing is a guy like you, John, a guy like our dear friend Casey Pegraham. You wanted to display your movie trivia prows, so you do. You dig deep, But that's not the best way to go in this game sometimes, that's right. Alright, Question six, Mr Hodgeman,

and ten seconds, name three black and white movies. Can I use ones that I've already used? The Man who Wasn't there? Uh, the Maltese Falcon and Key Lardo Boom. Alright, you're back again gaming the system back he never left. It's he left twice. He left two on the table, Strangers in Paradise and Down by Law Stranger than Paris, Stranger than Paradise. And I've never seen either of those great movies. I just rewatched Down by Law for the first time, probably since I was fifteen years old, and

it's I miss those old Jarmish movies. All right. In ten seconds, John, name three movies featuring non muppet puppets, non muppet puppets, The Happy Town Murders. Um. Well, now wait a minute, Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Do we have a challenge. I mean, like I said, the Happy Town murders, but I think that they're Henson. I think they're Henson. No, it was his son and it had nothing to do with Henson. And I think it got

they got mad instead got in trouble. Was it Brian Henson, but he's the CEO of Henson. I don't think they got mad. But maybe it wasn't him, but it was it was somebody connected with Henson that it was not sanctioned, It was not you know, it was so they used that name my trailer. My question is, and I think this is a this is a I'm not gonna I'll take my one point and I'm not I'm not going to work the ref It was Brian Henson, by the way, But if I said that, if I said the Dark Crystal,

would that count or no? That would count? Because I don't consider not talking right, You're not talking about muppets what you consider muppets. We're not talking about what you consider m up It's you're talking about the Muppet characters famous from the Muppet Show, right, not characters from the Jim Hinton Workshops. So I could have said the Dark Crystal. I could have said Labyrinth. Yes, meet the Feebles. That's

actually not whatever whatever whatever. I was robbed. Everyone knows no one point the one point for happy right, Alright, rephrase that in the future. Name three movies with puppets that do not star the muppet characters. What if where? First of all, we're not gonna use it in the future, but you're gonna retire that one. Hey, don't you dick at me? I see you dicking at me. You're gonna you see are you digging me? Rolling my eyes? Yeah,

I'm dicking you. Are you digging me? Digging at the ceiling? Alright, get at the floor number eight? In ten seconds, don't get salty, now, are you salty? Not at all? Okay, I'm concentrating, Okay, in ten seconds. Motherfucking that's just that's a vocal warm up. Motherfucker. Cocksucker, messed up my whole all right? All right? In ten seconds? John, Name three? And this is subjective, but I'm going to be very lenient.

Name three movies well known for their soundtrack. Raiders of the Lost, PARC Star Wars, Harry Potter The Sorcerer's don't okay, I know nothing about Harry Potter, but I think I have to give it to you. They're all John Williams soundtracks. Okay, I I'm going to give you all three of those. The minor quibble, I would say those movies are well known for their score. Uh, but that's okay. Looking more for Rushmore Magnolia and Batman bo Batman, Batman because the

Prince that one Prince song bat Dance. Yeah, it's what's just known as like because it was a Prince album. I think that's that's even love it or hate it, it's definitely people remember the Batman soon. Now that I understand the question, I would I would say what I would have maybe come up with if I were smart, was, Oh, Brother, where art thou? Sure? Dazed and confused? Um it's another oh and uh the Big Chill? Yeah, yeah, I got you. Now you get three either way? Alright, three three the

right way, three the right way. We're gonna count the score because those those were sold as soundtracks, you know. Yeah, So what about something like The Lion King where it's like a combination of like songs and also score pieces, And I think any Disney animated film would be well known for their soundtrack. The most part The Jungle Book, For God's sake, Jim v I P I reached the top and had to stop, And now you're gonna get sued by Disney. I love the Jungle Book. It's still

my favorite song. Wise, all right, John, in ten seconds, No comment on colonialism here in ten seconds, Name three movies directed by David Lynch, Dune, Uh, Razor Head, and Blue Velvet. Great, good job? Yeah, what's the one? Wild at Heart? That's the one I was my brain, my brain. It may be you know that you're right that my brain wants to go obscure because there's like I have a animal reflex to impress, get get weird pulls. Yeah, no, I think that's that's the trick of this game is

and we've talked about it before. It's hard to clear your mind. But also try and think of every movie you've ever seen the same time. Yeah, exactly, But you're doing great, thanks friend, But I'm having fun than Casey. All right? Finally, John, number ten, number ten in ten seconds, Name three movies starring former alumni of Saturday Night Live. Sure um stripes, Caddyshack, Um Meatballs, Ah see you locked in on Bill Murray, very smart way to go. You're

good at this game. Thank you. To see what I would try to I would immediately be flooded with every Saturday Night Live Alumnni. That's ever the screen. Yes, and what you need to do is just hone in on one who did a bunch of movies? Yes? Can you now? I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you one chuck from this package, all right because I also have a timer. Oh, I know you do in ten seconds? Now? Aim three Will Farrell movies go? Uh? Downhill? Uh? Anchorman and Anchorman two?

Al Right, Downhill? We you, Oh, Julie Louis, drive us some money. I didn't collects on. I didn't see that. But I did see Forest Masure and that was a movie on the show that we dissected. By the way, have you seen that? No? I haven't seen it. That's its great, that's the movie that Downhill is based on. You would love it. It's right up your alley. It's really, really, really good. Is it a comedy though I thought it was more like a disaster kind of No, it's a

it's a very very dark social satire comedy. I think it's Swedish. It's terrific, Like it's literally like taking it beat for beat and making it like American or I think that's what that's not. That's not unusual people do that. It's not but I I had heard of that, and that seemed like more like an art film, and this Downhill seemed like one of those thrown together Netflix. It's

sort of I'm sure that it was marketed that way. Yeah, so, John, if you have time to stick around for another ten minutes or so for stream this, I don't ever want to go away. This is the portion of the show. Why are we talked to this? By the way, you got twenty six points to justify my use of the solids.

I feel like there should be an asterisk because I feel like I feel like my sound track answers were not high talking about the muppet question, Oh well, you know what, I'll keep it then, because I feel like now I feel like my John Williams answers were all b as. They were not high quality answers. So subtract three no, no that I already circled the number. It stands all right, Then I can't in and you can't walk it back. Yeah, the spell is locked out of thirties. Great,

nice job's done, thirty out of thirty. Nobody, It's true. Although I haven't gotten one of these yet. I've just been like the the second Banana scorekeeper. I kind of want to get in the hot seat. One of these will be in my medal. All right, here we go. No, you're ready for this. No, we don't have time, we have tense. Do you give me one. Let's go. Let's go. Name three movies the Gene Wilders in Willy Wonka or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Uh see no evil? Hear

no evil? Uh? The other one? Yeah, you got that one us. Now, now that's a definite asterisk. I I reject that. Wow. Yeah, that's a deep cut. That's a later Richard pryor Pryor where they're blind and they're both blind and deaf or something like that with my mom when I was a kid, and I think it had boobs in it and it was really Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? Was that ause me? The book? Is Charlie

the movie? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, alright? Zero. Do you hear that Trump was gonna do a Willy Wonka asked type of stunt when he emerged from the hospital after Corona he was gonna like, look golf feeble and then rip off his shirt to reveal a Superman uh emblem. Tell me you're kidding or they decided not to do it, But apparently it's a It's something that was actively discussed. I know that that was reported. That feels a little a little fetched far to me, but maybe so I

like to believe it. It It seems like the kind of thing seems like anyway, why aren't talking politics? Yeah, exactly, all right, John, When does this come out? This comes out Friday? Oh no, no, no, two weeks right by the way, everybody, this is the first election cycle that I've ever been an act of volunteer in. I do phone banking, I do text banking, I do letter writing. Get your people, help them to vote. Go to I

will vote dot com. Make sure that they all understand wherever they are in your world, whatever state or comm will they're in, what their deadlines are, what their options are in terms of voting. Make a plan to safely and securely and and early, which is probably not a word, vote tomorrow, and also donate some of your time. If you can't donate some of your money, it's really important. Created a couple of days ago, they have our local arena fitted out with voting machines, and it took me

longer to park that did to vote. You know what great is that? The the NFL arena, it's the basketball are the NBA arena? Yeah, the NBA. Who NBA opening up those stadiums, those stadia for voting. It's like three hundred three boots, I think. And that's the greatest. I can't believe. That's really stepping up. Thank you. And I can't vote there because I'm decapp County residents, so but

I'm going tomorrow. It's great. Early voting is the best. Okay, everyone, this is a stream this where we talk about what we've been watching lately. I will go first. Uh. The other night, Ruby and Emily and I Uh. Ruby says Hi, By the way, John, she was quite fond of you and remembers you. I want to come and visit you guys again. You have such a nice guest bedroom. Yeah. She uh. Anytime like your voice comes on, she goes, that's John. Yeah, how's her little how's her little backyard?

School going. It's going great. It really is going great, big success. But the other night we watched Parren Norman, the great great um stop motion animation, sort of her first little scary movie that she's seen, and it was wonderful. It was such a fun movie. It was highly recommended by the movie crushers. I loved everything about it. It was funny, it was heartwarming, it was a little bit scary,

just enough for her age. I think, uh, slightly above her pay grade, but I know we all agree that, you know, a year or two above the pay grade of a child watching movie watching is of a good thing. And she was fine. She she got a little scared occasionally, which meant a little little snuggle on the couch, but she never wanted to turn it off. And we just had a great, great time watching Para Norman. So we watched that and then nol. I've been watching or We Emily,

and I've been watching I May Destroy You. Yeah, we're about halfway through season one and boy, oh boys, it great, wonderful, wonderful show. Wait for the finale. It'll knock your socks off. It's uh, I'm gonna use it. I'm gonna drop have a drink everyone. It's psychedelic, like the way that it's edited, the choices, the way it kind of like show. It's of perspective, it's all about like that's the thing to

going back to detectives. I love that the show feels like a detective story in some way, where she's like on the hunt for this perpetrator, but it becomes much more than that. And it's got comedy. It's got beats of absolute drama and existential terror, and then it pivots so quickly to like the other things without ever seeming forest or stretched. And I just think it's a genius work of She's amazing cinema. Makayla Cole wrote, created, wrote, directed,

stars great casts all the way around. It's voices that you don't hear enough of these days, and it's really really terrific. Highly recommended, and it just started ships Creak by the way, I shall take that recommendation and thank you for stealing my recommendation. What Ship's Creek? Yeah, it's so good. I just started it myself. I don't know why I didn't glom onto it right away because I love all the cast. I'm such a Cris guest fan. But for some reason, I've watched a couple episodes and

didn't continue. But with all the buzz lately, I was like, I'm gonna try it again, and I'm obsessed. I just think they're lovely characters. I mean, they're despicable at first, but then you grow to love them. It's great. Yeah, I'm definitely a Hodgman come Lately on that one. Um. I people in my life we're telling me to watch

Should's Creak forever and then same here. Finally, finally, you know, after six seasons, I was like, maybe I'll watch this, and I was like, oh, this is the greatest thing, you know, in many in many ways, I think for what I hope people find in dick Town, which is to say that it's a it's a concept comedy, right, um, but the concept kind of falls away pretty quickly and

becomes a character comedy. And the characters are each of them really really likable, and you know, like it's a town versus gown, like outside outside Richie's come to this hard bitten town and in Pennsylvania is supposed to be I can't even remember, yeah, like right, yeah, exactly, in in somewhere in North America, and it's sort of like

the their cultural clash. But as as you pointed out, and all like the Fai, the famil, the rich family are all very likable and and you know, especially now that they're down on their luck and the local people are all very likable and you just enjoy hanging out with your friends with this movie, Starry, with this TV show and um uh Dan Levy the co creator with his dad Eugene. He plays a character named David, and he and Emily Hampshire, who plays the woman who runs

the motel. What's her name? Yeah, she's good. Twila. No, no, that is his actual sister who plays Twilight. That's also interesting. Oh that's I forget the name of the uh. Well, she's great and a tough and a tough role as sort of the the straight character. Um yeah, the straight person. That's a tough that's can be a tough bag in a broad comedy like this, and she does a great job. Hang on, I'm gonna I gotta Emily Hampshire. Yeah, I remember the name of the actor. That's pretty respectable, right,

totally known as bus Fiber. But Stevie, that's right, Steve. Because of Stevie, I was gonna say, Sydney, Yeah, I guess that, right. She's so dead panned because she's sort of the voice of reason, you know, like like like calling out all of the bullshit of everyone else's character. But she herself is also kind of a fish out of water because she doesn't make sense in this world.

She's so smart and sharp and snart, and her relationship with with Dan Levy's character David is is incredible to follow. It's so fun completely. Yeah, I think part of the fun for me too is seeing, uh, seeing Eugene and Dan together clearly having a good time, like father and son working on this show together, and uh, it's just it's sort of gives me good good heart feels like that about this show. It took me by surprise. I mean, it's got The cast is amazing, obviously, Catherine o' harriet,

Uh legend, what's his name? Chris Chris Elia Telliott, Emily is so creeped out by She's like, he always looks so gross and dirty and everything. He's inspiration. I couldn't remember, right, Okay, the everyone's great, but let me just say something, Gen Levies, can I swear on this? Yeah, it's fucking hot in the show Jude. He looks amazing. We were talking about that last night. I was like, what is this guy taken? Like? He looks he looks better than he's ever He's he's slim, healthy,

his suits are incredible. I mean his hair, his hair is and it's like it's it's one of It's sort of like when comedians get pumped and you're like, you're kind of breaking the code, dude, Like you know what who we're talking about. No, there are lots lots of comedians have gotten pumped. You don't know who I'm talking about at all. Kumal is like freaking me out, man, Like his jeat Meal instagrams are just like, whoa, I

can't handle you anymore. I'm thrilled by his personal journey and it's had to undertake in order to be in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. That's why he got that jacked. You know what I mean? I know, I get it, man, It's it's just it's just a little off putting when he used him being the schlubby I T guy or But the thing is that it is a little charged when a comedy person starts to look good do you

know what I mean? It totally is, especially if they just sort of looked average or kind of you know, like me, like Dumpy nerd or whatever, Like if I got jacked, people be like, I like that. I don't like that version of John Hodgman. But Eugene levy Man, I can't cannot deny that guy looks great. It's more wardrobe than anything. I don't know. If he looks like he's it looks great. Compare him to the best in show. He's not beefed up, he's slimmed down, you know what

I mean, he's got that. He's got that, he's got that paleo glow. You know what could he and he I mean, how old is he He's got to be late sixties, right, he's nine seven? Wow, didn't really surprised. Fantastic for ninety seven. There was a really great like it was his birthday recently, and there was like a kind of you know, zoom thing of all this comedy people. Uh, and it was just delightful. And you know they're all

just throwing accolades at him. And I think it was Jason Biggs that sort of joked that that he thought this was an in Memorium video. You know, of course that's a little bit of a see seventy three. Can you believe that? Incredible? Yeah, he looks great. Annie Murphy as as Alexis the sister is also incredible. And you know it's like they're they're all these incredible Canadian actors and they're just these hidden treasures, like they're just up

there in Canada making TV like crazy. We never watch it because we're jerks. Now we get to see all these incredible actors. Yeah. The reason I hadn't watched it because you made Canada. No, there were too many seasons. It was it was too daunting. I was, God, do I want to tell cold something that has whatever, like a hundred episodes. Look, sometimes culture asks you to pay attention to something that you've slept on, something that's that's that you know it's probably pretty good, but you just

haven't gone around to it. And sometimes culture offers you two choices, uh, six seasons of a thirty minute sitcom like Ship's Creek I Know where this is going? Or one season a total of a hundred and eleven minutes of Dicktown. It's the it's the short animated Ship's creak of today, but not least slash Dicktown. Don't sleep on it. Go dick it. Yeah, dick it in in a night like Dickie gets some pop some popcorn, you know what

you know. And I love to dick it. I love to dick it on a Saturday morning because no shame in that job, you know what I mean. I like to dick it on a Saturday morning, Like to dick Dicktown on a Saturday morning. Because it's a cartoon. Get up, you get your your cereal, and you watch some cartoons on a Saturday morning. Not for you. Just get Dicken. Yeah, just get get to Dicken. Not by the by the way, as you can imagine, unlike the Judge John Hodgment podcast, Uh, Dicktown.

It's kind of a PG thirteen. There's some swear words, some adult themes, like like fear of mortality. Yeah, yeah, no, it definitely has some. There are f bombs. Yeah. I guess it's rated. I guess it's rated m A for mature, but I would say probably like you're fifteen year old, could dig it, yeah for sure. Yeah, you can dig it with part of your family. Not for ruby. Also not for ruby. This is an anti streaming recommendation. Cora line too scary, too scary for how old is she?

She's five, too scary. Even saw it when she was about nine. On the yeah good ten, Yeah, I would say I would have said ten, but not good nine good John. Are you familiar with with Wonder Shows? And I am familiar with Wonder shows? And yes, yeah. At the beginning of the episode, all this whole story about how I got this mystery box of DVDs in the mail from an ex girlfriend and that was one of my prize DVDs that she returned to me, and uh. I proceeded to watch some of it with my eleven

year old daughter. You know, it's a very dark sense of humor, and I forgot how dark it goes. And there were a few where I was just like skip this one, okay, and now, okay, this one's okay skip. But she loved it. I watch a lot of TV with my son, and he's got very good taste. I'm trying to think of the movie that really surprised me that he loved. I can't, I mean, hang on a second. Is he into the dark humor? The dark memes? Things like no, no, I mean like, I'm like, he loves

oh brother, where arn't that he loves that movie? Amazing? It's really surprising. And then you know there's he's like every fifteen year old. He's just you know, just binging the Office and then going back and starting from the beginning the Office, ENFC Office, Hold, Duke Parks and Wreck three times through. I think he's working on, uh, what's the one he's working on now, one of one of that universe movies, Emily. I think it's um, Kimmi Schmidt again.

So that's what he likes to do for TV, but for but for movies, he's got pretty pretty and he loved watching Eye Claudius with me when he was eight, and there was some that was probably the one where I was like, um, yeah, you know what a Roman orgy is? Right? Just I figured you've got the internet, you probably know. It's like, Dad, can I make another recommendation because I just wanted I just watched the season finale. I know that's it's not everybody's cup of tea. I

really enjoyed Lovecraft Country. Did you watch that Craft Country? I have not seen it yet. I mean it's um, have you seen it all? You know? I keep talking about this with people. I did not get into it as much as I would have liked, and I watched two episodes, but I keep hearing that it picks up a little later and that it gets real kind of disturbing. So I kind of want to check it out again. I wanted to like it very much, and hearing this from you cenches it for me. I'm going to give

it another Gum. I think that it's really worth watching. Uh, it's very episode it's very episodic more than it is successful as an arc. So each individual episode, some of them are you know, really really really amazing, and some of them are less, so you know what I mean, Like they're trying out a lot of different things. Um, it's not like when I when I watched the first episode, I was blown away. I loved it and I was like, oh,

this is like Watchmen. This is a piece of pulp entertainment that has real social engaging with real social issues in a really interesting way, and the whole thing is going to be airtight and perfect, which Watchman was and it was one of my favorite TV shows of all times. Um, Lovecraft Country is is not that. Lovecraft Country is not a tight Lovecraft Country has. I think by the second episode, I was like, this just seems like a corny adventure show.

That's that's that's what where it lost me a little bit. Yeah, I was like, what what happened to the to the perfect like air tight nine dimensional chess game that I thought I was gonna be watching. This just seems like an episode like there's one where they go go into the basement of a museum to get uh, to get a mcguffin out of a a well or whatever, And I'm like, this is like Hercules the Legendary Journeys. And I was like, wait a minute. I liked well, I

didn't like Curriculus. I like Zeena a lot, but I was like, wait a minute, that's that's its strength, Like it's a it's a corny supernatural show about black nerds, depicting black nerds like black pulp fiction fans in the fifties, Like you know, the main character is a guy who loves sciences as a black Korean war vette who loves science fiction, loves horror novels, and people people of color

who love that stuff don't see adventure shows. Corny adventure shows like Curriculus, the legendary journeys or raided as a lost ark were they're the stars very often that Once I realized that, I was like, oh yeah, I'm on board for this. Just fun, it's it's fun, it's weird,

it's disturbing. Every now and then you'll have an episode that just blows your mind in terms of what it's what it's telling you and teaching you about the experience of race in America, and then every other episode it's like, we have to make the sunshine and cast a spell at this time, and so like the greatest I loved it, love Craft Country, check it out, all right, I'm definitely gonna check it out. All right. We gotta move it along, guys, because Nolan I have to record another one after this.

But John, thanks for stopping in to play the game. Thank you. Everyone watch dick Town. You can dial it up on Hulu, google it, find out how you can best watch it. And uh, perhaps the movie crushers will step up enough to put it over the top and you guys will get to make some more Those are really hopes. And then Chuck, you can be in a voice. You can be a voice in it. Hey, either way. I want you guys to make more and it's it's a fun show and no will make you the star,

the new star buddy. Yeah. Wait, I'm gonna recast myself. You will be the lead. I'll take it. I will do you proud, John, Always a pleasure hanging out with you, sir. This is lovely and I'm surprised. Just just quick audition, just say this. Wowie mcgawey. Can you say wow? It's one of our catchphrases. And Dick too, Wowee mcgowey, Wowey mcgawey. Wowie mcgowey. You know what a lot of range. I like it. You're in all right, let me try mine wo get wow wee mad hagawey go beef. No, alright, Chuck,

you got your chuck, you got the job. I got the job. Well, thanks for dicking this episode, everybody, and it's been a real pleasure. Well, you don't dick a podcast, you audio Dickett. Yeah, thanks for audio dicking this podcast, right, Good day. Movie Crash is produced and written by Charles Bryant and Meel Brown, edited and engineered by Seth Nicholas Johnson, and scored by Noel Brown. Here in Our Home studio

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