Mini Crush #153

the with a zen and the zang. How are your holidays, my friend? In real time? This is the first recording for us for the New year. That's right. My holiday was great. I had a proper two weeks off. Uh it was you know. I hadn't taken a second of vacation all year, and I just you know, used it and one fell swoop at the end and I needed every second of it. Chuck, what did you do? I

didn't do much. I I hung out with my my you know, my kid and her mom and our little extended family pod and the Christmas morning there and exchanged gifts and just kind of vegge. Man. I got last of us two. Yeah, where are you in that game? I don't know? Talking about the PlayStation game, Yes, sir, PlayStation, I don't. I didn't get a five. I'm not. I wasn't good enough boy this year. But I don't need it. Man, I'm not an early adopter with that stuff. I like

to hear. I think the four it looks great, man, last, what do you need? I mean, I don't even know. Um it's it's I'll get it one one day. But why, I mean, this one works fine, Yeah, it's I think the thing that's maybe divisive is just that, like you're this isn't a spoiler. I don't think you're playing both sides. Literally, Um, you're you know, your main character and then you're this kind of side character who was basically your own nemesis,

and it pits you against each other. But it's like emotionally complex because you're literally having to control the actions of two opposing forces. And I'm not far in at all, but I can already tell it's going to be a gut wrencher. Yeah, so maybe we should get Annie at some point and that um once maybe once you finish and the three of us will talk about it a little bit on a kind of a brief movie crusher

game segment. Um, I will just sort of quickly say that I enjoyed it while I was playing it, because the gameplay is just as great. It looks amazing, it's still fun killing those goddamn zombie people. Uh, and it's fun and scary and awesome. Um, And then I'll just stop there and I'll say the rest of my review for when we do that. That sounds like a plan. I very I think we're both in the same page and loving the first one. And I agree that it took me a man. Because it's been a long time

that play it. I kind of forgot. You really do have to be super sneaky otherwise you get got pretty quick. So you gotta sneak around. Brother, you gotta sneak around, and then you just stab those zombies right in the face. Yeah. It's kind of tough too. And you're playing multiple games, uh, the different you know, keeping straight the movements and the buttons and uh, you know, jumping when you want to jump and crouch and when you want to crouch and

all that good stuff. It's especially difficult if you play on two different systems. That have different button layouts. So I've been playing a lot of a lot of Switch and like where the X, like the bottom button in the row of you know, little triangle or diamond of buttons is sort of your main button on the switch. It's the one to the right. So sometimes I'll like forget what system I'm on and be hitting the robber

button like a Looney tune. But don't they know that people consume a great deal with marijuana that play these games. I think they know that. I think them all the same. Yeah, well you know the Japanese man, they're there. Well, no PlayStations Japanese too. What am I talking about? Nationality? Nothing to do with button layout? Um, just kind of one of those things has always been and I guess it's

always kind of had the other layout. Maybe I don't know, But love both systems And what else did I get? I got one other cool game? Um? Oh yeah, I just like I've been playing a lot of Super Smash Brothers online with with friends over the holidays, and uh, Mario Kart, love that love that stuff. How about you and what you have? You had a nice little chill family Christmas. It looked like with the kiddo, I did.

I had three weeks, so I'm not gonna say off, I had three weeks off from stuff you should know, which is, uh, you know, obviously the line share of my job. Um still had to do stuff you should know, any kind of things, but I tried to check out as much as possible. It was good. I love my family and it's great to be with them always, so we had a good time. It was it was fine.

My mom spent the night Christmas Eve. She's the only family I saw, um because we've been seeing her and um, you know, it hurts not to go see my brother and stuff, but it's just it's just not the thing to do right now for so we're gonna wait. Man, we're getting close. Yeah. I had to kind of win my mom over and not throwing her under the bus at all. I love her dearly, we're just you know, from a different generation, and like she really wanted to do a big family Christmas thing, and like it's not

that she doesn't think that the virus is real. I just kind of had to be like, this isn't the year to do that. Let's wait till next year when it feels right and everyone can feel safe, and there's nobody that has any inkling of of questions whether it's okay or not. Um and she she agreed, and we we did do we we just kept it very small. I went and visited her briefly, um and and then came back. It was nice where these days. She's in Augusta, which is where I kind of grew up. I went

to high school there and she still lives there. Yeah, that's good. What what kind of drive is that? Two hours? Two hours on the dot? Yep, nice, very nice, Noll. So we're back. There's a light at the end of the tunnel. Um. I do want to start off with a thread, I think, Uh, I don't want to it into everything, but I just do think that everyone could

use some positivity these days for many, many reasons. And so I just asked the crushers, Knoll movie related or not, just what's one thing you're looking forward to And it doesn't even have to be like after COVID. Just what's one thing you want to do this year? What's one thing you want to accomplish or get done, Just anything that's gonna make your life a little rosier. I'll let you think on that and I'll read some of these

Helen Lyons. One of our old friends says, this is really so insipid seeming, but I can't wait to get a manicure again. It's a little bit of self care that makes me feel way more put together than I really am, and somehow doing it myself just isn't the same. And I gotta say, Helen got a lot of including for myself, a lot of support for self care and that's not insipid to get a manicure or a massage or it's like you can't do that stuff. Yeah, it's

very important to your well being. Actually got a pedicure over the holiday, uh with with the lady that I'm seeing. We went and got a couple's pedicure. Everyone's mask you know, and the pedicure places they were ahead of all of us with the masks because they do all the like nail painting, so they're always wearing masks. But they, you know, limited capacity. And we just went in and did that. And that's something I like to do for myself because I'm a bit of a boogie boy in that respect.

But it was you go to treat your feet. I do like that place. That's more for a foot and leg rub. This was like the thing where they kind of scraped the skin off your feet and then they like trim your nails and give you a leg rub and you have a footpath. It's very relaxing and you're in a massage chair the whole time. It's kind of delightful. Well, no, I like you, my friend, but I don't want to be near your feet. Hey, that that you don't have to have professionals for that. I hope you dipped well,

of course, how dare you, Chuck? I have my eye, I take care of my feet. Well, sounds like it. Pata have it done, no doubt at least. Melissa Landry says, if we get to a place with COVID where I could hug my grandmother again, that would be an okay year. Oh god, heartstrings, but listen, heart strings. I just want to go see a concert. Yeah, I mean, you know you and I are going to be some concert going motherfucker's when this thing's over, everyone will It would be great.

I can't wait. What's that gonna take that? Chuck, Because it's like, you know, people are gonna ge vaccinated and then some people aren't. So does its people that are vaccinated are safe from the people that aren't, right or no, Like, how do you see that playing out? If you get vaccinated, you are safe from getting COVID, but you can still

transmit the coronavirus to someone else not vaccinated. So that's why they're like, you're still gonna have to wear your mask if you're like if you were in if you have a dinner party with eight people that are all vaccinated in your home, I reckon and you you're fully vaccinated, I reckon that you're good to go. Um, I would think, well, not really, because you could still pass the coronavirus to one of them, and they could then pass it to

someone who's not vaccinated. Boy, just everyone get vaccinated, I think as far as concerts, and this is just a guess is they may get to a place where you have like a vaccination I D card or something they have to order to get into a place, like a Quicker credential or something like like a passport stamp. You know,

I hope so, I hope so too. UM. I have a buddy who works for Columbia Medical UH in New York, and you know, they're all a lot of the healthcare workers are getting vaccinated first and he just got his first dose and said it it really hurt his arm. Uh. And the second dose supposed to make you real sick uh and then you're done and then you're good. I think it probably depends on who you are of I have quite a few friends who have gotten it now,

which is great. And my mom is getting it Saturday. Great, that's gotta feel good. It does. It feels great, and you know, I'm telling her, like, hey, Mom, this's being there and this means that you can still carry the virus and give it to other people. And but you know, the important thing is she'll be protected, which is great. All right. Let me go with Caitlin Callaghan, a top friend. She says, I had a top friend, top fan and friend. I had my son in October, and man, I'm just

excited to watch him grow, Yesterra. He figured out he can hold things. Just watching his little world expand as beautiful. Oh, Caitlin, that's great and just sit around and watch that kid. Good stuff. Charles Martinaker is one of our oldest pals, being a healthier person and focusing on family and self improvement and then going on trips that they had to cancel. Of course, I think we all had to cancel stuff, So looking forward to rebooking that stuff. Lilian Rolf is

going to Disney and July and just traveling. Her middle school kid has been through a lot. Our oldest is graduating from high school in May, and it's off the college in the fall. So our family is truly doing well all things considering. That's great to be positive like that. One of my favorite crushers, Mrs Daisy Christiana brew says, I a bray you. I know she's gonna laugh at that. I signed up for a writing workshop in hopes of kicking my practice back into gear once a week for

four weeks with a writer whose work I enjoyed. A buyer, a little nervous, but excited and proud of myself for taking the time and space to do it. Daisy, that's amazing. I love that self betterment. Take those classes, you know what's funny. I've always kind of toyed with the idea and been a little too scared taking improv classes. And Ben Bolan, who I do ridiculous history and stuff that I wants you to know with, has just taken in

from when I first met him. He I would go to his like improv groups and stuff, and I always was really kind of an awe of those people. I love. You know, bad improv is awful and embarrassing, but when it's good, it's like watching a magic show. And I've been doing the podcast shows are terrible. What are you talking about? I love magic shows? Are you kidding me? Are you serious? Who are you? Definitely like the Magic Castle?

I like the Magic Castle. Well those are magic the best. Anyway, I'm a big fan of magic, so to me that was a positive comparison. But yeah, so if I was going to do a thing like that, I would just you know, grow a pair and take some improv workshop classes here in Atlanta at Dad's garage. That would be something I would I think I should do, because we we do, we improve all the time. That's what podcast is, so I think I would probably not be awful at it.

So a pair of pair of testicles. Mm hmm, I'm like a Kendall down there, chuck good lord, Oh boy. We finally gave in and uh not gave in, but my daughter finally became aware of Barbie and nothing you can do about that. Yeah, you know, we looked into it and uh, now they have career Barbies and uh, you know we have a farmer and a scientist and uh and what else. There's one other thing. The farmers are chicken farmer. Three Barbies. They're all career Barbies. Oh

a chef. And they all lived together in a dream house and all dream house. Have you seen the show, the c g I Barbie show Life in the dream House? What then do you think? No? Why this gotta that's that's our that's our our first intro into the Barbie universe, the extended universe. No, and I think, uh, you know, barblies, Barblies, they they have been problematic for some people here and there in the past because of the shape, because of

the hourglass shape. And then they did, they did for sure, but that was a big problem in the past because it was absolutely the most like quintessentially unattainable body. Yeah that's not a thing. No, So we had mixed feelings, but um, she's got a level head. I think it'll be fine. Megan Carroll one of our oldest friends, Megan in that cat and that picture beautiful. We've we're already planning a camping trip of the Spring and a pilgrimage to the Rieman to see one of our favorite bands

in September. O Megan, I've never been to the Rieman. I want to go. What band is that? Write me and tell me Barry in the lead there. I have been to the Rheman or the Grand Ole. I went there when I was a little kid. I certainly don't remember it, but I want to go to the Rheman. It's on the list, and I think, Uh, I think I got a stuff you should know connection at the Rhyman if I'm not mistaken. Who can give me a

little backstage action? Oh? Yeah, I love a good backstage action. Um, have you been to Robert's Western World in Nashville, Chuck, I've never heard of that. It's like a it's an old honky tonk. It's right there on the strip. I guess it's Broadway, and uh, it's like you just go in and there's like it's sort of like a like a divy type place. There's no cover. They just pass a hat for donations for the band, and it's like

these old grizzled session guys. It looked like they can like you know, with like meth Mouth, you know, playing like they play their ass off. Dude. They're wearing these like red like neck kerchiefs and big ten gallon hats and and there's a fiddler and there's like a pedal steel player and the singer just belts him out like it's like yodels, and I mean, it's just you gotta

do that's I want to do that after COVID. It's so it's so it's an absolute joy, and people are just like there's crust punks and like old people and like you know, people in ten gallon hats all kind of line dancing on the floor. It's just an absolute

hooting nanny. It's a real hooting nanny. Chuck, I'm gonna go no. That sounds amazing because my one other great experience was something like that, was going to the Broken Spoke in Austin, Texas, and it is an old school honky tonk with those same dudes that all worship at the altar of Conway Twitty, and uh, the one thing I really wanted to do was get out there and dance. And I just I was frankly scared and intimidated because

people really know what they're doing out there. On that dance floor with that country dancing, and I just didn't do it. It was fucking frightened, but I wanted to. I was very dance jealous that day. Totally. Yeah. I I like to dance, but that kind of country dancing it's so specific. Like I can do like some kind of like you know whatever general as you know, scooting around, but like that Nashville style of dancing is absolutely you gotta know the moves and the steps. Yeah, it's intimidating

generalized scooting around. I love it. Shake your arsenal. I dance a lot in the house. Emily was like, why don't you ever dance out in public? Because you can do it. Tracy Fox says, really hoping for a vacation. Uh, We're going to try and go to Jamaica. But international travel still makes me a little nervous. But I'm doing some research for an early fall trip. Denver, Destin, Seattle, Washington, d C. Those are all great cities, Tracy, and Uh, and you can't go wrong with any of them. They're

all marijuana legal cities except for Destin. So I'm not sure what you're hinting at. I'm just kidding. Daniel McCoy says, my brother and his family moved to London early last year, and I was supposed to visit them in April, hoping we'll get to see my brother and sister in law and get to play with the little monkeys disguised as my niece and nephews. I love that. I love little monkey nieces and nephews. Although I don't have an either all grown noal, I don't have a lot of like

extended family and that respect. I have a cousin who lives here in Atlanta that I haven't seen in ten years. I definitely uh don't see my dozins. Don't feel bad enough. I have a niece Shelby, who was like, oh boy, what is Shelby? Twenties six or seven? My niece Reagan and New York, who's wonderful is and then my nephew Noah, my brother's son is getting married in May. Uh and he's graduated from college. And now my youngest niece Abby know his little sisters in college now and just a

beautiful young woman. It's great love those guys. Old friend Anna shresth fuck Anna, Oh, I always have the hardest time shress the I'm hopeful of my husband's parents will finally be a of the business. They live in Nepaul and I've never visited in fourteen years, and my husband has lived in uh in the fourteen years my husband has lived in the US. They were supposed to be here for the birth of my son, but that couldn't happen because of the pandemic. Well, Anna, that sucks, and

I really really hope that happens for you all. Rob Riel says, really missed going to the movies. We had a regal pass my wife and I and we were able to watch a ton of movies a year ago. Can't wait to do that again, for sure. This is a movie podcast, after all, so we all want to go to movies again. Zack, pointing our old friend in Japan, says, I'll be going to Universal Studios Japan on the twelve

through fift of this month, of course, taking precautions. Also, my son will be starting elementary school and movie related watching one a movie a month in genres I don't normally care to watch. That's a good goal. Expand those horizons. Did you watch anything really great over the holiday, Chuck? There were there, There was, There was a few a few really good ones that came out. Yeah, you know what, we gotta stream this coming up. So okay, I'm ana

hold off, I'm a hold up. You know we're gonna we're gonna talk about those wonderful so let me read a couple of more of these and then we'll move on to our next thing. There's a lot of really good ones, Isabel him and says getting married to my best friend and favorite person in the world, sept Isabel, Congratulations, that's great. I don't know why we're not invited and all quite frankly, but we've been a Do you get wedding invites from listeners? No, I haven't. I have ever

been invited to a listener wedding. Josh and I get him a lot. That's nice. Then we always signed the card and send it back with regrets. But one of these days I might just fucking drop in on someone's way. Wings are fun, all of especially after COVID, Like that'll be just like an absolute breath of fresh air, you know, with all the buffet stuff and like the booze free booze and the maybe you know you're married. I was gonna say, maybe I'll get laid but um, that's uh,

that's late. If you're married. Well, I know you can chuck, but it seems like it wouldn't be advisable. H Yeah, I can't wait to sneeze on a buffet, can't wait out We're without worrying about getting someone sick. Yeah, exactly, great, uh knocking wood Knoll two cod aside Um. Partially it's because of that. I haven't been sick. But the year previous, I guess, twenty nineteen, I didn't get sick. So I'm I'm working on my third year here of not even

having so much as a cold. Like I usually get bronchitis once a year and the stomach fly really bad once a year. But twenty nineteen I was living, right, I guess. Well, I think I told you that I tested positive for the antibody and the only time. Yeah, okay, well I did, but listen, I was in New York in in March, like when the ship hit the fan,

like right when everything, and I was at a conference. Yeah, but I was at this like on on on air conference and it was like there was an email that came through two weeks later, like Ira Glass was there, like Michael Barbarrow was there, all these like big NPR and podcast people were there. What's his name black thought from the roots UM and um tulib quality And the email came through from the organizers two weeks later that there had been multiple exposures there and that people and

then so I and that and I was sick. I was already sick with that yearly bronchitis you're talking about, So I didn't think anything of it, but I didn't have so much as a sniffle the rest of the year. And then I tested, you know, just wouldn't got blood work, and they ran that test and they said I had it, and you can have the anybody's last as long as a year. They don't really know how long they stick around. So that's the only exposure event that I've had, and

that had to have been at UM. So yeah, so you tested for antibodies recently, it was like maybe like three months ago. Wow. Yeah, all right, let's finish up with Brandy McDonald. How about this being back in church. I direct our children's ministry program and really miss working with the kids directly. I'm glad that our church is chosen to be virtual to keep our community safe, but I can't wait until we are able to be together again. Brandy,

that's great. I love it. I know, Uh, church is important to a lot of people, and having to give up that community has been hard for a lot of people. So I hope you get to get back to it soon. That's wonderful for sure. All Right, nol, We're gonna move on to a crusher post. This is from Joel kron k r a h N. And he asked this question, Noel that I thought was really good. What is the most obscure movie you've ever seen? Like? Have you ever seen anything? You would bet money nobody else is seen

in this group? Can you think of I feel like you have some pretty obscure taste. I do. I suppose let me let me hear if you I'm crack my brain. Uh. Tad Fouch says branded and it sucked? Branded? Is that a Western? Sounds like it must be an It sounds like it could be Karen slumphughs Wan of World Friends says old boy. But I know you guys have seen it, all right, And guess the question is most obscured movie you've seen? It doesn't necessarily mean it's obscured everyone, but

it's obscure to Karen. Yeah, I wouldn't. I would argue that Old Boys one of the most mainstream Korean Well that's not I don't know, like the cur ship man of Korean director just won the fucking Oscar last year, so I think that certainly not as niche as it maybe once was. But when Old Boy came out, it certainly was like under the radar, but it got caught on. I mean, Spike Lee remade it, which I think is ridiculous because what are people afraid to read a subtitle

or two? That's true, that is true, nol. But you know, like we said, that's uh, that's Karen's take, so obscure to horror to horror, horror obscure, So that's so relative. I'm having a hard time with that. Like you know, I I we famously infamously when I did the list game with you, I listed a bunch of kind of

movies and they weren't obscure to me. But I guess to know whether something's obscure or now, you kind of have to compare it to like other people knowledge, you know, So I don't know, maybe a movie objective, like you know, probably some weird niche Asian film, like, uh, like, well, I think this is actually one that you had seen that Tetsuo the Iron Man. You said you saw that in college, So that is pretty obscared. I would say that's pretty scared. Yeah, I agreed. Sophie Fowler says, the

Wizard of Speed and Time never heard of it. Never heard of it in the cover looks great. It looks like fucking Josh was Shelley Long. Google that real quick and tell poster. Look up the poster. I don't even know who it is, but the points like a deranged Josh in a wizard outfit. Oh my god, it so does, doesn't it. It so does a little bit. Yeah, I love this poster though. It makes me. It makes me.

It gives me real like Phantom of the Paradise vibes like that kind of like schlocky sci fi, weirdo Hollywood type thing. Yeah, for sure it has a good soundtrack because I'm seeing it on vinyl on discogs. Very nice. You know about forty records over Christmas? I probably did too, but I don't know if I told you. What I've been doing is I've been making a lot of music and I've been sampling a lot from weird talking about obscure.

I go to thrift stores and just dig through the you know, dollar record binds, and I've been buying all these like weird, niche Christian country records from like the seventies that are all very regional because clearly someone dies and then they sell their whole collection to like goodwill or give it to them, and so they'll be like,

you know, all you've probably seen these. They're always this family bands, and they're always wearing the same identical suits, and the women all have the same identical kind of beehive haircut, and they're really high production value obviously, record them in really nice studios and great singing and just kind of gospel e. But then I've also been getting a lot of like sound effects records, like children's records, Like I got a really cool Alice in Wonderland audiobook

from like the seventies, and sample it, get an idea, make a little loop, and then build something around. It's in a really fun way to get inspiration for for making music. I love it. Look at you, Reggie Watts hit me. Hayley q Levin says Margie. One of my favorite gene Crane movies. Never heard of it, sounds obscure. Jason Wallace, James Baker. Welcome to the show, Jason Wallace,

James Baker. After struggling through The Master and Margarita by Bolga Coff, I watched the film version in my university library. The large screen TV opened to people passing by as I watched full frontal nudity and cats turning into people, very low budget. I was even more confused than when reading the book. I've never heard of that people are talking about. No, no, I started cats turning into people? What's the name of the movie? Master and Margharita? What

the hell? What a name for a movie about cats turning into people and full ferntal nudity? That is? That sounds great? Uh? Kirsten Talker says, possibly Farnelli. Uh, yeah, I know this movie. It's about the Castrato singer. She said, watched by myself in the Chanel Theater, UNI, Queensland. Four dollar student ticket. I remember remember Farrannelly. Never heard of it. These are all very much under or over my radar. Yeah, for sure. Christopher clearly says, uh. Zerom an old nineties

Japanese sci fi action horror film. Sounds like stright here, Aliol, Yeah for sure, I don't know that either. I'm writing all these down. By the way, these all sound fun z R z E I R A M zerom. I can tell just from there. I know that word. Old friend David Barlow says The Castle. It's Australian. I know that, And that's actually on Netflix. It's a fantasy sword and sorcery type deal, I believe. Okay, apparently see Lorimer chimed in and said that it's a classic in Australia. I

love that. Let me see here. Oh no, no no, no, never mind, it's not I'm thinking of something else. It. It looks like a comedy of some sort called The Castle. Um. It says it's this year's Full Monty. What year was that? Remember the Full Monty? Chuck? That was a fun movie. Um. Speaking of which and music kind of related movies. Last night, I watched head Vig for the first time in probably a decade last night with my with my lady friend and it held up and John Cameron Mitchell, you know,

friend of the show. He had texted me he's really you know, politically active, and he texted me like a two in the morning the night of the runoff, saying like you good job, go Georgia or whatever you know, and um, and then I texted him back the next day. I hadn't heard anything. And then right as we were watching this movie and she'd never seen it, we kind of like we're just like in the throes of like

excited about this movie. And then he text me back and then I was I was leading out a few whiskeys, and I was like, can I call you really quick? John? I just need to hear your voice. And we chatted for a minute. And he's in l A right now working on some stuff. But he's just the sweetest man. I just absolutely adore that guy and just so talented and lovely. That's great when you called him and he go six and just follow and just exactly now he did not, But that is my ring tone? Is it really? No?

But it would be a good one? Uh tany boyd says Babes and toy Land the nine one version, although knowing this group maybe not so obscure the danger of and Gail Kant says, I would normally say yes, but in this group, nah, she's not even trying. That's lazy Gail, just lazy. You know what she did? She and her husband sent me a home alone to Christmas doves. Oh that was that's the one you got from the Duncan's toy chest. That's right. It was a very very sweet gift.

And she then heard the episode after she sent it. When I talked about how much I hated the movie and felt bad about her, then I said, kunts, that makes the gift better. It makes it funny and fun Now when I look at that bird on my tree, how much I hate that movie. I thought it genuinely made it like a more fun gift. So sure, yeah,

I'm sticking with it. Uh and we got a shout out Aaron Cooper to coop Um usually sends us uh print outs large sort of FuMB core print outs of the great photoshops that he does of us, and those are great, but this year, because of I think shipping large things, he opted to put together a hard bound book that looks identically like our stuff you should note book and looks like a real book of the photoshops that he did for us this year, and it's amazing

and cool looking. I'll post a picture of it along with a last Chance garage magnet and a Jaws magnet and uh it it made me tear up. It was so great that Coop has been such a good friend all these years, and uh that he is so talented and took the time to put the thing out. I need to send you a picture of it and all. It's really really something else. I can't wait to see it. I got a couple of really sweet messages on Instagram

over the holiday. Um gosh, I'm so bad at like just thinking of these on the spot and not remembering names.

But it was a listener who was just saying, how like they appreciated my like honesty about my you know, divorce situation and like my my kid and all that and and I'm sure you get to like that too, because I think what I love about this show is I am able to be open in a way that I maybe would not be on like stuff they don't want you to know because it's much more like not that we're not fact driven, but that shows just there's three of us, first of all, and we don't ever

want to make it like a Mimi situation. And it's when we get personal here, we get personal. And I think that's part of why the community is so uh so great, because they I don't know if when I hear from people telling me that it's it's as meaningful to me as I think the show is to them. And I know that sounds like a platitude, but it really is the truth. Yeah, I think it's. I used to get emails a lot when I talked about being a late bedwinter on stuff you should know, from a

lot of parents who said there to their kids. Really, um, it really helped to hear that, like someone they look up to was like, I was a late bedwinter. What are you gonna do? Uh? And that made me feel really good. I can't help it, you know, totally. I went to bed till I was like eleven. That's yeah. I mean I did till I was not every night, but no, no, no, but I did till I was probably about nine or ten. Oh well, you were late bedwinter too, alright, bed laid bedwetters unite. That's right. We

should sleep together and be on each other. Also, one time that I used to sleep walk when I was younger. At one time I slept walked into my dad's room and Pete in his bedside table drawer. Take that, dad. Uh, yeah, that's different than the I've never done this, but I've had heard stories and had friends that that middle of the night drunk and you get up and you like puke in the claws said because he think it's a bathroom. Stuff like that exact. Not not a good look, no, Sirry.

Jason Furber says, Once We're Warriors, great movie. Not sure how obscure it is, Jason. You know, I think to a certain demographic it's fairly obscure. I saw it um and it was if you're from New Zealand obviously, and even Australia. I think it's not obscure, but it's not. It wasn't mainstream. Let me see here. Once We're Warriors, great movie. Nolar Diane about the Maori people, modern day Maori and modern day for whenever that was, which was?

I feel like it was like early nineties, mid nineties. Diana Merrill says, how about Mirror Mask? Has anyone else seen this creepy new game in film? Yeah, it's it's it's not good. I wanted it to be so good because it's it's actually not Neil game in either. It's um Dave McKean, who did the cover art for all the Sandman comics, or for at least the graphic novel collections,

and I'm pretty sure for the individual issues too. But he does this really cool kind of collagi combination of like would and actual photo stuff and then also illustration.

But this movie it was sort of like a I don't know, through the looking Glass kind of Alice in wonderlanding type adventure, a little labyrinthy, but it just had all this really bad, funky look in c g I. And I just couldn't get over that, and it it was just like, I don't know something that I wanted to like it so much because I'm a big fan of his work, but narratively and and also with the visuals,

it really struggled. And it's so weird because he's such a visceral artist in his like two D work that I was surprised he decided to go so uh like Uncanny Valley c g I. It was very strange, but I have seen it and I wanted to like it. Maybe I'll give another shot, but I remember not liking it. And by the way, Noel written by Neil Gaiman, so it was written by. Okay, I thought for some reason, I didn't think. I didn't think he he had written it.

That's that that makes sense. Great, everyone stop emailing us on air. Car Actions, it's happening. Peter, come Comerford, Welcome to the show. Peter, don't think I know you, says. Kitchen Stories wonderful, little charming, quirky foreign film. I like kitchens and I like stories. Old friend Caroline Gaston says, I don't know how obscure it is, but it's hard to find and definitely weird songs from the second floor. Okay, I never heard of it, have not. All right, we'll

call it obscure then. Uh, Carly Pato van ni petit says, or pettit says, p M s cop hilariously horrible horror. Oh that sounds interesting. Uh. Jennifer Lewis has the documentaries count Well? Sure, I just watched Titty Cut Follies today. It's about conditions and a facility for the criminally insane in Massachusetts around seven TCM just premiered in and it was practically banned for twenty years. Yeah, that's one that

Casey Pegram talked about on a recent episode. He maybe not No, it might not have been on movie cars, might have been a ridiculous history. But I can't remember his name, but it's a filmmaker who is known for doing these really deep dives into very specific kind of worlds, like he just came yeah, Wiseman, he just came out

with one that did really well. It's very very long, and it's about like local like like government, like state government or something like somebody that sounds really boring on paper, but like it actually it's supposed to be fantastic. It's called city Hall. I'm not mistaken. M This titny cup always seems really interesting and does not look super fun. Yeah, Casey mentioned that one is his like seminal work. Really interesting. Alright, let's go a few through a few more of these.

Ellen Da The Thief of Thief of Bagdad nineteen forty version, Pam guys Are says thou wast mild and lovely. I saw it at Two Stars Film Festival in Denver and it was weird. Stacy Ellsworth has zero patients. A movie about a movie musical about AIDS. I never heard of that. Nope. Charles Martin nakers our old. This Palace is the crows have eyes. I haven't heard of that. There's a lot of obscure stuff in here. Howdy Allowman says The Vertical

Ray of the Sun my absolute favorite film. Vertical Ray of the Sun. Do you do not even bother spelling things right anymore? Because you know it'll on your phone, it'll find what you did. I try. I didn't have a really clunky keyboard. Um, it's like from the nineties or something, and it's like terrible and it doesn't have a good actions, so I often accidentally have the wrong key. So I do depend on instant to help me out with that. Sure. By the way, when I asked Joel

if I could use this, he went hell yeah. So I'm glad this is makes you happy, Joel. Um, all right, we'll do one more. Um, let me see. John B. McCarty says a guire The Wrath of God, a German film about a Spanish conquistare in Peru. What happens by our boy Werner. It's a Werner and it's stars it stars Kinsky, and he plays like a conquistador who ventures into the Peru. He said. He says he went to know. He went to Peru to the heart of darkness to

find his inner something. I don't. I should have thought this sounds better before. But they have very good wine and Oregon meat. And I remember at the end of the film he's on the rafts with a monkey on his shoulder. That's that's your one great invitation. I love it. I got a I got a million of them. Man, you do one more? Who's your next? Best? No? I don't, I'm not a monkey. Him was Uber Dance. I can, I can, I can do meat wide from Aquitine hunger

for us pretty well? No, And Dave Willis is a friend. You know you better nail this us little monk rob Uh, what's out Homers? Where's my run on crewel wrung crew? Come? It's pretty fucking good, Nolan. I've got to say that really surprised me. It was weird seeing that voice coming out of your face. You know, well done. All right, we're gonna wrap that one up and spanking on the bottom and uh, we're leaving that up. Everyone that's on the Crushers page. You can just words search Obscure from

the January third post if you want to. If you want to get a nice list, go on of Obscure movies that you want to check out, and no, let's finish up with a little stream this. I saw a couple of movies lately that I want to recommend that I did post on the page what it's called. First Cow. Oh God, that's what I want to see. Made so many year lists. Was it wonderful? It's wonderful, It's really great.

It is directed by Kelly Reichert, and she has put together quite a career making these very small independent films that are great, which I think we both love. Old Joy fantastic. I think that was our first one with with will Oldham. But First Cow is awesome. It is very she She also makes these very realistic period pieces that don't feel like movies, and First Cow was awesome.

It's very heartwarming, and it's a very sort of slow, very subtle story, and it's just it's a movie like two days later, you're like, well, am I still thinking about this movie? One of those uh? And I also watched uh. Emily and I watched all of this stuff together. Um Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which was one of the best movies I've seen in years. It was fantastic. Oh my god, that's a that's a singing uh praise there.

I have to check that out. I've heard the name and I love it, um, but I have not seen it and I only had fantastic. Yeah. Cool, don't tell me anything. I can't wait to tell you. Don't have to know anything from twenty nineteen. I think maybe in the States and might be wrong, but from filmmaker Selene uh Siama and I'm sure I probably mispronounced that, but it's a French film subtitled and great, great great. Um. There's a bunch that I found out about at the

end of the year. There's a really great podcast called film Spotting. If you haven't checked out, I highly recommend it's uh some critics from Chicago. One of them I think works for the Tribune and one of them works for the other Chicago papers at the Sun Times. UM. Anyway, really really smart. They did really good like multifaceted lists around different like categories, and they all do really cool

year end lists with like some of their colleagues. And first Cow made the list a lot and one a series of films by a filmmaker that I love but need to spend more time with Steve McQueen. UM. He came out this year with like five film elms, three of which I think are short on the short side. But he calls it the Small Acts series or something like that. When one of them is called Mangrove, which is the one that seemed to like they kind of broke them out because they're all different. That seemed to

make a lot of people's top five. And then Lovers Rock, Red, White and Blue, Alex Wheedle and Education. Uh. And he did it for the BBC And they all have different writers and they're all surrounding. Um A story stories around the West Indian immigrant communities in London in the sixties and seventies. UM. And Steve McQueen, famous obviously for winning all the Oscars for Twelve Years of Slave. And also you know, he made a couple of movies with Shame.

He did Shame, Yeah, he did Shame with Fossend. He did another one with Fossbender two Hunger. Yeah, that's the one where he's one of the ones where he was really ashamed. The were the ones, the one where he's really hungry. UM. If I'm not mistaken, Sorry that was so dry that it sounds like I was being serious. Um, But Yeah. I love Steve McQueen. Loved the fact that he kept the name Steve McQueen is his professional name. Uh, being such a unique with his Hollywood name. And then

you know, now he's the other Steve McQueen. But I really want to see that one that I saw, and then I just adore his soul. The new Pixar movie. Uh, it made me feel Oh my god, Chuck, it made me feel. You know, all those movies are like, you know, like designed you know, from the ground up to make you feel all the fields. But this one rang particularly strong with me because it's about passion and music. It's about your life taking a slightly different path than maybe

you expected. You know, I wanted to be a rock star or be like a professional musician. That didn't happen. Um, not that I can't still make music and put stuff out and have a good time with it, but I ended up finding my way to a career where I can't actually reach people and and touch people and connect with people. And that's really meaningful to me, and I

wasn't expecting that. Um. This movie is about a similar kind of thing where it's like you think your head in the one direction and that's your purpose, and then you realize all along you were meant for this other thing, or there really are no rules, and it's also just really trippy and beautiful. Trent Resident and Atticus Ross have been killing it, by the way scores and they're also different, and then Storry. Last one is MANC the new David

Fincher movie. Oh my god, that's what happened, my friend. It is if you're which I know you are a student and a lover of old Hollywood and just all the names that you've heard, like Irving, Jay Thalberg and like you know, all these like you know producers that like you know, made the movies that you know made history basically like Wizard of Oz and uh, all that kind of stuff. Big, huge, like nostalgia blast, but also

funny and beautifully shot. It looks just like an old movie from like the fifties or sixties no more, only forties or fifties. And the writing is spot on. Gary Oldman as always just slays it and uh, what's your name from Big Love? Um? Amanda Seyfried or Cy Freed is absolute just gorgeous, quirky, funny, witty and just like absolutely classic. Just got the goods and this movie has got the goods. And this is probably easily in my

top three for the year. Yeah, I h that was really high on my list and I forgot about it. You know how that happens. It does happen a lot of stuff out there. I need to keep an actual list. Um. I winded up with a TV wreck. There's a show called Ted Latzo on Apple that is stars Jason Sadekis. It's a character he originated for promo spots for the British Premier Football League, the soccer league where he is.

This The premise of the show is he is a American football coach, kind of a country guy from Kansas that gets hired to go to London and coach a Premier League soccer team. Uh. If you've ever seen the baseball movie Major League, it's a bit of a play on that and that. Um, the lady who hires on the team owner wants the team to fail. And that's kind of all I'll get into, but it is. Uh. Some movie crushers recommended it as something light and fun

and heartwarming. I didn't know what to expect. Not the biggest soccer fan, Emily couldn't care less about soccer. We both like Sadakis well enough, but it's not like we're like, oh my god, it's got Jason Sidekis, we gotta see it. We're just like sort of down lately for a lot of reasons and wanted something that filled us up. And Ted Lasso is fucking great. Thirty minute episodes, ten episodes. We watched it in a week. It is funny, it is heartwarming, it is charming, and just a wonderful show

with a lot of heart. Really really caught us off guard. Uh, and I loved every bit of it. It was really really great. So highly recommend Ted Lasso. Uh. It looks and sounds like they're set up for a three season run. Uh story wise, and uh, I just just can't wait. Um. It's one of those things where like it finished and we were immediately like shit, like I want I want to watch it again, not that I want to watch

season two. Like there's something to be said for waiting for something to be done so you can fully satisfy yourself instead of having to wait however many years, because the same thing happened with with The Great that show I was talking about about Castine The Great It ended in, you know, because of COVID, like it's in in the production schedule, it might be too goddamn years before that season two comes out. That's a big old production right

at any period piece like that. Yeah, I mean maybe they can push it out this year, but I would be very surprised. But yeah, the Great and Ted Lasso great shows. Well, I've got some stuff to add to my list, secure stuff, nice TV pick. They're um really excited to see first cow um. Great to be back man. Uh seeing you in a new year of crushing. Absolutely so. UH had to bean he's off to you and uh

being he's off to everyone out there. I was about to doff my hat to you, and then I realized you were referring to the fact that I'm wearing a beanie which does not have a brim. I reached for a phantom brim to duck to doff my hat, and it was I came up with nothing. Yeah, I got my beanie. I don't call these beanies. I don't know why I'm saying that. What do you call these? I call him? From being a child, I called the toboggan caps. You say nit cap, I say toboggan cap. From when

I was a kid. But everyone just calls them beanies, right, But toboggan hats have the little flaps that hang down on the side with the s I'm just telling you what we called it. I'm not saying we are right. I'm just all right, technically have those. I don't know what it's I thought toboggan was a sled. It is toboggan cap. Well, I'm seeing both. I'm seeing those little brim cats with the ear flaps, and I'm also seeing seeing beanies. I have one of those. Yeah, wait, no,

no, no no, no, never mind. I have one that looks like it should be worn by some sort of like wilderness explorer, Like it's made of wolf's pelts, and it has the big flaps and then like the rush and kind of like sing the fur in the front, you know, the comrade version. And it just typed into bogg and Cap for sale to see what was out there. And the first thing I see is like three Confederate flag beanies. So I might buy those to throw them in the

fire nool fair get a little kindling going gets you? Yeah, man, we all need fuel pele swarm up. This season. It's been chili lately. Man, it has it's cold to ship. My feet are freezing right now, so I'm gonna go warm them up in the microwave and uh, we'll see everyone next week. It's good to be back, yeah, man, Yeah. This 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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