Mini Crush #163

I'm going with, and I'm sticking to it. And uh, no one can can tell me otherwise under dress even indeed none can. And hey, did you notice the theme song? How could I not notice that rip roaring devil hornson rocking theme song that the boy Big thanks to Dan Maynard, one of the beloved old pal crushers I believe in Australia and Dan he's very sheepish about putting this out. I was like, dude, are you kidding? Uh? This this

is fantastic. I love his take on it. I love his take on it too, and uh, peek behind the curtain. I mean he actually reached out to me directly on Instagram and asked my like permission to do. It's I guess I I just you know, it's just I don't think of it as like you know what I mean, proprietary. It belongs to the people. You know, Um, But you know I did make that theme tune so many years back, and uh, it was just really thoughtful for him to

reach out like that. And then of course he just absolutely slammed it, slated it sounds cool, love it, So thank you, Dan. That's great. Uh, maybe we'll just slide that in there every now and then. Maybe if some of our people like this chat and music. No, everyone's saying, you guys should do a music podcast together. I did see that. I did see that. I actually had someone reach out to me um on Instagram that that asked if I make you a King Gizzard playlist if I

could share it out publicly. So I'm going to do both of those things. I'm gonna curate you because again, they're the kind of band you gotta curry because they're so all over the place. So I'm gonna make you maybe just ten ten song long, not overdo it, King Giz playlist, and then I'm gonna share it with the Crusher community all over it how you doing man? Uh no, I am well it is. I hope we get through

this recording without losing power. Supposed to get really nasty today, and I heard heard, I heard there was some inclement weather afoot. Yes, and uh here in my neighborhood, we lose power very easily. What about you I have I'm mountain dictator. I know what you are, too ish um, but I guess I'm a little further. I've only lost it once since I've been here, but only been here

this June. So who's to say, Yeah, they're actually gonna bury our power lines and there's a project underway, and these the people from the power company, Well, I'm even talking about this is so boring. And they said, and I said, hey, how about if we give you some money to put this uh this huge green thing in your front yard that's about the size of a half of a golf cart mm hmm. And I said no, thank you. They said, but we'll give you a little

bit of money. And I was like, I kind of hide it behind bushes and things, and they said, no, it has to be completely exposed. And I went, no, thank you. Sorry, yeah, no, but it's like no, it's terrible. This is called urban planning chat with Nolan Chuck. But you know the concept of imminent domain, where they can do they can force you to do that ship like they don't even have to ask your permission. Sometimes I think, yeah,

I don't know about in this case. I mean, they're looking for willing takers because it's not like it has to be in my front yard, like that's the only spot it can be located, or the whole neighborhood doesn't get buried power. They're they're going around and they're placing them where people are like, sure, I'll take whatever money you're offering, but I'm just not I'm not playing ball.

That's good, man, that's good. You know. Speaking speaking of movies, Noel and imminent domain, that was how we lost the Hollywood Star Lanes where The Big Lebowski was filmed, one of my regular regular hangouts back in the day when I lived right down the street, and Imminent Domain came in long and said we're charing down that bowling alley and putting in an elementary school. Oh my god. It was you know, sad. Kids don't necessarily need to bowl that.

They do need to learn though, but eventually they can learn to bowl. Uh. That was a cool old timey l a um bowling alley. Though we have one kind of like that here in Atlanta. Uh, an old old school bowling alley that's kind of out in the burbs. Um which one. What's it called? Like bowl More Lanes or something like that. But I I don't know, there's maybe I'm making it up, but I definitely know that there exists somewhere in this area a cool old school

bowling alley that may well not exist anymore. My memory is tenuous, but yeah, no, your memories solid as a fucking rock and old, buddy. I I can't even tell. It's too early to tell if you're even being sarcastic or now, but they'll take it. Fuck okay. Well, um movies huh yeah, uh, movies and old. But before we get into movies, I do want to say also, thank you.

Uh you know, I just had as you do know, because you texted me very sweetly my fiftieth goddamn birthday on uh two days ago on Monday, the big one a week ago in real time, the big five. Oh it's a weird number to see on paper. I have to say, uh, and big, big thanks to old pals Alison Gallagher gags gals, don't about gags. I think you should try again, gals gals. Well, that's good. Let's go with that right now. Maybe just Allison. I like that. That's a fine name, a fine name. I try to

add an s like Rebecca Robes Robes that's good. Uh, In Aaron Cooper, the three of them Coops or Coope put together this kudo board for me. Have you seen these things? Kudo boards? No, tell me, it's cool. It's it's it's basically like a little um, you know, bulletin board, web page kind of thing where people can put pictures and videos and just type out well wishes. That very word, well wishes. I love. I think people need to bring well wishes back. That's so cool. Yeah, it was really lovely,

and so many people chimed in. I got to hear the voices some of the old pals for the first time. Stellan Carlson, my god, in that wonderful accent, and he sang me a little song, and uh, Brittaney story is the sweetest human alive. She just has this little, sweet voice and kind demeanor, and I just wanted to put her in my pocket, which sounds totally creepy. Uh can we say that still put someone in my pocket? Uh? Yeah, why not? I mean it depends on I think it's

all about context, Chuck. It's all about context. I mean in the best way. The Danger Oven trolled me with the video of Stevie Nicks and goats in the background. Dan Maynard played the version live with his sweet badass less ball and uh, pictures from and I had met people over the years backstage and stuff you should know stuff and just kind words and it really like, I'm not a big birthday guy. I tried to downplay it, but it was very very special. Where do I get

Where do I get ahold of this? Chuck? Is this just for you? Or is this something? I mean? I think if uh maybe? I mean it was posted on the movie Crushers page, and I think people can see it. I don't think it's just for my eyes only, got it. I'll take a look. I was very married. I may I may have missed that. Um well, that's awesome, man. I hope you had a lovely day. And I know you had a little bit of a getaway with the fam. Uh.

And I hope all that was wonderful. Yeah, you know. Saturday, we kind of celebrated one of my best friends, Eddie, who was born three days before me in the same hospital. Uh. And we've been friends since high school, roommates in college and he uh we always generally kind of celebrate our birthdays together if we're in the same town and we

both live here. So we got together. My friends have a wine shop in Kirkwood, and behind the wine shop they have this big in grassy area and we've spread out a bunch of chairs and had about fifteen people sort of you know, distance in talking and drinking wine. It was a great indeed. Uh well, speaking of distanced and uh talking and drinking wine or um, just the future of all of this kind of stuff. I had an appointment for the first shot. Good. I'm glad to

hear and uh and uh. I don't know if you've been able to yet, Chuck, but there it does seem to be more possible here in Atlanta. Now. Yeah, I am. I'm I'm fully done, dude, I'm double vax two weeks out, so I'm basically invincible. I think that's awesome and how that works, that's totally how that works. All things impervious to all things light. Now there is a light. My mom got it a while back. That was obviously a big relief. Um Eden's mom got it a little while back.

Or the first shot anyway, so pretty moose to all my immediate peeps. Uh, bax, I love it. I love it. Get that shot everyone. I do want to do a little r I p to the great Yaffette Koto who passed away. Amazing character actor, everything from from James Bond films too. Uh, Midnight Run is one of the things that I've loved the most from Alien for God's sake. Uh, just one of the great faces in movie history. The great Yaffett Koto passed away. Did a pretty good job

of phonetically spelling that name. To look him up on the internet. I recognize. I recognize the hell out of him. Absolutely. Yeah, he's like I said, he's got one of the great faces, a really good actor. And uh, I think he was in one of those TV shows like Forever, one of those cops shows that I don't watch. Let me see here, Yeah, homicide, life on the Street. That's where so many people know. There's so many iterations of those types of shows that

it's like hard to keep track. Yeah, and then there are shows sort of mocking that thing, like, uh, didn't one of those comedy guys do like s v U, s u v C A something like yeah, Paul Shears in that one, and uh, yeah a lot and those are fun, Those are fun. Boy Ethakota was in a bunch of movies Thomas Crown Affair, running Man, running Man, Star Chamber, a lot a lot of movies with run in the name, running Man and Midnight Run only two actually,

but still very observational observant observants. My brain isn't working well yet, That's okay, chucklific guy, look at that really cool? Yeah, and uh and he in that iconic scene. I don't remember him being a huge obviously alien is more of more about Sigourney Weaver and like the Aliens because everyone

else kind of dies pretty quick. But he's in that scene where the chest burster pops out and everyone just freaks the funk out, you know, And apparently they were genuinely surprised by that and filming and the reactions were pretty Oh, I didn't know that. They didn't know that was gonna happen apparently that's that's what I've read. Yeah, that's pretty funny. Uh So rest in peace, sir, and I thought we should go over the Oscar nominations real quick.

It is definitely a weird year for Oscars. It's delayed, uh not as many movies obviously being released, a lot of the big ones being held back, but also releasing some big ones. But I need to do my homework, Noel, because I'm looking at best Picture The Father, have not seen it, never even heard of The Father. I think it's Nathany Hopkins, and I do remember hearing about that. Hang on New York Times is blocking me out because I don't have my subscription logged in. Let's just failed

New York Times, the failed, the failing. You know they're they're still They're they're doing their best. Um oh yeah. Also this movie No mad Land, I really want to see with Francis McDorman. I haven't seen that. Have not seen Judas in The Black Messiah. That's on the list. I saw Half a MANK I love Make still gotta finished Make. Yeah. I know you said you you had a you need you needed a different headspace. I think to take it in. But yeah, we talked about this.

It's been an interesting year for movies because there were no big, giant tent pole movie, so that means there were just like a lot of like smaller movies. Great. I think it's super great. Um yeah, manari I know that. That. Um that Stephen Young has really started kicking ass. He was in this movie called I think it's called Burning, a Korean film where he plays like kind of a sociopath character. He was the kid on The Walking Dead. Yeah,

what's his name? Glenn I believe was this? Oh that's great? Yeah, fabulous. Well he's really kicking ass. Sound of metal i've heard is really moving. Did see that? And I did see Promising Young Woman, which was great. Did not see Chicago Seven Trials the Chicago Seven yet got it. Had a lot of movies, does he know? Yeah? Interesting Glenn Close got nominated for that hill Billy Elegy, which just got

ripped on that. It was really great. I suppose so. Uh. And also we talked about this, I mean, mank it it is Oscar bait as hell. I mean, they love Hollywood,

loves Hollywood. You know, love story or whatever that's not a love story, A love story to Holly love letter to Hollywood, as they would say, I think that one of the notable things is the the nomination of two women, uh in the directing category for the first time, Yes or Benari Lee Isaac Young and Emerald Finnell or Finnel I'm not sure I was pronounced for promising young woman. Both supposedly great. I mean, like I said, I love

promising on women. But Manari is on the list, and if I am not mistaken, the Best Actor category in a leading role is also a historical because Riz Ahmed first Sound of Rattle is the first Muslim to be nominated in that category, and Steven Jung for Manari, is the first Asian American to be nominated for that. Again, really sad all these uh did you see that one?

Ma Rainey's black motto? Not yet? I just there's so many keep acting like there were no movies released, but there really is a small list here that I need to check out. That's very true. Um, I've got my work cut out for me as well, Chuck, But it's still sort of a I don't know, I mean, who you know me? With the oscars. I've acollated between like

super into it and who gives a ship. It's all bullshit. Yeah, but it's fun for a minute, especially if it's like something, you know, ones you really believed in seeing them get their due. But it's always kind of a little bit like, you know whatever. I don't know. We're on the same page, Chuck, the same way I feel about the Grammys. I yeah, you know me with the Grammys. I checked out of the Grammys and the probably early nineties. All right, we're gonna move on NOL to a a Prussia post. Oh boy,

uh and this is good. This was from Rick Smith. It was a new pal rright, K Smith. I always love it when they dropped that C. Who needs it right extraneous? We already know it's a K sound. Why did you need the C to make the K sound through that C? Chuck should be C h U. K agreed, What am I doing, NOL? It's definitely edgier looking. I'm not gonna lie. So Rick asked this, what is the grossest stomach churning, rech inducing scene in a movie? So I just thought we might as all dive into this

nasty stuff. Yeah, he says his his slum Dog Millionaire, which was a very sad sort of abuse scene with a child, and uh see in Rick's profile picture he has a little bebe So I get it. Man, it's um, I mean those scenes are always tough, but especially once you have kids, it's just very much a nope territory. It's tough man. Uh yeah, I've I find I find myself. Uh. I talked about this like as I get older and my kid gets soldier, just not seeking out those types

of movies anymore. You know, I just want like lighter fare. I thank you know, maybe I've lost my edge or whatever, but yeah, you still got your edge. Look at you. I'm edgy. Look at look at me. I'm a regular regular edge lord. Uh look at this beard man as unkempt as hell. Um. But yeah, the movie we talked about, the movie Audition. Um, that is a movie that made me literally get up out of my seat and walk out of the room. Oh really was a particularly you know,

I finished it. I've I mean, I like I came back. I just was so you know, taken aback by this particularly grizzly orchard scene and uh and and also some other things in that movie that really throw you for a loop. Because the thing about that movie is it sort of tricks you and lulls you into this false security thinking you think you know what it is, and then it just sort of like whiplashes, you you know, uh, fly through the windshield. Um. But yeah, that's that's one

that always comes back to me. Uh well, you know, I'll just comment on some of these because a lot of these are on my list. Yavambo Dat says, Bone Tomahawk is the obvious one. Of course, we've talked about the split the human Yeah, you know, right down the middle scene stem to stern as. I think what they'd

call that, he says. In Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, something I still haven't seen, he said, when Caroline drops her phone and her enter gum in the public toilet after puking in it, and fishes both out and puts the gun back in her mouth. Oh that makes me think of I just I did a did a train spotting rewatch. Recently, I've been going through this list with

my girlfriends. Here. Yeah, there's that part where he the the most disgusting public toilet in Scotland or whatever, and he you know, digs this a pository out and it turns into the surreal scene where He's clearly floating in water that is much more clean and beautiful than would be in that toilet. But it's a pretty pretty rough scene. Props to the art department for styling out that toilet stall. I've had to make poop before for jobs. Yeah, what

do you do? Like I remember on Chappelle Show, I think when there's one of the crackhead um uh, you know episodes with that character that like speaks to the kids class and there's apparently a poop he take. He takes a poop in the toilet, in the trash can or something. They say like I was a melted stickers bar, he says in the in the really stand up part. Well, you know, certainly in Hollywood they make genuine fake turds

for stuff like that. But I had to do cal pies for one, and I think we used a mixture of diotemacious earth and water and then made them into balls and then dropped them to give that splat effect and let them draw out, and then you have some cowpies. I'm sorry, diet tenacious earth, he tamacious earths. You can look it up. It's a thing. Never very useful for

lots of things. Got it, uh, Cody Read says, and Jackass when Stevo got in a full porta potty connected to big chords and was whipped around, that was pretty cross because that was real. Yeah, it is health food stuff. I was, I mean, I was into I watched I think the first Jackass movie and maybe a little bit of the show, but I was never like super into Jackass. It was it was funny enough for what it was for a minute, for sure. It's nice to see Stevo

doing well in his recovery, though. He keeps posting pictures of like I think it was a press photo or something where he's surrounded by like those Whippett canisters, you know, for like and and just like like laying in his own vomit with like a pack of cigarettes and stuff. And then now it's like he's all healthy and has a nice shine to him or whatever. So good, good job, Stevo. I'm glad to see that. That's fantastic. Mary Ellen Stokes

as Human Sinipede. It's some pretty nasty scenes. Nicky Taylor Snyder says, the Arm and Requiem for a Dream, Oh boy, you ain't get Nikki. A lot of things in that movie. That are stomach turning. Yeah, I mean, and we've talked about that movie before. It is very difficult, but that certainly the arm getting worse and worse and worse. Spoiler by the way, people, the arm is getting worse and nastier.

And then when he finally injects the wound right into that wound, Oh my god, dude, it's it's the meeting of all the bad things and movies, which is needles in arms and and wound porn. Isn't there also an up close and when they finally amputate it of like that saw, like going right into it. Just like I'm I think I've mentioned before, I am a very uh triggered by cutting. You don't like I don't like cuts, and that you know, it's a saw, but it's like a sharp saw. It's like a sauceaw. It's like a

really slicy saw. And that one really didn't and there was like a slicy saw. Um, so yeah, that's yeah. That movie triggers me in multiple ways. Clement Scotts is the hecks All Seene and the Terrifier gives the bone Tomahawk scene a run for its money. Never heard of the terrifier, but I think the title says it all right. Mm hmm, yeah, Zack Pointer says, when ray Leo to eats his own brain. Oh what was that? That was

the Hannibal electroc movie Red Dragon. I think remember that. Yeah, that scene was sucked up, but silly like it was so over the top and dumb total it didn't really creep me out totally. Uh, there's a movie by the guy we talked, we talked about that you had in my my horribly gone awry segment of uh pop Quiz hot Shot, Oh no, Chuck's Holes. Rather with all the weird Asian movies, art house movies you you had seen?

Um uh, what's the one Tetsuo the Iron Man? Yes, Yes, the guy that directed that did a short film called hayes h a z E where it's basically a guy who's like in hell And there's one part where's he's having to traverse the super narrow gap like between two walls, and he only moved left to right, but his teeth are clenched down on a rusty pipe the whole time, and it just is like a close up on his teeth as he moves laterally, just grinding in the sound

of it, and it's like, no, man, no, it's a lot, dude, it's a lot, especially me with my fucking teeth issues. No way. Yeah, of course American History X like oh the curb stomp God, yeah, man, why am I even doing the segment. I don't even hate you. I know, I don't even like watching people like chew on Ice. I'm actually an ice two or so that okay, alright now, my teeth are very cold sensitive. Brendan King says, this stuff always gets me to fingernail stuff. He said, the

fingernail breaking scene and stir of echoes. I can't take that either. Fingernails. No, m m. There's a lot of jackass stuff in here. Barbara Wise says when he drinks from in Jackass, when he drinks the sweat dripping from an obese man's ass, Oh god, oh boy. I can see that at home. There's one of look in the mirror. I don't need to watch a movie for that. Yeah, that was a joke. Gary Smith says the feces dinner scene and solo. I think I've heard of that movie,

and that was on my list. That was on the list of funked up art movies that you have not seen and you saw it, I have not seen it. Everything on that list that I had not necessarily seen. I was just trying to to scoop you. But yeah, that's that's the one that's based on the Marquis des Odd's um, you know, twenty Days of Sodom or the legendary awful movie and in fact, Sue Roban's on the same threads as the entirety of Slow, like the whole movie. Can't do it. John Ronaldi says, the bar scene and

stand by me bother me at the time. Oh, that's kind of funny. I think I remember it grossing me out, but looking back it was like a very kind of dumb and are not dumb but just obviously fake. Is another one where like everyone is triggered by puking and it becomes like a puke by Yeah, the painting contest. Oh, here's one for you know, the danger oven. Gale Kuhn says, the Achilles tendon scenes and hostile, hostile and pet cemetery,

which I know you've spoken on. I know there's another Accises tendon scene in a movie called I Saw the Devil, which is fabulous, But that Yeah, it's it's great. It's it's got the guy who played odes Su and old Boy as the villain as sort of a cat and mouse, you know, a detective serial killer chase kind of movie, and it gets very personal and very dark. I highly recommend it. But it's not for the faint of heart. Oh, I'm having a hard time getting through this. Bradley Werner says,

I don't do good with anything I related. I think a lot of people are with you there, Bradley. So I'm not gonna say I'm not Oh, I'm sorry. So I am going to say the lasic scene and final Destination, I don't know what happened in that, but well I imagine that it's a lasic procedure gone horribly wrong. That's pretty much what that movie is all about. Yeah, uh,

this is pretty funny. Kelly Boshell says, Uma Thurman and Robert de Niro's sex scene and Mad Dog and Glory and well, any Robert de Nero sex scene, the one in Jackie Brown is scringeworthy. Yeah, it's interesting. He's not a sexy guy, and he's usually his sex stuff when he's rarely done. It is a little off putting to say it's true. I mean, you know he is, are you you? I mean you gotta consider him kind of a leading man, right, but he's not. He's not a

heart throb though, really at all. No, I mean not that. He's rarely played that like a romantic lead. It's always a bit of a kind of a what's the word like macawbre or kind of um heath heavy associopath exactly, Yeah, something like that. That's one of the great actors. But I don't think anyone wants to see Robert de Niro

making love? Am I wrong? Well, I would not call what happens in Jackie Brown making love or Old pel Shtellan Carlson says, any scene involving realistic vomiting hashtag metaphobe. Mm hmm. Yeah, I'm not into that either. No, it's it's it's it's rough. Yeah, it's gross. There's a lot of realistic vomiting stuff in in host Hostile and um

Audition too. And I've been rewatching The Sopranos again. Uh, and there's a scene where Adriana that's on this table like out of out, out of nowhere, and it's it's a lot of vomit. It's almost comical how much vomited is. But it represents the trauma that she's going through, you know. Sarah Stapleton says, A hundred and twenty seven hours, Yeah for sure. Uh and at least three scenes in Midsummer Yeah that did you see A hundred and twenty seven hours?

Know what? I know what it's about, and I know that there's some slicy slice and I think I can do without it. Yeah, you don't need to you get it. I get it. Earl pal Vanessa Cashman says the Seena Magnolia with the frogs, I hate frogs? Who hates frogs? Cash? Interesting? That's interesting. I mean they're definitely some big old honkin bullfrogs, just and they're splatting against the floating basically like yeah, yeah, I mean I don't want to yum her yuck. You

don't like frogs. You don't like frogs? I love frogs. Yeah it or pick up a frog nol and they just give you that look, well what the knowing? Look, well, what are you gonna do with me? I might be in your hand? Interesting? No, no, no, I don't I don't know this. Look all right, we'll finish here with me and i'll data, says one of our oldest friends say, is not a movie. There's a full on castration scene in Fortitude, just already a pretty grossome show to begin with.

Got it goodn't do? I could do without castration, I can do. I can do without all these I don't know why I even picked that. Well, that's a good one to close on. Don't you think you more? I don't any more. I just closed up my browser even uh, and we're gonna finish with a little stream this nol. I watched a true crime thing on I think it was Netflix, Murder among the Mormons. Terrible title clicks. I think they just have to put murder in the title

these days to make it searchable. But trust me, Chuck, I am highly aware of this phenomenon um. But it was good. Did you did you see it? It It was good. I heard about it, and I heard it's a very interesting story and has some nice twists and terns, but really good twists and turns um and not true crime, and that it's not like some super grizzly uh slasher

stabber type of serial killer. Very interesting story involving the Mormon Church and documents that are worth a lot of money and some bombings that happened in the early eighties that I kind of remember, but highly recommended our old pal who was actually on the show documentary Legend. Joe Berlinger executive produced it. So good stuff. I told you my my little term for the real grizzly kind of just miserable true crime stuff. No, I call it misery porn.

M Yeah, what is that going to peak? I feel like it's peaked. I feel like, I don't know, Like for me, this shows that I'm more interested in and and I'm more interested in making are I like crime stuff, and I like intrigue, but I like stuff that's a little more like of like noirish or like a detective you know, cat and Mouse story all the stuff that's just super like rape and just like you know, really just awful, horrible things have happening to people. Like nothing

good will come of this that I can do without. Yeah, that's why, Yeah, I can. I can recommend murder among the Mormons because it is not that very twisty turney, not norrish, but you know stuff well you know man and and and to that end, not to to plug, but like I would recommend the podcast that I've worked on really closely called Murder in Oregon. That is very much that thing. It's it's a story about intrigue and and and the corruption that goes up to the top

and all that stuff. And yeah, same, I like a good ball, you know, totally. Yeah, give me a caball any day of the week, Chuck. I just finished in one day. Um, it was so good and I was not expecting it to be as as in depth and actually kind of touching as it was. I think it's called High Score. Um. It's a series on Netflix, a documentary series just about kind of the early days of video games. Uh. It goes into everything from like the whole et you know, Atari debacle to you know, the

earliest days of Nintendo. Um, there's a whole like side story about how like I think it's MGM sued Nintendo over copyright infringement for Donkey Kong because they said it was infringing on King Kong Um and Nintendo's lawyer basically completely confirmed that there was no crossover and it was not infringement at all. And his name was Kirby, And they created the character Kirby based on this lawyer and there's so many little cool details that I didn't know

and a lot of interest. There's a whole thing about this um very lgbt Q centric role playing game called gay Blade that I knew nothing about. It's so cool and really touching it and it's all about like, what is it that makes video games so magical and transformative? And a lot of it is the fact that it puts us all in an equal footing, you know, people that maybe couldn't play sports, or people that maybe were

ostracized whatever. Yeah, And I just I remember playing all these games, Like I remember when Doom first hit the Internet and it was like the first online you know, multiplayer game, and it was just a massive deal. You had to log onto your a O l if you're you know, dial up modem, and it was just really nostalgic for me. But also like a lot of details that I wasn't aware of. Highly recommend anyone that grew up in the eighties and nineties and early days of

video games. Uh, this is for you. I am all over that, man, and I will date myself and all. The first video game I got into computer game that is non arcade thing was Castle Wolfenstein got Okay, so Wolfenstein three D was the first ID software game, and they must have based that on Castle Wolfenstein to tell me, so this is a Nazi fighting game. Is very much two D? I mean sure, but it was like green blocks, and uh, it was very much a a game of

its time. If you just if you look up Castle Wolfenstein like the original here, I'm I'm sure I'm looking at it. I get the better not interesting. It says it's a stealth based game by Muse Software for the Apple too. Yeah, so it's one of those games where you, oh, yeah, there it is. Good lord, that's bringing back some memories. Just a bunch of mazes and then you know, when I got my first little Atari at home, I thought

the game Adventure was the end all be all. An Adventure was literally your character was a square block and your sword was an arrow, and it was it was. It was a super advanced game for the time, which is totally well. And that's the thing that's so cool with this documentary is it really put contextualizes all of that stuff and like really makes you understand how cutting edge the things that we now look at as being

super dated, how it is all about imagination. There there's a whole like an episode about text based adventure games where it's like and then you and then you go to the well, and then you look in the will, what do you do? Exactly? All that kind of stuff. That's cool. I gotta see this. Yeah, I love it.

Another thing I've been watching NOL is Emily and I are doing yet another dive into six Feet Under the twentie anniversary this year, and we are in season two, and dude, I'm trying to get alan Ball to come on the show, to do a hero, to not even do a movie, to do a six ft Under twenty anniversary special with Alan Ball so across all your fingers

and toes everyone that we can land him. I would love that, Chuck, it's so funny you say that I unrelated to any I didn't even realize the anniversary of it.

I just wanted to start watching it again. I've been watching it with my girlfriend and we watched the pilot and um, I think I told you when my father passed away, I was into that show like it was actually on, and you would think, going through something like having your father die unexpectedly, you wouldn't want to watch a show where every episode was about death and and and you know, a funeral and stuff. But it was really cathartic to me, and I continued watching it because

it was like actually helpful to me. Um, and it was a very powerful thing and I kind of eat needed it in many ways. Um. But I hadn't watched it since, and so I watched this first episode. Uh, and there's the part where Ruth at at um. I don't want spoil anything, but Ruth at a very important funeral for the first episode. Um, it's just giving this really amazing monologue. She's not like, it's not just woe

is Me blubbering or anything. It's very like she's she's a very stern, interesting, complicated character, and she's kind of almost angry and like really but something about what she said and the way she said it just hit me and I just started like bawling. And it was because I connected it back to this memory of my father.

There's memory of that time in my life, and also just the show itself being such an important show to me, and something just clicked in me and I was just like ship, it just came out, pouring out this emotion. And I hadn't felt that or experienced that in a long long time. So that's the best. When art can like tap into that that water, salty water vein that's somewhere in your body that you don't need needs to get tap and all of a sudan, that's exactly right,

like it did need it. It needed to be vented. It's like, uh, you know, like letting out some pressure or something that's built up and you don't even know it is until all of a sudden you can kind of vent it a little bit and then it's like, oh my god, I feel better now because it wasn't like I wasn't upset. It was just like this Cathard, I collect human feeling and I was like, yeah, that's cool. I love it. Man. That pain can be a wonderful experience.

Uh well, and as you get older, you know how to process it and you understand more what it means and that it is kind of about like, oh, I'm a human being and I feel things and that's okay, as opposed to when you're young maybe where it's like pain sucks and you want to just push it all down and push it away. You start to realize you can kind of almost like scratch that itch every now and then and think about painful things and it's actually like positive. You know, I totally agree. Um, so yeah,

I mean we've been loving it. We're in season two and uh boy, just and Emily, I think this I think is her third but she said maybe it's her fourth viewing this series. I only saw the once back then.

But you know, we got together about twenty years ago and so it's sort of coincides with our anniversary is as a dating match, and um, it's just bringing back those memories and the Fisher family in a time before TV, you know, sort of the early kicking off along with sopranos and stuff like that, the early golden age of television, but before it was like, well it's just like a movie, you know, it was still TV. It still looks like TV. It's still shot on a stage with sets and it's

still a square aspect ratio like, but it was. It was really really great quality ship in that I really hope we can get Alan Ball. We're in touch with his agent. That's where we are now. That's amazing. I would love that so much. Um, huge fan like and it's so weird that he went on to do True Blood, which I didn't dislike. I liked it for a while and then I felt like it kind of jumped the shark a little bit, like yeah, quite quite exactly Yeah same, Um,

but it's now what wasn't six ft under? Really? And they must have remastered some of that stuff because I feel like it's not square now it's still square, Okay, it is on HBO max. Um, Yeah, that's why I'm watching it on. But for some reason, I maybe I don't know, I've I mean, the only way they could do that would be I mean, you can dropping, you gotta push in. Yeah that now, then you lose a

lot of the frame. You lose the frame. So the last thing I've been watched, or the lasting I watched, I want to mention is something I definitely want to recommend to you, although you may have seen it. It's a movie animated film called Wolf Walkers. I've heard it's fabulous. It is great. Is from this Irish animation team. I think the third in a trilogy. I have not seen the other two. I think they're unrelated. But um, hand drawn animation, dude, and you can tell like that humans

drew it. It's like a one of the most beautiful story books you've seen come to life, and just such a great film. Gorgeous, gorgeous movie nominated for an Oscar It better win. I'll be so mad if they just like go the Pixar route like they always do. Uh. So,

huge recommendation for Wolf Walkers. Yeah. And it's the same folks that did The Secret of Kel's, Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea, Song of the Seas, none of which I have seen, but I I this is uh, this animation studio is is big one on my list. I need to check out all of this stuff because, oh man, I'm looking at some of these skills now and there's a difference. Man. I'm not saying like, oh it was just so much better back then, but there's a richness to that hand drawn stuff that you just

can't quite get via the computer. All right, Noluh, that's all I got. What else have you watched? You got anything else? Yep? I've been doing the six end thing in the high score? Um love both of those. I'm trying to think if there's anything else um watched? Oh yeah, I told you about Cazillionaire. Did you get a chance to check that out? Yet, Chuck, not yet highly recommend. Yeah no, but you've given me a lot of good things.

Now I need to really catch up on these some of these oscar ones like Minari and uh No, mad Land and those are the big two for me. I think I also want to see um, Steve McQueen's little little his massive five part thing called the Small Acts Compendium or something like that. I don't know. Yeah, it's like I think he did it with the BBC and it's like five movies that are all that were like it's sort of like like made as a mini series for television and uh several of them. I've made quite

a few end of year lists. Um, it's about an immigrant community in England, I believe. Yeah, Steve McQueen, Um exactly, end of the Network, Friend of the Network. Check out his podcast Tomorrow's Monsters that that is in season right now. But yeah, Small Acts Anthology, Mangrove Lovers, Rock, Red, White and Blue, Alex Wheedle and Education. It's all about a

community of West Indian immigrants living in I believe London. Um, it looks really cool and it's not something that I've had access to, and I think you must have to have like a BBC America ryption. Um, but I want to figure out how to get ahold of that. All right, good stuff, good rex, good times, great oldies. The mine

was Oldies ninety three nine. I think they had those voices that just they must have done like different numbers, and they could have just like subbed that they subbed them out to whatever stations and they were able to like fill the you know, the promo need for the numbers of the of the call letters. Yeah. I think everyone at a certain age can call up something from their radio childhood. W k l S nine six rock exactly. That was one of mine, Star nine's so funny, Augusta,

that was my town. All right, good stuff, buddy. Uh, we'll see everyone next week, yes indeed. 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 at pont steamer Get Atlanta, Georgia for I Heart Radio. For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.