Mini Crush #83

gonna post that picture on the Movie Crush page. Why because you have your fucking song. It's true, It's true. I do. How you doing? Besides, I'm a little frazzled. I'll tell you I've been listening a lot to um this Purple Mountains record. Have you heard this? Have I heard it? Have you heard it? No? I got an advanced copy of that from the man himself. No ship, God, yeah, we we should. Uh we're talking about the the late David Berman. Uh, one of my idols. I didn't know

his stuff very well at all. I always heard the name and knew he struggled with addiction and depression and stuff. I didn't really know his music. I knew the Silver Jews, but I heard this record his music, yeah, exactly for sure, but I heard this record, uh right before you know he passed and you know it took his own life, and uh it really it spoke to me in in

a really intense way. And apparently a lot of people have that relationship with his music and his very confessional but like sarcastic and super witty lyrics, and this one's no exception. But when you when you think about it after the fact, it really does listen like a goodbye goodbye yeah, and it's it's very it's a wonderful, wonderful album. Yeah. David Berman was the lead singer and songwriter for The Silver Jewice, one of my favorite bands, which was kind

of started off as a pavement side project. Bob Nistanovich and Stephen Maltamus have worked with him on The Jews over the years, and then he went away for a while, and in the interim, Bob Nistanovich put me in touch with Dave Burman because I was trying to get him on movie Crush, and I have two emails from the man that, uh, I treasure now in a big, big way because he's one of my heroes of his book of poetry and uh he he died a couple of weeks ago, and it's very very sad, really really is um.

I mean, I don't want to get too heavy here at the top of the show, but my my father actually took his own life, and so I sort of can relate in a way of knowing somebody but not really knowing somebody and kind of you know, finding out after the fact what they were really going through. That maybe it's hard for someone to even fully share that much of themselves with anybody. You know, that's right, and

that is a lesson in uh, kindness and gratitude. And you never know what is going on behind closed doors everybody, so be your best self and be kind to one another. Uh. Stuff out there for a lot of people, and they don't often show that face publicly. So and the FCC is actually proposed um a three digit number for the suicide prevention hotline hasn't passed yet, but that's something because

this is you know, this is an important thing. If you if you feel like someone is in trouble, um and you want to report it, you should be able to do it without having to look up any hundred number, but right now the number is right now, the number is one eight hundred two seven three, eight to five five. But look for new legislation that might replace that with the drill it into people's brains like nine one one was, and uh, I might save some lives. True, that would

be great. All right, Now we're gonna move on to happier times because this is a Movie Crushers episode, which I do every now and then, where I troll the Movie Crushers page, not troll it. That makes sound like it. Just I'm troll the Movie Crushers page for just fun stuff, and uh, it's usually like social study stuff. But this time I found a couple of fun things via the Movie Crushers that I had not seen before. And have you seen this Batman AI script yet? No? But I

love it already. I've seen some AI scripts. So what happened was and this was. I can't remember who won. The Movie Crushers posted this first, but a few people have at this point. This is a writer, a comedian and writer named Keaton Patty who evidently, and I really hope this is true and not just a big fake, but evidently the story goes is he forced an a I bought to watch over one thousand hours of Batman movies and then asked to write a Batman movie of

its own. And he published the first page. And I'm going to read that first page and all because it's great. Would you want should we split it up? It? Is it? Multiple characters? Yeah, I mean there's a Joker and Alfred and Batman. How about I'll be Batman and you be everyone else, and I'll read the stage directions that sound good? Absolutely all right? Interior traditional bat cave. It's already funny. Batman stands next to his batmobile and uses his bat computer.

He's sometimes Bruce, Wayne, sometimes Batman, all times orphan. I'm so glad you haven't seen this yet. All right, Batman speaks, This is now a safe city. I have punched a penguin into prison. Alfred, Batman's loyal battler, carries a tray of goth ham eat a dinner mattressed way. An explosion explodes the Joker and to face into the cave. Joker is a clown but insane. To face is a man, but attorney Batman speaks, No, it is to face and

one face. They hate me for being a bat. Batman throws Alfred at two face to face, flips Alfred like a coin. Alfred Land's head up, heads up, which means to face goes home. Batman speaks, it is just you and I, the joker, bat versus clown moral enemies. I am such a freak. Society is bad. You drink water. I drink anarchy. That's the line of the script. I drink anarchy. Batman speaks, I drink bats, just like a bat would. Batman looks around for his parents, but they

are still dead. This makes him have anger. He fires a bat rocket. The joker deflects it with his sixth sense of humor, a clown lee power. I have never followed a rule. That is my rule? Do you follow? I don't? Alfred give birth to Robin. Alfred begins the process, since it is his job. The Joker now has a present in his hand. He juggles it over to Batman. Happy bat Day, beth Man. Batman opens the present since he's a good guy. It contains a coupon for new parents,

but is expired. This is a joker joke, the cruelest joker joke of all. Oh Man, please let that be true. There's an Olive Garden commercial that was generated very similarly out on Twitter a year or so ago. I'd like to see that. It's great. Um, all of these are great. It is a thing. I don't know how it works exactly, Like the stage direction is a part that throws me the whole thing, like, how did I don't that's coon for new parents. But oh boy, that's great. Oh you

know what I do have? Who posted that? Thank you to Jonathan McGrath, Uh McGrath, the old pal, which is wonderful, the oldest of old pals. So I needed that chuck after that Berman record. Man, Yeah, that gave me joy. Um, that's amazing. It's so funny. So next up we have from Kristen Saturly. Uh, palm Azle is what I'm gonna say. There's a lot of syllables in a row there, so I'm gonna make one of them silent, very whimsical last name.

It's a great name. It. She posted something that she found online, which was a Buffalo Bill Tinder profile, which was great. Yikes, have you seen this? No, it's got his picture first of all, and it's sort of the shot of him when he's just casually leaning in the doorway when she pays a visit. Film Classic Bill, Pose Bill thirty three years old away. I like Curvey girls. I have a dog. Her name is Precious. She's my world.

My hobbies include midnight strolls, collecting insects. Kind of nerdy, but it's what I'm into, making my own clothing, and dancing when nobody's looking. He does dance like nobody's looking. Dry skin is a deal breaker, that's true. I love bath and body works for the sole reason that their lotion comes in a basket. I date me, Oh that's fun, It's the last line, and then shout out to Luke Harkell Road in the comments for immediately posting I date me so hard, I would this shift out of me.

I didn't realize the Buffalo Bill was supposed to be thirty three. In my mind, he's older than that. I don't know why. Well, that might have been a guest, but looking back seems about right. Actually maybe. I mean, he always seemed in his forties to me, That's what I'm saying, and he still does. It's hard for me, though, like age stuff like Kurt Cobain was twenty seven or whatever, and I look back now at him, and I think the think of the Beatles, for for example, like I

think of them as being these like genius luminaries. They were done by and thirty six. It makes me feel like I've accomplished nothing. Yeah, I don't go down that road now. I know it's a that's a hard road to ho. I just learned yesterday that Marlon Brando was a year younger than me when he started The Godfather. They aged him out, you know, to senior citizens. But still good god yea, all right, No, well, now we're

gonna move on to UHLENEA. Barnett, who posted a really good social studies that I'm surprised I had never thought of before. And it is this, she says, Okay, what are your movie no ways? Like when you know a specific theme scene or a shot as used and refused to watch it or have to leave the room. For her, it is I uff and dogs dying. Yeah, I know, any kind of animal death is a real trigger for Needle stuff has always been tough for me. Don't care

for needle stuff. It's not so much the needle as it is the tourniquet, you know, when they'd wrapped the rubber band around and they bother you. They bother men. Very specific, isn't it. They Also I don't like cutting. I don't like cuts. I don't mind hacks like a whole, Like a clean arm cut, that's fine with me. But like a scalpel cut, or like a close up of someone getting sliced, what about it steps me out? Stabs don't bother me either. So just a slice slice interesting?

So like a blood brother scene would freak you out, I don't care for that. Definitely don't like a wrist cut. Does that mean, well, well, there's a scene in one of the John Wick movies where there's a very out of the blue wrist slice and I was not expecting it, and I started, I walked away. I started pacing around

the room as I I walked away. Yeah, needle stuff gets me, of course, any dogs or kids stuff now, um, the I remember very distinctly the pulp fiction adrenaline shot to the art just and you know, Tarantino wretches his ratchets up the tension so well in that scene. It's hard to sit through if you're if you're a needle phobe, and I'm still a needle phobe. I've gotten good about it now at the doctor, but it used to really

really be an issue. That one's a tough one too, because it's like a stab from on high through like the breastbone. Right. Yes, so that's the that's that. That's a very tough creature altogether. Yeah. I will say that the needles these days are different from the needles when I was a kid, when I built up my phobia. They've just gotten tinier and tinier, which is great, It's true.

How are you about getting blood drawn? I'm fine. I mean, it's one of those things where I've gotten over my needle phobia to the extent where I can do it. And I'm like, you know, I'm gripping the arms of the chair. I look away. I don't see I have to look. Yeah, I got to look, and yeah, i cannot be surprised by the needle. I've got to see that ship. Yeah, I look away. Interesting. I always prepare the kind nurse or technician, uh for my phobia, and let the no I do too. I'm probably going to

start hyperventilating a bad don't freak out. Not hyperventilating. I just kind of breathe a little heavy caring for it. The anticipation, you know, kind of is killing me. Yeah. I had a bad one last. I had a physical a few weeks ago, and good news everyone, I'm doing great. I just need to lose weight. Yes. Same. The doctor was like, dude, your labs are fine, just lose some fucking weights. Sam. He's like, it's up to you. Actually, a very frank doctor, which I appreciate. You should jog together,

but I hate Johnny. We'll do something else. But where was that going with that? Yeah? So I h deal breakers. I had a bad blood drawing experience because she couldn't find the vein. She was rooting around in there, and it's like that it actually started. It was painful. It wasn't like freaking me out. It hurt right, and she was very apologetic, very kind person that was doing this. I've luckily never had that. Yeah, So I was just like, can you just repoke? I would rather that than the dig? Right?

What is the dig? The dig is the needles in your arm and she's moving around looking for the main what no, no, no, thank you sir or madam. Al Right, enough of that. We were triggering so many people. All apologies, we'll start off with Sarah Stapleton. Uh, I don't even watch a movie about a dog because the dog always dies. That's good point, Margharita, Sarah Margo says, I stuff for real. I wanted to watch Brightburn, but they showed the I scene in the trailer and I new to avoid it.

I don't know the ice scene. Brightburn sort of a superhero horror movie. It looks pretty cool. I haven't seen it. My friend Annie, isn't it? Yeah? Have you heard anything about it? I haven't seen it either. I need to see it. Our old pal Debbie Franka Ducas great name. She says, the same eyes and dogs. Really, it's like that's that's that's the that's the duo. There's a lot of dogs in here. Here you go, Noel. Brian Schlackman says slitting throats. Yeah, I don't care for that. I'm

not a big fan of that either. It doesn't make me run out of the theater, but I will clench my butt hole, yes for sure. Yeah, No, I don't care for that. Did I just a butth hole? You did? Is that a movie crush? First? I think so? But hold such a great word is so much better than an asshole. I mean, asshole is what you call someone, but you don't refer to your own part as an asshole. It's a butthole, Yeah, I agree. Ruth Carrol to Hey says teeth and any animals. Yeah, teeth is obviously with

my fake teeth, very much triggered by tooth stuff. There's a move. It's a little short Japanese thing. It's called haze, I think it's what it's called, and sort of like basically like takes place in a type of hell and there's a scene of this guy's navigating through this hellscape and there's one part where he has to cross this really narrow bridge against the wall with his teeth clenched over an iron pipe and a side to side. The sound effects of his teeth grinding on this pipe will

will make your butthole clinch. I couldn't do it a bad times old pal. Sarah Linderbergh says anything to the bottom of the feet. She mentions the scene in Die Hard it was too much for her, the glass probably barefoot and he's she's named Fensta, Yeah, right shot the gloss uh Menal Data says a sexual assault of course. Message to the industry stopped depicting it graphically and stop using it as a plot device. Yeah, I hear you see,

I don't know about that about me. If you're if as a plot device, what I mean, what if that's like the whole character arc? What if that's the point? What if that's like part of the story. Are you saying you shouldn't depict sexual assault ever because it's off limits? Like, I don't know, I'm not I'm not gonna speak for her, No, no, I'm I'm'm asking. I'm speaking for the industry or just like you know, storytelling in general. So you know, what

are you gonna do? I don't know, Like I understand like a lot of people had a problem with Game of Thrones because it had some problematic depictions of sexual islands. I get that it depends on the context for sure, because they didn't have to do it the way they did.

But I think to say let's not use this ever at all as a plot device to me is sort of like, I don't know, brushing something under the rug that could be exposed in an interesting way right here, it could be discussed an interesting way, an I don't know. It is certainly, uh something people could debate. Absolutely, you know what I mean, Nicole Park's old Palaces, animals dying or shot of an ivy drug use. Yeah, spiking up in a heroin scene. Maybe it's partially needle. Yeah. And

for again, for me, it's that tourniquet. Baby, I don't like it. You get that thing that turniquet into needle turnid in because it makes the vein pop and that's like, I don't know the pressure of that. And then the idea of like sticking the needle into like a very popped out vein, and like in pulp fiction when you see him suck the blood into the syringe and then shoot it out, you know, like that's that's how you

do it. I think, Yeah, he very romantically. Uh. I think he handles that in a romantic way almost in pulp fiction. He sexes it up a little bit interesting. Lauren Feni is also on board. She says sexual violence is the only thing that's made me turn off a movie. I certainly get that. Everybody, uh Lisa pellusy Dog or kid Deaths just can't do it. I also have a really hard time watching characters that are racist, and even

more specifically, characters that are the victims of racism. Yeah, that gets me more than I mean the racist stuff I can kind of block out. But seeing someone really kind of any victim, not just racism but bullying and stuff like that, man mad makes me really mad, so mad? Noel Uh Dodger Phillips says domestic violence for comic effect like War the Roses or Mr Mrs Smith. I think that is problematic for comic effects. I have a problem with that. I think, Oh, I love War the Roses

so much. I haven't seen that. I mean, it's a dark comedy about how has been a wife that get divorced and it just gets so ugly that you know they're battling each other physically at the end. It's never serious. But but he doesn't like it. And I'm not saying any anybody anybody's wrong. I'm just talking about, like where is the line? Where should the line be drawn? Is there a line, you know, in terms of like what can or can't or should or shouldn't be depicted? Yeah,

for sure. Uh. And we'll finish out here with Lauren Barnes w She mentions the eyes, but then she also says, uh, sexual violence, especially abuse against children, obnoxious sex scenes, close upgore, blood, gushing, slapstick humor. She said, all of this has gotten worse for me is I've gotten older. Yeah, taste can change over the years, especially when you have a kid. That's

I mean, I can, I can get through anything. I'm not one of those that will turn a movie off, but that ship will bother me and stick with me. And I don't mind that. Like, I'm one of those

people that can. I think it's okay for a movie to upset you, and that's part of the experience for me sometimes absolutely, Like especially like I think about a movie like American History X, I don't think you won't argue that bad movie maybe the worst thing that's got it's got the teeth, it's got the racism, it's got the victims of racist That was a tough film. That's a very tough film. But it's I think, now more than ever, a pretty important film. Yeah, pretty prescient film.

I mean that that stuff is very real and they depict it in a very frank in real way. Well, here's the great thing about movies. Everybody is, uh, if you don't like that stuff, don't watch it. I think it's okay for me to get upset by a movie. But I certainly get that people don't want to be upset by movies at all. You know, that's very prosionable thing.

I mean, that's why I think it's important to know what you're getting yourself into before you you watch something if you're that kind of person, because you don't want to be you know, you don't want to like trigger yourself and have a bad time. Totally agree, Totally agree. All right, now we're gonna finish up this week with a quick stream this. I've been watching a couple of new shows that I would like to talk about. Are you watching The Boys? Now? I've heard it's good though,

it's great cool? What is it on Amazon? On Amazon? All right? The Boys is an Amazon Prime show, and uh it is. It depicts a very realistic sort of take on superheroes, wherein superheroes are just part of the fabric of the country and they are depicted in realistic ways with all their faults and they are not always great people. It is for adults. The show is. It

makes me the the setup makes me think of Watchmen. Yeah, just in terms of like, let's discuss what a world with real superheroes would be like for sure, Uh, that is that is a fair comparison. Absolutely, and they have like endorsements and things like that. And yeah, they're they're superhero rose in in every sense of the word. You know, they make a lot of money, they're rich, they're sponsored. Um, there's a corporation that sort of runs the whole thing,

and that's a big part of the show. It's got Elizabeth Shoe and it is a place sort of the I guess, I guess she's like the CEO of the corporation, uh, and main handler of the superheroes. But it's just really great and uh, what do you like most about it? Like as it just the acting. The writing is good. Writing is great. The writing is really really great, and it's uh it's a cool concept. The acting is really good. And it doesn't I don't know, it always surprises me.

I think that's the deal. It's it doesn't go where I expected to go and the people don't always uh behave predictably, which I like. That's great. I've been meaning to check it out. I definitely you would, you would definitely like it. And the other show Noal that I've been watching is shrill Adie Bryant's show. Uh Adie Bryant from Saturday Night Live. Oh no, I don't know. I'm so not up on the current Saturday Night If you

look her up you'd probably recognize her. She's the best. Um, just listen to her Mark Marin episode A. Long been a fan of Adie Bryant. I hope we're related. I hope to have her on movie Crush one day to talk about whether or not we're related. Although she's from Phoenix, she was from the Southeast, there might be a chance. But um, she's wonderful. Like I kind of loosely know

her husband h Connor O'Malley, But um, she's great. It's a show on Hulu and she is a plus sized woman who makes a show about a plus size woman. And it's uh, let me see here, who the who? The writer was here? It is it's a Lyndy West. And the book was Shrill Colin Notes from a Loud Woman, written by Lindy West. And so what Adie Bryan has done is adapted that book but also brought her own life experience as a plus sized woman into the show. And it's I mean, it's very easy to say, like

that's what the show is about. But it's really about a woman living life. It's that simple, and it's it's people remark on the fact that she's uh, that she's overweight, because you don't see shows like this. It should be unremarkable and it should just be a show about a woman. But because she's overweight, and that's part of the show, because it's part of her life, that becomes sort of

the descriptor for it. Well, and it's interesting case. I think we're living in such a you know, as such a problematic time and so many levels, but also such an interesting time where body positivity is much more of

a mainstream thing. And this is a great example. And I think in general, like people are encouraged to be who they are, and I think it's a lot less body shaming going on in the main you know, like even my kid, like she's really into this artist Billie Eilish, who is wears these baggy clothes and has this kind of like interesting style. But a big part of why she does that is because she doesn't want to be

over sexualized by the media. Because she wears these kind of baggy clothes so you can actually see your body. So a lot of kids are like influenced by that as opposed to like a midriff you know, crop top Britney Spears kind of situations. So she's not she doesn't feel body shamed at all or feeling you know, and and my kids a little she's a she's a bigger kid, you know, and she's perfectly happy with her body type and doesn't at all. I think things are changing for

the better. And uh, and part of the show too is just the the steady diet you're fed growing up and as people like our age and Adie Bryant's age of how you should look and how it was not like this at all and everywhere you look, and especially I mean it's true for everyone, but especially for women. Um, there's so much shame involved because all you see around you are those Britney Spears middrift videos and you're taught that that is beauty and there are no other options.

This is the ideal. It's cool, but there's more than one ideal. There absolutely is. And this is another great example of a show that you know, we're getting to see these stories now that we were cheated out of for so long because she is the you know, writing and directing, well, I don't think she's directing, but writing this show, starting in the show show running essentially and

producing this show. And it's just great, so much heart, so much humor, it's so fucking funny, and she's so adorable and uh lovable, Like I want to be her friend. I uh yeah, know everybody wants to be eighty bride Sprint. I can't. I can't wait to see it. I have finally gotten into watching season one of Fleabag, and I think it's one of the smartest things I've ever seen

in my life. I think it's so funny, so approachable, so real, uh and just absolutely hilarious and also like really dark and awkward, but not in a way that makes it's in a way that makes you want to keep watching, as opposed to like make you like all like cringe e or squeamish or whatever. I think fantastic.

I love it so much. Yeah, And the another kind of through line for this shrill show is shrill show is her uh and this is I think where her autobiography or the autobiography graphical element comes in is how much she wants to please people and how little she is willing to accept back from people because she just wants to fit in and be and make people happy.

And she talked about that in her own experience on the Markmarren episode, which highly recommend um very relatable to the human condition, I think, uh, for for all kinds of people. So hats off to you, Adie Bryant. Love your show. It's a tight six episodes, which I love, and I believe it's already been picked up for a season two. Uh, and I can't wait for that. So keep on killing it and please come on my show. You're the best. I hope she's listening me too. Someone Tagger,

please tell Lord Chuck Bryant's cushing her cutson. All right, No, I think we're gonna wrap this one up. It's a little bit of a shorty, but uh, we have scheduling issues today, so we're gonna move on to part two coming up right after this. I'm ready for more podcasts for my heart radio. Visit the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.