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Nov 29, 2022 57 min

King Me Babies: Beachworld

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Grab your your board and your best girl(s) - we’re going to Beachworld! Adapted in 2019 from a story of same name, Jackie Perez’s Beachworld tells the story of two members of a spaceship crew marooned on a desert planet. There’s only sand as far as the eye can see, and yet the sand itself seems to hold a certain…allure…yes… After the break we take a look at the source material, which was first published in Weird Tales in 1984 and then again the following year as part of the Skeleton Crew collection. Hear the second half of our discussion (and get extra bonus stuff) over on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kingmepod Get weekly episodes and request movies on our Patreon: https://patreon.com/kingmepod Email us at: [email protected] Letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/kingmepod/ Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/king-me/id1071620322?mt=2 Subscribe & rate on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fWr5bSjFLtCDRda6oCeIW?si=84c3c8b55a294467 Dan's upcoming live dates: Dec 2, 2022 @ Chelsea Music Hall (NYC) https://dice.fm/event/7793b-the-cigarette-club-2nd-dec-chelsea-music-hall-new-york-tickets Dec 20, 2022 @ The Sultan Room (Brooklyn NYC) https://dice.fm/event/lnn9x-friend-of-the-show-20th-dec-the-sultan-room-new-york-tickets

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We can go go go go Google Gaga Is baby hoo welcome to another episode of baby life. Yeah your baby. I'm your host I'll be a little ho how you're gonna host. So you remember when we started doing king me We kind of like we got in at a good time right the market was not fully saturated.

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So we're talking about here, baby or psychosexual infantilism What's the difference right? Yeah, I mean in my opinion started every time someone brings that up. I'm just shut that shit down right out of hand I'll do it every time someone's like What were the two parafilic infantilism and psychosexual infantilism? That's right.

Yeah, every time someone's like Trying to debate one verse the other. I'm like you're the same thing They're the same thing now now we don't condone king shaming here, but you guys do have to change a little diabetes You do clean up. This is this may be an adult baby fetish podcast, but it is not a scat podcast. That's right clean up on aisle you It's the whole aisle front to back.

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Well, welcome to dollar babies which believe it or not is it Stephen King related Yeah, welcome to King me baby take it wrong again. He's a dollar baby I'm a little out of sorts with all the do do you do? Yeah, you do need your baba, so we are gonna have to blow through this pretty quick I'll tell you what this may we don't do king shaming on this podcast, but no do we do king shaming? We've been known to we've gotten negative reviews for it.

That's right No, we're not we're not really well. We don't know if we're doing that yet We'll know after the break if we're doing that right because this is Kingie babies and here's what we do We look at we look at films made as part of the dollar baby program where by Stephen King grants The rights to an independent filmmaker to make a non-commercial adaptation of one of his select works So we're gonna review that and then after that we're gonna take a look at the source material right? That's gonna be over on the patreon. So yeah, if you're not on the patreon forget about it Yeah, if you're if you're sick a little piggy and you're typing and you're not yeah, so if you like that kind of talk But and you want twice as much of it right head on over to patreon.com slash kingie pod the links in the show notes get real Get real of course.

It is is the link in the show notes. Of course. It's in the show notes obviously it's in the show notes It's where it always is Then if it's not there, yes, it is look again If it's not there, it'll be there 20 minutes after we upload that's right the first time This week Rob it's beach world. Oh, we're going we're heading to the beach, baby We're hopping in our wood-paneled spaceship and we're going to teach world.

Do we both go straight for a details tripory? Tell you what if I'm out if I ever get in a room alone with digdale going straight for his pipeline Is he alive now he has he has passed away A pretty recent yeah, he was I think he was one of those guys that didn't have any money So he was however old you know 80 something and he like had to continue to tour yeah Yeah, yeah, it's like Well, he just needs the one finger right you know It's all one string right mister Every time they uh they re-release like pulp fiction on TVD or something There's like a huge uptick in in in his demand. There's a huge demand for ticked alien. So you get back on the road Yeah, it's sad.

I'm looking at his Wikipedia and like the main picture is him looking it's him from 2013 playing live and the room He's in his there's exposed pipes you can like see you see the ceiling good. It looks like there's a Electrical outlet on the ceiling as well. It's not you know, it's not ideal. Yeah, there's a rat biting biting his fingers The venue should at least take care of that right right No, but we're going to the beach we're gonna be each world pack up your towel right your zinc oxide Slather it on your nose and your your French bikinis your best girls.

Yep, you're five best girls all right girls everybody in Guys have each other to talk to So beach world yeah, it is from frickin 2019 Written and directed oh written and directed actually. Oh, yeah, we got a hey Bobby. We got a fucking auto over here. Oh Get a load of kirasawa over here Just goes like super deep cut out.

Yeah, it's not a kiras out. But like yeah, yeah, oh like I picture like Christopher Montesanti Yeah, like John Luke Godard. Yeah You're Marty come done. I liked it Written directed by none other than Jackie Perez Jackie Perez Rob.

What's your favorite Jackie Perez movie? Oh, well this is it one of the other two I mean for me. It's got to be beach world. Yeah, your beach world head.

Yeah, it's my favorite of hers And I don't really like it. I gotta say I was not crazy about it. Well, let me let me give you a little bit more about Jackie here Okay, so she has two other writing directing credits one is her debut was a short film are are From 2015 called dryer lint which is a horror film about a sock monster like the idea is like the monster that eats your socks Right and the tagline is never have a sock o missing from the dryer. I mean this sounds exactly like a like short film fodder Yeah, it is um, it also it's like sketch writing class fodder.

Yeah, it's a fine line It's then we always talk about with Jordan Peele right the fine line between our and comedy or whatever But yeah, and then the following year she directed expecting which is a horror film about an unplanned pregnancy I can't think of anything scarier. No, sir. That one has a better tagline once you have kids your life is over That's pretty good. That's pretty good.

That's like start with the tagline work backwards kind of thing Did you know that Jackie Perez is a nuclear engineer it turned it turned screenwriter? Yeah, I sure did Eli Eli Roth to thank for that apparently according to her bio. She got the bug during a Q&A with Eli who Eli Man, right if I can and if I can engineer nuclear Lee, I can y'all cut that's a wrap on Yeah, I get direct some some short fucking dollar baby in the desert. Yeah.

Yeah Yeah, she really emphasizes her her education in her and like all her promo, you know promotional PR type of writing about herself To the degree that her bio on her website says she specializes in STEM centric films and TV shows to which I say I'm not I just don't think you should like if someone were like oh no I haven't seen that what's it about you wouldn't be you wouldn't be like well first of all it's a STEM centric So don't worry about that right yes, you will be getting a healthy dose of not just science and technology, but also E&M I think it stands for math it does and then what does that E stand for? Hmm? Science technology education and math educate can it really be no, that's too dumb Don't underestimate how Engineering she's a nuclear engineer of course we said it before yeah, it should be STEM with a silent N for nuclear Don't you should I do? Thanks for having my back.

Yeah This film the short film yes, yes, how long is this thing would you say I mean in? Actual film time not getting the credits probably about 10 11 minutes. Yeah, 14 all together It looks like on a on YouTube here. Yeah, but this was distributed I don't know the legality of this being distributed is distributed by a company called dust which runs an app that Yeah, are you are you familiar with us at all?

I'm not are you yeah? I actually have heard of them. They have a podcast that's basically the same thing like people write like audio dramas and based around sci-fi Okay, I didn't know that they had a channel when they did short films. Oh, yeah Yeah, so I don't know I didn't know Jackie Perez was involved.

I don't know all right Yeah, I don't know what the arrangement there is like legally because like I would imagine she hoped to get paid for her work But maybe she just that's not the deal That's gonna cost two dollars, you know for a nuclear engineer If only she'd focus more on fin centric films and TV shows and that's finance finance right so All right, let's get into this short film Yes, damn Smash God to who a desert island Okay, a desert planet perhaps the desert we are led to believe yeah, and We have our main character Rebecca Shapiro 10 Rebecca Shapiro our main character Abby Shapiro, right? So starts by singing an opera Conservatively Traditionally is she you think she's part of the Shapiro Ben Shapiro and his Uh Chesty sisters family. Oh, I mean that's what I'm getting at that's right Abby. Abby is uh, oh She's got those those big pipes on her.

This is not a term I would use to describe them, but I have heard them referred to as you know what forget it Let's keep going all right fine Rebecca Shapiro Federation officer right Rebecca Shapiro She we join her having crash landed on a planet of all sand. It's just a sandy fucking mess Or she doesn't know where the fuck she is she doesn't know where her crew is language. Oh, sorry It's okay She she has a big old piece of glass in her leg. That looks like it sucks sure does I Did appreciate how she took out the piece of glass and didn't like do anything else to tend to that one just now Well, she got the glass out.

Yeah, that's how what else you want then you just let me turn across the desert Well, you know the body heals itself We become so reliant on Western medicines like bandages and This is in the like turn a kids which is you're not gonna find any of that on beach world. You sure are throw some sand in it, right? Yeah, there's some goddamn sand in it On it and get on with you goddamn life. So she pulls the she pulls the glass out of her leg and then We see her sort of like trudging through the desert a little bit She comes upon more of the wreckage and among the wreckage she sees a hand sticking out of the sand surrounded by blood covered in blood Right and apparently thinking it's one of her fellow crew members.

She pulls on as hard as she can but there's nothing attached It's a Halloween hand. It's just a rubber hand. Yeah, do you think? Do you think that's what they were transporting on their spaceship was just a bunch of a Halloween starting Halloween is 10 days away.

Yeah space Halloween is only 10 Yeah, and then so she she sees this hand and she is just it's it She reacts I would say she reacts the exact same way she does as when she pulls a shirt of glass out of her like it's the same level of Screaming just like yeah blood curling scream. Yeah, it's um it doesn't see it's weird. I mean like I don't think I'm sorry, but I don't think this actor is very good or me character here Rob I'm gonna do you one better and say that I don't think anybody did a good job at that You know what the guy who plays Rand is not good, but he also has less alliance than everybody So he has less of an opportunity to be bad. That's true.

And he's also like his character is like Being sort of like hypnotized and changed so he can get away with like not naturalistic acting. Yeah He's like I mean he landed on beach world and he seems like yeah, baby. This is exactly where I want to be I mean he's wearing some like trunks. He's got a boogie board You have to wonder how a guy like that ends up working for a space Halloween company First place seems like he should be working for space summer vacation right ltd Um Yeah, so she she runs into one of her crew members Rand Um, by the way, he survived the crash because it was wearing an inner tube Right like a ducky kind of the sand buried him.

Thank god. He had his snorkel right And he uh They soon find out that they have uh telepathy that they can communicate. Yeah, yeah, which is so Like thank god they have telepathy because the the wind on those microphones would be baby. Yeah.

Yeah How are we gonna get around this? Yeah, so the the beach world in reality is the glamest sand dunes in california Hey, bro. Let's go over to the glamest sand dunes Who's that shred shred the sand brother sand dogs? Yeah?

Yeah, it's like um Where the damn I can't think of even one of their names. I was gonna say one of the dog town lords Oh like uh stacy peralta. Yeah, there we go. Is that word that's okay?

something ochreson Tony elva That sounds right. Yeah, Tony elva's one of those guys. Yeah um Have you seen that documentary or have you only seen the i only seen the amule hersh? Oh man.

Yes, it's It's it's crazy. It's like night and day as far as like storytelling goes. I fully believe that yeah You watch and you're like this is bad. Why did they do this?

Then you watch that documentary like this is great. Thank you. Remember remember amule hersh trying to be the guy for a couple years He was and then what he like he choked uh an executive or uh, right? Yeah, he's like a canceled kind of guy Amule a meal hersh band.

I want to say he got here He got drunk at sundance and like maybe choked or hit a female executive jesus Yeah, right this daily beast article reliable news source describes it as brutal assault even yeah Yeah, damn yeah, was he even a good actor or was it just sort of like he was he was like a franca where it was like he was just doing a Lot feel like he was doing a lot people like that um Uh, it's a wild them walking blows people loved into the wild and movies a travesty. I hate that movie only by uh Mommy herself kathryn keener over right and by save. I mean she's up there. Yeah being charming as hell right of course No, I Just the idea that they made a movie about this guy who was like i'm going to go out into the woods and say fuck society But then i'm gonna obviously die from being right to dumb to not yeah, it's like I ate the wrong berries Exactly.

It's like a way less like it's a way less compelling grizzly man basically. Yeah, wasn't a shunt pen joint to cat into the wild absolutely Right, he might be in it. I talked about another canceled guy. Fuck.

Yeah Yeah, you know about his whole thing with Madonna, right? In fact in the they dated in like the late 80s early 90s somewhere around there and he basically like tied her up and just beat her for like Two or three days jesus christ. Yeah, it was really fucking heavy. Oh my god.

I did not know that Yep, and I mean this was back in the time when you could do that and still be a movie star G yeah, what the fuck man? So Oh my god, I hope it's a real strong pen you know that Yeah, there I said it. Yeah, I hope shunt pen dies in new crane. Right.

Anyway, um amule hersh Should if we're gonna bring him back uh and we shouldn't but if we do right he has to play jeff tweedy That's the only role I want him in guy looks a lot. He does. That's true. Hollywood tweedy Um just kidding.

That's tweedy bird Yeah, Hollywood tweedy. Yeah, there's only one Hollywood tweedy as far as i'm concerned and it's little in yellow here she on tweedy They them. Oh No, it's a good question. I always thought it was a she but uh impossible to know played by mel blank of course Of course, but that could also be a woman's name.

Yeah, like I feel like when I you know the uh uh like roger rabbit Like when they go into to town or whatever and uh bob hoskins Like uh he thinks that it's jessica rabbit and she turns around. Oh, yeah, oh my oh my That I think is, you know, that's probably a man voicing that that woman I would think and you know, he's uh, you know Melblight could he could do uh he could do women That's true. He could do it. Was he granny?

No, he wasn't granny, right? Was he granny? Yeah, not like is mel blank bay Yeah, granny. Um, no, you know, like tweedys.

Yeah, yeah, character. I know I know granny is I think it's not well You're not acting like you know a granny. Mel blank With a I'm gonna see I love that Blanc Blanc Matthew let's see No, it was uh, oh, that's funny. Uh, it was actually done by a woman named bay Um, you're kidding.

No, uh or it's be Bea Uh, invented it probably be did it and then that was only for five years and then it was june for a forever It's really state your claim and then also in 1974 to 1978 mel blank. Ah, ah ha ha ha ah Ah, um, do you ever hear that story about mel blank doing voiceover like after he had a giant car accident? Like he's like on the brink of death doing bugs bunny from Recording set up. Yeah, we have to get you saying all of these, uh, witty comebacks Um So beach world tweed world 2019 right So lieutenant Shapiro finds ran finds them among the wreckage which has very I gotta say it very bad fate Yeah, oh my god.

It looks so bad. We'll just do it in post It looks so how much does smoke cost? Uh, you probably need permits probably permits out in the fucking desert You don't need permits. No, you do gorilla filmmaking is what you do.

Yeah, what are we even talking about here? Throw some smoke bomb in there break you f in law. Yeah, bunch of you know nuclear Engineers a bunch of eggheads out here You think uh, you think this is how they made films back in the 70s man not really you got fucking getting your larry koan bag Yeah, climb a fucking building fucking you got peter fonda and you got denis hopper Like completely out of their minds on acid with a fucking camera and that's how they did it baby and and neither of them Ever studied stem arts the stem arts right? So actually tennis hoppers a stem guy No, he's uh, I was trying to think of a a word about photography in all your to stem.

You got one. No, I don't He's a stop comma f guy. Ah, an f-stop guy like that guy All right beach world beach world. She finds Rand Rand is Sort of like meditating.

He's sitting cross-legged in the sand. Yeah, he's just like You know, he doesn't seem like a guy who just got into a you know spaceship wreck on a desert planet He's like, you know what this place right here. This is where i'm gonna live forever. I love it out here Yeah, and again, we're telekinetic here right Uh, yeah, yeah, and then we so we find out a little bit about the planet, right?

It's not just a desert planet time. It's funny here, right? It's one of those things where you can't you can't go anywhere You can't do anything. You're just sort of like, I don't know you're just sort of stuck in this like in between dimension Yeah, right and it's like yeah The planet gives them telekinesis ransa something to the effect of like The only limit to what we can do on this planet is our imagination, which doesn't seem true at all.

No, it doesn't Because yeah as soon as he said that in this i'm like buddy, this is a low-budget Want to pump the brakes on what our imagination can handle. Yes, okay. That's uh you have to say it so we know it's true. Right Yeah, Shapiro is like walking around she's limping around Uh, it does seem like this woman has never limped before Oh rob Oh, no for the listener.

Oh god for the listener rob has a white wind sock on his microphone and there's red flecks on it now It's very sad. Yeah Remember like a like a month or two ago when I was coughing up blood Yeah, and we got a bunch of emails that were like bring back sick rob. Yeah, we love sick rub You're such a fucking sicko So rob snuck into a um like a bio research facility Yeah, I just started looking petri dishes Just like took an arm and ran it across the table and knocked a bunch of beakers on the ground right I'm starting to roll around and started huffing Yeah, like a little piggy search for truffles Um anyway, so yes, um Ran loves it here. Shapiro still kind of wants to be alive.

Yeah, she's she's not She wants office goddamn island or planet whatever. I mean what is a planet, but it's a celestial island, right? Yeah, right? Sorry, sorry.

I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers here. Please please Um then she finds the first aid kit and then she just starts shooting off that sweet morphine, baby It's not morphine, but it's it's space. It's space. It's space morphine Xenomorphine right and then what is that what is this business like she goes into some I don't know Right.

It was it's so weird. Yeah, it's like a dream sequence where she Kind of just like limps through she's like outlined in blue and she's in in space Limping through this like red in their way right uh, and then she sees Rand she sees a spaceship approaching and then she sees Rand with a Conch shell blows it blows into a conch shell which just I mean that's such a beach beach boy thing to do Yeah, grab a conch shell get it gather up. We got to gather up all the boys You grab conch shell and you blow your horn and that's that's how you that's how everybody knows that they need to uh get over here quick That's right. We're gonna rumble surf contest.

Yeah now Uh, and that so the spaceship lands, right and then we have uh to I don't know space pirates I guess like they're scavengers. Yeah, and they they land on the planet and they're like they're looking for They're looking for their ship, which has been destroyed. They're looking for whatever cargo they may be uh Carrying with them to see if they could get any money for that. Um, it's all very like I don't know Uh, this whole interaction between uh the captain here captain, uh, renna and shapiro They're like shapiro keeps saying like she you know, they have to get off the speech world captain doesn't really want to because she wants Uh, she wants that money.

She wants that those space credits, man You know how many credits a federation will give me for returning you two? I don't know We we don't we don't really find out what the exchange rate is no on credits to no no so Um, what happens in the future that we don't name our money anything. That's just credits. It's just credits It's like how art is content.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, this certain way money has no. Yeah, no real kind of uh There just needs to be a universal Uh, the monetary system. What is what if they were just called euros in this like that wins out?

Yeah, they voted on him. We're going with the euro. It holds its value Safe um we could also do what about spaceos. Oh, come on.

I love it. That's that's money in the bank. That's free Um, okay. Yeah, so she you know, she's all excited about the ship Ran tries to kill her when she goes to like meet the space pirates then she goes and meets them Like he said they want to collect bounty on them.

They talk about selling her into a slave like a sec slave trade Which right, you know, we're gonna talk about the short story a little bit, but that's not in there That's a jackie perez touch right there the jackie perez touches in this Oh, is that bird on the bed behind you? Yeah, it's bird on the bed trying to make room because I threw a bunch of shit on there You covered up my spot Um, yeah, I'm just like him You know, what's funny about bird is sometimes he I like this he'll set off the static electricity on the bed sheets Yeah, and he'll just give off sparks and he's walking around on the bed. Yeah, it's pretty cool He's such a showboat Yes The captain sends one of their crew mates. I dud dud up to go get rand rand is over the over the dune He's just over there.

You have to go get him And she's like he's too far gone like he's out of his mind. He's got space madness. You don't you can't Jase him And so dud comes back. He says there's nobody over there And then it's implied that maybe dud was just some sort of figment of her imagination And then she takes the space morphine and jabs it into dud's stomach sits here Taste this and then she stabs the captain in the throat and says here taste this so dud is real Dud is real rand seems to not be real rand is not real.

Okay. Sorry. I got confused I thought you were saying dud wasn't real is like what the no no Dud is real and then whoever is on the other end of the calm though the captain is talking to like she Pierre just walks into the ship and murders that person as well. Yeah All as the one with space madness, huh?

All as a it's not where is my mind, but it's the same cord progression as well. Oh my god. Did you notice that? Yes I was I it started playing and I was like this can't possibly be where is my mind?

We we can't do that anymore We can't we certainly certainly we can't afford it right so i'm not But yeah, it's like a sound alike. It's like a barely shook by chair model. Uh chair model. Yes terrific terrific.

Have you so it's like um you know that song that's like Kind of it's not a sample of okay. Sorry. Let me clear my head You know, it's like you spin me right around baby right around like a wreck. Yeah, baby That song you know that song from like the mid 2010s.

That's like you spin my head right round right round leg of that Yes, it's like not a sample or a cover, but it's like right and they're like a few other songs from like that same few year period Where where people were doing that right? Yeah, I'm reminded of that Yeah, it's kind of you know how like uh the clash had like I fought the law right and then like a few years later Like john melon camp like did a a different song about fighting the law But like I fought the law and the law one has such like a nice rhythm to it and whatever his was like super clunky I don't know that. Oh my god. No, fuck now.

I'm gonna have to find that. Is it I let's see Authority is it authority? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is the Authority I fight authority authority always wins That's it that's the one put it through google translate and go back Oh Wow, I thought right I thought about authority.

Oh, whatever that it's very dumb. That sucks. It sucks. That's it sucks.

Yeah, like maybe I should write a Anti-establishment kind of song my middle name is cougar So, uh, that's what this song feels like to me. It's just like it's one of those uh Realty-free sound yeah, yeah, I mean not not royalty-free. It was licensed courtesy of music bed So I think someone's getting someone's getting money somewhere Well, that's not fair to anybody. I think uh tailored wait tailored dane johnson Isn't was tailored dane johnson well isn't tailored dane that uh, is that is that her name?

Oh, is that is that the one that like uh she writes all the most popular songs? She's like, yes, see a kind of a person. Uh, no, well, hold on. No, not that at all in fact wait Maybe I don't know what she wrote all I remember is there was a tignetaro bit about meeting tailored dane So whatever she's like a minor she's like a minor pop star from the 80s, but there's okay This is tailored dane johnson joell's we know guys look down on your mouth.

Sorry. No, I know where uh All right, uh, and then Then the so after superior kills everybody she just sort of walks off into the desert Presumably to be consumed by the dooms world. Yeah Yeah, and that's it they talk about beach world like you can hear the waves, but uh, you know, there's no ocean around right It would have helped If they maybe did like a panoramic shot, you know, like not just one angle Yeah, we're in we're in the dunes show those dunes right I want to see more dunes show me how uh like hopeless the situation is please Um, so I don't know I don't like getting nitpicky about people's like short films, you know, they try their best but also at the same time Yeah, it's not very good. Yeah, now.

There's a reason that you went to college for I don't know eight years to be a nuclear engineer Um Right. I there's no way that's Like less gratifying than making this movie, right? Isn't it more satisfying to be a nuclear engineer? You know what like this.

Okay. So this is the thing right So you would think so right but then if this person is so unhappy being a nuclear engineer, right? I mean what I assume was a successful career I don't know but maybe maybe it wasn't but probably was that she was like, you know what I saw a Q&A with Eli Roth and i'm gonna go for it Yeah, maybe I mean if you're that easily if you're that susceptible to yeah, maybe Um, maybe I'm gonna side with her parents on this one and say don't don't do that. Yes this uh, she's an army brad also Say no more right now.

I mentioned earlier that you know you talk about wanting to see a panoramic of these dunes I mentioned earlier that this is filmed at the Glamis sand dunes I'm wondering if we as the audience were supposed to understand the treachery of that because three years earlier That's where Tamara from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills crashed her dune buggy So let me make sure i'm getting back right here. Yeah, I mean that makes sense and people are going to get that information to You know they're they're viewing experience. They're gonna right you can't just ignore that fact. Yes.

They're like oh my god I know those dunes. It's like when you see new york in a movie and you're a new yorker. They're like I know Right corner. Hey, I know that pizzeria.

Yeah, that's right. Oh that great's my pile Exactly. So people were like I mean you just see the woman's legs like poking out of the sand like well The hero goes to pull her leg out of the sand and it's just uh, it's just a rubber poly leg Uh, that's kind of that might be the most interesting thing about this movie is that it was filmed on the same dunes where tamara from real housewives of Orange County had her dune buggy accident. Do you think that's why they shot it there?

They were like I just want I just want to feel the same energy as that with that in your performance But don't say anything because we can't mic you it's too windy. It's very windy. It's too goddamn windy. Oh boy Now, yeah, something that they had hoped to do was to have a king alum Oh play the voice on the radio.

Oh, who was it gonna be they didn't say on the website for this project? It just says we would like to do this. Okay, instead they did not do that Yeah, uh, Lisa is not a king alum. She's not sadly.

Um, she's got some pretty great credits here She was on one episode of transparent. Uh, she's on there a lot of like everyone on here is just everyone in this short is like a bit Player on like TV shows and stuff right a lot of one episode uh like lawn order. So yes, I kind of Exactly. Um the my favorite is dud who I couldn't find he only has a few credits But he's played by an actor named Eduardo almost which is almost Edward James.

Yeah, he's Edward James almost I thought he was uh, I thought he was hurley from the last. Yeah, he's got that. He's got big hurley energy I mean, he's got hurley sized hurley energy. Yeah, it's not bigger than hurley, but he is Where are you?

That's dial of guy. Um, no, I've never seen loss my only actually I think my only experience of lost was being at Um being at your house for family gathering. Okay, and you and my sister and your sister We're all watching it and you guys want to watch the new one or whatever and they were they were down So I was sitting in there and I think I saw a polar bear and a smoke monster in the same episode I was like this is dumb buddy. So you gotta pull a bear and a smoke monster in the same time.

So that's yeah, that's lost gold right there You accidentally struck. Yeah, it's that white gold a polar bear. You're exactly Yeah, it uh I watched all of lost and like everybody else. I was disappointed by the ending and now you know, it's not what you go back You don't like when people go to heaven.

Is that it? You don't like that part. Are you is this you pulling like a ricky gervais? Yeah, mar on me.

Are you are you saying the idea? I only believe in one god less than you Are you are you suggesting that the idea of the the passengers of flight? What's the flight number? I don't know.

Who was that flight? Hey 19 are you suggesting that the idea of the passengers of flight? Hey 19 going to heaven is somehow religious Damn, we're gonna have to watch religious for the podcast. I don't know.

I know we're not gonna do that scary too. Don't scary Maybe we can maybe we can You know, we have to watch still I was thinking about this today. Maybe you were too what the holy mountain I know I was I was nervous about that. I saw that it's on our list and I'm like, oh boy One of our that's one of those trends.

Yeah, you gotta quest it. Yeah, they pay close attention Yeah, so since I actually know it since we know you're out there listening Let's just say it we are afraid to do it because we are not eggheads. That's right. I'm though nuclear engineer.

No, we're jocks. We're dumb jocks I just watched heat again for like the 50th time. It's one of the best movies of all time. It's so fucking good I know classic, right?

And then I was I might do it tonight or tomorrow. I was gonna watch den of thieves, which is like dumb guy heat Yes, it's like if heat were Written by like the high school like football player who's like I saw heat and this is like what I remember But you know be even cooler if there were some fucking tits in this It's like a whole movie that's sprung out of butted off of alpuccino going great ass. Oh, yeah What if we just sort of explored that a little bit more? Having a great What if there were more women in the movie with great asses, huh what then god the whole point of every michael man movie is that women don't exist Honestly what makes them so great.

Yeah You know I've never seen any of the uh like the non crime Michael man movies right like I've seen all the crime movies, but then like allee less than mohekins I haven't seen any of those same like how does this even I don't know how to you know like obviously They're claimed like people like them in my head. I'm like I cannot fucking uh like Like around that edge. Yeah, how does that work? I'm asking so much of me to care about someone not getting into a shootout or something right?

Right. We're cracking it safe. Does anybody like uh do something with extreme proficiency that I can watch? Yeah, I need to watch someone very tactic tiledly doing something with impeccable fully Right Right.

I need the stakes to be astronomical life or death Um, I guess those are like those make sense for him in that the both of those protagonists are like Well, actually, I don't know what less mohekins really is like at all But allee at least that's like also like an expert in his field who's sort of like but he wasn't even really isolated by his own greatness Like his whole deal is that he was super charismatic. I don't know right. He was Yeah, most popular guy of all time The only thing about uh the movie allee that that does seem interesting is that from what I understand it doesn't it focuses more on like the Like the controversial stuff with allee like him going to africa Uh like not going to vietnam like not participating or whatever like all of this stuff, which that seems interesting, but not you know I don't know does he crack it safe or something come on Just punches the one I mean I would yeah, that would be enough for me. It's punch is safe open and anything less would not be enough.

That's right. Um Beach world is there anything else that you want to say about This beach world This here beach world. Yeah, no, I mean what can you say? I found it It looks fine You know, it looks like slick or whatever like it was made in 2019 because that's just like what you can make things look like now right, um It's it is like It is a challenging thing to try to shoot for the reasons you said like how do you Establish sort of just like the vastness and the hopelessness of this and yeah, like you said a panorama would have been helpful A frickin droner.

I'm not a big drone guy, but get that pullback, you know up into the sky or something that would have been nice um the The acting is really it's rough really not so great here. Um, not that like not that the dialogue is like stellar and they they just like fell short of the assignment but Um, they didn't understand the assignment. Oh, no Pelosi clap Um, I just I just don't it didn't do it for me like kind of on any level. I feel bad saying that but No, I'm with you.

I thought it was kind of like yeah, it's fine. Whatever. And you know, it's it's whatever It's so crazy how like with the stories if it happens on or near a beach or some sand we love it Right, but if a movie does that we don't love it at all. I don't for the most part Uh, do you want to rank this baby?

Ah capital b baby. That's right. Yes. I do.

Yes. I do. Uh, all right. Do you want to go first?

You want me to go first? I can go first. That's fine. Um, so my bottom five.

Uh, it's gonna be Paranoid a chance. Oh, sorry. That was me working for the bottom up for some reason. That's stupid.

Let me do it the right way Bottom five bottom five. Okay. I got here there be tigers which we did last week, correct? Yes, yes, and we also did not love that obviously we love any of these um, um these last case Hmm whatever uh nights are just Yeah, you know just cast the tail Um nights are maybe the most disappointing thing.

I think we've done just like the chasm between stories material and so british Oh Uh then king rose up and paranoid a chant now. I I'm a man of principle. Yes, you know this yeah, right? I know this about you.

Yeah. Well, I want to hear you saying you're definitely a man of principle. There we go. That was pretty good And So being a man of principle, I must keep paranoid a chant and can rose up at the very bottom of my list Right due to them being absolute Absolutely terrible.

Unwontable. Right? Um Beach world Goes I think above can rose up and below night surf Now am I grading night surf on a kerf because I like the source material so much Oh, it could be good day. I'm not going to tell you I'm just going to That's the order of the mind.

That's for you to fill in right um so beach world is my new number 17 making my bottom five on these Night surf beach world can rose up and paranoid a chant rob Yeah What's your deal? Uh, all right here are my bottom five Um one two three four five Number 19 Fucking paranoid a chant that one is gonna stay down there. That one's cute Then we got night surf then we got here there be tigers here. They are here.

They're tigers be Um Then I got um these last case and then I got cane rose up I'm gonna put beach world right between um these last case and here there be tigers. So it's uh, that's gonna be my number 16 Wow, wow. Wow. That's so crazy because you put it you put it 16.

I put it 17 Discuss I can't believe you have cane rose up. So hi. I can't believe cane rose up. So hi Um Yeah, I guess I probably should redo my list If we talk about it every week and I think I need to do it.

Hey rob If you like if you like cane rose up, right, which is about a freaking school shooter. What does that say about you dude? True what's true what's going on in that sick fucking head of yours? I don't know.

I don't know anymore speaking of sick some congestion. Oh, yeah I'm just riding this fucking volume up over here Try not to die into the microphone. Yeah, you're gonna like you're gonna have to replace the pot on that thing soon like you're just wearing that down I should have tried to stretch that because I knew you were muted. Thank you.

Yeah, I appreciate um, all right So we're we're gonna take a break rob's gonna take a nap and we will be back to discuss the short story Okay, bye. Okay. Bye free babies go out with the bathwater. Bye.

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