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Surviving Robots, Y2K Nostalgia, and Heartwarming Holidays: A Year-End Reflection
Have you ever pondered how you'd survive a robot apocalypse with nothing but your wits and perhaps a fire hose? Join us as we brainstorm wild and inventive strategies to outsmart our mechanical foes, before shifting gears to the lighter side of life. Our conversation takes a cozy turn as we share heartwarming stories about moving into new homes, adopting a quirky cat named Cat Williams, and cherishing backyard football games. The camaraderie extends into cherished summer memories, Friday night gatherings, and the warmth of hosting a Friendsgiving—a celebration filled with laughter and long-lasting friendships.
The nostalgic allure of Y2K comes alive as we revisit our recent movie outings and the cultural phenomenon that defined an era. We recount the guilty pleasure of sneaking a McDonald's meal into the theater and the unexpected comedy in the new Y2K film by A24. Our lively dialogue draws parallels between the film's quirky characters and our own high school antics, adding personal flair to our review. We also fondly remember the classic I, Robot, appreciating its enduring appeal and visionary depiction of technology, while drawing parallels to other apocalyptic predictions that never quite came to fruition.
As the year winds down, we share a candid and humorous year-end chat with our guest, Glenn, sprinkled with reflections on technology's role in our lives. Our insights into I, Robot's accurate predictions about modern devices spark engaging discussions on innovation and societal trends. With a dash of humor, we end on an uplifting note, eagerly anticipating a festive holiday episode and an exciting lineup of films next year. Join us for laughter, nostalgia, and thoughtful musings as we celebrate another eventful year and look forward to new adventures.
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excuse me, is anybody sitting here? Sorry, this is taken. Sorry, if you were to do you, think you could survive a robot apocalypse no, no, actually.
Speaker 2:yeah, how far do you think you can go? I you know, when we were watching this movie, I didn't think that there's any chance that I'd be able to survive something, because I'm just going to give up in that situation. To be honest, I've thought of that. But it came to me last night the perfect plan. Let's hear it. You just get a couple guys and you head down to the local fire department and you just roll up on all of them with a fire hose, right?
Speaker 1:You would think so, like just attack them with water.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You would be like kids in the store with that bunch of water balloons and shit on you strapped.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like you just go to your local fire department and just have them lead the way with the fire hoses. Robots done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you think the robots would figure out how to show off the water, though? Would is robots done? Yeah, but you think the robots would figure out how to show off the water, though? Would you live on Lake Michigan then?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd live on Lake Superior because it's the larger of the two.
Speaker 1:Did you know that?
Speaker 2:No, I didn't. I just learned that this week at work, and you know what? That's why it's called Lake Superior. There's like bull sharks in there sometimes.
Speaker 1:Bull sharks yeah, there's sharks in Lake Superior, yeah.
Speaker 2:They swim from the salt water and then it creates.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's connected to the ocean.
Speaker 2:No, but there's channels, there's so many channels that connect it, and then they swim up there and then they can like survive in the so yeah, Think of connect it and then they swim up there and then they can, like, survive in the.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, think of that next time you go to wahala. Yeah, because you know how often I go there. Well, thank you everyone for tuning into this. It's taken. Uh, I got my co-host back, glenn steel.
Speaker 2:Thank you for coming, glenn hello everybody, it's very I'm very happy to be back. I feel like I was just on not too long ago and I think you were I thought, uh, the invitation to come back on was a little premature, but I'm never going to say no to you, rob. Yeah, yeah, I love coming on here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know you do. I love coming on here. This is going to be your last appearance for the year, because 2025 is right around the corner.
Speaker 2:It is man. I was just looking at the date. I can't believe it's the 7th of December already. Yeah 8th, the. Looking at the date, I can't believe it's the 7th of december already. Yeah, eighth, the eighth, the ninth now that you're listening to this, geez.
Speaker 1:I mean you've been having a pretty good year so far. I mean this is your first full year in your new house you got a new cat. You know you've been going to the movies a lot yeah, no, I've had a very good year.
Speaker 2:I'm not. I haven't. I have zero complaints about this year what's your favorite part about 2024? My favorite part of 2024? Definitely this summer. I had a lot of fun this summer.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, because, for those of you who don't know, you have an entire high school football field in your backyard literally I do so every Friday.
Speaker 2:You have all the guys over to watch the game. Yeah, the house that came with floor seats, front row season tickets. That capped off my summer. Those nights out, those Friday nights out there, that was some of the best times, some of the best times I had some of the best times this summer.
Speaker 1:I really did yeah, because I mean like I said, every Friday night we were here watching the game. It was a pretty chill night.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Pretty chill summer, pretty decent fall and winter. Like I said, got the your cat, this fall dude cat williams.
Speaker 2:He's the best man. He gets better and better every day like he does nothing wrong.
Speaker 1:No, he's the chillest cat.
Speaker 2:He's just everybody's like, wow, you got so lucky and I'm just so grateful. Yeah, and he's so funny bro. I'll just be walking around the house and he'll follow me around. But I'll just turn a corner to go get something out of the fridge or something and I'll look up and he's on top of the cabinet up there Like how'd you get up there, cat Williams, how'd you get up there? I just got him a new gold ring too to put on his gold chain and it has a little money symbol on diamonds on it. Yeah, I was showing people at work pictures of Cat Williams and one of my employees brought that ring in yesterday and said, hey, get his drip up. And I said hot, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I suppose you can get like a little bandana from him and everything that's coming next. I got him a little scarf, but he doesn't like to wear it because, it's getting chilly, you know yeah, yeah, totally, and talk about you just hosted um for the first time a friends giving. I did what a night too yeah, that's pretty fun, that was fun.
Speaker 2:That was awesome. We had a moment where we're just sitting around the table a bunch of guys playing cards, talking about like times from 10 years ago, and it occurred to me wow, those times were like 10 years ago, almost like you gotta realize like that was 10 years ago.
Speaker 1:We were like 18, 19 and crazy and it's like man.
Speaker 2:Those were some really good times there's some really good times.
Speaker 1:It's cool that those people are still in in our lives and stuff you know yeah, yeah, um a lot of cool moments lately let's go talk about movies a little bit more, because you've been going to the movies a lot this year with me yeah I've even feeling about movies. This year, like you think, it's been a good year for movies, a bad year for movies, just kind of forgettable To be honest, not a lot of them stick out particularly.
Speaker 2:However, going to the movies and sitting down and watching a movie, that's just always a good time. Yeah, I always enjoy it.
Speaker 1:We recently got a Superbox at our house. You know you can watch movies and shit like that in theaters it's like a fire stick, yeah but I mean, like I don't watch movies, I like going to the theaters, it's fun. Um, I mean, I know you like challengers a lot.
Speaker 2:That was pretty cool challengers of the tennis movie. Yeah, I didn't really like that movie.
Speaker 1:I've seen it like three or four times in theaters, and then I I can't stop thinking about it.
Speaker 2:It was that good of a fucking movie I've been firing up my popcorn machine pretty, pretty frequently around here too yeah, yeah for movie nights or just cause just just popping, just popping some corn man yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:We went to the theaters together to watch this movie we're gonna be talking about and, uh, this is the first time ever I went with somebody who snuck in like full-ass meal oh yeah, you know I didn the number seven from a McDonald's.
Speaker 2:I didn't have time to eat dinner before. I took a little nap after work and then, luckily, rob called me, or else I would have slept through the movie. I tend to do that a lot, especially if it's only like a two-hour nap. That's not enough for me, because when I hit like an hour and a half, good luck waking me up. You know what I'm saying, but luckily you called me. I hit the mcdonald's drive-thru real quick and just put it under my coat yeah, yeah eating mcchickens during the movie.
Speaker 2:What would you do if they told you hey, you can't bring that in here I would honestly just pound the food outside really quick and in the 15 degree weather, nah, I'd just leave.
Speaker 1:To be honest, uh, well, today's movie we leave, to be honest. Well, today's movie we're going to be talking about the new Y2K movie, the new A24 movie and, for a throwback to go on theme, this is the first time ever I've rewatched this movie in like years and it's I Robot with Sonny Will Smith from 2003. I freaking love that movie. I liked it a lot and I forgot how much I liked it until we watched it last night and it was freaking awesome my first time seeing it.
Speaker 1:It was pretty sick um, I asked you to come off this y2k movie because I knew it was gonna be a fun, ridiculous movie and I think you would enjoy the hell out of it. And this movie definitely surpassed my expectations. I thought it was gonna be cheap laughs like kind of like throw in random nostalgia stuff in there just because it's a 1999. But I mean I laughed a lot, a lot more than I thought I was going to yeah, it was very funny and especially because you didn't know anything about this movie going in I didn't know what it was about, I just knew the title.
Speaker 2:I remembered I was in kindergarten and I kind of remember people talking about that stuff. Um, didn't watch a trailer or anything. Tried to watch a trailer, not gonna lie before pulled it up it was two minutes 35 seconds. I said I'm out, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna sit around for two minutes 35 seconds and watch a trailer yeah, so I said I'm just gonna go into this thing blind which is sometimes a better way to do it. Yeah, I, I enjoyed it because I didn't expect it to be a stupid funny movie it was in my mind like the beginning.
Speaker 1:I like, all right, this better not try to be like a super bad kind of movie, you know, because you're just not gonna win yeah, I didn't even know it was comedy until we stepped in there I thought it was uh like a sci-fi. Yeah, no, there's. I think this is. There's been plenty of horror movies like that you remember, like 2012 when people thought the world was gonna end, and they came out with a movie with 2012, people thought was going to happen.
Speaker 2:I remember all the hype for that movie too. That was the year I graduated high school and a lot of people were talking about the world was going to end and YOLO and all this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then I mean so there's definitely like darker takes on stuff like this, like what the world's going to end. And I mean I don't want to say people don't know about Y2K, but hopefully everyone does. When the year 1999 came, everyone was afraid that when the 2000 came all the computers weren't going to be able to adjust to the 2000, to go back to zeros. They thought all the computers were going to fail. All the missiles from military and airplanes are going to crash. All that stuff was going to happen. Long story, short spoiler.
Speaker 1:Short spoiler it didn't so then um 24 years later, we're talking about why you came the movie in this movie stores run like high schoolers who were just getting ready to graduate. Uh, eli, laura and danny. I swear danny is the bigger friend. I swear danny and eli reminded me of me, of you. Like you were danny and I was Eli the loser, but you were the one who turned up at the party.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he kind of like looked like me too, like when I was in high school with no beard or anything, if I was like 100 pounds like heavier.
Speaker 1:I would have looked exactly like him. I only know him from one other movie, and that was like Deadpool. He was in Deadpool 2. You haven't seen those yet, right?
Speaker 2:I have not, no he was funny, though he was very funny.
Speaker 1:I thought I was going to hate his character. I really did from the trailers. But let me go back real quick. For those who don't know, this movie is about two high school high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium, on New Year's Eve, 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight. And what I mean by that? This movie in 1999, when the Y2K happens, the power goes off for a quick second and it comes back on and all electronics come to life and are joining together, bonding together to attack and kill humans. And I guess their big evil plan was to use humans as their puppets.
Speaker 2:To conquer the world away from the humans, exactly Kind of like thanos uh, not really. Thanos said everything will be metal.
Speaker 1:no, you did not say that oh, I don't know where you got that from, anyways. Um, but it starts high school kids. You know like, and it's like did take me back. Like man. He's sitting around all the time talking about how to get girls and stuff like that, and I mean we still do that.
Speaker 2:But they found a condom in a library book and they were like passing it around. Hey, do you need it tonight? You might need it tonight. You pass it off it wouldn't get used, never like he's probably inspired. And shit if that was me in high school and we did that, which me and brandon, we did some, I mean, we didn't pass around a condom, but like I could see that I would have just burned it and used it and jacked off into it, what the fuck wouldn't even held it that long.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, oh rob, you've never jerked off into a condom no what okay, rob anyways, going back to the movie, I mean there is the nostalgia in this movie, like AOL instant messaging. Do you remember that stuff? Did you ever get into?
Speaker 2:that I wasn't really on AIM, no. I wasn't, but I obviously know of it.
Speaker 1:But I mean the only thing I didn't buy he was typing LOL, lmao, stuff like that. I don't think they were talking like that in 1999 yet I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think LOL, stuff like that, like I don't think they were talking like that in 1999, yet I don't know. I think lol was was a thing I don't know. Lmao, I think that wasn't.
Speaker 1:No, not back then exactly I didn't hear that until I mean it opens up like that where you're on the computer screen and it's instant messaging and then you have like uh, clinton's speech going on in the background. You know it's really setting the tone for 1999 and that's what I was afraid of like. If it's thrown so much like 1999 stuff in there, I was like, okay, we get it, we're in 1999, let's fucking go on with the story. And I feel like it had the perfect amount. I mean you had like kelso from that 70s show. I have a big influence on these characters and that was pretty cool. Um, we're trying to think what else was in there a lot of funny, stupid deaths stupid.
Speaker 1:I mean, this movie is a lot more gory than I thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 2:So what?
Speaker 1:it turned midnight at 2000 and then, like, right at that second, the machines just like started to kill people exactly, and like rose grew some ways, like one, like had like a bed that was like you had a remote to recline it up and down and stuff like that, I guess. Like it came alive and threw someone up in the ceiling fan, the ceiling fan and penetrated his forehead.
Speaker 2:He had the one guy in the kitchen got his penis caught in the blender like how do they get these situations?
Speaker 1:I get that one yeah, yeah, what are some ways like one got burned alive. His face got burned alive by shaving grit, not hair gel, yeah, hairspray and the lighter, the thing burned him.
Speaker 2:He's like I used gel bro then he got popped.
Speaker 1:One thing I did like because the bigger friend we just talked about let me see his name real quick, the australian danny. He was in his movie, less than half of the movie, but what I liked about it, in that little time we seen them together we really got to appreciate their friendship and understand how close they were, which meaning, like I thought, I felt more sympathetic when his character died I thought uh, for this being a stupid funny movie, though, they killed him off way too quickly I mean, I feel like his role was like meant to be not that big, but he that kid himself like he's just the funniest character, though, you know.
Speaker 2:We only got him for 20 minutes and then, yeah, at the end, after he dies, they go to his grave and it's all heartfelt yeah, you felt bad for him. I did, but you know, wish we saw more of him, because he was hilarious, I mean this movie did not hold back and like killing people, all that you like, really liked.
Speaker 1:There was another character that didn't even die from a freaking robot, a CJ, that was rollerblading.
Speaker 2:That was the funniest part of the whole movie.
Speaker 1:They're running away from these robots.
Speaker 2:They're hiding in the garage, planning their escape and they finally decide to go for it. So they open up the garage door and he sees a basketball hoop turned over onto the ground and he's a skater boy punk and he's like, oh, let's go nar rail. And he goes for a grind and he just slips and cracks his neck.
Speaker 1:That was so funny, it was so stupid. I mean, his character was funny as fuck, because I feel like we all knew people like that in high school, just like a fake punk rocker and stuff like that, talking shit, yeah, and just dying from something completely random. That was fucked up he was. He's a famous actor that uh uh daniel. Oh geez, I did not say his last name, but I know he's from stranger things and stuff like that. He's a. He's a pretty accomplished actor.
Speaker 2:Oh, I remember him from Stranger Things. He had long hair then too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of like his known thing, but you can go back before that, the high school party you know, like in 1999, like before the Y2K started. That scene alone was funny. Like if it was just following that the whole night I would laugh pretty funny. Like there was a guy flirting with a girl with a huge boner. The main character, cj sorry Eli thought he could save the party by playing his own mixtape which is what was it? The dong the dong, dong, dong Thong song. Yeah, yeah, he put that on. And then his boy Danny came through and like hyped him up and like was dancing the whole time. I was like, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, that was so funny. Yeah, pretty relatable stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was definitely like Eli in this situation. I would not. I would be in the corner talking the whole time Trying to talk to this girl. His huge question is played by Rachel Zegler, who plays Laura, Big Hollywood actress. Again, she's up and coming. She was in the Hunger Games last year. She was in a West Side Story before that. She's upcoming Snow White pretty soon. You know her character was supposed to be played by Jenna Ortega.
Speaker 2:She was going to be in this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but scheduling conflicts couldn't let her do this movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I think Rachel was a cool choice. She was, she was, she was fine. I feel like this movie oh, that would have been sick, yeah, but I think rachel was a cool choice. She was, she was, she was fine. I feel like this movie would have been a lot bigger with jenna ortega I, I really agree with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anything jenna ortega touches right now is huge, it's huge yeah I would have at least known something about it going in. You know what I'm saying yeah, and then there's other characters in there, like the big stoner who hangs out with high schoolers, who owns a video store yeah I thought I was gonna hate him too. Especially when I first met him, like when he I thought he was gonna hate him, but he ended up being pretty funny too. He's just a chill guy who had like reverse goatee.
Speaker 2:He had mutton chops but like nothing above his lip or underneath his chin he had the birkenstocks, he would change into a fresh pair to go in the back and smoke weed with his kids and the champagne really said worked at the blockbuster, yeah I mean, I still think that's a pretty cool ass job.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it is just chilling renting movies all day, talking about movies dude blockbuster.
Speaker 2:Growing up. Well, we went to hollywood video but we went like once a week if I was good in school and we rent a movie dude.
Speaker 1:That was the best I remember doing that and we would run like the live action teenage mutant ninja turtle movies all the time yeah, that like ace ventura and stuff like that I would always get a pokemon video i've've got those too, yeah.
Speaker 2:When I think of Y2K, I think of Pokemon.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:That was when I was like at my peak of Pokemon, like kindergarten, first grade, because I was in kindergarten. I remember when it turned 2000. I was in kindergarten and I remember the teacher like explaining something about what like is going on. I had no idea, I was just thinking about. I remember just thinking about Pokemon Because I was fresh off the Pokemon movie and I was collecting cards.
Speaker 1:I collected cards. I remember playing with my brother growing up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was awesome. That was a good year. 1999 was good yeah.
Speaker 1:I guess Can you imagine being an adult in 1999, though.
Speaker 2:I was going to say do you think if we were adults when Y2K was happening, we would be buying into it?
Speaker 1:Ooh like if we had like, would we believe in it.
Speaker 2:Do you think we would have?
Speaker 1:been worried. I would tell you guys no, but secretly, deep down, I would probably be thinking it's real.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'd think it's real 100%.
Speaker 1:Would you like bore or would you like a party I?
Speaker 2:told you I'd go down to the local fire department strap on a helmet slide down the pole and get the fire hose ready but what happens if it was real?
Speaker 1:well, it is what it is some of the funniest things about this movie too, like whether rapping in this movie was that lame kid couldn't rap uh dude, a lot of music, uh influence.
Speaker 2:Who was that guy? Oh, I was gonna look him up too.
Speaker 1:I forgot. Uh, pat, do you know? Do you listen?
Speaker 2:fred durst, you know like um slipknot, like that type um the. When I worked at domino's the manager, he was a big slipknot and corn guy. I think that guy was from corn.
Speaker 1:I mean, he's one of those he seemed heavily recognized with him from our theater he's a star. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure 1999 was his peak probably, but he was a funny cameo in this movie. He was like you guys are fucking idiots growing up in robots.
Speaker 2:He was good too. He was funny, and then he turns around and starts singing. Whatever song that was, it was sick. What song was that?
Speaker 1:Faith by Creed. I can't remember what his name? No, I can't remember his name, but yeah, that whole scene was funny, slipknot and music like that and he became president, or something like that afterwards, didn't he? Of the United States? I think he was president or something high up like that?
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I didn't see that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then the radio didn't talk about those other two burnouts that just kind of tagged along with them. Uh, the one I thought they were gonna end up fucking at some point oh the the chick and the guy with the glasses, the rapper with glasses yeah, they were like smoking herb together.
Speaker 2:Yeah they tried rapping freestyling together and they just sucked ass it was funny hearing some of the terms that they were using I was kind of bummed to even hear him die, see him die, he died.
Speaker 1:Yeah, remember we got fucking a cd to the four oh, that's right, he got a cd to the four I almost thought I legit thought almost everyone who died in this movie was gonna come back at the end. A, c, cds still a thing I think they still sell. We went to that um, was it fyp store in the mall they don't even sell cds anymore. I'm saying but I'm sure they're still making cds were huge back then my car doesn't even have a cd player.
Speaker 2:I had a cd player. I remember I got for christmas when I was like that year it was blue and see-through and I had like seven cds, bro yeah I remember I had a maroon 5 cd play.
Speaker 1:I used to play all the time spice girls over here.
Speaker 2:I was listening to them. Uh, which bicycle were you sporty spice? That was my first crush. Nice, nice, I was a fan.
Speaker 1:I had a crush on the pussycat dolls.
Speaker 2:That's what mine was really yeah nice, you like them thick.
Speaker 1:Uh, thick ones, thick ones nah, let's go back to the movie. This movie had a lot of action in it, though. A lot of action, a lot of, like you said, gruesome deaths in there. That wasn't people getting decapitated and stuff. That one stoner guy who got decapitated it was totally obvious it was a fake head, but it was just funny comedic. And uh, rachel's sorry, laura's ex-boyfriend in this movie was like he's a huge jack guy who was super nice everybody. Oh yeah, it was kind of ruined for him to get killed. Never did, though.
Speaker 2:His parents are even funny in this one uh, eli's parents are funny in this one they remind me of jimmy neutron's parents kind of right, that's what I was thinking are funny. In this one, they remind me of Jimmy Neutron's parents. Kind of right, that's what I was thinking Clueless.
Speaker 1:I mean this movie is silly, ridiculous. I'm not going to watch it because it's great and outstanding performances, but it was stupid funny, like a group of teenagers saving the fucking world from robots.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of makes me wish it did happen. Kind of makes me wish it did happen, kind of we've been sick, far away from our plan and dude. When I thought of my plan in this scenario to just get the fire department and get the big fire hose and take them out, I was thinking of pokemon, because I was thinking, okay, this is just a battle against electric machines, water is going to be their weakness I'm just going to water. Gun them to death. Okay, and no more robots.
Speaker 1:That's what will smith should do in another movie too do you think you'd be starting all over it's electric pokemon.
Speaker 2:What, pat? Yes, they. Oh, you're right, you're right, but uh, if there was, if, okay, well, I was thinking robot pokemon, but there are none, so that was my dilemma there yes but if there were?
Speaker 1:water gun. You got time to work out the details water gun, but like say that does work and you kill all the robots with with water. Would you even want to live in a world where you have to rebuild society?
Speaker 2:Of course, I'd be too lazy. You're too lazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Dude, we could fix everything that was wrong. That'd be sick. We could reprint money without Thomas Jefferson on it. You know Thomas Jefferson's on our money, okay, he had like 18 confirmed children with illegitimate children, with his slaves, and he's on the like what?
Speaker 1:10, 20, I'm not sure which one but he's on one of them, so that would be the first thing you'd change is to get his ass, yeah get him off of there oh man, that would suck. Um, but the way the movie like they would. They saw this movie like oh, we got to get like a, a virus to plug in there, like so cliche yeah they use that condom. At the end they come, the condom comes back into play, which is so fucking funny tell them save the day.
Speaker 1:Well, what would you give this movie? One out of ten one out of ten.
Speaker 2:It was about I liked it more than I didn't 6.4 6.4.
Speaker 1:That's a pretty good solid. I'll give like a good 6.5 nice yeah it's, it's stupid funny.
Speaker 1:I don't think you should go rush to the theaters to go see it, uh, but definitely put that one in streaming just to have bullshit. Um, but I wanted to do a theme for this episode and that's why I had you pick us like a sci-fi movie and you never seen the movie I robot, because you only seen like maybe two will smith movies your whole life yeah, this was the first will smith movie I saw where I was rooting for him I robot 2003.
Speaker 1:This movie is about in the year 2035. A technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity. This movie was directed by alex porias porias man. This is re-watching this. This is such an early 2000 action movie like it's very cliche, like a tough cop who doesn't like to play by the rules and you know he talks, he's like a bad boy and everything like that. But put yourself in this scenario 2035. That's only like 10 years away from us right now yeah and how far away further they are in society.
Speaker 1:That's what they thought it would look like 30 years in the future you're right, that's what I'm saying um so that's like what we think it would look like in 2055 we do have those tesla robots now, so it's not that far off actually yeah, and sex dolls and robotic sex dolls, bang them yeah, you can customize, them you can customize them.
Speaker 2:Mine's on back order okay yeah, 7500, and you can customize everything from this thing to the lips, the eye color, the pussy shape oh god, titty shape. Seriously, okay, like, yeah, piercings, you can put piercings on that. Yeah, I'm sure you can put tattoos.
Speaker 1:They didn't see any of that in this robot but you knew what was going on the type of like silicone uh skin anyways, 2035 is this year of this movie. But the thing that thrilled me were most wild, like how much people really trusted these robots to the point where this guy is the only guy in the whole country questioning these robots and everyone thinks he's fucking crazy. That was insane. Like there's no way, like people like don't even trust alexis right now.
Speaker 2:But but I couldn't help but thinking is it really that different than it is today? We trust, we trust. We trust computers for everything.
Speaker 1:We can't even go to pick up food anymore door robot can't even like I mean a computer can't even like get up and like harm you physically, but this robot can.
Speaker 2:Sure it can.
Speaker 1:How.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but I mean they said the same thing in the movie and look what happened.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, these are physical robots. The guy, the robots are modeled after the voice actor Alan Tuchik in this movie, who I know you don't know, but he's a very famous actor. He's actually an even more famous voice actor. He was very good acting in this movie.
Speaker 2:Was he in Super Troopers?
Speaker 1:I think. So I can't remember off the top of my head, anyways, but Will Smith in this movie I've never even seen that movie, I just shot in the dark.
Speaker 1:He said I know you don't know him, I don't know him by the way, but I was gonna try and fondle my way around that, but you got me uh, but this movie is so action-packed and so cliche like bad boy, but like in 2003, that seemed cool as fuck. I I'm not going to shit on this movie, because we watched it last night and it did hold our attention from start to finish.
Speaker 2:It did.
Speaker 1:It did right Like it was funny. There's a lot of plot holes and other things I couldn't find.
Speaker 2:Some of the futuristic stuff was pretty spot on too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like tap to pay.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Kind of thing Just swipe your card, tap your card and when he tapped it and the light turned on.
Speaker 2:It was literally the same amount of time when you tap yours and the light turns on. It was like perfect. It made the same beep.
Speaker 1:You have flying cars in this movie like self-driving cars. We have that really in real life.
Speaker 2:Also the robots walking around the city delivering things. I just thought of that as like Uber Eats.
Speaker 1:Domino's is on top of that, are they? Yeah, the other little thing, it's more like college school cars they got everything.
Speaker 2:Their delivery drivers have cars now Like Domino's cars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who would have thought Domino's is on top of the world right now?
Speaker 2:I could have told you that when I was working there, I was like this place is on the come up. Everything Business is booming.
Speaker 1:Business is booming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, business is booming here. The pizza sucks, but business is booming. They're business models. Yeah, you know, I was a model for Domino's. What does that mean? It means the manager said hey, we got to take a photo shoot for some coupons. We want you to be in it. And I went to a whole professional photo shoot and got paid for it.
Speaker 1:Do you have some?
Speaker 2:No, I didn't get any of them. They didn't use me oh shit, but it was just me an apron and some delicious garlic knots.
Speaker 1:You know you're in some like all those are in some guy's basement right now just staring at you.
Speaker 2:Probably garlic knots. You know you're in like all those are in some guy's basement right now just staring at you.
Speaker 1:Probably they were class a photos. No, I had my full uniform. I was just painting a picture for the audience you were like an astonished chef eating your pizza.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people were doing that in their flipping dough like up in the air that's pretty it's hard to do. I tried pizza.
Speaker 1:Making is a talent bridget mohanan, who plays susan this movie moana no, not moana the female lead in this movie, dr Carter. Yeah, dr Calvin.
Speaker 2:Dr Calvin Carter.
Speaker 1:No, but anyways, she was pretty good in this movie Playing somebody who doesn't believe, not believe, but who doesn't. I don't even know where I'm going with this sentence, but anyways, what are some of your favorite action sequences? I mean some of the sequences in this movie, like it was clearly just to show off the technology. I mean, the robots did look great, the cgi looked great in this movie, but like some of the slow motion in there's like that was kind of unnecessary.
Speaker 2:It felt like a tom cruise movie almost I liked when the main character robot, um sunny sunny, he was like the only one that can have dreams and like has a conscience. And I liked when he started to say that that stuff was happening, because I was like he could just be lying. But then I'm like no, but he's not. I liked, I liked when we learned more about who he is and like what he can do.
Speaker 1:This whole movie it was like you could try pieces together but like this whole movie was planned. This entire movie was planned because it opens up with the suicide and um by this guy and he. The suicide was a part of the plan to initiate this whole thing, with Will Smith coming in and play his role, uh, taking down these robots and stuff like that. It was intense. This whole movie was fucking brilliant and I'm surprised this movie doesn't have a sequel to it and it turned out to not be a suicide, and he did kill himself.
Speaker 2:Oh, I guess it was, wasn't it yeah?
Speaker 1:Well, it takes these back.
Speaker 2:Takes these back.
Speaker 1:Takes these. There is throwback. Will Smith's character doesn't like the future at all, which is kind of weird because the movie takes place in chicago. I was like if you're that afraid of robots, why don't you move to the country?
Speaker 2:yeah, you know, I realized that that was chicago and I'm like chicago looks nothing like this, no, like, not even close right, look clean right they were spot on with a lot of this stuff, but uh, 10 years, there will be way more homeless people. Oh yeah, it's going to be replaced robots in this movie. It's going to be I-bum, i-bum and there's going to be one bum that can have dreams, breaks it up, yeah.
Speaker 2:Then the fire department is going to come through with the giant hose. Take them all out, jeez would you a lot of.
Speaker 1:I mean the more. It's mostly the wealthy people who has these personal robots just walking around them and the sex dolls would you own one of these robots in your place?
Speaker 2:no, yes, would you yes?
Speaker 1:I would be the most laziest motherfucker ever yeah, one of these robots it'd be sick. It would be sick. I mean, these robots do have rules. They can't hurt people. They can't uh, what else they can't hurt people. There's three rules can't hurt or kill people they can't hurt themselves they can defend themselves, but unless, like it's not if it infers with the other rules. Yeah, and it must do follow orders that are given to them.
Speaker 2:I'd be like Sonny clean the house. Yeah, sonny, get me a Diet Coke. Sonny, come and suck me up. Yeah, just his daily routine. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh gee, looks up to a vacuum cleaner. Yeah, you know, that's how it hooks up to a vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, that's how you give yourself a fake hickey. Okay, vacuum cleaner to the neck. Is that what you did? No, that's just how it's done, okay.
Speaker 1:This movie was great. It still holds off 20 years later, over 21 years now.
Speaker 2:Long time yeah 2003.
Speaker 1:How old were you in 2003? 2003. I was like six.
Speaker 2:I was probably like eight, no seven.
Speaker 1:Will Smith. What do you think you said? You don't really like Will Smith a whole lot, but you liked him in this movie.
Speaker 2:I did, I did like him. He had cool style.
Speaker 1:He had swag in this movie, but kind of like a douchebag I just wanted him to win.
Speaker 2:There wasn't anything to hate.
Speaker 1:Exactly, he can't lose with Will Smith in this kind of role. What would you give this movie? One out of ten.
Speaker 2:This is a pretty good movie 8.5. 8.5? This is solid. I'll give it 8 out of ten. It was Will Smith. Would you watch a sequel if they make another one, or would you rather them?
Speaker 1:reboot it. I would watch a sequel. I'm invested. Now we talked about this movie. The robots. Motives were exactly like Ultron in Marvel's Age of Ultron yeah, ultron kind of looked like these robots too kind of yeah, if you were to recast this right now, who do you think would play Will Smith's character um? Would play will smith's character um in today's timeline that one big funny guy stavi stavros, stavros, yeah, yeah. I think that'd be funny. I think he'll be funny as uh shiloh buff's character in this movie nah, make him the lead.
Speaker 2:I want him, like doing karate, kicks on robots and shooting him.
Speaker 1:It would definitely be michael b jordan who'sed as him. I wouldn't hate it yeah yeah, end of the year, and it's the end of the year. Go on, like. 2025 is around the corner, like we said. What movies do you? Is there any movie that you know of coming out next year that you're excited for? What about that Nicole Kidman movie we've seen in the trailers where she's like ceo and a young guy comes and tells her like dominance her. Oh yeah, I watched that. Can you believe that's coming on christmas day? No, that's funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll watch that is there any other movie coming out next year that you know that you're excited for?
Speaker 2:um pitch. Is there a pitch perfect?
Speaker 1:no, I don't even know where you got that from and then I I thought that was coming, damn it.
Speaker 2:Um no, I don't know what's coming out, to be honest, some of the big movies, I mean for Marvel.
Speaker 1:You're a big Marvel guy now.
Speaker 2:Captain America. I'm excited for Captain America. Fantastic Four is coming out next year.
Speaker 1:Do I have to watch that? I've seen one of those guys in the Marvel movies it's gonna be a huge fucking movie next year, so yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll watch that.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think of other movies I might be excited for how to Train your Dragon, live action.
Speaker 2:Live action Lilo and Stitch no more Spider-Mans.
Speaker 1:They're going to start filming a new Spider-Man next year.
Speaker 2:Tom.
Speaker 1:Holland.
Speaker 2:That's my Spider-Man.
Speaker 1:Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I'll buy it, glenn, if you could end the year with a message for the audience. What would you sell them? Audience? I'll tell you this message to leave you with your year. If you find this situation where you find a condom and you don't use it instead of passing it around with your friend, just jerk off and do it oh god, my mom listens to this alright.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you for listening, glenn, thank you so much for coming on this year. I mean, I know I'm going to have you on a lot next year too, um, but yeah, a lot of good movies coming out. Next episode is actually the Christmas episode. Can you believe it?
Speaker 2:yeah, man, holiday cheer, I have it, there you go holiday, cheer, cheer, with no christmas tree up. All I'm saying not that cheery, I guess yeah uh, thank you for listening.
Speaker 1:Stay tuned. Next week we'll be seeing. Bye.
