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Will You Survive... The Podcast
Immerse yourself in the world of cinema as we embark on a journey to equip you with the skills to tackle any disaster head-on. Through the lens of thrilling tales, particularly those of the zombie apocalypse, we'll unravel the secrets of preparedness. Join us as we explore the silver screen to empower you for the challenges that lie ahead.
Will You Survive... The Podcast
Will You Survive "Signs": Crop Circles, Water, and Family Fortitude
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Graham Hess, a former reverend who lost his faith after his wife's tragic death, faces an alien invasion with his brother Merrill and two children on their isolated farm.
• Importance of situational awareness in recognizing abnormal patterns in your environment
• Animals going quiet as nature's warning system for approaching danger
• Proper shelter fortification techniques using available household items
• Everyday objects can become improvised weapons in crisis situations
• Having backup plans and escape routes is essential in any survival scenario
• Mental resilience helps maintain focus during catastrophic events
• Faith and meaning can provide strength during seemingly hopeless situations
• Small, seemingly insignificant details often become crucial survival factors
Welcome to Will You Survive
Speaker 1Hello survivors and welcome to another episode of Will you Survive .
Speaker 2The Podcast .
Speaker 1Oh shit , what the fuck ? I was trying to think of the X Factor . I forgot we're doing signs . I was trying to think of the X Factor theme song and I forgot it .
Speaker 2No , that's Twilight Zone .
Speaker 1No , what's that ? I don't know .
Speaker 2X Factor X Files .
Speaker 1Did I say X Factor ?
Speaker 2Yes , I meant X Files , x Files .
Speaker 1No , it's Alien Insert Alien music .
Speaker 2Insert Alien music Future TJ .
Speaker 1And that's where it'll go .
Speaker 2That was pretty good .
Speaker 1Let me introduce myself . I am Eric , I'm the host . I'm the host this episode because I won last episode .
Speaker 3Hostess with the mostest .
Speaker 1I am the hostess with the mostest . Thank you , so you know what . One point for you , tj .
Speaker 3Wow . Wow , it's almost like you're and they can't read my brain .
Speaker 1I was going to say it's almost like you're in my brain .
Speaker 3Whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa .
Speaker 1Let me introduce my co-host . I'm joined here by none other than alien expert TJ .
Speaker 3T-Jizzle with the nizzle .
Speaker 1Yes , he currently has on a tinfoil hat .
Speaker 3I do . It's all good conspiracy . Everybody listen close , listen close .
Speaker 1It was very hard to wrap it around my very luxurious hair and people with a tin foil phobia are going to be very upset and uh followed by our completely bald-headed uh . No protection against the aliens . Co-host uh , alex .
Speaker 2I have already been abducted . I came back , I conquered . They will not take me back . I've been deported from the alien territories .
Speaker 3He shaved his entire body , so he's smooth everywhere and it hasn't grown back since that happened in 1984 . Yeah , he was probed and he's actually immune to the the mind virus slides off of the .
Speaker 2What did it ? What got me banned was when I started probing them .
Speaker 3They didn't like that there's a whole situation .
Speaker 2When I started probing them and both my hands were on their shoulders .
Speaker 1Yeah , there's a 21 pilots . Uh lyric about that what which fucking lyric from from lavish oh , I see your problem is your proctologist got both hands on your shoulders while you're bottomless I got , yeah , I got , I got it now that's not my one of my favorite songs .
Speaker 3I mean , I've to it a lot more than I did .
Speaker 1TJ hated that song . When the album first came out , one of my favorites was devastating . I made him listen to it so much .
Speaker 3Got that penny low for squeak .
Speaker 1Cross linoleum . We watched the movie Signs . That was a very natural transition into this . So what do we think ? What do we think tj ?
Speaker 3I think alex thoughts the true signs they were looking for in the movie were signs from god I think the true signs were the friends we made along the way . That that is one of the meanings of it is , you know there's like the signs . And then there's him looking for a sign .
Speaker 2There's the signs , and then there's him looking for a sign which makes perfect sense .
Speaker 3I would like to go ahead , alex , and I'll jump in because I got some shit to say .
Speaker 2Well , I'm going to say preacher Graham Hess loses his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident . He lives with his children and brother in a farmhouse . Crop circles start to appear in their cornfields . Graham dismisses them as mischief by miscreants . After hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world , the family grows suspicious of alien activities . Now they must stick together as a family and believe to survive and escape the ordeal um , yeah , I had something to say and I forgot .
Speaker 1Tj , you said you had shit to say okay .
Speaker 3So if these aliens were so smart , um , why if they are not , you know , if , if water is acid to them ? Basically , why in the fuck would you go to a planet in which it is 70 water and everything on it is also made of water , including what's in the plants , in the people , oh yeah yeah , can I bring that air ?
Speaker 1follow up to that . Yeah , a follow-up to that . Uh , two things . One if it rains , they're fucked so um and two . Hang on how . How the hell did they not go down to farmland and not see those giant sprinklers shooting out water and go ? Oh hell , nah , true , where . Where was that at ? There were sprinklers most far . No , I'm saying farms .
Speaker 3Have those , though they have the ones that go in the actual goal , not they move not in those areas not in the midwest not in no most of most farmlands actually opera operate off of natural irrigation .
Speaker 2They plant according to what the the rain uh forecast is for the year they're going all around the world correct .
Speaker 1That's what I'm saying , it's still how do they not see a giant sprinkler , a giant water fountain or all the water features that humans use ?
Speaker 2everywhere , I mean the oceans .
Speaker 1How would you not look at that and go ? No .
Speaker 2By what you're saying . If you think about it , you go into outer space , you go . I don't know if you guys nerd out on this stuff , but New Horizons turns around past . Pluto takes a picture of Earth and it's a tiny blue dot . You don't see any land yeah , it's when you're that far away . How do you not see like , oh no , we can't go there . Why ?
Speaker 3would you try now one of the things that somebody said .
Speaker 2That's what they thought remember one of the things that one of the reporters had said was it was not an invasion . It it was a harvest .
Speaker 1Yeah , they were trying to . They were taking the people .
Speaker 3Yeah , so that that maybe they were trying to save us from ourselves . Maybe . Oh , they got knockout gas .
Speaker 1Interesting theory . Well , apparently it just killed a lot of people , does it just ?
Speaker 2Murphy was right there with us . Buffy Rigney on the chat says maybe it was a drive by maybe yeah , yeah , they're just passing Earth and they're like fuck it , we got a couple weeks , boom .
Speaker 3We're supposed to be on Titan in a couple weeks , but it takes a week to get there . We're three light years ahead of schedule .
Speaker 1We can totally stop by Earth cause a little mischief .
Speaker 2I was like dude , like let's just like she followed up with a good one . Have you met us ? No one wants to come here to save us well , the last guy who did ? We kind of , oh my god that's why he hasn't come back should have been our sign uh , anyways oh man , I said , oh my god , I could have said pun intended yeah , well , he yeah .
Speaker 1Jesus needs a couple thousand years to cool off after what happened big g's love you big g's uh so let's talk about the aliens themselves for a little bit one . What I think makes this movie so great and so iconic is the fact that you don't see the alien .
Speaker 3They're always shrouded in darkness when you do see him , yeah first of all .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , I'll have a lot of first of alls , but I tried to watch this . This is so irresponsible and this is all allegedly uh , I allegedly was trying to watch this passively while driving a lot problem with this movie . Everything has to be seen . It's so dark and I'm driving and it's daylight and I'm looking at my phone and I'm just looking back at myself . I can't see shit there was one point where I paused it because I was like I , I have no idea , I keep hearing like the violins going vroom or something .
Speaker 1I don't see shit . Yep , I have no idea what's happening .
Speaker 3And then at one point what the fuck am I looking at ?
Speaker 1At one point I go through a tunnel and my phone brightens up a little bit . I can't watch this .
Speaker 3I have no idea what I'm looking at . Just running through , just slapping sounds while they're running through the cornfield .
Speaker 2Thank you , that was pretty good too .
Speaker 1I was so in the dark .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Pun intended , pun intended . I had no idea what was happening for a lot of the movie I had to rewatch it . Not driving , I was like I can't .
Speaker 2Fair .
Speaker 3You have to fucking watch this movie in a dark place . Yeah , no dude , you would not be able to see . I think the only time you'd be able to see the alien is like at the end . At the end , or like when they see , even then yeah , yeah yeah dude , they're like , yeah , they fucking , they had it like through the tv , like you're looking at the reflection through the tv screen and I'm like I can't see not one detail on this fucking I'll tell you what .
Speaker 1On my phone that just looked like a black screen . I didn't see the alien in the tv . I was , I knew it was there . I didn't see it .
Speaker 2I was outside at night when I saw that part , so I I could see it , you could actually see it yeah , it was dark outside
Alien Invasion Logic Problems
Speaker 2.
Speaker 3I would also like to bring up . Apparently they are so smart , they're so highly advanced that they could not figure out regular doors .
Speaker 2I imagine they got like hologram doors or some shit . He got locked in . It wasn't just that he couldn't , and he did get out .
Speaker 3That's a big ass alien . I would have been able to get out and he got out with one hand .
Speaker 2As you've seen , they didn't even like Well , he didn't use that hand . I'm sure have you ever tried to use your hand after you've had fingers cut off .
Speaker 1Well , we also don't know how it got out . We don't know if it broke out or if some unfortunate soul happened to stop by and let it out by accident .
Speaker 3So we don't know my cat's throwing up this really weird color . Mr vet , are you here ? You're like oh the guys , he must have been locked in the pantry .
Speaker 2Let me let him out exactly oh , wait a minute , all right was that something that I missed was ray . Ray was the vet , the vet he .
Speaker 3That's why , that's why , at the start that makes perfect sense .
Speaker 2I'm gonna call call dr , dr , whoever cornyn , whatever vet . The vet killed his wife . Well , he'll know what to do vets played also played by m night I do .
Speaker 1I do have to say I , I am very uh wait m night . Okay , go on I do .
Speaker 2I do have to say . The part that kept replaying in my head over and over and over again was uh , from scary movie three with the fucking hat . You guys remember that one . What ? No , when , when , uh , when the preacher was going to go see his wife oh , yeah and uh the guy who was playing m night was like hey ray , I'm gonna need a ride home yeah , after he just no because .
Speaker 3Because , like I was watching this , and like I was only thinking about that scene , I'm like , damn , he just doesn't say a word to him in this movie . I was like I thought he was going to say something .
Speaker 2He's just sitting there Now to bring this back to our mission here , to talk a little bit about survival . One of the things that you can put on this movie that is just basics . We're always talking about basics here . This movie highlights the necessity of situational awareness . You need to be familiar with your surroundings and know what is normal , so that way you can tell what's abnormal , right , when the unusual circumstances started occurring . Of course , for them it was easy , because crop circles are not things that just happen , right ?
Speaker 3that's the remarkability of it it happened overnight , especially when you see it's happening all around the world that's the other part that's concerning yeah , yeah , it should be especially like when the like there's like no way people could just do this elaborate plan . It's popping up in freaking ind , but also on your farm , but also like in like 277 other countries , you know .
Speaker 2And how much ? How much of this do you think is controlled by disbelief , your own disbelief , like , do you think , host , do you think you would grab onto the fact that , hey , this is happening all over the world , or would you , would you inherently have that all over the world ? Or would you , would you inherently have that level of disbelief that would be guiding you first ?
Speaker 1oh man , yeah , I think I think I would be just like merle . I think merle had it right merle merle whatever it's merle also joaquin phoenix . What the fuck ? Yeah , I did not know that was joaquin Phoenix .
Speaker 3Really , this is the first movie I've seen that had Joaquin Phoenix in it .
Speaker 2I've been a fan ever since this movie , this was the very first one .
Speaker 1There's a lot about this movie . I didn't know . I didn't know it was Abigail Breslin .
Speaker 2I didn't know that .
Speaker 1I didn't know , it was a Culkin brother .
Speaker 3I didn't know that . Oh , rory Culkin , what do you mean ? Who the fuck is Rory ? And I look it up and I thought it was either fucking Macaulay Culkin or his other brother . And I look it up , it's Rory . I'm like who the fuck is Rory ?
Speaker 1That's Rory . I didn't know there was a third one , I know it was the only other one .
Speaker 3They all look the goddamn same dawg .
Speaker 1They all look the same strong in those males .
Speaker 2Like goddamn , here's another thing .
Speaker 1They look the exact same , all three of them . It is crazy .
Speaker 2TJ often looks these things up , so I might not be telling him anything he doesn't already know . But did you know that Joaquin Phoenix was not the first go for that role ? It was . It was actually Mark Ruffalo .
Speaker 1Yes , but Mark Ruffalo had a brain tumor .
Speaker 2A brain tumor .
Speaker 1You're about to be benign . I think we all read the exact same trivia in the beginning .
Speaker 2Did we all watch it on Amazon ? I saw the little trivia . I know .
Speaker 3I know , I know Allegedly Watch it on places .
Speaker 1I allegedly watched it on this website . Right now , right here , I'm not ever .
Speaker 3I keep the fuck out of my website . Unless you're like my friend , you're not getting it yeah , so lucky for you .
Speaker 2I don't even remember it , so I can't even share it , but just because , just because the host loves saying his name , will you say his name again ?
Speaker 1I'm not shaman .
Speaker 2So did you know how much he inserted himself into this movie ? No so the book about the extraterrestrials , all of the artwork in it was done by him . The uh , the stories about the children's birth are actually the stories of his two children that's cool , that's really sweet and the crop circles are real because m night shamalan doesn't like uh cgi oh my god , wait , there's another actor minimize the amount of cgi in this there's another actor who did , or another director who did a very similar thing .
Speaker 1I think it was for Interstellar or something .
Speaker 3It was for Interstellar , he got land and was like hey , I'm going to fucking grow all this corn . All this corn is legit . They literally had to hire a farmer to make this giant crop field , and then they sold it for profit after the movie was done .
Speaker 1Yeah , and then they harvested the corn and sold it all for profit it was honestly brilliant .
Speaker 3I mean , yeah , you're not just going to waste all that corn . Literally like a scene and a half . You see the corn in like two scenes . It's not long enough .
Speaker 1It's like him driving through it and then , like they so could have CGI'd it . You would have never known . They did not . Honestly , they could have made like a tenth of how much they actually planted , and it would have been fine . They could have used that .
Speaker 3Did you know that they built this house specifically for this movie ? No way they built the house . Grew the corn . It's land owned by some college or something .
Speaker 1This house doesn't exist anymore .
Speaker 3They tore it down . Oh , one thing I wanted to bring up why are the kids sharing a room ? I guarantee this house is more than two bedrooms , yeah .
Speaker 1Well , if it's only three , Meryl needs one . Oh , actually , never mind . Well , no , he was out . I remembered .
Speaker 3His wife had one of the rooms as like a sewing room and nobody goes in there . It was blocked . Oh , oh oh , oh oh , I didn't remember that part . All right , I pay attention . I love this fucking movie . This is a great movie , it's a good movie Top tier Shyamalan movie I haven't watched this movie for quite a while .
Speaker 1I think last time I watched it I was still a little too young to really process everything . This was the first time that I watched this movie and realized that the dad was a reverend . I did not catch that the first couple tens of times that I watched this movie .
Speaker 3Damn , he has a lot of kids .
Speaker 1I recall him father it's weird , Because it didn't even Because to me it was all about the aliens . All the boring talking parts .
Speaker 3Never paid attention to it .
Speaker 1I literally at no point did I ever hear anybody call him father , because I just tuned out the movie until the aliens showed up when you're younger .
Speaker 3You just kind of don't pick up on shit so get this little tidbit .
Speaker 1I was also like , yeah , it's so weird they call him father .
Speaker 3But whatever , it meant nothing to me .
Speaker 1I'm like , oh , his name is father , okay , so there's a , there's another there's another little little tidbit here which is just deep kind of dark .
Speaker 2The scene in which graham has his last conversation with his wife was scheduled for september 12 2001 and was filmed
Joaquin Phoenix and Crafty Filmmaking
Speaker 2after a cast and crew candlelight vigil . They still fucking recorded that shit the show must go on .
Speaker 3Well , I mean what ? What happened ?
Speaker 1nothing big , you know , 9-11 oh , you mean the thing with like that little tower ?
Speaker 3like two towers , three towers like what you call when you need help .
Speaker 2I'm talking about the thing that happened when when the three towers in new york collapsed are you ready ? Are you ready for ? Are you ready for this ? Are you ready for this ? Cell phone towers . You know that event where our president at the time , George Bush , just decimated New York and unalived a whole bunch of New Yorkers just to get us to go to war in Iraq .
Speaker 3Oh , that one yeah .
Speaker 2Yeah , no , sorry , I had to .
Speaker 3That jet fuel . Why didn't you lead with that ?
Speaker 2Well , I didn't know how much TikTok would let me get away with .
Speaker 3No , I don't even know . Josh is in our Discord everybody . So if you would like to join our Discord , make sure to become an elite member . Subscribe . Do that , he is our number one fan official , so it's kind of required .
Speaker 1So , going back to something I was saying about , what makes this movie so iconic and so good is how little you do see the alien Part of it , because of how damn dark the movie is , but also some of it because it's intentional . They show you very little glimpses . I remember the first time I saw the alien's foot , the first time I ever saw that scene in the cornfield almost shit my pants it was terrifying it did .
Speaker 3It's such a good scene guys , the the aliens in this movie are hoax .
Speaker 1It's all the goddamn worthington brothers , yeah but you know what I I feel like I going back to like what you said , alex . When would I ? Or how skeptical would I be ? When would it hit me that , oh , this is real yep I think Merrill had it pretty right . He was remember . Uh , there's a particular scene where they where the baby monitors first going off , where uh , he's like no , no , this it's all bullshit , it's just a hoax . This is all shit , this is nothing okay .
Speaker 1Yeah , this is bullshit I'm gonna move and he's like you'll lose the signal . All of a sudden he was a believer . He was like no , no , I , I agree with the kid , it's like listen I'm gonna support my brother like to a point .
Speaker 3And then he was like I , I definitely fucking heard some things talking he's like no , the kid's got a point I did once like I'd be like oh , crop circles , that's weird , fuck those worthington brothers , it's probably them .
Speaker 3And then once like like oh , crop circles , that's weird , fuck those Worthington Brothers , it's probably them . And then Once like like , oh Shit , there's something on the roof . That Scene was crazy , cause , like you see his Face register that , hey , that's weird , you know . And it's just standing there fucking menacingly On the roof . Also , diddy , why are you staring into the kids room ? You fucking weirdo ? Well , it's like when he was talking to the cop and thedy , why are you staring ?
Speaker 1into the kid's room . You fucking weirdo anyway . Well , it's like when he was talking to the cop and the cop was like you know , couldn't it have been this ? And he's like I don't know . I'm pretty fast and I'm pretty strong , it's them . Uh , this thing , it fuck . It just hopped onto a 10-foot house and women yeah , I love where she , yeah , where she's like . You know well , there's the scandinavian women in the olympics . I'm like , oh yeah , the scandinavian olympic performer came over the house .
Speaker 2I don't appreciate the sarcasm but I gotta I gotta love his response , I mean let's be realistic I absolutely love the acting of joaquin phoenix , or he he sells that so well , where he delivers his line , she's delivering hers , he's paused , he's waiting , and then his next line . Okay , I'm sorry I may have been out of line with that whole Scandinavian hijab thing . I like that , you know . On a real note .
Speaker 1I do feel like that's kind of like maybe more of a glimpse of what society was like then versus now . I think maybe I'm wrong . I think , alex , you would know this better and you'd even have more time before then to compare to , so you could compare like the 1720s to the 1820s , the 1920s to the 2020s .
Speaker 3The early 2000s were peak .
Speaker 1So like early 2000s , where he was like okay , I was out of line . Let me rephrase I just don't feel like people do that enough nowadays to just admit like oh , you know what , okay I , I got a little ahead of myself . My bad , it's also and while we're , while we're in like it's just , it's not a big deal , like you got ahead of yourself , fine it's . I think it's . It's real easy to just be , to just acknowledge it and be like , oh , you know what I , my bad , overreacted to that .
Speaker 2While we're in the realm of film as well , that's true . People don't do that enough anymore , and it's because in the realm of social media , I think they believe that apologizing shows weakness , and in a lot of cases I completely agree In . When you're a public figure and you apologize , the public just eats you up . The best thing to do , like Matt Rife showed this , you make a joke that people don't like . Just move on . Yeah , don't let them force you to do you know ? Oh , I'm going to apologize for what it is that I do . Right , he's a comedian , he makes jokes .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , I definitely don't agree with Not all jokes land . Yeah with getting mad at a comedian over a joke , right .
Speaker 2If you don't find it funny , I forget what he said Fucking .
Speaker 1I forget the guy's name , but he was like Dahlia or something like that . What's his name ? Chris ? Which one ?
Speaker 2Chris Dahlia , yeah , dahlia .
Speaker 1Where he made a joke . He was like I find it so funny when people get mad when I'm on stage real .
Speaker 2None of it's all a fucking joke . Yeah , why ? How could you get mad at it ? But in the , in the realm of film , I do actually think tj says early 2000s . I think the matrix had it right humanity peaked in 1999 ?
Speaker 3yeah , I , I don't know . Let's say 2000 , that's when I was born nope , nope , it sucked .
Speaker 2It started sucking that moment uh , debatable , debatable , debatable . But if you know the world got darker , get it , get it . You see what I did there . Don't just breeze past that . That was grade a . That was grade a it's .
Speaker 1It's weird , because I definitely think like obviously I wasn't alive in 2000 , so I I don't know , I I don't have that comparison I wasn't sentient until 2003 yeah , so neither of us really have that comparison to to say you made him drool . Crazy . That's kind of what I was doing , just a lot .
Speaker 3A light turned on in 2003 . I remember that was good . You don't . You know my first memory ever . I have two and I think you might remember one of't one .
Speaker 1You don't you know my first memory ever . I have two and I think you might remember one of them . One of them was me brushing my teeth in the shower , because I remember it being like the most novel idea in the world , because it was . I was like three , um , and I I have a very oddly vivid memory of that . Another one is waking up at what must have been like 2 am to tell you that I'd peed the bed .
Speaker 2Oh , yeah , but other than that .
Speaker 1oh , I also have a third random memory from that same apartment . I remember one time after a shower I had water in my ear and I turned my head and I knocked my head like three times . I'll never forget the feeling of that water coming out of my ear so smoothly , yeah .
Speaker 2Oh my God . So survival tip for everybody .
Speaker 3Yeah , yeah , oh , my god . So survival tip for everybody , so you don't die of an ear infection . If you have water in your ear , bend over and tilt your head sideways it always comes up .
Speaker 1Oh that it they . Oh man .
Speaker 2Water never gets stuck in my ears , because I just do that and it comes out well , no , and that's that's like the best , what we used to do all the time after surfing , because you'll always have water in your ears . You get back to your car , you your towel , you brush off all the sand on your ankles by bending over at the hips . Don't kneel down , you know . Don't try to be a man . No , bend over at the hips like you're stretching , and when you're , when you're upside down like that , all the water is going to come out of your nose and your ears .
Speaker 1Ew Water in your nose , the nose part sucks yeah .
Speaker 2Oh dude , you can't , you can't serve without water getting in your nose .
Speaker 3Oh , that brings up another thing . Here's a survival tip . This is actually a survival tip . If you're anywhere and you're hearing ambient animals all around you , and then they go quiet , you should probably also go quiet . In this movie you could watch it again and just Pay attention to it . Every time some weird alien shit happens , all the sound disappears .
Speaker 2Yeah , they actually mention that .
Speaker 1Yeah , I think it's really easy to overlook this , and as I've become more of an animal guy , I've paid attention to it more and more . You can really tell a lot by the wildlife around you , like when you see a flock of birds suddenly move or suddenly fly away , something moved over there .
Speaker 1There's something walking or moving around over there . When things go silent , there's a predator around like it , things like that , that , the the woods , or not necessarily just the woods , but nature tells you , it gives you hints at what's happening around you , if you know what to listen for and what to look for yeah , yeah , yeah um fuck , what was it ?
Speaker 3that's a good one , though . I got something if you're you want to think for a minute yeah , I tried to think back to where I was gonna go before more from more from this .
Speaker 2Uh , this movie , specifically survival related , uh , that was a good one . The other side of this is stealth and silence . Um , you can . You can formulate the argument that the aliens were drawn to sound . They kept coming to the people's houses they were in .
Speaker 2Now , I don't know why they were in this particular area where the hess family lived , because everywhere else they were in cities , which made sense because it's that's a lot of action , there's a lot of activity , there's a lot of noise , there's a lot of action , there's a lot of activity , there's a lot of noise , there's a lot of movement . I do know that one thing that the credits or the trivia pointed out was that it was a geographical goof . They said that it was 80 miles outside of Philadelphia , but it was actually only about 10 miles away from the border . So it would , it would stand to reason , if they would have gotten it right , that they were near a city , and how much area these aliens covered is unknown . So we were just talking about this . Uh , in nature , animals know , insects know , animals know be quiet when a predator is around , and you yourself need to be able to take that , that stealth and silent approach it's .
Speaker 1It's a lot of just being aware of your surroundings , it's . I mean , the more that I work with animals , the more it's imperative that you're constantly keep your head on a swivel . Um , even just something as simple as walking dogs like it's a pretty simple job , but there's a lot of little things that you learn as you do it . More , um , like always keeping your head on a swivel , or anytime I'm about to pick up poop , I always scan around me to look at what's happening , because the last thing I need to do is not see a dog that's approaching us , and I'm bent over and my dogs decide they want to lurch .
Speaker 1I'm screwed at that point . I also have a .
Speaker 3So about that . They were on a different level of knowing when shit's up in this movie because , like when he's in the field with the cop , he's just like I can't hear my kids yeah , that's crazy . Um , every time they like turn towards the corn , they could fucking like they're sensing something . They're like you know we stare at these , this freaking thing of corn , all the time you can like feel when it's wrong , you know so when you're aware of your surroundings , you get more keen to shit like that .
Speaker 3You know , in like your everyday life you'd be able to I agree , yeah like he , like when um merrill , uh , like he turned towards the corn and freaking through the rock , I'm like what's , yeah ? First off , what's that rock gonna do ? Second off , what if that shit comes back ?
Speaker 2I was thinking like what if he ?
Speaker 1throws it and it hits something in the sky like that would have been crazy dunk , just a dunk , and then you see like a force field kind of ripple across .
Speaker 3Oh , that's like a little independence day right there oh and did you notice in , like the final scene um , I don't know if you did , eric , because you're watching this on a dark ass screen , but on the alien's body , like they like they have like camouflage right , you could see , like the the sun's shirt , like it took the pattern from the sun's shirt when it turned around , you could see the daughter's face on the skin
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Speaker 3of the alien .
Speaker 1Oh , I missed that . That's an interesting detail .
Speaker 3They got some real wicked camouflage . I don't know why they didn't use it more .
Speaker 1They did in the beginning until they decided to just go . So they were just like yo fuck it . Let's let them know .
Speaker 3Hold on , little Mexican kid . Seen them , it's behind .
Speaker 1That was crazy . Okay , the school .
Speaker 3I would have reacted the same way . Dude that was crazy .
Speaker 1Okay , the school , I would have reacted the same way . Dude , oh man , Dude . Joaquin Phoenix's R Merrill .
Speaker 2Oh , I loved his character . Oh , dude .
Speaker 1He did the straight up .
Speaker 3Leonardo DiCaprio , oh , oh , leonardo DiCaprio , oh oh , oh oh , yeah , yeah , he said move out the way , little kids Vamanos .
Speaker 1Yeah , vamanos , that was so funny .
Speaker 2Now just a quick sidebar on this . If I'm not mistaken , that Leonardo DiCaprio scene comes out of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood right .
Speaker 1No , I thought it was Wolf of Wall Street .
Speaker 2Was it .
Speaker 3Yeah , I think you're thinking of the one that goes , he goes and he points yeah , yeah , yeah , were you whistling at it ? That's Hollywood one .
Speaker 1That's Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodllywood yeah yeah , oh , I thought it was willful , wall street .
Speaker 2No , because he , he was an actor in once upon a time in hollywood , and so when he sees himself , he was like , oh he like whistles at himself so let me uh , let me give a shout out to buffy again , because she's got a good one . She asks do y'all hunt if you are quiet , all other beings alert each other . Now that's pretty freaking wild and mellow just gave us a , a few donuts .
Speaker 3Thank you , mellow thanks for the donuts .
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Speaker 1To continue about animals . Now it's my fifth time trying this sentence . Hello , you hurt the dogs . First of all , fucking props to the kid taking on a full-grown German shepherd and winning . I would've died Without a mark on him . Are you kidding me ? Yep , this kid's fucking Superman .
Speaker 3And the fucking sister's .
Speaker 1Okay , dude , yeah kid's a fucking hero . Took out the dog and protected his sister . Didn't have a fucking scratch on him A full grown German Shepherd .
Speaker 2Yep .
Speaker 1Crazy .
Speaker 2The one thing the kid said was it was trying to get his sister for some reason .
Speaker 1So that did kind of that kind of . That's what I thought is like maybe the dog was completely focused on the sister and not on him at all , yeah , but at the same time he still got the dog before it was able to hurt her yeah .
Speaker 2Well , he said oh yeah , it fell on me he fell on me .
Speaker 1True , it's I don't know I I admired his um , his knowledge of the dog's behavior . I mean , it's pretty common sense if a dog growls at you , you should probably stop whatever you're doing but how young he is , how young he is and he was able to say don't run where you said yeah , you said stop , don't run , don't turn away he tried to correct the dog's behavior . He did everything right he did everything right and that was very well done .
Speaker 3And then they left the other one outside that's yeah .
Speaker 1Oh man , that sucks it definitely .
Speaker 3They shared a look at each other . They're like oof because they ?
Speaker 2because they said they were gonna tie her up in the garage when they were done with yeah , they literally said the dog would have died in the garage too yeah , so theoretically , I mean , unless you brought her in which I'm just saying . They probably would have went for the dog I would have I kind of feel if you're in attention with the dog , I think you could have right , oh yeah , that dog would have been the second .
Speaker 1Things were being fucking weird around me . My dog is with me at all times yeah yeah , I , but I'm just a dog person like I feel much more comfortable with a dog around me .
Speaker 3Some people wouldn't hear me out , I assume , if you own two dogs , you would feel comfortable with dogs . If the dog you know is like every other dog and has is made of water and slobbers , does the bite give poison damage ?
Speaker 1see aliens I mean damage . So come on , no , the way that I think of that is like technically there is water in it , but I think of it the same way like there's certain acids that we can pour on ourselves , that it is acidic but it doesn't really burn our skin without being in incredibly large doses , or quantities that , or like leaving your hand in it .
Speaker 1Yeah , because it's like there's like a really common acid that , like you can dip your hand in and you're totally fine . It's not going to burn you or anything . You don't want to get it in your eye or anything .
Speaker 2I mean the one I think of , that you say that I've messed with sulfuric acid . I've messed with sulfuric acid . I've messed with muriatic acid . Vinegar is very acidic .
Speaker 1Yeah , so like there's certain things that , yes , it's acidic , but so that's what I imagine . Like slobber and spit and pee is like , yeah , there's water in it which would be acidic to them , but I don't think it's the same as like pure water .
Speaker 3It's like , ah , dude , stop ah , yeah , it's like you know they might they might get some hives or something piss in its eyes .
Speaker 1It's the weak spot they , they learn .
Speaker 2They learn that water is the weakness on earth , right yeah then the aliens come to los angeles and they start spraying them with like tap water and it makes the aliens stronger because it's more fluoride than it is water . It's like fluoride , chlorine , bromine , calcium , calcium so much calcium .
Speaker 3Bro ask my fucking fish tank . How much calcium is in LA tap water . Oh my God , just building up dog . It's ridiculous .
Speaker 1I could sell it .
Speaker 2I swear I could scrape it off and sell it . I'd make a fortune as a mineral supplement .
Speaker 1I got these rare earth minerals . There's calcium rare earth .
Speaker 3Rare fish calcium Fish , calcium pills , dude .
Speaker 2Something we've talked about a lot on this podcast that they did in this movie . I particularly want to point out that they did it . Wrong is the fortification of their shelter . Did you guys notice how they the bedroom ?
Speaker 1door . Yes , yeah , what the fuck are they barricading ?
Speaker 2right , they barricaded the wrong side of the door , yeah , so if , if it was me , I would have gone in the bedroom and nailed it all shut and gone out the window , out onto that , because it looked like they had a ledge like a roof awning .
Speaker 1Yeah , there's like a roof awning there you walk around to everyone and then you get a ladder down or you know , drop down and have your brother catch you yeah , that whole like when they when I remember when they walked out of that bedroom and they closed it and I was like , oh , okay , and then they put the board up and immediately my thought was what the fuck ? Yeah , I uh the alien could just open the door , yeah exactly , they didn't .
Speaker 3They couldn't barricade the windows , so they just like they could break the window , walk in , open the door , you know . And they didn't even like barricade the entire thing so my idea was for how I would survive . That like , oh the freaking . You know , we need stuff for the windows . We have doors on the inside of our house see , that's what I thought have doors exactly there's like what ?
Speaker 2two , three windows in there the frick , take the door off the bedroom take the freaking bathroom door , fucking board it up to the window .
Speaker 3Um , they did have like . I don't know if you guys seen it , but there's at one point where you see one of the uh like barricades that they nailed to the . It's the roof of their little play set .
Speaker 1Yeah , I don't know if you noticed that , but they you know they're making use of shit right make more use of shit you know , yeah , you know , ever since you uh , alex , you mentioned that in the night of the living dead episode . It's , it's a brilliant idea barricading your windows with with interior doors that you have that genius . It's so smart .
Speaker 3It's the strongest wood you're gonna find in your whole house yeah , just like readily available , yeah it's the largest pieces , yeah , and those are all like actual wood doors and not like home depot pieces of shit like plywood , you know .
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean , frankly speaking , even if they are uh , it you're talking about like a lot of for us , our specific example and using this apartment that we're in it's double paned reinforced glass , and then you put a a bedroom door right behind it and I keep uh sets of of lag bolts and nuts . It came in a set , so I might as well keep it right . I'm not going to throw it away , but they're um six inch lags they fit through the wall so I would be able to go outside .
Speaker 2Nobody's getting through it yep , I would be able to go outside and drill through the the studs . All I would need is a couple and a couple on each side that's it and it . I mean that's that , it's uh it's a rounded .
Speaker 1It's a rounded bolt on the outside .
Speaker 2So and then our , our front door is gated with a security gate , so you're not going to get through that very easily .
Speaker 1Yeah , I mean , I have a feeling , if we're talking about our apartment complex , particularly with signs , I think they climb up the sides . I don't think there's anything stopping them .
Speaker 3Yeah , they're very agile .
Speaker 2There's definitely several ways they can get in . Yeah , they were very , very agile in that regard .
Speaker 1And smart to a point . There's definitely several ways they could get in . They could go to the pool area . Hop over that gate easy .
Speaker 3They had tactics like when they were in the basement and they were looking for another way in , so they were distracting them by banging on the door .
Speaker 2Yeah , that was great . All of that was so well done .
Speaker 1Also very smart for them to kind of problem solve that and be like what are they doing ?
Speaker 3It's not like they're really trying .
Speaker 1They're not really trying to get in . What are they doing ?
Speaker 2Yeah , making noise , trying to distract us .
Speaker 3Why do they have so much dog food ?
Speaker 2Right ? Well , they have two German Shepherds , dude .
Speaker 1But that's like eight bags they also said they live 80 miles from town .
Speaker 2Yeah , that was one of the points that I said . It was probably more like 10 miles . But to move on real quick to another point is the necessity of being able to use everyday items as an improvised weapon . You did this to us a couple of episodes ago in Survivor Die . And what could you grab ? You know around you , near you , and use as a weapon . And the fact that you know around you , near you and uses a weapon , and the fact that you know , thankfully right , I mean in today's society , if you could get a hold of a super soaker , but the fact that Merrill had a baseball bat right there and then you got to look around your house and figure what do you have ?
Speaker 3They set that up when he was in the recruiting office . Yeah , they did . You know what else they set up what ?
Speaker 1I remember when the cop was first there and he was collecting the all of her water cups and then he went to collect three more and he left them yeah , fuck it , and yeah , and he like walked away , foreshadowed the hell out of him .
Speaker 3I'm sick of telling her to stop doing this .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , oh yeah well , at the at the end , when they , when they realized that the alien was weak to water and they noticed all the water cups around , I , I , I set out live . I was like , oh , you walked into the wrong fucking house yeah , you walked into the one house that has a cup of water in every room that's like the whole , you know at least one other side of signs . It's the other signs signs from the big G's . You know what I'm saying .
Speaker 3Um the wife .
Speaker 1I , when she was just pointing Alex was just pointing out how much water I have . I have water .
Speaker 3He's immortal to these aliens . There's so much water , Um , but yeah , it's like , but the daughter she has this like this thing where she just doesn tell Graham to see and then tell Merrill to swing away . He seen , registered
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Speaker 3and then told him to swing away .
Speaker 1So it's like , you know , that's when he I think that's when he got his faith back , which now to point out the obvious .
Speaker 2He was talking to himself when he was talking to Merrill , when they were sitting on the couch watching all the news , and he says what kind of person are you , the kind of person who sees signs in everything , who sees meaning behind everything and there's a message being told to you ? Are you the person who believes that it's just coincidence ?
Speaker 1And of course , at the end he's like huh , huh yeah . Well , I think there's two big moments that happened there . One was when Merrill told him I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes ever again . He basically told him you are supposed to be my faith rock . Uh , in this world you gotta pull your shit together , man . You gotta find your fucking faith again , because I can't be the one with more faith than you .
Speaker 1That that's not how this fucking works , especially after what his kids said to uncle , uncle merrill yeah yeah , that's I wish you were my dad I I honestly I think merrill was the fucking coolest character .
Speaker 3That whole show . He said nothing wrong . It's good that he was like don't ever say that again . Yeah , he was like no .
Speaker 1I think part of it was like I don't want that responsibility , Shut the fuck up .
Speaker 3I agree .
Speaker 1Meryl's idea of a miracle was him taking out his gun , I think before he got thrown up . Yeah , it was a girl not throwing up on him and he's like that was God , that had to be that was righteous , that girl was gonna throw up on me in his mouth . That's what he was saying , I was gonna lean in to kiss her . I know exactly what you're talking about , about God intervening . There was this one time I was going to kiss this girl , that was so great .
Speaker 1Honestly , I swear that's every new Christian is , when you start to realize where God is and all the little things and you're like that was God she would have thrown up on me .
Speaker 2Now where I think there could be a good comparison made is with merrill . The whole conversation of of uh , being your dad is merrill with his brother's kids and you with mine . The age difference is about appropriate and I think it makes perfect sense when you say that . You know , I don't think he wanted the responsibility . I think that you have enough experience knowing me that I will lay my life down for them . There's no question about it . It's not , it's not even not even up for debate . And you , I , I personally believe if we were in that situation , you would be right alongside me . But knowing that added responsibility and terror of I cannot , I can't die .
Speaker 3Eric could be standing there like protect them . The old guy gotta die first no , you know what ? Sacrifice himself . Let's see . If it works out , then I'll consider it .
Speaker 1oddly enough , I do think I view it differently . I I don't know , obviously . I don't know how I would actually react in a situation like this , but my initial reactions are I don't have kids , I don't have anybody who's necessarily relying on me being alive in order for them to go on , not to say that people wouldn't miss me if I die .
Speaker 3I am . I'm relying on you If you leave me , I'll kill myself .
Speaker 1TJ's very toxic in a relationship .
Speaker 3Yeah , I'll send the video to everybody too beforehand . I'll have it lined up , damn .
Speaker 1But I do see it as like I would if it was like a situation like this . I would rather sacrifice myself than you , because my thought would be that you have to be there to raise them .
Speaker 2I don't have that responsibility which I think is what merrill was saying . When , when , uh , I forget what was the boy's name .
Speaker 1Um , that's beau was the girl yeah , it was bow and bow and fuck , was it billy ? I have it ?
Speaker 3no , not billy , I have it , I have it , I have it I gotta , I gotta find it , because that's another little small details when he was holding his son when , uh , after the gas got sprayed on him , you can hear him say that's why he has asthma yep his lungs are closed , that's he didn't get in that's why he has asthma and he just keeps repeating it .
Speaker 1I think he , because he was . That was also the moment where he remembered the final moment of talking to his uh , to his wife . I found it very interesting that one of the first things she said was she said I , I was just going on a walk . Uh , it's like it was meant to be . Yeah , even in in a situation like that , to be able to say that , well , it was meant to happen that this is . It is what it is what are we going to do about it ?
Speaker 1yeah this was meant to happen and I I think that's when he , I think that was a moment where he got his faith back and he realized that was faith in action . Saying like this is why he has asthma . He's going to be fine , he is fine , he's fine that there's , I'm not even going to worry he's fine , give him a minute , don't touch him .
Speaker 2What I , what I actually think you , you and I were saying the same thing in two different ways was when morgan asked uh , merrill , you won't let anything happen to us , right ?
Speaker 2and he said no . And then , when he was like I wish you were my daddy . And then merrill got mad at him , it was like don't ever say that , I . I felt like it was for that exact same reason of merrill's like yeah , I will , I will go to town . Don't , don't you even worry about it , but not in the same manner that the dad would .
Speaker 1And the dad is needed , yeah the , the dad , I I felt for him because he was very good , I think , objectively , with how he won , how he spoke to the kids with the exception of his little crash out at the table , um , but with how he spoke to the kids and how democratic he was , took a vote and then I count my vote counts as two look I agree with him .
Speaker 2You know what ?
Speaker 1I do too . I 100 agree with him I do and then when he got outvoted , still , even when his vote counted as two , he was man enough to suck it up and go . Well , I lost that vote yeah and because he very well could have been like no , we're going to the lake , yeah and he would have been right uh , my vote he would have been 100 right I'm speaking for the dog also yeah , I speak for both dogs . My vote counts as four .
Speaker 3Yeah , exactly I am the lorax .
Speaker 2I speak for the trees , I speak for the course , I get five thousand which , as we're getting close here , I want to bring up just another couple of points , is having an escape plan . It was the decision to stay put was you know . It's fine and all , when you have in mind that they had another plan , and that is very important in any survival situation . You need to be able to have an escape plan . Once they dug in their heels , it was you know . It's too late . You have to write out what you've decided . And then , last but not least we've brought this up in many of the most recent episodes is your mental resilience . You need to be able to stay focused . I know he had a crash out , I get it , but this was kind of different .
Speaker 1It was a very justified crash out .
Speaker 2He's battling two different things at once . He's fighting .
Speaker 3God and aliens . When you're crashing out and he's battling two different things at once , he's fighting God and aliens . And you got mashed potatoes in your mouth .
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Speaker 3You know that you're .
Speaker 1I felt for him Because it was like why ?
Speaker 2Why does that make so much sense ? You got mashed potatoes in your mouth and you're crashing out . It's just like I feel like , because he put those mashed potatoes in his mouth is why he crashed out .
Speaker 1It's like , damn , I've gone too far , because , then , because , then , like he was like trying to chew the mashed potatoes like bro , come on you know , I I found it very sweet and comforting that it was like the whole family realized , like this man never does this and for him to be at this point , yeah , like the , the way that the kids had just been screamed at by him and were immediately like this isn't , this isn't you .
Speaker 3And went and hugged him . When you're a kid , yeah , they're like you .
Speaker 2Don't do this , I like when you grab Merle , you remember the first time you see your dad cry . You know , yeah , your dad never cries .
Speaker 1You know I will ever seen you cry . I don't think I have . I've never seen Grandpa cry , for sure .
Speaker 2I don't cry in front of people .
Speaker 1I cry to God like a little bitch , but I don't cry in front of people .
Speaker 3Let's make him cry . What can we do ? What are ?
Speaker 2you going to make me cry ?
Speaker 3I cry about everything , anesthetic , and he'll be asleep for at least 48 hours .
Speaker 2Take him to Turkey . I've heard those stories Get him hair implants . Oh , no , right , Take him back . You've heard those stories , not that one .
Speaker 3And then bow His hair's back . He comes to tears . And then what happens there's ?
Speaker 1also an implant .
Speaker 2He shaved it off .
Speaker 3There's also an implant to reject all the hairs . We just press a button . They all fall out immediately . Cries even more .
Speaker 2Yeah , I don't think that's going to happen . Take it away twice .
Speaker 1I don't think that's going to happen . What do old people cry about ? Whoa ?
Speaker 3I have hair .
Speaker 1And it will fall out and be like oh yeah , that's about right . What do old people what ?
Speaker 3Yeah , what do people from the 1700s cry about ? Alex ?
Speaker 1What Nothing men don't cry back . I think . I think I was gonna say maybe he's traumatized from that men don't cry . When was the black plague ? Was that the 16 ?
Speaker 2the plague was that the 16 , 20s ?
Speaker 3I don't know um , oh , another little detail . Um , the vet , when he's talking to him before he's , he fucking skirts off . Also , why did he fucking skirt off every time ? Bro fucking presses the pedal like he did it when they're in the freaking pizza place and like he did it when they were in the freaking pizza place and then he did it when he was like dog , wait for me to move away from the car before you , you know but um dramatic as hell , he said he was like explaining , like , what happened when he hit his wife and he's like , it's like it was meant to be , you know , yeah , and then what ?
Speaker 3what does the wife say when , like her final ? Words she's like , it's like it was meant to be , you know , yeah . And then what ? What does the wife say when , like her final words , she's like , it's like it was meant to be . You see , you see him break down crying , you know , and then I think that's also like first step towards , like his , his , his , his revival of yeah , I agree being a father and a father I do think .
Speaker 1I think that was a a big moment where he realized I how do I describe this ? I think it's unfortunately really common for people of faith to waver , at the least when somebody that close to you passes , because it's just an unfortunate reality that everybody dies . But when you lose somebody way earlier than you were expecting to , especially like In a real gruesome- you were expecting to , especially like a real gruesome way .
Speaker 1Yeah , especially like your wife yeah , being severed at the waist , your wife uh , leaving you and your two children . That I understand how it shakes somebody's faith like that , and it to me it's very understandable that he fell , that he fell away like that .
Speaker 3Good trade-off . He lost his faith . He got walking in Phoenix . Jeez , I'd like to live with that man .
Speaker 2No , there's no trade-off for me without my wife .
Speaker 3Good save . I know you won't walk in your life .
Speaker 1I think it really showed a good . It showed , I think , a pretty decent depiction of something that could make .
Speaker 3That could shake your faith and on top of you know a world , a catastrophic world ending event like an alien invasion also being on top of that , but yeah , and yeah , you'll see how it kind of cascades too , because it went from like it was like a domino effect , like wife dies , you know , then frickin' Meryl moves in and then all the shit happens , it all you know . Yeah , it was all foretold in the prophecy , it was .
Speaker 1Mel Gibson is our lord and savior no . Good discussion , guys . Let's see I'm tallying up the points in my head . Very official points here um alex uh , why should you win ?
Speaker 2why should I win ? Because I actually brought some survival tactics to the table here , we're talking about how you survive the signs invasion . Uh , we've talked about the situational awareness , fortifying your shelter , being stealthy and silent , using improvised weapons , having an escape plan and maintaining your mental resilience . These are things that are always good in any survival situation , especially in signs .
Speaker 1Okay , tj , why should you win ? I do want to point out , actually really quick .
Speaker 3I do want to point out TJ also brought some survival tips to discussion no go on tj um , I'm not gonna have a real chat gpts answer like he did , but I would like to say that I definitely did bring some survival stuff to the table , also brought some good film stuff , also brought some good faith stuff . I also brought a tinfoil hat . Um , that's true , I also have two really good picks for , uh , the next movie .
Speaker 1Uh , if you'd like to hear them , oh , I , I will say uh before , before we get to that uh , tinfoil hat definitely earns you uh some bonus points , because , uh , I love the cosplay very funny I wore it the whole time yeah , you did that's commitment .
Speaker 3I really do appreciate that yeah , yeah , the aliens are already in everybody else's mind Not mine , though .
Speaker 1Yeah , you know what the aliens are telling me . Okay , guys , hang on , I'm getting an intrusive thought from the aliens , wait .
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Speaker 3Wum , wum , wum , wum . That's the stuff in your brain .
Speaker 1Okay , thank you for that , oh .
Speaker 3Josh just gave three points . Josh gave three points for the hat .
Speaker 1Let's go , Josh yeah , according to the Constitution , he's allowed to do that . Well , because the aliens have spoken and they say the winner is TJ Wubba lubba , dub , dub . Now , an astounding amount of points , with the additional three provided by Josh .
Speaker 3Yes , would you like to hear my two picks ? I will let the host choose which one .
Speaker 1Sure , really quick . I do want to say , alex , you did bring some great discussion , but TJ brought a tinfoil hat and that's pretty big , so go on , tj , okay first pick is just a normal survival story .
Speaker 3Top tier , just survival , all the way cast away . Okay , next pick because the movie reminded me that the movie exists War of the Worlds .
Speaker 1I think they referenced that .
Speaker 3They , yeah , they did , they took inspiration from that , like I think it was , it was , it was especially the uh , the basement scene .
Speaker 2He actually says it that he took that whole basement scene from george orwell's war of the worlds interesting , so I will .
Speaker 3I'll let you choose which one . Well , I've never seen more of the worlds .
Speaker 2You have seen castaway , though , so I'm guessing you're gonna have to choose the new one . Is there an old one ? Oh ?
Speaker 3fuck , yeah , okay , yeah , probably not uh , not the old one , I'm talking tom cruise . Yeah , okay , I figured cool , cool cool mr tooth in the middle himself yeah
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Speaker 3, it's fucking weird dude like why is he has enough money for braces ?
Speaker 1why does he have a tooth in the middle ? Okay , I was gonna say mr uh scientology himself , have you ? Have you heard uh russell brands ?
Speaker 1uh , talk about that about which about uh , tom cruise and scientology no yeah , russell brand was talking to a comedian and he was basically saying he was like you know , I was talking to Tom Cruise and I was , you know , saying like oh , you know , you're so great , you're so awesome , you know all the things you have to say in order to keep a job in Hollywood . And at one point he was like we were . He was like I know that he's into Scientology and I'm curious . So every time I would talk to him I would casually try to bring it up , and so I'd just say shit like oh , you know , if only there was something deeper out there . No , okay , if only , you know , if only there was some answers to the universe . And he was like and so the talk show host was like anything . He was like no , nothing .
Speaker 2And so they were laughing and it was like but I'm like super offended like how bad does it have to be that a fucking cult is like they look at me and they're like not you , yeah that's oh , my god .
Speaker 3I see videos all the time about , uh , scientology . And there's this guy who , like just he , walks past the scientology building and they always close the doors . They're like , oh oh yeah , this guy he's , he like walks up to a person . He's like oh hi , miriam , it's been a while . She walks inside , fucking briskly , shuts the doors .
Speaker 1He loves to . He basically just talks Scientology with them and just fucking shuts down all their discussions . They hate it .
Speaker 2Well , the thing that cracks me up is from the eighties . I remember being sick , when I would be sick and I'd be watching TV . There's only a few things I can remember . Right Price is right , and then it goes to After Price is Right . It was the last good thing that was on , Then it was all soap operas and then it was I thought you said Price is Right was the last good thing . Yeah , I didn't watch soap operas .
Speaker 3You didn't watch A Day in Our Lives .
Speaker 2I knew the day of the kids' day was starting to begin again when Gilligan's Island came on , and it was all the way through that that I would see these commercials for Dianetics . That's the L Ron Hubbard book .
Speaker 3He's the founder for Scientology and it was like all of it started in science fiction , in the 80s he literally made like alien books and it was like damn . It started in science fiction in the 80s . Yeah , he literally made like alien books and it was like damn none of these are science Dianetics .
Speaker 1Let me just make a cult . Exactly , let me just make it a religion and everyone's like , oh , now I'm into it , I'm in Dude this stuff man Like yeah , fuck yeah .
Speaker 3They can't drink water they're allergic to water .
Speaker 1When you said it was fiction , not really interested . When you say it's real .
Speaker 2Religion . Okay , this movie but instead of losing his faith in God , it's in Scientology .
Speaker 3Then he sees the alien he's like it's true , yes , and then yeah , anyways , and then they kill's like it's true .
Speaker 1Yes and then , yeah , Anyways and then they kill him .
Speaker 3Winner's speech . Thank you all for this amazing win . The tinfoil hat really pulled through . I knew it would . I was kind of figuring maybe one of us was on the same page , but none of us were on the same page .
Speaker 1It was just only me with the tinfoil hat . The thought didn't even cross my mind not even worse .
Speaker 3Yeah it , uh it . Actually it doubles as a , uh , really big wine glass .
Speaker 2You just rossi lose your speech , alex I know that all of you in the chat and all of you listeners wanted me to win and I appreciate all of your support . You know there's nothing we can do against these oligarchs who operate against us and make sure that we lose and rig the votes , you know , josh , and submit these last minute votes all of a sudden , leave them alone .
Speaker 1These 1 am votes . These 1 am votes .
Speaker 2You know how it goes Chat , chat . We'll get them next time . Until then , host uh , stay alive .
Speaker 3Thank you .
