Will You Survive "The Tunnel"

A horror movie that can’t decide what it wants to be can still be a fun ride, but it’s going to make us argue. We watch The Tunnel (2011), the Australian found footage horror that also leans hard into a mockumentary style, and we immediately clash on the rating: Alex plants a flag in B tier while TJ and Eric push it down toward the C range.

We break down what works and what doesn’t: the creepy underground setting, the feeling of trespassing somewhere you shouldn’t be, and the genuinely unsettling speed and strength of what’s stalking the tunnels. Then we get into the big structural problem, how the mockumentary framing can spoil suspense by hinting at who survives, and how cutting away to “talking head” commentary drains the fear you just built in the dark. If you’re into found footage horror, mockumentary horror, or underground creature features, this is a case study in why format and pacing matter as much as the monster.

Because this is Will You Survive, we also pull out one clear real-world takeaway: if you’re panicking in an emergency, delegate the 911 call to someone who can give location and details fast. From there, we spiral into tunnel urban legends, Paris catacombs stories, and the kind of chaotic side quests only a survival movie podcast can justify.

Listen, pick a side, and tell us where The Tunnel belongs on your horror movie tier list. If you like the show, subscribe, share it with a friend who loves found footage films, and leave a review so more survivors can find us.

Transcript

Welcome And What We Watched

SPEAKER_06 0:24

Hello, survivors, and welcome to another episode of Will You Survive, the podcast. I am Eric. I am your host today, and I'm joined by my two co-hosts, Alex, and TJ. That's me. We are a podcast that usually we watch a movie and then discuss said movie, but sometimes we don't do that. We are doing that today, but I just felt like I'd throw that out there because we don't really explain what we do very often. But today, and I think for all of us it was today, we watched The Tunnel, a 2011 Australian movie.

SPEAKER_02 0:58

That's right. I was gonna say one thing. They didn't blame America, but they didn't mention us within like the first 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

Did they? I kind of missed it. What did they say? It was the Las Vegas storm storm drains and washes that they would go in and clear out the homeless, and it was a daunting task.

SPEAKER_06 1:14

So they're always shitting on us. They never have anything nice to say.

SPEAKER_02 1:18

Did we're just we live rent-free in their minds?

SPEAKER_03 1:19

Actually, they kind of compared themselves to us. Okay, likely.

SPEAKER_06 1:23

Yeah, our tunnels are better.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

They wash themselves out.

SPEAKER_06 1:26

Yeah, we have way more homeless, okay?

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Crazy.

Tier List Ratings And Hot Takes

SPEAKER_06 1:32

Um but yeah, I get they didn't directly blame us, so thanks, Australia. I guess. Um, this movie though, can I get a rating from both of you? If we were to put this on a tier list, where would you put it? You want to hear what it's about first? Oh yeah, give us the synopsis.

SPEAKER_03 1:47

An investigation into a government cover-up that leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story, it quickly becomes clear that the story is hunting them.

SPEAKER_06 2:01

That sounds way better than the movie was. Can I get a rating from both of you? Where would you put this, Alex?

SPEAKER_03 2:07

I think I'm gonna piss you guys off, but I don't think you guys are gonna agree with this. Don't piss me off. But I think this belongs squarely in B. Don't piss me off. Don't fucking do that.

SPEAKER_06 2:18

Okay, let me I I'm gonna pull up the tier list right now.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

Yeah, first, TJ, what what would you rate it? Uh, not fucking B. Maybe a fucking C minus. We're talking about B.

SPEAKER_06 2:31

So, Alex, I'm gonna call you out on this one. You think the tunnel is better than buried? Uh, yeah. You think it's better than Cooties?

SPEAKER_03 2:41

Well, I don't know that I fully agree with cooties. It's just there's so many good things. You think it's better than Maggie?

SPEAKER_06 2:48

Yeah. You think it's better than Maggie, dude? You seriously think it's better than Maggie? Oh, Mags, dude? You think it's better than the shallows? That one does make me laugh. Well, I can see it mid-sea, okay. I could see I could see it in the middle of there somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 3:05

But remember, I'm not a very big fan of 28 weeks later. I think this was better than that. I think this was definitely no.

SPEAKER_02 3:13

This is this is definitely worse than 28.

SPEAKER_04 3:17

Yeah, like this is just how do I I'm trying to think.

SPEAKER_06 3:20

Like, you think this is better than resort? I think resort's better than this. I think this could be like right behind me. You think this is better than bird pox? Yes. This movie never had the at least bird box is an original idea.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

Like, this is literally just as above so below, but bad. This is the descent and as above so below, but worse.

SPEAKER_03 3:44

I I said the descent too. If we were describing a movie, I think as above so below meets the descent.

SPEAKER_02 3:51

I think we need to watch the descent.

The Few Things That Work

SPEAKER_03 3:54

Okay, but what what was your well, okay. Let me tell you my positive points on this first.

SPEAKER_06 3:59

Okay, I would love to hear that.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

The positive points on this were what okay, uh it's it's gonna be controversial here. Okay, but it's all of the negative aspects of these humans.

SPEAKER_06 4:11

Yeah, I can agree with that.

SPEAKER_03 4:12

I think they got themselves into a really shitty situation, they couldn't get themselves out of it, they just went along knowing that this wasn't a good idea, and then all hell breaks loose when Tangles disappears, and I understood the dilemma of we can't just leave this guy, we're not even supposed to be here, and then going to nope, we've gotta go get help, and that's the only way we're gonna find this guy to then help disappearing.

SPEAKER_06 4:40

Is that your only positive point, or are those is that just one?

SPEAKER_03 4:43

No, I think those were most of my positive points. I liked the I liked the intrigue.

Mockumentary Choices And Spoilers

SPEAKER_06 4:48

Can I tell you what I didn't like about this movie? Yeah, it was just as above so below, but bad. No, okay. I just keep saying that. No, uh it I do mean that, but it's basically like with this is what I was telling TJ earlier. I think as above so below was so good because it was like, yes, they're stuck below the catacombs, they're trapped, they can't get out, but it's not just that, it's that you find out that they're trapped in hell. Like they're trying to escape their own personal hells. And that adds like an extra layer of like, oh wow, okay, that that that's the intrigue there. This is literally just they went down into some tunnels for uh to get a news story, and now they're being hunted by this thing. No explanation of what this thing is or or anything, it's just they're just being hunted, it's just a pure just oh, they're helpless and they're trying to escape. That's the whole premise of the of the movie. I I get that. It feels very lackluster. What did you say earlier, TJ, that like I was like, oh, that's a really good point. Oh, I remember. I don't remember. What was it? Rhyme. Um, you were saying that the mockumentary style.

SPEAKER_02 5:55

Oh, yeah, the mockumentary style dragged on for way too fucking long and it gave away like what happened. Like you're watching the movie and you're like, there's four people going in. There's only two people in this fake documentary that's happening. You know who dies. So there's no suspense there. Like you can make an educated guess, like, oh, it's the two other motherfuckers who die. So that just you know, kind of spoils the fucking movie for you. So I think they really like, you know, if it had it was like a 20 minute thing at the beginning, like for the mockumentary thing, and then the rest was found footage, that would have been perfect because like I feel like nobody would be thinking that hard into like the mockumentary part, you know, like may they they wouldn't be thinking, oh, there's only the two people.

SPEAKER_06 6:38

The the mockumentary was definitely a choice. Um, in a found footage type of film, doing a mockumentary feels like like pick one or the other, don't do both. Yeah, it feels really difficult to do both.

SPEAKER_02 6:53

It felt like something would happen and then they would just like elaborate on it for like 20 fucking minutes.

SPEAKER_06 6:59

Like it felt like I was watching one of those ghost hunter shows, except they were all dying. Yeah, like you know, something happened to the colour.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

This thing that you just saw happen just happened. This is what happened when that thing happened.

SPEAKER_06 7:10

I was scared, and I was scared, and I was scared when that happened.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

And we were recording back to the film, and there was light and it was so dark, and then this thing happened, and then it happened.

SPEAKER_06 7:20

We watched them, we we literally watch it uh or or no, we don't, we don't, but oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No. We while they're explaining, but like we watch it pick up the camera uh when they all go into that room to find uh what was his name? Tangles. Tangles, dumb name. When they go in to find Tangles and uh and they're like, oh my god, the all this blood couldn't possibly mean that he's dead, right? His torch is right here, which that's a flashlight. His torch is right here, but that doesn't mean it's him. And then they get back and they're like, the camera moved, and they watch it and they show you what they're seeing, and then it cuts to them being like, and then it just picked up the camera. It's like, yeah, no shit, I just saw.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:59

But I mean, I I don't I didn't remember it exactly that way, but because it was you're watching them walk back to the camera and say, I didn't put it there. What do you mean you didn't put it there? No, I put it right over there, and then they show the footage, and so we had to go back and watch it. So yeah, they show them watching it. I understand, I understand your points. I'm just I'm not nitpicking on these little things.

SPEAKER_06 8:19

That those are huge things.

SPEAKER_03 8:22

Not to the plot.

SPEAKER_06 8:23

You you don't think it's a it's a problem to the plot that they literally give away who survives at the very beginning?

SPEAKER_02 8:28

The tunnel monster, he knows how to use a camera.

SPEAKER_06 8:31

Yeah, he doesn't hunt them then, but like I don't know. It's just there's some weird stuff. I I kind of get it, like stalking your prey. I I understand that.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

They're like later even though I heard he died.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

I understood later why he didn't, but they did have one major flaw.

SPEAKER_06 8:46

When he launched at the camera when the light was on.

SPEAKER_03 8:49

Um, nah, yes and no, because like the the whole idea behind that is this is some type of a mole person who it's gonna hurt the light hurts him. He can't see because he's so used to the dark that this is this is supernatural.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

We agree though, right? I mean, yeah, bro fell into the water and Mia started tweaking. It could be supernatural, it could be like a pathogen or something in the water.

SPEAKER_06 9:10

Well, the way that he killed that that security guard that came. Remember that that guard who came down, like after they'd already lost Tangled and they like Tangles, and they were they were super scared. And he was like, All right, follow me, we're getting out of here. And they're like, Wait, wait, what? And then he goes to the crossway and just that's supernatural, that's not a person. I mean, it it was all they said was it was huge with that strength and speed and the way that it was moving around. That's not a human.

SPEAKER_03 9:35

That's that's fine.

Survival Tip For Calling 911

SPEAKER_06 9:36

I think I I wouldn't like it's a monster of some kind, it's supernatural in some way. I think that's fair to say, but that's where I'm like, it literally just comes down to there's something in the tunnels that's hunting us, and that's the entire premise of the story, which is fine, but also they give away who survives at the very beginning. And okay, now I want to get to the survival aspect of of this episode. This is the only survival tip I have for this episode. If you are too panicked to, in a situation, tell somebody else to call 911 or emergency services. You you want to be specific, like, hey, you in the gray shirt, call 911. Because her calling the emergency services was the most frustrating thing in my life. That as a manager, I wanted to blow my brains out. That was awful. Uh uh, emergency services, police fire or ambulance. Help, help me, my friend. Ma'am, please calm down. Uh police uh fire or ambulance, please help. You have to help him. Okay, where are you? The station. Yeah, let me send help to the station. You gave no information, and then finally, the only way the operator could have known anything of what was happening is she goes, My friend's bleeding all over the place. Well, now the operator knows what the fuck you need. Like, it's if if you are too panicked in a situation, you should not call 911. You should ask somebody else to call 911 who can who can look at the situation and say, Hey, I'm at this station. This guy's bleeding a lot. I think he needs an ambulance.

SPEAKER_03 11:08

So I'll tell you, my my biggest complaint on this was came from that scene right there. Because she said so much blood, he's bleeding all over the place, stuff like that, right? But then afterwards, said the coroner's report said he died of internal bleeding.

SPEAKER_06 11:22

Like, what the what why would you do that?

SPEAKER_08 11:26

Yeah. That's an easy fix.

SPEAKER_06 11:28

I didn't even catch that.

SPEAKER_02 11:29

I was too busy looking at the blaring issues. He's internally, externally bleeding.

SPEAKER_03 11:34

Now, I I look, I am I'm a fan of B movies.

SPEAKER_06 11:37

I I I really like worse than that though.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

I wouldn't call it worse than that.

SPEAKER_06 11:42

This is a C movie. This is the lowest movie.

SPEAKER_03 11:44

I mean when I said C when I say a B a B movie, I mean generically speaking, you know, generally speaking, it's it's not an A list of actors. It's not uh it doesn't have any hot shots. And this was uh what is his name?

SPEAKER_02 11:59

Carlo Main Chick was she was very pretty. I was I was into the main chick.

SPEAKER_03 12:03

She looked very familiar.

SPEAKER_02 12:05

Yeah, like I I don't know if I've even seen her or anything.

As Above So Below Comparisons

SPEAKER_03 12:08

I I looked at I looked at her up. It's uh Phil Delia, and I don't recognize any of the movies that she's done. She's got one of those faces.

SPEAKER_06 12:18

So I just realized, unless I'm tripping, we didn't do uh As Above So Below on the tier list.

SPEAKER_03 12:25

We did I don't we didn't do that movie.

SPEAKER_06 12:27

We haven't done As Above So Below, nor The Descent. I could have sworn. No. How have I not picked As Above So that is one of my favorite horrors?

SPEAKER_02 12:35

Literally one of my favorite movies. I'm pretty sure we watched it together or something, didn't we? I don't think we know we watched it. I don't think we did it for the podcast. I'm pretty sure me and you watched it together.

SPEAKER_06 12:44

Okay, well that's my next movie. I have you ever seen that?

SPEAKER_03 12:48

Uh I don't think so.

SPEAKER_06 12:49

Oh, well, that's why you think this movie's good. Because you haven't seen that if you saw As Above So Below, I think you would agree with us. I think it's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

As Above So Below is one of the better found footage movies.

SPEAKER_06 13:01

Yeah. But and what I think As Above So Below does so well is that it's found footage from the beginning. And it's that way the whole time. It's not necessarily found footage because they upload it. Like that's the that's the whole thing. Like they upload it, but they're recording their journey on this. But it shows you from the very beginning of the story. Like she she goes to this place in search of this this relic. She finds it, she's able to get pictures of it, and she goes to a friend in France who can translate it. Um, and they find out like where the gates to hell are, and it's in the the Paris catacombs. And so they they sneak in, they sneak into like a secret entrance with this uh group that um that says, like, yeah, we could get you in there, we can get you into that secret part of the catacombs.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

They actually filmed in the fucking catacombs, by the way. Like they actually went in there.

SPEAKER_06 13:52

So they they go down into there and they pass a certain point where like they basically realize they can't go back. Um, like they try to, but it just kind of loops them, and then they end up having they just have to go forward, and so they go through it, and you know, people die as they go through, and but it's so good. But it it's uh like I think that's maybe an A or S tier movie.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 14:15

Um, but the problem with this one, I think the biggest blaring issue with this movie, the tunnel, is that it is that they tried to do the mockumentary thing, but they also did the found footage thing.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

So it ended up new genre series for the podcast, white people going into tunnels. White people going into dark spaces, yeah. White people going into dark spaces. We got we can do the we got this one as above so below. We can do the descent. There's there's more. I know there's more.

SPEAKER_06 14:41

We could do that one movie where that white teacher moves to the Bronx.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

Is it the one with Matthew Perry? Is that the one you're talking about? Yeah, yeah. I actually like that movie. It's a good movie. That's so that's that's there's so many movies like that, though. Yeah, there's one with uh Woody Harrelson. Yeah, I kind of want to watch that one. I was l I was just watching like it's you know, white guy goes to place, sees unfortunate situation for kids, makes it better. Somehow, true story.

SPEAKER_06 15:18

Like white guy goes to struggling neighborhoods. There's not bad.

SPEAKER_02 15:21

There's that fucking one. It's fucking one dude, and then he finds a bunch of Mexican kids and he's like, yo, cross country. That's what you guys are doing now. Cross country Mexican team, let's do it. And they're like, We can't. We gotta go pick the fields with our family. He like goes out there with them. No idea what that show is called.

SPEAKER_06 15:39

Uh that's that's almost similar to like Coach Carter, except you're watching so many movies like that.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

Yeah, those movies are great. You know what? We're gonna do those movies. That's what we're gonna do. We just start going into a bunch of like vibrational.

SPEAKER_06 15:53

Underdog stories.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_06 15:55

Will you overcome? That's our new brand. Overcome the podcast. Today we're talking about Coach Carter. How can we be more like Coach Carter in our day-to-day lives?

SPEAKER_02 16:09

Just sounds like a like a just a version of like alpha male podcasts, but like wholesome.

SPEAKER_06 16:15

Sorry, Alex. We're just riffing now. We're just that's okay.

Catacombs Legends And Getting Lost

SPEAKER_02 16:18

We're motivational people now. Okay. We're motivation maxing.

SPEAKER_06 16:23

This is quite literally what our normal Discord calls sound like.

SPEAKER_03 16:27

Well, what I was doing in the meantime was looking up when uh people have gotten lost in the catacombs. Thanks for the heart me, Josh. And unironically, the first person and still most famous person to get lost was a man who was this is a funny name. Cilibert Asper. Uh, he was a doorkeeper at the Villa de Grace hospital. He reportedly entered the underground tunnels, possibly while drunk, or trying to get access to a nearby cellar/slash brewery for liquor. He only had a single candle. He got lost when his light went out, and he died alone in the darkness. His body wasn't discovered until eleven years later in 1804. Just a few meters from an exit staircase.

SPEAKER_04 17:07

No!

SPEAKER_03 17:08

He's identified by his leaf, and the buttons on his jacket. Well, his grave marker still exists in the catacombs and has become a popular spot for explorers.

SPEAKER_02 17:19

Just add a skull to the wall. People who don't know what the Paris Catacombs are, it was like plague times and they needed places to put the bodies. So they just started building intricate fucking art with uh with bones and shit. It's a mass grave. It's a mass grave, basically, thousands of miles of tunnels under a tourist attraction. Yeah, there are some parts that are open for like tourists to go in where like you can't get lost, you're with a tour guide and shit. But there are still entrances and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 17:49

We are dark creatures, man.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 17:52

Yeah, I I know we've talked about this before, but do you ever like take a step out of your body and imagine how humans must seem to other creatures?

SPEAKER_03 18:01

Uh I mean that's called disassociating, Eric.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

I think you need to talk to your therapist about that.

SPEAKER_06 18:06

We did a whole bit on how I think I could win therapy. We're we're skinwalkers to other Oh yeah, we're absolutely skinwalkers to like deer and whatnot. We're fucking skinwalkers. We're duck. That's horrifying.

SPEAKER_03 18:17

I mean, we do a duck call and they're like, oh shit, one of mine.

SPEAKER_06 18:20

Yeah, they literally they're literally hearing oh boys, and they're like, oh shit. And then they get shot.

SPEAKER_05 18:26

I could do a really call. Do you want to hear it? Yeah. I know what you're gonna do. Come here, duck. Yeah. I love that. I knew you were gonna do that.

SPEAKER_07 18:37

Those are like my favorite duck.

SPEAKER_02 18:41

Or like uh, yo, so I was uh I was hanging out with this guy, and he was a former military, and you know, Velcro is like really loud, uh, you know, and you're in like a tactical environment, you're trying to be stealthy, you don't want you know the velcro to give you away. So he you know he has this way to open up Velcro without it making any noise at all. And nobody will be able to hear the Velcro when you do it. And then you're like, all right, I'll show you. And then you take the Velcro, you just go, Ha!

SPEAKER_08 19:10

You didn't hear Velcro, did you? I didn't hear it at all.

SPEAKER_03 19:15

That's great.

SPEAKER_05 19:16

It is a very military joke. I feel like I've heard that before on a military base. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:21

So one of the reasons why I actually like this movie is it plays on a long-standing uh urban legend of haunted tunnels. So I go with your with your premise that this is supernatural. Um because these things have superhuman strength, even though they would be uh, if you will let me, they would be more of a mutated human than a superhuman. Like the descent. Like the descent. Yeah, they're they're not they shouldn't be they shouldn't have superhuman strength when they're living on we'll say subnutritious standards.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

Yeah, like unless there's like fish there's probably fish down there, maybe possibly. No, if it connected to some down there. There's some fresh water, something might be down there, maybe some small stuff.

SPEAKER_06 20:10

I I I'm pretty sure underwater aquifers don't have fish, right?

SPEAKER_02 20:14

Some do.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

Unless it was unless it was attached in some way to underground water. So like if they built the train, now understand, I I I always love this fact about water. There is no such thing as waterproof. There's there's water tight, there's uh water shed. You don't you don't seal water away from where it wants to go. You can divert its attention, get it to go somewhere else because it's easier. But eventually water will take back it'll it'll go the exact way that it wants to go.

SPEAKER_02 20:45

Like if you divert a river, it'll eventually like it'll freaking you know, it'll stretch out and then it'll create like this weird like lake and then it'll turn back into the river it was.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

Did you hear about there there's like a bridge down in South America? They made this impervious this bridge that's impervious to hurricanes will never never go down in a hurricane. And hurricane came through, the bridge is still there, but the river rediverted and went around the bridge, so the road is completely covered. The bridge is there.

Water, Tunnels, And Nature Winning

SPEAKER_06 21:21

Well, Mother Nature said, Fuck your bridge. Build another one. Build another one. Yeah. That's yeah. Um, I agree. There was a a guy who walked around, of course, it was California beaches. Well, I'm sure you heard of this, Alex, where he had a petition to uh ban H2O.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Dihydrogen monoxide.

SPEAKER_06 21:42

Oh, yeah. Dihydrogen monoxide.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

It is the most dangerous element on the planet.

SPEAKER_06 21:46

It's the most dangerous and destructive element on the planet, um, and it goes unregulated.

SPEAKER_03 21:52

Um, you know, everybody who's ever can children has on playgrounds can get it.

SPEAKER_06 21:57

People use it every day, and people just don't. Care what it does to the environment, and all these people just being like, Yeah, let's ban it. Signing to ban water because they don't know what dihydrogen monoxide is.

SPEAKER_03 22:10

Yep. But but the the point I'm making is if there was water attached to these tunnels somewhere, which clearly there was, right? Maybe it was groundwater, maybe it was another underground uh river, lake. They called it a lake. Don't know why. They said it was I believe they used the term kilometers, which is just bizarre to me. I don't know what that is. We're in the imperialist system here, the standard system.

SPEAKER_07 22:35

That's a fucking kilometer. What's a kilometer?

SPEAKER_03 22:37

I I don't know. That's nonsense to me.

SPEAKER_07 22:40

It's a bald eagle.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

What the fuck is that in bald eagle? Perfect.

SPEAKER_06 22:47

I don't know if they'll be able to hear that. You might have to put that in.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Uh I yeah, I don't think the recording will hear it, but the stream did.

SPEAKER_06 22:55

That is so loud.

SPEAKER_03 22:57

That is very loud. I like that.

SPEAKER_06 23:00

Um what were you saying, Alex?

SPEAKER_03 23:03

I I was just saying that the the lake that they called it, it could have been attached to some kind of a water system, which would mean that there's a possibility for fish to be in there.

SPEAKER_06 23:13

I mean, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

But still he like I mean, what else would they be eating other than just I mean homeless people, homeless people?

SPEAKER_03 23:20

Rodents and people.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Um algae on the wall.

SPEAKER_06 23:24

Which they probably started with rodents. Even if you're like, even if you're super strong, but which this guy, it's not like he's fucking bulking, it's not like he's lifting weights and whatnot down there. But the that one scene where that that guard comes down and is about to escort them out, and then he gets just actually ambushed, the speed at which that creature crossed the hallway met resistance by grabbing the guy, moved him like he didn't weigh anything, and just pulled him and then continued to go so fast that by the time they got there they couldn't see him anymore. They couldn't see it anymore. And it was just a blur on the camera.

SPEAKER_03 24:04

But did they I don't think they chased him, they ran the opposite direction.

SPEAKER_06 24:08

Oh, maybe they ran I I don't know. But like so fast across the hallway when they grabbed it, it met resistance by a full grown man who was heavier set. Just bolts across like he's nothing, just lifts him and carries him away. But you presume that he went far because you heard the screaming. The screaming got far away pretty quick.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 24:28

I mean, I think they were running the opposite direction too, so but it would still be like all about to say I don't care how strong you are, unless you're fucking what's that one guy, the strong man who's like the strongest guy on earth? I forget his name. Uh Thor? No. Who am I talking about?

SPEAKER_02 24:42

I have no idea.

SPEAKER_06 24:43

He's the guy who fought those two uh douchebags in the Eddie Hall. Yeah, Eddie Hall.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

Unless you're not sure. Is he called the Hulk? No, he's not a big thing. So he's not that fast. I've seen the video of him picking up what, like two tons or something. Ton.

SPEAKER_03 24:57

Yeah, the guy guys that guy could pick up a whole human being, no problem.

Eddie Hall Riff And Fight Logic

SPEAKER_06 25:03

Yeah, like that's the strength you would need for that. May maybe not quite that much, but even. I know he has the speed. Yeah, but he wouldn't have the speed to do that.

SPEAKER_03 25:12

This is relevant. Nerdy's saying, is his name juggernaut?

SPEAKER_06 25:15

No.

SPEAKER_03 25:15

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 25:16

No, I think it's I think he's called the Hulk. Eddie the Hulk.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

That sounds kind of the four match stars, Josh.

SPEAKER_06 25:22

Oh Eddie Hall. What's Edd Eddie Hall's nickname? Eddie the Hulk.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

That's Eddie Hall called Eddie Strongman. The beast.

SPEAKER_06 25:32

The beast.

SPEAKER_03 25:33

Weak.

SPEAKER_06 25:34

There's these two like Filipino fighters who were like 5'8 who were like, We could totally fuck you up in a 2v1. And Eddie Hall was like, No, you can't. And they're like, Yeah, we fucking can. And then they got the snot beat out of them.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

Yeah, he really was dogging on them the entire time, bro.

SPEAKER_03 25:50

It was within seconds.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

I mean, like top the biggest.

SPEAKER_06 25:53

Well, each of them each of them took one hit and were like, fuck that. And then they were just dancing around the ring for the next like fucking.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

I mean, you take that one hit and that makes you not want to take any more like that.

SPEAKER_06 26:04

Yeah, that they were just dancing around the ring for three minutes. Like they weren't even going out. It got to a point where the ref literally said, like, you have to fight. Like, you can't just run around.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

Bro, his whole thing is grabbing and gripping onto things and lifting them. So you get near him, you're getting picked up and slammed.

SPEAKER_06 26:22

The other thing is like he has a much further uh arm uh reach than they do. Uh he has so much more strength. It doesn't matter that he's moving slow. He just needs to fucking tap you in the side of the head with his forearm and you're knocking over.

SPEAKER_03 26:35

You remember the weigh-in and the uh and the uh the press release before the fight? One of those idiots goes and steals his water bottle. Yeah. And he was like, What are you what are you doing? Bring that back.

SPEAKER_06 26:46

They don't understand, like, they really didn't get it. It's there there's a I saw a meme on on Instagram. It was uh Brazilian jujitsu, and uh it was like size doesn't matter, guys. And it's this guy who's probably like five, six or seven, like attached to the arm of a guy who's clearly like six three and fucking huge. And he's like trying to get him in an arm bar, and he's like he's he's not able to get the arm to fully go straight, and he's trying really hard. And then the the guy who's being armbarred is like, oh, hang on, and he stands up with the guy still held on to his arm, gets water in his other arm, drinks it, and then lays back down and then lets the guy put him in an arm bar. It's like, yeah, size matters.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

It's me versus Eric.

SPEAKER_06 27:27

Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

The dude would take like three of me to maybe be able to beat Eddie Hall. Yeah, Eddie Hall's huge. Dude's massive.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

I think it would take more than three of you. Just because you would have you would need, I don't know your your capability in this realm, but you would need to be able to take a freaking sledgehammer to the face and keep fighting in order to. I mean, I'm pretty good at overwhelm him.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

I've never lost a fight.

SPEAKER_06 27:52

The problem is, yeah, but you've never fought Eddie Hall. True.

SPEAKER_02 27:58

I'm pretty sure how how tall is Eddie Hall? I'm pretty sure he's pretty short.

SPEAKER_06 28:01

He's like 6'4, right?

SPEAKER_02 28:03

Pretty sure he's short.

SPEAKER_06 28:04

What is short to you? Short and dense. He might be like 5'10. He might be like 5'10. He's not 5'8, he's huge.

SPEAKER_03 28:12

They're gonna say something like centimeters. Watch.

SPEAKER_06 28:15

173 centimeters. How many midimeters is foot two.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

Six foot two.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

I'm taller than Eddie Hall.

SPEAKER_06 28:21

How much does he weigh?

SPEAKER_03 28:21

How much does he weigh? He weighs uh at his heaviest, he was 433 pounds.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

I weigh 30 pounds less than Eddie Hall at his heaviest. Yeah, about four.

SPEAKER_06 28:32

All muscle. Hey, I'm pretty strong, buddy. I'm not saying you're not strong, but I'm saying you're not Eddie Hall.

SPEAKER_03 28:39

I'm I'm yeah, I'm saying I'm saying you're Edward Holland.

SPEAKER_06 28:43

Yeah, the thing like the other thing that they did not consider is that not only is he is every single punch he doing a fucking cannon, but he can also take way more damage than they can.

SPEAKER_03 28:56

Well, I mean, if you really want to look at the bright side, what they really didn't account for is the fact that he's British, so he's a fictional character.

SPEAKER_06 29:04

They were fighting nothing.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

Also, you're not accounting for my bloodlust, so yeah, uh I love you, dude.

SPEAKER_06 29:10

And for the case.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

How is he gonna fight me if I bite his Achilles tendon out? I'm gonna say, how's he gonna fight you when he doesn't really exist? Hey, them balls are still regular balls, brother.

SPEAKER_06 29:21

I don't like where you're going with that one.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Bite! I'll shove the entirety of his nuts in my mouth and chew them bitches like bubble gum.

SPEAKER_03 29:29

The old twist.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

Oh, minus one. Minus one point. My wife is staring. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_08 29:36

Y'all dick twist. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. MMA fight. Oh my god. Grab his dick and twist it! Grab his dick and twist it! Your dick twist!

SPEAKER_02 29:50

I feel like that'd be the go-to move if it was if it was me versus Eddie Hall. You gotta do something. I'm going for Achilles tendons and the old dick twist.

SPEAKER_06 29:58

Yeah, you're thinking that you can even get your hand to his balls before he knocks your ass out.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

Listen, I th I can I'm faster than Eddie Hall, I believe. Nope. Yep. I got more explosive power in my knees. Nope. Yep. Nope. Yep. I could bur I could burst.

SPEAKER_06 30:15

Nope. You know what? Maybe when he's Tyson's age, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 30:18

Yo, Eddie Hall, come fucking get me, bro. Don't say that. Eddie Hall, come get me. It has to be a tag team match.

SPEAKER_05 30:26

If what who?

SPEAKER_02 30:27

Yeah, I got well Eddie Hall is just Eddie Hall. He don't get a teammate. But it'll be me and it'll be Peter Dinklage. And I'm not letting that bitch tag me back in.

SPEAKER_05 30:39

He's like, please, please, please. No, you got it, man. You're good.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

Bro, bro, just get under him.

SPEAKER_05 30:44

Get under him.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

He's sitting there.

SPEAKER_05 30:47

If you just keep running, there's no way he can catch you.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

He's just laying on Peter Dinklage.

SPEAKER_03 30:52

He's like, dude, I like that one even better. I thought you were gonna say Dwayne the Rock Johnson. I think that would be kind of funny. And I'm not gonna let him tag me back in, but that's even better.

SPEAKER_06 31:02

For a second, I thought he was gonna he was gonna throw me into this. And I was like, I do not know. Eric would be kind of die.

SPEAKER_03 31:07

I kind of thought so too.

SPEAKER_06 31:08

Uh yeah, I'd literally just be like, you win. It's okay. You don't have to hit it. Eric, please just lay down. Eric, my legs. He's on he's breaking my legs. Tapping. It's alright. He's like, I'm not even near you. Tapping. It's okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:22

Eric's not even in the fight. I'm in there first. I'm like bleeding to death. I'm like, Eric, please. You're like, I'm tapping for you.

SPEAKER_06 31:29

I'm literally at the door tipping the doorman. I'm like, yeah, just don't let him don't let him come after me, please.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

Yeah, no. Don't even don't ring the bell because once you ring the bell, he's still gonna have so much energy. He's gonna come after me anyways. I need you to let me get away first.

SPEAKER_06 31:42

Yeah, uh, here's 40 bucks if you let me get to my car before you say anything. They haven't noticed I left.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

I think you give me something I care about, I'll fight for my life. Uh God, I think I'll have the power to beat Eddie Hall.

SPEAKER_06 31:56

I I love you, dude. I don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 31:58

Put Adele's coochie on the line. I'll be there.

SPEAKER_06 32:01

That's wild. You would die for that.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

I would die for that.

SPEAKER_06 32:04

You would, you would die.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

I would drag my balls through eight miles of broken glass just to sniff her daddy's balls, just to see where she came from.

SPEAKER_06 32:14

That's the gayest thing you've ever said. Gayest? That's okay.

SPEAKER_05 32:21

He said some gay things to me before, but that was something else.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

This is the guy who said that you married him and his wife, and not in the sense that gay people would say.

SPEAKER_06 32:33

This was way gayer.

SPEAKER_03 32:35

Listen, but okay.

SPEAKER_06 32:36

He said he would drag his balls through eight miles of glass just to sniff another dude's balls.

SPEAKER_02 32:41

Just to see where she came from, brother.

SPEAKER_06 32:43

That's crazy. Not even not even to say just to sniff her bath water or just to sniff like a place that she's a seat that she has once sat in. No, her dad's balls. Why? Not even her mom. That's not that's not desperate, bro. That's how desperate.

SPEAKER_03 32:59

Adele, hit me up. With his wife in the room.

SPEAKER_04 33:04

Not even her mom.

SPEAKER_03 33:05

That's what you get when you're from Washington.

SPEAKER_05 33:08

Oh, man's down bad. What is what is Maddie doing to you, man? Listen, I love my wife.

SPEAKER_02 33:14

I'd kill for my wife, but I just want to vegetably hall for her.

SPEAKER_06 33:18

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 33:18

Adele?

SPEAKER_03 33:19

That's wild. So I'm not backing down off of my B rating, but I will say, oh fuck C.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Of course, Sam joins and hears that. Outrageous. Maddie says.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

I will say they they should have picked what they were gonna do. Yeah. Found footage or a mockumentary.

SPEAKER_06 33:38

I'm not gonna lie. I really do feel like your opinion is gonna change drastically when you watch As Above So Below.

SPEAKER_03 33:44

And I'll I'll gladly say so if that's the case.

SPEAKER_06 33:47

I just I I do think so.

SPEAKER_03 33:49

The only reason was I did enjoy the ride. It was entertaining.

SPEAKER_06 33:53

It's because you haven't seen As Above So Below. It's like, okay, so imagine this. It's like getting on Boomerang at Knott's Berry Farm, and then they're like, and then someone's like, I got something even better. And then they take you to Montezuma's revenge. That's what this was. I rode Boomerang, it was fucking wild, it was cool, and then someone was like, I got better. And they showed, and then they took me to Montezuma's, and I went, Oh. I mean, it was fun.

SPEAKER_03 34:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:20

But like, that's not.

SPEAKER_03 34:21

You know what? In all honesty, this is way outside of our our conversation, but better than the conversation you and TJ were having.

SPEAKER_07 34:29

Um, what? Minus one.

SPEAKER_03 34:31

No, no, this is way better because it's at least more wholesome. But uh the only reason why I would say Montezuma's was a better ride is because it never had the line that boomerang had.

SPEAKER_06 34:43

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_03 34:44

It was But you're absolutely right. In the sense of the ride, the ride, no comparison.

SPEAKER_06 34:50

So there's a I mean, well the the the TJ gonna steal your movie. For anyone who doesn't know uh the analogy I was making, but there's these two rides at this amusement park. Boomerang would like it would pull you all the way up, like it would pull you backwards all the way up, and then it would drop you, you would do one loop, you would do like another corkscrew, and then you do a third loop, a big one, and then you'd go, you'd go up, and then you'd do all of it again backwards. It was like a boomerang. Um Montezuma's revenge was basically that, but one loop.

SPEAKER_03 35:22

One loop, too.

SPEAKER_06 35:23

You would you would shoot forward, you would go through a big loop, you'd you'd go up, and then you'd fall backwards, you'd do the big loop, and then you'd go up the other way, and then you come back into the station. So it's it's like, you know, I I do think if and anyone who's seen As Above So Below, I think would 100% agree with this. This was like I think this was also before As Above So Belo, so I'll give it that credit. This this was a 2011 movie, but like this was after the movie. As Above, yeah, As Above So Belo came in and just knocked this completely out of the park. It's just a much better version of this kind of film.

Water Parks, Pool Pee, And Dares

SPEAKER_03 35:58

Sam dropped by. She came to both of our lives. How's it going? Sam?

SPEAKER_02 36:03

There's a uh there's a water park here in Washington that's closing now. I don't know whose idea it was to have a water park in Washington. I don't think that's a good business expanse dog. Yeah, it's wild waves. She used to work there and uh she told me a story. There was some dude with like an infectious disease that decided to go to the water park and was like, yeah, this is a great idea. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 36:30

So uh I'm not gonna lie, the older I get, the more like water parts. Yeah, shared bath water. I mean, at least they put so much chlorine into those pools that it's like you at least have that assurance, but you know how much pee is in there?

SPEAKER_02 36:46

So much. So you know how much I've peed in there? Dude, I've peed, I've peed every every pool I've been in, I peed in. I've peed everywhere I've been. I don't even get in the pool to pee. I just pissed into the pool. The other good thing about the water park is You're just standing on the edge. That makes it worse. That makes it so much worse.

SPEAKER_06 37:06

Oh man. Someone's like, what are you doing? You're like, we all do it.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

We all do it. Come on, you're acting like you don't pee in the pool. I don't like peeing when my wiener's wet. My wiener cannot be submerged when I pee. Yeah, it's the pressure difference, man.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

You guys are freaking weird.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

Oh, you're telling me you don't pee in the pool.

SPEAKER_03 37:31

I I honestly do not.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

Wow. You wouldn't drink Wild Waves pool water just to get one night with Adele. Couldn't be me. No.

SPEAKER_06 37:41

I don't think you could offer anybody to me.

SPEAKER_02 37:44

No. Yeah, I could. Haley Williams.

SPEAKER_06 37:47

Okay, I love Haley Williams.

SPEAKER_02 37:48

You drink a you drink a gallon of fucking pool water. I wouldn't. You wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. You would.

SPEAKER_06 37:55

I wouldn't. I really's right in front of you.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

She hands you a gallon of pool water. She's like, I will give you a little bit.

SPEAKER_08 38:07

Well, well, when you word it that way, there would be at least some consideration.

SPEAKER_03 38:14

You can't see Samba. That that made me smile. That was funny.

SPEAKER_05 38:18

There would be there would if she was like, if you drink this, there would be a part of my brain that went, whoa, well, how fast can I jug this?

SPEAKER_03 38:34

In the day, I think mine would have been, uh, let me see, who was I the biggest fan of?

SPEAKER_07 38:40

Marilyn Monroe?

SPEAKER_03 38:41

No, it was uh what a dick. I think it would have been Cleopatra Fuck.

SPEAKER_07 38:54

I was like, who's older? What happened is TJ and I both went, what's another famous woman who's really old? And we both went, Cleopatra.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

That's probably the oldest we really jumped there.

SPEAKER_03 39:08

Was it Amelia Earhart? I think the one that would have sparked my interest to make me say, uh think about that question would have been Scarlett Johansson.

SPEAKER_02 39:16

You know what? Not even back in the day. Right now. Gallon of pool water.

SPEAKER_03 39:21

Gallon of pool. See that?

SPEAKER_06 39:23

I I wouldn't.

SPEAKER_03 39:24

I don't I wouldn't do it, but it it would at least be enough to make me go, well.

SPEAKER_06 39:30

See, that that's how I feel about Haley Williams. I'm like, I wouldn't just immediately be like, give me the jug, but I'd be like, let's talk.

SPEAKER_03 39:38

Okay, okay, we're negotiating.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

Okay. It's me. Half a gallon now, half a gallon later.

SPEAKER_06 39:45

Does that work? Please. My so what would be happening there is my stomach would be negotiating with my brain. Right? And my brain would be negotiating with my penis.

SPEAKER_03 39:54

That's funny because Sam Sam says it hers would be Sam Elliott.

SPEAKER_02 39:58

You know what? That is valid. That man's voice. Cowboy. Yeah. I get that. Old school cowboy.

SPEAKER_06 40:05

Yeah, I I'm trying to think if there's there's a couple there's a couple celebrities that would make me think.

SPEAKER_02 40:12

What's um there's there's one that I would just drink. The you you've seen Jurassic World? Redhead in the Jurassic World. What's her name? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 40:23

She's pretty I don't know if I would die.

SPEAKER_03 40:25

I think her I think the actress I forget the actress's name. I keep I want to say Claire. Bryce Dallas Howe.

SPEAKER_06 40:32

Yeah, Bryce Dallas How Gallon immediately. Very pretty. She's very pretty. I I don't know if I would I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

In that movie, they had to in like de-enhance her booty, bro. She got massive cheeks. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 40:47

I still love that. I still love that scene.

SPEAKER_02 40:50

Yeah, I'm sure she will.

SPEAKER_03 40:52

She takes she untucks her shirt, she unbuttons the bottom, ties it, she like wraps it all around. Chris Pratt's like, what what does that mean? It means I'm ready to go. Oh yeah. Still in heels.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

Fucking those heels.

Back To The Movie’s Biggest Flaws

SPEAKER_03 41:10

That was the worst thing ever. And she kept running in him though. That's crazy. Speaking of which, uh, this movie. Was there nobody else? None of those guys would have taken off their shirt to tie it around that dude's arm. And by the way, was that an editing error? Because I don't think they ever showed us what happened to his arm. I know he said he bumped it on something, but it was like very anticlimactic that all of a sudden his arm is all jacked up, but he's like, Oh, I must have bumped it on something. I just wish they like I went back and watched it several times hoping to see like something grab his arm or something like that. But nothing. I never saw it.

SPEAKER_06 41:54

That's what I'm saying. I I really like there's not much more that I can say other than I guarantee you when you watch As Above So Below, you're gonna be like, oh I get it. Yeah, this is way better. Like it's this is what As Above So Below is what this movie tried to be, in my opinion. And I think I I do admire the I guess innovation of it. When did The Office start in the US? Was it 2005? The Office?

SPEAKER_03 42:24

God, I don't think so. I was it later later, I think. I think 2011.

SPEAKER_06 42:29

Okay. Oh I guess maybe 2011 was a big moumentary phase, but I do like you don't see many like mockumentary style things, especially horror. So I give them that credit. That's cool. Um this might be the only mockumentary, you're right.

SPEAKER_03 42:46

2005.

SPEAKER_06 42:48

Yeah, also this might be the the this might be the first like horror mockary that we've really seen. So I give them that credit. I just don't think mockumentary fits with the horror genre. No, it's more for comedy or yeah, it just doesn't quite serve the same purpose. Because like the thing about horror is that you get so invested in the moment that you kind of lose yourself and you start to feel scared, but then they cut away from that to some to one of them in a safe room, just being like, and that was very scary. And it just feels like one of those ghost hunting shows, which I l also love.

SPEAKER_02 43:25

But I mean, the the mock are all smart. So, like I will say the mockumentary and shit like that, it was all shot good. It's just too much.

SPEAKER_06 43:33

It was done well. I just think the genre itself is not fitting to horror.

SPEAKER_02 43:37

It felt real. Like it was smart to do actors who like weren't super well known, you know. That's what makes it like you can't you can't do like a found footage movie or anything with like a well known actor. Like imagine Brad Pitt in this. You would not be able to su suspend your disbelief. No, you'd immediately but this one you can you can like somewhat

SPEAKER_06 44:00

You know. The guy who played Steve, the actor's name is Steve.

SPEAKER_03 44:05

Well, okay, so I noticed that in the credits. Then you have then you have things like I don't know if this fits our genre necessarily, but it's a fun watch, which is uh the fourth kind starring Mia Jovovich, where they did that in a documentary-esque fashion. They even they even had Mia Jovovich play the actress, and then they had another actress play the quote real life person. And it was it was very well done that made you think that this was all real. They filmed all of the interview aspects at Chapman University, making it look like this was a real event going on, like a real versus dramatized event. They would even put up the dramatized video.

SPEAKER_06 44:52

I I see like and that was all very intentional, like the like the way that they did that, and I think that's what made that movie good and successful. I think this one was just like I don't know, it was just lackluster, and the it seemed like it never really committed to I I I guess it did commit and it just didn't work. The the way that they did the mockumentary, just I don't know. I think they gave away too much uh way too early, and they really dragged on the the mockumentary in the beginning, especially. Where there is like the first 40 minutes of the movie where you're like, man, this is this is still going a little boring.

SPEAKER_03 45:36

Well, it and you you make a valid point. I'll repeat myself. I think they should have chosen one or the other. Yeah, yeah. Down footage or and it would, you know, if they were gonna do the both type thing, they should have done the the mockumentary at like the beginning stages we're about to do. This is what documenting all of their steps of what they're about to do, right? We're gonna uncover, we're gonna, we're gonna, and then you're in, and there's no more of that watching.

SPEAKER_02 46:06

If they wanted to keep it going, they could do like a beginning, middle, and end, like 10 minutes each or something of mockumentary shit.

SPEAKER_06 46:16

Yeah, yeah. They really they threw it in a lot in between, and you you kind of Alex, you kind of spoke on something that is kind of exactly what As Above So Below does, which is where like that they commit to one thing, they commit to uh found footage, and in a sense, because you know they survive and they upload it, but you you it commits to this hand recorded um found footage style thing, and the way that they fit that in is they start from her doing the first step that leads them to this. So and it travels across different countries, so it like it it does a good job of you almost kind of forget that, oh yeah, someone's holding this camera, and that is kind of how it's supposed to be. But this mockumentary, like this like going in between them, is uh you can never really get fully in like into either one of them because they're they're kind of not they they don't um they don't synergize very well. And it's just like it kind of when you cut to the moumentary, you really pull the viewer out of the the found footage style, and then when you cut to the found footage, you pull them out of the mockumentary style. And so it's like these two styles that are clashing and keep pulling you away from what the other one's trying to do.

SPEAKER_03 47:45

I didn't have that problem, but I will say to the contrary, I was fully invested. Um I felt my emotions getting involved because I was getting extremely frustrated with the girl.

SPEAKER_06 48:01

Uh I got frustrated with her. I think I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 48:04

The the screaming, yeah, they're like shh, you know, this thing's chasing them, and she's like screaming at the top of her lungs.

SPEAKER_06 48:12

Like, dude, survival instincts of a fucking potato. What are we doing? Why are you screaming? You know this thing can hear you. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 48:20

So it was like that that was very frustrating. And so I can't say that I was I was ever I I didn't feel like I was ever taken out.

SPEAKER_06 48:29

But that I'm okay with, you know, that her doing that, especially like it annoyed me, but I think what made it feel human is after she was doing that when she started apologizing. That made it feel human because I'm like, look, I I guess I don't know what I would how I would react given I was in the same exact position.

SPEAKER_03 48:51

I said the exact same thing to myself.

SPEAKER_06 48:53

I would like to think I wouldn't do that, and that would be very frustrating, but I I get it, I understand the fear and the frustration that she was feeling.

SPEAKER_00 49:04

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 49:05

But at the same time, shut up.

SPEAKER_00 49:08

Yeah. Um I was just over here thinking of the gallon of pool water, and I thought I was like, This guy.

SPEAKER_02 49:17

Gallon of tonne of water. What would what would make you nobody, nobody what could you get for a gallon of tonne of water? Nobody. Nobody? Nothing? Nobody. Nothing. I'm pretty sure you would die. Tunnel water. Nah, I think it's just like fent leaking into the water split. It's fine.

SPEAKER_06 49:40

If if I'm gonna drink a gallon of that tunnel water, I want a literal genie.

SPEAKER_02 49:47

Dude, he was only in that water when he got pushed in for like at most 10 seconds. And then he immediately started tweaking.

SPEAKER_06 49:56

I will say, okay, one cool scene, the guy with the eyes taken out in the water, and then the creature snaps his neck. Yeah. That was a that was a cool scene. That was cool. I did I did like that scene. Mm-hmm. Oh yeah. I like that one. And I think that was the first time we really saw the creature. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 50:17

Some more dark as shit still. Yeah, but that was cool. I did like that. But yeah, ultimately.

SPEAKER_06 50:28

I do think, Alex, your opinion would change um once you see as above so below.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

I will pick it for the movie if you want, or I can leave it for you and we can do the descent if I were to win.

Winner Pick And Closing Socials

SPEAKER_06 50:42

Well, I uh I would love to do that movie next. That is not why I'm picking who I'm picking for to win this episode, but uh I think the winner of this episode is going to be TJ. Yay! For a couple different reasons. One, uh, we agree. Uh, but two, uh, well, two, I think you need to see As Above So Below. So I would like for him to pick that if he's going to. But three, I think that just given that TJ and I have seen As Above So Below, we have like a just a very different perspective of this movie. And TJ and I just agree more on where this movie lies. I don't think it's a bad movie.

SPEAKER_02 51:30

And you know, really, you bring nothing to the podcast, Alex. You know, like you know, you you were like deep voice guy, but like, who really needs a deep voice guy on the podcast, you know?

SPEAKER_06 51:44

What about forearm guy?

SPEAKER_02 51:46

You know, his forearms have been lacking lately.

SPEAKER_06 51:50

Yeah, I saw you stopped uh you stopped lifting those five-pound weights at your wrists.

SPEAKER_02 51:56

You stopped crunching concrete with your bare hands, and you need to start doing that again.

SPEAKER_06 52:01

You stopped doing your forearm crunches.

SPEAKER_02 52:04

You you stopped bashing your arms into the ironwood tree like a fucking feudal Japan samurai. You ever see that one dude on TikTok who sprays dog medicine on his hands to make his hands stronger? Yeah. He's gotten to the point where he's like levitating rice from static electricity.

SPEAKER_06 52:30

I have seen that before.

SPEAKER_02 52:33

That's what Alex needs to do. All right.

SPEAKER_06 52:35

He also needs to get us to after that devastating loss. Do you want to read the socials?

SPEAKER_03 52:42

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SPEAKER_02 53:12

Heck yeah. At TJ Needry Money on Venmo, send me a thousand dollars to get your name tattooed on me. Uh I got nothing to offer you. Is Ruben and yeah.

SPEAKER_06 53:23

Could you imagine?

SPEAKER_02 53:25

Ruben.

SPEAKER_06 53:26

Eric Eric Rubin.

SPEAKER_02 53:27

You know what's crazy? That's a bad that's not a bad name. There's somebody in my life whose middle name is Ruben, and uh I'll let you know. No. Madison Rubin is crazy. That's such a crazy name.

SPEAKER_00 53:43

This is what is this, Eric? Uh a fake green apple? It is a fake green apple. But it what is it? Apple mousse. TJ's eating something. TJ's trying to eat something. Alright, you guys want the government's making fake apples now.

Final Bits And Stay Alive

SPEAKER_06 54:17

I'm just watching TJ eat something. I think this episode might be over. Uh, congratulations, TJ. We'll see what you pick next week. Hopefully it's As Above Sobelo. Alex, I can't wait for you to watch As Above Sobelo. I guarantee you're gonna change your opinion on this movie when you do. Um, and yeah, uh ditto to what Alex said about the socials, and we will catch you guys next time when we have another survival scenario, and until then, stay alive.