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BBP 91: Pick a Peck of Pakes

Team Buffalo Buffalo Season 2 Episode 91

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During what is now Oscar season, we are going to find out how well the Buffalo movie script staff can come up with a movie storyline.

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SPEAKER_06

Live from Oscar's Tacos in Hollywood, Florida, it's Buffalo Buffalo.

SPEAKER_00

It's Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Hello once again and welcome to Buffalo Buffalo, the only podcast where sponsors pay us to not include them or have them tied into this podcast in any way whatsoever.

SPEAKER_02

Oh man.

SPEAKER_08

If I could get a sponsor for a couple of things, I would. They would all be for Jerry. It's all for Jerry.

SPEAKER_01

I thought it was all for Damien.

SPEAKER_08

Well, I don't know. Sometimes I feel like that's how the world is, Jeff. It's all for Damien. Only his name isn't Damien, but he's equally as evil.

SPEAKER_04

I'm not evil.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, don't speak about Jerry Dam.

SPEAKER_04

And I'm right here.

SPEAKER_06

I think he can hear you. I am Paik.

SPEAKER_08

Are you? Are you sure?

SPEAKER_06

No. But I'm gonna go with it this week. Sure, why just hope that it sticks. Um and so, of course, with me as always are Daphne, Paik, and Paik. Or wait, no? I'm Paik.

SPEAKER_08

I'm Pay. Better than being Negan.

SPEAKER_01

I guess. I was actually going for a Spartacus reference, but you can go with Negan.

SPEAKER_06

Sure. Why not?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you can say Kirk Douglas is wondering while all these guys are saying, I'm Negan. I'm Negan.

SPEAKER_00

Who's Kirk Douglas? Oh Schoolie makes a cool face. Oh no.

SPEAKER_08

It's been such a long time since I've been here with you guys. I had to drop in for just a minute. Except Jerry won't let me stay, so adios.

SPEAKER_06

I didn't know Schoolie spoke Spanish.

SPEAKER_01

Schoolie is extremely funny, Jerry. You missed a lot of amazing play and and a filthy mouth. Right.

SPEAKER_06

Oh gosh. Alright. Well, the the backup paikes are gonna be Jeff and Jerry this week.

SPEAKER_08

Because Daphne can't handle three pegs.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

I can't handle more than one pake.

SPEAKER_01

No. No. Just one. One paik is all she can take. Make no mistake.

SPEAKER_04

For goodness sake, make no mistake, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yes. Anyway.

SPEAKER_04

Well, we all know it's a take peg.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. That's quite a take.

SPEAKER_08

I feel like no, that's dying a very slow death. So it would be a mistake to continue.

SPEAKER_04

Alright. Who's this mistake person?

SPEAKER_03

I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_06

No. I always feel like everything has just unraveled in front of me.

SPEAKER_01

You're not taking charge. You're just sitting back and like, go ahead, whatever.

SPEAKER_08

You're the game master.

SPEAKER_06

I know. Anytime I try to continue on, it just immediately derails again, and I'm tired of grabbing it and putting it back.

SPEAKER_08

I can assure you next week it will not be derailing because it's my game.

SPEAKER_01

Challenge.

SPEAKER_08

I have something special planned.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. We will make sure derailing in very special ways then.

SPEAKER_08

I think you guys will enjoy it. I do.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Maybe we should just do that now then.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. No, we can't.

SPEAKER_01

We can do mine next week. We'll do it that way now.

SPEAKER_08

We can't. Let's go. It doesn't work that way. It's planned especially for next Tuesday.

SPEAKER_01

All right. Good.

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Good.

SPEAKER_01

We all remember what happened last time Daphne planned something special. I couldn't so well.

SPEAKER_08

I couldn't even tell you. I told you nothing about it. At least this time I've told you when to be here. And that you must be here.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. One of us is going to end up like getting in a minor car accident or something like that. No!

SPEAKER_08

Stop it.

SPEAKER_01

Stop recording. I missed it. Thank you, Jerry. I'm calling it now.

SPEAKER_06

I'm getting called into work next Tuesday.

SPEAKER_01

Daphne, you can't choose number 11 yet.

SPEAKER_06

No, we haven't done. There are no numbers for you to pick this week. Getting ahead of yourself. Oh my gosh. Let's get back to it. It's Buffalo Buffalo, yada yada yada, all that other stuff.

SPEAKER_08

Come on. We've been buffaloing. This is exactly what this podcast is random banter about nothing.

SPEAKER_06

Yes. Let's bring it back into something we can talk about, something very important, I think a topic that needs discussed. Okay. Which is what other kind of animal feces do you guys think really belongs in the human like zeitgeist and what it should mean? What I mean by that is there's a lot of references.

SPEAKER_01

Just don't explain it. Just let us sit with that for a minute. That's fine. Yeah, yeah. Animal feces belongs in the human zeitgeist. Yes.

SPEAKER_06

See, there's a lot of different animal poop, and it means different things to people. You know, there's bullshit, there's horse shit, there's ape shit, there's batshit. And that it all means different things. Right.

SPEAKER_01

And I mean, there's not really necessarily bear shit, but it it is important the location of the feces in that case.

SPEAKER_06

So I guess that's what I wanted to see if anybody had any ideas was like I said, I mean, dog shit is something that's just trash, garbage, terrible. Horse shit is something that's ridiculous and nonsensical. Bullshit is a lie or something that's false. You know, ape shit is just like crazy wild out there. Bat shit also crazy, but ape shit's a little different. It's all like violent. So there's specific uses of different animal fecal matter to explain a specific thing. So, like, what's one that you haven't heard that you think we should like introduce into, you know, the speech patterns and stuff that people kind of are.

SPEAKER_01

That's an interesting question. Yeah. Um I feel like you never really hear cat shit outside of just actual cat shit. I I've heard people say things like taste like cat shit, you know, which makes me wonder how much feline feces are they consuming to be able to compare it intelligently. Uh I feel like pig shit could be something.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. Um I mean I've heard the saying like happy than a pig shit shit.

SPEAKER_01

Right. But again, location. Yes. It's the juxtaposition of pigs and feces.

SPEAKER_06

But they don't specify which shit the pig is in. Right. Is it probably is pig shit. It's very likely if it's in the same pen.

SPEAKER_01

This has been shit talk with Buffalo Buffalo. Yes.

SPEAKER_08

No, no. No. This has been shit talk with Peik and Jeff.

SPEAKER_01

Pake and Pake, actually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

It's it's is it pick your pake night?

SPEAKER_01

It's pick a pake. Pick a pake?

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Um, I feel like Pick a Pecka Pakes if you want. You know, plenty of them.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my gosh, we're gonna let Jerry recover. Uh I feel like like shape shit has a good sound to it. Yeah. Yeah. But I I don't have a good definition.

SPEAKER_06

It makes me think of shapeshift. Yes, for some reason.

SPEAKER_01

When shapeshifting goes wrong, it's sheep shit. You sheep shit. Uh oh, Jerry's forehead is pulsing.

SPEAKER_08

You could check out this movie called Black Sheep.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_08

It will explain all of that to you. No, you're not thinking of the one that I'm thinking of.

SPEAKER_04

I know which one you're thinking of, the one set in New Zealand.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, that one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I'm not thinking of the Chris Farley movie. We have discussed Black Sheep. Not I don't think on this podcast, but we have discussed it as um just us chatting.

SPEAKER_04

It's it's fucking hilarious.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, because that's a Run for Your Lives movie, I think, in the first season. Yeah. Way back at the beginning of the podcast.

SPEAKER_08

Episode six or seven, and it was when I really decided I could actually do this. That I could podcast.

SPEAKER_06

There's a visual joke in there that people can only try to guess what it was.

SPEAKER_01

The number of times, though, I will I'll I'll call it out. The number of times in the last several months when talking with my nieces that I have said something, you know, like six or seven something, and they crack up. And it's like I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_06

Such an easy amount of something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's way more common than you would think about. Every time I say it, they stop listening and start looking at each other.

SPEAKER_08

Do you know what? It's their equivalent of you guys when you get giggly about stuff that still makes you giggle that you giggled about back when you were 13 years old.

SPEAKER_06

69, dude. Exactly. 69 is always nice.

SPEAKER_08

It's all that's what it is. It's it's a phrase that is invoking this giggle fest.

SPEAKER_06

Yes. Yes. I mean, si yeah, six sixty-nine used to be the really funny one. Now 6-7 has taken over. 7-8-9.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. That's what happens in a 69. Mm-hmm. I made Cherry shake his head.

SPEAKER_08

That doesn't happen very often.

SPEAKER_01

I like when I'm able to do that.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. I think it's time we maybe get to a game. Yes, please.

SPEAKER_01

I I assumed that Animal Chit was the game.

SPEAKER_06

No, no, no. I just that's just something I was curious about. I just wanted to bring up as a talking point at the beginning of a show. Just because I'm curious. Yeah, uh get this jump the rails to a different track and try to ride that one. Um so many people might not know this because I know we don't talk about it at all. It's just something we we keep to ourselves and we do not share with anybody. So a lot of people may not be aware, but it is Oscar season right now. Wait. As we're recording this.

SPEAKER_01

I should get going.

SPEAKER_06

I said we don't talk, yeah, we we don't talk about it.

SPEAKER_01

I didn't even realize it was this year.

SPEAKER_04

So Hick, are you starting a game of you are aware? That's my thing. That's my thing.

SPEAKER_01

You don't know you are aware that that's Jerry's thing.

SPEAKER_06

I'm but here's what we're doing here. I, in the spirit of Oscar season, have been watching a bunch of movies, and I'd like to kind of see if we can add our own films into thought here. So I'm gonna need you guys to pitch me some movies. Okay. The only thing is, the care the main character and the main plot of the movie I will be assigning to you at random. Perfect. Plus, there's gonna be a number of awards that you're all going to be trying to achieve throughout the night with the movies you're pitching.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna write my treatment on a whiteboard.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. So uh the way I'll need to set a little timer. You will have I will give you a main character in a plot from a list of cards. This comes from the wonderful card game Pitch Storm. I am just using the cards here. It is a wonderful, fun party game brought to you by uh Skybound Entertainment, the same people who made Superfight. And we had such a fun time with that, so I had Pitch Storm and see if we can play that a little bit. So I'll assign your character and your plot. You'll have one minute to pitch me that movie. After that minute, I will stop you and throw a wrench into the works with a little note, a little director's note. What if we did this? Or what about this for marketing? And you'll just have to on the fly then take your second minute to include that note and and and fix a chord.

SPEAKER_01

Perfect. Perfect. It's it's perfect that you're doing a uh a game that involves like a lot of thinking, deep thinking, uh, right before Jerry O'Clock. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, we're thir we're 13 minutes from Jerry O'Clock at the end.

SPEAKER_06

So I will reveal the awards that will be up tonight. I have a lit I a stack of awards cards. Uh so I don't know what these will be. Uh I just opened this box, this pack. So there will be five awards. I'll let you know what they are in advance, and then throughout the night, as you're pitching your movies to me, you can you can focus on one award that you want to really want to like try to win and make all of yours fit that, or you can spread it out amongst. But at the end of the game, after you've pitched me all the movies, keep in mind what everybody has pitched, because then we as a you know, conglomeration here will assign the awards. So you cannot vote for your own, so then you'll you'll be voting on who you think has the best movie that fits those awards at the end of the show. So we are the academy. And then if there's ties, I'll I'll break that.

SPEAKER_08

Are you sure we're asking? Are you sure that we're a conglomeration?

SPEAKER_06

Okay. So the awards we're going up for tonight is the Grandparents' Choice Award. Okay. Which is the highest rated by audiences over 65. Okay. Then we will have most memorable fight scene. Most scientifically accurate, highest budget, and lowest budget. Love that those nice. I'm going for both of those with the same movie.

SPEAKER_08

Jerry, I know that it's so close to Jerry o'clock, but it was your fault that we're recording so close to Jerry O'Clock tonight, because you were the one who made us have to come later than Daphne.

SPEAKER_01

Can you lean in a little closer when you thank you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

And now it's time for a short break.

SPEAKER_01

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_08

Come on, Doug Llewellyn. People's court.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Jerry, I don't know what to do. You don't like it when I have Schoolie McSchool Face drop by. I can't get close to the microphone because you don't like that either.

SPEAKER_04

Well, I I thought you were gonna do NPR voice. It sure sure was on its way.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

I'm I don't do MPR voice very well. But I do Schooly.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, Pike, what was the uh the third award? Scientifically accurate. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, most scientifically accurate. Yeah. I mean hey, one of the PAKES answered. That's good.

SPEAKER_04

I'm more like a Paik 1.5, not a Pay 2.0.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I'm Timu Paik. I'm like I'm like a.75 Paik. That's pretty high quality for Timu. Okay, so maybe more of a wish.com. Yeah. I don't think that even exists.

SPEAKER_06

I don't think it does, but Daphne, we will let you go first, because that's where my screen has you in that order, and it's easy for me to do that. So Daphne will pitch the first movie. Remember, first minute, just pitch me on this and then I'll throw you a little card.

SPEAKER_01

Do we get any time to like think before this minute starts?

SPEAKER_08

Or I don't need any time.

SPEAKER_01

I'll I'll give you just a little bit.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. So Daphne. I could see this movie. Like, honestly, it's not even too crazy. Wanted you to pitch me a wonderful movie about a dysfunctional family on a road trip that races around the world in a hot air balloon. Now, it's a road trip, but they're going around the world in a hot air balloon. Make that work.

SPEAKER_08

Uh is this supposed to be a comedy?

SPEAKER_06

It can be whatever you want it to be.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

If you want it to be a high-stakes drama, it can be.

SPEAKER_08

No. Um, it's not. It's actually a slash a film taking place on a hot air balloon where the father and mother have taken their three children on the hot air balloon around the world, much to their dismay. The teenage kids do not want to be on this hot air balloon. However, stowed away under one of the blankets is a mast killer who wants nothing to do with this family because they just keep making noise. And he just wants to be left alone. So he basically um waits till they go to sleep and throws the mother overboard.

SPEAKER_01

That escalated quickly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Well, it's a it's dysfunctional, annoying family. And there's a lot of dark secrets in this family, too. They're not good people. So the killer, he has he has good reasons to do it. So and those will be revealed later in the movie.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, well, I like where your head is at here, but you know, uh our uh focus groups and stuff have you know looked over some of what you've got, and I think what we really need is to add a really hot love interest. We want this to be the perfect date night movie.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, so the mask killer has a partner in crime who is equally pissed off about this this family commandeering their balloon.

SPEAKER_06

And was this person also hiding under a blanket? Same blanket, different blanket.

SPEAKER_08

Different blanket.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they're together, they were holding hands under the blanket. It was like, you know, connecting. And so the point of it is you want this couple to get rid of this family so that it can they can be together in peace. Because this family, they're really not good people. They're not good people. So he has his love interest to help him get rid of the family. One by one. Until they get left to the kids, and the kids comply very easily once the parents are gone.

SPEAKER_06

Thank you. Time's up. And I will try to stick pretty close on time so we don't continue on too much. So that is Daphne's first pitch. We have hot air balloon romance family trip slasher movie.

SPEAKER_04

I have to ask, how big is this hot air balloon movie? I was wondering the same thing. It seemed pretty large.

SPEAKER_06

Uh you may respond to Daphne to like some little critic questions, if you wish.

SPEAKER_08

Are they critics? Are they do I have to consider them critics?

SPEAKER_01

No, I mean, I wasn't for me. I'm just more curious. I'm like, wow, it seems like there's a lot of room on this balloon.

SPEAKER_08

You know what? It's like, have you ever heard of a pop-up cauldron?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, I have actually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, it's kind of like that. It's bigger than you think it is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

It's a balloon of holding. Yes, a balloon of holding. Yeah. That's exactly what it is.

SPEAKER_08

The cool and you know the cool thing about this movie too is that uh it doesn't cost a lot to make because it's in a hot air balloon that was borrowed from one of those hot air balloon festivals without asking permission, so it was actually borrowed for free.

SPEAKER_01

Which is also called stolen. Borrowed for free.

SPEAKER_06

I would love to get uh Jeff's first movie pitch. Okay. Jeff, please pitch me a movie about a friendly clown on a mission to make people happy while he battles corruption in the greeting card industry.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. We set our scene. Um We meet our our hero, whose name is uh Timothy Timmins, and he works As a uh as a birthday clown uh for uh little kids' parties and that kind of thing, but it's it's not going well. He's not doing very well, he's not getting jobs or anything like that. Um his clown name, by the way, is Froyo. Um that's there's no joke there, that's just his his clown name. Um so, anyways, he's he's struggling to make ends meet, and uh one day as he's talking to his neighbor, his neighbor shows him, you know, it was his neighbor's birthday, and so his neighbor shows him the greeting card that he got, and when Timothy looks at it, uh he's overcome with revulsion because this card is um it has like on the on the back of the card in very small print is like all of these little like I don't know what to call them, code words, just words that the that the neighbor didn't see. But Timothy is able to look at it.

SPEAKER_06

Real quick, I'm I'm gonna cut you there for a second. Uh I I I I do want to hear, you know, where this this beef with the the card industry and stuff does play in. But also keep in mind, um, you know, just for our own to help with budget, honestly, what if the main character uses a Samsung Galaxy to save the day in whatever way? Because we do have a deal with Samsung.

SPEAKER_01

You know, what's funny is that it was actually that was part of the the treatment that I was going to, you know, but I mean that that's great. I'm glad that we're on the same page with this. Um because you know, Timothy is a big, big fan of green bubbles specifically. He likes when when he goes to kids' parties, he always brings out all the green balloons and and and he has this uh bubble mixture that's that blows out these green bubbles. So, anyways, um, anyways, when he looks at this card, he he sees all these kind of like hidden messages and this kind of thing, and he starts looking into it and he's discovering that the corruption goes so far, and people are thinking that he's crazy, that it's like a conspiracy theory kind of thing. And he ends up going after uh the greeting card company, which I haven't decided which card company, it's whichever one doesn't offer us money, uh, is the one that we'll be using on there. Um but he go he goes after them while dressed as Froyo um to hide his you know hide his identity. Um and but at one point he does get trapped, um, and you know everybody's just walking by and he's hiding, and so he has to use his Samsung Galaxy to uh to order um uh an Amazon delivery uh to distract all the people that are walking by.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, awesome. I have to cut it. It went a little bit longer, but I was like, okay, I do have to see where this wraps up. Um but that's okay. But yeah, okay. I like it. I like it. The uh last one. Yeah, it's it's an interesting. I I yeah, I'm excited to see both of these movies. But um, we're gonna make it a three movie special here, so we need one more. So, Jerry, we brought you in to pitch your wonderful movie. I know you've been really wanting to get around to this one. So tell me all about this movie you've been working on really hard, which if I remember right, it is what it's about a nun with a scandalous secret that crashes their plane in the Canadian wilderness. It's a very personal movie, I think. He's he's he's having a hard time getting going.

SPEAKER_04

Overclumped to say.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, it's it's gonna be an emotional movie. He's for clamped right now.

SPEAKER_04

I was trying to work in middle earth here, but it's not gonna work. I don't think it's that much. You like that callback, sir? Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Sister Colby, you know, we we we set our scene. Sister Colby running toward the plane uh a small plane in the w you said Canadian wilderness, right? I get running full full speed, carrying carrying a uh overloaded attache case, just brimming with papers and little bits of paper sticking out round around the edges. She n she takes the one, uh takes a plane that was just barely fueled after knocking out the mechan you know, knocking out the ground attendant, filling up the plane. Goes uh just takes off without you know without a um without a care. She just recently got her pilot's license. And she is flying license, that's she recently got it. But they don't they don't know who she is. So gets up in the air, she she doesn't even use the runway, she uses the taxiway, just takes off, you know, takes off full board, because it's a semi-small plane. And she ends and so she goes as quick as quickly as she can to one place she knows in northern like Saskatchewan. And and she has to fly low to stay off the radar and ends up clipping a tree.

SPEAKER_06

Right now, I will, real quick, as she gets into into um this Canadian wilderness. So I know the scandalous secret, whatever it is, there's paperwork and stuff involved. Maybe there is also another secret, it could be two secrets, because I know nuns are not really supposed to get romantically involved in any way. But I would be interested to see if we can have her have a love interest, except that love interest is a super creepy monster because we want this to play well in October is kind of the theater launch time we're looking for.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, throw me a curveball, thank you very much. Yeah. Okay, so she uh ends up clipping the tree and lands uh lands near um lands near a lake on on the shores of a lake trying to trying to get away. And ends up happening across um you know, this this ragtag girls soccer team for some reason. They they had crashed in the woods like the year earlier. And she says, I must I must get to m I must get to my my lover Jason. He's he's off in the woods. But I have to get all the way over to Crystal Lake. Just get over to there. And and she says, so they they so the girls try and help her out. She says, I'm the only one who knows how to fly this. There's a only a small amount of fuel, and I know there's an airstrip about a hundred about a hundred miles nearby. And they said, it's like, yeah, we tried to help out one of our one of our friends out and it didn't work out so well for her.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. Could be going for high budget if we're trying to tie in all these other IPs.

SPEAKER_01

Coming coming this fall. Sally Field is the low-flying nun.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, um, copyright infringement. I I'm concerned about copyright infringement on a few of the details in Jerry's story.

SPEAKER_04

The team is called the Golden Bees.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And the killer, his full name is Jason Schwartzman. That little guy played by Jason James. That one guy Jeff.

SPEAKER_01

I was expecting you to say something like Jason Morbies or something like that.

SPEAKER_06

Alright, which of these movies do I want to see the most? Do we have uh Bloody Balloon Love? We have our um uh Happy Birthday to Green Bubbles or the low flying nun. Uh see which one I want to award this first point to. I'm trying to say, do I do I reveal now? Or just hold on? I'll have my points separate, and then we will also do so that way your bonus award points that you give to each other aren't gonna be influenced. Affected by who's leading, as far as you know. So I will keep that a secret for now. How many uh movie pictures are we planning to do? Um, I wanted to make sure we at least did two rounds, but I think we can be for a third one. Okay. Alright, Daphne, I'm ready to hear your next wonderful movie here.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

I know you've been working really, really hard on this one.

SPEAKER_08

No, I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_06

Remind me again. I mean, honestly, these kind of go together in a way. Uh it's very supernatural. Um, your your wonderful movie about a woman that can speak to ghosts while she navigates the secret world of modern vampires.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, so this woman, uh, her name is Aurora, and she finds out after um losing her parents, she goes to live with her grandmother, and her grandmother, who is also not well and on her deathbed, tells her that she has a special gift that's being passed to her as soon as her grandmother dies, and it will be the ability to talk to ghosts. Only Aurora finds out that it's not as simple as it seems because the ghosts because it never is, um, the ghosts are um of cats and dogs. And so they're pets who are former pets that are talking to her, not just the ghosts of people. Um so the the people, um so she has a difficult time dealing with that when she meets a new love interest who happens to be a vampire.

SPEAKER_06

Alright, and before we get to more of that story with the vampire, just to kind of see, you know, we are going for a lot of awards here, and I think I've I've heard of a good shoe-in way to like kind of get a good start on being looked at for award season. So I'd like to see how we could tell this story backwards. Because we want this to win at Sundance.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, so Aurora is a vampire. She met her husband uh when she was younger, and it was a very difficult decision for her to make. She ran away. He went and grabbed her and brought her back, trying to figure out if she wanted to be a vampire or not, and she finally gave in. So this is really their story going back to uh the beginning and learning too how she is able to talk to ghosts along the way. Um, one of the reasons why the vampire really fell in love with her is because she could help him connect with his family who were killed many years before, because this man, Vladimir, is a 400-year-old vampire. And so going backwards, we learn how she went from we really got to see that she got the happy ending, but it took a lot to get there. And going backwards in time, it was almost um like she went from being miserable to incredibly happy.

SPEAKER_06

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_08

Or from being happy to being completely miserable, which is what she was when she was younger.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Alright. I'm yeah, looking forward to getting this into some film festivals and we might have a good idea.

SPEAKER_01

Quick question. Um, I'm just curious. Are the cats and dogs speaking to her like in human voices? Or assumed so. Just was curious.

SPEAKER_08

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Didn't know if this was like, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Like she was able to learn a one- The main dog is gonna be voiced by Jason Sudakis. He's we have a contract with him, so I'm gonna keep pitching him.

SPEAKER_08

She's able to learn a lot from these cats and dogs because she basically can determine if the ghosts are lying to her because cats and dogs don't lie. So they'll either confirm or deny the situation. No, they're not. Not unless they lie all the time. Only in saga.

SPEAKER_01

In the sun, they lie like 20 hours a day.

SPEAKER_08

Uh no.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Only in saga do they lie.

SPEAKER_06

No, they tell you. Okay, Jeff. Let's get your next one.

SPEAKER_01

That's me.

SPEAKER_06

It is. I would love to hear all of your uh thoughts, your your ideas, pitching me on this wonderful movie about the headmaster of a strict boarding scrape who struggles to bring their best friend back from the dead.

SPEAKER_01

So uh there is the headmaster at a boys' boarding school, very high prestige. Think think like um The Leftovers. You know, or uh Dead Poet Society, one of these, you know, very high up, high-up type uh boarding schools. Um holdovers, is there Holdovers? Was it Holdovers? The one with Giamatti.

unknown

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Yeah. Leftovers was a different movie. I can't even remember what the show. Oh, that's what it is. Yeah.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That's definitely what I meant. I'm just gonna edit this. So think like the Holdovers with you know Paul Giamatti, which is definitely never to be confused with The Leftovers, which is a TV show.

SPEAKER_06

Of course not. Who would do that?

SPEAKER_01

Uh I'm using all my time with this. Um so as the the story starts, he's very just angry and and you know, belittling the the boys and you know, all this kind of stuff. And we find out over the course of the movie that the reason he's like this is because he lost his best friend. Um, and where things kind of change is when this boy, um this mysterious boy, they don't you know, where he he's not really sure it doesn't know the kid's background or anything like that, um, is able to communicate with the dead and tells him.

SPEAKER_06

Now I like this. I I just feel like I don't know, are we staying in one location with just kind of these two main characters for a lot of the movie? So I feel like it's missing something with that. I would like for you to add a group of kids that are solving a mystery at their summer camp.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, yeah, sure. No, absolutely. Um, I mean, yeah, that that works. I can just move I can just shift the location slightly. Uh so you know, he's at the boarding school, but um the the whole investigation into his friend and all that stuff takes place over some time, and it goes into the summer, where he is also the head counselor at the local summer camp. Um the boy there who can you know communicate with the dead and all that gets his friends together and they're trying to find out uh basically what happened to his friend, because they're able to like it's hard to explain. It's like they can see him, but they can't understand, like they need to provide closure um in the way that he died in order to actually bring him back. And so the the headmaster slash camp counselor is helping them, you know, with this. And then it turns out I'm I'm gonna kind of spoil things here because, you know, I don't I want to give you the whole the whole picture here. Of course. It turns out that the headmaster actually killed his best friend. And it there's a climactic battle where he's fighting uh the recently resurrected body of his best friend, you know, that the boys have brought back. And they're they're fighting with each other in a very, you know, scientifically accurate way. Of course. Um but and it ends up basically it it ends up with the headmaster dying at the hands of his best friend.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. I'm looking forward to to that one.

unknown

I think that's gonna do well as well.

SPEAKER_06

I think we're this uh unnamed production company here, Buffalo Buffalo Productions, maybe. Uh we're gonna have a lot of chances for this year's Oscars.

unknown

I think with some things.

SPEAKER_06

But we're not done yet because we do have to hear another pitch from Mr. Gomez. He's got some incredible thoughts as well. So we'll go ahead and uh see what he's got in his incredibly energetic, active, and thoughtful mind at this hour.

SPEAKER_04

Uh well, two out of three ain't bad.

SPEAKER_06

So, Jerry, uh please pitch me on this wonderful movie that I I heard I I saw just like the little title page of. But uh that this one that you've been working on here about the passengers. Uh the passengers of an ill-fated luxury cruise. So it's Triangle of Sadness.

SPEAKER_01

Um I hated that movie. I I can't deal with like shitting in movies.

SPEAKER_06

There's so much poop in that movie. Um this one's a little different. So, yes, the passengers of an ill-fated luxury cruise that are going on a quest for the holy grail. It's one of the excursions that's uh offered on that cruise, I guess. I mean, I don't want to put it and give you to you know, tell you what you need to be doing with yours, but it could be a possibility.

SPEAKER_04

Sorry for the uh the musing here.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. Power of editing. Give you a minute to compose.

SPEAKER_01

Well, and that's how you get the muse to speak to you, is through musing.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. And if it's funny, do they find it amusing?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, absolutely. Exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Daphne's in pain and shaking her head.

SPEAKER_01

She is not a muse.

SPEAKER_04

I don't want to get into anything too religious. I mean, we're de we're dancing a fine line here.

SPEAKER_01

I'm not dancing at all, Jerry. I don't know what you're talking about. And me being Catholic, you know, it's just I'm really curious where your mind is right now.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Like I feel like I want you to give this pitch with this, you know, in this way, and then if you don't like it afterwards, we'll change it to something else. You can pitch it again, but I'd want to hear this pitch. Okay.

SPEAKER_06

But I want to see where this is going. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

So it's a sequel, Sister Colby.

SPEAKER_04

Well, you know why I named her Sister Colby.

SPEAKER_06

Of course. Some odd reason.

SPEAKER_04

Some odd reason.

SPEAKER_01

Because he loves the cheese.

SPEAKER_04

A moonlit night. Okay. Let's start over. So our scene begins a moonlit night on the Mediterranean Sea with a with a liner. Small to medium size. 500 people on their that are currently on their quest to the Middle East to find their prize. As fate would have it. A mine from the First World War works itself loose and detonates off off their bow. Sending you know about to sink them, but this is a special line. And that it is completely waterproof. So that they can. So even though if it sinks, you can there's a a s the interior of the ship can be kept watertight and um and f um and impervious to a depth of a thousand feet. So off the coast of Cyprus the liner sinks to its death and rest comes to rest on the bottom of the Mediterranean. All the while they can see out the windows and and they have and the radio got knocked out, so there's hardly any hope of of rescue. And come to find out.

SPEAKER_06

No, I know you're you're dealing with like religious artifacts and stuff.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

And so yeah, you want to be a little, you know, uh a little extra, you know, kind of like magical and and and stuff. And this is cool, but it does seem a little unrealistic. And I I wonder how we can keep it a little more grounded. That's the worst note card I could have possibly pulled.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, it's a it's a it's a it's a ship built around the submarine. How about that? Okay, okay. That's a it's a submarine in hiding.

SPEAKER_06

They have the escape submarine that's in the ship that they can load onto if they need to.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, but uh but I was uh but mo what I was going with this one was um as they come to rest on the bottom, they take they make an assessment of their situation, and often in the distance, about a hundred feet away, they see a glowing light, and the image of the grail comes toward them to say told you, disappears, and goes out of reach forever, and they die at the bottom of the ocean.

SPEAKER_06

Alright.

SPEAKER_04

Wow.

SPEAKER_06

Like it. Like I'm sure there'll be a little bit more like playing off of that as far as like maybe the events leading up to them thinking they found it, and then they're like conversations about what to do, but it really was all in their minds and it wasn't there at all. I do. I like a good dark twist.

SPEAKER_04

Something like that. It's like you you threw something at me, I'm trying to dance on that line.

SPEAKER_06

Right. Looking at those movies are uh our backwards love story in time are non-chronological ghost whisperer to vampire love story. Our uh headmaster and camp counselor looking for ghosts and coming up with uncovering darker secrets. And our uh rich people looking for rich more riches beyond compare at the bottom of the ocean. Only to die at the bottom of the ocean. That's a documentary.

SPEAKER_04

I would mind that too. Oh, totally. I totally forgot about that.

SPEAKER_01

That's the actual that's the real story of what happened. Yeah. We'll determine later whether we're cutting all of this out.

SPEAKER_06

I think it's great. Alright, well, I've chosen my favorite on that one, and we'll reveal later. Because we're gonna have one more round of pitches. Excellent. And then we will have our award ceremony quickly as well. So, Daphne, you've got one more fantastic movie for me. And I know this is your your big one. You've been waiting sitting on this one. So very excited for you to finally let this one happen. Uh, of course, that is the wonderful movie you've been working on for years, this script, and I'm excited to finally let you unveil it, which is an amateur metal band struggling to find a gig, but are also struggling to survive after a deadly shipwreck.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. So they were the band on the ship trying to get a big break, but it capsized at sea and they were the only survivors. And they were able to get the only lifeboat on this ship they were able to get into and they were rescued. And despite the their story of how they survived this shipwreck and everything, it didn't really build up any excitement around them. It kind of gave them 15 minutes of fame and then waned away, and then people really didn't care. They were off to the next disaster and story, so they really weren't paying attention to them. Um so unfortunately, um, they were not able to advance their career that way with that story.

unknown

Right.

SPEAKER_06

So I'd I'd love to see if we can have a little bit of a redemption redemption arc or if things can turn out better for them. But while we're we're working on that kind of back half of the movie, I also would love it if the main character could talk to animals. The only thing being that he has to keep it a secret.

SPEAKER_08

So, Dave Doolittle, who is the name of the lead singer of this band, okay, okay, I see. Uses his ability to talk to animals to help him secure gigs by having rats invade rival bands' equipment storage and make a mess of their unable to uh to perform. And he doesn't tell anyone about this because he actually feels bad because he's causing misfortune to others in order to put forth his own band. But it does come around in the end because he and his band win a really big contract and he goes back and makes reparations to all of the bands that they wronged in the past. It's really hard to explain to his bandmates. He comes up with a lot of clever little stories. Um because he can't tell them. He doesn't want them to know that he talks to animals. So that's, you know, basically what he does. But in the end, he knows he did the right thing by, you know, making as much money as he can and then rewarding those that he heard along the way.

SPEAKER_06

All right. Heartfelt movie of the summer.

SPEAKER_01

I was thinking, Daphne, what you could could have done to just be a to just really be a fuck you to pake was to say, so the main character can talk to animals, but it never comes up because he keeps it a secret.

SPEAKER_08

You know, that's a wonderful suggestion. I wish I'd thought of that.

SPEAKER_06

But he can. He can, but it's not.

SPEAKER_08

No, he uses it to his advantage.

SPEAKER_04

I mean send his little rat minion to go chew on all the cables.

SPEAKER_08

Yep.

SPEAKER_04

It's kind of like Willard. Alright.

unknown

True, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

But way darker. Even darker than Willard. Or maybe not as dark as Willard, because Willard was pretty dark. Willard was very dark. We haven't covered that on Runfear Lives yet, but I feel like it's one we definitely can cover someday.

SPEAKER_06

Now these two just go together, honestly. I'm just giving you like an actual pin movie pitch of not I couldn't have like, because I shuffled these beforehand. They they matter.

SPEAKER_01

Right. The one I'm working on is a little more mainstream.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Uh so Jeff, your um your movie here about a young gangster that will do anything to get to the top, outwits gangsters and cops in a series of death-defying car chases.

SPEAKER_01

So the movie is called Better Fellows. No, uh give me a second. Let me think for a second. Oh my god. Honestly, I started laughing and I didn't hear the the whole second card. Outwitz gangsters and cops in a series of car chasing.

SPEAKER_06

In a series of death-defying car chasing. Perfect.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

All right. Uh give me a second here.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I had such a good one for this one. I'll tell you after you're done.

SPEAKER_01

My mind is so cluttered with all of the other movie pictures right now that it's like everything is just kind of creeping in and up like uh You know, it's about a you know, a gangster who has rats that can talk to cats and dogs. In a hot air balloon in the oceans for some reason. In a hot air balloon in the ocean. Yep. Oh my god. Okay. Just give me a second here. Try and clear my mind. So this is kind of uh in some ways a little bit like um Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, in that it it's kind of a little more epic. It's a little more like starting off as him as a young boy, a street urchin kind of thing, and um um running, you know, or like participating in neighborhood gangs and all that kind of thing. And as he grows up, um, we're gonna introduce kind of throughout the whole movie, there's gonna be this love interest on-again, off again thing where it's like he wants to be with her, but he also wants to further himself in the criminal underworld, and she doesn't support that. Um as they grow up, she becomes a uh detective. And so there becomes this kind of issue of like she knows what he's up to, and she kind of looks the other way until it gets too bad, and then she has to come down on him, um, which is um where we get kind of these car chase scenes.

SPEAKER_06

Um I'm excited to get to those car chases and get to like a lot of the action and stuff. I do have one kind of note for you. Absolutely some input here. Um Hear Me Out. I know this might sound a little weird, but it'll it'll make sense. I think it needs more memes. Absolutely. Kids love memes.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. Honestly, putting memes in this is gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Um I'm sorry, I'm making myself laugh with this. Oh my god. So God, I I I hate myself for this. Okay. The name of the gang is Skibbity Toilet. That is absolutely that is the name of the gang that he runs, is Skibbity Toilet. Um we have uh throughout the movie, um, Skibbity by Big Little is playing. Is it Big Little? Is that Little Big, thank you. Wait, is it the Leftovers? Uh so the whole soundtrack is actually done by Little Big, which is really exciting. They did cost a lot of money to to get them in this. But yeah, so what happens is the you know, the love interest slash detective uh has a partner who's a real hard ass, and so there comes a point where the her partner is chasing them, chasing um the gang leader, you know, through the streets, and she is in an unmarked car chasing her partner uh while wearing a disguise um of SpongeBob. I don't mean a mask, I mean like dressed full, full Spongebob, you know, square pants and everything in this police car. It's it's I'm not sure exactly how it's gonna work, but we're going to make it work for the means. And at the end, at the end of everything, um he does end up getting arrested and convicted, and he goes to jail for, I don't know, six, seven years.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

That's right.

SPEAKER_01

I love what I can make, Jerry.

SPEAKER_06

I just like I hate me. I just love how six seven has come up and recovered up in this episode. Are we cool with the kids yet in this episode? Are they are we are we doing it? All right. Honestly, from like spending time with like younger like people with kids, 6-7 has kind of moved on. They're kind of done with the 10%.

SPEAKER_01

Well, it's because it gained mainstream attention. And so now it's no longer cool. It was cool when it was something to confuse everybody with.

SPEAKER_06

Yes. Now that all the adults are going to 6-7, they're like, yeah, we're done with this.

SPEAKER_01

It's the easiest way to make something uncool is for the adults to get a hold of it.

SPEAKER_06

Yes. Alright. Jerry, I'm so excited to hear your final pitch of the evening. It's gonna be a great film. I'm looking very forward. You know, I haven't even heard it yet, and I'm looking forward to making it. Hopefully we'll be able to do it. Um this could be quite the intense movie. I'm excited. Uh to hear your your series your story here of a young couple on the verge of breaking up that end up having to fight to save their family from demonic possession.

SPEAKER_08

That's the one that I should have gotten.

SPEAKER_04

Do the young couple have kids?

SPEAKER_06

That's up to you.

SPEAKER_04

Alright.

SPEAKER_06

There's been a very like specific way that each of you have done it every time. Daphne goes immediately in without thinking at all and just like rips through it. Jeff takes a moment and then just kind of goes as he goes. And then Jerry's gotta get the whole thing in mind for.

SPEAKER_04

Well no, I'm I'm trying to I'm trying to make people I'm trying to make it make sense in my head. I have an idea. Something popped up. It is fun.

SPEAKER_06

You all have your process. I just think it's funny that all three of you have like a different version of like immediately takes just a second and takes a little while.

SPEAKER_01

Very every time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Honestly, I've spent so much time with you guys. I feel like I've been training for this for so long that I have to let it go and just let it out. Plus, all of the time playing kids on bikes, like role-playing, I feel like that's helped a little bit. But I also feel like it doesn't necessarily work to just jump in. So we'll see how things turn out.

SPEAKER_04

So we begin with brave mechanical architect Jerry and his and his his uh his wife Jessica, who has this flaming beautiful auburn hair. Oh, what a surprise. What a surprise.

SPEAKER_01

For some rod reason.

SPEAKER_04

For some odd reason, yes.

SPEAKER_06

For some rod reason.

SPEAKER_04

For some rod reason, right. Okay. Who are discussing what what's gonna happen here. Every single night for the last three weeks, they have had discussions on whether or not Jerry's gonna take that new job across the country who will offer one and a half times his current pay, or his wife, who has to stay because of her burgeoning business, who is finding some success, and they do not allow remote work. And so it come they come to find out that that at the at that meeting.

SPEAKER_01

Sorry.

SPEAKER_08

I could not honestly, I didn't know a single word you said after because I was just banged that. We stopped.

SPEAKER_04

Am I gonna get extra time here? No.

SPEAKER_08

Yes.

SPEAKER_06

I paused the timer for a second.

SPEAKER_08

We heard that bang.

SPEAKER_04

No, no, I I waved my hand. I waved my hand because I was I'm telling the story and I and I smack the chest earlier.

SPEAKER_08

You're a talk with your hands person.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, I am talk with my hands person. Okay. So that night, you know, they they they said we're gonna sleep on it, but you know, they said at the very at the very end they're gonna have a trial separation to see if they can they he's gonna take the job. And that night something happens when the door, the closet door flies open and they see this bright light and say, You shall conform to us, or we shall take we shall take you both.

SPEAKER_06

This is gonna be intense and scary. And so, real quick, before we get into that intense part, um I like where you've you've set everything up, and I think we shouldn't change anything, which is gonna make these characters, these main characters, even more impressive. That the the jobs that they've already managed to get and like the opportunities they're getting this young. Because um, you know, think about it. What if all of the characters were in high school?

SPEAKER_01

We'll be back in five minutes.

SPEAKER_04

Be nice.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Uh okay. Got married pretty early. Yeah, got married pretty early. Absolutely. Careers going pretty early. Good for them. Honestly, they know what they want.

SPEAKER_04

Well, they're they're they're incredibly intelligent, incredibly talented. And comes to find out that they said, okay, after after graduation, I think we're gonna have to split up, but I think we're gonna do this trial separation, we're gonna try it out for a little while, see what what's gonna happen, see if I can convince, you know, if you can move your business, or I can do some something to make make sure that where I'm gonna have to go is acceptable to to a remote work situation, but I I doubt it. But we come to find out that the bright lights are actually the good, and our couple, Jerry and Jessica, are the demons.

SPEAKER_01

And they were roommates.

SPEAKER_04

And they were roommates.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. Oh man. It's a good twist, like that.

SPEAKER_04

So you think they're the good you think they're the the good people fighting off the bad, but they're the bads fighting off the goods. I'm always like that twist stuff.

SPEAKER_06

Alright.

SPEAKER_04

What would demon architects do though?

SPEAKER_06

They're the ones that are doing all of the road work in Houston that just doesn't get done.

SPEAKER_01

Do you know many people live in Houston? At least three. At least three.

SPEAKER_06

I'm gonna guess more than eight.

SPEAKER_04

And I'm right. Wait, go. But you know, you do have to land in Houston to get to Galveston, and there's something really good in Galveston.

SPEAKER_01

There isn't just one. Just one.

SPEAKER_06

I kind of figured when Jerry in your story, Jerry got a a job offer to move across the country that I figured it was the city of Galveston finally hiring them to to to reconfigure their their infrastructure. Alright, so we have Metal Band surviving A Crash at Sea. Now again, they can't get gigs anywhere, but they got booked as the only band. Or the band for a cruise, which is pretty cool. Pretty good for them. Um But even then doesn't do much, and then we gotta use the power of animal talking. Secret animal talking. To to hit the big time. We have The Young Gangster, the The Forbidden Love, StarCraft lovers of gangsters and thugs. No, uh, and cops. In in memeified car chases.

SPEAKER_01

Uh I've come up with a title for it.

unknown

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Riz Fellows.

SPEAKER_06

Love it.

unknown

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_06

And we have our our engineer high schooler and his entrepreneur wife uh deciding what jobs in the demon realm they're gonna do and then end up having to fight the forces of good. There's my initial votes. Now it's awards time, so hopefully you remember what we have seen so far. I'll try to kind of go back over them a little bit. We have the dysfunctional family on the road trip going in the air balloon.

SPEAKER_08

Balloon of Death! It's Balloon of Death.

SPEAKER_06

Balloon of Death with the Love Interest Killers. Romantic movie. We have our friendly crook clown taking on the greeting card industry in a brand deal with Samsung. It's called Green Bubbles, the movie. Of course, we have our nun crashing in the wilderness who's in love with a monster. There's a lot of tie-ins with that one.

SPEAKER_04

The low-flying nun had to be heads of the thing. Jeff Jeff titled it for me.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. We have our woman that can speak to ghosts that lives in this world of vampires. Another love story. Told in reverse, because it's artsy.

SPEAKER_01

You have a title for that one, Daphne?

SPEAKER_08

Bloody Memento.

SPEAKER_01

Nice. I like it.

SPEAKER_06

I like it. It's a good one. Yes. We have our headmaster of a boarding school struggles to bring his friend back from the dead, and then there's a whole uh kid solving mysteries at a summer camp subplot that turns into the main plot. There's a whole thing.

SPEAKER_01

It's called the leftovers.

SPEAKER_06

Yes. We also have the passengers of an ill-fated crew searching for the holy grail. And out of realism, they're all dead.

SPEAKER_04

I call it your hearts won't go on.

SPEAKER_06

Love it. Alright, amateur metal band struggling to find a gig after surviving a deadly shipwreck. And uh Dave speaks to rats and keeps it a secret. We also have the young gangster, we'll do anything to stay on top, outwitting gangsters and cops on uh high flying chases in danger. Uh with a lot of memes. Definitely keep it memes. Well, and the young couple on the verge of breaking up, fighting to fight against uh to save against demonic possession, except they're all in high school, and they were the bad guys the whole time.

SPEAKER_04

Not trying to work up a title for that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

So now, I guess this would be a time if you could want to use whiteboards for you to make your votes as the Academy now. If there's a tie, I get final say, I get breaker, but you cannot vote for your own one of your own movies. But if you have the idea for one of the uh movies from one of the other people that you think fits, you can award you can you can nominate for this award.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_06

So our first award of the evening for bonus points. The Grandparents Choice Award. Highest rated by audiences over 65.

SPEAKER_08

And this is out of all of the movies?

SPEAKER_06

This is out of everything we've done.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

We've got so many movies about like demons and ghosts and bloody everything and which one did the grandparents like? Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Huh.

SPEAKER_01

I'm still trying to decide here. Give me a second. What was the uh the struggling band one? I'm trying to remember what the like other half of that plot was. Well, that it was Surviving a Shipwreck.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, Disaster in Strings is what the name of it is.

SPEAKER_01

Ooh, I like that one.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. So what are our nominees possible winners here for the grandparents' choice award?

SPEAKER_08

I thought this was an easy choice. To be honest. For me. Riz fellas, because they're going old school.

SPEAKER_01

Uh I went with Disaster and Strings.

SPEAKER_04

I uh I did the vampire love story.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. So I think that is a point, a bonus point for Daphne for getting two of hers.

SPEAKER_08

Oh.

SPEAKER_06

Because even though there are two different movies she was supposed to pick for, that's two nominations towards Daphne's movie.

SPEAKER_08

I'll take every point I can get because I do not believe that Peg picked any of mine for anything. So I'll take every point I can.

SPEAKER_06

Alright, next award for the ceremony tonight. Most memorable fight scene.

SPEAKER_04

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_06

I'm good.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_06

Alright, perfect. We'll see. Our nominees.

unknown

Possible tier.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, are we using whiteboards or am I the only one?

SPEAKER_01

I was, but mine's covered with all the titles and awards, and it's like I don't have to.

SPEAKER_06

So I said if you if you want to use it to reveal, you can, or you can just taking notes on my whiteboard instead.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Uh so I picked Jerry's Demon movie because I assumed that that was gonna be a good versus evil. Like that probably had really good fight scenes. I didn't know what the name of it was, so I'm just calling it Jerry's Demon movie.

SPEAKER_01

That's the name of it. It's called Jerry's Demon movie. I mean, there the main character is Jerry. Yes. Right. Uh I went with Balloon of Death, which I am just assuming that these deaths, because they all take place on a hot air balloon, each one needs to be a little bit different or something like that. So I'm assuming that at least one of them is a really nice fight scene.

SPEAKER_06

Of course, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. For me, it's uh Rizfellas. For memorable. Because, you know, they you know, fighting and car chases and fights and card chases and fights. But you know, what I thought about uh for Rizfellas is trying to make it to the top, and I was like, of the theater world, and he's making all these car chases trying to get from theater to theater to theater to do his auditions.

SPEAKER_06

That's funny. Alright, so that you each voted for each of each other, each of you, all three of you have a vote for each. So I'll be the tiebreaker, and I'm gonna pick one of the movies that wasn't even mentioned in those three. But the point's still gonna go to Jeff. Because I'm just excited about the camp counselor slash headmaster fighting the ghost of his best friend. I honestly that is a movie I kind of want to see made. I actually really like that pitch. There's some fun stuff in that. Next award for the night. Most scientifically accurate. With all of our ghosts and vampires and demons.

SPEAKER_04

No, I'm ready with mine.

SPEAKER_08

Oh.

SPEAKER_06

Talking to animals dead and undead. Yes.

SPEAKER_08

What is this category?

SPEAKER_06

Most scientifically accurate.

SPEAKER_01

And like every single one of these is paranormal.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, there's been a lot of supernatural pitches tonight.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

So I went with uh Your Hearts Won't Go On. Um in my head canon, uh, the undersea scenes are done extremely well. And uh, you know, very, very scientifically accurate.

SPEAKER_04

Mine will be uh balloon of death because they are uh these balloons, a big balloon will float.

SPEAKER_01

It's accurate. It's accurate.

SPEAKER_06

Balloons float, balloons be floating.

SPEAKER_08

Um I went with Riz Fellas again because I felt like it it you know, car chases and stuff are pretty standard in life, so I thought that it would work out.

SPEAKER_06

Again. Do we have another three years? Hi. I have to decide. I'm gonna I'm gonna give the point to Jerry on that one based off of hearing your arguments there. I'll add on to that one. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

I do appreciate all of the love for Balloon of Death.

SPEAKER_06

You know, Balloon of Death and Rizfellas are like sweeping. They're really good. They're doing really good. At least the nominations, they're really getting a lot of noms. Yes. Alright, and the next award goes for highest budget.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Well, I think I think it's gotta go to low flying nun, simply for all of the different um properties that are getting involved in this.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. And Jason Schwartzman. Yeah.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Schwartzmann and Sudakis.

SPEAKER_07

I feel like it has to go to low flying nun.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Right.

SPEAKER_04

I I was I I had said uh green bubbles because they have to like put a lot of budget in for the green bubbles and make those balloons float where they want them to. There's a lot of logic effects in there.

SPEAKER_06

Especially and you can't green screen them because they're green.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_06

Oh my god. But yeah, no, I I I think Jerry does deserve that point with I mean just getting showtime and yellow jackets on board, plus the rights of uh uh of Jason Voorhees. Jason Schwartzman.

SPEAKER_01

Honestly, uh honestly, the entire movie is is stars just various Jasons.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Statham's pigles, Schwartzmann. All very much.

SPEAKER_08

I bet you could Jason Cabassi to do a cameo for you for next to nothing.

SPEAKER_06

One quick one.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

As like one of the uh as one of like the a walker that gets his head.

SPEAKER_06

He just comes out of the barn. Yeah, yeah, he just comes out of a barn real quick.

SPEAKER_01

Comes out of a barn, gets his head blown off, and we move on.

SPEAKER_06

Was that a zombie? Who knows? And our final award of the night, which is again the fun flip on the last one. The award for lowest budget.

SPEAKER_01

Alright. I've got my choice.

SPEAKER_08

Jeff, can you remind me what the name of your second movie is?

SPEAKER_01

Uh The Leftovers.

SPEAKER_08

The Leftovers.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

There's a better, there's honestly, there's a better title in there, something to do with like Orpheus, but I I wasn't able to come up with anything that actually worked for it.

SPEAKER_06

So just for now with the Leftovers. Who's who's playing the lead character? You're not getting Giamatti back, isn't it? It's not like an alternate telling of the Walters. Maybe. I mean, may I recommend Jason Sudakis? We have him on retention.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna get Momoa. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Well, that's another Jason for us.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's gotta be a Jason. It's gotta be a Jason. We don't we we're not we don't have the Oscars, we have the Jasons. Every movie must start Jason. Yes.

SPEAKER_04

Alright. I'm ready with mine.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Um I am going with the uh the band's one. What's Strings of Death or whatever? What was that one called?

SPEAKER_08

Disaster of Strings.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, Disaster of Strings, okay.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Uh I went with another Daphne movie, um which is uh Balloon of Death. It was specifically called out as being extremely on the films on a stolen balloon.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, damn it. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Oh. And I went with Jeff's The Leftovers.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. Well, thanks to Daphne giving Jeff that last point right there at the end.

SPEAKER_01

Our winner to meet. That point have gone to Daphne because two of her movies got that's right.

SPEAKER_06

So it goes to Daphne. Oh, I already gave her the point. So I'm just It's Jerry o'clock. No. And he's a Pake tonight, also, so it affects both of us. We're mentally connected.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, no. No. Mentally connected. Next, you're gonna tell me that you've been getting up at 10 a.m.

SPEAKER_01

No. No, more like this. Not today.

SPEAKER_08

No, that's when he goes to bed.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Yeah. That's more accurate. So, uh We do have a tie, then, in that case.

SPEAKER_08

Are you gonna tell us who you gave your points to?

SPEAKER_06

Uh yeah, sure. Jeff got two of mine. I think he won the last two rounds. But the winner of round one. Balloon of Love. Daphne got the one.

SPEAKER_08

You mean Balloon of Death.

SPEAKER_01

Or Death.

SPEAKER_08

Me? Are you serious?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

That shocks me.

SPEAKER_01

Balloon of Death sounds like a great movie.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, that was that one got my way. But I will say The Leftovers is my favorite movie of the whole night. And I legitimately do kind of want to see that make. It could be very fun.

SPEAKER_08

Balloon of Death, just picture Among Us. Kind of.

SPEAKER_06

I want Josh Rubin directing it.

SPEAKER_08

Well, Balloon of Death?

SPEAKER_06

Yes, it just feels right.

SPEAKER_01

That's good.

SPEAKER_08

I'd be honored if he would direct it.

SPEAKER_01

I think, and this may change your opinion of the movie, but I think Wes Anderson directs the leftovers.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's a it's a it's not what you expected.

SPEAKER_06

I mean, I guess so all of like the camp, the summer camp scene, probably take place in the like moonrise dorms, the cabins, because you have to have like, you know, the really well-stacked box that are like well like framed just right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, well then Jason Schwartzman. Absolutely, exactly. Schwartzman's right in.

SPEAKER_05

If it's Wes Anderson, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Then it's definitely Schwartzman.

SPEAKER_05

Not without a doubt.

SPEAKER_01

Got Luke and Owen Wilson are in it. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Bill Murray?

SPEAKER_06

Bill Murray, yeah. Absolutely. He plays the ghost of the dead friend. No, Bill Murray plays the kid that can speak to just have Bill Murray in a schoolboy uniform. We don't try to de-age him or anything.

SPEAKER_01

Nobody mentions it. Nobody mentions the fact that person.

SPEAKER_06

Oh my god. Yeah. But I don't mind ending on a tie because cinema. I don't know how that means anything but cinema. So Jerry with two points, and Jeff and Daphne with three. Nice. Great awards season overall.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, I'll take it.

SPEAKER_01

I love it. This was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, it was creative. Next week's game is not going to be quite so creative, but I think it will be pretty fun.

SPEAKER_01

I'm looking forward to it. I think we should just go right into it right now.

SPEAKER_06

Let's just do it right now. We'll record two tonight. Let's get it done. I can't wait another week.

SPEAKER_08

You're gonna have to.

SPEAKER_04

Well, I got a game we can do.

SPEAKER_08

No, Jerry. No.

SPEAKER_04

No.

SPEAKER_08

No.

SPEAKER_02

No.

SPEAKER_08

No. One game tonight was sufficient. All right. Especially because Peike has already said that it's Jerry o'clock, so it's starting to affect him. And that concerns me. Because if two of you are having some sort of a sleep-deprived or exhausted approach, it could um it could make things very difficult.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you for two playing my game. Thank you for two having a game.

SPEAKER_04

I did like that one. So when I heard the premise, then I was like, oh, I'm gonna have a tough time for this. And I a little bit bit did a little bit, but I was like, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

You know what, Jerry? No one's gonna know because Jeff is gonna take all that extra time out. So it's gonna sound like you were on it from the beginning.

SPEAKER_01

Mm-hmm. Alright. Actually, I'm not the module.

SPEAKER_08

Maybe not as much as I was.

SPEAKER_01

I was gonna extend the silence.

SPEAKER_06

So it's just like some people are like, double take those and then instead of deleting them, just double them on the uh Yeah. Now there was a lot of supernatural and ghosts and vampires and stuff that came up in this like whole box of these cards anyway. But I did buy another pack when I bought these, aside from the award season uh expansion that I didn't use tonight, which was a creature features in monster movies, a horror, like a run for your lives expansion, basically, that we may have to find a way to do something with in some way at some point, somewhere.

SPEAKER_01

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_07

I like that.

SPEAKER_06

Even if a good crossover episode, maybe we have a special episode of Run for Your Lives where we have Jeff and Jerry come on, and it's a Buffalo episode on the Run for Your Lives feed doing creature featured pitchstorm.

SPEAKER_08

You know, I have I have thought about releasing a Buffalo episode on our Run for Your Lives feed while we're on break just to give people something to listen to. But I have to pick a specific one that I think our listeners would really like. Alright, Jerry, you had some things that you wanted to share with us.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_08

Let me uh This probably has to do with Green Bubble Disease.

SPEAKER_04

I'm sure. It does have to do with Green Bubble. Well not totally with Green Bubble Disease, but it was uh part of our text funnies earlier. Um aside from Daphne, uh I was I put a picture up, it's you know, the uh it was a days in uh marquee, and it had uh 32-inch HD TV eggs, waffles, biscuits and gravy hot tub. And it we read it 32-inch eggs, HD TV waffles, biscuits and gravy hot tub, and then Daphne, you know, and Jeff says, I pay, not gonna lie, I pay extra for HD waffles. And he says, uh biscuits and gravy hot tub sounds even less hygienic than Golan Corral's chocolate waterfall.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, so I made an AI picture of biscuits and gravy hot tub, and it didn't.

SPEAKER_04

That was it was so disturbing.

SPEAKER_08

It was.

SPEAKER_04

And then I was remembering about the uh a hot tub being a just a big pool of human.

SPEAKER_02

Uh yes.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. You you will go with something chunky and creamy. Yep, like a hot tub is.

unknown

Yep.

SPEAKER_06

Typically, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And then uh And then later, um Peik was talking about uh uh dropout and he said that added the web series, and Jeff said that's awesome, but it's not a new series, it aired in the UK about four years ago. And then Pake says, Ah dang, still pretty cool. They were branching out, and and Daphne comes in, he's like, I've never seen the web series, and then I chime in. It says web series are all about spiders, right? And and Pink chimes in here. So I'm starting to understand why you know Daphne's heart knows more and more.

SPEAKER_08

I was so happy when he said that.

SPEAKER_07

It's like, oh just a little bit. I feel like you're getting it.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. And then uh Jeff asks him about uh if Pake is seen the TV episodes, and he said he hasn't. And Jeff uh says, Well, okay, we'll have to have a watch party, and Daphne says she promises to be quiet, and then I chime in again. It's like a a watch party is where you just sit and yell out what time it is, right? And then Daphne responds with this little eye-rolling emoji. And Jeff and Jeff says, No, I think he's on to something. And Daphne admonishes him, like, do not encourage him. And I say, Oh, so Daphne wants me to be discouraged. Yes, okay. And he says, in this regard, yes. And and he says, by the way, we're in the middle of a blizzard here in Maine. And I said, and again, I chime in.

SPEAKER_06

As you do.

SPEAKER_04

As I do. I think so you're in a Z Z. Got it. I was like, it's the top if my understanding is correct.

SPEAKER_08

I love that you can entertain yourself, Jerry. That is you know, it's important in this day and age to be able to entertain yourself.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, but here's the capper of this one. And uh Peg says, see, these are the wordplay jokes I can get behind. And I I again once again chime in. It's like, it's my want the month, it's my once-a-month good joke. You get one good joke a month.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

So and which Daphne replies with a little err sound. And Peg, and this is what set me off Peg, and set my OS to reset. He says, now she's in the middle of a serial slogan.

SPEAKER_01

That was such a good one. I love that.

SPEAKER_08

This is what I live in. This is the world I live in. If I message them in any way, our group chat could be completely quiet for two days, and then all of a sudden, it's a feeding frenzy one after the other and see who can come back with something the quickest based on what I've said. I mean, yes, they do go after each other as well, but it seems especially quick when it's something that I've said.

SPEAKER_01

But I would like Jerry to explain a little more. I want him to expand his idea of the watch party. Because I'm very curious about this party where people are they constantly shouting out the time? Or is it like at a set time they shout out the time? How does it how does it work?

SPEAKER_06

Do they take turns, or is it just every minute everybody at the same time just goes like 2-0?

SPEAKER_04

No, it's it's gonna be like if you dial popcorn, say at the time, the t at the tone, yeah, the time will be this, and then people just have to yell it out like that.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. So they wait for somebody to call the house and then they shout out the time?

SPEAKER_04

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Interesting.

SPEAKER_04

So you just have to sit there and watch the phone, wait for a time.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, just hope that somebody calls.

SPEAKER_04

Otherwise it's a pretty boring party. Yeah. Actually, does anybody do any of you have a landline?

SPEAKER_01

My mom does. I don't.

SPEAKER_08

No.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

That was the easiest thing to give up.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. The cocaine, though.

SPEAKER_02

Not as easy.

SPEAKER_04

Wow.

SPEAKER_08

Well. In that case.

SPEAKER_06

A case of cocaine, even. Man.

SPEAKER_08

If you like what you've heard, you can find us on Facebook and Instagram at Buffalo Buffalo Podcast, or you can find us on our website at Buffalo Buffalo Podcast.com. We're Buffalo Buffalo. Hope you had a great time tonight, and uh we'll see you next time.

SPEAKER_01

We won't actually see them. No. And they won't even see us.

SPEAKER_00

It's Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo. Yeah.