111: Nest Of Scorpions - Bold predictions collapse. The opinions do not.

Episode 11 of What Were We Saying? takes on the past, the future, and a movie that refuses to sit quietly in either.

Big Uke checks back in with “How Was the Movie?”, giving his take on Point Blank (1967) - a review that raises just as many questions as it answers. Tubesox rolls out another Top 10, built with confidence and quickly picked apart.

A brand-new segment, “The Future That Wasn’t,” makes its debut, digging into bold predictions from the 1950s that didn’t exactly pan out - and wondering how they missed so badly. And, of course, “3 Things That Can Kick Rocks” returns, because some things never improve, no matter the decade.

Predictions were wrong. Opinions are strong.
 Keep your expectations low.

Transcript

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You can't do that. Just no way. Oh no, what we say?

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It's really good. What do I always say?

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Just as good as last time. Just as good. Good evening. Hello. Good afternoon. Good morning. Whenever you're checking us out. This is what we were saying. That is Big Yuke. This guy. TubeSocks. Woo! There we are. Welcome to what we were saying. Episode number 11. 11. 1-1. That's solid. That comes right after 10. Oh my goodness. Thanks for joining us here. What a time to be alive. Obviously, you now know who we are because we just introduced ourselves, and hopefully, you already knew who we were, which means that you've been watching and paying attention. Behind the camera, Edgar the Chairman Lassiter. We still don't know why. And we still haven't called him that, but we allow him to call himself that because he's free to call himself whatever he wants. I mean, yeah, true. We're just going to judge him for it. Not gonna not gonna stop him. Playing us in and playing us out, Harold Winthrop and the Silver Ashtray Orchestra. They are watching us live on tape delay from their rooming house on the east side of Sunny Downtown.

SPEAKER_04 1:59

We don't let them in the studio anymore.

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They've made their 7-Eleven grocery run for the night and they're settling in to watch the show, so good for them. They still do good work. We haven't obviously called on them again to record anything new, but you know. Still them. They're ready. They're ready to go if we need them. Oh my goodness. We're coming to you from the fifth floor of Blunder Work Studios. Sunny downtown. Sunny downtown. I can see the sun's in my eyes a little bit right now. It's so sunny. You gotta get blind. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_04 2:27

Edgar, this week. Can you get to blind?

SPEAKER_06 2:29

Please. Look into that. What are we uh what are we saying today, you?

SPEAKER_04 2:33

Well, this is episode 11.

SPEAKER_06 2:36

This is episode 11.

SPEAKER_04 2:37

We just finished episode 10 last week, which seems like a good like a big milestone.

SPEAKER_06 2:43

You know, all the uh all the bigwigs in the podcast world said we never get past episode three. We showed them. We showed them.

SPEAKER_04 2:52

Sure did. That was fun. Episode 10 was a good one. We had introduced a new segment.

SPEAKER_06 2:57

A new segment? That was fun. It's always good to get new segments.

SPEAKER_04 2:59

That was electric, if you ask me.

SPEAKER_06 3:01

Peppering and a few more now. That was because I didn't fail. So you did pass four to six. Woo! That's pretty decent. That's like almost good. Pretty, pretty decent.

SPEAKER_04 3:10

Pretty good. I wasn't dumb last week. That's for damn sure.

SPEAKER_06 3:14

We learned about uh camel beauty pageants last week. That's something I never thought I'd learn about.

SPEAKER_04 3:18

The controversy that surrounds them. I mean, for millions of dollars on the line, I'd beautify my camel too. Cheating ain't trying. Right? Exactly. You never know what you're gonna get with this show.

SPEAKER_06 3:29

I do I do appreciate that we did get a message from one of our uh viewers who sent a picture of his significant other who is currently in a part of the world that has camels, and we were sent a picture of the said woman with a camel confirming confirming that there had been no alterations made to this camel. So I really appreciate it. I'd like to think maybe we're uh we're changing the world one uh one camel at a time, one dumb story at a time.

SPEAKER_04 3:57

Oh, that makes more sense.

SPEAKER_06 4:00

Yeah, we're not doing anything to camels, we're just creating awareness.

SPEAKER_04 4:02

We definitely aren't, not anymore. No, we'll stop there.

SPEAKER_06 4:05

You uh let's get right into it.

SPEAKER_04 4:08

You got anything dumb this week there, youke? I do. It's well, it's kind of dumb adjacent, because in my opinion, I think it's dumb in the best way possible.

SPEAKER_06 4:17

I know some people that I would consider to be dumb adjacent.

SPEAKER_04 4:26

I think I know a couple of those people too. Um well this person's not dumb. Okay, good. This didn't happen to me, but it happened to a buddy of mine. I'm giving him a little bit of a shout out here. He is it was a great commitment to this bit. Uh, my buddy Logan lost his fantasy baseball last season. And his punishment, you know, fantasy punishments, you know, some of them are hilarious. Yeah, and so his punishment was he had to spend 24 hours in a Denny's. Oh my. And every pancake he ate knocked an hour off his time. So obviously you gotta try to eat some pancakes. You don't want to sit in Denny's all day. And he live streamed the whole day. Wow, how many have well I'll finish his story, but I'm very curious. And I just I've never I've seen this online of people doing this Denny's thing.

SPEAKER_06 5:09

I've never heard of this before.

SPEAKER_04 5:10

I've never known someone who's done it, and certainly never watched someone do it. Uh so it was a great way to spend my Sunday is watching his live stream of him suffering through pancakes all day. He got there at nine in the morning, he ended up eating 14 throughout the day. And a Denny's pancake is small. Yeah, that's a solid cake. So he ended up having to spend 10 hours in a Denny's though, still. But it could have been 24. But he ate 14. Wow. And there was a couple times where I don't think I could eat 14 Denny's pancakes. That's not in 10 hours. No. I will I don't think I could do it. But he was committed to the bit. The first few go down pr pretty quick, I'd imagine. Well, yeah. Then you get to like two or three. Pancake four or five, and it's like, ooh, struggling. So how many did have 14? So he ended up eating 14. Wow. So I just think that's aren't McDonald's hotcakes. These are big pancakes. These are flapjacks. Yeah. Ten hours in a Denny's though.

SPEAKER_06 6:03

Jesus.

SPEAKER_04 6:03

I don't think I've had 10 hours anywhere.

SPEAKER_06 6:06

Get some real people watching in at 10 hours.

SPEAKER_04 6:08

I think also people start watching you. That starts that's that's a that's a bad movie right there. The people started working at eight and you're still there 12 hours.

SPEAKER_06 6:16

Watch out for the guy sitting in table 12 there. He's uh he's fighting through some flapjacks right now. And for some reason he's filming himself. And talking to his phone. There's a camera on the table.

SPEAKER_04 6:27

But it was a perfect way to spend a Sunday. Check in every couple hours, see what the number was at, watch him slowly go into uh a state of despair on the fact that he wasn't done yet.

SPEAKER_06 6:37

I think that would be great if I'm assuming that he would have told them of the bit.

SPEAKER_04 6:41

I do believe he'd had some people come in with him that would find it.

SPEAKER_06 6:44

My goodness, that would be amazing if he said nothing. And the waitress or waiter just keep coming over. Uh, how are you doing? Oh, I'm good, thanks. Yeah, I need to. Oh, just just your bill? No, I might get uh two more pancakes, please. I'll get two more pancakes. Come back in a bit. Can I chop up your coffee? Yeah. Damn it. Just the bill then? I'll have another. Can you bring me another flapjack, please? Yeah. What the hell? I think that would have been just as funny if they were not in on it.

SPEAKER_04 7:10

And then they just kick you out. Well, shit, I gotta start again. But I do believe they they did inform a couple people about what was going on, so that they didn't think he was just a crazy person. But yeah, show it Logan, because that was hilarious. Oh my goodness. So, like I said, dumb adjacent, because the whole thing was something hilarious.

SPEAKER_06 7:26

It is pretty funny. What about you? Well, I got a couple things that are dumb. The first one is actually kind of sad. Oh. I don't mean to you know bring down the mood. And he was already crying. One of my favorite bands of all time, the Dictators, I was listening, Fan mentioned a playlist. Just a few weeks ago, they had some new music, and I put it on that playlist. Well, just a few days ago, Ross the Boss, guitarist for the Dictators, died.

SPEAKER_04 7:49

Well, shit.

SPEAKER_06 7:50

So that's dumb.

SPEAKER_04 7:51

Ah, I see how you spun that. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 7:53

That's dumb because they also just got back together about a year and a half ago and started making some new music, and one of my favorite punk rock bands came out of New York City in the 70s. Death is dumb. And Ross the Boss is uh sick nickname. Right? Pretty solid. Like, how do you Yeah, it's good. Anyway, so so that's dumb. And and a little sad. And uh but apart from that, I have another dumb thing that I experienced this week.

SPEAKER_04 8:19

What'd you get in a drive-through this time?

SPEAKER_06 8:20

Well, no, I was uh I was down south, north of Montana, north of Red Deer, south of Red Deer, West of the Mississippi, east of Tacoma, east of Crow's Nest Pass. And I was at this pub having uh a pint as one does, and they've got billiard tables there, pool tables there, and there was this group of four guys playing pool, and they it was clear that they had just met. There was a couple and a couple, and they just kind of you know, chit-chatting, and they're like, because it's free pool on Mondays at this place. So he was like, hey, you wanna you guys wanna have a game? And and I was sitting about, I don't know, a couple meters from these guys, so I could hear their conversations, and they were a real Island of Misfit toys kind of cool. It was like this 70-year-old guy and this 50-year-old guy and a 22-year-old guy. It was just and just random. And guy, one guy had those big plugs in his ears, but he was like 60 years old, like those big it was, anyways, and just the way they talked was really interesting. Hipster. And they were adulting real life. What's what's the dumb part came when my ears perked up when I heard them discussing, they were setting up and you know, do do do rack them up. And the one guy says to the other guy that he did not know, okay, why don't you break? And uh he says, I don't break. And then the other guy in this party says to that same guy, Alright, you gonna you gonna break? I guess he didn't hear the first conversation. And this guy grits his teeth and says, I said I don't break. And that's when I kind of perch up like.

SPEAKER_04 10:00

Oh boy, now we're gonna get in a fight.

SPEAKER_06 10:02

Is this shit going down over here? What's happening? Oh my goodness. And they ended up having what appeared to be a gentlemanly game of uh or two of billiards, but uh that was a very peculiar. He was very angry about being asked if he wanted to break twice.

SPEAKER_04 10:18

You gotta play have played a lot of pool in your days to get angry over someone asking you to break twice.

SPEAKER_06 10:25

Like it was grit his teeth, and it was like low, like holy shit's going down because he was asked to break when he already said he didn't want to.

SPEAKER_04 10:31

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 10:33

I'm not a pool guy, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 10:34

You get the loud noise and hope for the best. It's fine. I don't know if that's uh a thing that is that like insulting to billiards players if you're asked to break?

SPEAKER_06 10:41

And if you're asked to break a second time. A second time?

SPEAKER_04 10:43

Does that set you off?

SPEAKER_06 10:44

Is that huh? I mean, not gonna lie, that's pretty dumb. It was pretty dumb, and some I've never encountered that. I'm just maybe I need to go there more often and just get in the world so I can understand better.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Understand the ins and outs of billiards, but not on the table. The off table. Oh, you should go and if if that guy's there again, ask him to break.

unknown 11:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:08

I think more of the story there is uh people north of Wyoming and south of Red Deer east of Tacoma or dinks.

SPEAKER_06 11:17

Uh East of Crow's Nest, I believe.

SPEAKER_04 11:18

East of Crows Nest, sorry. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 11:22

Well, it opens up, you know, really narrows it down. If you know, you know.

SPEAKER_04 11:27

Because you've read a map.

SPEAKER_06 11:29

Wow. So that was dumb this week.

SPEAKER_04 11:31

Let's get on to something that's not dumb. How about we do that? Alright. I think you've got something that's not dumb.

SPEAKER_06 11:36

I do have a top ten list. Those are never dumb. Buckle in, folks. And now this top ten list.

SPEAKER_04 11:42

I don't even know where you're gonna go with it.

SPEAKER_06 11:43

Well, here's the thing, it's inspired by, there's always an inspiration, right? A few weeks ago, when we were out and about town, a boot, and we both had a fun time. We had a fun time together, we had a fun time on our own. The whole weekend was a bunch of fun. Woo! This top ten list is top ten things that instantly ruin a good time.

SPEAKER_04 12:08

This is very two socks-esque. So oh, I can't I can't wait to agree with all of these.

SPEAKER_06 12:14

Here we go. Number 10. The Uber that's way too quiet. You get in, everyone's feeling good, and the driver just silently judging your existence. No music, just vibes on the way to an event.

SPEAKER_04 12:27

Right? Like the first Uber. Yes. It's like the Uber ride on the way home. I don't really care if that's quiet. No, just the Uber there when you're vibing. That if you pre-drinks, maybe you're going to the bar or you bouncing between bars. Brings you down. Ugh. Gross. Bring me down, Bruce.

SPEAKER_06 12:41

Number nine. The sudden bill autopsy. Everything's Jake until the bill arrives, and suddenly everyone becomes a forensic accountant.

SPEAKER_04 12:50

There's always one. Yes. Or someone who dropped a little old-timey slang in there. Oh, I thought you said I dropped a card. I'm like, no, I haven't. I've been good today. Um, there's always someone who, like, oh, I only had three Rum and Cokes and then I didn't want my bill. I didn't order extra guac? Yeah. Just pay your damn bill.

SPEAKER_06 13:10

Number eight. Running into someone you half know.

SPEAKER_04 13:14

Oh man, I've done that so much.

SPEAKER_06 13:16

Not close enough to be comfortable, not distant enough to ignore. Now you're stuck in a conversation built entirely on guesses.

SPEAKER_04 13:22

And it's usually like when you're at the bar waiting for a drink. If you're like trying to get their attention.

SPEAKER_05 13:27

Oh, hey. You?

SPEAKER_04 13:28

And yeah, you know them, but you forget their name. That's the biggest one.

SPEAKER_05 13:31

Everything with you. You. And your children?

unknown 13:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:38

Yeah. At least the only good part about that is when they respond to your questions in the same sort of guessy way. It's like, ah, yes, we both don't know what's going on. I'm gonna take my drink and go now. Have a good night.

SPEAKER_06 13:50

This was good. See you soon. We should get together. Number seven, the let's take a group photo person. I'd like group photo. Right when everything's flowing, drinks are in hand, conversation's rolling, someone decides it's time to stage a full production. Now you're lining up, adjusting, retaking, switching angles, nobody knows where to look.

SPEAKER_04 14:10

I mean, there's time and place for a group photo for sure.

SPEAKER_06 14:12

And that's always the picture that gets posted is the one that you're not looking at the right place.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

Usually. But I'm I'm definitely a proponent of taking more photos, so. Photos are the memories you remember.

SPEAKER_06 14:22

It's the memories you remember. Number six. The we should totally do this more often conversation. Oh, yeah, every time. It always shows up mid-peak like you've discovered something profound. You haven't. You have not.

SPEAKER_04 14:36

You're just having a good time. It's like, oh yeah, let's do this again for sure, and then you don't talk to that person for six weeks.

SPEAKER_06 14:42

Number five. Somebody brings up work.

SPEAKER_04 14:47

Yeah, more often than not, that's no bueno.

SPEAKER_06 14:49

Nothing uh kills a buzz faster than so what's going on at work these days? I left work physically and emotionally, and now somehow you've brought it here.

SPEAKER_04 14:57

Like that question is only acceptable if you're like the first two of like 12 people to show up somewhere, and you're just trying to kill the time before someone else shows up. Because usually you're just you're an hour removed from work. So it's the oh hey, how was your day? How has work been? And then someone else comes in and you're like, ah, perfect, a buffer.

SPEAKER_06 15:17

But you know the ones, the deep in the night, and then it's the guy who wants to talk about work.

SPEAKER_04 15:22

You've had four kamikaze shots, and you don't want to talk about anything with work.

SPEAKER_06 15:27

Number four, the early fade announcement. Hey guys, I might head out soon. Oh, cool. So now countdown started, and no one can relax anymore. Nothing ends the night faster than someone pre-ending it early on.

SPEAKER_04 15:39

That's why you just you gotta be like the Irish. Just leave. Just you don't eat don't announce it. That's why they've created their goodbye. You just slide out like a good friend of ours from most of the time.

SPEAKER_06 15:49

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_04 15:50

Like a fart in the wind. Just go away.

SPEAKER_06 15:52

Uh I think you'll know someone like this. Number three. The one guy who gets way too drunk way too fast. Everyone's pacing themselves, and this guy's already in a different dimension. Now you're stuck managing a situation instead of enjoying one.

SPEAKER_04 16:09

Ah, yeah, we all know a guy like that. Whoa. Maybe three. But one of the things that you're doing for sure. Know a few for sure. Yeah, huh?

SPEAKER_06 16:20

Oh boy. Number two. The sudden mood shift. Everything's rolling, then someone drops something way too real. We were all having fun. Why are we in a life seminar now? Oh, yeah. That kind of actually coincides with number three a little bit. Really? Way too drunk guy. It does. How is it hate him or something? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:44

Just usually those two go hand in hand.

SPEAKER_06 16:47

They do. They are very closely related.

SPEAKER_04 16:48

Yeah. Those, yeah, those. No good. No one needs that. Nah, we don't need that. Number one, eh?

SPEAKER_06 16:54

And the number one. The number one thing that instantly ruins a good time. Realizing you've peaked too early. You've hit your absolute stride, but it's 8 42. Ah, the self-realization, too. Now you're just maintaining the illusion for three hours. God, that's that's rough. Yeah, because now you're all had those nights too.

SPEAKER_04 17:18

You're in your own head about how I can't stop drinking because then I'll be I'll be too I'll be too too bummery by the end of it.

SPEAKER_06 17:26

And you don't want to keep going. And you don't want to be early announcement, uh early fade guy.

SPEAKER_04 17:30

No, you can never be early fade. You can't be the first one to leave.

SPEAKER_06 17:33

No.

SPEAKER_04 17:33

They leave let someone else do that. Ah, yeah, that's a good list. Because I can think of one person for it. All of those.

SPEAKER_06 17:39

Some of them are the same person. Everyone, everyone probably has a person for each one of those items.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

I think you all do.

SPEAKER_06 17:46

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SPEAKER_06 18:41

Okay, so what can you tell us about this uh segment here? This segment set her up?

SPEAKER_04 18:46

This segment here is one that was born from the past and the present and the future. It's close to my heart. I love this kind of stuff. We're calling this segment the future that wasn't. And so the whole, I guess, idea behind this is to take a bit of a deep dive into uh the past and uh and uh see what they thought the future would be.

SPEAKER_06 19:12

We'll diving into uh articles from like popular mechanics and popular science and uh Yeah, stuff from 75 years ago talking about roughly today. Turn of the century predictions that really haven't quite materialized yet.

SPEAKER_04 19:25

Or been even close.

SPEAKER_06 19:26

I think there's though this will uh This is just a fun little thing. We got a couple each year of some things that we'd like to share of the utopian time that they dreamed of in the 1940s and 50s. Back when things were our time would be. So you wanna you wanna lead one off there?

SPEAKER_04 19:42

I can. You so the title of the title of this one here is Helicopters, the family car of tomorrow.

SPEAKER_06 19:48

That's the dream.

SPEAKER_04 19:49

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, popular mechanics confidently predicted that suburban driveways would soon be replaced by personal helipads. The vision was simple. Dad would commute by air, skipping traffic entirely, and while compact, easy-to-fly helicopters would be as common and as affordable as a family sedan. Some articles even suggested standardized airlanes above cities, complete with airborne traffic control. The reality, of course, ran into small issues. Cost, noise, safety, and I think this is a big one here. The average person not being remotely qualified to land on their owners. Well, if you've seen people in a roundabout.

SPEAKER_06 20:33

We can't drive in circles. Or try to negotiate with a uh carry car a zipper merge?

SPEAKER_04 20:40

Nope. Try doing that in a helicopter.

SPEAKER_06 20:42

Helicopters, that what a horrible, horrible world that would be. Where you've got 200 feet up in the air above the street, you've got these airlanes.

SPEAKER_04 20:50

And and at least, you know, if there's a traffic collision on the road, the people underneath don't die. Aren't dropping out of the sky. Yeah. Onto the traffic. You crank a helicopter a thousand feet above me, well, when you land on me, I got no chance.

SPEAKER_06 21:06

That's just amazingly optimistic.

SPEAKER_04 21:09

Like this just really Not on a technological. Well, tech is like not crazy because tech's whatever. I would have loved to see the air traffic control, though, like in the sky. Right.

SPEAKER_06 21:19

The optimism of people's ability to operate these units.

SPEAKER_04 21:23

I think this was right when they started using drugs.

SPEAKER_06 21:26

That's way heavily. They're way they think people are way more talented and skilled than they're not.

SPEAKER_04 21:31

Yeah, when did they test uh meth on people? Jesus. I think right before this article was written.

SPEAKER_06 21:36

Okay, well I've got one. And the headline is dinner at the push of a button. Ooh! Mid century publications such as Popular Science imagine kitchens transformed into sleep control centers where housewives it was always housewives.

SPEAKER_04 21:50

Well, then it was.

SPEAKER_06 21:52

Uh could prepare full meals instantly using automated cooking machines or electronic ovens.

SPEAKER_04 21:58

Well, if you want to stop there,

SPEAKER_06 22:00

Electronic ovens. That doesn't seem so crazy. I could see that. Some concepts went further, proposing food synthesized from basic compounds, essentially 3D printed meals. The pitch was that cooking would become obsolete, replaced by precision technology.

SPEAKER_04 22:15

No more cooking. Precision in the 40s. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_06 22:18

Also, what about just the enjoyment of meals?

SPEAKER_04 22:21

Yeah, like sometimes half the fun is the the the doing it.

SPEAKER_06 22:25

The doing it, and also just and enjoying it. And like making it an event. Yeah, watch the jets. I guess the better that was in the Jetsons, right?

SPEAKER_04 22:31

Everything was like very Jetsons, just like boop.

SPEAKER_06 22:34

Yeah. It's like a they they what are you eating today?

SPEAKER_04 22:36

Ah, steak.

SPEAKER_06 22:37

They skip over the whole enjoyment of preparation and uh you think in the future in the future.

SPEAKER_04 22:44

In the future, you'd have more time to do things because tech is better. You'd have more time to just cook and enjoy your time with your family, versus like, ah, I'm working this and doing this and doing this. You know, it takes me so long to get here. Yeah. I don't have time to cook. Well, we've we've totally reversed what we should have done here.

SPEAKER_06 23:03

I think that uh actually leads into your next one.

SPEAKER_04 23:06

It it does quite with this this is quite well here. I love this. The headline for this one the 15-hour work week is just around the corner. There it is, I can see from here. It's just straight. Fueled by rapid industrial automation, experts in the 1950s widely believed that machines would soon take over the bulk of labor, slashing the average work week to as little as 15 to 20 hours. Articles painted a picture of leisure-rich society where the Leisure rich. Leisure rich, not just rich, leisure-rich. Where the biggest challenge wouldn't be earning a living, it'd be figuring out how to spend all that free time. God damn it, hey. While productivity did skyrocket, the promised leisure revolution never quite materialized. I don't feel that it has.

SPEAKER_06 23:54

I think it's gotten farther away. I'm not struggling to try and fill my leisure time with something to do.

SPEAKER_04 24:00

I'm struggling to find leisure time. I'm struggling to find leisure time. Yeah, we kinda again, we we flucked this one up in reverse. Oh my goodness. Huh. I can understand why people again in their 50s would have thought this, because they were stupid. Well, they were just optimistic.

SPEAKER_06 24:18

No, no, that's stupid. They were just very optimistic. That's what's dumb. I appreciate their optimism.

SPEAKER_04 24:23

They had that work for us. You fly a helicopter yet?

SPEAKER_06 24:26

Speaking of optimism, we'll go into the last item here. Electricity will be too cheap to meter.

unknown 24:34

Ha ha!

SPEAKER_06 24:35

Oh what a time for this segment. In the early atomic age, optimism, again with the optimism. Optimism around nuclear power bordered on utopian. Analysts and articles often echoed in outlets like Popular Mechanics claimed nuclear energy would become so abundant and inexpensive that utility companies wouldn't even bother charging for it. I guess this uh these guys didn't know about Chernobyl, huh? Homes, cars, and entire cities would be run on virtually limitless power from compact reactors.

SPEAKER_04 25:08

How come everything's virtually limitless when they talk about the future? We know there's a limit. We don't know what it is, though.

SPEAKER_06 25:13

It's virtually.

SPEAKER_04 25:14

And then the limit's like right there.

SPEAKER_06 25:16

While nuclear energy did become a major power source, the reality brought high costs, complex infrastructure, and large safety concerns. Weird. Making too cheap to meter one of the most famously overconfident predictions of the era. It's just like, you know what? Even if it was too cheap to meter, they still would meter it. Well, yeah. No, no, no, you know it's on us. Honestly, this is just fun to make. Yeah, it's just fun for us to make it. We just love making the power. We've got these guys on the city. And paying people to make the power. Ah, that's true.

SPEAKER_04 25:50

Because it makes so much power that they Well and you know, helicopter fuel. You know, when uh aviation fuel right now is super cheap, so with the helicopters of the 15 work weeks.

SPEAKER_06 26:00

When people say uh what a time to be alive. That that this whole thing is what a time to be alive. Imagine being just that hard. I'd love to be a deliver of those magazines. Hey Campbell, I got an article. Here's what I think's gonna happen. And then it's just the craziest prediction. Oh I just I I do appreciate their uh insane optimism.

SPEAKER_04 26:26

Well, emphasis on the insanity part there. Like but I mean I'm excited to dive more into those.

SPEAKER_06 26:31

There was a lot of uh lead paint used in houses at the time, too, so maybe that fueled a lot of it. Yeah, that's fun. I I really I've always actually kind of dug that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_04 26:39

Well, and it's fun because it's way it's like that's like your childhood, right? Yes. That's uh how many of these articles did you read?

SPEAKER_06 26:45

Yeah, actually these are you submitted these. These were actually all my uh grade five papers that I you found these in your own homework.

SPEAKER_04 26:52

Yeah, my old duo tangs.

SPEAKER_06 26:55

Oh my goodness. Okay, well now we're gonna- Fergie wrote one of those. Yes, absolutely he did.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

He's like, hey, I can't wait to fly a helicopter, Mama.

SPEAKER_06 27:05

He uh hasn't held on to that optimism, though.

SPEAKER_04 27:08

No. No.

SPEAKER_06 27:09

No, if anyone's lost it. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, buddy Ferg. Okay, so last week.

SPEAKER_04 27:17

Lovely Ferg.

SPEAKER_06 27:18

Last week I assigned this man a movie to watch.

SPEAKER_04 27:22

He did.

SPEAKER_06 27:22

And that movie was Point Blank from 1967. Oh, I thought you said point break. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 27:28

Nah, that would be really funny though.

SPEAKER_06 27:30

I actually uh watched the movie myself last night.

SPEAKER_04 27:32

Oh my god, so did I. Because I wanted it to be fresh. We didn't watch it together, because we're not that close yet.

SPEAKER_06 27:37

No, and I was in that place north of Montana. Oh, yes. East of uh East of Croatia. South of Red Deer.

SPEAKER_04 27:45

Uh-huh. West of the fifth.

SPEAKER_06 27:47

Right. East of the fifth.

SPEAKER_04 27:49

East of the fifth? Yes, east of the fifth. West of the fourth. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 27:53

These cartographers in our uh stupid maps. Anyways, okay, so let's uh let's go. Let's talk about this movie. Point blank. Point blank blank blank. First just first trade of impression. Did you enjoy the movie?

SPEAKER_04 28:08

I didn't hate it. I really didn't. It was like it kept me engaged. It wasn't like boring. It was certainly intriguing, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_06 28:16

I got some points to bring up at the end. I don't know. Let's see if you saw it the same way. I don't know if that's the word I would use.

SPEAKER_04 28:22

Intrigue. You were certainly following his journey? I was following something. Um Yeah, no, like when it like I liked this like the premise, like the plot. I like the twist at the end. If it's a twist, unless you've picked up on it earlier, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 28:37

Well we can discuss, we can discuss that. What uh so you talk about the character. So so Walker. Walker. I mean pretty awesome. Lee Marvin's pretty awesome, pretty well done.

SPEAKER_04 28:45

Yeah. But I've also never seen a movie where a character doesn't smile once. He's he's pretty stoic, he's pretty cold, he's pretty uh He's also a little friggin' delusional a couple times, but um $93,000. I just wanted his $93 grand, and like, okay, I'll give you that.

unknown 29:03

Mal?

SPEAKER_06 29:03

Mal, son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_04 29:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 29:05

Mal Reese.

SPEAKER_04 29:06

Screw that guy. Basically screw everybody else except for except for Walker.

SPEAKER_06 29:09

And he takes that header off that uh penthouse? Yeah, I did have a note about that.

SPEAKER_04 29:14

I'll let you dive into your before I And so my notes aren't necessarily like plot points, more of just like as I was walking. Just observations, and it starts off real early. Just finish the job, kill him. In which way? When he shoots Walker.

SPEAKER_06 29:33

Oh, I see. Okay, right at the end of the street.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

He shoots him he probably misses the first shot, hits him a second time, put another one in him. You're you're running off with his wife.

SPEAKER_06 29:41

About Reese, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:42

You're running off with his wife with the money he was supposed to split with you, and you're not even gonna confirm that he's dead? Interesting. Okay, yeah. And then almost immediately after that, he swims off after being shot and climbing a barbed wire fence. What is happening here?

SPEAKER_06 29:59

Plausibility comes into play.

SPEAKER_04 30:01

Oh goodness. Like, come on. Well, this isn't an island of five meters offshore. This is Alcatraz, for Christ's sake. It's not easy to get off of.

SPEAKER_06 30:10

Okay, I hear I hear what you're putting down.

SPEAKER_04 30:12

Yeah, so my my th my exact line was swims off, question mark, after being shot, question mark? Yeah. Dot dot dot. Okay. The loud footstops, uh, the footsteps when he was. Oh, down that hallway?

SPEAKER_06 30:25

Down that hallway. That was awesome. Incredible. That was a great shot, and and how they echoed to the next scene where he was in the apartment, which was strangely grey. Very grey. And his suit and everything, everything.

SPEAKER_04 30:38

It wasn't a black and white movie, but it was very dark. Or I guess not dark.

SPEAKER_06 30:42

It made LA seem like a really cold clinical place.

SPEAKER_04 30:46

Big time. Just the gunshots in those movies always just make me laugh. Because the massive blue light and flash that comes out. Okay, we gotta get you. That's a you issue. Oh, sure. That's just that's not a move. This movie simply, it just always makes me giggle. Um, but him just busting down the door, her not even really caring because she just like immediately knows it's him, and then she's like, ah, whatever, he's just here to kill the guy I'm supposedly sleeping with. And he shoots the bed six times. It's very clear after maybe the second bullet, he's not there.

SPEAKER_06 31:17

That uh in that apartment scene though, when the the guy, the drop guy comes with uh the money.

SPEAKER_04 31:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:23

And you have the doors like boarded shut and nailed shut. Yeah, terrible, because he has like push it back in. But here's the great thing. I don't know if you had picked up on this one. He opens the door, he's on the inside, opens the door, pulls the guys in, and then jams the door into his arm. It hits him. Yes, I did notice that. I was like, ah.

SPEAKER_04 31:37

Then I love how he slams the door and then like pushes the board in. Yeah, well played. But also, like that's a it's not really that secure because one kick and like your nails like yeah. Um the slow motion replay of him coming through the door and her falling. Thought that was quite hilarious because it almost looks like they just moved in slow motion. They didn't slow down the tape. Right. The cat. I don't did we need the cat that immediately runs away.

SPEAKER_06 32:05

That whole scene, and that's where this apart with all the perfume bottles and all that stuff.

SPEAKER_04 32:10

Also, there was not a bathtub under that shelf. If you look at how close he's standing to that shelf, and then you look down, there's a two-foot-wide bathtub, and this is where the delusion thing comes in. Because one, didn't expect that OD. Not gonna lie, didn't expect that. And then I put dot dot dot obvious delusion, because like the whole thing in that apartment is it gets a little in his head a bit. Yes. And then I put, but actually though, like, didn't expect that. I didn't expect her to just be dead. And she was. And she was. She wasn't delusionable, that. But like you're not even gonna help him find this man who you also don't like now? Who's sleeping with your sister?

SPEAKER_06 32:49

How about the sister? Angie Dickinson. One thing about that club. He could have given her a better name than Chris. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 32:57

I mean it's 67, I don't know. You give a foxy chick the name Chris? Fair. Anyways. Um speaking of foxy chicks, though, when he goes to that club, I don't know if you notice this, but in like the back right or left side, there's a girl in a bikini dancing. Absolutely. Or my j my caption was just L-O-L. Because it is not not good dancing.

SPEAKER_06 33:17

No, but it's great though. I love painted body dancing. But she's just like she's just like gyrating, but in not a good way. That's all you need. It's too much painted up, some flashing lights, a girl in a cage. Off from the side of the state.

SPEAKER_04 33:31

Come on. The sister's lack of shock to see Walker also alarmed me that, like, do these people not care when a man just appears in their homes? Like, what's going on here?

SPEAKER_06 33:41

Well, when uh when Chris is sleeping and when he first comes across and she just wakes up from she'd also taken pills though, because he looks at the pills beside her bed and goes and chucks them away. True. And she's waking out of a chemically induced sleep.

SPEAKER_04 33:54

But still, to a guy you When was last time you saw Walker? You thought he was dead. Those sisters are a little fucked up. The lack of shock in both of them. It's a little concerned. It's almost like they knew it was coming. Because they read the script. Uh The Organization. Great title. Great title.

SPEAKER_06 34:12

So ominous. Uh Carter. The head of the guy that gets sniped when I don't know about that. With that green leather couch with a little The Corner office.

SPEAKER_04 34:24

Oh my goodness. Mm-hmm. Um yeah, the organization. Great title for a uh a bad guy company. And then also the multiplex company. What are we doing? That's incredible. Just you have no clue what they do. Nope. And I guess it's like reliable continental code. It's very similar. Um, almost, if you know, you know. That's a um but like looking back, thinking back to the organization, when he's on the boat, like like the second scene in the early bits when he's got uh with the guy who's Fairfax who doesn't know he's Fairfax. Yeah. Um when he says, Well, you want you want uh what's his name? Mal? You want Mal Reese, you want Reese, I want the organization. I was assuming it was like he wants this drug enterprise, like the organization that he works for. I didn't realize until further in the movie that no, no, they're called the organization. And then, you know, turns out that it's him, but the organization and the multiplex company. I thought those were just great titles. And also, uh, so when he goes to find Reese in this building that's impenetrable, that becomes very penetrable.

SPEAKER_06 35:34

With that really cool outdoor elevator.

SPEAKER_04 35:37

Uh where's that note? I did put that out exterior elevator. Fancy.

SPEAKER_06 35:41

Actually, I looked up that building. I've looked up that building and it still exists and it does still have that exterior elevator. I thought that was sick. That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_04 35:47

Exterior elevator with glass on the outside? It's pretty fun. Can never do that here in sunny downtown. No. We don't have tall enough buildings. Um when he goes to that building and he's like using the binocular binoculars, yeah. Which also there was nothing to see there. It's just ocean. It's not even like there was pier or it's just ocean. Maybe you're looking at ships. How many ships were going by in 1967? Not as much. Well, San Francisco's a pretty big port town. You know what? But that was not the bay. That is just the ocean. He was not there then.

SPEAKER_06 36:22

Alright, anyway.

SPEAKER_04 36:23

Uh that building with like all the security and you can get in, but you'll never get out. There's hanging by the door. Yeah, he did get in pretty easily. And then he just like walks through the garage. Well, distraction. Smoke bomb. Smoke bomb. And then this is also the look like you belong. No one questions it. Because it's like you you walk into a you walk into a uh a store with a ladder and a clipboard, no one's gonna stop you. If you wear a yellow vest on any construction site, you can go anywhere you want.

SPEAKER_06 36:52

Throwing a lab coat, you're walking into nuclear uh research facilities.

SPEAKER_04 36:55

Well, they're everywhere, and it's so cheap. Yeah. Doors are open. Um yeah, him falling off the roof, just yeah, that was probably if you didn't know what year that movie was made, that's when you determined what year that movie was made.

SPEAKER_06 37:12

Yeah, but you gotta, again, that's part of the charm.

SPEAKER_04 37:15

Sure. But I also I've always thought this watching movies that were like the pre-really good, like CGI and stuff. Okay. Obviously, 1967.

SPEAKER_06 37:22

Also, CGI?

SPEAKER_04 37:24

Sure. Carry on. Let's just throw people up buildings, it's a better image. Um, but better graphics and and all that before that, it's like there's no way you could watch that movie in theaters in 1967 and said, Oh my god, that was so realistic. It's like I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 37:40

It doesn't matter, it's a storytelling. Sure. I don't know. You're approaching a movie from a different angle than I do.

SPEAKER_04 37:46

I guess so.

SPEAKER_06 37:47

Um technology.

SPEAKER_04 37:49

Have you seen the movie Air Force One? No. Well, just Google the end scene and watch the plane crash. And it's that nobody could have thought that movie was made well. Because the rest of it was good, but then the animation How do you not notice Jenji? He fell for an eighth of a second like a leaf.

SPEAKER_06 38:10

But as part of the story, he fell off the roof, and that's that's But I don't know. I just I don't look at that kind of stuff when I watch movies because I watch movies back to the 1930s, and I think that some people than that. Anyways.

SPEAKER_04 38:22

Because they just did it. They would just have thrown a guy off the roof in the 30s. Alright. They're expendable. Anyways, that's a different tangent. Um, Good Sniper in the Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_06 38:31

In the That was James B. Sicking, the one that I mentioned. Ah, see, I couldn't remember who you mentioned. And he was also in the very end scene.

SPEAKER_04 38:37

Yes, he was. Uh, Good Sniper.

SPEAKER_06 38:40

Have you heard of a uh there was a TV show in the 1980s called Hill Street Blues? I have. He was in that show. He was he was the he was the head of the SWAT team. He was in that show. Um, okay. It was it was like one of the first kind of TV shows that was like uh on the grittier side of you know cop shows. Coming out of the 70s, it kind of made a little more out of a little more realism or a little more by realism I mean they showed more of the characters' lives instead of just the procedural stuff. Yeah. Anyways, he was in that show.

SPEAKER_04 39:09

He was an excellent sniper to like one shot a guy in the heart from that distance, then a guy walking up a hill.

SPEAKER_06 39:16

I love that scene though, when he when he pushes Carter out instead of him. And Carter's like, no, you know, you go get it. It's like, no, you go get it. Because he knew that yeah, well.

SPEAKER_04 39:23

He said it's a setup. And then there's just paper. And then the money was just paper. Paper. That other guy, I didn't like him too much. When he took the took the car out? I thought that was great. And I immediately thought when he put his seatbelt on, I'm like, oh, this guy's gonna crash because he doesn't have his seatbelt on.

SPEAKER_06 39:39

I thought he could have crashed harder. Also the fact that it was 1967, so you're suspicious of someone putting a seatbelt on because they were new in cars. Right. Right, I was like, Well, you don't need that.

SPEAKER_04 39:48

He's like, Well, no, no, no, you're gonna be closed. The closest accidents happened three miles from home. Or the most accidents. They're close. So what else do you got? If you've The Ponds cold cream commercial, hilarious. There's a one little clip in there. I didn't write it down, but uh, I think it she says uh she's talking about the her like her what she does daily, and it was just I just I cream twice a day and it keeps my skin clean. There you go. I giggled because I'm immature. Um the built-in blender and a portable blender. Like how rich was that guy. It was quite the pad. That was quite the pad with like the producer room for the music.

SPEAKER_05 40:32

What a pad.

SPEAKER_04 40:34

Fancy house, I did write that. But I thought having two blenders was wild.

SPEAKER_06 40:37

When Brewster shows up and he's bitching about the pool being too cold and Brewster, I thought I didn't you never told me that Brewster was Archie Bunker. I did tell you that. Did you? I said Carol O'Connor's and you said that name means nothing to me. He said, well, you'd probably all in the family.

SPEAKER_04 40:51

Okay. See, I wrote Archie Bunker exclamation point. Because I thought that was the other guy you said, ah.

SPEAKER_06 40:58

You know what's amazing about uh Carol O'Connor in that movie? He was like 35 years old when they filmed that. Yikes! And he looked like 50.

SPEAKER_04 41:05

He looked like he was 70. I did also wrote this.

SPEAKER_06 41:08

And he was awesome in it.

SPEAKER_04 41:09

He was great until the gunshot. Then he's just a scared little child. Yes, which is funny.

SPEAKER_06 41:13

But that's perfect for the organization.

SPEAKER_04 41:14

Oh, Baitab. Because they're businessmen. And it's like, no, I run it. Well, this guy runs it too. No, but it's me. Yeah. But that happened every time, and then this, you know, guys die. Uh the speakerphone tool. That was that was fun. Yes. Just like put it into a bowl. And then the twist ending. For me at least, because I didn't pick it up.

SPEAKER_06 41:31

What did you see as a twist?

SPEAKER_04 41:32

That Fairfax was that guy because I thought that guy was just a cop.

SPEAKER_06 41:35

And that guy all along, he was the guy that was the head of the organization.

SPEAKER_04 41:38

He was the head of the organization trying to get rid of the other two guys and did.

SPEAKER_06 41:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 41:43

Uh, so that was my twist ending. Um, and then him just like not going to get the money and just letting it all leave. Like, well, okay, this kind of seemed pointless at the end. Unless clearly he figured it out.

SPEAKER_06 41:54

But it doesn't. And all. When you're done, I'll give you a.

SPEAKER_04 41:57

Yeah, is it the thing with the the last zoom out camera angle? Does that have anything to do with this? Well, because that was like, wait, I thought we were on Alcatraz, but that's Alcatraz. What is happening? No, no.

SPEAKER_06 42:09

No, they were on the No, they were on Alcatraz.

SPEAKER_04 42:11

Well, what island were they looking at? Wasn't that Alcatraz? That was just a faith. That was it. That was that had nothing to do with the story. Okay. That freaked me out.

SPEAKER_06 42:17

No, that was just the the closing shot. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 42:20

I thought that But why did that do as there were two islands?

SPEAKER_06 42:23

No.

SPEAKER_04 42:23

Because there was also prison. But if that doesn't mean anything, that doesn't mean anything.

SPEAKER_06 42:28

No.

SPEAKER_04 42:29

So what twist ending was I supposed to be like?

SPEAKER_06 42:31

Well, first of all, I just wanted to point out that Mal and Lynn, Walker's wife, and Carter, who are they're all Canadian actress. Really? Yeah. Well, that's fun. And that was uh they all die. So John Vernon also played a mare in the first Dirty Harry movie. Cool. That's the guy from Saskatchewan, which I pointed out a couple times.

SPEAKER_04 42:49

Ah, yes. I do recall that.

SPEAKER_06 42:51

But yeah, Sharon Acker, who played Lynn from Toronto, and uh Lloyd uh Bachner, who played Carter. And he was in a lot of actually both of them were in a lot of 70s TV shows like Canon and Streets of San Francisco. Sure. They never really did a lot of movie stuff. Yeah. They did lots of TV roles, but uh John Vernon was in with some movies. But here's the twist. Okay, you talked about how some stuff weren't believable and this is weird, and things didn't make sense, like with the tub being there all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_04 43:15

Well, yeah, like the hell house thing, and then he kept going back to the house thing and you know why? Because he was dead the whole time.

SPEAKER_06 43:20

He was dead the whole time, and the whole thing was a bizarre, psychotic dream of a guy dying in a cell.

SPEAKER_04 43:28

Huh. He was dead the whole time.

SPEAKER_06 43:30

And so finally he didn't go get the money. You know why? Because he was already dead. And Fairfax was the devil. He had him doing his bidding throughout this nightmarish psychotic dream. And shit didn't make sense.

SPEAKER_04 43:47

Like in the club and the fight in the back, like all that fight in the back It was all bizarre because it was all his It was also weird that like that guy, it was like a wooden shelf, and he's like he was that was the heaviest shelf ever created.

SPEAKER_06 43:59

Yes. Walker was dead the whole time. So that first note of just kill him. He did. He did. And this was all that's why the Alcatraz swim, all the stuff didn't make sense. Because it was a bizarre. That's why the room was all gray and everything was weird. And Walker finally didn't grab the money because that was uh him basically finally saying no to the devil and he beat the devil. There's that Chris Christopherson song to beat the devil. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was Walker beating the devil at the end because he didn't. And when he says, We want you to join us, Walker, I've been uh looking for a guy like you. Yeah. That's not for the organization. That was for that. Oh see, it's a very freaking Huh. That makes a lot more sense now. I didn't pick up on that the first couple times I watched it, but I kept at her years ago, and it was like, wait a minute. Huh? I don't think. And then I started looking for colours. I mean, it makes sense. Right? Because like so much doesn't make sense in that movie. But it's also just so stylish and cool. And Lee Marvin is the perfect stoic guy. Like, you don't get stoic like Lee Marvin in everybody. Like, he's so much like that. No, I definitely I will give you that. Huh. I think you should maybe go back and watch it again, maybe. You might have to now. Well, you've got it for another, you know, 36 hours.

SPEAKER_04 45:17

Well, I guess, yeah, it was 40 hours from the stars. Right? Forgot I rented it.

SPEAKER_06 45:21

Watch again and watch it from that angle knowing that Walker's dead the whole time. It makes sense because like yeah, cuz stuff doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_04 45:28

It doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_06 45:29

And like people appear and disappear when he's at when he's at Chris's apartment, there's like the broken mirror and all. Like just shit just kind of comes and goes, and you know why?

SPEAKER_04 45:37

Because it's I also did love how he tied up the two men the guys at the the first guys, you got them to tie him up, but then how he tied up the security on the roof with just like TV cable and put them over top of uh yeah, that was funny.

SPEAKER_06 45:52

So yeah, it's actually it's a very cool movie, huh? And it uh I did say that it leaves a lot more questions than it answers. And see, it does. It's it's on a different level than you initially see. I do believe that's correct.

SPEAKER_04 46:06

Anyways.

SPEAKER_06 46:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:07

Yeah, that was fun. You ready to view your movie?

SPEAKER_06 46:09

Oh, yes, where you're assigning me a movie. I am assigning you a movie. Okay, what are you assigning me?

SPEAKER_04 46:14

Last one of the season.

SPEAKER_06 46:16

Last one of the season.

SPEAKER_04 46:17

I believe so. I I was torn because I had a few options.

SPEAKER_06 46:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 46:24

All vastly different movies. None like it's perfect.

SPEAKER_06 46:29

That was kind of a one- I welcome anything, you know. I'm uh if you know anything about me, you know I'm open to everything.

SPEAKER_04 46:35

Sh that's what I know about you. Um so I did get some assistance with narrowing this down. Again. It was because there was I want you to watch them all, but I can't. So thank you to the assistance I received. You're watching Meet the Parents. Do you know anything about that movie now that I've seen it?

SPEAKER_06 46:52

Ben Stiller is in that movie.

SPEAKER_04 46:54

Correct.

SPEAKER_06 46:55

And Robert De Niro.

SPEAKER_04 46:56

De Niro.

SPEAKER_06 46:57

I do know of that movie. Have you seen that movie? I have not seen that movie. Perfect. But I'm aware of it. It's on Prime. It's like a 90s movie or 2000s movie?

SPEAKER_04 47:05

Yeah, it's like late 90s, early 2000s. One of those. I think it's the first one would have been maybe like 2000, and then there's I think four of them now.

SPEAKER_06 47:13

See, I'm a big uh I am a big fan of uh of Robert De Niro.

SPEAKER_04 47:16

See, I figured you would be. I have to do that. Mean Streets, taxi driver, all that stuff. There's a few, there's a the watching this movie, I think there'll be a few things that are common in pop culture. Okay. That spawned from this film.

SPEAKER_06 47:29

Uh I think you'll enjoy it. I don't hate that idea.

SPEAKER_04 47:32

I'll watch that. Because it's also just an incredible movie. And I do believe it is on Prime when I looked it up.

SPEAKER_06 47:37

Well, very good then.

SPEAKER_04 47:38

Prime or Prime adjacent.

SPEAKER_06 47:39

So point blank. So your takeaway?

SPEAKER_04 47:42

Point blank, takeaway. Overall, not bad, weird. That was what I wrote here on my screen.

SPEAKER_06 47:48

Meant to be weird.

unknown 47:49

Weird.

SPEAKER_06 47:49

Actually, you know that uh that house at the end, uh like the organization's house where super nice house.

SPEAKER_04 47:55

Yeah. Also weird.

SPEAKER_06 47:57

Um that house exists and it is a rental. And when the Beatles first came on their first uh American tour, they stayed there. They stayed at that house when they were in LA. Did they know it was there? They rented that house. They know it was used to film the movie, point blank. Uh that movie was filmed about three years after they stayed. Ah, right. I forgot. Beatles old. So, anyways, so that's interesting. Yeah, overall, not bad. I might have to re-watch it. See, that's an interesting twist, though, right? Definitely because stuff that you thought doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_04 48:28

Doesn't make sense on purpose.

SPEAKER_06 48:29

And Fairfax as the devil, that makes nothing but sense.

SPEAKER_04 48:32

Yeah. That makes a lot of sense.

SPEAKER_06 48:35

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:36

Fun.

SPEAKER_06 48:37

Okay. Well, let's move on because we're kind of running, running, uh, running.

SPEAKER_04 48:40

I think you uh think you gotta kick something.

SPEAKER_06 48:42

Yeah, why don't you read a sponsorship liner here and then we'll get into uh kick rocks, then we'll wind her up.

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SPEAKER_06 49:40

Good people fondue pit. We should do a show from there. Alright, well, let's get into three things that can kick rocks.

SPEAKER_04 49:46

Kicking time!

SPEAKER_06 49:49

This uh this week I've got beards without mustaches.

SPEAKER_04 49:58

That feels like a shot at some people we specifically know. Fleetwood Mac. What?

SPEAKER_06 50:05

And it's low-hanging fruit. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 50:09

Oh my god. Just I gotta go.

SPEAKER_06 50:12

And number three, social media life hacks. Come on. Come on.

SPEAKER_04 50:19

No. I whole like a life hack about using social media? No. Or a life hack on social media. Social media.

SPEAKER_06 50:27

Like that guy who does the things. Like I, oh, I only learned this today, or I learned this from a chef in India.

SPEAKER_04 50:36

Sorry, not all of us have been learning things for 80 years, like YouTube.

SPEAKER_06 50:39

And it's just garbage, and it's just 72 steps to ruin something and go.

SPEAKER_04 50:46

You're watching, you are watching the wrong life hacks. I don't know. You I need to up my social media. You do, because there is one guy there specifically. You I no, you would think differently about this if you watched this shit because you will learn some shit from him. I guarantee it.

SPEAKER_06 51:05

I don't need life hacks.

SPEAKER_04 51:06

I've got you know what I'm talking about, though? No. Yeah, you do. No. Yeah, he was on that show with the guys. I don't think I've seen the show with the kids. He made the thing you drink. The beverage? Yeah, he made one of those and he was on a show with the guys that we.

SPEAKER_06 51:21

I have no idea what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_04 51:22

You know. No. Oh, I'm gonna make you know.

SPEAKER_06 51:24

Anyway, social media life hacks can kick rocks.

SPEAKER_04 51:26

I think this was my least favorite kick rocks of all time. You ran through those first two, you didn't even get a chance to rebuttal them. How do you not like Fleetwood Mac? How do you like Fleetwood Mac? Uh, because they're awesome. Because they're terrible? God.

unknown 51:41

God.

SPEAKER_04 51:42

So 11 episodes, that's how far we got.

SPEAKER_06 51:45

Wow. Anyways. Huh. I stand by my words. They're a scourge on society. You're sitting. So how do you think the show went today, you?

SPEAKER_04 51:56

I think it was incredible. This is exactly what we needed. There's too much agreement, I think.

SPEAKER_06 52:01

Oh my goodness. I had a great time. That's good. Went a little longer than usually, but that's alright.

SPEAKER_04 52:07

Hey, sometimes that happens.

SPEAKER_06 52:10

Um I thought I had a good time. Edgar stayed quiet, which was good. Well, he did go out for some smokes.

SPEAKER_04 52:15

Well, yeah, but they didn't hear him.

SPEAKER_06 52:17

So that's good.

SPEAKER_04 52:18

How do you think the show went?

SPEAKER_06 52:20

I know it went good. I really enjoyed discussing the movie with you because it's a very cool movie. I that was a fun discussion because I've learned something. And uh yeah, overall, good time. That was uh episode 11. Episode 11 in the can. We're heading into episode 12. That's exciting. Like, comment, and subscribe. Do them all. And share this with your friends. Please. And your enemies.

SPEAKER_04 52:44

Specifically your enemies.

SPEAKER_06 52:46

People you don't like. Hate views are still views, folks. Check this out. They're terrible. Watch it. Subscribe and get that subscriber count up.

SPEAKER_04 52:53

We've been moving lately. Um.

SPEAKER_06 52:55

We have been. Get it going. Uh, please also drop us a line at biguke.tubesocks at gmail.com. That's for any business inquiries. Um and just inquiries. Inquiries doesn't have to be business inquiries. It can just be drop us a line. Let us know what's happening. What are you up to? You want to drop us a you know, a viewer mail or a uh a suggestion or anything, just do there. Or if you want to remain anonymous, go to our BuzzSpout, BuzzSprout www.buzzsprout.com. There's a little spot where you can send us an anonymous message where we won't see your email address. So if you're more comfortable with that, weird like that. Um you can also uh support us on that. There's a little subscription there if you want to give us a a denomination on a monthly subscription. Now, and on that note, some people are doing that, and that's very much appreciated. Very much appreciated. But we have to uh acknowledge one of our uh viewers who wrote a letter a few weeks ago, who signed his letter unsigned. It was actually signed unsigned, and he mentioned about uh we thought he was joking about if he saw us in public, he would uh slide us a little uh keep the taxes low. A little support for the show in person. And we did run into him, and he did in fact support the show in person generously support the show in person, and thanks to his generous support, after this wraps up this little uh recording session, we're gonna have some fun. Big Youke and I are going out for a uh a snack or a meal or some sort of uh we're becoming better friends because of working on our uh journey towards friendship, and this is on courtesy of signed unsigned. We appreciate it. And the leftovers from that, we're gonna restock the Triple WS beer fridge.

SPEAKER_04 54:52

So thank you very much, signed unsigned.

SPEAKER_06 54:54

Genuinely, thank you very much from the uh unsigned the bottom of our hearts of that. I'll let that go at this time because it is an awfully nice gesture. Incredibly. And uh, so that's exciting. And what a way to end a show. It was it was it was a surprise. It was not expected, and uh wow.

SPEAKER_04 55:12

Not expected, but appreciated all of that. Thank you so much. We do we do appreciate it.

SPEAKER_06 55:16

I guess the only thing we've got left is what are you listening to on the drive home today? I mean, that'll be after we go out for our uh Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 55:24

Might listen to last week's episode. Have because it was so much fun. You guys should do the same.

SPEAKER_06 55:30

Plus, it'll give us one more listen.

SPEAKER_04 55:31

There we go. Listen to the lessons. Pad the stats. If you ain't padding, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_06 55:37

Alright, myself, I'm going to be listening to I should be listening to The Dictators because of Ross the Boss passing, but I've been listening to The Dictators all week. So I think I've I've accepted it now, and I'm going to be listening to one of the coolest bands to ever come out of Calgary, Alberta Calgary. The Forbidden Dimension. They've been around for about 30 years.

SPEAKER_04 56:01

Forbidden Dimension.

SPEAKER_06 56:02

They have under 190 monthly listeners on Spotify. Yet I somehow have a two and a half hour playlist of them.

SPEAKER_04 56:13

So you are all of their listeners.

SPEAKER_06 56:15

So Forbidden Dimension.

SPEAKER_04 56:17

Let's get them over 200 this month. Let's get them over 200. Come on.

SPEAKER_06 56:20

They've been at this for 30 years and they're fantastic. And I will put a link to the playlist in the description of the show. So there you go. I've always liked them. Well, for about 30 years now.

SPEAKER_04 56:31

About 30 years?

SPEAKER_06 56:32

First heard them about 30 years ago. Went, hey, this is my kind of thing. 30 years later, I'm in an elite group of under 200 people that routinely listen to them. So probably the only one that has a two-hour playlist of them. Probably. Anyways, go back, watch past episodes, check us out on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, iHeart, Deezer. Every episode, our listens keep growing, which is nice. Love to see it folks. Make a chunk of things. So all right, well, that was fun.

SPEAKER_04 57:03

Episode 11 of uh What We Say with Big Youcatube Socks.

SPEAKER_06 57:06

Play Us Out Herald.

SPEAKER_04 57:08

See ya, folks.

SPEAKER_02 57:12

Big Youcatube socks with chat today on Waddle We Saint. Hey, hey, hey, those two hip cats bounced up to say a lot of really good times.