MOVIE MIKE'S MOVIE PODCAST - Are Hollywood Nepo Babies Getting Out of Hand? + Movie Review: Insidious: Out of the Further + Trailer Park: Clayface

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3:04Yeah. So I was dying. I have my water here because I oftentimes just… Okay, but like… You don't keep any water by your side of the bed? I get the iPad kid call. So you'll wake yourself up and I'll be like just passing my water bottle over. You take a sip out of the straw like a kid in the middle of the night and then you just go back to sleep and you have no recollection of it. No, there's some stuff you tell me that I do in the middle of the night. No idea. You once hissed at me in the middle of the night. I was like, I have a note of weird things that you do in your sleep and it was saying Skadoosh one time and hissing at me. Ah yes, quote in concrete, in the middle of the night. One time I have one thing in my notes of things you've done. You were asleep and you said, well that's not my fault. Clear in the day. Scared the hell out of me. Okay. Does anyone else ever do that where you're having a dream and you're having a conversation with someone, but you say it out loud. Like I was like coherent enough, like lucid, said it when I thought was in my head, but I like woke myself up because I was like, oh, I think I just said that out loud.

4:07It was so loud and crystal clear and that and nowhere I was like, who's that? We are here to talk about the best and worst movies of August in the movie review. I'll be talking about insidious out of the further the sixth installment in that franchise and why it needs to die. And then in the trailer park, I'll be talking about Clayface, the new DC movie that's a standalone villain origin story. So all that to get to without any further ado, let's talk movies. Best and worst movies of August overall, I thought it was a really great month. The debate here is, do we include brand new day? Because we saw it July 31st. July 31st, we did that recap without including it. Is it a part of our best and worst? I hate when movies come out at the end of the year and also on the very last day of the month. Well, if it was, it would be both of our best. I kind of feel like we just don't include it. Yeah, I think it stands on its own. Because it would be one of those where it's just both of our.

5:08We both picked the same movie. It's made over $2 billion. It's been saying. I almost saw it for a third time. So for you, the best movie you saw in August. I'm going to go with one night only. Did you feel like that was going to be more of a rom-com? It was a rom-com. Did you expect it to be as politically charged as it was? Could you describe the movie? Well, one of my friends texted me before and said, because he saw it early and he was like, the movie was more politically charged than I thought. So it is essentially the purge, but for sex. Single people. Single people can't do it. You can't do it unless you're married. Correct. And there's one night of the year that you can do it. And everyone has this, like, not a chip in them, but this thing in there. It's kind of two, like two colors. And then it disappears. Very hunger games-esque as far as the markers they have with them. And then for that one night only, they basically go to town for like, what, six hours? I mean, it was longer than that. They were all over the city. That couldn't have been six hours.

6:09If I hadn't, I've had that heads up, no, I wouldn't have expected it. But I thought it was really good. I love Callum Turner. He was really good, didn't he? I love him. Like, he and do a leapo together. Beautiful couple. And Monica, Monica, Barbaro. Phenomenal. I also like movies that take place usually in one day or in this case, one evening, just because it kind of has like that Friday night feel to me because we did go see this on a Friday night. And it was in New York. And so it's like, we were just there. You kind of recognize the areas. It kind of reminded me of like going to the theater on a Friday night as like a teenager. Yes. I remember how cool it was to go to the movie theaters on a Friday night. Everybody would go. All the cool kids would hang out like out front of the theater. That is what this movie kind of made me feel again because it kind of had that two thousands-ish kind of romcom feel to me. And I feel like the romcom genre is kind of making a comeback. And by the looks of this trailer, it was supposed to be like an ode to that where it was

7:11cut very like kind of tongue in cheek, very light, very fluffy. That's why I was kind of surprised because there was a lot of political undertones inside of the story kind of got a little bit dark there in places, but then it was like romcom mode again. My Hawk, one of your favorites. Yes. I think I ended up enjoying the movie towards the end of it, but kind of in the middle, I was like, where is this going exactly? It was a nice change of pace from seeing action movies for the summer. So you've seen a lot of those, a lot of action movies for the summer. So it was like, okay, something to like giggle at. I feel like some people are being robbed of like still a traditional romcom because I think that those don't really work in theaters as much anymore. It primarily now goes to Netflix. And I feel like people go into a movie like this or maybe even like the materialist thinking like, oh, this is being dubbed as a romcom, but I love how the romcom has evolved.

8:12Yes. Where it's not exactly what you think of a romcom being like one of those 2000s movies with like Matthew McConaughey anymore. I was a little bit more sophisticated. Have you seen that clip going around where he talks about how how to lose a guy in 10 days makes him the most money? Mailbox money. Still gets a mailbox on a residuals because of Valentine's Day. Yes. He's like every time around March, boom, big check. And I feel like it was always on like TBS and like E those sorts of things. I will say I wonder if the shift to romcom on streaming is a great like girls night movie. And you know, you get in your comfy clothes, you get about a little wine, you have some takeout, you have all your friends over. Feel like some environments, like some movies are meant to be enjoyed more at home. Yeah. I think even I think that's why the comedy genre has shifted to streaming. But I wish that we put more romcoms because I feel like when you put them in the energy of a bigger budget, you sometimes get a little bit bigger names. Yeah.

9:13Yeah. And I just, I really enjoyed this. Like I just wanted to laugh. It was funny. I loved the singing medication commercials. That's what she does. She's like a dingo singer. But she turns like pop songs. She turns out the rave by Sarah Burrellis into like a psoriasis commercial. Yeah. And it kind of reminds me of the like sky-rizzy commercial. You know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, for black psoriasis. So yeah, what would you rate that one? For pure entertainment, I'm going to give it four Trojans. There you go. See, I was close on that. I gave it a 3.5 out of five. I would say dating apps. Okay. That's a little bit more appropriate than mine. It's relevant. There's a scene though. Like, and then just, yeah, I know what you're talking about. I don't know where. For my best of August, would it be weird to pick something I did not see in theaters for maybe the first time ever? No. I think I'm going to go with the Travis Barker documentary.

10:14It was so good. I was hooked. It's called louder than fear. It was on Hulu. Filmed over like nine years. I will say I am a huge Blink-O-N-E-D-2 fan. They are my favorite band. I knew a lot about the history of the band. It was cool seeing it all compiled into one story. It was also fun that I got to experience something that I am such a huge fan of, but that you enjoyed it too. Yeah. I'm a big Travis Barker fan. I think he's talented. Of course, I love pop culture crossover, but I remembered when he had his show with Channa Mowkler and now he's married to Courtney Kardashian. I mean, I remember when he got in that plane crash. He had a lot of fun with him and survived. Just those huge moments and listening to him talk about it. I don't feel like he's talked a ton about it publicly. He's talked about never flying again, but you get to hear what happened right before and the weird, ominous warnings and all of this surrounding it.

11:17He's gone through so much and how extensive the brains were. He is back at this level doing what he loves like after something as tragic as that. Yeah. I don't know how he got back to being able to run and like hosting running events across the country. I feel kind of bad for him now because the documentary is out and everybody wants to ask him about the plane crash. Like having to relive that time and time again and all these interviews, I'm surprised he's not at a point of saying he probably will now of like, I don't want to talk about it again. I don't ask him any questions about it. I don't want to be somebody who's having these kind of rules on my interviews, but I think at that point people would understand because the documentary is out there. If he wanted to know about it, watch the documentary. I don't think there's anything else you can possibly ask him that he hasn't talked about already. I feel like people need to stop asking him about it because I just see this glaze in his eyes when he has to tell the story and talk about it again. That's literally the worst thing you could ever go through and then you have to relive

12:20it and talk about it and just like put yourself emotionally back there and I'm sure he's done tons of therapy. He talked about that, but even I mean, we saw him in concert and so like to get to see him at that level and then knowing what it took to get back there because the plane crash was the substance issues. Like he had to overcome a lot. I didn't realize how much drugs affected his life because the interesting thing about the documentary for me is like I saw all of his points of his life in the music. I saw the transplants at Warptor in like 2005 and then knowing what was going on behind the scenes is crazy to me. And then I was a fan of the Aquabats back in the day and I remember that lore of him being the drummer in that band, but just all these evolutions that he's had in this documentary played out to me like a movie. That's why I put it as my best is because there was like even though it's real life, there was like character development and you couldn't really write this to me any better.

13:20And you think like this has to be made up, but that's all his life. And seeing seeing the person behind like the musician, like seeing what an incredible dad he is and how much his kids mean to him and like how much joy that brings him in his life. And so to see that he's not just this famous person like he just wants to make breakfast with his kids on a Saturday and like his kids are his world. And so I think getting like a peek behind the curtain of this person who's personality and his persona, I mean he's tatted head to toe literally. You see this person and you think this like probably like heart exterior and then like he talks with such like emotion about his family and like what Courtney means to him and just kind of this like second chance on life and you're like oh my gosh, he's just like a giant teddy bear inside and his dad was so sweet and their relationship like. And like you see his sisters and they just kind of seem this like normal like everyday suburban family and then there's Travis Barker with like thousand tattoos. Yeah, but that's why I put that one as my best of the month.

14:21I gave it 4.5 out of five drumsticks. What do you give it? I honestly think I'd give it five. I think it's one of the best music documentaries. I've ever seen but I'm also a huge blink when 82. Just one of the best documentaries. I mean nine years of footage like we were like how they had Taylor Hawkins interviews. So we were like how long ago was this filmed for your worst of August? What do you have? I'm going to go and again, I'm going to say it's my least favorite. It's not the worst. It wasn't a bad movie but I liked other things. I'm going to go the rivals of Amazigh King. The Matthew McConaughey movie. That was close to like my top. I know. You got to see Matthew McConaughey. I know. If you think about all the other movies we saw, I really enjoyed them more. And even the Netflix don't say good luck with Melanie Lensky and Adam Sandler's daughter. It just was so emotional. That one just got me. I will say there were a couple graphic injury scenes and rivals that took it down for

15:24me that were at the beginning and I was a little like whoa, what are we? What am I about to watch? So there was a little graphic for my taste. Something I feel like we've experienced recently that is maybe only unique to us as we've seen some of these movies at the Bell Court, which is our local theater here in Nashville or nonprofit theater. I feel like the crowd kind of influences a little bit as far as how funny movies are made out to be. And I will say I think especially because was it the director? The director was in the audience and I feel like there were funny parts but there were some parts where people were laughing out loud and I was a little like, I don't know that that was meant to be funny. Yes. And it kind of had what I call like the film festival effect. Whenever you see a movie debut like maybe overseas or at like the Toronto Film Festival and the actors and directors are in attendance and then you hear it gets a 10 minute standing ovation. You're like, this must be the best movie ever. It's often times because they are in the room that other people glaze it a little bit.

16:27The rock and the smash. Exactly. We had a huge standing ovation that we also were like, who is that? It was just for the physical transformation. So I feel like we're starting to experience that a little bit here, not even just at a screening with the director and Matthew McConaughey there. With the drama. Yes, but there's people were rolling on the floor from the drama and I was like, this isn't like LL funny. And I'll talk about another movie I saw there that I kind of felt the exact same thing. So even with all that, it did take me a little bit to settle into the movie because I wasn't expecting it to be funny and everybody else was rolling around us that I found it more funny. I thought it was going to be a little bit more of a thriller, more focused on the crime. But I ended up really enjoying it because I thought Matthew McConaughey's character was really good. And I just, I guess I'm kind of reigniting my love for Matthew McConaughey. Are you influenced by the fact that he's our minister of culture at the University of Texas at Austin? I'm not sure. I thought it's football starting back up. I am.

17:28I saw him in person and like brushed past him one time at a football game. Not like right next to him, but he was with his kid. But people were like, this is when his kids were so young. I was in college and people like following him with his kid. And he was like, hey, I'm just trying to get my kid a snow cone. Could you not like follow me? That was before he had an official position. And now he's just kind of always on the field. We've seen him at games. This was the closest we've probably been to him recently. Yes. And it was cool to see him perform afterwards where I wouldn't say he's a great singer. I feel like he's developed a style that kind of works. Yes. He kind of like Yil sings. And he's very passionate. I think because he is so charismatic, he can kind of get away with it. Now I'm going to buy, am I going to buy Matthew McConaughey album? No, I'm good. But it is kind of interesting to see some more actors kind of dip their toes in music. Like I saw the rock put out of single. It's like, he's really trying to sing though. I think he did Mally. He's like, I'm a singer now. Is this going to bring you back to making me listen to the Vin Diesel song? But Vin Diesel knows his capabilities as a singer.

18:30That's a dance driven song. But you make me listen to that song unironically. But I feel like I do. But the rock wrote a song about his kids and it's kind of emotional. Oh. Oh, here's the rock singing. And he's like, I remember what he did like rap songs back in like the WF days. Before they were WWE, they did like a song about pie. So he maybe just wants to be like this country singer now or something. World Wrestling Federation. Yeah. And then we went to entertainment. Yeah. I think they got sued by the World Wildlife Foundation. So they had to change it to WWE. Attracts. They had pain and it was like, now you got to drop the F. Speaking of the rock, you made me a bet last week and you were like, I bet $20 that you can't name five professional wrestlers. I named nine and with that $20, I bought a new lip gloss. It's a four. So thank you so much. Very good. I named five books that I read recently and you failed so spectacularly. You had like deep cuts too on the wrestlers. You're like Stacy Kebler. I'm like, interesting. I did. Thank you. I might have spent more than that but.

19:32$20 that you spent. So that was your worst. For my worst of August. Hmm. I think I'm going to have to go with super troopers three. They'd be so devastated to hear that. Which I gave a two out of five. Ooh. That is the lowest of the month. And I think I was excited because I love the original one. I've interviewed the guys from super troopers. I think they are brilliant guys. I think they know comedy but this movie was not it. I still think that they made the movie they wanted to make but it's within the super troopers box that only has so much space to expand on that it felt like maybe if I was 20 years younger, I would have found funny. I don't take pride in not liking that movie. I was actually getting roasted a lot but not liking that movie on TikTok and YouTube. But I just had a little bit higher expectations and it was just not that good. Not that funny. It's being you have getting roasted on TikTok.

20:32The TikTok comments on your videos are a very scary place. I don't look anymore. I just kind of post and go. They are not nice. I don't even venture to the YouTube's. Yeah, YouTube is even worse. So I wouldn't go to YouTube at all. TikTok used to be kind of like decent and then I would say in the last two years has just become as toxic as any other platform. I think it's a society. We've just gotten too comfortable being mean to each other on the internet because you hide behind a keyboard and a username and a fake profile picture. We had a lot of hate for not liking doing. Oh yeah. And I was prepared for that. I knew posting that line. We will rewatch them. We will revisit. We have it on the docket. But it's okay to not like things. It is okay that we don't like doing. It's like when I give book, I don't even call them book recommendations. I give my book reviews. This is something I enjoyed. I love it when people enjoy a book that I enjoyed. But not everyone is going to like the same thing.

21:32Reading is subjective. Different people have different tastes. And we've got to stop being mean to people on the internet just because they don't like something that you like. Reviews, not recommendations. It is a review. I'm saying I enjoyed this. Here's how I felt about it. You're welcome. It is not a mandate. It is. And again, everyone can have their opinions. But like, people get vicious in those comments. Yeah. It gets to the point where I don't read them anymore. The other one was the Millie Alcock one. That one got really nasty. That one got really nasty. Yeah. And that one was all men hating on a woman's looks. And I won't go down that road today. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality. Of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus. Or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I choose option B. I'm Julie Benieto. And I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita.

22:34Trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meaning people. And they were like, you smiled at us. It's not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind, or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're bookshelf and you're for you page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Pro's Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having.

23:35I'm going to have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. So obsessed. I'm bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments. Nothing is off the table. It's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters and that is a Trojan horse, whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations, or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place. Listen to Pro's Society on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jake Brennan and on my podcast Hollywoodland, I revisit some of the biggest stories from Hollywood history separating the myths people want to believe from the reality underneath them. Like how the story of Marilyn Monroe isn't just the story of a Hollywood icon. Marilyn Monroe has become so iconic that her death can only be explained through conspiracy theories. And for some fans who can't let go, these stories have metastasized from conjecture to accept

24:41it fact. So on August 4th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe died. Then the rumors started and she died again. And now we're going to set the record straight and learn about the way Marilyn Monroe actually died. The third way. Learn more about what happens when fame, media obsession, and conspiracy collide. Listen to Hollywoodland on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That call was really pivotal for me. Hey, it's Emily Tish Sussman and this season on She Pivots, the podcast where women share bold career moves and personal turning points that changed everything. I sit down with culture shifting women who share their pivots like Para Olympian Allie Truett. I was like, I'm on out from a shark attack. There's no way in 11 months I'm making the very long text. Advocate Elizabeth Smart. I still feel that drive that I can still make a difference. So I'm going to keep going. Celebrity chef Carla Hall was that scary to walk away from such a stable career after

25:42just two years? No, I was more afraid of being unhappy than I was broke in a dead and job that I didn't enjoy. And feminist legend, Gloria Steinem. All of us were trying to express women's real lives. We need a meeting place of our own. And if I can contribute to that, I'd like to maintain that and leave this house for that purpose. Listen to She Pivots on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Pointer, Chair of Women's Health and Gynecology at the Adriah Health Institute in New York City. On this show, I'll be talking to top researchers and top clinicians asking them your burning questions and bringing that information about women's health and midlife directly to you. A hundred percent of women go through menopause. It can be such a struggle for our quality of life, but even if it's natural, why should we suffer through it? The types of symptoms that people talk about is forgetting everything I never used to

26:43forget things. They're concerned that one they have dementia and the other one is, do I have ADHD? There is unprecedented promise with regard to cannabis and cannabinoids to sleep better, to have less pain, to have better mood, and also to have better day-to-day life. Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Pointer on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts are wherever you're listening now. All right, we'll go through all the movies in August now. We're going to play a new day. We did not include, but still stand by my 4.5 at a 5. One night only we talked about, I give it 3.5 at a 5. Super troopers, 2 out of 5. Nimraz, which was the Green Day comedy movie, I really enjoyed that. I wish that it could have maybe cut through a little bit more, but it was an independent film. But I gave that one a strong 4 out of 5. The rivals of Mosaic King, I gave a 4 out of 5.

27:44What did you end up rating that? I gave it 3.5 out of 5. Talked that bad. Yeah. Okay. Again, it wasn't my worst, it was least favorite. Okay. I don't like saying worst. Yeah. We've had movies where there are months where there is a bad movie. This wasn't a bad movie. It just... This wasn't a bad movie month at all. It fell lower in my ranking. The end of Oak Street. How did you feel about this one? The An Half Away Dinosaurs movie. I enjoyed it. It was good Friday night film. I liked the action in it. I love An Half Away. My best friend and I watched Princess Diaries 2 this weekend. We have about 30 minutes left. I got to finish that on my own. An Half Away has just always been stunning. She's always been perfect. I love her, put her in as many movies on my screen. Remember when the internet tried to hate An Half Away? Yeah, you remember that. 20 tens. After the Oscars that she hosted with James Franco. And then she credited Christopher Nolan for putting her in another movie of like kind of having her back and keeping her career live.

28:45I kind of forgot about all that. I think she's so incredibly talented. Put her in everything. How do you feel about Princess Diaries 3 still kind of happening? But without Julie Anders. You know, I think we could use more meather, mopulous in our lives. I mean, after seeing legacy reboots of the 2000s, like Freakier Friday, I said, bring them on. They're fun. They're comforting. The world's a dumpster fire. Give me some nostalgia. I need something. So I enjoyed into Bokestree. I wish it would have been rated R though, because it did kind of lean more into the more vicious side of dinosaurs more so than a Jurassic Park would. There were some kind of risque jokes in there that was like, okay, this isn't a Steven's field dinosaur movie, but it was still PG 13. I feel like if it would have been rated R, obviously they don't want to do that because it kind of limits who can go and see the movie. Yeah, you don't have the like teens going on a Friday night in the summer. Yeah, but then it could have kind of developed this different edge to it of like gotten

29:45people excited about a rated R dinosaur movie with an half the way. I feel like it would have had a different effect. I don't think we needed a rated R. Faraday's rated R. Oh yeah. And then I'm sorry to really be sold on that movie. Mother Mary was rated R, right? Was that the name of it? Mother Mary, it's on HBO Max now. So she's done? Odyssey was R. Yeah. Sure, he did some rated R movies, is it sure? Okay. We got one more to see in the end, half the way gone with it. And we saw, don't say good luck on Netflix. How did you feel about this one? You kind of talked about it earlier. I ended up really liking it. I think I shed a couple tears. It was very emotional. Stories powerful. Do I think that sunny sandblur is a NEPO baby? Yes. And is that okay? Sure. If your dad wants to make movies with you in it. Oh yeah. Great. I don't want to rag on NEPO babies. I don't think that's not really how I feel. If my dad was Adam Sandler, I would be in every comedy movie. My face would be at the front of Netflix. And I'd get my dad to put me in movies.

30:46Everyone's trying to get a leg up in the world and get some more. That's capitalism. I like Maya Hawk. I like Jack Quaid. I have no problems. I have no problems enjoying the work of a NEPO baby. The Appetite Outer. But in this case, I strongly feel that her nepotism hurt this movie. I don't think there should have been singing. Oh no. I think her acting. I think her acting could have stood alone. I don't think we needed singing. I still think she's a very green actor. There are moments that required way more emotion than she is. The crying was a little like Melanie Linsky though. Oh, she carried it. Oh my God. So good. And like in my head, I still just see her in Speed Home Alabama and her character inspired the, you've got a baby in a bar. But I think to see her in these like dramatic roles. Backscreen field was great. I thought they carried the movie. Yeah, but there were moments in this movie where I felt like required a more seasoned actor who maybe would have got the job

31:48if their dad would have been out of a sandwich. If it wasn't a happy mask in production. Right at the beginning, it's not. They don't try to hide it. So this was one of the rare cases that I felt a NEPO baby robbed somebody else of a great role where I don't want to say too much. But I feel like there was layers of, layers of nepotism in this movie, like almost written into the story even where even though the story was emotional of what her mom is going through, what they're going through as a family, I found it really hard to connect with her performance therefore kind of taking some of the emotion out of it. I also thought this movie was shot terribly where there were some camera angles that I feel ruined in the moment, especially the last frame of this movie that should have been one of the most powerful things. The shot looked horrible and then the movie ends I'm like, that was bad. Yeah, I think the story overall and the emotion was why, and I'd give it a 3.75, so it's just above rivals.

32:50And that was just because it had good emotion and rivals had some of those graphic scenes that I just little too gory for me. So they were close, they were neck and neck. I would say the story itself in the supporting cast kind of brought this rating up to me. If it would have had a weaker supporting cast, I would have rated it lower. I still give it a 3 out of 5. And I will give a warning. It is very sad. There are some emotional things. Please watch the trailer first. I don't want to spoil anything, but you can get an idea of it. So just make sure you watch the trailer. It is one of those movies that kind of needs a content warning of like if you were not in the headspace or if the story feels too similar, please watch the trailer. But that is don't say good luck with the Netflix stuff. Like I kind of take it for, it's not a case of my case basis. Yeah, I went to go see Camp Miasma, which is from the same director of I saw the TV glow, which I really love that movie. But we went to go see that at the Bell Court. I was like, what was that? I didn't fully get it, but now I was like one of my most real watch movies of like the last few years.

33:52And I don't feel the same, but that's okay. Yeah, I feel like this is such a hard sell to anybody because their work is so, it's kind of like hyper realism where it takes place in the real world, but there are moments that go very fantasy like, if you see it. It's a little large, kind of got to read through it. Yes, it feels very low-fi. It's also me as a straight male, not for me. And I like watching movies that kind of expand my views on the world. So I don't need to watch myself in every movie. I think representation is important, but I don't think I need to- You mean you like to learn from another point of view? I don't need to be like, none of those characters look like me therefore I'm not going to watch it. No, I want to discover as many different stories from all around the world, from all different types of everything. And that's books for me. We're similar in that, like we seek out things. That are not similar to us. Things I don't like. And things I haven't learned about, I want to learn about. I want to see different points of view from around the world from different walks of life. So that's why even though this movie is not for me,

34:54I want to know about it. And in Camp Measma, it's at times better than I saw the TV glow and at times worse. And I will also say it is also up to people who don't see themselves, like if the movie's not for them, it is still, you still have to go see it. And that's what helps these other stories and films get made as people seeing them. It doesn't have to be for you. You don't have to see yourself in it. Art, again, subjective, but it is important for everyone to see stories where even they don't see themselves in it for those kind of underrepresented stories. But what this movie is about, it's a director who is trying to reboot a horror franchise that is very much kind of a parody of the Friday the 13th franchise. And she goes and finds one of the original actors from that movie and meets with them to try to get them to be a part of this movie. And then there's like a movie inside of a movie because they do it like a short film inside of it that is like that original movie.

35:55So it's like if they were making a movie about Friday the 13th, there was another Friday the 13th movie inside of it. So it kind of has these layers of, they're talking about this movie that they're rebooting the entire time. And then you get to actually see that movie that they're rebooting the original. And then it kind of comes back in and out of reality. It also is kind of a look inside of like how movies get made and how directors talk to agents and the studio. So it's kind of like these different levels of the movie industry. So if you are also into that, which is kind of what I gravitated towards the most, like there's all these different layers in it. Is it for everybody? No. Do I recommend it? Probably not, because I think most people would watch it and think, what is this? It's a very hard sell because it is very artistic and it is very niche. But I'm glad I went to go see it. I think the overall vibe from the crowd, again, it's kind of hard to not have my like influence change when everybody else is laughing a whole lot. I didn't find it as funny as some other people were.

36:57But again, sometimes it's just the nature of going to the bell court where people I think just want to laugh. Maybe it took an edible or something. Yeah, maybe. It's more of that crowd. They do serve really good wine there. So I also watch on Netflix, a movie called Facing a Little Joppa, which is, you watched a lot of random things when I was on. I went hard. And this is a movie about based on a true story of how El Joppa was captured in Mexico. Basically after him and his main henchman stole a car and then got pulled over just because they were reported at this car was stolen, cops pull him over and then discover it is one of the most wanted people in Mexico. And it's all about this cop's relationship with basing him and taking him down. I was only gone for three days. It must be that much. I watched like two movies a day. I think for me, I was like, finally, a movie with the next movie was gone. I can watch movies that you wouldn't like. Netflix, it was number one. Finally, a movie with not only a Mexican lead,

37:58but it's in Spanish. And I'm like, all right. And then it's like a story about Cartel and Jailers. I was just like, why? It's a movie about drugs. Why are my people always represented as drug dealers? And that's the only time we can get people to care about our stories. Not when it's like something inspirational or cool. It's like running drugs in Mexico. Number one on Netflix. Or like the tragedy of Selena. Yeah, it's just, it's like, death and drugs. Overall, I thought it was pretty good. I did watch it all in Spanish just because I feel like some people will flip it and watch it dubbed in English. I feel like that would be really hard to enjoy the movie because you don't get the feeling of the actors. And I feel like the dialogue is not going to translate where it's going to feel very cheesy. So if you do watch it, I encourage you to watch it in Spanish with English subtitles. Did you watch it with subtitles? Or just straight Spanish subtitles? Straight Spanish. Do you ever have moments where there's words where you're like, I know what that means, but in my head, I can't put it. Or is it like context clues?

39:00I know what it means, but if I had to explain it to you, I couldn't do it. There are certain words that I know in my head just from because they've always existed there. But if I had to explain it and translate it, I'm like, I don't know. Because that's like when we go home, if your family talks in Spanish, I can understand most of it. I took four years of Spanish. I took like a college level Spanish class in high school. And I can understand, but I have lost a lot of my speaking and writing, but my comprehension is there. So I can usually context clues. The other day you translated like something that was written in Spanish and you knew the whole thing. It was on TikTok. It was like, if you can read this in Spanish or like level one. Not everybody can do that. You're like, yes, I took Spanish in high school. I can do that. I did. I had a wonderful Spanish teacher. I loved her. I took Spanish, I took an AP Spanish four in the class was half native speakers and half non-native speakers. And it was great because we'd partner up. And non-native speakers can learn to write better because you're not used to the idioms and kind of like

40:03localisms. You just learn pure Spanish. And so you can learn to write better whereas the native speakers can obviously speak it more fluently, but sometimes like formality of writing like an essay or something like that. So we'd kind of like partner up. And the white people would be like, this is how you write this very formal sentence because you're learning it and you're just like regurgitating whereas like somebody who grows up speaking Spanish like if you had to write an essay in Spanish like, oh, writing is a whole new disease. That's not saying. I couldn't write. You have to like know the past tense, the future tense. Yeah, writing a mouth. Even reading sometimes I'm like, what was that? But writing I can't do anymore. I would say this is kind of a middle of the road action movie. I think the fact that it's based on a true story makes it a little bit noteworthy. If you kind of remove that based on a true story aspect from it, it would just feel like a generic just crime action movie. But then it's one of those movies that at the very end, they like show you the real people involved in it

41:04and what actually happened in the real world. So I did find that kind of fascinating. I remember when this happened in the real world, but seeing some of the details that how scary. When you think about how hardcore the cartel is. Yeah. So I would still give this one a three out of five. It's kind of like, OK. And then the last movie I watched when you were gone was a movie called Caroline, a Caroline with Samara Weaving. It is basically a Bonnie and Clyde story in 2026, where it's this woman who's living out in this really small town middle of nowhere and this dude rolls into town who's basically a con artist. And she meets him after he tries to scam the cashier working at the kind of the general store that she works at. Where have you ever seen where people do that trick to get money out of the cashier where they're like, OK, I'll give you two tens and you give me back one. Then I'll give you another one. And then it turns out like they robbed them of like $40 when they were trying to just get changed for a 20.

42:06No, I haven't seen that. Well, that's kind of the whole relationship starts. And then she goes with him on a road trip basically stealing from people. And then it kind of escalates more and more and more. I just thought it was pretty good. Yeah, do you buy it or rent it? Here's the thing. I rented it. How do you feel about a $10 rental? Is that too much to rent a movie? I'm asking. I saw I was looking at the bank account. I was looking to see how much damage I did while being out of town. That was like $11 on Amazon Prime video. What are you watching? Here's how I justified it. It was an independent movie. I wanted to go see it in theaters at the Bell Court because that's where I saw the trailer initially. I saw it's one of those movies. I was like, I need to see that movie. Didn't get a chance to go see it in theaters. But then it was available to watch it home. Normally, I'm like $5.99 in Max. But then I was like, I was already going to go see this movie in theaters. I would have paid more than that. Probably five bucks more than that. I was actually our tickets are only $9 at the Bell Court as a member. OK. But we probably would have both gotten to see it.

43:06So that's double the amount. We've got snacks. And the gas. So I was like, there's some convenience here where I feel like it's a little bit too much to pay. But I'm glad that it felt worth it in the end. Yes. Because it still had that cinematic feel to it where it didn't feel like a straight-to-streaming movie. I feel like if I would have saw in theaters, I probably would have liked it even more. But I think now with a lot of streaming movies feeling kind of like subpar B movies that it was nice to watch a movie at home for the first time, first run I mean, and be like, oh, I actually feel like I just went to the movies. But for Caroline, a Caroline, I give it 3.5 out of five. If I would have seen it in theaters, it probably would have been a four. But that is the best and worst. And all the things we saw in August, what about your TV show? Right. It is not a TV show, but it is something we watch every night. Oh, Mueller reviews. Mueller reviews on TikTok. It is this man. He does have a mullet and he's going to every Chinese buffet

44:09until he gets food poisoning. And there have been a couple of times where I'm like, this is going to break him. This is going to be the one. And it hasn't yet. And I'm so fascinated. And every night we watch it. And you didn't watch it, Lowe's gone. So we got about four to catch up on tonight. And I'm quite excited. Can I spoil something for you? What? Something I discovered while you were away. Do you want to know or do you want to keep the... No, I want to know. He got food poisoning after day two. I didn't know that until I started reading the comments. And people were saying, like, surely he got food poisoning after this one. And then someone said it, if you actually go back to his early videos, either it's restaurant two or three where he's like, we got to count the clock back because I got food poisoning. So really the number restarted around two or three where he got food poisoning, but now he's like in the seventies. Okay, but he eats some things. There was one. And I think it's just something about the South. A lot of times he thinks it's cheese and it's in fact mayonnaise. Oh, oh. And the thing is, I loved going to Chinese buffets growing up.

45:13I, as a public health major and an epidemiology major, buffets are not for me. Buffets were ruined for me. My little brothers, like sixth birthday, we went to Gatti Land. And unfortunately, children are not tall enough for the sneeze guard to be effective. And I did watch a kid sneeze on an entire pizza. And there were, there were loose bodily fluids. And I was like, I think I'm good. Yeah, some of the things he eats, I'm like, I used to love that at the Chinese buffet. Really loves a stuffed mushroom. Those don't look good at all. So that's my TV show for the month. But honorable mention to Sterling Point on Amazon Prime, which just got a second season. Which I watched the first two to three episodes with you. And then I got kind of like, you watch two. It got a little slow for me. Which was great, because I wanted to binge it. A really well shot TV show. Megan Park. It looks very cinematic. Phenomenal director and writer. For my TV show of the month, I watched X-Men 97 season two, which I love season one. I'm a huge fan of X-Men in the animated space.

46:13Season two was not as good as season one to me, just because what I loved about season one, it focused a lot on my two favorite characters, Cyclops and Wolverine. And this one kind of got more until the other side characters. But I am excited now for the live action X-Men movie coming out in 2028. But I had a ritual watching the first season. I'd save every episode for Saturday, because it kind of felt like Saturday morning cartoons. And then you got me a like, not a real fruit loops candle, but it was like breakfast cereal-centred that smelled like fruit loops. So I'd like that candle. And I'd watch X-Men make it another one of us. And that was kind of like my Saturday morning ritual. I continue that with season two, except ran out of the candle, because it all melted away. Okay. But maybe that's why I didn't like season two as much. I didn't have the smell of the fruit loops. Hmm. I think back on a cereal kick. I love, I love a honey nut cereal. Favorite cereal of all time? Probably lucky charms, but like I'm not eating that at 32 years old.

47:15I mean, I say mine's cinnamon toast crunch. Oh, and then you get the cinnamon milk. I can't remember. I can't remember the last time I had cinnamon toast crunch. One day I had a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch and didn't realize it was my last bowl. I would say number two, I would put, even though they cut the roof of your mouth. I love crunch berries, cap and crunch. I never ate that. Really? I was a lucky charm cinnamon toast crunch kind of girl. And at number three, I would put fruity pebbles, except my mom would never let us get fruity pebbles because you basically have one bowl out of it. Yeah. And it would not last, and it was like, probably one of the more expensive cereals. So we got fruity dino bites instead, which was just the big maltomeal, different brand. And those are last a little bit longer, but they didn't taste as good. In my 20s in college, like early 20s, I really liked special K dark chocolate. And it just had like a bunch of dark chocolate chunks. And then you like, they kind of sink to the bottom. And so then you just have like dark chocolate and the cold milk. And probably we were all convinced special K was like, gotta make us lose like 25 pounds.

48:16It was so healthy. All those cereals that we're telling us that they were so healthy. So healthy. I remember when I thought sunny delight was healthy. Okay, I don't know where you got that information. I thought sunny delight and cool aid were healthy. I remember one time I was like, I'm trying to drink less sugar. I'm not having soda. So I'm gonna have sunny delight and cool aid. I actually think a doctor pepper might have less sugar than a cool aid. And I was like, I remember having a conversation with my brother like, look, I'm being healthy. I'm drinking cool aid. He's like, dude, that has way more sugar in it. Worst drink is a kid. I hated the cool aid jammers. They tasted so bad. Yeah, we never really got those. They were the most artificial, my, my Mima. I know that's the most like white person, great-grandmother name. My Mima, when we would go visit her, had an entire like snack drawer and it was cringles, zebra cakes, oatmeal cream pies. It was everything unhealthy. And then the fridge was like root beer, late jammers, and then the freezer was many. Even a lot ice cream from Bluebell. Good time.

49:17Always had the best snacks. What about your book? I'm gonna go with the Lion Women of Tehran. It was the... The right just down the Lion Women of Tehran. It was the Sharon McMahon book club book for the summer, the second one. And I'd actually had it on my shelf for years. I'm so guilty of, I just buy so many books, but it could be worse. You have an unread book on your shelf? Times like 100. I just love books. I love owning them. And now that we have like the space and I have an office and I have room for all of these things, it feels more like, okay, like supporting authors. I usually do independent bookstores. This one I got from book of the month years ago was on my shelf, kind of forgot about it. And I read it, it was phenomenal historical fiction. About these two friends that grow up in Iran. And one stays there into adulthood and one moves to the States. And there's like this conflict that happens between them and it would be trail. And this is during like the fall of one regime in Iran and then the rise of kind of the very conservative,

50:19like women having to cover their face and just like the political unrest from there. And like women kind of becoming second class in Iran and just the conflict. So phenomenal, the writing was great. The end, like just beautiful, great writing. I highly recommend. What was your rating on it? Oh, I gave it 4.75. Hey, hey, almost perfect. And I would also like to end the podcast with a shout out to my best friend Hannah, because she listens to the monthly reviews who I just spent a weekend with. And you know you've been friends with someone for 14 years when you don't take a single photo, which took like one selfie with her toddler this weekend, not a single photo of the two of us who haven't taken those in years. And we would just have like couch rot time in silence. And it's just the two of us on the ends of a couch, like a bag of candy on a table in front of us. And we're just scrolling independent TikToks like showing each other things. And it's like that's best friendship. You haven't seen each other in four months and you just need to like couch rot. But we had the best time. And I'm just so thankful for like long running friendships. And we met on the first day of college orientation.

51:22And now we're like just 32 and still best friends and married and she has a kid. And it's just weird to like go through these phases of life together. And I was like, we're like just taking your like toddler on a walk and we met in science class 14 years ago. So just a shout out to her. Shared couch, couch time, almost a crotch time. You can lay that in. Yeah. Shared couch rot. Time. Yes. And that is a sign for us to go. Yes. I'll come back and give my spoiler free review of Insidious out of the further. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I choose option B. I'm Julie Beniero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita,

52:24trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us, not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're a bookshelf and you're for you page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Pro's Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives and anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet and the conversations everyone can't stop having.

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55:29I would have given a million reasons to not leave this world had I known. I keep coming back to a truly hope that Petra was 1,000% on board with the plan. Do you think of him as having killed her? Yes, I do. I hold Michael responsible for my mother's death. I'm Leon Nevock. And I'm Alice Gregory. Together we set out to interview everyone who got one of Petra and Michael's letters. As one married couple trying to understand another. Listen to death of an artist on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. That call was really pivotal for me. Hey, it's Emily Tish Sussman. And this season on She Pivots, the podcast where women share bold career moves and personal turning points that changed everything. I sit down with culture shifting women who share their pivots like Petra Olympian Alley Truett. I was like, I'm a month out from a shark attack. There's no way in 11 months I'm making the Verlundix advocate Elizabeth Smart. I still feel that drive that I can still make a difference.

56:30So I'm going to keep going celebrity chef Carla Hall was that scary to walk away from such a stable career after just two years? No, I was more afraid of being unhappy than I was broke and in a dead and job that I didn't enjoy. And feminist legend, Gloria Steinem. All of us were trying to express women's real lives. We need a meeting place of our own. And if I can contribute to that, I'd like to maintain that and leave this house for that purpose. Listen to She Pivots on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. I thought in Sidious out of the further was going to be straight due to baby. And it turns out it wasn't as terrible as I thought. I don't know if that makes it better though, because I was not even going to go see this movie in theaters. But I was sitting here one week and I was like, it's kind of crushing it at the box office at least for an insidious movie being the sixth installment.

57:32I thought, let me just go see what this movie is about because I loved the first insidious. That movie is a staple of the 2010s. There is one single frame from insidious that still is burned into my mind. I think we all know the scene with the Red Devil that moment in that movie terrified me. That movie had great moments like that. It had good characters and had a great story. It had that low budget feel, which probably made it a little bit scarier. And now in the sixth installment, what we have is homogenous horror, where this just feels like every other big Hollywood horror movie by the book takes no risks. All the scares are kind of the same. What this movie is about, you have a girl named Gemma, who is a young mother, she works as a dental hygienist, and she realizes that she can travel into the further. And what the further is, it's like this realm of loss souls. So we're all of these kind of dead,

58:34but undead people go and they exist in this realm in the further. So I think that premise is a little bit interesting. I don't expect any movie by number six to still be good. It is impossible. Give me a number six that is still good in a franchise. You can't do it because you just start doing the same thing over and over again. And what the insidious movies do, that I don't find scary at all. And I think that's something I had to get over while watching this movie. It's not scary. Because what these movies do, is they use old people to scare you. And I think that's wrong. Because there's nothing really scary about just putting an old person who looks maybe a little bit tired on the screen. It doesn't really freak me out. And this movie lends into that so much where there are these three old people walking in her neighborhood. And that is supposed to be the scary thing, just an old person. That's it. There's nothing scary about that. The other thing I don't find scary about these movies,

59:34there is nothing scary to me about just a random dead person being in your house. I don't think there's anything scary about that. They show just random people standing in like a corner and that is supposed to be scary. It's not all I see is somebody in makeup standing in the corner. That is not scary to me. The only reason in situation that would be scary to me is if I went to a haunted house. And that is what these scares feel like and insidious. It just kind of feels like you're walking in a haunted house and there are these things popping out at you. They rely on jump scares and mediocre makeup to scare you. I don't find that scary. And here is every moment in insidious and a lot of horror movies like this. This is how they scare you. You have a character who is realizing there's something scary going on. Maybe there's some dead person in their house and they look to the left and there's nothing. They look to the right and there's nothing. And then as they go to look back at their left and again, boom, that person is there.

1:00:35They do this all the time and it is so annoying. And you know what's coming from a million miles away. I hate it when horror movies do that. So I went into this movie expecting to hate every single minute of it and I would say about 50% of this movie I had a bad time because they set up the story with Gemma and her mom. She is going through something traumatic. There's some deep emotional issue she is struggling with and Gemma basically has to raise herself. She comes home from school. She cooks her own dinner. She does her homework all by herself because her mom is passed out at the kitchen table. She looks tired maybe on something. At least that's what Gemma believes, which horror movies always have like a big hook at the beginning. Big scene that goes down that's supposed to scare you. This one fell pretty flat for me.

1:01:36But then you have Gemma as an adult now. She has her own daughter working as a dental hygienist, which a lot of the scares in this movie just came from her working in a dentist's office where depending on how you feel about going to the dentist, I don't have a bad relationship with the dentist. I know it freaks out a lot of people. I grew up not having dental insurance. My parents couldn't afford to send me to the dentist. So as an adult, I've really had to catch up. I had braces for a long time. I've had my teeth fixed. I have some fake teeth here. I don't have a problem with the dentist because I now find it a luxury because you're growing up, going to afford to go to the dentist. And now when I go, I'm like, think everything in me, drill me up, fix these teeth because I didn't have it growing up. I have no fear of the dentist. I see it now as a luxury that I can go. I don't fear any of the tools. Some people I know have really bad dental anxiety because of the sound of the drill,

1:02:38because of the impoking at your teeth, because of the things bleeding. And if you have dental anxiety, you're gonna have a pretty bad time for the first third of this movie, where it just kind of felt crammed in there, where I don't know why they leaned into it so much. I think they just thought that that would freak people out. It kind of feels cheap to me. And even though I don't have a problem with dental equipment, just the sound of the drill, I don't love it. It's not like a sound I would put on a playlist and listen to. So it does evoke a little bit of emotion in you. Maybe you might get some goose bumps if you think back, oh, I'm dreaded going to the dentist now. But I think they leaned into that a little bit too much. So the first half of this movie, I was a little bit bored. I was a little bit frustrated with the level of storytelling. I was really frustrated with all of the horror elements in the first half of the movie that felt so generic and it felt like something I've seen 100 times before. It was also frustrating how all the plot points developed

1:03:40and all the people she encountered trying to help her with her situation. There's a tattoo artist who has really bad tattoos by the way that I found really hard to believe, or at least she's like a tattoo apprentice because she's like working on great roots. But she had such awful tattoos. I was like, could they not get her better Hollywood fake tattoos? I found that so unbelievable. Her character did not make any sense. Gemma also has a boyfriend who was in law enforcement that just feels like by the numbers just checking things off. And obviously this movie you have to suspend disbelief. But it just felt weird how all of these people were just kind of going along with Gemma, not questioning all the bizarre things happening in her house. It felt a little bit too cartoonish when you look back at the first and Sidious movie that felt so sinister, that felt more realistic. And once I kind of realized that the movie just don't really make sense anymore. It's kind of like once fast and furious

1:04:42got to about six or seven and they're just superheroes at this point, fly enough of things, whip enough of things and it makes no sense. They don't have to abide by the laws of physics. That's kind of how I feel about where InCity is is now. And it took so long to actually get to the meat of the story. Once you find out more about this villain and the plan, that's where it started to get at least decent to me where I was like, why did you put this at the beginning? But I felt like all the best stuff was at the very end when I was so frustrated with the movie that it didn't leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. But it just let me feeling like, I had to wait so long for this movie to even get interesting. One of my biggest problems within Sidious is I believe it has one of the worst characters in all of horror, Elise. Why is she even in these movies anymore? The biggest thing that she provides to the InCity is franchise is her holding a lantern. I find her character so insufferable.

1:05:43She over-explains every single plot point. I hated every single moment that she was on screen that the fact that she's been in this entire franchise makes no sense to me. What is the point of her character? And that is what this movie does a lot. Is it over-explains everything, whenever they formulate their plan, it has those tropes of like, okay, so here's the plan. You're gonna do this and you're gonna do that where they're explaining it to all the characters, but really they're just over-explaining it to the audience. In Sidious assumes that us as the viewers are stupid and we don't know anything and that we have to be told every single detail about what is going on. And the movie just loses all of its essence. It loses all of its mystery just because it feels like writing an essay more than delivering a good story. I did learn one thing about this movie that let me feel like, okay, at least I got something out of that, is that you should give your parents grace

1:06:45because there are times in your life that your parents have probably done something to protect you from some evil in the world, whether it's an insidious level of evil or just something that they didn't want for you that they experienced as a child. They wanted you to have a better life. Therefore, they put these parameters around you that maybe felt like they were being a little bit strict, but they were really just trying to protect you. And you probably didn't see that as a kid, but once you get a little bit older and you know the true story and you realize that your parents are also doing things for the first time that you might have a little bit more grace for them later in life when you realize, oh, they were just being jerks to me. They were just being strict and hard on me for no reason. They were actually trying to protect me. And I think the fact that this movie had that moral laid in there between all this other crap was kinda like, oh, that was kinda nice. I wasn't really expecting any kind of a heartwarming story, but you kinda have these different generations

1:07:46of trauma wrapped into this story that I felt, okay, that's all right. So I think because I went into it expecting to hate every single minute of it, but I ended up enjoying about the last third of this movie paired with that little nugget at the end. I thought, okay, at least this movie left me feeling somewhat satisfied because a good film will leave you with a feeling at the end. And sometimes you remember that more than all the crap you had to endure at the beginning. So at least this movie went out on a pretty good note. But if I had my top three horror franchises that have really fallen off, I would put Insidious at number one, I would put the conjuring at number two, and at number three, I would put Scream and my horror franchises that have fallen off and you probably stop making movies at this point. What I watch in Insidious 7, if it still has Gemma in it, maybe if they start with a whole new set of characters and if Alisa's still in it, I'm out. For Insidious out of the further,

1:08:47I give it 1.5 out of five flashlights. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I choose option B. I'm Julie Pinierro and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us, not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies your soul about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the I Heart Radio app,

1:09:48Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're a bookshelf and you're for you page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Pro's Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives and anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet and the conversations everyone can't stop having. I'm gonna have to look up this story. I'm obsessed, so obsessed. From bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table. So like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters and that is a Trojan horse, whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place. Listen to Pro's Society on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:10:50See you between the pages. I'm Jake Brennan and on my podcast, Hollywood Land, I revisit some of the biggest stories from Hollywood history separating the myths people want to believe from the reality underneath them. Like how the story of Marilyn Monroe isn't just the story of a Hollywood icon. Marilyn Monroe has become so iconic that her death can only be explained through conspiracy theories. And for some fans who can't let go, these stories have metastasized from conjecture to accepted fact. So on August 4th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe died. Then the rumors started and she died again. And now we're going to set the record straight and learn about the way Marilyn Monroe actually died. Learn more about what happens when famed media obsession and conspiracy collide. Listen to Hollywood Land on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:11:54On big lives, we take a single cultural icon. People like Jane Fonda, George Michael, Richard Pryor, and we pull apart the story behind the image. And we do this by digging through the BBC's fast archive. We're talking iconic moments in broadcast history. I'm not just a boxer. I'm educating. I can talk all week on millions of subjects. And forgotten interviews that change how we see these giants of our culture. Well, if changing the system from the ground up is revolutionary, then I'm revolutionary. We're here for the messy, the brilliant, the human version of our heroes. And when I go on stage, I like to dress as slutty as possible, because it makes me dance better for some reason. I'm Emmanuel Jocci. I'm Kai Wright. And this is Big Lives. Listen to Big Lives on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get podcasts. Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Pointer, Chair of Women's Health and Gynecology at the Adriah Health Institute in New York City.

1:12:56On this show, I'll be talking to top researchers and top clinicians, asking them your burning questions and bringing that information about women's health and midlife directly to you. A hundred percent of women go through menopause. It can be such a struggle for our quality of life, but even if it's natural, why should we suffer through it? The types of symptoms that people talk about is forgetting everything I never used to forget things. They're concerned that one, they have dementia. And the other one is, do I have ADHD? There is unprecedented promise with regard to cannabis and cannabinoids to sleep better, to have us trained, have better mood, and also to have better day-to-day life. Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Pointer on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening now. It's time to head down to Movie Mike's trailer part. I have to say, the new clay-faced trailer looks really good,

1:13:57but I'm still worried about DC. After Supergirl earlier this year did not deliver how I think they wanted it to. I am now worried about the state of DC. And after Superman last year, I was so ready to ride the James Gunn train that he was gonna save DC. He had me so excited last year. We love Superman. I was ready to rate that movie a five out of five. I was so hyped leaving the theater after Superman. And then we got nothing as far as a main studio movie. We got creature commandos. I feel like he's pulling a lot of these random characters that we do not care as much about. And I think as DC's rebuilding, they just need to play the hits. We need Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, give us all those movies, maybe build up back to adjust this league. But they came out with Superman last year. Supergirl this year did not just live up to their expectations, even though I enjoyed that movie. I feel like he derailed their plan because we have clay-faced now coming out in October.

1:15:02And I feel like they thought, okay, we're gonna come out with Banger Superman. Banger, Supergirl, and then we'll hit you with the character that you're not probably that familiar with. Even though Clay-faced is a classic Batman villain. First appeared in DC Comics number 40 back in June of 1940. So he's not a new character, but as far as Jen Pop, you don't really know him yet. He hasn't had a solo movie, much less an R-rated standalone villain origin story. I feel like they thought, okay, we're gonna have two really great titles to get everybody back on the DC train. Supergirl, derailed that. So I feel like it's kinda putting them in a bad place right now where they need this movie to be successful desperately because if you look at what Marvel is doing on the other side, Spider-Man crushing it. Avengers Doomsday gonna crush it even more this year. And then we got Secret Wars coming out. Next year we have an X-Men movie that everybody's getting so excited about. Nobody, myself included,

1:16:04are excited about these DC projects that we'll get into more here in a second. But before we get into that, here is just a little bit of the Clay-faced trailer. Coming out in theaters this year on October 23rd. Boom. No, no, no. I'd like to volunteer for human trials. This isn't cosmetic surgery. Even if it kills me. I don't be better off than I am now. So this movie follows the story of a struggling actor named Matt who ends up becoming Clay-faced. He has this horrible disfigurement that essentially wrecks his moneymaker, his face because as an actor, you are so dependent on how you look in your face. He is a good looking dude until this crime boss disfigures his face. He turns into essentially a ball of putty. I love the shot of him at the end in the bathtub. It reminds me of that silly putty where he used to play with back in the day that you could mess around and manipulate.

1:17:04I'd create like a fake gummy, but it got everywhere. It was a horrible toy that my parents hated because it's a very messy toy. But that's kind of what he looks like in the tub. And he ends up getting this mysterious chemical injection that transforms him into this shape-shifting villain. What I do love about this story is that it is rated R. It is committing to the villain origin story, which what I love about DC villains is they're always kind of justified in why they are villains. They have the world essentially crap on them. They beat them down. Bloody bruised and broken that they kick them all their down, almost forcing them, even though they can make a decision, not to, but kind of forcing them into a world of crime because all they have known from the world is rejection and people putting them down. So I compare this to a Joker who in that movie with Joaquin Phoenix, you kind of see how he was pushed towards falling out of his mind going completely insane because the world rejected him.

1:18:06We see that here with Clayface. He gets everything taken away from him. He grew up on the streets of Gotham, much like Batman. But on his rise to become a Hollywood star, he gets it all ripped away. And now he is going to become a villain of Batman. So I do like that aspect of it. They're committing to the R rating. But the thing I don't like about this is I feel like we should have already had a Batman movie. Whenever the Robert Pattinson Batman came out, that movie changed my thoughts on DC. I love that movie, but that's also a DC elseworld movie where it's not even good to be our Batman. So I feel like DC has this problem where they can't even explain what they are doing to the common movie goer. And I think what Spider-Man brand new day proved earlier this year is we do not have superhero fatigue. We don't, that movie's making over $2 billion. We are ready to go back to the theater for the characters we know and love. So we don't have superhero fatigue. We just want to see our favorite characters.

1:19:07And I think that does kind of suck in a way because it takes away from original stories, original characters, and seeing characters that we haven't seen in a standalone movie. It kind of sucks because as much as I want to see something like the DC world, like a blue beetle really succeed, audiences just don't want to support that at least in the way that studios need to because when they spend so much money on these movies because superhero movies are not cheap, they don't make a great return on their investment with Supergirl being one of the biggest bombs of this year. So we don't have superhero fatigue. We just want to see the characters we know and love. We want to go see Spider-Man because we all love Spider-Man. We're all excited to see Avengers Doomsday and then we get Secret Wars next year. We're getting X-Men. Marvel has kind of learned from the last phase of people not really vibing with these new characters that they just have to go back and play the hits and what I feel right now DC is not playing the hits. Give us the hits, give us the characters we know and love.

1:20:07Unfortunately, as much as I want to go and support new characters all the time and I will probably end up enjoying Clayface because horror movie around October, superhero, like that is all about me, but I'm thinking about how I want Marvel to have great competition. I needed to be Coke versus Pepsi because when you get great competition between two superhero studios, you get better products. But I feel like Marvel is so far ahead of DC, they're just not even a competition to them right now because after Clayface, we get Man of Tomorrow next year in 2027, which Blue Beetle is gonna be in that movie. But they're also not calling that movie Superman II. I'm not exactly sure what they are doing there. I hope they don't kill the momentum on Superman, which I think even including him a little bit and Supergirl makes me feel a little bit different because I feel like they should just keep Superman in the Superman movies and make people want to go there to see him when you start using him a little bit too much. And he's not like a Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man that you can spread out and really get people excited

1:21:09about other movies, I kind of worry about that. After that, we're supposed to get the Batman II with Robert Pence in in 2028. I'm just not even counting on that movie anymore. We were supposed to get that years ago. It was supposed to follow so closely the last Batman so I don't really know what to expect there. Then we are getting Swamp Thing. I could care less about a Swamp Thing movie, but I feel like this is James Gunn, which I love a nerd in power because nerdy guys who have had success are gonna do nerdy things. And if you look back on the first phase of the MCU, this is what they did. They brought characters we did not know. We didn't really know Iron Man back then, but they ended up turning those superheroes into icons, building this entire cinematic universe on these characters that people didn't know, but now we know and we love them, but I cannot see that happening for Swamp Thing. After that in 2028 or 2029, we were getting the Brave and the Bold,

1:22:10which is supposed to contain the Batman in this world. So the Batman that's gonna be the Batman paired with David Corns sweat in that version of Superman, that's supposed to be Batman. But look at that 2028 or 2029 and we're not getting the legit Batman, which is gonna be so confusing for a lot of people when you see Robert Pattinson and then you see a different Batman, which at the time of recording this hasn't been cast yet, but at that point, who is gonna care if none of these movies are successful? And then after that, they have announced that we are getting another Wonder Woman movie, haven't announced who is playing her. But if you look at this next few years in DC compared to what Marvel has coming out, they are like Chevy Chase's character says in community. They're streets ahead, man. They're just streets ahead. But I think this is gonna be one of those movies that unfortunately is a good movie that's just probably not gonna do that well at the box office and it's gonna indicate to people that DC is in trouble

1:23:13and it's gonna tell people that we just got a jump ship and go over to Marvel. But I wanna see this movie succeed because I love horror movies. I think the cinematography and the trailer looks great. I love the character design. I think the supporting cast looks pretty strong in this movie, but DC needs a win right now. They need a box office hit more than anything. Otherwise, all these other projects are gonna start to shudder a little bit and you might even see some of these get taken off the roster and some other things moved up because they're like, all right, we need to get this Batman movie out soon. Like, why couldn't they do a Batman Beyond movie? That was kinda rumored. They canceled the Batgirl movie. We're never gonna see that movie. Why can't we just see the characters we know and love and start with those first and get people excited? I know it's probably not as exciting that James Gunn to focus on characters that have already been done, but man, what I would kill to switch like swamp thing

1:24:14with a riddler movie or a Mr. Freeze movie or even because Penguin was so good as a series, just give him his own movie now. I just think DC needs to start playing the hits until we stop paying for tickets because the band doesn't play the songs we wanna hear. But I'm still gonna go to this movie. I'm still gonna be hype on it. I'm going into it very optimistic because I think the trailer is impressive. Clayface is coming out in theaters on October 23rd. And that was this week's edition of Movie My Strayler Part. And that's gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast, but before I go, I gotta give my listener shout out of the week. This week, I'm shouting out Rob, who sent me an email at moviemycd.gmail.com. wrote a nice long message, but I'll just kind of summarize it for you guys. Rob wanted to make sure I know about Tom Holland's beer brand called Bureau, which is a non-alcoholic beer brand.

1:25:16And they came out with a Spider-Man line in Rob. You sent me some pictures of it. It told me all about it. And actually Rob, letting you know, I was actually inspired by brand new day to buy Bureau because of all the product placement in that movie. Bureau worked on me. The Samsung Galaxy also kind of worked on me. If I wasn't so tied to Apple, I think I would have got that phone, but I saw Spider-Man with that phone and I thought, oh man, I need that phone. It flips. That looks so cool. But also at the beginning of the movie, when Peter Parker goes to the bodega and he's looking at all the things, you see right there conveniently on the shelf, a case of Bureau, which is Tom Holland's brand. If you don't know, Tom Holland had a bit of an issue with alcohol and he decided, you know what, there needs to be a cool NA beer brand. And it wasn't until I saw it on the target shelf after seeing brand new day that it clicked with me, oh, it's called Bureau because he's a hero because he's Spider-Man. But because of that movie,

1:26:17he also talked about it earlier this year on an episode of Amy Poler's podcast. And I thought, that sounds kind of good. I got a case of Bureau. It wasn't the case that you sent me Rob with the Spider-Man on it because I think you had to order that online. I didn't see that one in stores, but I got it and I tried it. I don't not drink alcohol, but I also don't drink alcohol if that makes sense. Like I didn't make a conscious decision to stop drinking. Whenever I first lost all my weight, the hundred pounds I lost, booze was one of the first things I cut. But I also kind of incorporated it back here and there at have beer like on one day on my big purge day that I used to have on Christmas every year. That would be the day I would eat anything I wanted, drink anything I wanted. And then occasionally on special occasions, usually at a baseball game because it means that I was on vacation. I'd have myself a beer, but now in my mid-30s, I just kind of stopped drinking beer, but every now and then I just kind of want that crisp beverage and just the feeling of having something cold in your hand that's not just the sparkling water.

1:27:17So that is why I got some Bureau. I have it chilling in the fridge right now. This is not a nat for Bureau. I just happened to buy it because of the movie. And then Rob, you sent me this email reminding me that, oh yeah, I was actually influenced by this movie. I also just love that you saw something with Spider-Man and thought of me. I love getting things from people who are like, I saw this Pokemon thing and I thought of you. So I sent you a picture or I saw something Lilo and Stitch and thought of you. That means the most to me out of anything that you associate me with any kind of fandom. So I appreciate that Rob. You were this week's listener shout out of the week and to everybody listening. Until next time, go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering the ride on his motorcycle. I choose option B.

1:28:17I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita. Trading the pity for possibility. Listen to Solita on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Michael and Perioli. I want to tell you about my new podcast, Underground Zero. We're looking at the opportunity of a lifetime for us and the other families. It's about the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks. What's in the tunnels? Go wash over English. It'll be worth half a billion. Starring Steve Sharipa, Ray Abruzzo, and me, Michael and Perioli. How far you prepared to go? Depends how far you are. Listen to Underground Zero on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On August 4th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe died. Then the rumors started and she died again. And now we're going to set the record straight

1:29:18and learn about the way Marilyn Monroe actually died, the third way. I'm Jake Brennan. And on my podcast, Hollywood Land, I revisit some of the biggest stories from Hollywood history, separating the myths people want to believe from the reality underneath them. Hollywood Land is part of the exactly right network. Listen to new episodes every Monday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. In February of 2024, celebrated illustrator and children's book author, Patreon Mathers and her husband, Michael, mailed letters to dozens of friends and family members to let them know they have died by suicide. Dear honey's, this is goodbye. By the time you get the shalliter of both petr and I will be dead, next stop Wonderland. Why did they do it? And what did it do to the people they left behind? Listen to death of an artist on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Self-Cast September is your reminder to slow down,

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