Free With Ads - Repo! The Genetic Opera (plus our BEST OF 100!)
Episode Date: January 20, 2026We did it! We recorded 100 episodes of this stupid podcast and to celebrate this feat we finally decided to watch one of the most requested movies, a goth musical called Repo! The Genetic Opera. Also,... we have a bonus Best-Of compilation at the very end of the episode. Thank you to all the redditors for helping identify your favorite moments from 100 episodes of podding.Tune in next week when our movie will be... Color Out Of Space.-----Tune in to our 100th episode celebration LIVE STREAM tonight 1/20/26 at 7pm PT!Visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGemsSee Matt do stand up at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena on January 24th at 7PM. Buy tickets NOW!Jordan will be at the Pasadena ComicCon on January 25th! Get your tickets now!Click this link to get a signed copy of PREDATOR Bloodshed #1-5! https://bit.ly/coolfightFinally, Jordan has another link! Get a signed copy of Web Of Venom #1 https://bit.ly/coolgoop
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This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asked the question,
why pay Peacock 11 bucks a month to watch the wicked movies
when you can go online for free and watch a movie musical
that might not have big production values,
but does have blood, nudity,
and won't make you watch a much worse second movie
to see how the story ends.
I'm Jordan Morris.
And I'm Emily Fleming.
Today's movie is Repo, the Genetic Opera,
the Goth Horror Musical for people who find Evanescence
to be too subtle and understated.
With us, as always, is the super producer,
the he freak Matt Lee
hitting this with those
operatic drops
So what's gonna hang
if I don't get my coffee?
I will shoot you in the face.
Yeah.
The most tuneful,
hummable song in the movie.
What a banger, what a bop.
That chorus is still stuck in my head.
Chorus.
I'm sorry, this movie doesn't have those.
Let's not get too complicated here.
We're getting ahead of ourselves.
We're going to talk about, because you demanded it,
repo, the genetic opera.
But first, we are going to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week.
Okay.
So it's the new year.
I thought we could all use a little inspiration going into 2026.
So luckily, our boy, Matthew McConaughey, posted a New Year's video.
So we're going to play what the heck's Matthew McConaughey talking about?
Hell yeah.
In this game, we play a clip from Matthew McConaughey's social media where he tries to be inspirational,
and we try and figure out what's Matthew McConaughey talking about.
Okay.
This is from his 2026 inspirational YouTube video.
Matt, can we play a clip?
Absolutely.
Here we go.
So as this year begins, Chase, who you race?
Keep your hero 10 years ahead of you.
chase yet
aim beyond the target
and don't finish all your dreams
oversee
and write it down
in the meantime
but
all right
wait wait that's it
that's it
okay wait I gotta tell you I don't know if it's the new
studio we're in or the sound system
but my clip feels like it vibrated a lot
and I don't and you know what
that has nothing to do with what he's saying.
No, it really has a sound system.
It's a timbre of his voice.
Suddenly, I am very interested in everything he has to say.
I feel like I need to figure out how to make the new studio have that setting where it makes people's clits.
Don't do that to me ever again.
Are you feeling compelled to go into the comments of this video and write,
thank you, Matthew, I'm crying because that's what people do.
Thank you for this inspiration.
Okay, but also he says like your goal.
should be the person 10 years ahead of you.
What about people who were 80?
They ain't got 10 years ahead of him.
The goal is the grave.
Yeah.
Honestly, yes.
Even older, old man.
Right.
If he is just flourishing, that's who you try to be.
We got to do it, guys.
We got to figure out what's Matthew McConaughey talking about.
I know exactly what he's talking about.
Okay, you can decode this, Emily.
He thinks that he'll never die.
Okay.
Is clearly what he's talking about.
He is the worst person I've ever heard of in my life.
I think that there are bad people.
Every time we do this, I hate him more.
That's true.
That's true.
He's a guy that clearly does not think that he'll ever die and that everything
will always get better.
And that is the clear mindset of a raging monster and narcissists.
He does speak like he's mid-massage.
I just feel like the only-
He probably usually is, right?
He probably has a masseuse that falls him around.
At the very least getting a foot massage.
He also has children and a wife who probably need him to take out the trash.
And like I have a dad.
We've all got like, you know.
And the idea that my dad would ever have time to say this shit into a microphone is insane.
Yeah.
Like I just think it's insane.
I think the fact that he is like one of the last movie stars.
Like we don't have a ton of movie stars these days.
I think he should be a Scientologist.
That's true
I bet Scientologists would go
This is a little weird
Yes
I agree completely
This is a little
We'll be over here
Learning about space volcanoes
But
What you're saying is just crazy sir
What is this pseudo-scientific
At least Tom Cruise is busy
Being part of a cult that like
Makes you never be able to talk to your family again
This guy has to say this shit
I don't know which one is worse
I have no idea anymore
Yeah
Well, this is
I want to guess what he's talking about.
Oh, do you want a guess, Matt?
You have a guess?
I have a guess.
He's talking about how you got to, you know, live, you got to strive.
Right.
You got to strive.
You got to strive.
Yes.
You got to rise.
Thank you, Matthew.
I'm crying.
To get that Lincoln.
Well, you got to rise and grind.
You got to rise and grind.
Yep.
You got to be in that grindset mindset.
Right.
Oh, grind set is a good.
Yeah.
As someone else said that.
I just made it up.
Dude, you're a genius.
I just made it up.
I just made it up.
You should rip his brain out and put your brain in.
Matt,
I know you got that from LinkedIn.
I don't know what that is.
I've never been on LinkedIn, Matt.
Yeah, but anyways,
he's talking about how you just got to be one step ahead of yourself.
Of your ops.
Yeah.
Ops.
What does that mean?
Your opposition.
Oh, opposition.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, not opportunity.
No.
Opposable thumbs.
Oh, these are so lame.
I'm so.
We just don't.
We don't have your grind set, Matt.
You don't have my grind set?
you don't have my algorithm.
I rise.
I don't grind.
You rise without grinding?
I just think about.
I work hard,
but then I don't play hard.
What are you doing?
I just think about how tornadoes take people out every day,
yet he has never been there.
I am the tornado.
I looked at that tornado and said,
not today, pal.
Not today.
Maybe 10 years from now.
Can I pour you a margarita bud?
And we just talks.
He looks over his shoulder out of a tornado and goes, yeah.
I fucked her.
And there are people that have been like, oh, you know, later on they meet a person they talk shit about.
Oh, yeah.
If I ever meet him in person, you can hold a gun to my head.
I will say all of his shit to him.
I know you will.
I will take his teeth and wear it like a necklace.
And your clit will be vibrating the whole time.
My clit will be vibrating and I will wear his teeth like a necklace.
Okay.
Let's go.
Well, of course, no one can ever win this game because it is impossible to tell what the fuck Matthew McHan is talking about.
That's right.
All right, that was fun.
And now we are going to get into Repo, the genetic opera.
Hell yeah.
And the reason is, is because.
Yes, thank you, Matt.
This is our 100th episode of your thoughts.
Against all odds, we persist.
That's right.
This continues to be a podcast.
That's right.
I know.
No listeners.
Despite marginal interest.
Now, hang on.
Yeah, no, we have.
We do.
We do pretty good.
I think it's a good margin.
It's a pretty, it's a fine margin.
It's like margarine.
It's like a little bit of butter and then the rest is filler.
Who needs Joe Rogan when you can have experience?
There you go.
There you go.
Wonderful.
This is our hundred with half the amount of tits.
We're whiling out without Nick Cannon.
Yeah, right.
You know, we don't need all that bullshit.
We don't need it.
Oh, I snort it.
So we're here 100 episodes later.
We're like, what are we going to do for the big 100?
And we talked about it.
And like, we should do a movie that the sickos want us to do.
We don't, you know, we purposefully don't open it up to, to listener suggestions just because it would be too much.
The deluge would be too intense.
You can't make everybody happy.
But for some weird reason, this movie, repo the genetic opera, is one that so many people have requested.
So we're like, okay, we're going to throw our little doggies, our precious little doggies, a wee little bone, and do the,
movie that they love so much.
As a reward for sticking with us.
As a reward for sticking with us.
Now don't pick another bad musical and suggest it so we do it for episode 200.
One time thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
One time thing.
I also can't tell if you guys kept like requesting this because you like it.
Yeah.
Or you hate us.
It's one of the two.
Or it's both.
It might be both.
Repo The Genetic Opera.
Let's talk about it.
we get a
in the style of a comic book
lore dump
oh boy these comic book interludes do a lot of
heavy lifting
yeah it's the coolest part of the movie
it is it's nice
it's nice to just look at something
and not listen to anyone singing
yeah you know it does a lot of heavy lifting
because without it you would have no idea
what the fuck is going on
I I'm positive
they added these way after the fact
when someone watched the movie and goes
I don't know what's going on right please
like, can we have someone crank out some comic book panels to explain some of this shit?
That's what they do very frequently in this movie.
It is a 90-minute movie and 10 minutes of it are a comic book.
Yeah.
The best 10 minutes.
The best 10 minutes.
So we learn that in a dystopian future, there has been a rash of organ failures.
That's right.
And everyone is under the thumb of an evil big pharma company.
I'm watching this thing and I'm like, what is this?
A dang document.
Is this a thing
Documentary?
Are we going to do that again in this episode?
Please don't do it.
I'm making a thing of it.
I don't know if anybody likes it.
Not this episode.
I feel like if we ever do idiocracy, we can do that,
but we can't do it again in this episode.
I really love Emily, not playing along with the bit.
I can't do it.
I got to tell you.
Jordan, it's been 100 episodes.
It has.
And I want you to know, this is the hardest,
movie I've had to watch for this entire
fucking show. And I
feel like I worked really hard
and I can't. What's the matter, Emily? Do you not like
documentary? I'm going to
I'm watching this thing and I'm like, is this a dang do you know this?
We are in the news studio and you
are next to me instead of in front of me
and that is working in your fucking
favor, buddy. Oh wow. It is
goddamn please don't hurt me, please.
After this movie I turned on PBS
and Ken Burns was explaining
baseball to me and I swear to fucking
God, Jordan. Is that dang documentary?
I'm not you're going to say, is this a dang goth musical.
Oh, that's funny.
I don't even think it's a goth musical.
I don't know what the fuck this is.
Okay, so in this dystopian future, unlike our own in every way, a company called Genco is giving people new organs but with predatory payment plans.
And if they can't pay for these new organs, then a mysterious repo man, a master man comes through and cuts the organ out of you.
Also, there's a lot of other stuff going on.
It doesn't have to do with that.
There's also a drug on the market called zydrate,
which is extracted from the bodies of dead people.
Sounds pretty cool, huh?
Well, it doesn't make for a good movie.
Wait, can I ask you a quick question?
Because I watch this, and I feel like I've...
What the kids say, what is it, where you dissociate?
I think I experienced that.
I don't, did he take the organs out to then re-harvest them to give to someone else?
He gives them back to the company.
Yeah, I think they resell them.
I don't remember ever seeing him and put it in a styrofoam box with dry ice.
There's one scene in which he brings it back to the leader of Jenko.
Okay, that makes you feel better.
Yeah.
I don't know why that makes you feel better.
I know why it makes you feel better because you saw logic in a movie.
Right. Yes.
You saw a call.
cause and effect instead of just a series of images, which this movie usually is.
But also the way that, like, he opened up a body to take things from a cavity, but all you
saw was a flat pink, like, a sheet of paper where a body's cavity would be. And you went,
where is he taking this from? What did he take? I don't know. Now you're asking too many questions.
I just think just make it, stop making it. Just make the cavity dark so that.
There isn't a light pink background to it.
This is not that hard.
Holes are dark.
Make a hole dark dark.
Give me a dark hole.
Give me a dark hole.
Oh, yeah.
Give you a dark hole, you say.
You got a sting?
I will find a hole in pocket.
Hey!
Yay!
Very nice.
I got to say, for all the shit we're about to talk about this movie.
That was fucking crazy.
This movie is a gold mine.
Of stings?
Wow.
Of just all our stings going to be from this movie
from now on?
They really are.
Yeah.
It's just, oh, yeah.
It's endless.
It's endless.
Sorry, Eddie Redmayne.
You out.
You fired Eddie Redmayne.
Oh.
Yeah, yeah.
What do you say to being fired, Eddie?
Stop the dying.
Okay.
Sorry, guy.
So, so I, worth addressing up top.
This idea of like a guy who repossesses organs is fucking great.
Great idea.
And there's, I think, a better movie about this called Repo Men with Jude
Law and Forrest Whitaker, I believe, that is like more of an action thriller about guys who
repossess organs. I hope we can watch that at some point to kind of complete the Repo Man trilogy.
I had never heard of that. Yeah, I was going to ask about that. I was like, wasn't there a movie
that wasn't a musical with his exact same premise? Yes. So that is, that's a movie. I hope we get to
watch someday. I saw it in theaters and remember it as being kind of cool. So this is like, this has that
as a premise and it's in the title. It's not about
that. It's about this weird Italian
family who's
fighting for control of a drug
company and also putting on
operas. So the repo man
that's the coolest shit in the movie
and it is it's like
yeah it's like a quarter of the movie.
Anyway.
Well the guy who plays the repo man is the coolest
part of the movie. Yeah he fucking rocks
comes out of this
embarrassing movie unscathed
so still is the fucking man
Anthony Stewart had Giles from Buffy
fucking
fucking rocks his way through this movie
with dignity and he's great and funny and terrific
Can you because I didn't do any research on this
Like we know he can sing because we've done the Buffy episode
The once more with feeling
And he didn't even get to sing that much
In that episode
But when he did he was far and away better than everyone
But in this movie his voice is crazy
Like the notes he's able to hit
His range is out of this world
good. He sounds like Trent Reznor at certain moments where I'm like, holy shit, this is amazing.
And then you listen to this, God bless her. I don't know what this girl's name is. I know she's
from Spy Kids. Talking about Shiloh. Yes. I know she's from Spy Kids. I think this was a
miscast movie. This is the kindest thing I'm going to say. There is no reason for this person to sing.
Oh, and all the songs are bad. The songs are bad, but there are people who are
able to do these songs.
God bless her. I'd say yes
to this part too if I were her,
but holy shit. We gotta work.
So let's talk about the quoth.
So this movie has songs
but just everything is sung.
It is an opera.
Yeah.
Which is, this movie has so many
fucking choices. I wish it was repo the
genetic sometimes musical.
Repo the genetic vine.
It would just be six seconds long.
Repo the genetic TikTok.
Yeah, give me repo.
the genetic 10 second podcast.
Audio only.
But yeah, I guess is opera,
does that mean there is zero talking,
it's all singing?
And then a musical can be some talking, some singing.
Musical is a combination of it.
So they made it an opera because they refused
to do just spoken dialogue.
I think they maybe did it for that reason.
I actually think that it's a very,
I don't know, specific choice that they made
to try and make edgy operas
edgy. And to be
honest, I'm sure this introduced
a whole generation of goth kids
to the idea of musical
theater, which is
cool in and of itself.
But making it an opera is definitely
a choice. Well, like, is Rocky Horror
Picture Show? Is that... It's a musical.
But there isn't a lot of talking
in that. Yeah, but they
do have like dialogue scenes.
So I'm going to bring up
a friend of ours, Jesse
Joyce, who should definitely.
be on here sometime. Oh, sure. He, I remember back in the day,
great stand-up comic, writer for Jimmy Kimmel.
Brilliant, brilliant guy. He was talking about how, if you want to make money,
you should write a musical. Oh, sure.
Because music is royalties. Right. And I think that, like, this, this person went,
zero dialogue. I want all music. It could be, yeah, it could be a financial thing.
Like, this whole thing is music royalties. So let's, I have a, I have a clip of some of the singing
from the movie, from the movie. And I want to, I want to give an idea of the quality of it.
So like some of the songs have tunes, but mostly it sounds like these actors are riffing tunes.
And then a guy who played bass for corn on one album made some weird new metal beats behind.
There are corn cameos, by the way.
Oh, boy, I'm not fucking surprised at all.
So this sounds like the actors are kind of just making it up.
And this is the grave robber who will get.
The good market.
Love market.
Sometimes I wonder why they need me at all.
Zytrate comes in a little glass vial.
A little glass vial.
A little glass vial.
A little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery.
So this is, it's like a lot of weird talk.
I think I weirdly picked a pretty good example of the music.
This is the only good song.
Like everybody who references this.
And it still sucks.
But yes.
I mean, I think this is the only bop.
Okay, okay.
I mean, look, there's a lot of bad music in this.
I can find one in the myriad of stings that I created.
There's one that just describes me.
Like, I kind of want this to be my entrance music whenever I enter a room.
Out from the night, from the mist steps to figure.
No one really knows.
his name for sure.
He stands at six foot six head and shoulders.
He never comes knocking at your door.
I have.
You're six foot five, dog.
I'm six foot six.
You're six of six?
He said it in the song.
I'm six foot six.
We've seen you stand next to Rhett.
He's six seven.
I know.
I'm one inch shorter than you.
I don't know about that, Matt.
Look at my driver's license.
They let you drive.
How dare you?
I'm sorry.
I've got a weird mood tonight
because of this movie.
I'm sorry.
So, okay, so you kind of like,
if you haven't watched this movie
and don't watch the movie,
you kind of,
this is what it's like
for basically the runtime
when it's not just showing you a comic book.
So we learn that there is a family
controlling Jenco.
It is Roti Largo
and his three shitty kids
Luigi who's like a psycho
Pavi who has like people's faces
strapped onto his face
and Amber played by
Pear Sulton's. This was like a big deal at the time
and she's not bad in it. She's genuinely not bad at
She's really not having a little fun with her image.
Remember we talk about people who know what movie they're in?
Yeah. This bitch knows. Yeah. Looks cool, has cool
costumes. Camping it up. Yeah and the fact that she was
such a huge star at the time was like I'm gonna do this weird
you know. But she's also an heiress.
Right, so it's fun. She's having fun with the image a little.
Who is very much like this. Also, what year did this come out, Repo?
2008, I think.
Yeah, so over the holidays, my sister and I do this thing where my parents are out of town during New Year's Eve, New Year's.
And they have this sleep number bed where you can like move the bed around like crazy. Oh my God, it's so cool.
I love that.
And we decide to bed rot and eat a lot of food in there and then change the sheets so they don't know.
But there was a lot of curry in there.
Anyway, we watched.
You say bed rot?
Bed rot when you just stay in bed an entire day and don't leave the bed.
Oh, I didn't know that word.
Oh, it's the best.
I only know things like grindset mindset.
Yeah, okay.
Well, yeah, you can goon and bed rot at the same time just so you know.
Can you grind in bed rot?
I don't know.
Well, I mean, is it dry hump?
No, it's working hard.
Oh, that's not what I do.
They're hardly working.
Nah, the first one.
But so we watched The Simple Life.
Oh, yeah, sure.
Quite a bit.
And damn, is it?
it could.
And like,
Parasilton is pretty funny.
I don't know.
She's funny.
Yeah,
I think the culture has
kind of come back
and said like,
oh, hey,
we were kind of shitty
to Parris Sultan.
She was in on the joke.
She was pretty shitty
to Lindsay Lohan too.
Oh, yeah?
But, like,
yeah, you know,
the fire crotch thing.
That wasn't so nice.
Okay.
I miss that whole.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sure she's not a good person.
I think she's probably a very bad person.
Well,
she's got,
like,
she's pretty cool.
Like, but also,
I was on heroin during this era.
But,
but no,
I think that she...
Matt, did you make this movie?
I made it.
Matt, did you make this movie while you were on heroin?
I forgot I made an opera.
But also, her music, stars are blind.
Fucking great, Bob.
Like, she's got cool music.
Her music and this is honestly not that bad.
It's some of the better music, like, in the movie.
Yeah.
So, anyway.
So...
But the real star.
Yes.
I'm certain you're about to bring it up.
I don't know.
Is Paul Servino is in this?
Sorvita, yes, legendary.
And he did another musical with this same team of people.
Really?
What musical?
Gosh, I saw it on IMDV.
I'd never heard of it.
It is called, I forget what it's called.
Does it have devil in it?
It's like, yeah, the devil's night or devil at midnight.
The devil wears a fucking toupee or whatever.
Is this your Sauvino still with us?
No, he died in 22 or something.
But he was very old.
I mean, you know, I mean, he was in Romeo and Juliet, which I think a lot of people
kind of consider a half-ass musical in a way sometimes.
Yeah, because the sound type was so bomb.
It's kind of a jukebox kind of, like, there's like some.
He's in good fellas.
Good fellas, you know, like he, he is a legendary actor.
And watching him.
Great singer.
Great singer.
Watching him be in this movie, I was like, rough.
This is disrespectful.
It's so weird, yeah.
I mean, he did, the fact that he committed.
Yeah.
And was like, I'm going to keep doing it.
That, to me, says something about his intention.
Well, this movie is like a post-apocalyptic, everyone's struggling, and all I'm seeing
is a bunch of actors struggling to get work. We deserve to get a lot of work.
Yeah, you know, Paul. Paul is very bookable. He's probably fine, right?
Paul is incredibly bookable. But he probably saw, he's like, I'm a good singer, and people
don't give me an opportunity to sing enough. And he went, hell yeah. But there were some outstanding,
I mean, you have Sarah Brightman in this, who is the original, like, Phantom of the Opera,
Christine. And her voice is crazy. So you.
You've got like, she duetted with the fucking the blind Italian guy and did the Conte Partiro.
You know that song?
You guys don't have to.
No.
No.
Did you say tsunami parami?
No, no, no.
Oh, pretty good, man.
Yeah, you guys know that.
That actually is pretty good.
Yeah, no big deal.
But yeah, you have like some of these brilliant singers.
I can, did you guys look up who the two sons of Paul Serbino were?
Like, who were these people?
No, I didn't look them up because I didn't, oh, I didn't like them.
Yeah.
They were the worst.
Yeah, they're pretty bad.
Luigi and Pavi.
Pavi, fun fact.
Actually, Jared Leto needed a realistic Italian accent for Houch of Gucci, saw this movie and said,
That's the one.
That's the one.
Wait, wait.
Which one was he?
The brother.
He's the face mask guy.
Face mask guy.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
So yeah, crazy Italian accent on this dude, nobody else.
So, you know, this is the, like, shitty family.
But then we go to.
we mentioned her earlier
Shiloh, she is a goth teen
She's running around in a graveyard
Catching bugs
And the bug was cool by the
The bug was cool, yeah
It looks like a robotic bug
It was neat
But make a movie about the bug
Yeah no shit
Yeah for this whole movie
I'm like what's the bug up to
Yo, what that bug do?
It's maybe a sign that your movie isn't good
When people are wondering about the bug
They saw for four seconds
I wonder if there's another better story in my brain
Yeah
Does the bug have a family?
I just want to think about it
different story in my brain.
Maybe the bug's trying to start a restaurant.
That should be the movie.
Shut out of the bug.
So anyway, the grave robber guy who we were talking about earlier, he's kind of the
Greek chorus of this thing.
He's the singer, he's the songwriter.
He's the guy.
Makes sense.
Yes.
A little Danzig quality of this dude, kind of a danzigish.
Oh, interesting.
It's a fedora quality to him.
Yeah.
To me, it's big fedora energy.
He doesn't have to have a fedora.
Sometimes you wear it on the inside.
Yes.
He does have an inside one.
His internal fedora, I think that's the movie's
worst hat. Oh, worst hat.
Beautiful, beautiful opera voice, Matt.
Thank you.
So this guy goes around and he's like extracting
the street drug from these bodies.
And the police are looking for him.
And every time he robs a grave, he yells, I rob,
Grave!
It's just so funny.
Because in the movie, they are robbing a grave
while he's singing grave very loudly.
And then the cops,
are like right behind him.
I don't understand it.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, that doesn't make sense.
But he also seems like he's the grave rotter
slash drug dealer
for the elite in a way
because he is selling it to Barrett Silton's character.
Right, yeah. It's
unclear how
closely he works with. The real question is
why the fuck with the rich
sion of Jenko
need to go on the streets to buy
a drug that they previously sung is
legal? The other thing is, why
their bodies still in the graves
if we're talking about capitalism
here? Yeah. Why would they
leave bodies in the graves?
Like wouldn't you all just be up in there, taking
all the shit out? Why do you have to arrest grave robbers
when you were perfectly capable of taking
all the bodies out? That's right. That's a very good point.
People move bodies all the time now
current day and don't tell people about it.
I saw Poltergeist, I know.
Oh yeah? No, those were real bones.
They moved the headstones, but they didn't move the bodies.
Well, but also in real life, a lot of those were real
bones, but they were from medical, like, you know.
Cool.
Well, I worked in a bone store.
I wish we watched Poultergey.
That movie Rips.
I wish we watched a CCTV footage of you working in a bone store.
No, I know where you find the bones.
I would just want to watch you sit there.
I had to sell a baby skull once.
Ooh.
Like, well, let's move on.
Let's move on.
Later.
So, okay, so Shiloh.
Listen, some of us are Matthew McConaughey, which is worse?
I don't know.
That's true.
So Shiloh, the teen girl who's out in the graveyard,
she is a sickly teen, or so she thinks.
She lives in kind of like a, you know,
she has this ornate bedroom.
She has this kind of canopy bed with a plastic scrim that no one ever closes.
So anyway.
I was actually thinking about that.
Like, what is that doing?
Yeah, I think we learned later that she's not really sick,
which is an explanation for how cavalier they are about covering her at all.
I know, but all I could think about was how bad that smells in there.
Yeah, probably.
She's a teen.
Yeah, you know it smells crazy.
She is the daughter of Giles, who is secretly the repo man.
She doesn't know this.
But they have a tragic backstory that is explained through more comic book panels.
So he's Nathan.
His wife was Marnie.
She died in childbirth.
Shiloh's the child.
And he tells Shiloh that she has.
has a disease and has to stay inside, but she, like, sneaks out a blood disease.
And they have, like, hologram paintings of her all over the house.
Those are cool, actually.
Those are cool, yeah.
There's, like, there's so many choices in this movie.
There are more choices than any other movie.
Right, but there are production design things.
And some of them are, like, cool.
And it's definitely, like, a low budget.
And sometimes they have fun with the low budget.
And there's some kind of cool costumes and stuff.
Yeah.
There are some, like, production design things that I think are pretty rad.
There's definitely some, like, what's the fucking,
Harrison Ford movie
where they've
the cool movie
Star Wars
No
Blade Runner
Indiana
There's definitely some
Blade Runner
Regarding Henry
Kind of thing
Regarding Henry
Shut up
Something gotta give
I don't know
Seems like you
Sabrina
40 days 40 nights
Yeah
He wasn't Sabrina
I know
You got that right
Yeah
But yeah there was some cool
Like
Just visual design
choices that were cool
But that holographic thing
Very like
A haunted mansion
Kind of vibe
But
But that is kind of the audience.
I'm going to be honest.
I think that this is a very Disney adult movie.
It is 100% Anahe.
I'm not trying to shit on Disney adults.
Anaheim the movie.
God damn.
It's incredibly Anaheim.
We support Disney adults.
Of course.
Whatever your choices are.
Whatever makes you happy.
Of course.
So Shiloh gets a secret hologram watch message from Roti who says to come, come
to the graveyard.
He has a cure
for her disease.
Why can he send her a watch message?
Who cares?
What kind of a phone plan
does this bitch have?
Like, who is she calling?
She doesn't know anyone.
I know, but apparently
you can just send hologram messages
to anyone's watch in this world.
I mean, he slid into her DMs.
That's kind of futuristic.
Yeah, there you go.
So he like
he like kidnapped her
and takes her to this kind of crazy carnival
where Blind Mag
the opera star,
as performing.
And we learned that she was Marnie's best friend
and that she has a weird deal with Genco
where they gave her new eyes,
but she can only sing for them.
So she's like in servitude to this big company.
Everybody's kind of like under the thumb of this big company.
But her eyes do cool shit.
They're not just like normal eyes that like just I can see.
Yeah.
They can project holograms and like they definitely toy
with this idea of genetic,
modification as if there is something
cool to the modification.
Yeah, there's like a superpower almost.
That it's not just you get a new heart.
Like you get a new heart that can also like,
I don't know, tell you the weather the next day or something,
but they don't really...
My heart has Bluetooth.
Yeah, they don't play with it.
You can play my heartbeats on Sonos.
But they don't really explore that.
Heart beats by Dre.
With other stuff.
Right.
And I could, like, describing this movie is kind of cool.
And, you know, I can, and again, they're great ideas.
this repossessing organs thing,
it's why it's been done so much.
It's a fucking cool idea.
And I could see like pitching this movie to actors.
Like, oh yeah, and we're going to sing and it's kind of like Rocky Orr and it's going to be gory.
Like it's a cool pitch.
It's just, it's such a fucking face plan of an execution.
Yeah.
It's so weird.
Well, it's just too much singing is the main thing.
But like it, the other thing I was thinking about is like, okay, the genetic modifications are either, a lot of them suck.
because you look at our mob boss,
the lord of the whole thing.
Rotee Largo.
Two of his kids are obsessed with kind of cosmetic stuff.
But the cosmetic procedures are just slapping loose skin on top of their own face.
And you're like, this isn't much of a feature.
Like, I don't know what's going on.
This bitch got eyes that can project a hologram.
You just got a loose-ass face that's on top of your face.
Like, I don't know what is this?
If you're giving the movie any credit for having an idea,
you can say possibly they were like, no,
but that was like the style of the day.
Like, that's how you knew someone was rich thing.
Yeah, hunger names, like shitty plastic surgery thing.
But you know that that's not true
because then Paris Hilton's character has a problem with a face
that she can't keep on her face and it's embarrassing.
Well, maybe they forgot that they had written it that way early on.
I'm just trying to give benefit of that.
Well, okay, so I was trying to think about
if you lived in this world and there was something kind of,
like the holographic, like, eyes that
could do that, what would you want?
Like, what modifications?
Sword fingers.
Sword fingers.
This is amazing.
Yeah.
Soda dick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The dick shoot soda.
Yeah.
So I save money on soda.
Can the soda still get someone pregnant?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
There's a lot of swimmers in that Dr. Pepper.
Baby's Dr.
Pepper flavored.
Like, what the fuck?
I mean, why not?
Yeah.
You grew up to be a doctor.
Santa in my hair.
I just keep thinking about, I was kind of thinking about this because about modifications.
Yes.
I mostly just want my brain modified.
Yeah.
To be cool.
But I was, so my family when I went home for Christmas, we, they, you know, recently for, they posted the top, like, social media clips of the year for Mythical, which we are all in.
I wasn't in.
Yes, you are.
I was.
You and I are in the one I'm about to talk about.
Oh, look at that.
It's the one where the kids says the Hagrid thing to you, which we hate.
Oh, sure.
Yeah, let's, we'll describe it real quick.
So, good mythical morning, the YouTube show we're all on periodically.
There was a, and we love being on it.
There was a clip from that show that weirdly, so, you know, internet communities, they're pretty insular, right?
Absolutely.
But sometimes, you know, clips from something make it out of the little algorithm sphere of the thing.
Yeah.
And just into the general world.
And one of these clips is from a roast battle we did with kids.
So we did a roast battle with some kids.
Very funny video.
You can look at it on Good Mythical Morning.
Check it out.
I think we handled ourselves very well.
We didn't even hit them.
The kids were great.
And there's a clip from one of the roasts of this adorable 10-year-old or something
telling me that I look like if Hagrid had been on queer eye.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
which is, you know.
Awful.
It's a good burn.
It's a good burn.
It's a solid burn.
And untrue.
Everyone, thank you.
Yeah, you don't look like you had a nice to makeover.
It's a compliment.
Yeah, a compliment.
That's not what I'm saying.
No, no, thank you.
But yeah, totally fun.
But yeah, for whatever reason, like, obviously the fans of the show saw that, but just like
my aunts saw that.
Yeah.
Like, it just got out in a weird way.
Yeah.
And you and Emily are in it going like,
Oh, my God.
Well, the comment that...
You were saying.
My mother made was about how my ass looked.
Oh.
So something that happens to the women in my family over time is our asses go flat and wide.
Oh.
And the pants I'm wearing, it is like my ass is melting down the back of my legs.
It's so bad.
And, like, you and I got a mat.
There's vertical internet clip.
Well, we'll put the clip down below, but me walking around, it is like, what is happening to my ass?
I got to see it.
So is what you're saying that in a future in which people get their organs get taken out, you're like, put those organs in my ass?
Put all of my, put my lungs in my ass, put everything, loose change, whatever you can, put it in my ass.
Because it is just.
I'm clipping that.
It's like my.
It's just, it's like my ass cheeks are melting into the back of my leg.
And I thought my ass looked pretty good, but I never look at it much because it's on the back of my body.
But like, I just, that video, my mom went, Jesus Christ, look at your ass.
Really?
My friend got insulted really bad.
She goes, no, he's fine.
He's fine.
Look at your ass.
It's bad.
So I want it, my repo, I want it, but I can, you know, clap it and then it makes hot.
Polograms.
Oh, that would be fun.
There you go.
So, we live in a world where people are getting their eyes ripped out, but no one's doing anything to their ass.
Strange world.
We saw some boobs, but no ass.
Yeah, there's some boobs.
And actually, that takes place in kind of the final scene, which we're about to get to, and we'll talk about it when we come back.
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We were talking about repo, the genetic opera, because you little sickos wanted us to.
Baby, baby, baby, baby, don't do this.
Oh, God, oh God.
Don't do this.
Don't do this.
Tulsa tones.
So we're at the, so they.
I'm sorry, I'm going to use that clip every time any one of us goes on an extended, like, just, if someone keeps talking or says something in which you feel like something bad is about to happen.
Don't do that, Matt.
I'm going to do it.
Please, because it's a.
Baby, baby, baby, baby.
Because you're only going to do it to me.
Well, I mean, sure.
I'm the only one who rambled.
Here's my thoughts on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Oh, yeah, you're probably right.
You're probably right.
You're probably right.
You're probably right.
You know, it's a good source of drops.
It works.
Maybe not a good movie, but it's a good mine for drops.
It's a good mind for drops.
So there's a big climactic opera.
The repo man has been put in charge of taking blind mag's eyes
for some reason.
So the opera scene, I will say, is a little source of energy and fun.
I kind of started to have a little bit of fun in this last scene.
The opera is crazy.
People are kind of like testifying in the aisles about what this company has done for them.
You know, women are ripping off their shirts and showing their jugs.
And, you know, people are dancing around.
There's some kind of cool choreography.
I thought the girl who ripped her shirt open was from the B-52s at first.
Oh, really funny.
Her voice kind of sounded like that.
And then she ripped her shirt open.
I'm like, she wouldn't do that.
Oh, I thought you were going to say because she's very nice.
And she must be a lot older.
She's got bigger tits than that too.
100%.
But I'm just saying, those seem young.
Yeah, well, I guess.
I don't know.
I feel like the girls in the B of 52s are like ageless.
It's pretty crazy.
I should have, Matt.
You can drop yourself, you know.
You can drop yourself.
I got to remember.
I gotta remember that.
Oh, I will.
Speaking of, you know,
cameos from OG punk rockers,
there is a scene where Shiloh
sings a song about being 17
and Joan Jett makes a little cameo.
Yes, and that song was cool, by the way.
Yeah, that song's all right.
Yeah.
You know, there are some moments in this
where you're like, yeah, that's a song.
Someone who can write a song wrote a song.
Because it's a song.
It's a song.
I know, with a melody.
That's the thing.
Like, you can count on one hand
how many songs there are
in this fucking movie.
And it's like, you understand that like opera is a lot of, you know, baby, baby, baby.
Yes.
Like, that's opera for sure.
But also there's these things called arias, which are essentially songs.
Oh, that's what that means.
That's what an aria is.
Oh, Matt, coming in with the knowledge.
No thing or two about music.
You're a musical guy.
I like music.
I like musicals.
And for this, he was like, what does the soundtrack to this look like?
I mean.
Just a bunch of just like garbled libretto that is all.
fucking the entire
exposition is done in this most
hamfisted almost like someone doing an impression of opera
right yes and I'm like just do a song
yeah it's like an improv group did like a little
sketch about opera
it's kind of making fun of it feels like a sleepover
where you make your mom like get up
and you go look what I can do
that is how it felt we're putting on a little show
my lices do this all the time and you know what
you put your fucking finger on it that's what it is
It feels...
It's I...
We just wrote a play on the stairs
five minutes ago.
Right.
And now you all have to gather around
and listen to it.
Yes, but they didn't make it
two and a half hours.
How long was this fucking thing?
The movie's not long.
It feels long.
It feels long.
And Pluto is like,
I watched it on my phone,
by the way,
which was probably not a great way
to watch it.
But it kept jumping and skipping
and I had to like refresh it
over and over again.
Impossible to know where you left off.
And then Paramount,
like, plus kept advertising
better shows that I'd rather be watching.
and it was really bumming me out.
But I will say that our actress, Alexa, you know, from Spy Kids,
that song, the one about being 17, she fucking killed it.
Yeah, because it's a pop punk song.
It comes, it's doing a genre that a 17-year-old kid would sing.
But also, she has a voice that is supposed to sing a song.
Yes.
Not do this talk bullshit that they were making her do.
That it was like the Disney movies and stuff that tried to do this stuff,
not even the best Disney movie kid could pull off the shit.
So I know I gave her a lot of shit.
Her voice is good, but goddamn.
Sure.
This movie.
So everything's going crazy at the opera.
Blind Mag rather than give up her eyes to the repo man,
pokes them out with her long nails.
That's kind of cool.
That was cool.
I would rather be blind.
She squishes them.
Fucking cool.
And they like low, she's like on ropes and they like lower her onto a fence.
This is cool.
Man, maybe the movie's good.
No.
I like the movie now.
Well, I mean, she's amazing.
Yeah, she's great.
Sarah fucking Brightman.
I mean, what are you going to do?
But yeah, every time she was on camera, that one time when, so she goes to visit our, like, teen girl because, you know, I guess she's being groomed to be the next Sarah Brightman.
Oh, yeah.
In the story.
People, the, the, the, every character is so interested in Shiloh.
And it's never that clear why.
They all are trying to get her on their side and to do stuff.
It's, it's, it's, it's, it, I'm, why try and figure it out?
I know.
But that's the moment that you see Sarah Brightman's abilities with her eyes and she gets to finally have a good solo.
Yeah.
It's like, is the thing.
So I appreciate that scene with her.
But anyway, it sucked when she died because she was like one of the best parts of the fucking movie.
So there's a big, like, fight on stage with the repo man and all the, all the kids.
And, you know, Paul Sorvino revealed.
I don't know how he knows this,
that he,
that,
uh,
the,
the,
the,
the,
the,
the Riepo Man has been
Munchausen
by proxying Shiloh
the whole time.
He's been like poisoning her medicine.
Just to keep her close,
because he's afraid that she'll die like her mom did.
But also,
did they ever reveal the fact that they knew that Paul Sorvino's character is the reason why her mom died?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah,
there's a thing.
He,
Paul Sorvino was like in love with their,
he was in love with the mother.
I wish that they would have left that alone and just,
and just said, yeah, her dad accidentally killed her mom, period.
There's all these, like, uninteresting connection.
They, like, spend so much time, like, connecting all the characters to each other.
Yeah, we didn't.
Who cares?
Right.
One of the most interesting things to me is how Giles is kind of psychotic.
Well, yeah, he's, like, cutting people open.
He's forced to be the repo man, but he decides to kind of lean into it and, like, he's
forced to enjoy it because of it.
He's kind of a Dr. Jekyll, and he has a different voice when he's the repo man.
He's so good in this.
Don't watch the movie.
Watch clips of him in the movie.
He's, and such a star.
And obviously, this guy is like a legend in certain circles and a nerd legend, but it's
like, this guy is such a fucking star.
He's so good.
He's in Bridgeton, by the way.
Oh, is he?
Yeah, and only for a brief moment in season two.
And I was like, but like, he deserves to be in a lot of stuff.
But I found that if we had just focused on his character for most of the movie, it would have
been so much more interesting.
Totally.
Because this weird.
Or that bug.
Or the bug.
Oh, remember the bug?
What does I wonder what the bug's up to?
But, yeah, he just, like, had this.
Reconnecting with an old love?
This, he had more, like, like, I don't know, facets and depth to a character than any other person in the movie.
But the fact that he started to kind of have this sadistic joy when he would cut people's organs out and shit.
I was like, what the fuck?
Like, why are we not exploring this?
It's like, nah, let's go with the Shiloh wandering around in this.
I feel like the grave robber.
The grave robber.
We spent so much more time with Shiloh than any other character, and she was not comfortable
carrying this movie at all.
Yeah, well, that's pretty much it.
They do a little epilogue thing where, yeah, basically like everybody dies.
She goes into a limo for some reason?
Yeah, they put Paris Hilton in charge of the company, and you get this little thing.
It's like, the story of Jenco will continue.
I mean, the climax of this stupid-ass movie is they quickly,
reveal the Munchausen by proxy thing.
She sings a whole ass song that is like,
I hate you, dad.
Yeah.
And then she,
Paul Servino's like,
now you've got to kill your dad.
And then he's like,
then she sings a whole odd song about how,
no,
I love my dad,
like immediately.
Yeah.
And then he just bleeds out and dies.
Yeah.
And it's,
it's really fucking stupid.
The moral of this story is dads be doing too much.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The moral of the story is,
I hate you, go and die!
There you go.
All the dads be dying.
Well, that's repogenetic opera.
We're going to say what we thought about it, but first.
We got to do the hunk watch.
It's hunk watch.
Hunks of the film, this is one where I'm like, I think it's pretty clear, but maybe it's not.
Is anybody's not Anthony Stewart head?
Matt, you have some thoughts?
Mine is Paul Sorvino.
Okay, yeah.
Nice.
was charmed by his commitment to this character.
I was charmed by the fact that he is an actual, like, clearly a trained opera singer.
Yeah.
Fucking amazing.
And that he did the whole movie as essentially, he was kind of the lead.
I mean, he has probably the most screen time.
Sure.
Yeah, the movie, I mean, the movie is not about the repo man.
No, it's about this guy and shitty kids.
Yeah, it's about Shiloh and Paul Sorvino.
Sure.
Which is so bizarre.
It makes you think that, like,
During the creation of this, there was, like, they let the actors have a lot of input.
So they felt like they had to do favors for certain people.
I don't know.
I mean, how the fuck?
I mean, maybe we'll get into this when we rate it.
But how the fuck did this get made?
I know.
I really, I really.
I bet there's an episode of that podcast for this.
What podcast?
Nothing.
Matt, there's no other movie.
This is the only movie podcast.
I know.
That's why we started.
He said, what if we did?
What if there was a podcast about movies?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, instead of movie.
You know, everyone has a podcast about one movie.
Yeah.
There's Blank Check podcast.
Right.
About the movie Blank Check.
Yeah.
They just do an episode about the movie Blank Check every week.
Yeah, I've heard it.
And then we do one about every movie.
About all movies.
But yeah, Paul Servino is my hunk because he can sing.
Damn.
Beautiful.
I'm sorry, I made that long for like 20 minutes.
Them pipes.
Yeah, no, but I looped it for a while.
That's okay.
I mean, he can, you know, he's still a good singer.
Yeah.
So, that's the Hunk Watch.
Wait, did you guys do?
I guess, yeah, mine is Anthony Stewart.
You guys are just.
Mine too, yes.
He's great.
Boy.
I know, I know.
I know.
I know. It's obvious, though.
Okay, we're going to talk about the ranking of the movie when we come back.
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We're going to rank repo.
the genetic opera on a scale of 1 to 10
super loud commercials.
Emily, you want to go first?
I don't know if I've ever given a negative
since doing it.
I don't know, have we?
I'm sure the nerds out there.
Have we gone into negative numbers?
NERD, email us.
Let us know. Have we ever given a negative?
I also, Matt, after this,
I want to re-record some things I said
about the young actress from this.
Not happening.
Because I really think I...
We made an agreement.
Because I think I said some things out of a bad place in my heart that was very dark.
And I would like to, and it has nothing to do with her.
It has to do with me.
Anyway, I've never hated something more that I've watched.
Wow.
And I used to like rent.
And I would rather...
I would rather inject 500,000, 600 pieces of mold into my nostril.
than watch this fucking shit ever again.
Honestly, Emily, I was watching it and I'm going,
there's a world where Emily gives us a 10.
No, are you, that, Jordan, that really pisses me off.
I shouldn't piss you up.
That offends me so much.
I think, do you guys just think I'm an idiot?
No, no, it really has to.
I don't believe in love that much.
I promise I don't.
I understand people who do like this movie.
I think you guys think I need to go to rehab or something.
No, it has to do with, like, this is a type of,
of movie that you are either going to give a negative.
I think this is a hateful movie.
Okay.
I think this is a hateful movie.
It definitely hates organs.
It definitely hates organs.
And I don't mean to make it about that.
No, you are not wrong to make it about it.
It is made by men.
It is made by men.
It is made by men.
It is made by men.
It is made by men.
It feels like dudes who are like,
how hard could a musical be?
Blah, no, no, no.
And they just like made a movie.
And they went, I don't know, we'll get parasilton.
And they just did it.
And they go, we'll get the guy from Buffy.
because girls like Buffy, and they made this movie, and it's like, who is this for?
Yep.
I don't know who this is for, but also, when I was watching it, I immediately thought about the Rob Zombie produced Munster's movie that was on Netflix, which I love.
Yeah, yeah.
It looks like that movie, but no heart, no like whimsy, no nothing, which, by the way, I guess Rob Zombie had something to do with the soundtrack.
Oh, yeah, with this soundtrack?
Yeah.
It's on the soundtrack.
But he's like, there's people from, I guess, white zombie corn, guns and roses who are involved with this.
And Joan Jett, did we mention, yeah, we mentioned Joan Jett.
Yeah, I don't know.
She plays on it.
She makes a little cameo in the bedroom.
Yeah, exactly.
But I just feel like this, it just feels like they're capitalizing on the fact that an audience for Rocky Horror will follow this into the night.
It certainly does feel like that. It's rude. It is rude to audiences that love that kind of thing, including me. And I feel like it's heartless, hateful. And I think it's a mean thing to do to the public. To make this movie. I hate this movie more than I've ever hated a movie in my entire fucking life. So I don't even want to give it a score. I want to just wipe my asshole on it.
Well, some people think that's a nice thing. I'm so sorry. Thank you.
Thank you for suggesting it.
We love you so much.
This is our 100th episode.
100 episode.
I will, listen, I will, I will, I will do things you'll like again.
Matt, what did you think?
I'm going to have to agree with Emily on this, almost entirely.
Just there is something about this movie that I found to be sex pesty.
and what I mean by that is that the
This movie Jacks off in front of you.
It does not ask.
Sex Pesty is a word I've never heard and I love it.
I know exactly what you mean.
It's very sex pesty.
The vibe that I get from this movie is it was written by someone
who was like, this will be a good way to fuck goth girl.
And that is, that really carries through this movie for me.
Like at no point did I stop.
What's wrong with that?
impulse.
I mean, listen, I get it.
I understand.
Everyone's deep dark heart.
They all are just like, oh, hot topic girl.
But then you, like, become an adult who knows how to write music.
And I believe the people who wrote this movie do know how to write music.
I don't think they were just like, you know, oh, how hard could it be to write an opera?
Feels like too many cooks in the kitchen at some point.
I'm not sure how many cooks there were, but I am sure that what they thought was, you know, what will really be edgy is if we made a goth opera.
They did this to Sarah Brightman is what's so bullshit.
See, that's where I agree with the hatefulness of it.
The hatefulness was you got my boy Paul Servino in it.
And you know, he gave it his all and God bless him.
Sure.
But I was like, leave that man alone.
I bet he did.
He might have fun.
He probably had a great time.
He did another movie with him, you said.
He's a fucking pro.
He could have fun doing anything.
But I just found it to be like it has a fedora in its soul.
Yeah.
And everything about it just felt creepy.
to me, not creepy in like a horror film way
about guys stealing people's guts.
Creepy in a way as in like this is someone who like stalks
the hot topic.
It feels like it exists in the discount section of Burning Man
where it's like, it's a Burning Man thing.
You find the girls that are hitchhiking on the sidelines
and then you get them in and then go eh.
Yeah.
But also Darren Lynn Bousman or whatever,
we will do any movie you ask us to do.
Who's that?
That's the guy who directed it.
Yeah, I mean, listen.
I'll still do your movies.
I'll be in your movies?
Yeah.
Sure.
Yeah, I'll be in your movie.
But also, fuck you.
I think this guy, yeah, we'll be in your movie though.
Yeah, we'll be in your movie though.
And he directed a lot of the Saw sequel.
Yes.
And those were so big.
Maybe he used a little bit of that cachet.
I think that Saw was like the beginning of torture porn and this is the torture porn.
Sure, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, it all makes sense.
Sure.
Sure.
But at the very least, Saw has logic to it.
It's got Carriela was.
Yeah, and it's like Carreel was.
So, yeah, there's something about, you know, this movie in particular.
I think for me it is the music that really puts it over the edge into being almost evil.
But, yeah, it's bad in a way that I can't fully describe.
I've never been this mean.
Not either of I.
I feel so bad.
I feel bad for, you know, that I know there's people who really love it out there and that's totally fine.
I think when you suggested it, you had to know.
this was a possibility.
They knew.
Right.
Because it's not,
it's not Rocky Horror Picture show.
It's not Jesus Christ Superstar.
It's, uh,
it's not even Phantom of the,
what was that?
Phantom of the Paradise.
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't think it could be worse than that.
It was yeah, yeah.
Similar qualities to those movies.
San Fana the Paradise,
much better movie than this.
I know.
I know.
I know.
I miss it.
Still pretty bad.
I miss it.
I miss it.
Yeah, bring back Phantom of the Paradise.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
I'm also going to give it a negative.
I'm giving a,
A negative.
A negative.
Are we assigning negative number?
Can you say is there a number?
Repo the negative opera.
I think negative one, negative two.
Where are you going?
I don't want to, you know.
We've never done a negative.
So it's got to just be.
I think it's just called a negative.
Okay.
It exists in a negative world.
It's a yeah.
Because the hope is that we don't have a lot of negatives.
To me, negative is the lowest it goes.
But we've got tippy 10.
So don't you think we should give this a name?
Negative Nancy.
A negative name.
Nancy. I think the negative opera should be.
Negative.
We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We give it a repo.
But we liked repo man so much.
And repo men might be good.
And repo men might be good. We'll watch it.
Throw it up on there, Zumo play.
Yeah. Okay. So yes, I will listen. Hey, 100 episodes.
Isn't this fun?
100 episodes. We've been doing this for 100. Very cool.
And we have, and we're yelling at you, listeners.
Sorry.
But we do love you.
It's a lovely group of people to do a podcast for everybody is very nice.
They know we like them.
Yes, they know we like them.
And I think I, you know, I don't like this movie, but I like the world.
I like the movies that are kind of around this.
Watching you do this acrobatics is really fun.
No, I like it.
I think he's right.
I think he's being genuine.
Yeah, I know.
I would rather watch weird culty stuff than just, you know, review Fast and Furious movies.
Absolutely.
Absolutely. I agree.
We'll do that at some point.
But I'm, you know, I like living in the world of these movies more than, yeah, just reviewing generic stuff.
I agree.
So, thank you listeners for.
Did you rate it?
Oh, it's a negative.
Yeah, I'll be with you guys.
It's a very bad movie.
We're all in agreement.
Don't watch it.
Maybe check out some clips.
A negative movie that I was happy to talk about with my funny friends.
I will say this.
Having it on in the background of a party, fucking.
Yeah, it might work.
Yeah.
Yeah, in the background, you go, what the fuck?
Like, that's a great background of a party.
Yeah, I think the only reason why it's still negative, even with that qualification,
is if you had it on at the back of a party, get out of that house.
I'd be like, you're a sex pest.
Yes, exactly.
You're going to start jacking off in front of me and not asking.
That's right.
There's a weird glass pipe.
There's a little glass pipe.
A little glass pipe.
A little glass pipe.
A little glass pipe.
Mother, can you hear me?
That's a song from,
us to our listeners.
Yes.
We call mother.
Thank you.
Hey, let's do a little plug in.
Hold on.
When does this come out?
Matt,
do you have the date?
This comes out next week.
Next week.
What is next week?
Okay, great.
Hey, if you're listening to this,
the week it comes out.
Get your fucking ass to Pasadena this weekend.
A lot of good shit going down in Pasadena.
Matt,
what's going down on the 24th?
Oh, I'm going to be at the Ice House,
the comedy club in Pasadena where
myself and my wife Francesca Furentina
are going to be doing stand-up there
7 o'clock
7 o'clock so come out
buy tickets now it'll be in the show notes
Oh and on the 25th
I'm going to be at the Pasadena
Comic-Con sitting my little table
in artist alley selling books
signing books
come by check it out
and then meet bulk and skull
from Power Rangers
Oh my god
It's going to be a fun day in Pasadena
Also, I've been talking about Predator Bloodshed,
the Predator comic book miniseries I wrote coming out in February.
If you want to get signed issues of that, bit.ly, slash cool fight.
I got another URL for you.
It's bit.l.ly slash cool go to bit.l.w.
If you go to bit.l.ly slash cool gop, you can get a signed copy of Web of Venom,
a Venom one-shot comic book.
for the folks over there at Marvel Comics.
There's a cool, weird guy in the Venom suit now.
Who is it?
You got to read the comic to find out.
Bit.ly slash cool goop.
Is that G-O-O-P?
G-O-P, because that's what Venom's covered in.
G-O-O-P. Cool goop.
Cool, goo is taken.
So, bit.ly, slash, cool, goop.
And check that out or pre-order it at your local comic bookstore.
Okay.
Emily, what's going on?
All right.
As of today, there is new fly.
Flemgems up.
So I'm starting my Valentine's Day, Flemgems.
This is also the two-year anniversary of Flemgems existing.
Hey, fine.
So I'll have things out this week, but the next week, there'll be even more stuff because
I do my kitchen sink collection, which is I keep up with beads that I've had throughout
the entire year, and then I make a random kitchen sink collection of stuff all mixed
together.
So that'll be out the week after.
But yeah, go ahead and go on to my FlimGems Etsy store,
and there should be items on there ready for Valentine's Day.
All right.
Well, that's all 100 episodes.
Thanks for listening, gang.
Here's to 100 more.
And tune in next week for episode 101, where we'll be talking about
not repo the genetic...
Color out of space.
Cool.
Cool.
Baby, baby, baby.
I hate you.
And hey, as a fun little bonus, all our beautiful listeners over there at R slash maximum fun and R slash free with ads, they suggested their favorite free with ads moments from our first 100 episodes.
And we put together a little clip package of some of our coolest goofs.
And we're going to play that now.
The best thing about this soundtrack is Brains to Godzilla Edition.
It's the same song, but with Godzilla going, meh!
No way.
In the background.
Is that it?
Awesome.
I'm going to play it right now.
Oh, you found it.
Yay.
Oh, yeah.
Everyone needs to hear.
Yo, hang on.
That goes so hard.
That goes so hard.
Wow.
Okay.
I was going to get this.
It's kind of rad.
I'm going to have to get this.
You got it.
By the way, the song.
The song, the verse just goes, and until, on my own, here we go.
Honestly, every song would be improved with the Godzilla yell.
I feel like, that's so great.
So I had to find this on YouTube.
Bucket and a mop for this brim!
This manse pussy.
And I...
Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, I like big...
So I went to the comment section and I really love the number one comment under this is Godzilla in the background completely took the song to a whole other level.
It really does.
Whenever I hear the version without Godzilla, I feel it cannot hold a candle to it.
It really. It's so fucking true. I don't know why.
I mean, this song is pretty good, but the Cat Stevens, Cats in the Cradle Godzilla remakes.
It'll make you miss your dad.
It'll make you miss your dad.
If your dad's Godzilla.
We'll get together then, son.
Cape Wednesday, Billy Zane,
happy mate,
Bill Baxton,
Leonardo Cabrio,
Titanic.
Force Face Lee, Slim Miller,
Suitcase Murphy, and the Big Alabama
in from New Orleans.
Suitcase Murphy?
Brian Jonesy and a Boone kid from Denver.
Deffie.
work in Limehouse Chappie from New York.
Well, these and the guys outside should give you 30 or more to choose from.
Good.
Okay.
Amazing.
Who's your favorite goon?
Oh, God.
Horseface Lee.
Limehouse Chappie is pretty strong.
I'm a Limehouse Chappie, man.
I'm a suitcase Murphy.
What is that?
That guy sounds crazy.
It is just raining band names in this.
Because immediately when I heard that, I was like, oh, fuck.
There's some drop kick Murphy shit.
Everything sounds like a scobbish.
Slim Miller?
I mean...
This is amazing.
I love it so much.
This is so funny.
When I was doing my research, I actually found there's a longer version of this scene.
Oh, is that a fact?
Yeah.
Did you know there's a longer version of this scene that didn't make it into the movie?
And I found it.
Matt, do you want to play the cut version of this?
Let's see who we got here.
Toddler Tommy, Jimmy the chair, Bobby Long Weekend.
Bert the Squirt, Adolty the Kid, King Clitoris, Easy Hardman, Colt 69, Zankoo Chiquid, Turby Hock Tour, Pablo Dogwater, Stepdad Doug, Timmy the Tit, Itchy Itchford, Mrs. Fields, Orange Julius, Johnny Sabaro, Court Half Pipe, Tommy, Tommy Live Journal, Sonic the Hedgehog, Gorge Pumpkin, Christopher, the guy who always cancels plans last minute.
Bugsy Bunchy Bucky the Duck,
sunny fuckface,
your dad's friend from work,
standard-sized pussy,
Polly D's Nuts,
Daisy Jones and the Six,
Ricky in the Flash,
nice Darth Vader,
Jonathan, John Johnson,
Timothy, Butt, Timson,
Sammy, the guy who won't shut up
about his air friar,
and the real Santa Claus.
Yes.
You know, that's a longer cut version of that scene?
You got to kill your baby.
Got to kill your baby sometimes.
All right, which one?
I'm Judy the chair all the way.
I'm dead.
What was the live?
Normal-sized perjutor.
Normal-sized pussy.
I am.
So the predator's taking out random dudes.
We see the queen.
She's like, she's being held prisoner in this chamber.
She's like unthawing.
It looks so fucking cool.
She starts laying eggs and they get on a little conveyor belt and they're going out into the pyramid.
But also, tiniest pussy.
ever seen.
Like, so tight.
Like huge gut full of eggs.
And then you just have this little fucking, I'd say that thing is the size.
She's been saving herself for marriage.
She's been saving herself.
Only Emily.
Only Emily would be like, you know, I was watching Alien versus Predator.
The Queen's pussy was too tight.
One star.
One star.
Alien pussy too tight.
Listen.
That pussy was like the size of a Stanley Cup, I'd say.
And those eggs are chunky.
Not the hockey one.
The eggs are chunky.
Well, I'll be greased and fried.
But there's the vial of things.
She says if you drink the medicine, you'll be young forever.
Merrill Streep takes it.
And then there's so many good lines in this movie.
This is so funny.
She goes, after Merrill Streep drinks it, she goes, now a warning.
And Merrill goes, now a warning.
It's so funny.
So funny.
It rules.
And so she says, like, you have 10 years of youth and then you have to, like, fade away.
You have to, like, pick your own death.
To not draw attention to yourself.
Right.
And it's kind of implied that, like, famous people have been doing this, you know, since the beginning of time.
Also, I do have to say that I really love a movie that doesn't give a shit about explaining its own magic system.
The fact that he is just creating an all-white youth cult for financial gain.
magic
like hell yeah
the fact that they were like
no we don't need to go into it
we don't need to go into the mechanics
of how any of this works
I didn't even think about it
until you said something
I know we're all like
those are facts we don't need
we're all creative people
who have had to work with
others
and I think
I mean I just think
like now if you're turning
in this script you get 10 people going
like how does the vial work
is it portals
is it?
Magnets is it.
How many magnets are in the vial?
And he's like, who cares?
It's a movie and it's magic.
I want to see them fucking balk each other.
Are you working with like trolls under a bridge?
What was that voice?
I'm an executive.
I have a goat to eat, but first, let's talk about the logic of time travel.
Yeah, that is right.
So how does money work in this world?
And to my riddles three, I'm an executive.
Could this be more grounded?
Someone said grounded to me recently and now I say it to you.
I'm going to be honest.
None of us are bitter at all.
No way, no bitterness in this room.
No, I know, right?
If you're listening to this and working with me on something, I love working with you.
Thanks.
Yeah.
Are you talking about us?
No, I love.
I love all.
You got no,
no one in this room
has ever given me
a lot of them.
I love you guys.
Hollywood notes.
I'll take notes from y'all any day.
Any day.
I love your notes.
Now he's lying.
You're great with these things.
Eat my ass.
I don't know, man.
I know that's not him.
I know that's not him.
That's his brother.
That's not him.
That's not him.
That's the power man
We know
I'm in the back of my
Draguna
Doesn't this make you feel crazy
Oh my god
Dig through the ditches and burn
Through the witches
Damn in the bag of mad
Desert Rolls
And he whispers
It was the bye-bye man
Did he say it?
Because I thought it was like
Her going tell me
Yeah, they turn down the audio so you're not sure what's happening.
It's like the end of, what's that Bilberry Scarlet-Jahanssen movie?
It's Lost in Translation.
There you go, yeah.
See, like the end of Law.
What did he say?
What did he say?
It's a Macuffin.
Right.
You don't know, man.
God.
He probably just said, honk, honk.
He's a shush woman, got hit by car.
Hunk, honk.
The other thing is, so the bye-by-man when he appears and,
God, I hate having to say that all over, like over and over.
And when he appears to our main dude, he, like, puts his finger on his forehead for some reason.
And he doesn't see anything cool.
He just sees that his brother and niece are at the door.
Yeah.
And you're like, what is the fingering?
Fingering story.
There you go.
Fingering story.
Yep.
So the bye-bye man fingers this guy's forehead and we don't even see anything cool.
Yeah.
And I'm also like, what happens if the bye-bye man kills you?
Why do you always have to kill yourself?
Yeah, by the man, doesn't do shit in this.
Neither does his dog.
All this dog does is create like scratch marks and brick.
Yeah.
And walks out.
Oh, no, a dog.
Dog didn't do nothing.
Okay.
So here's the synopsis of the short story that this is based on.
Okay.
So you can kind of see why they did all these specifics.
It's weirdly faithful to the story.
Okay, this is just from IMDB.
The story on which the film is based,
the bridge to body island, better name.
has a much more complex mythology for the bye-bye man.
He was an albino born in New Orleans in 1912,
who ran away as a child and became a derelict who lived in a train yard.
After going blind, he began murdering people and cutting out their eyes and tongues,
which he sewed together and brought to life using voodoo.
The resultant creature became the bye-by man's literal seeing-eye dog,
helping it.
So the dog is stitched together from body parts.
Several elements from the story, notably the dog and the motif of trains were retained.
for the movie, though their purpose is left
undefined.
So he was
Al-bye-bye-no.
Yes, he is the al-bye-bye-bye-no, man.
His mouth is bleeding
and he goes, you're going to do something
or just stand there and bleed?
I was like, God damn, that's what I'm
like when I'm on my period.
Somebody's going to do something. I'm like, can I just sit here?
Yeah, can I sit here and bleed?
I just want to sit, like, raw.
dog a toilet and just like just sit for two days.
As someone who's been punched in the face before, if someone said that to me, I would
be like, no, I'm not actually going to stand here and bleed.
I'm also going to stand here and cry.
Because I can't help but cry when.
Oh, wow.
You know those old cries?
That is a good cry when you're, uh, you can't.
I feel like I haven't had one of those like childish panic cries in so long.
I don't want to.
I have.
I have.
I try to get one in at least like twice a year, I'd say.
Yeah.
That's nice.
God,
those feels so good.
And that's,
when you were a kid in school,
they'd always be like,
now let's count a 10.
I'm like,
book you.
I can't.
I don't have to count you.
And then they're like,
let's get a paper towel
and put some water on it
and then put it on their face.
Like that ever fucking did anything for anyone.
All right.
Calm down.
Try doing a tongue twister.
How much.
Wood, wood, Chuck, Chuck.
Peter, Piper, fucking.
So, so, so the kids, so the kids are obsessed with a spooky old house in their neighborhood.
And apparently the old house caught fire.
And the kids know that their work, and this is their words, a Wino that lived there.
and they like
is where the Wino is
sleeping all winter
these kids just know
where the local
wino is in the whole time
it's so weird
it's so strange
like what
eight year old is the
obsessed with the labor
and whi-
it's
it's one of the
strangest things
I was watching it going
maybe they don't know
what that word means
Or maybe they heard their parents say it.
Yeah.
Or maybe in Canada,
a wino means something else.
But then they later show,
the first time I met that wino,
he was begging outside of a bank.
I was like,
no,
they know what it means.
I don't know why.
They keep track of where they are.
It's where the winos are.
Where the whino things are.
Where the wino things are.
Yes.
Oh my God, Jordan.
I've never seen you laugh so hard in my life.
I don't.
For some reason.
He just can't speak into whitos.
Oh, boy.
Thank you.
Person in the road, who the driver doesn't see,
any accidentally gets him by a car.
I feel like people need to know all the beats.
Yes.
You're taking the sting to strange new places.
Strange new places, dog.
This is your pet sounds.
That's...
That drop.
The Phil Specter of Sting.
Right.
Matt was up for five weeks on LSD making that drop.
Record it again.
Finds herself on Eddie Redmayne's ship.
Eddie Redmay.
Hey, remember when he was in everything?
We were so rich with Eddie Redmayne for a while.
And now no Redmayne anywhere ever.
What's the deal?
Yeah.
Almost like the stuff he was in was all kind of bad.
He is really giving his all in this movie.
He is.
There are a few actors in this movie who I respect the fact that given the source material that I'm sure they read, they were like, you know what?
I'm going to do my damned this to make this a great character.
And I kind of feel similarly, Matt, when he acts and he's, how would you describe what is he's doing?
He's an old spaceman who becomes.
young with goo and
and his
and then he yells
out of nowhere.
Like
you do not
yell.
Do not fail me?
Are incredible.
They're all perfectly
they all perfectly
match with the
stings to this
show.
So like
there's a few.
Here is one.
Yes, please.
You have some examples.
My mother
told me
what was necessary
to rule.
In this universe.
Like killing people.
I create life.
I, if you don't obey me, I will destroy you the worst hat.
But wait, he sounds like.
He sounds like Voldemort, doesn't he?
Yeah, he's doing a little Voldemort.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
The way he says, how dare you at one point is just, oh, it's so good.
I'm a day.
Matt, can you save that and play it every time something fucked up happens on the show?
It's going in the soundboard.
You've lost that love and feeling.
Whoa, that love and feeling.
You've lost that love and feeling.
Now it's gone, gone, gone.
Whoa, whoa.
So he's driving around in his nice-ass neighborhood.
We learned that this is a world where to solve all of humanity's problems,
the new founding fathers, some sort of wacky government that came into power in a way we'll discover in future sequels.
And what is it called again the next forefathers or the new founding fathers?
Yeah, well, what happens if there's another founding fathers?
It'll just be like, here's some more fathers.
The new wave founding fathers.
I believe those are called the step founding fathers.
I'm not the step founding father.
I'm the founding father that stepped up.
Yes.
So yes.
So in this world, what they've done is they've made crime legal for one night a year.
And apparently that solved everything.
Yeah.
We all know what that's just.
There's less people who are poor.
Yeah.
So I think that's kind of where they go in later movies.
They really kind of dig into the commentary.
And there's, you know, spoiler alert for future purge movies.
The government was behind it all.
Well, yeah.
And yes.
And they were just trying to get people to die.
Pretty much.
But the whole psychology of it, like everybody keeps saying, oh, imagine how horrible the world was before the purge.
And then there's a doctor that comes on over the TV.
The parents are like watching the TV about the purge.
Like people are watching what's happening.
Yeah.
So I guess if you're not.
Like it's entertainment.
If you're not out there purging.
And I guess worth, worth mentioning that on this night where crime is legal, all anyone does is kill.
There's no people who just like dig in above ground pool without a permit.
Yeah, it's not like calories don't count during purge.
It's my cheap day.
Yeah, that's right.
Ripping the tag off a mattress.
It just does do not rip.
Sure.
Throwing out a jury duty summons.
I don't give a fuck.
It's Purge night.
Hail the new founding fathers.
Just taking pisses outside.
That's what we do on Purge.
Yeah.
I'd like to say, so it's usually their ninth birthday.
It's a child's ninth birthday.
And it's always on the 14th of the month.
And guess whose birthday is on the 14th of a month?
Yeah, the main character.
It's me.
Oh, no, Emily.
Oh, you're going to get killed.
killed by the long legs?
No, it's April 14th, yeah.
Wow.
But also, I made it past nine, so I think I'm okay.
And your dad's a great guy.
He would never kill everyone.
Your dad would never kill the family.
Oh, my God.
It would be the clumsiest killing of our family you ever saw.
He'd be like, do we have any knives?
Where are they?
Your mother knows where they are.
My knee hurts right now.
Could you just walk into this knife?
I'm going to go to bed.
Kill yourself on the way out.
Guitars, whiskey guns, and knives.
He writes a hit song.
That is a steel driver's song.
It was a good ass song.
I was like, did you just come up on that?
Nope, it's a song.
I got to start listening.
That's a banger.
Broke into the wrong goddamn wreck room.
Didn't you, you bastard?
Hey, baby, I hear the blues are calling.
Toss salads and scramble.
Yeah, maybe.
But I got you, what is the boy to do?
And that's when we get, that's when we get this needle drop.
Oh, okay.
Here it is.
Oh, maybe this is wrong.
I'm thinking of Switch foot.
Hold on.
This is it.
I'm pretty sure this is it.
I couldn't go to it.
A whole movie with just Christian rock songs and not make my own.
No, that was really beautiful.
It was really beautiful. Thank you, Matt. Catch Matt on tour with DC Talk this fall.
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