Free With Ads - The Land Before Time

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

This week Emily, Jordan, and guest producer Steven Ray Morris (See Jurassic Right podcast) are joined by the hilarious Sierra Katow (TV Chef Fantasy League) to talk about Don Bluth's best masterpiece The Land Before Time.Tune in next week when our movie will be... Varsity Blues.-----LAST CHANCE TO GET TICKETS TO SEE MATT LIEB AT COBBS IN SAN FRANCISCO! MAY 7th!Listen to TV Chef Fantasy League with Sierra KatowAlso, Sierra Katow's stand up special FUNT is playing on YouTube free with ads right now!Listen to Steven Ray Morris's podcast See Jurassic RightJordan contributed to Godzilla vs LA, a comic book anthology which comes out April 30th and all the proceeds will go to those affected by the LA fires.  

Music This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asks the question, why pay Hulu 8 bucks a month so your dinosaur-obsessed kids can watch Jurassic Park when you can go online for free and watch a dinosaur movie classic that also teaches you that everyone you love will die and you'll have to watch them. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is The Land Before Time, the 80s animated dinosaur romp that's so sad it makes the first 10 minutes of Up look like the first 10 minutes of The Clumps.

Filling in for the vacationing super producer, Matt Lieb, is an equally super producer, the host of the See Jurassic Right podcast, Stephen Ray Morris. Stephen Ray Morris, thank you for filling in today. Wait, do I get? All right, that was a fun enough sound. I can't tell if that was a dinosaur sound or a motorcycle. I mean, pretty cool if it's both, you know,

a dinosaur riding a motorcycle. Oh man, that cool if it's both, you know, dinosaur riding a motorcycle. Aw man, that'd be sick! Yeah. Can you imagine? Uh, also joining us today, uh, this is really cool. We have a fantastic guest. She's a writer, a standup, an actor, who you've seen on HBO's The Sex Life of College Girls, and one of the hosts of the podcast TV Chef Fantasy League, Sierra Cotto.

Hi, Sierra. Hello. Hello. Yay. Thanks for having me. I just want to say, how would they make dinosaur noises today? Maybe they use motorcycles. Yeah. To create the foley? That's a good point.

Is that what it's called? Yeah. We don't know what they sounded like. They probably sounded like a sweet Harley. Yes. Tearing down the highway. Yeah. Yeah, harle-saurus rex Life is a sharp tooth I guess he eats you that will work on this work on this song. Yeah. Yeah, we'll work on it Before we talk about this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we're going to get to know our guest

in a segment we call Talk to Guest. Talk to Guest. Sierra, you're one of the hosts of TV Chef Fantasy League. Explain to us the premise of this podcast. It's a it's one of those pods that, you you know you got to love if you're into cooking shows, competition cooking shows specifically, and you also like fantasy leagues, but I don't really do much fantasy leagues. So you know I would say if you're really into chef competition shows I'm talking Top Chef,

I'm talking Master Chef, I'm talking British Bake Off, that's a real popular one. So me and my co-hosts, Mike Caballon, Ify Wadiway, are- Oh, Ify! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maximum fun, we're all, it's all the same people, all the same people. Just reshuffled with slightly different premises. But we discuss whatever shows on the air. So right now we're doing Top Chef season 22,

Destination Canada. And we draft the chefs onto our teams, and we recap the episodes. But then we also get points based on, if our chef won whatever challenge, or if they cried, they get half a point. The tears be flowing in reality TV. So. Do you get points if someone says,

I'm not here to make friends? Oh, we don't have that in this one, but we would if we were doing like, yeah, we try to tailor it to each show. I would say Top Chef's pretty sweet. Like they're kind of a little too sweet to each other now, you know? Okay, so maybe they are there to make friends.

So they kind of, yeah. So if they said that, that would be crazy. They're like, hey, if I make some friends, I'm happy. Yeah. In fact, it's probably pretty good networking as a professional chef. Yeah, you're right. You're right. So yeah, it's more like things like them saying, oh, normally this dish takes four hours to

make. I'm going to make it in 30 minutes. That's a quarter point. Or them saying, I miss my kids or my family. They get a quarter point there. But if they don't miss their kids or their family, they probably have a better chance of winning because they're hardcore. You want to be unattached.

No attachments. That's how you become a real chef. Exactly. Emily, do you ever watch a cooking show? Well, I'm sometimes on a cooking show. Oh, that's right. That's right. Mythical Kitchen on YouTube. I's right, Mythical Kitchen. Oh, right.

On YouTube, I sometimes dabble over there. I'm on a historical cooking show called Meals of History and then we recreate historical meals and then I play a stupid character and pretend to cook. He'll give me little tiny bowls of spices and then I will dump them into a bigger bowl. That's incredible. But that's not really a competition.

Sure you're a big helper. Yes, I'm a big helper. You're a big helper. I'm a big girl and I like to get approval from daddy. But other than that, no, I didn't really watch the competition shows. I just get so hungry. But I need to. Bake Off is, but I need to bake off is anytime

I watch it. I'm like, wow, this really is. I understand why this is a phenomenon. Like it is it is. I mean, this is the coldest take in the world about that show, but it is so relaxing. It is a it is a nap. It is sweet. Sierra, do you use cooking shows for like relaxation TV? Is it like a soothing? Sure. I mean, before this podcast, maybe. Now I'm like furiously taking notes because I have to like be, you know, have the points and the commissioner this season.

So I'm also kind of walking us through the beats of the episode. So in that sense, it's not it's like, I got to pause it. Wait, what was that? It's a crudo what? You know, so that's not very relaxing. But before, yeah, I would say it's it's as long as you have some food nearby, like you're saying it does make you hungry. So you got to make sure you're not without food.

And then you can have a great time. Yeah, I think like Bake Off, you could sit there with just a cup of tea and like, like, I don't know some cookies cookies and then watch it. You're just satisfied. Just eat a whole blanket. Just eat a whole blanket. Ideally, yeah, a sheet cake nearby to consume. Honestly, an edible blanket sounds like a really good idea.

I would love to be like, take a nap underneath a warm sheet cake. Sure. Just take little bites and then fall back asleep. That would be that sounds pretty British to me. If someone's going to crack the edible blanket, it's going to be British. A shortbread blanket, but soft. Sierra, when I asked you what movie you might like to watch for this pod, you suggested something animated. You're a big fan of animated movies?

I do. I think, you know, grew up like everybody watching them, but then never stopped. So I think just continually love a good animated movie. They're always just beautiful. But also, man, you know, I mean, come on. Who doesn't always love a Pixar or a Miyazaki or, you know, any of that, right? Like, even as an adult, beautiful storytelling.

But how do you feel about Don Bluth? Oh, yes. Please. Even more so. Well, here's the secret about me. Are you a Bluth boy? We're Bluth boys on this podcast. Bluth boys. Oh my God. Bluth babes and Bluth boys. Never thought. Oh, whoa. Yeah. Getting excited here. Yeah. I do think I was a Land Before Time 3 head mostly, I realized. Whoa. I was going to ask about the sequel.

So you think 3 is the best? Well, what happened is- Like the Godfather movies. Land Before Time, the third one is the best. Oh, right. Like, I think I had that on VHS, and I might have also had the first one, but for some reason the third one really left an imprint because there's something to do with like there's

a drought or there's no food. Well this one there's no food too, so I guess it's a recurring theme here. But there's a drought in that one. Yeah, oh no, what happened? We ate it all? And so the drought leads to them finding little puddles of water and leaves. I found that very viscerally like, oh, puddles of water and leaves.

I want to drink out of a leaf one day. I feel like that just stuck with me. That is the thing about these Don Bluth movies. There's something in it that's so tactile. There's always something you want to put in your mouth or put on your head. It's like- Or snuggle into.

Or snuggle into. Or snuggle into. Like a mama dinosaur's craggly scaly skin. Dead corpse. Yeah, just like your mommy's- Curl up. Your mommy's cozy dead corpse, oh boy. Yeah, well hey, we've started talking about it. Actually, maybe we start before we start talking about Land Before Time.

Sierra, apologies if I am getting your resume wrong, but you've done voiceover in animated movies, right? Oh, yeah, just one, I think. Yes. I got to do voices for Raya and the Last Dragon. Wow. They're fun, great Disney. It was all during the lockdown, I think.

So did it from home, maybe use this mic. Wow, that same mic? I can't believe we're seeing the mic. That's how good it is. How little my part was, it didn't matter. But yeah, then I think they brought me in because probably sounded like shit. But yeah, so that was cool. Like little characters, it was like three lines or something.

But the dream, love to be a part of it. The dream. Yeah. And that's a really fun one too. I feel like, man, it kind of flies under the radar, Raya and the Last Dragon, but some of the kiddos, they do love it. I go to Disneyland and go take a picture in front of that little map they have there of the land. I haven't seen the map.

Kumatra? Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. Go take a picture of the map. But yeah, I think there's a meet and greet. You can meet Raya at Disneyland. Very cool.

But that's all I know. Well, yeah. Let's start talking land before time. I think this was a fun one. We've been wanting to do this for a while. We thought this would be the perfect opportunity. Let's let's go around the horn and talk about our our our feelings about the Land Before Time franchise.

Sierra, you were a big three fan. Maybe that's a little bit of a different in difference in our age. A little bit is like I was super in the pocket for the first one. Emily, have you seen any of these? Oh yeah, hang on, let me get my glasses on, that's how old I am. Let me get my glasses on so I can tell ya. I remember movies better when I'm wearing my spectacles.

I love, I think this might have been the first movie I saw in movie theaters. Wow, okay, cool. Because I remember it being big. I mean, I need to ask my parents about this, but I got the, I don't know if the stuffed animals were available through Pizza Hut,

or what the, I know that they were the rubber hand puppets, but I had the stuffed animals. I had Petrie and Sarah and Spike. I think that, no, I think Ducky and Littlefoot were like a hot commodity, but I had everybody else. And I could still remember what they felt like too. This is crazy. I wonder if my parents still have these but I loved it so much boohooed through the whole movie after watching it this time

I can't believe I watched that movie as a kid and Survived like I yeah, I can't believe it the anxiety The sadness the like also the wholesomeness and like how sweet the movie is. Like, oh my God, my heart was breaking through watching it again. I was like, wow, this movie is, I'm also it's, I think I missed some of the messages as a kid, but it made me miss my mom, even though she was alive

and sitting next to me. And I feel like, like this is probably what it feels like for your mom to die. I'm going through it right now. Yeah, and honestly, this movie for me is the saddest like parental figure dying on screen. It's gotta be, yeah. Yes, Bambi ain't shit. Your mom was asking for it.

You know what I mean? Whatever. I'm kidding. Right. Get rid of that one. Yeah, get rid of that one. But this was like, wow, really moving. But yeah, that was, I love this movie a lot.

I would like to hear Stephen Ray Morris chime in. Stephen Ray Morris, one of the biggest dinosaur fans I know, and I know myself, so that is saying something. You host a Jurassic Park podcast. Yes. Where does this movie fall in the pantheon of dinosaur movies? I mean, the reality is, is there isn't that many good dinosaur movies where like Lamb of War time two and three like fall also in like maybe the top ten as well.

I mean Lamb of War time two is Chomper, you know, they have to teach Chomper not to eat the other animals. It's kind of fun. I hear in those movies, the food goes away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, like Land Before Time, I mean, it's yeah, it's like Bambi for our generation. And I did get to tell this screenwriter of Land Before Time that he traumatized all of us because I interviewed him, Stu Krieger. And I was just like, why did you do this to us?

It's all your fault. Does he know? Does he like get that a lot? I think at this point now, and honestly the coolest thing I learned talking to him was that the way he learned, the way he got inspired to do the tree star was that he laid on the ground to try and see what like the world looked like from a kid's eyes. And so that's how we like came up with that. Oh, that's very wholesome and sweet.

So yeah, I there's there's a lot of dinosaur behaviors. I have questions about, I know you probably didn't do everything a hundred percent accurate, but like, you know, they all did say yep, yep, yep, that was a real scientific thing. Percent. Right. Do you? That's etched in the fossil.

Do y'all remember the first movie you cried in as a kid? I remember mine very specifically. Well, what was it? My Girl. Oh. I think a popular one for people around my age, My Girl, Macaulay Culkin, Hot Off Home Alone, a very misleading ad campaign where you thought

it was gonna be a funny romp. But but instead it's a coming of age dramedy where Nicole Culkin is killed by bees. Yes, and Jamie Lee Curtis is a mortician. Oh, I forgot that Jamie Lee Curtis was in that. Yeah, I just, where are his glasses? He needs his glasses. He needs his glasses, it happened. Trust me, Anna Klobsky, he don't need them. He's dead.

He's dead, yeah. What is he gonna do with those? I think they take the eyes out. Yeah, his face is all swollen with the bee stings. Where's he gonna put it? Oh my God. The fact that when he was in the casket and the little sting marks are still on his face, I'm like, yo, Jamie Lee Curtis is a suck ass mortician.

Yeah, take those out. Get some cover up. Yeah. Make him look good. Yeah. Yeah, spruce him up for the big old wake or whatever people do. Put some makeup on him.

Good God. Sierra, do you remember early cry movies? I'm not. I know I cried in this. I don't think it was the first. But it was such a like shocking cry. I think my family went to see Lord of the Rings like at a drive-in theater and then when Bilbo like pops his eyes out and gets all ring hungry, freaked us out as kids and we were like, you know, I don't think my parents knew it was a scary movie so we all like burst into tears in the back of our

truck and then we were all crying. So I was like, oh no, the daughters have been destroyed. We must drive them home. Yeah, I'm terrified crying. I've seen hell. I had a drive in experience too, but it was more of the, Jordan, like you're saying, the sort of existential one, which was Jack, the Robin Williams.

Oh my God. Okay. Where he, is he- The premise of Jack is that he's aging in reverse? He's aging rapidly. Rapidly, yeah. Yeah, and it's one of those things where I was probably too young to know

what the existential crisis of it was, but could just feel how sad it was. But yeah. Oh gosh, yeah. They still made him go to school. But yeah. Oh gosh, yeah. They still made him go to school. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think you couldn't go have fun for the remaining time or whatever.

Yeah, what's he gonna learn? Like, I don't know. You don't learn from him. And then fractions before you go, you know? I finally learned a long, I don't even know how to make up ideas about math. Long division is that word? Long division! Long division.

And now I bid you adieu. Adieu time. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. The best part was. The great beyond I go. Knowing what a remainder is. The best part was that when that was over,

we just turned and watched like the rest of Independence Day. So made up for it. Oh good. Didn't cry during that. Yeah, yeah. That one's not existential either. No. Emily, any early cry movies for you that we missed?

I think that this, since this is the earliest experience of seeing a movie in the theaters, I know how sad it made me. I think this has got to be it. This has got to be the first one. But I'm trying to think of other ones that made me cry. They're not quite coming to, of other ones that made me cry. They're not quite coming to,

oh, A Little Princess from 1996. Oh yeah. Which has been free with ads on occasion, but not at the moment, but if it's on during Christmas, I swear to God, we gotta watch it. It's so good. My mom took me to see Steel Magnolias, too. Oh yeah, that'll do it.

Well yeah, let's talk about this traumatizing movie that is actually very beautiful. Very good. Yeah, so The Land Before Time, produced by, I learned in the credits, I had kind of forgotten this. I haven't seen this movie in like 30 years. Me too! Yeah, produced by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

So that's kind of cool. And directed by our boy, our, the man, the RC Cola to Disney's Coke, Don Bluth. Aw. We say this very affectionately, directed by Don Bluth. It is the time of the dinosaurs. We get a little narration telling us that Bluth, it is the time of the dinosaurs. We get a little narration telling us that, yeah, it's the time of the dinosaurs.

And so we see water ones and flying ones. And then we see a herd of triceratops traversing the plains. And one of them opens its mouth and goes, come on. So as a little kid, I wanted nothing more than to hear a dinosaur talk. And the first thing one says in this movie is come on. He's just like a cranky mean triceratops.

So yeah, so that's Sarah's dad, isn't it? Sarah's dad. Right. Learn angry dad vibes. Yeah, he's an asshole a real piece of shit Come on, and he lived That's yeah, thank you. Sure. Sometimes the assholes. Yeah always the Long time that's one of the great lessons of this movie Your asshole racist dad will live forever. Yep, yep. Triceratops smokes a pack a day, drinks whiskey, still alive, never exercises.

So yeah, we see a bunch of baby dinosaurs being born. We see Ducky. She's a hadrosaurus, Sarah, Triceratops, and a Brontosaurus, Littlefoot. The narrator says he's his family's last hope for the future, oh my God. So these baby dinosaurs are maybe the cutest characters ever committed to film. Like they make Bluey look like literal dog shit.

Pikachu seems like a diarrhea clogged toilet compared to these things. That nasty poop tail. Yeah, thank you. They're so cute. It's so insane. Their voices. Are their voices kids? Like real kids?

I think so. Because that I think so. They are. And I would like to point something out that we are not going to discuss, but we've also, we love Don Bluth. And we did talk about All Dogs Go to Heaven. There is a backstory about the little girl that does the voice for the little girl and for Ducky. And immediately people were commenting in Reddit about how we didn't mention it last time. We're not gonna mention it guys. We're not gonna go into depressing real life stories. We're here to be funny and talk about a movie.

If you wanna be real bummed out, you can Google it, but you don't have to. You could just have fun with us and, but the thing is, we're not stupid. We know the story. We know it happened. Reddit, sorry. Yeah, no, no.

Reddit needs to be put in its place. Reddit needs to be put in its place.. It really does all the time every day Yeah the kids in this movie are Great and I think like having watched a couple of like Don Bluth movies for this like I think that's part of his genius He gets these great performances out of kids Yeah, it's usually you know in Disney movies It's it's adults playing kids and yeah, these really have a weird kid quality to them

that's really, really great. That's interesting. Is that the case with Disney movies? There's usually an adult doing the kid's voice. I think so. I think that's usually how stuff like that is done. Well, that's how Simpsons is. Yeah.

And like sometimes Pixar movies have actual kids as the kids. But yeah, but I think in this case, they are little kids and they sound like little kids. Right. It's really, really great and they're all good. So, Littlefoot, I think we alluded to it, he curls up in the folds of his mom's skin and the narrator says they'll be together forever. No, they won't. Yeah, wow, it'll lie to us.

Yeah. Fucking liar. Well his mom lied too, where she was like, we'll get there, I promise. And I'm like, oh, adults lie. Maybe that's what the lesson was of this movie when we were watching it as kids, is like, they just say stuff, you know?

Right. Be scared. You'll be alone. They say stuff to shut you up sure we're going to the Great Valley so that don't ask your mom again so yes as as we mentioned all the food is drying up we are reaching the end of the time of the dinosaurs although apparently they last for 15 or 16 more movies. So it's not that close to the end.

Yeah, so they're looking for a place that still has foliage. They call it the Great Valley. His mom gives Littlefoot a tree star. It's like a leaf shaped like a star. And he carries it with him throughout the movie. And it's with him sometimes, and it's with him other times not, the continuity isn't very good in this. Sometimes he has it, sometimes he doesn't, whatever. And so yeah, on their little trek, they meet Sarah.

She's a triteratops and she is tough as shit. She's rough and tumble, she doesn't care, she doesn't need anybody and she's got a racist dad who doesn't want her playing with long necks. So yeah, but they play around anyway, and they find a sharp tooth, a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It's really fucking scary. It chases them all over. And it's interesting, like, it doesn't talk like it does like it's it It makes it so much scarier like they talk you could maybe reason with it in this world, but it doesn't It's just like a fucking monster

Yeah, totally terrifying And they get saved by Littlefoot's mom and the mom and the the the t-rex have this like Really crazy fights like really crazy fight, this really intense fight. Oh, I should maybe say I think Little Foot's mom is the tallest person in the movie. Oh, tallest guy. And the fight is really brutal. It's something I noticed like just watching it this time,

there's this little shot where you can see it like bite a chunk out of her. And like in the shadow. Oh boy, this fucking movie. And like, yeah, so she's fighting the T-Rex. They like knock it down a cliff. There's this huge earthquake that like separates all the babies. What the timing?

Yeah, crazy. It's just like, oh, and there's an earthquake. And it's like it is a break Yeah, it is an earthquake that leaves all of the babies on one side and all of the parents on the other side It's like so convenient So now the kids have to learn to grow up well, I think we should also mention that Littlefoot was very curious and like all these these kids are pretty wholesome and Before all that happens, he tries to befriend Sarah, our Triceratops

and her family is like, we don't like, three horns, is that what they call them? Three horns don't play with long necks. They don't play with long necks. So there is like a separation of different, you know, breeds of dinosaurs that aren't supposed to hang out together, but you know, so there's that aren't supposed to hang out together. But, you know, there's so there's that.

But then this movie is about everybody coming together. Yeah, that's true. To make one one big herd, a chosen the next generation can save us all by binding to by also dying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of so Littlefoot finds his mom. She's like dying. He's like, get up, mom, get up. Oh my God. Rough.

And the rain. The rain, Jesus. So and she says, find the great valley, let your heart guide you, whispers, so listen closely. And then my fucking movie cut to a Spanx ad. One of the most perfect. I mean, it could it was like almost like what's the funniest place to throw a Spanx ad right here? And maybe the saddest part of any movie.

Oh, my God. Why are you getting Spanx ads? I am in an Airbnb. Ah. And I am on someone else's TV, so I have someone else's algorithm. And yeah, so I'm getting a lot of ads for stuff I wouldn't normally. Anyways, I'm considering Spanx.

Apparently they'll make me look really good. And they do not breathe. Oh, well, okay. So you know, something to consider before you purchase. I have some baby powder. Anyway, so Littlefoot, he's really depressed. He finds this old man dinosaur who's mean at first, but then he kind of realizes what's going on.

Yeah, who is, what was this guy? He just kind of disappeared, I guess. He looks like he could be Spike's grandpa. Yeah, maybe, maybe he's a Spike relative. He's the same kind of disappeared, I guess. He looks like he could be Spike's grandpa. Yeah, maybe. Maybe he's a Spike relative. He's the same kind of breed. He's like a stegosaurus or an ankylosaurus or something. He was cool.

He was great. Great eyebrows on this guy. Oh, yeah. And great advice. He's like, get out of here. He's like, OK, I'll say the wisest thing anyone's ever said, I guess, then leave. Right, right. Yeah, he understood they were, you know, in the shadow of a dead mother.

He did a little help. Oh, I get it. Okay. And then get out of there. But it was also so sad because Littlefit was mad at her for dying. Yeah. Right. Those were like the stages of grief, you know?

Wow. But yeah, he was like, and then somehow, like that conversation with that old wise eyebrowed. Yes. Stegosaurus. Aren't these things not supposed to have hair? They're reptiles. Why does it want to have giant eyebrows? Well, I guess that's kind of up for debate now.

They're saying that they might've had feathers. Oh, okay, okay. Maybe these were little eye feathers. Yes, he was a Martin Scorsese with just like feathers. Scorsesesaurus. Scorsesesaurus, oh my God. Aw, I just said dinosaur who cares a lot about film preservation.

That character's name is Rooter, which is never said anywhere. Ruder? Ruder. Oh. And it's the narrator at the beginning, Pat Hingle, who was Commissioner Gordon. Oh my, oh, oh. That's Commissioner Gordon?

Deep lore. Like from what, from the original Batman series? From the, I think the like Batman Forever and like Batman and Robin. Oh, his voice is great. It's a great voice. Yeah, no wonder. Yeah. They just threw him in there because they're like, well, we got this guy.

What should we, should we add some character here or? That is correct, yes. Give us my eyebrows. Yeah, give us the eyebrows. We got him, we got him for one day. Let's go, draw something. Slap on your eyebrows and say something wise. So he, so, you know, Littlefoot like sees like a shadow

of his mom and he thinks it's his mom. And then he like, he hears her voice telling him kind of what to do. And she says like, go to the burning valley past the rock that looks like a long neck. A little logic thing here I never noticed. Mom's ghost is giving new information. We haven't heard this before,

this thing about the long neck rock. Well, but maybe this is something, the way that I've looked at it is like, I feel like this is something she's reiterated to him in the past a lot. Yeah, probably. And they didn't want it to be redundant in the script. So they just kind of made it sound like information

that he knew, at least that's how I accepted it. But mom's like, I learned some new things in heaven, little foot. Dinosaur heaven. I was in dinosaur heaven and they gave me more specific instructions for you. Dude, I bet dinosaur heaven sucks. It's gonna be great.

It's crowded. It's just like, it's heaven, but it's like everything that happens on earth, but it's just happening. So there's like, a T-Rex's version of heaven is still eating the long necks. That's right. Oh man, can't escape it. And jamming with Hendrix.

Mm, yeah. But not Elvis, cause he's still alive. Oh wow, you're an Elvis truther. Okay, that's a fun new wrinkle we're learning. Nah, I'm just, yeah. Maybe, I don't know. No, go with it Emily, that's interesting. Does that just seem accurate for my personality?

I feel like I'm learning that everyone thinks that I'm maybe a horrible deadbeat dad from the 1980s. And you know what? It tracks. I saw Elvis at a truck stop. Yeah. Forever. He had feathers for eyebrows.

All right, all right. All right, sorry, sorry. No, I love this, Emily, for you. I think go with it. Elvis is still alive. I saw him. All right. So, he, so Littlefoot starts kind of meeting all the other dinosaurs that he's going to

like do the little journey with. He meets Ducky who is, she's like a little hadrosaurus. She is the color of- Yeah, I didn't know what this dinosaur was exactly. Stephen, am I right about that? A hadrosaurus or kind of a water plant eating? Yeah, duck-billed dinosaur is kind of the common, or how they've been described,

because they all have kind of like cool head crests and stuff and make like honking sound or you know scientists who've taken way too much time to like Blow out of like the fossil horns to be like, you know and be like, oh, yes, this is sick Like yeah, the eyelashes on this dinosaur fabulous. They're all fabulous. Littlefoot too, Littlefoot has very beautiful eyelashes. They all have adorable, and it really just adds to the child-like cherub kind of look to them. Sure, they have to grow into their eyelashes.

I love how all of these dinosaurs pretty much have a name that alludes to the species they are, except for Sarah. Oh wait, Triceratops. Triceratops, yeah. I'm an idiot. It does translate well to the human name. So we meet Ducky. They call her a big mouth and she says, yep, yep, yep, that's her catchphrase. I, nothing was funnier to me as a kid than yep, yep, yep. I, that was, to me, that was the greatest joke ever written at the time.

It lights up the brain. It does. It really does. I mean, her little voice is so cute and like, but also I kinda like the ducky is kinda like, you know, the ditzy blonde of the crew. Who's just sees the best in everyone and doesn't like is not stressed by anything. They cried just for a moment and then got over it. Yeah, Ducky's great. They meet Petrie. He's a flyer. He's like a little pterodactyl,

but he can't fly. Will he learn by the end of the movie? Sure. Yeah. Kind of. Is that wings? Yeah. And so while everybody's meeting and forming a little crew, Sarah finds the like... She thinks the sharp tooth is dead, so she starts like fucking around with it.

And then it like wakes up right as she's about to like, but it in the eye. Yeah, that's scary. The thing is not talking and those eyes are just nothing. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, absolutely. Is this what was OK? I'm trying to think what was scarier to me as a kid. We've talked about who framed Roger Rabbit,

Judge Doom's eyes popping out. So maybe like eyeball stuff to me is kind of scary. I think the classic jump scare thing of like doing a close up on a closed eye and it opening gets me every time. I don't know why it's a jump scare even though I know it's coming. Because you're filming an eye.

You know, it's not just going to remain closed. Yeah, you never do a close-up on an eye and it just goes, hello. It's like this sensual eye that opens up and you're like, I'm glad you're awake, one eye. The T-Rex needs some lashes. That's right. To make it even more dramatic. Yes. He needs beautiful little foot style lashes.

Get that mascara. I think I remember watching. Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's a sharp tooth. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. Whatever. You say whatever on a podcast. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. Yeah, whatever.

You say whatever on a podcast. When Matt's not here, we can't do the songs good. And I feel bad. Our songs are worse. Our songs are bad. He's gonna zhuzh it up, you know. Yeah, both good. Fat beats.

Sharp tooth. I just remember being very mad at Sarah throughout the whole movie as a kid, just being like, why can't you just behave and not get us into trouble? I kind of identified with Sarah as a kid, I think, because it was like, I don't know. I think sometimes- You were always headbutting stuff. Well, yeah, but I also think that when you're kind of a lonely kid and you're angry about

why don't people wanna play with me or like me, then you start to wanna just be better than people, act like, oh, well, you don't like me because you're jealous, and that never works out. And you end up sleeping alone in the cold in the dinosaur ages. Oh no. And then everyone abandoning you

because you're not fun to hang out with. But I guess I just, I feel for Sarah because her dad was not a pleasant man also. He's a difficult man. Yeah. Come on. Sure. Yeah. He can't be, he's one of those dads that he's like one of those guys who makes his mean comments about women

and then you click on his profile and then he has a daughter. Come on, she can't be having a good time. No. It's rough. Yeah, Sarah is. Sarah's dad just follows porn stars on Instagram. Yeah, Sarah is. Oh, God, how does he do that?

You should be ashamed. Sarah is just short for Sarah Huckabee. Oh no, Sarah grows up to be Sarah Huckabee. Oh no, Sarah. What an arc. So they also meet Spike. He's another non-talking dinosaur, I think. I mean, some of them talk and some of them don't.

I think trying to figure out. I like that. Yeah, Spike's very cute and nice. He's like a little stegosaurus. They like, they try and get this food, they like find one tree that has like leaves on it. Mm-hmm, it looks delicious. It does, the leaves really look good.

I think something else looks tastier in the movie, we'll get to it later, but I think the leaves look the tastier in the movie. We'll get to it later, but I think the leaves look the second best in the movie. Well, I think that Spike's grass that he was like born in, and this has been discussed online. The yellow kind of dried out grass, because the crunching almost sounds like popcorn

or something, and then when you're in the movies eating popcorn, it just feels like you're also part of it. But people talk about it on Instagram, they're like the most delicious looking food in movies, that is always one of them, that yellow grass that he munches on. I'll say, what we're talking about, I think that the most delicious looking thing in this movie

is the tar they fall in later. Oh, yeah. I thought you were gonna say that, yeah. Does the tar kinda look tasty? Yes, it does. It looks like goo. Like a marshmallow goo kind of almost, but it's black. It's got layers, I feel.

You know, like a, like kind of a multi-layered caramel, you know, cake situation. Yeah, uh-huh. Edible blanket. Yeah, and if you slice the tar, you can see cake situation. Yeah. Edible blanket. Yeah, and if you slice the tar, you can see the layers. Ooh, a crosscut of tar. Mm-hmm. I had a really tough time with the La Brea Tar Pits.

I tried to eat it. I fell in. It's always happening. That's why your face is on the no-go list there. Yeah, I am not welcome back there. Have you all been to the Tar Pits, everybody? Yeah, I love the Tar Pits. Yeah, me too.

I haven't been in a while, but it really is amazing. It was growing up in Southern California. It was our field trip place. Oh, I bet. One of the most magical places in the world to me. I love the La Brea Tar Pits. Well, and it's that thing too, where every time you go, at least if you're I feel like it's always like five or six or ten years in between going.

And yeah, like Jordan, like you growing up in Southern California. But there's different little spots on the grass where the tar starts to bubble up. Yeah. So they have to like, you know, corner it off. But then you see like sticks stuck in it because kids are just like, no, we want to get to it. It looks delicious. That's a problem. Right. Right. Let me get my stick in here and eat the stick. Oh no, my stick. It really is amazing, but I liked the indoor stuff where it was like the giant sloths.

I didn't know the giant sloths existed until I moved here and went to that place. I was like, are you kidding? It's so crazy. Like it really is cool. The great Los Angeles sloths. I gotta go back. The air conditioning in there is 10 out of 10. Oh yeah.

Oh hey, I'm in agreement with the La Brea Tar Pits. Sponsor us, sponsor us La Brea Tar Pits. And then go get drunk at LACMA and stuff afterwards. Oh, that's a day, that's a day. It is. They had the Guillermo del Toro exhibit there when I went to the Tar Pits. I did a twofer.

Oh shit. That's a fun day. Oh, so good. Sorry, we're off subject. No, I think this is sort of on subject, Lebron Tar Pits. Okay, all right. Yeah, we're around the movie. Del Toro, Del Torosaurus.

Just keep adding Saurus on. You're back. We can talk about anything we want as long as we say Saurus at the end. Then you're right back in there. We've just got directors as dinosaurs. What was the one? Martin? Oh, yes, Scorcesisaurus.

That was not as fun. Del Torosaurus. Del Torosaurus. That rolls off the tongue. All right.eltorosaurus. Deltorosaurus. That rolls off the tongue. All right, what about Sophia Copal- nope. Copal- Copaloposaurus.

You can say Don for some of the- so Sophia Copaladon, you could say. Copaladon, yeah. Ooh, Copaladon. There it goes. Nice. Okay. Some of the greats. Francis Copaladon is right there, I suppose.

Oh, there it is. There it is. He's actually Nicolas Cajadon's uncle. Nope.-Don is right there. I see him. Oh, there it is. There it is. He's actually Nicolas Cajadon's uncle. No. People don't know that. I'm covering only through the dinosaur lineage though. Don't know that.

So anyway, so they're trying to get this food on the tree. They do this teamwork thing to get it, except for Sarah. She's trying to get it herself, so she doesn't want to do it with the group. She's budding the tree to try and get it. And while she's not looking, Littlefoot throws a bunch of leaves on her, so she thinks she did it. It's so fucking cute. I can't believe it.

I can't believe it. Yeah, anyway. It really is, but also the going up the tree was the funniest moment of the movie for me. I thought it was incredibly hilarious. The struggle, I always think struggling to do something and not quite getting there is the funniest thing ever. Like if you trip and you're trying really hard not to fall down, so you end up inconveniencing yourself even longer

to try to keep standing up and then you fall anyway. That's that scene to me. And then Petrie kind of floating down was so funny. But yeah, I love that scene a lot. Also, those leaves, delish. They look good, they look good. Amazing. Definitely.

And yeah, I think the Don Bluth movies, the slapstick scenes are always really good. Amazing. Definitely. And yeah, I think Don Bluth, the Don Bluth movies, like the slapstick scenes are always really good. Yes. The slapstick scenes, like, yeah, those like, you know, shit going crazy, you know, chase scenes in All Dogs Go to Heaven are so good. Yeah. Yeah, this is like, yeah, a place where he like really just shrugs. I feel like the difference for me personally between Don Bluth and Disney movies,

is it feels like you can feel and smell and taste everything in that animation. Even when Littlefoot is snuggling up in the loose skin of his mother's back, it looks so comfy and I wanna get in there. Get me in your mother's back. It looks so comfy and I want to get in there. Get me in your mother's skin. Hey, you can, it's up for grabs now. It's like a tauntaun, get me in that skin.

Oh no. But yeah, he's like really good at like, I feel like the, like I don't know, it feels like you can touch and smell and taste everything. What is that terminology where it feels like you can taste colors and synesthesia? I feel like it's the whole, it's like a synesthesia experience all his ways.

You can taste the dinosaur mom's skin. Yes. Yummy. There's a word for that, right? Oh gosh, even Petri I feel like has like the little hands and every little thing with those wings, everything was very like, oh God, you're so fragile, be careful, you know? But also very funny. Yeah, Petrie's great.

So yeah, so Littlefoot and Sarah have another fight and they like all separate. Littlefoot goes off by himself. Everybody else goes with Sarah. And then they reach the volcano level, which means they're almost to the last boss. We're not gonna talk about the nap, the sleep. Oh God, that is, yeah,

it's just another insanely cute moment. All the dinosaurs are cold, so they all kind of huddle up together. But then Littlefoot went off by himself. And then Ducky kind of goes to join Littlefoot because, you know, Littlefoot's having a hard time. And then Sarah's left all alone in the cold. And I cried. It's all right.

Because just the idea of like, you're having a hard time with social interactions with other kids, because I don't know. I really struggled with it and I just went, oh my God, you know you're wrong. You know you fucked up. And now you have to drag your sorry ass To the dinosaur hole and an ass forgiveness and admit defeat

So a lot of that was like admitting when you were wrong A lot of this movie was that and I thought that was a good lesson for sure of like little foot being like he was wrong about the for sure of like Littlefoot being like he was wrong about the the sharp tooth actually being alive and then Sarah was like had to admit she was wrong about you know I liked it a lot but yeah made me cry yeah it is this movie is so good with like little kid emotions and like it it's interesting to watch this because I feel like when we go see a you you know, quote unquote kids movie now or an animated movie, like, it's pretty sophisticated. And I sometimes think like when you go see, you know, something like that, that was clearly written by an adult who's processing adult emotions.

It's like the, you know, sometimes I'm like, this is great and beautiful and like more complex, but like, does it great and beautiful and more complex, but what's a kid getting from this? Where the protagonists of an animated movie are like, did I pick the right job? I'm like, so it is interesting to see this movie, which is maybe a little creaky to watch for an adult, but I think when you are a kid, these simple kid emotions are really powerful.

For me, it felt like this movie was made for the kid that this is the movie that they wish they would've had when they were a kid. Oh yeah. To process emotions that they had when they were kids or things that, because it's true, the way that they confronted death and the way they confronted friendships and xenophobia. Sure.

That kind of stuff. Another kid. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, like I feel like as at least as millennials, which I'm assuming Sierra that you are of the Gen Z variety, which congratulations. Oh, very flattering. No, I am a millennial. Oh, okay. Well, welcome. I mean, Emily, she's clearly a girl boss.

Yeah, hello. And I am your gatekeeper. And anyway, so it's like, I don't know, I feel like we had a lot of movies kind of about prejudice. Like, that was something that was really drilled into like our mind. He had a lot of movies kind of about prejudice. That was something that was really drilled into our mind. And that's why everything is just so shocking to us now. Why is there still racism?

Land Before Time fixed it, right? It did, it fixed it. Obviously we're Littlefoot and they're the long necks. Thank you. Whatever. We haven't benefited from the system that existed before us. All our babies will be friends. Yeah, exactly.

Why do we need DEI? There was the land before time. Exactly. Yeah, dinosaurs, that's all I got from DEI. Yeah, races have died with the dinosaurs. Yeah, the deeper dinosaurs. Yeah, the Dinosaur Equality Initiative. Yeah, equality, yeah, yeah, there we go.

That's all you need. Yes. Well hey, as we mentioned, they're at the final volcano level. The movie is almost over, and we're gonna talk about the finale when we come back. It's Free With Ads. We're talking about the land before time with Sierra Cato.

Hi, Sierra. Thanks for being here. Yeah, thank you. It's an honor. It's an honor. There's these mean dinosaurs who are headbutting each other, Pachycephalosaurus. They're all trying to headbutt everybody. But the other dinosaurs who aren't Sarah save her by going in the delicious tar

and making themselves look like one big crazy monster. Scares off the mean dinosaurs. That was good, good gag, good gag. It's like the kids in a trench coat, but it's tar. It is, yeah, it was the first ever. Dinos in a tar. That old gag, the Dinos in a tar. Classic gag.

To be fair, I would, if I had Pachycephalosaurus, is that what it is? I think so, yeah. If I were them, I'd also use that nice shiny head. Yeah, sure, right? But with everyone. That would be fun to butt if you had the head. Yeah. Because I bet it's pretty, I bet, I know, I would say I bunk heads every so often

with people by accident or like, you know, I would as a child, you know, playing sports and stuff. And I would say most of the time, I don't feel it as much as the other person. Humblebrag. Wow. So you think you got a strong skull? Yeah, strong skull, no nerve endings, whatever you want to call it. Isn't it weird that Sarah's head looks like it's so painful when she would headbutt everything?

It was like, oh, she gonna die. It's bad. Yeah. But those guys were just like, this is a Tuesday. So they chased those guys off, no nerve endings on those dudes. They see Sharp Tooth climbing a mountain and they make a plan to kill him. I was like, this is kind of shocking. Our main characters, baby dinosaurs, are making a plan to kill their enemy.

They're hunting him. Revenge. Yes, I know. Like it's I don't think they intend for it to be so dark, but it kind of feels dark. They're like, OK, well, you can think about it in a couple of ways. You can think about it as revenge or you can think about it as eliminating a threat that is clearly picking off like their plant eating like a brethren, you know, they got to eliminate the threat for the sake of everybody. But yeah, it does seem like revenge.

Yeah. So the xenophobia is brought back if the person is eating you. Yeah. I guess or the dino. Yeah. Just saying. We're all learning a lot. You know, it's conditional. Yeah. Yeah. This equality. Yeah. Hashtag not all the sharp teeth. Yes. Yeah. Wow. You know, but this one got to go.

Yeah. Yeah. We're going to. That's like before that's like before time, too, when they have chompers, a little the little the little T. Rex, who they, you know, like it's that like the, you know, we're friends, but we're not edible or whatever is the song in that one. Do you think there's kind of like a. Yeah, there's more.

There's like songs and singing in all of them and. Yeah, because yeah, three has songs. I was imagining that. OK, yeah. Yeah. Well, do you think there's kind of like a vegetarian message in these movies or no? No, maybe. Yeah, maybe this is like a vegan, you know, vegan adjunct prop could be.

Yeah, because like, I think Lion King, because I did hear Littlefoot's mom, or no, the old man with the eyebrows say like, she's entered the cycle of life or whatever. And I was like, oh, Lion King, you stole it. I get it. But yeah, Lion King is like, oh, we just- Lion King stole a bunch of shit.

We're at the top of the food chain. Here's all these antelopes bowing to my son who will slaughter their family one day. Which is like, what? Dark, dark. Yeah, they just went ahead and went, that's the way it is. But this movie was just like,

yo, like Predator bad. So I don't know. Yeah, at least they did that. That's true. That's true. You're eating someone's mom if you're eating meat. Yeah. That's true.

Meat is a mom. All. What is meat if not a mom? Oh my goodness. Gotta reconsider everything. Yes. So they make this plan to kill Sharptooth. They do it, they trick him into going in the water

and they drop a big rock on him. We think Petrie kinda goes over the cliff when they're doing the rock. We think Petrie's dead for a long time. And Ducky does an amazing speech. Yeah, Ducky's great here. But it turns out he's alive and he kinda can sort of fly now. Yeah, Ducky's great here. And, but it turns out he's alive and he kind of can sort of fly now.

Yeah. They all follow a cloud that looks like Littlefoot's mom into the great fucking valley. Damn cloud. And they get there, all of their parents are just there. It just worked perfectly. Well, not Littlefoot's mom, but the grandparents lived? The grandparents were there, yes.

Also, what happened to his dad? Yes, we don't know that. What happened to Littlefoot's dad? So racist that he's not even there. They had to cut ties. He's off at a truck stop looking for Elvis somewhere. I swear he's alive. Living forever.

Oh, boy. So yeah, and then there's this part where they, where Littlefoot remembers every beat of the movie. This movie is so short, it's not even 70 minutes, and part of it is Littlefoot remembering what happened. Yeah, and it's that Diana Ross song, which I'm sure. And they play the Diana Ross song, which I'm sure you're gonna... And they play the Diana Ross song. Yeah.

And it's like a montage of everything that happened in the movie. I love it, which also the score is James Horner, who like, he did the Titanic soundtrack, Alien, like all this stuff. And it is the score for this movie is, I'd say 50% of the reason why I cry in this movie. It's amazing. The music is so moving. I love it. But yeah, that's kind of, that's kind of the end of the land before time.

Well, yeah, kind of is the main word because there's so many sequels. Yeah, because there's so many sequel There's also a YouTube channel for the land before time and it has like But it's a TV show I guess as well TV show too. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm looking at the YouTube channel and it's a TV show, I guess, as well. There was a TV show too, yeah. Yeah, so I'm looking at the YouTube channel and it's like live right now is eight hours and 26 minutes of the ultimate Sharp Tooth livestream of TV show episodes. Wow.

Livestream, oh boy. Yeah, it's happening. Sharp Tooth's just playing Minecraft. Yeah, it's like, yeah. Accidentally saying the R word. Oh boy. Sharp Tooth's just playing Minecraft. Yeah. He's like, yeah. Accidentally saying the R word. Oh no. Classic Sharp Tooth.

Classic. Oh, streamers. Those streamers always do shit. The funny thing is I'm looking at the little baby Sharp Tooth guy. He looks a lot like the dinosaur from the movie We're Back. Oh, totally. Yeah, totally. Yeah, We're Back is very-

But it's not Don Bluth. No, totally, yeah, totally. Yeah, We're Back is very- But it's not Don Bluth. No. No, yeah, yeah, just something, well, cause We're Back does the thing where their eyes turn like bad, and so then you lose the whites or the pupils expand, so that felt very similar. Like the Sharp Tooth from this movie,

how are they not tied together? I know, Sharp Tooth time traveled to the future. Yes. Oh, shit, shared universe of- I think it should be a shared universe. Agreed, couldn't agree more. Well, hey, we're gonna rank this movie, but first we're gonna talk about the hunks in the movie.

It's Hunk Watch. It's Hunk Watch. So this is maybe the most challenging edition of Hunk Watch we've ever done because most of the characters in this movie are child dinosaurs. Who's the most buckable dinosaur? Let's go. I think I have an answer and I think we maybe all know what it is.

Okay. Wise old eyebrow dinosaur, right? Sure, sure. Age appropriate. Age appropriate. Let's hope so. Also, let's hope so. Also, he's wise, so he probably knows how to put down that thing, you know? Oh, shit.

Yeah, you're right. No one's gotta teach him anything. Yeah, he's been around the block. He'll have some good words of wisdom after, you know. Aftercare. Send you on your way, I guess. Exactly. In one night stand.

Yep. You know, what we just did was part of the circle of life. That's how he gets ya. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He makes you think you're a part of something bigger than yourself. That's gotten me into the sack more than once. Oh boy.

I guess maybe, you know, the Pachycephalosaurus, there's a joke you could make about their head. Wait, which one's that? Oh, those guys that look like the uncircumcised heads. Right, yeah, they do look like uncircumcised. Yeah, yeah, the pocketing voice. They're walking into each other. Yeah, yeah, it's good.

Yeah, but you're right. There's two of them. There's two of them, yeah. If you're into that kind of thing. Yeah, sure, sure, yeah. Also just the narrator's voice, which I know is the voice of our old wise vampire. What? Sorry. that'd be a

fun twist dinosaur vampires rock movie rock movie dinosaur motorcycle yeah no but it's like his voice is just I don't know it's it's very comforting I think that that the narration was a good choice in casting I'd say. If you like a bad boy, Sharp Tooth. Sharp Tooth. Some people like a bad boy who doesn't talk a lot. Yes.

Nothing behind those eyes, but lots behind those teeth. Eat me, big boy. Exactly. Yes. Kill my mom. Yes. You got mommy issues? Yes.

Solve them for you. Well, hey, it seems like we figured this out. Oh. Yes, yes. You got mommy issues, you know? Oh, yes. You called sharp tooth. That'll solve them for you. Yes. Well, hey, it seems like we figured this out. We're going to rank the movie on a scale of one to 10 super loud commercials when we come back. We're back, it's Free With Ads, we're here with Sierra Cotto, she of TV chef, fantasy league, the podcast.

We're gonna rank The Land Before Time on a scale of one to 10 super loud commercials, but first we wanna tell you about our new bonus episode that you can listen to right now. That's right, we're watching TV pilots over there on the Max Fun Bonus Feed, and we just got done with part two of the pilot to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yeah.

If you want to listen to that, maximumfun.org slash join. That gets you all our bonus EPs, one a month, and all the other great Max Fun bonus content. Sierra, do you guys throw down anything cool for TV Chef Fantasy League in terms of bonus stuff? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We had a chat with Bill Oakley the

Gordon Ramsay of fast food very exciting. My heroes former Simpsons writer funny, dude Oh, so yeah. Yeah all at TV legend TV legend. We had we interviewed to come a who was a master chef finalist So, you know some good stuff. I think more to come. All right, maximumfun.org slash join for all that bonus stuff. Hey, we're gonna rank The Lamb Before Time on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials, because that's what you gotta pay to watch it. Sierra, you're our guest. Do you want to rank this one to ten? Yeah. Gosh, I think it's just such a big cultural thing for me.

And then at the same time, like I know it's like still has its niche sort of audience. So I'm kind of, I think I'm gonna say eight. Great. It's a solid score. Yeah. Yeah. Emily, thoughts? I loved watching.

I'm so glad we picked this movie. I loved watching it again. I was very impressed with like the educational aspect of it and how moving it was and the friendship stuff. I'm giving it a tippy ten, you guys. Wow. I love this movie. I think that is absolutely, absolutely warranted.

Yes, put it in the Library of Congress or wherever you put stuff that should be around forever. The Library of Congress, I think you got that right. I don't know. Ripley's Believe It or Not, I don't know what the fuck things are. Right, might be safer there. Wherever Elvis is, put it with him. Yes.

Yeah, and I'm going to say I think this is a kid's movie, Nine. I think this is a really beautiful movie. I'm sure we'll watch them all at some point. I think this is Don Bluth's best movie. I think this is probably like his masterpiece. I think like the Don Bluth, I think the fact that it is short and simple like plays to his strengths.

I think it's like some of those other movies are a little wonky because they just go off the rails, you know, and you're like, what's happening in this? But this is like, it's just the perfect length, it's a perfect little story. Yeah, the hand-drawn animation looks fucking still cool as shit in 2025, yeah, beautiful music, great performances. Yeah, I think this is a total classic,

and I think that, yeah, if you have kids who love dinosaurs, definitely put this on for them. I can't imagine they won't love this. Stephen Ray Morris, let's let you weigh in too. One to 10, it's a land before time. This is your area of expertise. I mean, other than Jurassic Park, I think it's the best dinosaur movie.

And I think as far as kids movies go, yeah, I'm gonna give it a 10 like you, Emily. I think it's cool to see people feeling this way about dinosaurs. It almost like connects us to our childhood self in a way that I really love. And yeah, I think to your point, Jordan, there's like with Don Bluth, like this is such a short movie because they ended up cutting out like almost 20 minutes of footage, like because they said it was too scary. Like Steven Spielberg at the time. So they were watching it as they were editing,

and so they cut all this stuff out, but I kind of think it just makes it, yeah, like you're saying, that it's kind of this tight, constructed thing that never really kind of, yeah, because there was basically a plot where, like, Littlefoot, like, leaves them, like, leaves all of his friends, goes to the valley, and then comes back and then kills Sharptooth, and, like, all of his friends, goes to the valley and then comes back

and then kills sharp tooth and like, just makes it more complicated. But I think in a way Spielberg probably knew what we wanted, you know? I think them sticking together is a better choice. Yeah, yeah. Gets the point across. Leaders don't abandon their troops.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta save that valley for the end, you know? Well, he was also saving it. He had a whole scene where there was green jello that like shook a little bit. And he was like, I don't like that, but I'm going to save it. I'm going to save it. This is good for something.

He's like, I'm a clever girl. Oh, whoa. Me, me, me, me, me. Well, yeah, that's that's Lamb of our Time. We kind of loved it. Let's do a little plug in. Sierra tell us tell us again about TV Chef Fantasy League and anything else you want to talk about.

Yes, check out my podcast TV Chef Fantasy League. You know, we come out with new episodes on Wednesdays maximum fun.org and anywhere you listen to podcasts. And, oh, speaking of free with ads, I guess my special, which came out last year, is now on YouTube free with ads. It's called Funt, F-U-N-T, and it's probably easiest to find

by just looking up my name. Sierra Cato would love for you to watch it free with ads. If you watch the special and listen very closely, you might hear a certain me laughing in the background because I was at the taping and it was hilarious. I can say I saw it live, it's totally a hilarious special and yeah, I've definitely seen it pop up on so many platforms.

I know what's gonna go on my TV right now. It's great. I saw it on a plane once, I saw it on the menu of a plane. It is, yeah, yeah. It was on United for a bit. I think it is now off, but who knows? Maybe it got stuck. I don't know.

It's bug on. But I appreciate you looking out. God damn, a whole hour. You're a badass. Yeah, it's fine. Well, watch it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very funny. It's what, yeah, you know, it was, it was, it's, it's fine. Well, watch it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very funny.

It's very funny. I did my best. I did my best. I'm just pulling away. Selling it away. I can't wait. Steve Ray Morris, thank you so much for filling in for the vacationing Matt Lieb.

Tell us about your, your DinoPod and anything else. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, see Jurassic, right? It's kind of just started off as Jurassic Park. But at this point, I can connect it to anything. Margaret Cho recently was on and we talked about movies that made us queer. Obviously, Jeff Goldblum, you know, Lord Dern's outfit. Big part of it for me. We also we also recently had a psychologist on to talk about all the divorce

and all the Jurassic Park movies. So, you know, and then, and then, yeah, I interviewed the screenwriter of Lame Before Times, Stu Krieger on. So kind of is just like a mix of whatever related that I want to talk about, but yeah, see Jurassic rights. So, um, also, if you, you talk about Jeff Goldblum, he just came out with a cologne and he did a video for it and it's just a lot of him. Oh, like it's just a lot of that, Oh, oh, like it's just a lot of that. But it looks like it smells amazing and I'm buying it. I need to see this immediately.

Thank you for telling me that. No problem. Emily, you got anything coming up? You know what? I just want to savor this moment with all of you and fuck my life. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do Who cares what I'm doing? I'm doing this. Yeah, this is it.

Listen to this. Again, I'll give a little dinosaur adjacent plug. The Godzilla anthology that I wrote a story for, Godzilla versus Los Angeles, is in comic book stores now. You've heard me gabbing about it on this show, but it is a cool anthology comic about what happens when Godzilla trashes LA. I did a story with a great artist named Nicole Goo. We did a story about Godzilla smashing

the Universal Studios tram. And it's from the perspective of the tram driver. And yeah, it's in comic book stores now and it's a wildfire charity relief project. So all the money from this thing goes to wildfire relief. And yeah, and it's really great. I got to see it for the first time today and it's really, really gorgeous.

Everybody just really cooked making this thing. So please go to your local comic shop and check out Godzilla versus Los Angeles. Jordan, when are they gonna put him in the tar pits? Oh man, you know, hopefully they'll do another one. Hopefully they'll do another one. Yeah, right? Yeah, yeah.

That kinda needs to happen, but he does destroy a lot of great LA landmarks. Okay, cool. So hopefully he gets to one of your favorites. Well yeah, that's it. Thank you again, Sierra, for being here. So much fun. Thank you.

Thanks for having me on. Tune in next week when our movie will be Varsity Blues. Mm-hmm. And I'll see you next time.