Kump - Ep. 186 MEGALOPOLIS FLOPS

Episode Date: September 30, 2024

Ray and Lucie discuss the Hurricane, Megalopolis losing a lot of money, and much more. Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/RayKump for an extra episode every week! Follow Kump on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/raykump Kump Hand Merch https://bonfire.com/store/kump/ Follow Ray on Sound Cloud https://on.soundcloud.com/QbP8

Hello and welcome to Komp! Hello. Hello, Lucy. Hi. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Uh, you know, I can't complain because I wasn't hit by a hurricane.

I don't know why I rhyme that. It seems, I didn't mean to be glib. I just saw it, like, sitting there in the middle of the sentence. Not two minutes ago. Yeah. You scolded me for considering putting this story on as an aside at the end. Well, I said, should we talk about the hurricane? And you said, you know, well, it's not the funny.

The first thing you do is a rhyme. Well, I mean, look, it's like, primarily it was a comedy. We do comedy. We talk about, you know, issues of the world. Yeah. But primarily, you know, it doesn't really. that funny and you go well we can bring it up later i go well it feels weird to bring up as an aside as a you know as an also-ran story um after we talk about you know um the blu-ray boxhead of

the iron giant or whatever you know that's getting released on amazon which it's not if you're a fan of that movie i just made it up i don't know uh but yes five minutes to you know to waste time between a review of megalopolis and a review of the wild robot right that's that's a wild roll about this or whatever so i but yes then i rhymed that sentence and uh yeah i feel good about it i didn't mean to i mean whatever i'm not really a pun guy well well well rest in peace yeah well i mean at 90 souls first of all a lot of people are affected i mean is that your way of saying like you might as well be you know dancing on the grace well no like it's like i mean it's not just the 90 dead it's also the i mean hurricanes are

nasty business, you know? Oh, yeah. I love the idea of you being the commander-in-chief, whatever, the president, and we want you to come to the hurricane spot, you know, and address the people, and you get off Air Force, too, whatever, the helicopter, and you're like, residents are full, rest in peace. Oh, y'all, he's to get out of there. It's like, oh, dead. A lot of them aren't dead.

A lot of them are just devastated. If you're going to devastate people, like rest in peace. This is the end of your life. I don't know. We're actually, we survived. No, it's prolonged and inevitable. Yeah, well, it's a terrible hurricane in the west coast of Florida. East Coast, West Coast.

I never know those coasts. We wish them to, you know, we hope it to go as well as possible. Yeah. However, you know, recovery or whatever. Why they got to come up with like a, you know, some kind of reverse hose. Reverse hose. Yeah. A reverse hose. Yeah.

So your idea is that you can point a point this reverse hose at the hurricane clouds or whatever. The gale force winds. The, uh, the big, the trucks being carried by hurricane wind. Yeah. I don't know if that happens. But, you know, but whatever, the floods, you could point this hose and everything and just suck it in. Well, why not? It's more of a powerful vacuum, if anything.

You have to dream before you can. Isn't a vacuum reverse hose? There's no water pump it. I mean, they have pumps. They have, like, vacuums. I don't, I think they can suck water to a certain extent. I mean, you, but you, what you really want is, like, some kind of, like, you know, damn that, like, can pop up, you know, immediately. yeah that's a nice idea why don't we why don't we go to florida and pitch that to ronda santas

we have a emergency dam yeah it's like it's like it's like it'll be inflatable an inflatable dam is that possible i mean i'm not talking about like a kiddie pool but like you know make it a kevlar or some other ballistic material and then we have a dam and then i mean i feel like kids are going to choke on pieces of this dam probably it's probably what we'll happen that you know those kids in florida'll just gnaw on it they'll find off it'll be springloaded somehow into the side of a mountain but they don't mountains in florida whatever the side of a dune a sand dune and then like you know uh if ever case happening it'll just kind of pop out like a like a like an airbag probably kill a lot of people in the process i mean it's gonna be a powerful force if it's gonna be

the size of a dam but i pictured a lot of drunk kids you know, like drunk 10-year-olds, just, like, finding it in the sand one day and then start, you know, gnawing at it, like, like, rats? Why am I the faming Florida now? Isn't it their time of needs? Isn't this North Carolina? Oh, well, that's different. Okay.

Well, they'll let us do anything in North Carolina, probably. No offense. Well, yes. I mean, if I come to the governor of North Carolina, I can build you an inflatable dam. Yeah. Oh, well, that's a horse of a different color. or something I don't know why he would say that

um who is the governor of North Carolina is it the Wizard of Oz um who is the governor North Carolina North Carolina does I have a governor because Roy Cooper

Roy Cooper I get me a meeting Roy Cooper tomorrow yeah he looks like a reasonable man no but he looks at you know I can be I can be I can buy him. I bet I can buy them for a few hundred bucks, a few thousand. I'll give me a few grand. I'm going to sell them on this weird, very dangerous dam. I feel like an inflatable dam. That could be a good, like that could be an attractive kind of. We haven't even come close to

establishing, amongst ourselves at least, that this will in any way work. Don't forget that. No. We're worried about, like, how would we, like, shoot it out of the dune? How, you know, with kids gnaw on it and eat it? I mean, we're this thing even work at all. I mean, I don't even I barely know how it damn works. I understand it's a wall that holds water back. Like I don't understand the physics of it. I mean, I am learning math

now. And I'm very, I'm kind of, it's going well. I've been teaching myself algebra again. And I was getting kind of like, not proud of my stuff, but feeling good. And I remember, like, he's just like ninth graders. I took it's ninth grade.

So I shouldn't really be proud. Because I don't respect anything that children do. I should, I should have, whatever, but my point, I have, I still, I'm not, I can't do it yet. I can't figure out the, the angles and the pressure. But somebody probably could. Well, yeah.

That's what, that's how you entice them. You say, you just give us the money and we'll find the person who can build the inflatable down. We're going to lose all, yeah, but this only works if we can save money on like, you know, engineers and do it ourselves. That's why I'm learning the math. All right. I mean, I'm going to spend all my money on like mad guys.

I'm just doing, they're going to want like 100 grand to do a bunch of, you know, just use a protractor figure out, like, you know, how much, how much, it's like, well, there's only so much material out there, right? It's a Kevlar, maybe a better one, maybe Teflon, but like, it's not like I can just build, it's not like, oh, you tell me how much water I got to hold back and I'll just dial that into the, into the fabric. It's just what it is. It's going to hold what it holds.

What about a dome? Like, you know, Stephen King made a. a dome scary, but if you had a dome for just temporary situations. Domes are used all the... I don't know if I buy your premise, like Stephen King, like, you know, put a kibosh on domes for history. But I mean, domes that cover... Do they have a dome store?

What is there a book called the dome? It's called the dome. I didn't even ever heard of this book. I don't think it has the impact you thought it did. So you're scared of domes because of this book. You read the book? Well, you know, you see a parody like a lot in pop culture, too. The dome.

The dome of the fog Or he's afraid of fog Because he like ran a kid over in the fog once or something What's villainized isn't just any dome What's villainized is a dome that covers the area of entire town Okay Or an entire you know County

Who built it? An evil mayor or something An evil mayor builds a dome and everyone's like No one questioned it No one was like why are building a dome over our houses How is this even possible? possible how did like how does society function while they were

building this dome over it was oh wait no it might be some kind of alien life form or something well that seems very different to the corrupt mayor I mean I don't know is this are you sure Stephen King knows like it was the change from chapter of the chapter depending on which brand of beer he was

mixing with his whatever albuterol I didn't read the book I just know the cliche of the dome. I never heard this cliche. The domes are what, dangerous or evil? That they're evil.

I never heard this. The townwide domes are evil. I know like that super domes during Katrina, you know, in New Orleans had a lot of bad stuff go down. Oh, they had a bad reputation themselves, yeah. Sure, but that was because of, you know, the personal, the assaults

and the violations that happened inside the dome. Not really, the dome itself, I don't think it was described with supernatural powers. Although I think they did tear it down. Yeah, but their dome also didn't protect them from the hurricane. I'm imagining a dome that would protect you from a hurricane. I think it did all right. I mean, first of all, I think it was there. I mean, people did stay there. It didn't protect. If your idea of protecting me from a hurricane is like when a hurricane

happens, I'm going to come inside this dome and nothing can hurt me. Well, then no, because people can hurt you. The one big, the one big caveat or whatever, the weakness of a dome is that other people inside the dome can do things to you. Right. Terrible things. Well, yeah, the people inside the dome are sometimes the worst danger. Well, they didn't get, they didn't get

assaulted from outside of the dome. That's not what happened. One of those women weren't crying for stuff that happened through the dome. What's going on? So wait, we'll forget it about this whole dome being haunted thing. Okay.

I want to give you, I don't want to, like, kibosh your idea. Yeah. what was your plan just have a dome oh and then there's always there and no and the hurricanes won't hurt them something that yeah it's something that the hurricane can you know kind of just wash over

I mean it's kind of a miserable you want people to live like why I just live underground at that point why are we building a dome why we just dig a like hold around and just like hey this ditch is the florist this ditch is the bakery you know this big

just pile of piss is the pool I mean, you know, people like have yards and stuff and seeing the sky. Yeah, well, people like seeing the stars. That too. Yeah. Sure. Skies and stars. That's my motto. I'm a real estate guy.

This house gives you the skies and the stars and the young local, terrible people. These young people around here do terrible crime. but you can see the stars that's for sure you can see this that's our guarantee at skies and stars dome construction company you can see a lot of stars when they when they stab you and you fall on your back and you're looking at the stars you know what that's that's that's what you'll see it's the last thing you'll see oh man um no i think my ballistic dome is a dam is a better idea in hindsight but yeah well um so coot was this guy's cooper is his name roy cooper you said yeah roy cooper that was someone else wasn't oh yeah roy cooper uh well yeah well we'll pitch you to him and we'll see so

hopefully uh you know yeah i was worried that i would seem disrespectful that if i brought up the hurricane but i don't think it was no i think that was very um i think that was helpful actually i think hearing about that but uh when you're why when you're looking for love for love for love ones and everything you have is gone. I think you want to hear some ideas. Right. You want to hear solutions. You don't want to just hear a bunch of thoughts and prayers. You know, if I'm

hunting for my wife's killer, this is a theoretical. I'm just saying, you know, and I'm just like, no, if the cops are going, hey, hey, hey, we're on your computer, by the way. You know, I know you think we dropped the ball because this guy

done this before a bunch of times and we didn't care. But now what we bought, this new computer, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's got a, it's got a, it's got a, it's got a nice monitor. And we're gonna, like, we're gonna, we promise to use it this time and check, check, uh, uh, records when things happen. And I would go, you know what? That does make me feel a little better. At least you're admitting that there was a mistake made. Right. There's only worse than being gasolid after a loved one is, you know, killed. Sure. And you're like, that's why you have to do a vendetta, because it's just never just going like, what are you doing? What is the way in the world? So, yeah, I think I'm bringing common to the people. Yeah. You know, like, you know, your house isn't where it was.

Closure. But don't work. We got, we got some kind of ballistic dam that, you know, just don't eat it. Don't let your kids chew on it. It'll ruin it. Speaking of disasters, this movie. Oh. well, speaking, you know, first disaster,

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That's great. Thank you. Why don't I sell more? Yeah. I should be a salesman. Just selling piss. The aggressive pitch works well for you. Thank you. You know, what's going to happen when you?

I can actually sell you piss, no problem. What happens to your son? And it gets offered a job where he's making hundreds of thousands of dollars. Wouldn't that be nice? Yeah, that would be great. Yeah, but your son, what if someone made him smoke pot? Someone made him smoke pot? Is he a good boy?

Is he doing it on purpose? Probably not. He probably never would. Yeah, yeah, this is his influence. This is the influence of that neighbor girl. Oh, yeah, she's a slut. Yeah, well, you said it, not me. Anyway.

Women, right? So anyway, she should probably, you know, she probably dosed him with it with that pot. by his piss he's gonna need it it's clean piss it's good my boys don't they don't they don't I don't let them all right and people tell you oh it goes bad after a while it's not true it's piss what could change it's just what's gonna stop being piss you you think this the CSI and like the scientists don't like oh yeah I can age the pit and that's come on who would invent the machine that ages piss right it's a myth all right you buy it once you keep in the jars there you need it i'd buy a bunch if i were you

because you know but like you're the only problem you'll have is not having enough so buy as much as you can but it's not going to go bad that's that's bullshit look i might in this situation i might buy a jar okay just a jar well yeah it'll be 200 bucks 200 bucks well i mean hundreds of thousands of dollars are coming your way and you're worried about $200, a meekly $200. You just, you might as well just burn your money. That's how you think about the world. I should be able to baptize

my baby with that, because for that kind of money. You can. Who said you can't? Oh, I can. Oh, am I stopping you? Am I the Pope? Then I'll take four. All right, well, you know, that'll be six grand. No, I know how bad you want. Oh, okay. Anyway.

That's good on. So, Megan O'Loculus. This movie, look, I don't, it's no secrets about I'm a big Francis Ford Coppola fan.

I mean, I'm aware that not everything he makes is great, but I mean, I think my favorite film, and people, people sometimes, you know,

on that page on that I hear people comment, why are you always say Apocalypse now? Are you bringing up all the time? That's not, not every good episode. But it comes up sometimes. I love the film.

I'm sorry if I use it as a reference. Hey, hey, you know, Kamala Harris, she's no apocalypse now of a candidate, if you ask me. But I just mean, you know, it's just how, this is my shorthand. But,

you know, but whatever the Godfather, I think he's a tiny bit overrated. No, not tiny, a little bit overrated. It's great. It's just, like,

Apocalypse now is better. Do people go, Godfather's a perfect film, shut up. It's good. It's a little overreated. it's a little like it's a little but no it's very it's great it's a great film and so it's two two is great too and all and third is a big swing it's not great but it's you know some good

ideas in it and uh you know the rainmaker it's all right that wasn't really one of his best i'm just imagining you interviewing francis for a copeland and it's just you model like this well i mean i think you have to be flat i mean i gushed over one of his films yeah how I mean, he's not like... But you got to trash some of them to make sure. So he knows you're sincere. I'm just being honest. I'm not trying to, like, give him a...

I'm not trying to do that thing. Like, like, what's that? I'm not trying to neg Francis Ford Coppola. But, I mean, I, look, I think he's a guy who's, like, but confident enough himself that, like, you know, he doesn't need me to, like, you know, oh, and then Peggy Sue got married. Oh, people...

They don't understand how good that one was. Like, whatever. And, you know, Jack. Jack was a masterpiece. Yeah. Oh. I mean, honestly, I've heard that it gets kind of dark. It's very, it's very dark.

What's not like a kid who like dies like six years old, right? Because he like ages and he's an 80 year old man or something. By the time he's in college, he's an elderly man. Yes, I mean, he dies, right? When like the parents are like 22 or whatever. I mean, I don't know if they were going for, but I mean, I don't see that movie. The outsiders, I got to see that again. I remember watching it and thinking it was terrible.

But, you know, like it was drawn crayons. but I may have been like, you know, years ago. Is it good? The outsiders? It seems really dumb. I don't remember it too well, honestly. Hey, pony boy. They don't tell you about, oh, the greases.

There's a great. Hey, let's pull a knife on this gas station boy. In the park. That started out of the impression. It became something weird. But overall, I think he's great. You can't, if you're, if you're looking back and he made wine, right? the thing about him is he started financing his own films this little company and this this fact will become pertinent in the minute uh he started financing his own films after the godfather i guess and he made apocalypse now and he and that was a real cluster uh real real problem shoot and even he thought it was going to be a disaster and it was a wild success i or at least it was successful i'm not sure it was very successful uh and then he got eubristic

you get eubris as a Greek say a movie called One From the Heart Which I've always meant to watch I never have It's about It's a musical

About a couple breaking up And it's like special It costs a hundred million dollars For some reason Back in the musical We gotta watch this It might not be a musical I can be getting that wrong

But it's a movie That shouldn't have cost anyone Near 100 million And it did And like he lost all his money on it And that's why he spent all Like the 80s Making those terrible movies

and also, I mean, I'm sure having Nicholas Cage in your family, you know, doesn't help. It's just, you know, he probably, he's like, ah, you know, Nicholas Cage's his real name is Coppola, right? Yeah. But he didn't want, he's the only one in that family. He didn't want any nepotism. You know, his sister was Talia Shire. Well, she also didn't use his name. I don't know.

Why is no one using his name? I'd be, I'm Bob. I'll call myself Ray Copler right now. Isn't Sophia Copla? Well, yeah. Well, yeah. Well, yeah, you know, that worked out. I guess now she got whitewashed because of

she made like what that Sophie and in translation Oh a lost in translation I hate that movie Um Whatever so that's the story of Francis Ford Coppola He made a wine vineyard And he and people like that

Because whatever it's just wine People act like it tastes a difference It's like good wine and there's not good wine As long as it doesn't turn like vinegar It's all the same shit it's different grapes oh this is you could taste the the dirt who wants to taste dirt I don't understand like this one tastes like blueberries I don't know if I want to drink blueberries I drink fucking blueberries what is this shit oh cherry oh I've gotten the coffee

recently but like I don't taste fig I've never once tasted like an essence of fig yeah it'll taste like bitter ash I like it all right So Copa, he did that scam for a while. And now he's got the Megalopolis. This is a movie that he's wanted to make for years. It's about, um, what is there an article about what is it about? I've seen the trailer. I don't want to get, I don't want to get shut down, uh, by playing the trailer.

But it looks like, uh, it's got the guy who played, um, who's the young, the Darth Vader replacement. Oh, Adam Driver? Adam Driver. He, but when he played, he played Kylo Ren in the Star Wars. he's in girls and he's great i like him all he's good actor uh and he plays what like some kind of maestro i imagine what is this movie about um so this is like the beginning of the plot i don't want to read it all obviously an alternate present sorry an alternate present of american

republic all right it's like a roman republics it's a story about rome in but in the future huh just make it just make a story uh caesar catalina clashes with the new rome city mayor frank franklin Cicero. Caesar is the inventor of Megalon. God. A revolutionary new bioadaptive building material he believes can change the world

and his ambition plans to utilize it to construct megalopolis, a futuristic city of his own design. So this guy, this guy is a guy who makes like some kind of chemical compound but also designed cities.

He's a little polyglot. I'm like that guy to do Pondch invented Kevlar, but also I designed Detroit. I mean, you don't hear that every day. This guy does everything. After Caesar announces his intentions and televised speech, Cicero leads a smear campaign against him involving the death of his wife and the post-mortem disappearance of her body.

I mean, this could be a great film, but it does not sound like something that would do well today. It has too many moving parts, and long story short, it hasn't done very well so far. Right. People are saying it's not great. They might just be confused by it. I haven't seen it yet. I'm curious to see if you actually kind of like see the $100 million on the screen.

How would that work? Typically, in your mind. Like we're, you know, typically I would think a hundred million dollar movie, you're going to see a lot of like kind of stunning visuals. You're a picture you're just seeing like a bunch of diamonds. Here's my. Fabricia, get my diamond cape. Oh, I love the feeling of diamonds on my back.

That's a truest luxury of all. Fabrice, have I ever told you how much this diamond cape cost me? $75 million. It was worth every penny. And I still had enough money to buy other expensive things. We'll explain later. The total is upwards of $100 million. His wife dies, and he just, like, buries her in diamonds.

He's just got, like, a fucking, coffee can of diamonds. He's just pelting her in the entertainment with his throat diamonds on her face. Like, stop that. Oh, oh. He's like, I'm throwing diamonds in you. This is the future. I mean, that's a good point. His prop master is like, you know, we can easily recreate a realistic diamond

And then without using actual diamond material. Right. He's just like, no. He shoots himself in the leg. I'm going to tell the cops you did that. You're fired. Expect a lawsuit. Yeah, no.

So stuff like that was happening on set. Not the gunshot. But I mean, he was firing people I've heard. It was, I mean, these are lies you hear on, like, Twitter and stuff, maybe. But it was a mess. Um, but I do agree, because movies these days, these Marvel films, you tend to just get these, like, very, like, you know, it's just CG shit. So it'll be like, you know, Iron, they want to have like, you know, Iron Man not have his helmet on. So instead of taking his helmet off, they do like a CG thing or something.

Don't at me. You know I'm right. I'm in the ballpark. I'm saying they put it. So you're not really, but I like your idea of just having expensive things in the shop. Right. Like a rap video. You know, but you know what I mean, you know, visual effects, like, actually, good visual effects sometimes cost a lot of money.

Well, sure. You know, like, you know, but that's what I just said. Yeah. To see, like, how elaborate the set. Like, you know, I've heard you can see the green from the green screen sometimes. So that's not good. Not a good sign. But, I mean, but if it's all set with diamonds, I mean, and like, and gold, it does seem very shiny in the film.

Mm-hmm. What is this article that, bring up the article about how badly it's done. Megalapolis Flops the Wild Robot soars at box office So they're saying it's a flop Now this is interesting because I mentioned a vineyard Let's say here The problem here is that Coppola has

They say he spends his own money But what he really did was he leveraged his vineyard, right? He spent $100 million. He basically got a loan for $100 million Against his vineyard To make this movie he always wanted to make About Diamond diamond crimes

Francis Ford Coppola's decades in the making self-financed epic megalopolis flopped with moviegoers while the acclaimed DreamWorks animation family film the wild robots soared to number one at the weekend box office That was a wild robot. This is a guy who made The Godfather. This is the guy who made

Apocalypse Now. There's a guy who made the rainmaker and people are going to see a wild robot. Yeah They want to see a robot live with animals all you have is that what the robot the wild robot is i think it's about a robot that runs away and lives with animals does sound cute i mean i got to be honest it doesn't really pay uh to make films that aren't trash anymore like my trash i mean by anything kids like um anything that like

inspires the imagination like if you need to be inspired by a movie you know just take drugs let me tell you it's like I mean it's just they're there you just lie there with the psychiatrists I don't know like just not even lie

I mean honestly if you just explain yourself to a psychiatrist they'll probably prescribe me something to most people I mean it's just most people who aren't on like pharmaceutical drugs

probably um I'm not I'm not saying they should be but it's like hi you know who are psychiatrists they're just a bunch of you know yeah doctors who like you know listen to you talk about your wife

I know my wife said to me what I'm like I really smell I always shit all over her feet in bed I don't watch it you were talking about taking

Paxil what's that I don't know to take it they gave me a bag of pens they gave me some swag they used to I remember going to the doctor back in the day.

They used to, like, they used to just come in and, like, just dump a bunch of swag. You know, I mean, like, pens and fucking, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, like, they just had a key or something. Like, they're just, they just, they had, you know, I found out later, it was like, oh, yeah, they would just take them to the doctor of chokes and shit and get him, you know, whatever. Torsback riding. Used to be great. I mean, he used to be great to be a doctor in this country. They really ruined it because they made law saying you can't do that. As if now, but are people like off pills now?

No. But like you used to be able to make a living being a doctor. Now those people sell Bitcoin. Like I can't, if I can't make money shoving, you know, Prozac and Oxy down some, you know, hillbilly's throat, I'll just tank the economy with, you know, NFTs of Bitcoin. It doesn't worry. You know, people, bad people need jobs. Yeah. People with low morals need to have.

be funneled into work where, like, they only hurt a few people at a time. You can't give them scalable pain in the form of economy-crushing jobs, you know? But I digress. We're here to talk about the wild robot. Megalopolis, Coppola's vision for a Roman epic set in modern-day New York was never expected. I thought it was Rome. A Roman epic set in modern-day New York. That's so confusing.

Why does it go to Roman make it? Yeah. was never expected to perform close to that level. But the film's $4 million debut was still sobering for a movie that Coppola bankrolled himself for $120 million. Oh, so he put $20 million of his own

of his actual cash. $120 million. He went to the bank and was like, I looked at $20 million. I said, what was it for? He's not going to get business. Who would ask me? I had that situation once.

I had a situation where my rent was like, I don't know, $8.50 a month. But I would pay, like, the guy had the cable, like, hookup, but he had, like, Vios or whatever, you know. And he just charged me whatever the cost, like, from CableVision or Vios, whatever, for an additional box for the cable. Which is not a bad setup. So it was, like, whatever. Like, it was actually $17 or whatever. So my rent would be, like, $8.67.

This is years ago. It was actually a decent apartment in Long Island. But the point is, it was, like, $8.67 or something a month, some weird number. And so I would withdraw that from the bank And, you know, to give it to the guy And one time is tellers Young, you know, a guy, my, he's like, my, I was at the time. Yeah.

He's like, oh, strange a man, what's it for? And I wasn't that confident about it, but I was like, what? What do you mean, what's it for? He's like, oh, this is a weird number. I don't know, you're a damn business what this for? You can't ask me that. I'm like, I can ask you. That might be the first time I ever,

Because now, like, I'll, I don't try to yell at, you know, workers. But, like, I won't, I'm not going to get bullied. And, you know, and what I interpret is being bullied or attempts at bullying, maybe, you know, whatever. Maybe I'm pretty loose with that. But I stand up for myself. Um, that might be a first. Honestly, that was good. That guy's probably a menace.

Yeah. He's probably always asking people what they're pulling money out for, like a creep. Probably a fucking, yeah, he's probably in the bushes. He's really some kind of like voyeur. Yeah. He wants to, he's too afraid to watch people piss. Yeah. So he's, he hasn't what that.

their bank numbers. Oh, what's A67? Oh, what are you buying a bunch of a collection of old coins? What is this? I mean, is that the weirdest shit that happens to the bank? I imagine things, especially in the 2000s, when the mortgage crisis was going on and everyone, everyone's on, you know, whatever.

I don't want to mention oxies again because it seems, you know, redundant. But, you know, but, yeah, that was happening at the time, too. right yeah and this guy and like nothing you would think that you know in a bank day everyone's on drugs and doing crimes and i'm just like he's like 867 it's like 3 o'clock in the afternoon he hasn't anything crazier that day he's asking me about my why why is there an odd number that you withdrawing usually people withdraw even number money point is uh what was my point why did i bring up that story i don't know um oh yeah yeah went to the bag and...

So you relate to Francis Ford Coppola here. Yeah, because the guy's like, you know, what's the four? And he's just, you know, I said, I'm going to give me you a daughter who's paying her for the sex I got. He said, what? I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Padre. Following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

I assume the guy's daughter was, you know, of age. I wasn't implying that. I would assume so, too, yeah. My daughter's 10. He's like, oh, I feel terrible. Following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, critics have been mixed on. Coppola's first film in 13 years audience gave it a D plus cinema score

but any financial measure by any financial measure Michelopolis was a mega flop but from the start the 85 year old Coppola maintained money wasn't his concern Coppola fashioned the film which he first began developing in the 1970s as a grand personal statement about human possibility well that sounds not realistic

you think the extent of human possibility is how many holes you get fucked in you know i wonder if he really thinks bioadaptive uh architecture is oh right the key to utopia yeah i mean it definitely seems like i mean i i don't i doubt he made a movie about a guy who like hey look look at these bioadaptive houses and it all works out you know but maybe maybe they killed the guy because they're so good right and this guy it's possible I don't think that's I don't know what that means

first of all What's a bioadaptive house So if it rains what It turns into a boat It's terrible idea Just stay a house How does typically protect you Against if it rains

Your walls that are made of human skin Start dripping Jesus But if it helps It adds to the You don't get asthma Because the air is not dry It's humid

What the hell And what happens What happens in the same? Sandstorm, what's it do? Or the walls, they work. Oh, good. I mean, most houses don't really need to be bio. Most bio stuff, I mean, if it's a fire, does it, like, just turn into an ice cube?

Your house is just those freezy, freaky gloves. Remember freezy freakies? Freezy freaky's? There were these gloves I said, I was a kid. They were all the rage, and it was a pair of gloves you'd have. And when it got really cold, a picture of a painting. would turn up on it oh or something i love my freezy freaky's yeah that's it oh wow these the kind of things got me excited when i was a kid oh i had a robot one did you have the gondom one

i had a roll it is a gondom basically that's basically a gondom yeah wow i probably got suit over that it just says robot yeah there's all like these knockoffs like they have some kind of my little pony knockoff right they have a gun they'll pine yeah this is is one of those most of dumb spaceships This is the I mean We have a BMX one

Yeah Well BMX is popular When I was a kid Like they would just sell BMX By you're a BMX bike I don't know what it meant I was the dirt I don't know I had BMX bike

But I was just you know Had training wheels on it Anyway I had the robot But that's basically what he's talking about Like Right Oh, Don Giovanni, bioadaptive, I'm just a simple farmer. What does that mean?

Oh, when you're a house, when the rains, a picture of the village of marriage who was up on it. Oh, that sounds so nice. It is nice. I also designed the city of Portland, Oregon. My mother was stabbed there. Oh, I'm sorry. It was nicer when I built it. Everyone's so worried about money, Coppola told the Associated Press in an interview ahead of the film's release.

I say, give me less money and give me more friends. What was going on? Those friends abandon them? I don't know what he means by friends. Is Adam Driver his friend now? He's just calling him Adam Driver. He's just like just calling it Adam Driver. You know that sucks.

When you're Adam Driver and you're just living in a. What is this? I don't know. It's a mailman. We don't, the mailman doesn't come here no more. All right. I'm just a picture.

I'm sorry, but I'm just, you can go on. It's fine. It's not what you think it is. Okay. Adam Driver, living in a river of pussy essentially.

You know, he's a movie, he's like the last movie star. Matt Damon's old now. No offense, Matt Damon. I'm sure you can still smash. You know,

Ben Affleck. you want to buzz them in yeah just a second i'll monologue about ben i feel like a matt damon and how old they are but you know they're 50s and 60s adam driver is living like the rock star movie life and he and he has copla just sitting there just like you know coughing calling him at 2 a.m. bothering him just that you know hey do you ever see you what do you think about the three stooges i always prefer the marx brothers and he's just like i'm trying to bang this chick from Tinder or whatever what's that I think Raya

Will the rich people use Is that app Raya Adam Driver is trying to like You know Pick up some chick on Is it called Raya? Oh like celebrity dating app or something Yeah yeah I think so

He's trying to stick it to Florence Pug And like Francis Ford Coppola's like You know what you want to go fucking hang out of the Rockefeller Center like it's not even Christmas What are you talking about? You know I like just looking up and thinking about make us to know there what you're talking about i like hot dogs you like hot dogs shit like that you know um or maybe coa copa's probably a good dude i'm not i'm making

it seem like he's just some you know he probably he just makes wine all day and and like also cheats on his wife probably i'm assuming i don't know for a fact but like in the way that his wife wouldn't even care like you know i mean like he's like an 85 year old time you at that point you think his wife was like, no, no, some more time with me. So whatever. I'm saying. Studios passed on Megalopolis after Cannes.

Lionsgate ultimately stepped forward to distribute it for a fee. Coppola also picked up the tab for most of its $15 million in marketing costs. The film which stars Adam Driver, Nathaniel Emanuel, and Aubrey Plaza also played in about 200 IMAX locations which accounted for $1.8 million

of its ticket sales. I think, look, first of all, I'm going to caveat this with, I'm going to go see this movie. I think all of you should too. I mean, I don't get points on it or anything. And while you're at it, also on Netflix this week, on Tuesday, October 1st, Tim Dillon's got his show coming out. Tim Dillon's, This is America. Very funny show.

So also watch that. But watch this Megalopolis. And also, that being said, it does not bode well. that, you know, I don't know, when you're, when they, when they, when they can, and the can, they think it's like, I used to think can was like a pretentious film festival. Yeah. But the more I learn about it, it's just more like, it's just where you go, like, it's like a butcher shop for films. You go there. That's where you, like, basically that's where like Bob Ski Raleigh as a jup, Jupiter films, fucking agrees to buy, like, you know, the, the, the, the, the Ukrainian rights to your shit, your shitty, like, you know, action with comedy with John Claude Van Dam.

You know, I mean, that's not, this is, I always just thought it was like, you know, that Palm Dior's shit. Like, that's like, that's not most of it. Right. So he goes there and then none of these scumbags, these arms dealers who longer than money through films could, uh, does, so, do this movie we had any merit. And he's like, I'll just, well, I just got to go straight to the public. I'll spend 15 million showing them what this is. I mean, the trailer looks bold. Right.

Doesn't unless look good. But, I mean, you're supposed to see the films of great people. what do you what do you want though the look I like a little Iron man I like a Spider-Man movie once in a while but who made those movies what are their names those brothers oh the

the liars the ones I don't believe that they're brothers the Russo brothers also Italian men if it seems that sounds like but whatever they probably know whatever I'm not disparaging Italians the point is they made a couple

movies on their own that weren't Marvel movies weren't any good, right? No one liked them. And that's fine. Very successful at making Marvel. They make the good ones, the ones people like, and they're coming back. But they don't make, oh, we won't branch out on their own. They're like, oh, no one gives it.

This is not time for people. No one's good anymore. Scorsese is like 50% of what he was. He's still great. But, you know, kills him. I liked it, but it's just, you know, it's just, whatever. Everything's got to be five hours now. And no one's getting a bed put in a box cutter machine.

You know, I'm just saying, uh, this is, like, this is who you get. Wait, wait, you're, you're going to go see, uh, you're going to go see some movie that directed by like that, you know, some guy off YouTube, one of those stupid spoof guys. He's like film nerd guys who bitch about film. He's Patrick Willem types, you know, like, I said, uh, and this is that movie, shut up. Go make something shut up, talk about movies all day. I'm saying like This is this is what you do

These people sit around They have millions of views And their YouTube channels And these people are like you know These people seem to care about film Francis Ford Coppola comes out with a film At 14 years Look is it good?

I don't know You don't get this idea that you have to own You have to know how amazing a movie is going to be Before you see it Just go take a risk So why it costs 100 bucks per ticket And your kids are going to want a falafel And that's like 80 you know

I get a fucking flophole five bucks in the street and you're charged me 80 bucks you know yeah it ain't great but I mean do you want to live in a world you want to live in like Soviet Russia where the arts illegal arts this is capitalism arts cost money you know you want everything to be a picture of the Virgin Mary holding the Jesus what they call it a paella a Pieta a Pieta you want everything to be a goddamn Pieta because that's if you if you do

Don't pay any money, and the church will pick up the bill, but they always have. That's why we don't have P.8 is every two feet in society anymore. Because capitalism happened, and we start paying for art. I got to say some of those Piazzos were pretty good, though. They're great, but if I'm going on a date, I don't want to be, I'm trying to get, you know, I'm trying to make something happen back in the day, not a married man. Right. But no one wants to take a date.

And they're trying to get the bang and get lucky. Get a lucky bang. they want a P.A. screen. They want, you know, some horror movie. Or Francis Ford Copeland while you're at. I'm just saying, if you, if you want

art, it'd be just a bunch of, just a bunch of pictures of Jesus getting crucified and spit on. I mean, the things the Catholics did. I mean, because the artists were good, but they could be like, I mean, is anyone else wants some art? And does anyone else have money right now?

It's 60, it's the year 1,700, whatever, 1650. Does anyone want to buy some art? And someone can preach going to work. I was like a picture of Jesus getting put in a fat of acid. Like, what? They did them so hard. They, before you, they, yeah, I know they crucified them. No, before they crucified them.

They made a walk with the cross. I mean, all right, well, those sound bad. heavy cross oh that's heavy yeah and then they only did what they did with whips gee i can paint the whips and i already got that da Vinciori did that from me i want you to paint him the the shit mixing in with the blood and his forehead from the whip wound just like a real close-up of that that's what happened to art because no one else wanted to spend money on it and then adam smith came along and invented capitalism and now we can get you know you can watch a Anderson movie, if you want.

You watch Rushmore. And there's got to be a fucking Jesus, you know, fucking on the verge of death. Just saying. So if I can take a risk with your money, I'm sorry. Like, it might be great.

You know who is a really really wanted to cast the Godfather? Robert Redford. All right? Not everything is what you think is going to be. This might be a fantastic film. You can't go on rotten tomatoes.

You go, oh, it's just, what's the, What percentage of scumbag film critics thought this was good? They're always wrong. Yeah. I mean, like... Oh, no, like, they've definitely, like, you know... I kind of hate... I kind of hate...

Sometimes I'll look at it, because I'm just, like, really unsure about something. Right. But I hate reading all those, you know, everybody trying to be clever in the comments. Yeah. I hate film reviews. No, you know... Everything's made by Apple TV now. You're Ridley Scott.

Who's made some good films? Let's not a kid ourselves. Yeah. Because, like, Napoleon, might as well have been, like, you know... Oh, yeah, like, after Napoleon. And look, I didn't think Napoleon was great. No, it was terrible. But, yeah, it's like reading some of the reviews of Napoleon.

It was clear. Like, some of these people just like, I'm going to take Ridley's scad down and not. Oh, yeah. No, I mean, but also it's just... He made alien. Yeah, it made alien. Shut the fuck up. Yeah.

Piece of shit. It's the weapons. Napoleon's like whipping his dick around and telling them. And then you can see a smartphone. Who cares? Right? The guy made alien. Thumb and Louise

You know I never thought Gene Davis was that hot But then you see Thumbull in Louise I get it Now I get what she was a big star All right so who cares if he's fucking If the pony is playing Angry Birds While he invades Corsica

Whatever I mean This wild robot movie Yeah you want to see it I mean It's about it's about what It's about a little robot What's just a big of a little robot

Just bring up a picture of what he looks like. I'm picturing like a little... How do I know exactly what it would look like? It's just some stupid... It's a robot with a fox and a possum. Honestly, this looks dope. No. No, this is a problem.

First of all, kids should not be... Robots are... First of the only exist, they're stupid. You know, the idea of robots is dumb. Why would it... You know, what robot is? It's just some fucking spike that goes... the ground.

It just looks with oil. You know, it's just, a robot is just something that, you know, it's just, it makes a computer chip out of a kid's skeleton. You know, it carves things because they're a robot. That's what robots are. No one needs a humanoid robot. No one needs a thing that looks like a person. Yeah.

I mean, unless you want to have sex of it. I mean, that's the one application. you know this idea you have like a maid i mean it's kind of perverse like you have rumbas already but no we won't look i like the fact that it picks up all my dirt and and and piss but could it look like a person so i can imagine you know it's like whatever i'm just saying so and now we're supposed animals have no sentience i mean i love my cap but it doesn't doesn't reason sure but these these animals somehow were showing his empathy or a bag of, you know, aluminum. Well, I mean, the Iron Giant was basically a robot.

He was sympathetic. First of all, I can give a, I don't give a shit about the Iron Giant. I don't know what it's about. What is it about? It's about some fucking robot that, like, you know, it was supposed to, like, you know, bomb an orphanage and then forgot. What happened to that movie? I think maybe he is some kind of military weapon, but, like, he becomes friends with a kid.

They always are. You know why? Like short circuit was that. It's a military weapon and then magically, through magic, it becomes something that doesn't kill people. You know, why? That's the only thing they're good for. You fucking, then they kill people. And honestly, I wonder if they'll even be different.

They'll probably save money. And I'm going to retool the factories. So although the horror robots will just be, also be killers. And when we fight China in a war, it'll just be the horror robots. you know they'll just change they'll change like the they'll take the the pump thing out so if you capture they don't want the worst thing in the world if I'm a general it's like so we say I'm talking to the president of the United States look it didn't go too bad we only lost uh you know 500 of our horror slash soldier robots problem is it was oh it sounds great it's great general comp but

there's one problem I got I got to speak truth to power here all right I'm I'm not going to take all your, all your kisses. That's telling me the problems. You know, it's not like, you know, it's not like other wars. I mean, I guess sometimes soldiers got fucked when they got captured. But, I mean, he's a horror robot. So, I mean, we're giving them, you know, free whore prostitutes, whatever. And it's helping their morale.

So in light of that, I think going forward, we should have a, you know, we should have an interchangeable, you know, port. there and it's just a solid block when they go to war we take out the pussy or the dick it's gone or you just take it out you don't put anything there i mean you don't want you don't want to get moldy down there so whatever the point is uh and and then you know and then we go to dinner and president and i but the point is uh that's what robots are for okay yeah i mean that makes sense but you think the iron giant what's the but i think that sometimes sorry i was a long diet try i'm sorry look that is probably closer to the reality i'll give you that sure

well you know but sell me on the iron giant go look he's he's just a fun brave giant yeah who helps this little kid out right and uh you know he's that he's not trying to hurt anybody well why is a kid need help um um i'm trying to kill his family I don't know Maybe the military comes after them I'm not sure I don't really remember The last part of that movie That would be a great thing

I mean honestly I would be a great general Same universe is the last thing But I'd be like hey Mr. President What do you want We make robots That like go hunt and kill families What?

Hear me out, hear me out But then they raise the kids So it looks good We get to pretend like we're good people You know, it's like, it's a peace mission and a killing mission. Mm-hmm. And it's just confusing. It can be called, it can be called bots for boys.

Bots for boys, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because they only raise the boys. Enough of this. Oh, why is everything got to be gendered? Because it's better that way. People like it.

Don't worry about it. You can, if you want to invent something, you can make it bots for children. I'm calling a bots for boys. Anyway, I like that. My boys got bots. Um. Adam Drive Yeah someone

Are Freezy Freakies What what's our takeaway here I should make a children's movie Yeah What kind of What kind of creature Would you want to make a children's movie about It's just a

It's a guy who sells insurance It's just one of those movies Like up Where everyone's like I didn't see up He's like a balloon salesman Yeah And then he like steals a lot of balloons From the factory or something

Yeah. And this kid gets stuck in the house, whatever. His grandson, like, almost dies because he, like, brought a bunch of balloons home. Something like that. I'd make a movie where this guy to sell an insurance, like life insurance. But he sells it with kids with parents not knowing.

And he can basically, this guy. Well, he's like the villain in the movie kind. You find out he's a villain. But he's like, his guy, these kids all, like, get summer job. It's called summer jobs. And he's like, they get these summer jobs because his like local guy kind of gaslights these kids. He like grooms them

into buying, you know, they're thinking they need to get life insurance. And he just and then he just takes like he charges them like a hundred bucks a week or something. Like it's some crazy number. And, uh, but then his kid dies and like he doesn't

pay it out because he doesn't work for an insurance company. It's a total scam. And so it's about how these kids get revenge by, um, they basically they they start they start a carnival uh with the help of a priest to hire it's like a hitman oh wow yeah it's like you know and uh and then they raise they almost they don't raise enough money but they do wow yeah and the whole checkov's gun thing you see the hitman at his house with a gun earlier check house is checked off there that's first shot at the movie

It's a guy It's a hitman He puts a fucking sign out So he's like open for business It's foreshadowing And so these kids Just montages Like it's just animated montages of kids

You know Working at McDonald's or Mowing lawns And And this guy This guy's into like horse bedding It's yeah I'm not making the Mona Lisa here

It's a movie Yeah Yeah They'll probably be a musical number Do you think we could get Francis Ford Coppola to direct this? Now, sure. I'm going to go, whatever this bank is that, like, lent them the money for this fucking, you know, I'm just going to go to them.

I'm not even going to ask him. I'm like, give me Copa. And I'm like, like, you know, he gives us a lot of money. I mean, I guess I just take his vineyard. That's the thing. He don't give his shit. Yeah. You think he's going to do something to the vineyard?

If the movie flopped, he has to give them the vineyard, did he, like, set it on fire? Well, I just meant, like, like, the, I don't know. Isn't the thing when you dump salt on it, it ruins it? Salty, salts his vineyard. I mean, I would. If my movie, if I worked on a movie from the since the 70s, and then, like, you know, the bank thinks they can take away my vineyards. Just because I put it up as collateral.

It's just because no one wanted to see my dumb movie. About a guy who invents a bioptive. house. I know it's the design of the city. What is he finding? Love is a shitty Levittown? Yeah.

It's a Cronenberg Levittown. It's what it is. I mean, have you been to Levitown? No, I mean, I've seen pictures of it. Yeah, but currently. No. It's not great.

I mean, I'm not saying it's, I'm not saying you confuse it for like a scene from a, I don't know, what's this? What's the movie where everyone doesn't want to live? Can we think of one movie where people don't want to live there? The Terminator 2 in the future. But any of that. Sure.

You know? Yeah. It's better than that. It's better than it's not, but it's not great. Well, good luck to Levitown. Good luck to Levitown.

Good luck to Transford Copeland's Megalocalypse. I didn't know we were going to spend most of the episodes talking about him. But I mean, he earns it. He earned the right. Now, you know how we go. I mean, but find out for yourself.

Don't wait for gurus. Enough with the guru shit. I mean, like, you know, a guy like Kobe makes good a movie. Yeah, I respect,

but some guy, I'll teach you how to make a movie. No one can teach you shit. They can teach you how, you know, make a bird house. Not make a movie, all right?

These YouTubers, enough. Enough for you, uh, you want to this is great cinematography. You barely know what that means. You probably think of a gaffer. You don't even know what gaffer is.

And if you do, who cares? just knowing things doesn't make you good shit I don't want to read a book that doesn't mean anything this guy this guy put his fucking vineyard up

you're going to question him go fuck yourself seriously eat shit and die I'm done with these freaking people remember if you like this show you know you subscribe to it that's what you do all right subscribe

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