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Episode Date: July 8, 2026

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Nice right that's gold Good enough for a cold open Great enough for a cold open okay Welcome welcome one and all Matt has something very important to say That's right guys I'm wearing shorts today Yeah

That's some thigh action You know the members Patreon Well sorry the patrons Not the members, the channel members The patrons got to get a sneak peek at these outfits That's right, because on last week's Super Mega Jr., we were wearing these same outfits. We previewed them off.

Yeah, we showed them off. You got to see all this, and now everyone gets to see it. But, you know, the patrons got to see it. I mean, listen to that thigh. You know, I don't typically see your thighs that often. I know, right? Or really, your legs at all. I know.

You camouflage them in pants. I do. I choose to keep them camouflage, but I woke up today, and I said, life is too short to go trousered every day. You know? Why? You look, you think about me.

You're like, how come he never gets, has to wear jeans or slacks or something? I did. I, I rubbed my chin and I looked up to the left. Where the thought bubble was. The thought bubble went boop,

and I saw you. And I, and it zoomed in on your legs with all that free skin showing. And I said, you know what? Today's the day. Do they look good?

Do they look good? I mean, I think a better question would be Do they look bad? So I could yell, no! And then I'd lick my lips. And then my heart, my pupils would turn into a heart shape and red. Okay, well, you can't do that, but you can at least do the lips.

There you go. That's two of the three things. Well, I can't see your eyes. No, it doesn't. I'm going to try to make them into a heart shape. Hold on. Zoom in, Luke, zoom in so people can see. Like, I'm trying to, like, hold on.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Huh? Anything? No. There's a universe where that happened. And I probably, I probably freaked the fuck out. I tried to make it happen with my mind's eye. I tried to see it.

See it, think it, do it. You know? Can I do it? I think I just popped a blow of a whistle in my head. At least it wasn't one in your penis. No. No, no, no, no, no. I'm on an incredibly high dose of Cialis, though.

So it would be very easy for it just to explode. See Alice. Cialis. Well. with how much tang you're getting. Hey. And I ain't talking about the stuff they drank up in space. No, no, no.

Yeah, they took it to space. Did they? I did. Was it like, were they like, oh, God, this kept us healthy, and this rejuvenated us? No, they probably got up there and they're like, yeah, look, they packed us this brand new orange powder. Oh! Dude, opening the fucking thing of tang in space. Oh, fuck.

The powder just is like, it creates a smoke screen. I can't see shit. Houston? Hold on. They're phoning us in. Yep. We got a problem. What do you mean?

There must be leaking oxygen. Dude, the people send them up there with a prank. They have like, they put itching powder on the floor, so when they get up with the space, it starts to rise. Houston shit. Oh, fuck. They put it in the tank. They're oxygen tanks. Dude, I'm imagining, honestly, how fucking hilarious.

Just opening one of those containers of Tang in space, and it just goes every... They would have to, like, evacuate the airlocks to get all... They'd have to blow the airlocks to get all that out of there. Okay, how about this? A short horror film. All right? Short horror film.

It's the 80s. All right? They send the astronauts up... They're making it in the 80s, or it takes place in the 80s? How would we make it in the 80s? I don't know. I thought, you know, because film movies look different when they were made in the 80s.

I was seeing if aesthetically you were thinking of something that was made in the 80s or if you're just doing like... It takes place in the 80s. Okay. They send the astronauts up in the space shuttle with the tang. They open it. This happens. They're like, we got to blow the airlocks. Because they can't breathe.

Except it's called orange powder drink. Orange powder drink. Because they can't use the... They have to pay a lot of money to tang. Orange ginas. Oh, dude. And this is the opening scene. They blow the airlocks.

All that orange powder just goes out into space. Right? And it's like, oh, thank God, Christ is averted. That powder. Does it drift? It drifts out in space. Like this cloud of orange genus. Orange genus.

It's tang. We'll just say tang to make it easier. In the script it says tang. They couldn't get tang for the actual filming of the movie. The studio made us, you know, we have to change it in the final draft. But it's floating around. Ready? Somehow, the radiation from the sun, the cosmic radiation, hits the tang, turns it into a

sentient being, like some scary alien life force. And then that starts, it starts coming back to the ship. And the astronauts have to fight it off. That's not the direction. I thought you were going to take it like the tang floats to like an alien spacecraft. And they like intake it. And all of a sudden they become like, they're like, this is some good stuff. And then they attack Earth for our tang.

See, that would have been an incredible marketing campaign. They could have done a whole bunch of, like dude, in the 90s, couldn't you see those commercials with like aliens like taste the Tang, and they're like, miz-and-ins with like a shot of them destroying Earth, and it's like, tang, so good you'll die for it. I don't know. Yeah, something. I mean, I liked when, I guess I don't see too many commercials, but I felt like,

especially kids commercials, like on Nickelodeon Cartoon Network and stuff, they were, one, creative and fun, but there were a lot of commercials that had this tinge of crassness or matureness or darkerness. darkness or just oddness that just like one for me are the realistic faces on the fruit heads of those kids that had gushes. I knew you were to say that one. The gusher's one? Yeah, that creeps me out. Then you can go for, and that could have, you know, that's non-intentional. Capri's son. But then purposely, yeah, Capri's son, a lot of the kids like die.

They fucking die. And then, you know, the berries and cream is just an odd commercial. It seems like almost like a, like a sketch show or something. berries and cream, berries and cream. It's a Saturday night live thing. It does. It did. It did. I wanted to say it does, and it did, and it came out as it dud.

It does. It's your brain trying to do what evolution did for our bodies with language. Exactly. You know, people might say, Matt, you just messed up your grammar. I like to think that I just revolutionized grammar. It's a good way to look at it. I pushed the frontier forward. I dud.

I dud. I dud. You know what I mean? Yeah, I do. You know what I meant? Is the future just, you know, you know what I mean? No, I mean. You know what I mean.

I mean, right? I mean, that's already happening. Too big a go. Yeah, just shortening things, making it faster and more garbled. Well, so if you went back like a thousand years and you heard them speak English, you know, it's like a different language. Like you wouldn't really be able to understand it. And they wouldn't be able to understand you. The island would be so foreign to us.

Right. And I wonder if you went. I feel like because of the rise of technology, that's not going to happen as much. Like, it'll still change. Yeah. Because back then, you know, people spoke the way they did just because the people around them. And then groups would separate. You get different accents.

You get different dialects. But now it's like because English is preserved in media and we all see it nonstop, you know, I feel like it's not going to change. It'll obviously change a little bit as it. as language does, but I feel like a thousand years from now, English will still be

relatively, I feel like you'd be able to travel a thousand years from now and still understand, yeah. Whereas like if you went a thousand years back,

well, if you went hundreds of years back even then, you're not gonna, you'd probably pick up a, you know, connecting words. It kind of be fun

because you'd kind of be like listening to them talk and you could pick some up and you're like, what does that mean? What does that mean what does that mean what you just said? I mean,

there's still, There's modern dialects that I think perfectly obfuscate the language that they're speaking, like Irish, like a thick Irish accent. Oh, dude. A lot of times it's like, oh, they're speaking words that we understand, well, that we know we just don't understand them spoken through this strange, mystifying dialect of harsh back country Irish. Same with like Bogans in Australia. Like the really thick outback, like they're speaking English, but like I'll listen to it. they'll be speaking fast and I'm like I picked up two words. It comes out like,

I know, I know, I'm like, what the fuck? Come again? Kind of like what a, hey, come on now.

Kind of like a French Canadian accent does that sometimes a lot. You know, ex QC has that. Well, that might just be too much out of all. I don't know. I mean, the thing is I,

he himself is hard to understand in general. His accent doesn't help. But I, I've heard other people where I'm, like, oh, that sounds like SQC. And then I realize it's just like a someone from Quebec or somewhere. And it's like, oh, that's literally like a dialect the way he sounds is a dialect.

You know, I didn't think Canadians get much worse. And then they made him French. Woo! I'm not sure if it's like the French. It's some form of dialect that he has where other people talk like that. Yeah. Well, you know. He just, I mean, he has his own dialect, I think.

The ex-QC? Yeah. Yeah. French Canada. I've been once. And? Well, I thought we went on, no, we didn't go to French Canada. We just went to Vancouver.

Went to awesome Vancouver. We went to Epic Vancouver. British Columbia. That's not French Columbia? And I've been to Toronto. I've been to Montuello and Toronto. How'd you like Montreal? Montreille.

Montreux. It's French. How'd you like it? I liked it a lot. It was nice. What's the vibe of this? Does it feel just like Melbourne? Does it feel like any other countries like,

city. Essentially, you know, it's just a, it's not like the cream of the crop in terms of cities, but it's a city. It's a big city. It didn't really feel like America. It felt European. It felt, I haven't been to Europe, but it felt American adjacent, but there was a lot of French.

Everything was in French. And it was pretty smelly. Pretty smelly. French is a dead language. It is. There's only a few people that really speak. Like, if you look at the grand scheme, like, look at Humane. separate it into a chart of French speakers and then non-French speakers.

Would you even be able to see the French part of the pie chart? Nope. Probably not. No, actually, there's a lot of like African countries that speak French. No, they speak forms, they speak French, but they also speak different forms. Like, there's so many different languages in Africa. Yes, based on like French languages and other languages, but they are different in of themselves. Like they have different words and stuff like that.

Like, if you go in from one area to another, it's going to be vastly different in terms of understanding what the language is. For some. I'm sure there's a blanket language, the motherland language, and maybe that is just... Like Haiti is, you know, they speak French and the Ivory Coast and stuff. Here's what I think about the French. I already had a bad opinion. But then Clivocular went to France. You see what happened?

They threw drinks at him and flipped them off. And he in turn, why did he why did they do that? Because he's clavicular Wait really just because yeah I mean I mean it's well-deserved no literally and then he he went online and he was mad he said French girls are the ugliest because of The way you know in in World War II all the attractive people died off and I saw someone they were like Blaming your lack of being able to get girls on moves the Allied forces made 80 years ago is you is another kind of cope. Let me see real quick.

I think I'm doing this right. Hold up. Things you don't want to hear your surgeon say. Right? Luke, please put a laugh track in after I said that. Just, I would appreciate that. Thank you.

You know, it's pretty good. Did I do the math right on this in terms of figuring out the percentage of, like, I tried to do, I did 350 million people speak French to eight billion, right? 350 million divided by 8 billion Is 4% of the...

Dude, I don't know how to do... World's population. Very embarrassing. I don't know how to do that type of... I think to figure out the percentage is something you... Yeah, because, well, what I know is you do... You multiply it by, like, point... I don't know, dude, the fucking education system failed us.

Should I go ask Luke if I did this right? I think that's correct. That seems right. God, this is embarrassing. Luke? Maybe you move the decimal? I don't know. Oh, God. This is so, I mean, you guys saw us. Recently we played a putt, putt and fatty bears adventure circus something where it's just a whole bunch of activities.

Tick-tac-toe, checkers. And a lot of you guys were mad at the way we played checkers going, oh, the fuck, do you not know how to play checkers? We did know how to play checkers. We were just taking a different approach to it, a different strategy. One comment pointed it out great. They said that the way we chose to... Correct yourself in editing if you're not. Was he what? Luke said that sounds about right, what I did.

About? He's watching the Sonic movie. Luke's watching the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, the first one. So he was giving not as much attention as he probably could have. But maybe editor Luke, who's the same Luke, but it's a different mindset. It's a different Luke. It's not the same. Yeah, maybe you could.

be like, did you do it right? And I got around 4% of the world's population, which on a pie chart you would be able to see. That was 0.04. You moved the decimal. Okay, okay, that's what I... Is that what he said?

No, I mean, that's what I said earlier. I mean, to figure out the percentage of something, you're looking at how much of this is going into that, and then when you do the... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. You're right, you're right. Me describing division? When, um...

You and I should try to take the SAT today. I get below 1,000. Well, I mean, based on the writing, you and I wrote a book. Well, they didn't throw the writing section out. I did great on that section. But we wouldn't throw our writing score out. We'd make it fair. It doesn't matter.

The colleges throw it out. And now... Not at Super Mega College. Thank you. Super Mega University. Well, because writing is more important to us. that you can form thoughts and that you can tell a creative

story even. Like, I don't even care if it's the on prompt. If all of a sudden, like, the prompt is about describing, you know, like a, like what led to World War II or whatever the fuck it would be, if that's your writing prompt and you start writing a wonderful story of like some sort of personal fan fiction fantasy type stuff, I'm probably going to stay intrigued and give you a higher score

because it's not boring. Oh, yeah. Dude, because think about this, if you're one of the SAT graders, you have to sit there all day and read the same fucking shit of kids trying to get by. Kids trying to bullshit their way through to sound smart. And then you get to one where it starts time about World War II and then it just changes and it starts talking about, I don't know, fucking Woody and Buzz having gay sex. That's awesome. Well, they're both of age, right? Yes.

Woody and Buzz? Yeah. Just double checking. And the Buzz Lightyer movie, they showed lesbian. They show that lesbians exist. A little lesbo kiss. Not a fan. I like that that's what makes people angry.

You're showing that they exist in the first place? You know? Not in my buzz light year. Like it becomes a big thing with those circles of the internet. Even if it's, granted, most of the companies do it just for like a little thumbs up from the North American and European audiences, I'm guessing. But like, even if like there's a queer character in the background kissing their partner who's not even a main character of the whole thing, people will be like, can you believe? they threw this in there. Gotta put it in everything now.

I know. It's just like, I don't know. I think it's pretty representative, at least. You know, at least the least you can do is have this swath of different characters. And a lot of these movies, one of them being Star Wars that did this, filled with aliens and whatever the fuck. I'm sure a lesbian exists in that universe where aliens and Jabba the Hut and the AT, like all this stuff, all this shit. You know what I mean? No, but two women kissing?

that's implausible What the hell? Like it It befuddles me sometimes I'm guessing it's because in these people's brains The perfect world would be Existent without that And the only way to reach such

Such technology in the future Where we do travel and interact in this way Would be without gay people Are humans even in? They hold our science back They do unfortunately We can't reproduce the gay people So we die out

Can Star Wars Are there even humans in Star Wars Like I know that technically. Because like... I mean, yeah, human... Are the main people, though, from Earth?

Are they humans? They're not from Earth. Right? It's just like a human adjacent. Didn't we have this discussion of whether like... This... This... Oh, maybe I'm getting this wrong. I thought we had a discussion on whether, like, human meant from Earth

or if human just meant, like, what did the categorization of being? Now, I'm pretty sure human would mean this specific species from Earth. Like how there's different types of fish, you know? Okay. No, that's a bad example. But wouldn't it be, we would be like a bass. We would just be a different type of bass. We'd be a freshwater than a salt water.

Well, anything from space would just be completely different. Even if it looks. But you were saying in the context of Star Wars where these are not like, they are, there are goofy-looking aliens, but you're talking about like Luke, Han, Leah, like the people that are representative of more Earth typical species. Well, if they're like humanoid. another planet and they just evolved just like humans. They would not technically be human. They would have just evolved the same.

There'd be some differences. In the galaxy far, far away. There's probably out there a bunch of aliens that look just like humans. Yeah. Speaking of aliens. Yeah. Guys, this is Disclosure Day. Oh, yeah, we got to talk about that.

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We don't want to do it and there might be some mental bleeding because I didn't like the movie and I think I can't have that much of a deep conversation about it. it because I just I'd sat through it and within the first honestly probably 10 to 15 I maybe I'll give it as a little credit 30 minutes but like I was I was just like the pacing is just off it was from the jump too like from the get go there were um there were things I liked in it there were disclosure day Spielberg's new alien film that came out in theaters like a week two weeks or I guess by the time this came out recently it came out recently um And Spielberg, you know, he loves his aliens.

He made E.T. You want to, well, not one of your favorite alien movie of all time, close encounters of the third kind. It is. It's a great alien movie. It's up there. It's in my favorite. It's my favorite alien movie is probably District 9. Oh, okay.

But in terms of flying sauce, like this, yeah, I think that's the most grounded one, in my opinion. Disclosure Day was just like, it felt like it was really slow pacing to build up. for a payoff that just kind of was, I was like, oh, that's it. I felt like we saw the payoff coming a mile away. Like, we knew what the ending was going to be. Yeah. They kind of, I don't even want to say they foreshadow it. They blatantly tell us what is going on.

And it's like, oh, and then that happens. But when Emily Blunt said, this is Disclosure Day, I stood up out of my scene. I started clasper. There it is. Dude, I walked out of the theater. As I was walking out, I was just going, I can't imagine what spieling. Wilberg saw in this script to want to pick it up and direct. Because at least, you know, people give them shit and I've given them shit.

I haven't seen it. But for the BFG. And at least that, you know, yeah. And at least I can be like, you know, maybe he has like grandkids and he wants to make a BFG movie for them because his grandkids really got it. And the Lincoln movie wasn't bad. I haven't seen it a second time since I saw it. I remember, like, you know, the directing was noticeable and intentional, you know, intentional. and it feels like the direction in this was kind of lacking.

He had a lot of Spielbergian things like one shot takes. He tried to do a Michael Bay spin that got, that was a pretty jarring. Wait, which when the guy's running along the fence? I thought that was really cool. There was one dolly shot. No, not that one. This was like people were having a conversation inside, I think. And it was just like kept spinning around.

And I was like, this, okay. He's doing stuff. but at the service of like something that's not interesting or at least entertaining to me there was um like there was some aspects about it that i really liked uh but the one thing dude maybe you and i we're not in hollywood we're in glinda uh but but maybe it's because we just don't like understand from a studios perspective but something that always It takes me out like that is when they show, I know this is like, I have a stupid nips.

I'm talking about like newsreel footage. Yeah. Like, like, like any newsreel footage or technology footage that is like stylized incorrectly, it just feels off. Like, um, they showed, uh, security camera footage from the 1970s and it's like 4K. It's like obviously like high, like the Nixon stuff you're talking about. Yeah, the Nixon stuff. And I was like, I was like, hey, I don't think they had security cameras in the 70s. Denise B, it's in 4K.

Then you see a movie with a first-time director, lower budget. We also saw recently yesterday the back rooms. Directed by Kane Parsons, who was 20 years old. Yeah. So first-time director. 20 years old. And even in way lower budget than Disclosure Day. And they get like that even though, yes, it's sectionally the technology that I'm talking

about is like a camera they use throughout the movie. Right. And maybe like a, it seems like sometimes a mix between that and like some. 3D modeling program. It seems like they... They nailed it. They had on it. Right.

Perfect. Great. What I don't understand is like more movies when they have to show like a VHS camera or whatever. It's like why not just use a real one? Like why it can't be that much more...

No. Right? It's easy as fuck. If we can do it for our vlogs they can do it for a blockbuster movie. Is it the fact that like Spielberg and a lot of these directors are like old fogies so like they see it's like

ah yeah that looks old. But they're the ones who existed at the time. of like all this shit. So you'd think that they'd want to be like, that doesn't look right. I don't know. It's like they sell the idea of it more than like the actual trying to make it look realistic.

Like the movie was way too like vibrant with the colors I feel. Backrooms? No, no, no, no. Oh, yeah. Disclosure Day. Maybe it's also my hate for the CIA computer rooms that are in every action, like, I'm so dumb with that, that trope of like. And it looks bad.

The sets look bad. Yeah. Like, I'm so dumb with that trope. It feels like it's from, like, it was cool in 2008, where it's like the government spy rooms, where it's like the headquarters they walk in. And there's like 500 screens on the walls and, like, floating holograms. And he's like, put up camera seven. And they scan his iris and like, no, oh, and the bad guy, he's wearing a black turtleneck.

So you know he's bad. Yes. And he has a British accent. Yes. So you know he's very bad. Dude, I didn't realize that was fucking calling for Earth. I know. I had that when I saw him I was like what is he

I thought I'm familiar but I got home and I was like I was calling Firth and that's you know we're love actually we are talking some ish again they're like as as Matt said there are things that I liked about there's like a lot of there's certain shots that are frame well there's one in the beginning that's the I guess introductory to Colin Firth's character that shot through the pain of a car

and I just like the framing of that I missed that yeah I think you did I think because you were getting, you were waiting on food. I was out in the lobby. Yeah. You know, I thought they'd let the trailers run a little longer. Nope. Well, if Darwin found parking quicker.

Yeah, it's Darwin's fault. If Darwin had found parking quicker, my girlfriend could have ordered her food earlier, which took so long. But, like, over, yeah, I was kind of, I hate to use the word miserable, because maybe that's too harsh. But, like, I was definitely bored throughout,

and I didn't enjoy it. And then upon looking back, I didn't find kernels of stuff that I enjoyed thinking about afterwards. See, my thing, I didn't even really think about it the next day. Yeah, you're just like, well, because we saw Friday night, and then on Sunday night,

you and I went and saw Backrooms, and you brought up Disclosure Day, and I was like, I didn't really think about it. I know, dude. It sucks. I was actually really excited to see it. You know, you and I just keep, backrooms was nice.

I like Backrooms. I described it walking out of the theaters, like going to like the South Carolina a state fair and going in one of those haunted house cart rides. It was like fun, interesting, and a good old time. Yeah, like there were, you know,

there were a couple things that I could nitpick about it, but like overall, I thought it was like super creative, super engaging, like it kept me hooked the whole time. I could have done a whole found footage movie just in the back, like what they did in,

they did it throughout the movie, but in small pockets where they bring in the, VHS tape. I like that a lot. I thought that adds, dude, it's specifically with, I mean, other directors do it intentionally with, on like a tripod and stuff, but the way this effect

is done in a found footage movie where it's like someone with a camera and every time, because they can quickly like turn around and look behind them and it creates this moment of every time like they just check a hallway or something really quickly. I'm like, whoa! I'm like, ah! Yeah. I'm like, because like, they're moving around

so quickly, so it's not like a horror movie where Like the camera slowly like panning over. It's like, oh, is something creepy going to be in the corner eventually? This is just like something could appear at any time. And I think they do a good job in the back rooms of not wasting the pent-up suspense. Yeah. You know, there's a lot of movies that work on that angle too much without any sort of like, quote-unquote, satisfying payoff. Not to say that like the jump scares or whatever, the scares are like great big payoffs,

but I don't feel like it's a schlucky movie just trying to get cheap scares out of the audience for fun. I really liked, I loved the music, and I loved the cinematography and the colors and stuff. I loved the, like, the skies and the, just the backrooms in general. It was very creative, very cool. I would see it again.

A lot of intentional direction. You mentioned, like, the skies, for example, are very intentionally set to be like a very contrasted, like, very, sorry, very bright blue, very lively. I mean, I know the whole point of the movie is like

liminality and it reminded me of those like eye vision tests like some of the landscapes, you know like with the hot air balloon and stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It reminded me of like that type of thing which I think is what he was going for. But yeah, I really enjoyed it. First time director like 21, 20 years,

whatever the fuck, you know, young as hell. And a YouTuber. And getting like two names that I didn't recognize anyone else in.

Well, I saw, James Juan in the credits at the end, which was surprising, because I didn't know he was a part of this in any way. I'm guessing as just a producing role. But James Juan did the first saw movie, I think maybe the second and also did the conjuring series in Fast 7. But... Why say it like that? But like I... Oh, and insidious. Oh, okay. Younger, I probably enjoyed it more when I was young than I am now, just because it's like I was a big scaredy cat and I wasn't used to seeing horror films now. I've seen a good... multitude of them and I'm like okay well I'd have to see it again to give it a guess so true how to

I kind of had a weird feeling come over me recently that's that's grown a little bit that that's brand new it's a feeling I've never really felt before and it's confusing you know it's just got me thinking a lot tell your buddy Ryan about it your buddy Ryan wants to listen I'm sitting there in that movie which one back rooms okay sitting there next to you sharing a popcorn Start thinking and start thinking all these confusing thoughts.

Like, am I maybe starting to like horror movies? Because you've never been like a... No, not at all. Well, you're also, which is you and I are on polar opposites of this spectrum. I get super affected by horror in terms of I'm easily frightened or scared or I can be lulled into the sense of suspense and tension very easily in a movie. For you, you don't really get scared. I'm a man

Yeah You're a big strong man Dale taught you well But you know But like suspense doesn't affect you as much And jump scares also don't really Like do anything for you Well like a loud noise will make you like jump

Well usually I can tell when there's a like I don't know Usually in horror movies They set up a jump scare in a way Where it's like You kind of know it's coming It'll be like creeping around the corner I hate the suspense leading up to it

Like that's what kills me I'm like I know that one's coming And it's the dramatic irony right of like you know that something's coming but you don't know not dramatic irony but just suspense in general what what gets

the jumps scares that get me are like ones that are truly just like oh like out of like I did not see it coming that gets me really well like insidious where the guy is standing behind him going that's scary I haven't seen it it's in a random conversation between him and his mom and then it just cuts to the shot of

a camera B camera a big for throughout like it just cuts back five there yeah that's cuts back and it's just standing there for a quick second. See, well, jump scare is like in horror movies, they still do get me. Like, even if I see it coming, it still gets me. But I don't know. But, like, are you, like, leading up to it, are you scare? Are you like, oh, I don't want to see this?

Or are you, do you get nervous at all? I mean, I feel, I feel the anticipation building. I wouldn't say, it also depends on the context. Is there any, but, like, your general horror movie suspense scene, I know, like, there's a lot of them. But, like, generally, are you kind of like, Are you, yes, you're bracing for a scare, are you doing it in a, in a more nervous mindset or just in a, oh, this is going to be loud. That, okay. But I do it in a nervous.

But it's going to be scary. If I'm really into the movie, then it's like my brain will override that and let me feel really nervous. Did Hereditary do that? Yes. Okay. How many horror movies do that? Like, which ones would you say that you can, like, name off the top of your head if you can that, like, have an effect on you to where you can kind of breach through that. barrier

sucked in I mean I haven't seen too many I mean that's part of the problem but uh but you are but you just said you are starting to like I am into the genre more I really like uh

I don't know I like uh did you see talk to me no that's a fun one I really need to see it I don't know I I it's not really scary I think I like

I think what I don't like is I don't really like movies where it it's just like the kind of recycled horror story tropes with just a bunch of jump scares and that's it it kind of feels like a waste of time I guess

because I don't really get into the story like seeing an action movie with a bunch of explosions that you're like I've seen the yeah I get it but I really do like you know like hereditary I really like because the story and everything was so good same with like I love the shining and the thing and there's a lot of like other modern

newer horror movies I've seen that I do like and I can't think of them off the top of my head I didn't see an obsession yet I know that's another YouTuber There's YouTubers are going ham right now They're going ham all thanks to Markiplier You know we need to go ham at some point

We do we need to go ham We got to make a movie We need our own little whiplash So that a production studio goes Make that into a feature length And then we'll go yes Can we also have J.K. Simmons Instead of

It came from outer space It tang from outer space Not with the voice crack That was not so excited I was just so excited. My voice cracked from my side, tang, but it tang from outer space. I do like it. I'm not sure if we could get 824 on board with that, but definitely neon studios.

They did Atomic Blonde. Okay, what about Blumhouse? And it followed. Was it follows A24 or was that neon? I don't know. I feel like it was neon has a cool logo, though, I will say. Neon? The way it's like, it's neon.

It's like, dude, still the coolest opening, like, logo to anything was Marty Supreme, whatever, company. I don't know if it's Josh Safde's, but it's like the Centurion, I think. It was like an old 90s logo. It was really fucking cool. I don't know who specifically this logo was, but something recently where I felt like, oh, I like that. Was it in the back rooms? I think it's called like atomic monster productions. Yeah, that was cool. That was, that was, I don't, I'm, I'd, let me, let me look that up to see who's production studio that is, or if it's just, you know, a production scene in general. You know what? I'm part of the 824 monthly club and I get mailed like a zine every month and I just

got one and I haven't opened it and I wonder if it's backroats. It's James Wan. James Wan. Television production company founded in 2014 by director and producer James Wan. What do they make? I'm guessing. Let's see. Operating as an independent label following a merger with Blumhouse, Blumhouse production. The studio is widely known for producing the Conjuring Universe, the Megan franchise, and Mortal Kombat. Oh, shit, okay. So he's, he's, he's set himself, I remember James Wan just being, I think Saw originally

was that same kind of start that we talked, that I just talked about with Whiplash, where Saw was a short, college short film, and then a studio picked it up, and it turns out, you know, one of those things where, what, they put in a quarter and get back a million dollars. You know, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, what every that's why studios love horror movies is because they're cheap to make and they bring in an audience even and a lot of them don't even have to be great yeah that's the thing they don't have to be fantastic because people will still go see them because they they go to see them for the rush not so much the emotional storytelling or whatever sorry i'm i'm checking because we ordered some small bites to get us through the rest of the work are the small bites here yes okay well uh control tracks actually obligated to do one more ad break. So here it is. This episode is brought to you by Accenture.

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warm, oh, you got some stuff down here we haven't worked through yet. Get it moving. Let's go. We got more to fit in This fat fucking piece of shit Dude, did you know that your, your intestines? They don't have any like actual set Like, way they're supposed to be They're just falling into the body the way it is

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It's doing already what it needs to do Now, could there be something where, like, it accidentally gets like a water, like a water hose or something? That's, that's a scary thought. I wonder if, oh, shit. I'm sure there's a way they put him back in where it's like to make sure that doesn't happen. It self-regulates. Don't worry. Smash cut to like a week later.

It's tied itself in a. I mean, I'm no surgeon. Yeah, what stops your intestines from tying themselves in a knot? If they're just being all slimy and not taught? They could. Oh. shoelaces get tied on their own just like five seconds without looking down at him. Magicians be like.

Want to see your trick? Tied my shoes. That would be so sick. He has a little monkey that tie it. It does it quickly so you can never see it. And he's a quiet mom. Well, he climbs down from the inside of his pants. Yeah.

Like he reaches out of his pants leg, ties them real fast and climbs back up. God, imagine having a little monkey buddy sidekick. We need a little monkey. It's legal in certain states. Imagine a moment. in like the next book we write where we have this monkey and then there's this pivotal moment where the monkey has to save one of us chooses and see how that affects the characterization in our friendship.

Afterwards, like if he saves you, I become jealous. I'm like, wait, why did he save you and not me? But wouldn't you be dead? Because if he only has to save one of us. You think I'm dead. Right, right. I come back later as a surprise. You respond.

I had to like lose some gas real quick. Oh, I thought you were shutting your eyes to like picture the scene in our next book with a monkey chooses. I was giving full attention to make sure that I opened and closed with precision as to not let anything slip by. Think about it man. Like the dudes that work at a power plant or some place where they have to open and close valves. They're not just doing it willy-nilly. They put their full focus into it. These are trained people.

You're doing the same thing. Because what happens if you're just doing it willy-o-ozy-law? nilly. Well, you've seen what happens. I've seen, I felt it on the back of a commode. Yeah, I've seen it. When I'm just willy-nilly, you know, trying to have some fun while taking a shit and sending a picture to my friend. A video. A video. Which I have somewhere. I have it somewhere. You gotta, you gotta go search for it. Dude, the thing is, it's amongst probably like 40,000 pictures and videos. I have it saved somewhere, but it's literally like, oh my god dude because i save i save like i always back up everything on all my yeah you have

terabytes of stuff on hard drives well don't say it like that uh i do but but basically i i just remember the from the great incident it was the video and then just hard cutting just the apartment lobby bathroom incident guys if you haven't if you haven't heard that story yet it's we've told it many times it's very worth of here's the episode it's it's in Well, here's the thumbnail and the title, and you see the episode. You can just go look it up. Thank you, Luke. Honestly, the funniest, the hardest thing I've ever, literally, I've never laughed harder than that in my whole life.

What about that Willem DeFoe meme? That does get a good one. It's a rise out of me as well. That tickles my funny bone, for sure. It certainly does. Are you excited to go back to Kansas City? Dude, it's a whole eight days we're gone. Or as I like to call it, Kansas shitty.

I don't know, maybe because we're best buddy. You've been reading my joke book again? No, no, just your diary. Never your joke book, though. Never your joke book. They're the same thing. No. You know that.

Your diary is front-facing. If you flip it over and read it like it's Japanese, that's how you, that's, I know how you deal. I only read the diary portion. Doesn't sound like it. I accidentally flipped through halfway. It was upside down, so I couldn't understand it. and I didn't read really anything of it in particular. That would make too much.

Clearly you did because of what you just said. I've been working on that Kansas shitty bit for weeks. Fuck you. And when we go visit Hunter again, you better let me fucking roll that one out without you fucking stepping in. Mr. Can I just step in real quick? I did accidentally read a little bit of it.

And I think if you're wanting to do a stand-up, Granted, I get that you have to fill time, but reenacting an entire episode of Family Guy might be a little stale. Well, you haven't seen me do it yet. I mean, you're right. I haven't. I've been getting real good at my Peter. Do you do all the sound effects, too, or is there like a, okay?

And the music. That's a lot to fit in. Like, sometimes they talk over each other. It's a good one. I'm doing the episode, P-Tarded. It's going to be good. Where Peter finds out that he's mentally, handicapped. Yes. Yes. Mentally, mentally

challenged, yes. Differently able. And then he uses it as an excuse disgusting. To be a douchebag. Disgusting behavior on Sorry, I'm... And then he says... And he says the word. Honestly, Peter is problematic median should be canceled. Hear that, Seth McFarlane? I know you're watching Seth. He's a big fan. He's a big fan. He steals a lot of our bits. He's probably going to steal the Kansas shitty bit.

100% he's going to steal the Kansas shitty. I can't picture bright griff and saying that, you know. Kansas City. More like... Kansas shitty. And then Peter goes, Ma'ha. That's my... I'm still working on the Peter,

like I said. No, it's Peter, but I told you I'm still working on it. Yeah. The laugh's the hardest part. The voice itself. For the audience, too, maybe. Well, maybe you should do stand-up, Ryan.

You seem like you got it all down. There. Well, let me just cancel my open mic. That was pretty good, wasn't it? It was great. It was great, and that's why you should do it instead of me. It was really great stuff, man. A heckler says that.

Looks like you need to try some stand up, buddy. I sit down on the stage just to stand back up. There, now what? That would get everybody hoots and hollers. Now would get a great laugh out of me. Starts. I also, you see like bras and money just flying on stage. No panties?

Man bras. What about panties? Because I'm for the bros. Right. Not for the... I'm not like... I'm not a female comedian. You're not a female-oriented joke teller.

Yeah. An F-I-J-T. Are there any vagina? a havers in the audience tonight you might want to get out of Dodge I mean the club obviously it's a saying not Dodge City Kansas or is I like to call it Dodge shitty Kansas okay see

I don't know where these come from it's just like from almost like from a higher power like what Michael Jackson said in the in the Marim Bashir documentary he asked like where does that when he he says doesn't he also say it in the Michael Jackson recently released movie while he's reflecting on song lyrics in the swimming pool he says that God's going to give all the good ideas to Prince

if he doesn't sit there and bathe in him it's true he uh Martin Bashir's like Michael Jackson like I was just driving I was going down for Trou Boulevard it just comes to my head just That's incredible where that come from He's like it's just you know Well imagine driving through town and you hear this hit song Well he's not driving he's in his limo in the back

You're in the limo probably unbuckled with your chimpanzee playing paddy cake And that's not a euphemism, but for him it probably was. Yeah. And all of a sudden, you hear this song. And you're going, ooh, this is good. Turn that up. And then the driver goes, I'm not playing anything, Michael. You go, huh.

See, that's what the movie needed. The movie did not have, dude, the Michael movie did not fucking have, like, any of him coming up with the music. It was all just like. It was planning the release of the songs. Right. It had that, but, like, it didn't have any of, like, the creation. It was all just like, oh, he's child star, dad beats him, and now he's older and he's famous, and now he has an album coming out. And then who knows what happens after that?

Yep. At the end. 1988. Pretty much. That's the end of his story. Well, they're making a sequel. I saw it on Letterbox. It's already there.

Oh, my God. Damn. Michael 2. The story continues. Michael 2, colon, the story continues? I don't know how official that is. You think it's going to be called Michael 2 or Michael the story continues? Probably Michael the story continues.

really shot themselves in the foot by calling a Michael. Yeah. And not having anything after that, right? It's just Michael. Michael. Can the next one just be Michael Jackson? And then if they make a third, they just add his middle name. Michael Hussein Jackson.

Or even better. Michael. The second movie, Jackson, since it's like a core case that goes by last name. Then the third movie, Michael Jackson. It's about the encompassing how everything fell in place, the doctor stuff. You know? The death of Mike. Dude, you literally just wrote a scene, though, that could have actually been in that movie and it would have...

When he's hearing the song. Yeah, and he's like, oh man, that's good. Oh, yeah, turn it up, turn it up. Turn what up? The music. Michael, I'm... Michael, I'm not playing no music. Wait, what?

Stop playing. Then you hear like, it's like, and that's when I realize, God was sending me tunes from heaven. And I was lucky enough to listen to him. The CIA was using satellites to send music right into my brain. Oh, I wish Michael Jackson was more so like that, like in interviews. It's like he has like a tinfoil hood on. Just clearly schizophrenic. How did you come up with that, Michael?

Well, you see what the CIA put, they've had these big satellites in space that's been around at a million miles per hour, and they were sending the music notes straight into my head. And they tell me what to say to the general public to keep them at ease. Oh! He! You really think a satellite is sending music into your head? What do you know, Martin? You didn't come up with thriller?

Knock it off! Cut! Cut! Martin, I thought we weren't gonna play any of this bullshit. Oh, Michael, I... no... Those aren't the questions you were given, Martin. You're on this... you're on this... ...creation CIA bullshit. Oh, I'm not... I'm not part of the CIA, Michael. I'm from the UK.

Okay. I pulled up your records, Martin. I know what you've been doing. Who you've been talking to. Someone give me a light. The whole time he's been sucking on just a dry cigarette. God damn it. God.

Hey, how come... They should give us the reins to the next Michael Do you. We already created a part of it. I promise. We have a scene in there, essentially. That could be put into it. I promise this. And I would be willing to write this in blood.

If they gave you and I the... reigns in the next Michael Jackson movie. It would make more money than the first one. I swear to God. I know, it would. It would. You know, it would. Am I wrong? From the controversy alone.

Yeah. Maybe, but we'd have to deal with the fallout of the Michael heads boycotting the movie. And we'd lose some of the Michael heads. Some of them. Some. Well, you see, that's why we have a marketing campaign. We frame the trailer To look like it's framing him up as

Until they get into the theater They have no idea what's gonna hit him Until they're in it Already money spent We're all good Too late No refunds The theaters have to give the refunds

Not like you think refunds come out of the Studios pocket No sir No sir They're not coming out of our pockets No sir Directed by Ryan McGee and Matthew Watson

Michael Two Or Jackson Yeah Jackson Jackson versus the people. Our fan base might think it's another movie, but... They might. But then that's more money spent. True. And again, once they're in the theaters, ticket bought, not our problem.

You're right. It's the theater's problem. Man, theaters need to make snacks more expensive. I was thinking the same thing when we went and saw two movies this weekend. I was like, man, this weekend, collectively, I've spent over $50 on popcorn and soda. I honestly, that's... I feel like I'm stealing from the theaters. Who doesn't want to walk into a movie theater? Get a Coke. Get a popcorn.

Maybe a little nibble of some candy and not walk out spending $50. And honestly, it feels like I'm just getting too good of a deal, especially now that they've switched to paper straws. Oh, yeah. Drinking my icy with a soggy paper straw made me feel like this is too good of a deal to be true. That was sad because Friday, plastic straw. Sunday? Paper straw. What the fuck changed?

What happened? Different theater. Different theater, yes. You know, we went to the Americana for one, and then went to the Burbank Theater for another. Both AMC locations, though. Yes. Right. Well, even in Burbank, there's an AMC in the mall.

There's the one with the Batman statue out in front of it. And then there's one on the side of a parking garage. But you have to, like, go underground for it. Kind of weird. You got to go down an escalator. So there's three AMCs all in like a square mile of each other. Yeah. A mile.

Think about it. but a square. I'm having a hard time. Wait, but a mile is like a straight line. How is it square? Think about this. Think about this. Mile, mile, mile.

Square mile. A mile. You just said mile five times. But it's only five times. That's five miles. Collectively, if you were to walk around the perimeter, you would walk four miles. So that's a square.

No, within that square. Where is the square mile? I still kind of lost me. Luke, show a man coming. You better have censored that, Luke. We can't show it on YouTube. But the video must be there. Patreon doesn't get to see it anyway.

No, we can't show that on Patreon. It has to be a video. It has to be a real video of a man coming that you censored. No faking it. And you have to show us behind the scenes for proof. Here's the video of the man coming. We have to see it. We have to see the ejaculate happen.

I love how we're like, we always tend to do these fun little treats near the end of the podcast where I'm sure Luke, much like us if we were editing a Game Grumps episode, would be editing and going, ah, almost done. Hey, Matt Ryan, maybe, I don't know, maybe make some horses dance and do a little sing-along, create a song to go along with it. Just for the outro. Go in Blender and have some horses dancing around, doing 50 backflips. Okay, okay. But this is a small little treat. Luke, this is more of a treat for you than us. Yeah.

Definitely much more than the audience because the audience doesn't even get to see this video. And I know people on Patreon are like, you're going to censor for Patreon? I don't think we could show a man coming on Patreon. No. Showing a penis is one thing on Patreon. Showing a penis ejaculating.

That's, you're getting into a whole new territory there. And then in that case, on Patreon, it'll be covered up by a picture of a man coming that Matt and I have created ourselves. I'll only need you to draw the semen coming I'll draw the penis Okay okay I just need you to draw the semen

Okay Yeah Coming out and dripping And whatever it's doing It's it's Maybe it's like The second or third shot in So it's still shooting

But maybe just not with the full strength The first shot Yeah they're spent What the fuck conversation is this Jesus Christ This is the super mega podcast Show Super Mega Show

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