The Ringer-Verse - K-Pop: Demon Hunters - Songs, Fandom, and Favorites | Mint Edition

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

Steve and Jomi team up with K-pop stan Jess Clemons to dive into Netflix’s ‘K-pop: Demon Hunters.’ They discuss the film’s explosive popularity, its chart-topping soundtrack, and wrap up by ranking their personal favorite tracks. Intro (0:00)'K-Pop: Demon Hunters' Deep Dive (5:36)Top Tracks Ranked! (52:58)Outro (1:11:42) Hosts: Jomi Adeniran and Steve AhlmanGuest: Jess ClemonsProducer: Devon RenaldoAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Steve Oman. I'm Jimmy Dinner on. And we are gathered here today on Mintz Edition. So wedding? Who's getting married? Us and the game. How about that? We're married to the game.

We are gathered here today to celebrate the union of Mint Edition and K-pop. And this thing called life, yes. This thing called life. If anybody would object, please let us say it now. forever hold your piece. I object. Oh, no. And who is this?

Interrupting the nuptials. It's Jessica Clemens. It's romance, Saja. Romance Saja. It's romance Saja. I didn't want to get too into it already, but that's best boy. Saja? That's my favorite.

I also have it as my phone case. Wow. That's great. Obsessed with this. I love it. Whatever we're talking about today, I'm obsessed with it already. Well, what we are talking about today on the Great Mint Edition, by the Once of Wild podcast that you just can't live without about fandom that you just can't

live without is we're talking about K-pop demon hunters. That movie that's been around for about of a month, and now has since taken the world by storm, we're not late to the party. We're coming into the party when it's still thumping. So I would say, you know, the party don't start till we walk in, baby. Hey, you know what, Jomey?

Come on now. That's why you're in the cult's jersey today. That's what. All right, guys, we're not doing. You don't have to describe what he's wearing. See, see, and this is bullying. I'm going to HR. This is crazy. Every day, every day I get on the phone with you. You do enough to do that. What jersey you got on you?

You didn't have to do that. You don't have to put out my business to the people. So now they know I'm suffering, right? And I am coping. You know what? First of all. It's a paid manning jersey, so it's all right. Right, that's the last time I felt any happiness as a Colts fan was 2006.

But that's fine. Right. It's cool. I'm glad that y'all. A manning jersey after this news is cope, though. And you know what? This is crazy because I'm getting this slack from a Bears fan. You understand?

I'm getting this slack from a bear. You know what I'm saying? You're a Bears fan? All we can do is just. Of all of the trash. You're not supposed to be talking to me? Listen, man. You were the last person.

I'm just here with Caleb Williams swimming in the trash. Why do we all have bad teams? At least I acknowledge it. Seahawks, y'all, right? I mean, we did great at one point. It just last year was not the greatest. But it's vibes over there. It's just vibes.

And also, I will say, Seahawks, but also Detroit Lions, easy. Also, Detroit Lions. What do you get that from? I don't want to talk about it. Man, having just thrown herself off the bandway in the pod with us. today. Thank you all so much for getting it together. But before we begin, we got to get some programming reminders in for you.

On the house of our feet, Mal and Rob are going to be giving their deep dive into Alien Earth, Episode 3. Jess, are you like an Alien Earth? Have you been watching? I haven't started. Oh, it's really good. I'm too busy watching Hot Dude Wives. Oh, I finished.

Really? Oh, my gosh. Can we change the pod topic? You might sprinkle in a little bit of that. How far are you in Nilew? I'm only one episode. Oh, no. I'm one into hunting wives as well.

We are like the... You're not even into... You're not even like a third into the mess. I know what they're doing. I know what those women are doing. It is insane television. Tomorrow, the Midnight Boys are going to be giving you their instant reactions

to episode one of Peacemaker. Very much looking forward to that. Peace maker, yes, sir. Along with House of Art giving you their deep dive on Peacemaker as well on Friday. So, looking forward to that. Jummy Dineran, where could they find all of that

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Zillow, we don't have an account on Zillow. Well, we should do that. You know what? We should. We should. No, but make sure you're following the universe everywhere so you can stay up to date and all the information and fun stuff

that we're doing over here on this feed. That's right. So today, if we haven't teased it enough, a little bit of hunting wives is going to be sprinkled into this wonderful discussion about K-pop demon hunters. But let's begin. Jessica Clemens,

K-pop Demon Hunters is probably the biggest thing that has happened this year as far as animated movies are concerned. And for about the past month, it's been taking the world by storm now where you've gotten, I think, 10 chart-topping hits now

and a massive windfall. You're going to be seeing this movie in theaters tomorrow as a special sing-al-on group. What is your relationship to this film? Oh, I'm obsessed with K-pop Demon Hunters. I'm obsessed. I I watch it at least once a week now. It used to be daily.

And I would never stop it. I knew exactly when I could get up and go to the bathroom, when to walk away, when to come back. I do it when I was working out. I've watched this movie so much. I got to interview the cast and it was amazing. I got to go to so many Netflix, K-pop Demon Hunter's events now, and I'm still enamored with this film.

I don't even want to say we're back with like original animations like this, but like, because it's like an original animation that's also a musical kind of, but I'm like, this is just different. It's just different. I think Maggie Kang did a great job. I'm wildly fascinated by this movie, mainly because this seems to be kind of a perfect storm of intersecting cultural phenomena that actually

kind of make a perfect mix that could be both put on Netflix, easily accessible to all ages, and somehow being out of nowhere hit. Jomey, how long have you been, has this movie been on your radar? And why now do we think that we're kind of at like an apex moment of peak popularity for this movie.

So I remember they dropped the trailer on the interwebs. And interwebs, oh my God, I'm 90 years old. I mean, you sound like a millennial. Jesus Christ. No, but they dropped the trailer. And like, it starts with Sony animation. I'm like, okay. I love these guys.

Yes, you know, Spadafer's clearly. Mitchell v. The Machines is a film that I particularly love. And so they're going in and I'm watching. I'm like, oh, this is classic fair. they know what they're doing. It's going to be tip top. When it's out on Netflix, I'll watch it. And then I kind of forgot about it until I saw like the gifts going around of Rumi

eating the Kempop. And I was like, oh, yeah, that one movie come out. I'm going to watch it. And I watched it and it was great and it was cool and it was fun. I said, oh, I had a great time. Man, this movie's great. And then I closed the TV and then I didn't think about it. And then like a week later.

A week later. The world was infected by a mind virus that was this movie. And it was like, oh, that was great. Had a great time. Cool. I might think about this movie again. I might, you know, tell people about it. Like, they had a good time, whatever.

And then it was everywhere. And they're singing the songs and everybody, like, all the kids are loving it. I was talking to one of my friends, shout out Keith and his kids. And they're watching it all the time. It's basically like they're frozen or their Moana. Yeah. It's just on the TV all the time. People are standing it.

People love it. I'm shocked at how easily accessible this movie is. That's probably like my biggest thought process as to why this is probably so successful is because it's brilliantly animated. It's incredibly poppy. It's zippy. It's fun. The premise is incredible.

And I think that the real reason that this has this kind of staying power is actually kind of the reason why Jess, you might have thought that this was the biggest detractor for it is the fact that it is is a musical and it kind of has the trappings of something that might not be too successful in theaters. Obviously, this is on Netflix for all of us to watch and rewatch infinitely. And that's what's been happening for the past month. This is on track to be the most watch movie that has been released by Netflix ever.

Would you like to guess what number two is going to be? Happy Gilmore. The Irishman. No, no. Keep guessing. Man. It's not done-dun-done. No.

House of Cards? No, no, no, no. Just an original made movie. Just a movie. Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's a movie. I thought he's just a Netflix overall. I know what number two is, and I know what number three is. What's number two?

What's number three, Steve? Number two is Red Notice. Oh, okay. That's not surprising. With The Rock and... Fantastic film. And number three is Carri-on. Yeah, Carri-on is great.

Oh, people love Carriot. I love Carri-on. I had a great time of Carri-on. I thought you were going to say the Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt Russo Brothers movie. Electric State? No, not even in the top ten. Just because people went to go watch it

to understand why it was so bad. No, not even in the top ten. But a fascinating amount of stats, but the trajectory on the graphs that I've been seeing of like viewership for K-Bop Demon Hunters versus like the red notices and the carry-ons that have only been out for like a year plus,

not even in some cases. K-pop's just going straight up. And I think this is probably the perfect storm for what you would want an all-quadrants hit to be. And so, like, are the things that you've gotten to be privy to now that you're, as you said before, best friends in the world with Huntrix? What was kind of like the biggest insight from a filmmaking perspective that made this so unique?

What made this movie so unique? That's actually a really good question. Oh, my gosh. I don't know. Well, because I, like, I asked that because I think it's probably the thing that Disney kind of wishes it had or expects itself to have. while still not being as maybe like adult forward presenting as like a DreamWorks like a Shrek animated film could be

or something like a Pussin' Boots, where it's still adventure-heavy and geared more towards, you know, young adults, but this kind of has everything that you could possibly want while still maintaining a sort of like musical charm. I just think it's good. I mean, yes, it can just be good. I think that's what it is.

It's just good. Like if you make good stuff, even if it's like, again, this, I want to say this for children specifically because that's, like, unfair. I don't think they make this movie. Like, this is for, you know, six-year-olds and seven-year-olds. There's, like, some elements of this film that are very, like,

I don't say grown up, but, you know, mature for, you know, for if you're going to say, like, it's for kids. But ultimately what it comes down to is that it's fun and enjoyable and just a great 90 minutes. And so when you're watching, it, whether you're a child or adult, yeah, the bright colors and the songs will keep you in there if you're a little child. But if you're an adult like us, you go, wow, this is a very captivating and moving story that I can, you know, maybe relate to really heavily or you can

see why people would get there. I think that's, I think speaking to the runtime is also a really big advantage because it's so short and it's moving through what seven songs, but also a plot line. So it's going very quickly. And action sequences. I think they, because I think a big, oh, a big part of this being really successful is the lore that fans have been creating behind it and just word of mouth because of the lore because it's not necessarily plot holes. It's just because

it's so quick, there's only a couple songs, there's seven songs, action scenes, a bunch of stuff going on. There's room for people to make theories that they don't know yet because there's not a sequel and the director just wrote a movie. We didn't get to see them actually become a team. We don't know why Zoe's coming between Burbank and Korea. We don't know

who Guimau was before he was the demon leader. We don't know what Gino's entire team. who they were. So I think because it's so alluring, because we don't know too much of the story, people have been able to talk more and discuss and come out with ideas, and that, I think, creates a really good sense of community. That is just me

pushing media and narrative. But I think that's, I think it's like that, because I think that's the difference between a lot of Sony animation and this movie is because we're getting so much into the Spider-Verse, we're getting so much miles. We get time to watch it and just actually soak up the animation, where this is

like the animation and the right. It's like people are very enamored with a love story that's not there. Yeah. Or it doesn't reach its completion. It's so crazy because I kind of found myself consuming this movie, at least wanting to like learn more about it and learn about the things that went into making it, like some fans would be consuming K-pop content. Because K-pop content, like I've, like, as I've been learning as somebody who does not really

listen to or consume that much like international pop music, it's very much a sort of like industrial churn and propping out of these products to get these in front of the eyes of as many people as possible. So when we see both of these bands go on these variety shows and do all these silly challenges about like drinking hot sauce and like kind of having this sort of like variety show-esque stance of like, okay, we win like this variety show song of the week

and that upsour street cred. or ups our, like, profile for certain things. I didn't know that that's genuinely what happens, and that's how, like, the BTSs of the world ascend. It's our hot ones. Yeah, it really is. We do the same thing. We just make them do, like, this or that on variety,

or the lie detector test. It's in front of a live studio audience for all to see. So that's another, like, level of cultural consideration that is both unique and very true to form that I think is quite respectful that I've really, really enjoyed. Knowing that this has been out for the better part of a month,

now that we have all of these hit songs, great stories, Jomi, do you see a lot of franchise potential knowing that this is probably going to be just the start of something absolutely massive? I could make $3 billion of these. They're never going to stop making this. The only thing is time, you know,

because you, nowadays, you know, look, if this was a hit in like 93, we'd have a directed DVD sequel by 94, you know what I mean? You know, in the next couple of years. But they, I mean, they've got to take their time. Obviously, you've got to write songs and the animation is crazy. Oh, yeah. That's the annoying thing, though, is Netflix likes to rush people into doing a sequel

and gives them only like six months to do it. Right. But knowing that it's still, that it's now their IP, they have all of the resources in the world to do this by themselves. And that could probably still look and feel quite a bit different. Get ready to learn Celine spin-off, buddy. I would love to get a sequel of what Celine and the mom was really like. And also if the mom was actually the demon.

If it was actually the demon, yes. That's very true. So that's the thing. And we haven't talked about like the movie like in like the plot. But you talk about Rumi's mom and the demon. So when I first saw Juno, I was like, that's her brother. I thought that was her dad. Oh, what?

Oh, wow. Some people said that. That's like that was my first thought. because, oh, her dad was a demon. But then I'm like, then obviously the scene is like, play romantically. I'm like, I don't like that. I don't like that. My first thought was her dad and now like she looked at him like that.

Well, we call that a projection, Joe. That's not exactly. Not a projection. Confirmed or denied. What do you mean? Well, you don't know. It's clearly not her dad. Well, yeah, but she's like, yo, this is 400 year old demon.

Okay. And her dad was a demon. Mm-hmm. Right. So you need visual confirmation of who her dad is before any 600-year-old demon that's There's a problematic age cap in there already, obviously. No, but no, no, like when I first seen it, I'm like, oh, so that's the day. And then obviously they do the thing.

And I'm like, oh, oh, well, so obviously not. But I'm like, what happened to her dad? Like, but that's like, again, that's sequel fodder. That's prequel fodder. That's like something that I don't know. If Netflix is really about it, they'd be like, bet. Here's a eight episode series on how Rumi came to be with her mom and the demon guy, whatever. Yeah.

But that was my first thought. And then obviously it was like, oh, no, they're just doing like the Romeo and Juliet thing, which is really sweet. Well, then why don't we get into like the nuts and bolts of the movie? Obviously, we're going to be spoiling this abound. But if you're one of the last people that haven't seen this movie... Everybody in the world seen this movie. I'd be shocked to know that you haven't.

So, spoiler is dead. You just don't have Netflix. Exactly. Which is fine. But honestly, like, if you're like kind of shrugging this off because it's a straight to Netflix release, kind of get over yourself and give this a spin because this is probably, the issue in for best animated feature, would you say? I mean, they did the same thing with, what, Glass Onion.

They're going to do the same thing with Frankenstein. It's going out to theaters for, like, select theaters for a week and then going to Netflix. Just to qualify. Yeah, and that's the thing. They're going to continue doing this. They do this all the time. Netflix will do this. Only because they have to.

And that's kind of like the big, like, frustration that I have with the likes of Apple and Netflix who, like, would never want to have their movies in theaters if they never had to for the second awards. Why would you go pay a theater when you can pay $999 a month to watch a in the comfort of your home, Steve. I appreciate you shilling for Netflix on this program, but I don't think that we really need that kind of for Netflix. Brother, I'm just saying that's what they say.

Kill all theaters. That's the, whoa. Kill all theaters. No way. Murder the theater. That's not. That's what Jomey was saying. That's not what I said.

I was just translating what Jomi said. Okay. So we're hiring a new translator. What? All right, Jomey, give it to me. Does this fulfill your teen romance? Does that scratch the itch? It was good.

I thought it was very, very, very well done. I know that you talked, you mentioned this earlier, Jess, but, you know, they don't like kiss. There's no, like, big moment where Genu and Rumi like come together and it's like, wow, we found each other. We didn't do this. They kind of just, you know, it kind of goes away at the end. Sure. Which is fine. Like, which is, which is fine.

I don't think the movie needed this. I'm pretty sure somebody talked about. I want to say the director. mentioned somewhere that they just felt like they didn't eat that and that the weight was worth it. Like it was more interesting to see them not do that than it was to do it. I think that makes sense in this particular film. Just the tension, honestly, like just that, that worked.

That was enough. It's tough for that tension to kind of be released only to have our guy die. It's all right. No, he's alive in the sword. That's all the theories. He's alive and the sword. He's the sword. Which, it was really funny.

I mean, he'll be back. He'll be back. Also, yeah, he was dead when he started. and he's dead now. So he's still dead right. It's like double jeopardy. You can't die twice. Yeah, can't die twice.

It doesn't cancel it out. And then he becomes alive. He just becomes more like it. I don't know the science of demon math. And then some weird baby with his face is born in the world. Yeah. And oh, great. Now he's a baby.

Now you're being really weird. Yeah. Now you got, Steve, what's wrong with you? I don't like that. I resent my hosting duty. I also think it's very, it's very K-drama-coded to never get to like the kiss. it's always like, it's always tension. That I think is also like a very like much like cultural thing of not only like extending the tension,

but never fully like consummating that romance even the form of a kiss. K dramas are very tasteful. Our dramas. You see them banging in the shower within the first episode. Okay. Our dramas. Our dramas. Okay.

So you said K dramas. And I was like, does Rwanda have drama? Rwanda. Well, there's a country that starts. with R. What? Show me. You thought I said R.

Yeah. The Rwanda dramas. The Rush, the Russian dramas? Jomey, can you pitch us a Rwandan romance drama right now? Okay, so he's got Forrest Whitaker and John Chudel. No, I'm not. All right. And Don Chito is, you know, he's a businessman.

He's been working all the time. And Forrest Whitaker is just a guy who's running a noodle shop. downtown. A noodle shop. And so Don Chito comes into the, yeah, they got noodles in Rwanda. Why won't they have noodles in Rwanda? That's crazy.

What's wrong with everybody? Everybody got noodles. Okay. And so Don Chito goes into Forrest's noodle shop and they're just the only two in there. And they start to bond. Okay. Wait a minute.

And they've never like met somebody. Can I see that scene real quick? What's the back and forth? Well, I mean, it's just like, what I mean, how you doing? I'm saying, yeah, I'm getting these noodles. It's a gay romance? It's a gay romance.

I'm in it now. Man, it's going to be a tough break for them. It's going to be, oh, my God, all right, bro. We did a gay romance in Rwanda country? That's good, yeah, you get, that's an uphill battle for our guys. Jomi is got to be the change. Guys, guys, it's either there are rushes. No, good odds.

What? Why are those? It's an R drama. Oh, okay. It was K drama and R drama, so I'm like, oh. The funny thing is you try to split the difference and made it like a pirate drama. A pirate drama? Oh, R.

Yeah, the movie's great. I think the thing K-Bad movie is great. The thing that I found interesting is, because I'm watching it, and it kind of looked a little, like, a little weird at first. And maybe, I mean,

obviously, Spider-Verse movies and LitterVers machines kind of do a version of this, but I had to look it up. Apparently, the Huntrix is animated on twos, and the Saja Boys are animated on ones. They're on ones, excuse me. Right?

So that, Basically, that means the Huntrix, for every two frames, there's one, one image. Yeah. And for the Sajiboy's, every frame is a different image. And the director said that they did that so they can look smoother and they can look like they know what they're doing. Exactly. Otherworldly. And I was like, oh, when I'm watching it again, I'm like, oh, I see exactly what they were going for.

Yeah. And those levels of technique, while subtle, very much make a difference. Well, that's the magic of Sony animation, man. I don't want to say, like, it's about a verse changed the world. But, like, we didn't, like, from, you can, like, draw the line from Spider-Verse to, like, Puss and Boots to Mitchell's Machines, do this. It's different now. Yeah. Yeah.

The technical wherewithal that Sony has to both experiment with and have a level of assuredness that is kind of what makes them stand out, kind of well after Spider-Verse for movies that actually don't get that level of attention. Because Mitchell's Versed Machines does this same thing very well. It has very like hard standing lines, bright pops of color, odd-ended levels of animation to make things stick out. And that's kind of why I love their style and like kind of artistic philosophy because they're the type of people that make things bold and standoffish rather than, like we kind of see like little parts of it in The Last Wish for Puss and Boots. But nothing that dramatic in either Disney or DreamWorks level. animation. We see it in kind of the spectacle. We see it in like a wildly sweeping, interesting action scene in a How to Train Your Dragon or a Kung Fu Panda, but nothing as like visually bold that Sony is willing to do. Jess, what do you think about the level of like humor that came

from this movie? Because I think this is probably the to me, the best selling point for anybody to watch it. Yeah, that's really funny. I think it was, I think the humor is really funny. I think it's very small, moments of humor that come straight from whoever is the animators and designers. But I also think there's some things that are written in the script. Like, the Derpy Tiger itself is very funny. But I think it's also needed to be funny

because it's the most scary thing to show up on a screen. Right. Not really. Out of everything in that movie, that thing was terrifying when it came out of the shadows. The three-eyed crow, I did like, but again, it's such, like, there's such good, like, both one-liners and incredible visual games. Well, a lot of the one-liners are improvised.

And so that one word's just like, why does that crow have a hat? He's like, I got it for the tiger, but the bird keeps stealing it. My favorite part of the movie, it gets me every time is when they're at the signing. And Zoe's like, I don't want to sit next to an Osger boy. And then sits right next to when she goes, what's up? That was improvised. That's perfect. That was improvised.

And she said she wanted to come for it as like Miles Morales would because they were like, Act American. And then she was like, okay, Miles Morales would say something like, what's up. And that's what she said. She said at first I did the hang. And then they were like, try a different word just so they don't think you're taking it from miles. No, yeah. It's so fun.

They're very funny. I also think that's on the directors, letting them stretch, like, every, stretch bend. There's no limitations. Letting every person have their, like, fun with it. Then when you let everyone just do a bunch of shit, something's going to come out really funny and good. So I think it's really on Maggie and Chris, let, like, first off, I could not even imagine. the Lord and Miller are doing the same thing directing movies to this degree

because it's so big just as much as like Into the Spiderverse was when it comes to animators and designers and I'm like, oh, how are you guys doing that and you're doing voice but you're also overseeing the sound like the music because you're also out you're hiring people to do the music originally they weren't going to have music in it they were like oh yeah we were just going to do it

and then we're like maybe we should go hire people to actually sing the songs so that came like last and I'm like that the thing that blew up was like the second thought. Ideally, it's like the biggest part of this movie that is carrying it with all of these legs. They were overseen so much.

So I understand looking at that script and being like, we weren't really going to have them sing. We were just going to do K-pop demon hunters. And then we hired someone. Imagine this movie without those chart-topping hits. It's kind of. I still watch it.

K-pop demon hunters without the K-pop. It's just demon hunters. That's what she basically said. She was like, we need to show it. And then they hired someone that hired another person that was like, hey, I can make the demos. And then they were like, oh, these demos are great. Do you just want to be the voice of Rumi and the songs?

Sure. And she was like, yeah, sure. And then she's hitting those notes. Hitting those goddamn notes. Hitting those freaking notes. Speaking of Rumi, who's y'all biased? Who are y'all biasing? Who's our favorite?

Yeah. My favorite is Mira. Always will be. Interesting. I love you, I think it's Mira for me too. Like a mean redhead. Respect Zoe, man. Zoe's my wallpaper.

Zoe's my favorite. The frame of her doing the thumbs up at the tonic place. I love it. I love every time Zoe's like, oh, yeah. Yeah, that's okay. I'll just rip up all these 27 notebooks. And she can't rip them. She can't rip them.

But again, my favorite visual gag is when her and Mira are just like, we're going to beat him and they go, and they have their all like this like wild face off. And I'm just like, this is exactly the type of fun that animated movies would be having. Mine is literally the button popping off into butter on the abs, on the corn. The write that in a script is so insane. I couldn't even think about actually coming up with the idea of like, oh, how thirsty would these girls be?

Well, let's have their eyes turn to abs, turn to corn, and then the button pops off and the butter on that hot corn. And they're eating popcorn going so hot. I was like, this is... They're so funny. One last time, I need to gush about that scene because it's only when Homeboy just, like, slightly grazes her shoulder,

and then she just goes flying in the slow-moch. I crack up every time when I see. She's so... She went down like Namar, man. It is so funny. She was flying. The really quick, sorry, I just love this movie so much. I looked up so many things.

I also really love the drama Marriage Proposal, and in Marriage Proposal is the man that does the voice of Chino. And the theme song for Marriage Proposal is the song that plays over that scene. Okay, so the K-Drama Marriage Proposal has that same song, maybe love. Yeah. Which is a great song, honestly. If we weren't ranking these, we were going to be ranking these songs, but if it's not soundtrack songs, we can't have that count.

That would be my number one, because that's like a very sweet, loving song. It was really beautiful. And then he brushed the shoulders off and said, get off me. And took where you're going. And took her juice. And took her juice. And took her juice. That was, that technically was swindling her.

He did this one. Yeah, absolutely. No, the doctor. Oh, man. I love the doctor. I love the doctor. I see. That scene was so funny, man.

When they're like, they put the leather on. They're going to go kill these guys. And then Genu like peeks over and sees him. He's like, all right, we'll get him down. You got a ton tricks here. I'm going to do play games with us. And the line reading is just so So funny.

I mean that whole scene, them sliding down. In the balls. In the balls. Just so ridiculous. The movie's so fun. It's great. It's the little parts that you got to go watch it again

and then you'll notice all those tiny scenes that it's like, why would it be? She like spits the ball out and it's like three frames. Just p. And it's just like right there. It's so funny. And that's, it really does make you think.

about all of the things and considerations that all of these animators and designers actually need to put into this in order for a movie to have this level of personality, in order for a movie to have this level of visual gags and like dense enjoyment that you can get out of this. The Sony animation, that team is literally murdering the game. It's insane.

When they go through all the people on social media and their names, the people that are obsessed with Huntrix, I did not do a breakdown of this movie. I am just obsessed with Into the Spider-Verse. I mean, we can't probably expect a breakdown coming. No, you won't. Nine-hour YouTube video. It's going in. No, I just noticed it because I'm obsessed with Into the Spider-Verse.

So I followed all of the designers from Into the Spider-Verse on Instagram because they share their art. Sure, sure, sure. And all those names were the people in the social media bars on the side for Huntrix. And I went, oh, Wendell DeLitt like Tiffany Fam. I was like, these are all the people that work on Into the Spider-Verse. So, of course, this movie's animation and design is so, so impeccable because it's the same people of Into Spider-Verse. So the Into the Spotterverse people

were working on this movie? I don't know if it's all of them, but in that social media, I saw names, I was like, I follow all these people because of Spider-Ver Brother, we never get in beyond the Spider-Verse.

No, no, no, we're gonna get it. We're never getting it. Yeah, we're probably coming to. Wait, okay, sorry. It's over. Because someone can be like, hey, man, hey, let's, never, it's gonna be like,

hey, look at his bread. Yeah, I need y'all on the Demon's two. The box office from Brand New Day is just going to barely get Spider-Vis Cross the finish line. We never gonna see this movie guy. The way that what's his name

that does the voice of Miles is just saying goofy things on Twitter again and I'm like, aren't you supposed to be in a booth right? Imagine! Get in the studio! Get in the goddamn suit! I don't even see this goddamn tweets! Imagine being Miles Morales

in probably the most beloved version of that character will ever be and you get three movies that are universally loved and all you got to do is not be weird on the internet to keep it. It's hard for some people.

I said impossible. It's possible. It is hard. This is coming from Jomey who would also be going crazy for Haley's stuff. Oh, time out. Listen.

Time out. Time out. Time out. Time out. Time out. I was never weird on Twitter. I want to be very clear. You can look up my tweets.

I was never weird. Okay. You were never thirsting. I was sad. I wasn't sad. See, and this is the, and so here's a problem, right? And I want to address this

for the audience for the people. Okay, great. Here's the thing, right? It's not that might be for Josh Allen is not having to do. It's purely on the field. You hate the bills?

I hate, well, you hate the bills. I hate Josh Allen. I've actually cooled on Josh Allen. Well, yeah, I was like,

the thing was, like, I'm a Lamar guy. And so, like, when Lamar was, like, doing good and Josh was, like, terrible,

they were like, yo, Josh is still a better quarterback and I was like, yo, y'all tripping, like respect my guy. So you just hate the discourse. I, no, no.

I hate him because they were standing for him when he was like legitimately a bad quarterback. I get it. Fine. Right. And Lamar was doing his stay and they were like, I'm going to kill Lamar, really be a quarterback, though? And I was like, guys, we're not, we're not being serious. Right. And then he turned into like some all pro.

Yeah, literally. Yeah, no, he turned into Joe Montana for a season. On the other side, right. I was like, oh, hey, let's not feel it's great, whatever, blah, blah, blah. She's like, we got to pop. Yeah, okay. All right. I'm going to stop you right there. You were a bit more thirsty than that. I was like, she a bad woman. Like, you were you acting a little dehydrated out here? God forbid a man see a woman to go loud. Were you, like, crawling through the desert? I was not calling through the desert. He was on his knees crying when that proposal dropped.

Well, that's the problem, right? And that's where we're all coming together. It was the U-Gill meme. Imagine if, like, the girl, your crush in school, right, married your op from work and you didn't know that they ever knew each other. And then you'd come together and you're like, yo, dang, that's nobody talking to. It's not like Josh Allen has given you reasons to hate him personally. Of all the court, Aaron Rogers is right there.

What do you mean? What do you mean? Listen, you. you, again, the Bears fan, why do you hate him off? Well, he is a weirder off. Yeah, no. Why do I hate Aaron Rogers?

But I got to stand for my, I can't stand for my guy Lamar. They was talking about him crazy. I think that's fine. They gave Josh Allen a here-nigger damn MVP. Okay, yeah. There's an award that's called a here-nigger damn. They just gave him the here-nigger damn MVP,

the first one we ever did. It's like, well, I guess we got it. We got it. You know what I'm saying? How do you vote Lamar first team all pro? and they give him the if he's not the best quarterback in the league.

Tell me now I hate Josh Allen too. You know what I'm saying? You got me hating Josh Allen. It's completely, it's two separate things that came together in one moment, which makes it,

I admit, makes it look crazy. But ultimately, they've grown a, nigga, it's not real. They've grown adults. Let them live their life.

Who cares? So you will not be singing takedown when you meet him in order to fight for the hand of Haley's cycle? It's not about her. It's about the football. It's about the football.

It's about the football, man. That's it. It's it. She's just like a, the like a symptom. It's just something that also happens. And Jomi is the cure. It's just something that also happens. Joe's like, come to me.

But no, it's all about the football, man. All right, well, aside from making it all about the football, let's make it all about the Benjimans for K-pop Demon Hunters. I've got a bit of a scenario here. Armchair CEO, Jessica Clemens, Joe Me Adiron, you are now CEOs of Netflix. Everybody loves you. Everybody has praise.

your universal password sharing practices, as well as your requirement of K-pop demon hunters, what is next for you guys? What are you going to be bringing to the table for this new franchise? If I was the Netflix? Yes, if you're the queen of Netflix. I'm the queen of Netflix,

I'm bringing the new other project that the people that made Arcane are doing. Damn. Because I want another Emmy. Oh, okay. Good start. Sky's the limit for that budget, though. Are you spending 500 mil?

Hey, I feel like if I did a sequel for K-pop Demon Hunters, I would also still be spending a lot of damn money. Okay, but also you're not getting, like, be ready to cut Hunterwives. Okay, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. You don't have a budget conversation about the way. What if we took away sirens, but we kept hunting.

Okay, fine, we cut sirens. Okay, that's fine for me. As long as hunting was... You just got to finish the first season. I just need... I need... You know what this is probably accurate? Because I bet you dollars to donuts, the CEO of Netflix, has not watched Hunter Wives.

No, he don't. Ted, you think Ted's out there watching? You know he is. I don't. He's not watching K-pop Demon Hunters, but he's watching the... I bet you he looked at the trades and we're just like, wait, we own this? He said, wait. We have 10 songs.

They're eating what? Said, why not? If I'm the, if I become Ted, if I wake up tomorrow and I'm the CEO, and I'm like, all right, K-pop Demon Hunters, I need... I need two... I need the trilogy. Easy. Like, that's, like, just work on the two movies.

Okay. At the same time. Do I do a little spin-off joint? I probably do. I probably do, like, I mean, we talked about Celine earlier and the Rumi's mom. You probably do something like that, the Sunlight Sisters, whatever. Her, she got to fall in love with the demon. You know what I mean?

Sure. She got to fall in love with the demon. I feel like in this project, you might be missing the K-pop out of the K-pop demon-up. They can still say. We're also talking as CEOs that just want to make money. Yeah. Oh, okay, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, I'm not thinking about the art.

Oh, no, of course not. Sorry, sorry. Who cares about the art? I'm thinking about the award. Okay, yeah. How many AI projects are you making right now? I'm thinking about this shamani, you can't? And then, like, you could probably do, you do, like, a I am group show with a Derpy Tiger and then a Christmas special.

Yeah. And then you bring it, oh, yeah. You can crank that on for 30 minutes. You crank that on for 30 minutes and then you just sell those plushes. Right, boom. And then you're making that money. I'm a trillionaire. Guys, hire me, Netflix.

I know you're listening. Make a call. I'll be right there. So nothing coming to theaters. I mean, you know, that, again, is. against our thing. What we want to do is bring the feeling of the movies into the home. And so we're releasing in theaters for like a weekend.

Right. So we can qualify for Best Animating Future. You get a Friday, a Saturday, and a Sunday, and maybe Thursday night. That's it. Can't they still get nominated for like sound or soundtrack, like music? We can, yeah. Yeah, so, I mean. Maybe.

And then I'm bringing back inside job. But that's just me. Oh, wow. I'm bringing on carry on two. I'm bringing carry on. And then you guys are the only people invite to the premier if you don't show up. Mind Hunter, baby, I'm reviving that. But I'll legitimately, I'll be shocked, though, if they are hesitant to, like, just go crazy with it.

Because I do think, like, legitimately, you know, if they want to make, here's the thing. You let them make K-pop D miners. But do you let the directors make anything else? Right? Do you go, hey, you have this other project? I mean, maybe. I think it might not matter. at that point.

There's one that's about like, it's like Night Rider. It's like a cop and their detective that's also a car. And it talks. That's one of their pitches. Yeah, the Night Rider show from the 80s.

With David Hasselhoff. Maggie and Chris, they shared like all the pictures over the time. Well, no, it's an animated show. From Sony? No, they're just pitching it and they're like,

these are all the pitches that people said no to. So if they're willing to go after this, if they're willing to take anything, I don't know if they're like, I mean, listen, if this team doesn't A Knight Rider adaptation, that would be wild. I don't think Night Rider, the idea of it is even, it was a boring show. Sure.

And to do it today would not be as fun. That's why they made the movie cars. You want a while? I would argue, yeah, it's true. I would argue if they did it with the car from the replacements, it would work. The replacement. Interesting. The replacements.

I'm trying to remember. They're the spy family, right? They're the right. You're perfectly right below when I stopped watching. Because I think the replacements came on at the same time as Dave the Barbarian L6 AM for me. Sorry, not the Gene Hackman football movie with Keanu. And that's the one I was thinking. Right, yes, of course.

Rest of peace, David McCallum. He was the voice of the car. And that guy, I love that car. Amazing. I would love to see this team take on Quantum Leap, though. I think that would have been. Quantum Leap. I think this team is really fun.

But I also do think they really do want to stay close to their original works. And Maggie is very big on like cultural. stories. Yeah. So keep at April. So do you think she stays on for this or do you think that she moves on to an other thing? I think they're, from the video I've seen of her, she seems nervous. I guarantee you they're in talks.

They're in talks. Oh, 100. Oh, I bet Sony and Netflix are like, hey, if you want, you got a second script. Just to just think about it. Take a weekend. Just think what you have to legitimately, and I think, just again, putting the CEO hat on, you just like to check, hey, two movies, how much I want. Like, would you do it?

But it's the timeline that's scary. And Netflix does not give you good time. Timelines, dude. They like, and that's what makes the shows burn their second season. Who said that? Me? It took nine years for us to get Arcane. What do you mean?

Oh, okay. I guess that's Arcane. I was like, Squid Game that was six months to write the entire 12 episodes. Arcane was an interesting thing because they basically got carte blanche from Netflix, as well as a nebulous timeline for when to finish. I would argue that it fits in the same, you would do the same that they did for Arcane for this show. The problem is, right? And I think we talked about it when we did the arcane pod

Is that show should have went on longer than it did But it couldn't because it takes forever to make And so it's just a matter of like we can't make a season two And then wait another three years of season three It just can't operate like that For this particular endeavor How do you then go and say We need another K-pop demon hunters

Every two years Right? Or every other year I don't think that's how that goes Also, didn't the people for Arcane say that they, like, fucked up a lot, too? They were, like, we hit a lot of roadblocks on our own that made it take a little long time. That was absolutely. They're like, we were kind of, like, learning as we went. Was that the first time or the second?

When we went to, remember when we went to the live show, there was a lot more children than it was adults. Yes. Right. And then we saw that scene that we all saw. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he was speaking beforehand, it was like, we, like, ran into a lot of roadblocks, like, writing and doing all these things because we just, like, we're on new.

All of those delays were on us. It was not a like bureaucratic studio thing like we were like that sounds like coffee please no no no I think so

and they didn't get Netflix like an Emmy so I think Netflix is definitely willing to do that when they know the product is there but I also think it was a lot of them being like hey you're gonna have to

eff and wait we're still trying to do this I don't think Netflix and Sony have that kind of relationship with Maggie and Chris yet and they're chasing awards for them to

like they're trying to hoard they're trying to hoard as many awards as they can before they're like, okay, nobody can tell us no, we can say whatever we want to whatever studio or production that we have to be like, no, you work on our timeline, not this. There's this level of like, when streamers in big studios want to be like, okay, we're going to coax out this very like cultivated niche production of something

where they would look at a Sony and see a K-pop Demon Hunters in their catalog and be like, okay, we'll just like scoop that out for 20 million. Maybe it gets added to the catalog and it adds some value to it. That's about it. You make these random, like, bets. It's why Blumhouse and horror films

are so profitable because they make these movies on the cheap. They're very easy to churn out. And then, like, one in 20 of them are going to make $200 million on the first weekend because it's going to be a massive hit. And in a way, I feel like that's kind of going to be the business decision with Netflix on a bigger. scale. Obviously, a movie like K-pop demon hunters

doesn't cost just 10 million or 20 million to make. Obviously, it's going to be massive more budgets, but they can make those types of gals. Cost $100 million. Yeah. Wow. There's a lot of people on it. I mean, again, once you start putting that music on it, you hire twice.

And then you're like, yeah, and Twice just did covers of different songs and songs that were mixed into it. There's still someone that was writing the demos, and I was like, oh, you guys had too many people. And now look at Twice's profile. Like it's quintupled, not just double. Which is actually kind of insane how, because Twice is very successful. They did a song with Megan the Stallion before this movie came out.

But it was like after this movie, it was a good introduction. It was a good introduction for a lot of people that are like coming into K-pop, J-pop, coming into just any. Not our pop. Rwandan pop. It feels weird that we keep calling it Rwandan pop. I don't want to do this anymore. Okay, we're taking your pitches for Rwandan pop groups. No, no, we're not.

Email us at. But no, no, no, no, no, no. But, no, no, no, no. But, no, I think it was a good introduction for a lot of people, because I think going into this pool of music is very daunting, because there's just so much. And you don't know where to start. And I think for, like, Katzai, especially, like, it was a show first. So people got to watch these girls become a part of a group and you get to vote for yours. And so I think this introduction, coming to Netflix, coming to the American Netflix,

and it's such a big scale, we're like, oh, so this is what K-pop is. And now we're getting it to it. But not only is it that, but, like, it hit number one on Netflix in, like, I think 80-some-ododod countries? I'm looking at it right now. 93 countries. Top that's discharged in 93 countries. Steve, get your bad take off. What's the bad take? We're going to get to that when we're ranking songs? No, no, no. It come in the theaters. It should have released to these. Well, I mean, I think my final thought for the armchair CEO of Netflix is that I would have

liked to afoot things in theaters. I know that that's the entire like antithesis of what Netflix is built upon, but to know that this could have been something that's huge for theaters and make a lot of money, because I know that if Sony had planned to release this on their own, do you think that this could have been that successful? I think so. I think it's going to be a slower burn and like a better word of mouth type of situation than Netflix had because the only reason that Netflix is such that big of a platform and then it blew up a month after the fact, I think came up, Dima hunters could have had real legs in theater. Steve, Superman was in theaters for six weeks.

right Superman was in theaters for six weeks you think they're giving K-pop Demon Hunters the same leash I mean Najat made $2 billion so he's not being for real you're not you're not being for real let's let's let's call us let's be serious let's like let's actually be serious if they release this movie theaters maybe you think it's a bomb if they release any theaters

probably I don't think it's a bomb but I think it's too late no no no no it's like now well still like now but I'm saying If they were like, yeah, it's coming into movie theaters. It would have tanked. It would have tanked. You think it would have tank? Yes. I don't think so.

Nobody's watching it. It took a month for it to burn the way that it did. And I think it's only within the last, I'm trying to think about when I've heard about this movie. These have been up on the charts for like two weeks. I think that if people go to see this movie, they release that soundtrack on Spotify. It climbs up the charts. It blows up TikTok. It does all of the things that it would have done on Netflix.

I think the only. problem that it would have had or advantage that this movie has is because that people can turn this out on the internet and make it small and into clips and TikTok. The advantages, I can watch it at the crew. The advantages, I see the TikTok, I hear the song, I go, oh,

I got Netflix. What's this thing? I can put it on. If you have to like, it's there's something, I'm going to, little inside baseball here, the thing with content is how quickly can people access it? Yeah. Do they have to take multiple steps to get there? Because the more steps you put in front of people to

to access something, they're going to be like, no, I'm good, actually. If they can click it and get it, it's great. So if you see the clips, you hear the song, and you go, oh, I got Netflix at the crib. One TV on, Netflix on, scroll down, boom. You can go and watch it, enjoy it, and, you know, make your own ideas off of it. If you're like, oh, man, I heard that. I saw it on TikTok. Well, I got to go to the movies.

I got a fun time to get in my car paid $23. Damn, I'm too Nicole Kidman-pilled. I'm like, I come to that place for that. I love movies, too. I love movies too, but you got to readjust your way that people operate in this time and space. Guess what, Jomey? That's why you got the Netflix job. That's why you got the Netflix job.

That's why I'm in the big chair. That's why I'm in the big chair. But seriously, though, like if those movies had like releasing theaters like any other movie, man, we would not be having this five. We might be, but like it would be late. It would have, what would have happened was, it would have came on theaters. And people would have been like, man, this movie's great. Ah, but nobody's going to see it.

They would have come out on Netflix wherever and people like, wow, this movie is. he's great. It wouldn't have the same thing. Right. We never gave this movie a chance. Yeah. We'd have been having a second conversation. I wasn't predicting that it would have gone on like a sinners level run of just

taking the world by storm and then movie theaters are back for like two straight months and Netflix screens or not Netflix screens and then IMAX screens are sold out. But I really think that a good word of mouth in the theater like actually helps this. I mean, I think it helps every movie. But at the same time, I don't think there's a world where like, It comes out and do people even like go crazy the first weekend, really? No, it was a sleeper. Like it was a sleeper.

It was a sleeper. It was. No one was watching it. No one saw it. I didn't even see a trailer for you. You also have to think about this to what Jomey said earlier. Thinking about Keith's kids, it's on in that house constantly. You're not taking your kid to the movie four times a week to go to K-pop demon hunters.

I would say it's really hard to, that movie would have to play at like a child theater, which we do not have yet. Yeah. It's like, maybe Alamo Draft House Baby Day. And it is also, just be, yeah. And it also is like watching that trailer, like, oh, this is for children. I immediately, even I was like, when I heard about K-pop Demon Hunters, okay, also I can't wait to go into a deep dive one day about how TikTok is literally getting people to go to movie theaters and go to like Broadway again. But it was on TikTok where I saw a clip of it. And I was like, oh, this looks interesting.

But it's like, it's probably for young people. It's K-pop. And I listen to K-pop in the confines of my own home when no one looks at me because I'm too old to be listening to it. But I was like, oh, yes, for young people. And then I saw the Derby Tiger. And I was like, I need to go find this thing. And I watched the full movie waiting for my couch to be delivered one day. And I went, oh my God.

Oh, my God. I did couch. I did couch. But I wish I would have done Bathhouse. I would have loved Bathhouse. I do love Bathhouse. I do love Bathouse. It's the fact that the dude had the brush, the, what is it, that glove that you put on?

You can buy that for yourself in a shower. I did buy that for myself in the shower. But so you know white people. I didn't want to. But it's also made it. It's bathhouse culture. Like, you buy the sandals, you buy the scrubs. I almost made a joke that was like, is that your only washcloth, Steve?

No, the only washcloth. Stop propagating that I'm dirty, okay? I'm not doing it, Steve. Hey, man, you white, man. You're starting a narrative that I don't wash my legs. It's dirty to a proven clean, brother. I'm sorry. Dirty and so proven clean.

I'm sorry. That's insane. Do you just use, like, the bar soap directly to your skin? No. I don't do that. They was on, I think it was. This is white people propaganda. Was it?

Was it actually? and his wife. Oh, Mila, they don't shout. They're like, we shower once a week or something. Get them out of here. We don't wash their legs. They don't speak for us. They do.

They do not speak for me. I think Ashton Coutcher speaks on behalf of all white people. Wait, so, by, wait, how are you cleaning your legs? With my watchcloth. You wash cloth too? I have a, I have an African. You watchcloth? Yes, I do.

I might be the widest person here. You don't watch club? Dev. Dude, I don't watch. I don't own. You're so straight to body? What are you? What are you not to say?

I have washcloths, right? But I think about it this way. Most people don't know they need to replace said washcloth. No, you stop. I have the durable little towels that you use for your face and then you throw them out. It's not embarrassing. Okay, okay, okay. Wasteful, but are you washing your legs?

But am I washing my legs? Yes. Okay. Okay. I just don't. You don't have a washcloth. That's cool. No, I have a couple.

But you use that whole thing for the, okay. I was worried. I just feel like you need to use it once. And then if you're not rewashing it, you're just, you're just. It's like taking a back. I, like, I recently got into a better position. I got in-unit laundry. I could reuse those.

There you go. You're not a bachelor. I don't even have an in-unit washer dryer and I still have, what? I understand. But I can see the concern about like not having to overuse the wash cloth. I have like 30 wash claws and then I have a bunch of African sponges. Yeah. Because those are.

And while you add. My skin is a great. Yeah. Just get the African soap too. Yeah. If you all can find that one, find somebody, there's a great shop. Windsor Hills. Get yourself set up.

And make sure you're washing your towels. Yeah, please. Yes, watch your towels. I'm learning so many new things today. Why would I wash it towels, man? What did you just say? Did you say it washes you? No, it's like we're doing a new girl bit.

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All right. So final bit of the pod before we get out of here. We love these songs. All right. But how much do we love this song? A lot. All right. A lot.

But we might be playing out a couple of these. that I think I really need their day in court. So we're going to be ranking our individual power rankings of all the songs in K-pop Diena-M-Hunders. These are the original songs. There are seven positions. All right. We have, in no particular order,

take down, golden, how it's done, free, soda pop, what it sounds like in your idol. All right? Are we ready to rank? So in dead last. Dead last. Dead last. Dead.

Let's start with you, Jomey. Clearly you have an agenda. Dead last, I have takedown. Dead last you have takedown is insane. That's insane. There's so many that go before takedown. I'm sorry. There's two before you go take down.

I stand with Rumi. It's a takedown. Stanks. Take down to that. Why does it stink? Do you know what's a rap? Is that why? It just, to Rumi's point, it don't feel like them.

It don't. It's real, it's real hating. And that's not what they, I don't, at least I don't feel like that's what they are. So I hear it and maybe like it's part of the movie as well It's just like not them and so when I hear it I don't I don't really I don't feel the connection I don't really I think it shows that they can do a lot of different things right They can diversify their genres and I go yeah Nah they're they're being to hate

I'm not there My favorite music women that are really mean to men And I'm like go ahead All right what good mean to men anthems oh anything anything Scrub TLC Oh yeah we're going back I was going to say There's a bunch by Megan the Stallion that are great to listen to. We'll go over this later because I actually have a full...

Ring the alarm by Beyonce. There you go. Don't hurt yourself by Beyonce. No, we're going. We're going... Every start saw about me. You must not know about me. Everything that Neo has ever written for Beyonce.

Which is crazy. Neo's mean to men. Which is insane. What's your... Steve, what's your worst song? All right, my worst song is free. See, that's not... It's a romance song.

Free, free does not move me. That's bad ball knowledge. Absolutely not. It's not even not at how I'm honest either, but no, respect for you. All right, Jess. Okay, it's Ken the man and Monolio, and I pronounce her name wrong, Monolio, but Monolio makes only music that is about hating men, and she's married to a very beautiful rapper, so people look out for this time.

Okay, all right, great. She's the one with the Flo Millie's song. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Sometimes it's the people you expect the most. Yes, it is. It really, really is. Fork-founded kitchen for this. One, she went into, okay, sorry, side note,

She went to the studio one night. She was like, I need to write a song. It's really hard. She kept calling her boy. He was not answering. So she made the biggest hit song that's like, she's like, you're going to be heading up to, if I catch you in that studio,

you're going to be heading up to, like, heaven like two parts or something. She goes crazy in it. And she's so mad. She's so mad and it's her best song. So, yeah, maybe it is the people you hate the most. My bottom song, go listen to Leo, is free. Hell yeah. Thank you.

That's crazy. That's tough. Thank you, Jess. I love it. Appreciate that. I guess to Joomi's part. It's not all my girls. That's not all my girls.

It's not all my girls, and I want all my girls and all my songs. All right. My number six will be takedown. All right. Okay. That's fair. Again, it's not the ladies. It's not the ladies.

Number six for you, Jomey. Soda Pop. This is not. So here's the thing. So here's the thing, right? This is not. This thing. And, like, I have evidence for this.

So the director Chris told Mashable that they purposely wrote songs that were super catchy but slightly hollow to emphasize. that they were demons of the story, he added, there's no real soul underneath, and that's how I feel listening to that. It just feels manufactured. And I know that's the point. You wouldn't have been abducted, unlike me at that concert. I was just like,

this is not a sound. Tell me fucking soulless. I like me some soda pop. I'm going to save the rankings. I wasn't there. I wasn't there. I was just like, nah. I'm doing the dance right now. I was like, I'm going. Zoe, stop moving your shoulders. All right. Magicians are also But just also before I say my number six

Everything this one and up I love dearly to my heart I do not hate it in any way Except for this song No no no no no no The free I was like I can do without These ones and up I listen to nonstop still Right but number six is soda pop Yeah six is soda five

No buzz ball this good bonus I can respect it I love it I just love again I love my girls I love my girls Gotta have the girls I love my girls Steve what's your father Oh, you're going to be mad at me for this one. Am I?

Is it crazy? No, it's golden. Oh, okay. I think our number ones are all going to be the same. It's all right. It might be. It might be. Golden F5 is fun.

You really? Again, this is a hit. This is like a... Because I have Golden Fuff. No pun intended. It's a solid gold-plated hit. I'm not mad about it. I also have Golden F.

Sure. I think that's, that's fair ranking for it. It's a great build-up. It's a perfect core progression. It's not like you can't... Yeah. You can't get mad at it. It is, it's, it is catchy.

Like, that's, they're all catchy. But this one, like, even though I give my five, I'll be, like, in my house. Humming it. Number five for me is takedown. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm there.

I listen to Take Down when I work out, period. I love Take Down. I listen to Take Down all the time. Yep. I literally only learn, like, these Korean songs, like the Korean words so I can sing the songs. So I was like, let me look up with these meetings. I just want to make sure that I'll connect up. I'm not saying to me.

Yeah, like, let me make sure I'm saying. And that's how people start getting into doing it. You have to get into it. You don't want a Lisa situation. No, I don't. I don't want to learn. We don't talk about Lisa and what she was on. You see in the video?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want that. Tough. Really tough. All right, my number four is soda pop. It's a little high. I love me as soda pop. Saja boys.

Sancho boys. They got some hitmakers, man. I'm not... Honestly, also, another hot take, their choreos better. Well, they're demons. Yeah. Yeah, like... The demons on the goddamn dance floor.

They've lived 400 years, Steve. Yeah, they've lived 400 years. They've learned from the best. They get superpowers to dance better. And they're animated on ones. And they're animated on the fucking ones, Steve. It shows. The choreos kiss ass.

Mira can only do so fucking much. You guys are asking so much of this girl. With 30 frames a minute, Mirren can only do so much. She literally can only do so much. My number four is free. I like free, man. I think this is... I love a love ballad.

What can I say? It's not even a good love ballad. They're literally floating. Tomatoes. They're literally floating. Free me from this pick. Free Joe me from the chains of romance. I like it.

A nice romance boy. This is number four? Yeah. You got to do it. This is hard. These are the hard ones. You got to do it. Be brave, Jess.

I believe in you. Four is golden. Okay. Four is golden. Yeah, all right. These ones are hard for me. Interesting. Because there's one that I listen to on repeat that will be number two.

Okay, okay. No, no, no. So we all got the same top three, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, right.

I'm pretty, yeah, yeah. Y'all got the same top three. This is W. Bond knowledge from us. At first, it was getting scary because y'all liked takedown for whatever reason. But we figured we came together. You know, it's crazy. I was going to say the same thing because you like free for some reason.

Yeah, you like free. It's just like it's the fact that we just don't hate gold there. Colts fan. All right. This is, this is Jess. You don't work here so I can't call HR. But that's rude. You know what? I'll see myself out. I don't appreciate that.

I'll see myself. I'm joking. It was a callback. It's a take down and I called them. That's what they, that's what's done. That's what they call back. Best in the biz. Jess Clemens. All right, so we're on the three now. Top three.

All right. Number three is for me is how it's done. Okay. What's your showing? Uh, your idol. Ah! Honestly, I, I, I'm kind of upset at that. Too low. I love your idol.

I love your idol. Too low. I love your title. It's three. It's three. It's bronze. Keeping you in check. It got the metal.

It's on the metal stand. We'll get, you know what? We'll get back to your idol. Let me cut that mic real quick. He did say he was the only person not going to be affected by the concert, you know. Right. We were like, oh, I'm floating. Sure.

I'm going to be, exercise me. My number three, it's how it's done. There you go. How it's done. Oh my God. I think we might have the same top three. Our top three are the same. My number two is what it sounds like.

My number two is what it sounds like. A ball nowhere here. We got a butt. This is what it sounds like. Okay. So the crazy thing, Jomey, and this I know, just a side note. What it sounds like feels like what the romance is for free. Like it's like this is the sisters coming back together.

And also the genius of using the core progression in golden. Right. Perfect. It uses it better. Which is why my second, it's how it's done. All right.

No. My second is how it's done. And the room went silent. Y'all, y'all don't understand. You lost the room, Jomey. You lost the room. I'm still with you. I like hearing your point.

And yeah, because how it's done, I think, is a great opening song. Yeah. And, like, illustrates the whole, like, literally the whole ethos of the film is that they hunt demons and they sing, and they're great and everybody loves them. And like, even just think about the visuals on that.

Like, the fight on the plane is great when they're like just... It's honestly so incredible. It's so great. And they're like, like, literally at the beginning of Iron Man 2 when he jumps out of the plane and they're singing. They just landed. They didn't use any parachutes, jet packs, nothing. No parachute.

They jumped from the plane? That plane crashed into someone's house. Somebody died. Somebody died. But in the name of Huntricks. But no, like, that's, like, that's when I hear that song, Well, and I first heard it, I was like, oh, no, they're cooked. Like, they've got some gas.

Like, this is how you start a movie. I know nothing about these characters, nothing about this world. But to immerse me into this particular adventure, that song was perfect. And so, like, it's number two. Except. Welcome back to my name, Palm Era. Come on, now. Naipaer era.

I love when she says that. Also, number one, easy. Easy, easy. Easy. you're out of my mind, which is horrible to be like this movie that I'm supporting these girls, not the demons, but my number one song. This male-dominated song is the idol.

The Masagi boys. The Masagi boys. Yeah, the Sagi boys made a hit, y'all. Your idol's great. Your idol is the best song in this movie. It got me going viral. And Moses cooking. And that show was incredible.

The stage production. I'm ready to die. The dance. I'm ready to die. And that's the question. Like, my number one is what it sounds like. I think it's perfect. Fair.

I think it's great. I like when, like just, again, you guys, the core progression of the whole thing, you talk about like free being the romantic song. I think this song has like kind of the same thing where I just see it all come together. And I'm like, yo, this is what. This is a finale song. This is what it sounds like. This is what it sounds like. And this one right here, go, we're, oh my God, we're cooking with gas.

I love it. It's great. Fantastic. Your auto is, it does go crazy. It goes insane. Oh, my God. The rap is great. The breakdown, like, the breakdown, like, after right before, because in the movie, it's interrupted by this is what it sounds like.

But in the actual, like, track, when it keeps going, oh, my God. No, it's great. So good. So you mentioned this a little bit, Steve. They just be killing demons in the street. Yeah. And, like, the movie opens again, like, they're killing demons at the thing. At the show at the end, they're killing demons.

Everybody was like, wow. This is great. great effects. How'd you do this? Nobody's like, man, that look pretty real. I think Mirr has a one off line that's like, yeah, effects.

And then they just continue talking about it. And that's genius because, like, it took me like maybe like half the movie to realize, I'm like, oh, normal people just can't see them. Normal people can't see demons. But it's also like a million people disappear off a train.

Right. And not knowing anything. That's fine. Don't think about it, right? That's the camp of it all. It is. It lets be real. Like the movie,

The movie wraps up pretty quickly. You see these girls flying and then you go, oh my God, Rumi got a full body tattoo. That's so crazy. I know that that's how they're going to play. They're going to be like, she's so edgy. We thought Mira was the edgy one, but she's got a whole body tattoo. And also, we're going to take over Times Square or whatever our fictional

Times Square-esque thing. He's just like, oh, we're so sorry about the breakup. Hold on. K-pop Dima Hundreds too. K-pop Dementers take over New York. That's a sequel right there. They go to America? Oh, my God.

That's it. a billion dollars. No, and I want them to like bomb in America for the first. Exactly kind of how the end of Squid Game ends. And so let's not... Now, wait, wait, what? That's how Squid Game ends.

Does it? Yeah, they come to America and guess it's running the game. Cape Blanchett. If Huntrix runs into Cape Blanchett in a alleyway in a suit, throwing the things... Why the fuck... I don't even want it. Why the fuck do they do that? I'm so sorry, spoilers for Squid Game.

Oh, spoilers for Squid Game. Just dumbass Spoilers for SquidGame. Dumbass spoilers for Squid Game. Bad. Who cares? That's so dumb. Bad, bad. Man, I'm glad I didn't watch that.

I glad I spent my time doing other stuff. Oh, I had to break it down. Tough. Yikes. It's okay. If anything, I learned to be more apologetic to the poor man that had to write it in three months and was like, he literally, he literally, he changed the script on the day of shooting. He would be like, no, let's actually kill this person. That's such a tough.

The killings, he literally would be like, let's kill this person. And you can kind of tell, no offense, you guys, respectfully to that man, that. there's people that he killed on the spot. Like the day of he was like, you didn't put a spot into that. Yeah, he's like, took his phone, like, you know what? It's time for you to go. She ate my donut.

I don't like, I don't like your vibe. Kill that girl. Damn, somebody fucks up craft services, and he just has a bad day and he just ices the whole show. Yeah, sometimes to be like that. He did it to my favorite actor. It's okay. I'm over it. You can't want them all.

You really can. Okay, so good to know that you're idle. Your idol? You're idle? You're viral. Going viral. You're viral. It's great.

That's great. I want to marry. every single one of the Saja boys, even when they're in normal demon form where they're just like, when they're disgusting. Again, finally, the last touch is like,

it's so great when all of them are like, go behind the curtain, and then like everybody wants, all of them just slump and they're like, there's that theory that they're like, oh, they're all powered by Chinu. No, yeah, they are. And I'm like, I love the idea

that they're all just like, they only get to come to life because of Genu. Also, all of their bodies are exactly the same except for Abby. They use the same body type. 20% bigger because he's got to be. He's Abby. She's popping up the shirt.

He's got to be swole. And let me tell you, everybody loves Abby. Everybody loves Abby. Slice right down the ad line. Come on, man. Me and Jomey are team Abby. I bet. Jomey, what's your favorite Saja boy?

My favorite Saja boy? I mean, legitimately is Baby, because they got this. Why does everybody love Baby Saja? Because I don't like Baby Saja. I thought it was funny when they're doing the hot sauce challenge. Go, goo, go, go, gaga. I was like, that's funny. I think that's his only line in the entire movie.

Yeah, that's the only line. And do the rest of them? The romance Saja says, It's crazy that we meet each other here. And then Abby says they keep looking at my abs. I don't think Mystery Saja barks. That's it. Oh, yeah.

Down, down, down, down, bad Saja. They don't actually have, like, yeah, so, like, the funniest line that got me was Bajajas. Go, goo, go, go, gawk. By the way, Hot Souch Challenge sounds terrible. I mean, we have, again, we have hot ones. Which is bad, too.

Which is also bad. I was watching, I think, was a TikTok and somebody was like, yeah, man, you go on hot ones and then you're cooked for like two, three days. Yeah. Let me tell you something. Don't do as I did. I thought that would be a good date idea.

Just run like the hot ones challenge? Do hot ones with We're Not Really Strangers? Oh, no, dude. That last dab is some bullshit. When I tell you, I... Did you buy the official sauces? I sure... Oh, I have all of them.

You can buy them at like anywhere. Yeah, I have it. It's sitting in my fridge. The pain I felt the next day, I couldn't walk. It's like voluntarily giving yourself food poisoning. It's like the stomach cram. It stares at me every day.

That's great. Every day. Who's the fool? Yeah, man. Not me. I got a girlfriend. You know. It works.

It works. And then you're in the bathroom being like, this is what it sounds like. You start crying. You just trick them into the ball. Basically, you just get in so much pain. And when a girl sees you just weak and defenseless, they just want to help me. That's true. It hurts.

I feel the sweat coming. Never do it. Take notes, gangs. Take notes, guys. Lie to women and you hurt yourself in order to get their affection. Who said that? Where did you get that from? Where did you pluck that out of?

Just like a white man to put words in a black. Wow. Wow. All right, everybody, that's our show. All right, we got to get out of here. Thank you so much, everybody. Stop. Listening to a great episode of Mende Edition.

That's crazy. Thank you all. Don't forget. Tomorrow, the Midnight Boys are going to be giving you their instant reactions to the first episode of Peacemaker. We're going to have fun with that, put our helmets on, on House of R. We're going to be giving you a deep dive on the latest episode of Alien Earth as well as Midnight Boys doing theirs later on. So, Jomey, thank you so much for being my lovely co-host. You can be found on Vin'I Boys.

You can be found on Myth Edition, doing the socials. I'm everywhere in everywhere, maybe you are. Jessica, anything to promote it, Claire? Yeah, you can follow me on Chinu Kiss Me on the Lips for 2069. Nice. I'm hopeful no one has taken that. I submitted it to X.

That is prime real estate. Prime real estate right now, you know. No, you guys know where to find me. Just scream into the ether and I'll come find you. Love it. Amazing. We are produced by the great dev. As always, thank you.

much. You can find me at Podus as a lot to say to you. I sure. I sure hope not. Yikes. Jomey. Any parting worse before we get out of here? I want to thank you guys for listening. Thank you guys for constantly showing up to our

K-pop events, you know, our signings and everything. We really appreciate you. We really love you. Appreciate all the junior mitts out there. And we can't wait to see you guys next time. We're going up. It's our You put that song as last.

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