Too Scary; Didn't Watch - CHRONICLE

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

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Welcome to Too Scary Didn't Watch, the horror movie recap podcast for those Too Scared to Watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies. And I'm Sammy and I love watching scary movies. So I watch them so that you don't have to. And we don't normally do this, but we're going to talk about the world right now and bad things that are happening because we're all feeling pretty sad and scared and angry. and if you don't want to hear this conversation, totally get it and go ahead and skip and skip ahead because, yeah, we just were feeling the need to kind of talk a bit about

Renee Good and all the things that are going on right now and how heavy shit feels, Henley phrased it as it does feel like things are like escalating. And it feels weird to not mention that we are. are feeling feelings about that. Yeah. Yeah. I think, oh gosh, I don't even know where to begin. I think I'll just start with how I'm feeling, which is, you know, even though we don't talk about it on the podcast, I think that all of us have been feeling very scared and angry and unsure. and uncertain about what's happening in our country. And, you know, when we get together every week, I really like to just check in with you guys and find out about your lives. And it's a nice, like,

reprieve from my day to day to get to spend time with my friends. And that makes me so happy. But also, like, you know, we know that we have an audience. And even if our audience is not massive, there's some kind of responsibility that goes along with that. to like speak to what's going on right now, even if that feels scary because it's honestly, I will just say like, it's scary to speak on these things right now because there, no matter what you say, someone's going to come for you. Like, you can't say the right thing all the time. It's just impossible to.

We're human. We're flawed. We're not experts in any of this. None of us are politicians. They're not even experts in horror movies. I'm I'm not an expert in literally anything except like owning my cats. I am the world's leading expert in my four. Not actually not even.

Joel's probably better than me at some of it. What I'm trying to say is one of two of the world's leading experts. One of two of the world's leading experts in four individual cats. It's yeah, it's scary and it's really intimidating and we just don't want to like, it's scary to think you're going to get something wrong. It's scary to think you're going to unintentionally hurt someone. Like, yeah. It's really, we have because of all the things previously mentioned, said things before that have unintentionally been hurtful, um, to communities or individuals. And that's really scary and hard and we never want to do that. But we,

sometimes you just have to like try. It's really, it's really good to try. And it's also really important to not be dominated by fear of getting things wrong because then you can't ever learn to be better. Yeah. Yeah. And right now, things are escalating just in the fact that we have a lot of video evidence about what happened to Renee Good. And we have the vice president of the United States posting that video evidence and telling us to deny. what we see, deny what we hear, and to label this person a domestic terrorist, a violent person deserving of being shot in the head three times and being called a fucking bitch afterwards. Truly despicable.

And yeah, yeah. And on top of even that, that even, I think I keep coming back to is like, even if those things were true, which they're objectively not. Yeah, you don't just shoot someone three times in the head. How are we justifying that as being the way that our society works? That in and of itself is a horrifying notion. He says that ICE agents have absolute immunity, which is insane. The federal government is saying they have absolute immunity to kill whoever they want to.

That is where we are right now. They're saying it and they're doing it. They're saying it and they're doing it. And that is a terrifying step. and I don't know what to do. Like, I feel like we need to be, it's just, I think the thing that's really frustrating is that, like, I just don't know what to do. Like, it's like you call your Congress people, you protest. What can you do?

You give money to people. Like, what are we to do? And honestly, if ICE agents have absolute immunity, I'm joining fucking ICE. I'm joining ICE. And I'm fucking gunning down JD Vance. Like, that's where I'm right now. like, Janey Vance, come for me, come for me. And like, the thing that's so frustrating about this is that, like, me even saying that right now is kind of scary.

It's scary, yeah. Because it's like, who knows what could happen to me for saying that. Like, that's where we are with free speech in this country. Like, it is just a scary time. And it's really, and I also think that, like, for me anyway, what I'm feeling is I'm feeling a deep grief. And I think I've been feeling this grief for a while now, but, you know, in the past year. it's really ramped up. Like a grief of how I used to view the world or what I used to think was true in the world, which was that, you know, you could understand humans through rationality and

logic. You could appeal to humans through emotions. You could, like, I thought that I had a kind of grasp on that and that we all did. And that, like, progress was like a basic decency agreement among humans. And that we were, like, maybe we would have some, you know, missteps, but like progress was kind of the arc of justice was moving forward and or the arc what is it? I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, so I think that I'm just feeling a grief that I wasn't expecting to feel and I'm in a place of uncertainty of how to deal with it, but at least addressing it and

acknowledging it is important. I'm scared for Silas and May. I'm scared having children right now. I don't know how to act in order to make the world a safe place for them. And that's like heartbreaking. And it's heartbreaking to like be raising children trying to show them like the best in all things, knowing that things are also very, very, very, very, very dark and very, very, very scary and very uncertain.

And that's just hard. That there's like a lot of evil happening right now. And there's a lot of evil happening in so many spheres that I also have like, I get the feeling of like, like my panic feeling like like whackamol. Yeah. Where I'm like like the other day I was like really, you know, spiraling and looking at a lot of things about Renee good and and what's happening in. Minneapolis and the like protests and things that are you know spiraling out from that and then being like oh my god when was the last time I thought I like donated to or like thought about Palestine oh my god oh my god I've forgotten to to do my part in helping Palestine and and then and

just being like oh my god and Iran is without power and like what is that what's happening and just like this feeling of like oh my god oh my god like getting like buried underneath all the evil and and the feeling of panic of not knowing what to do what to do. And there's a lot of, there's a lot of people online who say that, you know, and I think this is true, like white women are complicit for holding up these structures of evil because we have internalized the patriarchal ideas. We've gone along with the misogyny. We've allowed it to exist for as long as it has because we have failed to educate ourselves. And we have claimed being

paralyzed by being overwhelmed by this stuff. And first of all, I hear you. I get it. I agree. Also, like, I just being honest, like, holy shit, it's a lot, you know? It's a fucking lot. And fuck. I don't know. Just like, fuck is basically how I feel. I was up. I couldn't sleep the other night after not being able to sleep for so many nights because nobody needs sleep more than you. And I couldn't sleep the other night and I was just watching like video after video after video of like ice raids. And it's too much. I mean, it's just too much. And you have to like stop and take a breath and clear your mind and think like, okay, what is the first small thing I can do? And like one of the first small things is just, I guess, talking about it here.

You know? Yeah. Yeah. I think my coping mechanism, has been to try to do, yeah, like tangible things. Obviously, donating money is really important. And a lot of organizations that are helping immigrants undocumented and otherwise need a lot of money to do the work that they're doing. And so that is very, very good. But I also think that in order to feel, like physically useful. I'm trying to like get involved in community-based things. I think being

involved in your community is like the greatest antidote to a lot of the dread and fear that we're feeling is just like connecting with the people around you. We're all feeling the same thing. And sharing that with people that you've never met before, I think is like a really powerful thing and just like uniting in caring about your neighbors. I mean, ICE was. in Silver Lake the other day and like a block from where I used to live. Like this shit's happening everywhere and like you can get involved in something. I don't know what it is going to be in your particular area. Something I found near me is a program called Miri's List that helps resettle refugees.

And, you know, while it may not necessarily be directly solving, an issue caused by ice. Like I think still developing ties within your community by any means necessary, like by any way you can in any sort of volunteering or like community or neighborhood council type thing. Like I think just building ties with the people in your community is really the most powerful thing we can do, the most like we can have control over our immediate vicinity. And I think a lot of this stuff is intentionally making us feel really overwhelmed and afraid because it's because of that paralyzing factor. And I feel like that's part of the tactic is like making us so scared and overwhelmed that we're like not doing anything at all. And so

I would just like while acknowledging that it is fucking scary and overwhelming, like Henley said, I think just like, what's one small thing you can do? You can look up a protest in your area. You can look up a volunteer opportunity. You can go talk to your neighbors and just be like, introduce yourself to a neighbor and just be like, hey, how are you doing? How are you doing? I just want to like get to know the people around me in case we need to like talk to each other. Here's my phone number.

If you ever need anything, like I think focusing on the things that you. can control the things around you that you have some power in your block where you live. And for me, that's been kind of the most helpful way to direct my energy. And, you know, I'll keep you posted out all those. I'm also doing emergency response training. And hopefully that will also introduce me to other members of the community. and I'm certain it will. That's a really, wait, you should talk about that more, Sammy, because that's really interesting.

So in L.A. there is a program run by the fire department called Community Emergency Response Team or CERT. And they do free trainings to train people on basic emergency response like first aid, fire safety, and like light search and rescue. You're never necessarily going to be asked or forced or like call what you might be called upon to do these things if you want to but it's not necessarily like you're signing up to like be on the front line in emergencies it's just training people so that you have the knowledge and information should you need it and I think you can you can get as involved as you want with emergency response from the point after receiving the training but I also am just like well I just want to know those things I think that's helpful to know especially

in a big city where if emergencies are happening, we don't have enough people in the fire department or police department. We can't rely on necessarily someone coming to help us. If resources are really strained, our infrastructure here is not great. So, but yeah, and then again, it's just like meeting people in your community who are like care to care about their fellow community members. And so I find this really inspiring. I want to look into doing this in Connecticut. Yeah. Fear and anger are just really, really isolating. And when we get scared and when we get angry, we focus on like self-preservation, which is a really individualistic point of view. And it can be really easy to look at everyone around you as like evil or bad or like out to get you or like not correct or not like it just, I feel that within myself that I like get worked up in a way that like paints other people as being. against me. Far more people,

I mean, like, not even, it's like, yes, there's evil in the world. We're seeing it in real time. It's for real. Like,

we spend a lot of time being like, every villain has a backstory and it's like, yeah, and also like, fuck you. But most people are not evil.

Most people are not okay with that. And it is really helpful to focus on those people as much as you can. And like, see yourself as part of, a community as part, like we're, you know, yeah. We have to trust each other.

We have to, we have to continue to trust each other. Yeah. Even when it's this scary and unstable. We got to keep the social fabric alive. Yeah. Anyway, it's like there isn't really, it's kind of just cathartic to talk about it. And it's important to not look away.

Yeah. And I'm all about a tax strike or a general strike. Yes. Let's do a tax strike. I don't want my fucking tax dollars going to Israel and ICE. Yeah. Can we do like some? Can we not do that? I don't think we can. But if anyone understands how to do like a tax redirect, like all do, all pay taxes, redirect those taxes to like legal fees, health care costs for people. Like, but what kind of like what taxes should be. But if someone knows a way to, I will continue to pay my percentage of taxes to things that make the world a better place and not to what's happening right now. We should be able to choose what our tax dollars go to. That's a really, that's probably a very controversial take and has a lot of downsides. I'm sure there's a lot of downsides.

And PR's just like billions and billions of dollars. But it would be, I mean, can you imagine that would be great? All to child care. All to like, yeah. It's just, yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I think one other thing that's within our control that we will remind you of is voting. And this is a voting year now. So that's going to be true. Pretty important. It's going to be really important. But also why it's important for us to keep talking about it is because I think the Republicans, they know that they are fucked. Like, no one's going to vote for them. And so they're going to, when you're panicked and you're in a corner and you know that you don't have the public support anymore, that's when like these kinds of things really ramp up. And that's what we're seeing right now. I mean, it's just like textbook authoritarian. It's really textbook stuff.

I mean, we've seen it all before. Everyone's saying anyone with a modicum of pattern recognition or knowledge of history knows what's happening. And like we can't look away or pretend like it's not. I mean, I would love to, I would love to pretend like it wasn't happening. But it's just we can't do that right now. Yeah. And there's something to be said for if you are in a population, like I believe the three of us, are, which is to say privileged white women.

It's a lot easier to just to be like, I'm not going to actually pay attention at what's happening because it's not directly affecting me in this moment. All the more reason to involve yourself in what's happening. Yes. And if we, yeah, it's a voting year. If we're looking for things to do

and tangible action to take, there's going to be a lot of people that need support and boots on the ground in the coming months. Yeah. So, yeah. I also want to say not to not to like totally pivot us away, but just in light of community being important and wonderful, I did check our P.O. box for the first time in seven months.

And I want to apologize for not having checked it in seven months. Shocked, shocked to see the dates on some of those letters and be like, huh, that was a long time ago that I was sent. Really sorry about that on our part. But a lot of you sent us really wonderful letters and just like wedding invitations and pictures of your cats. We got a wedding invitation. Can I like that live? We got a lot of wedding invitations.

A lot of you got married this year. Congratulations. Sorry we didn't respond. Again, we did not check our mail. We got five wedding invitations. Maybe more. We got a lot of wedding invitations. Yeah, again, pictures of people's pets, pictures of your loved ones.

Oh, I'm going to cry. We received Virginia at Maui 3D made us great little personalized signs that each of us now have. We received a beautiful hardcover copy of the book Kin by Sophie Lucido Johnson. Like truly, I'm sorry it took us so long, but to open the box and find just like beautiful people. Um, waiting there for us was incredibly special. And so really sorry for not calling that out when you sent your beautiful letters and things to us. But thank you for doing it. But also like speaking of being inspired, like there's kindness and good in this world and our listeners are kind and good. And that's really beautiful. And like you sent us like you're like a wedding and that like that's so, thank you for like that's, I'm so touched. And I need to speak on this book, Kinn too, because. that is literally directly referencing a direct antidote to our time, which is, okay, so this book Ken, The Future of Family by Sophie Lucido Johnson. All right. So I'm just going to tell you what it's about. It's a book exploring how to build supportive, chosen family networks beyond the traditional

nuclear family to combat loneliness and share life's responsibilities. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yes. Yes. It's all about building your community. So go out and if you're interested in that. And you're also, Sophie is a very talented cartoonist as well. So it's like a very fun, it's a very fun book. It's a gorgeous. It's a gorgeous book. I highly recommend it. She's an artist.

Yeah. Anyway. I love you guys. We love you guys. Just, yeah, it felt like we wanted to talk about that for a bit. So hopefully that was, I don't know, cathartic for someone to listen to. or maybe someone feels inspired instead of hopeless. And maybe you skipped ahead and here you are joining us.

Hey, you missed, you didn't miss a thing. Maybe you think everything we said was wrong and stupid and you got some catharsis out of yelling at us about being stupid, dumb, white idiots. And that's fair too. And do it you got to do. Do what you got to do.

We support it. We support it all. And now I'm ready to probably scream about something else, somebody else, something else that I'm probably going to hate. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. I don't even know what movie we're doing.

What are we doing? Me neither, but I mean, this week. I can guess. Are we just doing, are we doing heated rivalry? Oh, I wish. I wish too sexy. Definitely watch. We need it.

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Starring Dane Dahan, Alex Russell, and Michael B. Jordan. Oh, my God. Too sexy did what. Okay, yeah. Yeah. It's actually sex. Although wait, hold on, I need to do some math. He was still, he was an adult in 2012.

Oh. Isn't he like our age? So he was like, we were the same age. And we were adults in 2012. So it's fine. We're always the same age as him so he can always be sexed at us and it's never wrong. Absolutely. 100%.

Perfect. Chronicle streaming on HBO. Have you guys heard of this movie? No. Are you familiar with it at all? No. It has been recommended a lot. I have always heard that this is like a pretty,

fun found footage movie. You guys know I'm a fan of found footage. And I was about halfway through it when I like to watch movies while on IMDB on my phone kind of reading about everybody involved, what other stuff they did. And it was about halfway through when I stumbled upon the Max Landis thing. I recognized the name as, wait, that's a bad guy, right? Oh, no. You may also. Is Max Bad or is John bad? Well, I'd say both. Okay. Cool, like father like son. John Landis, if you recall, I think it was a bonus episode. We talked about how John Landis was responsible for the death of three people, including two children on the set of the 1982 Twilight Zone movie.

Oh, God. Through some kind of like negligence in terms of set safety. It was a really fucking horrible, horrible thing that happened. And Max Landis, his son, was accused of sexual and emotional abuse by, I believe, eight separate women. Wow. Okay. So as I was halfway through the movie, I was like, ooh, I might not have picked this one. Known that at the time.

But here we are. We are. As a slight. Yeah. I mean. I mean, it's fucking rampant. I was going to say if we and again we everyone everyone can and should and ought to make the individual choices that they need to make to protect their peace but if we were going to rule out any movie that had a sexual predator involved yeah we would watch zero movies I'm pretty sure we would you know we would watch would and maybe I'll someday I might eat my hat but we could watch the chronology of water directed by Kristen's story I do want to see that but yeah so it's yeah yeah yeah yeah so it's yeah yeah so So a slight thing that made me feel a little better is that in 2019, so this movie came out in 2012, the accusations were made in 2019.

And Josh Trank, the director of this movie, came out and said, I 100% believe every word of these accusations. I banned Max from set because he was like being creepy to women and like I haven't spoken to him since. So he was kind of like booted off the set of this movie. And it sounds like Josh Trank also hates him. So that's, I guess, good. Yeah. And a reminder that we need men policing other men. It is not women's duty alone to police men.

And it pisses me off how women are always made responsible for men's behavior. We need men policing other men. We need the men saying, get the fuck out. You're being weird. Yeah. We need more of that. Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you for your service, Josh Trank. Thank you, Josh Trank. Thanks, Josh. This movie has an 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 69% on MetaCritic, nice. Nice. You said this movie wasn't sexy, Sammy. And a 7 on IMDV, 100%. Wow.

The budget was 15 million, and it made 126.6 million. Wow. Wow, that's a lot more. I've truly never heard of this movie. Me either. You probably will rec- We're going to watch the trailer after the movie because it does spoil a lot.

And I feel like you'll probably remember the trailer. We worked on this trailer at my work, so maybe I just have like an outsized memory. You would remember it, yeah. I know I didn't work on the trailer. I know I didn't. Yes. So, fair.

But yeah, I feel like with a lot of found footage movies, you get this like huge profit margin because they're relatively cheap to make and tend to So 15 million with Michael B. Jordan. I mean, he was already, you know, that's money well spent. Yeah, I bet 10, 10 went to MBJ. MBJ. After this movie, Josh Trank was in high demand, obviously, after having such a huge success. And he went on to direct the fantastic,

movie with Michael B. Jordan. Oh. The 2015 one. And it seems like it made quite a hit on his career. That sucks. That really is a bummer that that happened. Yeah. Because that's like notoriously like the worst movie ever made or something. People really don't like it. I mean, it's, yeah, it's, I've never seen it. But it's not bad enough to be good again, I don't think. Like the room is one of the most notoriously bad movies ever made. But it's like so bad that it's fun and good. again and probably will have like midnight screens forever. Some movies are just, some movies are just bad, unfortunately. This one I think is just plain bad. Yeah. Yeah.

Chronicle made Josh Trank the youngest person to direct a movie that premiered at number one at the box office. He was 27 at the time, beating out Stephen Spielberg, who was 28 when Jaws came out. So really sticking it to Stephen. The movie was shot in. Cape Town and they had to bring in a bunch of cars because in Cape Town they drive on the opposite side of the road with like. Right.

And I thought that's so crazy. The way that the film industry works, this is not a new thought to have, but just like that it's cheaper to fly a bunch of cars to South Africa than to shoot. In the United States? When I was at Netflix, we moved an entire show from Canada to South Africa. Yeah. And that meant we shipped all the sets. We shipped everything from Canada to South Africa.

It costs like a million, millions of dollars. It's like, what the fuck? It's insane. They shoot the CBS show Ghosts outside of Montreal. Friend of the pod, correspondent Betsy, is in many episodes of Ghost. And the house that they filmed the pilot in, that the whole series is based in this house, is a real house. in Los Angeles, and they built the house on a lot in Montreal and fly all the actors out from L.A. to Montreal to shoot. Yeah. It's nonsense. But that's how, but that's also how expensive

it is to shoot, you know, in Los Angeles specifically. Yep. Yeah. That's a whole separate issue. We are going to talk about that. Hollywood's fine. Hollywood's thriving. The Golden Globes are tonight. And Mary Beth Barone is going to be a correspondent on the red carpet. It's a big day for the Barone's. Big day. The last little piece of trivia I have is that Josh Trank got the three starring guys, Dane DeHan, Alex, Russell, and Michael B. Jordan to live together for 15 days before they began shooting so that they would have. I love it when they do that. I really do too.

I love it. It's also so funny to be like, 15 days is like fucking nothing. It's not that long. But just to build a little sense of realistic friendship between them. That kind of stuff is important. I love it. Chemistry is crucial. Yeah.

It's like how Eva Mendez and Ryan Gosling fell in love. Oh my God. That's a great point. It's just like it. I think Dane Dahan is in that movie. If I had a freaking nickel for every time I've seen the quote somewhere of Ryan Galsing being like, once I did that movie with Eva, I knew I would never want to have a family without her.

I see it all the time. You know what? Did it just recently come back? Like, or did he say that recently? I don't know. It's an old quote. because it's everywhere. It's everywhere. It's everywhere.

We need everyone to know. Ryan Gosling would never have had children if it weren't for him having fake children with Eva Mendez. His publicist is like, you know what? It's been a few years. Let's do the rounds with that. People need the quote. Let's do that quote again. People need a refresher.

Time to remind everybody. Show people the quote. Well, he's going to be in a movie this year, Project Hail Mary. And I'm sure. So we'll see it again. Yeah, I'm sure he'll be doing the search. They'll be seeing it. We'll be seeing that quote again.

I'm excited for that movie. Me too. I love Ryan Gosling. Me too. She's great. What's not to love? I love even Mendes. What's not to love?

Okay. That's all the trivia I have. And as I mentioned, we are going to be watching the trailer at the end because it's spoilery. That'll be available on our Patreon if you desire to see our reactions to it. And if indeed it strikes any memory in you, too. I can't wait to find out if it strikes a memory. Yeah.

Yeah, part of me is like 2012. I was seeing all kinds of movies back then by accident, you know? I did not see this. That was when you could see trailers without your consent, without your permission. Yeah. Okay, let's get into this recap trigger warning for child abuse. Oh, motherfucker. God damn it.

Sorry. Sorry. Today is not the day for that, but I'm going to do my best. Also, it's dry January for me. So not for me. Sometimes a glass of wine makes it a little bit easier to tolerate. You guys, I had a martini last night and I got such bad acid reflux that it feels like I have a lump in my throat. Has that ever happened to you, Emily?

It's horrible. It's like your esophagus gets inflamed and I woke up and I was like, there's a golf ball in my throat. Oh. This, remember when I was having like really bad heartburn, like right around when I turned 30? Yeah. It was like I felt it's like almost like you have like mucus. in your throat, but you don't have to click. Or like I've swallowed a pill and it's like stuck in there.

It's fucking awful. So yeah, it's going to be dry January for me, I think. From one, from one cocktail irritating my esophagus. I'm doing, I'm doing damp January, you know. Yeah. We're not going, no, we're not soaking wet, but it's not. It's a lighter load. It's not sopping January, but it's not, you know, it's not bone dry, but.

Everything in moderation. No, we're just doing what we can. here. Anywho, I'm ready. All right, I'm ready. Let's do it. We begin with our protagonist. His name is Andrew.

He is setting up a camera facing a mirror, so we're establishing that everything we see is going to be the point of view of this camera. This is Dane Dahan. And I will say some of the found footage POV work in this movie's a little loose. There's some times where I'm. I'm like, I don't think that camera shot. I used a different camera, yeah. But as he's setting up this camera, we're hearing pounding on the door.

His dad is screaming, open this door. Andrew's yelling, no, dad, it's drunk. You're drunk. It's 7.30 in the morning and you're drunk. He's like, what did you say to me? You open this fucking door right now. Clearly this is like abusive father. seems like he's setting up the camera as a way to like capture evidence of this.

Oh, man. And his door's locked. It does, his dad eventually like wanders off, leaves him alone. We see him take the camera downstairs. He's filming his mom in bed. She has cancer and a breathing tube and is, you know, kind of out of it. But he's at her bedside. They have a sweet moment together.

It's clear that he really loves her and cares about her. And they just have like a nice sweet little moment. Then he goes off to school, bringing the camera. He's filming. He gets picked up by his cousin Matt. And he's filming as they're driving to school. Matt's kind of like, what's up with the camera? He's like, oh, you know, just documenting stuff.

So he's like a high schooler? He's a high schooler, yeah. Okay. So we're off to high school. We walk in the halls. He's again filming everything. I guess I can stop pointing that out. The whole movie is him filming stuff.

Got it. But in the beginning, there is a lot of like, why are you filming, man? Like, what's this camera all about? And then eventually. Explain to us, the premise. Right. How is this happening? How is the audience seeing what you're seeing?

Is this going to be happening the whole time? We see in. the halls of this high school posters of Michael B. Jordan everywhere you love to see it, even though he's a high school student. And that is... It's only okay if you're also a high school student. But they're all saying vote for Steve. He's running for class president. I'd vote for it. It kind of looks like a jock. Obviously, very popular. Obviously, it's Michael B. Jordan. He's going to be popular. Has he ever played a non-popular?

That's a great person. I feel like it's like... No, because we wouldn't, we wouldn't buy it. Yeah. You guys have never, you guys have never seen the wire, but he's in the wire. No, I watch that season of the wire. That's tough. It's tough one. Bad is a tough hang.

He's a little child in that. He's really cute. Children shouldn't act, but he was a great child actor. Yeah. Because he's a great actor. Because he's a great actor actor. He's magnetic. He's powerful.

We rewatch sinners last night and he's just really good. He's so good in it. I saw someone saying that he should be nominated twice for that. He should get double the odds. Unfortunately for him, I mean, we'll see if I'm proven wrong, but I don't think it would matter. You think it's going to Timmy? Or Leo. Yeah.

Yeah. Is what I think. It's probably true. He is, Mikeby Jordan is phenomenal in that movie. But I just don't think, I don't think it's his to take home. Yeah. I bet he'll win, probably not the Oscar, but I bet he'll win. I bet he'll win a golden globe tonight.

Yeah, maybe he'll win a golden globe tonight. Yeah, maybe he'll win a golden glove. He should win something for sure. Yeah. That's a good reminder that you can rewatch sinners. You can. And it's currently streaming on multiple streaming platforms, even though I think actually all of them are the same streaming platform now. Right, right, right.

You can find it in click by clicking different icons, but it's all owned by the same company. Amazing. Yeah, that's... They make it so easy. The good use of my free will is just rewatch sinners. You can choose whether you watch it on Prime or HBO Max. Or if you have a, yeah, subscription for HBO Max through Prime. Or through Ralu, which I do.

Or through Hulu. Oh, pretty exciting stuff. Sick. We see that Andrew is, of course, being bullied by everybody. There is a particular group of bullies. I don't know main bully's name, but he yanks the camera away from Andrew. He's making fun of him. And then he, like, throws the camera back at him.

Looks like it almost breaks it, but it doesn't. But it's not seeming like Andrew's got a lot of friends at school. Matt, who drove him to school as his cousin, we're not seeing any. Which isn't a friend. You can never be friends with a cousin. No, doesn't care. They're obligated by blood. So after school, Matt is driving him home.

Matt is also in high school, so they carpool. Matt says there's a party tonight. Andrew says, I don't really like party. Matt says, no, you're coming and like, pro tip, don't bring the camera because everyone's going to think you're a big dork. And he says, like, I'm going to bring my camera. I would never not bring my camera. Then the movie would stop. And also, standing your truth.

If you're being bullied anyway, just fucking you do you, you know? Yeah. Bullies make me mad. You think they're just going to all of a sudden stop bullying you because you don't have a camera? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah, right.

Yeah, fucking right. Yeah, real. So Matt drops Andrew off on his street and we see there's like a group of four guy adult men that Andrew's filming. And he says like these are this my douchebags on my street. They look I'm like early 20s. One of them looks about 40 and they're just like drinking 40s out of paper bags on the street corner. And they're also like, Andrew, come over here. Like, who would you give you a veggie?

They don't say that. but that's the vibe. They, they are also bullying him. But these are, again, like a seemingly grown adults. Do you guys think you'll ever drink a 40 ever again in your life? I hope not. I really hope not. I don't think we will. I think our time has come and past. Maybe we will find ourselves having a sip of a 40 at some point. But beyond that. But we don't play in Edward 40 hands again. That's for sure. I know. I know. Imagine the last time we had a 40, we didn't know. It was our last time. We didn't know. There's no way to know. There's just no way to know.

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Jesus. Knocks him off of his chair and, like, screams at him. Open the door when I tell you to, like, this is my house. You don't get to lock me out of a room. And then he, like, walks out. Yikes. Pretty terrible stuff. Then Matt picks him up.

We're going to the party. This party is a full rave. It's all seemingly high school students, but it looks like a professionally organized rave where I'm just like, who is paying for this party? this shit is not free. There's like strobe lights, full DJ set. Like everyone's got glow sticks. And like it looks great.

It looks like a great party. But not like any party I went to in high school. The closest you're getting is like lights off. Right. It's like that's as close. And maybe one of those like a warehouse. Like it's not at a home. Oh.

We have one of those lights. You could buy like Spencer's Gifts. That was like, you know, multi-colored. Like we like sit on a table. Someone really put a lot of effort into this party. And if it was a high school student, like good on them, I guess. Because this took a lot of work and planned. It's like high production.

Yeah. High production value. So he's walking around the party when we see a shot of him with his camera and we're like scratching our heads. Hold on a second. I thought we can only see from his camera. And he turns his camera and we see another girl with camera and they're filming each other in a kind of peep show type moment.

I guess that I'm referring to a British television show called peep show. That's all POV. You're not referring to an actual peep show. So this is Casey and this feels like fully just a device to get another camera angle here. Like Casey serves really no purpose in this plot other than just essentially giving us another camera. But Matt walks over and sees Casey and they have a little like kind of flirty kind of tense moment. Like maybe they used to date. They like clearly have a rapport between them that it's like kind of like he's trying to flirt with her and she's a little bit like rolling her eyes at him.

And so I don't know. We don't know. They might have a history. We're not sure. They have a lot in common. They're the only two people there with the camera. Not Andrew. It's Matt. It's sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Matt, it's not. It's okay when Casey has a camera, but it's like not okay when Andrew has a camera. Like, excuse me. Get your story straight. Which one is it? Are we bullying Casey or not? So Andrew continues around the party filming things. There's girls dancing. He's filming one of the girls dancing when her boyfriend gets up in his face. He's like, you film me my girlfriend? Get the fuck out of here.

Shaves him, throws a drink in his face, but also on the camera. Cut to Andrew outside, like cleaning off the camera, crying. Is it really sad? And you hear him like sniffling as he's cleaning off the camera. when from the background appears Michael B. Jordan. To save the day. And he's saying, Andrew, right? I'm with your cousin Matt.

We found something that's really cool. We want you to come and film it. And he introduces himself as Steve. Andrew says, I know who you are. Obviously, you're incredibly popular. You're ready for class president. There's posters of you all over. And I will say right away, Steve gives very good vibes,

which I was happy about. Because, you know, sometimes the stereotype can be like popular guy. Jock is an asshole. Not Steve. Steve is like immediately really nice to Andrew and is like, are you okay, man? Because he kind of sees that he's sniffling and he's just nice. He's just nice and good and we love to see it. I love that.

More of that. More of Steve in 2026, you know? Yeah. So Steve gets Andrew to bring the camera over to this clearing their episode. this like abandoned warehouse for the for the rave for the high school rave but behind the abandoned warehouse there's just like an empty field or maybe like a digging site a construction site and in the middle is this big hole that seems to go down down down can't see the bottom of it and they're like come here come here we found we found this crazy hole you got to film this teenagers and holes yeah not a good thing

that hole. Yeah. And Steve and Matt are kneeling next to the hole and they're like, come here, come here. You have to put your, it makes this crazy sound. You have to put your ear towards it. Bring the camera out. You got to capture the sound. And as Andrew gets closer from the hole, we just hear this like, like crazy, deep, very loud sound that almost like blows them back with the force of it. And Steve is like, this is so cool. like, I got to get in there and just like jumps into the hole. What? As if it's like that.

I mean, this is a confident young man. Yes, that's true. But he just like almost like monkey bars like grabs the side and like swings into it just completely out of sight. Did we see where the whole ends? No. It looks like it curves. So you see that it, you can kind of see a ending point to just. from a visual standpoint, but it keeps going after the curve.

And so we hear him going like, what? Stop it. Like Alice in Wonderland style. Yeah. And Matt goes next. Andrew's like, what the fuck are you guys doing? This is like, this is so crazy. And he's right.

You shouldn't just get into mystery, mysterious holes. Just jump into a hole you can't see the bottom off. No, I would advise against it. But Matt is curious and he's a little drunk, I guess, notably Andrew doesn't drink, which is maybe this is an anti-drinking PSA. When you're drunk, you lose your judgment. You might be far more likely to jump into a hole that you shouldn't be in. So Andrew is the most trepidacious about this.

We're not feeling too good about going to the hole. But Matt more slowly and carefully climbs into the hole. They're both down there and they're calling out to him. You've got to come down here, Andrew. We need you to come film. we need the light from the camera. So reluctantly, Andrew climbs into the hole. Oh, Andrew.

And from this point, the camera's kind of glitching a bit. There seems to be some sort of like maybe electric charge within this hole that's messing with the camera. Well, the hole did make its own noise. Yeah. So what's up with that? Something's going on with this hole. We get to the bottom. They say, like, we must be 40 or 50 feet down.

I don't want to be 40 or 50 feet. Yeah, how are we going to get out of the hole? How are we getting out of the hole, you guys? And we see at the bottom glimpses of this almost, it's like kind of like a glowing tree trunk sized like crystal formation. And again, the camera's really like glitching. So we're not getting a good look at it. But I guess it's like maybe a meteor that has crashed like some sort of.

alien thing. We don't know what it is, but it's clearly having an effect on the camera and all of them seem very drawn to it. They're touching it. They're like, wow, do you feel that? Dude, this is crazy, dude. Wow, dude, so fucking crazy. So fucking crazy. I feel like we've done so many things recently. I mean, welcome to Derry. And then kind of the Santa Claus one, like there's been so many recently about like an asteroid coming to Earth. And the thing that's bothering me every single time is that this is the of the Paw Patrol Mighty movie that I have seen a thousand times. And every time we talk about it, I'm like, this is fucking Popatroll. It's just Pop Patrol. Pop Patrol did it first. Pop Patrol did it first.

That's my cultural reference point. Makes me sad that I know so much about Paw Patrol. But they're using it in all different types of genres, you guys. This is a trope. Yeah, this asteroid. It was also in the blob. Yes, that's right. It's been over and over and over again. But Paw Patrol did it first, I still think. Do you think that an asteroid's come? And also 3-1 Atlas. Are we, is an asteroid coming for us? If so, do we go near it or not? Because in Paw Patrol, when they go near it, they get special powers.

Well, this is about to be Paw Patrol then because... Is that what happens this? This is about to happen here. Yes, we see that their noses start bleeding. They're clearly like something is affecting them with this glowing asteroid thing. Cameras freaking out, glitching, glitching, glitching. it's chaotic and then cut to black. And then we hear some voices fumbling with a camera.

They're saying, okay, we need to document. Guys, guys, we need to document this. We need to document. Come on, come on, get serious. And then get serious. Camera turns on. We're now outside in one of their backyards, stay time. They got out of the hole.

They got out of the hole. That's why I said, great question. Because we never see how they got out of that hole. We're just cutting ahead in time. and they are standing in front of the camera and they're like, okay, show, they have a baseball. We see Matt and Steve. He's like, okay, throw the baseball. Steve is throwing it towards Matt and hits him in the face with it.

We don't really know like what's going on. What are they showing us right here? And then they're like laughing and laughing. Matt's mad. He's like, oh, fuck. And then they're like, okay, let's try again. Now Steve tries. Steve also gets it in the face and they're like, oh my God, what the fuck?

Camera quality is like way better, by the way. I think because they had to get a new camera after whatever happened in the hole. And so at first I was like, this is just like the crisp. We're just filming a regular movie here and now. But then eventually I think they do say like, oh, you nice new camera. So both Matt and Steve have been like hit with the baseball. We don't know what they're trying to show us. And then Andrew's like, okay, I'll do it.

I'll do it. Let me do it. Andrew stands, Steve's about to throw the baseball at him. He's throwing it right at his face. He's like, throw it as hard as you can. He's throwing it right at his face. And Andrew looks like focused. Like he's looking at something. And then he's able to freeze the baseball before it hits his face. It stops in midair. And they're all like, oh, he did. He did. Wait, this is actually, is this in the trailer? Because actually this scene is weirdly reminded. I think it is in the trailer, yeah. Okay, this is okay. Still got nothing over here. All right. Now, now I'm actually having memories of this, of, I guess, seeing the trailer for this movie.

Yeah, this movie is just teen boys getting superpowers and that, and that would be probably bad if you think about it. Okay. Okay. I'm fascinated to find out what happens. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It would be bad. So we see that, yes, something in that cave has given them power of telekinesis at least. Wow. And they're just showing off. all the things that they can do. They're, like, discovering, I guess, also the things that they can do. They now go into a room that has a bunch of Legos. And we see Matt trying to, like, float the Legos, and he can only do, like, two.

And Andrew's, like, try to, like, press them together. He's like, I can't, I can't do it. I can't do it. Andrew's like, let me do it. Let me do it. Andrew is way better. He builds, this set in Seattle, by the way, he builds the space needle out of Legos in, like, 10.

seconds. He's just like boom, boom, boom, boom. Andrew, he's doing the best at this. Wow. Oh, so this is what happens when you give the guy who's been shit on his whole life, ultimate power. Yeah. Oh, God, is this a metaphor for our current government? God damn. I feel like, I feel like we can find it pretty much anywhere, yeah. Anywhere, anywhere. So, but something I do like is that it's, I feel like it's, they're having kind of like sweet bonding time. even though it is all like very much teenage boys being like, what are so fucking crazy?

They're also like, so hey man, like what's going on with you these days? They're getting to know each other. Yeah, they're getting to know each other. And they find out through a conversation that Andrew is a virgin. And they're like, no way, dude. Like, we got to fix that. For some reason, they go back to the. hole. They're like, we want to find out what. We got to find out what happened in that hole.

We got to go back. Andrew says, I'm all splunked out, which I'd completely agree with. Yeah. I'd be like, is the whole going to take it away again? Like, I don't know. Let's just leave a beat. Let's leave a B. But they go back and they need Andrew to come because he's got to film it. He's got the camera. There's no movie if he doesn't come. Yeah. But they arrive back. It's daytime now and see that it has caved in. And the hole is gone. No more hole. And a construction guy or whatever comes by and yells at them, like, you kids can't be here.

We think the, like, ground is a little unstable here. You got to go. So they're like, all right, I guess that's all the investigating we can do. So time to just enjoy our newfound powers. We see Andrew at home at nighttime. He's floating the camera above him. So we're setting up that now the camera can kind of. to do whatever.

Ah, perfect. And that's that explanation for that. That really helps. Yeah. But as he's, as he's practicing this, we're hearing his dad in the other room on the phone with like a doctor or pharmacist sounding really angry and upset, just saying like she's in so much pain. Like, we need this medication.

I really hate to hear it. So there's obviously a lot of stress and financial. stress. So Andrew is just using this telekinesis as an escape. And he's kind of not really paying attention to that. He's just like, look at me floating my camera, nothing else matters. The next day, he goes out with his mom on a very sweet little mother's son outing just to like a little restaurant on the beach and just adding it in there for this other nice moment. of like, again, you can see that he really cares about his mom. Then later, he rejoins Andrew and Steve, and they're testing out there, powers some more.

They, they, like, read about telekinesis, and they're like, yeah, it sounds like that. And they're noticing that they're all getting better the more they do it. So they're kind of saying, feels like a muscle that we're strengthening. We're getting stronger as we do it. So let's go see what we can do. They go into a toy store and they're having some fun. They're doing some pranks. A lady has a shopping cart.

They make the shopping cart roll away from her. She's chasing it. It's rolling. It's turning corners. It's like fully evading her at every turn in an impossible way. Also, if this happened, if you were that lady, like, how would that change your view of reality for the rest of your life? I would also just stop after a while. If my shopping cart was really doing that, I would just be like, okay. I'd be like, well, that's not for me. Whatever that is, it's not for me.

I guess I have to leave the store now. I guess I have to leave the store and also like, life is not what I thought it was. Yeah. Yeah. And yes, everything's different. Everything's different now. Everything's different now. Because of the shopping cart. Well, you'd also just think you're being pranked, like you're on camera. Yeah, I think that would probably be my first thought is like, where's Ashton Coucher? Yeah. Someone's. Where is Ashton? Ashton, come on out. I know you're out. I know you're in here somewhere. There's a little girl in the like teddy bear section. They make a teddy bear float around her. She runs off screaming. They're just, I would say doing psychological damage to people. But it's all in good, bud. It's just little pranks.

They can't understand that there. Teenage boys. Teenage boys. It's not going to escalate, right? Oh, no. And they're going to use it all for good. Whatever. They're just going to. It's just for fun. They go to a diner afterwards and Andrew's telling Matt to put his hand out and he's got a fork in his hand. It looks like he's like going to stab him.

He's like, come on, come on. Let me just do it. Just do it. He's like, I don't want to do it. He keeps pulling his hand away. He's like, I don't know. I don't want to do it. I don't do it.

Like just put your hand down. He's like, okay, okay. But you got to give me a countdown. He puts his hand down. Andrew immediately stabs. the fork into his hand, but nothing happens. All the little tines of the fork bend. He is impenetrable. There's no wound on his hand. And there again, all like, wow, dear, so crazy. Oh, no, they're going to push this too hard. Something is going to get him. And they go out into the

parking lot after. You're like, okay, let's try something a little bigger. Let's try something a little bigger. Let's see how strong we're getting. And Steve focuses on this car in the parking lot. And you see him like, flexing his muscles as he's doing his telekinesis so hard. And the car slides out of the parking space. And he just parks it in a different parking space in the parking lot. And then they kind of,

and his nose starts bleeding during this. So it's like as they like test their limits, it has a physical effect on their bodies. But then they hide and they watch the woman whose car this is come out and walk to where she thinks she parked her car and scratch her head and look around. Again, this is something that would make me spiral for a long time if this happened to me. And this would be me being like, I don't, this is what's happening with my dreams, where I actually like question my own memory.

and don't know what's real and what's not. So this would send me into like... Psychosis. Yeah, some de-realization, hard core. Well, in this sense, you would be right. Yeah, true. So they're laughing, they're laughing, they're having such a good time.

And they're driving now, and we see a car behind them riding their ass honking, this guy's being an asshole behind them. And Andrew turned to... back and they're filming and they're like, look at this asshole. He's being such an asshole. Fuck this guy. And Andrew raises his hand and swipes, swipes it. And this car crashes off the side of the road into a lake. Jesus, Andrew. Really quite a, quite an escalation here. And Andrew is kind of like, oh my God, that was an accident and a total accident. But everyone's like, what the fuck? And they stop

the car, they get out, they go, they pull the guy out of the car. Yeah. He is alive, luckily, but he very, very much could have died in that. And so Matt and Steve are like pretty pissed at Andrew in this moment. They're like, that's like not okay. This is fucked up. We've got to make some rules. We can't do this. And Andrew's a little bit like, you don't need rules. Like, you guys are kind of overreacting. I think he's fine. he's going to be fine. Like, I didn't mean to. It was an accident.

It's going to be fine. But we're seeing Matt specifically looking suspicious of Andrew and feeling like, not so sure. I'm not loving the metaphor for bullying and what it turns people into. Yeah. Yeah. Cycles of abuse. So they kind of like resolve it a bit by Andrew being like, I promise like I'm not going to do anything like that again. that like I that was I promise I just promise I totally promise and we don't need rules but I promise

you can take my word but maybe one good rule is don't kill anyone that would be a good rule we don't even need that because I just promise that it's fine yeah yeah yeah right no need to put any rules on this situation no no no no no so they're like all right all right fine as long as nothing like that ever happens again we're good so next day Steve calls them out to another like empty construction site. They get there and Steve's car is there, but we don't see Steve. They're calling out to him looking around. It doesn't seem like he's anywhere. When we hear Steve say, I'm up here. We look up, he's flying. He's flying in the air. Oh my gosh, Steve. Wow. There is a fun little scene where they all try flying. Matt can't really do it. And he keeps like- Seems like Matt's really got in the

short end of the stick here with these hours. Matt's got in the short end of the stick. Although he was the one that like didn't the fork didn't penetrate his skin sure sure but i mean there's flying and then there's a fork can't hurt you you know yeah yeah so so they're practicing their flying steve is like you got to just like jump and he's trying to give him instructions andrew of course picks it up immediately andrew's like yeah i can do this too yeah i'm doing the best at this and matt eventually figures it out as well to them zooming through the clouds. This stuff is really fun.

Really fun. It looks very silly. But like in a fun way, it's like they're Superman now. They're just like zooming, zooming through the clouds. They're all like wearing as you would. They're wearing like down jackets because they're like, it's so cold up here. I was going to say it's so cold. They thought of that detail.

And they've got a football. They're like playing catch in the clouds. Again, God life is so fucking fun, you guys. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Awesome. And then they kind of pause. They're like, did you hear that? What's that sound?

And an airplane zooms past them. Oh, my gosh. So cool. Camera is spinning and spiraling. It's like knocked us down. We're trying to get our bearings. And they're able to like write themselves before they hit the ground. So they land and they're laughing.

They're like, oh, my God. Then they have a slumber party. and I don't know whose house they're at, but they're like all laying in bed. And I think Andrew is like, you guys, I think this was the best day of my life. And Matt's like, I can't stop thinking about it. It was like so fun.

Like, this is so fun. Like, I will say there is just like a very sweet aspect of male friendship in this. Yeah. Yeah. Like all he really needed was. He just needs some friends. Friends.

Yeah. Friends are so important. And it's good to be vulnerable and honest with each other. It builds connections. And there are moments of that. There's like a moment with him and Steve. I can't remember when it is. I didn't write it down.

But where Steve is asking about his like childhood kind of. I can't remember how he brings it up. But he's like, your dad was a firefighter, right? Like that must have been so cool. And he's like, actually my dad's like not a really good guy. and and Steve's like, oh man, I'm so sorry. Like, that sucks. Like, I'm here for you.

Like, they just have, like, nice moments where they are being vulnerable and honest with each other, which I appreciated. Yeah. Next day at school, we see them all in the library together. They're like, okay, so we can fly. So, like, where do you guys want to go? Like, should we go to, like, Hawaii? Where do you want to fly to? Okay, well, it feels like we should still take into account how long things take.

And Andrew says, I want to go to Tibet, which is a bit of a curveball. Tibet, they're like, Tibet, why? Seems really peaceful there. It's like beautiful mountains, be so quiet, the monks. And they're like, yeah, okay, whatever. Sure. I guess we can go to Tibet. You're like, but hear me out.

Hear me out. Or we could go to Cancout. Yeah, exactly. Steve's like, there's no ladies in Tibet. Spring break. We're the ladies. We get a scene here that I think is very stupid that I'm just going to say to shit on it. And I'm sorry.

But it's Matt goes to Casey's house and she opens the door again in a way that makes you as a viewer be like, okay, now how is this being filmed? And as she answers the door, she says, do you mind if I film you? Nice. It's like she's just answering the door with a camera on a tripod. She's not holding it with just like facing the door. It's a little silly. It's a little silly. I'm like, okay.

This one I call bullshit. Casey wouldn't, nobody would do this. This is really weird. He's like, I guess so. This is really weird. They have an awkward little conversation where he's trying to flirt with her and he's fumbling. But she's clearly a little charmed by him. And then we cut to Andrew and Steve sitting on the top of a skyscraper having lunch.

The camera is again floating around them, so we're getting very cinematic coverage of this. And Steve asks Andrew if he wants to do the talent show with him. And Andrew says, like, I don't have any talents and like you're popular and I'm lame. And Steve's like, no, man, what are you talking about? You don't have talents. Look at us right now. Like, you're amazing. At the very least, you can like fake juggling.

Yeah. Do a magic trick. Fake, fake juggling. Well, Emily, that's exactly what they do. And, but again, not to harp on this, but it's like clear that Steve just like really likes and cares about Andrew and is like, I don't think you're a dork and I want to do the talent show with you. Like, do the talent show with me. Oh, my God.

Very sweet. So we do the talent show. And yes, it starts with a fun little act of Andrew coming out like the dork. Everyone's like, Andrew, this guy, you hear the audience kind of groaning. And he tries to do a card trick. And then he drops all the cards everywhere and kind of like fake trips and falls to look like an idiot. And everyone's laughing, but kind of scratching their hands like, oh, this is not very good. What's going on?

And then Andrew looks at all the cards on the ground and holds his hands up. And they all fly back into his hand in a perfect deck. And everyone loses their minds. Whoa, we're clapping. Oh my God, that was so cool. And then he's juggling. He's tightrope walking. He's...

Oh, yeah, baby. What can't he do? He's doing all sorts of magic tricks. And everyone is loving it. We'll be a virgin for long. And we cut to a party where the girls are... Emily is calling every beat of this movie. Every beat of this movie.

There's nothing ladies like more than a magician. Oh, my God. Yeah, ladies love magic. We love it. The ladies love magic. A male magician? That's a green flag. The women are lining up as Andrew walks in his party.

Everyone's like, oh, my God, there he is. Andrew Copperfield. Hey. He goes to play some beer pong, absolutely killing it, destroying just. This is a very fun way to explain. It's like a high school boy would just be like, I could crush it beer pong. And like, think how great. would be if you could just leave it at that.

Just leave it. Yeah, credits roll. Credit's roll. Great to leave it at that. We see a girl with hot pink hair come up to him. She's putting her arm around him. He's drinking now also, which we've learned earlier that he doesn't drink. So again, PSA.

Yeah, we don't love that. PSA for not drinking. They're making out this pink-haired girl is played by Anna Wood, who is Dane DeHon's real-life wife. And real life wife And they were high school sweethearts And so they had already been together for a long time By the time this movie came out

Oh, that's cute They go upstairs in this party to go hook up We see Matt and Steve are like Oh my God dude, it's going to happen He's going to lose his Virginia. Fuck yeah, dude, it's awesome They have the camera now And Steve like waits a little bit

And then goes up with the camera This is this I don't approve of And he's like, shh shh we're gonna see we're gonna see him losing his virginity and so he's like pointing the camera in the room where he knows where they're in but before he can even open the door pink-haired girl rushes out there's a vomit on her hair and she's like she's like oh get out of the way your friend is fucking like disgusting oh no andrew's sitting on the edge of the bed with his like zipper undone and vomit like from his mouth and he couldn't couldn't hold the liquor and seems like she was going down and he threw up on her head, which is quite a, quite a bummer. Yeah. Yeah, that sucks. So he's embarrassed and he's yelling at Steve to turn the camera off, and Steve does cut to black.

That's sad. Next day, we see Andrew alone in his room and he's looking sad. He sees a pretty big spider crawling on the floor and puts his hand up to telekinetically control it. He makes it like float in the air. He's like making it do summer salts. And then he spreads his fingers wide and all the spider's legs come off and I don't like this. Kills the spider. Yeah. It's classic psychopath behavior starting with the animals. I do hate that. I do hate the framing that it's a girl's rejection that causes him to become a so funny. I actually didn't notice that in watch. Sometimes I only pick things up in the retelling

of it because yeah, right then it was, this made it more clear. It's a one-to-one. Yeah. This is in-cell behavior. Women are the, women are the reason that men are. If you reject a man, they'll become a psychopath. He's going to murder you. Yeah. And everyone you know. Yeah. Oh, God. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. So then we cut to his dad finding the camera. and screaming at Andrew and saying like your mom is dying, we can't afford medicine and you're spending money. This is like a nice camera. This is like a $500 camera.

You're using my money from that. And he said, no, it's not your money, dad. I didn't use your money. He's like, you're using my money all the time. I'm paying for your school. I'm paying for you to eat. And he says, I go to a public school, you moron. It's free.

Uh-oh, uh-oh. And his dad. He's like, what did you just say to me? and his dad throws him up against the wall. Like, you can't fucking talk to me like that. When Andrew, he uses those powers now, and he throws his dad up against the wall and clearly is way stronger

and then, like, throws his dad on the ground. Looks like it really hurts him. His dad is, like, screaming in pain. And he basically is like, don't you ever fucking touch me again? and he storms out. Okay, so he didn't kill his dad in this moment. He didn't kill his dad in this moment.

But we cut away and we see while this has happened because it looks like this, he like used a lot of force in this. We cut to Matt is with Casey because we need her to be filming. Right, of course, of course. And his nose starts bleeding. Matt's does. Matt's does. Oh, Matt's power is his empathy, you know?

Oh, wow. And it seems like Steve feels it as well. So we're kind of seeing that they're all a little bit connected through their powers and cut to in the clouds. It's nighttime now. It's a thunderstorm. This is where Andrew is retreating to to be alone. He's just floating in the dark moody clouds. And Steve flies up and is like, Andrew.

what's going on? Like, I felt something. Like, are you okay? Andrew says, like, just leave me. I came up here to be alone. Like, leave me alone. And Steve is like, what are you talking about? Like, we're friends.

And he's like, you're never my friend. You were never my friend until this happened. Like, you didn't care about this. This is the only reason you care about me. Don't turn against him. He didn't do this. Steve is like, that's not true. Like, I just didn't know you.

And like, we're friends now. And I just want to know what's going on. And Andrew snapped. And I was like, I said, leave me alone. And we just see like a lightning flash and cut to black. Oh, God. Come back up on Steve's funeral. You hate to see it.

Oh, boy, boy. That was fast. Yeah. Yikes. And Andrew's filming it. Everything needs to be filmed now. He was the world's first influencer. Yeah.

We see him filming Matt. Matt is giving him a pretty angry, suspicious look. It's like, why aren't you answering my calls? What happened? Like, how did this happen? There was no lightning reported in the storm or whatever, which like, I guess that's Okay, well, are you the fucking let of me? me.

Yeah. And Andrew, again, is like, leave me alone, man, I don't want to talk. So he's pushing everyone away. He's isolating himself. Oh, no. And he goes to Steve's grave later when everyone is gone. And he's really upset. And he's like, I miss you, Steve.

I'm so sorry. I don't know what's happening. Like, this thing feels like it's becoming a part of me. Like, I don't feel like I have control sometimes. And these are things you need to be saying to Matt, my friend, or just like anybody else. And not that there's a clear solution, but just we learned to be vulnerable with our friends and you can still do that with Matt. Even though he's not actually your friend, he never will because he's your cousin. Oh, tough.

At school the next day, he's being bullied again by the main bully guy and he just calls after him like, hey Joe or whatever his name is. And it makes a little motion flick of his hand. and Joe's teeth all fly out of his mouth. Oh, oh boy. That's a creative one. Pretty gnarly. And we see that, yeah, there's been a turn in Andrew for sure. He's now, like, sitting by himself in this junkyard.

He's set up the camera. He's talking on camera by himself. And he's like, so I was reading about there's a thing called Apex Predators. Oh, boy. Yeah. hate for a teenage boy to learn about Apex Predators. We really don't want that to be happening. And he says a similar thing that we heard in Thirst, where he says, you know, a lion

doesn't feel guilty when it kills a gazelle, which is like at a glance a compelling point, but lions don't have consciousness, morality. Yeah, in this context, it's also he kills it to eat it, not to, not for funnish it. Yeah. It's not a punishment to the gazelle for being me. Yeah. So it's, but it is a good, like, teenage boy. Not good.

It's an understandable teenage boy rationality. It's all you need. It's just like a kind of top line at a glance. Yeah. So everything I do is fine because I'm an apex predator. Exactly. We see him using his telekinesis to crush one of the cars in the junkyard. He's getting so strong and powerful.

Matt comes over to his house that night to yell at him. He's like, this is getting out of hand. you need, we need to stop this. This is getting dangerous. And Andrew's kind of like, you can't stop me. Like, I'm stronger than you. Like, tried to stop me. And Matt does try to, like, punch him.

He's, like, pushing his buttons and Matt snaps and tries to punch him. Andrew just freezes his hand and, like, freezes Matt in mid-punch. And you see Matt, like, trying to do it. And then he gives up and he flies out the window. Like, Twilight style is pretty funny. You see Andrew going to the pharmacy, trying to get medication for his mom and the pharmacist tells him like it's $800. Andrew says, I don't have that.

Can I give you like a down payment? Can it be on credit or something? I don't know. Like, can we just need the medication? And he's like, sorry, I can't give it to you unless you have the money. American health care system is really fucked up. That's another topic. And so I'm thinking he's going to use his powers to just like grab the medication and run.

but he has an interesting plan here where he goes to the douchebags on the street, tells them, give me all your money. Okay. And they're of course like, Andrew, like, no, we're not going to be giving you all our money. You're who we bully. That's not how this works.

Yeah. Andrew, of course, does little motions with his hands, flies them all like crazy far through the air, landing on concrete, seemingly potentially killing all of them, or at least like very gravely injuring them. They're basically all motionless in piles of their own blood, puddles of their own blood. Wouldn't he just zoom their wallets out of their pockets? Yeah.

Well, he does that now. Okay. But yeah, this is a weird plan as I. Now he is a teenage boy. Yeah. So he gets their wallets. It's not enough money. So now he goes to a gas station.

No, these adult losers didn't have 800 cash sitting in their wallet. What the fall? It's just figuring out how to rob a bank or something. Right. Open the cash register and just take all the money out. That is what he does right now. He goes to the gas station and sends a little like force field like throws the clerk back into the wall. He collapses and then he opens the cash register and opens his backpack and it's like blub-blip-clink-dink-teach-chee-ditch-ch-ding.

like all going into his bag. There's a moment in here where he's like, faster, faster, which really made me laugh. Again, I know it's really important that he's a dumb teenage boy, but it's just there are so many better ways to go about this.

I know. If you just thought about it for one second, there are a lot of better ways. Wait until after hours. And just go to the pharmacy. And just open the door. Yeah. Or just go to the pharmacy,

cut out a fucking step. That was my thought this whole time. It's just like, why are we not just focusing on the pharmacy? Just go breaking into the pharmacy in the middle of the night. Don't hurt. anyone and just take what you need. You can unlock any door. Teenagers are not thinking straight, basically ever.

Yeah. So he runs out of the gas station. The clerk comes to, grabs a shotgun, chases him. Yikes. Yep, yep, see, yep, yep. And he hears him coming, and so he turns, and as the clerk fires the shotgun, he, like, flings it out of his hand, and it shoots somewhere that causes, like, a gas explosion.

and the whole gas station basically explodes. Well, boy, boy. He is, we cut to, like, security footage within a hospital, and we see his dad storming through the halls of this hospital, goes into a hospital room. Andrew's there very heavily bandaged up, perfectly framed in a camera, and we hear a, like, police officer on the side say,

we need to keep recording for the investigation. Okay. Very convenient. Thank you for saying that otherwise. Andrew looks unconscious. His dad is like crying at his bedside. We think we're going to have a moment of his dad caring about him. But no, his dad says, your mom died last night while you were out pulling all this

bullshit and I wasn't there because I was looking for you. He's like, start screaming at him. He's like, your mom's dead because of you. And he like looks like he's about to like hit his unconscious son when on camera on In front of a police officer from front of a police officer Andrew grabs his hand he's awake conscious and flings him backwards and like explodes the hospital room. And the hospital is like in I don't know like a 40 story building or something. It's like they're really high up. And so the window just bursts, explodes out.

We're seeing this through the security footage. And Matt, again, with Casey, his nose starts pouring blood. She's like, oh, my God, what's going on? And he this time is like, something's wrong with Andrew. Like Andrew, we need to find Andrew. And they see on the news the hospital incident, like, there's been an explosion at this hospital. And he's like, we got to get there. Casey has no idea what's going on.

but she has to be there to film it. So this is why she's, this is why she's in this movie. She's just chasing him with the camera being like, Matt, what's happening? Explain to the camera. What's happening?

Which like, imagine just like this being, again, who cares, but imagine this being real life. I'd be like, put the fucking, like,

this is so weird of you. This is so weird. Like, you're running after me, but you have to be filming. Like, you must stop. Yeah, you have to stop.

Casey. Casey, you're weird. This is an actual emergency. You need to stop. You need to stop this. But she does not. And we make it to the hospital. There's a big crowd gathered around.

There's like police helicopters, fire trucks, and a big crowd watching. There's like a smoke billowing from the building. And so we can't like quite see the room when out flies Andrew. holding his dad by the foot, like the ankle, like dangling him. Casey's screaming, oh, my God, oh, my God. Andrew drops his dad from like 40 stories up. And Matt flies and catches him.

And Casey's like, oh, my God, Matt. Is the dad conscious? Do you see he's unconscious? You can't really tell. I think he's, I couldn't tell. He might be awake, but he's out of it. He's been in an explosion. Right. There's a lot that's happened.

So Matt catches him, sets him safely down on the ground, and then we proceed to have like an Avengers style confrontation between these two, zooming through the air. They go to the top of the space needle. They're floating in front of like all the people eating at the restaurant in the space needle. They're yelling at each other and Andrew's saying, why did you catch him? like I wanted him to die.

You should die for everything he's done. And Matt is just trying to calm him down. Andrew, this isn't you. I know this isn't you. Like, we need to calm down. It kind of is. Yeah, I feel like. I think it is him.

Yeah. He's begging him, pleading with him. Andrew, like, throws a bus at Matt and, like, crashes him into a building. Matt flies out and then tackles Andrew through a building. It kind of reminded me of the turn down for what music video directed by the Daniels but it was flying through, crashing through walls. That's funny. And eventually they land on street level and they're like immediately surrounded by

20 cop cars and there's helicopters overhead. Matt's saying, please Andrew, please Andrew, don't hurt any more people. We can still come back from this. Like you and me, you and me, we can go to, we can go to Tibet. we can go anywhere you want to go. Remember when you wanted to go to Tibet? I know. And Andrew is not coming back to his census.

He says, I'm an apex predator. And he uses his telekinetic force to like do. No, you're a kid who went in a hole. I got over yourself, Andrew. You went a fucking hole. Excuse me? You'd be nowhere without this fucking hole, dude. And it does one of those like kind of like wind force explosions, blows all the cops back.

And the helicopter crashes from the sky. And Matt is like watching this. He's so sad. He's saying, please, Andrew, please, Andrew. He realizes Andrew can't be reasoned with. It feels like he has no other choice but to, he sees a statue of like a man holding a spear. And he's like, Andrew, please, one last chance. I'm like, I'm giving you, I really don't want to do this, please.

For no particular reason, just one more time. Just let me know if there's anything I could do. And Andrew is basically just like screaming about being an apex predator. And he's just like, oh, you're strong to death. And so Matt uses his telekinetic powers to fling this. spear impaling Andrew, he kills him. Wow. Matt's sobbing.

And obviously he's pretty implicated here in all these things that have just happened. So he sees the cops kind of getting up. And he just zooms off into the sky. Cut to black. Come back up. We're flying through the clouds. We're flying. We're flying.

And we're in Tibet, of course. Oh, I knew it. I knew we were going to go up into bed. I knew it. knew it, baby. And who has the camera now? Well, Matt has the camera and he's setting it up and he's talking to the camera as if it is Andrew. As if it's almost like this is what he's doing with Andrew's ashes, but it's the camera.

He's like setting it up and he's like, you wanted to go to Tibet. So here we are. Now you're in Tibet. Now you as the camera are now in Tibet. And he says like, I'm really sorry and I never told you but I love you and we should be telling people we should be telling people and he says I'm going to find out what happened to us and I'm going to do good I'm going to help people and I love you I'm sorry and he leaves the camera there like facing the mountains of Tibet and he walks off screen and that's the end of the movie wow wow wow what a beautiful story Yeah, it's, it's kind of dumb, but it's fun. And seeing them all like zooming through the airplane football is really silly.

I had a pretty good time. I got to say. I love the concept of ordinary people getting superpowers. Like it's always no matter what when it happens on screen, it's always fun. It's always fun. But then it's really tough to keep the story. interesting afterwards. It's really hard to know, like, where to go with that. It's almost like the same concept of someone winning the lottery. It's like, wow, okay, now you have a shit ton of money.

Okay, but like, what now? Right. And it's kind of like it can only end badly in terms of a storytelling perspective. Like, it's not really interesting to see a movie if someone wins the lottery. And then it's just like, and my life became awesome. Right. And everything worked out for me. Right, right. Yeah. Which is actually, for that example, I think pretty true to life that when people win the lottery, I think for the most part things don't really get a lot better for them. No. They've done studies on this and I feel like it's common knowledge that people's lives like deteriorate after they win the lottery. But boy, are we all going to keep trying? We don't want to believe that. That's true. But not it'll be true for me when I won't be true for me. Keep the dream alive. apex predator. Yeah.

But fun movie, I'd say. Seemed fun. Again, I've zero recollection of this film ever existing. I got nothing. But I had a great time. Okay, so what have we learned from this movie? Don't bully. Human beings are different than animals.

If you're going to get superpowers, just take a beat and think about the best way to utilize them. Yeah, just stick to the basic. Just kind of like make a plan, take a breath. You do need rules, probably. You do need rules. You probably, yeah. With great power comes great responsibility like that kind of stuff, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, all very applicable to our personal situations, I'd say. All right, listeners, we love you so much. So freaking much. So freaking much. Thank you for all those wedding invites. My God. Congratulations on your many weddings this year. Yeah. Yeah. It's very exciting. It was a great year for weddings of listeners. For love. I love love. I really do. Yeah, me too. It's really great. It's really great. I love you guys. I love you guys. And I guess I'll scream Apex Predator style. Yeah.

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