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Hey everybody, welcome to a conversation with, watching it’s Donnell and Robert. Hey Danelle and Robert, how you doing? I’m doing fantastic. Slightly hungover. Slightly hungover. Oh really? Okay. So if I would have showed up yesterday, you would have been in better… Oh no, I was hungover yesterday too. Oh, okay. Well, it’s good to know that you’re consistent. This is weekend Robert. Yeah. That’s good. how are you guys doing? Doing all right. You know, just, uh, yeah, same old, same old, just making the podcast watching uh a lot of a lot of videos tv too much these days because I, I currently do not have a job. So I was going to ask you about free time any any prospects or uh not yet talk about yet.
Nothing really. Any ones you don’t want to get, you might want to mention here so they make sure they won’t hire you? Not a job, but I had a fake online college reach out to me about joining their border security and criminal justice program. I was like, no, that’s going to be a hard pass. It’s a growth industry. I was going to say that. Chances of you getting hired is probably 100% out of that program. At this point in time, yes. You might want to consider that here in another week or so. You’ll be like, ramen is not so great, and maybe I should be a border security guy. Did you know that the Homeland Security, I think it’s Homeland Security. What is it? No. The border people, it’s 100 miles from the border that they can patrol. Isn’t that crazy? Yeah. So it’s not the border. It’s a lot of places.
yeah it’s not even just per patrol i think that they suspend like fifth amendment rights yeah it’s it’s like a whole uh zone yeah it’s around the whole country it’s on any border, it’s 100 miles from the border that they have some kind of jurisdiction or something so that’s insane it is insane. I mean, I could see, you know, what, maybe 20 miles? Is that too much maybe yeah i think i think anything over five If it’s not on the border, it doesn’t count. Your jurisdiction ends as soon as you get one in. I think that they should be able to patrol in question, but the suspension of the Bill of Rights within that border, that’s where it gets a little… Well, I mean, think about it. You guys are out on the West Coast. I mean, that’s Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle. Oh, yeah. We’re in the Seattle area. I mean, if it’s a hundred miles from the border, their jurisdiction would come down to pretty much where we live. Because you’ve got the coast, but then you’ve also got the Canadian border. So like almost all of Washington State is covered in that. Yeah, I read that. I couldn’t believe it.
i was going to say, uh, outside of all the, the, the moral qualms with being a border patrol agent, I just think the whole, like, I mean, we did just talk about how canada is right above us that’s a border, but i’m just always thinking about the the southern border and my thing is like, there is so much like just empty space land out there that you have oh yeah they have to be in. And like, I can’t do no job where my job is to sit in the middle of nowhere for hours upon in and just maybe, something happened. But also, the non-callability, nothing happens, and i’m just sitting in a car, and i’m like, so, can I, like, do other stuff? Like, well, no, you gotta yeah because something might happen. And I’m just like other stuff. They’re all doing other stuff. I mean, yeah, true. They probably all are just not just well i mean also also i don’t i don’t know if you know this it’s it’s hot yeah oh yeah
You got air conditioners, rattlesnakes and coyotes and chupacabras. You’re all good. Yeah, no, I’m just like, yeah, I can’t. I can’t do a job that it’s like 99% nothing. And then 1%. Oh, no, probably like 99, 95% nothing. 4% just like people just trying to get over here. And then 1%. Oh, Things about to go crazy. Like, oh my gosh. You know, gunfights and that sort of stuff. I’m just like, nah, man, I don’t need that life. Where it’s like, yeah, most days you’re just doing nothing at all. No, they’re going to stick you in one of the stalls. And you’re checking passports. Oh, yeah, there you go. I’m across the border. So I saw this and I was like, well, this is a weird timeline we live in. Is for the last two months,
Uh, the most thing, uh, confiscated at the border as contraband was not, you know, like fentanyl, like they want us to believe or drugs or anything. It was eggs yeah people yeah they’re smuggling eggs we’re like gotta get my eggs whether going down to, uh, Mexico to get cheap eggs. Is that the deal or no no canada they’re going okay yeah yeah you’re going to go to the grocery store in canada and get getting the eggs man getting them eggs it’s it’s it’s a struggle out here. And it’s like, man, I’m going to risk it i’m headed up for the weekend. Yeah, what’s the over under p l on you know become an egg smuggler. Or I got free time i got it i got a car, you know. The border’s right there. and his head up there eggs
This is your job. Just get some eggs. Just get some chickens, lay some eggs, and you’re all set. You don’t have to worry about working. The unemployment office calls and was like, have you had any alternate revenue forms? It’s like, I don’t want to talk about it. I got these chickens. I’m not. You can have an apartment full of chickens. You’ll be fine. They shit a lot, but other than that, you’re all good. I got an office that I can quit. clean out they eat bugs. Put them in there and, you know just just have a room full of chickens, you know, where i yeah my my undergrad underground arm, man, I cannot talk underground egg farming yeah yeah that’s right. I mean, that could be, I mean, underground. Yeah. It would be above. It’s not illegal to have an illegal. Yeah. You can have chickens. Well, maybe illegal to have chickens in your apartment
I own a townhouse. It’s my townhouse. Well, then there you go. I mean, I do wonder about the whole… I know you can have your own chickens and do some like, but can you scale and do actual selling? I figure there’s got to be some… I figure you can get about an egg every two days out of a chicken. And so, you know, I get a room. You’re going to have to have 30 chickens. Yeah. yeah i mean that’s just two dozen eggs right there. I mean, that would be wrong. Eggs are expensive, but i think two thousand two dozen eggs every two days being sold is not gonna it’s not gonna get the bill paid. I I’m, I’m leaning back towards smuggling eggs from canada going up there. oh okay now a couple hundred a couple hundred eggs you know, get a whole, uh, uh,
refrigerator truck full of eggs do they uh refrigerate them in canada or do they are they the no refrigerator i don’t i don’t think that they so so that’s based on washing versus right exactly yeah we wash we wash our eggs of the membrane uh here in the united states and that’s why they have to be refrigerated whereas at least in the uk they don’t wash they don’t right they don’t have to be refrigerated i’m assuming that’s the same in canada yeah i don’t know i mean i i i do not want to speak for any canadians who may be listening, but i feel like canada is a little bit, and this is is not dangerous to say, but just not as appreciated as may have been in past years. But I think canada is a little bit more in tune with us than Europe, where i feel like they might be washing their eggs too. You think so? I feel like, yeah, I feel like. According to google gemini
refrigerate their eggs. They also have a bag of milk up there. Whenever we start talking about groceries in Canada, I’m like, we got to talk about bag of milk. What is up with that? The first time I interacted with someone from Canada, they had come down here. It was a family friend that came down here. They were here and they were just looking puzzled at our carton of milk. I was like, what’s going on? Why is it in a box? I was like, well, it could come in a plastic jug, but I mean, we just got a carton. They’re like, no, why is it that like, why is it not in the bag? And I was like, what the hell are you talking about? Milk in a bag. And they were just found it by our cardboard or cartons of milk and plastic things of milk. As I was by this bag per idea, I was like, where is this? How, how did you get to a bag of milk?
Well, packaging. They just got rid of all the packaging. A carton is really just a hard bag. Right? I feel like rigidity is needed for storing liquids. I feel like that is a common thing. That is a good question. How do the Canadians deal with that? I think sometimes you open up a bag of chips, but you don’t get that perfect… open and like the bag the tear tears i think they have a nozzle on the bag actually okay yeah true i guess i would hope on one of the corners the the thing i want to know is, do they print the missing kids on the bag i mean we’re because i mean that’s like valuable real estate all deformed, so his face looks weird. Yeah.
Oh, man. No, no, no. They don’t have nozzles. There’s no nozzles? No, they’re just tied up like a trash bag with one of those ties. What? Yeah. There’s a lot of wasted milk in Canada, I have a feeling. And then they have little receptacles that they put them in in the refrigerator to keep them from, like, rolling around. Right, yeah, they got, like, a little thing that you put it into a… to have in your refrigerator for storing bag. You know, it’s like the old if you ever had one of those cereal Tupperware things where you put the cereal in the Tupperware rather than just leave it in the box, supposedly to keep it fresher. I think that’s what it’s like up there. Yeah, this is ridiculous. Yeah, there you go. I, I, I have questions. I mean, does it save money? Is that more biodegradable? I don’t I don’t get it. Apparently the the bag lobby in Canada is strong.
so i don’t think well i love because they, so this is like their specialized, like everybody, everybody drinks milk. They have one of these picture so you buy a bag of milk to put in a picture like yeah you put in the picture Well, then you can use the picture for something else on the weekends. But then i’m just like, I feel like because i want to say i guess maybe you’re saving money by not having to keep having cartons, but you still, you have bags you got the bags and i feel like Do you think they wash and reuse the bags? I have a feeling that the… You bring in your bag and you get like five cents off your next bag of milk. Maybe they just refill your bag of milk. Oh, I don’t like that. I don’t like that. I think in another universe there’s a Quentin Tarantino movie where the milk bag producers in Canada are killing people and strangling them with bags. Yeah, that’s got to be it. Oh, there’s definitely a lot.
the carton people the terror pack people were up there trying to infiltrate and they took them all out so i mean i so i grew up poor and so you know when it came to like going to school with a lot you’re still poor donnell i mean i grew up poor now i’m returning to my roots now i’m poor i still am though uh but uh so yeah i i grew i grew up poor so like uh you know we’d get a to take a lunch to school sometimes, you know, before I had, you know, my lunch box, you know, before, you know, you just take your lunch in a plastic bag from school. I just feel like that’s gotta be a stigma up in Canada. You’re the kid who shows up with your bread bag in a, in a milk bag. Like you’re like, Oh, your family’s struggling. You’re out here using the milk bag to bring lunch to school. Like, I feel like that’s gotta be a thing. I took my, I took mine in a bread bag.
So whenever they finished the bread, you have a bread bag, right? And then that was lunch bag then, right? So yeah, I’m like you, Danelle. I was, we didn’t get, there was no free lunch at the time. So you didn’t get to pay for lunch or get free lunch. You had to take your lunch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was terrible. Yeah, no. I feel for you, man. I saw this because you brought up the whole, you know, was poor, is poor. I saw this meme online. And like, you ever see those like, Uh, inspirational videos where it’s like somebody like no walking through all these, like, great backgrounds and stuff as they talk about, like, my life used to be a struggle, but now i’m here, you know, I made it. It’s one of those videos and it’s like this guy, like, walking around, like, different peers and stuff and he’s like, a year ago, I had 75 in my bank account. It’s been two years and now i have 50 in my bank account. I’m still poor. You thought this was an inspirational video, but it’s not. I’m broke. I’m broke.
I’m like, that’s the true state of life. Yeah, exactly. Especially here lately. Goodness gracious. Yeah. If you had, if you had $75, guess what? You got 50 left. That’s it. It’s gone down already. And you didn’t even spend it. It just disappeared. So what do you guys, since you’re the watching it podcast, what’s to watch? Severance just recently, season two just recently ended. Did you do a, Did you do the finale yet? Yeah, we recorded that yesterday. Okay. What do you think? It is by far the best TV show I’ve ever watched. Really? That’s high praise there. Greatest television show of all time. Not even joking. It is just phenomenal. It just has a little bit of everything because there’s plenty of content
comedy but there’s a there’s suspense sci-fi you got this uh underlying mystery that you’re just trying to trying to understand trying to figure out it’s wonderfully acted with uh the actors playing do some of the actors playing dual roles and even though their dual roles are themselves or not the actors but they’re supposed to be the same person like they’re they’re two clearly distinct personalities um and it is it is just yeah i mean it that bit it and who knows when season three, but we don’t know when it is. But I just will say that the time between season one and season two was a very, very grueling experience. I’ve just been like, when’s this soap coming back? I need some more soap. We’re back at that now. The way you described it, you’re like two personalities. Isn’t that just, you know, a season of one life to live? I mean, honestly, with the various twins that come into soap operas and everything. Okay. No, I’m,
I got an eye patch, so therefore I’m the bad version. No, I would agree that it’s a very good show. Best show ever? I don’t know. I’d have to think about that. My wife won’t watch it. I had to watch it by myself because she won’t even watch it. She’s like, I’m tired of this. I don’t care about it. If you’ve got any suggestions on what’s better, I would love to debate that. Well, currently, maybe there’s not much better right now. I mean, there’s a lot of good shows for sure. Severance is the best one. I haven’t been able to figure it out. To me, the ending, and I don’t want to give away spoilers or anything if anybody cares about that. You can come to our podcast for the spoilers. Yeah, you guys go listen to them. But we won’t talk about the whole thing, but…
they used a song called windmills in my mind at the very end of the episode, the finale. Okay. And I’ve been trying to figure out. So the, the weird thing is the end of severance to me, this is what it struck me as. I just watched it. I guess yesterday. Yeah. Maybe yesterday. And in the morning and then before I was picking up sticks and then the, but that music and the way they ended it, I’m like, This is a typical 70s movie ending. Yeah, I did get that. Yeah, because I’m running down the hallway and there’s trees framed on them. Yeah, very 70s. Very 70s. But I was trying to think because there is a very particular movie, which I haven’t been able to pull out of my head yet, with that exact same movie or the exact same music and the exact same ending. And so it’s got to be an homage, but I cannot remember exactly.
for life. Yeah, what it was i must say it really felt like when i was watching like this feels like this is a scene from another movie or another, you know, some sort of thing. Because like, yeah, just the way everything was shot, the music yeah like you said, it just, yeah, I felt like and i you know, me and my my theory head that i have is just like started trying like what does it mean? is there something else? Is there they’re dropping a clue? It had to be. If it wasn’t a mod it would have to be like to the 1968 version of the thomas crown Affair, I would think. I don’t know. Why do they use that music in there it’s when the movie where the music was debuted was in that movie oh okay and back in 1968 yeah well maybe it is. But I thought there was something else but um i
I haven’t looked. You can ask Gemini, Robert, if you want. Our third co-star here, Gemini. Is Gemini your favorite or is Gemini just what you have handy? It’s just there because everybody uses Google. I don’t really have a favorite. They’re all good for different things. I don’t trust the technology. I’m very… I’m very slow to adopt new technologies. I think that’s why. Yeah, I can tell you still haven’t adopted the razor yet. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I am turning into an old sailor. Oh, there you go. Apparently. I was going to say David Letterman. I just recently decided to start shaving my head. Oh, well, you are using the razor. You just flipped the use. Yep. Yep. Yep. I will look. Yeah. If I’m going to shave my head, I got to grow the beard. What do they call them? There’s an electric one that’s like specifically made for your head. Baldy? Well, no, it’s a razor. You go and just rub it across your head. I can’t remember the name of it, but you actually use a blade.
No, no. I just have a nice beard trimmer, which is funny. Oh, okay. I have my beard trimmer on the top of my head. No, I don’t take a razor to it yet. I’m still waiting for the summer to come and for the tan line to go away because I have hair. Gotcha, gotcha. Danell, are you thinking about it? Thinking about shaving your head? No, I’m actually doing the opposite. I’m trying to grow my hair out right now. Okay. It’s an endeavor for me. i i did save my head once when i was like, I’d say like 17 or 18 and uh it wasn’t bad. You know, it’s cold at first your head you’re not used to and with the rain i mean and living in Washington, the rain is a different experience when you’re not used to feeling just droplets hitting your head uh so it was it was i and i i am very much like so as i’ve said, I’m growing my hair out. It’s a it’s an endeavor because
The longer my hair gets, the more it kind of knots up and stuff. And then I if I pick at it because it’s just like absentmindedly you put your you touch your head and you feel how bumpy it feels. And so then you start picking at the hair and then you it just gets worse. It gets out of control. If I don’t stop, but I haven’t done this a long time, but I had a few times I would pick at the same spot for a while until like I’d have like in my hair. There’d just be like a spot of balding of a dent. And so like that’s the struggle. And that’s why I for the other than when I attempt this, which isn’t often, I usually just keep my hair. I don’t shave it completely off, but I shave it down low and I just constantly cut it off because it’s just simpler, easier that way. But I’m trying to trying to grow my hair out because I’m thinking of trying to try to get some corn rolls if I can, if I can get my hair there. But I eventually lose my pace. And it’s like right now I to keep myself from picking on my hair and, you know, ruining it. I have to I have a comb and
Well, I have combs, I should say, because I need one everywhere. I have two at my house. I have two in my car. I have one at my mom’s place. I have one at my girlfriend’s place. Usually when I come over to record the podcast with Robert, because we will watch the show or do some other stuff beforehand, I’ll bring a comb in with me. Why don’t you just do the stereotypical thing and just keep it in your hair? Oh, no, I do. So that’s the thing. If I take it out and comb and then put it down, That’s why I have multiple combs. Especially around my house, I got a comb in my hair all the time because I’m just like… Do you ever do like… Do you forget it’s there and then you do like the glasses thing where you’re looking everywhere for your hair comb and then it’s like, oh, it’s right here. Oh, here it is. Or I have the thing where I forget that it’s there and I go about my business and I’m walking around a safe way and then I reach up and scratch my head and there’s a comb. I’ve been walking around this store with a comb in my hair my whole time. Oh, no. Yeah. You ever…
You ever put money on it just to have extra bucks just in case? I just feel like that’s just asking to get mugged walking around with it. Really? Maybe they should make a comb with a little secret pouch in it. You can put stuff in it. A little clip? Yeah, a little hidey place. Oh, yeah. Let’s give the police more reason to suspect. Well, hey, sounds like a good idea to me. People put… money in their shoe or whatever, in their bra that’ll be my elaborate, my elaborate egg smuggling is. Yeah. If I could really grow out my, like, I don’t have the patience to ever do this, but if i grow up my hair and get like some actual like dredge, like you can, you can smuggle some stuff. You’d get like at least six eggs in in a dread
just six days so that’s half a dozen. You could just basically hang them from the dreads. It’d be like decoration oh no totally do that. And then getting across the border be like, it’s a religious thing. It’s part of my religious culture. It’s renewal. It’s the time of renewal in my religion. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So severance, you guys, you guys really are going to be all in it. This is the best show ever. Yeah. Yeah. That we’ve seen. There’s a lot of stuff I haven’t seen that may be amazing. There’s lots of good TV. Do you think that they’re just making it up as they go along? No. They’ve already stated that they have an ending. They know exactly where they’re going. What season is it ending? We don’t know. I feel like
and this is just one of the things that i realized that changed that i guess came with aids or something. I feel like three is perfect i i think if they go any longer the the mystery starts to be like, okay, well, how long? Comparatively, and i don’t think they had a plan for this one, but comparatively, I think of the show lost and lost right like if you were in it, and you were like, oh my gosh, what is going on? They didn’t have an ending they didn’t have an ending. So one is i just like, unlike Severance, I don’t think they had an indian plan. They didn’t know what they were doing. And the other thing is also, as the seasons dragged on, that mystery kind of waned. And you’re like, okay, there’s only so long I can believe. With all these people trying to figure out what’s going on, there’s only so long I can believe that before someone’s like, oh, it was a smoke machine the whole time. Yeah, and then they had a stupid wheel. Oh, my God, that stupid fucking wheel they had in that thing. I want Severance to end in at least the next two. I think three is…
where it should end, if it goes to four, I think they can still stick the landing. If they’re planning out for six or seven, I’m like, you’re going to lose the people. Even me. I think even me. If we’re watching season five, episode six at some point, something has gone catastrophically wrong. And yeah, Eggland Eggs is a sponsor, then we’ll know, right? I think where the story is at the end of season two, and you know, what they’ve revealed i i think wrapping it up in one more, you know, nine, ten episode season is going to be, it’s going to be perfect so if so i’m a person to say, I’ve never watched it. How do you explain it to somebody? Uh, it is the story about yeah no it’s got a lot. I mean, it’s you’re in season two, you know, like there’s a lot going on, but it’s essentially
a way to compartmentalize your work. Yeah. For secretive reasons. It’s a theory of reason. It’s a story about a mysterious and too powerful company that has developed a method of making it. So when you work, you don’t have to be conscious about it. Um, so how come the people are so different though? So for instance, like, um, I’m going to blank on all these characters’ names, but Mark is the main character. Who’s the guy with the glasses? Dylan. Dylan is a completely different person. Is he, though? More so. I disagree with that, and I think that was revealed in this season because we get his wife, the Audi’s wife, meeting with the Innie and basically saying, hey, you’re what my husband used to be. Yeah. I mean, that’s the thing. I think there are any personalities, because that’s one thing that they have brought up multiple times, is like, actually in this last episode, Andy Mark tells Addy Mark, like, you’ve had so much more life than me. It’s like, I just think they’re… I think they have a lot of their inhibitions, things that stop us from doing, you know, doing what we may want to do. I feel like a lot of their inhibitions are stripped back, and they also are just a more naive…
version of ourself like they don’t know of all the you know not to get all gloomy but all the harshness of the world so they don’t know to guard themselves against things or not say things i act a certain way to them it’s just like no it’s just do what you want say what you want but in the finale but in the finale, the, uh, the band was scared well yeah not saying they don’t get scared i’m just saying they just have a lot more less of what holds us because like the fear like just normal fear of like, oh, here comes a saber-toothed tagger going right there. Like that’s just normal. But we have a lot of fear in our lives now that comes from just mental things that we think about or things like physical fear or being threatened is just natural and present from the moment we’re born. You know, like we’re, you can be scared of something hurting us. But I feel like we as humans this is getting weird, but anyways we as humans develop a lot of fears or things that hold us back. Not that are not like an actual threat, but just because we,
overthink things or over perceive things and stuff. And so it’s like the i feel like the innies don’t have any of that. They seem to just be like, they don’t have the negative they don’t have that social stigmas yeah they don’t have the they don’t have the woe and the dread that comes from life. that comes from life. Okay. Yeah. But it’s interesting though. Yeah. So do you think, uh, they haven’t alluded to this at all in the show or anything but Wouldn’t this be a great governmental program to keep things secret? Oh, it would be a terrifying government program. I mean, I’m not sure if it’s government, but I’m sure Lumen is doing some shady stuff with it. Now that we know you can have multiple personalities and stuff, I’m like, okay, yeah, you’d be a…
normal guy by day, a paper pusher by night. And oh, yeah. Also, if you flip this switch, you become a, you know, a serial killer. Like, I’m just like, who knows yeah a sleeper yeah sleeper or whatever. I mean, in the first season, it wasn’t really explored too much, but there was the whole uh minor plot with with them trying to pass a bill, you know, on a federal level. And like the senator was using severed stuff to for his wife to, you know, give birth yeah what’s weird The whole concept of with the severed people only being activated when they need to do their task. I think the birthing severed person like that’s got to be. Birth is a beautiful thing. It brings life into the world. But to just go through the actual act of birthing someone and that’s the only part you get to experience. Don’t get the after part or the before part. It’s just you come into existence to birth a human and then it’s like, all right, see you later. Like that’s got to be hell.
to only exist to give birth. Well, that gets back to the whole egg situation, oddly enough. Those chickens, that’s what they do. That’s all they do. They get to walk around and eat. One is also chickens aren’t that smart, so it’s not that traumatic for them. But even if they were smarter, let’s say chickens were smarter and we had to entertain them. When they’re not having eggs… they’d be able to watch TV and eat and do stuff and have a good time and stuff. And then they’d be like, oh, now I got to go have an egg. You guys don’t know how eggs are made. Do you know that they’ve messed with the chicken’s version of night and day by cycling the lights and keeping it dark so that they produce more eggs? Man, so speaking of animals and weird rights and stuff, have you all followed Soap PETA, whatever you want to say about PETA?
They are suing on behalf of a number of chimpanzees saying that their First Amendment right to expression is being denied them. Because they can’t throw poop or something? No, because they can communicate. They have ways to communicate and talk now. They have buttons they can press to form words. And because they’re being restricted from being able to talk to anybody that they want by being locked up. In the zoo. Yeah. Yeah. then they’re, yeah, their first amendment right is being i mean is this led by bubbles uh michael jackson’s that’s interesting. But I just feel like, what do you mean? Like, what is there’s tons of like, if you don’t know sign language, you ain’t talking with no chump. And then also, I’m like, not saying that i’m not even going into the realm of do they or do they not have first mirror rights? But my thing is, I’m just like, talk to anybody i want. I’m like, it’s a it’s a chump it’s not like he’s gonna catch a plane to new jersey and come
come visit somebody. Well, we haven’t explored that yet, have we? Once again, I’m not saying whether or not they should be held, but I’m just saying you make it sound like the chimps are in the zoo requesting, like, I’d really like to talk to Peter again. He hasn’t been back. They may be. We don’t know. Yeah, we don’t know. We don’t speak chimp. I mean, the only reason that you even got this far is because you gave them a piece of technology that bridges the gap. Yeah. Yeah. A technique. Yeah. And so otherwise there’s no, you know, we have no idea. True. I mean, obviously PETA’s, you know, goal is to get the bill of rights assigned to animals so that, you know, they have, they have the protection for their, you know, whatever their agenda is, whether you agree with it or not. But I think it’s an interesting conversation of, okay, if, if say all of a sudden, you know, a gorilla could communicate, you know, would it, should it have a right?
Should it, you know, like what happens when an animal on the planet becomes elevated, you know, evolutionarily and now we’re sharing. Or maybe they’re elevated and we just don’t know it and we’re just discovering that. That’s entirely possible. But you know what’s interesting? So like, what was it, Coco? They taught to do the sign language. Never once ask a question. Yeah, that’s what it says. They can communicate, but they don’t inquire, which is definitely a different… I mean, yeah, it’s very interesting to think about. I’m thinking, Robert, because you’re talking about PETA. And, of course, this is the USA, a different country. But I’m like, maybe they need to focus somewhere else first because I think they could probably get this passed. Because you remember when we were a couple episodes of talking ago, the news story about, I think it’s New Zealand, where they gave a mountain range, like, rights. Like, they had a news story where they granted it rights of basically, like,
the same as any human because, I mean, it was part, you know, the meaning behind it was for the environment. So people can have rights. But I’m like, if you can give a mountain range rights, I feel like in New Zealand, you’d be like, hey, we want to give the monkeys rights. I figure that’s a way. Yeah. So I’m like, maybe PETA needs to try coming at this problem from you’re not going to get it here in the USA right off the bat. Well, maybe go to New Zealand first. Let’s go there. Let’s get monkeys rights in New Zealand. And you can just start spreading from there. There’s been dogs that have become mayor. There’s no rule saying a dog can’t be mayor. They have been. If you kick a police dog, then you get in trouble. Assaulting an officer. Why do we have so many blurry lines on all this?
You know, because, I mean, we’ve got that going on, but now we go, oh, these chimps, come on now. Come on, let’s not be ridiculous. I mean, I guess that’s where it comes down. If he gave a chimp a bulletproof vest and a gun and called him officer, you know, bubble, maybe. Wasn’t there a Clint Eastwood movie? Any which way, but loose. Yeah. It was orangutan. Yeah. Orangutan, that wasn’t a chimp. You know, that’s different. I like, we love to reclassify everything. Oh, orangutan. Yeah. No problem with the orangutan chimps. No way. We’re stopping right there. We got a hard stance on chimps, but orangutans, they can do whatever they want. They go wear diapers. They can be on public. Why not? They’re cute. They smile. They’ll kiss you. That’s all good. So, um, back to severance a little bit here. So, um,
That’s all Bob wants to talk about. I’m fascinated. You threw me for a loop here by saying this is the best show ever because I’m like, really? Okay, that’s not an opinion that I’ve encountered yet. And so I’m curious about why you like it so much. I mean, I like it. I’m just saying I’ve yet to hear from you an alternative show that is better than Severance. I would say Breaking Bad, one of the best shows ever made. Better Call Saul, one of the best shows ever made. Absolutely. Both of those, one of the best shows. But is it better than Severance? Of course, you could say the jury’s out because those are completed shows. Whereas Severance is still good. It could really just fall apart in season three. I’ve talked about a ton is
there are so many shows I’ve watched that have been good. And this is why breaking bad actually does get this, you know, huge thumbs up is I’ve watched so, so many shows that have been good, but cannot stick the landing. They, you’re watching for Howard, whether it’s two seasons or, you know, 15 seasons, you’re watching it. But when the Indian comes, you’re just like, you didn’t, you didn’t land it. Right. And like breaking bad is one of the few shows where I’m like, no, they, they had, they told a great story. It wasn’t, they’re all in all throughout. And when it came to the ending, they ended it and they walked away, which i love. But also they returned, which a lot of people would say when you stick the ending and get it right right you don’t return. But they returned with the movie gran Torino. And at the end of the day, like gran Torino, why I’m not like saying it’s like one of the best movies ever made, it’s like it continued the story and it still it still left you where you’re like, nope I am satisfied and we can move on. And so like the fact that they also like they left the property being like, hey, we did everything perfect. We’re out. And then a few like, hey,
we’re going to come back. Like, what are you doing? No one comes back when they see the landing and they’re like, we’re going to do it. And they did. And they succeeded with a movie where I’m just like applause all around. No, Breaking Bad is a different vessel. And I think, yeah, I think we can say that Breaking Bad may be the best completed show. And then once Severance wraps and then we see how they, if they can stick the landing, I think Severance will overtake it because as long as they, managed to land it, which is the hardest thing. That’s the hardest thing to land it, like, Severance is already a better show, in my opinion but you can’t you can fumble the ball at the end, because i’ve seen it in a lot of shows. Well, Lost was one of the examples. I think the season the loss was really really good i could never get into Lost, because i watched exactly one episode of Lost.
And at the time, everybody online and at work that were watching and into the show and into the mystery were like, where did the polar bear come from? Why is there a polar bear? I watched one episode and I knew the answer immediately. And I think it was the first episode. And I said, I don’t know, maybe from the damn zoo that’s on the island. There’s an old zoo. I’m like, God, where is that polar bear from? I think the chip let him out because he was tired of talking to him. He’s like, give me somebody else. Get rid of this polar bear. My Lost experience was very interesting because I started watching it when it came out. Probably watched the first two seasons. And then I just kind of fell out of it and was like, yeah, whatever. But the place I was working at, some of the guys there, they had never watched it. And so I forget how many seasons Lost is. I think it’s five. They got into Lost in like the…
back half of season four. Like they didn’t start watching at season four, but they found out about loss. And so they would show up at work watching season one and two, like you said, were the good seasons and then oh you hear about this? You hear about that? And I’m like, dude, you guys are late years late, but also like they kind of started specking my interest. And they’re like, Hey, it’s, it’s finished in next year. And so i that they got me back watching it. We all started watching it, speculating. We watched through the rest of it. And then like for the fifth or the fifth season, i think it was five seasons. And the finale, like we planned everything out we’re like we’re gonna have a
big it was me and like seven of my other of my co-workers were all invested we’re like we’re all going over to the the there was a house for my i worked at a restaurant and the owner of the restaurant bought a house originally for his sons to live in while they were uh working at the restaurant just so they could have a little bit of freedom but eventually we called it that the restaurant was called cristiano we started calling the cristiano’s house because after his sons moved out just he would just rent it out to different people and it was always people who worked at the restaurant so we’re like we’re all going over the christian that’s also became the hang for everybody at the restaurant
And so we’re all going over to Cristiano’s house. We’re getting together. We’re bringing snacks. We’re going to we’re all watching this together after work because it’s a weeknight. And some of us were like we and those of us who did it were like, don’t you dare watch it without us? And it was back. We had to record stuff. We recorded it. Nobody watched it. We all got there to work and we watched one of the crappiest finales ever. After it ended, I’m no joke. Like I said, all seven of us were like just invested in Lost at the Point. It was like you could hear a pin drop. It’s just no one said anything because we were just like, what the hell was that? And then what proceeded was like two hours of us just all ranting about what the heck was that? Why did I spend so much time on this? Is it better or worse than the ending for The Sopranos? Where it just goes black. I think that’s better, actually. I think that’s better. Yeah, no, I think Lost is better than The Sopranos. No, no, no. Sopranos is better than Lost. Ambiguity is much better than that. I just think, I remember, so Sopranos, once again, it
story from work, but the Sopranos, there’s a different thing. I never watched Sopranos, but my boss who owned the restaurant was die hard to pray he watched sopranos every week and always loved talking about it. I just remember when sopranos ended, he came into work pissed off for most of the morning and everyone’s like yeah he uh he watched the finale of sopranos last night he I just remember how pissed off he was at the end of the Sopranos. He was just like, he just like us and loss. He invested his lot. He loves it all this time. It kind of went downhill as well, though. I would say Sopranos kind of went downhill at the end there, but I mean, even without the finale problems, but the elephant in the room is,
ben stiller is a big force in Severance. He’s kind of the out front guy yeah now really but you know, Ben Stiller, this is the guy who’s gonna help this into the, you know, slide into home with this with this show you think so? The craziness to me is before this show, and when the show first came out, when i was like, Ben Stiller’s directing a large portion of this and has a hand in it, I was like, one is, That’s when I first saw the trailers for Severance. And like I said, there was plenty of comedy in Severance. But when I first saw the trailers for Severance and then I saw Ben Stiller Tats, I was like, oh, we’re getting like a quirky comedy. I mean, it is a quirky comedy. Yeah, it’s quirky. But what is it? So that’s what I thought going into it. And like, yeah, the more I watched, the more that A, I saw that like, oh, this is so much more. And B, I started thinking like, you know, just because you see, I think about, what’s his name? Jordan Peele.
It’s like Jordan Peele was revealed, released to the world as a sketch comedy artist. Right. And then now he’s doing all these, you know, big budget horror movies that are just taken off with people. And I’m just like, just because you’re introduced to somebody as one thing doesn’t mean they don’t have other talents. And I think that’s what severance also. So it was like Ben Stiller to me. Like, yeah, he’s a comedy actor. He does that sort of stuff. And now I’m like, oh, no, he. Yeah, sure. And I bet you. I mean, he still loves comedy. I imagine he hasn’t given it up. But I think it’s one of those like, yeah, he just always he probably always had a pass in for stuff and never was they had an outlet. And then, you know, once he got big enough, they’re like, hey, we’re going to give you a shot. And he’s proven like, yeah, he knows because like one thing we talk about on the podcast sometimes is like we watch these shows and we love we we love separate for all the wit in there. We love it for all the mystery and stuff. But also like we will watch scenes like I love the way this is shot or who looked at this and like decided to film it this way.
and so it’s like, yeah, that’s one thing with Severance, like, given ben stiller and everybody involved, all the directors and all the filmographers and everybody, is like, there’s a lot of scenes. I’m just like, this is just wonderfully shot or really innovative how they did this i think about actually this season the opening sequence of mark running through the hallway and just like around and all that stuff. And I’m like, yeah, that that didn’t more than just the actual content of the show, it’s also, like, just the the cinematography photography and blocking is is phenomenal i still want us to get a get a documentary on yeah how they shot just that opening scene and see in the first episode i’m sure you’re gonna get one i think it’s already uh i would hope so we we were we when we first started watching this season uh
They do the after the episode airs, they do the like, oh, watch the behind the scenes. And me and Robert are like, oh, we got to watch the behind the scenes. And so we queue that up, expecting them to tell us how they did the opening sequence. And they’re immediately like, oh, so we think this is what we’re doing. Stop talking. Tell us about the show and what’s going on. We wouldn’t just tell us about how we watch the show. Now, in season three, if Jack Black shows up, write the whole fucking thing off. I’m telling you right now. Yeah. Jack Black would be definitely a killer. Not to say he couldn’t pull it off, but it would be a real hard ask for him to show up in Severance and actually do something that wouldn’t make it all collapse. There are plenty of ways. Like I said, with this being so good about that, I am no fool. I know there are plenty of ways for them to tank this ship. And just be like, oh, Severance has now went from being one of the best souls of all time to being like, well…
You lost the first two seasons, but when you get to the third, oof. The final episode of Game of Thrones, it’s like, oof. No one even talks about Game of Thrones anymore. That’s not bad, the last episode. Yeah, the last one was terrible. It went off the rails. My favorite part about that is leading up to it, they were asking people on the red carpet, like Peter Dinklage and everybody else, and every time they said, oh, is it really good? Are you really excited about it? And they’re kind of like… and then just like walk away. I just heard someone calling my name, so i gotta cut this story Now, have you guys ever seen a show called the Prisoner? It’s a british television show from the 60s. Oh, wait, yeah, no, sorry, The Prisoner. Sorry, I’m thinking of a of a movie the prisoner yes uh i’ve seen the original, but not the remake so yeah the original one yeah the original one with patrick mcgooey seeing you yeah
Yeah, be seeing you. I am number three, but who is number one? Right, who is number one? Prisoner, I mean, it’s obviously much older. It’s got a feeling to it. It’s got a vibe to it, just like Severance. And I think the Prisoner, there’s only like 20 episodes of that show. I didn’t even think there were that many. Yeah, I think it’s 20. But it has that kind of vibe. It’s all very mysterious and everything. And a lot of weird… you know, stuff. Essentially, there’s number two who was uh in this. There was only one repeat of a number two. All the number twos were different for every episode um and it was just a very weird uh show and severance to me, gives me those vibes. So if you’ve not if anybody it’s really old, so, you know, the quality i mean i don’t know how the remake holds up. I haven’t watched i mean i wouldn’t say
Hey, if you like severance, then you’re definitely going to like the prisoner because the prisoner’s weird. It’s real, real weird. Oh, severance is not weird. I have an Indian in the alley, and then I don’t know who I’m married to. I mean, it’s weird, but it’s not the prisoner weird, okay? It’s not like, oh, there is a weird, mysterious ball that bounces around the island and, like, kills people. Yeah, yeah. Or like, hey, just all of a sudden this whole episode is going to take place in a western town for no reason. Well, because they had access to it. I think budgetarily it was probably cheaper. We haven’t got that in seven years. It may happen. You never know. So, okay. Is there any other shows on the horizon for the recent time? Andor. We were excited about Andor. Andor’s going to be heavy, though.
even with their release schedule. Yeah, for some reason, Disney decided that they’re going to release three episodes at a time for four weeks for four weeks so it’s 12 episodes total, three episodes at a time. And I’m just like, Disney, what are you doing to us like why are they doing that weird thing yeah so what i heard is uh i’m not sure if you watched the first season of andor i did yeah you know it was kind of broken up into chunks, little you know stories to tell the overall story. And so what I heard is that they’re leaning more into that this season where each three episodes is kind of going to be its own, not isolated, but its own time and event. It’s like three movies, basically. Essentially, yeah. Everyone is saying we’re getting essentially four movies for the next season of Andor. I did like Andor. If they do that, I’m going to be super upset because I’d want it to be just one long, like four chunks that are one chunk each instead of
broken up. It’s like, what are we going to take a movie and break it into three 30-minute chunks? I can’t air it that way. Yeah, no. It would be nice to do it that way. But, I mean, they’re probably, because it’s Disney, and Disney loves to find ways to make more money, they probably will, if they release it, then they’ll release a special edition that does merge on DVD for all the collectors out there. And And so then you do have your four individual add more movies, you know, and then it builds the little star thing or whatever the hell he was working on last year. You can build that with the four different sections. Yeah. Yeah. And then, you know, if they want to go back to their old ways, they could just announce randomly. I was talking to people about this, but it announced randomly that there, guess what? This, this product that is just literally, especially these days, just a digital thing is going into the vault. It’s going to the vault. You won’t get it anymore. You better get it now. And like,
but why though? And then, you know, after five years, like, guess what? It’s come out of the bolt, but only for the next two months. You better get it. The Disney vault, the Disney vault, man. I remember it was on fire down in Florida the other day. I mean, cause that’s, that’s dangerous because they’ve got all the, the basically rocket fuel in the form of film. No, Epcot caught on fire, France pavilion. I was just, uh, you guys didn’t see that on the news. I did. Okay. Yeah, you’re right. i thought you meant like the actual, no no where they keep all the no actually oddly enough, most of those are actually in the middle of the country here. I think they’re some of them are in kansas city underground. Anyway, all these movies are um disney’s getting too, like, and this is not a uh like a hot take or anything. A lot of people will believe this. I just had experience yesterday, though, that i was like, okay, we are getting out of hand this is getting too big uh i was i was we like so we’re covering daredevil born Again.
I have Disney+, and I know Disney+, from the get-go, it’s been tied with ESPN+, and Hulu, but they’re getting more properties attached to both, all those, and the fact that I opened up Disney+, to find Daredevil, and I was like, you want to check out the UFC fight? I’m like, what? And it was like, yeah, we’ve got the UFC fight right here. I’m like, there is no world where I should be able to watch, you know, I was trying to think of a bluey, a kid’s show and then switch over to watching Deadpool. And then I checked with a few more buttons. Now I’m watching UFC. I’m just like, we have, Disney’s getting out of control folks. No, that’s just become cable. That’s all you’ve got. Instead of having one cable company, you got 20 now, you know, all cable company. And now live sports has made the transition that they’re all streaming. You don’t live sports is not in broadcast or live.
cable domain anymore. It’s all live streaming. Netflix acquired the license for WWE. We got UFC on Disney Plus. It’s all just… Into the world stuff. I think that they need to roll in and do what they did for music maybe and just do the mechanical royalties thing where it’s just like, hey… anybody’s allowed to use it. They just have to pay, you know, ASCAP or whatever the licensing fee into, to, you know, just display instead of having to make individual deals. Yeah. Well, but individual deals are more lucrative for everybody. Oh, I’m sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exclusivity. I mean, it was when I didn’t have those rules for music too, but it’s still a terrible situation, you know? So speaking of that exclusivity and so forth, uh, recently, uh,
and amazon has purchased james Bond. Interesting. Interesting. You guys didn’t know that? Come on. I think i did know that. But I mean, who cares about james bond now really i don’t like any of the new movies. The last good james bond movie was golden eye they but the franchise has been dead to me ever since. I’ve never been a pawn fan actually really no but it’s what so here’s the weird thing, though. While I’ve never been a bond fan, I still have my bond. My bond has always been Pierce Brosnan. Even though, like I said, not a fan. Not a fan. But I will go and die on a hill to argue why Pierce Brosnan is the right bond. The funny thing is that that’s what you came into. That’s what you guys came into it with, right? Because of your age and everything. That’s all how it works. You go ask somebody from the 60s, 70s or whatever, they’re going to be like, oh, that’s my guy because that’s the one I like. I have no…
No skin in the game when it comes to Bond. No reason to fight you for it, but I will. I mean, I don’t have any problem with Amazon owning it. Someone’s got to own it, I guess. Yeah, but you don’t think that much like Star Wars, much like the Marvel stuff and so forth, that these conglomerates are buying these properties. And to me, this is my argument on all this, right? I’m just using the Bond thing as an introduction to the argument, but… The Bond thing, so you are, it’s killing competition in a way. So now they’re just going to have, you know, the female James Bond and they’re going to have, you know, the James Bond that lives in Antarctica or something. And they’re going to do all this stuff with the world of James Bond rather than doing something else. Severance is something else. Yeah.
And I think that’s probably what part of the reason why you might like it so much is because it’s not like everything else. And, and, and even though Andor is part of the Star Wars thing, it’s not quite the same as the other Star Wars things that they put out there because they’re all interconnected to the original in some way, shape or form. And that one is, is set in the Star Wars world, but it’s not as connected. And so, but I, I want them to do new things like the severance is a new thing. You got to go to Apple TV for that. And you got to remember that what they’re doing is making money. They want to make money. They’re not there for the love of making content. They’re there for the love of making money. Well, all the interviews they say they are.
Oh, of course. You don’t say the quiet part out loud. They’re not going to say, I want all the money in the world. We just love making new content. It would be great just to see some dude, some producer, somebody who’s just like, so why do you make movies? Oh, just for money. I don’t care. Just for money. I don’t care what it is. If we could get people to watch two hours of a turd on a screen. We do it. We do it. The counter argument I would make to you, Bob, and I agree. I want them to make new stuff. And Apple TV is making crazy new stuff that’s original. But the profits generated from the sequels and the prequels and the derivative works fund the riskier new stuff. Wow, you sound like a studio head. Yeah.
The other thing I think also is very interesting is because I’ve heard the argument about, yeah, we just keep making, you know, we just keep making sequel after sequel and stuff. No one wants to make anything new. Disney is extremely known for that. I think Snow White, the live act of Snow White just came out a few days ago. Disney is known for doing remakes of remakes and making stuff live action. And so and that is very much true. But there’s also the and I’m not saying that the studios and stuff are not at fault and stuff. but i think there is also a little bit of blame. I’m like, yeah, but there’s also a lot of us out here who just want nostalgia bait all the time. And so that when the you hear the brick coming out with bond 27, you’re like, sweet, another Bond. I can go there and watch it and have on yeah and stuff so like it’s it’s a double-edged sword of both sides like i think if more people were pushing and asking and demanding like we just but that thing is, also, there is a world like yeah i even eat i like a good
a good sequel. I think me and Robert, we’re looking forward to the accountant that’s coming out this year. I think it’s just we have skewed too heavily in one direction. There’s a fine balance that can be attained where it’s like, yeah, let’s have some good remakes and some good sequels and that sort of stuff and prequels, if you can do a prequel well. But let’s have that, but let’s also get some good new content. I feel like we have skewed too far into this way but I also feel like we could scale too far into where it’s only original stuff. Cause then it’s just like nothing. I don’t know. I mean, I could go even further with it. I think that we need to hit the brakes and do like full reverse on the copyright law because right now it’s like 150 years or something. Oh yeah. Right. Let’s take that back down to just the life of the artist. I think it’s a hundred years, a hundred years. Yeah. It’s, it’s something, it’s like the life of the artist plus like 50 or 75. Yeah. Yeah. I’m like, no, no, I want,
That stuff freed up so that way everybody can have a bite of the apple on Derivative Works and really see how weird it gets with people exploring concepts with other people. You mean Popeye the Slayer Man is not doing it for you? Absolutely. If someone wants to make Popeye the Slayer Man, I want to see. It’s made. It’s out there. Well, awesome. But no, I want to see. Food, blood, and honey. Yeah, I would love to see the Star Wars universe or maybe the Star Trek universe get opened up you know, from copyright and just see what people can do exploring that space. I mean, I think about as you say that, uh, because what sort of stuff could we get? I still, I think about the orville and how that was so star trek without being star trek and it’s like it was the it was the best star trek that was out yeah that’s why it was the we were like, Orville is the best star trek on currently. And it’s not even star Trek.
That’s right. What was the Star Trek that was airing at that time? Discovery, I’m pretty sure. Was it Discovery? Yeah, Discovery was horrible. It was Orville versus Discovery, which is not bad. It was decent sci-fi. It just was bad Star Trek. Yeah, it was bad Star Trek. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. So you say Apple. Apple. So what’s the other Apple show that people should be watching? Oh, man. They’re the innovators. Silo. Silo. See, I think. What’s the one with Made for Love? Unfortunately, that didn’t get an ending, but it was still amazing. What’s the show? Shrinking? Shrinking’s good. I know you will say Ted Lasso. I need to check out Ted Lasso. Oh, I love Ted Lasso. There is a lot. It’s one of the things that’s weird. There’s certain studios and certain companies that if a trailer comes on and if I’m on the fence or I’m like, I don’t know, if their logo pops up, I’m like, well, at least give it a shot.
That’s where Apple TV is right now. If I see a trailer for something, I’m not saying it’s 100% going to be good, but if I see a trailer for something and then the Apple TV logo pops up on screen, I’m like, I’m going to give it a shot. I’m at least going to check it out. The morning show is really good. Slow Horses is amazing. It is absolutely amazing. What’s the space one? For All Mankind? For All Mankind. Oh, I love it. That’s what I said. There is a lot of good stuff on Apple TV. And Robert just revealed to me that they’re losing money streaming. So if you want a foundation, if you want to see this foundation is really good, too. I think foundation is a desecration of the source material. It is really good. Yeah, it is really good. But it is not a faithful telling. Oh, no, no, no. That wasn’t that. That wasn’t Apple TV. That was or not. What’s the one called?
I don’t think it’s Apple TV now, but I’m trying to remember. Raised by Wolves. Is that Apple TV? No, that was HBO Max. That was HBO Max, but it was South African. It was made in South Africa. It wasn’t even made for the market. That’s a weird show. Yeah, I watched all that. I wish there was more of it, to be honest with you. Robert got me into that, and I’ve always been upset with him. Still, in my book, the best… intro of any show. Just something about it. It’s just that soft, creepy music and the weird visuals of the killer robots just lying around. It is so… I don’t know. I watch it. It’s the only show that I watch the intro every single time I see it and sometimes I’ll just go to YouTube to watch the intro. That’s a weird one. Raised by Wolves is a Thorne and mine and Robert’s relationship though because he…
He got me into after it was all done. He knew it was after Raised by Wolves was done. He knew that there was no ending, knew that it was going to leave you for more. I had never even tried to watch Raised by Wolves. I had no inclination to watch it. And we were like, you really got to watch it. And so then I watched it, and I loved it, and then I got no completion. And I’m like, you knew this was the end result, Robert. You knew it, and you dragged me in here. It was worth it. uh what’s kind of mean. What are thoughts on Monarch, Legacy of Monsters? A show so dumb it’s fun to watch i did watch i did watch it but yeah i was like you know where’s this going i mean it’s you know it is it is dumb but it’s that’s bad writing but i do enjoy watching it. It’s just, it’s one of those, it’s nice to just have sometimes, like when i’m watching Severance,
I’m fully alert. I’m looking for every little detail. Monarch Legacy March is just like, I just turn off the brain. I came from big monsters. You gave me big monsters. Where’s the kaiju? Take my money. Once we started going to Inner Earth or whatever was going on, I was like, okay, we’ve officially left the plane of this is going to be a reasonable sale. I mean, there’s so much good on Apple TV. It’s totally one of the best. So you’d say as far as the streamers go, uh that’s the one to get. I would think, yeah, if i was gonna tell someone that you were gonna get the most quality out of it. I mean, obviously you could go to disney plus because they just have everything yeah but if you’re looking for like good, solid quality and like nine times out of ten the show that they produce is gonna be good quality it’s gonna be apple tv yeah um if there’s any one show besides severance on there, it’s definitely silo has to be checked out. So,
let’s okay. So let’s take the pay ones out of the equation for the free ones. What’s the best one? uh 2b yeah 2b hey I’m not even joking 2b well i said what is you’re not gonna get anywhere near the quality of any of the pay ones, but i have had plenty of surprise enjoyment from 2b where i’m just like, did not see this coming uh there’s another one that me and donnell primarily use, but we won’t say the name of it out loud because the legality of it is quite dubious, and we don’t want it to get shut down. You have to subscribe to our Patreon. If you become a subscriber for our podcast and you email us, we will tell you our super secret website that has everything, even if you aren’t out of the theater yet. I think I know what you guys are talking about. You’re saying too much, Robert. Hey, they don’t know the name of the site. They can’t
get it and there’s a lot you’re right tubi’s got everything and it has a lot and to be surprisingly like because i’ve watched other freestreamers and stuff to be surprisingly hat has a decent amount of quality content. I’m not like, I’m not going to, like, once you get nothing on it compares to anything you’ll find on even, like, Netflix. Right. But actually, you know i’m gonna walk actually netflix does have some weird stuff so i’ll say you netflix caliber or bottom tier Netflix because there is also high tier. Netflix is a wide gambit where a lot of stuff on Netflix is like, this is just garbage. And every once in a while, it’s like, oh, here’s something like a three body problem. Like, oh, here’s something amazing. Like, where did this come from? And they’re like, we try it. Oh, I said it once. I’ll say it again. Netflix is on the fence with me over over three body problem. Yeah, I don’t think that they’ve got it in them to take it home. And if they don’t, I’ve said I will cancel my Netflix account. If they don’t
If they did not nail Three Body Problem. Where are you guys at now? Especially if they do the Netflix norm of producing two seasons. That would be the worst. They would lose a subscriber. What do you think about all this now with commercials? I haven’t seen any commercials on Netflix. I’ll speak to that. Netflix with commercials, for me, I have Netflix with commercials, but the only reason why it is acceptable to me or worth it. Because the thing is, if I didn’t have Netflix as a commercial, I also just wouldn’t have Netflix because Netflix isn’t good enough for me to spend money on. I used to share an account with one of my friends for Netflix. I enjoyed it. When they crunched, clapped down on that, I just didn’t have Netflix. And the only reason I have Netflix now and the only reason why the commercial is acceptable is I get it through my cell phone provider. It’s just a free person. And so I am perfectly fine with Netflix with commercials for free. I’ll deal with the commercials. But
If I was paying for Netflix and they’re like, here’s some commercials. I’m like, you, you can go screw yourself. You can go. Yeah. I would cancel my Netflix account if I saw a commercial. Yeah. Yeah. That’s where I’m at. Like the only reason I accept it is I, I didn’t have Netflix at all before. And then T-Mobile was like, Hey, we’ll give you Netflix for free, but it’s what’s commercials. And I was like, sure. Why not? Okay. It’s free. You mean I’m not paying you anymore? Yeah. Yeah. So talking about commercials. Yeah. I’ll tell you what terrifies me. I don’t know if y’all have been following the protest in Turkey? Istanbul? Or whatever. They just unleashed a directed sound device. They can now pinpoint in a crowd of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50,000 people, one person and beam sound at them. Around people, through people, and others won’t hear it, but you will.
What? And that’s insane and terrifying. Yeah. And that is absolutely going to be used for advertising. Directed advertising. The weird thing is, I guess this is the first maybe openly public use of that, but that’s been around for quite some time. Actually, did you know there’s a thing with vending machines that have that? Did you know that? I did not. Yeah, so that you hear it in front of the vending machine, you hear it, and everybody around you doesn’t hear it. So when you walk by a vending machine, it’ll be like, drink Coca-Cola. Who said that? Yeah, exactly. That’s just going to lead to people thinking they’re insane also. Yeah, you could gaslight somebody. Oh, yeah. Oddly enough, that sound business has been around for actually quite some time. I remember hearing of targeted sound, but never seen it in practice and stuff. And then they also can use it to make you be sick.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I’ve heard, yeah. Not just to make you hear things, but actually to make you ill. Yep. And pinpoint you. Yeah, isn’t that weird? Oh, boy. I can’t even imagine the stuff that they’ve got out there. Because what, back in the 80s, maybe the 70s even, they accidentally declassified that blowfish gun or whatever. It was the CIA had invented a gun that shot… frozen blowfish venom and it was like undetectable like that you had been shot and then just like an hour later you just die of a heart attack right and it’s ridiculous yeah but that was in the 70s who knows what they got now oh my gosh. It’s out of control I mean I’m still waiting to find out about Havana syndrome
and what was going on. Right, and that’s a sound thing. Havana syndrome is a sound-based thing, yeah. I mean, we think, we don’t know. Well, and then there’s the whole thing where they can listen in to you by the vibration of the glass in the window. Oh, yeah. Oh, I love that. I love that. I don’t know if you watched Conclave this year. Yeah, yeah. Where they were covering up the windows of the chapel so that way they couldn’t hear them talking about what was going to be. Oh, that’s good stuff. Mm-hmm. And then also with your Wi-Fi. They know where you’re at inside your house based on your Wi-Fi. Oh, yeah. You don’t have to be connected to the Wi-Fi. You just have to be walking in the Wi-Fi. That’s what I was about to say. It’s how much people don’t realize. You don’t even have to be connected to Wi-Fi network for it to be used to track you, the information about you. It’s insane. I always thought it was funny when everyone was like, oh my God, look at that
sci-fi technology from, from the dark night where he’s got like all the cell phones that are doing the sonar. I’m like, they’ve been doing that for a long time. You’re like, that’s just a Tuesday. So then we’ll, we’ll loop it back to severance here to wrap up. So when, when are we going to do, do you have an any, or are you the Audi or the any I’m talking to right now? That’s my question. Well, seeing as I’m unemployed, I’m just all outie. I mean, that’s the fun of the show, right? Because there is an innie and an outie in all of us. Because I’m a different person outside of work. When I go into work, I put on the… A different hat. I always think it’s funny whenever I run into a co-worker outside of the office. There was one guy, he was like,
you know, kind of an upper level guy, you know, in the C-suite area, wore a suit and tie every day, you know, nice shaved and haircut. And then like one random Saturday, I’m going to the grocery store and he’s like in dirty sweatpants, unshaven hair, a mess like he’s just like, this is another human being. This is a different human being than the person I have met in the office. Like I say, that’s how you know whether a work or when a work friend is become the actual friend is when they get to see they drop the mask out of you yeah like when when you’re you you have a friend at work and then you’re like you know what i’m gonna have them over this weekend and like i’m not gonna be the guy that you know you you put you don’t have that persona your work persona on that’s how you know when someone goes from this yeah i talk to them at work we’re friendly but are we truly friends nah if you know if you haven’t seen outie me then nah we’re just two people who hang out at work i also love whenever i like,
have to do the customer service voice, which a lot of people will know what I’m talking about. All of a sudden, a coworker will just turn to me and be like, who are you? Who was that just now talking? That wasn’t you. If you guys had the opportunity, would you? No. There’s a dollar amount. I don’t know what it is, but there’s a dollar amount. Definitely $10 million a year. I’ll do severed for at least a year. The perks of being severed, of never having to work, seem nice, but then it’s like, yeah, but… You’re sleeping 16 hours a day at that point, aren’t you? I mean, you’re just not conscious. I mean, I don’t think they’re sleeping. They’re not getting a rest. No, I’m just saying it’s like in your head, it’s just gone. Time’s gone.
Well, I mean, everybody who’s in the severance, all the characters in the show are there running away from trauma or trying to get in there for nefarious purposes. Or I shouldn’t say nefarious because my opinion is that Irving chose to become severed in order to infiltrate for altruistic reasons. That’s what we’re really looking forward to season three is Irving’s story. They did not give us enough of that this season and I need to know more. Okay. So both no, you’re both no’s on the severed part. Yeah, without extreme compensation. Yeah, exactly. If you think about it, even if it’s extreme compensation, basically you’re somebody’s puppet almost for a good eight hours a day. Bob, I live in American capitalist economy for the last 40 years.
I’m somebody already. Oh my gosh. I just have to, you know, live with it. Yeah. You know what? I’m, I’m, I’m a lower on my $10 million. I just get the money and I don’t have to remember. Now you’re considering it is what you’re telling me. Robert’s like, you know, 110 K I’ll do it. Like the only trauma I got in life is going to work. dealing with other humans. You’ve led a charmed life. Well, I mean, I didn’t, which is why i do now. I just said, F it. I’m not gonna deal with crap anymore. So I cut out all the crap. Oh my gosh. All right, guys. Well, let’s wrap it up here. We got two nose on i would i would not be severed uh myself personally
But in a way, I’m already severed because I’m talking to you as a blue cat. I mean, it’s a self-imposed bit. Tell us what’s happening in the future here on the Watching It podcast and where they can find you and all that stuff. We’re currently covering Daredevil. We’re going to be doing Andor after that. I think we’re going to try and get you on the show later. I know. I’m supposed to talk about They Live, I think, at some point. You picked the show. Odd enough ties into some of the stuff we’ve been talking about. Good follow-up to the last one that we covered, which was Brazil. Other than that, we don’t know what we’re covering after Andor. We’re looking at a number of shows. You can find us on our website, which you’ve got posted there, WashingtonPod.com. You can also find us on Instagram at Blue Sky.
And you can email us watching a podcast at gmail.com. We always love to hear feedback and show suggestions and commentary on, on what we’ve said and other shows. And yeah, it’s a, it doesn’t have to be just a discussion between me and Donnell. It can be a discussion with everyone. Love other people’s viewpoint. We love talking about TV and movies. And we’re marking here right now. If severance can, you know, pull it off. Best show ever. Yep. Yep. Thus far. I will stand by that statement. And then if anybody needs the any Don L, he’s available. Yes. Any Don L is open for work. If you want to reach out, you’ll be more than willing to at least reveal your offer. And last plug, if you need some eggs.
I live near the Canadian border. We can get some of those maple eggs for you. Yeah. Tim Horton special coming across. Well, thanks guys for talking to me today. And everybody go to watching the pod and check it out. And, and we’ll, we’re going to follow up on this severance thing. It may take us a couple of years, but we’re going to find out. 100%. Stay tuned. All right, guys. Hang on just a second, and we’ll see everybody else next time.