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We're sweating fucking bullets over there because they don't

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got nothing else. I think I

1:00

get what last time I talked shit about a

1:02

television network, you like came at me and

1:04

were like, actually, they had a million great shows.

1:07

Is TBS characters welcome? That's

1:09

USA. I'm pretty sure. Anyway,

1:12

this is wonderful. It's not TBS.

1:14

It's a podcast where we talk about things

1:16

that we like that is good that we

1:18

are into. And

1:21

do you want to do a small sometimes we

1:23

do small wonders in the TBS

1:25

format? And then out of this show, there's

1:27

no time for small wonders because it starts at

1:29

3.15. We've only got, I mean,

1:32

with with commercials about eight minutes of

1:34

programming. So we can't bullshit at all.

1:36

But here in this podcast space, no

1:38

one cares if we bullshit. We

1:40

can bullshit nonstop and no one's going to say

1:43

anything about it because we have no oversight from

1:45

anyone except Jesse, who listens to every

1:48

episode of every podcast, everyone on the

1:50

network records and produces and then sends

1:52

us a picture of him either giving a thumbs up or a

1:54

thumbs down. Well, now we're a co-op, too.

1:57

So like every owner, Every owner and it's

1:59

it's a one. One guns down and a

2:01

whole thing goes in the toilet. Our start

2:03

over start right over. He. Gave me

2:05

a lot of time to come up with something.

2:07

yeah ah I'm going to say and maybe I

2:10

said this before. I don't know. The ice cream

2:12

sandwich. Sure, I I'm

2:14

a big fan. I don't know that Years

2:16

Below fan as I am not at all

2:18

ah I'm at there's some, then there's just

2:21

something about it. mental cookie outside and then

2:23

there's a very very soft ice cream on

2:25

the inside and you just bite bite in

2:27

their yeah is like cookie protects your teeth

2:29

from the biting, the cooking. Protect your teeth

2:32

in the bidens. You know if you like

2:34

put your teeth on ice cream? make insights. Yeah,

2:36

know that if you get a cookie

2:38

the tougher for me because he proves.

2:40

A it is insubstantial buffer from

2:42

the i not allowed a cold

2:45

bad feeling on my teeth own

2:47

comes in which is why don't

2:49

prefer it. Ah I'm although we

2:51

have had those Nightingale ice cream

2:53

sandwiches before. Had that We still have some

2:55

old ones in our freezer. Who he really

2:57

he asked? Dang them. policies up

2:59

spared like a bananas foster sort

3:01

of flavor. One of those that

3:03

is like sausage. Very. Large dance

3:06

ice cream sandwiches. Difficult to consume

3:08

one. Ah. By yourself as we

3:10

have to both kind of turn our

3:12

keys on the ice cream sandwich yes

3:15

us a roast beef. It's.

3:18

I don't need a lot of like. Me: Sandwiches.

3:21

but when I do. But

3:24

when I do I get in there

3:26

with the big with the big. And.

3:28

Are doing close brought things that neither of

3:30

us has. like a particular like i don't

3:32

know. I'm like forests be sandwiches. The

3:34

sweet and nice uterus beasts fan. Oh.

3:37

I feel like I can go along with in

3:39

the same way that you go along with has

3:41

from sandwiches. Okay well we'll do a little slot.

3:43

Maybe this week? do a little. Why?

3:45

I just told you I don't want to give. Well,

3:48

it's. Important to me. It's.

3:50

Important to me. Success. Okay, I never do this,

3:52

but this one's important to me. So many draw

3:54

a line in the same for you here so

3:57

you will become roast beef and I'll eat these.

4:00

The casting ice cream to the interested

4:02

to see I heat so much. Can

4:04

I go first this week? Look I

4:06

am a talk about song. Ah it's

4:08

by an artist named Anomaly. A

4:10

spell with the i Eat at the

4:12

end Ah and a song is called

4:14

the Lures and I think this might

4:16

be the funky a son has maybe

4:19

ever heard in my whole life. Ah,

4:21

Anomaly is a Canadian keyboardist and music

4:23

producer who sort like. Kind

4:26

of on the vanguard of this

4:28

is en route of music that

4:30

is very ah I feel like

4:32

popular mine you tube in the

4:34

like. Sell music to

4:36

study to kind of play lead happier lives. Not

4:38

really lo fi like has talked about kind of

4:40

like lo fi hip hop beats on the show

4:42

before it like a nice thing to kind of

4:44

like. Zone. Out To

4:46

This is kind of different in that

4:48

it's got kind of like a big

4:51

you know sell electronic jazz funk elements

4:53

that is really just kind of a

4:55

vibe that is difficult to describe. I

4:58

got some getting strong jazz from around

5:00

jazz process of what I saw. The

5:02

description I saw on mine often is

5:04

a new jazz with in in you

5:07

with doesn't sound like something I should

5:09

should like Access Ah but this song

5:11

fucking rats he's into This dude is

5:14

incredibly talented. His name is Nicholas. Deplete

5:16

I believe he is from Montreal

5:18

is when they're nineteen eighty three.

5:20

ah and started receiving sort of

5:23

classical piano training at a young

5:25

age. Ah, he quickly sort of

5:27

branched out into more Chaz influenced

5:29

styles that would like very heavily

5:31

influenced his work. He apprenticed with

5:34

some like Canadian jazz pianists for

5:36

several years in his in his

5:38

late teens which is not something

5:40

I knew you could do. I

5:42

know musicians upon apprentices I fundamentalists.

5:45

Alex like. Lot Blacksmiths

5:47

ends. To they just turn the

5:49

pages for a while and then eventually they'll get

5:51

to touch the keys. To. That's exactly yeah, You're

5:53

not ready. Show me your fingers. Now,

5:56

not yet. I'll let you know I

5:58

he said performing music in the early

6:00

twenty tens or enjoined a label just

6:02

back and twenty sixteen which I guess

6:05

actually is. Eight. Years ago. Smiles.

6:08

Ah. He put out his first album

6:10

and twenty six thing called Odyssey and

6:12

then toured for a year before you

6:14

release in a p called Metropole Ah

6:16

which contains the song that I'm Talking

6:18

About That A Blue Earth and seven

6:21

other absolute club bangers. I'm not play

6:23

a little bit of Louis now so

6:25

prepare to vibe. Fresh

6:56

and very playful and just unbelievably funky.

6:58

There is a viral you tube video

7:00

him performing the song which is what

7:02

I sent to you. The full version

7:04

of the song is a bit longer

7:07

but this just like as to as

7:09

minute version as as him playing to

7:11

a small room full of folks who

7:13

are bopping harder. Than

7:15

I've ever seen human beings like bafta. And

7:18

there's a fan or I three seed away

7:20

for man a cell at a Like every

7:22

single person, their looks a little bit self

7:24

conscious about the way they're popping because he

7:26

is so close. Extra one dude there's

7:28

one do that we have now found

7:30

out about the way as bopping and

7:32

as delightful there's all these like fresh

7:34

little like pauses in the song that

7:36

like seeing a room full of people

7:38

kind of bop and and then to

7:40

stop with the pause as like a

7:42

little tiny little refrain plays in and

7:45

get right back into it. Back on

7:47

this issue is like absolutely the best

7:49

shit ever That is like be dream

7:51

concert going experience for me as like

7:53

this almost certain like ritual like a

7:55

rhythmic sort of vibes. The comments. on

7:57

that video our next level good

8:00

people just stupefied by just the funk of

8:02

it all. They just realized that it said,

8:04

it's clean enough to eat off of. My

8:07

favorite is that this is so in the

8:09

pocket that it left the pants entirely. It

8:11

was really good. I actually, I'd forgotten, I

8:13

had heard this song before on the soundtrack

8:16

to this sick indie skateboarding

8:18

game called Ali Ali World. And

8:21

it is, as you can imagine, after hearing

8:23

that pretty tight music, to just skateboard and

8:25

do a bunch of dope combos and

8:27

tricks and shit too. This

8:30

video is him performing the song in just this

8:32

packed room. And it really sells what a performer

8:34

this dude is. There's a lot of stuff happening

8:36

in this song, but he plays this show solo.

8:38

And I think a lot of his tours, he

8:40

plays solo. But because there's

8:43

like a lot of different parts to

8:45

the music, he is accompanied by Ableton

8:48

or whatever like music production software

8:51

that he uses to play live.

8:54

What is great is

8:56

he's like jumping around between the different parts

8:58

of the song. He plays the piano chords

9:01

for a bit and then these big synth

9:03

melodies and these little chirpy bits. What's awesome

9:05

is that to sort of like stave

9:07

off the impression that

9:09

all he's doing is just like playing a

9:12

MIDI thing he recorded on his computer.

9:15

He actually, when he

9:17

performs, he angles his keyboard down

9:20

and away from himself so

9:22

that everybody could see. I don't know if

9:24

you noticed that in the video. But the

9:26

reason that he does that is so that

9:28

everyone can see him from wherever they are

9:30

in the audience actually playing the keyboard. Yeah,

9:32

interesting. Which is like, it is interesting because

9:34

it's like not, I don't think it's coming

9:36

from a. Place of

9:38

insecurity. Right, it's not coming from a place of like, I

9:41

don't want people to think that I'm a phony up here.

9:43

It's like a, like it's

9:45

impressive to watch his hands move on the

9:47

keyboard and you get a sense of like what

9:50

he is actually making on the stage

9:52

in front of anyone. Yeah, I think that's also

9:55

maybe what added to the jazz vibe for me to

9:57

See him kind of like do his little. Well.

10:00

Finger movements? Yeah. And like the

10:02

the gab pitch bend we'll saying that

10:05

eat like puts the the broader like

10:07

on the know like it's really it's

10:09

a flex enlightened it is that this

10:12

the sign of a person who has

10:14

practiced this one craft. For.

10:16

A billion hours and as dislike gonna

10:18

show everybody what is ah it is

10:20

is incredible song. I've been listening to

10:22

it nonstop. I wasn't familiar with the

10:25

suit other than that one game soundtracks

10:27

he was on and so after seeing

10:29

the city I didn't spot a fi.

10:31

and he's got like a lot of

10:33

fucking great tunes on. They're not the

10:35

least exciting of which is a whole

10:38

holiday album. With. Similarly sounds

10:40

of Towers Over and Bomb and Sleigh

10:42

Ride have already like book My and

10:44

I Say you're Going Already thought that

10:46

on the holiday that a large are

10:48

my favorite as you would play a

10:50

little bit of my favorites a version

10:53

of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

10:55

Backers so unbelievably hard as up a

10:57

little bit of. I'm

11:30

like already looking forward to the hall at

11:32

M Court. has to have mixing this

11:34

in with the as events for all

11:36

the in the soup john stevens and

11:38

also sort of like mainstays ah i'm

11:40

just like this set up ah i

11:43

do this past weekend you were traveling

11:45

ah i played the lord's for the

11:47

boys in the car we were like

11:49

driving i'm were yang between like their

11:51

usual diet of atonement tone covers of

11:54

popular songs and like that one imagine

11:56

dragons songs over and over again i

11:58

was like oh my play something for

12:00

dad and it fucking killed in the room. These

12:02

boys were bopping to it, they were loving it.

12:06

Henry was commenting on how much he liked

12:08

it, which is exciting, because I

12:10

don't play dad's music for him that often,

12:12

so it's very exciting. But yeah,

12:14

the song's called Valour's, the artist's anomaly, and

12:17

it's exciting. I've added a new

12:20

musician to my Rolodex, and I feel like it's

12:22

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12:24

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And we're the host of Shmanners. We

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15:31

don't have a lot of experience with it, I

15:33

may make you watch a clip. And but if

15:35

you do, a clip probably

15:37

won't be necessary. Let's see. I'll give you

15:39

a hint. Okay, I like this. A

15:42

game. My topic is

15:45

Jerry Seinfeld. Bob

15:48

Dylan. Movie phone. Oh,

15:51

yeah, yeah, yeah. No,

15:54

yeah, but you can understand why. Yeah,

15:56

okay. Yeah. Did you call movie phone

15:58

as a child? Can you like hear the voice

16:00

in your head? Yeah, absolutely. I was trying to

16:02

decide whether or not we have Rachel put a

16:05

clip in here. I think we absolutely should. I

16:07

think we should because I think there's probably a

16:09

lot of listeners that aren't familiar with movie phones.

16:11

Yeah. And it's a very distinct kind of voice.

16:13

Yes. And a distinct kind of

16:15

service that I imagine to anyone

16:19

even barely younger than us

16:21

is such a fucking mystifying

16:23

conceit. So let's

16:26

play a little bit of movie phone here. Hello

16:35

and welcome to movie phone. If you know

16:37

the name of the movie you'd like to

16:39

see, press one. To select from a list

16:41

of current movies, press two. Slaves of New

16:43

York. Still breathing.

16:47

Taz gone loony. Fight back

16:49

to school, too. Okay. That

16:52

was important to me because even even

16:55

if you think you remember movie phone, it's

16:58

still jarring to hear somebody

17:00

use that voice. Oh, yeah.

17:02

Everything about it is wild. One, that

17:04

this was a service we required. Yeah.

17:06

Two, I think it cost money to

17:08

call it, right? No, no. It was

17:10

a toll free? It was free. Oh,

17:12

okay. Yeah. And also that that was

17:14

the dude and that was the voice

17:16

and that was the performance that was

17:18

delivered week in week out to tell

17:20

you movie show times. So the guy

17:22

is Russ Leatherman. Oh, my

17:26

God. Isn't that perfect? It's spelled like Leatherman,

17:28

but I don't imagine he pronounced it that

17:30

way. Russ Leatherman. Russ Leatherman.

17:32

Also sounds like a horror

17:35

movie monster. Yeah. He

17:38

had no voice actor training. He

17:40

was just a college

17:42

DJ. Yeah, of course. I was going to

17:45

say that man's a radio performer. That man has

17:47

performed on radio before. Yeah. I've heard that

17:49

voice in my home. He

17:55

Was with a group of people

17:57

like friends, business partners, Andrew. The

18:00

Iraqi Adam Slutsky Douglas we

18:02

tend that and Robert could

18:05

Kaizen trusted them. Stay started.

18:07

Movie Phone In. Nineteen Eighty

18:09

Nine Nineteen Eighty Nine? Yes

18:12

sir. That's. Why

18:14

I thought that this was for shirt

18:16

like aol era sort of. While I

18:18

see did purchase right movies on a

18:21

one point is it when national on

18:23

nineteen ninety and then spread throughout the

18:25

country. It started in New York and

18:28

Los Angeles and Ninety Ninety and then

18:30

spread. I'm a. Bit foggy on so

18:32

maybe you can we say like what

18:35

this service actually provided? Yeah, called Moviefone

18:37

Why? you didn't want to give you.

18:39

Well I mean first of all, pre

18:42

internet. Ah so if you wanted movie

18:44

times where the had to have a

18:46

newspaper or you had to physically go

18:48

to the movie theater right? Because nobody

18:50

was like answering the phone at a

18:52

movie theater prepared to run you through

18:54

everything by you know, And so this

18:57

was like l a toll free phone

18:59

line around the country most often Seven,

19:01

seven seven film as. I. Guess

19:03

for that would provide the

19:05

title, the showtime, the theater

19:08

and ah. The. Street

19:10

direction. That's. My guest

19:12

post tell. You specifically how to get. Ah

19:15

much. But. Movie so terribly different. Seater

19:17

to theater so know it. Enter your zip

19:20

codes. Oh okay, And then it would give you

19:22

like a list of theaters nearby that he would select the

19:24

theater and then we'll give you listed as. You

19:26

know, movies? Okay, you know right?

19:28

users can keep. Pressing.

19:31

A button to get through the

19:33

sequence to get to what you

19:35

want is a good thing about

19:37

being the youngest child. enough family

19:39

is that I never was eaten

19:41

consulted our that was planned for

19:43

you All of this was planned

19:45

for me, I never was like

19:47

hey guys I've got a film.

19:50

I. Want to see Fitness

19:52

Instance: Ah, yes, they have this

19:54

idea of, like, "well, let's make a call

19:56

in line that people can go to to

19:58

get information because showing up" The movie

20:00

theater just hoping to find a

20:02

film with not something that people

20:04

consistently wanted to do. Rice: Ah

20:06

enemy it's good. They did honestly

20:08

because the number of people that

20:10

get a newspaper now I could

20:12

like count on one hand like

20:14

that I know. ah In the

20:16

supposedly the this kind of started

20:18

a lot of. New

20:20

or phenomenon like

20:23

ah, Pain. With

20:25

your credit card and reserving your

20:27

seating like as they got more

20:29

advance thing I would take information

20:32

over the phone and you could

20:34

actually reserve your ticket. Yeah through

20:36

moviefone. Ah Yes! so so Russell,

20:38

other men, ah, him and his

20:41

friends have all took turns trying

20:43

to do their their voiceover work.

20:45

Ah and Ruff was the one

20:47

who had the best voice of

20:50

the group. Does she already tried? Ninety

20:52

Two Years? Ah Dick Clark on

20:54

drugs and of like I. Like

20:57

a goofy radio voice Dislike? you

20:59

know distinct Yes it's ah and

21:01

so I guess in Oregon income

21:03

they would one provide demographic information

21:05

to studios. So I guess like

21:07

people from this zip code are

21:09

interested in these kind of well

21:12

for saying ah and then they

21:14

would also on our member this

21:16

later they would start running ads

21:18

for movies so you would like

21:20

call. it would be like this

21:22

fall. And you would hear like

21:24

a trailer again. So I. Do

21:26

remember that I do remember hearing a trailer over the

21:29

phone which was it's. Bizarre.

21:31

Experience. So. Ah,

21:33

in the early nineties

21:35

if you wanted to

21:37

buy a ticket. It

21:39

would happen via fax machine or

21:42

saw the movies on would receive

21:44

your credit card information. They would

21:46

sacks it to the theater. And.

21:48

Then the theater would reserve that

21:50

ticket. great for you needs the

21:53

internet. The Tsunami when Isis call

21:55

a hopeless an answering machine to

21:57

haven't seen my credit card for

21:59

me. The only group did the third

22:01

by local theater the fact that. Myself

22:04

thought ran the box office attendant was supposed

22:06

to physically file each order so that I

22:08

guess when you showed up you would say

22:11

like hi I'm John Stevenson and I bought

22:13

tickets for this and they would go and

22:15

find s and they would pull out the

22:17

ass. Folder and they would look to sign

22:19

your facts just while Athena so. Ah,

22:23

so you mention this American

22:25

online American on. Lines. That's the

22:27

first time I think I've ever heard anyone

22:29

say that I used to work Freya well

22:31

on as ever and would scorn American on.

22:35

This is the topic it's American on

22:37

his is just of his America Yeah

22:39

methods were caught myself ala about movie

22:41

phone for an estimated three hundred and

22:44

eighty eight million and. Sky thought for sure

22:46

you're going to say thousand. Effect

22:48

That and Ninety Ninety Nine? Yeah,

22:51

No three hundred eighty eight million dollars makes you very

22:53

name is of. Set. So much

22:55

money for a phone number by two

22:57

thousand and four. The service was feeling

23:00

about five million calls a week. I

23:02

and how they got it together and

23:04

it's it. was definitely Tds. Ah I'm

23:07

Russ Spent days and weeks and months

23:09

and a small recording booth recording every

23:11

theater in the country and every. Possible

23:14

telephone scenario. Can't fucking imagine

23:16

that so much recorded chi.

23:18

Now then as city started getting recorded within a

23:20

few years, he would just spend two or

23:22

three hours a week. you know, just focusing on

23:24

the new movie. Titles. Right. But he'd already

23:27

said like all the times in the theaters but still

23:29

some and us like cut all that shit to get

23:31

like that's an hour in our ages amount of odd.

23:33

I now work, I now. Louis.

23:36

Own also featured in a Seinfeld

23:38

episode which was very popular. Ah!

23:40

That's why you did the voices:

23:42

Guinea Bissau, Macys, Although he was,

23:44

it was not Jerry Seinfeld. that is

23:46

the movie phone and person. Okay, I

23:49

just whenever I'm doing a male distinct

23:51

voice, I'd send a. Ghost Irish offers

23:53

her for don't know what I

23:55

remember when when movie phone kind

23:57

of gus folded into Aol Instant

23:59

Messenger. I knew there was like

24:01

a chat bot or know that he

24:03

said. Send. A message to and

24:06

it would like brit respond with movie times

24:08

and stuff like. Movies and so as

24:10

a movie fun as a website does

24:12

still exists that I'm if you go

24:15

they do have show times but they

24:17

also have like trailers and and they

24:19

have correspondence said interview actors you know

24:21

it it looks like any other like

24:23

kind is fandango sort of sight yeah

24:26

ah which to mention movies phone for

24:28

a long time did have to contract

24:30

with an external. Credit. Card

24:33

partner just to get all

24:35

that to work brom And

24:37

so there were when ended

24:39

up happening. Ah, the phone

24:41

number got shut down in

24:43

Twenty fourteen. ah I'm and

24:45

then and twenty eighteen really

24:47

Phone was sold to another

24:50

company. For five hundred dollars. Ah,

24:52

the actually the company behind the

24:54

movie pass. Subscription service hey.

24:57

Ah, and then and twenty twenty, it

24:59

was sold again. Ah to

25:01

born in Cleveland L L

25:03

C which continues. To. Operate the

25:05

website that's adorable. Yeah, like

25:07

that. Ah, interesting The

25:10

enough Andrew direct t that the

25:12

one I mentioned as one of

25:14

the founders. he he directed the

25:16

Two thousand and Three documentary capturing

25:18

the Friedman's and H B O

25:20

the Jinx Stocky series. Whoa. Ah,

25:22

and apparently Adam Slutsky, one of

25:24

the other partners eyes Ceo I

25:27

recognize that May as Ceo of

25:29

Mineo Mocha. As

25:31

far as I know, russell other

25:33

men. Ah, not. Not quite

25:36

as notable. Not so very happy

25:38

to talk about his beginnings. In

25:40

Billie Phone. Ah, I have

25:42

this kind of. For me, this is kind of like time and

25:44

temperature or yeah, you know, it was like it was an allergy.

25:46

To explain that of services the sorry

25:48

he will is simply will. Again,

25:51

before the internet. Ah, you had

25:53

television news that was only on

25:55

certain times a day. I'm you

25:58

had newspapers. And then if you wanted. Any

26:00

current information you had a phone number that you

26:02

would call to get that current information. And

26:05

so it was like a number I knew I could call.

26:08

Ah and not get in trouble with my

26:10

parents right arm and just kind of get

26:12

some some up to date information. About

26:14

the time and temperature it's at

26:16

every. Size

26:19

I. Am so. In.

26:21

My head. About

26:23

not. Sounding. Like

26:26

specifically on this show her talk

26:28

about stuff some new world. It's

26:30

not sounding like Will Back and

26:32

my Dad else but it is

26:34

fundamentally buck wild how every step

26:36

of the process of I want

26:38

to see a movie. What?

26:41

What? Movies are out? What? So times

26:43

are there You know? Where is the

26:46

theater? Can I reserve my

26:48

seats in advance? Like all of that,

26:51

Is is completely didn't like. The way

26:53

that I make that whole process go

26:55

is completely different and as weight that

26:57

like don't get me wrong it's way

26:59

it takes so much as that I

27:01

can do all that stuff and the

27:03

span of like nine be seconds now

27:05

without having to talk to a an

27:07

answering machine. Ah, and it's just

27:09

that you can be nimble with your plans that

27:11

was. It was always hard for me as a

27:14

teen. Yeah was that. You would have to follow

27:16

this track to get a specific bit of information

27:18

and if you wanted to change last minute, you

27:20

would start over again. Whether it was like directions

27:22

or movie theaters or movie times or the movie

27:24

sake of anything changed, you had to call that

27:27

number. And. Start button and I have more. Apple

27:29

Pie can remember multiple instances. Ah once when

27:31

I was I going to movie with friends

27:33

and a couple times when I was I

27:35

going with my family where we would show

27:38

up to the theater to find out that

27:40

we had we had the wrong time be

27:42

no movie today and has access that could

27:44

happen and I remember Justin went on a

27:46

date, Woods and the whole family went on

27:49

and I forget what the movie was that

27:51

we're gonna go see. but we showed up

27:53

to the theater and we got the time

27:55

wrong and so we decided to see. i'm

27:58

a movie that what had I

28:00

didn't quite start it yet, which

28:02

was Mortal Kombat Annihilation. And so

28:04

just, I accompanied, our family

28:06

accompanied Justin on a date to see

28:08

Mortal Kombat Annihilation. Wow. That's

28:12

a fun story. Yeah,

28:16

cool. Yeah, thank

28:18

you, Moviefone. Yeah, I

28:21

mean, if it is true, I mean, it's

28:23

possible they are making claims that they can't

28:25

back up, but if it is true that

28:27

they really started the whole like buying tickets

28:30

with your credit card and reserving your tickets

28:32

in advance, like that is a phenomenon that

28:34

is still like very important today. Yeah. It's

28:36

wild to me because I really just thought they were like

28:38

a helpful phone line for movie times, but clearly, that's more.

28:42

I worked at a movie theater in 2006, I wanna say, and

28:47

I feel like that technology was still incredibly

28:49

nascent. Like when someone showed up to the

28:52

movies, they're like, I bought my ticket online.

28:54

Be like, well, fuck, let me get my

28:56

manager because I don't know. Can

28:59

you show me a picture of the email? Well, when

29:01

I would call as a kid too, like

29:03

I didn't have a credit card, I was just calling to

29:05

get the time. So there was still the uncertainty of getting

29:07

to the theater and whether or not there would actually still

29:10

be tickets available when I used to do it. And so

29:12

yeah, you would, you would try and call the theater and

29:14

be like, oh, there's still tickets

29:16

for slackers. And they

29:18

would be like, they probably wouldn't answer

29:20

the phone, honestly, is what they would be like. If

29:23

I, when I was a kid, the

29:25

shit like the Movie Pass had

29:27

existed, I would have never, I don't think I

29:29

ever would have left the theater. We had that

29:31

at Blockbuster. Blockbuster had a membership program where

29:36

you could check out two things a week as

29:39

part of this membership, whether it was movies or

29:41

video games or whatever. And I used the shit

29:43

out of that. The idea

29:45

that that could exist for films back

29:49

before we had kids and stopped

29:51

going to movies, is incredibly enticing.

29:53

Anyway, thank you so much for

29:55

listening to our program. What

29:58

are the folks at home saying? Well I'll tell

30:00

you exactly cause I do have some of those

30:02

right now. And thank you so much for reminding

30:04

me! am I got one here from Doc who

30:07

says my small wonder is going to an appointment

30:09

you're stressed about and it going better than you

30:11

expected. I recently went to the dentist for the

30:13

first time in five years and thought they would

30:15

tell me my mouth was a horrible void, but

30:17

it turned out totally fine and everyone was very

30:19

kind of up my long absence. Plus I got

30:21

clean teeth at the and yeah I love that.

30:24

Yes, I'm one of those people. It takes

30:26

me forever to schedule something and then when

30:28

I finally do and it's over and like,

30:30

wow, that was a lie. Lazier than I

30:32

expected as the nature of procrastination I think

30:34

in general as they have rarely is it

30:36

actually as bad as you think it is.

30:39

I did once have a dentist that would

30:41

give me an extremely hard time for any

30:43

missed appointments or as a senator. A sense

30:45

Obama mom we got now is pretty fucking

30:47

kill about it which I do really prefer.

30:49

Yeah yes ah Holland says my small wonder

30:52

is people who really like dinosaurs no matter

30:54

their age. I have never been bored talking

30:56

to someone who knows a lot about dinosaurs.

30:58

It's so fun getting be here New facts

31:00

about those crazy creatures. Yeah.

31:03

I feel like everybody has a dinosaur phases a

31:05

kid and it's just whether or not you maintain

31:07

their enthusiasm. Oh dogs. especially like growing

31:10

up again to return to the

31:12

Arab moviefone in the the Age

31:14

of Jurassic Park coming out lotta

31:16

people got a real indigenous hours

31:18

real fast trail of who otherwise

31:20

probably would not have been in

31:22

there. So. Well done

31:24

Michael Creighton for all yours good stuff that

31:26

he did and how we always and the

31:28

shell thank you Michael cry thank you might

31:30

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