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Nitro and AP are coming to you from the beautiful Scotchwood Diner in Scotch Plains, NJ this week to talk about the musical travesty Wonka, the Norwegian horror/comedy There's Something in the Barn, Jerry Seinfeld's 90 minute "what's the deal with Pop Tarts" joke and more!
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There's Something in the Barn
Streaming on Netflix
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Bodkin
Streaming on Netflix
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Wonka
Streaming on Max
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Unfrosted
Streaming on Netflix
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Hey, Chris, where do sharks go on summer vacation? Where? Finland. Well well well well, well. But. do I look in the camera. Do I look in the camera. Just look in the camera. It's what you're watching. Time. Hey hey hey out there in TV land. it's what you're watching. Welcome to what you're watching. Presented by geeky A go Go, the show where we dive into what's currently on our screens. Big screens or little screen size matter. Not here. Just the quality or lack of our cuz. I'm Chris my Jerome and joining me today on the Live on location in Scotch Plains, new Jersey, beautiful Scotch Plains, new Jersey. Scotch wood diner is Anthony. Well, hi, Chris. Hi, everyone. Hello, sir. It's, it's I think this is the first time we've actually done a recorded episode on, camera in a live. Yeah, yeah, I was. Yeah, this is fun. Yeah, this is cool. I do, we like our angles. It's kind of hard to tell. The screen's. To look like crap no matter what I. Do, too. My my, my moves are on pro display right now. I've been working on them. I need to do some more push ups. I've, I've accepted my my dad bod. I've just kind of given up. I have zero sex appeal. Oh, that's not true. You're still married? Well, that is true. She hasn't left me yet. But it'll happen. It'll happen soon. She's going to be like, nope, I'm done. If you went too far. I'm leaving you for. Yeah, exactly like the 25 year old version of yourself. She'd never do that. You wouldn't do that. Would you want. To do that? I don't know if she watches this. Speaking of video, did you. Did you like the, the intro? Yes, I did, you said, we were going to do. You did something fancy, and I listened to the podcast, and I was like, what's he talking about? There's nothing. It's just it's it's the podcast. There's nothing crazy about it. I was like, maybe he did something. The video. Then I went to watch the video and I was like, oh. Did yeah. Okay, good. Definitely. Definitely nice. Like I recommend that. Oh, good. Okay. you know, I feel like I've achieved a great, like, I've climbed a great mountain when I've impressed you. So it's. Yeah. So, so I was very. I'm very happy to hear that. You like that. Check out our last episode of, geeky a go. Go where? We did a, interview. Another interview? We did a, we talked about our favorite geeky travel tips, and I'm experimenting with intros, and, and Chris here really liked it. So Chris has a week before, eventful, started with work and then just turned into this fiasco that I had to travel down to, Leesburg, Virginia for work. and it was, it was, surprise that we had to do a short notice, but we tried to make a bunch of people's schedules line up, and we did it, and, came back last night. yeah. I mean, we did what we had to do and moved on, and now we're just waiting on the results, and we'll see what happens from there. I just googled, what is Leesburg, Virginia, known for? Because I feel like I've heard of it, but I'm not fully aware of it. Apparently, it's home to the world famous Stephen Udvar-Hazy air and Space Museum. Did you get a chance to. I did not. That's. That's very close to Dulles airport. which I'm assuming is in Dulles, Virginia. Yeah. I could be wrong. but yes. No, I, I oh, knowing that I was that close to that location to not being able to go down there, I was like, oh, geez. Gotcha. yeah. It was just work, work where I had to get there super fast. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you. Oh my God, is that like Kraft? Kraft cheese. That's amazing. I can hear the, the plastic being. I can't remember the last time I had Kraft. I don't know, I can't either ever. Ever since I got married, my wife was like, nope, land O'Lakes. There's not. That local. Deli cut. Linda. Oh, hey, fancy cheeses at the Nitro household. my favorite is is Munster. So. Munster, I don't think you could buy Munster prepackaged or, like, you know, individually wrapped Munster. Slices. Yeah. When we were in Spain, dairy, got, this cheese and I can't remember what it's called. But I like the hamburger. But it's like a known cheese. It wasn't like. What is that, Manchego? Maybe I'm just naming it. Just needs just name Spanish cheese. Monterey Jack, which is an American cheese. But this I so and this is going to be so great, especially especially as we're about to start eating. But you know, when you when an animal dies in your backyard and you can smell like the rotting. No, you've never experienced this. Okay. Well, we we have unfortunately, we had a deer die in our backyard, and it was the most vile smell I've ever smelled. Oh, wow. This cheese smelt and tasted like the smell. Oh, yeah. But apparently it it was like the cheese too. Yeah. I'm like, I'm not into the stinky cheeses I like. I like my basic. Is it? I didn't know there's. A well. I didn't know the Spaniards are ironic. Like the French. This is what we tell obituaries so we don't have to eat it. We have a surplus of this cheese that we do not like. It is going on special. oh. Are we going to be canceled? Last. Last week we were. I was, insulting, the Italian. Yeah. But I think accent. I think the French take pride in that. They do. You know what is wrong. With. My new neighbor who moved in across the street? She's from Montreal and she is in Montreal. Is very French speaking. It's on that side of the the Canada and, Yeah, she has a very thick, French accent. Cool. Yes. Exciting. Very exciting. Yes. We're bringing some culture to to my avenue, so that's great. New Jersey is the armpit of culture, okay? The armpit. Of culture. In. New Jersey gets a bad. Rap. Of course. We can probably do a whole episode on. Well, there's nothing geeky about giving new Jersey a bad rap. We could do. we could do a new Jersey episode and all the great films and television shows. Oh, absolutely. Talent that have come from new Jersey. Yeah, so we do that. So make sure you subscribe to the channel so you can hear us talk about all those great things. cool. Yeah. Did you have anything going on special? Like I wasn't traveling this week, which was nice. I got to go up to the office and, you know, see my my, my day job office, which is always which is always a treat, because I travel so much. But now it was it was a relatively low key week. Productive. I have some tree work going on at the house right now, but the city is, we had some dead trees on the the city side of our property, and so they're taking care of that right now. So it looks like a construction war zone over there. The whole streets blocked off. you know. I hate when they do that. They just, you know, I understand the safety of it, but, like, you just needed to block a little bit of it, and they block the entire street. They want cop cars on both ends. They come off, there's a guy with a flag, and. Oh, yeah, and everyone's like, what's going on down there? What? What major, travesty has happened on this avenue? so. No. Yeah, just trying to, like, catch up with all the things I haven't been able to catch up on. yeah, but it's been pretty low key. Cool. The kids are winding down. I think I talked about this last time. Dory is at the beach today because her school was closed. Berkeley High at Berkeley is, just today. So, that. And Monday and Tuesday. Wow. That's a long weekend. Well. We came back. Nobody's. Yeah, yeah. We're closed. Our school district is closed Monday and Tuesday, so. Okay. Yeah. Oh, cool. So, Anthony, diving into the show and what you're watching. Oh okay. What you watching. So I have a whole long list. But we're going to we're going to keep it to our two today even though we're down a guy. so the first thing that's on my list is Wonka They say the very best chocolate comes from the gallery. Gourmet. We should go on. When you're older, come with me. Good luck. And you'll be. Here we go, mama. Every good thing in our world started with a dream of you. When you do share chocolate with my imagination, I'll be right there beside you. Wonka. Rated PG only in theaters December 15th. 2020 threes. holiday. musical. Even though it's not a holiday music, I feel like December is when like, the musicals come out, like The Greatest Showman or La La Land. Feel good, feel good. Yeah. so I'm late to the Wonka party. I, I am a fan of the original Wonka or, Charlie and Chocolate Factory. Not couldn't hands down. Cannot touch that film. No, you can't. And it's a classic classic film. When we talked in December of 23 when you and the fam went to go see it. I ask you the question, is it is it like a musical musical? And and you said, well, do you think that the original is a musical? I said, no, he's like, it's that kind of it's like that kind of musical. We're going to go back to the footage, and I'm going to find that conversation. Dude, this is a musical. It is like a it is a upper. It's like an operetta. Like there is so much music in this movie. Like it's so much original. Had the same. No, it did not. Yes, it did it. There was, there was sequence in there. There were a couple musical sequences, but like this. So okay, let's, let's pull up the soundtrack. so Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, chocolate Factory soundtrack, 1971. Wow, that was 1971. I'm sorry. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was the Johnny Depp movie, and, I actually only saw that once. I don't remember it being. It's spectacular. It's it? Yeah, you have to. I'm pretty sure was a Tim Burton film. It was a Tim Burton. But you have to. You have to have like, like the weird. Like really like the weird at this Tim Burton. All right, so there's 24 tracks on the Wonka soundtrack. There's 16 on the the, Willy Wonka soundtrack from 71. But when you think of the. But this is also inclusive of, orchestration, you know, an instrumental music. So like the background. So it's not so it's. It's not like lyrical for. Yeah, the score and soundtrack. So this is, this is all encompassing. All encompassing. Yeah. Now the songs from 71, you have the candy man. You have pure imagination. Say I want it now I've got a golden ticket and one, two, three, four Loompa Loompa songs. So that's, that was eight, eight out of 16. So 50% of that soundtrack is lyrical. I couldn't tell you how many of the 24 Wonka soundtrack, things were were lyrical, but, I feel like it was a lot like. I felt like it was a lot. Anyway, so there's that. I felt like the 71 Willy Wonka. There was a sense of you didn't know where it took place, like there was no there was no geographic geography to it. some would probably say it was maybe Great Britain because a lot of people had English accents, but Charlie Bucket didn't have an English accent. so so I think they did that purposefully to keep it kind of like it's wherever your imagination wants us to be. But there was a reality to it. I feel like everything in Wonka and what would have been an interesting play, and I'll get to that in a second. I feel like everything in Wonka was fantasy. There was no grounding in reality. No, no argument there. Yeah, but a lot of it was special effects and this and. Not totally, totally. But like, there was no I had no feeling that I was in a place that I could actually go compared to Wonka, Willy Wonka in 71. I think that's a limitation in technology like they may have. What did you mean. And that weird, you know non reality based. But you know what. What could you do. It's literally just acting and sets. Yeah. that's fair. I mean if you extrapolated so you say 7106 years later we get Star Wars and they literally it to make things. Oh yeah. To create that environment. it says that Roald Dahl was one of the writers, according to IMDb, Paul King, I'm not familiar with his work. He's the director of the film. Paul King, also did. He was a director on Space Force. Interesting director of Paddington two and Paddington one. Oh, he was a director on The Mighty Boosh. Have you ever seen that? No. That's, ridiculous. BBC, sketch comedy type of show. Okay, so he, he has some big kid, you know, directorial background. Tim. Okay. the brand new cherry flavor of Hollywood. although he's been around for a while. Look, he is very talented, very believable as Wonka. This showed his diversity, I think, I think he was great in it. Yeah. Yeah, I think he was wonderful. He captured that childlike wonder of of Wonka. He was not imitating, Gene Wilder. Gene Wilder at all. He created its own thing. I thought you did a great job. And I think, more importantly, just to Hollywood in general, he continues to show his versatility as an actor. You know, from Dune, I mean, like, you know, poetry and dude, to Willy Wonka and Wonka to I forget the character's name and, skin and Bones or whatever that movie was called. which was really good movie. And he's just a very, very talented actor. and I wish him nothing but the best, but the just the film in general. I it was too campy to Kitty. if I, if I hadn't seen the original Wonka. Willy Wonka, I mean, maybe I'm coming into it with some preconceived notions. but I just felt it was too far of a stretch of of reality for me, or a too much of a suspension of disbelief, like the cop, you know, who kept on taking bribes of chocolate. Like, first of all, like, no, not real. And I know this is also a kid's movie, but no, that's not a thing. And like he it blows up, you know? I mean, you you think about it, right? If you read any though, bro. Dope. Yeah, I read I actually directed, theatrical production of Willy Wonka. Okay. a long time ago. There are, there are many. Like super fantastical. Things. Sure. And real topics. You know, the glass elevator and the Wonka version. Matilda basically being a witch, you know. Or a good witch, I don't know. They were called. The witches right. James and the Giant Peach is all right I. Believe so, yeah. BFG so it's just outrageously imaginative things. Sure. Right. And to your point, the original Wonka, I don't think had the ability to capture that at the time. And it's fair, right. Or maybe just the budget might be a budgetary constraint. You know it could have been like a thing where like oh well you know we're not going to drop all our money in this production. And then all of a sudden the people are just like, I'd rather just read the book and use my own imagination. Yeah. Whereas nowadays people can recreate that imagination. yeah, I mean, I see I see what you're saying. But, you know, and it's so I'm looking at now the, Oh, so before I, before I read that. So one thing that I thought would have been an interesting way to reground it in the reality that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory set up for us is if, like, we find out that all of this is in Wonka's imagination. And I know that's kind of a trope that's been used plenty of times. what's that TV series? Cinnamon Toast Fire maybe? Or where ends up there? Like all in a, Lost? No. Well, lost. Yes. Definitely lost. But what's the one where it ends up being, this little kid's, snow globe and, like, the entire series, was, like, just this kid's imagination, and he's looking at the snow globe. I feel like it was a hospital or something. Anyway, like, they've used that trope before to, like, you know, pretty much throw away the entire film and say, look, this is actually not it, right? But I but I thought it would have been an interesting kind of twist to be like, oh, this is all in Wonka's imagination. And and it and that feeds the the Wonka factory that he creates, you know, and like his, his childlike imagination and how he sees the world in solemn and bright colors, and just in pure magic is what drove him to be a candy man, you know? And the candy maker. I thought that could have been an interesting twist, but it's a kid's movie, and it's clearly a kid's movie. You couldn't do that without. Without really insulting the intelligence of children. so the, the critics consensus. So on, Rotten Tomatoes, it has an 82% fresh, on the Tomatometer and a 91% audience score. The critics consensus, is with Paul King at the helm and some solid new songs, the warmly old fashioned Wonka puts a suitable sweet spin on the classic character while still leaving some room for the source material's darker undertones. Okay, I guess audiences, as long as you go in ready to take it on its own terms, Wonka is a funny, heartwarming musical that dreams up a new origin story for a classic character, and that's where I'm not taking it off on its own terms. I'm rapping it into the universe, and that's where it's kind of throwing things out for me. So, in terms of disco balls, I'm going to give it, only because Scrub Scrub got stuck in my head for like a week and a half. I'm going to give it a three, three out of five. Yeah, yeah, three out of five. When you take it out of the universe, it's a fine kid's film. a few memorable, yet elementary musical numbers. But it is colorful, it's imaginative. And I think it does spark, an imaginative curiosity. yeah. So three, three. Disco. Cool. Yeah. Did you ever give disco balls to, to Wonka when you first saw it? I don't remember. What we're doing. I think we were. I don't remember, Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did. I'm going to go back to the tape. Okay. All right. So, Chris, what are you watching? I'm gonna watch the, I don't know why I watch this, but I did. It was put it on my queue. it it it is. I don't even know how to explain it like, it's it's a holiday film. kind of only because of the setting, I think. no, it's during the holidays as well. so the film is called. There's something in the bar. Welcome to Norway. I can't believe we inherited this place. Middle of nowhere. There's something in the barn. What do you mean, something? Oh, hey, that's a barn. So what on earth did you do to make this on that? We broke all the rules. Oh, nothing bad ever happened. Okay. it, it when you first look at the stills or the trailers or whatever, it looks like a horror film, but it's like a super campy horror film. Right. so the tagline on on IMDb, which doesn't do it justice at all, is, is an American family fulfills their dream of wanting to be back, after inheriting a remote cabin in the mountains of Norway. I don't understand what that means. Moving back to where, like, these are Americans that move to Norway. me someone messed up when they did their copy. Good job. IMDb. Yeah. so in essence, what it is, is, and why I decided to watch it is because of Martin Starr. Right? One star is hilarious. And anything that he's in, I don't know if he's really a comedian or he's just a comedic actor. But whatever he shows up in them I'm like, this is this is going to be funny. Whatever he's doing is going to be funny. So he's great. and the premise of the movie is, this man inherits property in Norway from his great uncle or something to that effect, and takes his family and moves them to Norway to like the for a fresh start. And you could tell he kind of has a young wife, but I don't know if that was purposeful or the woman just looks young. but he has older children. Older, meaning north of, you know, eight or something like that. I don't remember exactly how the ages were. but one is definitely a teenager. And come to find out that his wife, he was a widower. Right. So his children are kind of like or his at least his older child, a daughter just kind of coming to terms of like having a stepmom and being in a new country in a way from her friends. It's X, Y and Z. But the younger son ends up seeing this thing in a barn. They have this huge barn doesn't, that ends up being like, I think they call it a, barn gnome. Someone else, I don't remember exact term. Okay. but it's a little, you know, little person. Barn dwarf. like, who was magical. It's a magical creature. And they start getting into the, like, Norse mythology, or superstition of like, look at what they means. If you have one, you know, how do you get rid of one this and that, everything. And they do all the wrong things. Okay. Because only the little boy can see this, that there's no, no. and, and he keeps saying, like, we have to do this and we have to do this, and there's like a expert in town who has, like a no museum, which is literally just like a big diorama of, like, little houses, a life sized diorama of, like, little houses that gnomes would live in. he said. And it's kitschy, and it takes place during the holidays, and there's snow everywhere. They try to set up Christmas lights and, like one of the rules that the guy tells him is like, just don't have bright lights everywhere. And his family literally decked out like, I do what? They just put all the lights and this is there anything in the sun is like mortified. He's like, what are you doing? Like, this is the exact opposite. Do not piss off. And they're like, what are you talking about? Like you're using, you're being imaginative. Go away. But then it turns like they piss him off so much that he starts attacking them. Oh, wow. In like, a funny way. It was like. A horror movie. Like a horror movie. And really? Yeah, there's blood and people die and I'm like, oh, so. Okay. so yeah. So it's just. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, it's stereotypical. It's, you know, these things are going to happen, right? Shock. yeah. It's not gory. Yeah. You know, although there might be a little bit of gory deaths, but you don't really see the gore, is what I'm saying. Okay. but yeah, it wouldn't. How's everything? Very, very good. Thank you so much. so they just go back and forth and. Some of their. The sheriff shows up and the sheriff dies, and, you know, they're just like, no help, honestly. And they have to save themselves, basically. And. They end up in the forest and they escape the dwarves. And then at some point, they blow up the barn. well, of course, yeah. I mean. And then it's like, oh, okay, we're going to have a truce. Oh my God. Yeah. So it. Yeah, the movie ends. Thank God. It's one of those that you can't wait for it to end. Okay. Got it. Now, where can you stream this? This is on. Netflix and on Netflix. Okay. It was, I mean, whatever we want to watch. I know you like holiday. Holiday horror films, I sure do. you. It may be underwhelming for you because I know how much you like them, but you, I think you also like, don't care. I mean, it's definitely worth a watch for Martin Starr at a minimum. Now have you looked at the tomatoes course. I have not. All right brace yourself. 80% on the tomato meter okay. 53% audience score. Okay. There's no consensus from from either. but Kevin Maher from the times UK says little people horrors have worked before. Don't look now, orphan. But this is toothless. Okay. All right. Matthew, are from an audience review. Terrible acting, terrible story, terrible effects. It is. Trying to. It's trying too hard. two not spelled correctly to be a cult classic when it fails to entertain an idea of satire or comedy. The writing is bad, and there isn't even gory. Okay. It's a Christmas vacation meets dot dot dot. He gave it a 5.5 star. Oh. I think Martin Star deserves more than that. Yeah, not much more than that. No. I mean, final verdict for me. I'll give it two disco balls. It is a holiday film. It is a horror film. It's not super. Anything in particular? Yeah. I kind of agree with that. You know, National Lampoon's thing, but it's not. I feel like National Lampoon's film is kind of like a journey type of film. This is definitely not other than the fact that they move from America to Norway. I'm sure. yeah. I mean, I know you, you put it on the list at some point. Oh, yeah. And, Yeah. Yeah, I heard about it. It was. It's a short film. So there's nothing to gain from watching this. but, yeah, that's a two disco ball for me. Wow. Two disco balls. Okay, cool. I'll get, then kicking it back to you. What else have you been watching? I watched this on an airplane, and I was sitting in a middle seat because it was a last minute booking, but fortunately, it was an aisle up the, exit row seat. So at least I was able to move around. And I think I annoyed my seatmate so much because of, like, chuckling and laughing. for the two hour flight from LA or, Diego to, to Denver. but this is, frosted, on Netflix, Romeo will go on on minus three, two, one. Left off. Left off. I believe we have split the atom of breakfast. In the early 1960s, the American morning was defined by milk and cereal. And the two undisputed giants of the cereal world were Kellogg's and Post major news from the breakfast world. The post cereal company was reportedly invented a shelf stable of fruit pastry breakfast product? No. Yeah. Boy. It's host. They did it. I'm about to finally cross that big red K that never stops glaring at me. How do you think post posted it. There's always a surprise inside the box. Just say you say anthem, gum said. The Kellogg's is entering the race to. Reinvent breakfast with the help of Steve Schwinn, Jim Boyardee and Jack. LaLanne. They're stopping the deck with ringers. You know, I say you learn from Quaker, you Kellogg's people. We're about to have some very powerful people very upset. You have to win. Are you making any progress? It's not. To scale, but. What do you guys. Five years old, little John. John drives better than that. And I think there's something wrong with a rebel. Rebel? Nobody said this was going to be easy. We're talking about happy childhoods for millions of American kids. Hot tramp I love. The important thing is the name. My goes. What? No. Hit him up. An arm ups. No sale. I. Nibbler. Is this a joke? You dress. Whoever gets to the shelves first is going to win this thing. Give up the car alarm. Why? How did it get this far? It's breakfast. Things happen. Isn't this the cereal company? Why did my husband explode? starring Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy. Jeff, Jim Gaffigan and, Amy Schumer. This movie is just you're not going to get smarter from watching this movie, but you sure are going to have a good time. it is about the rivalry between Kellogg and Post in the kind of the space race of, creating a toaster, you know, breakfast treat. Yep. And, it is just it's it's almost in the vein of, like, naked gun. Like that level of goofiness. Well, I don't think I've ever seen Jerry Seinfeld in a movie before. like, I've seen him on. Obviously, Seinfeld. Like, I don't think I've ever actually seen him acting before. Although my a friend of mine corrected me and said, Oh he's the voice in The Bug's Life or bees, bees life or something like that. it was just a treat. I laughed pretty much nonstop. Like I said, you're not going to get smarter from watching this. although you might, you might leave wanting to eat Pop-Tarts. which I did. I immediately went and bought a box of, the, the brown sugar Pop tarts, the best pop. Tarts. But, you know, this was this was a hoot. It's, So is it does this have any basis in reality? I don't think so. I really don't think so. And. And what's really sad is that Rotten Tomatoes has a 43% on the Tomatometer and a 51% audience score. That which is just makes me so sad because it is a it is a yes. And maybe you just, you know, maybe it's like me watching Wonka and just taking it too seriously, inspecting something else. Like, I had zero expectation of this. I knew it was new, and so I wanted to watch that so we could, you know, talk about it on the podcast or write a review for the website. I had no background on it, and I also knew that it was Jerry Seinfeld's directorial debut. Oh, good. that was it. And I was so happy. I knew. I highly recommend it. Is it five disco balls? No. I'll give you four disco balls. It's not. It's not a perfect movie. But you can't go in. You can't take it seriously. It's. It's a goofy slapstick type of show. it's streaming on Netflix right now. and frosted critics consensus this is sad. Much like a preservative packed toaster pastry, and frosted is sweet and colorful, yet it's ultimately an empty experience that may leave the consumer feeling pangs of regret. Well, think about that next time you have a pop tart. I disagree. I, I had a grand old time watching this show. Okay. Yeah. the performances were outstanding. I mean, you can't go wrong when you have the likes of Gaffigan, Melissa McCarthy, Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer. Like every standup comedian that's in Hollywood right now was in this movie. And they crushed it. They crushed it. They even think Jon Hamm makes an appearance. But but again, you can't take this movie seriously. And I feel like that's what the critics consensus is is, is doing, yeah. So it. Really. I remember the, the run up to the er, the release date of this. I have not watched it, but I remember, you know, turning Netflix on, on my TV and the first thing that would come up was on frosted coming in one week. And then there was a looming countdown sometimes like, oh yeah, in two days I'm processing Jerry. And I'm like, Holy cow, what? Like, this is supposed to be really good. Netflix is pushing it. Or at least they dropped a lot of money and they want to get it back you know. you know I mean that must be like. But I was, I didn't watch any trailers. I didn't know what it was about. All I saw was Jerry Seinfeld's face on it. Yeah. And I never watched the show. And I shouldn't say I never actively sought out to watch the show. Seinfeld. I would just see, like, the stand up skits that he does at the beginning of the show. Most episodes. Jerry. And some of them are very annoying to me. And I'm like, this guy's just complaining. And that's. His. Yeah, that's. He's an acquired taste. That's how he does comedy, right? because many comedians complain it's funny. Like just for him, just too much on the whiny side of complaining. So I had no interest in watching it. However, then as you got closer to, they started showing like I, I see the movie poster and they show the other actors in the cast, you know, like, oh, this is like an ensemble cast. Maybe I should give it a watch. so it is. I'm like, you have not watched it. But yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to it. I mean, if you're going to film for films with ensemble cast of comedians to you're, you're going to laugh at some point. 100%. so, yeah, I guess I look forward to watching it. This is a good like end of the day. You need to just turn your brain off. Type of film. This is this is I highly recommend this. Where they give it for four decibels. I maintain my four disco ball status. Cool on this one. So awesome. Did we do our two? Oh, yeah. One more. You have one more. What's what's your what's your second round? So this this was a little confusing to me. Okay. it kept getting recommended to me on Netflix. and I just, I reluctantly added it. I was like, let me just add like he was coming up with like, oh you may like and I'm like, okay, let me just add oh yeah. And the show is called Bodkin. Yeah. Hi. There you are. Bridget Pierce. You're the podcasters? Yes, yes, we are. Okay. You. I'm a journalist. I'm still consulting on a true crime podcast in the. And you know what? I've always thought that Ireland was the most beautiful country in the world. All I see is just the feels and feelings of. 21 years ago, three people disappeared. On the Irish night of the dead. Sound so cool. My sunglasses. Oh. It never even had a serial killer in Ireland. We're naturally good people. There's an island of nuns teaching yoga. It just keeps getting better. We need to find the real Vulcan. How things happen here. Just like everywhere else. I hear you're interested in the lads that went missing. I know what happened to them. They were attacked by horses. You should never trust a horse. Who are you lads? Marshal? Interested in the past? Our lives aren't fodder for your entertainment. The three of you poking around and everything will lead to no good. We are being threatened. It means there's a story here. This is extremely good news. This is my podcast. I make the rules. You do? Whatever happened that night is still important to show me. Thank you. I came to Botkin expecting a simple cold case. What if the cold case? Isn't cold? How do you see me now? I feel like a bit of a party. Well, yes. Yeah, sure. Say, I'm. Which I'm pretty sure is the name of, I don't know if it's the real name of a real town. in Ireland. but that's the name of the show. yes. so the the tagline on IMDb is a group of podcasters, which it got my attention after the first. Night for. Obvious reasons. a group of podcasters set out to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three strangers in an idyllic Irish town. But when they start to pull the strings, they find a story much bigger and stranger than they could have imagined. so, Yeah. A lot of people we know who did us love murder mysteries and whatnot. So, yeah. It's it is basically a podcast told in a episodic TV show form. Yeah. Dramatized. Right. So none of this is real? Yeah. Did it happen? As far as I know. I didn't do my research. but they set up the universe. Yeah. It's American. Yeah. With his, production assistant. Go to Ireland and they they, start investigating this. Just asking questions around town, and then they get looped in with with a reporter from England. I think it was, who happens to be Irish, as well. Yeah. who gets who gets thrown into the mix? reluctantly. and she's like a serious reporter. who's like, you know, unraveled. I should say like exposés on like corruption and crime and so like a really serious reporter, this guy's a British podcaster. That's like, I'm trying to find the next nice thing. So the dynamic is weird at the beginning with, like. Other people, like. She she's very like, cut the crap. Let's get to the point of this. And he's like very idyllic and wants to, be nice to people and see the good side and everybody and give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Sure. That's how it comes across Will Forte. great. It does great in the show, I think. Yeah. he's the biggest name that I know. but all the acting is fantastic. it's like the Irish are natural actors, right? I'm sure they're all professionals, but they just seem that way, like the whole town, everything, like the ambiance and everything contributed to the show. So it's like. the thing I couldn't get past. No. and, and now googling it, actually googling it. It's like Netflix messed up. Is that when you look up or the age rating is when you click on the show or whatever it says. Comedy. It is not a comedy. If anything it's a dark comedy at best. But, but there's almost nothing comedic happening. Oh really. other than like they're put in very weird situations. Yeah. strange things happen. Sure. but it's not like yuk it up comedy. Yeah. Right. It's like, oh, that's. It's funny that that happened to China. That happened. Oh it's funny that they're in that situation. But nothing like interesting. so the the what. I googled it just now trying to get the stuff. it's billed as a, I forget what it's billed as. Like when I close my browser I think I close my browser. I did. Sorry. Go ahead. how's that for a thriller? Right. A, cheeky, thrilling and dark. Right. So, Netflix, I don't know what you did there, but fix it. It's not a comedy anymore. When you put put thriller there. The little caption at the top there. yeah. I don't want to spoil it for everybody. I haven't finished it, but I'm like 30 minutes in, which is kind of like the wrap up. You know, you find out what happens and then, like, sort of like an epilog in the last, like 30 minutes of, like, oh, this is how everyone goes their way and whatever this may be. That's what I foresee happening. Maybe something there's a twist that happens at the very end too. But I think, like, everything has been settled in this point as well. I liked it. It was it was. Quite the opposite. It was definitely quirky. It is definitely a thriller. It is not by any stretch of the means, a comedy, maybe a dark comedy at best, but not a comedy. but yeah, I, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to describe it better. I mean, if even if you're. Yeah. It's a short series. Seven episodes. Oh that's good. Yeah. So you can be in and out and. Yeah, I'm going to give it. Are you guys. Let's see. Yeah. I'll give it. I'll give it for disco balls. Oh, okay. All right, miss, miss categorization aside, you get before disco balls. 72% average Tomatometer. 64% audience score. Like, on, obviously Rotten Tomatoes. They don't have a critics consensus or anything like that, which is too bad. Yeah, I'll give this a watch. it's it's a my Q I haven't really cracked it open just yet. But. Awesome, man. All right. Do you want to, do you want to take us home? sure. All right, folks. do you want more goo goo goo goo. Well, make sure you're following us on all the socials that you can go and share with us what you're watching. This one. Cool stuff. Want to connect with us on a higher level? Like on our discord channel? Head on over to Patreon.com. Com slash geek. Go. Go and support the show. You'll get awesome swag and other perks if you haven't done so already. Make sure you're following the show on your favorite podcast platform and leave us audio. Thanks so much for listening. Peace out everybody. Bye. Bye bye. Bye bye. That's Eric.
