Summary
➡ The text discusses a TV show that the speaker grew up watching, comparing it to other shows like South Park and Doug. The speaker also mentions the show’s transition into a movie format, noting the changes in animation quality and format. They express mixed feelings about the show and its movie, appreciating some aspects while criticizing others, such as the progression of the characters through grades and the naming of the sequels. The speaker also mentions having to download the entire series to watch the movie, which they plan to delete afterwards.
➡ The speaker is an English teacher who works privately, not bound by curriculum or test scores. They also work on a comic project about Stanley Kubrick and moon landing conspiracy theories, which can be found at nasacomic.com. They also participate in podcasting, discussing various movies and series. The text ends with a rap verse, expressing the speaker’s thoughts and feelings.
➡ The text discusses a podcast where the hosts critique a movie, “Never Ending Story 3”, and a Disney movie. They discuss the quality of the scripts, the characters, and the plot. They also mention a conspiracy theory about a weather array in Alaska, comparing it to a laser in the Disney movie. The hosts also share personal anecdotes and opinions throughout the discussion.
➡ The speaker discusses a Star Trek Voyager episode, comparing its elements to a movie they watched. They also talk about their experiences with summer camps and how it’s portrayed in media. They delve into the origins of the song “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt,” and share personal anecdotes about their unique last name and experiences with names in general.
➡ The text discusses various songs that seem to go on forever, like “John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith” and “Michael Finnegan”. It also talks about the use of popular music in movies, specifically Disney animations, and how this is not a common occurrence. The text also touches on the concept of conspiracy theories being a normal part of life, as depicted in some TV shows. Lastly, it discusses the Japanese school year and how it differs from other countries, with shorter holidays and students often participating in clubs and activities during their breaks.
➡ The text discusses the impracticality of summer breaks, as it puts pressure on parents who don’t get the same time off. It also talks about the importance of outdoor activities and recess for students, and the idea of having classes outside. The text further explores the nostalgia and attachment students feel towards their school, even if they dislike it, as seen in a movie where students and teachers unite to protect their school from an external threat.
➡ The text discusses the mixed feelings people have towards their school experiences. It highlights how, despite disliking certain aspects of school, many still feel a sense of loyalty and protectiveness towards it. The text also explores the different school experiences in Japan and the U.S., noting how the stress of studying can impact social relationships. Lastly, it emphasizes the importance of the school environment, suggesting that a more open and outdoor setting can improve the overall school experience.
➡ The text discusses the impact of remote learning during the pandemic on students’ social skills. The author expresses concern that students who have been learning remotely have missed out on important social interactions, which could lead to difficulties in social adaptation. The author also discusses the cultural differences in mask-wearing in Japan, noting that it is more of a social expectation than a health precaution. Finally, the author mentions the economic impact of inflation in Japan and the United States.
➡ The speaker discusses the impact of inflation, comparing the value of money from the past to the present. They mention how a $20 bill from the 1950s would be worth around $260 today. They also talk about the rising costs of goods, like a Big Mac meal in the US costing $15, and how dollar stores are now selling items for $1.25 or more. The speaker also mentions how the cost of living in Japan is cheaper, making it beneficial for Americans to visit. They end by discussing various actors and movies.
➡ The text discusses the author’s experiences with various movies and video games, including the works of directors PT Anderson and Wes Anderson, and games like Pokemon Go and EverQuest. The author also mentions a business proposal about buying Pokemon cards in Japan and selling them in the U.S. due to the exchange rate. The text ends with the author’s thoughts on a movie and their personal school experiences.
Transcript
It’s where we bounce a red rubber ball on the heads of every Disney movie and take them out for recess. That’s where you put a red rubber ball in the back of their head. Two red rubber balls in the back of the head. That’ll. That’ll give you a hell of a headache. Now I’m just imagining like a JFK assassination, but like recess version where he just gets pegged in the back of the head. That could happen here. Hey, what if in the movie, today’s movie, recess schools out, they replaced the king of recess right at the middle or Reed crown.
Right. That could have happened. They could have had like a ritual assassination. Three ritual. Yeah, that they can have the killing of the king. And now we get the new guy who had a new letter. I don’t remember what it was, but it was because the first guy was K Kevin or something. The new guy was like a different letter, which I forgot. That did happen. They did replace the king at the beginning. Yeah. As as for me, I’d have an m on my crown. Cause I’m Matt. What, you want to put Pa on your crown? Yeah, I mean, are we talking Burger King Crown or are we talking like a real crown? Burger King Crown.
Of course, that couldn’t have been anything more than a Burger King King crown in the movie, right? I miss them. I miss the Burger King crowns. I just, I think they have them near you. I think the city walk, Orlando. They have the burger creation studio. I believe you can get Burger King crowns there as I saw people having lunch there just a few months ago, all wearing Burger King crowns. Wait, what is a burger creation studio? It’s basically just a Burger King that has bucks for a Burger King burger. Correct. But they will give you the crown.
So that that’s a plus up there. There is a whole nother get too much of an attention right off the bat. There’s like a whole drama going on right now with one of the businesses that’s in the downtown Disney, it’s got this high end cookie company called Gideon’s, and I guess they sell, like, $12 cookies. It’s one. Yeah, it’s one of those places that, you know, if you’ve got $20 and you just want to burn it as fast as possible, you can just go get a cookie. See, I mentioned, I think I recently went to Disneysea, and the food, there’s none of it was, like, unreasonably priced.
I did buy a $15 martini Manhattan. Excuse me. No, actually, you know, what? With the exchange rate, it’s a $10 Manhattan, but, you know, it’s ¥1500. But then you’re sitting in, like, this really nice wood paneled room. It’s, you know, it’s. It’s cool. So that’s on the. The teddy Roosevelt lounge. If anyone’s in Disneysea and you don’t have kids with you in the middle of the afternoon, pop in there and have a drink. That’s. That’s my advice. I I heard someone make this claim this week, and I wasn’t sure it didn’t sound accurate, but I guess you might be a little bit of an insight that in Japan, when a man and a woman both order the same meal and pay the same price, that the woman will get served a smaller portion.
That sometimes happens. I’ve never done that, so I haven’t seen that in real action. I feel like we get served the same portions. It’s like, I went out with my wife and Luke, who I often podcast, and his lady, and Luke and I, of course, got the big piles of meat. Mine a small pile of meat, and he had the massive, insane pile of meat. Both of the ladies got the little pasta dish or whatever. We’re getting completely different stuff, so it’s hard to say. But I feel like what you’re saying has probably happened. Like, that is true.
In some cases, lunch menus will sometimes have ladies set, which maybe it’s, like, slightly smaller. I don’t know. Would you say lunch menus have a ladies section, ladies set? It’ll be like, you know, regular set children’s meal. Like the man’s meal, the woman’s meal, and the kids meal. Yeah, but sometimes you want to order the lady setting. When you’re a dude, you’re like, actually, that’s what I want. You know? So you’re just like, whatever. I’m a dumb form. I can’t read. Maybe they think I can’t read the katakana. So you know, is it a. If you were japanese, would it be a faux pas to order the females set? I don’t know.
They love, you know, I mean, boys love. Comics are very popular in Japan manga, so they don’t care. That’s the thing. Women’s rights aren’t the best in Japan, but they don’t seem to have it up their rear about gender too much. It’s kind of weird. Like, in culture terms, they don’t. In legal terms, they have big problems. Let’s put it that way. Culturally, gender is not so bad. But, yeah, as far as the law goes in Japan, it could be nasty. Pay rates and stuff are still wildly divergent. Now, what about recess? What’s the recess policy in Japan? Oh, they definitely have it.
My lunch break is usually around 2230, so I often end up walking near a. A elementary school day. They haven’t given me a stay 50 meters away yet, but, yeah, it’s like, sometimes it’s at like, different times of day. Sometimes I’m walking by and it’s. Nothing’s happened. Sometimes everyone’s running around screaming. So they have that. They have sports day, so I’m sure they make little kingdoms out. They have a giant schoolyard. So one thing in this movie, right from the beginning, I’m like, there’s like 300 kids having recess. And then next to a school that’s maybe going to successfully house 50 kids, I’m like, oh, is that.
Is that actually a weird statement on the american school system, that it’s overcrowded? You know, like, realistically, that school would have, like, eight trailers behind it, you know? And also, I remember growing up, once I got into, well, a bigger city, not a big city, but the lunches and the recess were usually staggered, so there would be like, lunch a, b and c, and recess a, b, and c. And you might not have lunch with all your friends, depending on which one you got assigned to for that exact reason that the cafeteria was only big enough to fit so many kids? Jeff.
Yeah, one. One problem with, just from my personal experience is that from grade four on, I went to, like, the smart kids school. And I. I feel like we didn’t actually have a recess, partly because they’re just what, how the school was made. You had to go, like, I mean, we didn’t have a playground or anything, so I don’t remember what we did. So first to third grade. Yeah, we had straight up recess, and I don’t remember crap, to be honest, except climbing a few things. And the one puerto rican kid, every time he won a game, would just start screaming, we beat.
We beat for like 20 minutes after. So I always remember, I mean, so I am pro recess, for the record, if we’re going to pick, everybody is. That’s kind of the joke you can see of this movie. It’s like, why would James Wood’s character, like, be that anti, what was his name? Not, not Finster’s the lunch lady. Oh, you put me on the spot now. I don’t even know if I wrote, oh, I could, you know, I could say, click on this, this wiki page. That would help me out. Yeah. So spoiler alert. The whole premise of this movie, Doctor Philiam Benedict.
There we go. Sorry, Phillian Benedict. And the general premise is that James Wood, Doctor Philian Benedict, has invented some sort of weather manipulation device that’s going to change the orbit of the moon. And in doing so, he’s going to make sure that recess doesn’t exist because he’s going to get rid of, or, no, he’s going to get rid of summer. That’s what he’s going to do. He’s going to get rid of summer and summer vacation by proxy because summer vacation is the ultimate recess from school. It’s like the macro recess, and he wants to take away recess on like every level.
So this is his way of doing, it’s a weird, convoluted aspect that since the movie is based on a tv show called recess, that the ultimate arch villain would be trying to cancel recess on some global scale. But there you go. That’s, that’s the general premise. I love how it’s like using an elephant gun for that problem, too, because that causes so many, like, the world’s food supply is now screwed. You know, there’s so many, you’ve just killed 50% of the existing species in the world in one, one blow. So I do, I thought that was funny.
I mean, that’s kind of baked in that this plan is actually, like, going to be like, basically apocalyptic, too. And he seems to be like a pacifist supervillain because he tells them early on, like, don’t kill anyone, just knock them out. Like, he doesn’t like violence. Although there’s definitely some close calls where people could have died. Right. Right. There are ninjas and ninja stars. Yeah. I think I mentioned I before when this first came up, like, I didn’t know what this was at all. So I. The tv show, I never even heard of the tv show.
So I remember growing up with this one, I was on the tail end of it. So I wasn’t necessarily the target audience for this anymore. I think I was probably 16 ish. But I do remember seeing it every once in a while and thinking that it wasn’t for me. It wasn’t horrible, though. It was a serviceable cartoon. See, that would, that was like me and Doug, right? I was already like 1415 when Doug came out. And just to be the edge lord today and then keep in mind here, when we did Doug, I couldn’t find the actual movie.
I watched some Disney episodes on YouTube where they like showed it on a skew tv. So it wasn’t like a great watching experience. For recess, I had the absolute reverse where to get the movie. I had to download everything ever, which I will not be watching. I’ll be deleting that. So that’s another caveat. I will be deleting. I’m not going to sit here and start watching recess. But I did have a better time watching this because I was sitting here watching Blu ray quality la la la, you know, all that sort of thing. That’s a hard one for me.
But I haven’t seen the Nickelodeon Doug show throwing that out there. Have not properly watched that. But just from my little skims here, I did have a more pleasurable time here. Um, I think it helps that the kids are a little younger for me that I guess it gives it that south park vibe. Um, I like, for me, I I like, you know, weird social systems and city planning and, you know, staring at maps and this had a little more that it had kind of a mission impossible vibe to it, which I like. I mean, I got obviously I do submission impossible here and there as the box of the entire tv shows here.
So that was appealing to me. Now, if I did sit down, watch all of Nickelodeon’s Doug, and then actually watch like a series of recess, maybe I’d like Doug better. So I don’t know. I’m just talking about the little flitterings of experience I’ve had in the past couple months. But where did you land? I’m sure you didn’t like this better, but I am curious how this rated for you. Oh, it wasn’t bad. I mean, it was the nice length. It was like an hour and ten minutes or so. Hour and 15 minutes. So that’s kind of the sweet spot still.
And it had like a decent inside jokes for adults and for kids. It wasn’t like completely juvenile. It’s also, it kind of sits in this weird field of like, it doesn’t feel like an actual Disney movie. So I would put it in the same bucket as you mentioned, the Doug movie, maybe even like the Goofy movie. Even though Goofy is Disney, it still had, like, this standalone vibe. Like it wasn’t meant to be a theatrical, epic Disney animated, you know, release. It was kind of a tv show formatted as a movie. And it had the vibe.
Yeah. I will say, along with Duggan, I might even leave the goofy movie out of this. A goofy movie. But I was definitely like, there’s nothing impressive about this animation. It’s fine. I’m not knocking it. It’s great for tv. But if you’re putting this on a movie screen, animation wise, it’s kind of like, who cares? This was definitely a step up from the normal tv show. Maybe not in terms of animation quality and effects and stuff, but absolutely the background, like, even when it opens up and it’s got like a military base, just the amount of shading that are on the guys and the level of detail that they show.
Not. Not to mention that I don’t remember if widescreen was like, the format, because when I saw this just recently, like, it has a nice widescreen format and all the background map paintings are like, widescreen, which gives it that cinematic look, which definitely is not in the tv show that I remember because tv show, I’m pretty sure at this point, was still formatted for four. Three. Well, since I have the entire tv show right here, let’s check an episode from their final. From. Is that season three to six? Let’s see three. They all say three. Here we go.
I’m playing what seems to be not the last one. Okay. I’m playing a late, late episode. It is in full frame. So this, the tv show is entirely in full frame. Just out of curiosity, did you hear a school bell or not? I did not. Okay. Just curious what comes through on the mic. So if I play video, that doesn’t happen. Good to know. But yeah, it looks like the entire show was full frame. There were movies after this, not theatrical, but. So there’s six seasons, which is about 68 episodes, which is every episode had two stories.
There’s basically 120 stories movies after this Christmas miracle on Third street. That should have been the third movie. Recess all growed down. Recess four is taking the fifth grade, which they should have waited one more movie for. So they did really badly name their movies. It’s kind of like how now they’re making a fourth bad boys movie, but they already used the title bad boys forever for the third movie. Yeah, dumbasses. Take a second and think, bad boys four two. Bad boys four two. That’s. Yeah, I love, I love pitching sequels to, like, a specific sequel.
Like, over on podcast, the ride there are always pitching a Batman forever two. I’m like, that’s a great idea. It ignores every other Batman. The, the recess story strategy here is a little bit weird because in this movie, which is the first one, I believe. Right. Is just the first theatrical or is it the first recess movie period? Both. It’s the only theatrical. Okay. Okay. So, so this, the recess movie, the premise is that they’ve just graduated fourth grade. We watch them play out the final day of fourth grade, and they’re all like, yeah, you know, we’re going to go off for summer camp, but that means that they don’t actually take the fifth grade for another, like, three movies after that.
Correct. Like, maybe they go backwards a little bit. I don’t know. Or maybe taking the fifth grade is actually, like, later in that year. I’m not going to be finding out because I’m going to be deleting this 14 gigs of recess I have on my computer when this podcast had to get the entire recess torrent. So you could find the movie. Correct. Not on YouTube. If anyone’s, you know, that’s one where you think, oh, that would be on YouTube. But then it’s not because it’s Disney. It’s a. It’s an interesting strategy, too, though, to have them actually progress through the grades, because if you show that they graduate fourth grade and go in the fifth grade, then the assumption is that at some point they’re going to have to graduate fifth grade and go into middle school and so on and so on, unlike almost every other cartoon series, Doug and Simpsons and almost, you know, pretty much everything I can think of, South park did that for a thing.
Now they’re just stuck in the. Are they stuck in the fifth grade or the fourth grade? But I remember it’s like it was season three and they’re like, they’re now in the fourth grade. Right. Which, of course, that didn’t matter at all. But that also might be a reason, like, this movie, like, since I know South park like this does have basically the template of South park without the really dirty jokes and better. Well, okay, better animation, the traditional sense of the word. If you’re into South park animation, that’s cool. And I’m trying to, man, I don’t have the dates in my head, but I’m pretty sure that the same time that I wasn’t watching this show, South park was out and I was watching that.
97 was both. So people, you know, more our age. Of course we’re watching South park. Why would we watch recess? It’s stupid. You know, I mean, even if it’s occasionally got a good line. And there were some really, you know, good lines in here and stuff. One, the movie, the other movie, I had a podcast yesterday. You can watch it on YouTube, though. They will, you know, take out the pop songs. It just goes silent when there’s a pop song. The never ending story three, the script to that just will drive you mad. Like, just the lines are stupid.
It’s got a weird Jack black with the unibrow as the villain, which is kind of fun, actually. But yeah, it’s terrible movie. But. So I’m watching this right after. I’m like, oh, here’s some, you know, well written lines in this movie. That’s nice. Here’s some jokes that at least I’ll give a little chuckle to if I’m not just like laughing like a loon at it or something. I mean, not. Not to sound like an absolute Disney apologist at this point, but I do feel that even if everything else kind of falls flat with a Disney movie under the Disney name, you are going to get.
At least somebody cared about revising the script and making sure that some of the jokes don’t just completely fall flat. I don’t know if that has to apply to these cartoon series versions of Disney movies, but it does seem like it would have to go through at least a modicum of quality checks versus, I don’t know, never ending story three. Yeah, german production. Another. Another funny thing with that, though, was that, I mean, I guess it’s a pretty common trope, but also using the. We’re leaving. So now we’re going to play born to be wild on the soundtrack.
Now in the neverending story three, it’s even worse because, excuse me, it’s the rock creature riding his motor, his bike or something with his kid on it doing born be wild. I kind of liked that part, man. And the rock creatures singing it. Right? And it’s like. I remember that part. I like that part. Yeah, it’s kind of. Excuse me. It’s kind of ridiculous. By the way, if anyone’s wondering, I’m just coming off of a cold. And since is Japan, my wife gave me my lunchtime after lunchtime pills in a my melody pill box. This being Japan, what’s in that with any good stuff? I don’t know.
This stuff. I don’t even know what it is? I’m like a hippie in the late sixties, man. I’m just popping whatever pills you give me. So, yeah, last night, actually, there’s one there. I really legit didn’t know what it was. I think she might have tossed me a sleeping pill. I don’t know. Hopefully it’s not arsenic. Arsenic, old lace, that sort of thing. Speaking of taking random drugs in the sixties, this movie had an interesting backstory plot where they show that the origin of James Wood’s sort of evil character. He originally came up with the rest of the characters.
Doctor fair. What is it? Or Principal Pickley. Pickler. Oh, now that you said it two ways, I have to look at wiki again. Prickly. I think prickly. Principal prickly. That he grew up with this James Wood character, and James Wood was actually going to be the principal originally, and then he wanted to institute this no recess policy. It was funny because everybody is an ultra hippie. They’ve got the partridge color style school bus that drives up. They’re all doing everything’s groovy. Peace signs and stuff. Basically, they’re smoking weed because there’s even a scene where they show the principal’s office and there’s, like, incense burning in the corner and they got, like, black light posters.
And this is the school itself. So I just thought that why they repaint the school? I mean, they just. Yeah, you keep that paint job. What are you doing? Well, because the brutalism movement and, like, just the abstract aspect of, like, the eighties pretty much wiped all that out. But. But that was a kind of a cool backstory of showing that they were hippies, but that this evil principle, he was just using the hippie movement to kind of get into power. And then he has some pretty bulletproof logic, in my opinion, because once he gets in the power and he looks around and he’s like, you know, this is the old way, man.
Like, we got to shake things up. And that would be shaking things up. But although he wants to remove recess in order to shake things up, I never really understood his and extreme motivation for wanting to cancel recess. I know there was, like, a short little explanation, but nothing really felt, you know, was he touched during a recess? Did his, like, was his parents killed by a recess? It kind of had that level of nefarious wanting to, like, get vengeance at recess. James woods gets very obsessive about lots of opinions. He makes the perfect cartoon villain for sure.
Oh, God. Yeah. I just. I don’t know. For whatever reason recently, I just have keep ending up with movies where James Wood is a villain recently. So I, I’ve in, in the past six months without trying, I’ve probably seen like ten movies where James woods is like the villain, so. Well, also, James woods being a villain at a school is also its own little subgenre, if I’m not mistaken. I think the first time that I saw James Wood was in welcome back, Kotter, which is also about school. And it also has James woods in it. So there’s some weird connection between James woods acting creepy and tv shows about school.
Was he a regular on that show I wanted? Well, I mean, he wasn’t a regular because he wasn’t in Cotter’s class. But I think he either taught at the school or. I might just be making things up, though, because I’m also just having a fever dream induced by drugs maybe. Right. I just, I haven’t seen welcome back Cotter since like, 1990. And when I wouldn’t have known who James woods was, I wouldn’t have recognized him. But I did watch. Oh, no. You know what? James woods guest starred in the first episode of season one as a drama teacher.
And I guess maybe he never shows up again. But I’ve seen the one of, I guess one of my guilty pleasures is welcome back, Cotter. So I have seen the pilot episode probably ten or more times, so it feels like he was in a bunch of them. Okay. Well, when I have to make flashcards or drill cards for students sometimes, and I have on more than one occasion when I need to make the teacher card use the picture of Kotter. So. So I got that going for it. One thing just as far as, like, weird conspiratorial stuff that came to mind.
I mean, I could have looked it up. I’m just blanking on the name. The weather array that was in Alaska and is now on boats, I think. And it. Yes, harp. There we go. Because all I could think of was cern. I know it’s not CERN. So, yeah, the high altitude active research project, I don’t, I don’t know the rest of it by heart anymore, but that kind of felt a little bit like what he’s doing in this. I don’t remember where Harp was in 2000, if that was something that, you know, came up on coast to coast a lot at the time, but.
Oh, yeah, no, harp. Harp, I’m pretty sure goes into the man. Eighties. I’m pretty sure eighties. Definitely the project. Yeah. I’m talking about when people would be talking about it. I’m not sure. Well, yeah, there was. There was a documentary and a book called angels don’t play this harp. Right. That’s kind of what I was thinking about. The book is that late nineties, I’m actually looking this up because I have. I’ve actually read it. But 1995, it was published. So the harp conspiracy theories predate this movie being out in 97. Right? 2001. 2001 series was 97.
So I was kind of wondering if that was kind of in the back of their mind. And here, of course, it’s just a weird laser because that’s much cooler than, you know, array of dishes. It could be the same thing, though, because all harp is, is a huge antenna grid where they basically, like each of these satellite dishes slash antenna things. Each antenna has a certain power to it, but they have all the antennas focus on the exact same spot in the ionosphere, one of the many things that harp does. So, technically, if you could consolidate the same concept into this weird laser that they’re creating in the recess movie, you could be doing the same thing.
And although he’s talking about changing the moon’s orbit, and they show early on in this movie that they have a smaller version of the green laser, and they’re using it to levitate a safe up into the air, which is weird, because TJ sees this, the main character, and he immediately is like, oh, they’re doing evil experiments. So just like all you saw was them lifting a safe into the air. I don’t know. It didn’t seem evil to me at the time. But the premise is that he’s trying to move the moon. So I think they’re actually going to zap the moon with this laser and kind of, like, pull it or rearrange it.
So it’s in a different orbit. Yeah, I think they just deflect it for a few seconds, thus changing the orbit. Yeah. My note here is, levitating a safe is not a crime if you can manage it. You know, this is not me actually making, like, a connection, but this is just my own, like, synchronicity experience. Another thing I watched this week was a Star Trek Voyager episode, probably from about the year 2000, in which they find, like, a Borg antenna in space. And that’s an antenna again, but it’s a driving seven of nine insane because it just transmits the board.
But it looked like almost the same as the laser in this movie. Like, the design was, like, really similar. I mean, if, you know, this was kind of boar green and just the shape of it and, like, how it kind of arced around was kind of similar. So that was kind of weird. The episode was infinite regress of Voyager. If anyone’s wondering, Voyager was probably, in retrospect, my favorite out of all the different Star Trek spin offs I like. I always push it out as a little bit. Yeah. I always push out the Beach Boys of Star Trek, where it’s got the best stuff, the absolute best, and it’s got the absolute worst, but often benefits from the fact that it’s also the trippiest Star Trek.
So it is the one I’m watching the most of right now, because some of my Trekkie friends, that’s where their movings are on their podcast. I’m knee deep in Voyager at the moment. I did write down the exact phrases that the characters in this movie say that they’re using. I don’t think any of them are necessarily real, except for the laser, but there’s a plutonium turbine. There’s a global electrode, which kind of looked like one of those things in the Frankenstein movie where it’s just a metal sphere that connects out into the air, and it kind of, you know, makes electrical connections.
There’s the laser and an electron pulse generator. And pulse generator is real. So, technically, an electron pulse generator would be real, but none of those things really imply changing the moon’s orbit. So I don’t know if they’re. If this is revelation of the method where they’re actually telling you how you can change the moon’s orbit, or it might just have been for a tv show plot. Well, I mean, it could be nuclear powered, and you need to cool plutonium using a turbine. Right. So maybe it’s not, like the plutonium turbine was, like, the size of a person.
Yeah, I mean, I’m not a nuclear physicist, but I’m just trying to, like, work with your. They’re actually telling you something here concept, so. But the other one was. The other one. Yeah, that just. That does sound like. Just like children show Sci-Fi gobbledygook. But no, no. Could be something. I’m gonna go out on lemon, say it’s not. It is gobbledygook, and it’s not something. Although maybe it could be. There was another thing. I guess this is a little bit of a trope about movies or tv shows when kids get out for summer, but it’s like, the one kid that wants to hang out, and he’s got all these big plans, and all the other friends are going off to different camps and stuff, and one of them has even said, we don’t identify with the word camp, we do something else here.
But that did ring true to me. I actually remember that being a thing when I was growing up, when you would get summer break and then all your friends, you’re expecting to hang out with them, and then they all go off to weird, like, space camps and stuff instead. And did you go through any of that? Is that a big culture where you’re at, too? Well, I was kind of on both ends of it because there were some summers where. Yeah, I’m an only child, too, so some are. I remember watching a bunch of bizarre PBS shows in the morning in the summer, because there’s nothing much going on.
So there was some summer boredom. I did go to camps. Now, this is in movies and tv, they always suggest that you’re going to go camp for, like, two months, you know, whereas I never went to a camp for more than a week. I taught at a place where kids would come for two weeks. But, you know, two months seems kind of excessive. Expensive and excessive. Yeah, I think. I think I did the one or the two week for one summer, and it was like the we blows, which I don’t. It’s not exactly like a Boy Scout kind of thing.
It was a YMCA version of this where you could, like, weed blows, actually would be a. Would be a Boy Scout thing. It’s a thing between Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts for, like, one year. Okay, well, it was. It was a wee blow thing. Weird fact. I was actually an Eagle Scout. I was. Yeah. I was asked not to come back, apparently. My parents told me later. Okay. When I was an Eagle Scout, though, I remember going for my border review, and by that time, I’d flipped over to the school club version, which was the explorers, where I could wear a cool green shirt, not the dorgy tan shirt, and we go camping with girls.
Right. So when I got my Eagle scout, I went in with, you know, like, late nineties, like, emo long hair and stuff. So that was kind of fun, sitting for the board of review. Everyone else looks like they’re about to go into the military, and I’m sitting there looking like I’m, you know, about to play bass for the clash. There’s. This also is kind of oddly related to Cub Scouts and Weiblos and all this stuff, but in this movie, the song John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt comes up. I hated that song when I was a child, by the way.
I did, too. I hated it so much. And I used this as an opportunity to figure out where the hell it came from. Like, what was what’s the history behind this guy? And it sounds. I’m not sure if I fully got this put together, but it sounds like it started as a song influenced by something called Jan Janssen, which was like a german or like a norwegian song that was talking about how people were getting their names butchered as they would come over to the Americas. Because if your name was Jan Yonsen, but it was spelt like.
It was like Jan Janssen or John Johnson. So the song started as you know, my name is Jan Janssen, I come from Wisconsin, and there’s a whole bunch of other lyrics to go with it. But I think that the joke was, was that it’s. You couldn’t actually pronounce it Janssen because no one in America would have called it Janssen. It would have been Jan Janssen or John Johnson. I come from Wisconsin. So it was like a. Like a very meta, self aware song that your name is now Toby. Your name is now John Johnson. It’s not Jan Yansen anymore.
Well, I had the thing. I mean, look at. Look at the name on the screen here. I had, like, the opposite thing in my family where my name became even more confusing because it’s comma, just right. I mean, no one can even pronounce that weirdly. They can in Japan, it’s all japanese sounds, but in America, you know, people just butcher, which I quit caring. I’ve gotten shouted out on other podcasts like you Mac comic guys or komagi. I mean, that’s fine, whatever, don’t care. But should be the original version be Koenigsey, which is German for Kings Lake.
That makes perfect sense. But no, my name actually. Yeah, my comajiz actually doesn’t mean anything. It’s butchered Koenigse. So they made it make less sense. Koenigse. Koenig. How would you turn that into an anglicized name? Easily Koenigsegg. Koenig, I guess like. Like water Koenig or something. I don’t know. Which I still think is kind of a weird name, honestly. If you want to anglicize it, we’re going to have to scrap it and just come up with a brand new. You’re going to have to be Smith all over again. Well, I went to high school with a guy whose family had come from indian, were just able to choose their name, so he went with the name Matthew Matthews, which.
That’s a baller move, especially when you’re like eleven years old. As far as I know, he’s still rocking that name. In his forties, you know, all power to him. But. And not. Not that this even matters, but I do feel like I need to point out I don’t typically trust somebody that has two first names as a name until I get to know them. Like right off the bat, I just assume that they’re a plant. Although I don’t think Matthews with a plural s at the end. That doesn’t count to me as a first name anymore.
That’s an official last name. Right. So again, baller move for eleven year old. You know, if they gave me that chance, I totally would have been like spike killer or something, you know, that would have been our name that I would have known for us. Right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I’m sure there’s some other terrible names I can come up with. I’ll just spit them out if they come to mind. Yeah. So anyway, when John John’s playing John jingle, I can’t even say it anymore, but I guess that’s one of the song. I was like, oh my God, I’m gonna hate this movie.
The rest is just like, you know, like the most obvious choices from the sixties, which is fine. Dancing in the street. Of course, the ultimate version of that is the video with David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Specifically the last shot where they wiggle their asses together and close up. Have you ever seen that video? It’s been a while. It’s not on the top of my playlist. I do remember vaguely. And if you want to see a really fun one, there’s a version where someone would take the music out and they’d redo the sound effects so they’re all like slightly more absurd.
So there’s no music. Heavy breathing. Yeah, heavy breathing. Bowie jumps, but there’s no music. So I might even more highly recommend the version where they’ve taken the music out. I also think that this is a decent point, is that the John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith, the Jan Jansson and I don’t know if you heard of Michael Finnegan song. These are all kind of known as infinite songs that just go on forever and ever. There’s only a handful of them that really exist out there that are fairly popular. Another one is the lamb chop sing along, the song that never ends.
Yes, it goes on and on, my friend. But have you heard the Michael Finnegan one? Michael Finnegan whiskers on his chin again he’s a captain so the wind blew him in again and then they say poor Michael Finn again, let’s begin again. And it just goes over and over and over. I might have heard that once or twice. Again, doesn’t work in Japan because a penis in Japan. So there’s just something very eerily like Doctor Ewan Cameron’s psychic driving MK ultra to, like, a song that literally never ends. Like, there’s something that breaks the regular mental pattern where it could be a joke.
I remember singing the song that never ends because it was so funny. Like, oh, you could be annoying. And the joke is that you’re never gonna stop being annoying. But also, I can still remember those lyrics because it was just like four lines that you just sang over and over and over again. So I don’t know, there’s something to those. I’ve had my own, like, infinite regress song recently in my mind, and maybe it’s cold meds, but I can’t recall it now. But, yeah, sometimes you end up making your own up and they just kind of play in your head until you drive yourself insane, you know, I would say small world kind of counts.
I don’t. I don’t think it was made to be an infinite. Let’s go into the new arrangement. Right? So it always needs to blend into the next segment seamlessly. So I think it does count because of the technical difficulties of making it happen. Just ended up making it do that. In music terms, this movie stands alone a little bit in that I can’t think of a lot of other Disney movies that we’ve seen so far in our coverage of theatrical animations, where they play, like, another soundtrack and they make references to, like, actual popular music. Almost every.
Even the Doug movie, I think a lot of it was original score stuff. Yeah. Again, it’s. Music’s good, but these are all the most obvious possible choices, which is dancing in the street, born to be wild one. You know, the three dog Knight, Henry Milson song, incense and Peppermint Wipeout, purple haze. Just super. Let the sun shine in segment of the fifth dimension thing. It is funny, I didn’t realize this till after the movie, but Mikey’s operatic voice and green tambourine is Robert Goulet. So I thought that was pretty funny. When Mikey starts singing it, you’re actually hearing Robert Goulet at those points.
And there’s a couple jokes that they squeeze in that are music related. The most obvious one was there was a Pink Floyd where one of the teachers says, you leave them, kid. Like, we don’t need this education. And someone’s like, you leave those kids alone. Oh, yeah, I wrote something. I wrote, we don’t need no education at that point just as a play setter, a little after the musical tenor of this movie. But that’s fine. I mean, I think maybe goes without saying, and maybe people know me that well, but yes, the going back to ridiculous psychedelia was easily my favorite part of the movie.
So there was also a hint in the same way that I mentioned in the Doug movie. But this movie starts with this premise that conspiracies are pretty much like a normal aspect of life, and you just kind of take them for granted, which doesn’t persist too much longer in tv shows. Outside of this, I think this is the tail end, right? Because it’s the early two thousands. And as you venture into the later two thousands, conspiracy theory culture starts to get a little bit more politicized, I think. So this is like one of those last examples of that just being ubiquitous.
Because these are. I mean, these kids are the conspiracy contingent of the recessed little microcosm, right? Because there’s. There’s a power structure, there’s the black market with that one kid that wants to sell things to everyone. So these are the, you know, these guys are doing the mission impossible sort of schemes. That’s the conspiracy spy contingent of this school and the animation style, too. There was a few frames, man, where I had to pause it, and I was like, this is a frame from the Simpsons, or this looks like the critic. And there was another one, life with Louis, which was a cartoon that was on Saturday mornings.
This might have been after you stopped watching, because I think mine too, or. No, the bigger. Yeah, it was Louie Anderson. And the. The cartoon was called life with Louie, I believe. But the way that they drew the characters teeth was almost identical to how they drew the teeth in this movie. And I know that sounds like a very specific detail, but it was like a dead giveaway to me. Well, it’s just like the thing with Atlantis. Wherever I. The artist whose name I really should know. Yeah, I’m just like my. Sorry, my encyclopedia acknowledge of random crap today is like, clouded by cold meds.
But he was like my Mike Magnolia. Mike Magnolia. He’s like, yeah, those hands are perfect. And it’s like, yeah, you taught him how to draw those. So they learned his lesson and he liked the results. So that’s kind of, you know, maybe there’s like a teeth guy, a teeth animator who maybe is like, between both. I guess you wouldn’t have a full teeth animator, but a character animator, sure. Let’s see. I also had a note here that the progression as a kid that at the end of every grade, you get this big break and you come back anew and you’ve got new life experiences and stuff.
It has this very specific feeling of maybe a strained analogy, but this movie is kind of about the moon. Like the moon cycles. So it’s almost like if you care about those moon cycles and you notice, oh, here’s the new moon or whatever, and you actually live your life to that. It probably does feel like there’s more of, like a constant progression. Like you’re constantly going to next levels. But as soon as we get out of school, for me, time just kind of like, starts blending together. You don’t really get, like, a dedicated. Well, you do as a freaking teacher, but in real life, but you don’t.
I was going to throw out the japanese thing. One, I work for a private company, so if school’s out, we’re busier because they’re sending some parents just like, saddle their kids with us for, like, you know, all day. They’re just like, there for two weeks. They’re basically going to camp, right, but they’re running around in our lobbyists to camp. But Japan between school year. School year ends in early March. School year begins in early April. April is considered the beginning of year in Japan. I mean, we celebrate New Year’s on January 1, but the new year is really April 1, which makes sense.
That’s near the equinox, right? But, yeah, a little less than one month of vacation there. They get maybe a full month of vacation, August only, and then maybe three weeks around. Usually not Christmas. Christmas. Everyone’s working at school, so maybe like two or three weeks around new year, but not including Christmas. Those are the big holidays, so they’re smaller. I think theoretically, the time in school is about the same, except the kids will go do clubs and stuff during their holidays. So I have a lot of students that even during the breaks, they have a shitload of homework and need to go do kendo every other day.
You know, it seems so untenable and, like, impractical now. And I guess my understanding is that summer break was kind of rooted in sending your kids back to the farm so they could help do all the harvest with the parents, and then they could go back to school once the harvest was over. And that was the real reason that they had these big breaks like that. But now it’s almost like part of the culture of school. But the impractical part is that since nobody else gets to go on summer break, you’re just expecting parents and whoever to be able to adapt to no longer having state mandated babysitters.
And I’m getting. I’m speaking from the american point of view here, which always felt so weird. So, like, as a parent, you know, you don’t get three months off for summer to now be paying attention to your kid, but the kid has nothing else to do unless you enroll them into some kind of a camp or whatever. It’s very. It feels very unfair. Yeah. I mean, it depends on the family situation, I guess, too. So here’s a plus or a multi generational household and only having one kid, I guess. But there’s never been a concern because if we can’t handle it, there’s the aunt lives down the street, and the grandparents live in the house.
And. Yeah, so we. And also my daughter was more mature than I am by, like, age five. That also helped. So what do you think, objectively, about taking away recess? I’m the guy who, like I said, I had a cold this week, and on Wednesday especially, I was just kind of stuck in the house and I was going nuts. I at least want to take a walk around the neighborhood. So for me, that’s a recess. Getting outside is important. I think they even mentioned, why don’t we have some classes outside? Which I always think that’s a good idea if it’s not raining or whatever, so.
Well, that was the hippie principle. Before principal prickly becomes who he is, that’s. That’s where he starts out as his baseline. He’s like, let’s get out of, you know, let’s get out of these walls, man. Let’s go outside and learn inside of nature. It’s very. I’m all into that, man. I’m into that, man. I mean, I did environmental education for several years where. Yeah, my classes were outside, man. Among the trees. I remember a couple of classes I had that were outside, or the teacher was just like, we can go and do this outside. And I didn’t know how good I had it at that time, but also, it just felt like he just wants to be able to have an easy day.
He just sends us out of the room, and then you can just do whatever the hell he wants. And you just got kids, like, roaming around the rest of the school campus. No, I remember having an actual english class or history class, something outside where we actually did the class outside. Like, right outside of the classroom, I think, but, yeah. Yeah. So I don’t remember us having getting to roam around, but I do think there is a plus. Just kind of. It’s a nice day. What are we doing in this room? You know, I can’t stand rooms with no moving air.
That I closed my windows for this podcast, and my main concern is it’ll get so stuffy, it’ll start driving me insane. You know, if that happens, I’ll just open this and you’ll hear more birds. So. So I remember going to school both in upstate New York and in southwest Florida, which have completely different climates. And I distinctly remember that in south, once we moved to Florida, we had gym in the mornings usually, and then recess, and I can’t tell. I remember how bad that smell was right after gym was over and everyone’s cramming into the next classroom that’s not Jim.
Or after you have lunch and you go out for recess for, I think it was like 30 minutes, 40 minutes, and then you get into the next class, and it was just non, it just always smelled like stinky, sweaty kids every time. Jeff. Oh, I’m living that right now, just on my Thursday. So yesterday for today, for you, I have a class of second graders, and for the past three weeks, I’m like, one of you kids is like, just like gassing. It’s like, you know, Cyclone B, c, and D with your feet there, you know, I don’t know which kid it is.
I’m guessing it’s one of the boys. But I’m like, I don’t know which one of you kids is gassing me, but somebody is. Some of the ubiquitous conspiracy theory nods here. Is that so? All the kids go off the different camps. TJ is the only one that’s left behind. And as you do, you go and start hanging out outside of your school on summer. I don’t know. I didn’t actually cross the screen. It seems it’s fair, but still. So. But he’s hanging out, and he sees that the gymnasiums, like, filling up with green light and stuff.
So he starts to go and inspect, and then he tells all of his other friends about it. And when they start talking about it, the first things that come up are, oh, they’ve probably got moon rocks and alien eggs, and they finally this crate, they’re gonna open up. And I just remember thinking like, yeah, that’s that ubiquitous feeling of conspiracy theory that just persisted. Like, you didn’t even have to say it was conspiracy theory. If you just found, like, a crate somewhere or a barrel, you’d be like, oh, there’s probably alien eggs inside this thing. Just because I guess I lump aliens in the conspiracy theory, but it just felt like that was the premise of the nineties early two thousands.
Alien. Well, yeah, I guess alien autopsies about this time, that sort of thing. So although I did get a little obsessed with the school across the street, I’m thinking my grandparents lived in Smyrna, Delaware, and their house was, like, caddy cornered from the high school. And one I just fascinated because I’m from Atlanta. So when you’re a kid, it’s like, wow, it’s a school. And the place so far away. I wonder what that’s like. But, you know, you’d walk by it a lot, and I would have. I think I would have noticed some green light coming from their gymnasium during the summer, but I wouldn’t have had my cohorts in Smyrna, Delaware.
So it would have been more of a. Would have been more of a Mel Gibson conspiracy theory sort of thing. And in New York, I did grow up really close to my school. So you would go, I mean, you would walk by, and usually people would sneak in and use the, like, jungle gym and stuff, and later on, people would sneak in and smoke pop back there. But it was basically kind of like a community area for people to just, like, hang whether or not school was in session or not. Again, what do I live nearby where I just keep my eye on? The train station’s really close, and they recently rebuilt the station for worse.
Oops. But, yeah, I was very keen on what was happening there. No conspiracies there. The 711 closed, so we were like, what’s going to happen to that for, like, two years? And now it’s just some crappy storage company. So there is no convenient convenience store anymore in Japan. That’s like a bummer because usually there’s convenience store everywhere, but now that labor shortages are creeping in, they’re actually having to hire people from abroad. A lot of. And also, I think the number of convenience stores that we had actually was untenable, so. But it’s too bad the one next to my house closed.
There is a drugstore nearby, which on the wall, you’ll love this, it says the quote, the quote, real, unquote, drugstore is written in large white letters on the side of the building, which I think is really funny. The real drug story, you know, I think reals and all caps, too. This is another weird thing that I was. I noticed this as an ongoing trope in this and pretty much not just movies, but maybe culture in general, but the affinity that people show to the school that they went to, even if they hate the school. So, for example, TJ and his and his gang here in recess, when they see that the school is kind of being taken over.
And even after they, like, they get inside, they. They confirm it. It’s not just suspicion anymore. They see that they’re using it to create this harp style conspiracy from inside their school. They almost are like, this is our school. Like, we can’t let them get away with this in our school. And it’s like, well, hey, you guys are about to be out of this school. But also the teacher and the principal are sort of the antagonists outside of this movie where now they kind of come together and fight like this ultimate evil, you know what I mean? Like the two sides combined.
But typically, it’s almost like the kids can’t wait to get out of this school. In fact, everyone can’t wait to get out of this school. They’re all cheering and stuff for the school year to be over. And what makes it so that kids that normally don’t like their school, they still feel like, well, yeah, but it’s our school and we have to protect it. I mean, it comes to mind is like Red Dawn Terror squad. There’s a whole bunch of movies in the eighties wherever kids would, like, either take over their school. There was one where, like, the school gets taken hostage and the kids have to take it back even though they kind of hate the principal and stuff.
Do you know what I’m talking about? I was trying to look up the name of this one. I’m pretty sure the Simpsons did it well, but I mean, there was like an eighties movies that. I know you mean something else too. But I’m just like over the edge. Maybe. Toy soldiers. Toy soldiers. 91. Okay, but what, what is hit about that school affinity, which definitely goes into college too. I guess it’s a little bit creepier if you see adults walking around with like, alum, like elementary school alumni shirts or middle school alumni shirts. And even maybe high school, unless you’re your al from married with children where like, his glory days were in high school.
Right? But outside of that, college is kind of acceptable that you’re allowed to hold that affinity towards your school until you’re like an old person. And there’s something normal with that, I guess, but that join the alumni association and contribute money? Well, I guess so, yeah. Like, I honestly didn’t have that bad a time bopping through school. You know, a few math class I hated me and German didn’t get to go together well, but otherwise I didn’t have that bad at school experience. I was pretty good at giving them just enough of what they wanted while off going off and playing in punk bands and stuff.
So I feel like I got the best of both worlds, but I don’t have that much affinity. My friends I still keep in contact these days are people I podcast with, and those are my, my muso friends. Those are the people I played in bands with. I barely keep in contact with my actual high school friends. One is that the point is like the, the affinity towards this state mandated thing that you have to do and be subjected to. The authority. The affinity to school when it’s not college almost seems like Stockholm syndrome in a weird way.
Here’s an interesting one. Always giving the perspective here in Japan, but I think in Japan, it’s really the junior high that people are focus on. Like, people always like, I’m having a reunion party with my junior high class. Like, not high, not high school class. Well, high school, I think they’re. High school is kind of the most difficult school in Japan because everyone is getting ready for the university entrance tests. So actually, once you get to university, it’s like, okay, you passed the test, we’re gonna chill and you can have fun for four years before we throw you into the corporate grinder of Japan Inc.
You know? So university is actually like, chill out time for most japanese, high school is the one that sucks. So you don’t have friends in high school. You’re too busy studying where junior high, you had. You had a little more time for fun, I guess. So that’s what they have, their affinity for. Junior high. That’s interesting, since it’s such a known and accepted part that you’re just stressed out studying the entire time, that you’re not even going to want to have a reunion. Like, the reunion would just be, you stressed out and studying again, right? Correct.
And I guess university, assuming you’re getting blackout drunk and don’t remember it anyway. You don’t remember your friends from university? I don’t know. I’m sure they have. I mean, you. They do have high school unions and university reunions, I guess, as well. But yeah, junior high seems to be the biggie. That’s like, oh, those are my friends for life from junior high. So definitely not the US five, but we go to school with the same people from often from first to 12th grade if you don’t move. So where? For me, at the fourth grade, I went to a completely different school and then basically went to school with same people till I graduated again.
Japan, you take a test for your junior high and go with completely different people. Then you take a test for high school, go with completely different people. So there’s like, you’re going. Usually going to school with very different sets of people. The school. My daughter, she’s in junior high now. And the school she got into, actually, you do continue through high school, but that’s kind of weird in Japan, so. But she didn’t have to take a test this year, so good for her. Yeah, that’s another weird aspect of maybe smaller towns. But where you’re going to be with the same people.
Like your entire, like, from elementary school to middle school to high school. It’s pretty much like the same faces over and over. Although me, I got expelled from high school, and I had to go to another high school. And. And this was a life changing moment for me. Because the second high school that I went to, I loved it. Like, I liked the people there. I liked the teachers. I like the campus. Like, everything about the second high school that I had to go to as a punishment was so much better. I don’t think I ever would have finished out high school.
At the first one that I started at, it was literally like a. It was an indoor prison. And the second one that I went to was kind of like an open floor plan. Wherever I. The whole entire school is outside. You go into a door to the classroom. But the second you leave a classroom door, you’re outside again. There was no such thing as indoor hallways in the entire place. And that was such a crazy difference in mindset. Versus the other one where you never went outside unless you had some sort of a gym class. Or if you went outside to eat during lunch.
But otherwise, you’re inside with fluorescent lightings encapsulated by these, like, the stone walls that you would, like, put your fingers over. They’ll have the little ridges that would, like, bump and stuff as you walked around. And the low ceilings. It was. It was so crazy how different the atmosphere has on the psyche. And I always wondered, would I have liked school better if it wasn’t always inside in these, like, fluorescent jail cells? Oh, I had to get outside. Yeah, my high school was basically. Was that indoor prison? Sounds like a hippie design. Your second high school, man.
But, yeah, from. I think I went to the lunchroom once, decided the smell was awful and just stopped eating lunch. So every lunch, I just. I remember the first year I was hanging out on the very front steps of the school with the goth girls. It was fun. And then the rest of the time, I just, like, go outside, and, you know, it was warm, people would quickly follow me, and when it was cold, it might take a few minutes, and then there’d be, like, three people. I was like, okay, well, if they’re coming to hang out with me in 32 degree weather, I guess they’re my friends, if you all.
I distinctly remember, the only reason people would ever go outside in my first high school was if they were going to sneak into the woods and smoke weed. That was pretty much the only reason anyone ever had to leave the actual school campus. No, we were findable. We were right outside the school. We weren’t hiding. So. But, yeah, I guess even at that age, I was like, I need to get outside, you know? So, yeah, I understand that I couldn’t handle your first ice school, I’m pretty sure. And even mine, I. I mean, again, my school isn’t so bad a good school, but it did have that indoor prison thing, and I did need to, you know, get the hell outside.
So if you can’t tell, I absolutely hated school. I hated every part of it. Oh, I don’t want to redo any of that. I’m just like. I’m like, I could have. I could have had a much worse experience. And my muso friends, again, they went to a much crappier school, which is the one I was supposed to go to originally. So if I had followed in their footsteps, I probably would have a much worse time. Probably a better time socially, though. It was funny. Yeah. When the band, when my band in high school was really kicking it, I think I was in there.
They had, like, two pages in their yearbook dedicated to the band. So I was in, like, this other high schools yearbook more than mine that year. That was kind of funny. I think it was, like, two pictures in my actual schools yearbook and, like, five or six in this other schools yearbook. It’s so. It’s a weird blend because I’m on the fence over if school should be more about knowledge or more about, like, social adaptation, because they both feel incredibly important and, like, you can’t. You can’t skip either of them, right? With the pandemic that happened, we had a lot of people getting just the knowledge part.
Maybe, arguably, they were paying attention and they had the Zoom scream up, but. But absolutely missed out on all of, like, the social interaction for some very important formative years. And I kind of feel bad for any kids that had to go through that and, like, miss two years of interaction. I’ve got a lot of. Because of how much I hate school, but also my family has educators in it. My girlfriend works at a school, so, like, I’m still surrounded by school stuff all the time. So just out of morbid curiosity, I follow, like, the teachers subreddit and other, like, teacher forums just to keep my finger on the pulse of, like, I don’t know why because, like, waiting to see it burn and just, like, feast on all the misery.
But it is absolutely insane with the reports that the kids are, the teachers are talking about these kids that show up their first day of, like, second grade. Had a lot of them not ever having been conditioned in kindergarten and first grade, or if they were in first grade, it was like they were doing a remote thing, and now they’re showing up in second and they just don’t know how to interact with each other. They, like, don’t make eye contact. They like, I don’t know, it feels like we’re starting to breed like, a new form of human, I think, based on just how systematic and, like, how the schools were set up to be, these little factories.
And then it’s like, okay, everyone’s going to work from home at this weird factory and it screws the whole system up. Yeah. Like, see here, I mean, it’s. A lot of japanese are already notoriously socially awkward, right? So it certainly didn’t help for that. But I’m trying to say again, I don’t. Do you even notice? Or is it just like, they’re awkward anyways, so, like, there’s no real difference between the two. No, there is more weirdness. But they didn’t have to necessarily do as much remote schooling. The first, let’s see, in 2020, I think we did two months of zoom lessons.
Yeah. And then we actually were back in the room again. 2021 kids, to pay attention, have to what? Do the kids actually pay attention in the remote classes? Sometimes we had to do it one more month in 2021 when there was, you know, there’s like, wave, whatever they’re making up that time. But, yeah, we did it one more month, and that one was a little trickier. So the 2020 version, maybe they’re shell shocked. So it wasn’t so difficult. 2021, a little worse. But usually the parent was somewhere on the other side. My daughter’s school until the new school year.
So until like, two months ago, every month they’d have at least one day where they would still do remote school, you know, just for practice, which I was like, that’s kind of lame. Japan is still pretty heavily masked up. It’s warm now, so I think it’s now 50 50. How many people are masking around? It’s interesting. I work. I teach at two different schools. The one near my house, I think basically almost nobody there bothers anymore, whereas the other one, it’s still, like. It’s weird that if I’m not, or that I’m not, I should say, well, but Japan was masked up pre pandemic.
Like, they were society. They were a little more common. But before pandemic, I remember there was one private student I had where she would always mask up, and a pre pandemic joke I made is, I’ve been teaching this girl for two years, and I have no idea what she looks like. So at the time, that was still very strange. Like, if you’re sick, yeah, you throw one on, but it is way more heavy now. And Japan changes very slowly. So people are like, oh, it’s chanto now. So, you know, it’s not even like they’re worried about it or anything.
Oh, I look weird, and my neighbors will judge me if I don’t. You know, my wife does that, so I think my daughter does that. Like, sometimes we’re getting in the car, they’re putting masks. I’m like, what are you doing? We’re in the car. But, yeah, my wife’s hypersensitive to that, and my daughter is in the junior high school, which kind of, I guess, condition. It’s the smart kids school. The smart kids still mask up, I guess, is the. The vibe they’re promoting there. So is the science in on that? Because it almost feels like anytime they’ve done an actual study, it shows that the masks are sometimes cause more problems than they’re intended to solve.
No, I. Well, yeah, so I told you I was sick this week, and the only place I will wear a mask now is basically clinics and stuff, because they have a sign saying to do it, and it’s a clinic, so. Okay. And I just, like, this thing is making me more sick. You know, I was, like, just, like, gasping for air and stuff, because, you know, I’m in the waiting room, they don’t have the air on. The windows are closed. I’m like, oh, God, this is torture. You know? So I didn’t like that. But I think it’s really just in Japan, I don’t think the science matters.
It’s purely a social thing at this point. It’s like, I mean, I’d make an argument that that’s pretty much how it’s always been. Unless you’re literally working with fiberglass or spring paint or mixing, like, dangerous chemicals and resin, and you’re wearing the mask that was rated for that. It almost feels like every other use of it is more of a social. Like a. You know, you’re wearing your flair. I don’t even think that would be a controversial stance to take in Japan. I think many Japanese would be like, yeah, I’m wearing it because this is what we’re doing, and I do what the.
You know, I. You know, unity. Because the east asian thing is not so much like individuality. It’s like working within the group. So if the group is doing this, I need to keep doing it. For me, I did. When the japanese government said, please do it. Okay, I’ll do it. I bought cloth ones because I could actually breathe through this as soon as they’re like, okay, you can stop. And at first, like, 5% of people stopped. I was in that 5%. Now that it’s kind of warm and, you know, it’s about 50 50, so. Which is still kind of weird, you know.
You know, what Japan needs is an Aleister Crowley. They need a japanese Aleister Crowley, and everyone can be their own star, and then they can start going, well, yeah, or like, a japanese rasputin. Although I don’t know was. Rasputin didn’t seem like he was much towards individualism because he still kind of served the. You know, the czars. My point, I guess, is they need someone to actually enter change the government in that way, which crowley, I guess he went and been an agent for the government, but I don’t feel like he was actually changing higher ups where Rasputin was.
Right. That was my thought also. I just want to talk about Rasputin because they tried to kill him eight times. So that’s always fun. But, yeah, I mean, Japan’s got the LDP, the liberal democratic party, which is, like, one of the most conservative parties in the universe, just fiscally things like that. So the current thing in Japan is the companies are now making gangbusters because the yen is weak, where everyone else is eating doo doo from the day to day, unless they want to pay us more, which is not happening a little bit, but not that much.
But, yeah, inflation in Japan has just been insane. Like, everything that cost whatever last year is now 30% more. I guess that’s the case in the states, too, to a certain degree. Yeah, it’s. It’s been getting worse and worse in the States. I actually was doing research the other day on Stanley Kubrick. Cause I’ve been writing a little comic I’ve got, I’ll do. I guess I’ll just throw a plug in here now. Cause we’re sort of the tail end. But I’ve been working on this comic called never a straight answer, nasacomic.com. but one of the premises that we’re trying to make in it is that he was a master chess player as a kid.
And I think into his early twenties, he would go to Washington park in New York City and hustle people for their money. And he actually had some notes that I’ll paraphrase, but it was like, why would I go to work and get some job paying x dollar an hour when I could just go and play chess for 12 hours and make $20 a day? And I was like, $20 isn’t selling that much. So how. So take a guess at how much in 1950, which is when this took place. When. When Anthony Kubrick or Anthony, when Stanley Kubrick was playing chess, 1950 made a dollar 20 bill.
What would that be today? In 2024 in the states, I’ll vote a tenfold, making it $200. It was $260 for that $20 bill. And the original inflation, year to year, back then, it was, like, 3% or something. But obviously, we’ve gone through much bigger jumps lately. But, yeah, that’s. It’s just absolutely insane to see how much of that jump is, like, materialize. Now. I’m mostly focused on Big Mac economics these days. After someone told me a Big Mac meal and the states cost $15, I was like, what the hell? Yeah. Well, yeah. Especially if you’re going to do, like, a delivery and you get all the regular.
I remember distinctly in middle school, high school, that McDonald’s had these 29 cent burger days, and I think it might have been, like, 39 cent cheeseburger. And my family would go to McDonald’s, and my dad would buy, like, 20 of them for $5 or whatever it was, and just freeze them and just pop a freaking burger out of the freezer, put it in the microwave for 10 seconds, and you basically had a meal for, like, over a week, probably years. I mean, they keep forever. Yeah. Well, the other end to my burger economics is, I think a Big Mac meal in Japan currently cost ¥700.
And if you were to use an american credit card for that, it would come out as about $4.50. So I was like, that’s insane. That’s very cheap. Yeah. So maybe 15 is on the high end. But I was like, okay. That’s where I started to understand. Oh, okay. So if Americans visit Japan right now. It’s like, it’s like how Japanese would visit America in the eighties and just be insanely rich. If you visit Japan now, your money will go an insanely long way. I told my parents visited last year, I said, come again this year. Make some bang for your buck while the economy is eating garbage.
And who knows what’s going to happen after the election with the economies worldwide. I don’t care who ends up being the next president. I think things are going to take him a major swerve in one direction. The other thing, too, that the pandemic and inflation and stuff, really, it changed out from under me. I actually saw it happen for the first time in my life, saw the dramatic changes, but the rollout of all of the new shrinkflations across the board. And I don’t know if you have this, too, but the dollar stores in the States, they’re all now the dollar 25 store or the dollar 50 store.
There’s really no, I don’t think there’s any actual dollar stores left. They’ve all, and it gets to the point where you actually go in the stores and all the logos and all of the imagery and everything in the entire store has now been updated to $1.25. And when you see that kind of thing happen, you’re like, I don’t think they’re going to be going back down to a dollar. I don’t think they’re going to take the money to undo all the new graphic updates. There was something really conspiratorial and paranoid feeling about how originally, in 2020 or so, all of the price jumps were temporary inflation.
It was just to deal with some of the shortages and some of the supply chain logistics and the prices were going to go back down to some normal state. But the second you start seeing entire companies rebrand everything to accommodate these new price scales, it’s just like, oh, man, like we, like that got locked in. Like, that was a, that was a checkpoint, and you’re not going beyond that checkpoint. It’s never going to be less than $1.25 at a dollar store now. Yeah, Japan’s a little different, where the hundred yen stores, there is still a lot of stuff that is still ¥100, but there’s a lot of stuff that’s just straight up 200, 300, ¥500 now as well.
So you can still get stuff for 100, but a lot of stuff you cannot. So there was another store I saw, what is it called? Three p. And yeah, that was all ¥300. So that was a ¥300 store. I guess the one thing I did make out on because recently the yen was at the all time low. So I used that moment to buy a base six, which ended up costing $300, which is a really good deal. Using my american credit card in japanese Amazon currency exchange base six. Yay. How does that work? Because don’t you get paid in yen? But I have money in an american bank account, which I use.
That’s where my american credit card is, comes from that account. So, I mean, I’m using american money in that case. So, yeah, I don’t currently have a physical american credit card in Japan. If I do, then I have, like, insane power of the card, you know, so. But you know, why the money last, I had it, but it expired in February, so. And, you know, you know, sending credit cards overseas is a little bit of a hairy process, so we haven’t done that yet. Can you just run up a bunch of credit cards with, like, american credit unions and then just be like, haha, can’t get me.
I’m in Japan. Maybe I haven’t been that scammy yet, but I technically could probably pull off that scam. I’ve been american since 2010. So whatever. I just, to keep a couple references I just wanted to throw out near the end. Patton, weird influence, especially for 2001. Slightly pre 911 2001. Yeah. Griswold does like, the whole patton thing. Yeah, yeah. Weaponized opera. I thought, oh, Kojak. I thought that was a weird reference, even in 2001. How many kids knew about Kojak in 2001? Are you familiar with Telly Savalas later years who, of course, played kojak? No. When they know that Kojak was like a cop show.
Yeah, right. So Telly Savalas, when he took that role, I think he basically moved into the universal Hilton right next to Universal Studios and just ended up living there for the rest of his life. And, like, he’d just go to the bar. They ended up calling Telly’s bar. They’d hold court. So if you went to hang out the hotel bar, you’d be just hanging out with Telly Savalas. Because he was like, like, I want to talk to everybody. He wasn’t like, standoffish or something. And, uh, you know, I guess he, you know, women drinking drugs for the rest of years, died as a corpse.
There’s a funny bill hips hicks bit, I guess, is where he’s talking about, um, the, the jogger guy who. Super healthy guy who Joe fix it or whatever. He has a heart attack. Telly Savalas dies. He’s like, hey, you know, I was living it. Joe fix it was jogging and stressing himself out for years, so. Right. And Bill Hicks is here, like, chain smoking and down in beers, and he’s like, I died two years after that. But, yeah, Telly Savalas was a reasonable age. How old was Telly Savalas? I mean, I don’t know if he was, like, the oldest, but he, he was 72.
If you’re partying that hard, you die at 72. That’s a win, little y’all. That lets you live that long. Also, that’s, that’s mid century Hollywood. 72 is old for mid century Hollywood. So. Because you already look 72 when you’re 52. Right. And, you know, I do the Twilight Zone podcast, and we’re always like, how old is this actor? It’s like, here’s a 25 year old. Okay? The actor is actually 36 and he looks 60. Well, and now you’ve got the inverse of that wherever where you’ve got, like, the 20 year old actresses that are getting the, like, the facelifts and stuff that make them immediately look like they’re in their late thirties because typically you don’t see someone doing some of those procedures until they’re in their thirties, forties.
But people are doing it so much younger that now they look older. So you might actually have a 20 year old playing a 20 year old, and people are watching it. Like, what do they have this 40 year old doing in this 20 year old role? Yeah. Yeah, I guess that what’s. Because J law got, like, every role before she was, like 25. Right. So I don’t know if she got any surgery, but, you know, she was definitely batting above her age as far as the roles they were given her. So I haven’t seen her for a few years.
Did she age out? She’s not that old, is she? No, she just, she had a recent, like, she tried doing like, a rom.com raunchy movie recently. Okay. Yeah. Also, you know, I barely keep track of what comes out these days because other than blockbusters in Japan, we’re not going to get the small dramas and especially not the comedies because they don’t translate so well. So have you seen the mother movie since you brought up J. Law? The Aronofsky one? Yeah, the Aronofsky one. Okay. No, you haven’t seen it. Yeah, I got a few. I’m still catching recently have been a bit of catching up on directors I should have been watching or stuff like the PT Anderson, Wes Anderson.
I watched a few of their more recent ones still need to watch phantom thread and inherent Vice, but I got licorice pizza down. What’s the last aronofsky I watched? I’ve seen everything up to Noah, I think. Okay, so you’ve seen pie and you’ve seen Requiem for a dream and yeah, I’ve not seen his movie in the sphere. That’d be fun. The Vegas sphere, that’s, they play his movie postcards from Earth or whatever. Man, if they played mother in the sphere that would be one of the most nerve wracking experiences. I don’t want to give too much of it away, but it’s, it’s a very stressful movie to watch.
Okay. I mean it’s something I’m like, I got to watch at some point. Again with the, with the buying power. I’ve just recently been buying a bunch of dumb movies on Blu ray because it’s like $4. It’s like yeah sure I’ll buy Air Force one for $4 on Blu ray. Ive got a business proposal for you here. I dont know if this would work numbers wise, but if a dollar is that strong to the yen couldnt you just start buying up like Pokemon cards and shipping them to the states? Because you could buy them there cheaper, not just because youre at the source but also because of the exchange rate.
And then you could send them over to the states where they would sell for ten x. Id assume I have to bump that idea over to Luke who does the Luke loves Pokemon podcast because he would know what, he would know which ones to get as well or. I don’t know anything about Pokemon. Have I ever told you my one Pokemon gaming experience? Your one Pokemon gaming experience? Yeah. I mean proper game. I’ve played some of the dumb casual ones a little bit too, but it was heartgold on the DS I started playing, I got to was it Central City, capital city, went into the casino and never came out.
And then a year later it’s like oh, I don’t remember how to play the actual game anymore. Luke, the guy mentioned he currently has my DS collection and he was like I’m going to find your file and stream that and stream this thing from ten years ago. Oh, and my Pokemon go experience, that was fun. I downloaded on American Apple Store. Weirdly, it actually came out in America a few months before Japan, which kind of leads credence to the mapping theory. But anyway it came out later in Japan but I started playing it when it came out in America.
So I was playing ex decentralist Pokemon where I was like day one, day two, day three. I’m standing in a field of absolutely nothing because they hadn’t started the game in Japan yet. That was good for some Facebook posts, but not really good from a gaming perspective. Yeah, I got the first Pokemon Game Boy game when it came out. I didn’t want to go onto this tangent, but it was like my friend got fired from Walmart, his first job ever, because he helped. He basically told all of his friends. He was like, come on in, I’ll give you a free Game Boy.
So me and five of our friends, we just show up, we all get free game boys with the Pokemon baked into the Game Boy colorization package. And the idiot didn’t realize that there was like a camera pointed right at him. It was like his first week. So of course they’re, like, watching him and scrutinizing him and they just see him on, like, his first week, just giving all these free Game boys away. But, yeah, so my first Pokemon game was ill gotten, so I have, like, a special affinity to that. But I also remember when Pokemon go came out, and I, I mean, I still live in Orlando, but I was like, right in downtown Orlando on international, closer to where the parks were, at least in universal studios and stuff.
And I had one of those, I had like a jailbroke iPad, I think, that I had from my work that I was using for something. And it had all the developer options enabled and stuff. And we figured out a way to spoof the gps, which people figured out way after that, too. But, like, I was, I was killing it, man. I was like one of the top Pokemon go accounts in the state of Florida just because I would spoof gps into the Walt Disney world and just massacre anyone that tried to take over the little trainers, like the training gyms and stuff.
But that was a lesson in digital honey pots, because I think that they intentionally left it open and let people spoof gps for like, three months or something. And then they released a patch. And the patch basically looked for anyone that had sent any payloads to their system in the last three months that didn’t include some, like, special key that had been encrypted away. So it was like they were just letting people cheat for three months and then drop the banhammer and wipe them all out. It was very efficient. Very efficient. But it was a great way to keep you, not getting you addicted to the game, right.
You have fun for three months. I got a dumb, casual game on my iPad, and right now I’m getting point. You know what this is now getting too difficult. So time to erase. Yeah, this might sound bad, but it wasn’t. It was never fun about playing the game. I don’t care about Pokemon. I don’t have any affinity to the series. I didn’t even think that the gameplay itself was even good. It was actually kind of very rudimentary. You just, like, flicked the ball and hope for the best. It was. It was almost like gambling, in a way, but you didn’t win anything.
But there was something about knowing there was a real person out there that was, like, trying to take over this gym. And they spent all their time, you know, like, I’d come back and, like, all this time had gone by, and you see all these people had taken over, and you just jump in there and take it on back. Like, I don’t know. There was. There’s something fun about knowing there was probably somebody very disappointed that they just lost their gym and they’re gonna have to go back onto Disney property if they weren’t also cheating and spoofing in order to reclaim it, I guess, more productive or.
I don’t know if it’s more productive or not. My old programmer roommate, you know, he’d do the Stanley Kubrick chess game thing with EverQuest, right, where he’d just, like, try and build up characters really quick and then sell them, and he’d make. I think he paid rent on that once or twice because he was pretty good the game, but he was doing it as work. And then, like, okay, here’s a good character. Someone will buy this for good money. I mean, people still do that. I think they’ve. They’ve clammed down on it. They make it against terms of service, and if they catch you doing that, then, you know, you’re out an account and whatever money you paid for it and stuff, but, yeah, I remember that.
And I was in the military when the first ever quest came out, and it was, like, an unspoken thing that people were using the top secret, you know, government networks to basically play EverQuest and some of the back it closets. So is Everquest still a thing? I was never in MMO, whatever those initials are in the first place. I think that they’ve come out with new ones recently. Yeah. Okay. Because World Warcraft is still ticking, I believe. I don’t know. Again, haven’t that kind of a gamer. I’ve tried it a couple times. I just never got into it.
Yeah. I’ve gotten to the point where, because in the past, I’ve just played insane numbers of nineties style jrpgs. But, man, I don’t have time for that. Partly because I do podcasts, which is kind of useful, by the way. I have realized my cold medicine has kicked in. I’m just going to ramble for infinity. So if you do have some notes or something, I can give you the floor for that. Or just keep rambling. No, I mean, I think we covered all my notes pretty sequentially as we went through this. I think that the. But overall, it’s a serviceable movie.
I didn’t grow up really in love with the recess tv series, so I just watched the movie as it was. I thought it was cool that it was. Had the conspiratorial theme. It starts right off the bat. The military’s in on it, or at least like a paramilitary style group. I was kind of expecting a Naruto run, you know, into area 51. It just reminded me of how much I hated school. Again, I’m just deeply scarred from my school experience. Here’s the thing. I do think if I had ended up being a public school teacher in America, I would have 100% hated it.
My job right now, it’s private. I teach English. I mean, I’m pretty much work by myself most of the time. I don’t really. I mean, you know, I know how to teach when I’m teaching, but it’s not like there’s, like, curriculum I have to hit. You know, there’s not like, test scores I have to hit anything like that. I just kind of bop in, you know, hopefully learn some English. I bop out of the room. So I have it much better than the average american teacher. I don’t think anyone would be doubting that. I don’t think any.
I was about to say I probably get paid less than them, though. And then I was like, oh, actually, I probably don’t get paid well, okay. With current exchange rates, I get paid less than them, but depending on the state, man, honestly, maybe depending on the state. No, no. Two years ago, it seems like Japan’s currency really did start to take a nosedive with the Ukraine war. So before that, I probably was, like, on any level making more than teachers in half the states. But you’re going to be eating bugs with the rest of us. I am going to be eating bugs with the rest of you.
As our money makes less and less sense. You blast it out. You’re never a straight answer comic, though. But I guess if we’re closing it down, you got another thing on the burner you want to. That’s the big one. I mean, I’ve got so many different projects that are always going, but I’ve. I’ve learned to just laser focus on the one that’s actually active at the given moment. So, yeah, if you like Stanley Kubrick, if you like cartoons or comics, if you. If you’re listening to this, you’ve gotten to the end of this one. You obviously like us enough that you would love.
Never a straight answer, which is a comic I’ve been working on for about five years now. Uh, I mean, it was originally a project that I just kind of started to fill in some time, and then, uh, it turned into, like, the thing that I wanted to do more than anything else. I ended up putting a bunch of other projects on the shelf to knock this one out just because it felt like the perfect format to get every inside Stanley Kubrick reference. I can, uh, sort of sneak into this one. So every Stanley Kubrick movie, every conspiracy theory you’ve ever heard about him, and some that you even haven’t, it’s all kind of in this one little series.
It’s the ultimate love letter to both Stanley Kubrick and to all the fake moon landing conspiracy theories. And. Yeah@nasacomic.com. you can find where that’s at. Alrighty. As for me, I do a lot of podcasting. That’s a pod. Central Point is on Patreon at Podcastio podcast. Talk about the Twilight zone, space 1999, and movies where we’ve recently done a few kubricks. We did 2001 at the beginning of the year. We just put out paths of glory. And Doctor Strangelove is soon. So I’m ranting with some folks about those over there. Okay. As the glory sometimes has an asterisk next to it, because I believe that’s one that he got called onto to, like, take over production at some point.
Yeah, that in Spartacus, he’s definitely more of a hired hand. Asparticus is the one. He’s definitely a hi. That’s the one where he was added on, like, basically two weeks before shooting. So passively. I think he did have a little more skin in the game for that one, but it was still a Kirk Douglas vehicle when it was being produced, so I guess it was Kirk Douglas number one. Stanley Kubrick number two for that one. Spartacus probably put Kubrick under the producers because he just jumped in late. Lolita. Don’t bother. You can not watch Lolita if you feel like it.
And then Doctor Strange, that’s where it’s just like now. Everything’s cooperative. This is kind of the way I see it. Pass the glory is a very good movie. I do recommend it. We actually had a discussion. We’re like, is it better? Is it a better war movie than full metal jacket? We’re like, if you’re only counting the first 45 minutes of full metal jacket, full metal jacket is better. But if you’re counting the complete movies, the whole movies. Paths of glory is probably better. And, man, I would almost. And we probably don’t have enough time to make the argument fully, but that full metal jacket isn’t really a war movie.
Even though there’s a lot of war scenes, it feels like it has less to do with war than past pass the glory does. Oh, the first 45 minutes of the movie, the war, any war stuff is just window dressing. It’s all about psychological terror and programming and stuff, right? That’s not a war. That’s not necessarily a war movie. I think that’s because the rest of the movie is still good. It’s just. Now it is a kind of a war movie, but it just loses so much juice. And you just got rid of, you know, the two best actors in the thing.
So. Oops. Anyway, that’s. That’s my review of full metal jacket, which we are not doing on films and filth because it’s not on the list, and we’re not doing it in a cult Disney. Because it’s not a Disney movie on. It would make zero sense to do full metal jacket for the Occult Disney podcast. I don’t know if any April fools, although there’s probably something wittier to do for that. All right, ready for a cosmic conspiracy about Stanley Kubrick, Moon landings and the CIA? Go visit nasacomic.com nasacomic.com CIA’s biggest.com Stanley Kubrick put a song. That’s why we’re singing this song.
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