After Dark: Thanksgiving plans, Jeff's move, Playground Etiquette, Listening to Older Episodes
Added 2021-11-25 13:00:00 +0000 UTCDave, Jeff, and Devindra discuss Thanksgiving this year in their new locales, playground etiquette, and Ridley Scott's latest silliness.
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I only just randomly remembered this because of a story post on an IG account I follow but the only episodes I would love some kind of archival access to are the older Rian Johnson episodes, the GODS OF EGYPT episode, and one of the TRANSFORMERS episodes it was (I think it was Dark of the Moon?) where the guest asked you guys (and the listeners) to reimagine the scene at the end where the Transformers pulled apart another Transformer and used his limbs to build a mech-suit and just said "imagine if instead of robots it was human beings." I cannot tell you how many times over the years just remembering that exchange has made me laugh out loud.
Casey Wright
2021-12-08 00:46:10 +0000 UTCJeffs mention of TV programming made me think of an anecdote that I might have shared before about the "magic" of not having everything at your fingertips. So I was born in the mid-80s in Sweden and became interested in movies pretty early on. In the mid-90s when I was about 10 I got a strong fascination for monster movies and the holy grail at that point was the Alien-franchise. So the first Alien-movie I saw was Alien 3 on VHS because that was the only one available at the rental store. I thought it was cool but not really living up to it's promise. Then I realized when browsing through the booklet where my dad has written down which numbered VHS-tape contained what movie and I noticed tape number 8 had 'Alien'. For some reason I had missed it before (the movies I usually watched where in the 30 - 50s range and contained classics like Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and so on) but my interested piqued. So I started a campaign against him to get to watch it and after a few weeks he relented. I loved the movie. At this point the only movie I hadn't seen in the franchise was Aliens. A friend of mine at that point had seen it and try to describe it to me and it just sounded so freaking cool and fantastic. But getting hold of the movie was impossible. You couldn't buy it at any store, you couldn't rent it anywhere (trust me, I looked) and you couldn't even find it in niche Sci-Fi video stores at that point. So a couple of years came and went and in the autumn of 1997 I was, like I habitually did every week, was browsing through the TV-guide for movies to watch. And then there it suddenly was. Aliens was going to be shown on channel 4 (we only had 3 channels) on Saturday at 21.00. I got so ecstatic and euphoric like you couldn't believe. I didn't need to mark it down because it was burned into my brain and when Saturday came I finally got to watch the movie that I had wanted to see for several years. Mind you, in the 90s friends often tried to describe movies that they had seen and how awesome they were and most often that not the actual movie didn't live up to the movie I had pictured in my head. But that wasn't the case with Aliens. That movie wildly surpassed even the loftiest imaginations I had of the movie and it was one of the greatest movie experiences in my life. Even though it's really comfortable to have almost every movie at your fingertips today and if you really want to watch something you can often somewhat easily get a hold of it, I still sort of miss those days when what movies you were able to watch was a bit more dictated to you. Because it made it so much more special when you actually got to see something that you really wanted to watch. My kids (both whom are below 10) will never experience that time again probably and I am a bit sad about it. I have thought about artificially introducing it when they get old enough to read subtitles and consciously space out movies in a series so they have to long for it for a bit, like the Lord of the Rings-trilogy. Maybe I should let them watch the first one and then wait a year (like we had to) before watching the second one and so on. Making them appreciate the wait and longing for it. Obviously they could always circumvent me and watch it on their own but if I do decide to go that route I hope that they won't do that.
Jesper
2021-11-26 21:32:20 +0000 UTC
