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Speaker: Welcome back to another episode of sweetness and light featuring me one of your hosts Eric and me one of your other hosts Justin aka Justy Proust now I'm seeing Eric for the first time today and this poor guy I'm just gonna ask you don't look like you slept well my friend are you struggling today
Speaker: I'm a little tired.
Speaker: And the thing is, you know, I got very little sleep, which isn't so good because I've got a 615 call time tomorrow morning for a quiz show.
Speaker: And so I've kind of got to be on my best.
Speaker: And right now I'm kind of on my worst.
Speaker: Eric, you have to realize, though, your worst is most people's best.
Speaker: So you're doing fine.
Speaker: Well, I appreciate that.
Speaker: I'm going to take that compliment and I'm going to run with it.
Speaker: Dude, well, I got to tell you, for those that are getting excited as I am, I got to see the final rough cut of Contacts.
Speaker: I don't know if last week, Thursday or Friday.
Speaker: And I got to tell you, you guys are going to love it.
Speaker: Thanks, buddy.
Speaker: Yeah, we're excited.
Speaker: We took that, we wrote it, we shot it, and now we're running with it.
Speaker: Well, literally, and I got to tell you, the editing, I don't know what you've done between now and then, it's so much tighter this time.
Speaker: It's really great.
Speaker: I will tell you, thank you for not using as much of the image of that doll anymore.
Speaker: That was very nice.
Speaker: That was disturbing the first time around.
Speaker: So thank you.
Speaker: You know, that's, yeah, well, it's key to what we're doing.
Speaker: And however, that said, yeah, we want to make sure we have enough of it that it gets across what we're trying to say.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: But there's always been something in the back of my mind with that image in particular that definitely disturbs me.
Speaker: It's up there with like, what is it?
Speaker: Pennywise.
Speaker: You know, it's funny, our sound guy, not our sound mixers who were on set, but our sound editor,
Speaker: He said the first time through watching it, he wasn't even taking notes because he was both laughing so much, but also so taken with what was going on and so utterly disturbed.
Speaker: He said just on first viewing, there's images that are unfortunately burnt into his memory that he can never be able to unsee.
Speaker: And so he...
Speaker: He said, yeah, he found it was, he loved it, but he was, but was disturbed.
Speaker: All right, good.
Speaker: So it makes me feel better.
Speaker: It wasn't just me.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So that was our brand new sound guy.
Speaker: Sound, you know, hopefully being mixed right now and all with the intent of submitting to Sundance in a couple of weeks.
Speaker: Dude, well, that's exciting.
Speaker: Was there a deadline for that?
Speaker: When's the cutoff?
Speaker: The regular cutoff was this week.
Speaker: The late cutoff is September 5th.
Speaker: Now, having never submitted anything to Sundance, been, but never submitted, how, what is the difference to like, what is the late submit, like, what does that mean?
Speaker: So there's three.
Speaker: Most festivals have this, you know, and a lot of contests of all kinds do.
Speaker: So there's an early, early,
Speaker: middle and late submission dates, mainly as price.
Speaker: You know, you just need- That's what I thought, yeah.
Speaker: Some people think that maybe, you know, maybe there's a bias on the judges' parts, you know, but there certainly isn't supposed to be.
Speaker: Well, that's what I was going to ask because I'm assuming early
Speaker: I don't know, especially people I remember in school that would submit stuff, or even we did comedy stuff, we submitted early.
Speaker: I always felt like we got a little bit more preferential treatments.
Speaker: That's what you feel.
Speaker: You feel that early admit is a good thing.
Speaker: So if you're doing your college applications, go for early admit because you probably wouldn't get in on regular and you certainly wouldn't get in on late because you're not good enough.
Speaker: But if you're sure you're that keen, you might have a chance.
Speaker: So on a side note here, one of the ladies at Psychobar just got accepted to college.
Speaker: Wow, at 42?
Speaker: Well, at 43.
Speaker: But again, it's never too late to go, all right?
Speaker: No, she's in high school and just graduated.
Speaker: And I asked her, I said, school starts next week, right?
Speaker: She's like, yeah.
Speaker: And I'm like, you just found out?
Speaker: So apparently what happened was, I won't give the name of the school away.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Because I had no idea they did this.
Speaker: It's exactly what you said.
Speaker: They have an early admittance policy that she submitted early because her grades weren't great, but she thought based on her extracurriculars and everything like that, she'd make it.
Speaker: They said, listen, you need to go back and do something interesting this summer.
Speaker: If you do something interesting this summer, we'll reconsider your application.
Speaker: So she decided to spend all this money and she went to, I think, Italy or Greece.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Came back.
Speaker: I'm just sorry.
Speaker: I'm just sorry that.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So, so go take a trip, go have the time of your life.
Speaker: Just go, go, go, go amuse yourself.
Speaker: And that, that might, that might help get you in.
Speaker: Well, hang on.
Speaker: So supposedly that's the story.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I don't, I don't, I wasn't there to validate this, but what you're saying is correct.
Speaker: This is the best part.
Speaker: So she submits her vlog, her like video recount of everything and her essay on it.
Speaker: The school wrote back within days saying, it just sounds like you just drank and had parties over there.
Speaker: That's not what we wanted you to do.
Speaker: So no, you've been denied.
Speaker: So her mom calls the school and
Speaker: Like this story is like Beverly Goldberg from the Goldberg show calls the school and it's like, no, you're going to take my daughter.
Speaker: They're like, no, she's been denied.
Speaker: Her mom drove there and parked outside the door for four days of the admissions dean.
Speaker: and was finally admitted.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Well, that's a pretty amazing story.
Speaker: That's a lot of perseverance.
Speaker: Certainly applaud that.
Speaker: To be honest, I don't know if I applaud the university for rolling over, but- Oh, not at all.
Speaker: I think it's horrible.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So that just, so, I mean, that's an example of squeaky wheels.
Speaker: I mean, that's like just by being that harassing person, you're getting what you want.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And you essentially got your daughter into school for demonstrating that she's a great partier.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Which if you met her, you would totally agree.
Speaker: I bet she's a great partier.
Speaker: But is that all you need for college?
Speaker: No, it's about 50% though.
Speaker: I was surprised you called her a lady, which I applaud as well.
Speaker: So I'm obviously a young lady from what you're saying now, but a lady nonetheless.
Speaker: When you said one of the ladies in your... Oh, I see where you're going.
Speaker: I got you.
Speaker: Yeah, and the way you pronounced it, it sounded like you said in psycho class.
Speaker: Well, if you've ever been to a psycho bar class, there are some days when you feel like it's a psycho class.
Speaker: It's okay, and that's normal.
Speaker: It's like any other day.
Speaker: Say psycho again.
Speaker: Psycho.
Speaker: Audience members, if you can write in and just, you know, on our Facebook page, and if you want to mention whether you think Justy sounds, when he says psycho, it sounds like he's saying psycho, psycho bar, let us know.
Speaker: That would be an interesting poll.
Speaker: And if you think it's on purpose, post that as well.
Speaker: So anyway, but plot it to this young lady for getting into the school of her choice and for doing it in such a dramatic highfalutin style.
Speaker: And kudos to mom for driving, staying, and harassing her way into the celebrity lifestyle.
Speaker: The American way, correct?
Speaker: If there was ever a stereotype in America...
Speaker: That the world sees us as.
Speaker: I think this personifies that in some regard.
Speaker: I'm amazed.
Speaker: I'm amazed.
Speaker: She goes to good.
Speaker: Because I don't think this would happen in Canada, right?
Speaker: No, no.
Speaker: We would not have some young lady, as you like to say, travel to Italy, have an Amanda Knox adventure and psycho her way into school.
Speaker: School.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, again, only in America.
Speaker: And I caught my daughter last night on a side note here that was, you know, something very funny.
Speaker: She was bawling in her room last night.
Speaker: And I mean, like, high school tears, you know, like these just emotional cascade of just something horrible.
Speaker: So I walk up to her room, and I'm like, Bailey, what?
Speaker: What is wrong?
Speaker: And she's like, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't talk to you.
Speaker: And I'm like, Bailey, what do you mean you can't talk to me?
Speaker: She's like, you're the reason I'm so unhappy.
Speaker: And I'm like, what?
Speaker: What?
Speaker: I haven't even seen you all day.
Speaker: I literally just got back.
Speaker: So long story short, she was mad at me because I called what she did gymnastics.
Speaker: And in reality, it is tumbling or dancing.
Speaker: And she said, I hate it when you call it gymnastics.
Speaker: It's embarrassing.
Speaker: So I think the teenage years are quite a foot in this household.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: That was my response.
Speaker: Kelly's like, oh my God, this is even before she got her period.
Speaker: I'm like, yes.
Speaker: And I mean, if anything, you could understand why a gymnast might be insulted if you called what sheer he was doing tumbling.
Speaker: I don't think a tumbler should be insulted if you upgrade what he or she is doing to anything else.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: And I honestly meant it as a compliment.
Speaker: And she does take gymnastics.
Speaker: You're like, yeah, your calisthenics are coming along very well.
Speaker: Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker: You mean to tell me that pummel horse in there, you use that in tumbling?
Speaker: No, no, no.
Speaker: That's gymnastics.
Speaker: What is it anyways?
Speaker: It's quite a thing.
Speaker: I admire you.
Speaker: I don't know what's happening in this household, but thank God they're back in school.
Speaker: You're constitutional.
Speaker: I will tell you this morning, one of the funniest things happen.
Speaker: And I love this.
Speaker: And I think this happens across the nation.
Speaker: When school starts, the cascade of, of tears of moms is hysterically funny.
Speaker: Every mom that I saw this morning that was dropping off their daughter or son or both or whatever,
Speaker: Oh my God.
Speaker: All of them cascading tears.
Speaker: They were walking up, they were in cars, all of them.
Speaker: The dads, we high-fived each other, finally.
Speaker: Nice, nice.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So I think that says a lot about parenting.
Speaker: Yeah, that some do it, some do it well, some do it less well.
Speaker: All of them experience it.
Speaker: But I think that's the state of being a parent.
Speaker: Some days you're crushing it.
Speaker: Other days you're like, ooh, that was not a good day.
Speaker: That was not my finest moment.
Speaker: Nice.
Speaker: Nice.
Speaker: So, Eric, what have you been up to this week, my friend?
Speaker: You know, so as I said, I've got a game show appearance tomorrow.
Speaker: You know, under NDAs, I can't really talk about it.
Speaker: But unfortunately, it's a 6.15 call time.
Speaker: So not looking forward to that.
Speaker: I'm not a...
Speaker: morning person as our astute listeners know.
Speaker: Did go out and see on the big screen for its return Superman.
Speaker: Oh man, how was that?
Speaker: It was pretty awesome.
Speaker: I kind of forgot some points, you know, parts of it and it was...
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: Go out and see it if you have a chance.
Speaker: I guess Superman was back.
Speaker: Batman was back.
Speaker: Is it an anniversary of some kind or they just pull them out?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: Over at AMC's, they've got those.
Speaker: They got some of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and they got Goonies just playing on big screens during the day.
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: So now, because I haven't seen the original for probably 20 years, does it hold the test of time or is it dated?
Speaker: It's pretty good.
Speaker: I mean, it looks a little dated, but I mean, only because sort of styles have changed.
Speaker: But I mean, in terms of the story and in terms of the...
Speaker: You know, everything else.
Speaker: It's definitely more upbeat and fun and sweet than a modern day superhero movie is.
Speaker: But maybe that's a good thing.
Speaker: I was going to say that's probably a very good thing.
Speaker: And I remember Lex Luthor was so great.
Speaker: Is he as good as I remember him?
Speaker: Your boy Gene Hackman?
Speaker: Well, he's your boy Gene Hackman.
Speaker: Heck yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, bald Gene Hackman.
Speaker: I mean, this is back when... Well, well, in the very last scene.
Speaker: Oh, wait, what?
Speaker: Spoiler alert for everybody.
Speaker: Walk me through this here.
Speaker: I did not remember this.
Speaker: So everyone step out of the room if you don't want to hear this.
Speaker: We're going to talk for exactly 24 seconds.
Speaker: So Luthor has, you know, shocking, like the shock of red hair throughout most of it.
Speaker: Gene Hackman is Luthor.
Speaker: And, you know, and I remember when I first saw it as a kid thinking that, you know, that's crazy.
Speaker: Lex Luthor is bald.
Speaker: And when he's arrested after, you know, after his devastation, he, you know, in jail, he turns around and then, you
Speaker: grabs his head and pulls it pulls it off and it turns out it's awake shut up spoilers over i don't remember that at all as a kid that would have been traumatizing 24 seconds all right high five good job to you welcome back so those of you who are gone for the spoiler and i will tell you the spoiler is uh it's worth listening to so if you want to rewind a little bit i would definitely do that um but yeah yeah i mean that's a it's a shocking moment in in comics movie and in childhood history history
Speaker: So I had a babysitter speaking of that, that when I was a kid and she was old and I was always afraid when she came over because I thought she was going to die.
Speaker: She was that old.
Speaker: Oh, wow.
Speaker: And I would stress out.
Speaker: I thought you meant like an older teen and you were going to toss and say, make some some lewd comments.
Speaker: No, I would have loved to have a hot babysitter.
Speaker: No, she was, I don't know.
Speaker: I mean, to me, she looked about 3000 years old.
Speaker: And one day she was like, Justin, you want to see something funny?
Speaker: Oh my God.
Speaker: And I'm like, sure.
Speaker: I don't remember her name.
Speaker: We'll call her Gail.
Speaker: She takes her hair off and she's bald.
Speaker: It has scarred me to this day.
Speaker: It was so terrifying.
Speaker: I couldn't sleep for days.
Speaker: Because I'd never, one, I didn't know that happened.
Speaker: And it wasn't because she had cancer and like that.
Speaker: It was just, she had lost all her hair at some point in her life.
Speaker: And so, yeah, it was traumatizing.
Speaker: I mean, did you purposely say that like your favorite Nick Cage, John Travolta movie?
Speaker: What?
Speaker: He took his face off.
Speaker: Off.
Speaker: Face off.
Speaker: Oh, God.
Speaker: Yeah, because that's also a traumatizing film.
Speaker: And maybe you sort of somehow conflated the two.
Speaker: Maybe.
Speaker: And I got to tell you, back then, though, I did wonder if you could really do that.
Speaker: And I remember my dad, being the jokester that he was, did say, oh, we absolutely do that sometimes.
Speaker: And so I grew up like, holy shit, wondering who was really who.
Speaker: And then I realized he's just full shit.
Speaker: It's amazing that in the movie, and they imply in real life, that if you do that, your body switches as well.
Speaker: Well, occasionally it does, right?
Speaker: Yeah, that was quite a thing.
Speaker: Yeah, you might have to revisit that.
Speaker: That's what the 80s were good at, and 90s.
Speaker: Speaking of interesting phrases and one that doesn't get as much popularity as it should, our good friend Doug Knox, one of his favorite shows of all time is The Shield.
Speaker: with Michael Shiklis.
Speaker: Such a great show.
Speaker: And created by Sean Ryan and then Kurt Sutter, one of the main staff writers, goes on to do Sons of Anarchy and Mines and everything.
Speaker: So, you know, pretty prominent group of guys.
Speaker: But, okay, spoiler, give us another 24 seconds.
Speaker: David Acevedo, the original chief and then later on councilman, is forced at a certain point to have sexual relations with a man.
Speaker: And he, of course, doesn't tell her for a while.
Speaker: And then his wife, when he finally... This is why he doesn't tell her.
Speaker: When he finally tells her, she goes... She's like, did you suck?
Speaker: Which now that you remind me... Spoiler over, spoiler over, but it does remind me of Face Off a little bit.
Speaker: But no wonder he didn't tell her.
Speaker: I mean, she takes the worst experience in his life and makes it much worse.
Speaker: Because she's...
Speaker: She's horrified that he did it.
Speaker: And he's like, you know, I had a gun to my head.
Speaker: Like, you know, it's just like he didn't do it because.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And she's like, wow, don't don't you have training for these guys things?
Speaker: He's like, yeah, it's called not dying.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, other Erica who's watched it for the first and can't believe it.
Speaker: And can't believe that they keep on showing that clip at the, you know, what's happened previously at the beginning of the episodes.
Speaker: They're like, did Benito Martinez, the actor, did he piss off the producer?
Speaker: Like, why do they keep showing it?
Speaker: Like, I mean, it's got to be such a hard scene to have done.
Speaker: It isn't well, but it's awful, you know, and it's going to define his career when you do something like that.
Speaker: They...
Speaker: You know, in the episode since, we've probably seen it 20 times.
Speaker: I just keep on showing that clip again.
Speaker: Now, what season are you guys on?
Speaker: Just started five.
Speaker: So we're in season five, beginning of episode two.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Now, what does Eric, the other Eric think?
Speaker: He loves it.
Speaker: He loves it.
Speaker: So it's funny because initially, well, he never watched it originally.
Speaker: And his love was The Wire, for example.
Speaker: But he never watched The Shield because for some reason he thought it was just another police procedural.
Speaker: And he doesn't like police procedurals.
Speaker: It's the opposite of a, you know, it happens.
Speaker: I actually do like Law & Order and stuff.
Speaker: Yeah, I think they're great, but he doesn't.
Speaker: So he was shocked that it wasn't.
Speaker: He actually thought the, it's interesting, in the first season, he didn't love some of the acting.
Speaker: He thought it was too much, and he didn't like the credit sequence when every time an actor's name would go, like, now, you know, now they still sort of show it that way, but they don't have the loud sound behind it, just behind the shield.
Speaker: So now he loves it, but he loves, he thinks that scene is so iconic now and that it's so disturbing and that it's so grossly overplayed within the what happened before section that we ought to do like a shot for shot remake of the scene.
Speaker: Well, the scene and of his wife's reaction.
Speaker: It's the wife's reaction actually that he enjoys even more.
Speaker: I would totally support that endeavor.
Speaker: And if I could participate in any way, shape or form, I am totally in because I love that idea.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: You're in.
Speaker: You're in.
Speaker: I, well, listen, we got to wrap up for the day.
Speaker: I want to say, Eric, as always, thank you so much.
Speaker: Thanks to our audience and my friend.
Speaker: Good luck tomorrow on the show.
Speaker: And please rest up today.
Speaker: We'll break legs, I think we say.
Speaker: But yes, thanks, buddy.
Speaker: I appreciate that.
Speaker: I shall.
Speaker: We shall.
Speaker: And I'll see you next time.
Speaker: Great to see everybody.
Speaker: Great to hear everybody.
Speaker: And I hope we didn't spoil anything for anyone.
Speaker: And if we did, just go watch those things.
Speaker: Yeah, we didn't mention anything about Lex Luthor's hair at all.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Or David Acevedo and what he did and how his wife reacted.
