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#80: Backsession
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The Boys are back and ready to try and explain our recent theater visit to see "Backrooms". We also explore some of the new movies coming out in June.
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Transcript
Intro
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Kendahl
All
Introduction and Weather Talk
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Kendahl
right. This is Shut Off, Turn On. i' am your host today. i am Kendall over here on the East Coast enjoying some beautiful weather. that is...
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Julian Contreras Jr
Oh, we're already getting into the weather talk.
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Kendahl
i've
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Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
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Kendahl
but
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Julian Contreras Jr
I'm Julian over here on the West Coast, also enjoying some nice sunshine and got the lawn mowed today. So it was a good time.
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Kendahl
I had apple trees. Do you remember that? i don't know if you guys do you guys remember coming over?
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Julian Contreras Jr
I remember seeing the apples. I never picked anything.
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Kendahl
Okay. Yeah, so I had four apple trees on that property. And I have always, I just ever since we moved, i just I've been
Podcast Milestone: Episode 80
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Kendahl
wanting apple trees again. So i you can't plant one.
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Kendahl
You have to plant two because they have to be able to cross pollinate. Then you got to have bees.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Have to have friends.
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Kendahl
And yeah, you got to have all kinds of fun stuff to get apples growing. So I i have a lot of bees in the area. i don't, i don't so the the things I do to spray for insects, it's I try to be as bee friendly as possible.
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Kendahl
And so, yeah, I did that yesterday and mowed the lawns. And yeah, it was just it's it's finally nice around here because we had, I am not even joking. I swear it rained nonstop for like a week and a half straight.
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Kendahl
it was It was terrible.
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Julian Contreras Jr
i I'm a big fan of rain. I love to watch a certain movie when it rains.
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Kendahl
i I love, i actually really, really enjoy the rain.
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Julian Contreras Jr
oh
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Kendahl
But when it doesn't stop for a week and a half, it kind of gets a little old.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, I see.
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Kendahl
But anyway, on on that note, hey, we're back. we we didn't we I'm hoping you guys are are listening to this not like three weeks apart, but like the week apart in that recording.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. Yep, this is episode 80 of Shut Off, Turn On.
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Kendahl
know, right?
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Julian Contreras Jr
You believe that?
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Kendahl
80.
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Julian Contreras Jr
80.
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Kendahl
That's so funny.
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Julian Contreras Jr
We're making it. We're taking big breaks, but we're making it.
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Kendahl
That's the... yeah I know we had planned we had planned on definitively being at 100 before the end of this year. That was our goal.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Oh, I think that'll still happen.
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Kendahl
i I'm not even worried about that. But I think we i think we might have eat we might have been able to reach that a little sooner if we had been consistent.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
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Kendahl
But, you know, hey, the thing is, is we're elder millennials. And life life is a little busy. And both of us have you know our own families and and work. And so sometimes a break is needed.
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Kendahl
That's all I'm saying.
Podcast Technical Challenges
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, sometimes there are negatives to the break. Like, I don't know if you guys listened last week, which I know you you probably did. But you got two intros because they changed the settings on me and I'm trying to figure it out.
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Kendahl
Hopefully. Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
So you got two intros. So I'm hoping this time there is only the one clean intro. But we'll figure it out together when I cut it and post it. So anyway, welcome in to everything entertainment, opinion-based,
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Kendahl
Oh.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Like I said, I'm
Movie Talk and Call of Duty Discussion
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Julian Contreras Jr
Julian. We're talking about weather. But we both saw the same movie this week, so I'm super excited.
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Kendahl
We did.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Oh, yeah.
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Kendahl
We did. Okay, but before we get to that, I got a question. There was something else that debuted this week. And I'm asking because it's not a part of the segment that we typically talk about.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
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Kendahl
did Did you watch about video game news this week?
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Julian Contreras Jr
Oh, you're talking about the trailer that dropped for a video game that I choose not to partake of anymore.
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Kendahl
Yes. Okay, but hey, okay, hold on. Hold on. i'm i am I am asking for your interest in
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
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Kendahl
Because this game has been in development for four years.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. Well, all that aside, and i think it came out Tuesday. Yes, I did see the email that dropped and I did watch the video right away.
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Kendahl
Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
I did think about texting you.
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Kendahl
Okay, and if you don't... Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
I just didn't get to it.
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Kendahl
And if you don't know what we're talking about, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4... four is Is the game.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yes.
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Kendahl
Now, Infinity Ward is the company that has typically done the Modern Warfare series in the past. And they've always been really successful. Minus Modern Warfare 3, which a lot of people were mad because it was like a basically an add-on to 2.
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Kendahl
Don't get me started. But this one has been in development essentially from that position on. Because Infinity Ward hasn't done a new Call of Duty in in four years.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, so they're you're saying there's a chance that they're doing it right.
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Kendahl
So
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Kendahl
i do i've i've seen I've seen some early interviews with people that got like early adoption opportunities to play it at the because they did a big hoopla trailer reveal right party.
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Kendahl
And they had a few guys that got sent out to Activision to go like actually do some hands on with it. And the initials are, is it Call of Duty?
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
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Kendahl
Yes. But is it is it making the right choices in the right direction? And the one guy that I read about, I read through his thing, he said definitively yes. He he enjoyed playing Call of Duty at Black Ops 6, but struggled a little bit.
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Kendahl
Once 7 came out, that's the more recent one. And it just goes to the same thing you've talked about.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Mm-hmm.
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Kendahl
It's just the the garbage that's been recycled. And this time they said they're not going to be thrown in these Nicki Minaj avatar suits and the crazy like shark heads that they did in B06. That's all gone. They're going to stay away from that. The aesthetics are going to be...
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Kendahl
around more of the like the game design rather than this money-hungry crap that they've been pulling for a while.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. Okay. Well, on that note, there were some skins they dropped like that of celebrities and stuff that I did enjoy. Like there was the clerks bundle. There was the Jay and silent Bob and all that stuff was fun.
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Kendahl
Yeah. Yeah. Right.
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Julian Contreras Jr
But I mean, you just have to be a fan of that. Like, cause I seen a video and I guess Robocop's in there now.
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Kendahl
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
So I'm a big fan of Robocop as well.
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Kendahl
And that then you start throwing Beavis and Putthead in there. You're just like, what happened to this game?
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, the trailer did look good.
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Kendahl
So anyway, yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
I did watch it all the way through. It was like a four minute one, wasn't it?
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Kendahl
Yeah. Well, and it looks, I mean, honestly, this is where I think the Infinity War shines because this is really going into media.
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Julian Contreras Jr
But
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Kendahl
I mean, this is what we're talking about, right? Watching movies and and trailers and doing all that. that's That's what we like to do the show on and TV from time to time. But... Infinity Ward, they when they brought out Modern Warfare 2 way back in the way, it was one of the very first like cinematic video games that you got emotionally and emotionally.
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Kendahl
in some cases physically into because it was just such a crazy plot to play the, you know, the single campaign. And, you know, they really, really up the ante at that point.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Right.
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Kendahl
Cause you know, when you have the you know, what is it? The no man left behind whatever airplane, you know, mission, that's the one that was like, okay, this is crazy. Like, this is real. Like, they did a great job of making you feel like crap playing this episode of this yeah of this round, right, of this mission. And they've and they kind of always upped the ante through the years. And so, once again, watching that trailer, I was like, wow, this is cool.
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Kendahl
Like they, they really put some cinematic effort into this, but anyway, I don't want to go too far into that.
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Julian Contreras Jr
OK.
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Julian Contreras Jr
And this is a, you're fine.
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Kendahl
I just, I thought it was, I thought it was neat. Cause it was one of the few trailers I got to see this week. Cause again, we did go to the same movie.
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Julian Contreras Jr
OK.
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Kendahl
And I thought it was really neat.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yes. I do want to say that that is an October release, correct?
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Kendahl
Yeah. yeah
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. And if I choose to play it, I will have to buy the game because they took Game Pass and Call of Duty and they split them apart, which I could see that lowered the price of the Game Pass.
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Kendahl
Yeah.
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Kendahl
Right. And.
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Julian Contreras Jr
So this is the last thing I'll say on that.
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Kendahl
Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
If it's good, I'll buy it and I'll join you, but we'll see, you know?
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Kendahl
We'll see. Yeah, i i i have to I have to make the choice. I want to wait until little more stuff comes out before I decide to buy it. Because the only reason I got B06 and B07 was because it was with the Game Pass.
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Kendahl
And so now it's like another $60.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
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Kendahl
I don't know. I don't know.
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Julian Contreras Jr
If you're lucky, it might might be higher.
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Kendahl
Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
All right.
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Kendahl
Yeah. So, all right. So in in the ketchup world... i is Do you have anything else that was like, besides mowing the lawn?
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
So this upcoming week is going to be absolutely brutal, I think, for scheduling. I got baseball games like normal. i It's my wife's birthday.
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Julian Contreras Jr
So we are going to go see Neil deGrasse Tyson in
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Kendahl
No?
Events and Personal Plans
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Kendahl
Awesome. Happy birthday, Julian's wife.
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Julian Contreras Jr
August.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, yeah. There is another surprise if she chooses to listen to this episode before, so I can't say it, but that will be on the end of the week. And then later this month, I finally am super excited to see Back to the Future on Broadway.
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Kendahl
Oh, wow.
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Julian Contreras Jr
I've been hearing a lot about this show, and I finally get to see it.
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Kendahl
Okay.
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Kendahl
i So I'm really close to a lot of big traveling Broadway shows because I'm near DC. And they have they have a show for Hamilton coming up.
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Kendahl
And I'm i've been i'm trying to get tickets for it to go see it with my wife because I think that would be a lot of fun.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, you should. Yep. I think Hamilton and In the Heights are one of my
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Kendahl
So.
Teaching and Career Transition
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Kendahl
Oh, yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
favorites.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Obviously, Book of Mormon is hilarious.
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Kendahl
Yeah. Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
But yeah, I'm super excited to see that one. And then there's just a ton of movies coming up that we'll get to in a little bit. But that's that's about it. my My month is starting to build already.
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Kendahl
i i am I am winding down. I'm on the opposite side because i don't i don't know where school is at in your end because I think i think schools around you are are starting to shut down for the summer, right?
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Julian Contreras Jr
It's yeah, we're past that.
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Kendahl
Oh, you are?
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Julian Contreras Jr
They're home.
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Kendahl
Okay.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
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Kendahl
Well, I still have two more weeks. and So, anyway, that's that's where we're at.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Oh,
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Kendahl
We're at the last two weeks. Like, literally, report cards are due on Friday. So, like, I'm in that, like, last-minute ditched effort to... put everything aside and I haven't really talked about it on the show much, but I'm actually changing jobs this next year.
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Kendahl
So I'm still going to be a teacher.
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Julian Contreras Jr
okay.
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Kendahl
I'm just going to be doing a different a different type of teaching. And it's it's really going to be challenging for me, but it's a choice I wanted to make to kind of better myself.
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Kendahl
And so in turn, I also, that means I have to pack up all my stuff.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Oh,
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Kendahl
I mean, it's like moving a house because I've been in the same classroom for four years and now I have to pack up all my stuff and, and move it.
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Kendahl
And so it's kind of crazy because they're like, mark your boxes and make sure, you know, you, you put on there if it's because I have to make sure it's their property or my property. And it's just, it's really weird.
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Kendahl
Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
OK, well, I mean, it sounds like a lot of fun.
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Kendahl
So, I mean, it's it's fun.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Congratulations.
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Kendahl
It's fun. I mean, like I said, it's my last two weeks. So there's not really a lot going on teaching wise or school wise. There's some fun stuff this week. I'm actually kind of excited because on Wednesday, I get to be a part of what's called Splash the Staff.
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Kendahl
So I get to dress up like the biggest boob ever in like floaties and goggles and all this. And I get to hang out for the entire day.
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Julian Contreras Jr
OK.
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Kendahl
on the uh like playground and kids get to come out in rotation and just squirt the crap out of me with squirt guns and water balloons and it'll be a lot of fun so oh no no it's the best weather like today it's like today it's supposed to be like in the 90s actually so it's even better
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. I mean, hopefully it's not raining that day either, but we'll see.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. Awesome.
Rachel McAdams Movie Review
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Julian Contreras Jr
That's good. Do you want to hit the upcoming movies for June or do you want to hit up the movie right away?
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Kendahl
so
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
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Kendahl
So the movie is is one with a very lovely Rachel McAdams.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
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Kendahl
Can you think of this? And she gets, and unfortunately, marooned on an island.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Oh, send help.
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Kendahl
Yeah. So
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Julian Contreras Jr
I was gonna say, Rachel McAdams, you're either watching Wedding Crashers, The Family Stone, Mean Girls.
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Kendahl
not that far back. Not that far back. Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
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Kendahl
More recent. So I decided that I wanted to sit down and watch this movie because we had talked about it when I went to theaters and I had I had originally intended to go. i had talked to the wife about it and then she was like, kind of hesitant.
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Kendahl
And I'll tell you, I wish I had seen this in the theaters. It was a it was a fun movie.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, it was a good time.
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Kendahl
Yeah, I mean, Rachel McAdams was just great in this, playing this kooky, oddball survivor fanatic. and And then ultimately, like, I'm not going to give too much away because I think there's it's still kind of new enough in the in the you know streaming world.
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Kendahl
And it wasn't really big in the theaters.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
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Kendahl
But you know if you haven't seen it, it's on Disney+, plus Hulu, wherever you're at now because they're merging. But yeah, definitely good, good watch.
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Kendahl
I'd say don't watch with the kids. The boar scene is interesting.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Intense. It's intense.
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Kendahl
It's intense. When he started snotting all over her face, I was like, oh, geez. Okay. but But I mean, my my hands down favorite scene of that entire movie is when she's pulling him back up onto the beach after a one attempt and she's sick and she's like trying to revive him. You know what scene I'm talking about?
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Kendahl
It's just great. It's great.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
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Kendahl
And so, yeah, it's a fun movie. It has its low points a couple of times, but honestly, it picks right back up. The minute it starts to get into a lull, it something happens, and it's just it's a great movie.
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Kendahl
I really enjoyed it.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, I really like that one in theaters a lot. So I might go watch it after this. We'll see.
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Kendahl
Well, I am. So I went to go get tickets for Obsession for this next week. But my the problem is is, as of right now, the only times it's going to be playing in the theater near my house is times it's it cuts off at like the 430 mark or whatever every day.
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Julian Contreras Jr
okay
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Kendahl
And I'm in I'm in I'm teaching until four, so I can't make it. And so I'm going to wait and see. But if it is still playing, by this Friday, I'm going to go see it.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, because it does release digital on the 2nd.
Trends in Movie Releases
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Kendahl
Oh, shoot. Tuesday?
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Julian Contreras Jr
So you can watch it at home, yeah. They have this whole weird thing where some fans are annoyed, I don't know about mad, that it is getting released so early on digital.
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Kendahl
okay
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Kendahl
A little bit.
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Julian Contreras Jr
But i think I think those contracts are dealt with beforehand because... with if the past history of movies being in that genre of scary slash gory, whatever, they don't typically last too long in the theater, right?
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Kendahl
Mm
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Kendahl
hmm. Not usually. And I mean, it but it depends. It depends because you have some movies that stay for a while.
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Kendahl
I mean, like we're talking real high end movies, right? We're talking like scary movie or scream or, you know, I know scary movies kind of a comedy, but it's still kind of in that horror genre.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
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Kendahl
Technically, it's a comedy horror.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Right.
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Kendahl
But when you have like a studios like a 24 or, you know, like the one that we're going talk about tonight, Backrooms, those ones that are super low budget, they typically have a faster turnaround because they know that it's going to be harder to direct the audience into a theater for 30 40 50 60 dollars depending on how many people you're going with and an audience that wants to sit at home for 20 bucks so
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. So for that 20, 24, 25, whatever they're going to charge for, it's going be well worth it because you're going to get the regular version and you're going to get the unrated version.
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Kendahl
oh okay
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Julian Contreras Jr
So I'm excited to see that. I'm going to make time this week. I just got out of it in the theater, what, two weeks ago? I think we did our episode.
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Kendahl
We talked about last week, actually.
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Julian Contreras Jr
and And I'm ready to see it again.
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Kendahl
But yeah, you watched it a week before that, so...
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Julian Contreras Jr
And I really want to see what... Curry has to do with the unrated version, how much more he's going to put in it.
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Kendahl
Yeah. Okay.
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Julian Contreras Jr
So I'm super excited.
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Kendahl
Okay.
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Julian Contreras Jr
So if you have time, but just stay home and watch it.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yep.
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Kendahl
But yeah, no, I mean, that's the thing is, so one of the things that we were talking about on the show last week is that Obsession has been doing so well.
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Kendahl
I mean, it's already it's already past the hundred million dollar mark.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yep.
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Kendahl
Yeah. It is now, I can't
Success of 'Obsession' and 'Backrooms'
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Kendahl
remember. It's like it's like some cost to to earnings ratio.
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Kendahl
It's just blowing everything out of the water.
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Julian Contreras Jr
I think it's over 100 Yeah.
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Kendahl
Yeah, it's something like, it's something crazy stupid. But I mean, honestly, it just, and I can't i can't stop seeing all these like,
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Kendahl
behind the scenes stuff on social media. And so I want to hold up because I don't want to watch it. I don't know i want to watch the movie.
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Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
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Kendahl
But yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot out there. So I think this is one of those movies they're trying to do a fast turnaround because like you said, it's probably set up before the movie even went out.
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Kendahl
But let's be honest, lot I mean, in the theaters, it's been kind of trash for a while. Like, I'm not, I shouldn't say trash. It hasn't been anything that's like, oh, yeah, I'm driving myself to the movies. And when you have a movie like Obsession that just, I mean, I haven't seen it yet, but seems like it's very well done.
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Kendahl
People are like, oh, a good movie at the theater?
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yes. Yeah.
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Kendahl
Yes, sir. Yeah. So, I mean, but okay, so let's kind of, I mean, I think it's a great segue to talk about Backrooms, you know? So, I mean, this is the same thing, right?
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Julian Contreras Jr
yes
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Kendahl
You have a movie that is just solidly, has got a pretty good cult following. I think that's a good way to put it, right?
00:19:54
Kendahl
So you've got this movie that people were really interested to see because of a short film that was done in... what, like 2022 or something like that?
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, you had actually sent me the little reel of the past stuff on it, and it was very interested.
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Kendahl
Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
So I want you to go ahead and say some of that. You can say the director, because he was the one who originally did the YouTube videos, correct?
00:20:18
Kendahl
Yes. So the director was Kane Parsons, right? And so he, his whole thing was, he he basically had this, uh,
00:20:30
Kendahl
I think it was like a 20 minute short or something like that back in 2022. And then it spawned a massive amount of like YouTube videos.
00:20:41
Kendahl
And then there's just a a whole bunch of what they call non-canon videos out there that kind of like mimic this. But he used some of the ideas from that to then go to this position of, hey, I'm going to put this film out there.
00:20:48
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
00:20:55
Kendahl
And everybody kind of was like, sure. OK, it was successful this on YouTube. And, you know, the funny thing is, is his. His vision for what was going to be the movie of Backrooms ended up.
00:21:12
Kendahl
kind of being, you know, this project. Because he originally had the idea way back when, right? Like he wanted to do this way back when, but I think i think financing probably was a big hindrance.
00:21:23
Kendahl
But I mean, anyway, so there's some differences between the lore of what was the back rooms that he produced and some of the YouTube videos and then this movie.
00:21:33
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. All right.
00:21:33
Kendahl
But my question to you is, oh, well, okay, so let's hold on. This kid is 20, 21, 22. twenty one twenty two
00:21:44
Kendahl
I think, i know he's, all I remember from the, from the like the the information I was looking up, he's younger than my daughter and my daughter's 23. So that was, my brain kind of broke when I saw this.
00:22:01
Kendahl
And I think, did he do this film for, wanna say it was like,
00:22:06
Julian Contreras Jr
He's only 20, Kendall.
00:22:08
Kendahl
oh, 20, geez, okay.
00:22:12
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, well, that just brings up another thing.
00:22:12
Kendahl
in
00:22:14
Julian Contreras Jr
So this is another director that's 20 years old, which is crazy to say at our age.
00:22:19
Kendahl
Right.
00:22:19
Julian Contreras Jr
Curry Barker is also, I believe, in that same age range.
00:22:22
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:22:23
Julian Contreras Jr
I can look it up, but he's another young director that is doing a bunch of small internet videos that catch...
00:22:23
Kendahl
Yep. Yep.
00:22:32
Julian Contreras Jr
momentum and they just go so they can go to a company let's say okay i'm just gonna say like a twenty four did both of these movies all right they put in 750 000 for obsession i don't know how much the back rooms cost it might have been a little more i'm sure you can look that up while i'm ranting here but at a hundred times the budget kendall can you imagine what a24 is
00:22:33
Kendahl
Yep.
00:22:40
Kendahl
Right.
00:22:57
Julian Contreras Jr
can go out on a limb for, for like videos and directors like this to say like, Hey, this kind of seems like what people want to see obsession was 26.
00:23:01
Kendahl
Right.
00:23:06
Kendahl
So Curry Barker is 20, he was 26.
00:23:09
Julian Contreras Jr
twenty six Okay.
00:23:09
Kendahl
Either or, it doesn't matter.
00:23:10
Julian Contreras Jr
So they're still in their twenties.
00:23:12
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:23:12
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. So they can take their momentum and say, Hey, yeah, this is kind of the way the people want to see movies right now. They don't want huge blockbuster videos.
00:23:26
Kendahl
Right.
00:23:26
Julian Contreras Jr
or anymore. Like, let's talk about Mandalorian for a second. Let's just jump back into that.
00:23:30
Kendahl
I was just going to...
00:23:31
Julian Contreras Jr
That thing was gangbusters for a week and it has dropped off 72% in one week.
00:23:37
Kendahl
Yeah. Yep. And what was the drop-off of that? Backrooms.
00:23:43
Julian Contreras Jr
Back rooms. My theater was packed.
00:23:44
Kendahl
And you know
00:23:47
Kendahl
Well, even Obsessions, this last weekend, Obsessions and Backrooms combined still outperformed The Mandalorian.
00:23:55
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. And I i fully applaud it
00:23:56
Kendahl
And Obsessions has been out for how many weeks?
00:24:00
Julian Contreras Jr
Three, I think.
00:24:00
Kendahl
Like three weeks now?
00:24:01
Julian Contreras Jr
Three or four. Yeah.
00:24:01
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:24:03
Julian Contreras Jr
And i I myself do not ever want to see the theater experience go away, such as we saw the drive-in experience go away.
00:24:13
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:24:13
Julian Contreras Jr
Drive-ins were super fun. They were super cool. But at the same time, they're just gone now. You can maybe find one or two still running for nostalgia purposes.
00:24:22
Kendahl
Mm-hmm. Right.
00:24:24
Julian Contreras Jr
I do not want that to happen to the Cinemarks, the Carmikes, the AMCs, what however many companies there The mom and pop theaters that still have their own thing.
00:24:31
Kendahl
yeah
00:24:35
Julian Contreras Jr
I don't want that experience to go away. So I... I'm way behind all these people that want to come out with these good ideas to drive people to go to the cinema.
00:24:47
Julian Contreras Jr
Now, do I want the cinema to raise all those prices on popcorn and say, hey, like the largest $28 now? No, that's not what I'm saying. I love the experience.
00:24:59
Kendahl
Well, these, I mean, the other thing is too, is that it's, I, I'm going dive a little deeper into that because these movies, so Obsession costs just under a million dollars to, to total production costs.
00:25:12
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
00:25:13
Kendahl
Right. So, and then Backrooms was a little more, it's just under 10 million, but I, I'm going I'm going going to say, I think the reason for that is the casting.
00:25:25
Kendahl
I really think that the casting is what costs them a little bit more money. So I know that there's some digital elements to this film as well.
'Backrooms' Plot and Audience Reactions
00:25:35
Kendahl
But I can see the fact that some of this casting is what probably drove the cost to be that near $10 million. dollars But even in that same room, I mean, this weekend, Backrooms, I got to look and see what it is. But it's already it's already made that three or four times over.
00:25:55
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. And I did read that they either bought or rented a mall and built that stage, that whole set.
00:26:01
Kendahl
Right.
00:26:02
Julian Contreras Jr
And you can go visit it. They're opening it up for you to go walk through. I'll have to look up and see what city and town that's in, but I did read that. So if there is that whole practical set style that you could go visit and pay like 15, 20 bucks, a ticket to go experience that, that set was insane and crazy, dude.
00:26:20
Kendahl
Mm-hmm.
00:26:23
Kendahl
and So and I have, okay, so I also have a theory behind, okay, we'll get into that in a second. So, so far, the estimated earnings domestically, so just the United States, is $82 million on this movie.
00:26:37
Julian Contreras Jr
Jeez. cheese
00:26:39
Kendahl
Right. So, I mean, but this is the thing. This movie didn't cost the big budgets that The Mandalorian cost. That movie was 100 plus million dollars. Right. And it's already surpassing the total earnings of that movie in its first weekend.
00:26:55
Kendahl
And like you said, i mean, this is this is a there. These are young go get them type producer directors that they're not, it's no frills. It's not a big money grab type film. It's just, Hey, we have a really cool story.
00:27:12
Kendahl
We have a really cool idea and I want to give it to the people. I want to show the people what I have been thinking about. And it's unique. I mean, I think that's the difference too, is is is is obsession. And I know we're combining these two people, but I mean, you have to remember, these are these are two extremely low budget, extremely new out of the gate director, producer people. You know, these are these are guys that are that are nowhere.
00:27:38
Kendahl
they were They were nothing. And all of a sudden now, everybody, I guarantee is knocking down their door, picking up their phone, thinking about who these guys are for the next movie.
00:27:49
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, Curry already has another movie coming out.
00:27:49
Kendahl
And yeah, and exactly.
00:27:53
Julian Contreras Jr
So...
00:27:54
Kendahl
And so and the thing is, is it's because they're presenting something that hasn't been in the film industry for a while. Uniqueness, something that nobody has produced or brought to the film industry for a long time.
00:28:08
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. So... That's a little bit about the lore and everything about it. Now I want to jump into your actual experience. You went a day before I did maybe two days.
00:28:18
Kendahl
I did.
00:28:19
Julian Contreras Jr
i don't remember.
00:28:19
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:28:20
Julian Contreras Jr
And you text me.
00:28:22
Kendahl
yeah So I texted you and i texted my daughter at the same time.
00:28:22
Julian Contreras Jr
It was crazy.
00:28:27
Kendahl
i texted my daughter. Okay. I said, what did I just watch? Because this movie is just, it's like this weird enigma.
00:28:38
Kendahl
You've got to really process it because there's so much, right? There's so much that's going on.
00:28:45
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:28:46
Kendahl
And, the The problem is, i mean, the lore of this, Backrooms is complicated because it it's sort of just it sort of talks about it in the film. I don't want to give away too much. it't be the spoiler on this one. But essentially, you know you have the main character who finds a
00:29:08
Kendahl
way into this weird diversion of reality.
00:29:08
Julian Contreras Jr
Door. Okay.
00:29:16
Kendahl
And in doing so, it's just this ever-growing, ever-growing, ever-changing environment that he can't figure out.
00:29:27
Kendahl
And so he tries to bring other people into it. In some courses, not always to the greatest results.
00:29:31
Julian Contreras Jr
Some.
00:29:33
Kendahl
What's that?
00:29:33
Julian Contreras Jr
Some? Some cases? Like, all cases did not end well.
00:29:42
Kendahl
So, but the thing is, I mean, this... I thought, I don't know. i There's a part of me that's like, okay, I liked it.
00:29:53
Kendahl
I thought it was interesting. I thought it was thought-provoking. And then at the same time,
00:30:01
Kendahl
What? Just what? what
00:30:03
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. Yeah. I fully understand that because after I had got done, I text you about it and i you said, how do you feel? And I was like, do you want to do this now or on the show? So now we're on the show.
00:30:16
Julian Contreras Jr
I really liked it. I did fall into the trap in my brain where it was like, okay, there's not... really a story and you had mentioned that is in some other people's reviews of it it's not an abc type movie like you play the whole story through it's just a movie where things happen credits roll you deal with it and you process it and then that's the that's the movie
00:30:27
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:30:31
Kendahl
Right.
00:30:42
Kendahl
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's what I was saying about thought provoking. Like at the very end, I was like, okay, I'm sitting in my seat. Lights are starting to come on, but nobody's moving. And I was like, Is there more? i'm I'm looking on my phone. Is there after credit scenes? No. Jeez. Okay.
00:30:58
Julian Contreras Jr
I thought about doing that.
00:30:58
Kendahl
Well, then what the heck am I?
00:30:58
Julian Contreras Jr
for the
00:30:59
Kendahl
What?
00:31:01
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, it was crazy. And I don't even think that we could spoil this movie unless we just walked you through the entire movie.
00:31:08
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:31:08
Julian Contreras Jr
but Because there is, like we said, there the story is minimal. It's just the thoughts of things happening that keeps you in your seat and keeps you looking around that next corner to see what happens.
00:31:21
Kendahl
Okay, so here's my question to you, and this is not spoiling for anything. Do you think at the end of this movie, do you think that the people that are on the screen are in reality, or are they still stuck in some avenue of the back rooms?
00:31:38
Julian Contreras Jr
I think they're stuck in some avenue because they, when they were doing like the interview with a certain character at the end, he said that it just kind of builds on itself from a memory.
00:31:50
Julian Contreras Jr
And they kind of explained that when the house was getting demolished.
00:31:53
Kendahl
Yep. Yep. Yeah.
00:31:55
Julian Contreras Jr
I'll just say that. So yeah, I believe they are kind of out, but I believe it's still happening. There's no end to the back rooms.
00:32:04
Kendahl
So I, I saw this, uh, what do you want to call it? Like prediction or thought process that when he's, when she says, where are we? And he says, I,
00:32:17
Kendahl
I don't know that I could divulge that. It's because he's there where they're at trying to figure this thing out is that they're stuck in there too, but they're like in a pocket that they can control.
00:32:29
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:32:32
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. kind of That's kind of what I figured out.
00:32:33
Kendahl
And so, oh, okay. So, I mean, and that's, that's what I was, that's what I, that's how I felt at the end. I was like, okay. But, okay. Can we just talk about like the, the, the people?
00:32:45
Kendahl
That's just weird.
00:32:47
Julian Contreras Jr
We're talking hazmat suits or the the quote unquote monsters.
00:32:48
Kendahl
No, no, no, the quote monsters. Yeah.
00:32:53
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
00:32:56
Julian Contreras Jr
So yeah, they were trippy without being like your normal Freddy Krueger, Jason type model. They were just super creepy and weird, like a distorted memory dream type thing.
00:33:08
Julian Contreras Jr
Like there was little bits of what they were with some stuff added.
00:33:11
Kendahl
yeah
00:33:13
Julian Contreras Jr
And yeah, it was creepy.
00:33:15
Kendahl
So I like, OK, so there were a few scenes in this movie that are direct elements that are, of you know, from his original vision of backrooms and the and some of the YouTube videos, one of which is the Christmas tree scene.
00:33:31
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, one of the best scenes I think.
00:33:31
Kendahl
And out of all that is that is one of the creepiest scenes in the entire movie. Personally, I just feel like there's so much tension of what is going to happen.
00:33:38
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:33:43
Kendahl
and And then, you know, you you get it. But this there's so much tension in that one scene. I thought that was pretty good. I liked it.
00:33:53
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, so you saw it in a regular seat, correct?
00:33:56
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:33:57
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, so when I got out of work, the only options available were either Front Row Joe or a D-Box seat. So I upgraded my points and I got a D-Box seat, which was in a good location to see the full huge screen.
00:34:12
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:34:13
Julian Contreras Jr
did not You said it was going to be interesting.
00:34:16
Kendahl
yeah
00:34:17
Julian Contreras Jr
I had seen Final Destination Bloodlines in a D-Box seat and it wasn't too crazy. This movie tossed me around like a ragdoll.
00:34:27
Kendahl
Because of all the running scenes, right?
00:34:30
Julian Contreras Jr
It was the running scenes. It was the turning of the corners because the D-Box seat, if you guys don't know and have never experienced it, it vibrates, it rumbles, and it moves and tilts.
00:34:33
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:34:41
Julian Contreras Jr
Not extremely, unless it's very like sudden.
00:34:44
Kendahl
Mm-hmm.
00:34:44
Julian Contreras Jr
Then you feel like you're getting tossed out of the chair, which i felt like I was a couple times.
00:34:48
Kendahl
Put the seatbelt on.
00:34:51
Julian Contreras Jr
I don't recall there being a seatbelt. I know it reclines in your bucket a little bit deeper, but that's about it.
00:34:53
Kendahl
There's not.
00:34:57
Julian Contreras Jr
I thought about turning the intensity down, but then I was like, no, no, I'm not going to be a baby about it. So, so the scene, Kendall, where a character is hitting somebody with the side of the head with a rock.
00:35:11
Kendahl
Oh, geez. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:13
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. I thought I was going to fly to the left of my chair because every hit it was throwing me.
00:35:18
Kendahl
Oh, wow.
00:35:18
Julian Contreras Jr
i was like, please stop hitting him. please
00:35:22
Julian Contreras Jr
But it was intense for a movie that I didn't think was going to be that it was,
00:35:28
Kendahl
Yeah, I, you know, I mean, I think, okay, so here's my thought.
00:35:28
Julian Contreras Jr
Let's get tossed.
00:35:34
Kendahl
i I was talking to my daughter about this today and I said, you know, I think what's interesting about this movie is back rooms in its entirety. Again, i'm I'm not giving too much away because, you know, it is kind of like it's already out there in the sense of what back rooms is. It's an ever changing environment that never stays consistent.
00:35:52
Kendahl
and And and to me,
00:35:53
Julian Contreras Jr
All right.
00:35:55
Kendahl
Like you were talking about, that's what the storyline is of this movie. It's just something that keeps going in like a linear fashion, but doesn't necessarily have a beginning and an end. It just keeps going and it shifts at every change of, of like the dynamic of the film.
00:36:14
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, and it'll even change between a 4K screen and like a, what what camera would you call that? Not an 8mm camera, but
00:36:21
Kendahl
Oh, geez. Yeah. Like old 90s, like magnetic tape film.
00:36:25
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah. When it went to the old-timey screen, that's when I had to pay more attention because I was like, I know they're going to try to scare me more in this mode than they are with the four k mode.
00:36:37
Julian Contreras Jr
And they sure did.
00:36:39
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:36:39
Julian Contreras Jr
They did.
00:36:40
Kendahl
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think, I don't know. i You know, For me, i I'm going to give this movie like probably like a seven and a half.
00:36:51
Kendahl
And the only reason I go seven and a half is because I felt like there was more that they could have done to like build. I know we keep saying there's no storyline, but there is a storyline.
00:37:04
Kendahl
Some of that like lore in the story of it. Like i really wanted to know more about like this company that's behind everything that's going on.
00:37:12
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:37:13
Kendahl
But I mean, the first, okay, so that was the crazy part. The first, what, 10 minutes? Like 10-ish, 12 minutes of the film? Is like, is like is is that before or is that after?
00:37:21
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:37:27
Julian Contreras Jr
I think it's after because it goes back and says several days earlier.
00:37:28
Kendahl
Right?
00:37:32
Julian Contreras Jr
Does it not?
00:37:33
Kendahl
Oh, OK. And i could I guess I missed that part. But I was thinking myself, like, that was OK. So you kind of get the gist of it at that point. But the guy saying, I'm going further than I've ever gone before.
00:37:45
Kendahl
And we didn't see any of that in the adventures of the characters that we would eventually you know see in this film.
00:37:45
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:53
Kendahl
And and so, yeah, I just i don't know i I felt like there were some more elements that they could have presented in that. But at the same time, my daughter's like, will you go to the theaters and see this with me again? And I went, no.
00:38:10
Kendahl
And it's not for any reason other than I need more time to process this movie because there's just so many things that are going on.
00:38:19
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:38:21
Kendahl
And I just I don't know that I could go back and enjoy watching it again.
00:38:21
Julian Contreras Jr
OK.
00:38:24
Kendahl
I'd have to give it a little bit more time. Like a week is not enough. Like, you give me another month, maybe a month and a half, and let's say this goes streaming at home.
00:38:28
Julian Contreras Jr
Right. Yeah.
00:38:33
Kendahl
Yeah, sure. ill I might adventure back and watch it at home. But I don't know that I'd go back to the theaters to see it.
00:38:39
Julian Contreras Jr
So you gave it a seven, seven and a half.
00:38:41
Kendahl
Yeah, I mean, I'm closer to a seven and a half than a seven. And like I said, it's only because, I mean, I just... i i keep My thought is is so the the one thing... I'm trying to go without spoiling it.
00:39:00
Kendahl
the The one creature that's in this monster, monster that's in this that is more perpetual than the rest of them. I wanted more of that.
00:39:13
Kendahl
like i wanted but i And I wanted more of that.
00:39:13
Julian Contreras Jr
okay
00:39:16
Kendahl
in in what we got to see in the latter part of the film, in the beginning part of the film, and kind of more of this like chasing element. I wish there was more of that. And instead it was like, hi, bye.
00:39:29
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. All right. And I'm going to give it an eight is what I told you when I got out of the theater, mainly because of that dinner scene.
00:39:35
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:39:38
Kendahl
Okay, yeah, geez.
00:39:41
Julian Contreras Jr
You get to everything that we've talked about. And then you get to that dinner scene where somebody is trying to explain a lot of stuff. And he's got a couple, let's call them friends at the table with them. And just the stuff he does, you're like, who thought of this? This is absolutely insane.
00:40:00
Kendahl
Well, and that's kind of that's kind of what I'm talking about. Like, how did he all of a sudden go from this guy that was like, I don't know what's going on. And then if's all of a sudden now he knows everything. What?
00:40:10
Julian Contreras Jr
I think he just gave in instead of running from it. He just accepted and gave in, but is at the end, it still didn't save them.
00:40:18
Kendahl
Right? like And that scene that scene is kind of also one of those that like i I liked it. But at the same time, I'm like, what the? What?
00:40:25
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. It gave me a cotton candy.
00:40:26
Kendahl
Because...
00:40:28
Julian Contreras Jr
Wow. Don't choose that.
00:40:30
Kendahl
Well, and then when he's like, he's like, no, we could, we could, you know, we don't have to change. We don't have to change. And then, and then what? Like, how did, how did that shift so, that escalated fast?
00:40:41
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:40:45
Kendahl
Like, yeah.
00:40:46
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:40:47
Kendahl
What? And so, i don't know.
00:40:49
Julian Contreras Jr
All right.
00:40:50
Kendahl
I just, I feel like this movie is a mind trip. You have to go in with the expectation like Julian and were talking about. Do not think that this is going to be a beginning end story. This story does not have an end.
00:41:01
Kendahl
You're going to walk away from this going, what did I watch? And process everything that's happening.
00:41:05
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:41:07
Kendahl
And so there's a part of me that's
00:41:09
Julian Contreras Jr
You're also going to have a good time
00:41:11
Kendahl
Yeah, i mean I mean, I enjoyed the movie. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed i i bought myself some fried pickles.
00:41:14
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:41:17
Kendahl
and and cause i go to a It's a dinner and movie theater, right?
00:41:22
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:41:22
Kendahl
So you can sit down have dinner.
00:41:22
Julian Contreras Jr
Our theater experience is just so different.
00:41:25
Julian Contreras Jr
I got fried pickles. I got a burger. Yeah.
00:41:25
Kendahl
so But
00:41:31
Kendahl
i you know i do have to say though I think the one thing that did drive me insane was the guys that were next to me were definitely more of the like YouTube generation and just chatty.
00:41:46
Kendahl
i mean, not like, not like interrupting the movie chatty, but just like, you know, like that, like the whole freaking time.
00:41:46
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:41:53
Kendahl
It's like, just stop. Just watch the dang movie.
00:41:55
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah One of my biggest pep pet peeves. Yeah, just don't talk in the theater. But anyway, that was Back Rooms. I gave it an eight. He gave it a seven and a half. Please go see this movie.
00:42:07
Julian Contreras Jr
You're going to love it. See Obsession.
00:42:08
Kendahl
yeah yeah
00:42:10
Julian Contreras Jr
Kendall had texted me and said that it was, what, this year's Oppenheimer and Barbie?
00:42:15
Kendahl
Oh yeah.
00:42:18
Julian Contreras Jr
To which I said...
00:42:18
Kendahl
I mean, for, well, for, for, for these particular of fans.
00:42:24
Julian Contreras Jr
Yes.
00:42:25
Julian Contreras Jr
What was that combination's name?
00:42:28
Kendahl
Oh geez. What did you know?
00:42:29
Julian Contreras Jr
Do you remember?
00:42:32
Kendahl
Hold up.
00:42:32
Julian Contreras Jr
i don't remember what the other one is, but I called this one Back Session.
00:42:32
Kendahl
Hold up.
00:42:35
Kendahl
Oh, that was a, Barbenheimer.
00:42:38
Julian Contreras Jr
Barbenheimer, yeah. This one's this generation and this year's Back Session.
00:42:44
Julian Contreras Jr
Go enjoy. Yeah,
00:42:46
Kendahl
Back session. It sounds like you need an ID to get into that one.
00:42:50
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah probably. Probably.
00:42:52
Kendahl
All All right.
00:42:53
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. Yeah.
00:42:53
Kendahl
So let's move into movies that are coming up because there's a couple of movies coming out this weekend. There's one that's kind of sneaking in in the middle of all this. And I feel bad because I feel like it should have gotten a different debut.
00:43:06
Kendahl
But then there's a couple other ones that are about to come out in the next month. And I think, I mean, you and I have already talked about ones that we're going to like some of them that we're going to go see. So, all right. Why don't you start us off?
00:43:18
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, I have them in order by date. These are movies for June 2026. Whenever you guys are listening to this podcast, if you're in the future and listening backwards, this is June 2026 releases.
Upcoming Movie Releases for June 2026
00:43:32
Julian Contreras Jr
This weekend, we got Scary Movie.
00:43:35
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:43:35
Julian Contreras Jr
Absolutely love it. Gonna go see it. It is being paired with... I'm just gonna call it He-Man, but it's Masters of the Universe.
00:43:43
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:43:44
Julian Contreras Jr
Two big movies. The theater's gonna be popping. glad it's summertime are you going to go see either of those just ask these
00:43:54
Kendahl
if if If Obsession is not playing, then I will probably try to go see a Scary Movie.
00:44:02
Julian Contreras Jr
okay and then there's one movie coming out on its own date and i think it's the one that you're talking about that is just huge the trailers are everywhere it's before every movie that i see it's got a star-studded cast disclosure day
00:44:13
Kendahl
Yes.
00:44:17
Kendahl
Yes.
00:44:18
Julian Contreras Jr
That is the only one coming out on June 12th.
00:44:18
Kendahl
yes
00:44:20
Julian Contreras Jr
That is a big one.
00:44:22
Kendahl
Yep. And that's, I think, I think what's driving this is one, you've got someone, cause you know, Steven Spielberg and they, and they, they actually have direct kind of insinuation to encounters of a third kind.
00:44:31
Julian Contreras Jr
Yep.
00:44:40
Kendahl
There's, there's some elements of that that are being shown off in these, the in these theatrical previews. So I think they're trying to do a little bit of that. Oh, kind of an older generation connection, go see this in the theaters. It'll be worth your while type thing. And it's obviously aliens. So yeah, definitely interesting.
00:44:59
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. I'm hoping to see that one when it comes out. And then the week after that, we have June 19th. We have Toy Story 5, which is also being paired with another a twenty four movie.
00:45:07
Kendahl
Yep.
00:45:11
Julian Contreras Jr
So I'm super excited. I'm probably going to lean towards this one, but the death of Robin Hood.
00:45:16
Kendahl
That one looks so good. We talked about that, I think, in our last episode.
00:45:18
Julian Contreras Jr
It,
00:45:21
Kendahl
And, you know, you've got Hugh Jackman again. and that just, it looks good. It looks really good.
00:45:28
Julian Contreras Jr
yep And then on the 26th to close out June, we have Supergirl and The Invite, which is another one that if you go see the trailer for that one, it looks pretty good.
00:45:35
Kendahl
Mm-hmm.
00:45:44
Julian Contreras Jr
And then you have one for our generation, Kendall, that's coming out.
00:45:44
Kendahl
David?
00:45:48
Julian Contreras Jr
And I think you've seen this trailer, but it's The Jackass, the final movie.
00:45:52
Kendahl
Oh, I have I have seen i have seen some previews of this. I I will not see it in theaters, but it'd be funny.
00:46:02
Julian Contreras Jr
Yes.
00:46:02
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:46:02
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah I think they're going to reminisce on some of the best skits that they've ever done in the movies, along with some new ones that they've showed us some previews for in that trailer.
00:46:09
Kendahl
yeah
00:46:12
Julian Contreras Jr
So that's going to be a huge weekend. Three movies to go see.
00:46:17
Kendahl
Yeah, I mean, out of out of all the movies in June, the one I'm most, well, the two I'm most excited about are Disclosure Day and Supergirl. Those are up there with it because i I like sci-fi movies. So Disclosure Day, I think kind of throws a little bit of this like fantastical element to sci-fi because it looks like there's some weird fantasy level element to it I don't know.
00:46:44
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. All right. So that's enough movies to keep us busy for the entire month, I feel like. There's also going to be some that just pop into theater that we didn't realize were coming, and we're going to go see those too.
00:46:54
Kendahl
Yeah.
Challenges Faced by 'Breadwinner'
00:46:56
Kendahl
Well, and so like the movie I was talking about was breadwinner. So I don't know if you've seen previews for this and I, yeah, I know.
00:47:00
Julian Contreras Jr
Oh.
00:47:02
Julian Contreras Jr
Go ahead. It's already out. It's playing right now.
00:47:17
Julian Contreras Jr
Nate Bargatze.
00:47:18
Kendahl
Yeah. So this is, mean, it's about this guy who is a stateto turns to be a stay-at-home dad, right?
00:47:26
Julian Contreras Jr
Right.
00:47:26
Kendahl
And so I've i am i've talked about this on the show. I was a stay-at-home dad for about... nine, 10 years. And so I kind of want to see this for the relation element of it, right? Like I feel it because it says yeah he's just managing the household. And then this is Mandy Moore. So i you know, she's done a lot of really good things and I like her as an actress.
00:47:54
Kendahl
And so it's like she's gone back to work and he has to run the house. And it's like everything that can go wrong will go wrong. And he has to deal with it. And so, and I feel like this is getting a bad timeframe because it's coming out at this point where you've got Mandalorian, which if you're not into the horror genre, that's the only thing you're thinking about.
00:48:04
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:48:16
Kendahl
And then if you're, you know, like us and you want to see a really good film and you hear a lot of these independent elements coming up, you're like, okay, going to go see Obsession and and Back Rooms. and And then you've got Breadwinner, which is kind of like snuggled into the corner over here in the theater that I went to.
00:48:30
Kendahl
It's literally in the back far corner, the smallest theater that's got like 35, 40 seats in it.
00:48:37
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, i was going to say the theater in the corner that has four rows because there's cars parked right on the other side.
00:48:38
Kendahl
That's it
00:48:44
Kendahl
basically. And it's like, that's such a shame. And I mean, I've heard, I've heard some like, uh, inklings that this is a pretty good movie. it's got a really good Rotten Tomatoes score and see what was it at?
00:48:55
Kendahl
Uh, okay. So critic wise, no, but audience, well, no.
00:48:58
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
00:48:59
Kendahl
So here's the, here's the thing we've talked about this before. Critic wise, it's garbage. It's like 20 something percent, but audiences have almost at a 90%.
00:49:06
Julian Contreras Jr
okay
00:49:08
Kendahl
That to me,
00:49:11
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, so here's my take on Breadwinner.
00:49:11
Kendahl
that to me
00:49:14
Julian Contreras Jr
So I've seen this trailer a bunch. And yes, Mandy Moore is fantastic. I want candy and all that other stuff. Nate Bargatze, in his own right, is hilarious as well.
00:49:24
Kendahl
Right.
00:49:25
Julian Contreras Jr
They put him in the movie where he is taking over the house, like you said. I am just not a huge fan of as soon as a man has to do a woman's job, he's a complete idiot and has no idea how to do it.
00:49:41
Julian Contreras Jr
and And I just said woman's job and I didn't mean that.
00:49:41
Kendahl
And that's,
00:49:44
Kendahl
yeah.
00:49:45
Julian Contreras Jr
Don't cancel me. that you
00:49:46
Kendahl
No, you're you no you're you're you're putting it out.
00:49:46
Julian Contreras Jr
That's not what I mean.
00:49:49
Kendahl
So this is the reason why this is failing on the critic side, because it's it's's it's exactly that. You have all these critics coming out and complaining that it's, oh, it's it's too stereotypical to the situation.
00:50:02
Kendahl
It's not adaptive to the you know to the modern family you know dynamic. and
00:50:08
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:50:09
Kendahl
and you know And that's kind of... it the thing is is when i was a when i was a stay-at-home dad i got the conversations oh well but wait a second but are you know when you're home what do you do well i'm stay-at-home dad i i change the diapers i clean the house i do the dishes oh but no what does your wife do she goes to work she's working and they're like good no no no but how do you guys make money
00:50:25
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
00:50:37
Julian Contreras Jr
Oh, okay.
00:50:37
Kendahl
She goes to work, you know, but and I think that's where this is trying to fill that, you know, that same element. But it is very anti our typical societal norm right now.
00:50:48
Kendahl
Right.
00:50:48
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:50:48
Kendahl
Men are staying home more often. And I think that's the downfall for a lot of these critics. But I don't know. So for me, I see it on the I see it on this.
00:50:57
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:50:58
Kendahl
I see what you're saying. I understand. And that's exactly why the critics are like destroying this film.
00:51:01
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:51:05
Julian Contreras Jr
So, I mean, i'm Mr. Mom came out forever ago.
00:51:09
Kendahl
I was like 83.
00:51:09
Julian Contreras Jr
right. Yeah. And then again, with Multiplicity, when Multiplicity came out and Andy McDowell went back to work as a real estate agent, he had to step in and he said she could go back to work.
00:51:18
Kendahl
oh yeah.
00:51:22
Julian Contreras Jr
Not that he she needed his permission. I'm just getting myself in trouble with all these things I'm saying. i can That's not what I mean, but I can hear it.
00:51:29
Kendahl
You can't get in trouble for what was
00:51:32
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. So she goes to work and he's struggling to be at home and also be a contractor, I believe is his job.
00:51:40
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:51:40
Julian Contreras Jr
So in multiplicity, he has to go get help. And so he clones himself so he could get some time off and then he clones himself again.
00:51:45
Kendahl
Right.
00:51:48
Julian Contreras Jr
and then they make a clone of a clone.
00:51:49
Kendahl
I got I got pizza, Steve.
00:51:50
Julian Contreras Jr
And that movie is hilarious. Yeah. There's a whole scene in there where he's got a wallet So it comes up and I'm just not, it is a hard job no matter who you are, no matter what person you are doing the job. A stay at home parent is difficult in itself.
00:52:11
Kendahl
It is.
00:52:11
Julian Contreras Jr
There is a lot of stuff that you don't see from the outside.
00:52:15
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:52:15
Julian Contreras Jr
Like, oh, so you just cook and clean and take care of the kids. That's three items. No, that's that's a thousand things wrapped up into three like lists, right?
00:52:25
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:52:26
Julian Contreras Jr
I just don't like when Nate Bargatze comes home and all of a sudden he's successful at what he does.
00:52:27
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:52:33
Julian Contreras Jr
And as soon as he steps into the other role, he's a complete idiot.
00:52:37
Kendahl
A bumbling idiot. Yeah. i And I...
00:52:39
Julian Contreras Jr
But there are two trailers to this. I don't know if you've seen it. There are some that just focus on Nate and his, like he takes his daughter shopping and he's just like, all right, let's just buy 14 of underwear.
00:52:52
Julian Contreras Jr
And then she's like, okay, well what happens when those 14 run out? Like, I'll just buy more. We'll throw them away. Like, you can't figure out how to run the the washer and dryer.
00:53:00
Kendahl
Yeah, yeah.
00:53:01
Julian Contreras Jr
But then there are ones where he's hired the handyman to fix the roof.
00:53:05
Kendahl
Right.
00:53:06
Julian Contreras Jr
And that just adds a whole other element that he's not doing. But is it Will Arnett?
00:53:10
Kendahl
That he's not capable of. Yeah, i thought I think so.
00:53:15
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
00:53:15
Kendahl
it's It's somebody in his circle of of like typical co-stars or whatever.
00:53:16
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:53:20
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. So I can see both. I usually don't agree with critics on this one, but I would have to see the movie to see if that's really how they're playing it out.
00:53:31
Kendahl
And this might just be one of those, like, it didn't, I don't know. Maybe this is one of those that may, that should have been just a, like straight to Amazon release or Peacock release or whatever, you know, like studio specific.
00:53:45
Kendahl
But yeah, I mean, we'll see. We'll see. Right.
00:53:49
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, I'll see. I don't know. I felt like I stuck my foot in my mouth for some reason and I was trying to defend both sides of it. But whatever.
00:53:56
Kendahl
No, no, no. I think, but the thing is, I think this this looks like one of those heartwarming films.
00:53:57
Julian Contreras Jr
It is what it is.
00:54:01
Kendahl
i mean, it's you you could tell. It's entirely predictable. You know exactly how this film's going to play out. It's going to play out exactly like you said. Mandy Moore goes back to work. Nate gets all frustrated. He's just all messed up when it comes to doing everything that mom did before and now dad can't.
00:54:16
Kendahl
And he bumbles through everything. Some significantly like dramatic moment happens between him and his daughters, and it connects them a little bit closer. He figures things out, and by the time the mom is like, okay, I can't do this anymore.
00:54:29
Kendahl
I just need to come home. He figures it all out. Boom. I probably just nailed the whole Dane movie. I get it. i get it. But those are the kind of movies that are fun to watch, though. I mean, that's what this show is about, right? Shut off, turn on. It's not about trying to figure out every plot angle or you know, understand every plot hole that's designed in the film. Sometimes it's just about turning something on and going, okay, that's good.
00:54:52
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. Yeah.
00:54:53
Kendahl
they
00:54:53
Julian Contreras Jr
That's what it was.
00:54:54
Kendahl
Oh, it's two hours later. Yeah, that wasn't bad. ha So, I don't know.
00:54:59
Julian Contreras Jr
Nice.
00:55:01
Kendahl
I'm just saying.
00:55:01
Julian Contreras Jr
right.
00:55:04
Julian Contreras Jr
All right. So let's wrap this one up. We loved back rooms. We loved obsession. That's coming to view at home. Kendall, hopefully that opens up some time for you.
00:55:14
Kendahl
I'm a little disappointed that it's coming so fast because i was and we'll we'll see. We'll see where it's at. That was the problem is the tickets that I do have through Wednesday that I have available to me are are like cut off at like four o'clock.
00:55:26
Kendahl
And it's probably like what you said it's because they're like, oh, well, time's ticking. We're going to go. This this is going to go to streaming. So why am I going to put this on my theater screen?
00:55:31
Julian Contreras Jr
yep
00:55:34
Julian Contreras Jr
yep and then we will definitely be back soon for masters of the universe scary movie i will probably have seen twice by then because i my hopes could not be higher for that movie
00:55:47
Kendahl
I will tell you, I mean, in in the world that we live in today and the political devices and divisiveness that happens, and this movie holds no bar.
00:55:58
Kendahl
It's just like, hey, guess what? We're going to just say everything. In the theater that I was in, it was funny because that movie trailer came on and she comes up and she's like, She's like, oh, Sydney, give me a hug.
00:56:12
Kendahl
and She's like, oh, I don't think I can, right? That whole that whole part.
00:56:15
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:56:16
Kendahl
And everybody in the theater is busting up laughing, but I could hear in the chatters behind, oh, wow, that was edgy. Or that was, I can't believe they said that, right? So like there are people out there that are that are seeing this, but they're busting up laughing through it.
00:56:31
Kendahl
So regardless of the the line that they push, they always do a great job of making everybody laugh.
Concluding Thoughts and Outdoor Encouragement
00:56:38
Kendahl
And so I'm i'm thinking this is going to do the same.
00:56:41
Kendahl
And I think that's what people need right now is just find a way to laugh.
00:56:43
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. because it is tying in a lot of movies that have recently come out and I will have a complete list of them after I see them. I have some of them, like my guy, terrifiers in their weapons is in there.
00:56:54
Kendahl
Oh, Get Out is in there.
00:56:55
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
00:56:56
Kendahl
they even have They even have a thing to back rooms in this.
00:56:59
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, perfect. I've seen when he gets us get out when he goes into the chair.
00:57:00
Kendahl
Supposedly. Supposedly. Yep.
00:57:05
Kendahl
Yep.
00:57:06
Julian Contreras Jr
So that's in there, but I hope everyone gets out there.
00:57:07
Kendahl
yep
00:57:10
Julian Contreras Jr
There's a lot of movies coming out in June. We will be back. Very soon, we'll try not to take as long as a break because with all these movies coming out.
00:57:15
Kendahl
Yes.
00:57:19
Julian Contreras Jr
So, Kendall, you got any words of wisdom for us?
00:57:22
Kendahl
My word of wisdom to you is go outside and touch grass.
00:57:28
Julian Contreras Jr
It is nice out there.
00:57:28
Kendahl
I mean that. I mean it. Like just, you know what? The thing is, is if you don't have grass in your lawn, go to a park. If you if you don't have a park nearby, go to your neighbor's house. I don't know. Just get outside. i You know, I think that's the hard part is I've realized that a little bit in my recent days is sometimes I think we get caught up in all the stuff that's going on. We feel this delusion of, oh, i you know, things are terrible. We have a beautiful world around us.
00:57:54
Kendahl
Go out and touch grass. I promise you, it'll make you feel better.
00:57:58
Julian Contreras Jr
right. Until next time, keep up. It only gets better.
00:58:03
Kendahl
And don't forget, turn on something good.