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Julian Contreras Jr: Oh, hey. Hi. There you guys are. Yeah, we were lost for a little bit, but we're here.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: No apologies there. First things first, I want to talk about what happened last week. I don't know. There was no music. So you guys just jumped right into us talking.
Julian Contreras Jr: I apologize for that.
Kendahl: It's, you know, I think we've we've had our our fair share of a couple of like technical glitches because going back to once again, this is just us doing it in our are bedrooms, offices, wherever, wherever the space allows.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. Yeah. Literally this time.
Kendahl: And, you know, just the most amateur of opportunity and we do it. And so things happen.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. So if the music worked, great. Hi, this is us. If not, going give you a little... da dada dada Hi, welcome in. This is Shut Off, Turn On. My name is Julian.
Julian Contreras Jr: That guy over there is
Kendahl: this This is Kendall on the East Coast.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes, we are here after, it's been quite hectic. Not hectic enough that we shouldn't have done the show.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: We should have done that. But, you know, life happens.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: And I want to get right into something that happened right the last episode. Your boy likes hockey now. but
Kendahl: yeah I it was so funny. You were just like, hey, so I'm going to a game and you start telling about these things. I'm like, oh, you know that's hockey, right?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, I knew it was hockey.
Kendahl: It's like...
Julian Contreras Jr: I for sure knew. And I knew it was going in. I was to the point where I was like asking friends. I'm like, okay, how cold does it get in there? Because I like it cold. So it wasn't going to bother me. But i was like, is it hoodie cold? Is it still short sleeve cold? You know, a hoodie is not a bad idea.
Julian Contreras Jr: You want to do an official sweater.
Kendahl: All right. So I have to ask you in, I mean, in the realm of sports, like what, what about hockey? Like all of a sudden you're like, wow, just, I like this. Like what, you know, what is, what is it that drew you?
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, so this all just started like six weeks ago. Okay, my friend Cody, he bought me tickets and I've seen it before. We have the Utah Mammoth. The year before that, they were just the Utah Hockey Club.
Julian Contreras Jr: So last year, I really wanted to get into it, but then they stuck with that name and I was like, that's not even like, that's nothing.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: That's like when the Washington football team was there for a year.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: And I told my buddy Mike and I was like, you know what I hope your team wins the Super Bowl this year. That way a name has to stay. Just because it's nothing, right? It's just the place you play.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like, there's nothing to root for.
Kendahl: it's a freaking It's a freaking placeholder. Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: So then they they kept the colors. The colors are amazing. I'm a Carolina Panthers fan, so they're not far off of what I already love. But going in and actually seeing, like, the arena, the ice rink, I mean, I've seen an ice rink before, but not of this caliber, I would say.
Julian Contreras Jr: And... like I'm just watching it up in the stands and I can't follow much. I don't know what offsides is. I'm not sure what icing is. I'm just waiting for big hits and fights and scoring opportunities.
Kendahl: OK.
Julian Contreras Jr: you know
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: But the more I started to learn about the game, and I was like, okay, I definitely want to come again. So we went, the next time we went, it was game four of the playoffs.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm. Okay. hmm. Oh, yeah yeah. I remember that.
Julian Contreras Jr: So it was still super fun. It was a crazy game. We went into overtime and almost double overtime. We ended up losing that one. And so I'm talking to my friends and I'm like, oh crap, I want to go again.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like, do we come back for game six? And they're like, oh, I don't know, man. Like, I don't know. I'm like, you know what? I'm going, I'm taking my family. We're going to game six. So we went to game six as well.
Julian Contreras Jr: So I've already been to two playoff games in a sport that I picked up six weeks ago.
Kendahl: Okay.
Kendahl: Well, so that means you got to see the high stakes element of it. Like, that's the cool part.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, and it's it's really awesome in there, Kendall.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I don't know why I didn't like it before. I just thought it was just this other sport that was there during basketball.
Kendahl: No.
Julian Contreras Jr: But the hitting, like once you know the rules, and this is like crazy because I'm just learning it at 43.
Kendahl: Hockey is... Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Once you know the rules, you can actually see the game slow down and you can see what they're doing. Before, you're just watching the little tiniest of pucks play being shot all over the place she' be like okay well they're skating over there now and now they're going this way but i'm all in utah mammoth it's so much fun it's i don't
Kendahl: Cool. Yeah. I mean, I, you know me, I've talked about it on this, on the show a few times. I'm, I'm a hockey fan. i don't, I don't watch hockey as much as I used to, but it's definitely a sport I really enjoy.
Kendahl: So cool.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah so that's what took up a little bit of my time beforehand
Kendahl: Nice.
Julian Contreras Jr: What else did we do? What did you do? You sent me a picture of something you, well, somebody did to you.
Kendahl: Oh, geez. Yeah. So for me, like what we've been doing, my my oldest daughter graduated from college. College.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, we old, buddy.
Kendahl: What?
Julian Contreras Jr: That's...
Kendahl: Oh, my gosh. Anyway, so my oldest daughter graduated from college and we were down in Virginia Beach. And anyway, we were heading back up home We're only like 20 minutes from the house and some nut job decided that he wanted to like zoom around traffic because it had been a really heavy traffic day.
Kendahl: And I don't know what he was thinking, but he misjudged us. And, you know, I've said this on this show before we pull a trailer whenever we go somewhere. It's our home away from home. It's easy away. You know, we can find a spot, park it, enjoy it. And it's a lot cheaper than hotels, people. I'm just telling you. So.
Kendahl: He misjudged the trailer and knocked the last like four feet of our trailer with his car. Sent us all over the freeway, took a big chunk out of the back of it. yeah it's it's not a It's not a fun thing because you know repairing a trailer is not like repairing a car. It's like repairing a house. You got to redo walls and gutters and all kinds of stuff. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, so when you sent me the picture, I was like, oh, yeah, that had to have happened like yesterday or something like that. And you were like, no, we're still waiting for the cops to get here. i was like, oh, so that happened right now.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yeah, it was, it's well, cause we had, that was a plan. We had planned on, on recording that day and, you know, we had even talked about, Hey, I'm going to get home. I got all day. Let's just go ahead and do it that evening. And,
Kendahl: it was it was still like four o'clock in the afternoon and i was still sitting there waiting for a cop and i'm like because it's it the problem is in that case because of where he hit me on the trailer this is thousands of dollars in damage and and then this guy's car it got sent all the way across the freeway because he took out the whole front end of his car i have a
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Kendahl: I have a, uh, like a rear bumper bar that's on the trailer for safety. His tire, uh, actually caught into that bar, took out the whole driver's side of his vehicle, including his tire. So it shot him all the way across the freeway to the left shoulder.
Kendahl: And so, I,
Julian Contreras Jr: did I will have to ask, it did anybody have a dash cam behind you that they showed you and turned in?
Kendahl: oh
Kendahl: No, I wish. And I'm really mad because my dash can't erased the video.
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh, seriously?
Kendahl: So I was like, just totally frustrated because at this point I thought we were going to be able to be fine. But the plus side is the cops cited him at the scene. So there's no question about who's at fault. And then also the massive four foot section on the back of my trailer being hit from the passenger side obviously shows like there's nothing that i did so i mean it's it's just a matter of time and headache and if you guys have ever had to deal with insurances when it comes to an accident that's just you know that's where we are
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Wow.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. I haven't been in an accident. I've had somebody hit my car at like the playground park where we were playing football. And that was just a joy to deal with because I was the one out of my car for like two weeks and I had to borrow my dad's truck.
Kendahl: Oh, I remember that. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I thought it was going to be a couple days and to be at weeks and I didn't like that at all.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: But can you guys still use the trailer while they are going to figure out repairs or no?
Kendahl: Yeah, so I'll i'll have i'll send you a photo. So I actually i actually like... Dude, this is this is the most hick setup ever. But it's it's patched up for right now. It's patched up.
Kendahl: So you'll have to zoom in and look at it. But I basically took a plastic bag... and then duct tape and duct taped the crud out of it because again this is a it's like a home and so when you don't have it all sealed up it gets water inside of it and when water it's you know gets into like wood and and porous uh like you know wall and siding and
Kendahl: insulation, it just all gets ruined. So we had to seal it up just like you would like if you were, you know, if you had a house situation, like a tree fall in a house, whatever, what do you do? You put a tarp over it, seal everything up. So it's as ghetto as it gets right now, but it's usable.
Kendahl: So we just can't, we can't get into the rear hatch of the trailer right now. which kind of sucks because that's where our grill and our, like our, so our chairs for sitting outside the fireplace.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: That's, that's where that stuff's at, but we can still get to it from inside the trailer. So it's like, we'll deal with it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. Well, at least it doesn't ruin all of your summer plans. You can still go out and do stuff.
Kendahl: Yeah, I mean, that's what I was originally worried about because, i mean, at at the scene, my brain's just going nuts. Oh, i'll have to I'll send you another photo too. The crazy part was when so when this guy hit me, it sent...
Kendahl: it sent the whole trailer up on like a 45 degree angle and the lady that was behind us didn't have dash cam pulled over with us and was like is everybody okay i'm hoping that nothing is broken because she goes i thought you were gonna flip i didn't i wasn't paying attention to the trailer because i'm just trying to control the thing but my wife said that it almost flipped on us and what happened was
Julian Contreras Jr: And that probably would have taken the truck too then.
Kendahl: It would have yet. I mean, it would have taken everything.
Julian Contreras Jr: Wow.
Kendahl: It was just could have been a lot worse. So thank goodness it's all good. But yeah, I mean, i just sent you a photo of the inside of the trailer. Everything was everywhere, everywhere.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, I got it. I'll check it here in a bit, but that's great.
Kendahl: okay
Julian Contreras Jr: Well, I'm glad you guys are all okay. Your plans for the summer can still go forward with a little minor mild inconvenience, but at least it's still there.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Kendahl: Yeah. Well, and I mean, and we I think the thing is, and you know the guy that that hit me, he came over. He was super apologetic. And he's like, i'm just I don't know what to do. And I said, you know what?
Kendahl: Right now, the thankful part is, it could have been a lot worse because... You could have gotten hurt. And because the way his vehicle got taken out, I mean, he could have been really hurt if he had not had a control of it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. That's
Kendahl: And there was there was anybody just to his left. Right. And then i could have been a lot worse for us with the trailer. Like just there were so many things that could have really gone wrong and they didn't. And so I told him, I said, right now, the biggest thing is we're walking away.
Kendahl: That's the best thing is that we we all walked away because it's you know, we're we're good. We're fine. We we we've stayed safe. so So don't worry about anything else. Everything else we'll worry about later. Don't worry about that.
Kendahl: Just be you know be happy that you're safe.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: that's good All right.
Kendahl: So.
Julian Contreras Jr: On the brighter side, cannot go without saying this, but I had Friday off of work and my niece was in the Utah State 5A championship for softball.
Kendahl: Oh, that's cool.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes. Very, very cool. Game one was on Thursday. I could not go to that one. My son had baseball.
Kendahl: hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: and But I promised I would go to the 11 game. so
Kendahl: Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: Me, the wife, the boy, we decided we're all going to go. We're going to see it. And it was the best of three. So if they would have won that 11 o'clock game, it would have been fine. Right?
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: Championship secured. Could have gone home, had the rest of the day. But as sports go, you got a flair for the dramatic. The other team won the first game.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: So we had to come back in a few hours. The 6A championship was being played straight after that. So we went to the mall, we got something to eat, we checked out a few stores and then we decided, okay, it's time we can go back.
Julian Contreras Jr: So we get back to the stadium. It was being played at BYU, BYU hosted it.
Kendahl: Oh wow, that's cool.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. So it was that really nice field up, up top there by the stadium.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: We get back and we're like, okay, this game's got to be about over because yes this one starts at 430. No, buddy. The 6A, they were going head to head. We looked at the scoreboard. The first inning was 6-5.
Kendahl: Mm hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: And then a few runs here, a few runs here, and it was really high scoring. Got to the very end and had another team won. I don't remember the teams right now. I think it was Riverton and Harriman.
Julian Contreras Jr: They were going at it. The team that needed to win to keep moving was ahead by four runs. Last out, last strike. Girl hits a grand slam to tie it up.
Julian Contreras Jr: Over the wall. It was insane. I've never been part of that in any sports that I've gone to.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I've watched it on TV many times.
Kendahl: Talk about flair for the dramatic.
Julian Contreras Jr: But... Yes, it was so crazy.
Julian Contreras Jr: I'm like, oh my gosh, that could go. That could go. It was dead center. And it went and tied it up and they went another inning. And the team ended up hitting Grand Slam, won the next inning.
Julian Contreras Jr: So they won and that was their three-peat. So that game was absolutely insane.
Kendahl: That's cool though. Mm
Julian Contreras Jr: And it went an hour and a half longer than it was supposed to.
Kendahl: hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: That's how long it was going. So we watched my niece. They took the field. And they were they were like hurrying. There was no one national anthem for the second one. There was no lineups. They were just saying it as they were taking the field. They're like, okay, we're doing this one. And then this team's lineup, we're just getting it going, you know?
Julian Contreras Jr: And it was back and forth, but she ended up winning the championship.
Kendahl: Wow.
Julian Contreras Jr: It was pretty crazy.
Kendahl: That's cool. That's cool.
Julian Contreras Jr: we got the result we wanted. It did take up our entire day and I got a nice tan and a, you see that tan line there. Cause there's no shade at all. If you're sitting in the seats, there's no shade it's facing right there, but it's well worth it.
Kendahl: Oh, yeah, I know.
Julian Contreras Jr: Congratulations. Haley. I love you so much. Congratulations. I actually got her attention when she was celebrating with her team for half a second. She saw me and it was, it was cool.
Kendahl: Nice. That's cool.
Julian Contreras Jr: And then we took off. So I can't, not go without saying that on here because it is entertainment so you know sports entertainment it's fine but now we're gonna get into what all the ticket holders come in for i'm gonna do a couple movies this guy's gonna do a movie and then we're gonna get into the boys you watched it right please tell me yeah good good be ready because it's coming
Kendahl: That's awesome.
Kendahl: All right. a All right.
Kendahl: Okay. yeah I did. i did. I did. Yeah. Okay. so Do we want to just, I mean, we can't have this episode without spoiler alerts.
Kendahl: I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. i don't think we could have, I mean, we could leave a little.
Julian Contreras Jr: No, no, it's going to be spoilers galore because I got stuff to say.
Kendahl: Yeah. Okay. Good. Okay. Good. I'm just like, i don't want to be like, Hey, by the way, we're not going to talk about it, but I mean, just be warned.
Julian Contreras Jr: what does read
Julian Contreras Jr: Nope. Nope. If you're tuning in now, it's been five days. This thing is all over every social media on how...
Kendahl: Okay.
Kendahl: Oh my gosh. i Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, let's just go. All
Kendahl: I don't want to go too far into it and start.
Julian Contreras Jr: right. I have been waiting... all spring for this movie called obsession to come out i've been seeing the teaser trailer i've been seeing trailer number one trailer number two it finally came out and i had to go see it as soon as i could
Kendahl: Okay.
Kendahl: I mean, and you texted me like the minute you finished it too.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah credits were still rolling when i text you this was well worth the wait i mean it's still getting a 95 96 97 whatever it is on rotten tomatoes at this moment
Kendahl: You're texting me. Okay.
Kendahl: Yeah, it's high.
Julian Contreras Jr: And it deserves every bit of it. $700,000 budget. It's projected. Kendo's looking up the numbers right now, but I think it's on track for 71 million, something like that.
Kendahl: Okay, 95. It's
Kendahl: okay ninety five it's a Tomatoes so far. And it's okay.
Kendahl: So at the end of this week, it is projected to be at 59 million at the end of this week.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. So it is making a ton of money and it, trust me, just go and see it.
Kendahl: So yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: That's it was written and directed by Curry Barker, who I didn't know.
Kendahl: Mm hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: But then as soon as I saw his pictures going around, I was like, wait, I know that guy. And then I started looking into it. He has the sketch comedy channel on Instagram, Facebook, whatever you can find it called. That's a bad idea.
Julian Contreras Jr: And once you look into it, I've guaranteed you've seen at least one of these videos come across.
Kendahl: Yep.
Julian Contreras Jr: It's him and his buddies. They're doing weird things. that There's plot twists in these short little videos that they do. And this guy, he's living up to the Barker name.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like, it's not, I don't think he's related to Clive Barker at all. But from this one, oh my goodness. Keep going, dude. Whatever projects they're giving you, whatever you want to write, do it.
Kendahl: So it says right here that it's actually projected to to surpass 100 million world worldwide. So so
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, yeah. I beg you to go see it. I know it's rated r It's not quite your jam.
Kendahl: No, but no, actually this one is kind of like a long way jam. Cause this is kind of one of those, it's not, it's not terrifier.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. That's my guy.
Kendahl: Well, and so the interesting thing I, and I texted you about this is that I, I mean, I was also kind of following this movie a little bit in its release and all this. And, I watched an interview with him and they kind of asked him, you know, what was the inspiration for this?
Kendahl: And it was the episode from The Simpsons where he gets the monkey paw and he has to he has to he has to make one wish with the but the wish has like these sort of caveats to it in a sense.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: And so that was that was his inspiration for this film.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. I mean, at growing up as a, as a guy, there's always those stupid things you think about in high school. Like, Oh, I wish I had one wish I would do this. And this really touches on it. Like in the worst way, like what's the worst thing that could happen?
Kendahl: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: and And so what they kind of want to do from what I, and I hope they do do it is he wants to make an obsession too, but nothing about these people. It's about another wish and how bad that can go.
Kendahl: like a oh so like a jungle book almost or Jumanji Jumanji Jumanji I'm thinking of like it's a yeah so it's like a continuation of the same thing but just different people
Julian Contreras Jr: Kind of.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, just somebody else making a wish and how horrible if you word it wrong. I mean, that there is no wish out there that I know of that would go 100% correct.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: You know, like you just can't word it because something will be taken. You ever done that project at school where you have to write down and say how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and somebody at the front of the class does it?
Kendahl: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: word for word and they can't change it and how horrible it goes.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And you're like, well, no, that's that's not what I meant.
Kendahl: We... Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: You have to do it this way. and That's not the way you wrote it.
Kendahl: Right. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: This is exactly what this movie does. Like, it's so much fun, Kendall. I did read this morning that they're going to put it on digital very, very soon. And there's going to be an unrated version.
Kendahl: Okay.
Kendahl: Oh, okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: So some of the stuff that...
Kendahl: No, this is this is actually one that I do want to see. so i will i will get to it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, good, good, good. I'm just going to go right into one more because it was the next week that movie Passenger came out. And if you all have seen that trailer, it's called The Passenger. You can go ahead and pause this episode and watch that minute and 50 trailer.
Kendahl: Is this the one where they show the the person in the car driving and they see the same person on the side of the road like three different times?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes.
Kendahl: Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, it's the two guys and they're driving and the one guy's got to the bathroom so he lets them out.
Kendahl: Can I
Julian Contreras Jr: And he's taken forever forever. And then he comes back to the car and it's empty.
Kendahl: come in?
Julian Contreras Jr: So it happens that way. But then it completely shifts over and there's a completely different story to it. So that for the trailer part was very, very interesting.
Julian Contreras Jr: And then it gets to the actual story.
Kendahl: Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: And I've heard some reviewers say this one and I don't want to steal their material and I'm trying not to, but it's kind of the exact same thing I was thinking. This is so on the trajectory that a movie should be built.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like there's no twist. There's no turns. You're like, okay, this is going to happen. This is going to happen.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: And it's just, it's very anticlimactic. The, What are they called? The jump scares? they They're so foreshadowed that you know it's it's just boring.
Kendahl: Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: So i I waited for this one. I thought it was going to be cool from that whole first trailer that you thought, but then they gave me the old rope-a-dope and it's just not that.
Kendahl: Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: I give this one a four. It was okay. I had a little bit of fun, but I don't think I'd ever sit down and watch it again.
Kendahl: Okay. All right.
Julian Contreras Jr: So those are my two.
Kendahl: So you you didn't do upset. at What did you give obsession?
Julian Contreras Jr: I'm setting that gets a nine, nine and a half.
Kendahl: Oh, okay. Wow. Nine.
Julian Contreras Jr: It's up there. I can't wait to see this unrated version and what they can add to it.
Kendahl: Okay. All right. Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: I wish I had just gone and seen Obsession again and not seen Passenger, but then I wouldn't have this rant to go on.
Kendahl: Good.
Kendahl: All right.
Julian Contreras Jr: You go to see a scary movie and there's absolutely nothing scary about it.
Kendahl: All right.
Julian Contreras Jr: It's just like, okay, well, this person's going to do this and this person's going to do this.
Kendahl: Right.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yeah. When it follows every trope that's been, i mean, I can be honest with you. It kind of looks a little bit like I know what you did last summer kind of, I don't know, movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, I will say this is better than that remake.
Kendahl: Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: All right?
Kendahl: Okay. All right.
Julian Contreras Jr: You guys know how much I hated that.
Kendahl: There's some positive, some positive,
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. Yeah, it's it's better than chicken pox, so...
Kendahl: two so So I also went to the theaters. I went to something on the opposite scale. This was Sheep Detective. Now, if you've seen anything about this, i've had I've had people ask me if this was like some of the like kid movies of the past. This does not look like it would be a very entertaining movie. It also, I think it's in the 90s. It also has like a 90-something Rotten Tomatoes.
Julian Contreras Jr: Well, it's because it's got Hugh Jackman, right?
Kendahl: And, well, dude, it has Hugh Jackman for all, it's a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Julian Contreras Jr: That's All
Kendahl: Hugh Jackman is in this film total maybe, maybe 20 minutes.
Julian Contreras Jr: right.
Kendahl: Maybe, maybe 20 minutes. And it has a runtime of an hour and 15 minutes. So, okay, premise Hugh Jackman is this guy who owns this plot of land. And it starts off with basically this little of farm of sheep being obsessed with Hugh Jackman's character, reading them books at night. And he it's all about like how to take care of the sheep, right? And it there's so many deep meanings in this movie. It's ridiculous. It's one of those, as you start watching it, you're like, oh my gosh, i am I crying? Why am I crying that a sheep just died?
Kendahl: And I'm not even joking you.
Julian Contreras Jr: was spoiler alert
Kendahl: So it's one of those movies. It it is legitimately a mystery movie. It's a murder mystery thriller, to be honest.
Kendahl: And it plays out really well the whole time. You're like, if you're trying to figure out who did it. And the sheep are the detectives and they're, they're literally going back and they're like, oh well, he used to read us these books and it has to be this type of character. And this has, this has to be the situation. And. Legitimately this, this movie is good. It's really good. I, I would go back and see it again. and the funny thing is, is my wife who is like,
Kendahl: Never Cryer in any film. There's a scene that happens and I look over to her and she's like... crying and i went oh my gosh because it's just you just you don't expect it and i don't know if it's just timing and things happening in our life but i've heard the same thing in reviews that i've read and and i've watched a few people you know talking about this thing on like social media and everybody has the same response it was a movie you just didn't expect to be
Kendahl: emotionally tied to and it's good it's just it's it's funny you've got like dumb sheep and you've got the smart sheep and you've got the the sheep that thinks it's beautiful but there's this little side plot that's part of everything and it's that in the book or in the movie it it It talks about how sheep have the ability to forget anything they want to forget. They have to choose to forget it and they choose to forget it in a flock sense. And there's these situations that they allude to have happened in the past. But there's one sheep in the flock that never forgets and he can't forget.
Kendahl: He has to remember everything. And there's a scene where they all say, don't remind us of this moment. And he's like, well, what if you ask me to?
Kendahl: And he they all say, don't don't remind us. We don't want to remember. And she goes, and we're all going to forget on one two, three. And then it's like, snap.
Kendahl: Everybody goes right back to what they were talking about before they recognize the problem.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah Okay.
Kendahl: And it's weird, but it plays a big part into the film. And so it's just, I recommend seeing it. It's, I don't think it's in many theaters anymore. It's okay. But when it comes out, rent it, go, I mean, find it, watch it.
Kendahl: It's worth it. It really is one of those films. My wife and I went saw it. We didn't take our kids. It was just my wife and I. So yeah, it was just, it's one of those, I i liked it.
Julian Contreras Jr: right
Kendahl: it I don't know. I can't explain it because I can't really talk about the movie at all because there's too many things in the film that if I talk about it, it gives away. And it really legitimately is a murder mystery. And, you know, it takes place in this small little town and you've got the pastor of the church involved. You've got the...
Kendahl: clerk at the hot at the the hotel involved. You've got this mystery daughter that shows up. You've got this reporter that shows up. You've got this lawyer that shows up. like All these random people show up when this guy that owns all these sheep decides to come into play. And then there you go.
Kendahl: It's like, okay, but how is this a murder mystery? And then it unravels. And so it's just, it's super cool. It's super cool.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: i I recommend it a lot.
Julian Contreras Jr: I'll tell you what. I will definitely check that one out at home.
Kendahl: Yeah, no, no. I'd watch at home. But it was funny because we went in thinking, oh, Hugh Jackman. And you look, I'm not giving anything away. Hugh Jackman dies in 10 minutes into the film.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. Well, I mean, it's in the trailer that he dies, so it's no big deal.
Kendahl: Right, exactly. So he dies 10 minutes into the film and then he comes back in little remembering segments in part of the movie. But I'm telling you people, he's only in this film for a total of 20 minutes. So, but yeah, it's good. Really, really good.
Kendahl: So.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. That is going to conclude our reviews on the movies that we've seen. i mean, I've seen a ton more movies on Netflix and whatever, but
Kendahl: Oh, geez. I've watched Hail Mary twice since then.
Julian Contreras Jr: Nice. I just watched Fifth Element last night. It was great, as always.
Kendahl: Nice. Nice.
Julian Contreras Jr: What else did we watch yesterday? That documentary, The Crash, that one's making its way all over Instagram and everything, becoming the at-home detectives and stuff.
Kendahl: Oh. Yeah, I've seen about that. Uh-huh.
Julian Contreras Jr: Fun fact about that one, Hulu also has done that one in the Mean Girl Murders series.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: So there's two. They're not very different takes, but the Hulu one isn't as nice as the Netflix one.
Kendahl: Oh. Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: So I watched that one. There's tons of I've watched the Ronda Rousey, Gina Carano fight at my brother's house. That whole seven, 17, 17.
Kendahl: You mean 30 seconds?
Julian Contreras Jr: seventeen
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: So I'll touch on that just for a second. So the Gina Carano fight versus Ronda Rousey, I wanted it to be so good. I didn't think Gina was going to win.
Julian Contreras Jr: But I was on her side because 17 years ago when we worked together, she had her other her last fight and she absolutely got like beat up.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: it It was was bad. So I haven't seen her since then. She's had the whole Mandalorian thing going on. I'm not touching on anything like that, but I haven't seen her forever. So I wanted her to win. And I've also seen Ronda Rousey in the WWE w and doing stuff like that.
Julian Contreras Jr: So I thought it would go a little bit longer. it It just didn't.
Kendahl: Wait a second.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like...
Kendahl: It just occurred Wait, so, wait, did she work with us?
Julian Contreras Jr: she didn't work with us. No, no, no, no.
Kendahl: Oh.
Julian Contreras Jr: We worked together, me and you.
Kendahl: Oh, I'm like, hold up a second. Nevermind. My brain froze for half a second. was like, wait a second. Did we know her somehow?
Julian Contreras Jr: No, we have never, ever, ever worked with Gina Corona.
Kendahl: Okay. No. know
Julian Contreras Jr: don't want to get out there anywhere.
Kendahl: The way you said that, my brain was like, wait a second. Is there something I'm missing here?
Julian Contreras Jr: No, I might have been talking too fast, but yeah.
Kendahl: I gotcha. Oh my gosh.
Julian Contreras Jr: So the kids were playing outside. I was at my brother's house and all the cousins were playing. And my kid's like, hey, well, when when are we going to go? Can we start to play this game? was yeah, this fight has just about to start. So you can play and then we'll leave as soon as this fight's over.
Julian Contreras Jr: Sit down on the couch. The kids barely got outside.
Kendahl: Dude doesn't even get it started.
Julian Contreras Jr: it happened. She tapped out. And I'm like, all right, let's go. He's like, what? what He's like, that's it. Fight's over.
Kendahl: Yeah, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Anyway, so that was okay. The undercard fights were much better. But that that's all I'm going to say.
Kendahl: Because there were more than 17 seconds.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes, more than. very much more entertaining but here we go we're diving into the boys if you have not seen this finale or the show at all we're going to tear it down right now we're going to go all in on every spoiler that has happened because this this might have been up there with game of thrones ending probably worse for me
Kendahl: Yeah.
Kendahl: I don't know. i So I think it was a cop out.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, well well, we'll get into that right now.
Kendahl: OK.
Julian Contreras Jr: So first off, in our little synopsis for our episodes, you guys can read that I always title it, The Boys Are Back, The Boys Are Doing This, Sometimes The Boys Are Back, Minus One, Whatever.
Julian Contreras Jr: And I always kind of felt a little bad about that because I kept typing the boys. Well, now I don't care. Yeah.
Kendahl: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: I'm done being, oh, this is the title of a show. i don't care anymore. If you're going to do that to me, I'm going to use it. Just two words. Where do we even want to start with this?
Julian Contreras Jr: Do we want to start with flashbacks?
Kendahl: Okay, I'm going to start with this. do you know Do you know the ending of the original comics?
Julian Contreras Jr: No, I do not. And I don't think I want to go look at that.
Kendahl: Okay, well, we don't have to go deep diving it, but I'm going to tell you because I think it's important. So Butcher is there, Homelander is there, but another character that's there would have been such a better ending. Noir.
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh, he was there for a bit.
Kendahl: Noir is there.
Kendahl: Right, but Noir, the original Noir, was there at the very end at the White House with Butcher, with Homelander, because Noir was a clone of Homelander the whole time.
Julian Contreras Jr: See, now that would have been cool.
Kendahl: Right. And he and he comes out. And so Homelander basically he he's psychotic, which we see. And he's crazy, which we see on every end of like being feeling like he's godlike.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: And it's the same in the comics, except Noir basically comes out and says, look, hey, guess what? All those really bad things are claiming that you did that you keep saying you didn't. Yeah, that was me. I was the one that doing the bad things because I wanted to frame you because I hate you. And so Noir and Homelander go at it. and And it's like Homelander versus Homelander, basically. So it's like this super edgy, crazy, super powered, you know, suit thing going on. And the like he's trying to take down Noir is trying to take down Vought. And it just it's so much cooler.
Kendahl: And in this one, it's like. Oh, pew pew, take your powers out. hu What?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. So leading up to this season, they were giving us the teaser posters of Homelander in space, taking out cities because he is got the V1 that was supposed to make him much more powerful.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: So, and he's, he is, you said it, he is psychotic.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: So we thought he was just going to start taking out everyone who didn't believe up in the air, just blowing power stations up, nuclear sites, whatever have you, there's going to be all this,
Kendahl: Everything. You...
Julian Contreras Jr: death for absolutely no reason just because he can. And he said that in his series.
Kendahl: And you and i even had those, well, you and I even had that text. I was like, okay, he just got B1. What next?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. He shoots those lasers in the sky and you're like, okay, well that's crazy. And then they just end it with like, but you're saying run. So you're like, okay, there's no way they're going get away.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: The episode starts with them safe in another house. How did they get away?
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: Right. And then, and and and I think the thing that frustrated me the most was that Homelander was no more more Homelander than he was before. i mean, Butcher was not beating the crap out of him, but I mean, he was keeping up with him.
Kendahl: This is supposed to.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, so there was many fights before when he was just using his super speed. Because if you guys don't watch, Homelander is basically Superman. He has every power. He's got super speed. He can fly. He's got laser eyes.
Julian Contreras Jr: He's bulletproof. He's super powerful, can like kill anybody like real quick with his hands, which he does quite a bit.
Kendahl: Super strong. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: And you're looking forward to this fight. And you're like, for the people that watch Invincible, those fights, they're throughout the town. They're going through buildings. They're taking out buses. they're Everybody's getting, like, but killed.
Kendahl: Nothing is sacred.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, nothing. you're going to punch somebody through a bus and you're going take out the entire bus in the most graphic way possible. So I'm like, okay, this fight takes place in the oval office and he can't get away.
Kendahl: Right.
Kendahl: that' Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And I just don't, I just don't understand that at all.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I mean, I know they had butcher.
Kendahl: Well,
Julian Contreras Jr: He's got powers. He's got his, let's call them body snakes, whatever we call them.
Kendahl: things I don't even know.
Julian Contreras Jr: So yeah, that was cool. Having him catch them. and bringing them back. But before in episodes, he was taken off at the speed of light.
Kendahl: Right.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: This one, he's like trying to jump out the window.
Kendahl: Well, and and then like he I saw a thing that showed about how Anthony Starr, every time he goes to jump, he has like this weird hands up and then like throws his chest out.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah, I saw that just today.
Kendahl: and and but And the thing is, is like he keeps like engaging himself to like jump and and then Butcher keeps him. And I think the thing that frustrating the most about this episode is I felt like this was the literal, x this was the absolute definition of jump the shark.
Kendahl: It was, okay, we're all going to talk about how Frenchie died and Do you know, do our little homage to him and then. all right, let's go to the White House.
Kendahl: What?
Julian Contreras Jr: So what what I want to talk about Frenchie is he's in that hospital room, right? And he's with Homelander, but they don't show anything. Like they're just talking.
Kendahl: Right. Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And then he's in this room. Homelander's gone. They bust out the war. There's this huge trail of blood, like assuming like he was dragged there.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And then when he's talking, he's not bleeding from the mouth. He's not, he's clean.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: But then he dies. Well, where did the blood come from?
Kendahl: Exactly.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like, and...
Kendahl: i feel like the last two episodes, like I said, I think it was a cop out. I felt like why i there was so much leading up to the beginning of those two episodes, because I i mean, I felt like this season was really good.
Kendahl: And then. episode, the end of episode six was a little off. And then seven was just like, what's going on? Because six was the one where everybody it was showing each an individual.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: Was that the one that was at six that they went through and gave it was like, noir. i
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: Yeah, it went through each of those those characters right one by one.
Julian Contreras Jr: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: right
Kendahl: And it it it for what, though, like it didn't it didn't it didn't make sense.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, for absolutely nothing because they didn't come back. I'm just going to start spitting them out as I think about them because there's a lot to talk about, a lot that I didn't agree with, whatever. Not to say is this show didn't earn my respect all the way up until this because obviously I stayed tuned for all of this.
Kendahl: Right, right.
Julian Contreras Jr: There were great seasons. They were like, okay, can wait for this comic book scene. And then sure enough, there was a scene and you're like, oh, it's crazy. They're actually doing it. All I'm talking about is this last one and possibly seven right before it.
Kendahl: I think half of seven. I'll take half of seven.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. Let's break down Sister Sage. The smartest woman on the planet just walks away?
Kendahl: I feel like they just dumbed her down the last like three or four episodes. like She didn't even have anything. like Nothing seemed planned. Nothing seemed like she was able to understand. She was surprised at every turn. and how
Julian Contreras Jr: It's because she doesn't understand the love aspect of it, Kendall. That's how they explained it.
Kendahl: Oh, geez.
Julian Contreras Jr: She's the smartest woman alive, but when love is taking place in it, she can't see past it.
Kendahl: Well, I remember them talking about that, but even then, it doesn't matter. She still didn't even see everything was going on with Homelander.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: Like, everything that was happening with him was some so somehow a surprise to her.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: But it's like, if she was the smartest person, she would have seen. Like, we all saw it coming. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah i mean but that's the joy of being the viewer you can see every point of view that's taken place so we kind of feel smart but she's only one character that that i doesn't get mean that she gets to get her powers taken away and go ahead and live a normal regular life she did some awful things yeah
Kendahl: Yeah.
Kendahl: Right.
Kendahl: Right. Well, that's what I'm saying. I don't i don't understand. i don't understand. Like the sister stage character to me, it just fell off. I just feel like they did. They were like, I don't know how to fix her. So we're done.
Kendahl: There you go.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: Go ahead. Bye.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. And let's talk about when they're the boys are fighting Homelander, the Oval Office. Starlight chooses to take on the Deep, which is fine because she's definitely earned her fight with him.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: He did something very bad to her in episode one or two, whenever that took place.
Kendahl: Episode one started the whole thing off.
Julian Contreras Jr: So she deserved to have that fight against him, get everything revenge. So she flies off. And where does she take this Aquaman-esque character, Kendall, to choose to fight him?
Kendahl: The beach.
Julian Contreras Jr: The beach. Why are we taking him to his sweet spot? She has no idea that the ocean has rejected him.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: That the sharks are like, you get in here and we're going to kill you.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: We know what you did. And for some reason, yeah, she has no idea.
Kendahl: Samuel L. Jackson.
Julian Contreras Jr: Why would she take him to the beach and drop him? And that's where she chooses to fight him.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And then go ahead.
Kendahl: I mean, I like his comeuppance, though, because it was.
Julian Contreras Jr: Nice. Good wording as well. but
Julian Contreras Jr: But, but why? And then even when she's got the upper hand and she's got her sparkler power
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: She chooses to punch him towards the water.
Kendahl: Yeah, which, I mean, yeah let's just say like in this scenario that none of that other stuff was happening. At that point, she's lost the battle because he would have every, i mean, he, one one of the things I read a long time ago was out of all the characters, maybe outside of Homelander,
Kendahl: The Deep is the one character that utilizes his powers to the absolution of its fullest. Because he he's he's able to swim in the water, use the creatures to his bidding.
Julian Contreras Jr: Right.
Kendahl: He's able to you know use them to do what he wants. He talks to them. he He's able to you know get information from them. like He uses everything about his powers...
Kendahl: to do everything he needs to do as the Deep. He's like the one character. And then she goes and hits him in there. And let's say he didn't have any of those problems.
Kendahl: there's She would not have won. like that like Why would she make that choice?
Julian Contreras Jr: No.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Exactly. I have no idea. so when I saw that, I was like, oh, she's taking him to the water. But as like, again, as the viewer, we know the water has rejected him.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: And we're like, okay, sweet. She, all she has to is push him in the water. But then I'm like, wait, all she has to do is push him in the water. That's,
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. She deserved to like get a full rear naked choke on them and pop that dome off is what I'm saying.
Kendahl: Yeah, right?
Julian Contreras Jr: Like she, did but all she did was push them.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: All right. So that's that we got soldier boy. She's not even in the last episode, Kendall.
Kendahl: No.
Julian Contreras Jr: And I know they're doing a prequel and, but what does that have to do with him?
Kendahl: Vought Rising. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Not being there for the final episode.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: He's just sleepy time.
Kendahl: Like, I was... I can be honest you. I was really hoping the final episode was going to be him against Homelander with Butcher.
Kendahl: That's what I wanted, to be honest with you. i was I was looking for that... Excuse my language in this moment. I was looking for that threesome right there. and Because i thought... If you know, you know the show.
Kendahl: Anyway, so, but no, I'm serious though.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, yeah.
Kendahl: Like i I really wanted that because that was, that's like the pinnacle of everything that this show involved was the fact that that Homelander could not fight his father and Soldier Boy was just like done with him. He was he was like, you're psychotic. I don't want anything to do with you. I hope you never see me again.
Kendahl: And then you have Butcher, who's like obviously his his ultimatum to everything is to remove Homelander from the world. So, yeah, it'd be a perfect combo. Like, just why not put that together?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. And then...
Kendahl: I mean, you already screwed up the comics, so like that's that's the whole thing.
Julian Contreras Jr: I'm kind of jumping around this episode. Yeah.
Kendahl: You can't say, oh, so what we're trying to stay close to the comics. you already screwed up the comics. I mean, they they stayed as close as they could for a lot of things, but you already kind of screwed up the whole, like, canon of the comic comics.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: So why stay true in that moment? Why not? Why not fix it? I don't know.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: And then we get to the point where the the so psychics are in the theater... And they're testing people to see if they're true believers or not whatnot.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And we already know this this episode is only an hour. An hour, five minutes, I think, with credits.
Kendahl: Mm hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: So what we're going to do in this moment in time is we're going to spend three to four minutes watching two brand new characters.
Julian Contreras Jr: I don't know, flirt, kind of? Because one's got feline powers and one's got dog powers. So they're just...
Kendahl: Oh, that's in seven.
Julian Contreras Jr: They're just sniffing each other's butt for four minutes.
Kendahl: Still. Yeah, I know. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: What are we doing?
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like we didn't need that. Like build on something else. That was four minutes just wasted because they died anyway.
Kendahl: and and And I just, I literally, I was like, oh, I know where this is going. No.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. And then nothing even happened. Like if you were going to do that part and you were preluding to like, oh, this is what we're going to have you see real quick to earn this MA rating.
Kendahl: now
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: No, you didn't even get that payoff.
Kendahl: No. Yeah, i I mean...
Julian Contreras Jr: All right.
Kendahl: Okay, so in it let me let me caveat all of this to everyone listening. Julian and I are are... We might be frustrated in this last episode and and we're like bashing it a little bit.
Kendahl: This show is... I mean, it it is very, very pinnacle, like just fun to watch. There's just a lot of... Everything. Things blow up.
Kendahl: Things get blown. Things happen. yeah i mean, everything and anything you could imagine, you see in this show. I mean, it's just there's nothing sacred to it. Everything happens. I mean, for goodness sakes, Homelander says that he is the chosen God at one point. So everything is not sacred, right? But...
Kendahl: on the same end, it's just like they i mean, OK, the going into the next level, I mean, like, OK, what's her name that could mess with blood from Gen V?
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Kendahl: she They lead up to her being a part. shes I mean, start Starlight's literally telling her that, you know, this is your chance to, you know, do something right and then nothing.
Julian Contreras Jr: Twice. Twice she has that speech with her. She has it the first time and then she says, oh no, we can't have you do this because you're too important so we need you to take these people to the border.
Kendahl: And then
Julian Contreras Jr: Like borders are going to stop Homelander at all.
Kendahl: Right? The guy can go any...
Julian Contreras Jr: They do can fly anywhere.
Kendahl: in the In the last episode, he's talking to a guy that's... That... that the that Oh, Father... was Isn't it Oh, Father?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: Doesn't like. And Homelander is like, oh, he was a spaceman, so took him to space. In the snap of a finger, he took him to space and came back. The dude can go anywhere in half a second.
Kendahl: There's no there's no hiding.
Julian Contreras Jr: Until it matters and he's in the Oval Office and he can't get away.
Kendahl: Right? Right, and then he doesn't know where he's going. But but yeah, I mean, like, okay, so you had you had all of these, like, soups from Gen V in the last, like, two or three episodes, alluding to the fact that somehow they were going to be involved, and you did nothing but just give them dialogue.
Kendahl: They did nothing but just produce dialogue. A dialogue that went nowhere. Oh, that was that was even more infuriating.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. But it' something I did like, it's not much, but there is something I did like the death scene for Oh Father. Oh my goodness.
Kendahl: Oh, yeah, that was good.
Julian Contreras Jr: That was insane.
Julian Contreras Jr: MM just grabs that newly built ball gag where Ashley said couldn't, he couldn't break.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And you kind of just throw that information away. You're like, okay, well that's just alluding to their, their playtime.
Kendahl: Something. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: But then he sees it and he's like, what the heck? And he grabs it. And as soon as old father goes to use his power, which is the power of like yelling or something vocal.
Kendahl: Yeah, he has he he can yeah he basically yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: It's like extreme voice.
Julian Contreras Jr: when he shoves that in his mouth and his head just explodes. Oh my goodness. My jaw dropped. I was watching with my wife and she's never seen this show before, but she watched episode seven and eight with me.
Julian Contreras Jr: So she's trying to figure things out and that happened. And she's like, okay, that was something. So I think that was my favorite part of the show.
Kendahl: So
Kendahl: Alright, so I want to talk about the death of Butcher.
Julian Contreras Jr: All right, yeah, let's get to it.
Kendahl: ay Out of all the things that happened in that episode, I mean, I was looking for Homelander to die. I i didn't like the way that he died. i didn't like the way that he was finally taken out. But I still liked the fact that they got...
Kendahl: that that into that position where they could finally take out Homelander and then for him to grovel and in absolution, like I don't know.
Julian Contreras Jr: Grovel? grovel that way he became the lowest of the low like and that's what i figured he would be because he got these powers as a baby he's never known a day where he's not the strongest person on earth but when his voice changes and he's doing different inflections on words and he's crying you're like yeah that's
Kendahl: Without him. Right.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Kendahl: all the things he said he'll do just to get out of it. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. And it's like, okay, yeah, you deserve that. But at the same time, like, why are we going that far?
Kendahl: Right. So his death was good enough, right? It was good enough, but why did we have to have the death of butcher?
Kendahl: You know what mean?
Julian Contreras Jr: butka
Kendahl: i
Julian Contreras Jr: I thought about that and he was never going to stop.
Kendahl: I don't,
Julian Contreras Jr: It looked like he was going to stop when he like lifted his finger from that trigger of the little device.
Kendahl: Yeah, right. The the release device. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: It looked like it, but Huey can't see that. And for for Huey to have shot him, like what what was that? like The lower abdomen, really?
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: He said it himself. He's like, you're right. like I'm too far gone. I was never going to stop this. My mission is never going to be over. Yes, I did take out Homelander.
Julian Contreras Jr: But I'm not I it's too far gone. I'm never going to stop. They all have to go.
Kendahl: Yeah, I don't know. see like i i The hard part I have is he didn't see that about Starlight, right? He didn't see that about Huey when he had powers for the brief minute, right?
Kendahl: He didn't see that about Soldier Boy because there was a time when he was he was willing to like join up with Soldier Boy for a minute.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: So why? i don't know. To me, I felt like there could have been
Kendahl: this resolute in in the show to say that, you know, yeah, he may not be able to stop, but it would be to focus in on those that are, have been part of Vought, right? And, and again, joining up with Soldier Boy, that would have been a really cool,
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: avenue i mean soldier boy probably would have never cared to be honest with you i get that part but i'm just saying like if there was some type of of resolute in the in in the script to say that that was the direction he was going to go that would make sense to me like i would see that i would say like okay i got the guy that that started my hatred for this all together and now I want to finish that.
Kendahl: I want to finish the ones that are like him, that were that were that ruined people's lives. like I could see that, especially because you know that's why he joined up with with M.M. in the first place, was because M.M.' 's hatred for Supes in the same format.
Kendahl: The reason M.M.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. All right.
Kendahl: hated it was because he couldn't stand Supes that just didn't care. But then he got he was he started to understand it was okay for someone like Starlight, right?
Kendahl: He understood or even a train like even understood why train would join them. So I see like I just I felt like that could have been something better. i don't know.
Julian Contreras Jr: A couple more things. He put the toxin. Let's assume that he did it the way he said he did it. He put the toxin inside the emergency water tank for the sprinkler system.
Kendahl: Right. Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: How do you clean that out?
Kendahl: Yeah, right.
Julian Contreras Jr: You have to expose it to air to get it cleaned out.
Kendahl: Uh-huh.
Julian Contreras Jr: There's nobody that can just come and snap their finger or and just get it rid of it. It's just there.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: So, i don't know about that.
Kendahl: I don't know. That was another one that I just was like, okay, this was such a it was such a simple plot point that they brought in that be created in and in a crazy end, but then had, again, no resolution to It's like, wait, you just thought this huge plot hole.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. I'm going to retouch on Kimiko. They gave her the solar flare that soldier boy took years to get.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: They somehow did that in a couple of days, but they did have sis.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: Now I forgot her name. Sister Sage. who double-checked and triple-checked the math so if they could do it. Like, whatever. Like, Kamiko was really good.
Julian Contreras Jr: But two episodes before that, Homelander sliced her in half with his laser eyes. He does it in the Oval Office, and she just flies back against the wall.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: Uh, okay. Are we just saying that she got more powerful? So...
Kendahl: Well, and see,
Julian Contreras Jr: I mean, there's only a couple people that can take the laser eyes and not.
Kendahl: And see, and this is the inconsistency I'm talking about. Like, so same thing happened to Butcher, right? Like he went to laser eye Butcher. Butcher just basically got shoved up against the wall.
Kendahl: And then a half hour later, he was able to shoot him with a bullet.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: i That was my problem. I just, I, when when he shot him with a bullet, I was like,
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, that makes sense because he was holding him with the solar flare. So Ryan has no powers. Homelander has no powers. And Butcher lost his powers. They got frightened.
Julian Contreras Jr: Everybody in that room that's on that side.
Kendahl: Oh, that's true. Okay, okay, okay. I guess I didn't think about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. So that's why Ryan is leaving with MM to live a normal life. But why is he going with MM?
Kendahl: Right, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: He knows MM for like 13 seconds throughout his whole life.
Kendahl: Yeah, exactly, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: but he's just going to go live with them now. i mean, Laz is a cool guy. I talked to him, but...
Kendahl: So, and then the, okay, so what about like the Huey Starlight baby situation?
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. So they had their own little startup.
Kendahl: I just...
Julian Contreras Jr: He was offered a job to work with Vought to do the same thing he was doing freelance.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: Is that what I understood?
Kendahl: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: To monitor certain Supes that could be going bad.
Kendahl: Rogue. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes. But that's what he's doing with Starlight.
Kendahl: Starlight. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: And she's pregnant and Hugh is going to be a daddy. So that's all cool. I mean, I guess if you wanted a spinoff show, that could be an okay one too.
Kendahl: I was going say, I felt like that was like a nod to a possible spinoff at some point if they wanted it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: But I don't know
Julian Contreras Jr: I think, is that everything? Did we touch on everything except for...
Kendahl: know. I feel like there's a lot.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. So the dog dying out of nowhere.
Kendahl: Yeah, I just I feel like they had to because he did die in the comics and they had to like, i don't know.
Julian Contreras Jr: Was that a catalyst for Butcher to go even further? Like, okay, I don't have any powers.
Kendahl: it In the comics, it was.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. So maybe that's what they showed us that for. Cause I, he just walked in and i was like, wait, why is the dog dead? Like what? He was just happy earlier.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Anyway, I think, I think that's all right.
Kendahl: I mean, there is. just it's i think the hardest part is that there's just...
Kendahl: Again, I go back to... like Don't get us wrong. This is a good show. this i I enjoyed it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, it was a great six six to eight years, however long this show was on. I don't even remember when it first came out.
Kendahl: I just.
Julian Contreras Jr: But yeah, it was awesome. like I've seen Brightburn. Have you seen that movie?
Kendahl: Parts of it.
Julian Contreras Jr: That's the one where, yeah.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yeah. Where if Superman had been had had had grown up differently whatever.
Julian Contreras Jr: So that has the same...
Julian Contreras Jr: Right.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, if he was evil and used his powers for evil. That's exactly what this boys does.
Kendahl: Right. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like some of them are good, but some of them let the powers go right to their head and they're just like, okay, well you can't touch me. so I'm going to do whatever I want.
Kendahl: right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And that there's a whole scene where home letter can do whatever he wants.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: It's just crazy scene, but to end it like this, i don't know. I feel like we've talked to all this garbage and it's, it's one of those things. Well, nobody's going to be happy with any ending of a show.
Kendahl: I could have been happier.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, we could have been happier. I'm not going to go wrong. But I don't want to go out saying that this was the worst show in the world because it wasn't.
Julian Contreras Jr: It just went a little too far and then it when it counted, it didn't go far enough. And I don't know what budgets are.
Kendahl: yeah that's a good That is a very good way to put it. I think that's the that's the way to put it, is that this show always pushed the envelope. And where it had the opportunity to push, it just it copped out. It really did.
Julian Contreras Jr: So that was our take on the boys. That one is over. There's a couple of spinoff shows or maybe just one coming out. Cause I know Gen V got canceled as well.
Kendahl: Yep. So Gen V's canceled. Vought Rising, it's scheduled for 2027 at some point. I think it's, i don't quote me, I think a spring of 2027 it's supposed to start up. So I know they're already filming.
Kendahl: I know that much.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. So, I mean, what's the, what's the writer or director's name? Kripke.
Kendahl: Yeah, Eric Kripke. Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, Eric, if you're if if you're listening to this, like it was what it was. We obviously we can't make this show. We're not talented like that. That's all you. That's your realm.
Julian Contreras Jr: This is just us reacting to what it was in our opinions.
Kendahl: Yeah. i I go back to I think it was this is a great show. It was a lot of fun to watch. I look forward to the episodes. I I just I just wish that there was.
Kendahl: i think that I think the hardest part about the end is maybe our expectations are too high.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, but they're...
Kendahl: They said it.
Julian Contreras Jr: They were. They were.
Kendahl: Yeah, but they set the expectations at that point, you know.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, because there were some season finales where you're like, what just happened? What does that mean for next season? Like, you're so excited.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: And then, like, it ended like this. Hey, that's the boys.
Kendahl: Yes.
Julian Contreras Jr: This weekend, we are both seeing a movie together so we can actually talk about a movie. We are going to go see Back Rooms by A24.
Kendahl: yeah
Kendahl: yes Yeah. if If you don't know anything about this, this started off as a creepypasta. I don't remember how long ago. And then it went into a web series. And then I believe it got made into a short-lived TV series. and And so, I mean, there's a there's there's just tons of it on on YouTube.
Kendahl: You can just type in back rooms. I promise you, you'll find them. They're creepy.
Julian Contreras Jr: The trailers are super creepy. And I do love that they are doing some off-the-wall promotion for this. i don't know if you've seen this, but they have people with hazmat suits going around certain towns putting up the blue tape for doors.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Kendahl: but I have not seen that.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, go ahead and check that out after.
Kendahl: That's funny.
Julian Contreras Jr: It's it's pretty creepy.
Kendahl: That's funny. But yeah, I'm going to go see that on Friday.
Julian Contreras Jr: But I can't wait to see this movie.
Kendahl: I'm excited.
Julian Contreras Jr: I hope it... lives up to obsession. Like we've been waiting for Black Rooms for a while.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Obviously it's a twenty four Love that company.
Kendahl: So, hey, another A24 movie that's coming out.
Julian Contreras Jr: so
Kendahl: I did not know about this until just the other day. Have you seen The Death of Robin Hood? Have you seen the trailers for that?
Julian Contreras Jr: I saw one trailer a few months ago, yes.
Kendahl: Oh, okay. i I did not know this was coming out. It's an A24 film. Go see the one they just put out a few days ago. it's It definitely gives interesting vibes. I'm i'm curious about it. It comes out like June 26th or something like that. It's a little bit late in the month, but man, it looks good.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. Awesome. That's going to finish up the episode. Thanks. i We did not plan on going in over an hour, but hey, it was super fun to do.
Kendahl: No, no.
Julian Contreras Jr: This is where we're going to end it. Kendall, you got any final words of wisdom for us?
Kendahl: uh you know what my my words of wisdom right now are if you have ever waited to watch something because you're like i don't know if i'll like it or not just try it turn on i i have i have come across uh myrieta shows over the recent days that i went oh why didn't i watch this before and i feel like i'm super late to the uh the party
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: And so we'll talk about them, but no, just, you know, if you're, if you're hesitant to watch something, let's go check it out. I mean, it's, that's how I found some of the the best moments of Julian and I having these kinds of conversations was him saying, Hey, go check this out. And I went, okay, why not?
Kendahl: So do it.
Julian Contreras Jr: All right.
Kendahl: Don't wait.
Julian Contreras Jr: Very cool. Until next time, you wished for this.
Kendahl: And don't forget, turn on something good.
