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229 - Lupin III: The First (2019)
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“A thief isn't something you should become reluctantly.”
As our third consecutive theme month comes to a close, we’re saying farewell to Japan by taking a look at what might be our favorite movie of this entire theme month so far! We talk about the copyright issue that could’ve stopped this franchise before it even started, how well it all translates into computer animation, and go DEEP on inside baseball Indianapolis-area talk! (Seriously, if you love it when we go deep on the Indy chat, this is the episode for you!)
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Transcript
Introduction and Local Indiana Culture
00:00:14
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The franchise rights alone will make us rich beyond our wildest dreams. Well?
00:00:22
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franchise right alone will make us rich beyond our wildest dream well Let's get started. It's the Disenfranchised Podcast, where that podcast all about those franchises of one, those films that fancy themselves full-fledged franchises before falling flat on their face after the first film.
00:00:39
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I am your host, Stephen Foxworthy, and joining me as always, the craftiest mofo to ever wear a red sports coat, it's Tucker. Hey, Tucker. Hello, Stephen.
00:00:52
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that's That's me. That's my name, yes. How's it going? It goes, man. How are you? doing all right i'm doing okay i'm doing good i'm hot it's hot and and i need a pool it's that is a central indiana in joke if ever i heard one right there that's watson's what that is Family Fun and Leisure, I believe they're called that. It is. Yeah. Now that now that they've sold the cut they they've sold the company, they can't use the name Watsons anymore because that was the family name.
00:01:24
Speaker
And now they they don't have the Watsons girl anymore. They have got Mr. Paul Poteet, America's weatherman, Paul Poteet. I know Paul Poteet, but the Watson girl, she's still around, dude. She still does public appearances and stuff. Does she really? If you can believe that.
00:01:39
Speaker
I here's the thing. She was a very big deal in Indiana for a for a very particular moment in time. So I believe it. I once did a ah blog post many years ago, back when I used to blog about Indiana celebrities, and she was 100 percent on the list.
00:01:59
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Yeah, dude. She was doing those commercials since she was a child. Speaking of Indiana celebrities, ah your boy Rupert from Survivor, i was in Shelbyville a couple weeks ago, and he still has his arcade, and he still, through that arcade, still raises a shit ton of money for children's charities.
00:02:21
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And I think that's fantastic. children's charities He ran for governor once, and I met him twice. I know. seems like a rad him twice on that campaign track. A little much. He is a little much. But still seems like a rad dude.
00:02:32
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I met him in, my ex and I went down to Nashville, Indiana. They had this they have these outhouse races. do you know about the and Nashville outhouse races?
00:02:43
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I've heard of it, but I couldn't tell you what it is. ah they the Various companies and businesses around Nashville, Indiana build outhouses. Yeah. And literally race them down a hill.
00:02:56
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So it's like a soapbox derby, but without houses. Correct. And they actually have they have people like driving the outhouses. it's It's kind of as insane. And it's a real thing. And Rupert was there at the outhouse races.
00:03:11
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um And I met him, got his autograph the whole nine. The second time was the day of my sister's wedding. I was tasked with like going and picking something up, I think from Panera. So I went to Panera to like get sandwiches or something for the wedding party.
00:03:27
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And while I was there, Rupert is just chilling out, like meeting with people in the Panera. Like he's just like there, like making a public appearance in the Panera. And so I like shook his hand and met him again. and He's like, you want an autograph? I'm like, I actually got one from you down in Nashville. He's like, oh, okay. er And I was like, you got it, buddy.
Discussion on "Lupin the Third: The First" Film
00:03:44
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Do you think his closet is like Doug Funny's closet where it's just a bunch of the same tie-dyed shirt? I do. Actually, I truly, truly do.
00:03:54
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I hope if it's not, I hope i if i don't know. but i hope Don't tell me. If it's not, don't tell me. I don't want to know. um tucker it we've come to the end of yet another theme month it's a little bittersweet we are um at the end of our big in japan 2 even bigger theme month our second sequel theme month ever in the history of this podcast and uh we are covering a pretty fun movie tucker what are we covering today i don't know. was it called? Somebody the third, the first.
00:04:26
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What's that guy's name? Lupin. Lupin, the third, the wolf. He's a werewolf. Lupin. He's not. But that is where the name comes from. His hairline. His hairline is a bit deceiving. I thought he was going to turn into a wolf at some point.
00:04:42
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That's an impressive hairline.
00:04:46
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We will get into the history of Lupin III and his namesake character as well here momentarily. But from 2019, Lupin the first, directed by...
00:04:58
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the first ah directed by What's this dude's name? Takahashi, or I'm sorry, Takashi Yamazaki, who also wrote the screenplay based on the character created by the manga artist Monkey Punch and starring in the Japanese cast, Kenichi Kurita, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Daisuke Namikawa, Miyuki Sawashiro, Kiyoshi,
00:05:27
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Koichi Yamadera, Suzu Hirose, many others. What a cast, Tucker, dare I say. What a picture.
00:05:38
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i thought it was i thought it was pretty good. Yeah, we had fun with this one. That director guy, he did something else that I knew when I looked it up. What's the thing he did that I knew? let me i don't know. so Let me look.
00:05:50
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You gotta to look it up. I'm looking it. I'm looking it. I'm looking His... ah his What'd he do? Filmography. me, actually, let me do this. I was going to look it up myself, but I was sending a text.
00:06:06
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Damn it, Tucker. That's why we can't have nice things. I'm so sorry. Godzilla minus one. Oh, there it is. Okay. He directed the minus one. He's the director of the most recent Godzilla film, Godzilla minus one, the one that won the Oscar.
00:06:21
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yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And look, I really liked Shin Godzilla. Shin Godzilla is the only Godzilla movie that I have actively enjoyed. It's so good. what I don't I don't mind the other ones. They're fine. Whatever. Like, it's it's a whole thing. So whatever. But Shin Godzilla, that was something special.
00:06:39
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And everybody tells me that Godzilla minus one is evil. Even better than that. That's what I've heard as well. So I might have to look at it. I might have to look at it. Friend of the show and Godzilla enthusiast, Hope Lichner says it is absolutely amazing. So, Hey, we know that gal.
00:06:54
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Yeah, we sure do.
Podcast and Reading Habits
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Yeah. ah So yeah, she, she was actually thrilled when it won um best picture or not best picture, best visual effects. Sorry. At the Oscars. Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:06
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yeah So past yeah, it is. And I've heard it's a good movie and one day i will watch it. Me too. But not today because today we're watching Lupin the third colon the first.
00:07:21
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Um, Tucker, do you have any experience, any any kind of history with this character, with this manga, this franchise at all? Or is this kind of ah just first-time watch for you?
00:07:35
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So I'm an old person, and this is an old anime. Yes. And I... have always sort of been interested in a lot of things that are anime adjacent.
00:07:49
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So I am visual. I visually recognized these characters. Okay. Some of them, uh, specifically the, um, the bodyguard guy with the sword. Yeah. And that guy before and Lupin, I've seen him before because he has a very, very distinct looking character design, which I've always found annoying until this film.
00:08:13
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Okay. Okay. Interesting. Because like when i first saw him, I was like, why did they draw his face like that? That looks stupid. But then like he was doing some shit, and I was like, yeah, he cool, though. He cool, though. I like him. He cool.
00:08:27
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So this is so peripheral awareness of Lupin. I visually recognized some characters from this, yes. um But that's it. i I'm pretty sure I've never seen anything proper
00:08:41
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But yeah, that's it. I was pretty much going into this blind. For me, it may as well be blind. I've seen one Lupin III film, and that was a a few years ago I decided I was going to watch through all the Miyazakis, and I didn't make it past Mononoke.
00:08:58
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um Like I got up through Mononoke, but the first film that Hayao Miyazaki ever directed Lupin III, colon, The Castle of Cagliostro. So i I have seen that film.
00:09:10
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And so I am vaguely, I was vaguely familiar with these characters and kind of the conceit. I knew Lupin III was a kind of a cocksure gentleman thief in the vein of his namesake.
00:09:22
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He said cocksure. um In the vein of his namesake character, which is Arsene Lupin, who is kind of the original gentleman thief, which is kind of alluded to in this film with the top hat and the cane.
00:09:37
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which apparently belonged to his grandfather. Yeah. And so grandpay there was a character in, i would say, I want to say 1800s French or maybe early nineteen hundreds French literature ah called Arsène Lupin, who was a again, kind of the quintessential gentleman thief.
00:09:57
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And his character like kind of broke, like kind of paved the way for every gentleman thief character that came after like Raffles, like AJ Raffles, the English kind of version of that.
00:10:10
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All of those kind of have their origin in, in Lupin. And so this character who's created, I think in the late sixties, 67, if I'm not mistaken, is in effect is meant to be the canonical grandson of the original Arsene Lupin.
00:10:28
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And so, but when he, when Monkey Punch created the character, he didn't get like rights or permission. Like he was actually going to make the connection like very secret.
00:10:40
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And then someone's like, no, i'll be overt with that shit. And he's like, all right, fine, I will. Except he didn't secure the copyright for it. oops um So when it was shipped out to other places, um it was often like referred to as Wolf, which is...
00:10:57
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kind of the translation of Lupin from French to English or like he had, like they gave him another, the character, another name in certain, uh, until the name Lupin starts to become public domain.
00:11:11
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Uh, by the time the estate of the original author, like got the paperwork together to sue, ah monkey punch, uh, in Japan, the, the, the name was already in public domain.
00:11:23
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So they couldn't really do anything at that point. Um, But yeah, so like he is canonically supposed to be the grandson of this great gentleman thief, which again, we we kind of get snippets of allusions to in this movie.
00:11:39
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So his his quiet friend with the hat, do you think I never he never smokes that cigarette? and it always seems like the same cigarette do you think he just that's why it's so bent up and gnarly is because he just has it like it's in his pocket i don't think you can smoke in cartoons anymore and his jacket pocket right i don't think you can smoke in cartoons anymore so i think that's because somebody's smoking a cigar in this though were they feel like maybe You might be right. Maybe not.
00:12:11
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i might have I might have missed it, or I might have forgotten that. Because I have lived since then. Not much, but a little bit. I've lived a little bit since I watched this movie.
00:12:23
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Real? Yeah, just a little. Not much. Just a little bit.
00:12:30
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Yeah, so we'll we'll pause there. But you check your phone first, though. I just heard it vibrate. It did. I just I just unpaused the recording. That's something that you're going to have to edit out. um That's fine.
00:12:42
Speaker
o cool. We are going to see Second City the day after my birthday. day Well, I mean, you're in Chicago. And I, since I've been up here, have not been to Second City, even though I started a fucking improv troupe in college.
00:12:59
Speaker
Dude, dude, I will once again, speaking of Second City, i will once again ah recommend Amy Poehler's podcast to you. It's called Good Hang. It it pops up on my TikTok from time to time and I have seen snippets and it seems like a very funny show.
00:13:16
Speaker
The problem is there is one podcast that I really dive it deep into and I'm so far behind on it that I it will take me a long time to catch up. I've been doing a lot of work lately. of That is just me. I've just been cleaning the cabins.
00:13:32
Speaker
Right. In preparation for opening week here in a few weeks. So that's just me going from cabin to cabin with a speaker, listening to podcasts and audio books all day. And it's fantastic.
00:13:45
Speaker
If I had a job that afforded me that opportunity, you better believe I would absolutely use it. Unfortunately, and i had to mine does not. What's really unfortunate is I used to do a lot of driving, a lot of driving. ah that You're getting ready to do a lot of driving.
00:14:00
Speaker
Cross country, well, more consistently. Cross country and and most specifically when I worked at UPS in Buffalo, it was about 45 minutes in traffic, bad traffic to get to UPS from my house.
00:14:15
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Yeah. and So audiobooks, dude. But the thing was, once I stopped having that commute, and once I stopped driving halfway across the country every couple weeks, my audiobook backlog, I had to had to pause my Audible subscription. I came back a couple months ago. They were like, we'll give you three months for 99 cents. What do you say?
00:14:36
Speaker
And I was like, all right, I'll do it. Fuck it, I'll do it. And so I took that opportunity to to get three more audiobooks. Yes. And to listen to the, ah at the time, which was a couple months ago, the new Dan Aykroyd hour-long little documentary, audio documentary thing about the Blues Brothers. That's really interesting. You us about that. That's right.
00:14:57
Speaker
Speaking of, have you gotten a chance to read a little novel by a little guy named Stephen e Foxworthy? I haven't done any reading. but But I have decided... that because Brian Wilson's autobiography is so kind of scatterbrained and like, it feels like something I can pick up and put down at any time.
00:15:18
Speaker
I think that before I finish it, I am going to read your book. Okay. It, it honestly, it should be a fairly quick read. I look at it longingly every time I go to the bathroom. ah You can take it in there with you.
00:15:30
Speaker
I won't mind. No, not. ah Well, so i'm lying I'm lying. I do read. I read on the toilet. And um I read this book I have from the 70s called journeys Journeys into the Twilight Zone.
00:15:45
Speaker
And it's just it's just a sci-fi short story collection. And one of the one of the stories is an old story by Rod Serling. And it's presented by and the forward is written by his wife.
00:15:59
Speaker
That's awesome. That's really its only connection to the Twilight Zone, but they're all, they all do kind of have that little Twilight Zone twist. Which it's all you really want from a Twilight Zone episode. Yeah. Yeah. But the book's pretty good and I'm about halfway through it. I read a couple of pages every time I take a squirt, you know?
00:16:17
Speaker
So Lupin the third, right?
Personal Stories and Humor
00:16:20
Speaker
Wait, before we move on, I have to tell you, speaking of taking a squirt. I'm trying so hard. So like like a half an hour before we started this podcast.
00:16:28
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I don't want to think about how much of this you're going to leave in and how much you're going to cut out. I'm sitting on the toilet having a toilet time. um I'm doing a number two, as they say.
00:16:39
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as as As one does. And um I get a phone call from Marvin. Marvin. you're From basic training, yes. Oh, okay.
00:16:51
Speaker
This is the first I've heard from him since he left on the 18th of last month. It's the first I've heard from him. And he said to me, hey, i wanted to tell you real quick that if you come to my graduation, you have to have a real ID to get into the base.
00:17:09
Speaker
And I was like, all right, dude. He's like, all right, I got to call my girlfriend now. And I was like, fair. And that was the whole conversation. Totally fair. yeah Totally fair.
00:17:21
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, we're married, but you guys, y'all, y'all be doing, y'all be doing the rest of it. I told him, I said, go ahead and call Alexis. Alexis.
00:17:35
Speaker
So at least I know this part's not making it in. Okay. No, dude, who knows? Anyway. Woo. Lupin the third. That's three times.
00:17:47
Speaker
Three. Three Lupins. One than That's right. um But this is not the third Lupin the first film. It is, however, the first computer animated Lupin the third film.
00:17:58
Speaker
um And feels like, I mean, this is kind of a jumping off point for a new thing.
Animation Style Comparisons
00:18:03
Speaker
It feels very much like they're a franchise reboot. I don't think it's explicitly that, but it definitely has that feel to it, particularly with the new art style, the storyline, the fucking tagline is okay or is well, let's get started.
00:18:19
Speaker
Like, I mean... I tell you, it looks good too, Steven. I really like the animation in this. and And I'm usually more of a traditionalist. I usually prefer hand-drawn animation. And while I do think in in most circumstances, in most contexts, hand-drawn animation is the better way to go, but this just...
00:18:39
Speaker
this This is like Jurassic Park levels of using computers to make things visually. There is a cleanliness to the animation level. It looks so good.
00:18:51
Speaker
You don't often see in. in in in a lot of animated productions, on even I was going to say outside of America, but God, even American productions these days have gotten fairly lazy.
00:19:04
Speaker
What I really liked about it was that all of everything that wasn't a human character was very realistic looking. Like if the characters weren't in the scene, you'd be like, oh, someone took a photo somewhere.
00:19:18
Speaker
somewhere real right but the characters are a tad bit cartoony so the fact that they were able to marry that yeah and to make that seamlessly because there were some times where like for example sometimes you'd be seeing what's going on in the big plane and then the camera would pan out of the plane to show the outside of the plane and like man that's a good looking plane but i just saw some cartoons in there though but that plane looks real And the animation style, it's new and it's clean, but it still manages to capture the elements of the original cartoons, the original manga um in a way that's, again, it it feels like it feels like a logical progression into, whereas then they're not completely redesigning everything. They're not trying to completely do redo it and do it over.
00:20:13
Speaker
But like there's definitely... don't know. It feels part and parcel of what the earlier stuff was from from what I've seen ah and a lot of Something I really appreciated here, too, ah is something that kind of bothers me about anime. Not the big-budget stuff like Ghibli and stuff like that.
00:20:31
Speaker
They don't really do that as much because they have the time and they have the money. But a lot of anime TV series or film series like like this, for example... the frame rate is very choppy because they're just not doing as many frames of animation because the animation is so detailed.
00:20:46
Speaker
Exactly. And they'd be there for fucking ever. So right it's sort of, so and sort of a visual ah staple of a lot of anime is choppy frame rate. Right. And because I appreciate it and I get it.
00:21:00
Speaker
Right. The reason that Ghibli stands apart in that is honestly Hayao Miyazaki and his like perfectionism. Yeah. That motherfucker will spend a decade on a movie. He don't care. No, not at all. And then he'll retire and decide, fuck it. I've got more to say. Let me do another one.
00:21:16
Speaker
He, I don't know who has retired more him or the band kiss. Right. Or how many farewell tours. Have they, we could probably add Brett Favre to that as well, but yeah. Yeah.
00:21:30
Speaker
Yeah. Devo is starting to do that too, because they had a farewell tour last year, but ah you best believe they're still doing festivals after their farewell tour. Billy fucking Joel, man. He's the same fucking way, man. I love Billy Joel. i so I've never seen Billy Joel.
00:21:46
Speaker
I'd love to see him. I'd really love to see him. I would love to see Sir William Joel. And I would love to see Lord Elton John.
00:21:54
Speaker
I would also, they were doing those shows together for a while. That would have been the time to it. long time. That would have been. long time. I never, I had so many opportunities. The last one of those, I think I was like an impoverished teacher at the time. So there was a way I was getting out there as much as I would have loved to. And believe me, I would have loved to.
00:22:14
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um friend of the show dan all miller future guest dan all miller um was a billy joel fan and had the greatest hits album and that was a staple on every road trip but we took in college is we would pop in the billy joel uh greatest hits and sing along every word to every fucking song i have every billy joel album including um the live record lost in the attic or whatever it's called something in the attic um on vinyl it's set for river of dreams because it was only released on vinyl in Japan and it's really expensive
00:22:54
Speaker
And ah I'm no collector, Stephen. I'm just an enjoyer of things. So i mean I'm about to pay like 200 bucks for River Dreams on vinyl when I can stream it. I have the cassette tape.
00:23:06
Speaker
Right. If that counts. And Spotify exists too. Well, I'm a YouTube music guy, but that's fair. have.
00:23:15
Speaker
i have The vinyl version of Stormfront that I have, which is the record that has We Didn't Start the Fire on It's famous for that single. I won that. Well, more more appropriately, my sister won that record from W.E.N.S.,
00:23:34
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97.1 WENS. And she was like, she was like the third caller or whatever. yeah and we got it. And that's why it has a little hole punched in the sleeve.
00:23:44
Speaker
don't know if you've ever got a record where there's a hole punched in the sleeve. if You've gotten a CD with like, it looks like somebody took a knife and just cut a slit in it. Tucker. i worked as it's an i I worked at Borders and Barnes and Noble. I have so many of those CDs because it's promotional.
00:24:00
Speaker
Correct. I have so many of those CDs because, and I got some great CDs from my time at Borders and Barnes & Noble. Dude, same-sies when I worked at the movie theater. You would be surprised how many indie movies will send CDs, well, back in the day, would send CDs of the soundtrack to the movie theater.
00:24:24
Speaker
Also, in that Stormfront vinyl that I have, it came with this promotional newspaper. Inside and this is real newspaper as everyone everyone on this audio podcast can see this is a real like a real newspaper and i can the I can confirm is is on newsprint is it says world news at the top and there is a photograph of a young Sir William Joel fire burns as storm front nears.
00:24:52
Speaker
Yeah, dude. And so I don't really want to read it all because it has that word. So yeah, no, can't say that. Can't blame you. um But yeah, it's got, there's a Reagan assassination attempt article.
00:25:09
Speaker
You've got all of the lyrics to We Didn't Start the Fire when you unfold it. The storm nears. What's the name of that storm? It is Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, to Johnny Ray.
00:25:21
Speaker
Yeah, dude. South Pacific, Walter Mitchell, Joe DiMaggio. do magicjiio And it has the years next to each verse because each verse is a different year, right? That is the thing I respect about Billy Joel and We Didn't Start the Fire is he goes chronological through the whole thing.
00:25:38
Speaker
There's ah there's a ah re a modern remake by Fall Out Boy that is not at all chronological and it drives me insane. I never listened to it because I was sure it was going to drive me insane.
00:25:50
Speaker
It is. Here's the thing. It's fun because it's we didn't start the fire, but like it's all ah all fucking over the place. And I'm just like, I can't like I can't follow this. My partner is a huge Fall Out Boy fan. i have seen Fall Out Boy live in concert. They put on a great show. They are a good band with good music.
00:26:08
Speaker
But I just that I'm not a fan of that cover. and Me neither. And I haven't even heard it. It is. You should listen to it at least once. It will drive you insane, but you should hear it Before we move on from Billy Joel, that newspaper I just showed you, I think it was only included in the promotional copies because I can't find anything about it. found like one picture of it on the internet.
00:26:33
Speaker
That's right. I can't find Not on Discogs. I can't find anything on Discogs about it.
00:26:39
Speaker
It's really cool. pretty cool. though It sits on my whatnot shelf. It's like the backdrop to one of my whatnot shelves. I was gonna say you you you were able to find that very easily. So I had to on display I had to assume it had a ah ah place of prominence on the wall.
00:26:56
Speaker
It sits right under my Kit Kat clock. And um I was actually very worried when I grabbed it that I was going to hit my Kit Kat clock's tail. i have seen your Kit Kat clock. That is the the little Felix, the cat clock there.
00:27:10
Speaker
and don't know how pointing works. There it is. Yeah, I was going to say, you're pointing. I know where i know where it is because I've seen it. But you're pointing. I don't know. You're pointing to idle hands and it's nowhere near your idle hands.
00:27:21
Speaker
Speaking of, you know what I think is cool about this camera angle is look who's in my mirror. Homeboy from Empire Records just in my mirror. That's a nice. Isn't that wild?
00:27:31
Speaker
I mean, I just have Mr. Charles Chaplin over here. Oh, you got Robbie Dunn Jr. back there. That's crazy. And then over here, I have a picture of two two gentlemen from Asia that were painted by a friend of mine. Just a couple guys?
00:27:46
Speaker
Yeah, they look like they're a movie poster, and people would ask me, like, what movie is that? And I was like, no, it's just literally just two guys that my friend painted. And I told him make up a movie that I told him how much I love that painting. And so he just gave me the painting.
00:28:00
Speaker
Nice. Yeah. Cause he's cause he's a good dude. Dude. Everybody loves him. Absolutely. Honestly, not lot them honestly though, when you move back to Indy, you need to check out his coffee house. If you're in Indianapolis, check out Calvin Fletcher's coffee company.
00:28:16
Speaker
And if Jeff is there, tell him Stephen Fox where they sent you. I'm sure I will remember that in two months. I look, I will remind you if you need me to, I would like for you to, if you'd be like, Hey Steven, what's the name of that coffee shop? And who's that guy you told me to say hi to?
00:28:34
Speaker
i will tell you. You'll be like, what? What? You have no idea. What? Coffee, right? There's only like two coffee houses in indian Indianapolis that I recommend. And that's the first one. So I will probably remember.
00:28:49
Speaker
Is the other one that one on the South side, that hippie place, what's it called? Strange brew. No. Have you been there? I have. Of course I have. I lived on the South side for years.
00:29:02
Speaker
I had a friend who worked there for several years. I used to go there to buy my coffee. Like I bought coffee there for a long time when I was living on the South side. Cause they have really good coffee. Their coffee is the jam.
00:29:13
Speaker
Their coffee is really good. um But, you know, the other one is Brickhouse Coffee Company on the east side of town. and So I don't know i don't know where what side of town you're going to be living on when you move back to Indy, but...
00:29:30
Speaker
I'm looking, i kind of want to be somewhere in Garfield Park, Fountain Square area. I mean. Near Eastside. Calvin Fletcher's is in Fletcher Place, which is oh Fountain Square adjacent. So will you will be there. Tell me where Fletcher Place I know where my Fletcher Place is, okay?
00:29:49
Speaker
Okay. It's right next door to Bluebeard, the restaurant Bluebeard. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know right where it is then. Yeah, I do. I know exactly. That's a weird place for a coffee shop. I'm into it.
00:29:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's it it's fucking rad. The guy that opened it is an old pastor of mine and his son and I went to elementary school together. His mom was my principal.
00:30:11
Speaker
um So and and like that he his parents opened the place and then retired recently. So he just runs it like that. It's his place now. Oh, nice. So, yeah.
00:30:22
Speaker
um Calvin Fletcher's Coffee Company in Indianapolis, Indiana. Non-sponsored. They don't need to sponsor us. They rule regardless. Friends of the show. Absolutely. Show adjacent.
00:30:33
Speaker
Absolutely. so yeah, absolutely check that place out when you're in Indianapolis. But also Lupin the Third. Boy, I tell you what, we were talking about that animation, Steven.
00:30:44
Speaker
And it's good. We were talking about it, and I was talking about the juxtaposition between the cartoony characters and the realistic everything else. Right. And it kind of made me think that not even really Pixar does that.
00:30:58
Speaker
No. like all that did Pixar looks good. Pixar be looking good. Absolutely. like it It all looks like a cartoon. Which I'm sure is easier to do.
00:31:09
Speaker
yeah i mean, the the people on this movie challenged themselves and they knocked it out of the park. Right. Like the water, when they were pulling out off from that boat at the end, I was like, damn, that water looks good.
00:31:19
Speaker
It's good looking water, dude. Honestly, the only scene that I was kind of like, really? Was like the opening one. The parts of the animation looked, ah because of the shadows in that opening scene, looked a little off. But the honestly, the rest of it is so solid that I forgave it immediately.
00:31:38
Speaker
I did not have a problem with that. um The only... issue with the animation that I saw was there was one point I don't know if it was intentional or not but I did not like it ah where the police guy that's always chasing him is saying his catchphrase which is the title of this movie basically o and like his teeth moved in an unnatural way And it took me out of it for just like not even like a quarter of a second. I was like, wait, what? Oh, this is cool.
00:32:11
Speaker
Yeah. But I was like, teeth don't move like that. What's going on? Hey, but he didn't do it the rest of time. So it was either a goof of some sort of error or they were just being silly in a way that I don't quite understand.
00:32:25
Speaker
Which i I think it's probably the latter because these movies, there particularly that character, there's an era of silly there's an era of silliness about it. like This character is a combination of Arsene Lupin and James Bond.
00:32:39
Speaker
And so like... there's kind of that like silliness inherent within it, like that opening sequence, which it reminds me of like a bond song.
00:32:50
Speaker
um And you see the inner pole agent, like screaming and like making the inner pole and then you get getting trampled by said inner pole agents. Like that kind of just sets the scene in there. So there is an inherent silliness with all of this that I find just really fun and like we char
00:33:13
Speaker
it's Well, have to cut that out. it's so funny because I just turned my mic back on after a coughing fit. Like the whole time Steven was just talking, I was coughing my dick off. And I come back and just automatically just snort the snortiest snort.
00:33:30
Speaker
Immediately snort right into the mic. And um I'll just let you know, deep into it, too. I've I've been enjoying myself this evening, so I'm I'm susceptible to laughter at this moment. I'll just Stephen is Stephen's doing a little 420 pre gaming right now.
00:33:48
Speaker
He's pre gaming a little bit. We're recording this on 419. So, yes, I am pre gaming just a tad. after the This episode obviously will come out after 420. But yeah i'm i am i am enjoying I'm enjoying the benefits of living in Illinois, a place where THC is readily available if I want it.
00:34:08
Speaker
And straight up legal, and not that Delta 9 shit either. Correct. And the fact that the closest coffee shop to me is literally a dispensary, like...
00:34:20
Speaker
I can go and get THC infusion coffee and it will be the closest coffee to me that I can get other than my kitchen, which of course I keep the ingredients to make a great cup of coffee on hand at all times. But Steven, did I tell you that ah that i recently became more fancy?
00:34:39
Speaker
You did. did. Did I tell you about that? No, you did not. I'm a, I'm a French presser now, dude. I'm so fucking proud of you.
00:34:50
Speaker
i french press homie do you have a but but do you have a burr grinder have a coffee grinder okay that i bought because jimmy gifted me whole bean coffee and i was like what the fuck i'm gonna do with this you know what i gotta buy grinder and was like okay thank jimmy because honestly that that is the best thing that could ever happen to you is getting whole bean coffee and needing to purchase a grinder During the pandemic, I decided to go all in on coffee prep and like coffee ritual. And so I bought myself a burr grinder.
00:35:23
Speaker
The version that I got is now like 50 bucks, but I bought it for like 200 because I bought it during the pandemic. um And I got to tell you, i have had it for five years and it does. It still gets the job done.
00:35:37
Speaker
i will just pour a bag of coffee into the hopper and then I will when I'm ready for a cup to grind my coffee, I will press the button. I can set the the coarseness of the grind.
00:35:49
Speaker
And the, like, set the amount of coffee that I need, and it will give me the exact amount I want for either the French press or my mocha pot every fucking time. It is so good. I ah have, if you're serious about coffee, i have to recommend getting a burr grinder.
00:36:06
Speaker
I have a McCafe grinder. It was like $5. ah It does the job though, because it it does, you can select like how coarse or fine you want it.
00:36:21
Speaker
That's perfect. Then that's what you want. Yeah. And then you tell it like how much you're filling it up. There's a little button on that. It's all analog. And then you just put it in the little thing at the top and push down the lid and it grinds. Right. And it has a little timer based on how much you said was in there and how, how thick or thin you want your coffee.
00:36:43
Speaker
It's a nice little grinder. It's five bucks, man. I couldn't beat it. Five bucks. You can't beat five bucks. You really can't. For ah just a little coffee grinder. It's a wonderful, wonderful little coffee grinder. I am willing to spend money to make sure that I have a really good cup of coffee in the morning because that is one of the very few things that I take seriously in this life.
00:37:00
Speaker
So I need a good cup of coffee. I've gotten fancier about it because I can afford to.
Coffee Preferences and Podcast Discovery
00:37:07
Speaker
If it's something that I used to drink coffee all the time and I just i just want the coffee because I'm drinking it all the time, I just want it. I don't care how I get it. just give it Just give it to me, preferably quicker than slower. Hook it lower to my veins.
00:37:20
Speaker
But I don't really drink a lot of coffee anymore. like Even during the winter, I drink coffee. I'll have an evening coffee maybe two or three times a week. Daily.
00:37:32
Speaker
Daily. And then maybe once a week I'll have a coffee in the morning. I've just kind of I haven't I've just kind of I appreciate it differently now.
00:37:44
Speaker
That's fine. I drink it for different reasons. I drink it now because I enjoy it, not because I feel like I have to have it because of some kind of ritual, which is nothing wrong with that. I appreciate that. I enjoy the ritual. So I want to do it daily, not only because I want the caffeine and I i love the taste of coffee, which I do both of those things.
00:38:05
Speaker
But I mean, the one and only sponsor, quote unquote, sponsor this show ever had was a coffee company. And that's not by accident. Yeah, I know. They still fucking email me.
00:38:18
Speaker
And I mean, honestly, but you could do a lot worse than Geek Grind Coffee. I think if you still use our our promotional code, we still get a kickback from that. So if you use the pro promo code franchise on geekgrindcoffee.com, we will still get like a portion of that. So I have not gotten Geek Grind Coffee in a number of years. Maybe maybe I change that.
00:38:40
Speaker
Maybe I do. I bought it. I bought it when... um Well, when you guys were doing the sponsorship When we had the promo, yeah. Because I was not involved with the podcast in any way in those days.
00:38:51
Speaker
You literally... I feel like you kind of discovered us because we met on a, we met on one of Joseph's like sets and we just got to talking and I was like podcast. And you were like, I'm in, um or maybe it was like Joseph, like pro like promoted it when he was on one time and you were like, okay, I'll listen to this. And then you just got into it. But, uh, Joe told me about it.
00:39:19
Speaker
Okay. I do not remember the context. I just remember that it was him. And. I want to say, was it the space truckers? That was his first trial was episode.
00:39:33
Speaker
His first episode. The first episode we actually ever have a guest on was space truckers. Which Shout Factory has released a, ah from what I've read, fantastic looking Blu-ray of Space Truckers. I kind of want to check that out. it's i believe It might still be on sale. It was like half off um and a couple weeks ago. um But no, like... um Yeah, Joseph, good good friend of ours, good friend of yours. He was our first ever guest on Disenfranchised. He is my brother.
00:40:05
Speaker
And you guys have known each other for a number of years. um He's also the one that recommended that we bring you on as third as third host. so He was working both sides of that because he kept telling me i should I should bring it up to you guys. And I was like, man, don't have time for that shit.
00:40:23
Speaker
man and and you know when I don't want to take all the attention from the other guys you know I don't want to shine too bright I believe I said to him when did that change is as I guess my question there JK I would never say that
00:40:41
Speaker
but um but no like yeah Joseph uh we need to get him back on soon Yeah, what was the last time he was on? Was it the... the Captain Invincible, I think. Okay, yeah. that was it's bit It's been a couple of years, so we need to get him back on.
00:40:58
Speaker
Well, it's my fault because I sort of kind of pushed him into that in the last minute. And it's not a good episode, unfortunately, because it's a really good movie and I really wish it was a better episode, but it's my fault for a lot of reasons. Yeah.
00:41:14
Speaker
Um, but, and he had just been on too. That's what was kind of weird about it is we just had him on. And then i don't know. The vibe was really weird.
00:41:26
Speaker
Go back and listen. over Or maybe don't go back and listen to Return of Captain Invincible. I don't really remember that episode all that well. It's been a couple of years. I've slept since then and not well either. so Well, it was one of those moments in my life where like um I embarrassed myself.
00:41:43
Speaker
So, of course, that sticks with me. Sure.
00:41:48
Speaker
Of course, I edited that out, but... But you still remember it. it doesn't You edited it out of the episode, but it doesn't erase the memory. I have the power of Command X. Right.
00:42:00
Speaker
that is as As the editor, that is your prerogative, too. Chop, chop, chop, chop, chop. Back in the day, we used to use razor blades, Stephen. You ever edited on a reel-to-reel machine, Stephen?
00:42:11
Speaker
I have not. You ever cut you ever cut film, Stephen? I sure haven't. you just You know, you just, like a naked razor blade. Just a naked raised. You just hold it in your hands.
00:42:23
Speaker
Fantastic. Boy, the analog days, I tell you what. Anyway, you were going to say something about this movie? I mean, look, Lupin the Third is great. i love I love, first of all, is there a better kind of movie, a better sub-genre of movie than a heist movie?
00:42:41
Speaker
um And this is like an adventure slash heist movie slash animation. So like there's a lot going on here, which is really fucking cool. i like the I like the dynamics of the characters. And again, that's all kind of laid out in the manga.
00:42:57
Speaker
Apparently in the manga, the the team as they are here have more of an antagonistic relationship. Like they're all trying to like one up each other. i think their official names are everybody. Yeah.
00:43:10
Speaker
Team is named everybody. I think that's their official name. the The team consists of it's Lupin the third. Obviously, it's the sharpshooter character ah who is Jigen Daisuke Jigen.
00:43:26
Speaker
He catches everybody in the cars. He's the car catcher guy. He's the car catcher guy. And then there's the samurai, Gaiman Ishikawa the 13th. there i'm I'm sorry i keep interrupting you, Steven, but like I keep trailing off into other subjects, so I want say as much about this movie as I can.
00:43:45
Speaker
And there were so many moments in this movie where I just laughed my ass off, dude. This movie was funny. It is. it's unlike normally Normally, for me, um the Japanese sense of humor, the jokes that are normally in these kind of movies, ah it doesn't really, I don't get it.
00:44:07
Speaker
right like It's not bad. i just I'm not against it. like Great. but But I don't get it. When I lived in Germany, it was the same way, dude. like I don't get their humor either. It's weird, man. i don't get it Oh, we'll circle back to Germany for this movie later. like um But anyway, hope yes, ah too bad it wasn't Mike Myers in this one.
00:44:30
Speaker
Right? oh
00:44:34
Speaker
ah Yeah, but this movie was funny. And one of the times that I laughed the hardest was when they were escaping the big plane and the gal has them on the plane and the plane gets busted up. So they're jumping into the car.
00:44:49
Speaker
and And the quiet guy je catches catches the pilot lady.
00:44:58
Speaker
Fujiko, sorry. Fujiko Mine. And then our boy jumps off and... And just face plants in the desert. Yeah. just single boys like ah My hands were full, man. Sorry. My hands were full. Like I'm not going to put down this gorgeous buxom lady. Right.
00:45:15
Speaker
Like, and that's, I like that because some of the stuff like in other contexts could be considered like misogynistic or patriarchal or whatever, but this movie was too wholesome to really take any of that, the more blue stuff and,
00:45:31
Speaker
In in you know and a bad way, or even in a way that I would take it in a different context, in a different movie. It's still there, though. like To be clear, like at one point, she drops her dress in front of Lupin, and he like stops talking and goes, oh oh And then it kind of cuts to her in like a different outfit, like a pilot's outfit.
00:45:49
Speaker
And then ah later, when he jumps off the plane and she catches him, he's like, well, maybe I can like pay you back with my body. Yeah. And it she's just like, oh, geez. And like, that's it. Like, that's that's it.
00:46:02
Speaker
Well, that is the extent of the sexual tension in this movie. It's amazing. I i think these characters have kind of ah comedic innocence to them. Right. To their personalities, specifically the main character. It's kind of like a J Muse of J and Silent Bob fame.
00:46:19
Speaker
Like, they're just too silly to take seriously in that way.
Lupin's Character and Film Themes
00:46:23
Speaker
Like, you can't get mad at them. Right. I mean, there is a certain way, you know, there and because again, he isn't somewhat inspired by James Bond. There is kind of that ladies man ish nest to him in the manga. Apparently like he's more successful with a ladies man kind of using them and discarding them kind of a thing.
00:46:43
Speaker
Whereas in this movie, he's rarely successful or like in the in the, in the anime and the film series, he's just kind of rarely successful. Well, and, and, and some of this stuff is, it's a little blue, but it's not,
00:46:55
Speaker
it's not threatening right it doesn't feel malicious or creepy or weird like like i said in a different movie some of that stuff would play differently but that's not like you spend some time with these characters and like when she takes her clothes off and he's like wo like natural reaction like right there's nothing like creepy or weird about that no there's a naked lady in front of you you're gonna stop and go oh i'm sorry Yeah, but you're just not into naked ladies, which not everybody is.
00:47:22
Speaker
But, you know, if you are, you're going to be like, oh, OK. Well, even if you weren't, I feel like you would be sort of startled by the fact that she just like dropped trowel in front of you. So it's still probably still get a similar reaction, maybe for not the same reason.
00:47:36
Speaker
Potentially. um But yeah, like it just. And again, there's it. This is clearly something for kids. So even like some of the the darker things are still kind of played a little lighter. Like there's an entire Nazi subplot in this movie.
00:47:53
Speaker
Lots of Nazis in this movie. Lots of fucking Nazis in this movie. Almost as many Nazis in this movie as there are in the current United States government, which is fucking wild. Oh, I was thinking the Blues Brothers, but I mean that too.
00:48:08
Speaker
Illinois Nazis. I hate Illinois Nazis. More now that I live in Illinois, quite frankly. You did it. Because they're occupying the same fucking space as I am. Yeah. um But like the, like there's there's an entire like Adolf Hitler is still a alive subplot at the end of this movie that is, comes out of left fucking field, but like. Does it?
00:48:34
Speaker
Because they allude to it way early in the movie. Like when we first meet the The bad guy who's helping the guy that killed the gal's parents. Gerard? That raises her. is Am I making sense here?
00:48:47
Speaker
The guy with the scar on his face. Not the old doctor. They're both Nazis. Gerard. When we first meet him, it's like one of the first things he says. He's like, look at this picture. It's fucking Hitler, homie. Oh, I missed He's still alive.
00:48:59
Speaker
So it was very early on that seed was planted. So when that happened, I was like, well, fucking course he's alive. They showed us the picture at the beginning. I did love how they were like, no, you're an idiot. Like, we faked that picture and put it out because you're dumb and we knew you'd fucking fall for it. Yeah, that was that was an Interpol plan to see if Nazis are still around. And surprise, they are.
00:49:20
Speaker
i loved it. the the The whole there's still Nazis ah subplot plays a lot differently in 2025 than I'm sure it did in 2019. Although I guarantee you the first Trump presidency did ah did did quite a bit to...
00:49:34
Speaker
kind of loosen that wheel. But yeah. Yeah. that The one thing I will say about the, the, the Trump administration is that it really has made Nazis really just fertile ground for villainy again.
00:49:49
Speaker
Were they ever not? There was a time when you're like, can we still make Nazis the villains of things? Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was Nazis.
00:50:01
Speaker
And that was like early 2000s. Yeah, it was. No, she was a Soviet. Are you sure? Yes, Cate Blanchett was a Russian in that movie. They did Nazis in that last one, though, didn't they?
00:50:13
Speaker
In Dial of Destiny? I'm not sure. I don't remember. Honestly, outside of Raiders, like even those other three movies, they all just kind of blend together for me. Raiders? Four. Those are the four movies.
00:50:27
Speaker
There's five. Raiders and then the other four ah Raiders and Last Crusade are the two with Nazis In two it's like this these the the weird thuggy adjacent villains In four it's the Russians and then in five it's I don't remember Honestly five kind of sucked I didn't like five was fine i thought it was fine it wasn't though i was not offended by it
00:50:58
Speaker
Yeah, I just, no thank you. Like when you start introducing time travel and do an Indiana Jones movie, I'm not interested. I thought that was fun. um I'll tell you though, outside of Raiders, they're all same level of quality for me, really. I think Raiders is an exceptional film.
00:51:16
Speaker
Raiders is a perfect movie. The rest of them are pretty fucking good. I would say Raiders is a perfect film. I think Temple of Doom, or not Temple of Doom, um Last Crusade is like a step down from that.
00:51:30
Speaker
And then the rest are like hit or miss for me. I think they're fine. I don't mind them at all. Really solid movies. i i think raidar or I think Temple of Doom is my number three by default. And then Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and then Dial of Destiny, I think is how I had them right.
00:51:51
Speaker
Dude, yeah, that was ourra our top five ranking of Indiana Jones. was going to say, I've just done my diss in five chives for Indiana Jones, but we could definitely do one.
00:52:04
Speaker
When's he going to, like, why didn't they have, instead of having Mutt, which I liked Mutt, like, whatever, I was sad that he had died. I mean, that was kind of, I really liked That's because no one wants to work with Shia LaBeouf anymore, though, honestly. I do like, because they didn't have to mention him at all.
00:52:20
Speaker
They didn't have to mention him at all. No. But they did, and I appreciated that, because some people watched Crystal Skull and thought it was fine. Sure. And I was one of them, and I liked the Mutt character, but I always wish that Indiana Jones, instead of having Mutt, would have had a daughter and named her Joan.
00:52:37
Speaker
So they could continue the series. No, no, no, no, no. no and No, and no, and no, and no, no. Indiana Joan? No, yes. See, she would take her mother's last name, and then she would be Indiana Joan.
00:52:50
Speaker
And so when Harrison Ford, ah you know, rest in peace in the future, when he goes, um they'd have somebody to take over the series. And I'll tell you what, something about Dial of Destiny, I didn't like that gal.
00:53:03
Speaker
That gal was obnoxious. Who is that gal? Phoebe Waller-Bridge. She's from ah Fleabag. Have you seen Fleabag? I haven't, but I did not really like her in Dial of Destiny. She was good, but her character was annoying as fuck.
00:53:17
Speaker
Fleabag, good show. She's also, she plays the droid in Solo. See our episode on Solo. saw that once. She's the droid that Lando's having a relationship with.
00:53:30
Speaker
Oh. Yeah. That's fun. Yeah. because Because Lando Calrissian is, like Billy Dee Williams, pansexual. He's a bad dude, too.
00:53:41
Speaker
Yeah. bad bad dude he is the coolest motherfucker in the galaxy is lando calrissian and you cannot convince me otherwise which is why the best casting and solo was donald glover absolutely my one of my favorite lando calrissian moments is on the daily show with craig kilborn so that that kind of time yeah he's he's doing five questions with isaac hayes And the last question is, who's cooler, you or Billy Dee Williams? And Isaac Hayes' answer was, i don't play it like Billy Dee, to which Craig Kilbourne enthusiastically decrees, that is correct.
00:54:23
Speaker
Because pretty much anything you answer for the final um the final question is correct, honestly. You know, sometimes Billy Dee Williams still does advertisements for c Colt 45, as he has for several years.
00:54:38
Speaker
I love that for him. Every couple years, they'll do like a commercial or um like an internet ad, and they'll put his face on the bottle again. That's that's pretty much the only time I drink malt liquor anymore.
00:54:54
Speaker
Right on. As if I see Billy Dee. I'm like, I get that Colt 45. I've never had c Colt 45. You ever had malt liquor, Steven? I've had malt beverages. I don't know if that's malt liquor, though.
00:55:07
Speaker
You ever had a 40, Stephen? I... yeah ever sit on the porch and drink a 40? No. I cannot say that I have.
Nostalgia and Anime Exploration
00:55:15
Speaker
On the east side of Indianapolis? Garfield Park?
00:55:18
Speaker
didn't get out to the east side very often. I grew up near Garfield Park, though. The Garfield Park... Garfield Park Library was my local library growing That was my library when I was a kid too, Stephen. The Shelby Library, they called it. and Yes. You know why you could never get the Rebus books, Stephen?
00:55:35
Speaker
Because I had them. You bitch. And I kept renewing them. I bet you did. I basically owned them for like three years. Just keep going back every two weeks to renew.
00:55:49
Speaker
Yeah, it wasn't until I think maybe when I was in middle school, we started going to the Warren Library. o i' See, I never went to that one. i was ah We were always Garfield Park. And then when we moved to ah we moved down closer to Greenwood, we'd go to the the one on the branch on Stop 11. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:56:10
Speaker
And then when I moved to the South Side, they they had opened a new branch like right down... down
00:56:18
Speaker
down Southport Road, yeah right before you get on the right before the interstate now on like the 37 exit. yeah There's a branch right down there that I would go to.
00:56:30
Speaker
What's that mall that's I don't know if it's even still there. but There used to be a mall up by Glendale ah by Broad Ripple. You remember that mall? No, i don't think i ever went to that one. So the Glendale Mall, it's up by Broad Ripple.
00:56:43
Speaker
Just a little bit southeast of Broad Ripple. I do know the Glendale Mall. Sorry, yes. yeah I lived up near there for a while and did go there from time to time. Not often. i don't and I don't even know if the mall is still there, but I used to i worked at that Stein Mart for a while.
00:57:00
Speaker
And and they had they had the library in the mall. The Glendale Library... was like the entire second floor of the mall.
00:57:11
Speaker
And so on my break, right that's right. steinmark I would go up and get myself a magazine or a book or something, come down and get two spring rolls from the Chinese restaurant, the food court and have myself a half an hour.
00:57:26
Speaker
I do remember that now. That's where ah the target was. My ex and I called that the bougie target. And that was like the target we would go to when we lived up near the state fairgrounds.
00:57:38
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was weird. It was kind of multi-level because the parking lot went above the Target. And then Stein Mart was there. and But then somehow they still connected. I never understood that.
00:57:51
Speaker
I never really went to the rest of the mall. I just went to the library, Chinese restaurant, Stein Mart. That's my only path. and if if it were If this were a family circus, those would be the only dots.
00:58:04
Speaker
but just Little Billy on a really boring trek this week. ah Hey, man, I had fun. And one more weird library, weird Indianapolis library. Do you remember the Fountain Square library, Stephen?
00:58:16
Speaker
don't think i ever went to that one. Do you know where it was? i don't remember. It's the corner building. So every building on the main Fountain Square intersection where Virginia and Shelby and all those roads meet.
00:58:32
Speaker
um And was that prospect is the other one? Maybe. um Anyway, where the fountain is. ah The there is one building that is like a corner, like a sliver building like you see in New York where it's like a a tight corner and the building's like a sliver.
00:58:50
Speaker
And it's right across from where the bank used to be.
00:58:59
Speaker
And it's just an old building in Fountain Square. And it was on the second floor. The bottom floor were storefronts. And this is back when you didn't really want to go to Fountain Square. This is like in the mid-90s when that was...
00:59:14
Speaker
ah to to quote egon spangler a demilitarized zone correct correct basically yes um i helped bring it back man i'll tell you what like when they when they opened up the fountain square theater when they finally revamped that and opened it back up and started doing swing dance nights and stuff that's where i would bring my dates in high school there you go my dad still won't go to fountain square What?
00:59:39
Speaker
Yeah, my dad, still. I don't, like, I get it. Back in the day, like, I was brave and dumb in those days. So I was all over Fountain Square. I remember a very different Fountain Square when I was teenager. That was a wild fucking place.
00:59:53
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In my young adult years, I would take my ex at the time, or my partner at the time, my ex now, and my mother to, like, Siam Square. Like, that was, like, my go-to place down there because fucking loved Typhoon.
01:00:07
Speaker
Nice. Yeah. But Lupin the Third. This episode, I feel like anyone who loves Lupin the Third is going to be really pissed off at us. And anyone who loves when we talk about Indianapolis is going to have a great time in this episode. Because this episode has been nonstop us talking about indie shit.
01:00:27
Speaker
I'd like to apologize to the former because I did really like this movie. And that is, it's it's not... It's not a genre that I'm typically fond of, though, as I've said before on this podcast, one of my top five favorite movies of all time is an anime film. I generally do not like anime.
01:00:49
Speaker
Generally not my thing. 90% of the time, not my thing. Do you think the fact that this one is computer animated helped your enjoyment of the film? I'm not sure, ah but we're going to find out because i've put I've put this character on my list. I'd like to watch some of the older animes.
01:01:07
Speaker
Same. Because if they're if they're as fun as this... Like I'm into it. I'm into it. My favorite shot of this movie is like the pan up on the group, like the the five main like characters as they're like getting ready to like storm the base.
01:01:25
Speaker
And it's just this cool. And Lupin's like in the middle. And then like he's flanked by ah the other four characters main characters of the movie. And it just looks so fucking cool. Like it's all of them kind of standing there with their weapons drawn and it just looks bad ass.
01:01:41
Speaker
My favorite shot of them And I'm just like, that is an incredible shot. Like just an incredible shot. I thought this whole movie visually was, I think really, really fantastic. A lot of the environmental effects, uh,
01:02:00
Speaker
were fantastic. The explosions from the, what'd they call it? The, the eclipse. Yes. The explosion from that, like the implosions, I guess more of implosions.
01:02:12
Speaker
Those looked fantastic. That first one where the dust was like swirling around, ah hu all that stuff looked really good. All of the amazing was all, all of the amazing, all of the, um, the stuff in the air,
01:02:27
Speaker
was really fantastic. That was shot very well. Well, I guess not shot, but like it was the cinematography. Yeah. Which, yeah yes, animated ah like animated films do have cinematography. Like there's still a camera. It still needs to be placed somewhere.
01:02:41
Speaker
Yeah. and not Not that, I mean, the animation is really good in those two, but just the the way they're able to move the camera so much easier with less effort because they're doing it with computers it looks great looks fucking seamless those camera moves look like real camera moves another thing that gives this movie with silly looking characters it's such a ah huge feeling of realism It's a world that like when you're watching this movie, you're like, I could be in this world.
01:03:15
Speaker
Like, I know I don't look like these people, but this feels like a real place. Like this looks like a real place. Absolutely. The, um, this is a really tough movie to watch for someone who like myself is deathly afraid of heights.
01:03:30
Speaker
It's like the number, the number two thing I'm most afraid of in this, in this world um is heights. And like just the, the scene where the two villains throw the female lead just out of the plane, just chuck her out of the plane.
01:03:45
Speaker
um fucked me up. like And like I saw Up in a theater. like Pixar's Up. I saw that in a theater and I was white knuckling my armrest for like the entire last hour of the film pretty much. Because that's all like aerial shit and like people falling and yeah.
01:04:06
Speaker
I can't fucking handle that shit. I'm totally afraid of heights. um But like the scene where chuck her out of the window and he goes diving after her, like I, my heart rate increased definitely, I'm sure, during those scenes because they just, again, that is 100% surefire way fuck me up.
01:04:25
Speaker
fuck me um It's immersive. Watch this in IMAX real 3D. If, if you're, if if they re-release it, like this got a very limited, we'll get to the box office here momentarily. I would go see this at the movie theater. Actually. I would too. This, this got very, list this this was one of those like fathom event kind of releases. Like it didn't get like a proper theatrical release here in the States, but it absolutely did get one in Japan. So and that's ah that's,
01:04:53
Speaker
I shit on digital projection ah bit. You do. Because I prefer film projection. i I'm biased about that for many reasons that I won't go into.
01:05:05
Speaker
But that is one thing I like about digital projection is that it gives us the opportunity to very easily play so many different things. Like you can go watch plays at the movie theater.
01:05:17
Speaker
yeah You can go watch TV shows at the movie theater because you don't have somebody up there doing the Lord's work. cutting those movies together and spooling them up, unspooling and re spooling them, making sure everything's, you know, the way it needs to be.
01:05:33
Speaker
No, it's all, it's, it's just, it's easy. It's a hard drive. It's a file, which in a lot of ways I do not like that, but I think it it gives a lot of thing, a lot of art that we you know wouldn't normally be able to see in public on such a big screen with good sound it gives it an opportunity to be seen in that way and I think that's fantastic stuff like this right for example you can go see concerts Steven you can just go to a concert at the movie theater oh I know it's fucking wild dude yeah you can see you can see fucking operas you can see like a rick tracks live like there's so much you can do there interactive events and shit yeah Q&A's and all that jazz that's why absolutely it's so cool
01:06:21
Speaker
Um, but yeah, and, and sometimes they'll re it and honestly, it's the closest thing we have to rep screenings anymore, honestly. Yeah. Because so few studios, like studios are so protective of their IP to like release them on streaming services that you almost never get rep screenings anymore. So like fathom events are like the closest thing you can get to a rep screening anymore.
01:06:41
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. yeah um Yeah, fucking wild. um But no, this movie is is so much fun. It is just like a very classic heist. I do kind of like similar to some of the the movies we've talked about over the last few weeks. Like, I feel like with the exception of Versus, everything this month has been kind of ah a reboot of a franchise.
01:07:04
Speaker
um yeah this month like zatoichi gamera and and this have kind of all been like attempts to reboot a a franchise that have been ultimately unsuccessful um but i kind it they all kind of make me want to go back and review those franchises just to kind of see what the deal was you know so yeah i i'm curious Well, and for yeah, Zatoichi for sure. I fucking hated that movie.
01:07:32
Speaker
But like based on what Sammy was saying, I think I would like the movies. I've looked I've looked into it. The the box set is pretty expensive. i i'd If I want to see him first.
01:07:46
Speaker
Sure. But if I like him enough to buy that box set, definitely waiting for a flash sale on that motherfucker. I was going to say the the flash sale or is hundreds of dollars.
01:07:58
Speaker
Yeah. Then again, it's 20. It's 25 films. Right. There are 26 films. I think the only one that it doesn't have is the 1989 soft reboot. Which was directed by the dude who played the dude in the original movies.
01:08:14
Speaker
Right. yeah I know the the july July is the Barnes and Noble 50% off sale, which is usually when I, because that's my birthday month, so I will usually go buy yeah myself a few of those Criterion DVDs for as a birthday gift to myself.
01:08:30
Speaker
I honestly don't think there's anything that I need right now. It's like, I've kind of passed up the past couple criterion sales. I've got an ongoing list and honestly, a lot of the stuff that they've been releasing lately, I'm kind of into.
01:08:45
Speaker
um So I've, I've got a lot of that shit on my list as well. um I would say check in, see, check like real good and see how many of those Zatoichi films are streaming.
Film Release and Future Plans
01:08:56
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um Because they may be on a platform that you have access to. I'm a Just Watcher myself.
01:09:03
Speaker
So, okay. Whatever you... what I use the Just Watch app. The Just Watch app. I think they're all a lot of them are on the Criterion channel right now, it looks like. I do not have the Criterion channel.
01:09:19
Speaker
Nor I, but, you know, they have a free trial option, so that's a possibility. You know, Criterion Channel would be fantastic. That's one of those if I were rich sort of things.
01:09:34
Speaker
Right. I would have a subscription. It's just that a lot those movies seen. I were not the in my house that would be watching that, I would absolutely have that streaming service. But I know I would be the only person in my house that would be watching the Criterion Channel.
01:09:49
Speaker
Absolutely. Go pee. yeah
01:09:59
Speaker
Oh, no.
01:10:04
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Ladies, gentlemen, other end we've lost Tucker.
01:10:16
Speaker
I'm fine. Okay. I'm fine. If you say so. I'm fine. I have no other choice. It's good. believe you It's good. You know, according to um Bridget Fonda and Jackie Brown, coughing is good. It opens up the capillaries, gets you higher, you know.
01:10:33
Speaker
kind of I don't think that's true. I think it's just because when you cough, you don't get as much oxygen to your brain. So it enhances. The fact that you're stoned because you you're not getting a lot of oxygen to your brain when you're coughing.
01:10:45
Speaker
So I think that's probably more of what it is. I don't know. It might have something to do with capillaries and shit. Who knows? Maybe it's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. Maybe because the capillaries are so restricted, the blood flow is not really processing until coughing. Dude, that's what I'm saying. um Right? I'm just saying.
01:11:01
Speaker
Damn. Lupin the third though. I mean, honestly, it's, it's, it's, it's a good movie. Check it out. We rented it for this viewing. You should absolutely seek out Lupin the third colon. The first it's a lot of fun.
01:11:14
Speaker
You'll have a good day. I say, may I say one more thing about this film, Steven? Yeah, please say a couple more things. No, I'm anxious to wrap this up, too, because we we've been bullshitting far too much on this episode.
01:11:28
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um
01:11:31
Speaker
Also, I can't stop coughing, so that's fun. No, can't. Your lungs are on fuego. Yeah, I'm in the epilogue of being ill, so there's a lot of mucus in my lungs, uh...
01:11:44
Speaker
So that's fun. ah but no, I wanted to mention one more thing I really enjoyed about this movie is that with a story that is sort of as by the numbers as this is, as much as I liked this, it's still a it's a very basic story. It's a well told story.
01:12:02
Speaker
Right. But it's its beats are very basic. Yes, I would agree with that. But I appreciated that something that, with a story like that, still had time to develop what would be considered kind of stereotypical characters, but to some regard. well ah what i really Something I really appreciated was just the small amount of love that the old German scientist guy had for the granddaughter.
01:12:36
Speaker
Letitia. Like, this motherfucker basically killed her parents. Yes. Had her granddad killed But still, and, you know, technically the reason he did, he adopted her and raised her and everything was so he could use her for this very purpose. Correct.
01:12:57
Speaker
Like, no strings attached, no nothing emotional. He was doing it for, you know, but still, he really doesn't want Homeboy to throw her off that plane. No. Like, and it's very subtle then because he doesn't really say anything. He's just like, oh, maybe... So you're like, all right, dude, guess. But then at the end, like when he's dying and stuff, and they have that moment. It's like, yeah, this guy was a piece of shit, but like people are fucking complicated, dude.
01:13:22
Speaker
And I really appreciated that in something kind of as silly as this. In that moment too, she also calls him grandfather, even though she knows he's not really her grandfather.
01:13:32
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And I tell you like that, you spend that much time with someone as a familiar person, no matter what's going on behind the scenes, as far as like your own consciousness or whatever, the the part of you that you keep from the rest of the world outside of the role that you're playing for everyone else.
01:13:50
Speaker
Right. and Like, stuff gets through whether you want it to or not. And I just thought that was a really, ah really kind of a really profound thing relationship for them to have in, especially to film like this.
01:14:04
Speaker
They didn't have to do that. This movie would have been fine without it. They were like, no, actually we can do this shit too. And I feel like that's something that anime does really well is there.
01:14:16
Speaker
You're able to find these silly moments, but still managed to ground it in heart, which is something that, American animation does occasionally, but not as often as, i mean, Pixar notwithstanding really doesn't do as often as it should or could.
01:14:35
Speaker
So yeah, just throwing that out there. um Lupin the third was released worldwide on December 2019. It
01:14:45
Speaker
um it was ah Released in Japan, it earned a total of. ah Or internationally, it earned a total of $7.3 million domestically, earned $248,000. So not quarter of million dollars here in the States.
01:15:01
Speaker
ah two hundred and forty eight thousand dollars so not even a quarter of a million dollars here in the states um for ah For a worldwide box office total of 7.5 million, ah not enough to get a sequel, obviously.
01:15:20
Speaker
um And we, I look on Wikipedia, Wikipedia says that they managed to make $11 million dollars um or a total of 1.16 billion yen, which still doesn't seem like all that much.
01:15:37
Speaker
yeah what's the budget what was the budget on this i don't have a budget number like i'm not i'm not provided with a budget number on any of the sources that i have it looks so good there's no way it wasn't expensive as fuck i really hope they made back their money through like physical media and streaming and i mean you and i both rented it for this so damn they earned They earned five bucks from each us.
01:16:01
Speaker
Like, I don't, like, I want to buy this just to support it. But at the same time, I don't know if I'm ever going to watch this again. I had a lot of fun with this, and I'm excited to watch the rest of the series. But depending on how that goes, I might not have it unless I'm showing this to someone.
01:16:19
Speaker
And there mean there are a couple of other Lupin the third films that we can cover. There are actually two live action Lupin the third films that did not get sequels. Oh, that week sounds horrible. We can cover those on a future big in Japan month.
01:16:34
Speaker
um If we so, well let's, let's wait a while. Wait until I can get into the series proper because I don't want that shit to ruin it for me because that understood this live action. I, ah, no, no, nope.
01:16:49
Speaker
Nope. Nope. no run into it Nope. no hell no no no no no no
01:16:58
Speaker
noted your descend into it is noted um But ah opening this week in the United States, um I guess no new releases this week, actually. Nothing charted, at least.
01:17:13
Speaker
Right. I think the earliest new release this week is... um the, the Playmobil movie future episode of this podcast, the Playmobil movie, um, is, and that opened at number 14.
01:17:30
Speaker
So, you know, do with that information. What, you know, we should do, we should do a month of those kinds of movies. Like we do the spirit Halloween movie. um, You know, stuff like like brand really fucking disgusting brand movies. Yes. so The Lego Batman movie.
01:17:49
Speaker
I can't. I can't. I tried to watch that and it's great. I love it, but it's too ADHD for me. Like halfway through, I'd stop it and be like, can I just go outside and get some fresh air?
01:18:04
Speaker
Because I don't I thought i can touch some fucking grass, please. I it everything it all comes at you so quickly, Steve. Maybe I'm too old for it. Maybe my my nieces love it.
01:18:15
Speaker
Sure. And I watched it with them. But about halfway through, i was like, you guys, my brain's going explode. Like this is fantastic. But my brain's actually going to explode right now because it's too much.
01:18:26
Speaker
Yeah. It's too much. can You know, some movies you're like, man, can we play this at double speed? Can I slow Lego Batman down actually? Right. I'm interested in everything that's happening, but fuck.
01:18:38
Speaker
Yeah. Calm down. Calm down. Yes. um But at number and number one at the box office this week in its third week in release is Frozen 2, Electric Boogaloo. Cool. Cool.
01:18:55
Speaker
In second place, one of my favorite movies of 2019, Knives Out. Looking forward to that third movie from Rian Johnson. Yeah, way into it. ah Speaking of Poker Face, season two premieres next week, I believe.
01:19:07
Speaker
Fucking A. Okay, cool. Good deal. On the pacock, as they call it. The pacock? I don't know anyone that calls it that. The pacock?
01:19:18
Speaker
in third place in its fourth week, ah Ford V Ferrari. ah What if Ford V Ferrari? What if, what if man? What if fucking what if in fourth place in its second weekend, queen and slim,
01:19:33
Speaker
ah which I've heard is great. That's ah Daniel Kaluuya and Issa Rae, I believe. I like those motherfuckers. Right. I was going to say like two incredible. No, I'm sorry. I is not Issa Rae. My God, my apologies. Why do I talk?
01:19:49
Speaker
It's it's actually Jody Turner Smith. My apologies. I don't know who that is. ah Chloe Sevigny is in that movie as well. Bokeem Woodbine, Flea, Sturgill Simpson. ah Looks like a really fucking solid cast.
01:20:02
Speaker
I don't know why I thought it was Easter. Yeah. Yeah, well. Um, and then in fifth place, a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Um, which is that when Tom Hanks plays what the Mr. Rogers, that's a sweet little movie.
01:20:15
Speaker
I liked that movie. um It's not great, but like, it's just so sweet. Yeah. That it wins you over because Fred Rogers, Tom Hanks, I, you could have, he could have just like barked like a dog for two hours and it still would have been fantastic. Like,
01:20:35
Speaker
i'm I'm not into Tom Hanks like that, but i'm i a lot of people are. and and that is no I'm not like super i'm i into Tom Hanks, as you know, as more of a comedic actor. I appreciate his comedic performances more so than his dramatic performances.
01:20:50
Speaker
um But I do recognize that he is a very talented man. Sure. I can recognize that. He good in that movie. He he does. He doesn't sound like Fred Rogers. He doesn't look like Fred Rogers, but he channels that man's spirit. The energy in a way. Yeah, it's the energy.
Film Reviews and Ratings
01:21:08
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Correct.
01:21:09
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ah Rounding out the top 10, we've got Dark Waters at number 6, 21 Bridges at number 7, Playing With Fire at 8, Midway at 9, and Last Christmas at 10. i don't I don't know what any of these movies are.
01:21:22
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I know the 21 Bridges is the Chadwick Boseman, like Russo Brothers produced movie where he's like, we got to close down the 21 Bridges leading into Manhattan because we got to catch this murderer.
01:21:37
Speaker
Yeah. I've got nothing, man. I've never heard of that. Last Christmas, I think, is the Emilia Clarke movie where she dies, and that but because it's technically her last Christmas.
01:21:51
Speaker
ah Something like that. I thought it was it based on the Wham! song. No, I mean, it's named after the Wham! song. And the Henry Golding is in it as well. Just like oh one of the most attractive men ever to be entered into the world. Well, he's no Rupert Everett.
01:22:11
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I don't know, man. Like, take a look. um The Tomatometer score for Lupin III, colon the first is 95%. Yeah, yeah. yeah um The critics' consensus featuring visually striking CGI animation of its famed characters, Lupin III, colon the first, is a charming and old-fashioned adventure romp.
01:22:33
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For sure. Accurate. Facts. The meta score is 63 based on generally favorable reviews from five critics.
01:22:44
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ah Tucker, Tucker, care to take a stab at the letterbox score on this one? ah I'm going to say, well, it's anime related. Right. So...
01:22:55
Speaker
Well, fuck. Well, fuck indeed. Alright, I'm having some... The wheels are turning. and kind turn If I didn't have headphones on, there'd be a little bit of smoke coming out of my ears. You would see it.
01:23:07
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um Okay. Yeah, it's trapped. It's trapped under the headphones right Those gears, they're grinding. I'm gonna say 3. fuck. 3.6 4.0. Literally... oh fuck three point six
01:23:19
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hu to four point um literally 3.6. I still got it. You just got it. still got it.
01:23:30
Speaker
You just got it. What about you, Tucker? Out of five stars, how are you rating Lupin III, Colin I? Yo, this is a three and a half star movie for me.
01:23:42
Speaker
I was going to I'm putting it in. And let tell you, the only reason that it is three and a half instead of four or four and a half is like i say it's still i mean this is a fantastic movie but it's still not not really up my alley right do you know like i had a great time and that's why i was saying before like i want to buy this to support the creators because i think this is this is fantastic i respect the shit out of this movie but i don't think that i would watch it again unless i was showing it to someone right
01:24:18
Speaker
I, it's not to say that I couldn't watch it again and not still have a good time. It's just that I've got, i mean, my backlog is insane.
01:24:29
Speaker
Right. You know, maybe I will buy it because, you know, i don't know. We'll see. We'll see what's out there. It's fun. And you never know when you might want to revisit it. Honestly, I'd love a commentary, but I doubt it would be in English.
Podcast Updates and Social Media
01:24:44
Speaker
Right. yeah You'd probably have some difficulty with that. Fuck a duck. You'd probably have to learn Japanese. Yeah, well, guess off for the Lupin 3, the first commentary, I will Duolingo some motherfucking Japanese. There it is.
01:25:02
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ah But no, this one's fun. Check this one out. It's so good. It is Tucker's favorite of this series by a mile, it feels like. I would say this is probably my third favorite anime film of all time.
01:25:19
Speaker
Okay. That's an high praise indeed, quite frankly. Yeah. And I like about maybe 12, 15 anime films. There you go.
01:25:31
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So... Yeah. It's up there. It's up there. Where is it? Up there where it belongs. And that is our episode on Lupin the Third, Colon the First. It is also...
01:25:47
Speaker
It is also our the end of our Big in Japan colon even bigger, big in Japan 2 colon even bigger theme month. This has been the Disenfranchised Podcast. You can find us on social media at Disenfranchised Pod. I think we're on Blue Sky Letterboxd and YouTube these days. ah You can shoot us an email, disenfranchisedpod at gmail.com. Let us know how we're doing.
01:26:10
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01:26:22
Speaker
I will tell you. i recently scavenged all of the rule of thirds episodes. And they will be going up relatively soon. ah Tucker is going to be recording a special episode on the 2024 film.
01:26:36
Speaker
The Apprentice. With a friend of the show. ah Evan Jimmy. what's What's he going by? Evan wil Wilson. Can I tell you just a short anecdote about how that came about?
01:26:47
Speaker
So ah Jimmy texts me and he's like, hey, man, you want to do you want to go have these on renting the apprentice? And I was like, yeah, i kind of fucking do actually, because we he he mooches off my prime video.
01:27:04
Speaker
Right. ah Which is great because the less people giving money to Amazon, the better, whether it's me or not. 100 percent. ah Because I am and I'm ashamed of myself, but, you know, invincible and shit.
01:27:17
Speaker
Sure. um So he's on my Amazon Prime video account and I was like, look, man, I will pay for the entire rental.
01:27:29
Speaker
If you just record a super special Patreon episode of the pod with me about this movie. Because Jimmy is, you guys, Jimmy is my most political friend.
01:27:41
Speaker
Oh, there. I'm all of my friends episode. legit I've not seen this movie, but I'm legitimately excited to listen to this episode. Of all of my friends, Jimmy is the most politically active, the most politically concerned and the most politically knowledgeable.
01:27:58
Speaker
person that I know.
01:28:02
Speaker
That's ah I don't know where the bar is on that, but. ah He knows the shit most the time, though, one time he did ask me why they don't just print more money, and I was like, wait a minute, you're not really asking me that, right?
01:28:16
Speaker
Like, I trusted you up to this point. What do you what do you mean? What fuck do you mean? Right. what are What are we doing here, man? No, he's he's he he knows his shit. With a few exceptions.
01:28:30
Speaker
As evidenced by this conversation, right? Well, he gets it now. I explained it to him why you can't just print more money. Why that doesn't work. Thank you for your service. And he felt dumb, but I comforted him with with a beer.
01:28:46
Speaker
That's a good, that's good comfort. Yeah. It's like, it's all right. I didn't, I, somebody had to tell me the same way I'm telling you. As someone who just drank 32 ounces of a 10% ABV. That's a lot of ounces.
01:28:59
Speaker
It's a lot of ounces. Yeah. It's time. ah Give your socials. I'll give my socials. Then we'll get the fuck out of here, Steven. Yeah, man. I'm you can find me on. ah What am I on? Letterboxd and Blue Sky at Chewy Walrus. You can find our absent co-host Brett Wright at Suss underscore Warlock on Letterboxd.
01:29:21
Speaker
Tucker, where can we find you on socials these days? I am on Instagram and YouTube at ice 909. That's I-C-E-N-I-N-E.
01:29:32
Speaker
The number zero and the number nine. Tuck Mug still exists. It's in a state of limbo. ah Blah, blah, blah, whatever.
01:29:44
Speaker
Because nobody cares anyway. So... Tuck Mugs, Tuck underscore Mugs, Instagram, go subscribe, show it some love. We're moving into Blue Ski. i just don't know when.
01:29:55
Speaker
Just don't know when, just don't know how, but there it is. Until then, next week, we're doing something completely different. We've done three consecutive theme months in a row. We're going off the reservation for the next few months. So ah stick with us. It's going to be it's going to be a fun time. i don't think we have another theme month scheduled until next season.
01:30:17
Speaker
ah But for the rest of from now till September, it's going to be some really fun episodes. We've got some fun guests planned for the next few months. It's going to be a good time. And patrons know ahead of time what we're covering each month. And if there are any updates to that, we let them know before we let anyone else know.
01:30:33
Speaker
ah For example, we had something else scheduled this week and we covered Lupin the third instead. So patrons knew what the original plan was and they're going to know what the what what we're releasing before you do.
01:30:45
Speaker
You'll never know what plan B was, though. No. And I wasn't even going to mention that there was a plan B. That was all you, and man. Per the conversation we had earlier tonight, I wasn't even going to mention it, but there you go. So there was another plan.
01:31:00
Speaker
i just wanted a Twilight Zone style twist at the end, you know. There do we go. ah So that's it. That is our Big in Japan 2, even bigger theme month. I can't believe we went through an entire Japanese theme theme month without having Brett on a single episode. That's a tragedy. At least we got ah straight up ah Sammy. Yeah.
01:31:21
Speaker
we We can't do a Japanese-themed theme month without having Sam on. How could you? I would quit if we did. Legitimately, we could not. I would protest. Outside of the disenfranchised offices, oh friends I would protest with all signs.
01:31:37
Speaker
absolutely as Well, you should.
Conclusion and Future Content
01:31:39
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um So until until next week where we will be coming in a cast, an American English language film, I promise, from a fairly well-known and until recently well-regarded franchise.
01:31:55
Speaker
um Until next time, I'm your host, Stephen Foxworthy, from my co-host Tucker in the absent, Brett Wright. Until next time. I don't know. Lupin Third was a good movie. don't know what tell him. Love lifted up where we belong.
01:32:34
Speaker
Bye.