Will You Survive... The Podcast
Immerse yourself in the world of cinema as we embark on a journey to equip you with the skills to tackle any disaster head-on. Through the lens of thrilling tales, particularly those of the zombie apocalypse, we'll unravel the secrets of preparedness. Join us as we explore the silver screen to empower you for the challenges that lie ahead.
Will You Survive... The Podcast
Will You Survive "Signs": Crop Circles, Water, and Family Fortitude
Graham Hess, a former reverend who lost his faith after his wife's tragic death, faces an alien invasion with his brother Merrill and two children on their isolated farm.
• Importance of situational awareness in recognizing abnormal patterns in your environment
• Animals going quiet as nature's warning system for approaching danger
• Proper shelter fortification techniques using available household items
• Everyday objects can become improvised weapons in crisis situations
• Having backup plans and escape routes is essential in any survival scenario
• Mental resilience helps maintain focus during catastrophic events
• Faith and meaning can provide strength during seemingly hopeless situations
• Small, seemingly insignificant details often become crucial survival factors
Hello survivors and welcome to another episode of Will you Survive.
Speaker 2:The Podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, what the fuck? I was trying to think of the X Factor. I forgot we're doing signs. I was trying to think of the X Factor theme song and I forgot it.
Speaker 2:No, that's Twilight Zone.
Speaker 1:No, what's that? I don't know.
Speaker 2:X Factor X Files.
Speaker 1:Did I say X Factor?
Speaker 2:Yes, I meant X Files, x Files.
Speaker 1:No, it's Alien Insert Alien music.
Speaker 2:Insert Alien music Future TJ.
Speaker 1:And that's where it'll go.
Speaker 2:That was pretty good.
Speaker 1:Let me introduce myself. I am Eric, I'm the host. I'm the host this episode because I won last episode.
Speaker 3:Hostess with the mostest.
Speaker 1:I am the hostess with the mostest. Thank you, so you know what. One point for you, tj.
Speaker 3:Wow. Wow, it's almost like you're and they can't read my brain.
Speaker 1:I was going to say it's almost like you're in my brain.
Speaker 3:Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1:Let me introduce my co-host. I'm joined here by none other than alien expert TJ.
Speaker 3:T-Jizzle with the nizzle.
Speaker 1:Yes, he currently has on a tinfoil hat.
Speaker 3:I do. It's all good conspiracy. Everybody listen close, listen close.
Speaker 1:It was very hard to wrap it around my very luxurious hair and people with a tin foil phobia are going to be very upset and uh followed by our completely bald-headed uh. No protection against the aliens. Co-host uh, alex.
Speaker 2:I have already been abducted. I came back, I conquered. They will not take me back. I've been deported from the alien territories.
Speaker 3:He shaved his entire body, so he's smooth everywhere and it hasn't grown back since that happened in 1984. Yeah, he was probed and he's actually immune to the the mind virus slides off of the.
Speaker 2:What did it? What got me banned was when I started probing them.
Speaker 3:They didn't like that there's a whole situation.
Speaker 2:When I started probing them and both my hands were on their shoulders.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a 21 pilots. Uh lyric about that what which fucking lyric from from lavish oh, I see your problem is your proctologist got both hands on your shoulders while you're bottomless I got, yeah, I got, I got it now that's not my one of my favorite songs.
Speaker 3:I mean, I've to it a lot more than I did.
Speaker 1:TJ hated that song. When the album first came out, one of my favorites was devastating. I made him listen to it so much.
Speaker 3:Got that penny low for squeak.
Speaker 1:Cross linoleum. We watched the movie Signs. That was a very natural transition into this. So what do we think? What do we think tj?
Speaker 3:I think alex thoughts the true signs they were looking for in the movie were signs from god I think the true signs were the friends we made along the way. That that is one of the meanings of it is, you know there's like the signs. And then there's him looking for a sign.
Speaker 2:There's the signs, and then there's him looking for a sign which makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3:I would like to go ahead, alex, and I'll jump in because I got some shit to say.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm going to say preacher Graham Hess loses his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He lives with his children and brother in a farmhouse. Crop circles start to appear in their cornfields. Graham dismisses them as mischief by miscreants. After hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family grows suspicious of alien activities. Now they must stick together as a family and believe to survive and escape the ordeal um, yeah, I had something to say and I forgot.
Speaker 1:Tj, you said you had shit to say okay.
Speaker 3:So if these aliens were so smart, um, why if they are not, you know, if, if water is acid to them? Basically, why in the fuck would you go to a planet in which it is 70 water and everything on it is also made of water, including what's in the plants, in the people, oh yeah yeah, can I bring that air?
Speaker 1:follow up to that. Yeah, a follow-up to that. Uh, two things. One if it rains, they're fucked so um and two. Hang on how. How the hell did they not go down to farmland and not see those giant sprinklers shooting out water and go? Oh hell, nah, true, where. Where was that at? There were sprinklers most far. No, I'm saying farms.
Speaker 3:Have those, though they have the ones that go in the actual goal, not they move not in those areas not in the midwest not in no most of most farmlands actually opera operate off of natural irrigation.
Speaker 2:They plant according to what the the rain uh forecast is for the year they're going all around the world correct.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying, it's still how do they not see a giant sprinkler, a giant water fountain or all the water features that humans use?
Speaker 2:everywhere, I mean the oceans.
Speaker 1:How would you not look at that and go? No.
Speaker 2:By what you're saying. If you think about it, you go into outer space, you go. I don't know if you guys nerd out on this stuff, but New Horizons turns around past. Pluto takes a picture of Earth and it's a tiny blue dot. You don't see any land yeah, it's when you're that far away. How do you not see like, oh no, we can't go there. Why?
Speaker 3:would you try now one of the things that somebody said.
Speaker 2:That's what they thought remember one of the things that one of the reporters had said was it was not an invasion. It it was a harvest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were trying to. They were taking the people.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that that maybe they were trying to save us from ourselves. Maybe. Oh, they got knockout gas.
Speaker 1:Interesting theory. Well, apparently it just killed a lot of people, does it just?
Speaker 2:Murphy was right there with us. Buffy Rigney on the chat says maybe it was a drive by maybe yeah, yeah, they're just passing Earth and they're like fuck it, we got a couple weeks, boom.
Speaker 3:We're supposed to be on Titan in a couple weeks, but it takes a week to get there. We're three light years ahead of schedule.
Speaker 1:We can totally stop by Earth cause a little mischief.
Speaker 2:I was like dude, like let's just like she followed up with a good one. Have you met us? No one wants to come here to save us well, the last guy who did? We kind of, oh my god that's why he hasn't come back should have been our sign uh, anyways oh man, I said, oh my god, I could have said pun intended yeah, well, he yeah.
Speaker 1:Jesus needs a couple thousand years to cool off after what happened big g's love you big g's uh so let's talk about the aliens themselves for a little bit one. What I think makes this movie so great and so iconic is the fact that you don't see the alien.
Speaker 3:They're always shrouded in darkness when you do see him, yeah first of all.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'll have a lot of first of alls, but I tried to watch this. This is so irresponsible and this is all allegedly uh, I allegedly was trying to watch this passively while driving a lot problem with this movie. Everything has to be seen. It's so dark and I'm driving and it's daylight and I'm looking at my phone and I'm just looking back at myself. I can't see shit there was one point where I paused it because I was like I, I have no idea, I keep hearing like the violins going vroom or something.
Speaker 1:I don't see shit. Yep, I have no idea what's happening.
Speaker 3:And then at one point what the fuck am I looking at?
Speaker 1:At one point I go through a tunnel and my phone brightens up a little bit. I can't watch this.
Speaker 3:I have no idea what I'm looking at. Just running through, just slapping sounds while they're running through the cornfield.
Speaker 2:Thank you, that was pretty good too.
Speaker 1:I was so in the dark.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Pun intended, pun intended. I had no idea what was happening for a lot of the movie I had to rewatch it. Not driving, I was like I can't.
Speaker 2:Fair.
Speaker 3:You have to fucking watch this movie in a dark place. Yeah, no dude, you would not be able to see. I think the only time you'd be able to see the alien is like at the end. At the end, or like when they see, even then yeah, yeah yeah dude, they're like, yeah, they fucking, they had it like through the tv, like you're looking at the reflection through the tv screen and I'm like I can't see not one detail on this fucking I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1:On my phone that just looked like a black screen. I didn't see the alien in the tv. I was, I knew it was there. I didn't see it.
Speaker 2:I was outside at night when I saw that part, so I I could see it, you could actually see it yeah, it was dark outside.
Speaker 3:I would also like to bring up. Apparently they are so smart, they're so highly advanced that they could not figure out regular doors.
Speaker 2:I imagine they got like hologram doors or some shit. He got locked in. It wasn't just that he couldn't, and he did get out.
Speaker 3:That's a big ass alien. I would have been able to get out and he got out with one hand.
Speaker 2:As you've seen, they didn't even like Well, he didn't use that hand. I'm sure have you ever tried to use your hand after you've had fingers cut off.
Speaker 1:Well, we also don't know how it got out. We don't know if it broke out or if some unfortunate soul happened to stop by and let it out by accident.
Speaker 3:So we don't know my cat's throwing up this really weird color. Mr vet, are you here? You're like oh the guys, he must have been locked in the pantry.
Speaker 2:Let me let him out exactly oh, wait a minute, all right was that something that I missed was ray. Ray was the vet, the vet he.
Speaker 3:That's why, that's why, at the start that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna call call dr, dr, whoever cornyn, whatever vet. The vet killed his wife. Well, he'll know what to do vets played also played by m night I do.
Speaker 1:I do have to say I, I am very uh wait m night. Okay, go on I do.
Speaker 2:I do have to say. The part that kept replaying in my head over and over and over again was uh, from scary movie three with the fucking hat. You guys remember that one. What? No, when, when, uh, when the preacher was going to go see his wife oh, yeah and uh the guy who was playing m night was like hey ray, I'm gonna need a ride home yeah, after he just no because.
Speaker 3:Because, like I was watching this, and like I was only thinking about that scene, I'm like, damn, he just doesn't say a word to him in this movie. I was like I thought he was going to say something.
Speaker 2:He's just sitting there Now to bring this back to our mission here, to talk a little bit about survival. One of the things that you can put on this movie that is just basics. We're always talking about basics here. This movie highlights the necessity of situational awareness. You need to be familiar with your surroundings and know what is normal, so that way you can tell what's abnormal, right, when the unusual circumstances started occurring. Of course, for them it was easy, because crop circles are not things that just happen, right?
Speaker 3:that's the remarkability of it it happened overnight, especially when you see it's happening all around the world that's the other part that's concerning yeah, yeah, it should be especially like when the like there's like no way people could just do this elaborate plan. It's popping up in freaking ind, but also on your farm, but also like in like 277 other countries, you know.
Speaker 2:And how much? How much of this do you think is controlled by disbelief, your own disbelief, like, do you think, host, do you think you would grab onto the fact that, hey, this is happening all over the world, or would you, would you inherently have that all over the world? Or would you, would you inherently have that level of disbelief that would be guiding you first?
Speaker 1:oh man, yeah, I think I think I would be just like merle. I think merle had it right merle merle whatever it's merle also joaquin phoenix. What the fuck? Yeah, I did not know that was joaquin Phoenix.
Speaker 3:Really, this is the first movie I've seen that had Joaquin Phoenix in it.
Speaker 2:I've been a fan ever since this movie, this was the very first one.
Speaker 1:There's a lot about this movie. I didn't know. I didn't know it was Abigail Breslin.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:I didn't know, it was a Culkin brother.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that. Oh, rory Culkin, what do you mean? Who the fuck is Rory? And I look it up and I thought it was either fucking Macaulay Culkin or his other brother. And I look it up, it's Rory. I'm like who the fuck is Rory?
Speaker 1:That's Rory. I didn't know there was a third one, I know it was the only other one.
Speaker 3:They all look the goddamn same dawg.
Speaker 1:They all look the same strong in those males.
Speaker 2:Like goddamn, here's another thing.
Speaker 1:They look the exact same, all three of them. It is crazy.
Speaker 2:TJ often looks these things up, so I might not be telling him anything he doesn't already know. But did you know that Joaquin Phoenix was not the first go for that role? It was. It was actually Mark Ruffalo.
Speaker 1:Yes, but Mark Ruffalo had a brain tumor.
Speaker 2:A brain tumor.
Speaker 1:You're about to be benign. I think we all read the exact same trivia in the beginning.
Speaker 2:Did we all watch it on Amazon? I saw the little trivia. I know.
Speaker 3:I know, I know Allegedly Watch it on places.
Speaker 1:I allegedly watched it on this website. Right now, right here, I'm not ever.
Speaker 3:I keep the fuck out of my website. Unless you're like my friend, you're not getting it yeah, so lucky for you.
Speaker 2:I don't even remember it, so I can't even share it, but just because, just because the host loves saying his name, will you say his name again?
Speaker 1:I'm not shaman.
Speaker 2:So did you know how much he inserted himself into this movie? No so the book about the extraterrestrials, all of the artwork in it was done by him. The uh, the stories about the children's birth are actually the stories of his two children that's cool, that's really sweet and the crop circles are real because m night shamalan doesn't like uh cgi oh my god, wait, there's another actor minimize the amount of cgi in this there's another actor who did, or another director who did a very similar thing.
Speaker 1:I think it was for Interstellar or something.
Speaker 3:It was for Interstellar, he got land and was like hey, I'm going to fucking grow all this corn. All this corn is legit. They literally had to hire a farmer to make this giant crop field, and then they sold it for profit after the movie was done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then they harvested the corn and sold it all for profit it was honestly brilliant.
Speaker 3:I mean, yeah, you're not just going to waste all that corn. Literally like a scene and a half. You see the corn in like two scenes. It's not long enough.
Speaker 1:It's like him driving through it and then, like they so could have CGI'd it. You would have never known. They did not. Honestly, they could have made like a tenth of how much they actually planted, and it would have been fine. They could have used that.
Speaker 3:Did you know that they built this house specifically for this movie? No way they built the house. Grew the corn. It's land owned by some college or something.
Speaker 1:This house doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 3:They tore it down. Oh, one thing I wanted to bring up why are the kids sharing a room? I guarantee this house is more than two bedrooms, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, if it's only three, Meryl needs one. Oh, actually, never mind. Well, no, he was out. I remembered.
Speaker 3:His wife had one of the rooms as like a sewing room and nobody goes in there. It was blocked. Oh, oh oh, oh oh, I didn't remember that part. All right, I pay attention. I love this fucking movie. This is a great movie, it's a good movie Top tier Shyamalan movie I haven't watched this movie for quite a while.
Speaker 1:I think last time I watched it I was still a little too young to really process everything. This was the first time that I watched this movie and realized that the dad was a reverend. I did not catch that the first couple tens of times that I watched this movie.
Speaker 3:Damn, he has a lot of kids.
Speaker 1:I recall him father it's weird, Because it didn't even Because to me it was all about the aliens. All the boring talking parts.
Speaker 3:Never paid attention to it.
Speaker 1:I literally at no point did I ever hear anybody call him father, because I just tuned out the movie until the aliens showed up when you're younger.
Speaker 3:You just kind of don't pick up on shit so get this little tidbit.
Speaker 1:I was also like, yeah, it's so weird they call him father.
Speaker 3:But whatever, it meant nothing to me.
Speaker 1:I'm like, oh, his name is father, okay, so there's a, there's another there's another little little tidbit here which is just deep kind of dark.
Speaker 2:The scene in which graham has his last conversation with his wife was scheduled for september 12 2001 and was filmed after a cast and crew candlelight vigil. They still fucking recorded that shit the show must go on.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean what? What happened?
Speaker 1:nothing big, you know, 9-11 oh, you mean the thing with like that little tower?
Speaker 3:like two towers, three towers like what you call when you need help.
Speaker 2:I'm talking about the thing that happened when when the three towers in new york collapsed are you ready? Are you ready for? Are you ready for this? Are you ready for this? Cell phone towers. You know that event where our president at the time, George Bush, just decimated New York and unalived a whole bunch of New Yorkers just to get us to go to war in Iraq.
Speaker 3:Oh, that one yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, sorry, I had to.
Speaker 3:That jet fuel. Why didn't you lead with that?
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't know how much TikTok would let me get away with.
Speaker 3:No, I don't even know. Josh is in our Discord everybody. So if you would like to join our Discord, make sure to become an elite member. Subscribe. Do that, he is our number one fan official, so it's kind of required.
Speaker 1:So, going back to something I was saying about, what makes this movie so iconic and so good is how little you do see the alien Part of it, because of how damn dark the movie is, but also some of it because it's intentional. They show you very little glimpses. I remember the first time I saw the alien's foot, the first time I ever saw that scene in the cornfield almost shit my pants it was terrifying it did.
Speaker 3:It's such a good scene guys, the the aliens in this movie are hoax.
Speaker 1:It's all the goddamn worthington brothers, yeah but you know what I I feel like I going back to like what you said, alex. When would I? Or how skeptical would I be? When would it hit me that, oh, this is real yep I think Merrill had it pretty right. He was remember. Uh, there's a particular scene where they where the baby monitors first going off, where uh, he's like no, no, this it's all bullshit, it's just a hoax. This is all shit, this is nothing okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is bullshit I'm gonna move and he's like you'll lose the signal. All of a sudden he was a believer. He was like no, no, I, I agree with the kid, it's like listen I'm gonna support my brother like to a point.
Speaker 3:And then he was like I, I definitely fucking heard some things talking he's like no, the kid's got a point I did once like I'd be like oh, crop circles, that's weird, fuck those worthington brothers, it's probably them.
Speaker 3:And then once like like oh, crop circles, that's weird, fuck those Worthington Brothers, it's probably them. And then Once like like, oh Shit, there's something on the roof. That Scene was crazy, cause, like you see his Face register that, hey, that's weird, you know. And it's just standing there fucking menacingly On the roof. Also, diddy, why are you staring into the kids room? You fucking weirdo? Well, it's like when he was talking to the cop and thedy, why are you staring?
Speaker 1:into the kid's room. You fucking weirdo anyway. Well, it's like when he was talking to the cop and the cop was like you know, couldn't it have been this? And he's like I don't know. I'm pretty fast and I'm pretty strong, it's them. Uh, this thing, it fuck. It just hopped onto a 10-foot house and women yeah, I love where she, yeah, where she's like. You know well, there's the scandinavian women in the olympics. I'm like, oh yeah, the scandinavian olympic performer came over the house.
Speaker 2:I don't appreciate the sarcasm but I gotta I gotta love his response, I mean let's be realistic I absolutely love the acting of joaquin phoenix, or he he sells that so well, where he delivers his line, she's delivering hers, he's paused, he's waiting, and then his next line. Okay, I'm sorry I may have been out of line with that whole Scandinavian hijab thing. I like that, you know. On a real note.
Speaker 1:I do feel like that's kind of like maybe more of a glimpse of what society was like then versus now. I think maybe I'm wrong. I think, alex, you would know this better and you'd even have more time before then to compare to, so you could compare like the 1720s to the 1820s, the 1920s to the 2020s.
Speaker 3:The early 2000s were peak.
Speaker 1:So like early 2000s, where he was like okay, I was out of line. Let me rephrase I just don't feel like people do that enough nowadays to just admit like oh, you know what, okay I, I got a little ahead of myself. My bad, it's also and while we're, while we're in like it's just, it's not a big deal, like you got ahead of yourself, fine it's. I think it's. It's real easy to just be, to just acknowledge it and be like, oh, you know what I, my bad, overreacted to that.
Speaker 2:While we're in the realm of film as well, that's true. People don't do that enough anymore, and it's because in the realm of social media, I think they believe that apologizing shows weakness, and in a lot of cases I completely agree In. When you're a public figure and you apologize, the public just eats you up. The best thing to do, like Matt Rife showed this, you make a joke that people don't like. Just move on. Yeah, don't let them force you to do you know? Oh, I'm going to apologize for what it is that I do. Right, he's a comedian, he makes jokes.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I definitely don't agree with Not all jokes land. Yeah with getting mad at a comedian over a joke, right.
Speaker 2:If you don't find it funny, I forget what he said Fucking.
Speaker 1:I forget the guy's name, but he was like Dahlia or something like that. What's his name? Chris? Which one?
Speaker 2:Chris Dahlia, yeah, dahlia.
Speaker 1:Where he made a joke. He was like I find it so funny when people get mad when I'm on stage real.
Speaker 2:None of it's all a fucking joke. Yeah, why? How could you get mad at it? But in the, in the realm of film, I do actually think tj says early 2000s. I think the matrix had it right humanity peaked in 1999?
Speaker 3:yeah, I, I don't know. Let's say 2000, that's when I was born nope, nope, it sucked.
Speaker 2:It started sucking that moment uh, debatable, debatable, debatable. But if you know the world got darker, get it, get it. You see what I did there. Don't just breeze past that. That was grade a. That was grade a it's.
Speaker 1:It's weird, because I definitely think like obviously I wasn't alive in 2000, so I I don't know, I I don't have that comparison I wasn't sentient until 2003 yeah, so neither of us really have that comparison to to say you made him drool. Crazy. That's kind of what I was doing, just a lot.
Speaker 3:A light turned on in 2003. I remember that was good. You don't. You know my first memory ever. I have two and I think you might remember one of't one.
Speaker 1:You don't you know my first memory ever. I have two and I think you might remember one of them. One of them was me brushing my teeth in the shower, because I remember it being like the most novel idea in the world, because it was. I was like three, um, and I I have a very oddly vivid memory of that. Another one is waking up at what must have been like 2 am to tell you that I'd peed the bed.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, but other than that.
Speaker 1:oh, I also have a third random memory from that same apartment. I remember one time after a shower I had water in my ear and I turned my head and I knocked my head like three times. I'll never forget the feeling of that water coming out of my ear so smoothly, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. So survival tip for everybody.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, oh, my god. So survival tip for everybody, so you don't die of an ear infection. If you have water in your ear, bend over and tilt your head sideways it always comes up.
Speaker 1:Oh that it they. Oh man.
Speaker 2:Water never gets stuck in my ears, because I just do that and it comes out well, no, and that's that's like the best, what we used to do all the time after surfing, because you'll always have water in your ears. You get back to your car, you your towel, you brush off all the sand on your ankles by bending over at the hips. Don't kneel down, you know. Don't try to be a man. No, bend over at the hips like you're stretching, and when you're, when you're upside down like that, all the water is going to come out of your nose and your ears.
Speaker 1:Ew Water in your nose, the nose part sucks yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh dude, you can't, you can't serve without water getting in your nose.
Speaker 3:Oh, that brings up another thing. Here's a survival tip. This is actually a survival tip. If you're anywhere and you're hearing ambient animals all around you, and then they go quiet, you should probably also go quiet. In this movie you could watch it again and just Pay attention to it. Every time some weird alien shit happens, all the sound disappears.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they actually mention that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's really easy to overlook this, and as I've become more of an animal guy, I've paid attention to it more and more. You can really tell a lot by the wildlife around you, like when you see a flock of birds suddenly move or suddenly fly away, something moved over there.
Speaker 1:There's something walking or moving around over there. When things go silent, there's a predator around like it, things like that, that, the the woods, or not necessarily just the woods, but nature tells you, it gives you hints at what's happening around you, if you know what to listen for and what to look for yeah, yeah, yeah um fuck, what was it?
Speaker 3:that's a good one, though. I got something if you're you want to think for a minute yeah, I tried to think back to where I was gonna go before more from more from this.
Speaker 2:Uh, this movie, specifically survival related, uh, that was a good one. The other side of this is stealth and silence. Um, you can. You can formulate the argument that the aliens were drawn to sound. They kept coming to the people's houses they were in.
Speaker 2:Now, I don't know why they were in this particular area where the hess family lived, because everywhere else they were in cities, which made sense because it's that's a lot of action, there's a lot of activity, there's a lot of noise, there's a lot of action, there's a lot of activity, there's a lot of noise, there's a lot of movement. I do know that one thing that the credits or the trivia pointed out was that it was a geographical goof. They said that it was 80 miles outside of Philadelphia, but it was actually only about 10 miles away from the border. So it would, it would stand to reason, if they would have gotten it right, that they were near a city, and how much area these aliens covered is unknown. So we were just talking about this. Uh, in nature, animals know, insects know, animals know be quiet when a predator is around, and you yourself need to be able to take that, that stealth and silent approach it's.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of just being aware of your surroundings, it's. I mean, the more that I work with animals, the more it's imperative that you're constantly keep your head on a swivel. Um, even just something as simple as walking dogs like it's a pretty simple job, but there's a lot of little things that you learn as you do it. More, um, like always keeping your head on a swivel, or anytime I'm about to pick up poop, I always scan around me to look at what's happening, because the last thing I need to do is not see a dog that's approaching us, and I'm bent over and my dogs decide they want to lurch.
Speaker 1:I'm screwed at that point. I also have a.
Speaker 3:So about that. They were on a different level of knowing when shit's up in this movie because, like when he's in the field with the cop, he's just like I can't hear my kids yeah, that's crazy. Um, every time they like turn towards the corn, they could fucking like they're sensing something. They're like you know we stare at these, this freaking thing of corn, all the time you can like feel when it's wrong, you know so when you're aware of your surroundings, you get more keen to shit like that.
Speaker 3:You know, in like your everyday life you'd be able to I agree, yeah like he, like when um merrill, uh, like he turned towards the corn and freaking through the rock, I'm like what's, yeah? First off, what's that rock gonna do? Second off, what if that shit comes back?
Speaker 2:I was thinking like what if he?
Speaker 1:throws it and it hits something in the sky like that would have been crazy dunk, just a dunk, and then you see like a force field kind of ripple across.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's like a little independence day right there oh and did you notice in, like the final scene um, I don't know if you did, eric, because you're watching this on a dark ass screen, but on the alien's body, like they like they have like camouflage right, you could see, like the the sun's shirt, like it took the pattern from the sun's shirt when it turned around, you could see the daughter's face on the skin of the alien.
Speaker 1:Oh, I missed that. That's an interesting detail.
Speaker 3:They got some real wicked camouflage. I don't know why they didn't use it more.
Speaker 1:They did in the beginning until they decided to just go. So they were just like yo fuck it. Let's let them know.
Speaker 3:Hold on, little Mexican kid. Seen them, it's behind.
Speaker 1:That was crazy. Okay, the school.
Speaker 3:I would have reacted the same way. Dude that was crazy.
Speaker 1:Okay, the school, I would have reacted the same way. Dude, oh man, Dude. Joaquin Phoenix's R Merrill.
Speaker 2:Oh, I loved his character. Oh, dude.
Speaker 1:He did the straight up.
Speaker 3:Leonardo DiCaprio, oh, oh, leonardo DiCaprio, oh oh, oh oh, yeah, yeah, he said move out the way, little kids Vamanos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, vamanos, that was so funny.
Speaker 2:Now just a quick sidebar on this. If I'm not mistaken, that Leonardo DiCaprio scene comes out of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood right.
Speaker 1:No, I thought it was Wolf of Wall Street.
Speaker 2:Was it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think you're thinking of the one that goes, he goes and he points yeah, yeah, yeah, were you whistling at it? That's Hollywood one.
Speaker 1:That's Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodllywood yeah yeah, oh, I thought it was willful, wall street.
Speaker 2:No, because he, he was an actor in once upon a time in hollywood, and so when he sees himself, he was like, oh he like whistles at himself so let me uh, let me give a shout out to buffy again, because she's got a good one. She asks do y'all hunt if you are quiet, all other beings alert each other. Now that's pretty freaking wild and mellow just gave us a, a few donuts.
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Speaker 1:To continue about animals. Now it's my fifth time trying this sentence. Hello, you hurt the dogs. First of all, fucking props to the kid taking on a full-grown German shepherd and winning. I would've died Without a mark on him. Are you kidding me? Yep, this kid's fucking Superman.
Speaker 3:And the fucking sister's.
Speaker 1:Okay, dude, yeah kid's a fucking hero. Took out the dog and protected his sister. Didn't have a fucking scratch on him A full grown German Shepherd.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Crazy.
Speaker 2:The one thing the kid said was it was trying to get his sister for some reason.
Speaker 1:So that did kind of that kind of. That's what I thought is like maybe the dog was completely focused on the sister and not on him at all, yeah, but at the same time he still got the dog before it was able to hurt her yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, he said oh yeah, it fell on me he fell on me.
Speaker 1:True, it's I don't know I I admired his um, his knowledge of the dog's behavior. I mean, it's pretty common sense if a dog growls at you, you should probably stop whatever you're doing but how young he is, how young he is and he was able to say don't run where you said yeah, you said stop, don't run, don't turn away he tried to correct the dog's behavior. He did everything right he did everything right and that was very well done.
Speaker 3:And then they left the other one outside that's yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh man, that sucks it definitely.
Speaker 3:They shared a look at each other. They're like oof because they?
Speaker 2:because they said they were gonna tie her up in the garage when they were done with yeah, they literally said the dog would have died in the garage too yeah, so theoretically, I mean, unless you brought her in which I'm just saying. They probably would have went for the dog I would have I kind of feel if you're in attention with the dog, I think you could have right, oh yeah, that dog would have been the second.
Speaker 1:Things were being fucking weird around me. My dog is with me at all times yeah yeah, I, but I'm just a dog person like I feel much more comfortable with a dog around me.
Speaker 3:Some people wouldn't hear me out, I assume, if you own two dogs, you would feel comfortable with dogs. If the dog you know is like every other dog and has is made of water and slobbers, does the bite give poison damage?
Speaker 1:see aliens I mean damage. So come on, no, the way that I think of that is like technically there is water in it, but I think of it the same way like there's certain acids that we can pour on ourselves, that it is acidic but it doesn't really burn our skin without being in incredibly large doses, or quantities that, or like leaving your hand in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because it's like there's like a really common acid that, like you can dip your hand in and you're totally fine. It's not going to burn you or anything. You don't want to get it in your eye or anything.
Speaker 2:I mean the one I think of, that you say that I've messed with sulfuric acid. I've messed with sulfuric acid. I've messed with muriatic acid. Vinegar is very acidic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so like there's certain things that, yes, it's acidic, but so that's what I imagine. Like slobber and spit and pee is like, yeah, there's water in it which would be acidic to them, but I don't think it's the same as like pure water.
Speaker 3:It's like, ah, dude, stop ah, yeah, it's like you know they might they might get some hives or something piss in its eyes.
Speaker 1:It's the weak spot they, they learn.
Speaker 2:They learn that water is the weakness on earth, right yeah then the aliens come to los angeles and they start spraying them with like tap water and it makes the aliens stronger because it's more fluoride than it is water. It's like fluoride, chlorine, bromine, calcium, calcium so much calcium.
Speaker 3:Bro ask my fucking fish tank. How much calcium is in LA tap water. Oh my God, just building up dog. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:I could sell it.
Speaker 2:I swear I could scrape it off and sell it. I'd make a fortune as a mineral supplement.
Speaker 1:I got these rare earth minerals. There's calcium rare earth.
Speaker 3:Rare fish calcium Fish, calcium pills, dude.
Speaker 2:Something we've talked about a lot on this podcast that they did in this movie. I particularly want to point out that they did it. Wrong is the fortification of their shelter. Did you guys notice how they the bedroom?
Speaker 1:door. Yes, yeah, what the fuck are they barricading?
Speaker 2:right, they barricaded the wrong side of the door, yeah, so if, if it was me, I would have gone in the bedroom and nailed it all shut and gone out the window, out onto that, because it looked like they had a ledge like a roof awning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's like a roof awning there you walk around to everyone and then you get a ladder down or you know, drop down and have your brother catch you yeah, that whole like when they when I remember when they walked out of that bedroom and they closed it and I was like, oh, okay, and then they put the board up and immediately my thought was what the fuck? Yeah, I uh the alien could just open the door, yeah exactly, they didn't.
Speaker 3:They couldn't barricade the windows, so they just like they could break the window, walk in, open the door, you know. And they didn't even like barricade the entire thing so my idea was for how I would survive. That like, oh the freaking. You know, we need stuff for the windows. We have doors on the inside of our house see, that's what I thought have doors exactly there's like what?
Speaker 2:two, three windows in there the frick, take the door off the bedroom take the freaking bathroom door, fucking board it up to the window.
Speaker 3:Um, they did have like. I don't know if you guys seen it, but there's at one point where you see one of the uh like barricades that they nailed to the. It's the roof of their little play set.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know if you noticed that, but they you know they're making use of shit right make more use of shit you know, yeah, you know, ever since you uh, alex, you mentioned that in the night of the living dead episode. It's, it's a brilliant idea barricading your windows with with interior doors that you have that genius. It's so smart.
Speaker 3:It's the strongest wood you're gonna find in your whole house yeah, just like readily available, yeah it's the largest pieces, yeah, and those are all like actual wood doors and not like home depot pieces of shit like plywood, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, frankly speaking, even if they are uh, it you're talking about like a lot of for us, our specific example and using this apartment that we're in it's double paned reinforced glass, and then you put a a bedroom door right behind it and I keep uh sets of of lag bolts and nuts. It came in a set, so I might as well keep it right. I'm not going to throw it away, but they're um six inch lags they fit through the wall so I would be able to go outside.
Speaker 2:Nobody's getting through it yep, I would be able to go outside and drill through the the studs. All I would need is a couple and a couple on each side that's it and it. I mean that's that, it's uh it's a rounded.
Speaker 1:It's a rounded bolt on the outside.
Speaker 2:So and then our, our front door is gated with a security gate, so you're not going to get through that very easily.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I have a feeling, if we're talking about our apartment complex, particularly with signs, I think they climb up the sides. I don't think there's anything stopping them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're very agile.
Speaker 2:There's definitely several ways they can get in. Yeah, they were very, very agile in that regard.
Speaker 1:And smart to a point. There's definitely several ways they could get in. They could go to the pool area. Hop over that gate easy.
Speaker 3:They had tactics like when they were in the basement and they were looking for another way in, so they were distracting them by banging on the door.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was great. All of that was so well done.
Speaker 1:Also very smart for them to kind of problem solve that and be like what are they doing?
Speaker 3:It's not like they're really trying.
Speaker 1:They're not really trying to get in. What are they doing?
Speaker 2:Yeah, making noise, trying to distract us.
Speaker 3:Why do they have so much dog food?
Speaker 2:Right? Well, they have two German Shepherds, dude.
Speaker 1:But that's like eight bags they also said they live 80 miles from town.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was one of the points that I said. It was probably more like 10 miles. But to move on real quick to another point is the necessity of being able to use everyday items as an improvised weapon. You did this to us a couple of episodes ago in Survivor Die. And what could you grab? You know around you, near you, and use as a weapon. And the fact that you know around you, near you and uses a weapon, and the fact that you know, thankfully right, I mean in today's society, if you could get a hold of a super soaker, but the fact that Merrill had a baseball bat right there and then you got to look around your house and figure what do you have?
Speaker 3:They set that up when he was in the recruiting office. Yeah, they did. You know what else they set up what?
Speaker 1:I remember when the cop was first there and he was collecting the all of her water cups and then he went to collect three more and he left them yeah, fuck it, and yeah, and he like walked away, foreshadowed the hell out of him.
Speaker 3:I'm sick of telling her to stop doing this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh yeah well, at the at the end, when they, when they realized that the alien was weak to water and they noticed all the water cups around, I, I, I set out live. I was like, oh, you walked into the wrong fucking house yeah, you walked into the one house that has a cup of water in every room that's like the whole, you know at least one other side of signs. It's the other signs signs from the big G's. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Um the wife.
Speaker 1:I, when she was just pointing Alex was just pointing out how much water I have. I have water.
Speaker 3:He's immortal to these aliens. There's so much water, Um, but yeah, it's like, but the daughter she has this like this thing where she just doesn tell Graham to see and then tell Merrill to swing away. He seen, registered and then told him to swing away.
Speaker 1:So it's like, you know, that's when he I think that's when he got his faith back, which now to point out the obvious.
Speaker 2:He was talking to himself when he was talking to Merrill, when they were sitting on the couch watching all the news, and he says what kind of person are you, the kind of person who sees signs in everything, who sees meaning behind everything and there's a message being told to you? Are you the person who believes that it's just coincidence?
Speaker 1:And of course, at the end he's like huh, huh yeah. Well, I think there's two big moments that happened there. One was when Merrill told him I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes ever again. He basically told him you are supposed to be my faith rock. Uh, in this world you gotta pull your shit together, man. You gotta find your fucking faith again, because I can't be the one with more faith than you.
Speaker 1:That that's not how this fucking works, especially after what his kids said to uncle, uncle merrill yeah yeah, that's I wish you were my dad I I honestly I think merrill was the fucking coolest character.
Speaker 3:That whole show. He said nothing wrong. It's good that he was like don't ever say that again. Yeah, he was like no.
Speaker 1:I think part of it was like I don't want that responsibility, Shut the fuck up.
Speaker 3:I agree.
Speaker 1:Meryl's idea of a miracle was him taking out his gun, I think before he got thrown up. Yeah, it was a girl not throwing up on him and he's like that was God, that had to be that was righteous, that girl was gonna throw up on me in his mouth. That's what he was saying, I was gonna lean in to kiss her. I know exactly what you're talking about, about God intervening. There was this one time I was going to kiss this girl, that was so great.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I swear that's every new Christian is, when you start to realize where God is and all the little things and you're like that was God she would have thrown up on me.
Speaker 2:Now where I think there could be a good comparison made is with merrill. The whole conversation of of uh, being your dad is merrill with his brother's kids and you with mine. The age difference is about appropriate and I think it makes perfect sense when you say that. You know, I don't think he wanted the responsibility. I think that you have enough experience knowing me that I will lay my life down for them. There's no question about it. It's not, it's not even not even up for debate. And you, I, I personally believe if we were in that situation, you would be right alongside me. But knowing that added responsibility and terror of I cannot, I can't die.
Speaker 3:Eric could be standing there like protect them. The old guy gotta die first no, you know what? Sacrifice himself. Let's see. If it works out, then I'll consider it.
Speaker 1:oddly enough, I do think I view it differently. I I don't know, obviously. I don't know how I would actually react in a situation like this, but my initial reactions are I don't have kids, I don't have anybody who's necessarily relying on me being alive in order for them to go on, not to say that people wouldn't miss me if I die.
Speaker 3:I am. I'm relying on you If you leave me, I'll kill myself.
Speaker 1:TJ's very toxic in a relationship.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'll send the video to everybody too beforehand. I'll have it lined up, damn.
Speaker 1:But I do see it as like I would if it was like a situation like this. I would rather sacrifice myself than you, because my thought would be that you have to be there to raise them.
Speaker 2:I don't have that responsibility which I think is what merrill was saying. When, when, uh, I forget what was the boy's name.
Speaker 1:Um, that's beau was the girl yeah, it was bow and bow and fuck, was it billy? I have it?
Speaker 3:no, not billy, I have it, I have it, I have it I gotta, I gotta find it, because that's another little small details when he was holding his son when, uh, after the gas got sprayed on him, you can hear him say that's why he has asthma yep his lungs are closed, that's he didn't get in that's why he has asthma and he just keeps repeating it.
Speaker 1:I think he, because he was. That was also the moment where he remembered the final moment of talking to his uh, to his wife. I found it very interesting that one of the first things she said was she said I, I was just going on a walk. Uh, it's like it was meant to be. Yeah, even in in a situation like that, to be able to say that, well, it was meant to happen that this is. It is what it is what are we going to do about it?
Speaker 1:yeah this was meant to happen and I I think that's when he, I think that was a moment where he got his faith back and he realized that was faith in action. Saying like this is why he has asthma. He's going to be fine, he is fine, he's fine that there's, I'm not even going to worry he's fine, give him a minute, don't touch him.
Speaker 2:What I, what I actually think you, you and I were saying the same thing in two different ways was when morgan asked uh, merrill, you won't let anything happen to us, right?
Speaker 2:and he said no. And then, when he was like I wish you were my daddy. And then merrill got mad at him, it was like don't ever say that, I. I felt like it was for that exact same reason of merrill's like yeah, I will, I will go to town. Don't, don't you even worry about it, but not in the same manner that the dad would.
Speaker 1:And the dad is needed, yeah the, the dad, I I felt for him because he was very good, I think, objectively, with how he won, how he spoke to the kids with the exception of his little crash out at the table, um, but with how he spoke to the kids and how democratic he was, took a vote and then I count my vote counts as two look I agree with him.
Speaker 2:You know what?
Speaker 1:I do too. I 100 agree with him I do and then when he got outvoted, still, even when his vote counted as two, he was man enough to suck it up and go. Well, I lost that vote yeah and because he very well could have been like no, we're going to the lake, yeah and he would have been right uh, my vote he would have been 100 right I'm speaking for the dog also yeah, I speak for both dogs. My vote counts as four.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly I am the lorax.
Speaker 2:I speak for the trees, I speak for the course, I get five thousand which, as we're getting close here, I want to bring up just another couple of points, is having an escape plan. It was the decision to stay put was you know. It's fine and all, when you have in mind that they had another plan, and that is very important in any survival situation. You need to be able to have an escape plan. Once they dug in their heels, it was you know. It's too late. You have to write out what you've decided. And then, last but not least we've brought this up in many of the most recent episodes is your mental resilience. You need to be able to stay focused. I know he had a crash out, I get it, but this was kind of different.
Speaker 1:It was a very justified crash out.
Speaker 2:He's battling two different things at once. He's fighting.
Speaker 3:God and aliens. When you're crashing out and he's battling two different things at once, he's fighting God and aliens. And you got mashed potatoes in your mouth. You know that you're.
Speaker 1:I felt for him Because it was like why?
Speaker 2:Why does that make so much sense? You got mashed potatoes in your mouth and you're crashing out. It's just like I feel like, because he put those mashed potatoes in his mouth is why he crashed out.
Speaker 1:It's like, damn, I've gone too far, because, then, because, then, like he was like trying to chew the mashed potatoes like bro, come on you know, I I found it very sweet and comforting that it was like the whole family realized, like this man never does this and for him to be at this point, yeah, like the, the way that the kids had just been screamed at by him and were immediately like this isn't, this isn't you.
Speaker 3:And went and hugged him. When you're a kid, yeah, they're like you.
Speaker 2:Don't do this, I like when you grab Merle, you remember the first time you see your dad cry. You know, yeah, your dad never cries.
Speaker 1:You know I will ever seen you cry. I don't think I have. I've never seen Grandpa cry, for sure.
Speaker 2:I don't cry in front of people.
Speaker 1:I cry to God like a little bitch, but I don't cry in front of people.
Speaker 3:Let's make him cry. What can we do? What are?
Speaker 2:you going to make me cry?
Speaker 3:I cry about everything, anesthetic, and he'll be asleep for at least 48 hours.
Speaker 2:Take him to Turkey. I've heard those stories Get him hair implants. Oh, no, right, Take him back. You've heard those stories, not that one.
Speaker 3:And then bow His hair's back. He comes to tears. And then what happens there's?
Speaker 1:also an implant.
Speaker 2:He shaved it off.
Speaker 3:There's also an implant to reject all the hairs. We just press a button. They all fall out immediately. Cries even more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen. Take it away twice.
Speaker 1:I don't think that's going to happen. What do old people cry about? Whoa?
Speaker 3:I have hair.
Speaker 1:And it will fall out and be like oh yeah, that's about right. What do old people what?
Speaker 3:Yeah, what do people from the 1700s cry about? Alex?
Speaker 1:What Nothing men don't cry back. I think. I think I was gonna say maybe he's traumatized from that men don't cry. When was the black plague? Was that the 16?
Speaker 2:the plague was that the 16, 20s?
Speaker 3:I don't know um, oh, another little detail. Um, the vet, when he's talking to him before he's, he fucking skirts off. Also, why did he fucking skirt off every time? Bro fucking presses the pedal like he did it when they're in the freaking pizza place and like he did it when they were in the freaking pizza place and then he did it when he was like dog, wait for me to move away from the car before you, you know but um dramatic as hell, he said he was like explaining, like, what happened when he hit his wife and he's like, it's like it was meant to be, you know, yeah, and then what?
Speaker 3:what does the wife say when, like her final? Words she's like, it's like it was meant to be, you know, yeah. And then what? What does the wife say when, like her final words, she's like, it's like it was meant to be. You see, you see him break down crying, you know, and then I think that's also like first step towards, like his, his, his, his revival of yeah, I agree being a father and a father I do think.
Speaker 1:I think that was a a big moment where he realized I how do I describe this? I think it's unfortunately really common for people of faith to waver, at the least when somebody that close to you passes, because it's just an unfortunate reality that everybody dies. But when you lose somebody way earlier than you were expecting to, especially like In a real gruesome- you were expecting to, especially like a real gruesome way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially like your wife yeah, being severed at the waist, your wife uh, leaving you and your two children. That I understand how it shakes somebody's faith like that, and it to me it's very understandable that he fell, that he fell away like that.
Speaker 3:Good trade-off. He lost his faith. He got walking in Phoenix. Jeez, I'd like to live with that man.
Speaker 2:No, there's no trade-off for me without my wife.
Speaker 3:Good save. I know you won't walk in your life.
Speaker 1:I think it really showed a good. It showed, I think, a pretty decent depiction of something that could make.
Speaker 3:That could shake your faith and on top of you know a world, a catastrophic world ending event like an alien invasion also being on top of that, but yeah, and yeah, you'll see how it kind of cascades too, because it went from like it was like a domino effect, like wife dies, you know, then frickin' Meryl moves in and then all the shit happens, it all you know. Yeah, it was all foretold in the prophecy, it was.
Speaker 1:Mel Gibson is our lord and savior no. Good discussion, guys. Let's see I'm tallying up the points in my head. Very official points here um alex uh, why should you win?
Speaker 2:why should I win? Because I actually brought some survival tactics to the table here, we're talking about how you survive the signs invasion. Uh, we've talked about the situational awareness, fortifying your shelter, being stealthy and silent, using improvised weapons, having an escape plan and maintaining your mental resilience. These are things that are always good in any survival situation, especially in signs.
Speaker 1:Okay, tj, why should you win? I do want to point out, actually really quick.
Speaker 3:I do want to point out TJ also brought some survival tips to discussion no go on tj um, I'm not gonna have a real chat gpts answer like he did, but I would like to say that I definitely did bring some survival stuff to the table, also brought some good film stuff, also brought some good faith stuff. I also brought a tinfoil hat. Um, that's true, I also have two really good picks for, uh, the next movie.
Speaker 1:Uh, if you'd like to hear them, oh, I, I will say uh before, before we get to that uh, tinfoil hat definitely earns you uh some bonus points, because, uh, I love the cosplay very funny I wore it the whole time yeah, you did that's commitment.
Speaker 3:I really do appreciate that yeah, yeah, the aliens are already in everybody else's mind Not mine, though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what the aliens are telling me. Okay, guys, hang on, I'm getting an intrusive thought from the aliens, wait.
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Speaker 3:Wum, wum, wum, wum. That's the stuff in your brain.
Speaker 1:Okay, thank you for that, oh.
Speaker 3:Josh just gave three points. Josh gave three points for the hat.
Speaker 1:Let's go, Josh yeah, according to the Constitution, he's allowed to do that. Well, because the aliens have spoken and they say the winner is TJ Wubba lubba, dub, dub. Now, an astounding amount of points, with the additional three provided by Josh.
Speaker 3:Yes, would you like to hear my two picks? I will let the host choose which one.
Speaker 1:Sure, really quick. I do want to say, alex, you did bring some great discussion, but TJ brought a tinfoil hat and that's pretty big, so go on, tj, okay first pick is just a normal survival story.
Speaker 3:Top tier, just survival, all the way cast away. Okay, next pick because the movie reminded me that the movie exists War of the Worlds.
Speaker 1:I think they referenced that.
Speaker 3:They, yeah, they did, they took inspiration from that, like I think it was, it was, it was especially the uh, the basement scene.
Speaker 2:He actually says it that he took that whole basement scene from george orwell's war of the worlds interesting, so I will.
Speaker 3:I'll let you choose which one. Well, I've never seen more of the worlds.
Speaker 2:You have seen castaway, though, so I'm guessing you're gonna have to choose the new one. Is there an old one? Oh?
Speaker 3:fuck, yeah, okay, yeah, probably not uh, not the old one, I'm talking tom cruise. Yeah, okay, I figured cool, cool cool mr tooth in the middle himself yeah, it's fucking weird dude like why is he has enough money for braces?
Speaker 1:why does he have a tooth in the middle? Okay, I was gonna say mr uh scientology himself, have you? Have you heard uh russell brands?
Speaker 1:uh, talk about that about which about uh, tom cruise and scientology no yeah, russell brand was talking to a comedian and he was basically saying he was like you know, I was talking to Tom Cruise and I was, you know, saying like oh, you know, you're so great, you're so awesome, you know all the things you have to say in order to keep a job in Hollywood. And at one point he was like we were. He was like I know that he's into Scientology and I'm curious. So every time I would talk to him I would casually try to bring it up, and so I'd just say shit like oh, you know, if only there was something deeper out there. No, okay, if only, you know, if only there was some answers to the universe. And he was like and so the talk show host was like anything. He was like no, nothing.
Speaker 2:And so they were laughing and it was like but I'm like super offended like how bad does it have to be that a fucking cult is like they look at me and they're like not you, yeah that's oh, my god.
Speaker 3:I see videos all the time about, uh, scientology. And there's this guy who, like just he, walks past the scientology building and they always close the doors. They're like, oh oh yeah, this guy he's, he like walks up to a person. He's like oh hi, miriam, it's been a while. She walks inside, fucking briskly, shuts the doors.
Speaker 1:He loves to. He basically just talks Scientology with them and just fucking shuts down all their discussions. They hate it.
Speaker 2:Well, the thing that cracks me up is from the eighties. I remember being sick, when I would be sick and I'd be watching TV. There's only a few things I can remember. Right Price is right, and then it goes to After Price is Right. It was the last good thing that was on, Then it was all soap operas and then it was I thought you said Price is Right was the last good thing. Yeah, I didn't watch soap operas.
Speaker 3:You didn't watch A Day in Our Lives.
Speaker 2:I knew the day of the kids' day was starting to begin again when Gilligan's Island came on, and it was all the way through that that I would see these commercials for Dianetics. That's the L Ron Hubbard book.
Speaker 3:He's the founder for Scientology and it was like all of it started in science fiction, in the 80s he literally made like alien books and it was like damn. It started in science fiction in the 80s. Yeah, he literally made like alien books and it was like damn none of these are science Dianetics.
Speaker 1:Let me just make a cult. Exactly, let me just make it a religion and everyone's like, oh, now I'm into it, I'm in Dude this stuff man Like yeah, fuck yeah.
Speaker 3:They can't drink water they're allergic to water.
Speaker 1:When you said it was fiction, not really interested. When you say it's real.
Speaker 2:Religion. Okay, this movie but instead of losing his faith in God, it's in Scientology.
Speaker 3:Then he sees the alien he's like it's true, yes, and then yeah, anyways, and then they kill's like it's true.
Speaker 1:Yes and then, yeah, Anyways and then they kill him.
Speaker 3:Winner's speech. Thank you all for this amazing win. The tinfoil hat really pulled through. I knew it would. I was kind of figuring maybe one of us was on the same page, but none of us were on the same page.
Speaker 1:It was just only me with the tinfoil hat. The thought didn't even cross my mind not even worse.
Speaker 3:Yeah it, uh it. Actually it doubles as a, uh, really big wine glass.
Speaker 2:You just rossi lose your speech, alex I know that all of you in the chat and all of you listeners wanted me to win and I appreciate all of your support. You know there's nothing we can do against these oligarchs who operate against us and make sure that we lose and rig the votes, you know, josh, and submit these last minute votes all of a sudden, leave them alone.
Speaker 1:These 1 am votes. These 1 am votes.
Speaker 2:You know how it goes Chat, chat. We'll get them next time. Until then, host uh, stay alive.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
