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Talk to the Audience?!? - January 2024 (Patreon)

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2024-01-31 05:00:04
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Happy New Year, listeners! We had a very eventful January to reflect on, not just with Simpsons news about Emmys and toys. We also did a ton of traveling to New York City, Tokyo, and San Francisco that we are so excited to share with all of you. Plus, tons of podcast news for the start of 2024, and we reply to some really great Patreon comments to start the next 12 months right!

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John-Charles Holmes

Sliding into the comments uncharacteristically in the first few minutes of the episode to say-- yes, the new season of Party Down was fantastic and, next to Beavis and Butthead, might be the best reboot/revival season of anything I've seen. Definitely worth it if you were a fan of the original show

Joe Hodgson

Oh yes, Henry, you will indeed hear from the toy enthusiasts in the comments. Action figure prices have gone way up since the old Playmates days. Back then, your Marvel Legends figure was 6 bucks, 8 bucks at a mall store, and now they're $25. Still, I think Super7's prices are too high and so does the market apparently as you can find tons of their stuff on deep discount. Simpsons figures are $55, some (like King Size Homer) are $65, and Kang and Kodos will set you back a tidy $75 a piece. It's a tough pill to swallow when presumably a sizeable portion of your consumer base hasn't been buying toys since those Playmates days. And the funny thing about the line and their approach is in that same interview Brian Flynn announced the line was done, he went into how a toy company approaches a product line (I think he was talking about Thundercats) from a marketing perspective which is you rely on the main characters to sustain a line and essentially pay for the less popular characters, but for whatever reason, they approached Simpsons in a completely different manner. I for one liked the episode specific, odd-ball, character selection, but I'm the type of mark that's going to buy almost everything they put out. I wasn't the customer they had to win over. I'm guessing they gave Disney a forecast for sales when they approached them about acquiring the license and they didn't hit that so Disney was done with them. It's a shame. As for the future of Simpsons toys, I'd guess Disney would be willing to license it out again, but I'm not expecting anyone to be eager to get into it after Super7's failure. Disney does have a licensing agreement with Mattel which puts Disney toys in places like Walmart and Target, but as far as I know it's just for Disney, Pixar, and the Princesses and likely doesn't include Simpsons (Marvel and Star Wars are still held by Hasbro). If Simpsons is still one of the best performing things on Disney+ though then maybe they'll be more aggressive in shopping them.

Roosevelt_SA

Seconding John-Charles Holmes above- the new season of Party Down is excellent, and the writers and actors did not skip a beat since the last time they stepped into the roles. Fingers crossed they get the go-ahead for a 4th season.

Bryce Lavender

Can’t wait for the movie this month one of my comfort watches

Chris (not Benoit)

Just like Bob, I got stuck in Sunday morning CCD classes. I suffered through Catholic school until 7th grade. After starting 8th grade in public school, my dad used to drop me off for CCD on Sunday mornings. I went to one class, and for each subsequent one, I’d just walk around for an hour or so outside until my dad picked me up. He caught on after a few months and told me I didn’t have to go anymore. As I’ve gotten older and had talks with my parents, I discovered that my dad was (and still is) an atheist and my mom was pushing church on us all. So about a month into 8th grade, my family never had to go to church anymore and I’ve not been back to one since. I like to think that by challenging my parents at that time, I spared my younger siblings having to suffer through Catholic school and religious education as well.

Rob MacBride

The Marvels.. as you know, was quite divisive shall we say. It was in post production for almost double the time it was meant to be, not really sure why, have some theories, a higher up once told me it might be because the 1st cut of the film came in dramatically under budget, which caused clientside to spiral out of control with changes, additions and cannibalizing edits (not unlike most Marvel features). Anyhow during the scene on Dar Benn's ship where she demands they give her the other bracelet, in the orig scans both Dar Benn and Carol have those purple space hammers & Carol wears hers on her back. In the final film this hammer is gone- that's because of people in my vocation who had to digitally remove it from every shot. Some shots were almost impossible to resolve though, and in situations where it involved rebuilding her ass from 20% visible to 100% visible, we went down the cosmetic rabbit hole of 'Her ass needs to be a bit smaller/bigger/flatter/shinier' which resulted in the creation of ..many.. variation asses. Obsessing artistically over an attractive woman's behind sounds like a kewl job and it is for the most part. This particular part was outside of the most part. Saltburn is fine, it is not the greatest film of all time. It is extremely predictable and has a boilerplate troubled-genius plot. It was heavily recommended to me by several people who are all in their mid 20's and I feel like much of Saltburn's hype came out of a 'trendy-to-like-it' mentality, based on the popularity of Emerald Fennell previous feature. Word up to homeboy Jac Elordi tho 👍

Jonathan Mitchell

Bah! I wish I had known Bob was in the city! That's what I get for not being on Twitter anymore. Bob the next time you're in NYC, if you've never gone you need to go to the museum of the moving image. It's in Queens and not super hard to get to. It's not that big but has some cool props and they change the exhibits out pretty often. Their main attraction is a collection of original Jim Henson Company stuff. Some muppets, some original advertisement materials. Some stuff from Labyrinth, etc. So when you're back in a few years, check it out. https://movingimage.org

Adam Esat

Just wanna say I mirror my feelings about Godzilla Minus One with Bob’s. I hated the melodrama and predictability and was baffled by how many people were emotionally affected by the film (fine if you were obv just didn’t get it). Other parts like the iffy politics of the movie and the weird historical inaccuracies (No Americans AT ALL in 1947!?) The only part I really enjoyed overall, which is the most important part in the end are all the Godzilla scenes. Otherwise, colour me extremely excited for your upcoming Avatar episode, been waiting a long time for this one! Glad an episode featuring Toph was included!

Christmas Ape

Giant Monsters All-Out Attack is still my favourite of the three modern "revisionist" Godzilla movies.

Tyler M.

Bob, since you dug Riki Oh and have the Criterion Channel, I highly recommend the director’s film The Cat in the Cat Movies collection. Still wild but in a different way.

Lambda

Fellow person who looks like Beck here We are few but we count such titans as Bob Mackey and Beck among our number