Pop Culture Roundup Part 2: Recent TV Shows & Movies I Love & Hate

just to wash the taste out of my mouth

of us

left behind by star trek discovery let's

talk about something i

really enjoyed

i watched a 2015 movie called

advantageous

it's an american science fiction film

kind of in a black mirror-ish style of

science fiction

starring jacqueline kim loved this movie

to pieces uh

be warned though that it is if you take

my recommendation

that it's a good movie and track it down

it may not be to all

tastes because it is very slow

very poetic uh very atmospheric

i thought it was a beautiful film it has

scenes in it that to me were just

heartbreakingly

beautiful the kind of movie that after i

watched it and i lost myself in the

whole world that

jacqueline kim was inhabiting and then

later on

i watched the trailer for that movie

and watching the trailer i just got

chills all up and down my body because i

remembered

all of these scenes and there's nothing

spectacular about these scenes

again not giving anything away you'll

see this in the trailer

there's a scene where jacqueline kim's

character is just

sitting at a piano and playing the piano

and singing with her daughter

and they're harmonizing it's just it's

just a little

jewel a little perfect piece of

of life caught on film i thought that

was so beautiful

and there's a scene where some young

girls

are walking down a sidewalk and doing

dancing in slow motion kind of ballet

moves

pirouetting and just a beautiful film

but it's also a

heartbreaking film because the world

that i can't remember jacqueline kim's

character's name unfortunately

but the world that she lives in is a

harsh world i don't

really understand it they don't explain

a whole lot about

what is going on but

in terms of economics and just survival

this is a

tough tough place to live

you especially for women in particular

though i don't quite understand why

but if you are a man and you're young

the world is made

for you if you're a woman it's hard

enough and if you're a woman getting

older

this world will crush you and again i

don't quite understand the details of

how this all worked in that society the

economics

but our heroine jacqueline kim was in

trouble

in terms of work and money and of course

there is a history to what's going on

with her and her relationship to her

daughter

and other people around her and the

science fiction

elements are not star trek or star wars

we're not talking about bheskar

and uh lasers and lightsabers and mind

powers we're talking about

as i said black mirror style science

fiction

technology based on the idea

of what makes a human a human

and can you take who i am and pull me

out of my body

and put me somewhere else could you take

out

take who i am is it separate from my

body could you put me into another body

into another container how does that

work

and that idea and the technology is what

drives the plot

but i found it i found it a marvelous

film um

it is the kind of film where you can't

watch it casually this is a

settle in lose yourself in

this world and let it kind of take you

over kind of movie

so yeah i like that uh quite a bit

kind of on the other end of the scale i

also watched the

2020 version of

the witches and at the time i knew

nothing about it i did not realize this

was a remake

of the 1990 classic i had no idea i'd

never heard of the witches before

i just saw this kind of funky trailer

uh starring anne hathaway as the grand

high witch

has olivia spencer stanley tucci

uh chris rock narrates it

and i just thought the movie was kind of

a delight

i i enjoyed it from beginning to end

there were some things i'll get into

that perhaps

could have been better but anne hathaway

i love anne hathaway i think she is

so good i think she's underrated one of

my

favorite movies all time is an anne

hathaway film called

colossal if you've seen colossal you

know what i'm talking about

and if you get colossal and if you

relate to it as much as i do

you're you're my kind of people

yeah i love colossal i watched it over

and over and over again

i find anne hathaway just i keep using

the word delight

in this video but she's an absolute

delight to me

in colossal and her performance in the

witches

as the grand high witch was just

delightful

campy over the top and at the same time

terrifying

so i enjoyed it uh olivia spencer of

course she's

great great actor great character actor

stanley tucci

to me he's the coconut of the acting

world i've said in the past that

every time i see coconut i'm like ah why

did you put coconut on my cookie i

i don't want it there when i see it i'm

disappointed

but then i taste it and i love it and

stanley tucci is like that for me

i see that he's listed in the credits

like ah because stanley tucci always

kind of plays

stanley tucci and i feel like i've had

enough of stanley tucci

so i'm not that excited when i see his

name but then when i see his performance

i just love the guy

he is so good in his role he's like in a

concierge at the hotel where all the

action takes place and he's such a

wonderful

understated concierge uh it's like a

perfect role for him

so at first i was annoyed stanley tucci

was in the movie and then i ended up

loving him i thought

his was a great character but the movie

is

interesting to me because

i think it's marketed a little bit as a

children's movie

after all again not giving anything away

this is all in the trailer

it centers on witches who hate

children and these witches

turn some children into mice and these

mice

have all kinds of adventures in this

hotel as they try to fight back against

the witches so you've got campy

over-the-top crazy witches you've got a

bunch of talking mice running around

and having all kinds of you know

ratatouille style adventures i kept

thinking of ratatouille

the whole time so it's fun and it's

upbeat and a lot of

crazy imagery that they can do these

days with the computer graphics and the

witches

and uh yeah i enjoyed it from beginning

to end

but this is what i was driving at

feels like it's a perfect movie for

children but i think if you have

young young children you do not want

them to watch this movie because it will

terrify them

they will get into their dreams and give

them nightmares for

months or years it's scary the witches

anne hathaway's witch is terrifying

in this movie i found her more

terrifying than any of these

movies that people tell me are supposed

to be horror movies the witches

that's a horror movie because that witch

is scary

and the other witches the way they're

portrayed the things about them the

physical characteristics just make your

skin

crawl it's so disturbing

is really something else so i'm not

quite sure who this movie is supposed to

be

for i can't imagine they made the movie

for people like me

you know and yet i loved it and yet i

don't think if i had young children i

would let them watch it because i know

i know a bit about i don't know much

about young kids but i do know how

they can be influenced by things like

this and end up having

pretty severe nightmares and this movie

could give them nightmares

and it kind of makes sense too because

it's based on a book by rawal dahl

roald dahl rawal doll

and he's a thinker he's not a casual

just whip off a funny book for kids kind

of guy he he goes deep into things so

anything from him is going to be

thoughtful

at a psychological level

so that was the witches 2020 and then

after i watched it i found out it was a

remake so i went back and i watched the

1990 version of it

and it's it's fascinating to compare the

two

so if you're into movies at all into

uh writing scripts how do they do it how

do they convert a book into a movie and

how do why do they make the decisions

they make

watch these two movies watch the 2020

witches

watch the 1990 the witches and think

about the differences between them it's

kind of fascinating

and there are lots of videos on youtube

where they compare them

i saw one amazing video where shot for

shot

they showed the exact same scenes in the

2020 and the 1990 version you could see

the differences

how they how they play out it was pretty

cool

oh the first one the 2020 was directed

by robert

zemeckis which kind of gave it that

fanciful

uh kind of i don't know spielbergian

kind of flavor

and guillermo del toro was involved and

i suspect

that the insane horror of these witches

that was coming from his brain that was

i kept thinking that okay that's

guillermo del toro he was he came up

with that and he came up with that

and if you've seen his movies you know

what i'm talking about so

i think he was the force behind why

these witches were so frightening

now this is so awesome look where i am

out in the countryside farming country

and off on my on this side you've got

sugar cane fields

and unless google maps is lying to me i

can continue on this

dirt road here gravel dirt road and then

zigzag in and continue my way back to

mesa

what's interesting is that the 1990

version

is every bit as terrifying as the 2020

version

there's actually a lot of debate over

which grand high witch is the best

the 2020 version played by anne hathaway

is all ah yeah modern

guillermo del toro body horror

really frightening stuff and the 1990

versions played by angelica houston

and i think she got rave reviews for her

portrayal of the grand high witch

but i think all the special effects in

that film were done

by jim henson who does uh the muppets

you know he's a puppeteer

so we're talking about physical effects

and puppet effects

and the witch the grand high witch when

she transforms

into her true witch form

scary it's not computer graphics scary

but it's

real makeup with the big witch nose and

the moles and the

insanity it was just a crazy looking

witch

that would scare the life out of you if

you ever run into that witch anywhere

so yeah it's quite something to compare

angelica houston with anne hathaway to

see those two

witches side by side and debate you know

which of them is the more frightening

well

they're different for my money i'm

terrified of both

of them it was really quite something

but one thing i noticed and this uh

something again that is

one of the things i think about is that

in the 2020 version of the movie

there were many scenes where things just

didn't make sense to me

you have a gut feeling in a certain

situation about a character

something they just went through and

then they run into this other character

what would that person naturally

say you sort of have an expectation of

how that interaction is going to take

place

and and what they will talk about and in

the 2020 version is those always kind of

like what

why are they talking about that they

they they didn't say

the things that i thought were like

right there the most obvious things to

say

or the most obvious question to ask or

the most

obvious conversation to take place and

that wouldn't happen

i guess they needed the plot to go in

this direction whether it made sense or

not

so they just sort of went that way and

that always bothers me that's one of my

biggest problems with movies

that are badly written and then i

watched the 1990 version

and i remembered all those awkward

scenes from the 2020 version

so well that in the 1990 version we came

up to the same scene

and i was waiting to see how they they

would handle it and

everything made perfect sense everything

every moment

in the 1990 version was smaller

more human-like more at the human small

daily level and people just said the

things you would expect them to say

asked the questions you would think they

would ask and they did the things that

any normal person would do

and it was just like oh such a relief it

just

felt right felt small and accessible and

normal

the way events played out and yet in the

2020 version it was kind of more over

the top

action more about the special effects

and

um quite often the way the humans

behaved

it's like huh really well that's not

what i would say

if i were in that situation i'd be

saying something else about the witches

i just saw

you know but yeah kind of interesting

that way

but both very entertaining

i think if i had to have one problem

with the 2020 version for me it was

chris rock

he narrates the movie and his energy was

just too much for this film for me

there is enough going on with the grand

high witch

and children turning into mice and and

everything happening all over the place

you didn't need

chris rock being chris rock in the

background hyping it all up

um even as he's he's setting the stage

at the beginning

as a grown man and he's talking about

his childhood he's telling the story of

what happened to him

and then he's talking about how this was

happening and this was happening

but then in the background there were

witches witches were coming

i was like seinfeld there

but his voice pitch would just get

raised to such a high level

and say okay you're talking about an

insane cabal of witches

trying to kill all the children in the

world that's pretty dramatic we don't

need you

screaming about it we get that it's

pretty dramatic

so anyway the whole chris rock energy

seemed too much for me

i could have done without his narration

but

it didn't bother me overly

quite often he would disappear in the

movie for a while and he would just

watch the movie

as if it's happening in real time and

then he'd suddenly come back and start

narrating again and you're like oh i

forgot

i forgot chris rock was telling this

story and then you kind of get back into

the swing of things again

so yeah it was okay chris rock but uh

not my favorite part of the movie

it's been a while since i've done one of

these culture

pop culture tv show movie roundup videos

so

i've actually seen a lot of movies i'm

starting to realize

i'll try to whip through the remaining

ones and not do a deep dive into them

i also watched love and monsters

directed

by michael matthews and starring dylan

o'brien

dylan o'brien was kind of new to me but

i guess he's well known i guess he's a

in a lot of these teen movies like the

maze runner and things like that

kind of a boy next boy next door hunky

kind of guy i guess

i don't know guess he's popular i didn't

know who he was but i thought he was

fine in loving monsters

and i was surprised at how much i

enjoyed the movie

it was a lot of fun it was a little bit

like

zombieland and i kept thinking of

zombieland

it is a post-apocalyptic survivalist

story where the human race has nearly

been

wiped out yet again by some sort of

invasion of monstrous creatures

and they have to learn how to survive in

this world populated by

danger everywhere and living underground

and our hero of course dylan o'brien

has a reason to leave the safety of his

underground bunker and go out into the

world and have all these adventures and

fight monsters and do all kinds of crazy

things

and he has he learns rules along the way

of how you survive in the creature

apocalypse

just like they did in zombieland he had

the rules for surviving the zombie

apocalypse

but it was a fun movie the creatures i

found were kind of scary again

i think they're supposed to be fun

danger but man they were terrifying

creatures

the full power of computer graphics on

display i thought

and it's the kind of movie that is

different from advantageous for example

as i said advantageous you would have to

sit down and really commit to the movie

to enjoy it

you know commit to the mood and the

atmosphere that the film is building for

you you have to lose yourself in it

you couldn't just jump into advantageous

in the middle and expect to feel

anything you have to watch it from the

beginning

all the way to the end loving monsters

just throw it on your laptop and have it

playing 24 hours a day and any

any second you happen to pop into the

movie there's going to be something fun

to watch

you don't need to know what came before

you can just enjoy the scene that's

right in front of you

and it has a dog of course he has a

a great dog companion throughout and put

a dog in a movie

and you've captured my heart that's for

sure

yeah love and monsters 2020 film i think

maybe 2019

kind of recent a lot of fun if you're

into

post-apocalyptic survival movies

and you don't need everything to be

grounded in reality for uh for you to

enjoy

things um

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what else did i watch oh keeping up with

the monster theme

i watched this unusual maybe australian

movie called

sweetheart i didn't make a mental note

of the director or the actors

it's mainly the story of one young girl

again not giving anything away it's all

in the trailer

and she washes up on an island

kind of a tom hanks castaway situation

where something happened and she is out

there in the ocean

and then washes ashore on this island

all by herself has to survive

has to learn how to survive just as tom

hanks did in castaway

but with a twist the twist is that

there's a monster on this island like a

serious

hardcore scary monster and she has to

learn

to battle this monster

and i'm not here to tell you it's a

classic movie it's the greatest movie of

all time

or even that it's a good movie though i

honestly think it is a good movie

but what i really liked about it i liked

i mean the character

the actor who plays the main character

is good

and the creature effects were good i

thought the monster was pretty

terrifying

certain elements to that creature were

really quite interesting

but what i liked about it overall was a

minimalist approach to the

storytelling this girl washed up on the

island and that's all you know

who she is what was she doing out in the

ocean

how is she alone how did she end up on

this island you have no idea she's just

there

and then she starts trying to survive

and i kind of like that

and then as the movie moves along you do

learn a few things about her

you learn more about her backstory and

the history and the events that led to

her getting there

but even these new elements that are

introduced you'd barely know anything

about them either

they are like 25 explained

you get the basics it's like oh okay

that's okay okay yeah okay

i can connect the dots but most of it

you pretty much have to fill in on your

own and i guess that makes sense

because it's not the point of the movie

point of the movie is the monster

we got to deal with the monster and

yeah i mean i love a survivalist story

put put somebody on a deserted island

all by themselves i'm fascinated right

out of the get-go

i want to know what they do how do

people survive by themselves

put a monster on that island and i'm all

in i'm your audience for that movie

so that was a sweetheart

still out in the countryside

really nice to be out here refreshes the

soul

to be out here in this kind of scenery

and may saw it as always off in that

direction

i've got a little bit more country road

i can take advantage of and then i hit a

main road

and it makes the most sense to follow

that main road back into

maison unfortunately there's no other

way i can figure out to do it

unless i go like way off towards those

mountains and

and i think i'm kind of running out of

steam in terms of being out here in the

hot sun i think it's time to start

taking a

a direct line back into town

so a couple more zigs and a zag and then

we'll be back on a busier road

so let's take advantage of the quiet

while i still have it

oh man look at that little home there

kind of a

looks like they've settled in for their

own zombie apocalypse they built a

wall complex all the way around their

home

but as far as movies goes i seem to be

in the mood for a pretty dark stuff

lately because another film i watched

was called

cargo starring

martin friedman and it's an australian

movie

and it is another post-apocalyptic

survival story

and this is a weird one it's it's an

unusual film it's

it's more of a film than a movie it is

about

survival of the human race and it

fits with our world today because it's a

viral pandemic that has wiped out the

human race

and it's a little bit commercial because

this virus doesn't just kill people

it turns them into a weird kind of like

really weird

zombie ah

the rules of these zombies aren't fully

explained but man they are terrifying

too they're they're terrifying zombies

and you get bitten by a zombie any of

the normal rules apply

someone gets infected by this virus and

they turn into the zombie

that zombie bites you you have something

like 48 hours

before you turn into a zombie and i

think the human race has lived with this

for quite a long time

because they've adjusted to this world

mentally

and technology too they actually have

certain bits of technology

adapted to this new world of a viral

pandemic and zombies it's a

it's kind of interesting but the movie

is not

really about the zombies and blood and

guts and

blood splatter it's not about that it's

more about the psychology of the world

that they live in

these survivors in this post-apocalyptic

world

and if you are bitten by a zombie and

you have 48 hours to live

and you have family responsibilities uh

what do you do

um how do you fulfill your

responsibilities to your children

or to your wife or to whoever when

you've only got 48 hours to do it

and and i'm not really clear about how

all of this works or even what it means

but most of the action takes place

in the australian outback and

the local like the aboriginal peoples

there the aboriginal

culture for whatever reason

appears to be well adapted in in

unique ways to deal with this new world

this viral apocalypse zombie world that

they're living in there's something in

the aboriginal culture

that allows them to adapt to it and work

with it they seem to understand that

world better than other people

and a lot of the action of the film

takes place in these communities

and you see how they've changed and

they've reverted back

to the older more traditional ways of

life

to survive in this new world and again

i'm not clear on

i don't think i really understood what

that was about or what they were getting

at

but it deepened the story quite a bit as

i said

it's not your average zombie movie this

isn't

z world or whatever it's called z world

the big anyway this is not the walking

dead or

fear the walking dead or the walking

dead this and the walking dead go to

tiffany's and and

or go to mcdonald's and have breakfast

you know it's not a typical zombie movie

it's a much more survival

movie more about what it means to be

human i guess what it really means to be

human

in in extreme conditions

so i also watched a movie called

coma i'd seen the trailer for this all

over the place

and it grabbed my attention immediately

because when you watch the trailer it's

like ah that's my kind of movie

it's kind of a mashup this is how i

thought of it after i watched it

it's a mashup of annihilation

inception the matrix and maybe the x-men

those four movies combined it is a

russian movie i believe i forget the uh

the name of the director but it's called

coma and again not giving anything away

because it's all in the trailer the

basic idea

the conceit of the movie is that when

people go

into a coma what happens is their

consciousness

gets projected into a dream world

and in this dream world everything

around them everything you see

is actually built out of the memories

of the people that are in a coma so that

means it really is dreamlike

in that the laws of physics don't apply

so you get some crazy visuals

sort of like in inception um

where giant objects are in places

where they have no business being things

are up when they should be down

everything is at weird angles buildings

are above you

and then when you jump up you actually

fall up and land

vertically on another like all kinds of

weird

things that make no sense according to

the normal laws of physics

and that's what was so fascinating to me

about the trailer

and for various reasons in my own life

i've been thinking a lot about

memory the things we remember

and the things we think we remember and

in my case how

truly abysmal my memory is

this is i've been doing some sort of

mental exercises to do with memory

lately

and i'm kind of astonished at the things

i

don't remember or how badly i remember

things

so in coma for example there might be

a building in this world and that

building exists

because one of the characters remembers

that building

but of course they don't remember all of

the building they can only remember what

they saw

so the building only half exists in

their world

and it may not be accurate at all

because it's built based on their

memories

not based on how the building really is

in in real life

so all through this world you've got a

mixture of

buildings half constructed nuclear

submarines

airplanes just sort of hanging in the

air but it can only be

part of the airplane or the pieces are

put together wrong

because that's how the person remembers

that airplane being

so that's the world they live in which i

find

quite fascinating and then you have to

have a story of course you have to have

a plot

so of course we have characters who are

in a coma

projected into this world and then they

try to fight their way

out of the coma and escape from this

world and of course

just to liven things up a bit the world

is inhabited by these monsters trying to

kill them

and if you are killed by one of these

monsters in the coma world

your body dies in the real world so it

is a serious

threat and all of this

appeals to me but the story

kind of falls apart it really does i

it's hard to describe and it's not

really worth even talking about at

length

because the whole point of this movie is

the crazy visuals

and the interesting ideas that go into

the world building

once you get into the actual plot and

the story and the characters and

what they do it doesn't matter it really

it really doesn't matter they do a bunch

of stuff

the characters kind of interact and you

got all your classic characters you

would normally expect in one of these

movies and they do the things you would

expect

and most of it was not that compelling

but

if you do watch the movie by the way get

the russian version i've noticed that

there are

versions out there that are dubbed into

english boy

that's bad to watch that movie dubbed

into english

i mean the movie really doesn't work as

a dramatic

uh film in its original language

have those characters speaking in

english in a bad dubbing

then it's really bad so anyway find the

original i think it's russian

the original is in russian so that was a

coma

well i've reached that main road i was

talking about

here it is here you can tell the traffic

is already

picked up and in that direction it's a

straight shot back into mesa

and as i said i

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i don't see a reasonable way

to get back into the quiet more quiet

countryside

from this point unless i go on to go on

a really long detour

so i think i'm going to follow this road

straight back into town

believe it or not i have a bunch more

movies and tv shows

rattling around in my head that i

watched recently

but i think i will wind this up with one

maybe

two more a movie that i saw quite

recently after

much uh delay i think everyone else has

seen it long ago

is el camino uh

starring aaron paul it's the follow up

to breaking bad

and tells the story of what happened to

jesse pinkman played by aaron paul

after the events of breaking bad

an amazing concept

and i enjoyed it very much as a way to

kind of put your foot back in the world

of breaking bad again

i love that show as many people did

and i miss it

in a way which is an odd thing to say

but i miss the world of breaking bad i'm

sad that the show was over

and through el camino you sort of get a

chance to go back and revisit it again

and hang out with some of your favorite

characters from

breaking bad so i enjoyed it from that

point of view and of course aaron paul

is amazing he's always good he's

certain people just have that presence

in front of the camera

that's what makes them actors he put me

in front of a camera

and i look fake you can tell i'm acting

uh aaron paul he put him in front of the

character

in front of the camera and he's jesse

pinkman he just

projects another person it's a something

that's in built i think

you can train it i think you can go to

acting school and learn to be better at

it

but true actors just have this innate

quality it's something they can do

that other people just can't do anyway

that's aaron paul he's very good

and the events were kind of exciting but

i was expecting more to be honest

everyone praised el camino so much

i was expecting a much better a much

more

original movie than it was

but in reality it really was

kind of a look back at breaking bad

and we all know of course that jesse

pinkman was held prisoner

by that family and they forced him to

use his secret formula to make a crystal

meth for them

and they treated him badly of course he

was abused as a

prisoner there and it was a horrific

life and he was able to escape

in the finale of breaking bad

and in el camino there's a lot of

flashbacks

that show what really happened to him

when he was a prisoner of this family

and i get that it was sort of like okay

tell that that's an interesting story to

tell

but i still felt like well we'd already

seen that we saw that in breaking

bad and the flashbacks didn't really add

a lot to it

and then when we got back to the

original story of everything that jesse

pinkman did

after he escaped he kind of did all the

same things that everybody did in the

original breaking bad

so

he and walter white were fugitives in

breaking bad

and of course walter white had to find a

way to use his money

to get away and get a new identity and

start a new life

and now that jesse pinkman was

on the run he was still a wanted man and

basically

he had to do what he and walter white

were doing all along and breaking bad he

was trying to get away and get a new

identity

and get money and escape from the police

he was still doing all the exact same

things that he was doing all through

breaking bad and in fact he was doing

exactly the same things that walter

white did in breaking bad

and again it was well done and i enjoyed

it

but it wasn't original and i thought it

was going to be something truly original

so that was uh el camino

last movie and the only reason i bring

it up is because it stars

robert pattinson and i was recently

playing around with a google assistant

asking it questions and i one question i

asked was

who is the most handsome man in the

world and according to the internet

and according to the science of symmetry

robert pattinson is the most handsome

man in the world

so this movie uh high life stars

robert pattinson so there you go all

things eventually come together

this is another science fiction movie

and for what it is it's quite enjoyable

we are out in space on a ship

with robert pattinson and a whole bunch

of other people

and it's kind of a typical space movie

in that

you're in your spaceship and then

everything goes wrong i mean what else

is going to happen in space

everything always goes wrong and then

you have to survive so it's basically a

survivalist story in space

with some unique twists

and i enjoyed it i'll i can enjoy almost

any

science fiction but

i had a logical problem with the movie

and i don't know if this is i don't

think this is a spoiler because i think

it's pretty obvious in the trailer

and this makes no sense at all because

this spaceship is part of a huge

scientific experiment

to explore black holes in the universe

and of course sending a spaceship out

into space

to investigate black holes is a

massively expensive

project these things cost quadrillions

and cajillions of dollars they're

expensive things

so you generally want to send the

best people possible the right stuff

people you want to send

uh highly trained astronauts

and scientists to take care of your

expensive spaceship

but in this movie they sent criminals

they basically took not just

criminals but the worst of the worst

like really awful horrible criminals

who are serving life sentences

put them on this spaceship and sent them

off into space to investigate black

holes

and and do experiments i'm like what

what if i'm spending my

680 kajillion billion trillion dollars

on a spaceship to investigate black

holes

i'm sending matthew mcconaughey i'm i'm

not sending

you know death row inmates honest like

what do you what do you think is going

to happen you think you're going to put

a bunch of death row inmates on a

spaceship

in confined confined quarters and you

think everything's going to work out

fine

i mean what genius came up with that

idea so

the whole movie to me just like made no

sense at all

so all these things happen and they're

all interesting things that happened

but i kept thinking well duh what did

you think was going to happen

sending criminals into space not just

criminals but

evil psychotic unbalanced

criminals things are going to go wrong

and i don't think you're

you're not going to get the data from

the experiment that you thought you were

going to get

so anyway was uh

that was high life

and i think that is it for my

cultural roundup my pop culture roundup

i was actually thinking of the podcast

pop culture happy hour from npr

because in their podcast they have a

regular feature

called what's making us happy this week

and what they do is they go around the

table of all the people in the podcast

and that each person has to mention

something that's making them happy right

now a tv show

a movie a book a poem some new music

anything like that

so when i started uh

babbling into the gopro about this my

idea was

uh kind of to have my own

what's making me happy this week what

movies what tv shows have made an

impression on me lately and that's where

this video came from

so i'm getting more and more back into

the city

one interesting thing is i think i've

had i've lost count but maybe four

different people have come up to me

either on foot or on motorcycle

and asked me if i was okay and do i need

help can they do something for me

so i guess seeing a foreigner like me

way out in the countryside like that

walking under this hot sun and sweating

like crazy

i guess they were worried about me and

they saw me and thought

there's something wrong about this i

think this foreigner needs help

and yeah four people stopped

to ask if they could help me so

i hope that doesn't mean i look

particularly beat up from the sun today

so i probably do all right i'll end the

video here as we get back into busy mesa

what's making me happy this week

and i'll see you in the next video

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these dogs aren't too fond of me either

it's kind of odd these dogs there's

always a combination of

barking and tail wagging

it's like they don't know whether they

like me or hate me

come here come on no

i don't think i don't think i'm making

any friends here today

no good luck charm puppy today no puppy

power