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[00:00:05] Speaker B: Welcome to five Minute Film Finder, brought to you by Pioneer Library System.
Hello and welcome to the hundredth episode of five Minute Film Finder. I'm Ben. I'm one of your many hosts and producer.
I'm joined today by Tracy and Darren. I'm so excited to have you guys here.
Can you guys believe 100 episodes?
[00:00:34] Speaker C: That's so exciting.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: Kind of.
That's wild.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, we've had our booms and our busts in availability, but we've been going strong again here now and it's been exciting to like hit this nice milestone and feel like we're having as much fun as we've ever had doing it at this point, especially with our bringing back the deep focus and yeah.
[00:00:59] Speaker C: Despite the challenges recently, of course.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
For those who don't know, we normally recorded at our central Norman Central building in Norman, Oklahoma, but it has been closed. So we have had to scramble and find other ways to get the podcast done. And I've really appreciated all of my hosts being flexible and making it out to do these fun podcasts for everybody.
So with that being said, do you guys have any, like thoughts now after all this time of like, how have you enjoyed the podcast over the years?
[00:01:37] Speaker A: How have I enjoyed the podcast?
[00:01:40] Speaker B: I feel like we became friends because of the podcast.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: All three of us became what you guys worked together and then I was brought in. So. So Kendall, who was another co creator of the podcast, used to work at my branch and brought me in and then. Yeah, and then I was brought into this group from that and now you two are like some of my best buddies.
[00:01:59] Speaker C: Yeah, it's been great.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: Yeah, it's wonderful.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Me and Darren have worked together for six years now and I think the podcast is kind of what grew our friendship. And we were. It's one of the only things we talk about now is just like what movie did you watch? What shows are you watching? It's like, it's a really good source of connection and like kind of growing our interests together.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: The second you walked out earlier to get your notes, I immediately asked Jared if he'd seen this movie that I've seen recently.
[00:02:28] Speaker C: So yeah, it makes the conversation so easy. Right. And I love talking about movies, so it's great.
[00:02:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it's kind of like finding your little tribe of like minded folks.
But yeah, so we've done 100 episodes.
So many things before we get today we're going to be talking about some of our favorite movies that we've covered, some of our favorite episodes But I'm also going to share some, like, fun facts and like, quiz you guys over, like, some. Some facts about the podcast to see if you can guess some. Some little bits of trivia.
Do you guys want to start with some trivia?
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Let's do it.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: I jump right into some trivia. Love it.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: How many directors have we covered total?
Well, I will count directing teams as one director.
Like Coen Brothers. One director.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: Well, I know we have done the Coen brothers because you and I did a Coen Brothers and we did Sam Raimi. Oh, gosh. I mean, how many repeats have we had?
[00:03:29] Speaker B: I also know that I can't imagine.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: I'm gonna say, like, we've done 82 directors.
[00:03:40] Speaker C: Way more than that.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: Right? Probably actually twice, because you would do two movies for everybody.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
[00:03:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:03:43] Speaker A: With a few deeper bosses mixed in. I'm going to say 142.
[00:03:49] Speaker C: I'm gonna go one. I'm gonna go low on that one. 35.
[00:03:54] Speaker B: Tracy wins by closest without busting 164.
[00:03:58] Speaker A: Okay. I feel good about that.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: We did a really good job of not over covering directors, like the most that we covered.
Most of our directors that we did multiple times was twice. But there is one team that we covered more than that.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Oh, how many times have we covered the Cohen's? More than that.
[00:04:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you want to guess?
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Well, I know. Okay, so you and I did had sucker proxy mimes, a person falling from a building.
I was like, what is that movie called?
Someone's done no Country.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:04:41] Speaker A: Someone's done Fargo.
Yes. Okay, what if I was just like, someone's done Burn After Reading? No one's done Burn after Reading. No, we should do Burn After Reading.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's still available.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: Put it down. We're doing. We're doing a deep focus on Burn After Reading.
[00:05:00] Speaker C: I just watched that one not too long ago.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: Brad Pitt.
[00:05:03] Speaker D: Yep.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: Do you know which ones I'm missing?
[00:05:07] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:09] Speaker C: The Fargo episode was a double.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:12] Speaker C: Right. The Fargo episode was a double.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: Oh, because someone did Blood simple, didn't they?
Did someone do Blood Simple?
[00:05:18] Speaker C: I know there was a double. I know there was a double.
[00:05:20] Speaker A: I'm thinking of a different thing.
[00:05:21] Speaker B: Yes. I can't remember which one it doubled up with. Yes.
Yeah.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:26] Speaker C: Raising Arizona. And then the. The music one. The music with Oscar.
[00:05:33] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:05:34] Speaker C: Oscar Isaac.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: It's so sad.
[00:05:36] Speaker C: It's called Lila Wynne Davis. Right inside.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: Yes, Inside.
[00:05:39] Speaker B: Liln Davis.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: Because I was like Dave Van Ronck. And I was like, nope, that's the real one.
So is it Five.
[00:05:45] Speaker B: Yep, it's five. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:05:46] Speaker A: So good.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: Good job, you guys. Yeah, that's amazing.
Yeah. And so we have far out covered the Coens than any other director that we've covered.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: I can't say I'm surprised.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:58] Speaker C: I mean, so just pairs after that. There was no triple.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: No triple. Yeah. Yeah.
But, yeah, I mean, some of our, like, most notable American modern filmmakers pretty well received and also not so big that they're probably hard to get a license for for these platforms, so.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: And also Kendall's on this podcast.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
So, yeah, so we've done a lot of directors.
Do you guys have any guess for what our longest episode was? I mean, it's obviously gonna be a deep focus, but do you have any guesses? Well, I know what should have been.
[00:06:35] Speaker A: Should have been our face Off.
[00:06:37] Speaker B: Yes, it should have been our face.
[00:06:38] Speaker C: Should have been that one, because that was ridiculous.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I would imagine it was the other one that we did together.
[00:06:44] Speaker B: It's not.
[00:06:45] Speaker A: It's not surprisingly, were any of it.
[00:06:50] Speaker C: Was a deep focus episode.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: It was a deep focus episode.
[00:06:53] Speaker C: Early ones, I don't really know how long. Like the weird ones, like the romance one and the Christmas episodes. I don't really know how long those were.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: Well, here's the thing. It also could have been Darren and Kendall's because they never finished their Die Hard episode.
[00:07:04] Speaker C: That's true.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: It could have been you guys.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: It's technically still going.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: Yeah, Yeah.
I don't know how you quantify ongoing episode, but yeah, so I believe it was Kendall and maybe London.
[00:07:19] Speaker A: Oh, was it the Vitch?
[00:07:24] Speaker B: The.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Have we covered him twice?
[00:07:26] Speaker C: How long was that episode?
[00:07:29] Speaker B: We have covered him twice. We did the Lighthouse and the bat show. Yes.
But yeah, that was our longest episode. I didn't do our shortest episode because that seems kind of lame.
And all of the short ones are around like 10 minutes long.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: It would be one that Darren's on because he's very serious about keeping the time.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: He's been pretty good about going longer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's been very good.
[00:07:52] Speaker C: How long was that episode? The last episode?
[00:07:55] Speaker B: It was an hour and 10 minutes, which our original recording of Face off was handily an hour and a half.
And we weren't. And we weren't done. Yeah, no, it absolutely would have been.
[00:08:08] Speaker C: A two hour episode.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: Obliterated that.
[00:08:10] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:08:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:11] Speaker C: Great.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: All right, so next item.
Who has hosted the most episodes of the podcast?
Yes, you are correct. It is me. She is pointing to me in an.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: Audio podcast because I was taking a drink of water.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, you are correct.
I don't want to count myself as that because it's mainly just been this last year of, like, necessity, having to be on a lot more, maintaining the.
[00:08:40] Speaker C: Podcast because of what's happened. Sure.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: But you guys might be shocked by who is in second place still.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: I would. Is it Jamie? Is it Kendall?
[00:08:54] Speaker B: London, England, was our second place with hosting 34 episodes of the podcast. I've hosted 38.
It's cheating because I'm the producer and I'm always here, so it's easy to just be like, well, I'll do this one.
And then in third place is Kendall.
Fourth place is Jamie.
Fifth place is Darren. Sixth place is Tracy.
And after that, anybody who hasn't broken the 10 mark, I didn't count. So we have a lot of hosts that we've had and a lot of people who are going to keep coming on, like Amanda, Thomas, Samuel.
So they're gonna break that 10 mark in no time and maybe surpass us all.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: I apparently need to start sending you more requests.
[00:09:45] Speaker C: I'm slacking. I'm like.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: I feel like I'm on this podcast all the time.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: I was genuinely shocked to see that. But I think it's because of early.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: On, I'm the one who's talked the most on the podcast. I've said the most words. Despite being on the fewest episodes, she.
[00:09:58] Speaker B: Has the highest word count. Yeah.
Yeah.
And you didn't start until a little bit in early on. You, I think, only came in, like, every six months. But, like, this past couple years, you've been on, like, once every month, if not every other month.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:14] Speaker C: Which is kind of the same as mine. Mine was pretty slow at the beginning.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: So we very much.
And I have to take this moment to thank Darren and Tracy specifically for keeping us afloat this past year. You guys have done the bulk of the work of the last year, and I have the data to prove it.
[00:10:31] Speaker A: Yeah, well, we're. We like to hang out.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: And talk about movies for work.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely.
My next set of trivia, I have a spread of what genres we've covered.
The categories I have are drama, action, comedy, horror, dramedy, western, musical, crime, family, documentary, science fiction, fantasy, and sports. Obviously, genre is a slippery thing to cover, so I had to make some executive calls on what movies are what. So you may fight me on some of these. But, like, I think it only shifted a little bit, so it's pretty close.
But I will tell you, it's a tie for the. For the top slot.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Well, I would imagine one of them is horror.
[00:11:22] Speaker B: Yes. We have covered an immense amount of horror.
[00:11:25] Speaker C: I'd be interested to see how much that has changed as that like it went along, you know, different people liking movies and stuff like that.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: So yeah, we had a lot of rock blocks of horror in October, so that really bumped the numbers up.
What do you think is the tie for the top spot?
Drama. I was, I was surprised by this one.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: It's not drama.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: Not.
[00:11:49] Speaker C: I. I really thought it would be either. The.
The drama was. Was going to be my guess.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: Just.
[00:11:56] Speaker C: But really kind of just the, you know, thinking about it, like when I was looking at the list and stuff, like we talked about the genre categories that you put them in is going to be different than that I put them in and even in my head. So yeah, it's hard. But what do you got? What's the.
[00:12:12] Speaker A: It's not comedy, is it?
[00:12:13] Speaker B: It is comedy and I think thanks to.
To you in some part.
And also who else is. Our Jamie's done a lot of comedy. Like a lot of just like classic 80s comedy is thanks to Jamie. She's really done a lot of fun ones for us in that kind of realm.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Me covering rock and roll. High school. Yeah.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: We are future folk. A movie that kindled was like, why?
[00:12:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:43] Speaker C: So I feel like that shows good restraint on our parts as action movie lovers, not just loading it with action movies.
[00:12:51] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:12:52] Speaker C: Where does action fall on the. On the list?
[00:12:54] Speaker B: Third place, right up there.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: Be too proud.
[00:12:57] Speaker B: All right, well, but drama's only one behind. So we did 32 comedies, 32 horror movies, 24 action movies, 23 dramas.
[00:13:08] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: And if I had pulled out the dramedies, it might have like evened out that a little bit more. But like these were like the like very heavy but also very funny movies that I had to just be like, they're not either. Like they have to go in their own category.
But yeah. So after that we've had five musicals. We've had one western because I'm not counting Hidalgo. It seems more like a period piece. Shane is. Shane is a western.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: Know that anyone knows what Hidalgo was? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:13:42] Speaker B: We've had 18 crime movies, which is sort of crime thrillers, seven family movies, which we need to bump that up. We need to do some more all age friendly movies.
One documentary, which I was surprised at.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: I did it.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Oh, wait, did I miscount? What did you do?
[00:14:01] Speaker A: I did Stories We Tell was my first episode.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Oh, I did not know that was a documentary. So I miscategorized it. There are two documentaries. Darren did the other one, which was documentary you did. I did for the Love of Spock.
[00:14:14] Speaker C: Yeah, the Spock documentary in Ken and I did that episode. Yeah, my first episode, maybe.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:23] Speaker A: Yeah, that's Sarah Paul. It's a Sarah Polly documentary.
[00:14:26] Speaker B: Oh, amazing.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Yeah, Great.
After that, we have 17 sci fi movies, two fantasy movies, and four sports movies that we just covered in the last month.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: Did you count Rounders as a sports movie now?
[00:14:42] Speaker B: Crime. Yeah, yeah.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: Could go.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: It's more of the background.
[00:14:46] Speaker A: Could go either way.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: Yeah. So, yeah, we're. It's been fun figuring this out. It's also given us some information on how we can kind of more well round our offerings in the future and further serve you guys as listeners and users of our streaming services.
So now we're gonna get into the portion where we talk about our favorite episodes and favorite movies.
Do you guys want to kick it off or do you want me to kick it off?
[00:15:18] Speaker A: I want you to do it.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:15:21] Speaker C: Yeah, please. So start us off, babe.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: I'm picking two different episodes because I'm cheating.
[00:15:28] Speaker C: He's gonna start off with cheating.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: He's the producer. He's been on the most episodes.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: It's so hard to choose after 38 episodes.
So I'm actually. This is a little bit of a. Appreciation for past hosts. London, England, is the reason I've watched movies that I never would have watched before.
So we did an Ed Wood episode and we covered Plan 9 from outer space.
And what was the pairing? I forget what the pairing was, but insane movies. I had seen the movie Ed Wood, and I knew the story of the controversial wild director that was Ed Wood. And.
And I had an idea in my head, but it wasn't quite up to the, like, oh, wow. This is truly magically insane moviemaking of a, like, singular vision.
And that's kind of what I have loved about this podcast over time is we have kind of a wide range of, like, taste, but also, like, viewpoints of, like, how we come into movies. Like, and even within us, like, I feel like we have our, like, sections of, like, I like action movies, but I also like a weepy sometimes. I like a sports movie, as we've recently discovered.
But, like, finding those new movies to just be like, wow, this is something I never would have chosen to watch on my own. But, like, your point of view has gotten me to watch a new thing.
So, yeah, I really appreciate that. And the other movie pair that I was thinking of was the whale And Punch Drunk Love, which was an emotional roller coaster.
Again, like, I thought I knew what those movies were, but had no idea the depth of, like, the emotional and like, the just stylistic vibes of those movies. And, like, was kind of floored by them and grateful that I was encouraged to watch them through the process of the podcast. So, London, thank you. You are our number two, but number one in our hearts.
Thank you for making me watch movies and thank you for being a host for so long. We miss you.
And who would like to go next?
[00:17:49] Speaker C: I would love to go next.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: Okay, great.
[00:17:52] Speaker C: So I struggled for a long time deciding what I was going to talk about. We've been bouncing back and forth on ideas and stuff, and for me, it came down to what I've really enjoyed is looking at these movies through your perspective and your perspective, you know, the, the back and forth that we can have, even if it's a short amount of time, you know, two and a half, you know, minutes of talking at most for each person basically to keep it even for each movie. And you just, you don't have that much time. But, like, the things that somebody else focuses on and you get those ideas. So for me, it was. It's got to be the deep focus episodes because you get a lot more of that. Right. You can really dive into those.
Those things that make the. Your co host love the movie and go back and forth. So my first deep focus, I fell in love with the process and it's great.
[00:18:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I hadn't even thought about the deep focuses, but yeah, the availability to really get in there and have all the time to go into the weird nooks and crannies of the movie that you wouldn't expect the other people to be interested in. Like, same. I double your idea. Yeah.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: It'S my turn now. Yeah, I'll say. I do love discovering the movies that I would have never watched, like you're saying. So the stories we tell was one that I would have never watched if it hadn't been recommended to me, that documentary that I watched my first episode, but one that I brought up was Arrival when you and I did Alien Buds as opposed to Action Buds.
And I can't remember if I came to you and said I wanted to do Mars Attacks and you were like, oh, well, let's watch Arrival. And I said, oh, like Denis Villeneuve.
Like this serious. The guy who's doing. Ugh.
I loved that movie so much.
[00:19:56] Speaker B: It is still in a special place in my heart.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I adored it. And I loved being proven Wrong about it. Cause sci fi is not necessarily a genre I'm super into unless it's really silly in something like Mars Attacks. And so I was just floored by it. And I got to talk to you about.
Mostly, I feel like Amy Adams should have gotten an Oscar and we're in the wrong timeline where Amy Adams did not get an Oscar.
But getting to talk about just genres that I wouldn't usually talk in.
And then. Yeah, I have to also copy Darren here and be like, the Deep Focus episodes are great. I once held Kendall hostage for somehow not an hour, making him talk about Cher with me.
[00:20:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:42] Speaker C: So you had a good experience then with your. One of your favorite movies.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:20:46] Speaker C: On a podcast, doing a Deep Focus. Whereas one of my favorite movies, I did not have such a good time because I just could not finish the episode. We just kept going and going and we only got halfway through time.
[00:20:57] Speaker B: When Darren loves a thing, he knows everything about it and is very good at talking about it.
[00:21:05] Speaker A: I admire that. I think truly mine was roughly the length of Moonstruck, because I think I quoted the entire film Moonstruck back at Kendall. And he was like, yeah, that was really good.
Then that was it. But then also, speaking of things, we couldn't finish talking about our.
Our Face off episode, which we did mention in the episode that we had had to re record because we talked about it for so long. And then also we kept accidentally turning the equipment off.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: Yeah. Because we were so giddy and happy.
[00:21:38] Speaker C: Such a good time.
[00:21:39] Speaker A: We had the best time ever, but it would have been unlistenable.
[00:21:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: So you should. Everyone should be happy for our restraint.
[00:21:48] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:21:52] Speaker C: Yeah. Really good job coming back on the second episode, the retry and getting us focused. So good job, producer.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Got my brain around the. I had to do a little bit of homework for the first time ever for the podcast and like, had to break the episode down into all the story beats because it's so.
[00:22:11] Speaker C: It's so hard to get down to the. You know, you want to talk about everything so much.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: I remember vividly in my mind one of your notes just being. He is distraught.
And I screamed.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I remember.
What a wild time.
So real fast, since you mentioned our wild pairing of arrival and Mars attacks, do we want to take any votes for other most unhinged episode pairings?
I feel like me and you have done.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: We have done some real stretches. I was doing one episode.
Well, one you and I did. We used to do new releases on dvd and so there was one episode where you did one of the Quiet Place movies and I did Luca.
[00:23:04] Speaker B: Yeah, Quiet Place too.
[00:23:06] Speaker A: New.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:08] Speaker A: And then one time, Kendall and I. Ken. So I mentioned one, this very odd indie musical film called the History of Future Folk and Kendall and I did it with.
Oh, I can't. It's that really lovely Scottish coming of age musical where they're all in a band.
[00:23:28] Speaker B: Yes.
I should know this.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: I should also know this. I watched it. It's lovely. It's a great movie.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:40] Speaker A: I feel like street is in the title.
[00:23:46] Speaker C: Don't have all of those movies just in your movie.
[00:23:48] Speaker A: The song from it is Drive it like you stole it. Yeah. I'm like, I could tell you everything about this movie besides the title. Yeah. That was also pretty technically both musicals, but a pretty weird clash, I think. What else?
[00:24:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I think Popeye and Hundreds of Beavers was pretty insane just because those are two insane movies on their own.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: Technically well paired.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: Two insane movies.
[00:24:14] Speaker B: Yeah. I guess it's not the most unhinged pairing, but it is two insane movies.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: Two very odd movies that we did.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
Let's scroll through the episodes and I'll cut this out.
Hot Rod and Drive.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: I was so. Yep. I was so jealous that I wasn't on that episode.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: I think that might be it.
[00:24:37] Speaker C: That's a pretty good one.
I hate to just give us the credit, but that's a pretty good one. Ben.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: I texted Ben, furious that I wasn't on that episode somehow.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: Yeah, that was.
[00:24:49] Speaker C: That is a good one.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Such a great episode. Whiplash. Going from one of those movies to the other, talking about them.
But also like such great movies and had a really great conversation about them.
I have one last bit of trivia, if you guys will indulge me, please. Do you guys have any guesses for our most covered years in movies?
[00:25:12] Speaker A: Oh, I would think some point in the 90s.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: I would have thought that too.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: No more recent.
[00:25:20] Speaker C: So my guess initially when. When I was thinking about it was that it would. That it would either be 90s or 2000s somewhere in that range.
Just because of the age of the hosts, you know, for the most part.
Not very many old movies.
[00:25:37] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:25:38] Speaker C: Only a few super new movies.
[00:25:41] Speaker B: So because we started doing the new releases for that.
For that couple of years, 2001 is very over represented because we did one of those every month for like 2021. 2021 is. Is our top year. But after that is a two way tie again, weirdly.
2016 and 1987.
[00:26:07] Speaker A: 1987.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: Yeah, 87.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: What have we covered from 87.
[00:26:10] Speaker B: So let's look at 1987.
It was Raising Arizona, RoboCop, Moonstruck, Prom Night 2, Spaceballs, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2.
[00:26:24] Speaker A: I was on a bunch of these.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: Bad Taste Miami Connection. So a lot of our crazy 80s movies just happened to come out.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: I was a lot. Cause I did well. Yeah. Unfortunately, it is my fault that we've covered both Silent night, deadly night two, and hello Mary Lou from night two.
[00:26:41] Speaker B: And so for our 2016, we actually kicked off the whole series with a 2016 movie. So the Hunt for the Wilder People, Swiss Army Man, Other People, for the Love of Spock, Train to Busan, edge of 17, seeing street and Arrival.
Yeah. So, yeah, we have. We've definitely got a part. We have. Anybody want to guess what our oldest movie is or what. What year our oldest movie is?
[00:27:08] Speaker A: They did Sunset Boulevard.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: They did do Sunset boulevard. That is 1950, but not our oldest.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: They did a Nosferatu episode.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: They did.
Do you know what year it's from?
[00:27:17] Speaker A: 21.
[00:27:18] Speaker B: Very close. Yeah. 1922. Yeah. After that we had the General in 26M in 1931 and then Sunset Boulevard in 1950. And then we start to fill in a little bit more. But we have.
Every year of the 80s, we have done at least one movie, if not multiple.
[00:27:35] Speaker A: Excellent.
[00:27:36] Speaker B: Every year of the 90s, we've done at least one. Oh, no, we've done at least two.
And the 2000, 2000 and tens we have covered pretty well. It's kind of like, whoa, bumped. We've gone way up in our coverage as time went on, but I think we'll start filling in more now that we're starting to get more classic movies on these.
Yeah.
[00:27:56] Speaker C: That's something we talked about briefly. That the difference on the platform since we've started the podcast.
[00:28:03] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:28:04] Speaker C: They've changed quite a bit.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: Yeah. The curation and the level of offerings has improved and they've changed their systems a little bit, I think, to enable that which has been really cool. So we've. We will keep on going.
Right now we're going to hear from some of our other hosts to hear about their favorite episodes or favorite movies that we've covered. And then we'll be right back to say goodbye.
[00:28:32] Speaker E: My. My favorite episode that I've recorded, Five Minute Film Finder.
[00:28:36] Speaker B: I've had the.
[00:28:37] Speaker E: I've been fortunate enough to be on a number of them, but I think my favorite goes back to the deep dive that I did with Tracy, one of our co hosts covering Moonstruck. And there's A couple of reasons for why that was so much fun. First off, I had never seen Moonstruck. And so she, she had brought that up and said, hey, not only do I want to do a five minute film finder, I want to do a deep dive, like hour long episode on this film. So you really have to watch it. You really have to watch it, you know, with the mind of watching a film and deconstructing it as well.
But I absolutely loved it. I thought Cher is just.
I knew who Cher was. Obviously she's a very famous person, but I mean, she's an icon.
I think Moonstruck is just fantastic. Young Nicolas Cage in that as well, in all his hairy glory where he wears wife beaters. But really, it was just so much fun to watch this film unprompted and just really be delighted and just with a new experience and then be able to talk about it with somebody who's so fun too. I think a really big benefit of this podcast is being able to talk with our co hosts and really just have so much fun and kind of nerd out about these films. So I think my favorite film finder episode has been the deep dive for Moonstruck.
[00:29:51] Speaker D: So one that comes to mind is the horror films Suspiria that, that we did a deep focus on.
It kind of caught me at a good moment because I was, I was not into horror films as a kid. I was too scared. And then, you know, I recently kind of got into them and I was trying to find more and more stuff to watch, and that episode came out.
I threw on Suspiria, loved it. So, and it's, it's, it's awesome, the deep focus episode, because you, you get sort of play by play breakdown by, you know, I think that was Kindle in London. So just two real, like film nerds just geeking out over this movie, which was, it was awesome. It was a great episode and great movie.
[00:30:35] Speaker F: So my favorite episode from five Minute Film Finder was definitely the Face Off. I enjoyed that. This 45 minute podcast literally just explains in great detail the experience of Face off and how sometimes it feels like a train wreck, but you can't look away from it.
[00:30:55] Speaker B: And then.
[00:30:58] Speaker F: Just diverging tracks that you go on and just going off kilter and you're like, wait, now we got to get it back to the main area.
So it was definitely one of my favorite ones to listen to because it is definitely.
It was described perfectly on the experience that is the movie Face Off.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: All right, and we are back with Tracy and Darren and Ben. I just wanted to reiterate one more time how glad we are that all of you have listened and also how grateful I am for all of our hosts for making all of this happen.
We all have actual jobs outside of podcasting, and we just make time to do this stuff, so it's. It's really a labor of love to. To get this done. We're all movie lovers. It's. It's a lot of fun for us to do this, and we love that we get to put these out for you guys to find new movies and. And check out our streaming platforms. With that said, we're going to take a short break after the 100th episode, and we're coming back with, I believe, season four or no, season five, and we're going to slightly reformat, and I think we're going to be having more episodes more regularly. That is the goal.
[00:32:17] Speaker C: Very exciting.
[00:32:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:32:18] Speaker C: Fantastic.
[00:32:19] Speaker B: Yeah. And again, thank you all for listening, and we will see you soon.
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