A (2:59)

Guys, audience, one colleague for sale. Barely used, I think.

B (3:04)

Like, no, I think very used, not refurbished. Somebody please refurbish me. But fortunately for us, Julian Had a keen eye on both the SkyMall Esque online catalog for all of the prepper gear featured in the movie. So we're gonna be peppering in as we, as we break down this absolute piece of shit. I hated watching this.

A (3:28)

This was awesome. You're so fucking wrong about this. I enjoyed myself. I was so smiling throughout.

C (3:34)

Jake and I are gonna bully you into submission over this one.

A (3:37)

I really doubt that because this is the finest representation of America and Americans. It has successfully ascertained that all Americans are craven. They are cowardly, they panic at the, you know, when any treats get taken away. And even the ones that are prepared are savage, murderous maniacs ready to turn on their brethren at any point and shoot them right through the heart. It's awesome. There's nobody to save anybody else. The character that's at the moral apex of the movie is like a deluded Joan of Arc, like God brained lunatic. It's awesome. It's awesome. I think it's.

C (4:19)

The problem is though, it's just so boring.

A (4:22)

What do you mean? Don't you like a good pastiche? Why do you need a movie? Why do you need a movie when you can have a series of poorly written conversations that are advertising products?

C (4:31)

A string of infomercials. That's all it was.

A (4:33)

Have you ever wondered what happens when, when a stock photograph comes to life? Yes.

B (4:40)

I was wondering the whole time I'm watching it, I'm like, why does this look like absolute shit?

A (4:46)

Like it's because you can buy every part.

B (4:49)

That's it.

A (4:49)

And they have to do like the product thing. It's like when, you know, and I used to make advertisements for these big companies, it's like, you know, the soft drink would want the can turned in the proper way. The drinking has to look a certain way. So every of this movie is trying to be like a grimy end of the world thing, but they have to be wearing brand new things and like logo turned to the camera and just so. It's so awkward. I loved it.

C (5:14)

Each shot of a product is about two times as long as it should be editorially just lingering on every logo.

B (5:22)

See, herein lies the problem. Now if I had gone into this with my capitalist brain, knowing that everything I was seeing was potentially that I could look it up online and see the prices and read the description, I think I would have had a fucking blast. But instead. Yeah, but instead I went into this like wanting a post apocalyptic movie, which is like one of my favorite genres. 2012, Independence Day, Greenland.

A (5:46)

No, no, no, no, no. This is David Lynch. This is the unreality, Julian. America. This is like a perfect. A perfectly unhinged, deconstructed mess that only exists in like the most psychotic. Like what if prepper ism. But Skymall, like, what if it's just. It's perfect. It's where we. We need to be right now. And the reason why you dissociate it is because that is what American experience is now. It's a dissociative experience. And it's.

B (6:16)

You could have copied. There's so many. And they did copy in so many ways like the normal tropes. And we'll get into it.

A (6:22)

What if movie was trailer for television show? You know, what if there's nothing. Nothing can be distinguished anymore? It's a mess. It's Mulholland Drive. David lynch would be proud.

C (6:34)

Absolutely not.

B (6:35)

Now, if you wanted to watch a movie. If you wanted to watch a movie about a paranoid group of ex military preppers do their best to manage a doomsday bunker in the Colorado rocky hills. This is not that movie.

A (6:50)

But what if they were living at like an Olive Garden? What if Olive Garden was like a fortress? It's so good. It's so good. You guys are so fucking wrong about this movie. God, I really. I fucking. I feel sorry for you. And what's more, I would like to alert the US government that we have a Canadian national in. In fucking Texas. So highly arrestable, he is pirating your movies. Homestead pirated in.

C (7:21)

I didn't pirate this.

A (7:23)

Distributed. Legally distributed.

C (7:24)

I did not pirate this movie.

A (7:26)

I did.

C (7:28)

I don't know how you guys got it, okay? I went to the theater.

B (7:31)

Look, I. Well, after seven years of doing this podcast, we finally have a crazy role reversal in which Julian is loving this a piece of shit movie. He's into the products, he's into the advertising. It all makes sense to him.

A (7:48)

No, no, no, no. Because what you don't understand is, and.

B (7:51)

I am criticizing the lack of artistry in this post nuclear Los Angeles. This is. We're in a different era.

A (8:00)

No, but what you need to understand is that you are in denial about where we are at. The reason you don't enjoy this movie is because you have not accepted things about the American experience that I am beyond, okay? I am fucking sitting on the moon, looking down at this country from above. I am Google Maps. You are just one of the little people they drop into the map. You only have a tiny little street view. I am fucking galactic.

B (8:25)

It is rude to tell people what they are. Nobody likes to be told what they're thinking. You're a little playoff.

A (8:32)

I have been holding you and toying with you. I'm making you. You and Brad are little playmobils. I'm making you hump each other.

C (8:39)

You can kick Julian off the. Off the stream.

A (8:41)

I am here. Talk about this film. I am alive.

B (8:45)

I'm going to put Julian up for sale in our merch catalog for the end of the. He's pristine. Not scuffed at all.

A (8:52)

Expensive.

C (8:53)

$22,000. Same as the Hummer.

A (8:55)

Okay, Dick don't work so well, but rest is fine. No, brain don't work so well either. Okay, I got a lot of back pain. Listen, whatever, Rebate.

B (9:04)

He's got indigestion too, folks. But he makes one hell of a cup of coffee. Speaking of David lynch.

A (9:08)

For you, my friend, lower price.

B (9:11)

You've been listening to a sample of a premium episode of the QAA podcast. For access to the full episode, as well as all past premium episodes and all of our podcast miniseries, go to Patreon Do Travis. Why is that such a good deal?

D (9:26)

Well, Jake, you get hundreds of additional episodes of the QAA podcast for just $5 per month. For that very low price, you get access to over 200 premium episodes, plus all of our miniseries. That includes 10 episodes of Man Plan with Julia and the Nanny, 10 episodes of Perverts with Julian and Liv, 10 episodes of the Spectral Voyager with Jake and Brad, plus 20 episodes of trickle down with Me Travis View. It's a bounty of content and the best deal in podcasting.

A (9:55)

Travis, for once, I agree with you. And I also agree that people could subscribe by going to patreon.comqaa well, that's.

B (10:03)

Not an opinion, it's a fact.

A (10:04)

You're so right, Jake.

B (10:06)

We love and appreciate all of our listeners.

A (10:08)

Yes, we do. And Travis is actually crying right now, I think, out of gratitude.

D (10:12)

Maybe that's not true. The part about me crying, Not. Not me being grateful.

A (10:16)

I'm very grateful, Sam.