Warm Weather And Running Jokes

Speaker 2 0:07

Hey everybody, welcome to Set &Centered, I'm RJ A. And I'm Mark. How's it going? Good. How are you doing tonight? Not so bad. That's good.

Speaker 1 0:15

Yes. Yeah, not so bad. Um it was a little warm today, but yeah. I think we should leave it there. Sometimes we're just like, so it's still hot, still warm. No. Something I uh I wanted to well, back to finding Nemo. It's like can't escape it. But I did want to say, I kind of feel bad about this. We were trying to figure out before like what where it came from, like, right? The whole we know where dirty dancing came from, but finding Nemo, right? Yep. What if I would feel bad because it was Cindy? It was a comment she made. Remember? That was two months ago, yeah. Um, and I don't remember I don't know what we were talking about. It was the episode Dirty Dancing Roadhouse Raptors, one of RJ's personal favorites. Uh also an exercise in insanity. Definitely. Yeah, well, for me, yeah, you were just uh ratting. You're just there for the rad, but always always there for the ride. Yeah. Anyhoot, her comment was uh next episode finding Nemo or Dirty Dancing review by RJ. Yeah. Oh my she said or. Oh my god, I could have got out of this whole thing. What was the fighting Nemo or Dirty Dancing?

Speaker 3 1:32

Oh damn it. Shit, you set yourself up on that one. Assigned both of them.

Speaker 1 1:37

Whatever. All right, but yeah, sorry, Cindy. It was your idea. Thanks for the idea. But no, that's where it came from. Although there was something there had to have been something in that episode, Dirty Dancing Roadhouse Rat. Oh, fucking seagulls. Never mind. Yeah, I just remembered.

Where Finding Nemo Came From

Speaker 3 1:57

All right. So it it is the next episode. Did you uh watch the four the four minutes with crush or not? Uh yeah, well, yeah, uh of course I did, Mark.

Speaker 1 2:08

I actually I need to tinkle. It's gonna take about four to six minutes.

Speaker 3 2:10

Four to six minutes at the 50 minute mark. No, I seriously though, I did though. I watched it. Cool. I said I was gonna do it and I did it. Awesome. Yep. Did it did it improve the movie for you? Uh it did. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 2:25

That's all that matters.

unknown 2:28

Okay.

Speaker 1 2:28

Um, yeah, it did. Uh so and you uh you asked not only that I watched it, but that I gave another an updated review of the movie. Okay. Yeah. Having watched it. So here. Got my form filled out. Um this is this is set and center movie review, finding Nemo, parentheses, review number two. All right, here's the review. Uh was released in 2000. Sorry, back up. Try to be professional. All right, so we're reviewing Finding Nemo, released in 2003, directed by Andrew Stanton, starring Al Brooks and Ellen. Uh runtime of one hour and 40 minutes. And basically, uh the plot is they couldn't find Nemo, except they did, and I'm not gonna do that again. Alright, so anyway. Uh now let's we gotta recap the rating system. So the rating system that I came up with, uh keep things consistent, again, professional. I am a comma I am. Uh so the movie's rated on in on five elements. First is story slash plot, second is acting, third is visual slash animation, third is pace, fourth is pacing, and fifth is rewatch value. Those all get added up uh for a total score. Each one is rated on a scale of one to seven because I'm me. Yeah, I have good reasons for that. Five is too constraining, ten is excessive. Alright, and I guess it should be noted that when I made the movie review form, I couldn't find the clip art for the stars. So it's not one out of seven stars, it's one out of seven duckies. So see how many duckies it got. Alright, so and then to recap, I guess if people hadn't heard the previous episode, um I watched Finding Nemo inadvertently and for reasons that I don't fully understand, I missed a whole section of it. And according to Mark, the most important part of the movie. Yes, very much so. Okay. Which was the part where we crushed this turtle and his little turtle kid, shut up. Yep. So let me give you my review score and I'll talk a little bit about it. So story slash plot. Are you ready for this? Yeah, I'm ready. Do you want me to recap my previous scores first? No, we're good. We're good. Story plot, three duckies out of seven duckies. Okay. Do you remember what I rated it before?

Speaker 3 4:48

It was it was like a five, wasn't it?

Speaker 1 4:50

Don't you think it'd be useful to recap my previous?

Speaker 3 4:52

Okay, Jesus Christ. Come on, Ryan. Take over the show. Tell us what you got.

Speaker 1 4:57

Take over the oh, I'll fight about that later. Um, okay, so my previous score of finding Nemo was one out of seven duckies for the story slash plot.

Speaker 2 5:11

Okay.

Speaker 1 5:12

So that section with the turtles bumped it up to a three. Oh, damn. Yeah, right? Yeah. And I'll tell you, well, I'll talk a little bit about why in a minute. Acting, still five out of seven duckies. It's a good score. Everybody was good. Yep. Mostly. No, they were good at Ellen. I'm not getting it again. All right. Visuals and animation. This one's gonna actually surprise you. So I previously rated it three out of seven duckies. You wouldn't think this would change, but I actually got I bumped it up to a four. Oh, damn. Yeah. Uh not that the quality of it was better per se with that sequence, but the whole I don't know, scene, color scheme, whatever.

Speaker 4 5:48

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 5:49

Like that whole part of it with the colors of the turtles and stuff was like sort of different from the rest of the movie. It was like, you know what I'm saying? Right. It was nice. It was really nice. Pacing, um, seven out of seven duckies, same as I gave it last time, moved right along. Yep. Rewatch value. Uh previously I said one out of seven duckies. This time I'm saying two. Oh, damn. So final score. This is the this is the official after having the full movie watched review if I Nemo 26 out of 35 duckies. Damn, I think wasn't mine last time 27. Nope, yours was 29 out of 35 duckies. Okay. Yeah. But to your point, uh uh, it made a big difference and pretty close to yours. Yeah. Um best part of the movie. Yeah. You know what? You were you weren't wrong. And when you said that, I'm like, okay. Probably like some stupid joke or whatever. Like he like, and I don't know why you say it was the best part of the movie, but I'll tell you a couple things about it. Um, first of all, uh, do you know who who voiced Crush? No, I don't. Andrew Stanton. Okay. Do you know who he is? Uh not not no. So if you go back to the beginning of this review that I started, directed by he's a director, actually, and he voiced crush.

Speaker 3 7:08

Oh shit, that's cool.

The Duckies Rating Breakdown

Speaker 1 7:09

Yeah. And I looked into it. He's like done a lot of voice work and stuff on these movies. Anyway, that was a side note. So the reason why this is the best part of the movie, and I can't believe I'm the one selling this now, but it's true, is that the it is a pi it's a pivotal moment in the movie in that it serves some lessons, it asks some questions, and it kinda like it uh sort of ties this whole underwater community, if you will, together. Right. Sounds so corny, but it really does. Yep. And the thing I really liked, which again, this is a key part, this is a key moment for that movie, is the little turtle guy um got washed away in a current or something, right? Yep. And Calvin, like, no Calvin, the on fish guy, Delvin, uh who's the dadfish? Marlin. Marlin. He got all freaked out, right? Yep. And then Dad Turtle was like, let's see how he does on his own. Yeah. Whoa. Whoa, Marlon. Are you listening to that? And then you know, he was fine, he had fun, he learned a lesson, whatever. And then Marlon was like, but how do you know when they're ready? And all that stuff is so key to tie it all together at the end, isn't it? So you were you I'll give you a lot of props on that. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you. You're welcome. So sorry, uh, find an emo is in the bag. Done. Boom. 26 out of 35 duckies according to RJ, 29 out of 35 duckies according to work. Yep. Great. Awesome. You're welcome.

Speaker 3 8:45

It reminds me of uh you're welcome. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. Uh it reminds me of a guy that used to have at work. The older guys would take him in the back room when there was nothing going on or the lunchroom, and they'd sit there and watch 80s movies for a kid that was born in the 90s. Did he like him? Oh yeah. They picked out some good ones. Yeah.

Speaker 1 9:10

Yeah. Um, I don't know in what way this is like that at all.

Speaker 3 9:15

Well, just that you're reviewing a movie that's what, 20 years old or something like that?

Speaker 1 9:20

Well, yeah, I don't think anybody thought we were breaking new ground here. Yeah. Uh at any rate, it's uh it's a movie I would have never seen if not for uh Miss Cindy. Yes, and you with your me, meh, meh, me seagulls. Um am I a better person for having watched it? I am not. No. Um would I do I wish I hadn't ever seen it? Not necessarily. I think uh in the portfolio of life, it's still you know, it's in there. It's it's okay. But I did want to say something to you about finding Nemo, well, actually about finding Nemo too, finding Dory.

Speaker 4 9:58

Yeah.

Speaker 1 9:59

Like, uh, you didn't like it. No. I understand your reasons why. Uh people did though. Oh, really? Yeah. So finding Nemo, 99% rotten tonight tomatoes, which I don't think surprises me. I think part of the personal journey I've gone through on this finding Nemo thing is realizing that pretty much everybody's seen it, pretty much everybody loves it. 99%, not that surprising. Finding Dory, 94%. Oh, really? Yeah, people didn't hate it.

Speaker 2 10:26

Huh.

Speaker 4 10:27

Mm-hmm. Wow.

Speaker 1 10:29

All right. Great. Uh done, I guess. So next up is dirty dancing. And actually, good segue back or seg back to what I was saying in the beginning. Uh, the episode Dirty Dancing Roadhouse Raptors, you will understand where the dirty dancing thing started on this show. I think you have to go back a few other episodes to understand the origin of that, which was a Patrick Swayze thing. Yep. Yeah. But uh yes, Dirty Dancing next up. I'll watch it. See what see, I I said I'd do it and I did it, and yeah, took it very seriously.

Speaker 3 11:07

That's cool. That's I'm glad you did that. Good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 11:11

I hope Cindy is.

Speaker 3 11:12

Uh we'll find out.

Speaker 1 11:13

I haven't heard from her for a while.

Speaker 3 11:15

No, they've well, she's had a uh had a friend in town for a couple weeks and then she just left, and then there's another set of people coming up tomorrow through Monday. So okay.

Why The Turtle Scene Matters

Speaker 1 11:28

Yeah. Did you watch the music video I sent you? Yeah, the one with uh Kesha. It wasn't with Kesha, it was by Kesha. Well, they had Kesha in it. What'd you think of that? Was that a trip? Uh it was very much a trip, yes. And well, let's back up. So the way that this came up when I was telling you about it, I was like, Yeah, so Kesha has this new song called you know called Joyride. And you're like, Oh Kesha? Like, yeah, right? That was my reaction too. And then I was like, it's a fucking banger. You're like, really? I'm like, that was also my reaction. I'm like, she has her new song, it's really good, really fun. Her music video is banana shit, but like in a in a in a weird here's how I describe it. Uh that music video was a really super cool little short movie, right? That was so fucking mismatched to the song, right? I know kidding. I was like, that's what was so baffling. I'm like, what the hell even? Like, you know, I sent it to Brian, I was like, you should watch this, and he's like, what the fuck was that? I'm like, I know. Yeah, I just it is a really fun little movie though. It is, it was good. Yeah, it was it was really cool, like how they, you know, whole just the whole thing. It was very I think it had sort of a not just the cars, but like the like the uh like a like a very 70s kind of vibe to it. Right, yeah. But then she's not god, I really don't want to get into a whole thing about this movie video. I'll try to keep it short. It's like she's not even singing to it. No in the car. Oh and I'm like, maybe if she was singing to it, I don't know. Anyway, yeah, yeah. But it was it was worth a it was worth a watch though.

Speaker 3 13:12

It was it got two watches out of me because if I had to watch it, Christina had two also. Um did she like it? Uh she never really said. Oh, okay. Well, I guess that doesn't matter.

Rotten Tomatoes And Finding Dory

Speaker 1 13:24

Yeah. I mean, this isn't like uh some super important, culturally important uh in the portfolio of life important things like chimp crazy. Oh my gosh. Oh so you've watched it now, right?

Speaker 3 13:42

Yeah, Christina and I watched it last week. Yep. What can I say about it? Anything? Uh I uh you know, you did the greatest setup on that, like you said. Just need to watch it. And we started watching it, it's like, what the fuck? And then by the what the fourth and final episode, you're like, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 14:04

Uh-huh. And it's just like your jaw is falling out of your mouth like six times an episode. Like, whoa. Yeah. And it's like every next thing is more insane than the last.

Speaker 3 14:16

Well, yeah, it's just, and then you you start reading between the lines when people that you know they don't want to give any of that. No, uh-uh. But you start reading between you're like, these fucking people are lunatics. Yes. Oh, and there's so many layers to it, like so many layers, dude. Well, it's like Christina said, they've got to have a season two. It's like, didn't they finish everything in season one?

Speaker 1 14:38

Yeah, I would I think I put I think I sort of asked the same question. I was like, Oh, they gotta have a season two. I'm like, what would I mean what would what would it be? What would it do? Yeah, and um I don't know. I mean, well, look, with the people involved in it, there is almost certainly a fucking silo of insanity to draw from that I'm sure they could do do more installments of it. Oh yeah. Oh geez. Oh Jesus. But yeah, uh it's probably third or fourth episodes come up, loyal listeners. So if you haven't watched it, watch it.

Speaker 3 15:12

Very much so, watch it. There you go. It's intriguing. And if you have watched it, you know why we're telling people to watch it. If you have watched it and you want to leave us a comment on one of our social media things, let us know what you thought of it.

Speaker 1 15:25

There you go. I would love seriously, people do that. I'm not the comment slab button, whatever the thing people fucking say. It's on what's it's on Netflix, right? Yeah, no, no, no, it's not. But what's the thing that uh comment slap like, comment, and subscribe. Yeah, we don't do that. We're still not gonna know that stupid. Yeah, but honestly, folks, I I would legitimately love to hear comments if you have them about Jim Crazy. Holy bananas. It is on HBO. Okay, HBO Max, which was uh formerly formerly known as Max, formerly known as HBO Max. You know about all that, right? Uh no. Oh, you didn't? No. Okay, so when they launched their streaming service, they called it HBO Max, and it was HBO Max for I don't know, whatever years. Right. And they decided to rebrand it as Max. Okay. So that was a couple years ago. It was just called Max. And honestly, one of the dumbest things you could do. HBO is such a strong brand with a lot of history, right? I mean, oh yeah, definitely. They just called it Max. And so their whole streaming service was called Max for like, I don't know, nine months. And I'm like, boy, that was dumb. So they changed it back to HBO Max.

Speaker 3 16:38

What's what's Max known for? Everybody called it Skinemax. Because you you stayed up late at night and there was some definitely different movies on there.

Speaker 1 16:47

Yeah, yeah. I never even made that. Yeah, I never made that connection as to what, but yeah, it was it was basically like, you know, you could call it, it doesn't matter. You could call it, I'm gonna pick something random on my desk. Uh there you go. You could call the service HBO Stapler. It doesn't matter. You have a strong brand with HBO, right? Yeah. Like why why take that? Why make it Max? Yeah, but anyway, uh HBO Max, Chimp Crazy. It's only like I say, that's the other thing. It's only four episodes.

Speaker 3 17:13

Yeah.

Kesha Joyride Video Whiplash

Speaker 1 17:14

Roughly four hours of your life. I mean that you will be so, so glad to have spent on it. Yeah. Yep. So speaking of comments, uh I'm sure you've seen all the all the comments on YouTube and stuff. Uh parentheses, you haven't, because you don't check that stuff even though originally you said you probably would get into that later another time. Maybe off air.

unknown 17:39

Yeah.

Speaker 1 17:39

Maybe boxing gloves. But no, speaking of uh I I was looking at the comments on just on YouTube. Um, because you can if you listen at the end of the show, uh, every show, Mark has a little thing where he tells, you know, you can figure out where to find us on socials or whatever. But uh this one's specifically on YouTube. I was like, there's there's quite a few comments. I was just looking at them. And uh I wanna I want to read one to you. Okay. I uh look, look, folks, you're not gonna get a shout-out just for commenting. So don't think this is how this works. I just thought that this was compelling and worth sharing. So the comment is from at Shamus the Moose. It's just a screen name, man. I don't know. Moose Crazy. Moose Crazy. All right, I'm gonna write that down. I'm gonna trademark that by the domain later. There's something not with this guy, I'm just saying Moose Crazy in general could be a thing. Yeah. All right, so at Shammoose the Moose says, I got y'all as an ad. Holy shit, what a pair of awkward and flat hosts. No shit. Yeah. Oh I'm not done. Actually painful to listen to YouTube banter. Like neither one of you are happy to be here or even like the other. And then he ends it with incredible. Oh my gosh. I just love that. That is awesome. I know. I gave him an up thumb and a heart on that one. Oh, dude. Thank you for your honest feedback. Yeah. Yeah. We appreciate that. You keep you keep doing, you keep doing what you do, should move the most.

Speaker 3 19:18

Yeah, because we don't give a shit. We're gonna do what we like to do. Was that nice to say?

Speaker 1 19:24

Well, no, I don't think it was mean or you know, whatever. I think it was just like my thing was like I respect him. Yeah. Respect what you think. Yep. But to your point, we're like, I'm not gonna say we don't give a shit. I will say we're not gonna fucking change it. We ain't changing shit.

Speaker 4 19:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1 19:42

Because I mean we we had some feedback from uh the vodka queen and we talked all about that and then decided, okay, great, thanks for your comments, and we're not gonna listen to any of them. Yeah. Which she never even got back to us on. No. Did she?

Speaker 3 19:56

Uh no, because she uh she sent me that in a messenger or a text, DM, whatever the hell you want to call it.

Speaker 1 20:02

Yeah, and okay. Yep. So yeah, back to the comment thing. Again, for real, you got you got a comment about Chim Crazy. Uh I want to hear it. We definitely want to hear it. Yeah. Uh cool. Well, I'm glad you watched that. Um, I was I've been trying to get everybody I know to watch this damn thing, and I can't, because it's a tough sell. Because part of my sell is I'm not gonna tell anything. Yeah. Uh and so I think my mom was the first one who watched it, and like I called her and like, can we just talk about this for a minute? She's like, Yes. I can hear her, yeah. And so we did, and but I told her, I'm like, thank god somebody's watched it. Because ever since I watched this damn thing, I've just been busting and like I talked to somebody about this. Yeah. Gotta get another therapist just for this. I don't know. Uh but uh oh shit. Speaking of my mom, um was it I think it was what's that hum? Do you hear that hum?

Speaker 3 21:02

I hear that hum.

Speaker 1 21:03

It's been there the whole time.

Speaker 3 21:05

It's just like it was there, then it went away, now it's back. Alright, whatever.

Speaker 1 21:09

Um speaking of that, so I think it was yeah, episode before last. Yeah, we were talking about um when we went to to mail her mother's day gift, right? Right. Yeah, and we ate uh chicken fingers. Oh sorry, Lane's chicken thing of Palestine, Texas. Worst fucking meal I've ever had. Oh shit. Anywho, sort of to recap for those of you who hadn't heard it. Um we the reason that shit, I thought I'd turn that on.

Speaker 3 21:39

Oh fuck, you do have you do have a friend.

Speaker 1 21:42

Yeah, for once that was fucked up. All right. You know what? When I went and put on that charger, which I here's the problem, folks. I can't I don't whatever. Family, put on vibrate. Um no, I went to put on the charger, and I literally hit the buttons to make sure it was on silence. So I guess I don't know which button it is. Uh that's true. Anyway, so yeah, we went to Palestine. Give me a second. I'm not gonna be able to handle it.

Speaker 3 22:10

Ah, mine's on silent and vibrates off. That's great, Mark. So do something right once. Once, yeah, no shit. Cool.

Chimp Crazy And Listener Reactions

Speaker 1 22:21

Alright, listeners. Apologies for that. Should if I hit the right button this time, should be good to go. So recap, yeah, we went to Palestine and I say we raced up there to get this thing mailed. Um, which it was on a Thursday. No, it was the Wednesday before Mother's Day. And I figured like that was the only way I was gonna get there um by Saturday, you know, before Sunday. And I really, really wanted to. Um so went up there and uh it it it didn't get there by Mother's Day, Mark. Uh she said it what? The lady at the counter. Yeah. She did. She did. Um yes. Now so it missed it. Basically, it was like the the tracking number, the receipt she gave me, it said it would be there Monday, right? I told you this. Yeah, but she told me she was giving me the thing, and she's like, the thing's gonna say Monday. That's just because it's like we're almost close almost closing time. It'll be there Saturday. That the tracking will update, you know, tomorrow, whatever. Great. So did it didn't get there, didn't get there on Monday though, either. Yeah. Um That's bullshit. Well, didn't get there on Tuesday either. So let's go for Didn't get there on Wednesday. You'd you'd again strike out. You're kidding me. Uh let me I'm gonna walk I'm gonna I'm gonna walk you through the tracking history on this package. Okay. And uh for those of you haters, yeah, you can cite this one. Yeah, they spit up had a whole segment walking through USPS package history. Here we go.

Speaker 3 24:04

Come on, Moose Knuckle, let us know.

Speaker 1 24:07

Someone don't egg them on. But yeah, if you have comments on this one too, bud. Anyway, so this was Thursday before Mother's Day. Uh first one, USPS in possession of item. So yeah, this was the no, I sorry, it was the Wednesday before Mother's Day. I want to make sure of that, make sure I'm clear about that because if we had if I had tried to do this on Thursday, then I'd be the idiot here, but right Wednesday, 4 25 p.m. in possession of item. Boom, they had it, and we got it there just under the wire. Next morning, 6 55. So I'm gonna take you on a journey here, Mark. Okay, here we go. All right. Next morning, departed, Palestine, Texas, 6 55. Great. Now, I should say that my mom lives in Arizona, not in a major city. Um, and so you kind of have to think, you know, think about this for a second, right? Like they have regional facilities, right? So it's gonna take a certain route to get from Palestine, Texas, to where she is. And I don't really know what that route would have been, but I think you could kind of guess, right? Like maybe Houston to Phoenix or yeah, something like that. Um so um later that same day on Thursday, 4 17, it arrives at the regional facility in Dallas, Texas. Oh shit. This is Thursday. Yeah. Looking good, right? Looking real good. All right. Friday at 1 51 p.m. It arrives at the regional facility Dallas, Texas. All right, uh Saturday. Now this is Saturday. Saturday afternoon. Saturday 4 19 p.m. Now it's arrived at the regional facility in Dallas, Texas. And I want to make very clear, this is not like they're just scanning it every day to be like, yep, still here. This is it departed from Dallas and arrived at Dallas the next day. Fuck yeah. So that was Saturday. Well, that's it, folks, right? Like, there's no mail on Sunday, so that's it, folks, for hitting Sunday. All right, so Saturday, alright, it's not gonna make it, whatever. So I'm like, alright, I'm gonna be there Monday, I guess. Um and Saturday. Oh yeah, wait, sorry. So nothing moved Saturday, yeah, yeah. So and by the way, this whole time it's showing tracking arriving Monday. I'm like, you've made three round trips and out of Dallas between Thursday and Saturday. I'm not feeling so good about Monday. No. Alright. So now we're good. Now we're jumping from Saturday to and I am not even kidding you. Tuesday. Fuck it departs. Regional facility Dallas. Tuesday morning at 12 58 a.m. It took, I'll do some math here. One, two, three, four, five, literally, six days to leave Dallas. Jesus Christ. But it gets better. Okay. Well, it doesn't get that much better, I was gonna say, and then it came back to Dallas, but which I was fully fucking expecting that. I'm like, no. So Tuesday, gosh, 1258, departs Dallas. Now, and this part is pretty impressive, actually. Same day, 8 38 p.m. arrived at Avondale, Arizona. Ooh. Yeah, I think they got that thing on a plane or something. They must have. So I'm like, okay, now we're getting somewhere. Right? Yeah. So then boom, hour and a half later, it departs Avondale, Arizona. Wow. And arrives at Phoenix. Phoenix Distribution Center. Half hour later. Shit. Fucking making progress, right? Uh real good progress. Yep. So that was Tuesday. So I guess it liked it there in Phoenix because it was there for two more days. Oh shit. And then finally, Thursday morning. Now we're one week plus one day, right? Yeah. Thursday morning, 4.08 a.m. It depar it is actually at the processing facility in their town. And that same day they got it out. Uh so it was finally delivered, which is actually today, the day that we're recording this. Right. But who boy. I mean, what a journey.

Speaker 3 28:59

So did you pay for like express on that or something? Priority?

Speaker 1 29:03

Uh it was it was priority, yeah.

Speaker 3 29:05

Um so you do you get a refund since your shit wasn't there on time?

Speaker 1 29:09

Uh I'm gonna say I don't know. Yeah. Well, I I know they're not gonna give me one. Um, I I'll say I don't know if I'm entitled to one. I am going to guess, uh probably not, because with you know, like like a plane ticket or a train ticket or whatever, like you get a you get a ticket, you know, to fly from you know wherever in Dallas to Pennsylvania, you know, on Tuesday, and then it cancels and then you don't go, right? Like, yeah, fuck yeah, I must see you. Yeah, spirit airlines. Yeah. Which basically spells out all the reasons why you're fucked, not them. And so I'm just gonna guess that it probably in the terms and conditions is like, yeah, priority mail, they say three to five days, and then you know, but then also maybe not, and kind of the whatever. Thing is, I don't you know, I really wanted it to be there for Mother's Day.

Speaker 3 30:03

Oh, I know. That's why we busted ass and ate that shitty food. Correct. Yeah.

Speaker 1 30:07

But it really doesn't, you know, it doesn't matter, right? Like, she's not one of the crazy people. Like, all good. She understands, it's you know, not about the day. And she, by the way, had a lovely Mother's Day um with uh my brothers and their families. So they had she had a great day. And the fact that this wasn't there on that day, whatever, it's fine. It got there, she has it.

Speaker 4 30:30

Right.

USPS Tracking Spiral In Dallas

Speaker 1 30:32

What do you think about that? 12 minutes on track. But no, it's like I can't even be mad because I know like a lot of people are like, you know, this happens and they're like, ah damn, fucking USPS. Uh you know what? How many hundreds or thousands of things right have I gotten or sent in my life on the through the post office? Yeah, every now and then something happens. It happens, right? Yeah, it happens. They didn't lose it, so that's good.

Speaker 3 31:02

So I got a question. Sure. Well, did you use uh priority mail express? Uh no. Oh, okay. It was well, I'm here to say no, it's priority mail. Okay. Yeah, why? No refund.

Speaker 1 31:14

Oh, you looked it up. Yeah. Yeah. Well, see, I was I was right.

Speaker 3 31:18

Yeah. I you should have spade the extra $20 to send it express. You'd have got all your money back.

Speaker 1 31:28

Okay. Um, yeah, let me I'll just keep that in mind next time. You know, uh it I don't know how much it costs to mail it. Probably an outrageous amount of money, right? Because shipping costs way too much these days. Yep. But it's not an amount of money that I uh am concerned about try spending time to get back. Um I would have been I would have been not very pleased if they had lost it. Oh, that would have sucked. Yes. Um it was a uh it was a uh it wasn't like uh I bought something at a store and selled it, sent it right. Yeah. It was a bespoke gift for sure. Um so anyway, it is there. And yay. Was well was she impressed with her gift? Well, um, here's the thing when because you well, when you came over um earlier tonight to to come in here and record, um, I was on the phone with her. She had actually just called me because it had sort of just just gotten there. Um and so she she I why am I why are we dancing around that she has it now? It's not like a secret. So what what it is is uh she her her dad back in the day had one of those old eight millimeter cameras, and there's there's this box of eight millimeter films of her family, um her family, extended family, dating all the way back. I think the first one was in 1956. Yeah. Um and they the span of I think they ran the span of about 10 years or so. Uh they they almost were lost to time and history, which is a whole other story that we won't get into on here. But nope. They ended up here at my house. Well uh uh I tried to we tried to watch him when she was here last time. I got a projector. Uh well actually we talked about this on the file before, like, oh my god, we've got lost our minds. But anyway, couldn't get it going. And so what I did for Mother's Day is I uh got a digitized her machine, I digitized all the films for her um and made a DVD out of them. So that's that's what the gift was. Um and to answer your question, she when she called, she hadn't watched it. Um but she was she just read the card and what the no site, but she was blown away.

Speaker 3 33:50

That is awesome, absolutely blown away. So you still rank higher than uh Rob then, right? Yeah, that's not hard though. Yeah, that's not hard. Yeah, at least you know she always looks up to you, you're taller. Yes, that's true.

The Mother’s Day Gift Reveal

Speaker 1 34:03

That's a terrible joke. Um but no, she was really super touched, um, very blown away. And you know, uh I'll hear maybe I'll probably tonight because I'm sure she was busting to wait to watch them. Yeah. Um, but I'm really super excited to hear what she's what she has to say about the just the films themselves, because I know she's seen I don't even think she's seen all of them though, because when I was talking to her earlier tonight, there's a few things I mentioned that she never remembers seeing. So she's seen some of these, but not for decades, probably. So can't wait for her to watch them. Um and I'll just say this as public service people. Um, if you're thinking about making a DVD, fucking think thank hard. Yeah, I might have a special whole whole special episode on that. Oh god, what a thing. I will say this though. Um the digitizing process of taking the eight millimeter film, and again, this is like what 60, you know, 50, 60, 70 year old films. Right. Yeah, taking this film and actually, you know, frame by frame scanning it into a movie, a digital movie file. That was that was not that wasn't that really wasn't bad at all. I had I did have to get a special machine, but that went well. Yeah. Then I went to put make a DVD. Oh god, just don't do it, people. I couldn't believe what a pain in the butt that was, like in retrospect. Send it away, have somebody else do this shit for you. That's honestly, I would advocate for that. Um I well, even though I gotta say this, even though we did have to race up to get this thing sent on time, I was way ahead of the game. Because I started like a month before on this project. Yep. And I had everything, I had the digitization, like everything done well in advance. Even the DVD, you know, I made sure to get it sorted out, even though it took way longer. Really, the reason we were rushed, I was rushed to ship it, was just because I had everything ready to go, and then I just it was kind of just sitting there on my counter because I was procrastinating that. But yeah, honestly, um send it off to one of those things for real because it is worth it. I don't even know what they charge. Worth it. Yeah, definitely worth it. Yeah, and it turns out I don't even have a DVD player, which is a fun part of my insanity when I got all done. I got this whole process. I have this DVD. Is that burned? I'm like, great, let's go test. Oh Jesus, how am I gonna play this stupid thing? Eventually I figured out that my truck has one. There you go. So yeah, that was fun. Yeah, whole other stupid story. But anyway, it was we're full of those. Yeah, we sure fucking are. But uh anyway, through a convoluted series of events and machinations, I was able to test and play this DVD on my truck. And I'm like, okay, it works, great. So, and then um that is cool, yeah. So it is cool, and I'll say this. Um, it it was a decent amount of work, it was a labor of love. Um, but you know, I am apart from the fact I wanted to do it for her, I was really glad that I had done it. Like after going through all these films, this was about 25 reels, um, and scan, you know, the whole process, like that there weren't gonna be a whole lot of opportunities left to do this. Yeah. They were not stored well, you know, a lot of them weren't in great shape. And if you know, if we had watched them on a projector once, they'd go back in a box for I don't know, maybe 30 more years, right?

Speaker 4 37:42

Yeah.

Digitizing Film And DVD Headaches

Speaker 1 37:42

So I'm really glad in that regard that I ended up doing it. Um it was a fun project, and actually uh something that I have been pushing you to do. I don't think you're that enthusiastic about it, but I think it'd be great is to look into digitizing your stuff. Oh my slides. Yeah, we should talk about that because you used you used to do this and be into this, and like something I actually didn't know about you till fairly recently, and I'm I think it's really interesting. Okay. Do I have to do everything here? No, what tell you used to do photography, right?

Speaker 3 38:20

Yeah, I used to do photography when I uh was in Seattle. I got into it with uh another buddy of mine, uh Nathan, and we used to hike to believe it or not, uh used to hike to waterfalls and take waterfall pictures and stuff like that, and then uh also went to Gasworks Park in Seattle and took some really cool pictures and just did a whole bunch of picture taking. I was I was really into it. Started off with uh 35 millimeters, then went to slide film, and then we found a place real close to work that he could drop it off in the morning on his well in the afternoon on his lunch break and drop off the slide film, and then on my way to work because I work swing shift, I could pick it up, and then we could sit there and work it look at and look at all of our slides.

Speaker 1 39:04

Yeah. So and you've got a lot you got a lot of pictures, right?

Speaker 3 39:08

I think I've got eight, six or eight carousels full of pictures.

Speaker 1 39:12

Oh god, I'm glad you said carousels. I'm like, eight pictures this whole time? Yeah, yeah, that's a lot. And uh something I didn't know about you, and when you tell me, I was like, ah, that's really cool. I you know, I'd like to I'd really like to see that um uh for a lot of reasons. Um one, it's just it's cool because you know it's like like old school and all that kind of stuff. And then two, I I always I always think it's fascinating when people have uh you know like an artistic slant or talent, yeah, or even if they're not talented, um maybe you suck at photography. I don't know, but it's interesting to see how people exercise those creative aspects. So yeah, I I I I've been telling Mark like we we need to get like a digitizer, and um, you know, and and I'll say this too, just I'll reinforce it for you that again with these eight millimeter films, yeah. I think there's a I think there's a a shelf life here to an extent.

Speaker 3 40:06

And so yeah, I should look I should honestly look into getting a digitizer to to have them switched over.

Speaker 1 40:12

Yeah, I think well I think it'd be a fun project too.

Speaker 3 40:14

Yeah, yeah, especially since I spend all my time just sitting up at night watching TV and stuff. Yeah.

Slide Photography Memories And Wrap Up

Speaker 1 40:21

Correct. Um that's what I meant. Maybe you can do something else with your time. Um speaking of time, we are out of that. Already? You betcha, bud. Damn, here we go. I know, but we we got a lot done here today. Yeah, yeah, we did. So uh all right, well, that's it. Catch y'all later. Have a good one.

Speaker 3 40:50

Hey, it's Mark here at Set and Centered. Uh I just want to let everybody know that if they want to catch us on the socials, you can catch us at our webpage, setcenter.live, or on Facebook at SetCenter Live. Uh we'll maybe post some little stupid videos that we've done, stuff like that, as we're gonna keep on going. And also we've talked a lot about the animals here on the ranch, and we'll post pictures of them. We'll see how it goes. Let us know. How we go.